City Moves To End 1 Percent Sales Tax
City administration moved to terminate the one per cent sales tax with Albany promising about 607000 dollars in state aid for education. Officials confer. mayor away on business. Debates on a termination date loom ahead of fall campaign as Republicans push for a 1950 deadline.
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Albany
Lyle W. Hornbeck
George HH. Bedford
Irving G. Berman
Frank J. Costello
New York City
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Charles A. Mic Neil
Onondaga County
Avas
Common ‘Council
Broadway Theaters Slash Prices To Spur Attendance
Broadway movie houses in New York reduce admission by 10 to 33 cents to bolster sagging morning and daytime crowds. Night rates are lowered slightly while weekend and holiday prices remain unchanged. Six first run houses participate in the price cuts.
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New York
Realistic Analysis claims vast share of U S aid to China
Maj Gen David G Barr states Communist forces seized an estimated 906 percent of all American military aid to China in a fiercely critical piece. Marquis Childs writes on the editorial page while other features and notices appear on pages 32 43 46 50 to 55 across the section.
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China
Marquis Childs
Winchell
Skaneateles Mother Smothers Baby Then Seeks Death
Mrs Sophia Evans, 29, smothered 17 month old Jerry Evans in a Skaneateles home and cut her own throat and wrists. The baby was found dead in a bathroom carriage. Evans, hospitalized in Auburn in critical condition, left three notes before the police investigation led by Lt. Curtin. The couple lives on Franklin Street road. her parents reside in Liverpool.
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Advertising executives hail ads as force in cold war
A Syracuse forum during Advertising Week featured leading executives praising advertising as stronger than atomic energy and a driver of business and public service. They argued ads can strengthen free enterprise at home and abroad and influence global competition.
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New Vet Pension Bill Aims At World War I Vets
Representative Rankin introduces a World War I veterans pension bill offering 72 dollars monthly at age 65. Income limits of 2000 dollars for singles or 3000 dollars with dependents apply, pursuing quick floor action after shelving a broader two war measure.
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Rankin
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ITI
Nazi Police Chief Executed in Amsterdam War Crimes Trial
The Dutch court sentenced Hanns Nalbin Rauter, chief of German Police in the occupied Netherlands, to death for war crimes. The execution was announced today.
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Netherlands
Hanns Nalbin Rauter
Navy Blimp Forced Down Near Martinsburg
A U S Navy blimp forced to land in a plowed field on the outskirts of Martinsburg, Lewis County. Five crew members unharmed. The craft, one of six, departed Lakehurst, New Jersey at 6 AM and was to be moved onto a road by horses.
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U.s.navy
Lewis
Rima
Lima
Lakehurst
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Chinese Reds Open Drive on Anking
The Central area Agency reports 20,000 Communist troops begin an offensive against Anking, a major Nationalist stronghold on the Yangtze north bank. If confirmed, this would mark the first large Red attack since Suchow and Pengpu in January. Anking serves as the temporary seat of Anhwei’s provincial government, located 145 miles southwest of Nanking.
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Central Area Agency
Anking
Yangtze River
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Pengpu
Anhwei
Nanking
GE Chief Sees Electronics Park Employment Rising
General Electric president Charles E. Wilson said Electronics Park will almost certainly hire more workers, with about 7,000 already employed in Syracuse. He cited rising television production and new government orders as primary drivers, while noting GE’s national employment around 196,000 and a mild economy.
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I Charles E. Wilson
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Syracuse
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Rapid Climb For Mercury in Syracuse Area
Weather update shows a rapid rise in temperatures in Syracuse from 30 at 1 30 AM to 61 by noon with 55 at 1 30 AM and 61 by noon. Showers expected tonight with a low around 45. Tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler with a high near 50 and a low around 22. Winds swing south and southeast and increase in intensity.
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Syracuse
Malmedy Death Sentence Eased by Allied Commander
In Frankfurt Germany General Lucius D Clay commuted the death sentence of a second German defendant in the Malmedy massacre to life imprisonment. He stated he is convinced of the guilt of Paul Ochmann the former SS minister sergeant in the killings of unarmed American prisoners of war without cause.
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Lucius D. Clay
Malmeds
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Air Force Plane Crashes in Labrador Scene Near Goose Bay
At Westover Field Mass a United States Air Force C S 2 crashed in Labrador with three or four Army personnel aboard. The incident occurred about 1000 miles north of Goose Bay as Goose Bay and Harmon Air Force Base planes moved to the site to aid in rescue. The aircraft involved was of a model used in rescue work.
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Harmon Air Force Base
Doctor tests cold by proxy on train to Chicago
Dr E C Rosenow, 73, Cincinnati bacteriologist, strapped test tubes in a locomotive cabin to catch the common cold by proxy. He fastened tubes with glass wool, labeled return address, and prepared to travel to Chicago for the experiment.
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Gesundheit
Protest at Waldorf Astoria as World Peace Conference Begins
About 150 marchers joined nearly 2 000 onlookers outside the Waldorf Astoria in New York to protest the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace critics call a propaganda platform for Communism. They carried flags from Iron Curtain nations and signs on Mindszenty, while police kept order during the three day event.
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Hungary
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Committee For Freedom For Religion
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Traitor Gillars Sentenced To 10 To 30 Years In Treason Case
Axis Sally broadcaster Mildred Gillars was sentenced by Judge Edward Curran to 10 to 30 years in prison and fined $10,000 for treason. Loss of citizenship follows treason conviction. Her appeal was noted, and prosecutors said the case could reach the Supreme Court.
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Axis Sally) Gillars
Edward M. Curran
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James L. Laughlin
Legurt
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Helllof
Erna Mae Herrick
Quads, Now Twins Portland Birth Surprises Mother
Abs Uceal Tigner, a Portland mother of two and a half year old quadruplets, yesterday gave birth to twins. She now has nine children.
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Coed Marked for Abduction At Arkansas U Campus
University of Arkansas coeds walked the Fayetteville campus after Miss Clare Thomas a 23 year old senior from Clarendon said she was abducted Wednesday night by two men who hit her with a bottle and forced her into a sedan for two hours before being released near the administration building. Police and university officials said the incident prompted plans for extra night watchmen and lighting in campus areas.
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University of Arkansas
Ing
Jeannettte Scudder
Miss Thomas
Milk Probe Ordered by Cortland Grand Jury
Cortland County Grand Jury will begin an investigation April 6 to determine whether milk dealers in the county engaged in illegal price fixing. District Attorney John J. Gardiner said several persons were subpoenaed and that the office has watched the milk dealers’ activities for more than a month. He noted that the Cortland County Milk Council held meetings where price raises were discussed. The price of Grade A bottled milk rose from 17 cents a quart in July 1946 to 22 cents a quart now.
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Cortland ‘County
John J. Gardiner
Gardner
Cortland County Milk Council
Mine destroys ship Miss Orient off Canton killing 100
A motorship named Miss Orient exploded after striking a mine six miles east of Canton. About 300 passengers were aboard and roughly 100 were killed with many injured passengers taken to Canton. Pirates were blamed for the mine after owners refused extortion demands.
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President Cabinet Session Briefly Concludes
Washington leaders say President and cabinet met for about 15 minutes in a routine session. Afterward officials stated no major problems were discussed and no policy decisions were announced.
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Roman Men
Aembers
Jeep prophecy clashes with Rockefeller wager in Base Rocks
In Base Rocks Massachusetts sugar dealer Fitton B Tucker recounts a young man meeting a Rockefeller. The youth touted a future hundred dollar family jeep within a year but Rockefeller challenged him to guarantee it would actually run.
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Base Rocks
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Rockefellers
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