Tax bill trimmed as Senate panel cuts House total
Washington report says the Senate Finance Committee reduced the House tax bill by 190 million dollars in a five hour session. The panel shaved 112 million in excise taxes and 78 million in revenue, lowering the projected yield from about 2.14 billion to roughly 1.95 billion. Postal rate increases of 92.6 million were approved despite earlier opposition to third class rate hikes. Local first class mail would rise to 3 cents an ounce, air mail to 8 cents, with higher fees for money orders and registered insured and C O D mail. Travelers, telephone users, whisky customers, club patrons, pool players, night clubs, and fashion buyers face levies, with some reductions below House levels in four categories and rises in two. Continued discussion expected on page thirteen.
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Washington LP
Senate Finance Committee
House
Treasury
Fore Easts
Walker
Senate
Growth of Army Cited by Selective Service Chief
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey told over 1,500 executives at the National Association of Manufacturers war congress that at least six more months of draft growth are likely before manpower demands ease. He estimated total in service would reach about 11,300,000 by June 30, 1944, with possible revisions from strategy or battle conditions, and warned that referments would be harder to obtain. Our Army and Navy together total about 10,000,000, leaving roughly 13,000,000 to be mobilized.
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New York
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Inn Service
Hershey
National Association of Manufacturers War Congress
Army and Navy Today
com +prisen
Drafl Vohicies
Senate Votes Subsidy To Doctors And Dentists
The Senate approved a plan to pay doctors and dentists a flat $250 for three months plus moving expenses to relocate to warboomed areas. Communities seeking practitioners would contribute $100, with the remainder funded by the government, though House passage is still needed.
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Senate
Washington LP
House
Japanese stamps boast of wartime victories on repatriate display
Washington UP reports returning Gripsholm repatriates show Japanese postage stamps highlighting victories. One stamp features two tanks on a sandy shore with palm trees and a flag. another depicts Pearl Harbor burning after the December 7, 1941 attack.
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Washington
Gripsholm
Pearl Harbor
Partisans Get More British Aid Than Mihailovich
British policy favors Tito led Partisans over Mihailovich in Yugoslavia, citing stronger resistance to Germans. Rommel reportedly backs a major push against Partisans with reinforcements from Greece Albania and Austria, while Bulgarian mercenaries and Chetnik units are accused of aiding the Germans.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Draja Muhailovich
Peter
Richard K. Law
Commons
Prijepolje
Serbia
Balkans
Mihailovich
Four Japanese Ships Sunk In Marshall Islands Action
U S carrier task forces attacked the enemy-held Marshall Islands last Saturday. Four Japanese ships including two light cruisers were sunk and at least 72 Nipponese planes destroyed. Admiral Nimitz announced the losses and noted American pilots repelled continued enemy attacks. One American ship suffered minor damage and light aircraft losses were reported.
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Pearl Harbor
Marshall Islands
Mid-Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Charles A. Pownall
Shipping Activity Drops at Rabaul Harbor
A headquarters spokesman reports declining naval and merchant shipping at Rabaul as Allied air operations intensify. Aerial reconnaissance indicates merchant traffic at the base averaged 100,000 tons, implying fewer than twenty ships in the harbor at any time.
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Rabaul
Nazis Use 2 000 Tanks In Kiev Bulge
Nazi forces drive an immense counterattack in the Kiev bulge as 2 000 tanks threaten the Red Army positions. Moscow reported heavy German armored concentrations around Chernyakhov and along the Korosten to Zhitomir rail corridor, with several towns evacuated as German forces contest the rail center.
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Kiev
London
Znamenka
Dnieper Bend
Nikolaev
Red Army
Kiev Bulge
Chernyakhov
Zhitomir
Korosten
Korosten and
Zhitomar
New York Park Sakura name shocks officials
New Yorkers learn of Sakura Park on Riverside Drive near Riverside Church and International House. Park Department officials puzzled over its origin with no sign designating the 2,067 acre site. Theories include cherry tree or blossom meanings, a Japanese town or family, or a poet tied to International House. Rebecca Rankin and Willard Price offer possible links to Japanese sources.
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New York
Park Department
New York City
Robert Moses
Sakura Park
Riverside Drive
Riverside Church
International House
Sakura
Tokyo
Chosi
Rebecca Rankin
Municipal Reference Library
Willard Price
Sakura-Jima
Representative Says Women Want Subsidies
Washington CP reports Representative Mary T Norton warns the House that housewives are mobilizing against the end of food subsidies. She says women have been slow to grasp inflation dangers but are now awake and ready to act to defend reduced grocery costs.
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Washington
Congressional
Mary T Norton
D.N.2
House
Iend
Allied Casualties in Italy Reach 21 823
London report shows British American forces incurred 5 023 killed and 16 300 wounded in Italy. From the invasion start September 3 to November 23, British losses were 3 212 killed 9 709 wounded 3 153 missing. American Fifth Army losses total 1 811 killed 7 091 wounded 2 670 missing since operations began on the mainland.
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London
Alles
Italy
War Office
Henry L. Stimson
Washington
Fifth Army
Turkey's wartime stance remains an Allied enigma
London reports plan for spring thrusts from Allied and guerrilla forces against Germany amid unresolved Turkish intentions after Inonu Roosevelt and Churchill talks. Ankara's position, whether aiding the Allies with material, money, or coordination, remains unclear. British hopes for closer cooperation grow as Turkey may meet Allied leaders for the first time since the Britain-Turkey pact.
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London
France
Turkey
Ismet Inanu
Roosevelt
Churchill
Vichy
Inonu
Cairo
Paris
Sukru Saracoglu
Middle Eastern
Balkan
Danubian
Britain
Cairo Parley Ends Amid Turkey War Prelude
President Inonu returned to Ankara from Cairo talks with Roosevelt and Churchill. Turkish communique avoided military references though Inonu is an army general. German moves were reported along the Greek coast as forces shifted toward the Peloponnese region with civilian evacuations and improvised hospitals in Salonika.
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Ankara
Turkey
Tismet Inonu
Cairo
Roosevelt
Churchill
National Assembly
Inanu
Peloponnesian
Greece
Gulf of Nauplia
Kalama
Salonika
Sedes
Chinese Recapture Tehshan After Fierce Battle
Chinese forces recaptured the town of Tehshan, south of Changteh and near Changsha, after a furious fight. Japanese troops had seized Tehshan on Monday with air support, but reinforcements arrived and the Chinese counterattacked Wednesday afternoon to retake the city.
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Chungking
Mexico imposes tax on guayule for U S shipments
The Mexican government set a tax of 1.60 dollars per ton on guayule gathered from government lands for shipment to the United States. The decree states the levy will rise 20 cents per ton for every one cent rise in U S raw rubber prices.
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Mexico City
UPI
United States
Southern Bloc May Force Guffey Out
Washington D P Senator Guffey faces possible replacement as chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee next week as Southern senators press to elect a leader they can accept. O Mahoney or Hatch are named as likely successors if Barkley’s choice fails to win Southern support amid GOP rivals.
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Washington
Guffey
D-Pa
O’mahoney
Dwryo
Hatch
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
U S Steel to Contract With C J O
U S Steel to negotiate a new labor contract with the United Steelworkers of America with about 150 other firms also reopening. Benjamin F. Fairless said Carnegie-Illinois, American Steel & Wire, Columbia Steel, National Tube, and Tennessee Coal Iron would meet union officials after union plans to press for higher wages. Existing contracts cover about 166,000 hourly workers across the five subsidiaries with a basic hiring rate of 78 cents per hour. Economists say the current licent raise is needed to boost wages on the scale seen since the formula.
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Pittsburg (P
United States Steel Corp
United Steelworkers of America
Big Steel
Benjamin F. Fairle
U.S. Steel
Twe
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp
American Steel & Wire Co
Columbia Steel Co. National Tube Co
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co
Russell Order Stays State Probe
Supreme Court Justice Pierce H Russell granted a stay on an Albany County grand jury subpoena matter involving Ulysses H Boyden former secretary to the clerk of the Assembly. The stay requires all papers be printed and ready for argument before the Appellate Division on January 10, 1944.
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Supreme Court
Pierce H. Russell
George EH. Fearon
Syracuse
Troy
Albany County Grand Jury
Ulysses H. Boyden
Assembly
Justice Russell
John T. Delaney
Frank C. Moore
Rollin Browne
Deficiency Appropriation Bill Passes in Senate
The Senate approved a 308 million deficiency appropriation bill after adding an amendment barring War and Navy surplus spending without Congress approval. It directs surplus balances to the Treasury and revises reserve practices, while adjusting funding for Farm Security, War Information, and other programs.
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Washington (P
Senate
War and Navy Departments
Congress
War Department
McKellar
D-Tenn
Treasury
Budget Bureau
House
Farm Security Administration
Sixty day ration holiday proposed in Washington
A proposed sixty day ration holiday in Washington aims to save thousands of pounds of meat and reduce feed usage. The plan suggests a temporary easing of wartime controls to balance supply and demand during the period.
Women picket lines try curb price violations by butchers
United Housewives of the Bronx, about 200 members led by Gwen Nevis and Ann Abrams, form picket lines to pressure butchers to obey OPA price ceilings. They say the tactic deters profiteering and aims to keep prices down while airing concerns about baby care. They report cross-line defiance fades when confronted, with fines and jail as possible penalties.
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New York
Bronx
United House-wives
Gwen Nevis
Ann Abrams
OPA
Flames Kill Baby In Crib In Three Hills Home Tragedy
Three Hill children died in a fire that damaged a three story brick house at 513 Grand Street. Infant James W. Hill III, six months, died in his crib. sisters Wilhelmina Susan, four and a half, and Carolyn Juanita, two and a half, died at Samaritan Hospital. Firemen suspect a red hot coal from the dining room stove sparked the blaze. The infant’s crib was in a dining room corner. both girls were found unconscious and rushed to the hospital. The fire began while Mrs Hill was out and Mr Hill worked. the building houses were occupied by George Banks on the first floor and Moses Harris on the second. The alarm came at 4:19 pm. Firefighters and officers battled the flames as the dining room burned into the parlor and hall. Wilhelmina was found at the parlor window. Carolyn at the foot of a bed in a bedroom off the parlor. The blaze gutted the dining room and damaged nearby rooms.
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James W. Hill, Jr
Harerison Place
Hill
Carolyn Juanita
Wilhelmina Susan
Samaritan
Central Fire Station
Edgar K. Keene
George Banks
Moses Harris
Carl A. Smith
Powdee
William VanSteenberg
Wiliam Cunningham
Central Police Station
Jona Gillespie
Grand Street
Wilhelmina
Carolyn
Tragic House Fire Kills Three Children North of Rockford
In Illinois Rockford seven miles north, a one story frame house built by Forrest Page burned to destruction. His wife was away at a store while Page worked in a war plant. The victims Lonnie 4 Theresa 3 and Larry 2 were asleep in bed when the blaze occurred. Origin of the fire is undetermined.
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Rockford, TH
Forrest Page
Rockford
Lonnie
Theresa
Larry
Germans Freeing Hostages Gunfire Escapes Reported
Fragmentary wire service item describes a violent incident in Montana involving Germans and hostages, with five people reported dead and others wounded. Details are unclear due to damaged text, but the event centers on a cellar escape attempt amid gunfire.
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