Tax-Skip Debate Hangs on Five Senate Votes
United States Senate debates tax forgiveness plans for 1942 and 1943 taxes with five pivotal votes expected. Senator George proposes 75 percent cancellation for most taxpayers with adjustments for 1948 liabilities, while a 20 percent wage levy aids lower earners. Administration backs the plan, and senators including Vandenberg and Byrd weigh the committee bill versus full forgiveness amid narrow support.
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Vandenberg
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Dies Member Claims Japanese Army Units Operated in U S
Rep. J Parnell Thomas said Pearl Harbor struck with a Japanese army division in Los Angeles and a trained infantry unit on Terminal Island. He cited Dies Committee records naming a Japanese Army Reserve and urged exchanges over relocation.
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J. Parnell Thomas
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Pearl Harbor
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House
Asia
Dies Committee
Pearl Faarbor
Got Housekeeper As Result of Ad
Advertises for a single or two adults to hire a housekeeper with light duties and good living quarters. No laundry or heavy cleaning required. References requested. Salary seventy dollars per month. Call for details.
Furlough Period Extended for Draft Inductees
The Army extended the furlough for new inductees from one week to ten days and ordered a longer three week furlough by September 1. Commanding generals must implement the change by July 1, citing hardships and the needs of family heads to wind up affairs before reporting. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey noted the aim to meet service needs.
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WAACS Boost Seen After Stimson Talk on WAAC Strength
Secretary of War Stimson urged lifting WAAC strength, calling for 300000 more WAACS as part of a broader plan to raise overall armed forces numbers. The War Department announced an immediate yet gradual furlough extension to ease transitions, aiming for a 14 day then 21 day sequence to avoid disrupting training.
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Troy Girls Win Academic Honors At Sage School
Russell Sage College will hold Class Day exercises in Troy Music Hall at 2 30 p m with 156 seniors including Troy area students receiving academic honors Dr Doris L Crockett registrar announced yesterday Kathaleen Perkins Mary Elizabeth Gaynor Nancy Gardiner Judith Honigsbaum and Mary Elizabeth Weber earned top honors in fields such as physical education French nursing business education and more Carl J Hambro president of the Norwegian Parliament will deliver the commencement address at 3 30 p m Sunday in the Troy Music Hall Lieut Charles Leslie Glenn D D will preach the baccalaureate sermon at First Presbyterian Church Albany alumnae council meets at 10 a m tomorrow and Alumnae Association luncheon follows at 12 30 p m Continued on Page Seventeen
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Brunswick Road
Mary Elizabeth Gaynor
Troy
Nancy Gardiner
Watervilet
Judith Honigsbaum
Mary Elizabeth Weber
Waterford
Carl J. Hambro
League of Nations Assembly
First Presbyterian Church
Charles Leslie Glenn
D.D
New York
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Naval Reserve
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Boston
Christ Church
Cambridge
Mass
Stevens Institute of Technology
DeWitt Clinton
Albany
Lucheon
Alumnae Association
State Police Captains Keeley and McGrath Swap Posts
Capt. J. M. Keeley will move from Troop G at Troy to Troop D Oneida to command, while Capt. Stephen D. McGrath, former Troop D head, will take over Troop G in a routine personnel shift. Maj John A. Warner called the moves routine and noted possible further changes. Keeley’s career began in 1917 with rapid promotions culminating in captaincy in 1923. McGrath has headed Troop D for more than two decades and has been active in the New York State Elks.
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House Passes Two-Year Pact Bill
The House voted 342 to 65 to renew Roosevelt's reciprocal trading powers for two years. Republicans cut the extension from three to two years while Democrats resisted a veto-power change. The measure now goes to the Senate with debates over trade as peace strategy and executive overreach.
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Roosevelt
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Texas
Landon Outlines Five-Point Postwar Plan
Alf M. Landon urged a frank foreign policy discussion free from government control and presented five postwar goals. He called for a interim world council under the United Nations to address punishment of the guilty, disarmament, famine relief, and rise of accountable governments, plus regional arrangements and a world council to foster peace. He warned Americans to welcome regional responsibilities to curb fears of a world superorganization.
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Alf M. Landon
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World Council of the
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America
World Council
Bombing Blitzes Hit Hitlers War Installations
In a dramatic 24 hour attack American British and Russian air forces joined to strike core targets. The Royal Air Force conducted a massive raid on Duisburg while Russian bombers hit Warsaw. American heavy bombers blasted Meaulte and St Omer in north western France amid intensified operations surrounding the Polish capital.
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St. Omer
France
Bombers Hit German Targets In Coordinated Allied Raid
Allied air forces report heavy bombing of German aircraft factories at Meaulte and air fields at St Omer while bombers also hit fighter bases and railway targets near Warsaw. Goering orders trench construction as raids intensify across Europe.
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Hermann Goering
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Meaulte
France
St. Omer
King Declares Day of Prayer for North Africa Victory
An official statement approved by the King sets next Sunday as a day of prayer and thanksgiving for Allied victory in North Africa. It urges England churches to ring bells to celebrate the victory just as after the Axis rout at El Alamein.
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North Africa
England
el- Alamein
FCC Member Seeks Cox Removal From Probe Over Stock Interest
FCC member Clifford J. Durr petitions House to disqualify Rep Eugene E Cox from the special committee investigating the commission He cites Cox ownership of WALB Albany Ga stock and a $2500 payment as a potential conflict He alleges pretrial bias and lack of objectivity before his appointment and attaches evidence including a check and voucher for legal expenses
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Allies Take 175000 Men Shell Island In Sicilian Strait
Allied forces reported sweeping victory in Tunisia with up to 175000 Axis prisoners, including 17 medalled generals. Gen Alexander hailed it as one of the most decisive in history as air power moved toward Sicily and Pantelleria. President beisenhower's deputy noted the vast booty would take days to tally. Narratives claim massive captures, tanks, guns, and trucks, with Italy’s Marshal Messe surrendering to the British Eighth Army.
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Giovanni Messe
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Duce Halts Fighting in Tunisia Declares End of Axis Struggle
The Italian First Army quit fighting in Tunisia by Mussolini’s order, Rome announced, as Italian publicists urged calm over feared Allied invasion. A German broadcast said German Italian African detachments ended the heroic struggle, claiming it buys time for the Axis. An Allied invasion could be technically possible within a week targeting Sicily Sardinia Crete or the Dodecanese.
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Churchill to Address Congress on War Situation Again
Prime Minister Churchill, visiting for talks with President Roosevelt, will address a joint session of Congress at 12 30 p m Eastern War Time on Wednesday. It is his second wartime address since December 27 1941 and follows Allied victories in Tunisia.
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Reds Pierce Novorossisk Defense Line
The Red Army broke through the secondary German line northeast of Novorossisk in the Caucasus after penetrating the first defense. Moscow reports said mass shelling signaled a final push toward the Sea of Azov as artillery destroyed 19 German batteries and 34 machinegun nests along with two tanks and several blockhouses.
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London
Textile Union Reelects Rieve at Convention in New York
Emil Rieve of Philadelphia was reelected president of the Textile Workers of America at a demonstration here yesterday. George Baldanzi of Paterson New Jersey was reelected executive vice president and William Pollock of Philadelphia was reelected secretary treasurer. All terms are two years and each received a $3,000 annual raise.
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Emil Rieve
Philadelphia
Textille Workers of America
George Baldanzi
Paterson
William Pollock
Dutch Resist Resentment Grows Amid European Turmoil
Rioting in Berlin unsettles anxious relatives of German soldiers killed or captured in Tunisia. Reports say violence spreads in Hobeland and Belgium against occupation troops. Attacks on military sites in the Low Countries and troop movements hint at a possible Allied invasion of Europe. Radio Orange in London warned Holland's population last.
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Swedish clash with Nazi air activity over Skane region
A Swedish communique said a German plane was hit by anti aircraft fire during a flight over Skane in southern Sweden yesterday. The incident follows a protest over the firing on the Swedish submarine Drake n by an armed Nazi merchant ship last April 16. Reuters reported riots in Berlin as thousands gathered to learn the fate of Afrika Korps soldiers, with SS guards called to restore order. Across Europe, patriot bands attack rail arteries aiding Axis forces, with rising violence spreading from the Low Countries to the Balkans and Belgium amid martial law in Holland.
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Allied Conferees Reach Agreement on Middle East Council
The full dress conference of the Allied Middle East Council of military and civil leaders concluded yesterday with an announcement that agreement was reached on the shape and size of the problems and recommendations for dealing with them. Details of the problems were not disclosed but were understood to concern the Middle East as a forthcoming theater of action in war.
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