Dewey urges social advances without new taxes in NY legislature
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey attacks federal regulation and spending in a 6,000 word message to the New York Legislature. He calls for belt tightening and rejects national fiscal sanity, urging continued tax structure while pushing state health and security gains. He criticizes federal budget excess and promises active GOP leadership on state matters. Concluded on Page 16, Column 2.
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Gov. Dewey
Washington
Dewey
G.O.P
Red Warships Enter Dairen
Taipei reports parts of the Russian Asiatic fleet including over 20 submarines moved into Dairen, a North China port held by the Reds. Nationalists fear a future invasion from Dairen and Tsingtao and note Red purchases of British landing ships and motorboat engines in Hong Kong.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Dairen
North China
Tsingtao
Hong Kong
Today’s Features and Page References
The day’s layout lists sections with page numbers for comics Dr Dean Mary Haworth Ida Jean Kain crossword Talking It Over on page 13 Amusements Horoscope Classified Inq Reporter City Life Music Deaths Radio Earl Wilson Social Editorials Sports and Letters Winchell Financial Pictures on pages 12 to 29 across various features and departments.
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Earl Wilson
Winchell
Financial
Dewey Urges Tax Belt Tightening and State Health Protections
Dewey argues the state must tighten the belt within existing tax structure to avoid stifling enterprise. He criticizes federal budget excess and calls for reenactment of standby residential rent control while defending state health and welfare standards. He asserts New York should provide medical care without government overreach and deems national social security chaotic.
George P Putnam Dies in California
George Palmer Putnam publisher husband of Amelia Earhart died in Trona California at 6 05 AM He was 63 and ran Stove Pipe Wells resort in Death Valley after four weeks of uremic poisoning and internal hemorrhages Earhart disappeared on a Pacific flight in 1937 and was legally dead in 1939 He had married twice since her disappearance and organized a long search for Earhart.
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Trona
Calif
George Palmer Putnam
Amelia Earhart
Putnam
Stove Pipe Wells
Death Valley
Miss Earhart
Food Index Rises Slightly From Week Ago in New York
The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index in New York advanced one cent from the prior week to 5.73. It remains 6.4 percent below the year-ago level of 6.12.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
City board trims public works staff to save 1600
The Board of Estimate in its first meeting under the new administration reshuffled posts saving about 1600 annually. It abolished first and second deputy public works jobs and created superintendent roles for street cleaning and ashes and garbage at the same pay. Existing deputies Edward Punch and John Meagher will fill the new posts. The garage and safety inspector posts were eliminated. A deputy commissioner of public works at 6000 was created for former Commissioner Raymond H. Dodge. The Police Court roster was amended to three attendants at 3350. The board includes Mayor Thomas J. Corcoran and others.
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Edward Punch
Street Bureau
John Meagher
Jesse Fellows
Clifford Reynolds
Public Works
Raymond H. Dodge
Thomas J. Corcoran
Alfred Haight
George E. Bedford
Amnesty Granted for Batangas Rebels by Quirino
President Elpidio Quirino sent a proclamation to Congress granting amnesty to political rebels in Batangas Province. Sources said speedy approval was likely, with forgiveness covering all crimes in the uprising except murder kidnapping and similar offenses.
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P, JT
Elpidio Quirino
Congress
Batangas
Snowplows on alert as June in January ends
Syracuse ends its rare warm spell tomorrow as winter returns. Plows may be pressed into action for the first time this season after a 48 year January without a call out. Temperatures peaked near 67.4 degrees, matching close to January heat records. Rain was forecast for this afternoon with Western New York already seeing showers.
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Syracuse
New York
Buffalo
Rochester
ICC Orders Cut in Rails
The Inter State Commerce Commission ordered a general one third cut in railroad passenger service on coal fueled lines. The reduction takes effect 11:59 PM local time Sunday Jan 8 and applies to lines with 25 days or less coal on hand and no dependable coal supply. The ICC cites dwindling coal supplies from disturbances and curtailments in mining tied to the United Mine Workers dispute led by John L. Lewis.
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Washington
Inter- State Commerce Commission
ICC
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Freighter Mor Macreed Plagued By Fire Near Halifax
The 6,659 ton United States freighter Mor Macreed speeds toward Halifax with a fire in her hold. Fire department crews are to meet the ship at the pier when it reaches port late this afternoon.
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Halipax
N.S
United States
Halifax
Murder Prank Sparks Police Chase Across South Carolina
A juke box operator witnessed a car stop as a man fired twice at a victim. Police traced an identical scene to Sumter then found five college students in a vehicle returning to Duke University who admitted staging fake murders with an antique pistol and firecrackers.
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S. C
Orangeburg
Sumter
S.C
Duke University
Fight Over Bigger Ice Cream Sodas Headed to Court
In Reading Pennsylvania Harry Specter a traveling salesman faced an $11.50 fine after a disturbance over a soda blamed for lacking enough ice cream. Police testified Specter ate most of the drink before filing a complaint and paid $1 to keep the remains as evidence. The magistrate ordered payment and Specter indicated intent to appeal to a higher court regardless of evidence.
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Reading
Harry Specter
Charles Lease
Specter
Melvin Tomlinson
Lease
Shotgun Accident Kills Youth in Rochester
Fourteen year old Edward Lagasse died in Rochester when a 17 year old peer, Richard Berhagen, picked up a 16 gauge shotgun from beneath a porch glider and it discharged striking Lagasse in the head. The incident occurred yesterday as Edward sat with another boy.
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Edward Lagasse
Lagasse
Richard Berhagen
Edward
Britain proposes new US Canada atomic partnership
The New York Times reports Britain seeks a three nation group with the United States and Canada to oversee atomic weapon production. A British memo to Washington透露 contains a sequence of proposals outlined by James Reston in a Washington dispatch.
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Canada
the Times
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James Reston
New York Sun Sold to World Telegram Merger Formed
The New York World Telegram buys the New York Sun and merges operations. Beginning tomorrow the combined paper will be titled The World Telegram and The Sun. Roy W. Howard and Thomas W. Dewart announce the merger and note Sun features will join the World Telegram.
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New York Sun
the World-Telegram
Sun
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World-Telegram
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Rayburn Sees Spending Cut Proposed in Truman Budget
Speaker Rayburn announced President Truman’s 1951 budget would cut about 1.8 billion dollars from current spending, with roughly 3.0 billion in foreign aid and defense reductions, and about 1.2 billion added to domestic outlays. He said the plan targets a balanced next year’s budget though revenue stands near 38 billion.
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Washington
Rayburn
Truman
Mr. Truman
Congress
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Fog story memory of comedian George Moran in Oakland
Oakland comedian George Moran who died at 67 told a fog themed anecdote at a local dinner. He quipped about autumn fog days and shared a tale of workers tossing fog balls, plus a joke about a clerk who claims to be late due to not arriving home yesterday.
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George Moran
Oakland
Calif
Truman Sees Nation Aiming Toward A Trillion Dollar Economy
President Truman outlined a vision of a growing economy with a possible average family income exceeding 12 000 dollars annually and a long term production rise. He urged moderate tax changes and continued wartime controls while pushing for repeal of the Taft Hartley Act and renewed housing and civil rights measures. He spoke before a joint session of Congress, signaling a balanced budget in the near term but potential red ink beyond the next fiscal year.
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Washington
Truman
America
Congress
Praman
Tranes Program In Brief President Trumans State Of The Union
President Truman proposes major recommendations to Congress in the state of the union message across military foreign business labor farm housing power health and security civil rights taxes and governance. Suggestions include extending conscription, Atlantic pact defense plans, keeping aid programs, ending Taft Hartley, farm supports Brannan plan, middle income housing, public power, St Lawrence Seaway, Alaska Hawaii statehood, and tax reform.
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Truman
Congress
State of the Union
Prisoners Hunger Strike Shakes Calcutta Prisons
Nearly 560 Communist inmates in Calcutta prisons are on a hunger strike demanding a say in jailer appointments and a raise in jailers pay. Officials announced the action as the protest spread across facilities.
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Calcutta
India
Truman State of the Union draws split party reaction
Senator Wherry of Nebraska labeled President Truman's State of the Union message a dud while Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois called it an eloquent expression of humanity. Congressional reaction ranged between these views with Wherry arguing for stability and freedom, and tax increases as back-breaking.
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Truman
Congress
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Illinois
Wherry
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