Britain Faces Sharper Austerity as Parliament Opens
As Parliament convenes, Britain braces for expanded wartime demands, with shortages in coal, steel, and electricity fueling talk of a broader arms program and possible coalition politics. Attlee’s leadership faces criticism while calls for Bevin and a coalition loom amid rising prices and tax pressures.
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Foreign Office
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Attlee
Aneurin Bevan
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Labor Party
Morgan Phillips
Army
Air Force
Amputee May Keep Fingers In Korean War Frostbite Tale
Pvt. Hubert Reeves a 19 year old amputee faces possible removal of all fingers on his left hand after frostbite in Korea surgeons at Percy Jones report life signs in the left fingers and may save part of them while keeping the right hand fingers dead. Reeves survived a freezing ordeal after his evacuation truck was attacked by Communists near the Changsan reservoir. His mother and father from Joliet Illinois visit as doctors decide on timing of any further surgery.
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Oald
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Changsan
Korea
Missing stock reported by Congress in folding room
Washington January 20 missing stock exceeding 100000 was reported in the house folding room supplies. Doorkeeper William M Miller said the shortage involved two agriculture yearbooks and two agriculture books Diseases of Horses and Diseases of Cattle. A 1949 storage fire may explain part of the loss and a Dec. 20 House resolution authorized use of contingent funds to replenish folding room stock.
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House
William M
Fishball) Miller
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Four Year Old Guards Bootleg Whiskey In Raid
In Charleston County a four year old watching as police raided his father’s attic liquor stash. Patrolman Wilson Johnson clamped down the confiscated liquor and a toy gun was pressed to his back by the child who warned to return the whiskey. The child was disarmed and no charges were filed.
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Charleston
Dutch records on India to aid 17th 18th century history
Copies of Dutch records from The Hague via the Indian Embassy in the Netherlands will arrive for the Indian National Archives. The Dutch papers, largely about the Dutch East India Company, are in Dutch and will help write a fuller history of India in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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India
Hague
Indian National Archives
Netherlands
Dutch East India Company
Pop Williamson Murder Case Heads to High Court Term
Two Thomasville men Otho Conner and Everette Allison face bill of indictment for the September 8 murder of Frank Pop Williamson as the Davidson county Superior Court opens January 29 in Lexington with Judge Dan K. Moore presiding. The case was continued for lack of evidence due to a missing witness Mary Klass.
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Otho Conner
Everette Allison
Frank
Pop) Williamson
Davidson County Superior Court
Lexington
Dan K. Moore
Mary Klass
Williamson
Holly
Gross Says UN Must Face Facts
Roanoke Virginia January 20 Ernest A Gross No 2 man in the United States U N delegation urged the United Nations to confront aggression and make decisive actions. He warned watchful waiting is dead and said collective action under the U N charter is essential to survivial in Korea and beyond.
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Ernest A. Gross
United States
U. N
United Nations
U. S
Former Officer Joins Real Estate Firm on West Washington
C F Wolfe, a High Point native and ex police officer, has joined the D R Whitaker real estate firm on West Washington Street. He served three and a half years in the U S Navy during World War II and spent four and a half years with the local police department focusing on safety and schoolboy patrols.
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D. R. Whitaker
Washington Street
High Point
U. S. Navy
Police Department
Woman Lures Three Men Into Jail Then Is Freed
In Springfield a 27 year old Detroit woman Mrs Lorraine Brandon was jailed on vagrancy charges with three Detroit men. A Peoria painter F Hargrove claimed to have seen her photo and paid court costs to free her. The men and Mrs Brandon were arrested January 10 after wives filed non support charges.
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Gerald Gleason
Gleason
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Peoria
Hargrove
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California
Allies Stand Firm In Korea Amid Fresh Red Assault
Allied troops repelled a second Red attack on Wonju with mortar and small arms fire as U S Eighth Army warned of mounting North Korean forces to the southeast and northeast. Casualties were heavy on the Communist side with ~200 killed reported.
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Red
U.S
Eighth Army
Wonju
Yongwol
Andong
Taegu
Pusan
Sobaek
Han River
Korea
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Saturn
Associated Press
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Machari
United Nations
Stone
Tanyang
Bill Shinn
Son Won Ll
Samchok
38Th Parallel
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