Senate In Mood To Slash Excise Taxes
Washington January 21 Senate finance chairman George warned the Senate may move quickly to cut excises as part of a broad tax plan. He said the cut could reach 1.5 billion while White House plans expect a one package bill with up to 1.75 billion in new levies on furs jewelry luggage and more. The House push for a quick excise cut faced criticism from Republicans and concerns about offsetting higher taxes.
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Francis M. Lemay
Washington
Capitol Hill
Truman
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Congress
White House
tod+y
Martin
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Robbers Trap Themselves In Grain Mill Takeover
In Elizabethtown Pennsylvania three robbers entered a grain mill and encountered a police trap after a 40 minute standoff. Frank Stadler and Ray Weber were killed or wounded during gunfire while Earl Firestone was captured. Officers pursued after spotting the getaway car earlier.
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Elizabethtown
Frank Stadler
Baltimore
Ray Weber
John Lenker
Weber
Good Samaritan Hospital
Lebanon
Pennsylvania
Earl Firestone
Grubb and Brennan
Henry Habig
Habig
Stadler
Firestone
Ephrata
Mt. Gretna
Otten
Officer Refused to Tear Up Warrant Against Prominent Man's Son
Greenville police chief L D Page disclosed that alderman Cal Cox pressured him to dismiss a drunk driving warrant for the son of a local prominent businessman. Cox threatened resignation and sought firing of Officer L C SUM MRELL after the arrest of Marion Blount Jr. The case moved to superior court as Page stood firm against overturning the warrant.
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Greenville
L. D. Page
Page
Cal Cox
Cox
L. C. Summrell
Marion ©. Blount, Jr
James Little
Boone Theater Fire Destroys Appalachian Venue
A popcorn machine fire gutted Boone's Appalachian theater today, forcing 500 people to evacuate without injuries. The two story brick building housed the theater, an apartment, offices, and a soda shop with damage estimated at 150000 dollars. Firemen and managers aided the orderly exit as flames spread from a back room.
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Boone
Bob Agle
Sams Theater Corporation of
Statesville
Agle
J. W. Beach
8Oke
Capus Waynick Joins Nicaragua Golf Team Debut
Raleigh dispatch notes Capus Waynick returning from Nicaragua after six months. The 60 year old says his golf is sharp enough to be on Nicaragua's eight man team in a Central American tourney and he shoots in the low 80s. He frames his return in terms of advancing the good neighbor policy.
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Raleigh
Capus Waynick
Nicaragua
Waynick
Charlotte Man Runs for NC Tenth District Seat
Edgar T. Williams, 47, a Charlotte businessman, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for representative from the tenth North Carolina district. Incumbent Hamilton Co. Jones, also a Democrat from Charlotte, is seeking re election.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Hamilton Co. Jones
Journalism Education Drive Is Launched
CHAPEL HILL January 21 A campaign to raise 100000 dollars endowment for journalism education was projected today when the School of Journalism Foundation of North Carolina Inc was formally organized under sponsorship of the North Carolina Press Association. About one sixth of the fund is in hand from voluntary contributions by North Carolina newspapers and newspaper people in anticipation of the formal organization.
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Chapel Hill
Jan
School of Journalism Foundation of North Carolina, Inc
North Carolina Press Association
North Carolina
Tucker Jury Deliberates in Tucker Car Venture Fraud Case
A Chicago jury weighed fraud charges against Preston T. Tucker and seven associates in the Tucker car venture. Deliberations began at 10:55 a.m. Central Time and continued after twelve hours without a verdict.
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Tucker
Chicago
Preston T. Tucker
Tucker Corporation
Let Needs Decide Vote Miners Return to Work Debate
In western Pennsylvania 17 000 United Mine Workers voters backed returning to work Monday while 2 400 wished to continue the strike. A field general urged rebels to let hunger and anger guide their choice as 90 000 miners nationwide faced ballot options on workdays and contracts. William Hynes led a district four push to re poll men amid hunger reports and local leaders struggled to reach district officers.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
United Mine Workers District
Lewis
UMW District Four
Uniontown
William Hynes
John Ozanich
UMW
Hynes
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Robena
Ozanich
Truman
Fayette County
Department of
Gordon Gray Named UNC Post Nominee by Committee
Gordon Gray, 41, publisher of the Winston Salem Journal and Sentinel, was named by a trustees nominating committee as the candidate for President of the Greater University of North Carolina. He would succeed Dr. Frank P. Graham after a Feb. 6 board vote. Gray, a WWII veteran and former Secretary of the Army, faced a 10 month search amid candidates from the 100 considered.
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Raleigh
Lecoy
The
Army
Gordon Gray
University of North Carolina
Gray
Winston- Salem Journal and Sentinel
Kerr Scott
Board of
Winston- Salem
Frank P. Graham
Greater University
Chapel Hill
North Carolina State College
Woman's Colege
Greensboro
Graham
Scott
U. S
J. M. Broughton
Buck
Kenneth C. Royall
Goldsboro
N. 7
Russia and China Near Agreement in Mutual Aid Talks
The AP reports Russia and Communist China drawing closer to a proposed friendship and mutual aid treaty. Stalin hosted Mao Tze-Tung in Moscow for Lenin's death anniversary as Vishinsky denounced U S accusations, while Mao pledged enduring friendship.
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Russia
China
Associated Press
Stalin
Mao Tze-Tung
Moscow
Bolshoi Theatre
Lenin
P. N. Prosperov
Pravda
New China
Vishinsky
Mao
Washington
Truman
Congress
Korea
Finland
Berlin
United States
U. S
West Berlin
Maxwell D. Taylor
Winston Churchill
Labor Party
Britain
BBC
Achesons China policy hits Soviet sore spot noted
Washington reports that Achesons China policy attack touched a vulnerable point in Soviet China relations. Vishinsky in Moscow accused Acheson of lying over claims Russia is taking four areas of northern China. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Connally called Vishinskys language undiplomatic and distempered.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
State Department
Acheson
China
Vishinsky
Moscow
Russia
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kremlin
Tass
Soviet Union
Far East
Outer Mongolia
Inner Mongolia
Sinkiang
Manchuria
Winter floods ease across the United States
The nationally shifting flood pattern shows the crisis waning in the Midwest and South as Mississippi and Ohio rivers hold steady at Cairo while Arkansas and Tennessee face homelessness. Red Cross sets up relief hubs in Little Rock aiding about 1,500 flood refugees as 25,000 total displaced this month. In Missouri, Birds Point New Madrid residents evacuate ahead of levee work.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Mississippi
Ohio
Cairo
Ill
St. Francis
Arkansas
Red Cross
Little Rock
West
Birds Point
New Madrid
Missouri
Mississippi River
State Department Career Man Branded As Traitor
Alger Hiss faced prison after a federal jury convicted him of perjury in a second trial. The verdict branded him a traitor for denying he aided Communist spies through his State Department work. Hiss plans to appeal as sentencing looms, with defense attorney Claude B. Cross and prosecutors urging swift action.
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James Parlatore
New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hif
Hiss
Seco
Sai
Claude B. Cross
Yalta
Roosevelt
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
U.S
Thomas F. Murphy
Henry W Goddard
Progress Reported In Hunt For Boston Holdup Men
Boston detectives reported progress in the nationwide search for the Brink's armored car robbers. FBI Inspector Myron Gurnea arrived to direct federal efforts while local police noted cooperation and narrowed leads. A Brink's guard, William Manter, was questioned after a reported disappearance, and a car load of eight men claimed to be boilermakers exiting a ship job.
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Boston
New York
James F. Daley
Daley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Myron E. Gurnea
FBI
Washington
Gurnea
Guinea
Brink
William E. Manter
Manter
Ridgefield
Conn
Boston Harbor
Brooklyn
N. Y
Federal Reserve Bank
Wilmington
Del
Brunswick
New York City
James V. Crowley
Crowley
Probe Blaze Razed Edgewater Hotel
Police and fire officials investigate the fire that gutted the 14 room Edgewater hotel in Wrightsville Beach last night. The hotel was thought unoccupied and the damage amount was not yet estimated. Assistant Police Chief Mabbry said the cause was under investigation.
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Wrightsville Beach
Edgewater
Buck Mabbry
Mabbry
Asbestos Paste Used In Novel Heart Surgery
Cincinnati surgeon Dr. B N Carter reports a new technique to treat coronary artery disease by gluing the lung to the heart with an asbestos paste to stimulate tissue growth and form tiny blood channels. The method, tested on three patients, aims to increase blood supply without sewing the organs together and was described at a NIH sponsored heart surgeons conference.
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Washington
Cincinnati
B. N. Carter
University of Cincinnati
Carter
National Institutes of Health
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