Income Taxes In U S Face Real Boost
The House Ways and Means Committee directs its tax subcommittee to craft methods to raise at least 200 million dollars more revenue to lift the National Defense Tax bill to 850 million a year and potentially up to 1 billion. Proposals include broadening the income tax base and higher middle-bracket surtaxes, with exemptions reduced from 1000 to 800 for singles and from 2500 to 1800 for married couples.
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WASHINGTON
House Wars 2nd Means committee
Robert L. Coughton
Jeve Cooper
D. Tenn
Coughton
treasury
House
Ways and Means
Weather outlook Ohio shows clouds with regional showers
Cloudy in Ohio with locally scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Mild warmth gives way to cooler readings in the far north tonight. Thursday prints as partly cloudy and cooler with scattered showers in the southern area.
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OHIO
Allied Planes Bomb German Industrial Area
Allied air forces attacked the Ruhr region and German bases in Holland and Belgium after a second German night raid on Le Havre. German sorties bombed Le Havre for an hour from 9 53 p m as fires erupted across the city.
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PARIS
Germany
Le Havre
Munich
Frankfurt
Ruhr
Holland
Belgium
Garment Workers Union Rejoins AFL After Ruling Vote
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union voted 640 to 12 to rejoin the American Federation of Labor in New York. The 250,000 member body had left AFL for CIO in its early days and later distanced itself from CIO amid labor movement disunity. The executive board backed the move after AFL President William Green pledged to address two major obstacles to re-entry.
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NEW YORK
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
American Federation of Labor
AFL
CIO
Congress of Industrial Organizations
labor
Wiliam Green
Somme River Gives Strong Shelter to Defending Armies
United Press War expert notes the Somme barrier fortifies the Allied south bank and blocks German attempts to cross. He says the river enables flanking from General Wei Gand's forces, makes a straightened front risky for Germany, and suggests prolonged combat if the Allies hold the south bank.
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Somme
Germany
Paris
Luxemburg
Soissons
Abbeville
Hitler
Belgium
Britons Say Nazis Concealing Losses Across Amien Front
London reports British military sources say German armored units attack French lines on both sides of Amiens but no major breakthrough is expected. They estimate 2.5 million German troops engaged in Flanders with 400,000 to 500,000 casualties, many among infantry and parachutists.
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LONDON
Amiens
Germany
Flanders
Flanders campaign, was made by the milltary
milltary
Austria
PARIS
U.P
France
Paul Reynaud
Somme
Aisne
Maginot
English Channel
LIntransigeant
Oise
Compiegne
Rome Claims Seven Italians Executed By The French
The Stefani News Agency in Brussels reports French military officials executed seven Italians at Vieux Campusnaire on espionage charges after a drumhead court martial. The dispatch states the Italian consulate at Charleroi supplied the claim and accuses France of further crimes against Italians in Belgium.
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ROME
Stefani
Brussels
Belgium
Vieux Campusnaire
Iitalian
Charleroi
Harshaw Chemical Co Founder Passes
William A. Harshaw 79 founder and chairman of Harshaw Chemical Co died in Cleveland. He started the Elyria plant in 1898 after founding the company in 1891. Survivors include wife Frances and daughters Mrs Lux Mrs Standish Smith and Mrs Frederick S Howard and sons William J and John A. Funeral from Highwood Gates Mills Thursday at 2 30 p m. Burial private.
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Willam A. Harshaw
W Harshaw Chemical Co
Harshaw
Elyria
Frances Harshaw
W. W. Lux
Standish Smith
Frederick S. Howard
Willam J
John A
Highwood
Gates Mills
Roosevelt welcomes new grandson in Boston birth
Anne Clark Roosevelt 23 wife of John Roosevelt youngest son gave birth to a seven pound nine ounce boy at Richardson House Boston Lying-In Hospital. The birth adds another grandchild to the Roosevelt family in the nation’s capital era.
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BOSTON
Anne Clark Roosevelt
John
Richardson House
U S Bolsters Assurances To Canada
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed an administration resolution to deter totalitarian incursions in the western hemisphere. It urges non recognition of any transfer of western territory between powers, supports Monroe doctrine principles, and calls for consultation among American republics if a transfer appears imminent. The House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed a similar measure with minor wording changes.
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WASHINGTON
Senate Foreign Relations committee
western hemisphere
United States
Americas
Senate committee
House Foreign Affairs committee
Roosevelt
Canada
Dutch West Indies
Honduras
South Sheiland
Falkland Islands
South Atlantic
House
hemisphere
French Captain Describes Dunkirk Beach Terror
A Dunkirk defender reached England after two hours adrift. He spoke of thousands stranded on the bloodstained beach as German bombs and guns rained down. He and 67 other Frenchmen fled in lifeboats and improvised craft, marking the last escape wave to reach South Coast ports.
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LONDON
Hitler vows to annihilate Britain and France in renewed war
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler pledges to pursue the war for freedom and to annihilate Britain and France. He orders a resumption of action on the western front and praises generals for a victory in Flanders and Artois, signaling immediate renewed Allied combat.
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Hitler
Britain
France
BERLIN
Adolf Hitler
Great Britain
west front
western
Flanders
Artois
Nazi Offensive Near Britain Raises Alarm Over Somme Clash
London reports heavy explosions along the French coast signaling Germany’s blitzkreig drawing close to Britain. British experts call the Somme battle sudden and dangerous as speculation about a German offensive follows the fall of Flanders.
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LONDON
Germany
continent
Britain
Somme
PARIS
Aisne
Maginot Line
Commencement Excitement Doubled in Elyria Graduates
Commencement excitement peaks in Elyria and vicinity with seven double family pairs among the graduates. Tonight two siblings William and Lois Fell and Bernard and William Linden will receive diplomas, while tomorrow five more pairs including Emma and Manan Messaros Joseph and Justin Plas Betty Lou and Lois Jean Smith Ralph and Robert Shapero and Marjorie Mae and William Woodfill graduate.
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Elyria high school
William
Lois Fell
Ohio street
Charles Fell
Bernard
Wiliam Linden
Murray Ridge
ron
A A Linden
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Manan W. Messaros
West River street
Albert Messaros
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Justin Plas
East River street
Harmon Plas
Betty Lou
Lois Jean Smith
Cleveland street
A. C Smith
Ralph
Robert Lee Shapero
Ben Shapero
Marjorie Mae
William C Woodfill
Gulf road
C. C. Woodfill
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