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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes january 1953 3 senators end total of 91 service Omahoney leave Capitol Hill 4 three Veteran senators whose con Gressional service totals nearly 100 years wound up careers on Capitol Hill All they Are Kenneth Mckellar of ten Senate president pro Tern and chairman of the powerful appropriations committee for five Tom Connally of chair Man of the foreign relations com Mittee for 10 Joseph Omahoney of chairman in the last session of the Interior and insular affairs the appropriations sub committee which handles All Mili tary funds and the joint Senate House economic 82d Congress expires they Are among 11 senators whose service expired at noon with the death of the 82d was beaten in a democratic primary fight by Albert plans to retire in his he holds the Al time record for the longest continuous service in the 36 and the second highest Mark for Overall Senate who decided against running for a fifth term in the face of primary opposition this plans to keep his Washington Home and rest for a beaten for reelection Ina close plans to reopen offices Here and in he maintained similar offices before he came to the Senate in lost in reelection three of the Senate veterans who lost oaf apr reelection ended their service Mcfarland the democratic majority Leader for the last two years Henry Cabot r and Owen Brewster retiring senators who served one term or less Are William Benton Harry Cain Zales Ecton James Kem and Herbert o Conor All were beaten in november except who did not seek a second Richard Nixon resigned Froix the Senate effective thursday to give his Cali fornia a seniority Over other incoming three senators who were filling out tin expired terms and lost in november voting ended their serv ice right after the they were Blair Moody and Thomas Underwood Fred Seaton another Senate elected not to Alabama coed wins  4 a Alice a Green eyed mathematics major at the University of will furnish the figure to show off the Cotton Industry fanciest styles As maid of Cotton for the Browne from was selected from a of 22 beauties from 12 Cotton Belt states in the annual contest to pick King Cottons ambassador texan cast 1st vote As congressman for War in17 4 to Connally of Texas neatly nipped off the end of a fresh Cigar clamped on his Broad brimmed Black hat and slammed his office door on 36 years of service in con his first vote As a Young Congress Back in was to Send the against he called it As the nation fought once this time in Connally talked of those years As he sat in his surrounded by packing cases and papers accumulated during More than three dec there we relight spots on the tarnished Walls where the Pic Tures of the great and near great had there were no regrets just As the Silver haired texan looked like senator he was still the Man of whom thinking of the Days of dress him in a Sheet and hed be the Only Man in the Senate who would look the part of a real most of Connally career was dedicated advancing his nations foreign in Congress and at the Many International conferences he his Span of service bridged the years when America was propelled into world War turned its Back on the league of then under the fire of world War assumed the free world How did it All shape up now the prospects for peace Are bet Ter now than they have been for several some of the aggressor nations seem to have had Contact with a Little intelligence and Are learning that War is of no advantage to even the Connally stories abound the stories about Connally will live in they look cold in Black Type but in the making reflected cold fury and warm there was the Day he begged the Senate to repeal the arms pm imitating a slithering Ger Man submarine stalking its prey As he did there was the time at the in general Assembly when he shocked staid diplomats by tearing a Handy newspaper flinging it up Ward into the and exclaiming that that was what the soviets would do to the in and there was an acrimonious debate in the Senate when he shouted in rage to a Northern col league dont you shake that Yankee Finger at there also was the Blunt description of Chiang Waishek of China As a Man who had absconded with his nations but saturday Connally said he had no asked if a Drift Back to zionism was he answered weve passed that unless Eisenhower gets into a ease Truman asks marines Honor Mccarthy Joseph Mccarthy is congratulated by col John co of the 3th Marine Reserve in Washington after receiving Marine abase spying in 45 denied 4 a the intelligence chief of the War time atomic bomb project denied Here that spies tried to sneak into the b29 base where crewmen of the Hiroshima strike were train ing in so far As i said John of it was never determined these two foreign nationals were trying to sneak on to the base or that they new anything was going col Paul Pilot of the Jlane which dropped the Hiroshima said last week that agents of two foreign countries were arrested at the base at a time when Only a handful of scientists and High military men knew about the naturally we were concerned about the presence of foreign nationals in the area near such a secret lands Dale but hey we rent arrested sofar As i we turned the Matte Over o the Fri because they were not in a military registration begun 3y 2 million aliens new 4 resident aliens of the have begun their which vill be required annually in accordance with provisions of tee my Carra Walter at immigration and naturalization j noncitizens must Register 1 or risk or they must carry at All tonies their registration cards bearing Date and Dace of birth and entry into the and permanent press photo Mccarthy disputes says he didst ask for decorations 4 six decorations of Joseph Mccarthy entered the realm of controversy the Navy said he asked for in reply to a notice of Mccarthy said that was incorrect the Wisconsin author of controversial communists Ngov Ern ment said his com manding col Glenn recommended him for the Decora All he Mccarthy was to Supply the Navy with the information he said Todd requested him to furnish about his 30 flying missions into enemy territory in the Pacific during world War within rights Mccarthy said it was wrong to say he had applied for the asked who took the he replied it want the Navy said Todd is now out of the country on a secret project and cannot be reached for a Navy spokesman said Mccarthy requested the distinguished flying an air medal and four Gold response to a general notice telling eligible personnel that they could apply for the he was entirely within his the spokesman Mccarthy was awarded the medals for services As a Marine combat intelligence officer on missions against japanese forces in the Solo Mon islands in pleasant 1953 phone out 4 Dale Swanson family of Omaha was one ahead of new years jesters they had the Telephone company temporarily disconnect their the number pleasant president proposes living expense i deductions j 4 president Truman urged Congress to authorize immediately appropriate costo living income tax Al i Lowance for president elect Dwight the vice president and speaker of the in letters to ranking democrats and republicans on the Senate and House tax writing Truman noted that Congress wiped out All tax free expense accounts last at the it authorized House and Senate members to take a costo living tax of up to a Truman said he feels the vice president and speaker Are entitled to similar allowance discontinued the 82d Congress wiped out a tax free allowance for the president and each for the vice president and under the new the personal expense allowance for the president is Truman was the Only president to get the advantage of the tax free it was voted in the first few Days of he suggested that Congress authorize special living expense deductions up to a year Fot the president and up to each for the vice president and House asks Quick action he urged Swift noting that anything regarding the presi Dent must be done before Eisen Hower assumes office Truman said there Are Many expenses connected with the three offices which the salaries do not cover he said he is cer Tain Congress does not want the nations elective officers to their savings or borrow Money to meet under the old system of a salary and a tax free expense Truman the president bad a maximum tax liability of when Congress made the subject to he the tax liability climbed to More than a he figures the tax liability of the vice president and speaker at a Little More than under the old they got salaries of and tax free allowances of by making the expense accounts he Congress jumped the liability to nearly for the vice president and far the Paul husband of Frances Dies 4 a Paul Caldwell husband of civil service commissioner Frances died a Public administration had been in retirement since 193l be and miss who was Secretary of labor in president Franklin Roosevelt Cabinet before being named to the civil service were married in to the in she will begin a yearlong tour of 35 latin America and new Jersey publisher Dies 4 Robert publisher of the Peterson morning died in Paterson general he had suffered a heart attack Christ Mas Midnight babies present 1952 or 1953 tax problem 4 num Ber of proud parents and the Treasury department studying an intricate the new year begin at Midnight or at one second after Midnight there was no clearcut claimant to the title of first baby of 1953 because of a dispute Over when the new year actually a income tax deduction hangs in the if babies born at Midnight Are considered born in then the parents May take the deduction for but if Midnight births Are considered in  have to wait until next year to make the the question arose with the birth of Gene Clifford who weighed in at 7 pounds ounces at memorial Hospital in Wash William Eisener said Gene arrived on the stroke of mid time checked closely but at boiling fab Hospital also in capt Fred Erick the delivering phys synchronized his with official naval Observatory time and then delivered to t sgt Wil Liam Scheneman and Schene Man a 6pound son named John Barr announced that the baby was born precisely one second after Midnight and insisted it was the first born of the new Midnight he belonged to the Bible says Midnight be Longs to the new countered this is a fundamentalist Hospital that believes the Bible the birth certificate will record 1 As the Date of to complicate things further authorities at presbyterian hos Pital in Denver announced that Sally Jean weighing 6 pounds 12 was born while the hands of the clock were straight or precisely at Sharp at Homer Phillips Hospital in St Cornelius weighing 7 pounds was born to Judy at Midnight the problem was put to the in Turnaj Revenue Bureau in Washington to which babies Are very important because they Are de a spokesman said he doubted a Legal ruling for income tax purposes Ever had been  
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