Tax Boost Figure Set By Truman
President Truman outlined plans to raise four billion dollars in annual revenue with higher income taxes on middle and upper brackets starting at six thousand dollars and twenty five to thirty thousand dollars for top rates. He favored corporate levies but warned tax levels depend on perspective and noted no cabinet changes before his new term.
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Truman
Treasury
Roosevelt
United States
Russia
Josef Stalin
Washington
Dean Acheson
State Department Denounces Red Policy
The State Department stated Russia's obstructionist policies undermine the United Nations and push free nations toward a North Atlantic security pact. It warned that UN weakness and fear could derail Western Europe’s recovery unless free nations act collectively with economic and political strength.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
United Nations
Free Nations
Department
Western
Europe
Barkley Substitutes for Truman at Final Cabinet Meeting
Vice President elect Barkley sat in for the first time Friday as President Truman held the last cabinet meeting of his current administration.
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Washington
Barkley
Truman
Iowa Cattle on Feed Up 24 Percent From 1948
Iowa residents saw 955000 head on feed as of January 1, 1949, 24 percent above 770000 at the start of 1948, yet below the 1056000 peak in 1945. The rise reflects more cattle on grain but not more total cattle inventories.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Crissman Scoffs At Dr Rutledge Innocence Claim
Cedar Rapids attorney William Crissman challenged Dr Robert Rutledge’s innocence claims while pressing for Rutledge to return to Iowa for trial in the Hartman murder case. A second extradition hearing is scheduled in Jefferson City with Crissman, Detective Condon, and witness Ralph Smith traveling.
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Linn County
William Crissman
Robert C Rutledge
Iowa
Crissman
St Louis
Bryan C Hartman
Dr Rutledge
Linn
the Gazette
Rutledge
Leon Laughren
St Low
Cedar Rapids
Laughren
Hartman
St. Louis
Missouri
Jefferson City
Tom Condon
Ralph Smith
Law Order Club quartet held in Oak Park robbery case
Chicago police arrested the club president William Passero and three members from the Law Order social club linked to a December 31 Oak Park home robbery. Suspects Ralph Bellucci Edward Lee Fred Larson faces charges after detailing the crime and locating a stolen safe found at Passero's residence.
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Chicago
INS
Oak Park
Marcellite Sellinger
OG. Wins
Sellinger
Bellucci
Maywood
the Mart
Edward A Lee
William Passero
Fred Larson
Mrs Sellinger
Larson
Leo
Jamies Warner
Passero
Cut in Phone Rates Sought in AT and T Case
The government filed in federal court to force AT and T to sell Western Electric. The suit charges a monopoly in manufacturing and selling telephone equipment has raised rates nationwide. The action aims to create three new manufacturing firms and require Bell system companies to buy equipment through competitive bidding.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Western Electric
Alfred Moderelich
United States
Justice Department
New York
Bell System
A. T. and
Herbert A. Bergson
Anti-Trust Division
AT&T says DOJ suit not needed for public interest
New York based American Telephone and Telegraph Company denies that the justice department suit would serve public interest. President Leroy A. Wilson states the current arrangement will be satisfactory once all facts are known.
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New York
INS
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Justice Department
Leroy A. Wilson
Man Pulls Gun and Is Beaten in Cedar Rapids Lunchroom
Anthony Melichar, 53, of 1210 M Street SW, was hospitalized in fair condition after drawing a gun in a lunchroom at 1210 Third Street SE. Leeper struck him and John McKee assisted, wresting the weapon away before police arrived as Melichar claimed he only pulled the gun after the fight began.
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Anthony Melichar
M Street
Mercy Hospital
Third Street
Melichar
Tent Street
John McKee
K Street
Leeper
Joint Funeral Set for Returned G I and Wife
Philadelphia records show Lt. Jean Eschallier died in Italy in 1944 and his body returned last month. His wife, 33, was ill at arrival but planned to attend. she died Wednesday. The joint funeral is set for Saturday.
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Philadelp
Jean Eschallier
Italy
Philadelphia
Pay Raise Voted for President
The Senate approved a bill to raise the President salary to 100000 dollars a year and grant a 50000 dollar tax exempt expense account. Final passage stood 68 to 9 and the measure heads to the House where administration leaders expect a quick floor vote. The bill also increases the Vice Presidents pay by 25000 dollars.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate votes to boost President pay and expense allowance
Senators Hickenlooper and Gillette backed a bill lifting the President and Speaker pay from 20000 to 30000 with a 10000 expense allowance. The Senate trimmed cabinet raises and debated itemized accounting of the 50000 tax free funds. Republicans largely opposed, while more than a dozen GOP members joined Democrats to pass the measure amid timing concerns before inauguration.
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Hickenlooper
Gillette
Truman
Donnell
Morse
Senate
Six Central Teams Post Guarantees
Keokuk Iowa AP Dr Charles Logan vice president of the Central Association said Friday that all six teams have posted their required guarantees A league meeting will be at Kewanee Illinois Sunday for officer elections and schedule approval Cedar Rapids cannot join as the six teams are locked in Keokuk Burlington Clinton Fort Madison Rockford and Kewanee Cedar Rapids had sought a one year franchise
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Charles Logan
Central Association
Kewanee
Burlington
Clinton
Fort Madison
Rockford
Illinois
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Baseball Committee
Sport
Three Flyers Die As 36 Bail Out
In Fayetteville North Carolina an C 82 Flying Boxcar crash landing killed three aircrew or paratroopers while 36 paratroopers jumped to safety and another survived The dead names are not released pending notification of next of kin Robert Lee Hodgkiss safety man aboard the ship survived and helped others escape Pope field Bragg base reported only counts of dead and survivors The Fayetteville Observer noted at least three paratroopers were injured one seriously
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Fayetteville
Robert Lee Hodgkiss
82Nd Airborne Division
Public Information Office
Pope Field Air Forces Base
Bragg
Chinese Reds Claim Drive Into Tientsin
Chinese Communist radio said Red forces stormed into Tientsin Friday after an all out assault two hours earlier. The broadcast claimed rapid exploitation of their success but did not confirm the city’s capture of 2,000,000 residents. Mao called eight peace pre requisites including trial of war criminals and cancellation of treaties.
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Nanking
Communist Radio
Tientsin
North China
Shanghai
Mao_ Tzetung
China
United States
Mao
Rail Wreck Near Marion Demolishes Five Cars and Damages Line
Five Milwaukee freight cars were demolished five miles east of Marion after a rear collision by a second train. Two more cars and a locomotive were derailed. track and power lines were damaged. Three westbound freights were involved. no injuries reported. Restoration expected by 3 p.m. Friday. A. Beerman oversees the line from Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee Railroad
Marion
A. Beerman
Milwaukee
Savannah
Beerman
Rutgers Freshman Denied Date With Margaret Truman
A Rutgers freshman sought to take Miss Margaret Truman to the junior prom but she already had plans for February 18 in New Brunswick. The student, William W. Shuit of Suffield Connecticut, had written to Miss Truman requesting attendance as his guest. she declined citing prior commitments.
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New Brunswick
Rutgers
Margaret Truman
William W. Shuit
Suffield
Conn
Miss Truman
Shull
Board Allows Political Talks at Iowa Educational Events
The state education board approved speeches by political candidates at major state educational events in a one sentence resolution. The move follows a prior unwritten rule and a 1930s dispute after Henry A. Wallace spoke near the University of Iowa campus triggering debate.
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AMES
State Board For Education
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
University of Iowa
Missing $75,000 mail pouch from Wisconsin to Chicago
A mail sack containing about 75000 in cold cash disappeared Thursday night and investigators believe it was stolen. The pouch was shipped from Waukesha National Bank to the Federal Reserve in Chicago and may have vanished at the local post office or en route to a mail train. Postal officials and station workers are being questioned as an investigation is ordered.
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Waukesha
Wis
Waukesha National Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
Elmer J. Holmes
Holmes
Clarence Stankowski
J Harold Marks
Waukesha Bank
Acheson Upheld By Senate Unit
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to confirm Dean Acheson as secretary of state after secret testimony. The panel released his remark that communism is economically fatal to freedom and human rights. Confirmation on the Senate floor was expected quickly the following Tuesday.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Tor
Senate
Senate Banking Panel Pushes Rent Control Extension
Washington AP The Senate banking committee gave top priority to a bill extending rent controls. Chairman Senator Maybank of South Carolina said the measure would be the first major item handled by the panel.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Maybank
D-Sc
Reserve Board Group Seeks Slump Kaiser Charged
Industrialist Henry J Kaiser charged that certain governors of the Federal Reserve Board seek to force a low mood on the country. He sent telegrams to President Truman and Congress urging them to stop the board from plunging the nation into a needless man-made low mood.
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Chicago
Henry J Kaiser
Federal Reserve Board
Speedy Sheep Story on the Farm
A farm joke features a hired man bragging about a breeder who has lambs that can run 40 miles an hour. The punchline: the lambs are meant to keep up with Mary, as the young girl asks why speed is needed.
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Mary
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