Truman bids for tax hikes to curb inflation in defense push
President Truman outlines an $8.6 billion foreign aid package and a pay as you go budget, urging a $10 billion tax increase this year. He cites defense outlays rising to about 65 billion annually, with military production surging and inflationary pressures from higher employment and goods shortages. He calls for authority to build defense plants, stable currency and credit controls, margin regulation on futures, practical wage policy, rent control, and approval of the St Lawrence seaway project. The white stork is believed to be monogamous.
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Truman
Congress
Trunan
Federal Reserve System
House Bil
St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
Petain Dies Under Sentence For Treason In 1945
Marshal Petain the French wartime hero was found guilty of intelligence with the German enemy and sentenced to death with national indignity and confiscation of property. De Gaulle commuted the sentence, and he is to serve his term on Port Joinville Island. Burial plans place him on the island rather than Verdun.
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Petain
Charles de Gaulle
Jtinia
France
Ife
Nantes
Port Joinvile
Verdun
Rev Reese Is Guest Speaker At Boonsboro Church
The First Christian Church of Boonsboro hosted guest preacher Rev Donald R Reese of Mt Lena yesterday due to the pastor's illness. Congregation plans to invite a guest minister each Sunday, with Rev Conrad W McDonald slated to speak July 29 before moving to Lake City Florida. Services start at 8 p m. The piece also notes the whippet as a cross between a greyhound and a terrier.
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First Christian Church
Boonsboro
Donald R. Reese
Mt. Lena
Walter S. Fisher
Conrad W. McDonald
Lake City
Florida
Downeville
Congress Builds Support to Deal Spain in U S Aid Program
Washington reports rising support in Congress for the administrations foreign aid program including a plan to bring Spain into the aid package in exchange for use of air and sea bases. Talks with Franco Spain and Eisenhower contacts frame ongoing debate as officials weigh military and economic assistance.
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U. S
Franco
Washington
U.S
Adinistration
Western Europe
Truman
Madrid
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Italy
Sherman
Acheson
United States
Obituaries continued for Keedysville and Hagerstown figures
Obituary notices list E Rowe of Keedysville with sister Anna Routzahn of Hagerstown and family survivors. Emma M Kline, widow of Lewis A Kline, dies at daughter Olive Hose’s home. survivors include Irene Bowers and S Hoye. Services set for Monday and interments at Rose Hill. Russell Robert Lea Johnston of Hagerstown Rt. 1 dies at Washington County Hospital. service Tuesday at Kravss Chapel with Rose Hill Cemetery burial.
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Keedynville
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Hagerstown
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Karl J. Warner
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Lewis A. Kline
Olive A. Hose
Mulberry Avenue
Trinity Lutheran Church
Hose
Irene V. Bowers
S. Hoye
R. Lewis
David A. Hays
Damascus
Alice Motsinger
Cannton
Ill
Urner Boger
Milton Roberts
Detroit
Minvich
Wilson P. Ard
Rose Hill Cemetery
Russell Robert Lea Johnston
Missing DC-4 Search Expands Over Alaska Coast
In Juneau Alaska on July 23 rescuers widened a search for a Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-4 missing with eight aboard. The aircraft last reported near Cape Spencer at 12 17 a m PST on course at 9000 feet about 80 miles west of Juneau. Weather improved but the search area remains one of the wildest on the North American continent. Captain Victor Fox was pilot.
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Alaska
Canadian Pacific Airlines
North American
Victor Fox
Cape Spencer
Fox
Nickle A Bottle Pop Price Ceiling Set July 28
OPS authorized bottlers to raise prices to retailers to a top of 96 cents per case effective July 28, risking a six cent rise per bottle. Coca Cola may keep current price while others plan increases. applies to six and twelve ounce bottles. Harrisburg action urges strong steps for wartime release of William M. Quatts and expulsion of Tass Moscow Pravda correspondent.
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Associated Press
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Moscow
Pravda
Flood Forces Power Cut and Transport Disruptions in Missouri
Floods along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers cut power to over 15,000 residents in St. Charles County for about three and a half hours as a temporary link failed. A baby was delivered at St. Joseph's Hospital with battery power during the outage. The Wabash Railroad bridge near St. Charles was closed, canceling two daily trains to St. Louis. At Cape Girardeau the railroad station flooded and water reached parts of the business district while the Mississippi River was expected to crest soon.
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Missouri
St. Charles County
Missouri River
St. Joseph's Hospital
St. Charles
St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Guns Boom For Murdered King Abdullah Funeral
In Amman and Jerusalem, Arab Legion guns boomed at one minute intervals as King Abdullah’s body was carried to burial. Flags draped the coffin. Abdullah was killed at the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem. Jerusalem remained tense as guards secured the ancient city.
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Jordan
Arab Legion
Abdullah
Royal
Omar
Jerusalem
Irrelis
Metal Is Removed Right From Heart
In Bakersfield a 42 year old man named Tatton Spieffing survived after a metal fragment from a cutting machine pierced his heart. He lingered near death for six weeks in a Bakersfield hospital before a thoracic surgeon operated at St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank and removed the metal, which the patient held yesterday as he recovered.
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Burbank
Calif
Bakersfield
Bakersfield Garvage
St. Joseph Hospital
Internal security claim sparks vigilance in Israel
The passage notes Jordan asserting that military preparations are for internal security and not aimed at Israel, while Israel responds with heightened vigilance amid unclear sandbagged positions and renewed concern about potential actions at the old city battle ments.
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Jordan
Israel
Lopes New President of Portugal Grabs Power
Lisbon July 23 1936 Graveiro Lopes, an 83 year old yesterday elected Portugal’s new president, backed by strongman Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. He won without opposition.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Alan
Ciaco Graveiro Lopes
Antonio de Oliviera Salazar
Graveiro Lopes
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