Truman Sees Tax Cut Delay Amid Budget Gain
President Truman announced a projected surplus of 1.25 billion dollars for the current fiscal year as price increases inflated the economy and controls were removed. He warned that tax cuts now would fuel inflation while Congress debated income tax relief and Republicans clashed over timing and methods.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Lucas II
House
Senate Finance Committee
Lucas
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Carroll Reece
G.O.P
Dewey labels strikes as Communist devices to wreck state
Governor Thomas E. Dewey denounces strikes by public workers as useful devices of Communists bent on destroying state and nation. He defends the Condon-Wadlin law which bars public employee strikes and vows to protect New York's government despite political backlash.
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Albany
N. Y
INS
Thomas E. Dewey
Republican Party
G.O.P
New York State
Gov. Dewey
New York
Americans For Democratic Action
Republicans Clash Over Truman Surplus Claim
Republicans disputed President Truman's claim that his economies contributed substantially to the government surplus. Knutson said the surplus is mainly due to increased revenues on wartime tax levels, while Reece credited American enterprise and said a balanced budget marks a first in 14 years of Democratic rule.
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Washington
Truman
Knutson
R-Minn
Carroll Reece
White House
Reece
Soviet Supports Yugoslav Claims Deepen Moscow Deadlock
Soviet backing of Yugoslav claims to Southern Carinthia sustained a deadlock at the Moscow conference and jeopardized an Austrian peace treaty. Secretary Marshall and Foreign Secretary Bevin arranged two Sunday sessions to push toward a conclusion as the council marked its sixth week without major progress on Austrian and German peace pacts. American informants warned the Kremlin may stall to gauge the impact of President Truman's anti Communist moves on Greece and Turkey.
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Carinthia
U. S
Marshall
Bevin
Council
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Truman
Greece
Turkey
Mary Ann Reunited With Real Parents In Chicago
Five year old Mary Ann Ruben returned home with police from New Orleans where she was found with her alleged abductor William G. Fuller. Fuller, accused of kidnapping her two years ago, is en route to Chicago to face grand jury charges as authorities plan a vaudeville roller skating act scheme.
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Chicago
Mary Ann Ruben
Alice McCarthy
Mary Ann
New Orleans
William G. Fuller
Police
Walter Kuben
Faulty switch blamed for City of Miami wreck death
Officials from Illinois Central and the Illinois Commerce Commission opened an inquiry into the City of Miami wreck near Champaign Illinois that killed two people. The train struck a misaligned switch and derailed. 75 of 192 passengers were treated for minor injuries and two men, conductor Charles Redus 70 of Centralia and baggageman C N Woods of Champaign, died. Switch was reportedly lined wrong and a warning light did not operate as the engineer approached the crossover at about 75 mph where 100 mph was allowed.
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Associated Press
City of Miami Streamliner
Champaign
Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Commerce Commission
City of
Miami
R. J. Truitt
Charles Redus
Centralia
C. N. Woods
E. C. Slingman
Slingman
O. D. Keen
Frightened Mrs Redus on Miami observation car incident
Mrs Charles Redus trembled with fright as the City of Miami observation car event unfolds. Continued on page 4 with additional details and context from the Chicago report.
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Chicago
Charles Redus
City of Miami
Smoking Aboard Grandcamp Before Texas City Blowup
Galveston Texas INS reports testimony at a coast guard inquiry into the Grandcamp disaster. Longshoremen and crew smoked aboard the ship while handling highly explosive ammonium nitrate and small arms ammunition. Watchful officials noted broken sacks and unheeded signals, with rail and ocean bills mislabeling cargo.
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Galveston
Texas
INS
A. U.S. Coast Guard Board of Inquiry
James L. Corbett
Lamarque
Corbett
Jesse L. Neviin
Arcadia
Nevlin
Coast Guard Board
Iowa
Coast Guard
Texas City Terminal Company
UAW Demands 35-Cent Hourly Increase at Allis Chalmers
CIO UAW Local 248 in West Allis seeks a 35 cent hourly rise plus justified group adjustments after a long 328 day strike and return to work. Harold Christoffel says 11.5 cents owed from prior 25 cent demand plus 23.5 cents COLA, with a joint wage policy from the workers council toward substandard wages.
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Milwaukee
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Allis-Chalmers
West Allis
Harold Christoffel
Local 248
International
Uaw-Cio
Christoffel
Walter Geist
Allis-Chalmers Workers Council
LaCrosse
Wis
Man Burned to Death in Sioux City Fire
Anthony Baca, 56, a custodian at Verstegen Printing Co., died after a third floor fire. Sioux City saw its second major blaze in 18 hours, with the International Flour Milling Co. plant destroyed earlier. Damages at the printing plant may exceed $25,000, and coroner Dr. R. W. Perkins said Baca likely fell asleep while smoking.
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Sioux City
Anthony Baca
Verstegen Printing Company
International Flour Milling Company
R. W. Perkins
Woodbury County
Baca
LaGuardia Not Ill Says Mutual Spokesman
A Mutual Broadcasting System spokesman denied reports that former mayor Fiorello LaGuardia is ill. The official said LaGuardia is continuing his radio program without interruption.
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New York
INS
Mutual Broadcasting System
Fiorello LaGuardia
UNRRA
LaGuardia
Steel wage boost offer seen near in US Steel talks
Federal conciliator William G. Murray pressed unions and the company toward a settlement of the Illinois telephone strike aiming for Monday. USW officials hinted US Steel offered about 1144 cents an hour, with Murrray seeking a 12 1 2 cent bump. A contract near that figure could avert a steel industry shutdown and the Western Union walkout.
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Chicago
William G. Murray
Illinois
Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steel Workers
United States Steel Corporation
Big Steel
USW
Philip Murray
U. S. Steel
Western Union
AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union
Joseph A. Beirne
Cedar Rapids Council Delays Daylight Saving Move
Cedar Rapids city leaders remain stalled on a daylight saving proclamation. Mayor Frank K Hahn said action requires clear resident sentiment via petition or vote after a proposal from local baseball league members and Daniels Park residents opposed to park lights for night games. The issue mirrors wartime and national practice steps.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank K. Hahn
M. and J. Baseball League
Daniels Park
Cedar Rapids Wages Sitdown Hatched for Monday Strike
Cedar Rapids workers mobilize in a labor holiday backed by AFL leaders to protest anti closed shop bills before the Iowa assembly. 1900 CIO unionists at Wilson and Company and other locals plan to stay off the job pending Sunday meetings to decide on an extended stoppage.
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AFL
Cedar Rapids
Joe Nemec
United Packinghouse Workers Local No. 3
Iowa Assembly
House
J. C. Blodgett
Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor
Holiday
CIO
Wilson and Company
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers Union
United Cereal Workers
Quaker Oats Company
C.S.P.S. Hall
R. E. Dillman
Farm Equipment Union
Mass Trek To Protest Labor Bill
Labor union officials across Iowa advance plans for a large scale Monday demonstration against a closed shop bill. Tens of thousands expected. unions stress peaceful petition and no general strike as car caravans and mass attendance head to Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Iowa
AFL
CIO
Stephens
Sen
Fred Maytag
Newton
Iowa Association of Manufacturers
Maytag
House defers bill action if labor protest swells
Cedar Rapids report says the Iowa House could delay action on a closed shop bill by approving a motion to defer until sentiment cools. Rep. Arch McFarlane says deferral would be a last resort with final vote likely Tuesday. Proponents claim 60 votes, but strong demonstrations could shift five to 13 extra votes.
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House
Arch W. McFarlane
Waterloo
The
Gazette
McFarlane
Cedar County
Des Moines
Senate Chamber
Chilly Wet Weather Delays Spring Planting Across Midwest
AP reports continued chilly and wet conditions delaying spring planting across the Midwest. A belt of rain stretched from the Texas Panhandle northeast through eastern Kansas, northern Missouri, southern Iowa, and much of Illinois and Indiana. Unseasonable cold lingered in the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes, while the Gulf states warmed and the West stayed moderate. Temperatures were expected to rise and skies to clear partly in the Midwest by Monday.
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Chicago
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Texas Panhandle
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Gulf States
Iowa Mother of 1947 Profile in The Gazette
The Gazette will publish Monday a feature on Iowa Mother of 1947 Mrs. Frederick G Murray of Cedar Rapids. Written by John Reynolds the piece reviews her career and the pictures depict her activities with children and grandchildren.
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the Gazette
Iowa
Frederick G. Murray
Cedar Rapids
John Reynolds
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