Roosevelt vetoes tax bill as “relief for the greedy”
President Roosevelt today vetoed the new more than two billion dollar tax measure, calling it a tax relief bill that mainly benefits the greedy and would cancel automatic social security increases. He urged a simple joint resolution reflecting increases in excise taxes and warned of broader tax simplification needs. House leaders vowed to seek an override despite the veto amid cross party opposition.
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Roosevelt
Robert L. Coughton
N.C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Washington, D. C
ULP
Paign
Clinton P. Anderson
N. M
George Washington
Congress
Treasury
Ile
World War A Year Ago Today Front Tunisia near Thala
February 22, 1943 reports German troops breaking through toward Thala on the Tunisian front. U S Navy confirms over fifty Americans killed in North Atlantic action earlier this month as no passenger cargo ships were sunk. British bombers raid Bremen and Moscow reports a Kharkov advance. Chungking says Japan failed Salween crossing attempts. Naval action cited Hampshire noted.
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Thala
Alberian
U. S. Navy
North Atlantic
Bremen
Germany
Moscow
I Kharkov
Chungking
Salween
Hampshire
Rains and Drought Threat in Midwest
United Press reports heavy rains end drought risk in midwestern farming states Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri and Iowa. Snow melt adds moisture while precipitation shifts eastward toward the northeast with rain or snow expected. A cooling trend follows a spell of unseasonably warm weather with little snow forecast nationwide as California experiences its heaviest rain west of the divide and flood threats ease tonight.
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United Press
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Missouri
Iowa
Weather Bureau
California
Continental Divide
Churchill pledges intensified air assault and warns of new German attack
Churchill told the Commons that Allied bombers will strike Germany far beyond previous scales while Germany plans retaliatory pilotsless planes and rockets. He framed a solemn wartime alliance among Britain, the United States, and Russia to press the war in 1944, warning victory may be near but not guaranteed. He noted German preparations on the French coast and stated allies will attack when weather allows, with continued pressure on both land and sea fronts.
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Tehran
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United States
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Atherton Urges U S Spending for Veterans First
Warren Atherton national commander of the American Legion told Iowa Town Legion officers that the United States should spend all that is needed for World War II veterans before funding foreign projects. He criticized talk of building pipelines abroad and urged prioritizing solace happiness and recovery for those who sacrificed. The Iowa Legion convention is set for Sioux City August 21-23 and Hawkeye Boys State will be held at Grinnell June 4-11.
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Warren Atherton
American Legion
United States
Atherton
Arabia
Iowa Department of the Legion
Sioux City
Hawkeye Boys
Legion
Grinnell
Krivoi Rog Falls to Red Army Near Mining Center
Premier Stalin announced the Red Army stormed and captured Krivoi Rog near London, a Ukrainian mining town key to the Dnieper pocket and home to about 200,000 people. The German evacuation followed destruction of military installations as Malinovsky’s forces pressed the assault to seize the great iron ore center for wartime needs.
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Josef Stalin
Red Army
Krivoi Rog
Dnieper
DNB
Moscow
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Krivoi Rog Foday
Russia
Inductees Killed in Bus Crash Near Gaook Indiana
Three inductees and a bus driver died and 34 were injured when two Hammond bound buses crashed into an overturned tractor trailer one mile south of Gaook Indiana. John William Dahlkemp from Hammond and Norman Oberle of Indianapolis died at the scene. The buses carried 81 inductees en route to Fort Benjamin Harrison for pre induction medical exams. Poor visibility from heavy fog contributed to the crash.
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Ind
Hammond
Gaook
Willard May
Methodist Hospital
Gary
May
John William Dahlkemp
Norman Oberle
Indianapolis
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Selective Service Board No. 3
Italian Front in Lull Amid Hot Anzio Cassino Struggle
Allied and German forces remained locked in a grinding draw along the Italian front as Aprilia clashes yielded no territorial change. British American units defended the beachhead while German troops attempted a renewed push, supported by heavy artillery and air power.
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Naples
Anzio
Cassino
Aprilia
Pacific war update reports Japanese convoy sunk and Parry assault
A wartime communique describes Allied air and naval strikes sinking or damaging a Japanese convoy off Kavieng and Hapaul, while forces under Admiral Nimitz begin a crushing bombardment of Parry in the northwestern Marshals. American planes also dropped more than five tons of bombs on Para mushiro, with reconnaissance missions continuing to assess damage and shipping.
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Awew Briain
Oli Cf
Delaillay
Abbi Loyen
Kaoade
al’ Hupstts
Kavleng
Ameencal
Rriaays Naval Bom
Habaul
Pearl Harbor
Waiwetak Atoll
Air
Aleutians
Paramushiro
Tokyo
Japan
Pases
Gandhi's Wife Reported Dead in New Delhi Broadcast
A British radio report from a New Delhi broadcast announced the death of Mrs. Mohan Das K. Gandhi, the wife of Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi.
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United Press
British Radio
New Delhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Tax Structure Grotesque Declares Talle for Streamlining
Decorah congressman Talle furnishes the REGISTER with remarks from the Congressional record and a resolution urging a streamlined tax system. He laments complex forms, cites 16 tax bills since 1933, and calls for studies, recommendations, and a temporary advisory council to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation.
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Fenny Talle
Decorah
Congress
Talie
House
Joint
Congressional Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Tale
Speaker
Soldier May Die Helped Nazis Flee
Pvt Dale Maple of San Diego was charged with treason for allegedly helping two German POWs escape Camp Hale Colorado He planned to go to Germany to join the Nazi army and pleaded not guilty He was bound over to the grand jury on $100000 bail Hearing set for March 6 in Santa Fe FBI questioned him for two days Maple claimed German identity then admitted it He believed the German government superior to the United States If convicted he faces death.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Dale Maple
Camp Hale
Colo
Germany
U. S
Howard Ond
Maple
San Diego
Cal
Santa Fe
Pollution case verdict in Buchanan county court
A directed verdict favored Chicago Great Western Railway in a suit by Fred Wilson over Otter Creek petitions. Judge R W Hasner ruled after Wilson testified, with 14 similar judgment suits awaiting trial in Buchanan and Fayette counties. Originally the railway and city of Oelwein were co-defendants.
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Chicago Great Western Railway
Otter Creek
Buchanan County
R. W. Hasner
Fred Wilson
Wilson
Buchanan and Fayette
Railway
Oelwein
Hasner
Iowa Supreme Court
Descendants Seek Repayment of 1777 U S Loan
Mrs Zella Blanche de Haven Pope great granddaughter of Jacob de Haven asks the United States to repay a 1777 loan of 500000 with interest totaling 5000000. She appeals to Senator Mil kin after five prior congressional denials and says the 300 descendants across Colorado Illinois Oklahoma Missouri and Kansas seek restitution for the Revolution era debt. The continental congress accepted the loan while Washingtons army camped at Valley Forge and offered inflationary script after the war which de Haven refused to accept.
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Denver — LLP
Zella Blanche de Haven Pope
Jacob de Haven
U. S
Pacific Airmen Trial Airborne Rockets in South Pacific
Marine torpedo bombers in the South Pacific used airborne rockets in a strike against Japanese shipping near Rabaul three days earlier. No results were reported by Staff Sgt. Dan Bailey. The projectiles, called shells with wings, produced noisy but unclear effects, described by Major Alben C. Roberson as a life exploding, noise without a jolt.
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Halsey
Rabaul
South Pacific War Theater
Dan Bailey
Atlanta
Piints
Marine Corps Ordnantemen
Alben C. Roberson
Fulton, Ky
Bombers from England Italy Hit War Plants
American heavy bombers from England and Italy blasted Regensburg Germany and struck fighter aircraft factories and other war plants in a coordinated assault. The two forces pincer Germany from south and west in the largest aerial attack to date, hampered by weather, with Churchill promising further intensified air action.
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Stuttgart
Munich
Naples
Messerschmitt
Regensburg
London
America
Eighth
15Th Air Forces
Britain
Italy
Reich
United States Strategic Air Forces of
Europe
Eighth Air Force
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Commons
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
15Th
United Kingdom
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Nathan F. Twining
Mediterranean
Chaplin to Face Paternity Suit Amid Court Dance
Hollywood report says Charlie Chaplin, 54, may be forced into court to prove he is not the father of Joan Barry's baby. Barry has hired a new lawyer, Joseph Scott, after dropping her first counsel, as Chaplin faces arraignment on white slavery charges.
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Charlie Chaplin
Oona O'Neill
Joan Barry
Chaplin
Joseph Scott
J. F. T. O'Connor
Beverly Hills
Miss Barry
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