President Advises
Against Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP)—President Truman told
Congress Wednesday that for greater prosperity America
needs lower prices and labor ought not to press wage demands
which will keep them from dropping.
It would be “unsound fiscal policy” to cut wartime income
taxes the chief executive declared in his first annual economic
report to the legislative branch.
The main approach to balancing
“real purchasing power’’ with pro
ductive capacity, he said, “must
be through reduced prices.”
Taxes should be kept at present
levels, Mr. Truman asserted, be
cause of “The rule of sound public
finance that calls for surplus in
government revenues over expen
ditures while employment is high
and the total income is large.”
He conceded the tax burden is
great and should be lightened “as
soon as possible,” but he cautioned:
“When reductions come, it will
be important that they be fairly
and equitably distributed, that
they contribute to the maintenance
of pui'chasing power by reducing
the burden on the mass of con
sumers, and that they help provide
the work and business incentives
essential for a high level of pro
duction.”
Nominations Submitted
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—(AF)—
President Truman Wednesday nom
inated Francis B. Sayre of Wash
ington of Washington, D. C., as
United States representative on the
United Nations trusteeship council.
The nomination of Sayre, long a
displomatic adviser and most re
cently attached to UNRRA, was
submitted to the senate with a long
list of appointments made during
the congressional recess.
The president nominated Vice
Adm. Louis E. Denfeld to the rank
of full admiral during the period of
his service as chief of naval per
sonnel, the post he now holds.
Stars Get Top Incomes
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—(AP)
—The film industry got its usual top
billing Wednesday on a treasury list
of 122 leading money-makers of
1944 and of business fiscal years
ending in 1945.
Movie people held more than one
out of every four spots on the par
tial list of over $75,000-earners and
led it with the comedy team of Bud
Abbott and Lou Costello. They took
in $469,170 jointly—5234,585 each
if they split it.
Hollywood also furnished eight
o£ the 12 persons on the list who re
ceived more'than $200,000, but yield
ed top individual place to a business
man, Thomas J. Watson of New
York, president of International
Business Machines Corp.
Plotters Interrogated
By JACK QUINN
BUDAPEST, Jan. 8 (AP)—Hun
garian informants said Russian and
Hungarian troops surrounded the
ministry of war and home defense
Wednesday while representatives
of the ministry’s political depart
ment questioned employees and ar
rested three colonels.
The government, investigating
alleged counter - revolutionary
plots, disclosed Tuesday the arrest
of a total of 77 persons.
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Hans Wold, editor
Dale E. Horton, assistant
Vivian Richardson
June Goetze
Warren Miller
Dick Byfield
Walt McKinney
Jeannine Macauley
The beginning is the chiefest part
of any work.—Plato.
Rent Control to Lift
Off Transient Rooms
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP) —
The government Wednesday or
dered the removal of rent ceilings
on transient rooms in hotels, motor
courts and tourist homes, effec
tive Feb. 15.
The hotel industry promised im
medaitely that the action will
bring no “across the Hoard’’ rate
increases.
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
head of the agency, said decontrol
of transient rooms in individual
hotels and motor courts will go into
effect on or after Feb. 15 “as each
establishment applies for decon
trol and supplies the office of price
administration with a list of its
permanent rooms identified by
room number or by location.”
President Nominates
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP) —
Nominations sent to the Senate
Wednesday by President Truman
included that of Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt as a member of the
human rights commission of the
U. N. economic and social council
for a four-year term.
The list also included Frances
Perkins, former secretary of labor,
to be a civil service commissioner.
Anti-Filibuster Started
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP)—
Five senators launched an anti
filibuster drive Wednesday with
strong prospects that it will carry
to the senate floor and provoke his
toric debate—perhaps a filibuster.
Babe's Condition Fair
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (AP)—Babe
Ruth’s condition was reported as
“fair” late Wednesday at French
hospital where the home run king
underwent a serious neck opera
tion Monday.
Flight Battle Renewed
PORTLAND, Jan. 8 (AP)—The
Matson Navigation company re
newed its battle Wednesday for
permission to establish air service
between Portland, Seattle and Ha
waii.
Representatives Picked
For Theatre Board
Eight class representatives for
the 1947 University theater advis
ory board were elected Monday
night at an all-campus meeting of
the University theater.
New board members are: seniors,
James Bronson, Don Shirley; jun
iors, Manuel Golemis, Jeanette
Gfhnt; sophomores, Marilyn Wher
ry, Clifton James; and freshmen,
Bob Coekburn, Pat Laxton.
The election of the class represen
tatives completes the membership
of the board which also includes
Horace W. Robinson, assistant pro
fessor of speech and drama; Mrs.
Ottilie T. Seybolt, associate profes
sor of speech and drama; Edwin L.
Clark, instructor in speech and
drama; Marge Allingham, ex offi
cio member and University theater
secretary and business manager;
and Alan Foster, ex officio member
and University theater publicity di
rector.
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Senate Okays
Gen. Marshall
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP)—
The senate unanimously confirmed
Wednesday President Truman’s
nomination of General George C.
Marshall to succeed James F.
Byrnes as secretary of state.
The senate acted within 55 min
utes after the nomination of the
wartime army chief of staff and
word was sent to Capitol Hill by
the President, who acceptled
Byrnes’ resignation Tuesday night
with regret.
Previously, in a session arranged
by Chairman Vandenberg R., Mich.,
the foreign relations committee had
placed its indorsement on Marshall
as the man to carry forward the
policies laid down by Byrnes in
American dealings with foreign
nations.
Vandenberg stepped from the
presiding officer’s chair of the
senate to urge speedy disposition
of the nomination, a move he said
which would demonstrate unity to
the world and that the United
States has “a continuing and ef
fective foreign policy.”
Alaskan Ship Escapes
Disaster Near Kodiak
KODIAK, Alaska, Jan. 8—(AP)
A below-waterline plug in the
steamship Lakina’s fire protection
system gave way Wednesday,
flooding the engine room as the
vessel headed toward sea, and only
fast work at the pumps saved the
ship.
With the ‘‘pumps just holding
their own,” officers reported, a
navy vessel raced toi the disabled
Alaska Steamship company ship
and-escorted it back to harbor here.
The engine room was pumped out
and crew members found that a
plug in the fire protection system,
which uses salt water, was gone,
letting the water rush in.
Weather Forecast
Oregon—Cloudy Thursday and
Friday with snow flurries in
mountains Friday. Continued
cold. Gentle, variable wind off
coast.
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La Verne Gunderson
Kay Richardson
Oregon If Emerald
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Gen. George Marshall .. .
Appointment of former wartime
army chief of staff as secretary of
state was unanimously confirmed
within 55 minutes after the nomina
ation by President Truman.
Senator Introduces Bill
Barring 'Closed Shop'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—(AP)
Senator Ball, R., Minn., Wednesday
introduced legislation to bar all la
bor contracts which make either
membership or non-membership in
a union a condition of employment.
Ball said in a statement that 90
days after enactment of his bill, any
person “thereafter entering into or
attempting to eenforce” any of the
agreements declared to be outlawed,
would be guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by a maximum penalty
of a $5,000 fine and a year in jail.
Warren Rates for'48
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP) —
Rep. McDonough R., Calif., put in
a word in the House Wednesday for
Governor Earl Warren of Califor
nia for president in 1948.
He told his colleagues to “Watch
the Golden State in ’48” because
Warren “has all the qualifications
necessary.”
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