Finance Committee Fast Action on Tax Cut Bill
Washington reports the Senate Finance Committee approved a 4.6 million income tax cut bill in 43 minutes by a 10 to 4 vote with Barkley Lucas and Connally opposing. The panel moved the effective date to January 3, 1948, after House passage. Debate featured a closed session, and a rejected substitute by La Follette.
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Truman
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GOP
Will Day Be Hot Will Day Be Hot
Cloudy skies and northeast wind dominate today as a rain area shifts eastward over the Middle Atlantic and New England states. Forecaster Andrew H Kellar expects continuing cool, with a high of 74 degrees and a low around 63 as Lake Michigan high pressure anchors the region.
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Lecent
Middle Atlantic
New England
Lake Michigan
Today’s Features Spotlight Political Talks and Pages
A chaotic lead-in lists topics across sections from Finled to 1958 aspirant mentions and editorials. It notes pages for Amusements Financial Bridge and classes, with radio and city life coverage, plus a spotlight on Deaths Social Sports and Editorials, and mentions Winchell.
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Amusements
Ing. Rep'tar
City Life
Winchell
Saucer sighting turned weather balloon in New Mexico
Fort Worth Texas dispatch reports Army Air Forces officials determined the so called flying disc found near Corona New Mexico was a weather balloon used by meteorologists. Warrant Officer Irving Newton identified the object as meteorological equipment and an Air Corps public relations statement clarified the discovery after initial reports of a hostile threat.
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Army Airc Corps
New Mexico
Balloen
Irving Newton
Stetsonville
Wis
Army
Fosters Ranch
Corona
N. M
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Air Corps
Westbound Joe's Five Daring Discs Venture West
The Live Flying Saucers take off after a quirky morning refuel, wobble and land safely as speculation swirls about Hollywood contracts. Spectators pack fuel depots and merchants sell out while the crew jokes about a televised voyage toward Tollywood.
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Joh Beamish
Tollywood
Coal tieup in the South holds on Lewis deal
Washington reports 75 percent of the coal industry signed a wage pact while Southern operators resist the Taft-Hartley provisions. AFL President William Green vows continued fight to repeal the law. The Southern Producers Association convenes to set policy as idle workers rise to 109,000.
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John Lewis
Thursflay
AWA
William Green
AFL
Southern
Eal Producers Association
PAM
Ang Association
Cohan
Reich B-29 Crash Injures 6 Yanks
Reich B-29 crash at Ziehlstad airfield near Rankfurt injures six of eight crew seriously. Cause cited as engine trouble during landing. No fatalities reported according to Air Force officials.
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Reich
Rankfurt
Germany
Air Force
Ziehelstad
Greek Government Reports 2000 Arrested in Communist Plot
In Athens area early today authorities announced over two thousand people were arrested in raids aimed at stopping a Communist plot to spark a nationwide revolution and civil war. Police and soldiers formed a wall before dawn as ringleaders reportedly fled to Athens streets or mountains. Some detainees were to be sent to islands near Athens while investigations continued.
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Napoleon Zervas
Greecs
Zervas
Senate Subcommittee Drops Vote on Kansas City Election Probe
Informed sources report a three member judiciary subcommittee voted against a Senate probe into alleged fraud in Kansas City elections. Senator Ferguson said a report will be issued after a full committee review, with each member to file a separate statement.
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Ferguson
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Langer
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Com Clark
Jews Will Defer Revenge Actions Until High Commissioner Rules
Jerusalem Irgun, the Jewish underground group, informally pledged to defer any revenge actions until the Palestine high commissioner rules on the death sentences imposed on three of its members.
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Ferusalem
Irgun Vai
Eumi
Unt
Palestine High Commissioner
Romania Rejects Paris Parley on Marshal Aid Europe Plan
Romania rejected the British French invitation to a Paris conference on the Marshal aid Europe proposal and became the second nation in the Russian sphere to decline.
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Parioe
Romania
Batis
U S Makes Plea To Moscow On European Rehab Aid
Washington reports that the new Secretary of State Armour urged Moscow to support a Marshall plan for European economic rehabilitation. Bulgaria rejected participation in the Paris conference, while the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten said Norway would participate.
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Oslo
Aftenposten
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Actress Found Dead in New York City
The nude body of Sheila Mannering, 49, radio bit actress, was found in her apartment with a towel around her neck and a stuffer in her mouth. Police labeled the death as possible homicide. Found by her personal maid Faure Rayneld in the apartment between two beds.
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Sheila Mannering
Mixx Mannering
Faure Rayneld
Army to drop water bombs in Montana forest test
The Army Air Forces will drop water bombs on pre set fires in Western Montana’s Lolo National Forest in July 23 as the first large scale test of a new air control method.
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Creat Wals
Mont
Army Air Forces
Montana
Lolo National Forest
Battle of words over drunks and marching on road
Counsel and police witnesses spar over a man on hands and knees in the road amid claims of intoxication. The officer questions the scene as a test, while a judge or witness counters that the act itself does not prove drunkenness.
Betrothal of Elizabeth Philip Set
London reports expect King George to announce a royal engagement tonight. Princess Elizabeth, 21, will wed Lt Philip Mountbatten former Prince Philip of Greece, with an official Buckingham Palace statement likely to be issued for morning papers.
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Elizabeth
Philip
Moounthatten
Prince Philip of
Greece
George
Buckingham Palace
Palace
Daily Matt
Daily Express
G. Colina
Oak Ridge Nuclear Theft Report Sparks Senate Warnings
Washington officials challenge a New York Sun story claiming secret atomic data stolen from an Oak Ridge plant. Congress members say they have no confirmation and will investigate secrecy breaches. The Atomic Energy Commission and FBI await official word while calls grow to dismiss any responsible insiders.
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Mouse Senate
Atomie Energy Connniites
Bub Bark
Atomic Committee
Oak Ridge
Tenn
White House
Charles G. Ross
White Hou
Truman
Bourke B. Wickenlogper
R-in
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Atomic Energy Commission
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Knowland R-Cault
Congressional Atomic Group
Joint Committee
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Nok Jonger Cuan
Hanford
Mass
Los Alamos
N. MI
Chicago
Carl T. Durham
DNC
U.S
Handy to Succeed Retiring Wainwright as Commander
General Handy named next Army commander at Fourth Army after Gen Wainwright retires Aug 1. Collins to be information chief and Balti more headquarters to host key moves. Wainwright, 64, plans executive role with San Antonio grocery chain after long service including Medal of Honor for Philippine defense.
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Wainwright
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Texas
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F Igon
J. Lawton Collins
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United States
Truman
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Australia
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