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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1947
Page
5
A December special session sparks a clash over wartime taxes and postwar relief for Europe. Republicans push for tax cuts to curb inflation and debt payments, while Democrats demand a surplus and caution against inflation from added spending power. The issue is poised to shape the 80th Congress when it reconvenes in January.
A chaotic Washington dispatch notes H. J. Phillips outsized role as head of a presidential committee to regulate American eating habits. Charley Luckemaan leads the effort amid slogans and worries about rising meat consumption since 1939. The piece contrasts high tech miracles with domestic food strain and publicized pledges.
The article argues the five member National Labor Relations Board will lean pro labor with Herzog Houston Murdock on the favored side and Reynolds Gray as potential minority. Republicans fear expanded enforcement under new general counsel Robert Denham and a tightening of board actions.
Walter Winchell notes a string of quips and topical items. He mentions Gabe Heatter’s arithmetic about one and one equaling one due to the dollar’s value, cautions about 50 years of peace, and reports varied lines from stage and political circles including Kathleen Nash Durant’s bail, Vishinsky lore, Freres Shubert plans, and 52nd Street venues.
DREW PEARSON profiles QTANLEY BOJENS a San Diego ex GI who created Peace by Postage a program to ship personal parcels to families in countries that befriended GIs in the war. Harold Hermanson inspires Bethesda Chevy Chase alumni to educate children of war dead. AMVETS backed anti monopoly bill and Marshall Plan. Senator Bridges requires senators who toured Europe to cover their wives' expenses.
The speaker argues Congress favors minority demands over safeguarding the American consumer from rising prices. He notes wage protections have a floor but no ceiling, and food prices lack restraint, warning that voters should heed the forgotten consumer who also votes.
In Norfolk Virginia Joseph V Weisle 22 sat on a second floor porch rail eating ice cream. His wife Anngi Marie Weisle 17 leaned to kiss him and both toppled to the ground. Mrs Weisle died later from a fractured skull while Joseph received hospital treatment for severe bruises.
In Beatty Nevada two young twin sisters were found in a trance in a mountain shack after a witch doctor, enraged when denied a blanket, cursed them claiming poisoned arrows shot them. Sheriff officials saw no physical wounds. the families planned no further action as the cure was said to take 100 days.
In Cleveland, Kirby Breese and his wife were jailed after neighbors reported a 9 year old girl kept as a virtual prisoner in a hot unfinished attic. Police described near 120 degree heat, minimal feeding, and marks on the girl with the bedwetting cited as motive.
In Cleveland Frank Robertson Jr. 20 sits in jail charged with manslaughter after shooting Caroline Miles 36 during a quarrel that also claimed his father Frank Robertson Sr. 50 who killed himself. Robertson says he fired the shot in panic after his father and Miles quarrelled. He is bound over to the grand jury on a $5,000 bond.
Clairton PA August deputy coroner reports Alphonso Capoccia 15 hanged himself in an attic bedroom of his parents home finding the body by his mother Maria Capoccia. The death is described as a puzzling tragedy with no note and no stated cause per Allegheny County official.
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