Truman tax dodge and withholding scandal debate
Westbrook Pegler criticizes a $50,000 special pay dodge for President Truman described as an expense allowance but urged as a pay raise. He argues the tactic bypasses normal tax rules and highlights broader issues with withholding taxes that force taxes before income reaches $600, citing an elderly claimant who faced refunds disputes and a Missouri case challenging withholding.
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New York
Truman
Trumman
Mr. Truman
Kansas City
Treasury
United States
Vivian Kellems
Mystic
Conn
Miss Kellems
Kellems
University of Illinois
Chicago
Central Watch Service
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Court Denies Rehearing For Burton, Two Others
Republican leaders told farmers that the Truman administration’s Brannan farm plan would subjugate farmers to an uncertain government dole and dictation on production. At a two day Midwest farm conference in Sioux City, Guy Gabrielson and Rep Hope attacked Brannan and labor allies, seeking farmer support against Truman in the upcoming elections.
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Associated Press
Sioux City
Farmers Today
Guy G. Gabrielson
G. O. P. National Committee
Hope
Kansas
Brannan
Truman
Gabrielson
House Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
Des Moines
Miners Start No Day Work Week in Protest
White Sulphur Springs W Va Sept 23 With John L Lewis miners on a no day work week a long coal strike looms. The United Mine Workers chief rejected a two year extension of the old contract and said wage talks with steel-industry disputes block settlement. Talks with operators pause until Sept 29 as wage and welfare fund suspensions spark protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Sulphur Springs
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
North
West
Welfare Fund
Murray
United States Steel
Big
Truman
Steelworkers Union
President Truman
Steel
U. S. Steel
Inglewood Murder Suicide of Cancer Victim and Son
In Inglewood California on September 23 a 49 year old cancer patient shot her sleeping son in their auto court cabin then killed herself. Police identified the deaths as murder and death by own action with two shots fired during a mental crisis and extant letters explaining despair over the son’s frail condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inglewood
Calif
Mary Davenport
David
C. O. Houston
R. C. Pencase
Houston
Tex
Auto Court
Edward Johnson
Davenport
Defendants Get 60 Days to Appeal to Supreme Court
William T. Burton and two others denied a rehearing by the Fifth Circuit. Convicted March 24, 1948, of conspiring to influence a U S district court jury, they face maximum penalties of two years and $10,000 fines each and have been free on bond pending appeal. U S Attorney Wright says 60 days to seek writ of review. Former Gov. James A. Noe was acquitted by the same jury.
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New Orleans
William T. Burton
Lake Charles
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
U. S. District Court
Burton
Joe T. Cawthorn
Mansfield
Marcel LaBranche
Liberty
James A. Noe
U. S
J. Shelly Wright
Cawthorn
LaBranche
United States Supreme Court
Senate OKays arms program for overseas aid
The Senate approved an overseas arms program 55 to 24, defeating attempts to cut the bill. Senators Connally and Vandenberg led the fight, with 19 Republicans and 36 Democrats voting yes. House action had approved 869,505,000. a conference will settle final figures as Connally heads Senate negotiations.
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Washington
Senate
Connally
D.-Tex
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Taft
Ohio
Russia
Congress
House
Split in U E Ranks Likely at C I O Convention
Right wing forces at the C I O United Electrical Workers convention discussed seceding from leftist control if the union is expelled from the C I O. James P. Carey led the caucus to keep in the C I O if franchise is revoked, naming a 10 man committee to press the case to Philip Murray. Carey calls for a C I O free from Communist domination in the electrical industry.
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Cleveland
C. I. O. United Electrical Workers
U. E
C. IL. O
James P. Carey
Philip Murray
Carey
Albert J. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Communist Party
House
U. K
Greatest new oil field predicted in western Canada
Ottawa dispatch reports MP J. Smith of Calgary Center telling the Canadian house of commons that a vast oil field may open in western Canada's prairies. Saskatchewan could hold prospects larger than Alberta's 65,000 barrels daily output. He said combined fields would surpass U S prospects and urged a plan to ship Canadian oil to the U S Midwest in exchange for eastern U S oil.
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Ottawa
A. J. Smith
House of Commons
Canada
Prairies
M. P
Calgary
Alberta
Saskatchewan
United States
Smith
U. S
Mass grave of 4000 Dachau victims discovered in Germany
A new unmarked mass grave holding about 4000 Dachau victims was found in Dachau by a mixed American German commission. Mayor Nikolaus Deichel says the pit was dug by Americans who liberated the camp in 1945. Identification of skeletons is considered impossible. Police seal the site while an investigation continues.
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Dachau
Germany
Phillip Auerbach
Nikolaus Deichel
Deichel
Auerbach
U. S
Deiche
Postage Raise Bill To Wait In Senate
Senate will postpone action on a committee approved plan to increase postal rates by 100 million dollars annually. Senator Olin Johnson, head of the post office panel, says no push now as lawmakers lean toward adjournment. The bill would lift postcard business rates to two cents and raise second class mail rates, mainly newspapers and magazines, to boost revenue by about 33 million dollars annually.
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Washington
Olin Johnson
Senate
Johnston
Post Office
Lucas
Illinois
Post Office Department
House Post Office Committee
Leopold May Gain Release From Illinois Murder Case
Nathan Leopold, famed Chicago thrill slayer of Bobby Franks in 1924, may seek parole in 1953 after Gov. Adlai Stevenson reduced his sentence from 99 to 85 years. Commutation followed good conduct and wartime malaria experiments. Leopold and Richard Loeb, university of Chicago students, were convicted of the Abduction and murder of 14 year old Bobby Franks in a sensational case that shocked the nation.
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Springfield
Nathan Leopold
Chicago
Bobby
Adlai F. Stevenson
Illinois
Leopold
State Pardon Board
Richard
Dickie) Loeb
Bobby Franks
Loeb
Franks
University of Chicago
Clarence Darrow
Russia May Answer Charge Of Interference In China
United Nations session focuses on charges that the Soviet Union aided and directed Chinese Communist campaigns. Andrei Vishinsky plans to reply, outlining Moscow’s policy after noon, with France and other delegations noted. Canton accuses Moscow of aiding Communists and seizing Manchuria as Soviet territory amid absent Western ministers.
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Russia
China
A. J. Goldberg
New York
Andrei Vishinsky
United Nations Assembly
Soviet Union
T. F. Tsiang
U. N
Asia
Vishinsky
P. m
France
Robert Schuman
Schuman
Canton
Moscow
Tsiang
Manchuria
Washington
Albania
Bulgaria
Assembly
Carlos P. Romulo
Captain Denies He Was Drunk in Toronto Ship Disaster
Lawyers for Canada Steamship Lines threaten a 250000 libel suit against claims Captain William Taylor of the Noronie was intoxicated when the Toronto collision occurred. Cleveland survivor testimony questioned his sobriety while another witness praised his conduct during the blaze that killed about 132. Captain Taylor, hospitalized in Toronto, denies drunkness as the inquest proceeds.
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Cleveland
Canada Steamship Lines, Inc
Noronie
Toronto
Frank Wilkinson
C. Ralph Willson
William Taylor
Willson
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
S. R. Gerber
Taylor
Wilkinson
Anne Marie Malone
Miss Malone
Detective Freed in Knight's Death
New Orleans. Detective Edwin Schoenberger was exonerated by the Orleans parish grand jury after an investigation into the fatal shooting of Carmen Knight, a 20 year old musician from Carthage Mississippi. More than 20 witnesses were questioned in the inquiry that followed Knight being halted for questioning on Sept 14 in downtown New Orleans. Knight's father Clarence Knight and Leake County Sheriff F F Munday traveled to Mississippi after the hearing, with the elder Knight expressing acceptance of the jury's decision.
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New Orleans
Edwin Schoenberger
Orleans Parish
Carmen Knight
Carthage
Miss
Schoenberger
Dominic Palmisano
Knight
Clarence
Atomic blast sighted in Russia raises control calls
President Truman announced evidence of a recent atomic explosion in Russia and stressed the need for enforceable international control via the United Nations. He reassured Americans that the risk of other nations developing an A bomb has always been considered.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
United States
Russia
Truman
United Nations
Atomic blast report fuels Washington alarm
News from London and Washington confirms evidence of an atomic explosion in the Soviet Union. President Truman states the public has a right to know developments while noting U.S. and allied scientists have long tracked such events. Johnson deflects questions as Congress convenes in a closed session to assess the implications.
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White House
London
Russia
Washington
Congress
Pentagon
Atomic Energy Commission
Johnson
Capitol
McMahon
Connecticut
Joint
Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Committee
Senate
United States
Mr. Truman
United Kingdom
Canada
Truman to fly to Fort Bragg Oct 4 review troops
President Truman will fly to Fort Bragg North Carolina on October 4 to review troops and observe parachute maneuvers of the 82nd airborne division. He will depart Washington around 8 45 a m EST in the Independence and return that evening with weather contingency for October 5. Secretary Gray and Gen Collins will accompany him along with White House staff.
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Washington
Truman
Fort Bragg
N. C
82Nd Airborne Division
Charles G. Ross
Independence
Ft. Bragg
Ross
Army
Gray
Gen. J. Lawton Collins
White House
Passman Named on Cottonseed Group Passman Named on Cottonseed Group
Congressman Otto Passman was named co chairman with Senator Stennis of Mississippi of a congressional committee to advise the agriculture secretary on cottonseed supports. The group will meet in the coming days to craft a relief program for cotton growers. Passman will represent Louisiana and its large cotton regions. The committee aims to develop an acceptable support plan for meat oils and linters.
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Otto Passman
Senator Stennis
Mississippi
Secretary of Agriculture
Passman
Louisiana
Frederick Rosenbaum dies in Alabama at 59
Frederick Rosenbaum, 59, of 1605 North Fourth Street Monroe, died in Mobile Alabama early Friday. Funeral arrangements are with Hixson Bros Funeral Home and incomplete. A native of Czechoslovakia, he lived in Monroe about 35 years, was married to Emma Smith, survives with son Richard a student at Louisiana State University, and had wartime employment in Mobile.
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Fred Rosenbaum
North Fourth Street
Monroe
Mobile
Ala
Sam Smith
Central Savings Bank and Trust Company
Hixson Bros
Mr. Rosenbaum
Czechoslovakia
Emma Smith
Richard
Louisiana State University
Rosenbaum
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Buffalo
N. Y
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Britain
Pittsburgh
Big Steel
C. I. S. United Steelworkers
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Corporation
Alabama
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