Major profits tax eyed to swell government revenue
Washington reports a high administration official forecasting the proposed excess profits tax could bring in 800 million to 1.6 billion dollars a year, potentially lifting the coming year’s treasury income to about 7.6 billion. The measure, drafted with treasury and congressional experts, aims at corporations, with insiders saying it would be hard to apply to individuals and that existing income tax schedules suffice.
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Treasury
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Representatives of the Treasury
House Ways and Means
Sen
Finance Committee
Robert L. Doughton
D-N. C
House
Biterward
L A Ranks 2nd in Auto Fatalities
San Antonio shows an auto traffic death rate of 23.4 per 100000 population in 1939, second in Texas after Houston. The Spectator national Insurance magazine lists city rates, noting United States comparisons and Bakersfield California as the riskiest, with 1939 376.7 and 1938 483.3 fatalities per 100000.
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Texas
Houston
the Spectator
National Insurance Magazine
Fort Worth
United States
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Chicago
Andos Angeles
Bakersfield
Calif
Income Tax Duplication to End with New Legislation
Washington July 2 Treasury Secretary Morgenthau said new income tax laws will reduce IRS workload and eliminate the duplicate green copy of income tax returns required since 1935. The duplicate copy, used by local agents to locate property and assess taxes, will be removed as part of the reform.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau Enid
Internal Revenue Bureau
Old building recalled as Army M C A moves in
Members of the Army M. C. A. crafts classes prepare to move into a new building at 414 North Alamo Street. The old house once belonged to Louis Schelhagen, who ran a Lyath of covered wagons carrying mail and freight to Mexico in 1860, with a secret passageway for valuables and ties to Judge Roy Bean. Surviving family members live in San Antonio and Houston.
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Apin
North Alamo Street
Louis Schelhagen
Mexico
Schelhagen
Roy Bean
Pees
Gid
Texas
Germany
Dore Bailey
Killing O'Donnell
M. W. Burris
San Antonio
H. Bullman
Houston
Dorothy Tee Bailey
This City
C. A. Drum
Union Workers in Mexico Starving Crisis Report
The Chicle Workers union in Yucatan and Campeche says 4000 families are starving due to lack of work. They accuse local officials of blocking permits and cite a fatal truck crash near Zapata that killed a Bay Artics driver named William Henderson aged 40, describing the incident as occurring after a pickup near an entry.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Chicle Workers
Yuca
Tan
Campeche
William Henderson
Autics
Contenian
Zapata
Henderson
Cub
Secident
Relief Found for Hay Fever by Potassium Tablets
Atlanta report says Emory University physician Dr. Prennis P. Parker found potas sium gluconate tablets relieved hay fever in seven of ten patients in a test of over 100 subjects. Treatment, begun weeks before the typical sneezing season, reduced symptoms but offered no cure.
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Atlanta
Nepe Tor
Emory University
Prennis P. Parker
Bern
War Training Bill Ripples Through Senate Debate
Washington July 2 In a sharp critique Senator Vandenberg questions peacetime conscription while President Roosevelt and the army push selective service and mobilization plans for the National Guard. House and Senate panels study naval funding as the Navy releases a study tracing U S naval power gains and gaps since 1921.
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Washington
Vaendenberg
R.-Mich
Roosevelt
Army High Command
Vandenberg
Senate Military Committee
War Department
National Guard
Gurney
Woodrum D
NAVY
United States
Ihe
English Farmer Shot Out of Home Evicted Under Wartime Measures
In Basingstoke Hampshire a 68 year old farmer Raymond Warden refused to surrender his farm, was wounded after hours of resistance as police moved to enforce a wartime food production order. Constable Draper was shot while approaching to execute eviction. London reports Britain recognizing a Czechoslovak government led by Eduard Benes in a separate development.
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Hampshire
Eng
Raymond Warden
P. C. Draper
Draper
London
Crebhoslovak
Britain
Eduard Benes
Warden
Fear Pashambe
Threats in Shanghai Demand Settlement Control
Shanghai dispatch reports a China Daily News piece backed by Wang Cheng Wen threatening to seize direct control of the Shanghai international settlement. It lists three demands: handover of civilian arrests to Wang’s regime, deportation of foreigners banished by Nanking, and shutdown of foreign newspapers.
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Shaghai
China Daily News
Wang Cheng Wen
Ford China
Thej Shangin
Wang
Nanking
Ex Demo Official Kremer Dies in Capital
Washington attorney and former Democratic national committeeman J Brulee Kremer died at his home from heart trouble. He had been in ill health for some time. He was longtime figure in Montana politics and national party circles.
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Capital
Washington
J. Brulee Kremer
Democratia National
Montana
Homme
Reds Propose China Parley Amid Far East Tensions
A Soviet spokesman urged a tripartite conference among the United States Britain and the Soviet Union to discuss interests in Asia in light of Japan's new order plan. China should be represented. Britain urged caution while noting possible advantages.
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CINS
United States
Great Britain
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Asia
Chine
Britain
Barna
Far East
China
Asa Agar Dies in San Benito Home
Asa Agar a bow and crate manufacturer and long time resident of San Benito died Monday in his home. He had lived in the area for 32 years and is survived by four children. The community remembers him for his industry and local ties.
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Agar
San Benito
Bam Benito
Aanr
San Penito
Moniday
Texas
Mis Whdow
Dies Resting At Home In Beaumont Investigating Subversives
Representative Martin Dies rested in his Orange hometown pausing his inquiry into alleged subversive activities. The one man subcommittee of the House committee on un American activities delayed hearings to lay groundwork for upcoming testimony. Investigators prepared for a Kyffhauser band hearing in Houston and subpoenaed persons tied to state Communist leaders. No date for resumption announced.
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Beaumont
Martin Dies
D-Tex
Orange
Ties
Hhe House Committee
Houston
Kyffhauser
Communist Party
Fort
13 Armed French Soldiers Escape Into Switzerland
In Bern Switzerland on July 23 reports say 13 French soldiers, part of a company split into small groups, reached the Swiss frontier after a months long escape movement through German occupied France. They traveled mainly at night, surrendered arms to a Swiss patrol, and their trek foreshadows broader French detachments seeking refuge or routes to unoccupied zones or ports.
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Switzerland
France
Anns
Leutenant
Metz
Tey
Ulplr
PLAN WITHHELD ON REPRISALS
London dispatch shows Prime Minister Whitehill refusing to commit Britain to reprisal bids on Rome and Berlin if London is bombed. She rebukes Oswald Lewis for asking about such steps and warns revealing future plans could deter or embolden the enemy, stressing noncommittal stance to avoid guiding air warfare.
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Whitehill
Britain
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Berlin
Oswald Lewis Tor
Lewis
Nazi Bombers Blanket Britain and Wales in Night Raids
London reports German air attacks across the Thames estuary to Wales and southeast Scotland with little damage and no fatalities. One Scottish town saw injuries and property damage while a southeast coast town lost an unscoured house. British fighters pursued raiders as observers noted bombs fell mainly on marshland and countryside. A German fighter plane was shot down off the southeast coast with both crew captured.
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England
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Ministry of Home
Scotland
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Thames
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Gennan
Lie South
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