Attacks on Governor's Tax Plan Stir Local Reactions
Dr. William D. McClelland Allegheny county coroner condemned Gov. Leader's tax program as contrary to Democratic principles. He noted Leader had previously denied plans for a wage or income tax while campaigning. County Democratic leaders and Republican minority officials criticized the shift, urging no wage tax and accusing leaders of breaking promises.
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Pittsburgh
Geo. M
William D. McClelland
Allegheny County
McClelland
Pennsylvania
Commission
John J. Kane
John M. Walker
Oakmont
Walker
Senate House
Senate
House
GOP
Rowland B. Mahany
Commonwealth
Rains of deluge slow city and county roads
Tuesday's downpour caused topsoil and debris to wash into streets and ditches high water moved through streams Shenango Neshannock and Little Beaver neared flood stage in Enon Valley. Highway supplies gathered Wilmington avenue Limestone oil and mountain materials needed for annual maintenance. Residents roll lawns to dry soil. drivers face obscured windows from campaign signs despite laws. Families shift to indoor picnics with hot dogs and potato salad.
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Shenango
Neshannock
Little Beaver
Enon Valley
Highway Department
Wilmington Avenue
Considerable Cloudiness and Warm With Showers Likely
A daily weather report notes considerable cloudiness and warmth with scattered showers and thunderstorms today and Thursday. Tonight’s low around 60, with a 24 hour period ending at seven a.m. showing a maximum of 78 and a minimum of 56. Precipitation recorded at 0.91 inches and a river stage of 8.2 feet. A year ago the high was 51 and the low 44.
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United States
Eisenhower Sends 3.5 Billion Foreign Aid Plan to Congress
President Eisenhower forwards a 3.53 billion dollar foreign aid program to Congress aimed at Asia and allies. About 2.14 billion would fund 15 Asian nations including Formosa and South Vietnam, chiefly for military aid with under one billion for economic and technical assistance. The plan seeks early impact at Bandung Afro Asian Conference.
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Augusta
INS
Eisenhower
Congress
Asia
Formosa
South Vietnam
Foreign Operations Administration
Harold FE. Stassen
Bandung
Indonesia
France Failing To Keep Pledges Dulles Asserts
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles bluntly told France it was failing to live up to pledges to support Vietnamese Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in a meeting with Ambassador Maurice Couve de Murville. The U.S. will continue backing Diem despite French pressure. A top-level Viet Nam study will follow Gen. J Lawton Collins arrival for consultations.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
France
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dulles
Maurice Couve de Murville
United States
Diem
Viet Nam
J. Lawton Collins
Eisenhower
Eleven Men Leave for U S Army Induction
Eleven men from the 7th Ward left the P and LE Station this morning for induction into the U S Army. They entrained for Pittsburgh and then to an Army processing center. Ten volunteered for active service before their time. eight were drafted from Local Board 87. Rev George Jones and officials from the Salvation Army, Gideons, Red Cross and American Legion attended.
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P & LE
7Th Ward
U. S. Army
Pittsburgh
George Jones
Christian Missionary Alliance Church
Salvation Army
Gideons
Red Cross
American Legion
Man Awaiting Murder Trial Found Dead In Jail
Pittsburgh reporting Harrington, 33, of Clairton, found dead in Allegheny county jail hours before he was to face trial for the January 22 fatal shooting of Jimmy L. Jones, 38. Jail doctor says he slashed wrists with a razor blade.
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Pittsburgh
Cherryteen Harrington
Clairton
Allegheny County
Jimmy L. Jones
R. M. Skidmore
Harrington
Chou En Lai Stalls Eight Nation Parley at Bandung
Chinese Premier Chou En Lai halted progress at the Afro Asian conference in Bandung by denying UN human rights definitions and forcing postponement of an eight-nation meeting. The Colombo powers India Burma Pakistan Ceylon and Indonesia announced indefinite delays as Chou pressed tactical delays.
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Gene Symonds
United Press
Bandung
Idonesia
Chou En- Lai
Formosa
Far East
Colombo
India
Burma
Pakistan
Ceylon
Indonesia
Chou
United Nations
Radford and Robertson to Formosa for defense talks
The Pentagon said Admiral Arthur W. Radford and Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson will fly to Formosa for talks on the tense Far East situation. They will depart today, stop in Honolulu, and reach Taipei and Formosa by Sunday for periodic conferences under the defense treaty with Nationalist China as long as the Communists show intent to seize Formosa by force.
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Washington
INS
Pentagon
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Walter Robertson
Formosa
Far East
Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Robertson
Taipei
Honolulu
No Candidates in Brocktooloo Election
Brockto o Illinois cancelled its municipal election Tuesday as no candidates filed for any office. The village of about 400 residents reported there would be no ballots or voting in the planned election.
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Brocktoo, Ill
Who Printed Copies Of Check Given McCarthy
Chief A E Baughman said the Secret Service wants to know who produced copies of Sen Joseph R McCarthy’s 1056 75 tax refund check. A copy was seized in New York as an apparent illegal photograph of a government obligation. The agency will consider further action with the Justice Department.
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John A. Goldsmith
United Press
Washington
A. E Baughman
U. S. Secret Service
Sen
Joseph R. McCarthy
Secret Service
New York
Baughman
Justice Department
U.S
McCarthy
Wisconsin Republican
Senate
Governors In South Demand Strikes Be Ended
Southern governors met in Nashville to press for a prompt settlement of railroad and telephone worker strikes now in an 87 day deadlock. They warned they would use every resource, possibly seeking presidential intervention, as arbitration talks with Louisville and Nashville officials stalled in Washington.
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South
Nashville, Tenn
Ins
Nashville
Louisville and Nashville
Washington
Frances A. O'Neill Jr
National Mediation Board
Legislature Prepares For Battle Over Taxes In Pa
The Pennsylvania House votes to shift to a four day week starting May 2 as Gov Leader’s plan for 620 million dollars in new revenue faces a tough path. GOP leaders condemn the tax plan as campaign rhetoric, promising a lengthy fight over an income tax and related measures.
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Harrisburg
LLP
State House of Representatives
George M
House
Albert S. Readinger
Readinger
Body of Miner Found in Coal Load
Allegheny detectives investigate how Tarentum miner Constante Fornari ended up in a coal load dumped at West Penn Power Co. Springdale plant. Driver Raymond Baumann says the body tumbled from the screen after unloading at Rural Mine Tarentum and Mangone Mine Fawn Township. Coroner cites heart attack as cause, not suffocation.
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Pittsburgh
INL
Allegheny County
West Penn Power Co
Springdale
Raymond P. Baumann
New Kensington
Tarentum
Mangone
Fawn Township
Constante Fornari
Four Gru man S2F crewmen presumed dead in Pacific crash
Four crewmen on a Grumman S2F anti-submarine plane failed to land on the carrier USS Princeton in rain and veered left, plunging into the Pacific. A 12 hour naval search by four destroyers found no survivors. Names listed include Lt. Raymond G. Johnson and Lt. Jim Lee Showalter of San Diego, with two other crew members from Washington and Glendale.
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San Diego
Calif
Princeton
Pacific
Navy
Pacific Fleet Air Forces
Raymond G. Johnson
Jim Lee Showalter
Charles R. Arent
AM-3
Jefferson Ave
Washington, Pa
Orin Lee Bradley
AE-3
Glendale
UN Security Council Pushes Peace on Gaza Border
The UN Security Council urged Egypt and Israel to comply with its March 30 appeal to curb clashes in the Gaza area. It cited about 50 deaths in the past two months and 47 dead on February 28, backing the Palestine truce supervisor Gen. L. M. Burns’ proposals.
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United Nations
N. Y
INS
UN Security Council
Israel
Egypt
Gaza Strip
Il-nation
Gaza
L. M. Burns
Two Trapped Under Large Pile Of Bricks In New Brighton
In New Brighton Pennsylvania a 31 year old Rochester potter is hospitalized after an accident that killed a co worker buried with him under bricks. James F Winters suffered injuries to his left ankle side and hip while Melvern M Smith a 25 year old New Brighton father of two was buried in the kiln during a demolition at the Friedl Elverson pottery.
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New Brighton
Rochester Pottery
Beaver Valley General Hospital
James F. Winters
Melvern M. Smith
Friedl Elverson Pottery
Smith
Graduated Income Tax Amendment Proposed in Pennsylvania
Administration backed resolution to amend the Pennsylvania constitution to permit a graduated income tax is to be introduced in the House. The measure would require passage in the current session and again in 1957, plus voter approval.
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George Kabuse
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
George M Leader
Soviet Big Four talks favored play in Vienna
Western diplomats welcomed Russia's call for a Big Four foreign ministers conference in Vienna to discuss an Austrian state treaty with the caveat that ambassadors should first meet to finalize draft terms. Key issue remains guarantees against another anschluss and possible broader discussions if ambassadorial talks succeed. Prime Minister Eden urged negotiations with the Soviet Union soon after London agreement ratification and anticipated early talks with U.S. on the proposals.
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London
Russia
Vienna
Austria
Germany
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Britain
West Germany
Eden
Commons
Foreign Office
U.S
Ceremonies Take Place At Bonn Today
The United States and Germany deposited ratification documents in Bonn completing their pact steps. James B. Conant and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed in a brief 11 minute ceremony at the Palais Schaumburg marking the end of occupation once all signatories ratify. Conant announced the act as his last as high commissioner and Adenauer praised ongoing Allied relations with Eisenhower.
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Bonn
INS
U. S
Germany
West Germany
U.S
Britain
Federal Republic
Palais Schaumburg Chancellery
James B. Conant
Adenauer
Conant
Eisenhower
No Monkey Business Here As Laboratory Prepares Polio Shots
In Indianapolis a laboratory received 1,937 monkeys shipped from Cebu Philippines for processing four million Salk polio shots. The monkeys were flown aboard Transocean Airline Flying Ark in a tightly coordinated operation.
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Indianapolis
INS
Cebu
Philippines
Transocean Airline
Flying Ark
Deaths of Mrs Anne Sabelli Zarlengo and Two Others
Obituary notice lists Mrs Anne Sabelli Zarlengo 35 of Hillsville James Walters 85 of 519 Friendship Street and Pascal Pastin 65 of Ellwood City. The brief death record appears in the Wednesday edition dated April 20 1955.
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Anne Sabelli Zarlengo
Hillsville
James Walters
Friendship Street
Pascal Pastin
Ellwood City
Hildebrand Named State Workmen’s Compensation Referee
Lawrence County Democratic chairman Merle H. Hildebrand has been named Workmen’s Compensation Referee by Governor George H. Leader at a salary of 7500 dollars per year. The appointment, subject to Senate confirmation, succeeds Frank D. Fair of Mercer County who held the job for years.
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Merle H. Hildebrand
Lawrence County
Democratic Committee
George H. Leader
State Senate
Hildebrand
Frank D. Fair
Mercer County
Fair
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Cress Word
Ellwood City
Escousne
Taxation Blues as State Seeks Revenue
The piece portrays persistent state taxes on income, stocks, cars, and savings. It laments residents’ inability to stop higher levies, noting the tax drive continues despite public protest. The lyric voice claims authorities will extract funds regardless of opposition.
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