George Spelvin Proposes Direct Government Paycheck System
George Spelvin argues for the government to collect his wages directly and remit what it deems due. He laments annual tax returns, fear of penalties, and the burden of supporting dependents while facing complex deductions and enforcement. He imagines a simplified, centralized pay flow to spare himself and the treasury from bureaucratic error and stress.
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Spelvin
Treasury
Internal Revenue
Jon Spelvin
Mr. Spelvin
Sam
Hicmsell
George Ivin
Roosians
Leylah
Sem
George Spelvin
Edrge
Washington
George
Tven
Tex
Single Crushing Blow Against Japs Planned By U S Army
General Devers said the plan is to mass a force for a single crushing strike against Japan after demobilization. He noted about 7,000,000 troops would be redeployed for the Pacific effort rather than used piecemeal. Training and reorganization for the Pacific war were outlined as priorities.
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U. S
Washington
Jacob L. Devers
Army
Japan
Patterson
Devers
6Th Army Group
Pacific
Japanese Peace Offer Reported In Newsweek Memo
Newsweek reports Marshal Jalia presented Truman with a Japanese peace offer seeking continued American occupation of Korea and Formosa. The terms include Manchuria withdrawal for Moscow and recognition of Chinese, Burmese, and Philippine independence while allowing American control of Korea and Formosa. The offer also asks that no Japanese islands remain free of invasion.
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New York
Newsweek
Marshal Jalia
Truman
Tadam
Area
Formora
Russia
Manchuria
Moscow
Magazine
Formosa
Idar Bagge
Japan
Emula
Presbyterian district conference opens in Monroe
Breakfast for team members and local committees kicked off a two day Presbyterian district conference in Monroe replacing the Montreal gathering. The first session at First Presbyterian Church featured clergy and auxiliaries with an address on pressing church problems and plans for outreach.
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Presbyterian District Conference
Monroe
Montreal
N.C
First Presbyterian Church
Early Charter Congressmen Approval Seen in Washington
Senate leaders weigh ratification of the United Nations charter by weekend. Debate over how postwar troop use will be governed, with some favoring a treaty and others a joint resolution. White House stance halts free government transport for European-bound delegations.
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Washington
i—Senate
United Nations
Barkley W
Senate
House
White
Maine
Taft
Ohio
Barkley
Connally
Texas
Vandenberg
White House
Sam Reyburn
Defoceat
Truman
Europe
Rayburn
Wickersham
Okla
Huber
Feighan
Weiss
Pennsylvania
Chelf
Kentucky
Carnahan
Missouri
Candera Sealy
Horan
Merrow
New Hampshire
Ramey
Fulton
Japan hints at ending war as definite possibility
San Francisco July 26 Japan, backed against the ropes, spoke of quitting the war as a definite possibility in a Tokyo radio broadcast urging the United States to soften the unconditional surrender formula. The appeal followed disastrous weeks for Japan with heavy Allied air and naval blows and signaled a potentially new peace mood.
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James D. White
San Francisco
Japan
Tokyo
United States
Oxmans
China
Tokyo Radio
Admiral Halsey
Thirteen Airmen Believed Killed in C-47 Crash Near Tampa
A C-47 training plane from Sarasota crashed twenty miles northeast of Tampa. The Selman Field public relations office said the fuselage buried in a swamp, wings separated, no parachutes opened, and the victims not yet identified. Aboard were four officers, two enlisted men, and seven cadets.
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Tampa
Fla
Selman Ficks
Sarasota, Fla
Churchill loses political leadership after Britain election
London July 23 Prime Minister Winston Churchill trails in national leadership as Britain returns from the July 5 general election. His Woodford constituency reelects him to parliament. Mrs Churchill and daughter Mary attend the count. An independent candidate poll is noted. Churchill’s career and World War II leadership are summarized.
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London
Winston Churchill
Britain
No. 10
Downing Street
Woodford
Mary
Alexander Hancock
Churchill
Hancock
Board of Trade
The
Admiralty
Eee Fhe
Gallipoli
Neville Chamberlain
Germany
France
Low Countries
Commons
England
Dunkerque
United States
Roosevelt
Blenheim Castle
Woodstock
Oxfordshire
Jennie Jerome
New York
Laval implicated in making Petain dictator during 1940 collapse
Jules Jeanneney, former French Senate president, testified at Petain's treason trial that Laval's schemes made Marshal Petain a dictator as France fell in 1940. He described a session where three constitutional acts ended debate and gave Petain near unlimited power, noting Petain's weakness after Reynaud's departure.
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Paris
Jules Jeanneney
Senate
High Court of Justice
Pierre Laval
Marshal Petain
France
Petain
Jeanneney
Laval
Vichy
Paul Reynaud
Bordeaux
OPA Lowers Red Point Values Boosts August Meat Supply
OPA reports definite improvement in meat distribution and reduces red point values for nearly all beef lamb and veal cuts. The August rationing period should see about 9.5 percent more meat for sale over retail counters than July, and about 11 percent more than June’s low levels.
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Washington
OPA
Sky bombers hit three Japanese industrial cities in three waves
A force of over 350 B29 Superfortresses dropped more than 2 200 tons of fire bombs on Omuta Matsuyama and Tokuyama in three simultaneous raids. Omuta, Matsuyama, and Tokuyama are described as major chemical and industrial centers with populations of 177 000 122 000 and 40 000 respectively.
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Guam
Japan
Omuta
Kyushu
Matsuyama
Shikoku
Tokuyama
Honshu
Tokyo
Naval
City Electricity Workers End 24 Hour Outage
A water boiler leak at Monroe public utilities caused widespread power loss across stores and offices. The disruption affected downtown activity but sewer pumps and two hospitals received continuous service while crews cooled the boiler and repaired the system. The News-Star suspended Wednesday’s edition and a similar note appeared in the Morning World.
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DeSiard
Monroe
News-Star
Morning World
E. A. Conway
Riverside
News- Star
Labor Party Wins Smashing Victory in British Election
Britain’s 19 year first general poll produced a Labor landslide under Clement Attlee. Labor led 344 to 168 in Commons with 5.81 million votes to 4.12 million for Conservatives. Attlee’s aim includes nationalization of heavy industry and rail and a close U.S.-Soviet alignment while Greece policy and foreign posts await reshaping.
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London
Britain
Churchill
Labor Party
Clement R. Attlee
Japan
Commons
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Labor
George VI
Atlee
Attlee
Germany
Potsdam
Conservative
Ramsay MacDonald
Liberal Party
Stanley Baldwin
Bank of England
India
Ernest Bevin
Hugh Dalton
Herbert Morrison
Cabeinet of
Bevin
Michigan Prison Chiefs Ousted in Jackson Shake-up
Seven top Michigan prison officials were suspended and a new administration took temporary control of the southern state prison in Jackson. Garrett Heyns was named acting warden as guards tightened security for about 5,000 inmates while investigations into gambling, immorality, and domination by influential inmates continued.
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Jackson
Mich
Michigan
Lansing
Michigan Corrections Commission
Garrett Heyns
State Corrections
Harry H. Jackson
George J. Francis
D.C. Pettit
Walter L. Wilson
H Charles Watson
Richard Riley
Joseph Po
State Department
John R. Dethmers
Pettit
Poirier
Joseph Medley
Medley
Washington, D. C
Nancy Boyer
Attlee Seen As Cautious Leader In British Parliament Race
Clement Attlee, age 62, reelected to Limehouse seat as Labour leader, with 8 396 votes to 1 618 over Lt Alfred Woodward. He and family greeted at headquarters after Potsdam duties beside Churchill. praised as sane solid but not brilliant.
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London
Clement R. Attlee
Labor Party
Great Britain
Limehouse
Attlee
Winston Churchill
London East End
Alfred Woodward
Churchill
Britain
Wiumph
Germany
Potsdam
England
Death of Charles G. Norris Mourns Literary World
Palo Alto California July 26 Charles G Norris husband of author Kathleen Norris died yesterday from a heart ailment first suffered in New York last summer He was 64 and had moved from Saratoga to Palo Alto for health He wrote Bricks Without Straw and other novels and served on staffs of Country Life in America Sunset Magazine American Magazine and the Christian Science Monitor He was brother of Frank Norris and influenced by him.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Charles G. Norris
Kathleen Nore Norris
New York
Frank Norris
Norris
Country Life In America
Sunset Magazine
American Magazine
The
Christian Science Monitor
Sale
Namyung Captured by Chinese Forces Near Canton
The Chinese high command announced that Namyung, 155 miles northeast of Canton, has fallen to Chinese troops. Namyung was noted as the site of the seventh former American air base retaken from Japan in recent months.
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Namyung
Chungking
Canton
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