Tax Law Evaders Cost Government Billions Yearly
Washington December 27 Congress may crack down on tax evaders and close loopholes before any rate hikes. Rep Forand says collection of legally owed taxes could balance the budget. Estimates claim evasion and loopholes cost about 5 billion yearly, a sum close to budget needs. Republicans warn tax hikes could depress the economy and cost jobs, urging cuts in war excises instead.
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Congress
Rep. Forand
D-RI
house
ways and means
Treasury
congressional
Capitol Hill
Truman
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
GOP
America
Martin
Truman's Brief Holiday Ends
Independence Missouri December 27 President Truman ends a brief Christmas holiday in his Kansas City hotel penthouse apartment. Press secretary Charles G Ross said the president plans to work but nothing urgent will reach him until he returns to Washington tomorrow. He must finalize the state of the union economic report and the budget messages.
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INDEPENDENCE
Truman
Muehlebach hotel
Kansas City
Charles G. Ross
Washington
congress
state of the union
Union Officials Draw Big Salaries
Denver official union report shows Frank Hefferly received an average 1714 dollars a month as president of the Colorado New Mexico district of the United Mine Workers. The Taft Hartley filing covers July 1, 1948, to January 1, 1949, with total salary payments of 7333 dollars and expenses of 2953 dollars. It also lists Fred K Hefferly as district secretary treasurer earning 8617 dollars in payments or 1436 dollars monthly, including 922 dollars salary and 514 dollars expenses.
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DENVER
Frank Hefferly
Colorado-New Mexico
United Mine workers
John Owens
UMW
Hefferly
Fred K. Hefferly
Court Ends Cleveland Transit Walkout After Injunction
AFL unionists halted the six day Cleveland transit strike after a judge’s injunction. By voice vote local president Thomas Meaney pledged compliance and urged the transit board to guarantee no punishment for strikers. Buses and street cars were to resume service, with schedules normalized gradually.
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CLEvELAND
AFL
AFL transit union
Common Pleas
Joseph A. Artl
Thomas P. Meaney
local
transit board
Meaney
Buick Reduces 1950 Prices In Major Cuts
Buick Motors announces 1950 price reductions across Roadmaster and Super series models, with cuts ranging from 65 to 310 dollars. No changes apply to the Special series. Highlights include sedan, four door sedan, convertible, hard top, and estate wagon adjustments as details await tomorrow.
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FLINT
Midh
Buick Motors
Buick
Arms to Europe shipment delayed to Feb first
UPI reports that US arms and equipment for Western Europe will start moving about February 1, about a month behind schedule. The $1 billion aid fund must be spent or earmarked by June 30, 1950, or it reverts to the Treasury.
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Europe
WASHINGTON
UPI
United States
congress
TREASURY
United States treasury
north Atlantic
Britain
Colfax Fugitive Shot By Colfax Posse Wounded Suspect Captured
Wayne Odell aged 21 was wounded in the arm and captured by a 75 man sheriff posse near Winona Washington after he allegedly killed Harold Rogers a 47 year old farmer with a shotgun early Saturday. Odell faces first degree murder charges as physicians decide if he can be questioned. The slaying followed Rogers responding to his daughter Cora Jeans terrified call. Odell was traced through snowy eastern Washington farmland and found after a search that included the Winona school.
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COLFAX
Wash
Dee
Wayne Odell
Harold Rogers
Winona
Odell
Rogers
Cora Jean
Clarence Davis
Washington
Germ Bomb Plans Said Targeting Britain and U S
Soviet press reports from the Khabarovsk trial of 12 Japanese officers quote prisoners describing a germ warfare scheme aimed at the United States and Britain. They say Americans were used as test subjects in bacteria plants to gauge disease immunity and to map airborne germ delivery by planes.
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MOSCOW
United States
Britain
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Otazoo Yamade
Kwantung army
Manchuria
Town Finds New Unity In Fire Loss
Hyndman Pennsylvania bands together after a Christmas Eve blaze leveled the town center. Three blocks burned, the bank and 12 business buildings destroyed along with about 20 homes and the post office. Damages near 1 million dollars. residents vow to rebuild stronger as merchants officials and citizens mobilize.
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HYNDMAN
Slayer of Child Ordered Executed
In Fresno California on December 27 19xx Paul Gutierrez received the death penalty by gas chamber for the sex slaying of a seven month old baby. His mother Guadalupe Gutierrez fainted and family members cried as the judge Arthur C Shepard announced the sentence.
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FRESNO
Calif
Paul Gutierrez
Arthur C. Shepard
Guadalupe Gutierrez
Churchman Praises Red Prison Camps Visit
In Berlin on December 27, a West Berlin Lutheran dean said food and sanitary conditions in Russian zone concentration camps are better than in many West German refugee camps. Dean Heinrich Grueber was among four churchmen allowed Christmas services at Sachsenhausen Bautzen and Buchenswald, sites holding about 36 000 East Germans. Bishop Otto Dibelius declined to comment.
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BERLIN
West Berlin
Russian zone
Heinrich Grueber
east zone
Otto Dibelius
West Bern
Dibelius
Sachsenhausen
Bautzen
Buchensald
Democrats Plan Push for Action On Housing Bill
Democratic leaders plan spring action on a middle income housing program to be presented by President Truman. A draft legislation favors private industry building homes priced 7000 to 9000 dollars, liberalizing home loan insurance with smaller down payments to aid families between public housing and private options. The Sparkman bill guides this effort, aiming to replace the expiring stop gap.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
congress
Senate
White House
Sparkman
D-Ala
senate banking committee
Tito Position Aided by West Belgrade Pact Boosts Yugoslavia's Trade
Yugoslav officials say Tito's new five year trade agreement with Britain strengthens ties to the West amid Russian pressure. The pact covers about 560 million dollars in Yugoslav British trade with a 23.4 million dollar British credit repayable in six years enabling immediate purchases of machinery textiles chemicals rubber and other goods. The Yugoslav budget shows a surplus of 520.9 million dollars and a balanced year. Britain projects two way trade totaling 616.2 million dollars over five years.
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BELGRADE
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Britain
Russia
eastern Europe
Tito
Kremlin
London
board of trade
Bus Drivers Strike Strands City Transport In Ottumwa
Bus drivers began a strike at 12 01 a m in Ottumwa Iowa halting public transit in the southern Iowa city of about 33 000 people.
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OTTUMWA
Iowa
Hiss Case Resumes With Testimony On Sublet
Former State Department official Hiss testified about subletting a Warhireton Fee apartment to Whittaker Charbers in 1935 by oral agreement and not receiving papers. The trial resumed after a Christmas break with cro ss examination and questions about his family deaths.
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NEW YORK
ALger Hiss
Whittaker Charbers
Hiss
Tiss
Thomas FL
Murphy
Mar pes
Gubitchev Status Ordered Probed
New York political report states a federal judge ordered a probe into the diplomatic status of accused spy Valentin Gubitchev. The Russian engineer, suspended from a post, argues he has diplomatic immunity, while the State Department and United Nations dispute his entitlement.
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NEW YORK
Dee ott
Syivectep 2pyar
vto
Valentin AO Gubitches
state department
United Nations
Gubitchev
Flying Saucers Spies from Outer Space Declared
True magazine claims flying discs are interplanetary vehicles. Air Force disputes the assertion. The article by Donald E. Keyhoe cites an eight month invest igation and outlines three main saucer types while asserting interplanetary origin and a space age threat to U S security.
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Outer Space
NEW YORK
UPI
air force
planet
True magazine
Donald E. Keyhoe
aeronautics branch
U. S. commerce department
earth
sys
U. S. army air force
Keyhoe
Wrightfield
cer
Heavy Rain Triggers Water Shortage Concerns
Weather system brings heavy rain and prolonged showers causing water shortages across multiple regions. Officials caution that flood risks rise with continued rainfall while reservoirs struggle to meet demand as communities await improvements. Local agencies urge conservation and monitor supply levels.
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