Major Truman Proposals Seen Likely Rejected by Congress
President Truman outlined his 1948 legislative program in a 43 minute speech to Congress. Most tax reduction and anti inflation proposals appeared headed for rejection while some measures such as rent control extension foreign aid broadened social security coverage higher minimum wages and civil rights guarantees likely pass in compromise form. National health insurance and compulsory military training were deemed highly doubtful. Republicans claimed political maneuvering while Democrats praised statesmanship. Leaders from both parties expected prolonged wrangling over the tax and anti inflation plans.
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Truman
Congress
Left-Wing Label Used Against Truman in State Plan Battle
Republicans pinned a left-wing label on President Truman as they mobilized to counter his State of the Union proposals with a GOP plan. Senator Taft prepared a late night broadcast to contrast party ideas while Democratic Chairman McGrath defended Truman's liberal program. Republicans questioned cost of living tax cuts and opposed price controls, arguing the message drew political heat but halted clear policy advances.
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Washington
Truman
McGrath
Rhode Island
Democratic National Committee
Taft
Ohio
Senate
ABC
Kean
Robison
R-Ky
City's Record Of No Fires In'48 Broken
Fire department records show two small blazes and a false alarm during the first seven days of January. A roof fire at American Rolling Mill Co. started by sparks from the galvanizing stack, with negligible damage. A second blaze at Raymond Bay Co. on Enoch and Tytus Avenues prompted a response, plus a separate report of a fire at a Visintine Construction shanty near the West Middletown Bridge. Fire Chief William Fishbaugh cited unusual January activity and praised prevention efforts and resident cooperation.
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American Rolling Mill Co
Armco
Raymond Bay Co
Enoch Ave
Tytus
West Middletown Bridge
Visintine Construction Company
West Middletown
William Fishbaugh
Fishbaugh
Middletown
Republicans Attack Truman Proposals In Election Year Debate
In the House Representative Busbey cried that Truman offers a political sop to everybody but the Navajo Indians. Representative Rich charged the President seeks over 20 billion dollars annually in new expenditures through health insurance universal military training and other proposals without stating how to pay.
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Washington
Truman
Busbey
Rhil
Rich
Rpenn
Truman calls for broad tax cuts and inflation curb powers
President Truman asks Congress for a $40 per person tax credit and proposes offsetting the $3.2 billion revenue loss by higher corporate levies. He also seeks inflation control powers, including wage price controls and rationing authority, while Republicans push a larger personal exemption plan and tax rate cuts. House GOP Steering Committee plans meet to review the program, with compulsory military training unlikely. Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings on a long-range plan to counter Communism via a multi-billion European recovery program, with broad aid backing but spending disputes.
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Truman
Congress
House
GOP
House Armed Services Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stalin Death Rumors Roil Bern Newspapers
Bern papers speculated that Premier Stalin was dead, while the Soviet embassy in Land denied the reports. Der Bund noted a serious background and calls the Moscow rumor a hot topic. Berner Tagwacht ran Stalin Died with claims illness and crutches fueled credence.
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Bern
Switzerland
Stalin
Land
de Bond
Federal Council
der Bund
Moscow
Berner Tagwacht
Kuter Named CAB Chairman in Truman Move
President Truman selected Major General Laurence R. Kuter to chair the Civil Aeronautics Board, replacing James M. Landis. Kuter, 42, of Rockford Illinois, a Military Academy graduate, serves as U S representative on the International Civil Aviation Organization council. Landis was dropped from the post with no explanation. In a separate note, William G. Frick of Warren was named "young man of the year" by the Warren Junior Chamber of Commerce for leading last year’s community chess drive.
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Washington
Truman
Laurence 8S. Kuter
Civil Aeronautics Board
James M. Landis
Kuter
Uter
United States
Council
The
International Civil Aviation Organization
Landis
CAB
Rockford, Ill
Military Academy
Warren
William G. Frick
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Disabled Soviet Ship In Improved Condition
Fifty foot waves battered the disabled Russian vessel Dvina off northeast Japan while officials said its condition had improved and towing to safety might be possible. Three rescue ships stood by as six more headed toward the leaking ship, with passengers numbering 780.
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Tokyo
Japan
U.S
Vladivostok
Kamchatka
Hokkaido
Governor Herbert appoints Haskins to Mine Examining Board
In Columbus Ohio Governor Thomas J Herbert named W H Haskins of Rural Rt 1 West Lafayette to replace the late Charles Matson on the State Mine Examining Board. The term ends September 1950. Board members are paid twenty dollars per day plus expenses to a maximum of two thousand dollars yearly.
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Columbus, CO
Thomas J. Herbert
W. H. Haskins
West Lafayette
Charles Matson
Coshocton
State
Senate panel hears broker on Truman insiders trading
Washington AP A Senate committee investigating speculation heard secret testimony from broker Harry Brisker who handled President Truman’s physician General Wallace Graham account. Brisker and his Navy Department clerk wife Eva M Brisker were named as traders, with Graham likely to be questioned after Harold Stassen's remarks. Morgenthau acknowledged corn futures holdings while denying illegal activity, as panel prepares for hearings and regulatory debates on government employee speculation.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Navy Department
Harry Brisker
Bache and Company
Eva M. Brisker
Brisker
Wallace H. Graham
Graham
Harold E. Stassen
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Secretary of the Treasury
Mor
Akron rail workers strike over pay and rules changes
About 40 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen members walked off the Akron Barberton beltline halting 24 miles of freight between Akron and Barberton. The strike affects most local rubber firms except Firestone. Union seeks higher pay and altered rules with no immediate government arbitration anticipated.
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Akron, O
Akron
Barberton
Brotherhood of Railroad
Barberton Beltine
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Erie, Baltimore and Ohio
Canton
Youngstown
Columbia Chemical Division
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Truman
H. M. Brillien
BRT
Carmen
Mareh? Removal Sought in Chesapeake Mayor Says
Chesapeake Ohio AP Mayor John L Fisher disclosed formal charges seeking the removal of Marshal Ron Smith the town's chief law officer. Smith has served over ten years. A hearing is planned at the February 2 town council meeting the mayor said with details of the charges not released.
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Chesapeake, O
John L. Fisher
Ron Smith
Lawrence County
Smith
Bricker says Truman budget request could be cut
Senator Bricker of Ohio warned that the reported 40 billion dollar federal budget request for President Truman next week is too high and could be cut by about 10 billion. He called for economy measures including a 500,000 cut in federal employees, department reorganizations, a central purchasing agency, and eliminating agencies duplicating state duties. Bricker cited past Ohio reforms reducing payrolls without hurting services and argued taxes consume a third of national income, far exceeding food expenditures.
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Washington
Bricker
Ohio
Truman
Ohioan
Herbert Hoover
Senate
Hoover Commission
Clarence Brown
House
Congress
One Marine Missing And Two Reported Killed In China
In North China a Chinese garrison commander said one of five U S Marines who were lost on a Christmas hunting trip was killed. Navy officials withheld names while Marine HQ reported four missing and one AWOL in the same area. A jeep from the party was abandoned beyond government lines. the vehicle was looted and wrecked.
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Tsintgtao
China
U. S
North China
U.S. Navy
Navy
Republican 1948 slogan and 1946 prompt
The 1948 GOP campaign used the line Vote Republican in 1948 Save What's Left. In 1946 the slogan was Had Enough.
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GOP
Cincinnati's Turner Hall Razed By Fire
Cincinnati suffered a major blaze at the 100 year old Turner Hall in Over the Rhine. Fire Chief Barney J. Houston said damage reached 100000 dollars with roof attic and fourth floor destroyed and ten bowling alleys wiped out. Second and third floors suffered heavy damage and many labor union offices and a postal substation were flooded. Twenty two nearby families were displaced as seventeen fire companies fought the fourth alarm blaze for about an hour before control. The cause remained undetermined and an investigation was ordered.
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Cincinnati
Turner Hall
Barney J. Houston
Rhine
Wete
Houston
Adequate Foreign Aid Plan Is Blunt Appeal
Secretary of State Marshall told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Russia and the Communist party would oppose the European recovery program at every turn, but the United States could carry it out if undertaken with adequate, prompt administration. He warned against half measures and rejected a new government corporation, insisting the plan require a single responsible administrator and no dual secretaries of state.
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Washington
Marshall
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Western Europe
Tlend
Democratic Administratoin
Deaths of Two Men Unsolved in Bristol Bay Area
Anchorage reports the deaths of Harold Griffin and Martin Ernesius in a Bristol Bay home remain unsolved after a four hour autopsy. Griffin, 45, ex football center and Bristol Bay Chamber of Commerce manager, and Ernesius, 42, fisherman, were found with Mrs Griffin who is hospitalized with serious injuries. FBI sent bodies to Washington lab for examination.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Bristol Day
Dillingham
Harold W
Ftubby) Griffin
Martin Ernesius
Federal Bureau of Investigation Waents
Criffin
Kanakamak
Thermesius
FBI
Washington, D.C
Griffin
University of Iowa
Portsmouth, O
Nine Die As Algerian Transport Plane Crashes
Paris AP reports nine people killed in a crash of Society Algerienne de Transport plane after takeoff from Algiers bound for Biskra and Philippeville. The craft carried seven passengers and two crew, two of the dead were children. Engine trouble preceded the hill impact.
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Paris
Societe Algerienne de Transport Weriens
Sata
Algiers
Biskra
Philippevile
Bricklayers At Armco Seek Separate Bargaining Units
The AFL asks the NLRB to carve out craft units for about 24 bricklayers at American Rolling Mill in Middletown and about 80 bricklayers at National Tube in Lorain, challenging the industry wide bargaining pattern in steel. A key test under Taft Hartley pits craft versus industrial unions with potential for labor peace or continued jurisdictional clashes. Local Armco figures Elmer Davis and Charles Osborn lead the AFLI union effort as C J Petzhold observes for the company.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
AFL
Ohio
Elmer Davis
Charles Osborn
Henderson Estes
AEIF
Armco Union
NLRB
C. J. Petzhold
Cincinnati
American Rolling Mill Company
Middletown
National Tube Company
Lorain
CIO
AFL Bricklayers Union
Taft favored for GOP nomination on first or second ballot
Ohio Republicans predict a quick Taft victory at the national convention in Philadelphia as 53 Taft delegates are chosen. Clarence Brown says Taft could secure the nomination on the first or second ballot if Congress lawmakers rally to him. Nebraska may yield delegates without consent. Bricker leads nine at large delegates. primary elections set up to select district delegates.
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Columbus, O
Robert A. Taft
Clarence J. Brown
Blanchester O
Ohio
Republica
Nex
Philadelphi
Brown
Yesterda
GOP
Taft-predas
Prospec
Taft
Congress
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Ignoran
Nebraska
Nebraka
U. S
John W. Bricker
H. Ebright
Bricke
Thomas J. Herbert
Fred H. Johnson
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Ferguson
Senator Dworshak
Idaho
Appropriations
Akron Line
Ralph H. Bassett, Jr
Luciana Parri
Italy
New York City
Leghorn
Bassett
Army
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Republican Party
Frank Donner
CLO Steelworkers’ Union
Him
Dixie Heights
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