Senate Group Cuts House Tax Increase
The Senate finance committee approved a 2.394 billion dollar rise in personal income taxes, 460 million less than the House. It also backed a 1.293 billion dollar hike in excise taxes on liquor, tobacco, gasoline and more, and a 2.1 billion dollar corporate tax increase, down 150 million from the House.
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Tyrone Power Leads Theater Guilg on the Air Cast
Tyrone Power will head the season on Theater Guilg on the Air. Betty Field Cornel Wilde and Basil Rathbone star in The Heiress on the stage and screen hit. Airing at 5 30 p.m. on KFI within the Steel Hour.
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World Famous Artist John Sloan Dies at 80
Hanover New Hampshire September 3 John Sloan renowned artist aged eighty died today at Mary Hitchcock Hospital after an operation He was famed for landscapes and city life etchings His work was shown in major museums including the Metropolitan and Whitney in New York Corcoran Washington Detroit Harrison Chicago and Boston Fine Arts.
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N.H
John Sloan
Mary Hitchene
Metropolitan Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Arts
New York
Corcoran Gallery
Washington, D. C
Detroit Museum
Harison Gallery
Los Angeles
Chicago Art Museum
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Nehru Ousts Political Foe in Congress Victory
New Delhi Sept 9 Prime Minister Nehru won leadership of the Congress Party and pushed aside Purshottam Das Tandon. The national committee voted four dissenters to accept Tandon’s resignation and urge Nehru to take the helm, signaling support for India’s secular development ahead of January elections.
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Crusade for Freedom seeks $3.5 million to fund radio stations
General Lucius D. Clay urged Americans to donate $3.5 million for the Crusade for Freedom to combat communism. The money will fund two exile staffed radio stations outside the Iron Curtain, to broadcast into Poland and Hungary.
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Lucius D. Clay
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Iron Curtain
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Hungary
Hundreds of Boats Parade to Protest Duty Free Tuna
In San Diego a harbor parade featured 250 tuna boats led by 10 clippers to protest duty-free tuna imports flooding markets. Thousands watched from shore as two returning transports joined the scene, while officials pledged support to aid idled fishermen and workers amid the crisis.
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Cleles
Alaska
Striking Pan Am Crew Demand Seats Aboard Atlantic Flight
Four Pan-American flight hostesses and four stewards began a stand-up strike seeking occasional seating during their 15 hour Atlantic flight. They said the Stratocruisers lack sitting space when fully booked and would continue the action until seats are available. Supervisors filled in and no flights were canceled.
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Tito Warns His Nation of Peril
Belgrade dispatch says Marshal Tito warned Yugoslavs to stay awake against air attack and warned a war could erupt if Yugoslavia is struck. He spoke in Vojie Croatia during a week of cross frontier shootings with Romania and Albania. Western spokesmen say an attack on Yugoslavia would threaten world peace.
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Jordan Cabinet Formed With One New Finance Minister
Amman Sept 8 Prime Minister Tewfik Pasha Abdul Huda announced a new Jordan cabinet headed by himself. It kept the same ministers as the previous resigned group with Abdul Halim Nimeri appointed to head the finance department.
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Tewfik Pasha Abdul Huda
Abdul Halim Nimeri
Department of Finance
Signing recalls surrender in Tokyo to peace in San Francisco
In San Francisco on September 8, AP recounts the shift from WWII surrender aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay to the formal treaty signing at the Opera House. The piece contrasts Gen. MacArthur and diplomats with Yoshida and Gromyko, citing Nimitz and Derevyanko among witnesses as 49 nations move toward postwar reconciliation.
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Tokyo Bay
Nations debate treaty as red bloc rejects inked pact
In San Francisco on September 3 the Japanese peace treaty was signed with most nations approving though the Communist bloc Russia Czechoslovakia and Poland refused to formally ink the document. Critics led by Andrei Gromyko Gertrude Sekaninova Stefan Wierblowski argued the accord creates an aggressive military alliance against the Soviet Union.
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Poland
Andrei Gromyko
Gertrude Sekaninova
Stefan Wierblowski
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Romulo Ceides
Carlos Romulo
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Ahmad Soebkardjo
Dirk A. Stikker
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Soebardjo
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China
Carl Berendsen
Percy Spender
Mohammed Kamil Bey Abdul Rahim
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Time outwitted years roll by but Solon age endures
Sacramento report notes the California Bluebook editions from 1942 1946 and 1950 place State Senator Charles Brown born in Georgia about 57 years ago. The aging biography cited in each edition shows the same age despite the passage of time.
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Sacramento
California
Charles Brown
President Pleased by S F Parley Signing of Treaty
President Truman expressed pleasure after the San Francisco conference where the Japanese peace treaty was signed. He did not watch the signing on TV and has no TV at Independence. The White House notes he uses sets only to see his daughter sing. He spent a quiet day at home and met two student nurses briefly. He later visited cousins Ethel and Nellie Noland, then planned a weekend country trip. He will depart by plane tomorrow afternoon from Kansas City.
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