State Aids Tax Plan Easing Hinted by Governor
Dewey aides indicate the administration may soften its hard line on the $111,000,000 local tax program enacted in 1947. Moore and Breitel address the 24th annual summer conference, noting local taxing powers exist but are flexible. Upstate counties largely reject permissive taxes, while education funding may require a $65 million boost.
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Dewey
Moore
Breitel
Zficers Association
New York
Alger
Chapman
Svere
Lake George
Erie
Upstate
Paul R. Mort
Columbia University
State Educational Conference Board
UAW Dues Paying Membership Falls From Postwar Peak
The United Automobile Workers dues paying membership declined to 810000 for August, down by more than 100000 from the postwar peak reached last May.
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Buffalo
C.I.0
United Automobile Workers
Delicatessen Shop Feature Sparks Editorial Row
A lively page note criticizes greasy, unkempt deli staff while praising the Delicatessen Shop as wonderful. The piece appears in today’s feature section with other notes on pages 54 and 45.
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Paul Gallico
Weere Amusements
City Life
Earl Wilson
Winchell
Warm Weather Persists With Scattered Showers
The Syracuse area sees warm conditions with a chance of scattered showers later in the afternoon and again Friday as a cool air mass moves east. Much of the Atlantic coast remains warm with high readings in New England, while rain is reported across the Midwest and Southwest.
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Syracuse
Atlantic
New England
Midwest
Wreckage of Cargo Plane Crashes in Colorado
A US Army C 47 twin engined cargo plane with three crew members aboard crashed 330 miles south of Denver near Castle Rock Spruce Mountain. Sheriff Hammond found the wreckage near a bluff off the Denver Colorado Springs highway after a bus driver alerted authorities. Bodies were mangled and two crew were found thrown clear. The crash occurred during a wind and rain storm last night.
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Denver
Lowry Field
Spruce
Castle’ Rock
Hammond
Jews Snarl Processing at German Camps
British officials screening Exodus 1947 refugees said the 4 311 Jews at Poppendorf and another camp near Lübeck are obstinate and causing trouble by trying to snag up the processing. The refugees were brought to Germany after forced debarkation from a British transport convoy following failed attempts to enter Palestine.
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Luebeck
Germany
Pop‘pendorf
Here
Palestine
Flivver Fliers Leave Cairo for Baghdad Flight
Clifford W. Evans of Washington D C and George W. Truman of Los Angeles, two former Army pilots, departed Cairo in two Piper Cub planes for Baghdad covering 808 miles with a seven hour target. They had arrived Cairo after a nonstop Rome to Cairo leg, having left the United States August 9.
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Cairo
Baghdad
Clifford W. Evans
Washington, D. C
George W. Truman
Los Angeles
Rome
United States
Grimethorpe Miners Vote to End Five-Week Strike
Yorkshire miners back to work after Grimethorpe vote ends a five week unauthorized strike that pulled 60,000 workers from Yorkshire pits. Other miners in the region supported the action, deepening Britain’s coal shortage during an economic crisis.
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London
Grimethorpe
England
Yorkshire
Britain
New Drain On Purse As Grain Prices Soar
The piece notes rising prices across grains and fats, with wheat corn oats soybeans and barley at peak levels and cattle and hog futures at record highs. The Agricultural Department's crops report predicts a 1947 corn yield of 2.4 billion bushels, down from last year, while a possible special session of Congress on European relief could boost grain shipments.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Agricultural Department
Congress
Europe
Church Punishes Priests Attackers in Yugoslav Venezia
The Sacred Congregation of the Council of the Roman Catholic Church excommunicates the aggressors of Father Milo Bulesich who was killed and Msgr. Jakob Akmar wounded during a disorder on August 24 at Lanische in the Yugoslav zone of Venezia Giulia.
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Vatican City
Sacred Congregation of the Council of the Roman Catholic Church
Milo
Bulesich
Msgr
Jakob Akmar
Lanische
Venezia
Giulia
Gen Lerch Dies Of Heart Ailment In Korea
Maj. Gen. Archer L. Lerch, former provost marshal and longtime Army officer, died today in Seoul at age 53 from a heart ailment. He had served as military governor of the southern Korea zone starting January 4, 1946, with his commander noting his strenuous duties hastened his death.
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Seoul
Archer L. Lerch
Korea
Lerch
Woman estate owner collects rents to save expense
A humorous exchange from a local page shows a woman landlord telling her tenant she kept up rents to save costs. When the tenant notes the kitchen is in bad shape the owner replies with a quip about her own appearance after five years without paint.
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Brown
Egyptians Protests Turn Violent At U.S. Consulate Port Said
Thousands of Egyptians protest over United Nations Security Council deadlock in the Anglo Egyptian dispute. Rioters attack British sites, deface statues, and clash with police. 7,000 workers join strikes in Alexandria and Port Said with injuries reported among police and demonstrators.
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Cairo
INS
Port Said
United Nations Security Council
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Suez Canal
Alexandria
Security Council
Britain
British to Drop High Film Tax If U S Proposals Reach
London report says the British government planned to abandon its 75 percent tax on Hollywood films today if U S producers can propose alternatives to reduce the balance of payments. The move hinges on acceptable suggestions from industry representatives.
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London
INS
U. S
Eisenhower Rules Out Any Draft Motion
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, visiting Columbia University, said he would not join any draft movement or anything artificial and would answer to Ike for life. He noted there is no such thing as an artificial draft in American politics.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Army
Eisenhower
Ike
Neptune
Plan to Use Sugamo War Criminals in Allied Labor
Tokyo reports discuss sending at least some of Sugamo prison war criminals to labor projects for Allied forces after the occupation ends. About 1,100 prisoners exist, with over half not yet tried, and the plan would restrict outside work to those already convicted and serving 20 years or less.
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Tokyo
Sugamo
Russia blocks constructive work at UN atomic panel
United States atomic deputy Fred Lavick Osborn told the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission that Russia seeks to impede progress. He said real security comes only from a world organization that ends rivalries. The U S moved to drop the Balkan question from the Security Council to allow the General Assembly to act.
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Lake Success
Fredlavick HH. Osborn
United States Atomic Deputy
Russia
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Osborn
United States
Balkan
Security Council
General Assembly
Truman Set Off Easy In Razing Aboard
President Truman survives a hazing rite at sea as King Neptune grants him shell back status after a speech. Assistants face paddling, ducking, and other indignities while Mrs. Truman is spared though daughter Margaret participates musically. Steelman endures a fearsome, electric rite.
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Truman
U.S.S. Missouri
President Truman
King Neptune
Mr. Truman
John R. Steelman
United States Gains Influence in Western Germany Through Ruhr Coal Plan
Fresh details show Britain unable to fund western Germany recovery. Washington strengthens role via a joint British American board to oversee Ruhr coal mining. The shift aims to restore European conditions for development free from heavy outside political pressure, notably communism.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Britain
Europe
Ruhr
London
Parade Baseball Headlines and Parade Features Preview
Major league rookies headline the issue with glossy photos of new stars. Dorothy Grover, a Freeport youngster, shines on the cover as one of the nation’s best. Includes Gen Kenneth Cramer feature on Guard recruitment, a Mississippi flood impact graphic, Beth Merriman oyster dish, Hy Gardner’s Newsreel, and Parade’s weekly progress and inventions section.
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Freeport
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GUARD
Kenneth Cramer
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National Guard
Ken Purdy
Parade
Hy Gardner
Robert and
Shirley ‘Frazier
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