Senate passes $5.92 billion tax cut bill to cut levies
The Senate approved a $5.92 billion tax reduction, sending the measure to President Truman for signature. The plan cuts income tax, exempts many from liability, offers veterans a special deduction, and reduces corporate taxes by $3.136 billion, while freezing payroll tax at 1 percent.
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Statesville Fights To Bring Truman In Next Year
Statesville moves toward a new presidential visit after the cancellation of Truman’s planned trip. Senator Hugh Mitchell canceled the planned celebration for today and Friday, while Representative Robert L. Coughton said the president could come early next year if conditions permit. Mayor J Wesley Jones said the city spent much on the planned visit and placed responsibility for the cancellation on the president.
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Iredell
Truman
Hugh Mitchell
Robert L. Coughton
Washington
Jon
States Ville
J. Wesley Jones
Uniform To Be Old Stuff For This 18 Year Old Wedded Lad
Melvin Harry Sinquefield 18 yesterday registers for the draft in Miami Florida. He is married with a good job and veteran of 50 bombing missions and 264 combat hours over Europe. He joined the Army Air Corps at 15, was twice hit by bullets as a radio gunner, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal, and was discharged as a staff sergeant last July.
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Melvin Harry Sinquefield
Europe
Sinquefield
Army Air Corps
Bus Drivers Strike Halts Greyhound Service East of Chicago
AFL union drivers and other workers walked out at midnight over a wage dispute, halting service on six Greyhound lines from New England to the South. The strike affected routes including Central, New England, Pennsylvania, Canadian, Illinois, and Eastern Greyhound, with about 40,000 daily riders in the Central and Pennsylvania corridors.
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New England
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Government to press for public ownership of telecoms
In the Commons Hugh Dalton announced Labor will press for nationalization of the cable and wireless services operated by Cable and Wireless. Legislation to extend government ownership will be introduced in due course, signaling a broader nationalization push beyond the campaign platform.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Cable and Wireless, Ltd
Dalton
Weed Prices Remain Firm Amid Light Sale Volume
Virginia and North Carolina flue-cured tobacco belts show lower quality leaf and reduced sales while average prices stay firm. Eastern belt fluctuations around $1 per hundred pounds with light market activity. Tuesday sales totaled 2,725,878 pounds at $45.34 per hundred, season sales 70,781,223 at $43.77. Middle belt prices hold firm with 2,248,670 pounds sold at $46.28. season 111,435,283 at $42.76. Old belt centers report no major changes with 5,776,418 pounds sold at $45.63 average.
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Virginia
North Carolina
Big Eastern
Ross
Fortune Must Stand Part Of Cost Of War
Tokyo reports a direct accusation against Emperor Hirohito as partly to blame for the war. Washington says his personal fortune will share reparations costs, a move seen as labeling Hirohito a war criminal. Officials search for missing war material while audits probe wartime losses. Army and navy funds vanish and U S rations and clothing valued at $500,000 are traced to civilian channels.
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Edwin W. Pauley
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Strange Deaths Baffle Sumter Police In Auto Fire
Sumter officials remained undecided whether the deaths of Allen Hamilton Griffin and Dorothy Mabel Kay were crime related. The pair were found in a burned parked car with severe burns and apparent broken bones, though a physician warned heat can mimic bone breakage.
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Dorothy Mabel Kay
J. R. Dunn
Extremist Indonesians Intensifying Attacks
Reported as Indonesian extremists press attacks in central and western Java amid Soekarno defying a ceasefire. British fighter planes and Gurkha troops recaptured Magelang as tension eased after Dutch and nationalist leaders met in Batavia. Soekarno urged Indonesians to lay down arms and cooperate with allies.
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Philip Christison
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Hitler and Eva Braun Die in Berlin Bunker
British intelligence reports conclude Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun died last April 30 in the Reich Chancellery bunker. They reportedly killed themselves and their bodies were burned in the garden outside as Berlin was captured. Goebbels and Bormann assisted in the aftermath.
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Eisenhower Truman plan and German unrest gel in Berlin report
The Eisenhower Truman plan for an allied civilian government in Germany and Eisenhower's September report on occupation conditions signal growing Berlin control council difficulties. The army faces a long occupation with police and civilian duties, urging a clear division of roles and swift progress toward civilian self government by June.
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Infants' Shoes To Be Plentiful In Short Time
Washington reports that infants' white shoes should be plentiful soon as titanium whitening ingredient becomes available for civilian products. WPB notes most titanium had been requisitioned by the armed forces for paints and military use. Officials foresee shoe rationing ending and supplies increasing.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Navy expedition to Alaska led by W Joynes McFarlan
Lt. Cmdr. W Joynes McFarlan, formerly of Raleigh North Carolina, will head a navy expedition to Alaska and the Aleutians this week. He oversees writers and magazine staff invited by the navy for a several week inspection trip leaving Washington by plane Friday. McFarlan previously served as Associated Press correspondent in Raleigh before joining the AP Washington bureau years ago.
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Cmdr
W. Joynes McFarlan
Raleigh
N. C
Navy
Alaska
Aleutians
McFarlan
Washington
MacFarlan
Associated Press
War Bankers Rounded Up by Americans
The United States Army in the American occupation zone arrested 21 directors from six major German banks. The move targets bankers accused of financing the Nazi war machine and exploiting occupied territories. R A Nixon said a recommendation to declare them war criminals seems likely.
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Germany
United States
R. A. Nixon
U.S
Hitler
Soviet Forces In Manchuria To Withdraw
A semiofficial Chinese dispatch from Tientsin says Soviet forces in Manchuria will begin a large scale withdrawal tomorrow and finish by December 1. Chinese communists criticized U S forces in China and rejected the government plan to avoid civil war. Gen Chou En Lai said there is no need for U S transport of Kuomintang troops to areas recovered by communists.
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Kuomintang
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Chinwangtao
Peiping
Peitaiho
Peiping-Mukden
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Chou
Albert C. Wedemeyer
China
Chiang
Program to Use Inferior Cotton Given Approval
Oliver P. Harris of Taylor Texas asks continued CCC support for using inferior short staple cotton as insulation. The CCC sells low grade cotton nine cents below market to firms converting it into fire resistant insulation. Rep Poage says the agency may end the discount starting July 1 1946 but will study Harris counter plan before decision.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Oliver P. Harris
Taylor, Tex
CCC
Rep
North Carolina Internal Revenue Collects October Total
North Carolina internal revenue collections for October reached 85.49 million dollars, up 28.1 million from the previous October. For the first four months of the 1945 fiscal year, receipts totaled 337.47 million, rising 61.18 million from the prior year’s period.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Charles H. Robertson
District of North Carolina
Georgia Grants Pardon to Burns After 23 Years
Georgia erased a 23 year prison sentence for Robert Elliott Burns and restored civil rights. The state pardon board commuted the sentence to time served but did not grant a full pardon because Burns admitted to a 1922 Atlanta robbery.
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Georgia
Robert Elliott Burns
State
Burns
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