Senate Schedules Fast Action On Pay As You Go Tax Bill
Senate Finance Committee plans swift House approved pay as you go tax bill. Debate centers on whether to adopt the Rum plan excluding most 1942 liabilities, or limit relief to lower incomes under Carlson reform. Members from both parties favor variants of the Rum approach while considering modifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
George
D.-Ga
Treasury
Senate
Carlson
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Clark
Dmo
Radcliffe
D.-Md
Lucas
D-Ill
Irish Minister Scores Critics on War View
Boston excerpt reports Irish Minister to the United States Robert Brennan saying his people would not join the war under any price. He rejects claims the stance is due to a grudge or hatred of Britain and denounces those who spread lies about their motives.
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Boston
Robert Brennan
United States
Boston Traveler
Brenfian
Britain
Chinese high command reports near 2000 Japanese killed in Taiheng area
The Chinese high command said yesterday that nearly 2,000 Japanese were killed on the west side of the Taiheng mountains on April 28 and that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's troops had moved into new positions.
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Chungking
Taiheng Mountains
Chiang Kai-Shek
Seizure Looms as UMW Aides Adjourn Without Comment
United Mine Workers policy committee adjourned after a 17 minute meeting led by John L. Lewis who declined to comment. Lewis said only that they were adjourning and offered no details on next steps or actions taken. He cited no schedule for resuming hearings as miners hold a 15 day truce during wage dispute talks in Washington. Basic plan remains to sleep on question of War Labor Board representation. In Washington, Ickes prepared to seize coal from firms with safe margins to divert supply to those short, amid the 15 day truce and wage dispute efforts.
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New York
United Mine Workers’ Policy Committee
John L. Lewis
U.M. W
Lewis
Washington
Byel
Ickes
Senate approves Taft backed control bill over war plant seizures
Senate passed the Consolidated Bill granting government power to seize and run struck war plants and mines, with criminal penalties for instigating work stoppages. The vote was 6 to 16. Ickes issued coal fuel distribution rules to prevent shortages and defend essential civilian users, promising action only when absolutely needed. He authorized directives to direct solid fuels to critical users and to divert or suspend deliveries as required, while pledging investigations into discriminatory practices by producers.
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Washington
Senate
Connally
War Labor Board
Taft
R.D
WLB
Ickes
United States
Hard Coal Chiefs Submit Terms
Anthracite coal operators in New York submitted what they called their final work contract proposals to the United Mine Workers. They offered to concede in substance four of 21 demands but said an increase of $2 daily and portal-to-portal pay was impossible. The miners urged the operators to desist from continual rejection and to consider counter proposals on the major points.
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New York
United Mine Workers
Mine Tunnel Explosion Kills Ten. 18 Trapped Near LaFollette
In LaFollette Tennessee, a blast in the Etna Coal and Coke Co mine killed ten miners and trapped 18 others deep in the tunnels. Rescue workers found bodies about 1,500 feet from the entrance. Cecil Foust’s helmet was identified among the remains. Two men at the tipple were burned. three others escaped uninjured as relatives gathered and officials investigated whether dust or gas caused the explosion.
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Charlie Cannon
Cannon
Cecil Foust
la Follette
United States Bureau of Mines
East
Tennessee
Plane crash in Iceland kills top U.S. generals and staff
Fourteen people die in the Iceland crash that claimed Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews the Army’s European theater commander. Also killed: Bishop Adna W. Leonard on a war zones tour, Brig. Gen. Charles H. Barth chief of staff to Andrews, and Col. Morrow Crum former New York and Chicago newspaperman who was a public relations officer at Andrews' headquarters.
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Washington
Iceland
Frank M. Andrews
War Department
Andrews
Adna W. Leonard
Methodist Church
Charles H. Barth
Morrow Crum
New York
Chicago
Swedish submarine Ulven found after disappearance
The submerged Swedish submarine Ulven, missing with 32 crew since April 16, was located near a western coast island of Sweden. Reuters reported from Stockholm and a German broadcast cited the discovery with few immediate details.
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London
Ulven
Reuters
Stockholm
Associated Press
Sweden
Strikers Return In Poughkeepsie
War Labor Board officials say workers at Federal Bearings Co and Schatz Manufacturing Co in Poughkeepsie returned to work after a five day strike. Employees, members of the United Auto Workers Union, met Tuesday after address by David L. Benetar deputy director of disputes for the regional WLB.
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New York
Contempt Threat Looms Over R Street Host John Monroe
Washington action centers on John P. Monroe, host at the big red house on R Street, accused of dodging questions from a House committee probing war contract fees. Monroe denied discussing contracts at parties for Washington notables and claimed parties were harmless. The committee weighed holding him in contempt after he named “high New Deal officials” and said he could not recall specifics amid pressure. The panel paused to consider its case and to hear further testimony from Eula Smith at 2101 R Street.
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Washington
John P. Monroe
Big Red House
R Street
House
Monroe
Manufacturers
Sheridan
D-Pa
May
D.-Ky
Brewster
Maine
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Bridges
Eula Smith
OWI Reveals War on Enemy Patents Seizures
The Office of War Information claims Germany began invading key U S industries well before Hitler rose to power and that U S actions have removed enemy influence from strategic business sectors. It cites 41077 seized patents and pending applications owned by enemy nations or nationals in occupied territories now under alien property custodian control.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Germany
United States
OWI
Liberators Strafe Hainan And Indo China Bases
American four engine Liberators from the 14th Army Air Force struck Japanese facilities on Hainan Island and in northern French Indo China. The raid, part of On to Tokyo plans, seriously damaged Samah airport harbor facilities, with no interceptions or serious ack ack resistance reported. Col Eugene Beebe led the mission on its first combat run.
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Chungking
United States Army Air Force
Japan
Hainan Island
China
Hanoi-Haiphong
French Indo-China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Samahi
Hainan
Tokyo
Claire L. Chennault
Gulf of Tonkin
Liberators
Col
Eugene Beebe
Moscow
Ida
Henry H. Arnold
Samah
Lend-lease Aid To Russia Surges In 1943
The United States reports sending Russia thousands of planes and tens of thousands of trucks jeeps and other vehicles plus over one million tons of foodstuffs. Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. released a detailed wartime aid update noting shipments in early 1943 rose 35 percent from the prior quarter and more than doubled year earlier totals.
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Washington, DP
United States
Russia
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Axis Conducts Sofia Raids Bern In Terrorist Hunt
Bulgarian capital Sofia halted all transport as police raided the city seeking assassins of Col. Athanas Panteff former police chief killed Monday. Over 1,060 arrests reported with 400 communists. Curfew lifted at 10 p.m. amid fear of further outbreaks. Hungary also faced upheaval as Regent Horthy suspended parliament sine die upon Kallay proposal. deputies questioned sovereignty amid wartime strain.
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Bern
Switzerland
Sofia
Col
Athanas Panteff
Bulgaria
Associated Press
London
Panteff
Military Acad
Emy
Sofia Radio
Hungary
Balkan
Nicholas Horthy
Witler
Nicolas Kallay
Budapest
Kallay
Allied push toward Tunis opens in Tunisia battle
Allied forces from American and French units push toward Bizerte and Tunis in Tunisia. American columns near Mateur and Cap Koran threaten German positions guarding the coast while others converge on Bizerte. German resistance remains stiff as Allied air and ground operations tighten around Ferryville, Tebourba, and Port du Fahs with thousands of German prisoners taken.
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North Africa
Bizerte
Mateur
First
Tunnis
Tunisia
Cap Koran
Lake Achkel
Djebel Cheniti
Ferryville
Lake Bizerte
Djebel Marina
Tine
Tebourba
Tunis
First Army
Medjez el-Bab
Eddek
Hila
Eighth Army
Cape Bon
Medjez-el-Bab
Medjez-el Bab
Port du Fahs
Louis Marc Koeltz
Red Army pushes toward Novorossisk as 7000 Germans killed
Soviet dispatch reports the Red Army killed 7,000 Germans and seized Krymskaya rail junction, advancing eight miles to occupy Neberdjayevskaya near Novorossisk. Units captured eighty guns and 220 machineguns while air forces bombed targets across the Caucasus and beyond.
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London
Red Army
Krymskaya
Neberdjayevskaya
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Caucasus
Moscow
Monitor
Oast
Kuban
Taman
Constanta
Yalta
Crimea
Bryansk
Gomel
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Poland
Brest- Litovsk
Germany
Leningrad
Stalin Seeks Independent Poland After War
Stalin in Moscow tells a New York Times correspondent that Russia wants a strong independent Poland after Hitler’s defeat. He suggests a postwar alliance of mutual military assistance with Poland if the Polish people desire it, and says U.S.-Poland ties should rest on neighborly relations and mutual respect.
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New York
Premer Stalin
Russia
New York Times
Moscow
Poland
Hitler
Soviet Union
Germany
U. S
Governor Dewey Heads to New York for Aide-Listed Week
Governor Dewey left the Capitol to spend the rest of the week in New York. An aide said he scheduled nothing of importance but would see numerous people with promised appointments while in the city.
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Albany
Dewey
Capitol
New York
Masons Reelect Grand Master in New York Meeting
William F. Strang of Rochester was reelected grand master of the Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York at the annual meeting held yesterday.
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York
William F. Strang
Rochester
Grand Lodge
A.M
State of New York
British Mosquito Bomber Fastest in War
London reports the Mosquito, a two engine plywood monoplane, is the fastest bomber in use. It can carry a ton of bombs to Germany and in fighter role mounts four 20mm cannons and four 30 caliber machine guns. Journalist visit to assembly plant revealed these capabilities.
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London
Germany
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