Senate Panel Cuts Revenue Measure By 89 Million
The Senate finance committee trimmed the pending tax bill by 89.8 million dollars removing a House approved levy on radio time sales and a soft drink tax while reshaping the nuisance tax structure and lowering the overall burden. The panel kept use taxes on autos and various levies on goods and services but adjusted long distance and telegraph charges and left open the possibility of restoring some measures later.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Finance Group
Ways and Means Committee
George
D-Ga
Arti
Senate
Virginia Scraps Exceed State Aluminum Drive Quota
Virginia reports total scrap aluminum collections of 250,067 pounds for July 21 to 29, surpassing the state quota of 240,000. Regions Radford Shenandoah Valley Southwest Virginia and Richmond Hopewell exceeded their targets, while others fell short. J. H. Wise praised Virginians and the highway department for hauling metal to concentration points.
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Richmond
State Defense Council
Virginia
National Defense
Old Dominion
Radford
Shenandoah Valley
Southwest Virginia
Richmond Hopewell
Richmond Henrico
J. H. Wise
State Highway Department
Wyse
Office of Production Management
Alleghany
Clifton Forge
Augusta
Staunton
Bath
Botetourt
Clark
Frederick
Winchester
Highland
Page
Warren
Rockbridge
Buena Vista
Rockingham
Harrisonburg
Shenandoah
Quota
German Field Marshal von Rundstedt Reported Killed
Soviet sources claim Field Marshal von Rundstedt commanding the southern German army against Ukraine was killed. Russian reports allege he was murdered by a German officer and state numerous arrests have followed.
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von Rundstedt
Ukraine
Canterbury Couples Visit Highlights Local Guests
Canterbury Virginia notes visitors from Bluefield West Virginia and Baltimore Pennsylvania with several families sharing a weekend. Local families host gatherings at homes and at Rous Spring Park where the Pairview Sunday School held its largest picnic in years. Mrs Hudson remains ill at home.
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Canterburg
Leroy Franklin
William Headley
Howard Temple
Artrip
John Perry
Vivian Price
Eston Headley
Bluefield
W. Va
R. E. Albin
Billy and
Douglas
Herbert Pope
William Harvey
Baltimore
Pairview
Rous Spring
C. B. Hudson
V F W Opposes Labor Secretary and Draft Deferments
The Veterans of Foreign Wars urged Roosevelt to outlaw jurisdictional strikes in national defense industries and to strip deferments from draft-age workers who strike. They also called to discharge Labor Secretary Frances Perkins for alleged inadequacies. Brigadier General Frank T. Hines and Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey pressed defense production and draft issues at the 42nd National Encampment in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Roosevelt
Frances Parkins
Department of Florida
Virginia
Maryand
Frank T. Hines
Hines
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Army
Other Legislative Groups Meet At Capitol
Richmond August 28 Two legislative study groups meet at the capitol today The Moore reorganization commission headed by Delegate E Blackburn Moore Berryville will hold an executive session at 10 30 a m tomorrow to begin a report for submission to the 1942 General Assembly The group has held public hearings where numerous conflicting suggestions were presented.
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Richmond
Capitol
Moore Reorganization Commission
General Assembly
E. Blackburn Moore
Berryville
Roosevelt Labor Day Broadcast to Be Carried by All Networks
President Roosevelt will deliver a Labor Day speech from Hyde Park at 12:45 p m E S T with NBC CBS and MBS chains carrying the event. A 45 minute NBC salute to labor precedes the address with red and blue networks joined and short wave transmitters in use. Lowell Thomas will MC the New York segment.
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New York
Roosevelt
NBC
Office For Emergency Management
Lowell Thomas
M. C
Oklahoma pilot vanishes in rain cloud during model plane flight
F D Whiting of Oklahoma City timed his plane for a 23 second flight in the Southwest Model Tournament. The craft disappeared in a rain cloud and landed two days later at Creek, Texas, about 100 miles away.
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Dallas
Tex
F. D. Whiting
Oklahoma City
Creek, Tex
Roosevelt and Churchill Accused of Hypocrisy
Berlin editor Karl Megerle condemns the Russian British Iran invasion as a brutal attack on a neutral state. He likens Roosevelt to Pontius Pilate and accuses Churchill of orchestrating a preplanned invasion amid claims of peace and reconstruction.
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Berlin
Karl Megerle
Berliner Boersen Zeitung
Iran
Eace
Fromington
Roosevelt
Pontius Pilate
Braig
Meyerle
Churchill
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