Taft presses cuts to Truman budget at rally
Taft accused the Truman administration of inflated figures and urged a $3 billion reduction from the $39.7 billion year budget. He proposed cutting foreign aid, boosting air corps spending, and opposed universal military training. Farley dismissed Wallace as a one man party and warned Democrats face risks from the third party bid.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Taft
Ohio
Truman
Providence
R. IL
Republican Club
Air Corps
Treasury
James A. Farley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wallace
Lynchburg
Farley
Col
R. B. Creager
Texas
GOP
Philadelphia
Gael Sullivan
Harry Carlson
New Hampshire
Henry C. Sevier
Louisiana
White House
Carlson
Snyder Hints Veto For GOP Tax Program
Treasury Secretary Snyder urged Congress to offset any tax cuts with higher revenues or risk a veto and a possible budget shortfall. He backed President Truman’s $40 personal tax cut and $3.2 billion corporate bite as fairest, while critiquing the Knutson proposal for reducing revenue and raising deficits. Snyder argued targeting relief to lower incomes, maintaining revenue, and delaying broader reforms until inflation ease.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Reublican
Knutson
R-Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Minnesotan
Truman
Plas
Mass strikes hit German Ruhr amid food shortages
About 75,000 workers in four Ruhr cities idle as strikes widen over hunger. About 50,000 struck at Duisburg Muehlheim and Dinslaken with 25,000 at Oberhausen, while coal miners stay on job and rail freight halts. The protests spark political splits and fears of a broader general strike in Germany.
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Berlin
Ruhr
Germany
Proa i M
Duisburg
Muehlheim
Dinslaken
Oberhausen
Rhine
Hans Boeckler
German Federation of Trade Unions
Boeckler
Moscow Radio
Communist Party
Dewey Will Run If GOP Nominates Him
Albany report says Governor Thomas E. Dewey would accept the Republican presidential nomination if offered at the Philadelphia convention next June. James C. Hagerty notes Oregon friends have entered his name in the preferential primary. Dewey would accept if nominated though he remains actively involved in the current legislative session.
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Albany
N.Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Philadelphia
James C. Hagerty
Dewe
Oregon
Dewey
Seven La Crosse Ice Rinks Open Friday
Seven rinks in La Crosse are open Friday as the city department announced. The facilities include Hood First ward Hogan 21st ward Goose Green Roosevelt and Lagoon with others undergoing flooding.
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la Crosse
A Department
Hood
First Ward
Hogan
21St Ward
Goose Green
Roosevelt
Lagoon
Local Weather Forecast for La Crosse Area
Fair and very cold tonight with diminishing wind and lows around 12 to 15 below in rural areas. Saturday partly cloudy and quite cold with highs near 8 to 10 degrees.
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la Crosse
Canada Reimposes Meat and Butter Price Controls
Ottawa acts to curb living costs by reimposing price ceilings on meat and butter. The government seeks Parliament approval to extend rent controls to March 31, 1949. Butter ceilings pegged to 67 cents wholesale in Montreal, meat ceilings to be set within about two weeks. Beef lamb and veal prices to stay moderately above prior ceilings.
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Ottawa
New York City
Douglas Abbott
Montreal
Abbott
UAW Seeks New Pay Hikes in Auto Industry Talks
The CIO United Auto Workers announce a plan for a 25 cent hourly wage rise plus five cents for benefits in 1948 contract talks. Aiming for a third postwar cost of living adjustment, the union seeks a guaranteed weekly wage and three weeks vacation for five-year veterans, targeting Chrysler or General Motors first. Ford’s contract runs later in the year.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chrysler Corp
General Motors Corp
Uaw-Cio
Ford Motor Co
Wisconsin Braces for Deep Freeze After Woman Dies
A Wisconsin woman, Mrs. Frank Rhoades of Black River Falls, dies of exposure after her car stalls on a back road. The bitter cold gripped the state as sub zero temperatures forecast for tonight and tomorrow. forecasters expect a coldest weekend with lows reaching 15 to 18 below in some areas and a brief warm spell Sunday.
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Wisconsin
Frank Rhoades
Black River Falls
Rhoades
U. S
Howard J. Thompson
Milwaukee
la Crosse
A. D. Sanial
Lake Pepin
Georgia
Carolinas
Ennessee
Florida
Virginia
Miami
Fla
Tallahasse
Atlanta
Muskellunge Record Claimed on Tahquamenon River
Earl Van Norman of Dollarville Michigan speared a 29 inch 31 pound muskellunge two miles west of Newberry on the Tahquamenon River setting a new record for the area.
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Newberry
Mich
Earl van Norman
Dollarville
Tah‘quamenon River
Off Street Parking Lot Fund Receives 3436 in December
City records show 3436.12 placed in the off street parking fund from December meter collections, with 50 percent shared with the fund until meters are paid for. December fines totaled 2778 with 1304 to general fund and 1304 to police pension. meters generated 10352 since operation began. Mi Co Meter received early sums, 50-50 split began after 3479.75. City purchased 813 meters at 54 each, total 43902, installation brought total to 47381.75.
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Fred L. Kramer
John Roop
General Fund
Police Pension Fund
Real Police Court
George Uediger
Gentral Fund
Mi-Co Meter Company
Hennessey Brothers
Cedar Rapids
Carl Panke
Copeland Park
R. E. Nietsch
Reds Ready To Start Settlement Talks On Lend Lease Deals
Soviet Ambassador Panushkin said Russia is ready to resume negotiations to settle the wartime lend lease account with the United States. Talks were broken off last July and may be renewed in the near future.
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Reds
Washington
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Russia
United States
Fifth Missionary Killed In China
Shanghai reports another woman missionary killed in central China raising total to five killed in recent days in the China Inland Mission.
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China
Shanghai —i
China Inland Mission
Gandhi Fasts On In India As 80th Hour Passes
Mohandas Gandhi weak from a four day fast remains unable to walk. Doctors report kidneys not functioning properly and elimination is defective. India agrees to immediate payment of 40 million pounds to Pakistan to aid peace and ease tensions over Kashmir tribal raids.
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G. Milton Kelly
New Delhi
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Pakistan
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Kashmir
Stoker Coal Plentiful Says Industry Expert
Milwaukee and Wisconsin could add 15,000 stoker coal accounts says M J Clancy of the Solid Fuel Institute. He notes former coal to oil users can easily reconvert and that equipment is available. Harold Mottram of the Wisconsin Oil Heating association mentions plans for emergency oil pools as dealers face demand. Martin Peters of Socony Vacuum Oil says space heating oil supply won’t meet thousands of customers before February.
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Milwaukee
M. J. Clancy
The
Solid Fuel Institute
Clancy
Harold Mottram
Wisconsin Oil Heating Association
Martin Peters
Wadhams
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co
Vandenberg Pushes Oversight to Prove ERP Worth
Senator Vandenberg urged that half the criticism of the European recovery program would fade if the United States could follow its dollars abroad and show value. John J. McCloy called the Britain loan of 3.75 billion dollars "in effective" and urged no fuzzy loans to avoid undermining ERP faith. Hearings on ERP cost continued as Taft and Marshall sparred over funding for the four year plan, with Taft proposing a sharp cut from the 6.8 billion dollars requested for the initial 15 months.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Marshall
Taft
Ohio
Europe
Russian expedition reports cliff of thousands of heads discovery
MOSCOW says a Russian archeological expedition has returned from Crimea with word of a discovery described as a cliff of thousands of heads on Mount Chartir Cage in southern Crimea. The find was announced today by officials and researchers involved in the dig.
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Moscow
Crimea
Mount Chartir Cage
Five Die in North La Salle Street Furniture Plant Blast
Explosion at 619 North La Salle Street damaged a Provus Brothers Furniture building killing five people and injuring four others. Rescue teams recovered victims as fire crews battled near 10 above temperatures. cause attributed to gas per police bomb squad.
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North la Salle Street
Chicago
Provus Brothers Furniture Co
Wit Wuitd
Near North Side
Provus Brothers Furniture Company
Isadore Provus
Benjamin Chemers
Provus
Harry Garland
Benjamin Berkowitz
Henry Homme
Berkowitz
Homme
Joseph Brown
Henrotin Hospital
Gertrude Friedman
Marshall Pidgeon
People’s Gas Light and Coke Company
Tribune Carrier Visits Homes To Explain 1948 Magazine Plan
The La Crosse Tribune carrier has attended sales meetings to learn the details of the 1948 magazine plan and will call at homes soon to explain how to subscribe for the nation s leading publications and pay by the week. He will present the offer and show the colorful portfolio of magazine covers.
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la Crosse Tribune
Tribune
Favor Route At Later Date Bonds For Diagonal Marsh Road
Aldermen in a special council session approved resolutions to expedite transferring state and federal aid to city streets. Plans include Third, Rose, and Cass streets with a marsh road connecting to highway 16 and the Monegan overpass. May 1 is the aid plan deadline.
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U. S. Highway 16
Gillette Street
Third Street
Cameron Avenue
South Avenue
Cameron
West Avenue
Rose Street
Black River
Monitor Street
Cass Street
Seventh Street
la Crosse Street
Cass
Seventh Streets
Monegan
Housing Authority
Salzer Airport
Phelps-Drake
Minneapolis
George McKoskey
Violence in Haifa as Arab Jewish clashes leave many dead
Haifa bombings and street shootings escalate Arab Jewish hostilities across the Holy Land. Hagana claims pre-dawn bomb strikes killed 15, including seven children and a former German officer. A Jewish constable killed in Jerusalem, two more wounded. Damascus reportedly unsympathetic, citing limited ability to restrain volunteers.
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Jerusalem
Haifa
Holy Land
Hagana
Jewish Agency
Syria
Damascus
Palestine
Syraan
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