Ways and Means OKs 12 Percent Income Tax Rise
Washington June 7 The House Ways and Means committee approved a 12 percent increase in individual income taxes and a five percentage point rise in corporate rates as part of a $7.1 billion tax package. They backed a 90 percent ceiling on total personal tax take and a 70 percent cap on corporate earnings, with broadening of the excess profits tax to come up for vote later. The panel also proposed a capital gains rate increase to 28.5 percent for both sides and debated whether to hold the corporate tax ceiling at 62 or raise it to 70 percent.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
U N forces near western tip of iron triangle in Korea
U N forces report Communist reinforcements from Manchuria streaming toward Korea to reinforce the iron triangle bastion. Red troops vow a stand or die defense as convoys and troops move along both coasts toward Pyongyang, the triangle apex.
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Tokyo
U.P
Manchuria
Korea
Iron Triangle
U. N
Pyongyang
Wiley High School Principal W. S. Forney to Retire
Wiley High School principal W. Scott Forney will retire when his contract ends July 31 after twenty four years. He announced the move to the senior class during rehearsal and will make it official at a Wiley faculty meeting Friday. Forney has overseen 6,036 graduates at Wiley and 106 other diplomas under the current arrangement. He began as principal in 1927 succeeding George C. Carroll and earned degrees from Indiana University and Columbia University. He plans to live in Terre Haute with no immediate postretirement plans.
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W. Scott Forney
Wiley High School
Forney
Wiley
Theii
George C. Carroll
Indiana University
Columbia University
Terre Haute
Southern Alberta Recovers After Sudden June Snowfall
Calgary report says a freak June storm dropped about 16 inches of wet snow in two days, covering streets and delaying activities as residents begin cleanup and recovery efforts.
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Calgary
Alta
Alberta
Weather Update From U S Weather Bureau
The bulletin shows sunrise at 5 23 and sunset at 8 44. River stage at noon is 61 and at 2 pm is falling. Forecast minutes indicate a gradual drop and continued change through the afternoon.
Local Weather Summary From Yesterday
Yesterday saw a high of 75 degrees and a low of 59 with trace precipitation. No significant weather events reported.
Weather outlook for Terre Haute and nearby regions
Cloudy conditions with minimal temperature changes forecast tonight and Friday. Showers begin late this afternoon or early evening and continue through Friday. Temperatures forecast lows around 58 with highs near 73 in Indiana and varying forecasts across Illinois.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
U.S. Sees Path to Atomic War Win as H bomb Near
Chairman Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission said the hydrogen super bomb is nearing realization and the United States could win an atomic war against Russia. He announced rapid progress, more frequent tests, and a doubling of the production plant. Dean also spoke of atomic engines for submarines and airplanes and a planned 100 kilowatt atomic breeder at Arco Idaho. He claimed Eniwetok tests aided both research and development of such weapons.
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New York
Gordon Dean
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Dean
Commission
United States
New York State Chamber of Commerce
Russia
Arco
Ida
Eniwetok
Pacific Proving Ground
Seven Nazi war criminals hanged at Landsberg prison
Seven condemned Nazi leaders were executed by the U S Army at Landsberg Germany after four years of appeals. The killings mark the last of 275 executions by U S war crimes tribunals from 1946 to 1947. Each spoke a final line before the trap door opened at midnight.
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Richard K. O'Malley
Landsberg
Germany
United States Army
U.S. Supreme Court
Adolf Hitler
France
United States
Meet Death in Rio Wreck
A jammed commuter train hit a stalled gasoline truck near Rio de Janeiro and 80 to 100 people burned to death in the flaming fuel. About fifty others were injured as the blaze spread across the first and last cars. The train traveled from Quemados to Rio and struck the truck carrying 4,500 gallons near Nova Iguassu at 4:25 a m.
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Railway Central Do Brasil
Quemados
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Strikes It Rich In Oil Millionaire Bet
Ten years after betting $5 that Drake University student Ted Webber would be a millionaire before 30, Ray Restione learned he lost as Webber, now a Tulsa oilman, told Des Moines lawyer Robert Riley he has surpassed the million dollar mark.
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N. J
Ray Restione
Ted Webber
Drake University
Restone
Webber
Tulsa
Robert Riley
Des Moines
Ray
Riley
Nurses to join 810 graduates in 80th ISTeachers College commencement
Thirty six nurses from T H Hospitals participate in the 80th annual commencement at Indiana State Teachers College alongside 774 graduates. Names span Terre Haute, Montezuma, Minneapolis, Greenup, Oaktown, Crawfordsville, Jasonville, Princeton and Vincennes with honors awarded at summer ceremonies.
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Indiana State Teachers College
Beam Ct
Anthony Hospital
Cave Wt
Sbeeeeewesny Tocome
Adeline Ambrosini
Patsy Isles
Mary Virginia Moore
Barbara Norman
Joan Poths
Carolyn Sisson
Mary Stephenson
Beverly Weast
Evelyn Weast
Terre Haute
Margaret Akers
Montezuma
Patricia Dalton
Minneapolis
Minn
Marilyn Dooley
Greenup
Ill
Barbara Downey
Oaktown
Elizabeth Heller
Anthony
N. M
Joan Lister
Lewis
Merna Mayfield
Shelburn
Patricia Ross
Crawfordsville
Margaret Vickers
Jasonville
Mary
Disabled Vets Open Indiana Meeting Friday
Terre Haute hosts a three day Indiana convention of Disabled American Veterans with 560 delegates planned. Local commander Leon Von Schepper leads a 29 member delegation as officers are elected and events run from a Friday dinner to a Saturday parade banquet and memorial services.
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Terre Haute House
Clarence OO
Monroe
Hartford City
Indiana
Leon von Schepper
Terre Haute
D.A.V
Mayflower Room
Ralph Tucker
von Schepper
Robert Graves
New Albany
North Ninth Street
Emery Keegan, Jr
Josephine Justin
Mayflower
National Guard
Charles Broadhurst
Wayne Bilderback
Frank Wamser
Lewis Caton
Larry Jewell
Strike Holds At Terre Haute Brewing Plant
A Terre Haute Brewery strike neared an end as one grievance was resolved and 550 idle workers gathered nearby. Oscar Baur, the company president, said an unfair firing led to the stoppage and that the worker would be reinstated, though several working condition grievances remain unresolved. Leonard Conrad of Local Union No. 85 noted more issues besides the firing.
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Terre Haute
Oscar Baur
Leonard Conrad
Brewery Workers Local Union No
C.I.0
Ninth and
Oak Streets
Baruch Warns Against Removal of Controls
Bernard Baruch warned that removing price wage and rent controls would be a tragic blow to defense production. He said national interest must come first and urged lawmakers to extend controls under the Defense Production Act as the law nears expiration.
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Washington
Bernard Baruch
Moody
D.mich
New York
Elder Statesman
Senate Banking Committee
Michigan
Baruch
General Motors
C.S.T
Eric Johnston
Johnston
House Approval Of Draft-UNIT Expected Soon
Washington reports House expected to approve the compromise universal military training bill. The measure extends the draft to July 1, 1955, lengthens service to 24 months, requires 18 to 26 year olds to register, lowers draft age to 18, and includes aliens. A national security training commission would design a program pending congressional approval.
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House
Senate House
Senate
White House
Truman
UMT
National Security Training Commission
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Five Youths Held in Miami Blast Investigation
Five teenage youths were detained by police in Miami as part of a probe into a series of dynamite blasts aimed at public buildings. Authorities sought to locate dynamite caches reportedly carried by the youths, sometimes up to 60 sticks, with the latest blast damaging a half-built Miami Jewish center.
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Miami
Fla
Allies seize key peaks in Korea near Charwon and Kumhwa
Allied troops tighten hold on Mount Kodae and Kwangdok Mountain south of Charwon and Kumkwa as they push along the 125 mile front. They repulse battalion sized counterattacks and gain ground toward the iron triangle while reporting heavy enemy losses.
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United Nations
Kodae
Charwon
Chorwon
38Th Parallel
U.N
Border troop moves denied by U S ambassador in Tehran
In Tehran on June 7, U S Ambassador Henry F. Grady denied Iranian reports of unusual Soviet troop movements along Iran's northern frontier. He said checks in the past 10 days show some increased activity but nothing of particular significance. Iran had earlier cited top army sources describing unprecedented Soviet military maneuvers including tanks artillery and planes since mid-April amid tensions over a British oil dispute.
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Iran
U.S
Henry F. Grady
Britain
Grady
Britain searches for two high ranking officials
London June 7. The British Foreign Office suspended Donald MacLean head of the American department and Guy Burgess of the Far Eastern division as reports say they fled to Russia. They disappeared May 25 and were said to have gone to France. French police, Scotland Yard and British agents hunted them in Paris. The Foreign Office said there is no evidence they removed documents.MacLean allegedly had a breakdown.
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U.P
Russia
Wenn
Deitieh Naling
France
Foreign Office
Donald MacLean
Guy Burgess
Scotland Yard
Paris
Moscow
Foreign Service
MacLean
Voice says Russia covertly seeks Korean peace moves
The Voice of America reports Russia sponsored indirect peace moves for Korea but asserts such moves must be open to be sincere. It accuses Soviet delegate Malik of being caught unprepared as Washington denies official reports of peace feelers.
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Washington
U.P
Voice of America
Russia
United Nations
The
Voice
Jacob Malik
U.N
Dean Acheson
State Department
Malik
Soviet Union
Sven Grafts
House Passes Grain Grant to Aid India Famine
The House approved a $190 million loan to India to buy U.S. grain for famine relief. The vote was 255 to 82, sending the measure to the Senate in a compromise between House and Senate versions.
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Washington
House
Senate
India
U.S
Richardson resigns SACB post amid illness and criticism
Seth W. Richardson, 71, quits as chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board. In his resignation letter to President Truman he cites need for critical surgical attention. Truman accepts the resignation effective June 30 with reluctance. White House releases letters. Richardson, a Republican, has led the board since its creation under the 1950 McCarran Act.
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Seth W. Richardson
Subversive Activities Control Board
SACB
Richardson
Truman
White House
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Disabled Vets Open
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