GOP Hopes to Avoid Delay on Tax Cutting Bill
Senate Finance Chairman Eugene D. Millikin said the Senate would defeat a Democratic move to delay action on a personal income tax cut bill. He warned postponement could kill plans to reduce taxes from 10.5 to 30 percent starting July 1, as Senator Walter F. George prepared a delaying motion. The vote was expected tomorrow or Friday.
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U.P
Eugene D. Millikin
Senate
Finnance Committee
Colorado
GOP
Walter F. George
Georgia
Millikin
George
Relief Bill Passes House To Aid Foreign Aid
The House approved President Truman's emergency foreign relief bill and sent it to the Senate for final action. Quick Senate approval is expected.
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Washington
House
Truman
Senate
Pastor Judged Lane Set for Trial on Church Fire Charges
Milwaukee Presbyterian minister Dr. John Lewis, 72, was found sane and competent to stand trial for allegedly attempting to destroy his Calvary Church by fire. Judge Herbert Stefes set June 9 for the trial after a three-psychiatry panel concluded he knew right from wrong and could aid in his defense.
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U.P
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Herbert J. Steffes
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John L. Garvey
Harry V. Meissner
Calvary Presbyterian
Deputy Saves Life After Highway 41 Crash
Deputy James Marshall and Undersheriff Clarence Huck were credited with saving Roman Viesca by rapid first aid after his car skidded on Green Bay road, plunged into a ditch, and his son Victor died. Viesca, a 47 year old farm laborer, remained in fair condition at St Catherine's hospital after severe head wounds and blood loss.
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Clarence Huck
Roman Viesca
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Kamerzak Farm
Highway 41
Green Bay
Marshall
Huck
Elder Viesca
St. Catherine's Hospital
Sheriff's Department
Mysterious Santa Fe Train Explosion Injures Two
A blast shattered windows on a Santa Fe passenger coach near Ardmore Oklahoma early today wounding two. Special agent Lem Thomas said the explosion seemed to come from the top of a water cooler built into a toilet compartment.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ardmore
Oklo
Lem Thomas
Tokyo Quake Jolts Sleepers No Damage Reported
A tremor struck Tokyo at 455 am disturbing residents but officials said there was no damage. The epicenter was about 45 miles northwest of Tokyo, according to weather observers.
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Tokyo
Lady Cops Direct Traffic as Motorists Horn in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh the city's new lady police officers direct traffic at school corners while male colleagues relieve. The women in navy coats and wave hats began duty yesterday and can issue traffic violation summons. Drivers taunt that you can turn me in any time.
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Pittsburgh
Plan Sportsman Work Party at Pheasant Farm
Kenosha County Conservation club members discussed rearing 1,800 pheasants for release and organized a sportsman work party at the club game farm on Highway 50 Sunday. John Anderson was named chairman of the building committee to oversee pen repairs and conditioning. The group plans a 50 percent expansion of third-range facilities and asks for volunteers to help with the project. Lunch will be provided.
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Edward Quinn
John Anderson
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Woodworth Road
Kenosha
Howard Russell
J. W. Palmer
Storklines Inc Delivers For Chicago's Newbirths
Chicago reports a new service Storklines Inc formed by six veterans to transport expectant parents to hospitals. The firm operates two cars around the clock with a flat citywide fee and accepts emergency calls. Harold Swan 21 led publicity while president Alden Horwitz and VP Warren Schabinger drive the venture.
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Storklines
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Storklines, Incorporated
Poppy Day Planned by Local Veterans Groups
The American Legion posts 429 and 21 and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts Junker Ball and Gateway announce Poppy Day sales on Friday May 23 to aid disabled veterans and their families. City Manager A E Axtell proclaims May 23 as Poppy Day in Kenosha urging generous contributions and remembrance of fallen and disabled veterans. Memorial poppies made by disabled veterans at Wood Wis will be distributed citywide.
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Kenosha
United States
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Gateway
Carl Gardner
Post 21
Gardner
Wood
Wis
House panel trims Agriculture budget by large margin
A House subcommittee on appropriations cut the Agriculture department budget from 1.2 billion dollars by about 37 percent. If approved by the full committee and Congress, the department would face one of the steepest cuts of any department for the next fiscal year.
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A.P
House
Agriculture Department
Congress
Wisconsin Assembly Okays College Board Restructure
Wisconsin Assembly advances a 10 member higher education board to govern all state institutions with members from the university and normal regents plus Stout and the Wisconsin Institute of Technology. governor named appointees. Senate also agrees to separate bills on housing authorities real estate and pipeline gas lines along state highways. Aimed aid for blinds raised to two times federal reimbursement, amid a verbal clash between lawmakers.
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Wis
Wisconsin Assembly
Assembly
House
Senate
Sen. Thomson
Richland Center
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Board of Normal Regents
Stout Institute
Vets Buy 185000 Surplus at War Assets Sale
Nearly 300 World War II veterans bought federal surplus office furniture typewriters scales and tools totaling 185000 at the War Assets Administration sale held at the Nash Kelvinator plant. WAA listed items worth 3500000 from the war era with desks filing cabinets and shop equipment selling by fixed daily hours. The sale opened to individuals first then dealers and will later welcome small businesses government bodies and non profits with prices posted daily.
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James Dick
WAA
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Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Vetleghies Service
Nash
Gate 16
Fifty-second Street
Flour Importers Demand Ban Lift Over Manila Surplus
Philippine flour importers report a 50,000 ton surplus amid hunger in the Orient and beg the government to lift the re export ban. They claim 2,000,000 sacks are piled up in Manila and a shipment rots on the docks per the Manila Bulletin.
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Kenoshan Dies After Waukegan Factory Mishap
Maitland Jay Ruttan, 21, of Kenosha, a World War II veteran, died in an industrial accident at the Johns Manville plant in Waukegan. A steam tank door opened while pressurized at 100 psi, sending a jet of steam that struck him and threw him 15 feet. He was pronounced dead at 5:25 p.m. Ruttan, born March 30, 1926 in Park Falls, Wisconsin, had lived in Rhinelander and graduated from Rhinelander High School, later serving overseas in the Philippines and the southwest Pacific. The coroner, Garfield Leaf of Lake County, reported the incident.
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Johns- Manville Company
Waukegan
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Lake County
Ruttan
Kenosha
William Schaeffer
William Thompson
Park Falls
Wis
Henry Ruttan
Rhinelander
Rhinelander High School
Philippines
Southwest
Truman Names Wakefield to Communications Commission
President Truman nominated Ray C. Wakefield of California for a seven year term on the Federal Communications Commission. He also sent Edmond M. Hanrahan of Brightwaters New York for reappointment to the Securities and Exchange Commission to serve until June 5 1952.
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Ray C. Wakefield
California
Truman
Federal Communications Commission
Senate
Edmond M. Hanrahan
Brightwaters
N. Y
Securities and Exchange Commission
Pie Slap at Ritz Cafe Ends in Assault Charge
Diana Guance a 30 year old former waitress in Jackson Mississippi faced assault charges after she slapped a pie into her boss Chris Costas Ritz cafe owner. Guance described the act as soul satisfying saying the urge struck Monday after considering it for days.
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Diana Guance
Miss Guance
Chris Costas
Ritz
Seven Killed in Illinois Army Plane Crash
A B 25 crashed in a corn field near Champaign during a violent storm killing seven aboard. Among the dead were Col. Ray mond E. O Neill and Col. George A. Whatley. The aircraft was en route from Cheyenne to Chanute Field. Other victims were not named pending next of kin notification. The crash occurred last night with last contact at 10 47 p m EST from Burlington Iowa.
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Army
Raymond E. O'Neill
George A. Whatley
Chanute Field
O'Neill
Port Townsend
Wash
Whatley
Texas
Cheyenne
Wyo
Burlington
Iowa
No Low Mood In Sight Says Pawn Shop Owner
Milwaukee pawn shop owner Harry Rubin said the country will not face another low mood though business is tougher than last year. He noted more pawning after the war boom, with many items redeemed. only common valuables like clothes radios and jewelry are kept on hand. He recalled a soldier pawn incident showing respect for a Purple Heart.
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Milwaukee
Harry Rubin
Harry
Rubin
Ford Foremen Strike Threatens 10 Day Halt Across Major Plants
About 3,800 union foremen walked out at Ford Motor Co in Detroit area plants Rouge Lincoln and Highland Park. Production continues for now with 85,000 workers mostly CIO UAW told to keep working. FAA says picket lines form while Keys cites issues of rank raiding wage gaps recognition and overtime. Henry Ford II met negotiators and urged continuation of work.
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Ford Motor Co
Foreman’s Association of America
Ind
CIO
United Auto Workers
Henry Ford II
Ford
UAW Cio
FAA
Rouge
Highland Park
Lincoln
Robert H. Keys
Keys
CIO United Auto
Mrs. Truman Receives Hopeful Recovery Update
Grandview Missouri Brig Gen Wallace H Graham said Mrs Martha E Truman 94 has a chance for recovery if she maintains gradual improvement The president’s bedside presence has aided slight gains but Graham cautioned the uphill battle remains and a return to Washington would depend on further progress noting no discussion with President Truman occurred yet.
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Truman
Wallace H. Graham
Martha E. Truman
Graham
Kansas City
Washington
Germans to Protest Food Shortage in Remscheid Strike
About 20,000 German workers in Remscheid will strike for four hours tomorrow starting at 9 a.m. in protest of food shortages. The city hosts around 100,000 residents and labor leaders also urged schoolchildren to join the demonstrations.
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Ruhr
Remscheid
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