Tax Cut Battle Becomes 1948 Campaign Issue
Failure of the senate to override President Truman's veto on the GOP tax cut bill turns the matter into a campaign topic for 1948. Both parties say they will let voters decide who is right as relief prospects fade with 57 to 36 senate votes and 299 to 108 house votes for override.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Congress
House
Lo Age
Millikin
R-Cole
Halleck
Rep. Rayburn
Texas
Repub
Taylor
Idaho
Tydings
Soviet
Russia
Moscow
Washington, D. C
Charles A. Halleck
R-Ind
Harold Knutson
R-Minn
Ways and Means
Joseph 'E. Martin Jr
R-Mass
Brodhead Resident Emma Michaels Schwartzlow Dies
Mrs. Emma Michaels Schwartzlow 57 a Brodhead resident died at 10 this morning in St. Clare hospital. Born in Germany Sept 21 1889 she came to America at six months and lived around Monroe Albany and Brodhead before moving to Brodhead. Survived by husband five sons one daughter a large extended family. Funeral Monday at Emmanuel Evangelical United Brethren church with interment in Greenwood. body lies in state from noon Monday.
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Ware Pane Assy
Andrew Schwartzlow
Brodhead
St. Clare Hospital
Emma Michaels
John and
Alvina Everts Michaels
Germany
America
Green County
Monroe
Albany
Ernest Schwartzlow
Evansville
Marvin
Juda
Alvin
Spring Grove
John
George
Decatur
Alvina Lederman
Decatur Township
Fred Michaels
Durand
William
Charles
Chicago
Frieda Ryan
Elsie Teuscher
Marjorie Will
Emmanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church
H. T. Bandt
Greenwood Cemetery
Newcomer Funeral Home
Cat's Tail Freed From Washing Machine Motor
Decatur reports an incident where a family cat became tangled in the spinning shaft of an electric washing machine. Police reversed the motor by hand to release the pet, then notified headquarters that the detail completed satisfactorily.
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Decatur
Chester Crockett
Fire Rips Balsiger Farm Near Monroe injures resident
The Sam Balsiger 160 acre farm eight miles east of Monroe burned after a chimney caused sparks. The house and most first floor furniture were destroyed as Monroe Juda and neighbors fought flames with buckets and improvised water. Mrs. Balsiger suffered facial and arm burns while helping salvage belongings. insurance adequacy noted amid rising prices. The Bulfinch farm dates to 1848 with an 1879 house noted in good condition.
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Sam Balsiger
Monroe
Juda
Gerald Rayner
Balsiger
Commission Moves In Northwestern Greece To Investigate
The United Nations Balkan subsidiary commission entered northern Greece to probe Greek claims of an international brigade invading from Albania. Field reports noted little first hand evidence, while Greece announced 11,500 arrests for political offenses. Greek forces pressured guerrillas near Ioannina as the army sought expansion to up to 200,000 troops.
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Commission
Greece
Lake Success
United Nations Balkan Subsidiary Commission
Albania
U. N
Security Council
Balkan
U. S
Russia
Salonika
Konitsa
Australia
United States
Brazil
Syria
Athens
Dwight P. Griswold
Ministry of Public Order
Toannina
Ioannina
Recaptured Escapee Held in Outagamie Jail
Clark said today a young man who had escaped while en route to the Green Bay reformatory yesterday was recaptured and is being held in the Outagamie county jail.
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Virginia
France
Virginia Hill
Bugsy Siegel
Beaulieu
Nice
Monte Carlo
Paris
Beverly Hills
Calif
Miss Hill
Pager
Kenneth Royall Nominated as War Secretary
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved Kenneth C. Royall’s nomination to be secretary of war to succeed resigning Robert P. Patterson. Patterson, ending seven years in the War Department, will leave next Thursday for private law practice in New York. Royall, a North Carolinian and veteran of both world wars, is a former brigadier general.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Kenneth C. Royall
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
New York
War Department
Royall
Legion Meet Opens Wisconsin State Legion Convention
The Wisconsin American Legion state convention opened in Appleton with a speech by George A. Haberman Milwaukee president of the State Federation of Labor. Haberman charged the Taft Hartley law with infringing labor rights and said a muzzle has been fastened on American labor by the 80th Congress. State Department Commander Walter A. Rose presided at the opening.
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Appleton
Wisconsin Department of the American Legion
George A. Haberman
Milwaukee
Wisconsin State Federation of Labor
Haberman
Congress
United States
State Department
Walter A. Rose
Senate Advances Veterans Bills for GI Bill Beneficiaries
The Senate approved measures boosting living allowances for veterans attending school under the GI Bill and authorizing 9,000,000 veterans to cash terminal leave bonds after Septem ber 1. Other bills would raise subsistence payments, raise on the job training ceilings, and liberalize automobile aid for amputees. The package moves to the House for action.
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Ty Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Senate
House
Tait
Ohio
Congress
Taft
Treasury
Agreement Signed For Island Mandate
President Truman signed the trusteeship for former Japanese Pacific islands. Admiral Louis E. Denfeld named temporary administrator and U S high commissioner pending civilian agency transfer. Interim administration began July 18. UN and Congress approved the mandate covering the Marshalls, Carolines, and Marianas.
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Washington
Waite
Congress
Marshalls
Cartines
Marianas
United States
Japan
NO MERGER COMING IN CIO AUTO UNION
Detroit reports Walter P. Reuther backs up the CIO united auto workers as rank and file members vote down a merger with the CIO farm equipment workers. The refinery question centered on oil imports and exports with U S shipments to Russia noted as low.
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Detroit
Walter P. Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers
Farm Equipment Workers
Reuther
Chicago
Company
Indiana
UAW
George
Ments
Russia
Addes
United States
U. S
Cartoons Ridicule Marshall Plan Aid Proposal
A Moscow Pravda issue rests cartoons mocking the Marshall Plan as American backed aid to Europe. The Com munist party newspaper frames the proposal as imperial strategy and attacks its motives and aims.
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Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Europe
Wisconsin Legislature Recess Delayed by Beverages Tax Dispute
The Wisconsin Senate and Assembly clash over transferring beverage tax duties from the treasurer to the tax department. Assembly opposition led to amendments excluding the beverage division and a pay raise for Roach. The session adjourned for a Republican caucus as lawmakers assign funding for recreation ads and bounty payments amid broader personnel reforms.
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Madison
Senate
Assembly
State Treasurer
Tax Department
Wisconsin
Beverage Department
State Oil Inspection Bureau
Roach
John Roach
Thomson
Richland Center
House
Houses
General Fund
Wisconsin Senate
Steffens
R-Menasha
R-Richland Center
State Bureau of Personnel
A. J. Opstedal
Three-State Flood Damage Amounts to About $900 Million
The U S soil conservation service announced total flood and storm damage in Iowa Missouri and Kansas during May and June exceeded $900 million. Upland soil loss and crop damage reached about $683 million while flood plain damage on large streams added roughly $217 million, far above the service's initial $50 million estimate.
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Aunounee
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Iowa
Missouri
Minois
RK. H. Musser
Soviet Reply Flags Inaccuracy In Japanese Peace Plan
The Soviet embassy labeled a July 16 State Department announcement inaccurate claiming a Soviet representative attended discussions on an early Japanese peace treaty. Officials here noted the Russian statement correctly identified the error, fueling speculation Russia may partially reject the plan.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
Department
Allies Clash Over Ruhr Plan Prompting Early Meeting Rejection
A three way rift among the United States Britain and France threatens the Marshall plan pace. Britain rejects an American invitation to a Ruhr coal and industrial boost conference arguing for broader recovery topics. France opposes general German industrial rise and pushes relocation of Ruhr plants to France to curb weapon potential.
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Washington
Ema
Ruhr
Europe
Marshall
Britain
United States
France
Lakeshire Marty Teletype Link Expands Wisconsin Plant Network
A teletype hookup links Lakeshire-Marty plant with Wisconsin Borden cheese plants and with Chicago and New York headquarters. The Plymouth Borden plant joins the Wisconsin connections in this system. Operators will dispatch messages as easily as using a typewriter and copies can be filed or routed to staff. Louise Larson trained as TWX instructor from Wisconsin Bell, and Louise Vincent and Maxine Share will oversee Lakeshire-Marty teletype.
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Lakeshire-Marty Company
Wisconsin Borden Cheese
Chicago
New York
Borden
Plymouth
Wisconsin
Louise Larson
TWX
Wisconsin Bell Telephone Company
Milwaukee
Louise Vincent
Maxine Share
Conferees settle on $194.5 million interior department fund
Washington agreement sets $194,500,000 for interior department operations for the year ending June 30, compared with Senate’s $215,000,000 and House’s $161,000,000. Most money finances reclamation irrigation and water projects in the west amid long standing House Senate dispute.
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Washington
House
Senate
Interior Department
Badger Coin OKayed to honor Wisconsin’s 100th anniversary
The senate approved a bill authorizing 500000 silver half dollars to commemorate Wisconsin’s 100th anniversary of statehood and sent it to the White House. President Truman previously suggested stopping commemorative coins and instead minting medals for such purposes.
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Badger
Washington
White House
Wisconsin
Union
Truman
Congress
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Kenneth Royall
Pennsylvania Railroad
North Philadelphia
Temple University Hospital
Austin B. Morgan
Winter Haven
Fla
Ralph R. Colman
Jenkintown
Legion Meet
GOP
Senate Action On Veterans
U.S
Carolyn S. Blanton
Elizabeth Collins
Louisville
Charles Wabnitz
Lakeshire
Marty
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