Treasury allows tax write-offs for portal wage back pay
Washington AP: Treasury rules employers may deduct portal to portal back wages from taxes for the years paid. Wages taxed at time of payment. employees count receipts as income in the year received. Officials note higher refunds due to prior excess profits tax, with Navy facing potential 720 million liability and contractors warning of business closures due to back pay suits.
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Washington
the Treasury
Treasury
Joseph O’connell
Snyder
Senate Judiciary
Navy
W. John Kenney
Portal
William Chapman Foster
Arrests Halt Liquor Sales To Juveniles In Cedar Rapids
A month long police probe into drunken parties among teens led to three arrests for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Niles Prowse 42 pled guilty and paid a fine while Charles Smith 26 and Robert Marold 22 face charges or pled not guilty.
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Niles Prowse
First Avenue
J. E. Heiserman
Cedar Rapids News
First Avenue SW
Prowse
Charles W. Smith
First Avenue NW
Robert W. Marold
Marold
Heiserman
Linn
L. N. Bruce
L. B. Marshall
Fred Carstens
The
Juvenile Bureau
Carstens
Smith
Aids Could Prevent Crashes Says Landis
Chairman James M. Landis of the Civil Aeronautics Board testified before the Interstate Commerce Committee that wartime weather landing aids such as GCA and ILS could have prevented some recent air crashes. He said these devices will likely be installed soon but are delayed while tests and availability are resolved.
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Washington (Lp
James M. Landis
Civil Aeronautics Board
Interstate Commerce Committee
Harvard Official's Son Sentenced to Two Years
Alfred B. Parkhurst, 27, son of Harvard University staff, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for stealing all students sustenance checks and $2,789 from Harvard and MIT dormitories to fund a lifestyle among the social elite. He waived indictment and pled guilty, saying he stole because he liked a good time.
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Boston
Alfred B. Parkhurst
Harvard University
Co Ae
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
Butter price cuts hit Chicago stores Wednesday
Brick butter will sell in at least one Chicago chain store Thursday one cent cheaper than under OPA last June. The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company announced price slashes of four cents a pound or solid brick butter and three cents a pound on package sticks.
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Chicago
OPA
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Hoover Accepts Food Assignment
Former President Hoover accepted a Truman assignment to survey food problems in the U S and British zones of occupied Germany and Austria.
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Washington
Hoover
Truman
Germany
Austria
New York and Chicago Lead In Air Survey
New York and Chicago lead in an air service survey by the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce aviation committee. From 184 responses 102 named Chicago first for passenger service and 31 second. Chicago led cargo with 34 first and eight second. New York had 26 first and 24 second for passengers and 23 first and 16 second for cargo. Other leaders included Minneapolis and Des Moines. results will inform United Airlines scheduling next summer.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee
Air Servie
Air Express
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Minneapolis
Omaha
Des Moines
Kansas City
St. Louis
Cleveland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce
U. S
Pacific Coast
Linn County Budget Boost Sought to Fund County Projects
Linn county supervisors move to add 25000 to the 1947 general expense budget raising the total to 290500 to cover higher wages extra workers two way radio for sheriff health nurse program school survey and a 5000 operating reserve fund hearing set for February 11 at 2 pm Objections to the amendment will be heard from local officials and the balance from the general fund would leave 5604.51 on hand by year end
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Board of Supervisors
C. L. Beeson
Beeson
GM Raises Prices on Deluxe Convertibles and Wagons
General Motors boosted list prices on Cadillac Buick Oldsmobile and Pontiac deluxe convertibles and station wagons while affirming no increases on volume models including Chevrolet. Executive vice president M. E. Coyle cited cost alignment and low production volume for the price changes, noting a wider spread between six and eight cylinder Pontiacs.
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General Motors
Cadillac
Buick
Oldsmobile
Pontiac
Chevrolet
M. E. Coyle
Coyle
G O P Wins War Inquiry Battle in Senate
In a 49 to 43 vote the Senate extended its war investigating committee to January 31, 1948, defeating Democratic objections that the panel violated the reorganized act. The test of party strength also rejected moving authority to the standing expenditures panel.
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Washington
Congress
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Brewster
Aiken
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Senate Democrats
Des Moines Bank Robbery Suspect Captured After Escape
A black haired woman, who held Des Moines Bank and Trust Company at 310 Sixth Avenue at gunpoint with what appeared to be a syringe, escaped into crowds about 1:15 p.m. She was arrested about 2 p.m. and identified by bank staff, denying the holdup while giving the name Dixon.
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DES Moines
Des Moines Bank and Company
Russell State
Dixon
Cargill
F. L. Fiene
Rex Cisco
Cisco
Fione
Ioona
Des Moines Bank and Trust Company
Sixth Avenue
Basis of OPA sugar allotments ruled invalid
Federal District Judge F Dickinson Letts ruled invalid the basis for OPA sugar allotments to industrial users. The decision concerns an injunction sought by Mothers Milk Products Co contesting historical usage quotas and indicates the OPA must revisit its quota formula under the war mobilization and re conversion act.
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Washington
F. Dickinson Letts
OPA
Icen Tying
O R C Executive Session Adjourns in Cedar Rapids
International officers of the Order of Railway Conductors adjourned their two day executive session here and will join 125 general chairmen in Chicago for an economic conference at the Sherman hotel. President H W Fraser and Senior Vice-president Fred H Nemitz left Tuesday night. Fraser said the Chicago group will review general economic conditions affecting U S members. Grand trustees J A Scott H B McColl and Jake R Wilson remain in Cedar Rapids until Thursday.
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Cedar Rapids News
Order of Railway Conductors
O.R.C
United States
Chicago
Sherman Hotel
H. W. Fraser
Fred H. Nemitz
Cedar Rapids
Fraser
Order
J. A. Scott
Atlanta
1H. B. McColl
St. Louis
Jake R. Wilson
el Dorado
Ark
House panel to hear on the job training veteran aid bill
The House Veterans Committee will hold hearings next week on legislation to remove income ceilings from the veterans on the job training program.
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Collins Radio Demonstrates VHF Navigation Receiver in Indiana
Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids shows its Very High Frequency Navigation Receiver at Indianapolis Civil Aeronautics Administration station. The demonstration runs from Monday to Wednesday, highlighting safer air navigation and plans by PICAO for replacing the four quadrant range with omnidirectional systems and reduced accident risk.
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Air Transport Association
Collins Radio Company of
Cedar Rapids
Indianapolis
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Collins
Waii Tame
Eggs
Collins Radio
CAA
ARINC
Francis L. Moseley
Special Products Division
Moseley
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Provizion
International Civil Aviation Organization
Coliar
Toyce E Piaco
Kidnaped Student Alice Devine Returns Safe at Home
Alice Devine 17, a popular Lodi High athlete, was found unharmed after 26 hours missing. Police traced a ransom bid from a man using aliases linked to Portland and an eastern publisher, who fled as stories spread. The girl escaped from a motel near Sacramento, was guarded with her father, and the suspect did not appear at the ransom meeting.
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Alice Dean Devine
West Coast
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Alice
John Devine
American Fruit Growers Association
Hal Ob & Oab
FBI
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William Giles
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