Home Rule Would Cut Need for Local Taxes
The State Chamber of Commerce reports home rule would reduce new local tax needs and boost efficiency. It cites city manager plans, questions modernization, and notes wide interest in amusements and severance taxes. Also mentions Boroughs urged to use law fairly and not punish groups.
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Harrisburg
State Chamber of Commerce
State Chamber
Pennsylvania
House
General Assembly
Senate
James H. Duff
Chamber
Philip C. Pendleton
Bryn Athyn
Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs
Pendleton
Philadelphia
Quaker City
Johnstown
Scranton
Sharon
Debate on opening bids in a bridge hand analysis
A bridge column discusses whether South should open two spades or one and whether North should bid two no trump or raise. It analyzes ace showing systems, lead choices, and the sequence of trumps and discards, concluding the contract risks six if West discards wrong and heart and club timing matters.
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South
North
Ralse
East
West
Declarer
Memorial services to honor American war dead in Italy
Memorial services at Nettuno Cemetery near Anzio will begin to return American war dead from Italy to the United States. High officials from the United States, Italy, and Allied governments will attend near Rome. Nettuno is one of 14 temporary American cemeteries in Italy. Bodies will be sent first from Nettuno under the American Graves Registration Service. The program is to be completed in 1949.
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Rome
Nettuno Cemetery
Italy
United States
Anzio
Nettuno
Net+ tune
American Graves Registration Service
Mediterranean
Reading Bicentennial Queen to be chosen for social graces
Mayor John F. Davis of Reading announces a Bicentennial Queen selection based on social grace and beauty. Six finalists will be judged March 19 at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel by Stevan Dohanos Earl Wilson and Walter Thornton. The event aims to crown a regal figure for public functions amid 93 conventions drawing 750000 visitors.
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Reading
John F. Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Stevan Dohanos
Saturday Evening Post
Earl Wilson
New York Post
Walter Thornton
New York Model Agency
Queenis
Thomas
Richard Penn
William Penn
England
Draft boards being reorganized for emergencies in nationwide plan
Col Solon F. Russell, state director of selective service, said draft boards are being reorganized to meet any emergency as a matter of preparedness. The program is nationwide and could start operating on 24 hours notice. The report notes the human heart pumps nine to ten tons of blood daily.
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Louisville
Solon F. Russell
Office of Selective Service
Russell
Hershey Details Draft Study For Emergency Manpower
Gen Lewis B Hershey says selective service officers study faster methods if atom war arises yet the program is voluntary and not tied to any crisis. Begun in January, it trains state officers to speed manpower procurement in emergencies with courses at San Francisco Presidio for 57 officers from Armed Services Reserve and National Guard.
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San Francisco
Mar
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
National Guard
San Francisco Presidio
Armed Services Reserve
Egg-Throwing Husband Sued in Divorce Case
In Los Angeles on March 10 Mrs. David May won a divorce after detailing to the judge that her musician husband threw eggs at her remarking they were only slightly overdone. She added that a plate was wrapped around the eggs when thrown and testified he would shine a sunlamp in her face to force a confession of infidelity.
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Los Angeles
Mar
David May
Bernstein to guest conduct Pittsburgh Symphony seven weeks
Leonard Bernstein, 29, will guest conduct the Pittsburgh Symphony for seven weeks next winter. He appears among a group of guest conductors while the orchestra seeks a successor to Fritz Reiner, who resigned recently.
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Pittsburgh
Mar
Leonard Bernstein
New York
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Bernstein
Pittsburgh Symphony
Fritz Reiner
Claire James seeks divorce from William Girard
Los Angeles reports mov ie actress Claire James and motion picture producer William Girard filed for divorce citing mental cruelty. They wed in Las Vegas on February 18 1947 and separated January 29. James has prior marriages to Busby Berkeley and Ray Dorsey.
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Los Angeles
Claire James
Miss California
William Girard
Girards
Las Veras
Nev
Miss James
Busby Herkekeley
Ray Dorsey
Army Flyer
Thieves Fooled By Fake Bills
A piece of direct mail advertising in the form of a $10 check fooled thieves who stole them from mailboxes. A tavern operator cashed six of the notes and a bank honored three. Post Office Inspector Vergil Nidlifler disclosed the hoax, noting youths erased the purchase clause and were paid for the certificates. The fake checks were discovered at the Federal Reserve Bank due to no named bank on the face.
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Louis
Mar
Post Office
Vergil Nidlifer
Federal Reserve Bank
Dennis Day to Receive Hibernians Award on St Patrick Day
Singer Dennis Day will get the annual screen and radio award of the Ancient Order of Hibernians on March 17 in Hollywood. Day whose real name is Eugene Patrick McNulty was announced winner yesterday and will receive a St Patrick statuette from Maureen O'Sullivan, last year's honoree.
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Hollywood
Mar
Dennis Day
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Day
Eugene Patrick McNulty
St. Patrick
Maureen O'Sullivan
Left Hand Ltd Forms For Left Hand Tools
Birmingham March 10. D. Wood and his father register a new company named Left Hand Ltd to deal exclusively in left hand machine tools operating counter clockwise. Telegraph address Birmingham P A reads Cagay. The Wood family, described as tight handed, launches coin today.
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William E. Meckenney
America's Card Authority
NEA
Val
South West
North East
Galbraith Ser Dead
IMC
Ray Pearl
SGRO
Kittanning, Pa
Tey Ban
Gen. Hershey
Caine
Boprice
Vashi McCollum
Supreme Court
Champaign
McCollum
University of Illinois
CSG Liniment
Erie
Deko
Felton
Lobley
Mabon Brothers Hardware
N. 6Th St
Southpaws
Troutman's Bedding
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