President Truman requests $10 billion tax increase
President Truman asked Congress for a quick $10 billion tax hike with a plan to raise individual income taxes by $4 billion and corporate taxes by $3 billion, plus $3 billion in excise taxes. He expects revenues to top $71 billion with a second installment later to be debated. Congress plans hearings starting Monday to review the proposals.
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Snyder
House
Ways and Means Committee
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Bridegroom of Two Months Ends Life in Iowa City Apartment
Janet Schaefer Conley, 24, of Davenport and widow two months after her wedding to Thomas Conley, 25, a Wilson and Company engineer, reported in Cedar Rapids as he shot himself at their 385 Fifteenth Street SE apartment about 9 am. Notes left for his parents and wife explain the act, with no clear motive found by investigators.
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Davenport
Thomas
Wilson and Company
Conley
Borden Company
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Willard Conley
Heyworth
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U.S. weighs halt at 38th Parallel amid Korean truce talks
Washington officials said the United States could halt ground operations at the 38th Parallel under UN terms if China and North Korea accept a truce. A cease-fire proposal envisions a 20 mile demilitarized zone, staged troop withdrawals, and a Far Eastern peace conference while Formosa stays isolated.
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Yugoslavia
Germany
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U S Faces Nationwide Cold and Flood Havoc
United Press reports a severe Arctic blast grips the nation with bitter cold, snow, and floods. At least 258 deaths blamed on weather and accidents, Texas crop losses up to 20 million dollars, Florida citrus threatened, and vast flood damages in Kentucky and surrounding areas.
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Fayetteville, Ark
Shreveport, la
Groundhog predicts six more weeks of cold weather
The groundhog saw his shadow Friday signaling six weeks more of cold. official forecast calls for fair warmer weather with Saturday highs from 18 to 25 above zero and moderate temps through Sunday. Overnight lows vary. Decorah remains the state coldest at 38 below, Elkader 34 below, Cedar Rapids 14 below at 2:30 p.m.
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Decorah
Elkader
Cedar Rapids
Allies Push Forward On Korean Front Near Han River
Allied forces tightened their grip along the Western Front as Chinese Communist counterattacks faced repeated punctures. U N troops advanced toward the Han river, threatening Seoul with a push to within 40 miles of the 38th parallel.
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Korea
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Inchon
Matthew B. Ridgway
Eighth Army
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Prominent C R Surgeon Dies in Cedar Rapids
Dr. Charles S. Krause 75 a Cedar Rapids surgeon died suddenly Friday after collapsing in an elevator at the Merchants National Bank building. He was born 1876 on a Garwin farm and practiced in Cedar Rapids since 1905. He was a former president of local and state medical societies and survived by his wife Sadie Combs and three brothers, five sisters, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral plans were pending.
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Turner Chapel
Cadet Baker Charged in Major Suhre Killing
A coroner's jury in Aston Illinois charged 17 year old Senior Cadet Paul H. Baker Jr with homicide in the fatal shooting of Major Henry E. Suhre, quartermaster of Western military college. The jury ordered Baker held without bond for the grand jury.
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Henry E. Suhre
Western Military Academy
Baker
Radioactive Snow Reported in New York
The New York AEC office is investigating reports that measurably radioactive snow has fallen in Rochester following Las Vegas atomic tests. An AEC spokesman said there is no harm expected to humans or animals, and radiological safety measures including surveys and patrols are being undertaken with meteorological support from the Air Weather Service and Weather Bureau.
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Four Executed After Virginia Clemency Denied
Four of seven young African American men convicted for attacking a white Martinsville woman were executed by electric chair in Richmond after Gov. John S. Battle refused clemency. The four included Frank Hairston Jr, Booker T. Millner, Howard Lee Hairson, and Joe Henry Hampton. The remaining three are to die February 5, as protests outside the prison remained quiet.
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Joe Henry Hampton
Packinghouse Union Warns Of Walkouts
The CIO United Packinghouse Workers union says wage talks with Swift and Armour collapsed and wildcat stoppages have begun nationwide with more planned. It reports local walkouts in St. Joseph Des Moines Sioux City and says Omaha and Chicago plants may strike next week. The union claims about 140000 members and accuses the two companies of using the wage freeze as bargaining pretext.
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CIO United Packinghouse Workers Union
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Swift and Company and Armour and Company
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Ralph Helstein
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Armour
Defense Dept identifies 49 more Korean War casualties
The Defense Department on Friday released casualty figures listing 49 new names from the Korean War. The 216th casualty report includes five dead, 24 wounded, 18 injured and two missing.
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Defense Department
Las Vegas Hit by Heaviest Atomic Test Seen as Quake Like
A new government atomic test north west of Las Vegas shook the city with an earthquake like blast. The heavy Friday detonation followed by lighter tests earlier in the week rattled buildings and windows and drew visits from top officials including Gordon Dean and Sen Anderson.
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Quadruplets Born To Wife of Cop In Boston
Four babies two boys and two girls arrived Friday to the wife of patrolman Robert J. Allen 31 in Boston weighing about 10 pounds total. The mother was in fine condition and speechless with surprise. The newborns were placed in one incubator and sent by ambulance to the children's medical center for advanced care.
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Robert J. Allen
Children’s Medical Center
RFC Accused by Senate Committee of Favoritism
The Senate Banking Committee report to Congress accuses the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of political favoritism and mismanagement in multi million dollar federal loans. It states Don ald Dawson and Merle Young, plus Democratic politicians, exercised influence over RFC directors.
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Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Donald Dawson
White House
Merle Young
White House condemns rail strike as threat to national security
The White House said the sick strike by railroad switchmen injures national security and urged strikers to return to work immediately. Press Secretary Joseph Short quoted President Truman saying the industry is vital and cannot be shut down. The statement warned against leaders shifting responsibility and stressed the need for steady civilian and military supply flows.
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Rail crisis widens as switches fail and trains cancel
Rail links from New York to the West break apart amid the switchmen strike. Twenty five major trains are canceled and commuter service in New York and suburbs is halted. Chicago and Cincinnati face growing disruption with federal court action and a mail embargo affecting ten major cities.
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Eisenhower Radio Report On European Defense Tonight
General Dwight Eisenhower will address the nation on his European defense survey in a 9 45 p m broadcast across all networks. The Gazette station KCRG 1600 will join Mutual for the event.
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