Taft outlines middle way crisis program
Sen Taft proposes a 16 year middle course to ready the United States for potential war without harming the economy. He backs a foreign policy approved by Congress, warns of sacrifices including higher taxes, possible two year draft for men 18 to 20, and price wage controls. He critiques the UN as a discussion group and favors a limited war in China if needed. Continued on Page A5.
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Taft
Ohio
United States
National Press Club
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Congress
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
United Nations
China
Britannia sword stolen from statue in Waterloo Place
London reports the four foot bronze Britannia sword vanished from its girdle on a statue near Pall Mall. Police investigate sightings at stations and cafes after a powerfully public theft connected to recent crown stone events. No suspects named yet.
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Chumley
Britannia
Lord Clyde
Ministry of Works
Waterloo Place
Pall Mall
Westminster Abbey
London
Desnotres
Scotland Yard
President Awards Medal of Honor to Korea War Soldiers
President Truman awarded the Medal of Honor to five Army members killed or missing in Korea. The ceremony in the State Department Building honored Pfc Melvin L Brown Maj Gen William F Dean MSgt Travis E Wallis 1st Lt Frederick F Henry and Sgt 1st Class Charles W Turner. Sgt Christopher Henry brother of 1st Lt Henry attended on a stretcher.
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Army
Frank Pace
Chiat
Korea
Mildred OD
William F. Dean
Lavon P
Ashington
State Department
White House
Christopher Henry
Frederick F. Henry
Bir
Sgt
Henry
First Cavalry
24Th Infantry
Melvin L. Brown
Mahaffey
Berkeley
Calif
Travis E. Wallis
Gladewater
Texas
Cineton
Okla
Charles W. Turner
Boston
Navy
Air Force
Coast Guard
Americans Urged to Leave Hong Kong Amid Chinese Aggression
Americans in Hong Kong were advised by the U S State Department to evacuate families quickly due to rising Chinese aggression in the Far East. Consul General McConaughy estimated about 1400 Americans, many Chinese Americans, live there as British defences tighten. some firms plan HQ moves. evacuation of 22 officials’ families is planned soon.
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Hong Kong
U. S. State Department
Far East
U. S
Walter P. McConaughy
Indochina
Korea
Malaya
Middlesex and Sutherland Highlanders
Pany
American World Airways
United States
United Nations
U. N
China
Boy‘cott
Peking
Stock Market Sharp Rise Hits New 1950-51 High
New York January 9 An upward surge today pushed the stock market to another high for 1950-51. Gains ranged from a few cents to over $2 a share with trading volume at an unusually high 3,800,000 shares. A rush of buyers early in the day drove the tape into a three minute lag in reporting on the Stock Exchange floor.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Weather Forecast with Clouds Fog and Sun
Low clouds and fog tonight and early tomorrow. Sunny with scattered high clouds tomorrow afternoon. Slightly cooler with variable winds. Winds expected from the southwest at 12 to 26 mph tomorrow afternoon.
Congress Sets Date to Study Third Tax Hike
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder and tax lawmakers set Feb 1 to begin consideration of a new multibillion dollar tax bill that could raise as much as 10 billion dollars a year. President Truman urged taxing until it hurts while Sen Byrd pushed for potential retail or transactions taxes as deficits approach 75 billion dollars next fiscal year.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Truman
Sen
Byrd
D.va
Capitol Hill
Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
George
D.-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
D.-Va
17 Greenlanders Die in Flu Epidemic Report
Frederikshaab in southern Greenland reports 17 deaths from a severe flu outbreak, the Greenland department said today. Frederikshaab has about 500 inhabitants.
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Copenesgen
Denmark
Frederikshaab
Greenland
Eighth Army Forces Hurl Back Pursuers In Korea
United Nations forces retook ground around Wonju as Eighth Army rear guards repelled Communist pursuers south of Seoul. Heavy fighting persisted as U N troops delayed a full offensive toward Pusan, with battalions and armor engaging near Wonju and Chuneiu.
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Wonju
Korea
U.S. Eighth Army
Seoul
U. N
Eighth Army
Pusan
Osan
Central Korea
Wonjui
Chuneiu
Chungiu
Front
Mass killer hunt stretches across five states
Jittery citizens report sightings of a man matching Bill Cook across Texas Oregon Kansas New Mexico and California as the FBI doubts border crossings. An abandoned car found south of the border is the latest clue while a Chula Vista service station report places a green 1950 Ford at the scene.
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Bill Cook
Missouri
Mexican
Texas
Oregon
Kansas
New Mexico
California
FBI
Was
Cook
United States
Mexico
Zook
Robert H. Dewey
Seattle
Dewey
Blythe
Chula Vista
Tijuana
San Francisco
Vaughn, N. M
Milton Burrow
Paris Reds Maul 2 Yanks in the Protest
FARIS Jan 9 Communists clashed with two American soldiers on the Champs-Elysees. A corporal was struck and scratched as police intervened to escort the men to safety. Demonstrations swelled to about 1000 after Eisenhower departed for Brussels, chanting antiwar slogans.
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Brussels
Champs-Elysees
Paris
Tanks Bolster French in Indochina Threats Reach Saigon
French forces in northern Indochina were reinforced today by three infantry divisions and a tank regiment. Sherman tanks support. A Red-led Nationalist mortar raid on Saigon killed three locals and wounded 29 others.
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Maigon
Indochina
Saigon
Pilots Ordered to Strafe All but Families and Kiddies
Allied pilots in Korea have been ordered to attack anyone behind Communist lines except for identifiable refugee families and children. The directive notes North Korean and Chinese troops disguise themselves in civilian white clothing to infiltrate Allied lines, with reports of thousands in white dress and refugees constituting the majority of targets in some air strikes.
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ITH U.N
Korea
Rei
Reis
No Man’s Land
Telegraph style page references and sections list
The clippings show a miscued newspaper header with page and section guides. It cites Bridge on A-11, Classified on B-8 to B-11, Editorial on A, Financial on tee, Obituaries on A-14, Radio on A-6, Shipping table on B-6, Sports on A-2, Theaters on A-D, Temperatures on B, and Winns activities on Ee.
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Winns
Navy Raises Three Month Reserve Call to 47000
The Navy will call 47000 enlisted reserves into active service in April, May and June, up from a prior plan by 32000. The order includes petty officers electronics technicians radiomen storekeepers bosuns mates quartermasters and several aviation and mechanical specialists plus some WAVEs and lower grade sailors with six months prior service. Quotas are allocated to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Naval Districts in San Francisco and Seattle.
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Navy
Naval Ae
Twelfth Naval District
San Francisco
Thirteenth Naval District
Seattle
Navy plans 2 billion ship program with new super carrier
The House armed services committee approved a 2 billion dollar shipbuilding and conversion package authorizing 173 new ships and 291 conversions. A 57,000 ton super carrier is planned with a three and a half year build, while most rest of program due within two years. The effort aims to start via a supplemental defense appropriation near 10 billion and 9 hundred million dollars.
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Jan
House Armed Services Committee
Navy
Carl Vinson
D.ga
Adm
Forrest E- Sherman
Naval Operans
Vinson
Tone Vinson
Pentagon
United States
Defense
Louis Johnson
Doomsday Faithful Await Fiery Ball Of God
In Zeremeos BC on January 9 a group of 36 Children of Light cultists waited in a farmhouse for God to descend in a great ball of fire. Led by bespectacled leader Aen Garison 60, the sect claimed a fiery apparition would roll from a nearby mountain and divine voices would speak. The group, including 15 children, believed they would meet God and endure the event, saying interference delayed the prophesied moment.
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B. C
Doomsday
God
Children of Light
Gan
Pentecostal Church
Alte
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