Truman Calls For Four Billion Tax Hike In New Economic Plan
President Truman outlines a 1,000,000 new jobs goal and expanded production for 1949 while urging a $4 billion tax increase and anti inflation powers. He seeks two year rent control extension and price wage controls, and reiterates corporate tax burden to fund growth amid record GDP. Senators react with caution and support for swift action.
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Army Jet Plane Explodes Near Air Show Crowd
An air show near Miami, Florida, saw a Shooting Star jet crash and explode eight seconds from a crowd of about 5,000. The Air Force pilot was killed. The plane fell a mile and a half from the grandstand after a midair event with nine jets in a shallow dive at 450 mph. An elevator failure was cited by Lt Col Clarke Newton of Andrews Field, Maryland.
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Police Break Up Red Putsch In West Berlin
West Berlin police disrupted a Communist dominated plot described by American authorities as a Soviet putsch attempt to seize political control. The Democratic Bloc was set to meet near an elevated railway station south of Kreuzberg in the American sector. Col Frank L Howley, American commandant, said they aimed to set up a puppet government in Kreuzberg.
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Peace Bid Reported As Cease Fire Holds In Palestine
Uneasy truce texted across the region amid fighting in southern Palestine as Israeli Egyptian forces pursued a cease fire. Reports noted heavy clashes elsewhere in China with talks in Nanking and Lint Ping Red forces pressing on Nanking suburbs while Chiang Kai-shek faced second peace statement highly anticipated by officials and Red authorities.
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Dutch Aid Curb The News Speculates on China Mediation
The item discusses speculation that China, Buck Hills Falls in Pennsylvania, might seek UN support or ask the United Nations to confer proper suffrage or mediation. It mentions a major Protestant agency in North America and the possibility of foreign missions influencing policy.
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Labor Law Change Up To Congress in White House Briefing
President Truman left Congress to decide how to craft a new labor statute. He hinted at a one package approach or multiple steps, while signaling capabilities to veto a bill with Taft Hartley provisions. AFL and others weighed in, with differing views on timing and structure of a Wagner Act restoration.
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Democrats Map School Aid Strategy Amid Drug Shipment Ties
Democratic leaders in New York scheduled a city meeting to map a strategy for increased education funding and teacher raises. The session at the Hotel Biltmore aims to add the final elements to the party’s legislative program as Luciano ties to a large narcotics shipment surface in a widening probe. Officials say the seizure involved a Liberty ship and narcotics valued at more than $1,000,000, the largest in years, with customs officials linking the case to broader political maneuvering for state offices.
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Scientists See Genes Under Electron Microscope
Los Angeles University of Southern California researchers report for the first time photos of genes, carriers of heredity, taken with an electron microscope. Dr. Daniel C. Peave and Dr. Richard F. Baker described sand shaped particles about 1-1000 of a centimeter long as the visible genes, marking decades of global genetic study.
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Truman Defends Unchanged Foreign Policy Amid Life Magazine Claims
President Truman told reporters no shift in U S foreign policy toward Russia and peace prospects is planned. He named Dean Acheson and James E Webb to replace Marshall and Lovett, dismissed Life magazine charges as baseless, and said the policy was set by the president and carried out by the secretary of state.
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Hughes Reports Dewey Picks Bench Candidate in New York Court
Albany sources say Charlea Evans Hughes Jr of New York City is Governor free choice for a vacancy on the New York Court of Appeals. The 16 year term would run from December and he would likely seek reelection as the Republican candidate. Other finalists included Charles D. Breiter Walter Bruckhausen Orrin G. Judd and David H. Peck.
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Acheson Named Secretary of State in Truman Cabinet
President Truman assigns Gen. George C. Marshall to run foreign policy and names Dean Acheson as new Secretary of State replacing Marshall. Robert Lovett to resign as undersecretary with James Webb to succeed, amid mixed Senate reactions and renewed scrutiny of Alger Hiss connections.
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Freedom Train Returns to Philadelphia Amid Parity Debate
The Freedom Train resumes its journey ending the parity protest tour with ceremonies in Philadelphia. It will visit Penns Grove New Jersey Newport News and Washington during January and conclude after inaugural week in D.C. The event pairs with Philadelphia's colonial parade as guests receive citizenship certificates and remarks from Attorney General Tom C. Clark and Senator Francis Myers. Meanwhile Washington discusses farm price supports with advocates pushing sliding scale parity and critics calling the plan insufficient.
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British Jet Powered Locomotives to Enter Service Next Summer
Britain plans jet propelled trains for England with speeds up to nine miles an hour. Two gas turbine electric engines will be trialed on main line routes. Officials claim the power plant is the most novel jet engine approach seen on aircraft. One locomotive is built by a German firm and the other by a British company.
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Death Ends Half Century Search For Kidnapped Son
In Wikes-Barre Pennsylvania a 50 year hunt for kidnapped Albert Ty Bietherton ended with his death. The boy vanished January 18, 184 and despite widespread East Coast reporting the trail went cold. Suspects were traced from the Brotherton home to Scranton and Hazleton before arrest. trial occurred in 190?. outcome unknown.
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Hoover Backs Reorganization Power Return by President
Former President Hoover urged Congress to restore presidential authority to reorganize the executive branch by executive order. He spoke after meeting with President Truman and said agency and bureau leadership must be brought under unified control.
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Airlift Plane Crash Claims Six Lives in Britain
Six men died when a United States Army airlift plane crashed in northwest Lancashire near Preston. County police recovered the bodies from wreckage, with more victims reported as found at the scene.
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