Senate Finance Committee Approves $2.764 Billion Tax Bill
The Senate Finance Committee advanced a $2.764 billion tax increase bill to raise over 43.5 billion annually, with provisions freezing social security rates and delaying action until after New Year. The plan retains the victory tax at 3 percent for incomes above 624 dollars, eliminates the earned income credit, and forecasts a net revenue rise of about 540 million dollars, while leaving current regular income tax rates unchanged.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Barkley
Dky
Finance Committee
Congres
White House
George D-Gai
W. S
Senate Committee
Population Leveling Off in Baltimore Amid War Worker Surge
Baltimore's population has plateaued after wartime inflows, with monthly arrivals matching departures. WMC director Lawrence B. Fenneman cites restrictions on worker migration, peacetime job returns, and more Southern war industries as factors. Metropolitan area population listed as 1,193,089 by Census as of March 1, 1943.
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Baltimore
Maryland War Manpower Commission
Lawrence B. Fepneman
WMC
United States Census Bureau
National Industrial Conference Board
Fenneman
Pneumonia and influenza cases seen as light for season
County health officer reports unofficial grippe and cold complaints but only two official pneumonia cases in the county. Weather credited for low pulmonary disease. preventive antigen programs under review by local and federal services. December clinics announced with prenatal session at Winchester Hall and a child health conference.
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Heart
Bell
Winchester Hall
Gasoline Allotments for East Coast Cut for Winter
The Petroleum Administration for War cut East Coast gasoline allocations by 7,000 barrels daily for January through March, lowering the district from 379,000 to 372,000 barrels per day. PAW officials in Baltimore said Maryland supplies face only a slight reduction and linked the cuts to smaller seasonal needs, noting all other districts except the Southwest were reduced.
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East Coast
Maryland
Petroleum Administration For War
PAW
Baltimore
Civic Groups Inspect Roads Tour Frederick County highways
Representatives of farm and civic groups studied the Frederick County Roads organization and toured county roads on Thursday. Ames to conclude sessions Monday night, with a postwar plan for 40 miles of road annually for five years, or extend to ten years. Attendees included county officials, farm groups, the Automobile Club of Maryland, and Chamber of Commerce members. The group reviewed the Roads Board depreciation fund and highway figures since 1940, noting 1944 gasoline tax revenue projected at $190,000 and no county appropriation request yet forwarded.
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Frederick County
Roger H. Willard
Charles G. Geisbert
A. Grant Hooper
William Hobbs
Roy M. Fisher
Roads Board
Tobias E. Zimmerman
Edward F. Holter
L.H. Crickenberger
Pomona Grange
Walter E. Burail
Charles R. Holter
J. W. Howard
Farmers Co-Operative, Inc
William T. Delaplaine
James H. Gambrill, Jr
Automobile Club of Maryland
Roger B. Wolfe
Frederick Chamber of Commerce
James H. Grove
John Edw. Schell
William B. Leichert
Calvin S. Lohr
Thurmont Committee On Economic Development
Robert L. Smith
Chamber of Commerce
Ross V. Smith
Thur
Willard
Pacific Offensive By Allies At A Glance
The Pacific theater shows Allied advances across the Gilbert Islands Tarawa airfield aiding raids on the Marshalls, Bougainville defense pressures, Guadalcanal to Bougainville progress, and New Guinea gains from Milne Bay to Huon Peninsula. At Arawe New Britain Allied forces invaded bridging areas between New Guinea and the Solomons.
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Pacific
mid-Pacific
Gilbert Islands
Tarawa
Japanese Marshalls
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Solomon Chain
Bougainville
Southwest
Japan
Australia
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Owen Stanley Mountains
Milne Bay
Finschhafen
Huon Peninsula
New Britain
Solomons
Arawe
Middletown Man One Of Three Honored
Washington December 17 The War Department announced Psi awards to three Maryland men serving with the Eleventh Air Force for bombing missions over Kiska before its retaking. First Lieut Edward B Talbott of Clarksville received the Distinguished Flying Cross. Star Sgt Robert C Rudy of Middletown earned the bronze oak leaf cluster to the Air Medal, and Flight Officer Edmund J Beaulac of Kensington was awarded the Air Medal. The airmen are credited with repeated missions over enemy strongholds and many are veterans of attacks over Kiska and Attu amid heavy anti aircraft fire and bad weather.
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Washington
Psi
Maryland
U.S. Army
Eleventh Air Force
Kiska
War Department
Edward B. Talbott
Clarksville
Robert C. Rudy
Middletown
Edmund J. Beaulac
Kensington
Attu
Ninety Pints Of Blood Donated At Mt St Marys
Cadets in Navy V 5 and V 12 courses and seminar participants donated ninety pints of blood to the Army Navy Blood Bank at Mt. St. Marys College. Red Cross staff from Baltimore aided by workers from Frederick and Emmitsburg led by Lieut. Robert J. McNecill. Nursing head Miss Dora Twentier guided the local volunteers including Mrs. Charles Harris and many Red Cross aides and nurses from Frederick.
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Navy
Army-Navy
Mt. St. Mary's College
Red Cross
Baltimore
Frederick
Emmitsburg
Robert J. McNecill
U. S. Navy Medical Corps
Dora Twentier
R. N
Red Cross Motor Corps Canteen Helpers Named
Members of the Red Cross Motor Corps aided canteen work with Mrs Green Mrs Greco Mrs Stinson and Mrs Wolfe all from Emmitsburg providing support during the relief effort.
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Red Cross Motor Corps
Green
Greco
Stinson
Wolfe
Emmitsourg
Tax on married filers with dependents may rise slightly
A single-source statement indicates a small increase in the tax burden for married individuals who file jointly with dependents, signaling a gradual shift in tax policy.
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Cline & Son
Mt. St. Mary’s
James H. Gamerill, III
Jona Ed Schell
Frederick County Red Cross Blood Donor Committee
Schell
Kefauver
District of Columbia
C. C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St
Cine
North Market Street
Flannelette
Winnie Mae
Bunny
Market St
Bennett
Paris
Coty
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