Republicans Push Tax Cut Plan Through Ways and Means
The Republican majority on the Ways and Means Committee approved a proposal to cut income taxes by 30 percent for small taxpayers and 20 percent for others. A motion to postpone the cut pending clarification of foreign commitments was rejected, signaling a broad effort to trim government revenue.
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House
Ways & Means Committee
Rep
Dougnion
North Carolina
Congress
Americans Name Top Public Figures In Gallup Poll
The piece surveys Gallup's annual list of America's most admired. General MacArthur leads, with Eisenhower second and Churchill, Truman, Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, Byrnes, Pius XII, Sister Kenny, and Dewey in the top ten. It notes shifts from last year and questions the meaning of popularity.
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George Wallup
Puodlic
Pauling
Douglas MacArtur
Doctor Gallup
General MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
Gallup
Winston Churchill
Harry S. Truman
George C. Marshall
Elenor Roosevelt
James Byrnes
Pius XII
Sister Kenny
Thomas E. Dewey
Mr. Churchill
Truman
Roosevelt
Britain
Henry A. Wallace
Harold Stassen
Herbert Hoover
Mr. Byrnes
Pope Pius
General Marshall
Rosalind Russell
Hollywood
Bob Hope
Bob Teller
Red Sox
North Light Tests Make Up Finishes Under North Light
North Light exposes make up to a revealing test by hooding the head with a towel and using a hand mirror to judge the finish. Glamor girls say North light sharpens subtlety, prevents patchy rouge, and avoids overlayered lipstick, guiding better application for street viewing.
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Alicia Hartner
Exar
House to Take Up Tax Slashing Bill Next Week
Washington reports Republican leaders will bring a $3.54 billion tax cut to the House next week in a no-amendment vote. The plan would cut taxes for most earners, retroactive to January, with wage withholdings down from June 1 and rebates for overpayments. The bill faces Democratic opposition and internal GOP dissent over benefits to high earners and the little man.
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Washington
House
Martin
R-Mass
Lruman
Treasury
Rep
Engel
R-Mich
Keating
New York
Rayburn
Texas
United States
Shipment Ban to Russia Proposed by Senator Kem
Senator Kem proposes a ban on shipments of all export goods still controlled by the government to Russia and its satellites. He questions extending wartime allocation powers as farm machinery exports to Russia could occur. officials say policy decisions rest with state and agriculture departments. Truman seeks extension to avoid higher living costs and food shortages while sugar rationing policy is considered by another committee.
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Washington
Kem
R-Mo
Russia
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Civilian Production Administration
United States
John C. Houston, Jr
CPA
State and Agriculture Department
South America
Houston
Aiken
R-Vt
Senate Aiken
Congress
Senate
Banking Group
Vermont
Republican
Truman
German War Crimes Judge Tags Stroop Among 13 Hanged
In Dachau a U S military court sentenced Ju rgen Stroop and 12 others to hang for murdering captured American fliers. Stroop smiled at his wife as the verdict was read. He will be extradited to Poland to face charges over Warsaw Ghetto massacres that killed about 50 000. Seven defendants received prison terms from 15 years to three years. Wilhelm Goehrendt was acquitted.
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Dachau
Germany
Jurgen Stroop
U. S
Stroop
Poland
Warsaw Ghetto
Wilhelm Goehrendt
Arkansas Fire and Politics Across State
Contained fire threats at an Arkansas reform school. inmates aided a woods fire destroying acres of land. Rescue crews faced a transmission station fire with unknown losses. Reports span from Luxora vehicle collision fatalities to tax cuts and university honors, with officials in Little Rock detailing jail mistreatment probes and governor absence for week commitments.
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Collegeville
State Women’s Reformatory and Girls’ Industrial School
Instituton
Calico Rock
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Here
Little Rock
Arkansas
North Little Rock
Hot Springs
Lepanto
Searcy
Crossett
Blytheville
Wilson
Pine Bluff
Wynee
el Dorado
Gillette Mount Ida
Conway
Laney
Capitol
el Dorado Church
Camden
Youthful Robber Is Arrested Here
J H Porterfield of the Arkansas State Police turned over to federal authorities a 16 year old Austin Texas youth wanted for robbery and automobile theft in Tennessee. He is charged with robbing Dr C W Rayburn of Tupelo Mississippi near Tupelo where he had been visiting relatives. In Memphis the pair planned to stay in a tourist court and the youth allegedly took money and keys and drove off in the doctor's automobile. Sgt Porterfield said the youth admitted all.
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Set. J. H. Porterfield
Arkansas State Police
Austin
Texas
Tennessee
C. W. Rayburn
Tupelo
Miss
Memphis
Romella
Avas
Fulton Whert
Sam McGill
Porterfield
Go To Church Sunday Proclaimed by Mayor Albert Graves
A proclamation designates Sunday March 23 as Go-To-Church Sunday. It asserts freedom to attend the church of choice as an American right and urges all citizens to participate, noting local churches joining the Go-To-Church effort. Signed by Mayor Albert Graves.
Spring Fever Real, Says Boston Professor
Boston university psychologist Professor W J Pinard declares spring fever a real and healthy creative urge. He argues the desire to feel, sing, laugh, play and love should be embraced within limits, warning repression leads to mental or social problems. He urges society to increase opportunities to express spring fever with control and decency.
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Boston
Boston University
W. J. Pinard
Pinard
Ringling Bros Circus Prepares for Spring Opening
Sarasota March 22 A Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey circus crew in winter quarters readies for the April 9 Madison Square Garden debut. Directors workers and performers recount long rehearsals amid a leaner press for adult appeal and a northward tour in red cars with 1 400 personnel and animals including Gargantua the gorilla.
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Sarsota
Fla
Cnuis
Smourn
Sarasota
Ringling Bros
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Madison Square Garden
Big Jim Haley
Rendy
Ollywood Movie
Hailey
Owa
Dealers accustom buyers to heavy loading of car extras
United Press survey of 32 major areas finds dealers bartering extras into new cars on a take it or leave it basis. Buyers report up to 900 dollars added to low priced models, with factory and dealer added gadgets raising prices beyond the sticker.
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Detroit
United Press
Tony
Andamon
Automobile
National Automobile Dealers Association
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Indianapolis
Dallas
Omaha
Kansas City
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Columbia
S. C
Cleveland
Charleston
W. Va
Boston
Automobile Trade Association
S.C
Father of Local Man Succumbs in Osage Kansas
Albert E. Stonequist 73, father of A E Stonequist of Hi, died suddenly yesterday at home in Osage Kansas. Other survivors include Louis of Topeka, Chester and Hillier Stonequist of Osage. Funeral services will be held Monday at Osage.
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Albert E. Stonequist
A. E. Stonequist
Osage
Kansas
Louis
Topeka
Chester
Hillier Stonequist
DDT Spray Crew to Work South Hempstead
The Fulton DDT spray crew will operate in South Hempstead during the week of March 24 to 28. Areas include the road from Spring Hill to Buck Martin's and Battlefield Community.
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South Hempstead
Spring Hill
Buck Martin's and Battlefield
U S Army in Germany Cuts Liquor Rations Rules
Frankfurt dispatch reports U S Army officials move to improve discipline by instituting coupon rationing for liquor starting April 1. Bottled liquor bought over the bar falls under the monthly limit of three bottles per man. General Ernest Harmon warns War Department civilians against maintaining mistresses or engaging in improper relationships and arranging such activities.
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Frankfurt
U. S. Army
Ernest Harmon
Third Army
War Department
Red Cross Funds Roll Forward in 1947 Donations
A 1947 clipping lists donor names and amounts to the Red Cross, totaling 105.50 on 3/21/47 with a cumulative tally of 5,235.53 previously reported. Names include Cashus McMullen Mrs. Alva Reynerson Bill Holt Archie Chambless Glenn Kennedy Dr. E. S. Richards Miss Exa Olive and many more.
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Cashus McMullen
Alva Reynerson
Bill Holt
Archie Chambless
Glenn Kennedy
Gees
E. S. Richards
Exa Olive Ou
C. C. Browning
McCaskill
Ann Core
Jno. Gaines
J. S. Moses
R. L. Bish
J. M
Bert Smeat
C. A. Hamilton
J. D. Rhodes
Irvin
E. W. Rhodes
James Hood O
Chuck Pickett
Scott
Cloid Bittick
J. A. Sevege
Beatrice Ashew
Chester
Aeiel ' G
Sevedge Wallace Rogers
Milburn Curtis
J. S. Bittick
Ak Mesa
Ollie Gunn
Albert Rowland
Logan Smith
Abebecsiiss
Frank Taylor
R. M. Marshall
Church _ of Christ ak
W. L
Chester Jefferson
St. Paul C.M.E
Hilwary Graham
Garfield Brooks
Ams
Clayton Turner & Wife
John Jefferson
Beulah Thomas
Ea Ceeses
J. W. Arrington
Spain
I. W. Hendrix
Ieeasacce
Carl Brown
T. J. Stuart
A. B. Harris
R. C. Taylor
Lee Huskey
C. A. Evans
Finley
Reoeiett
L. J. Brown
Allene
Edgar Edwards
Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm plan to adopt 25 orphans
The New York Times reports Broadway showman Billy Rose and his wife Eleanor Holm intend to adopt 25 European orphans aged 4 to 6 from the displaced persons category. The children would be raised at Rose’s Mount Kisco estates in New York, on a 125 acre property near Walken Farm, with travel to Europe to select them within a month.
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New York
Billy Rose
Eleanor Holm
New York Times
Rose
Times
Europe
Orlando Weber
Mount Kisco
N. Y
Walken Farm
Wrecked Airliner Found After Missing a Year
In Venezuela two peasants uncovered the wreckage of an Aero Postal Venezolana two engine plane missing for over a year on a 1,675 foot plateau near Chuspa La Guaira coast near Caracas. The scene yielded eleven skeletons and indicates the craft was destroyed with all aboard.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Aeropostal
Chuspa
la Guarira
French propose federal Germany with unicameral parliament plan
Moscow reports say French foreign minister Georges Bidault will present a plan for a loose German federation with a single House of States. The plan keeps most powers in the states, with a president elected from parliament and a cabinet drawn from state and federal roles. Molotov slated to weigh in on a central German government.
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Moscow
M:xin
Bidault
Molotov
Russia
Supreme Court House
Mystery of Blind Collyer Brothers Death in New York
In New York on March 21 investigators found the body of the elderly blind Collyer brother amid decades of debris in a Fifth Avenue brownstone once shared with Langley Collyer. Police seek the other recluse as crowds gather outside the cluttered home. A musician who knew the brothers described the scene as a cave like chamber amid piles of furniture and junk.
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New York
Collyer
Langley
Sion
Langley Collyer
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