Miners In Six States Defy Lewis Order Over China Policy Debate
In Washington on January 16 Democrats and Republicans traded accusations over Formosa and China's policy. Senator Lucas defended the administration's move to withdraw consular staff from communist China while Senator Brewster and other Republicans lambasted the policy as a political hash and appeasement. The Senate prepared to hear testimony from Defense Secretary Johnson and General Omar Bradley as pressure grows ahead of November elections.
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Senate
Formosa
China
Lucas
Illinois
GOP
Truman
U. S
Peiping
Brewster
Europe
Asia
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Defense Johnson
Omar Bradley
Connally
D-Tex
Worst of the winter storms depart western states
The storm swept from the northern plains to the Rocky Mountains and northwest, leaving at least 52 deaths, including nine in the northwest blizzard and seven in two plane crashes. A mother and her three daughters died in an icy Michigan crash. Temperatures plunged from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast as the nation faced extreme cold.
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Associated Press
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Rocky Mountain
Northwest States
Canada
Northwest
Michigan
Great Lakes
Pacific Coast
Buffalo
Syracuse
N. Y
J. Radner
Chicago
Atlantic Seaboard
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California
Riverside
Los Angeles
Mercury
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Daggett
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Pacific Northwest
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Shasta
Portland
San Francisco
Rockies
Montana
Nothern Plains
South Dakota
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
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Vincennes
Ind
Wabash
Jury Selection Expected Today In Slaying Trial
Jury selection was to begin in Anson County for the trial of brothers Ben Ransom and Burt Ransom in the slaying of James M. Shirley of Rockville Centre New York. Shirley, a 37 year old war veteran and father of two, was found Sept 7 in a gravel pit near Wadesboro stabbed and shot.
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Ben Ransom
Burt
Red
Here
M. G. Boyette
Anson Superior Court
Shirley
Don Phillips
Rockingham
FBI
Ransom
Ben Rivers
Ben
Burton
Columbus
Zanesville
Soviet Bloc Walks Out On UN Body
Soviet bloc delegations led by Russia and Czechoslovakia withdrew from the UN Economic and Social Council committee on procedure over the continued presence of Chinese Nationalists. The walkout follows prior boycotts of the security council and the annual Little Assembly, with Tsiang pressing to indict Russia for aiding Chinese communists.
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Czechoslovakia
Russia
U.N
Security Council
Little Assembly
T. F. Tsiang
U.N. General Assembly
Tsiang
United Nations
Truman Defers National Emergency Action Amid Uncertain Evidence
President Truman says he lacks sufficient evidence to declare a national emergency. Senate leader Lucas notes he would act by legal means if justified, but he will not force a court challenge. Meanwhile a major coal strike seeps across six states with nearly 60,000 miners refusing to return to work despite Lewis urging resumption.
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Truman
Democratic Congressiona
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Senate
Pittsburgh
John L Lewis
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
U. S. Coal and Co Company
United States St Corporation
Virginia
Utah
Lewis
United States Steel Coration
U. S. Steel
Spok
West Viginia
Pittsburgh Consolidati Coal Company
Adolp Pacifico
UMW
Famed Airforce Leader Hap Arnold Dies at 63 in California
General Henry H. Hap Arnold, former chief of the Army Air Forces and a pioneer of U S military aviation, dies at his Sonoma California ranch at age 63 after years of heart trouble. He will be buried in Arlington. funeral set for Thursday. President Truman arranged to bring the family to California and attend the Arlington service.
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Palo Alto
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Washington, D. C
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Washington
Truman
California
Air Force
Hap) Arnold
Arlington National Cemetery
Army Air Forces
Arnold
Wright Brothers
West Point
Signal Corps
Military Air History of America
Air Corps
United States
Strange Death Probe Hunted For Clues In Baker Slaying
Lancaster police probe the brutal bludgeoning of Marian Louise Baker a Franklin & Marshall stenographer. They turn to friends coworkers and students for leads while detailing a possible motive and the suspect pool including her fiancé Edgar Rankin.
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Marian Louise Baker
Franklin & Marshall College
Miss Baker
Maria H. Harnish
Harnish
C. P. Stahr
State Police Corp
James FE. Cain
John Kirschner
Marion
Edgar B. Rankin
Cone Toga
Russia’s Asiatic Growth Signals Grim Picture for Enemies
In a Washington speech, Secretary Acheson argues Moscow is dismembering northern China and absorbing Manchuria into the Soviet Union. He cites outer Mongolia Sinkiang and inner Mongolia as steps in a calculated expansion southward to create a unified communist bloc in the Far East.
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Acheson
National Press Club
Washington
Asiatic Theatre
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China
Soviet Union
Outer Mongolia
Sinkiang
Ben Ell
Manchuria
Far’ East
Orient
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Europe
Moscow
Inner Mongolia
Man Killed in Robinson Post Office in Illinois
In Robinson Illinois a post office janitor Harry D. Taylor aged 54 shot and killed after a struggle with inspectors James A. Thompson and J J Cherer. Thompson was critically wounded twice while Cherer was badly beaten. Taylor collapsed and died. authorities plan an inquest.
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Greer Hospital
J. J. Cherer
Effingham
C. T. West
Crawford County
Thompson
Scherer
Taylor
Roscoe Keenan
Keenan
Francis B. Kemp Dies in Reidsville at 47
Francis B. Kemp prominent North Carolina Realtor and former NC Board of Realtors president died of a heart attack at age 47 in Reidsville. He led Reidsville Realty and Insurance, served as secretary treasurer of First Federal Savings and Loan, and was active in civic and religious life, including scouting leadership. Funeral services set for 3 p.m. Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church.
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Francis B. Kemp
North Carolina Board of Realtors
National Association
First Presbyterian Church
Bus Wreck Leaves Two Dead and Dozens Injured
A crowded bus, a trailer truck, and a passenger car collided near the Queens boro bridge in Manhattan during rush hour. Two people died and about 39 were injured, many of them high school students awaiting classes. Thirty five were hospitalized, with ten pedestrians among the injured.
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Manhattan
Queensboro Bridge
Charles Seretan
Queens
60Th and
Second Avenue
Stock Sales Set In Winston-Salem
Forsyth County breeders plan spring sales for Tamworth hogs and Guernsey cattle on April 3. The Tamworth hog sale will start at 10 30 a.m. and the cattle sale at 1 30 p.m. Assistant Farm Agent A B Addington of the State College Extension Service notes a maximum of 30 Tamworths and 35 Guernseys will be consigned.
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Winston-Salem
Forsyth County
A. B. Addington
State College Extension Service
Britain Eats Better Says Strachey After Shortages
Food Minister John Strachey told the Fabian Society that Britain has largely overcome world food and dollar shortages. He argued the labor government boosted nutrition and that prewar levels in calories proteins and fats have been surpassed by their policy to stimulate global food production.
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London
John Strachey
Britain
Strachey
Fabian Society
Labor
Stock Market Opens Brisk Yet Falls Back After Early Gains
New York stock activity started brisk with prices generally lower after early gains. Large blocks traded at opening: Admiral Corp down 50 cents to 22.50, Baltimore & Ohio off 37 cents to 10.75, Schenley Industries down 75 cents to 32, Radio Corp 13.67, U S Steel up 12 cents to 26.75. The market awaits reactions to the sharp break begun Thursday amid near record volumes.
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Admiral Corp
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Schenley Industries
Radio Corp
U. S. Steel
Decontrolled Cities See Rents Rise After Pledges End
Federal rent chief Tighe Woods reports six cities that decontrolled under the 1949 law show renewed rent increases as pledges to limit boosts expire. Data cover Knoxville Dallas Salt Lake City Jacksonville Topeka and Houston with higher rises concentrated under $30 rents.
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Tighe Woods
Wood
Woods
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Knoxville
Tenn
Dallas
Tex
Salt Lake City
Jacksonville
Fla
Topeka
Kan
Houston
Violence Claims Eleven Lives Across North Carolina
Over the weekend at least eight people were killed in violence across North Carolina. Victims include Cleve Mahaffey, 55, found in a ditch near Statesville. William Clifton Alston, 35, shot near Louisburg. Aileen Wooten, 22, stabbed in Goldsboro. Mary Alice Lewis, 25, also in Goldsboro. Eula Mae Lassiter, shot near Sanford. and Mrs Frank Dennison, 24, shot in Gastonia. Police and coroner reports cite murder, robbery, and a love triangle as motives. suspects include Henry York, 24, jailed for investigation, and James Jackson, jailed in Lee county.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Cleve Mahaffey
Union Grove
Statesville
Henry York
Mahaffey
William Clifton Alston
Louisburg
Sanford
A. Glenn Buchanan
Lee County
James Jackson
Greensboro
Frank Dennison
South Gastonia
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