Truman Seeks Big Tax Boost As Korea Battle Rages
President Truman requests a hefty tax increase while fighting intensifies near Wonju as Allied air strikes and artillery batter Red forces. A second Communist force presses 30 miles behind the front threatening UN positions in central Korea near Tanyang and Wonju.
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Truman
Wonju
Clen Clements
Tokyo
Onju
United Nations
Korea
Tanyang
Woniu
Red Witch verdict on Monday in wartime trials
A U N report details Allied counterattacks near Wonju and Tanyang as Chinese and North Korean forces press the central Korea front. Air strikes, sea bombs, and artillery claimed hundreds of enemy lives while postwar trials in Augsburg moved toward a verdict for Ilse Koch, the “Red Witch” of Buchenwald.
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Augsburg
Germany
Ilse Koch
Sven
Conaestion
Red Witch
Buchenwald
Mrs. Koch
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
U S Ready For Loan To Spain
Washington Jan 12 The United States prepared to offer an economic recovery loan to Spain but would not fund building up Generalissimo Franco’s military. Export import bank completed prelim negotiations with Thomas Suner, Spain’s undersecretary. Spain seeks about 60 million for fertilizer mining and transport equipment. Congress authorized up to 62.5 million credits last summer.
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Washington
U. S
Spain
Highway accident tolls for 24 hours posted
The Motor Vehicles Department reports 2 killed and 25 injured in the 24 hour period ending at 10 am. The year to date figures show 19 killed and 266 injured, with 27 and 339 respectively for 1950.
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Raleigh
Motor Vehicles Department
Final UN peace bid on Korea offered as five point plan
The United Nations pressed a final peace bid to Communist China offering a political conference on Far Eastern problems in exchange for a Korea cease fire. The plan, drafted by Entezam Rau and Pearson, was to be voted on by the 60 nation political committee with U.S. support and Soviet hesitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.N
Nasrallah Entezam
Iran
Benegal N. Rau
India
Canada
Lester B. Pearson
General Assembly
Jacob A. Malik
Murder trial goes to jury in Wake County
Damon Howard, 24, faces a Wake County superior court jury on charges he shot Hubert Smith 13 times with a semi automatic rifle near Apex. Testimony showed Howard claimed Smith talked about him and his aunt, while the widow testified about alleged ties between his aunt and the slain man. Howard, who says he cannot remember the shooting, had spent 3 1/2 years in a state hospital for the insane. his attorney argues insanity at the time. Trial testimony was completed yesterday.
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Iman
Georg Maginot
Koch
Buchenwald
CIA
Hava
Raleigh
Damon Howard
Wake County
Howard
Alphin
State Hospital
Twin City ABC Election Sought
A bill to permit a separate Winston-Salem vote on opening ABC liquor stores was introduced in Raleigh. Forsyth reps Gobble and King proposed the move with Blackwell withholding support. If approved, 25 percent would go to the county, 25 percent to the city for bonded debt, with the remainder to the city’s general fund.
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Raleigh
Winston- Salem
ABC
F. L. Gobble
Joe King
Forsyth
Winston-Salem
Forsyth County
Winfield Blackwell
Truman Defends Broad War Powers In Bipartisan Debate
President Truman said he has authority to send more U S troops to Europe and will consult lawmakers as a courtesy before acting. Senator Taft labeled his stance as the end of bipartisan foreign policy while Wherry contested the idea of broad military backing. Truman denied UN forces withdrawal from Korea and confirmed ongoing consultation with Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Wherry
R.-Neb
Europe
Caecum Foreign Relations
Armed Services
Frewen
J. Truman
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Korea
Tokyo
U. N
Foreign Relations and
Armed Services Committees
Goper Wherry
Malninin
Colorado
GOP
White House
State's Financial Policy Sound Says Budget Head
Raleigh Jan 12. Tar Heel legislators were told the state fiscal policy is sound and that teachers will receive another contingent pay raise. The joint appropriations committee planned a survey of 30 million dollars in unstarted state institution improvements and discussed reallocations to avoid deficits.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Joint Appropriations Committee
R. Grady Rankin
Gaston
Scott
D. §. Coltrane
Appropriations
Coltrane
Advisory Budget Commission
General
Agriculture Fund
Train Auto Crash Kills Negro Man in Greensboro
Wilford W. Jeffries 27, a machinist and father of twins, died at 7 am when an eastbound Southern Railway train hit his car at a Greensboro crossing. Wreckage lined the track for around 50 feet and his body was found under the car’s gasoline tank. The crash occurred exactly one month after a similar car train death at the same crossing.
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Greensboro
Wilford W. Jeffries
Southern Railway
Proof Needed for Draft of 18-Year-Olds in U S
Senator Saltonstall urged administration officials to prove the necessity of drafting 18-year-olds as Defense Department seeks to lower the age limit. The debate centers on filling a 50 000 additional draft call amid Korea casualties and whether the current 18 to 19 25 pool suffices.
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Washington
Saltonstall
Mass
Armed Services
Defense Department
Senate Preparedness
Anna M. Rosenberg
Rosenberg
John D. Adams
Air Force
Adams
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Service Committee
Lyndon Johnson
D-Tex
Defense
Congress
Truman calls for large tax increases to fund defense
President Truman urged Congress to raise taxes substantially beyond the last two increases and to grant budgeting and borrowing authority totaling 140 billion for the current and next fiscal year. He pressed for broader price and wage controls, stronger rent and export controls, and tougher measures to close tax loopholes while warning of Soviet aggression and the need to pay the defense bill through a pay as you go policy.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Uniate Primate Confesses to Vatican Ties in Czechoslovakia Trial
Prague Jan 12 report says Bishop Pavel Gojdic the 62 year old Greek Catholic primate of Czechoslovakia confessed spying for the Vatican during a Bratislava trial on high treason and espionage. He allegedly wrote inciting letters and illegal leaflets after 1948 Communist seizure and aided wartime clerical fascist elements.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Pavel Gojdic
Arbi Ye
Vatican
Bratislava
Presov
Jan Vojtassak
Spis
Michal Buzalka
Trnava
Czechoslovak Ministry of Information
Associated Press
Gojdie
Joseph Tiso
Nazi Germany
Tiso
Vehicle Inspection Bill Aimed to Reestablish Program
Raleigh report says Rep George A Long of Alamance will push a bill to re establish motor vehicle inspections. The plan calls for inspection lanes in each senatorial district with owners needing annual approval at state approved garages. The note appears alongside a separate dispatch about a new alphabet book for first graders in Washington DC.
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Raleigh
George A. Long
Alamance
Vatican Decree Baffles Rotary and Catholic Clergy
Vatican and Rotary officials grapple with Pope Pius XII decree barring Catholic clergy from membership in Rotary clubs and similar non religious organizations. Local bishops may interpret the ban, with clergy urged to resign and lay Catholics guided by canon law amid mixed U S reactions.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Rotary International
Kiwanis
the Lions
Congregation of the Sacred Office
Knights of Columbus
L’osservatore Romano
Rotary
Rotary Club
Chicago
Pius XII
Rotary Clubs
Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
Pope Pius
L’'Osservatore Romano
United States
John F. Noll
Fort Wayne
Ind
Bi Noll
Huntington, Ind
Simeon Schmidt
Huntington
Percy Hi
Providence, R. I
Journal
Stock Market Holds To Level
New York trading opened with selling orders that trimmed a rising trend. The market largely stayed at the new high for 1950 51 with gains led by Youngstown Sheet Tube American Dye Mtex Dallas Nickel Plate and several others while losses appeared for Chesapeake & Ohio Standard Oil Bethlehem Steel Sears Roebuck and DuPont amid mixed sector swings.
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New York
Youngstown Sheet & Goodyear
J. S. Case
American Dynamid
Union Carbide
Pepsi-Cola
Certainteed
Texas Co
Nickel Plate
Chesapeake & Ohio
Standard Oil
N. J
American Telephone
Bethlehem Steel
Sears Roebuck
National Distillers
DuPont
Interna Gone Nickel
New York Centra
Cracking Communication Sparks Guilty Plea in Milk Heist
A terse telegram style note reveals a plot as a young wife asks her husband to fetch milk and a fifth of liquor during a grocery run. The oddly phrased plea hints at a domestic dispute and potential motive amid local crime chatter.
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Sixth
Chechon
Philippine Sea
Don Loranger
Central Korea
Han River
Pusan
Ochi
Chungju
Eighth Army
Tanyang- Chungju
A. P
William Barnard
T Don Huth
James J. Metcalfe
Field Enterprises, Inc
Warren R. Austin
Austin
China
Twin City
Negro Man
Mrs. Rosenberg
Department of Agriculture
State of the Union
Russia
Free World
Reds
Moscow
Red Star
Washington, D. C
Arthur Lagueux
Quebec
Lagueux
Hodgson
Springfield
Christopher J. Weldon
Massachusetts
Weldon
Memphis
Edward J. Mullaly
Chicago Club
Thomas F. Menon
Tennessee
William L. Adfo
Deraghis
Emry Club
MLP
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