Draft Bill for Social Security Tax Increase
Washington June 19 The house ways and means committee ordered drafting work started on a bill calling for a 40 percent rise in social security taxes for both employers and employees. It outlines broadened coverage and a January 1 tax increase to 1.5 percent, plus widening unemployment to maritime workers and wartime veterans dependent benefits of about 25 dollars monthly for widows and children under 18.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Doughton
D-N.c
Congress
Senate
Traffic Lights on Seventh Street Not Warranted Survey Finds
A transit survey report covering 5 to 6 p.m. findings shows minimal delays for Chestnut street drivers when Seventh Street traffic signals are fixed. Counts reveal most vehicles would not benefit from a signal, with Chestnut turning east or west and Seventh turning various directions. motorists urged to start sooner and drive slower to improve safety.
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Chestnut
Seventh
Local News Briefs From Atlantic Cass County and Des Moines
Municipal updates cover fine for intoxication, marriage license issued to Lang Jr. and Beach, Cass county Legion meeting, steer prices at Omaha market, new office manager in Des Moines, tractor curb rule alert, paper drive postponed, YMCA league games rescheduled, Red Oak store managers gathering, Miss Dorothy Winslow visiting, Benefield named Creston union county engineer replacing Bester.
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Glen Scheef
Vogue Ready-To-Wear
Fruehaus Trailer Company
Des Moines
Creston
Hugo Benefield
Cedar Street
Benefield
Union County
Wm. G. Bester
Portland Cement Association
Iowa Highway Commission
Leon
Commission
Steel Executive James Harahan Jr Dies at 73
James T. Harahan Jr., 73, retired executive of Inland Steel Co., died yesterday in Chicago. His father James Harahan Sr. was a former president of the Illinois Central railroad.
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Chicago
James T. Harahan, Jr
The
Inland Steel Co
James, Sr
Minois Central Railroad
City enforces tractor lug rule on Atlantic streets
Notice from Mayor Richard F. Jessen states that Chapter 57 forbids tractors with lugged wheels on paved Atlantic streets. Police will enforce penalties for violations. Signs along highways urge drivers to slow down and heed speed limits for safety.
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Dick Jesesn
Atlantic
Cars Wrecked In Two Mishaps No Serious Injuries
Two separate crashes near Atlantic last night and early today left two drivers injured lightly and one passenger cut by a head laceration. Dean Westover 18 of Elliott faced his wreck on primary 83 and was fined 50 dollars. Walter Baker 20 of Lewis escaped with scratches after his 1941 Chrysler plunged off a 15 foot embankment near the Turkey Creek bridge on U S 6.
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Atlantic
Dean Westover
Elliott
John Hansen
Maine
Dale Orstad
Atlantic Hospital
Westover
Justice Court
Walter Baker
Ray Baker
Lewis
Turkey Creek
Baker
Bidault Elected France Interim President In Rare Vote
Paris June 19 Georges Bidault was elected president of France's interim government by the constituent assembly. An unofficial tally showed 383 votes with no opposition and communists abstaining. Bidault, 46, former history professor and journalist, leads the Popular Republican Movement and faces forming a tri‑partite cabinet amid Communist and Socialist negotiations.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
Constituent Assembly
Popular Republican Movement
Assembly
Felix Gouin
Gouin
Charles DeGaulle
Bidault
Congress Shunts Merger Plea For Air Force Plans
Washington reports Congress moved to keep separate army and navy air arms with no consolidation. Symington argued army air would be sidelined while navy air funding edged higher for the coming fiscal year. The army air forces bill remains under committee action with no final consolidation plan.
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Congress
AIR Force
Washington
Army
Navy
Truman
House Appropriations Committee
W. Stuart Symington
Air
Army Air Force
Air Corps
Senate panel approves McNutt as ambassador to Philippine republic
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced Paul V. McNutt's nomination as ambassador to the Philippine republic as independence on July 4 approaches. The message also urges cautious driving and ample travel time.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Paul V. McNutt
Philippine Republic
Islands
Rites yesterday for Rev Charles Speagh Red Oak pastor
Funeral rites were held Tuesday at the Presbyterian church for Rev. Charles A. Speagh president of the Red Oak Ministerial association and pastor of the First Presbyterian church for 11 years He died Saturday in an Omaha hospital after a three month illness The Rev Richard Chambers of Atlantic and the Rev Dr E F Hammond of North Presbyterian in Omaha conducted rites with burial in Red Oak cemetery Surviving are his widow and one son W Allen Speagh of Maryville Missouri and a sister Mrs Mina Nichols of Clinton Missouri
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Red Oak
Presbyterian Church
Charles A. Speagh
Iowa
Sidney
W. Allen Speagh
Maryville
Mina Nichols
Clinton
Larceny Sentence In Youthful Burglary Case
Circuit court Judge William M. Bardens sentenced Keith Staats, 18, of Burlington Iowa, to a year to life in prison on burglary and larceny charges. Staats confessed to nine burglaries in Galesburg after his arrest with two others in a station burglary. The judge recommended a term not less than two years nor more than 10, citing Staats’s age and prior reformatory time.
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Galesburg
Circuit Court
William M. Bardens
Keith Staats
Burlington
Weo
Staats
Staat
Bardens
Iowa Reformatory
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Elsie Prall Claiborn
Plymouth Green
John Deere
W.C. Allis Chalmers
Dozer Blades
F.o.b. Omaha
Ford
Monticello
Price
Redwood
W. Second St
Wagner
Leo
Dexter Pictore
Mayor's Court
Max Baker
Dick Jessen
C. M. Skipton
John F. Lang, Jr
Jacqueline Jean Beach
Cass County Legion and Auxiliary
Cumberland Legion Hall
Lester Rahe
Omaha
Henry S. Kay
Ymca Church
Zion Lutheran
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Penney
Red Oak Group
Whitney Hotel
Clarinda
Shenandoah
Ida Grove
Carroll
Missouri Valley
A. S. Arney
Roy Miller
Lincoln District
A. A. Gillette
Locust Street
H. M. Reinig
Grinold
Dorothy Winslow
Los Angeles
Cal
John Keyes
Cass County
Winslow
Grinnell
California
Congregational Church Conference
Richard F. Jessen
Louis Conn
Atlantic Recreation Parlor
Ernie Willman
Phil Most
M’nutt
Rev
C. A. Speagh
Edward P. Cole
Jeweler
Dna Ferber
Lars Alb
Dr. Salsbury
Worthingt
West Fourth St
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Ilowa
Cabole
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