Ways and Means committee votes to extend current corporation tax
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 22 to 2 to retain the present 52 percent corporate income tax for one year and to strike down the automatic two billion dollar cut due April 1. The move shifts the rate into a broader 800 page tax overhaul bill while pursuing excise tax questions next.
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House
Ways and Means
Mills
Arkansas
Gregory
Kentucky
Eisenhower
Daniel A. Reed
Auxiliary Cops Solve Mock Murder Case at Park Clubhouse
Civil defense auxiliary police staged a two year training mock murder at Washington Park golf course clubhouse drawing 45 participants. The faux homicide involved a golf pro shot in the back with a staged arrest and planned trial set for March 15 at the Vocational school as four investigation teams gather clues.
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Ralph Fox
Fox
Civil Defense
Stanley Yurgs
Earl Hearn
Beu-lah Hartwig
Visitors witness shooting while visiting children tour
Sixth grade class from Lutherville Elementary School touring the U.S. Capitol in Washington witnessed gunfire when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire wounding five congressmen. Students described the sounds as part of the ceremony and reacted with fear and tears as they watched from the gallery.
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Lutherville Elementary School
Washington
Democracy
House of Representatives
Carol Lynn Blaker
Gay Clark
Jack W. Earnshaw
Capitol
Kenneth Roberts
Alabama
Lolita Lebron
Rafael C. Miranda
Andres Cordero
Puerto Rico
Burma Opens Offensive Against Nationalist Forces
Burma's army launched an offensive in eastern Shan state against one of the Chinese nationalist forces operating on the Burma border. Early reports said progress was rapid and the army advanced against the group.
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Rangoon
Burma
Shan State
CARE packages aid freedom and relief worldwide
Millions still need food and clothing as CARE delivers aid overseas. Americans can support the cause by sending CARE food or clothing packages today through local CARE offices or Railway Express offices in cooperation with The Advertising Council.
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Railway Express
The
Advertising Council
Communist literature found in Brooklyn apartment
Police report that Rafael Miranda, one of the Puerto Rican activists who sprayed Congress with gunfire, had Communist literature in his Brooklyn apartment, according to late bulletin details.
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New York
Brooklyn
Rafael Miranda
Congress
House Panel Vetoes Benson Dairy Price Cut
Washington A U P report says a Special House Dairy Committee voted to veto Secretary Ezra T Benson's 15 percent slash in dairy support prices and would limit the cut to five percent.
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Washington
U.P
Ezra T. Benson
Civil Service Chief Says 383 Separated Are Not All Communists
Washington official Philip Young, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, said that 383 people removed from government under Eisenhower era disloyalty provisions are not necessarily communists or subversives.
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Washington
Phillip Young
Civil Service Commission
Eisenhower
Suspect Taken to St Paul for Lie Detector Test
A suspect in the Evelyn Hartley case was moved to St. Paul Minnesota for a lie detector examination today marking the likely final phase of questioning by police in La Crosse.
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la Crosse
Evelyn Hartley
St. Paul, Minn
Extra Guards Stationed In Capitol After Attack
The Capitol added 30 guards as Congress resumed business after a pistol assault by Puerto Rican Nationalists. Rep. Alvin M. Bentley, shot in liver and lung, remained in critical condition after emergency surgery and transfusions. The four assailants faced federal charges of assault with intent to kill.
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Washington
Congress
House Chamber
Alvin M. Bentley
R-Mich
Bentley
U. S
Leo Rover
District of Columbia
Kenneth A. Roberts
D-Ala
Ren. F. Jensen
Colder Weather Expected in Wisconsin Tonight
Colder air moves into Wisconsin with southeast lows of 15 to 20 degrees. Wednesday brings partial cloudiness and cold with highs around 25 to 30. Noon readings report 35 at the sewage plant, 36 at Nash Motors, and 34 downtown, with Monday’s high 39 and low 24.
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Wisconsin
Nash Motors
Commerce Committee Approves Eisenhower Hospital Bill
The House Commerce Committee backed a $180 million program for new hospitals and facilities for lingering illnesses. It would authorize $60 million annually for three years to fund non profit diagnosis centers chronic disease hospitals rehabilitation centers and nursing homes as an expansion of the federal hospital-building program.
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Washington
U.R
House Commerce Committee
Eisenhower
Burlington Promotes American May Day U S Way
Burlington Wisconsin plans May Day U S Way on May 1 to promote the American way of life. Dr Robert R Spitzer advocates selling freedom with a large parade program religious services street dancing and a broad network of civic groups backing the effort.
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Robert R. Spitzer
Murphy Products Feed Company
Spitzer
Wisconsin University
America
U. S. Way
Ross Wilcox
Wisconsin Department of the American Legion
Free World
Robert L. Sullivan
Leo Warren
Murphy Products
U. S Way
Eisenhower
Nixon
National American Legion
Wisconsin
Helicopters Meet Fatal Navy Training Collision in Key West
Two HO4S navy helicopters collided over Fleming Key at a sea plane base in Key West during a secret training mission, killing six crewmen. Each helicopter carried three men and both craft burst into flames after the midair crash. The accident marked the squadron one’s first fatal event. names will be released after next of kin notification.
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Fla
Navy
Fleming Key
Helicopter Squadron One
Wisconsin University extends spring vacation to Easter Week
The University of Wisconsin faculty approved a calendar change giving students an extra day and a half of spring break. Spring vacation will now start on Good Friday and run through Easter Week, replacing the former third week in April timing.
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Madison
University of Wisconsin
Tito Optimistic on War, China Recognition
Yugoslavia's leader Tito says war is further away than two years ago and urges nations to recognize Communist China. He also expects Yugoslavia’s relations with Russia to improve.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
China
Yugoslavias
Russia
Wisconsin Supreme Court voids Rosenberry amendment
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled the 1953 Rosenberry amendment unconstitutional and void as it reapportioned Brown county assembly districts by population, violating the constitutional limit of one reapportionment per decade after the 1950 census. The decision applies to Brown county and could invite challenges from residents of five other counties.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court
Brown County
Brown
Dane
Dodge
Eau Claire
Marathon
Milwaukee
Fred M. Smith
de Pere
Supreme Court
Smith
Hall declines to back McCarthy amid army row
Chairman Leonard W. Hall of the Republican National Committee said after a conference with President Eisenhower that he cannot go along with Senator McCarthy when he attacks individuals fighting communism. Hall spoke without citing a specific case but criticized last week’s developments in the McCarthy army controversy.
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Washington
Leonard W. Hall
Republican National Committee
Eisenhower
Sen
McCarthy
Hall
Army
French Wipe Out Red Village in Indochina
The French say they have wiped Luong Kiet village in the Red River delta off the map. The hamlet with bamboo huts was an ambush nest for Viet Minh rebels. French Union troops razed huts and Army bulldozers flattened the wreckage, displacing about 1500 villagers.
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Hanoi
Luong Kiet
Red River
Unions Demand Higher Wages From Major Meat Packers
AFL and CIO unions served notice seeking a wage increase and announced reopening of contracts with Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy. Contracts expire in August and September this year.
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Chicago
U.P
AFL
CIO
Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy
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