President Truman Vetoes Proposed Income Tax Cut
President Truman vetoed the Republican plan to cut income taxes arguing it was the wrong kind of relief at the wrong time. He said the cuts would hurt the treasury and favor high earners over the low income group, leaving questions about future reductions unresolved.
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Washington
Truman
House
Senate
McCormack
Mass
Congress
Carroll Reece
Roosevelt
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Tiny Randash Quad Duo Born With Four Daughters
Miles City reports the Randash quadruplets born Saturday morning include Donna Mae 1 lb 12 oz who began eye dropper feeding Monday but remained in very precarious condition. Nurses assigned to Donna Mae, while Dorothy Hilda Dolores Marie and Dean Miles were described as holding their own. Father Edward Randash recalled military service in Germany as he awaits all four to pull through.
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Miles City
Donna Mae Randash
Randash
Donna Mae
Elna Howard
Montana
Edward Randash
Baker
Mont
Howard
Daisy Prentice
Helena
House Approves Wool Price Support Setup
The House approved a conference report on wool price support with import restrictions up to 50 percent, enabling the President to act if foreign wool threatens domestic industry. The measure would back prices at 1946 levels through 1948 via the Commodity Credit Corporation and authorize sales of surplus wool to compete with imports.
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Washington
U.P
House
George C. Marshall
Senate
Sam Rayburn
State Department
Tariff Commission
Commodity Credit Corporation
Harold D. Cooley
D-N.c
Marshall
Cordell Hull
William L. Clayton
Clinton P. Anderson
Clifford Hope
House Agriculture Committee
Stephen Pace
D-Ga
Rayburn
Rankin Announces 1948 Senate Bid in GOP Primary
Wellington D. Rankin, Helena attorney and former U S attorney, announced in Missoula that he will seek the Republican nomination for U S senator in 1948. Rankin, who lost the 1942 race by 1,212 votes to James E. Murray, carried 29 counties to Murray’s 27. He served as attorney general, state supreme court justice, and eight years as U S attorney under Coolidge and Hoover.
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Missoula
Wellington D. Rankin
Helena
United States
Rankin
James E. Murray
Murray
Republican State Organization
Carroll Reece
Republican National
State Supreme Court
Coolidge
Hoover
Girl Drowns in Wyoming Stream
Nancy Carol Zampedri 11 daughter of Mr and Mrs Blasi Zampedri drowned Sunday in Black Fork south of Fort Bridger Coroner Gilbert Bills Evanston reported.
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Evanston
Wyo
Nancy Carol Zampedri
Blasi Zampedri
Black Fork
Fort Bridger
Gilibert Bills
States to Get Year to Join Road Plan
The Senate sent to the White House a bill extending by one year the deadline for states to obligate postwar highway funds. Congress had appropriated 500 million dollars annually for three years starting in 1947, with a June 30 deadline to commit the full allotments or have the money revert to the U.S. Treasury.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Congress
United States Treasury
Wallace Urges Truman to Invite Stalin for Berlin Talks
Henry A Wallace called on President Truman to invite Premier Stalin to meet in Berlin as a first step toward world peace. Wallace urged a new practical policy replacing the Dulles-Vandenberg stance, proposed a complete ban on traffic in weapons, nationalization of munitions industries, and vigorous housing and health programs. The speech at Watergate amphitheater drew 9,000 attendees amid anti Communist scrutiny by the House committee on un American activities.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
Stalin
Berlin
New Republic
Watergate Amphitheater
American anti-Communist Association
Wallace
Democratic Party
Party of Peace
United States
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Wallace and
Clark Foreman
Russia Suggests Returning World Police Plan to U.N.
Lake Success June 16. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko proposed sending the entire world police force question back to the United Nations for study after the Security Council finishes its committee report discussions. He warned that voting on controversial parts now could invite a big power veto.
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Lake Success
Russia
United Nations
Security Council
Andrei A. Gromyko
Senate Restores 54 Million for Interior Budget
The Senate, with little opposition, restored 54 million dollars cut by the House to the Interior department’s 1948 supply bill, sending the measure to conference and urging conferees to keep the funding. The restored total is about 27 percent below Truman’s request, with 36 million for western reclamation projects.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
House
Interior Department
Truman
Kenneth S. Wherry
Rneb
Senate Appropriations Committee
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Bonneville Power Administration
Davis Dam
Central Valley
Hungry Horse
Colorado
Big Thompson
Columbia Basin
Missouri River Basin
Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
H. H. Bennett
Department
Bureau of Soil Conservation
Ahepa Elects District Officers at Montana Conference
Peter D. Lambros of Missoula was elected district governor at the Ahepa district convention closing session in the Finlen hotel. Gus Carkulis, Gus Marinos, and Gus Luru were chosen as lieutenant governor secretary treasurer and marshal, with Missoula selected to host the 1948 meeting. The Daughters of Penelope named Mrs. Peter Paul district governess, and Mrs. William Paulas and Mrs. Phoebe Todd also elected to officer roles. The convention adopted a resolution pledging 100 percent support to the U S government and president on all issues domestic or foreign.
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Peter D. Lambros
Missoula
Order of Ahepa
Finlen Hotel
Montana
Wyoming
Gus Carkulis
Butte
Gus Marinos
Gus Luru
Great Falls
Daughters of Penelope
The
Peter Paul
William Paulas
Great Paul
Phoebe Todd
United States
Plane Shot Down by Rifle Bullet
In Santa Monica a light plane carrying actor Jon Hall and singer Frances Langford was struck by a rifle bullet that nicked the propeller causing a rough crash landing at Clover Field. All aboard—Hall Langford and pilot Bill Horner—escaped injury. the gun club shooter is a 14 year old boy believed responsible.
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Santa Monica
Calif
UPI
Jon Hall
Frances Langford
Hall
Miss Langford
Bill Horner
Republic CV
Clover Field
Weather Outlook for Butte and Montana Tuesday
Partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms Tuesday and little temperature change. Montana expects considerable cloudiness with showers, thunderstorms, and cooler conditions in the west and south. Highs generally 65 to 75.
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Montana
United Nations Board Opens Asia Regional Meeting
The first regional United Nations economic commission meeting in Asia opened in Shanghai with 60 delegates from 10 nations. Chinese delegate T. F. Tsiang was elected chairman amid opposition from the Soviet Union, after support from India and the United States.
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Shanghai
United Nations Commission
Asia
Russia
United Nations Economic Commission For
Far East
R. K. Nehru
T. F. Tsiang
Mennett B. Davis
United States
Alexander F. Stetsenko
Tsiang
Stetsenko
A. D. K. Owen
United Nations Department of Economic Affairs
United Nations
China
Great Britain
India
Australia
France
The
Netherlands
Philippines
Siam
Republican leaders predict GOP victory in Montana and nation
MISSOULA June 16 Fore casts of a Republican victory next year in both state and nation were made at a party gathering by three speakers. Chairman Carroll Reece, Gov. Sam C. Ford and Chairman George M. Gosman forecast a Republican President and a solid Montana delegation. Gosman announced an August interim meeting in Helena with county GOP heads and Young Republicans to map the 1948 campaign. Reece praised Congress for keeping promises made in 1946 despite opposition from the administration.
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Missoula
Carroll Reece
Republican National Committee
Sam C. Ford
George M. Gosman
Republican State Committee
Reece
Ford
Montana
Gosman
Beaverhead County
State Organization
State Committee
Helena
Congress
Dan Whetstone
Cut Bank
Aubrey Knowles
Helena minister's son drowns at Meadow Lake
Frank Waldron, 12 year old son of Rev H M Waldron of Helena First Christian church, drowned in Meadow Lake near Ennis on Monday after falling from a tail race at Madison dam. His father and a companion tried to reach him but darkness stopped the search. A patrol was formed to resume Tuesday morning.
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H. M. Waldron
Helena First
Hungarian Reds Stage Brawl at Szabadsg Meeting
In Szeged, Hungary, on June 16, a confrontation between nearly 150 Communists and about 15,000 bystanders erupted at a Szabadsag party meeting. Police intervened after a brutal melee that left several seriously injured and led to adjournment and dispersal by 500 officers.
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Szeged
Hungary
Fokes
Szabadsag
Freedom
Freedom Party
Tisza
UN Commission backs loans to aid stability for recipient nations
At Lake Success on June 16 the United Nations economic and employment commission rejected a Russian bid to block foreign loans. The panel voted 9 to 0 to support a resolution encouraging loans and credits aimed at economic stability and reconstruction for countries receiving aid.
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Lake Success
United Nations Economic and Employment Commission
United States
Greece
Turkey
Curley of Boston Loses Appeal
Supreme Court rejects Mayor James M. Curley of Boston's appeal for a second time leaving probation or executive clemency as the main path to avoid a jail term of six to 18 months for mail fraud. Curley, 72, is hospitalized in Scituate after a battle with high blood pressure, while petitions for probation circulate in Boston and Massachusetts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James M. Curley
Boston
Curley
High Court
Massachusetts
District Court
Engineers’ Group, Incorporated
Truman
Scituate
Mass
General Products Company
War Contracts Price Adjustment Board
Albert Silk Coal Company
Topeka
Kan
Justice Reed
Wyoming highway deaths top 34 this year to date
Cheyenne Wyoming reports that through June 16 1947 Wyoming highway fatalities reached 34 for the year to date a drop from 44 on the same date in 1946 as traffic dangers persist in the state with a dozen deaths recorded this month.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Britain seeks Soviet aid for Marshall plan Europe push
London reports Britain will push Moscow to join the European aid project led by Secretary of State Marshall. Pravda condemns it as dollar diplomacy while observers doubt Soviet willingness though Russia may seek Western trade and machinery. France discussed inter European technical committees with the United States to oversee aid programs.
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London
Britain
Europe
Marshall
Moscow
United States
Foreign Office
Maurice Peterson
Pravda
Communist Party
Truman
Soviet Union
Russia
Kremlin
France
Ernest Bevin
Paris
Georges Bidault
Paul Ramendier
Bevin
London Evening Standard
V. M. Molotov
Herve Alphand
Youngster Drowns in Little Blackfoot River Near Avon
Richard Almendinger two and a half years old drowned Monday afternoon in the Little Blackfoot river near the family home a mile west of Avon Coroner R W Ross said the child was playing with siblings on the riverbank and disappeared The body was found downstream efforts to revive him were made The family has lived near Avon for 18 months and the boy is survived by his parents Loren and Audrey brothers and sisters Marjorie Lou Gale Danny and Kay grandparents Bert Critchfield of Harrison and relatives in Butte and Whitehall The body lies at Ross funeral home in Deer Lodge and will be moved to Harrison for funeral services and interment
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Deer Lodge
Richard Almendinger
Loren
Audrey Almendinger
Blackfoot
Avon
R. W. Ross
Almendinger
Marjorie Lou
Gale
Danny
Kay
Bert Critchfield
Harrison
Butte
Whitehall
Ross Funeral Home
Budget chief sets tentative federal employment cap
Budget director James E. Webb announced a tentative ceiling of 2 057 791 on federal employment for the first quarter of the coming fiscal year starting July 1. He stressed the figure is provisional pending enactment of appropriation bills by Congress that will largely set staffing levels.
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Washington
James E. Webb
Congress
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School of Mines
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Belgrade
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Dillon
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Havre
Kalispell
Lewistown
Livingston Miles City
United Nations Board
James Marion Snodgrass
Cincinnati
Ohio
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