Budget awaits tax report as council mulls sales tax
The Common Council met to receive recommendations from the Non-Partisan Citizens Commission on the 1951 budget and a possible two or one percent sales tax. Chairman Williams and Alfred Haight discussed timing as groups press for or against tax measures. The commission, including ex Mayor Kennedy and Royal O Day, aims to finish a report by the afternoon session. Labor unions press for wage raises while critics question committee naming and tactics.
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Common Council
Citizens Commission
City Hall
John. A. ‘Williams
Alfred W. Haight
Haight
Williams
Thomas E. Kennedy
Royal L. O'Day
Corcoran
Nathan’ H. Blutman
William N. Wildridge
Chamber‘of Commerce
Syracuse
Wildridge
Blutman
Citizens Tax Committee
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Blitman
Pioneer’s Kin Dies in Texas Granddaughter of Republic VP
Miss Mary De Zavala, 78, granddaughter of the Republic of Texas vice president, died at her San Antonio home yesterday. Last rites were scheduled for today.
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San Antonio
Tex
Gpi
Mary de Zavala
Republic of Texas
Altruistic stance on Korea risks war with South aid
Editorial notes by Dewitt Mackenzie on the editorial page argue the United States risked a major war by intervening in Korea to liberate the South Korean republic while noting self defense also plays a role. The piece appears on pages 32 and 33 with other features listed.
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United States
Korea
Dewitt Mackenzie
Worker Dies Of Oil Burns At Solvay Process Co
FRANK HAEFNER, 67, of 235 Dale jst., died today after an oil tank ignited when he lowered a switch in the plant electric shop. He apparently thought power was off. the switch shorted and oil burned. Haefner worked for Solvay Co. since 1901, 44 years in the electric shop. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marguerite Haefner.
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Frank Haefner
Dale Jst
Solvay ‘Process Co
Haefner
The
Solvay Co
Marguerite Haefner
Hotel Strike in Philadelphia Postponed
Representatives of two unions meet with officials of 15 major Philadelphia hotels where a strike set for last midnight was postponed at the last minute. Three thousand hotel workers were to walk off two days before the World Series opening game and on the eve of the Master Brewers convention. A joint negotiating committee announced the postponement and a meeting would be held today.
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Philadelphia CP
Philadelphia
Gem Theft Reported From Long Island Mansion
Retired stock broker Rufus W. Scott reports jewels valued between fifty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars stolen from a concealed wall safe in the Scotts’ twenty room Long Island mansion. Mrs Seatt attended a party at the time. The gems were allegedly spirited away Saturday night.
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Locust Valley
Rufus W. Scott
Long Island
Tax rise bites as withholding increases for 25 million workers
The new federal income tax withholding rates took effect yesterday, increasing the take from paychecks by about one fifth for more than 25 million American workers. The higher tax is to keep taxpayers on a pay as you go system to fund the defense buildup approved by Congress.
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Congress
Murray Hopes Strike Is Averted
Philip Murray, president of United Steelworkers, says he hopes a strike can be avoided as wage demands are to be fixed at Wednesday and Thursday meetings of the steel workers policy committee in Atlantic City during the USW District 15 annual meeting.
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Mckeesport
Philip Murray
C.so
United Steelworkers
Atlantic City
Murray
U.S.W. District 15
North Koreans Rip Joe's Picture as Southerners Enter
North Korean towns resist as South Korean forces move across the 38th Parallel into Yangyang with flowers and signs of courtesy. Reporter Robert Bennyhoff, embedded with Col. Thomas D. McPhail’s First Corps, describes civilians tearing down Stalin and Premier U Sing portraits while fortifications loom and no NK troops appear. The dispatch notes Yaneyang as the first North Korean city captured during a tense advance.
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Robert Bennyhoff
Yangyang
North Korea
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Jim U-Sing
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South Korea
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Rok
Republic of Korea
Set
Robert Mirachal
New York City
Air Force
Yaneyang
Thomas D. McPhail
Colin
Soviet Vishinsky charges U S breaks Korea pact at UN
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky told the General Assembly Political Committee that the United States flung a challenge at the UN and international law by ignoring a four power Korea agreement. He accused U S delegate Warren R Austin of misrepresentation and described South Korea as a rotten Fascist state with terror by police under Syngman Rhee. He cited last May elections as illegal and noted a boycott harmed reform efforts. Fifteen nations support extending UN aid to all Korea. committee vote expected midweek as bloc speeches continue.
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Korea
Vishinsky
UN Korean Commission
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
South Korea
National Civilian Defense Plan Talks Begin
Washington officials opened a two day session with state directors to map a national civil defense plan. More than twenty state leaders from states west of the Mississippi gathered for discussions behind closed doors while eastern state defense chiefs join in on the follow up session.
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Washington GP
Mississippi River
Fire destroys Salina Street millinery shop in noon blaze
A flash fire at Field's Millinery Shoppe 338 South Salina Street during the noon rush injures a firefighter and causes smoke illness to about 12 others. Lt Hoffman of Engine Company 6 is overcome and treated, Walter Bialbreski of Truck 1 sustains a cut hand. Witnesses report an explosive burst of flame. the fire started suddenly, with flames shooting across the side. Concluded on Page 15, Column 8.
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Edward J. Hoffman
Engine. Co
Smokke
Onondaga General Hospital
Walter Bialbreski
Truck 1
Colinin
Hurrah Nice Days Ahead Weather Forecast Repeats High 80
The weatherman forecast fair and warm conditions with a high near 80 in Syracuse and sunny across the east. Tonight’s low around 52 brings fog and light winds while tomorrow’s high is noted as 83. Illinois and Wyoming report varied temperatures and snow in Casper.
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Bar Harbor guards guard ex gangster’s ally Ginny Hill
Virginia Hill now Mrs Hans Hauser occupies a Bar Harbor estate under armed guards. Under Maine law she may openly display firearms. She is due to testify before a Chicago Senate crime probe on corruption links between criminals and officials.
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San Valles
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Plumber Murray Neckman Clears Master Exam in Bronx
Murray Neckman, president of Boulevard Heating and Plumbing Co. in the Bronx, passed the master plumber exam, announced by George A. Ryan, city chief plumbing inspector. Neckman previously failed earlier this summer, risking his Syracuse Housing Authority contract for the North Eastwood project valued at $193,000. The second test occurred last Wednesday.
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George A. Ryan
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Syracuse Housing Authority
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Doctor 96, Is Paid On Own Life Policy
Dr Frederick Streeter dean of Glens Falls physicians, received a $5145 payout from Mutual Life Insurance. The insurer said he outlived the policy’s mortality table. He paid premiums from 1887 to 1907, then it was paid up.
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Frederick Streeter
Glens Falls
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York
Typhoon Approaches Formosa After Sweeping Philippines
A typhoon that battered the Philippines was forecast to hit the east coast of Formosa tonight. Ships bound for the Philippines were warned to take shelter from the storm.
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Taipey
Formosa
Philippines
Union bans music by Syracuse schoolchildren for convention
Everett R. Dyer of the New York State School Boards Association condemns the Syracuse Musicians Union for forbidding school pupils to perform at the association convention dinner on Oct 22. Carl Bly calls the ruling competitive to commercial groups. Dyer insists the policy is not progressive. Mayor Corcoran declines to comment as the matter is treated as closed.
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Union Today
New York State School Boards Association
Everett R. Dyer
Association
Corcoran
Syracuse
Dyer
Carl Bly
Cohonn
Reds Free To Wonsan Front Invasion Report
Tokyo dispatch says the South Korean Third Division crossed the 38th parallel into North Korea, driving toward Wonsan on the east coast. The unit, backed by allied rear elements, is advancing rapidly by day with orders to push as far and fast as possible. Wonsan, about 100 miles north of the parallel, is a strategic communications hub on the north coast.
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Harnest Hoberecht
Tokyo
North Korea
Wonsan
38Th Parallel
Ultimatum Ignored by North Korea Radio Broadcast
Tokyo reports North Korea radio continued to ignore General MacArthur's surrender demands. Pyongyang station missed 5 P.M. Monday broadcast, possibly due to Allied air raids on the capital's power plant. It resumed at 9 P.M. with commentary but no war communique or mention of South Korean crossings of the Parallel 38.
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Red Korea
MacArthur
Pyongyang
Red Capital
Communists move across the border as U S troops advance
North of the 38th Parallel the South Korean Third Division and Capitol Division probe across the line with Capitol units entering Yangyang eight miles north of the frontier. The Capitol forces push ahead while Marines near Uijongbu struggle through light resistance and rely on artillery and air power. A Reds attack on Seoul’s eastern edge at 10 P M Sunday ends without detail.
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Yangyang
U. S
Uijongbu
38Th Parallel
Seoul
No Trace Found Of Seoul City Sue
Municipal authorities say no trace of Seoul City Sue, the North Korean radio announcer, has been found in Seoul. Her Tokyo Rose type broadcasts to American troops were halted before the capital was liberated last week. No identification has been made.
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Korea
Seoul City
Sue
Tokyo
New Horrors Revealed In Taejon Massacre
Reporter BEM PRICE describes a mass killing in Taejon where 1,100 Koreans were found dead and up to 6,000 may have perished. Among the dead are 30 American soldiers with two survivors and one later death. Victims were bound arm to arm and shot individually in a calculated atrocity.
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Taejon
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