Victory Tax Debated in Senate Finance Committee
Treasury officials urged amending the revenue bill to raise individual taxes by 2.5 billion annually instead of adding a 5 percent Victory tax. The plan would raise rates and narrow exemptions, proposing $400 for single and $800 for married as base exemptions with credits for dependents. The Victory tax would apply to income above 624 dollars yearly with credits and bonds for unused portions.
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Washington
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Radcliffe
D.-Mo
House
Senate
Wakefield Fire Salvages 1600 Passengers From Damaged Liner
The Wakefield formerly the Manhattan was severely damaged by fire on September 3 at sea. Navy reports say over 1,600 passengers and crew were evacuated with no loss of life, though several were injured. The ship was towed to an Atlantic coast port after salvage efforts, with Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury leading a rescue.
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Washington
Wakefield
Manhattan
Navy
Queen
United States
Naval Service
Haro! Gardner Bradbury
Port Angeles
Coast Guard
Bradbury
United States Lines
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
America
George Washington
Necedah
Wisconsin
The
Coast Guard Academy
Record of Court Clerk Cleared With Minor Errors
An audit by the state examiner found Mrs. Della Bedford, court clerk, largely compliant with only bookkeeping corrections and a few minor office improvements. The report notes the audit could net about $2,090 in recovered funds and lists four recommended operational changes.
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Della Bedford
F. Schrameck
Schrameck
Anti Sub Drive Is Speeded Up Now
London officials disclosed a new allied anti submarine campaign aimed at subjecting Nazi U boats to constant attacks from surface ships and air while at sea We must destroy U boats faster than Germany can commission them An air freight diversion of war materiel is dismissed as impractical The Canadian apple crop may reach 12 million bushels this year up from 10.5 million in 1941.
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London
Germany
Canada
Weather Update for Multiple States
Oklahoma Missouri Kansas and Louisiana forecast scattered showers and thunderstorms with little temperature change. East Texas also expects showers and storms in the east and south portions today and tonight.
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Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Nazis Move Fresh Forces Into Stalingrad Assault
Front line reports say Hitler fed fresh troops and armor into the Stalingrad fight as Soviet forces brace on both sides of the Volga city. Soviet command announced no further withdrawals amid all night fighting and reinforcements for the German attack.
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Stalingrad
Moscow
Central
Caucasus
Baku
Rostov
Mozdok
Grozny
Terek
Rommel May Relieved as German Troops Suffer Losses
A Willkie party member in Ankara reports German officers say Field Marshal Rommel may be relieved of command after defeats in Africa. Prisoners describe war weariness and a cheerless retreat. The report notes a major general’s death and large 1946 income payments in the US totaling 52.071 billion dollars, up 53 percent from 1939.
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Ankara
Wendell L. Willkie
Turkey
Africa
Rommel
Germany
Willkie
Cory Bismarck
Egypt
United States
Department of Commerce
Ada records coolest day of summer yet
Tuesday brought rain and overcast skies with 0.11 inches of precipitation. The high reached 78 degrees around 5 PM before easing to 76 by night. More rain threatened overnight as clouds lingered.
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Ada
Blast Sets Blaze In Oil Storage
A Glasgow Montana oil storage blaze followed an explosion at the Farmers Union Oil company injuring three men. Injured were C. O. Johnson manager and two employees Adolph Olson and Emil Olson. Flames spread to tanks from Farmers Union five from H Earl Clack and four leased by Markle Trans. damage estimate unavailable.
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Glasgow
Mont
Farmers Union Oil Company
C. O. Johnson
Farmers Union Company
Adolph Olson
Emil
Certan
H. Earl Clack Company
Markle Trans* Company
Jap Advance Across New Guinea Slowed
Allied forces slowed the Japanese push toward Port Moresby in New Guinea with fierce jungle fighting around the Gap in the Owen Stanley range. Australian patrols ambushed Japanese positions while losses mounted on both sides and allied bombers hit ships and barges along the coast.
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Far
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Owen Stanley Range
United Nation
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Milne Bay
Normandy Island
Toleriand
Buna
RAF Strikes Hard In Night Raid Frankfurt Bombed
British bombers conducted a sixth night raid on Germany aimed at Frankfurt with other Rhineland targets hit as weather aided intensified bombing. RAF losses included seven bombers three fighters and two coast command aircraft across Rhineland and patrol missions over occupied territory.
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London
Germany
Frankfurt
Air Ministry
Rhineland
Fighter Command
Coast Command
Boston
Douglas
le Havre
Cherbourg
Sir Arthur Harris
Third Reich
Chilean envoy recalls to join cabinet in Santiago
Chilean Ambassador Manuel Hidalgo Plaza said he will return to Chile to serve as minister of development replacing Oscar Schnake who resigned from the post. He announced the move on September 9 in Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Manuel Hidalgo Plaza
Chile
Oscar Schnake
East Central To Offer Special War Training Courses
East Central State College will offer evening courses in engineering science and management in cooperation with the state university. Courses have no fees beyond books and notebooks, are open to high school graduates, and run 16 weeks with classes two to four times weekly. An organization meeting is set for Friday at 8 p.m. in Room 56, Administration building, with Dr Chandler and East Central faculty to assist.
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East Central State College
State University
J. W. Huff
E. E. Heimann
Vaughn Beal
Hugh Norris
W. D. Warren
Claude McMillan
Oklahoma Portland Cement Company
Myrtle Sturdevant
Chandler
The
Ada
Tulsa School Board Only Woman Member Supports No Hose Policy
Mrs. George Nicholson, the only woman member of the Tulsa school board, says it is acceptable for teachers to forgo hose if they wish, noting it is difficult to obtain them anyway.
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Tulsa
George Nicholson
Doyle Objects to Critics in Oklahoma Communist Appeals
Thomas Doyle veteran liberal and oldest member of the criminal court of appeals sat in his office at Oklahoma City and refused to hear arguments by New York attorneys retained by the International Labor Defense for four communists facing 10 year sentences. He said he would decide the cases on the law and called recent remarks by Congressman Vito Marcantonio and Samuel Neuburger unworthy of counsel.
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Oklahoma City
New York
Thomas Doyle
Criminal Court of
Appel
Vito Marcantonio
Samuel Neuburger
International Labor Defense
Doyle
Marcantonio
Oklahoma
American Lieutenant Rammed Japanese Fighter to Save Commander
Second Lieut. A. T. House of Long Beach California was among nine U S Army Air Forces officers honored with the Distinguished Service Cross by General Douglas MacArthur at General Headquarters Australia. He crashed his left wing into the enemy cockpit destroying the fighter, then crash landed his crippled plane and saved his squadron commander.
Bandit Picks 1941 Sedan After Garage Visit
A South Side garage intruder first rejected a 1939 car then selected a 1941 sedan and drove away. Attendant Sylvester Hoover reported the encounter in Chicago. The gunman conducted a shopping trip before choosing the vehicle.
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Chicago
South Side
Sylvester Hoover
Flying Tigers Paraded Through New York Streets
A group of 83 AVG Flying Tigers from China toured New York after their return from combat against Japan. They boasted a record of 300 enemy planes destroyed or damaged with 19 AVG men killed or missing, and plan to depart soon for home.
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New York
China
Flying Tigers
AVG
Roosevelt to get new presidential flag quickly
Four women needleworkers at the Philadelphia quartermaster depot stitch an infantry blue flag emblem for President Roosevelt. The flag, the third made for him, was ordered August 26 and will be delivered by Monday. The reason for the rush was not disclosed.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot
U S Leads Axis Now In War Production Boost
Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson said U S tank production is at an impressive level and that last month the nation built more war planes than Germany, Japan and Italy combined. He pledged doubling tank output by December and touted superior U S aircraft and bombers.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Robert P. Patterson
Germany
Japan
Italy
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Convention
Patterson
U. S
Egypt
Americans Start Daylight Raids on Occupied Europe
An RAF commentator in London praised a strong US Air Force daylight bombing debut over German occupied Europe. He backed daylight raids as a policy to hit deeper, more vital targets and warned German bombers would seek vengeance at once.
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London
United States
Europe
RAF
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