CIO Would Share Income Tax Base
The CIO challenged President Truman's tax plan saying it does not go far enough. It urged excise cuts and shifts to tax wealthier individuals and large corporations while proposing higher taxes on undistributed corporate profits and a 55 percent top rate on undistributed earnings. The CIO officials testified before the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Washington
CIO
Truman
Labor Organization
Congress
Inamauais
Stanley Ruttenberg
C1o
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
North Carolina spends 19 million yearly on city streets
A Raleigh report shows during the year ending June 30 1948 state and federal funds totaled 3 5 million with municipalities contributing 15 5 million. Local sources largely came from property taxes and street assessments while other sources like meters and tags were under a million.
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Lynn Nisbet
Raleigh
North Carolina
State Highway Division of Statistics and Planning
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
League of Municipalities and Local Government Commission
Earl Tyndall, Jr
James S. Burch
Banker Preacher Culbreth Dies After 50 Years Service
Julius A. Culbreth aged 79 died in a Dunn hospital after leaving banking in 1899 to found Falcon Camp Meeting and Falcon orphanage. Both projects supported by the Pentecostal Holiness church. A summer service at Falcon auditorium drew over 3,000 attendees. Native of Cumberland County.
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Dunn
Julius A. Culbreth
Falcon Camp Meeting
Falcon Orphanage
Falcon
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Big Falcon
Culbreth
Cumberland County
North Carolina Seeks Pelley On Old Extradition Waiver
William Dudley Pelley, ex Silver Shirt leader, was to be paroled in Terre Haute after an 8.5 year term for war time sedition. Authorities from North Carolina plan to extradite him for a two to three year term to enforce a suspended sentence. Sheriff Trierweiler indicated Pelley will fight extradition.
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Terre Haute
Ind
William Dudley Pelley
John Trierweiler
Vigo County
Bunecombe County
Southeast Asia May Be Battleground
Associated Press reports diplomats in Bangkok plan an economic aid push to stem communism in Southeast Asia. Jessup gathers details for a new Washington program while Thailand risks recognition shifts amid regional tension.
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Associated Press
United States
Bangkok
Thailand
Siam
Southeast Asia
Philip C. Jessup
Washington
Indochina
Ho Chi-Minh
Bao Dai
Hainan
Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler
Vogeler
Firth
International Telephone and Telegraph Co
New York
Morris L. Ernst
Budapest
Helsinki
Finland
Electoral College
Juho Paas
GI Training Plan May Be Overhauled
Washington Feb 14 lawmakers weigh curbs on the GI vocational training program to curb abuses while preserving veterans access to education under the GI bill. Rep Wheeler says the question is whether the GI bill is a readjustment act or a bonus act, with Teague fearing excessive restrictions.
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Washington
House
Congress
Rep
Wheeler
D-Ga
Teague
Texas
House Veterans Committee
Veterans Administration
Truman
Two American Mormon Missionaries Held in Czechoslovakia
Prague reports state police arrested Stanley Abbot and C Alden Johnson on alleged entry to a prohibited area. They disappeared Jan 28 while visiting church members near the Polish border and were later held in Olomouc. The note offers few location details and notes failed embassy access.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Czech Foreign Office
U. S
Moravia
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Stanley E. Abbot
Lehi
Utah
C. Alden Johnson
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Foreign Office
Olomouc
Prestetov
Bruntal
Opava
Johnson
Abbot
Prostejov
Flood Threat Rises Across Central Mississippi Valley
Heavy rainfall across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, plus parts of Indiana Illinois and Missouri, triggers rising rivers including the Mississippi and Ohio. About 3,000 people evacuate the New Madrid floodway below Charleston as the rain belt extends from Tennessee and Kentucky toward the Atlantic. Ice storms and snow complicate conditions further.
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Mississippi Valley
U. S. Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Indiana
Ilinois
Missouri
Ohio
New Madrid
Charleston
Tennessee
Kentucky
Illinois
Atlantic
FBI On Trail Of Two Marines In Death Valley
Two Marines identified as Murray Cretz and Douglas Bright fled from Tonopah Nevada after holdups, armed with submachine guns. They deserted their posts at Camp Matthews California and commandeered a Reno sedan while leaving another car behind in Santa Paula. FBI agents and sheriff's men pursue them across Death Valley.
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Las Vegas
Death Valley
FBI
Murray Cretz
Brooklyn
N. Y
Douglas E. Bright
Nederland
Tex
Tonopah
Nev
James Udal
Bishop
Walter EF
Reno
Patrice Ramirez
Santa Paula
Calif
Marine
Camp Matthews
B-36 Missing With Sixteen Aboard Off British Columbia
An unnamed authoritative source reports a B-36 bomber with 16 aboard ditched in Queen Charlotte Sound after icing and engine fire while en route from Eielson to Carswell. McChord and Eighth Air Force officials declined confirmation amid secrecy. last contact placed 300 miles northwest of Seattle. A Seattle radio amateur noted RCAF sighting of an unidentified light in the area.
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Seattle
Queen Charlotte Sound
Here
British Columbia
Eielson Air Force Base
Fairbanks
Alaska
McChord Air Force Base
Carswell Air Force Base
Fort Worth
Roger M. Ramey
Eighth Air Force
Mackay
Carswell Air Base
Queen Charlotte Island
Vancouver Island
Royal Canadian Air Force
Pike Named Acting Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
The White House designates Baronet T. Pike as acting chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission as David Lilienthal resigns. Gordon Dean, Sumner Pike, and Henry Smyth were considered. Dean backed by McMahon faces a possible confirmation fight. Lilienthal moves to departure after a long government career beginning with the Wisconsin railroad commission in 1931.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Baronet T. Pike
Atomic Energy Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
Charles Ross
Pike
Pyke
Congress
Gordon Dean
Commission
Dean
Lewis L. Strauss
United States
Strauss
Liliepthal
Sumner Pike
Henry D. Smyth
Smyth
Con
Gress
Senate- House Atomic Energy Committee
McMahon
D-Conn
Senate
AEC
Senate-House
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Jackson
Germany
Wisconsin Railroad Commission
Search Still on For Missing Navy Plane
Navy crews pressed a dawn to dark search for a missing plane with nine men as 13 planes scoured over 30 000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico. No trace was found after the last radio contact near Port Arthur Texas at 3 p m Friday.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Gulf of Mexico
Port Arthur
Naval Air Station
Mass TB Vaccine Test Begins in Georgia and Alabama
In Columbus Georgia and Muscogee County with Russell County Alabama a mass test of the BCG anti tuberculosis vaccine starts this week for about 100000 residents. Free X ray exams and vaccination will be offered to those showing no signs of TB with treatment provided if infected. Dr Carroll E Palmer of the U S public health service calls the survey a rare opportunity to gauge BCG efficacy.
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Columbus
Muscogee County
Russell County
Ala
Carroll E. Palmer
U. S. Public Health Department
Brannan Defends Plan for Fair Farm Return
Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan argued the Brannan plan would give farmers a fair return, not just bankruptcy protection. Read at the N C Farm Bureau convention by Undersecretary Albert Loveland, he defended the plan against Farm Bureau opposition and warned against sliding scale supports.
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Raleigh
P— Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan
Brannan
Mth
N. C. Farm Bureau Federation
Albert J. Loveland
American Farm Bureau Federation
Big H-21 Helicopter Ordered for Arctic Rescue Unit
The U.S. Air Force ordered the Piasecki H-21 helicopter for its Arctic rescue service. The aircraft, capable of landing on snow water sand or marsh, seats 27 with two pilots and carries 12 stretchers and two attendants. It features Omniphibious floats with skis and a power hoist for hovering over inaccessible areas.
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Washington
Military Air Rescue Service
Air Force
Air Rescue Service
Military Air Transport Service
MATS
Germany
Philippines
United States
Canal Zone
Miners Continue Strike as Pickets Block Mines
In Pittsburgh on February 14 the walkout by soft coal miners persists with no orders from the government or John L. Lewis. Pickets guard pits across Pennsylvania while two men are wounded by buckshot near Labro. Officials seek links to armed guards at a nearby non union mine as the strike widens into Ohio Virginia and other states.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Pennsyvania
Pennsylvania
Labro
Frank Kozar
le Harris
West Virginia Coal Assocition
United Mine Workers
Association
Jesse Sullivan
Ohio
Virginia
Alabama
West Virginia
Lewis
Truman Taft-Hartley
Five Dragna Gang Members Rounded Up in California
Police rounded five associates of Jack Dragna tied to the Mafia in Southern California. Among those detained were two Dragna relatives, Frank and Louis, plus Tom Dragna’s son and two others. They faced conspiracy charges linked to a recent bombing. rifles and tools were seized. Police describe Dragna as a top mobster with Mafia ties and ongoing scrutiny of the entire organization.
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Los Angeles
Jackna
Earl Warre
Tom
Louis
Adamo
Coh
Ansenal
Lynn White
Jack Dragna
Crime Mission
Yeste
Sacramento
Dragna
Cohen
Mickey
Radio TV stocks lead rise in New York market
Heavy demand for television issues pushed blocks of TV stocks to the tape high with gains up to 29 points. Sparks-Withington rose to 77/8 on light volume, Zenith added a point at times, and Stew Warner advanced over a point as several major makers edged higher.
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New York
Sparks-Withington
Zenith
Stew Warner
Eson Radio
Magnavox
Moto
Avco Mfg
International
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Springsfield
Ch. Gerd V
Lucy-Von Edelweiss
Joseph H. Fleischli
Springfield
Atomic Group
Dragna Gang
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