GOP Wins House Fund Audit and Early Postwar Bills
Republicans pressed for a funds audit of the House sergeant at arms amid embezzlement rumors dating to the 18 year Democratic era. Comptroller Lindsay Warren ordered General Accounting Office audits. Bills favor tax cuts and labor reforms dominated the early postwar agenda, including a 20 percent across the board tax cut proposal and veto-busting labor measures, with veterans benefits and civil rights issues also on the table.
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Texas
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Furniture market to rebound with shortages
Chicago January reports indicate furniture and home furnishings will return in large supply this year marking the busiest retail market since early wartime. Industry spokesmen say shortages will persist as buyers from across the nation gather for the National Retail Furniture Association and International Home Furnishings Market winter meetings.
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AFL Split on Clerks Strike Sparks Union Tensions
Seattle report says Dave Beck vice president of the Teamsters rejects recognizing picket lines of the 6000 AFL Retail Clerks striking in Los Angeles that closed 1500 grocery stores. Clerks demand a $60 top weekly wage. operators offer $55. Previous pay was $40 for senior clerks. James Suffridge challenges Beck as spokesman for clerks. Beck claims he only speaks for the Teamsters.
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Communists say plot to overthrow Hungary uncovered
Budapest January 4. Interior Minister Laszlo Rajk announced 53 people were seized in a ring aiming to topple the government and restore Admiral Horthy. An anti Communist claim branded the plot a frameup to justify opposition suppression as Soviet troops depart. A seven member committee allegedly directed the plan with several disassembled aircraft and an underground chief command.
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Nicholas Horthy
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Labor Roundup GOP to Revive Vetoed Case Bill
Senate Republicans plan to introduce a revised Case Bill as a starting point for labor legislation with brief hearings and later separate Wagner Act amendments. Ball Taft and Smith lead, claiming no commitment to substance yet. Also notes retroactive portal wage suits totaling over 3.14 billion dollars and a threatened truckers strike in Chicago averted by a late agreement.
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National Manufacturers propose 10 point program to curb strikes
The National Association of Manufacturers presents a ten point plan to Congress to curb labor unrest. It calls for eliminating strike epidemics and labor monopolies, restricting federal intervention, providing conciliators, ending compulsory union membership, curbing monopolistic wage practices, balancing the federal budget, cutting federal expenditures, and reducing personal income taxes by 20 percent for 1947 along with tax revisions for 1948.
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Relief At Last For Your Cough
Chronic bronchitis may develop if a chest cold is untreated. Creomulsion goes to the seat of the cough, loosens mucus, expels germs, and aids natural healing. It contains no narcotics and offers money back if it does not quickly relieve the cough and restore sleep.
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Americans for Democratic Action forms in Washington
A new political organization named Americans for Democratic Action is formed by 150 members, banning Communists, endorsing expansion of the New Deal program. An organizing committee of 25 includes Leon Henderson, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Wilson Wyatt, Elmer Davis, and Walter Reuther. the group is sponsored by the Union for Democratic Action with a night and day session underway.
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Coast Guard Frees Freighter From Nantucket Shoal
The coast guard cutter Mendota freed the 6000 ton Panamanian freighter S. Kotor from a shoal off Nantucket west tip. The ship went aground last night with a crew of 30 aboard.
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Ve nereal disease cases in U S Army hospitals in occupied Germany
In Frankfurt January report shows high ve nereal disease cases treated in U S Army hospitals in occupied Germany during the first 11 months, with a preliminary count around seventy six thousand. The figure suggests a high rate of venereal illness among servicemen in the area.
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Infected Occupation Forces Reported Alongside U S
A fragment notes that some military and civilian personnel in the U S occupation faced illness. Surgeons in the surgeon general’s office explain that the total counts may include repeats and temperamental records, leaving the exact tally unclear.
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