President Tries New Strategy in Profits Tax Fight
President Eisenhower’s administration seeks a last-chance move by asking the House Rules Committee to bring a six month extension of the excess profits tax directly to the House floor. The plan would bypass the Ways and Means Committee, fueling a tense battle over procedure while the sides clash on the tax’s morality and revenue impact.
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Charles F. Barrett
Washington
House Rules Committee
House
Ways and Means
Congressional
Congress
Daniel Reed
Eisenhower
Reed
Leo Allen
R-I
Rules Committee
New Traffic Lights Slated for Erection on Congress Street
Portsmouth to replace old signals at Vaughan Congress Chestnut and Congress Fleet with synchronized lights. City Manager Robert C. Violette said work likely starts after July 1, delayed by scheduling. City and New Hampshire Electric Co will install the lights stored with the utility.
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Congress Street
Portsmouth
Vaughan
Congress
Chestnut Streets
Fleet Streets
Robert C. Violette
New Hampshire Electric Co
Violette
Patronage Boom On for Republicans
President Eisenhower signed an executive order to review about 134000 federal positions to determine which should be removed from civil service. The move enables the incoming Republican administration to appoint its own personnel to jobs stripped of civil service. About 6000 positions are in the United States and 8000 overseas.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Civil Service
United States
Italy Premier De Gasperi coalition wins presidencies
In the first test votes of Italy's new Parliament Premier Alcide de Gasperi's center government coalition easily elected its candidates to the presidencies of both houses. Giovanni Gronchi of the Christian Democrat party was chosen as President of the Chamber, while Cesare Merzagora was named President of the Senate. Both selections came with substantial majorities.
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Rome
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Center
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
de Gasperi
Christian Democrat
Giovanni Gronchi
East German Reds Execution Toll Hits 29
Berlin reports 29 known executions in the Soviet backed East zone as authorities warn rebels and carry out arrests. A mass rally in East Berlin is planned to bolster regime support with Soviet approval and threats of punishment for leaders of uprisings. Arrests tallied hundreds across Dresden Freital and Tharandt as evacuations of workers’ families begin at Cottbus.
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Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
Mitte
Friedrichshain
Kopenick
P. T. Dibrova
Red Army
East Zone
Kurt Unbehauen
Gera
Dresden
Freitel
Tharandt
No Roller Delays City Street Tarring by One Week
City Manager Robert C. Violette said the street tar program will be delayed about a week due to damage to the street roller. The job had been expected to finish tomorrow.
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Robert C. Violette
Fishermen Aid Three After Plane Crashes at Wickford Harbor
Fishermen rescued three men aboard a pt boat downed plane from Quonset Air Station after it skidded into Wickford Harbor. Bruce Loring, who saw the crash, helped. the pilot with a British accent said it was his 17th crash. Navy crash boats took the crew to the station. they were uninjured and sent to sick bay for observation.
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Quonset, EE
Quonset Air Station
Wickford Harbor
Bruce Loring
Loring
Navy
Telephone Rates To Drop July 1 Refunds Ordered
Concord New Hampshire telephone users will pay less starting July 1 as the Public Utilities Commission sets new rates. Refunds totaling about 1.3 million dollars will be issued in August and September to customers, including those with terminated service, with adjustments carried over to future bills if needed. The change reduces state revenue by about 1.15 million annually, while 18.3 percent of the total refund covers hearing and court costs.
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Concord
New Hampshire
State Public Utilities Commission
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
Richard J. Davis
PUC
State Supreme Court
Bridge Authority delays ramp plans for Interstate By Pass
The Maine New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority postponed action on ramp construction for Maplewood Avenue to the Interstate By-Pass. Executive secretary Wallace F. Purington said plans to build ramps at both ends of the Maplewood Avenue overpass and a new street from Maplewood to Myrtle Avenue were set aside. The gate would close the by pass main artery at Cutts and Myrtle, with the Authority bearing costs while the street would be turned over to Portsmouth.
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Maine-New Hampshire
Wallace F. Purington
Maplewood Avenue
Cutts Street
Prospect Street
Myrtle Avenue
Authority
Portsmouth
Senators Stall WASHINGTON LP A Immigrant Bill Delayed
Senate Judiciary Committee delays progress on Eisenhower proposed legislation to admit an extra 240000 European immigrants amid behind the scenes battles and stalled action expected today as the bill faces further postponement.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Eisenhower
Signers of Petition to Erect Fence at New Market Listed
The City Council will hold a special session at 2 pm tomorrow to review a petition seeking an eight-foot solid board fence between the new First National Store and the municipal parking lot. Signers include Bernard Goodman Sheldon Krasker Gerald Singer Harry Portman Julius Applebaum Eli Borwick C J Marconi Barnet Freedman George J Scott Albert C Davis and many others.
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First National
Bernard Goodman
Sheldon ‘Krasker
Gerald Singer
Harry Portman
Julius Applebaum
Eli Borwick
C. J. Marconi
Barnet Freedman
George J. Scott
Albert C. Davis
Rhee Seeks War Resumption and Mutual Pact in Seoul Plea
In Seoul crowds of hundreds of thousands cheered President Rhee as he urged resuming the war if talks fail within 70 days, securing a mutual security pact with the United States, and demanding the withdrawal of Chinese and UN forces. He defended freeing anti-Red prisoners and warned that Koreans must decide their fate themselves if allies do not back them. U.N. officials were absent from the demonstrations.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Sfince
Monsei
South Korea
Pusan
Young Song Bong
Eisenhower
Rhee
U. S
Korea
United Nations
U.N
New York Bar Probes Bloch Remarks at Rosenberg Funeral
Emanuel H. Bloch chief counsel for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg faces an inquiry by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York after he called President Eisenhower and federal officials guilty of murder at the couple’s funeral. The Rosenbergs were buried after electroution at Sing Sing last Friday. Frank H. Gordon said letters demanded Bloch be disciplined for the remarks.
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New York
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Association of the Bar of the City of
Emanuel H. Bloch
Eisenhower
Rosenbergs
Sing Sing
Frank H. Gordon
Bar Association
Bloch
Secret Message to Rhee Seeks Quick Korean Armistice
Eisenhower representative Walter Robertson arrives in Seoul with a secret message aimed at winning Syngman Rhee to a quick truce under Allied terms. Rhee demands unification of Korea by treaty or by force and rejects any armistice without it, while Robertson meets Rhee amid high tension and past prisoner releases that stalled peace prospects.
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Seoul
Eisenhower
Syngman Rhee
Robertson
Rhee
North
South Korea
Thorn
Mark Clark
U.N
Far East
U.S
Walter S. Robertson
Tokyo
ROK
Korea
Granite State Red Probe To Shun McCarthyism
New Hampshire will take about three months to launch a $10,000 probe of communism as Attorney General Louis C. Wyman coordinates with FBI and federal officials. The private inquiry will avoid harming national security, may begin interviews in October, and could leave findings unreported if agencies order it. Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire were initially targeted.
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Concord
New Hampshire
Louis C. Wyman
Wyman
FBI
Washington
Boston
Congressional
Dartmouth College
University of New Hampshire
New Hampshire Librarians Boost Book Purchases Not Burning Them
New Hampshire libraries spend well above the national median with per capita outlays of 1.37 dollars. Wisconsin leads at 2.50, Massachusetts 1.86, California 1.56. The NH totals cover 238 public libraries with 732,782 dollars including 630,293 local spending.
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New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Massaachusetts
California
New England
Connecticut
Vermont
Maine
American Library Association
Mildred McKay
Granite State
Massachusetts
Ance
Patrol Skirmish and Red Radio Blaze Rumors of Peace
On a muddy Korean battlefront patrols skirmished briefly as Red loudspeakers proclaimed a near truce. Gen. P. Weyland said Allied air forces have crippled Communist war capacity in North Korea, noting 950 Communist planes shot down since 1950 and Allied losses at 973 planes.
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Seoul
Far East Air Forces
P. Weyland
North Korea
Weyland
Red Armica
Korea
Manchuria
Russia
Tokyo
Air Base Lobbyists Named in Report
Secretary of State Enoch D. Fuller said he informed the state attorney general that three lobbyists made improper registrations. Among them Stanley M. Brown of Manchester and Charles F. Harnett of Dover did not fully list clients represented in opposition to the Newington Air Force Base.
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Concord
Enoch D. Fuller
State Attorney General
Atty
Louis C. Wyman
Attys
Stanley M. Brown
Manchester
Charles F. Harnett
Dover
Lsted
Newington Air Force Base
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George Hannigan
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Henry Greeley
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Philip Barwick
Walter Miller
Richard Ng
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George Berlucci
Richard Manougian
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George W. Bamford Jr
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Edward Flahive
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