Congress to tackle profit tax and rent control after return
Congress faces major items when it reconvenes November 27 including higher corporate profits taxes, a possible statehood move for Hawaii and Alaska, and rent control. The session follows a veto override on anti-Communist legislation, with tax withholdings increasing and plans for an excess profits tax. Rent control hopes persist despite adjournment.
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Washington
Statehood
Hawaii
Alaska
Congress
Truman
Senate
House
Ways and Means
Spence
D-Ky
Truman Faces Task of Naming Commie Control Board
President Truman must appoint a five man Subversive Activities Control Board to enforce the new Communist control act after Congress overrode his veto. Attorney General McGrath pledged vigorous enforcement though the board must be named and hearings held to determine which organizations must register. Senate confirmation will be required for the appointees.
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Truman
McGrath
Washington
Justice
SACB
Justice Department
William Langer
Senate
North Dakota
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Phone Theft Ring Cracked in Miami Case
Miami AP report details a multi year theft from Southern Bell by 12 people including two young women who admitted taking up to 150 dollars a day. money stolen from counting rooms and pay stations, with several family members among the suspects. authorities identified Rita Orr and Marie Orr plus Mrs Betty Corrigan as central figures.
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Miami
Fla
Southern Bell Telephone Company
I. R. Mills
West Miami
Rita Orr
Mills
Rita
Marie
Betty Corrigan
Telephone Company
Orr
Two Sailors Die In Gilligan Harbor Accident
Two sailors were killed and three injured when heavy seas battered the destroyer escort U S S Gilligan at the harbor entrance in Coos Bay Oregon. The ship had been returning from a two day training cruise for naval reservists through a narrow channel bar.
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Coos Bay
Ore
U.S.S. Gilligan
Gilligan
Shouting Signs On Busy Streets Inspire Caution
A narrator notes how warning signs on crowded roads command attention. Drivers face messages about no passing, keep right, slow down, no left turns, and crossing lines. The poem concludes with calls for a reader to help interpret the many signs seen along highways.
Ewell Blackwell Undergoes Emergency Appendix Operation
Cincinnati Reds star pitcher Ewell Blackwell had emergency appendectomy at Christ Hospital Indianapolis doctor Reed Shank said the appendix was in bad shape with no complications. Blackwell pitched yesterday and was stricken on the train from Pittsburgh to St Louis before being moved by ambulance to Indianapolis.
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Cincinnati
Ewell Blackwell
Cincinnati Reds
Reed Shank
Christ Hospital
Blackwell
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Sheriff eyes end to Whistler case tonight
PARADIS La AP Sheriff Leon Vial said new evidence supports his claim the so called Whistler incident is an inside job and a hoax He plans a full statement possibly by tonight to wrap up the inquiry as Jacquelyn Catlow 18 prepares for her wedding to state trooper Herbert Belsom 26 at Taft next Sunday
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Paradis
Leon Vial
Jacquelyn Catlow
Clifford Catlow
Vial
Whistler
Taft
New Orleans
Miss Catlow
Herbert Belsom
Cadow
Jacquelyn
Earthquake Damages Crete Homes. Five Hurt in Greece
An earthquake struck eastern Crete on Saturday damaging about 400 houses and injuring five people, reports from press dispatches indicate. The tremor affected the region near Athens, with authorities assessing aftershocks and potential further damage.
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Crete
Athens
Greece
16 Men Aboard Missing B 50 All Found Safe
Halifax news report says 16 United States airmen from a Goose Bay to Tucson flight were aboard a B 50 bomber that crashed in Labrador. Rescue planned by helicopter, then amphibian plane to Goose Bay, with weather warnings and a large international search effort.
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Halifax
N. S
United States
Labrador
Fortee
Tovy
Arizona
Goose Bay
Wilds
Arizona Desert
Thick Canada smoke rolls across eastern U S
A chill push of smoke from Canadian forests blankets the eastern United States up to the seaboard, 3000 feet thick and moving seaward at 35 mph. Temperatures edge back toward autumn normals as sun reappears, with lights on at bas eball parks in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and sun viewed with a lavender haze.
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Associated Press
Atlantic Ocean
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Seaboard
Ohio Valley
New York
Middletown
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
LaGuardia Field
Alberta
MacKenzie
Canada
Central
Plain States
Pacific Northwest
Kentucky
Corbin
Shelton Gang Member Slain in Williamson County
Williamson County coroner's jury notes another Shelton gang linked murder as Roy Armes, 32, brother of a slain Shelton, falls to high powered rifle and shotgun ambush. The Shelton gang wars of the 1920s mirror earlier killings of Carl, Bernie, and Roy Shelton, raising questions about who is killing the Sheltons and why.
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Hearin
Ill
Williamson County
Roy Armes
Shelton
Illinois
Roy
Carl
Bernie
Roy Shelton
Shelton Brothers
Sheltons
Armes
Golf Pro Skip Alexander Hurt in CAP Air Crash
CAP Beechcraft crash near Evansville killed three officers and wounded golfer Skip Alexander, who suffered serious burns and a broken left leg. The aircraft, en route from Olathe to Louisville, reportedly failed to land at the city airport and crashed beside the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail road yard three miles north. Alexander, 32, from Lexington, N C, had just placed sixth in the Kansas City Open.
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Alexander Hurt
Evansville
Civil Air Patrol
Skip Alexander
Lexington
N. C
Deaconness ‘Hospital
Sir Sioux Falls
S. D
Cap
James R. Barnett
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Oliver A. Singleton
van Buren
Ark
Duane M. Reeves
Barnett
Forrest Elliott
South Dakota Cap
Olathe
Kans
Louisville
Alexander
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Bob Hamilton
Narcotics raid ends in fatality in St Paul hotel
A federal narcotics operation in a downtown St Paul hotel left one agent dead and another wounded. A. M. Bangs, 50, chief of the Bureau for the northwest, died from a heart bullet while fellow agent Joseph Winberg, 27, was struck in the side. Three other men were jailed as material witnesses or suspects. The wounded John Wong, 50, and two other men, Jimmy Won, 43, Mason City, Ia., Lee Wong, 53, Minneapolis, and Lee Wong, 47, St Paul, were held guarded in hospital with no known relation among them. The trio face murder suspicion charges.
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ST. Paul
Jimmy Won
Mason City
Lee Wong
Minneapolis
State's Last Civil War Vet ds 104 Today
WAUSEON AP Daniel Clingaman Ohio's last Civil War veteran marked his 104th birthday with no special celebration planned. He lives on a 135 acre farm north of Wauseon with his daughter and son in law. He remains active rising early and attending a Fulton County Fair veterans program earlier this month.
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Wauseon
Daniel Clingaman
Ohio
Dan
Carl Fauver
Fulton Conty Fair
Train derailment near Nancy kills six in France
Paris AP reports six passengers were killed and seven seriously injured when an express train derailed near Nancy. Government railways announced the accident today, prompting emergency response and investigation.
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Paris
Nancy
Railwaye
UN Forces Advance into Seoul in Four Pronged Drive
Allied columns push toward Duk Soo Palace and government buildings as U S Marines and South Korean troops gain ground across the Han River and South Mountain. Airborne units land near Seoul while First Cavalry patrols push toward Chongju, closing in on Taegu and the Inchon front.
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Seoul-Ichon
U. S. Army
Neaacme
South
Tokyo
Seoul
Duk Soo Palace
Han River
Stars and Stripes
South Mountain
Canal
Don Whitehead
Han
Leathernecks
Saic
Duk Soo
U. S. First Cavalry
Chongju
Inchon- Seoul
Yongdok
Sea of Japan
Chinju
U. S
Seventh
Seoul-Sunom
Lewis
Chesty
City Heights
Kimpo
Japan
United States
Tong Mak Sang
Seoul Army Barracks
Marine Fifth Regiment
Seventh Division
Suwon
Osan
Taejon
Heartbreak Highway
Taegu
Kumchon
Airborne force to be used in all out blow
Washington reports the Army will mobilize its airborne reserve for a large strike against North Korea. About 2,500 paratroopers arrived at Kimpo airfield near Seoul, with 150 plane loads carrying 16 to 17 men each. Troops began combat duty as regular infantry, with no major air drops yet.
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Washington
Pentagon
Kimpo
Seoul
Bastogne
Belgium
101St Airborne Division
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Ava
Langer
Commie Control Board
BY Gordon Martin
Martin
Shelton Gang
Inchon
First
Chochiwon
Taegu-Seoul
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