Strong Pressure In Congress For More Tax Cuts
Washington AP report says President Eisenhower urged Congress to resist further major tax-rate cuts while Democrats promise a floor fight over a plan to trim personal income taxes by 2 percent billion dollars yearly. Republicans favor some reductions in corporate and excise taxes as McCormack questions the sincerity of the president’s approach.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Rep. McCormack
Massachusetts
McCormack
Isenhower
Rep
Kean
Ways and Means Committee
Dayton Man Runs Wild Stabs Four
Dayton, Ohio police say Morgan Cousins confessed after a mass stabbing spree that left his wife Edith 27 in critical condition and his grandmother 81 injured. He attacked his mother 45 and a cousin 22, who shielded a 9 month old infant, before deputies stopped him.
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Dayton
Ohio
Morgan Cousins
Cousins
Isaiah A. Spooner
Lucy L. Cousins
Addie Williams
Edith
Lucy Guy
Eisenhower defense concept gains Republican support
In Washington the president's new defense concept focuses on air power and new weapons while proposing a four billion dollar budget cut. Most Republicans back the plan, with Democrats delaying full judgment to study the multi billion dollar package. Senator Maybank urged rapid expansion of air power using unspent foreign aid to accelerate Ale Seven, while Senator Douglas questioned cuts to Army and Marine personnel. House committee chair Short announced defense chiefs will brief members in a closed session, with Wilson and Radford to attend.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Sen
Maybank
D-Sc
Douglas
D-Ill
Short
House Armed Services Committee
House
Defense Chiefs
Wilson
Adm
Arthur M. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Rep. Price
Illinois
Bender Promises Non-Partisan Labor Racketeering Probe
Washington Rep. Bender vows a non partisan dignified investigation of labor racketeering in any U S city with a kickoff in Cleveland once groundwork is laid. The House Government Operations Committee assigns the probe to his subcommittee as he seeks to map existing government efforts and gather agency information. He emphasizes no publicity hunt and aims to render public service.
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Washington
Bender
Ohio
Cleveland
House Government Operations Committee
Secretaries of Labor and Commerce
Federal Mediation Service
National Labor Relations Board
Kluszewski Giving Redlegs Trouble
The Cincinnati Redlegs face contract trouble with slugger Ted Kluszewski as talks stall. General Manager Gabe Paul voiced optimism that an agreement will be reached, noting Kluszewski is a reasonable player and implying few obstacles remain.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Redlegs
Ted Kluszewski
Klu
Gabe Paul
Budget Battles Over Eisenhower Plan Hit Congress
Washington AP reports parts of President Eisenhower’s 654 billion dollar budget face bipartisan GOP and Democratic resistance in Congress. Critics call it too large while praising air power emphasis and new weapons. Some back tax cuts, debate over foreign aid and military manpower. The plan projects a deficit through July 1 1955 as it heads to the House Appropriations Committee.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Taber
R-Ny
House Appropriations Committee
House
Rayburn
Texas
Congress
Union Says It Insured Key Witness
DETROIT A union investigator says the CIO United Auto Workers contracted to pay Donald Ritchie 25000 in reward in the Walter Reuther shooting and insured his life for 10000 more if feloniously killed within two years. The disclosure surfaced as Ritchie fought extradition in Canada. Ralph Garber, Wayne County prosecutor, confirmed the union source. the union declined comment. Ritchie had previously been paid 5000 for his story which he later repudiated, prompting murder conspiracy charges against four men.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Donald Ritchie
Walter Reuther
Ritchie
Ralph Garber
Wayne
Detroit) County
Dulles Leads West Ministers to Berlin Parley
U S Secretary of State Dulles French Foreign Minister Bidault and British Foreign Secretary Eden arrived in Berlin for a Big Four conference opening Monday. Molotov was secretive, but expected in East Berlin by train. The trio planned to share strategy and reconvene at each headquarters as they seek a path to German self determination and free elections. Eden cautioned progress would take time.
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Berlin
U. S
State Dulles
Georges Bidault
Anthony Eden
Germany
V. M. Molotov
East Berlin
Dulles
Eisenhower
Columbine
Bidault
Paris
Eden
Duesseldorf
London
Lawmakers Consider Girls as Congressional Pages
Washington reports a push to appoint girls as congressional pages. Margaret S. Alden, 16, Rochester, NY, asks Rep. Keating for a page post, noting past political interest. Keating says girls could be as good as boys and suggests a 50-50 page corps, with Rep. Allen to decide.
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Washington
Congress
Margaret S. Alden
Rochester
N. Y
House
Senate
Page
Barrie Williams
Buffalo
Page School
Miss Alden
Rep
Keating
Chicago
Spring glimpsed in Middletown Sunday Journal
The Sunday Journal previews spring with a photo feature on Middletown’s three garden clubs and reports on a first grade class at Jefferson School. It also highlights polio fund drive coverage about Arabelle Keckler, now wheelchair bound, and notes a City Building law library renovation led by Judge Lamb and Louis Rossi with implications for local attorneys.
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Middletown
Journal
Jefferson School
Miami Valley
Arabelle Keckler
Germantown
J. T. Lamb
Louis Rossi
Veteran Ends Life on Phoenix Hotel Roof
About 300 onlookers watched as World War II veteran William Walter Farley, 50, of Washington DC, climbed the three story hotel roof and jumped to his death in downtown Phoenix after leaving a note to his brother. Firemen spread a net to catch him but he landed on the alley pavement. He had been suffering from asthma and said he was sick.
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Phoenix
Ariz
William Walter Farley
Washington, D. C
Failey
George Failey
Waverly
N. Y
Navy Plane Crashes on Mountain. Eight Die
A Navy P2V Neptune patrol bomber with eight men aboard crashed in flames on a clouded mountainside near Barbers Point Naval Air Station. Rescue teams found no survivors. The plane, from a Japan based squadron, had been returning from patrol duty in the western Pacific and was en route from Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands when it deviated from its course.
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Honolulu
Navy
Pacific
Kwajalein
Marshall Islands
Barbers Point Naval Air Station
Flying Finns Handcuff U S Attorney In Public Standoff
In Los Angeles the embattled Irish twins George and Charles Finn handcuffed U S Attorney Laughlin Waters outside the Biltmore Hotel while accusing federal officers of rights violations over a seized $70,000 C46 transport plane. They were later arraigned on assaulting a federal officer and jailed on $10,000 bail.
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Los Angeles
George
Charlies Finn
United States
Air Force
U. S
Waters
George Finn
Charles
Southern California
Central Police Station
Pro Communist POWs Released In Korean War Standstill
Twenty-one Americans one Briton and 327 South Koreans chose communism and were abandoned by Indian guards in a flimsy neutral zone compound at 12:01 a m. EST. The pro Red prisoners said they would stay until food ran out while Indian troops stayed away.
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Panmunjom
U.N
Formosa
North
K. 8. Thimayya
U.S
Richard G. Corden
East Providence
R. I
Andrew Condron
Reds
Weather in Miami valley turns cold and cloudy tonight
Partly cloudy and cold weather is due in the Miami valley tonight and tomorrow according to Vandalia forecasters. Tonight's low is expected at 10 degrees and tomorrow's high near 25 degrees as icy conditions persist across the eastern two thirds of the country with heavy snow in parts of the Midwest and South.
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Vandalia
Aresas
Midwest
International Falls
Sienaaeta
Canada
Walnut Ridge
Joplin
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
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