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7 Truman Message Calls For Inflation Controls; Offers. Reduced Budget By United Press The House and Senate today listened to one of the longest presidential messages ever written. In his combined state of the union and budget message, Pre ident Truman called for reduction of the national debt and the extension of many wartima economic controls to "fight inflation. The president also repeated his appeal for congressional enact ment of many important measures; including the creation of fact finding boards, a full employment bill, a health insurance program, universal military training, merger of the armed forces and many others. The presidential message devoted much time to current strikes and the problems of business, labor and industry re converting to a peacetime economy. I Mr. Truman said the present walkouts in major industries are a cause of deep concern, and he warned that continuation of labor management strife will seriously check the reconversion program. In an appeal to Congress to enact legislation creating fact finding boards, the president said industrial wage disputes must be settled by collective bargaining with government assistance but not by government compulsion. Major points in Pre?:dent Truman's 32,000-word message to congress: DOMESTIC PROBLEMS STRIKES Cause "deep concern;" again urged statutory fact finding and cooling-off periods; most industries should make "sub stantial wage increases;" "business is a public trust and must ad here to national standards in conduct of its affairs"; labor too must show greater responsibility. TAXES "This is no time for tax reduction." DRAFT AND DEMOBILIZATION Draft must continue un less more men volunteer; 2,000. 000-man army necessary through out this year; by June, nine out of 10 men who were in service on V-E day will be out. INFLATION Is "our chief worry;" price and rent control must be renewed; price control must be extended to new and old houses; food subsidies must he continued. HOUSING "An immediate emergency and a major postwar problem." Stop-gap actions have been taken; production is the real answer. Wage and price adjustments will be made where necessary. Price control needed on sales of old and new houses. FULL EMPLOYMENT "All the policies of the federal gov ernment must be geared to the objective of sustained full produc tion and full employment." AGRICULTURE Food prices must be held to present levels, subsidies continued; government will make good on price-support commitments; farmers can be confident of another good year or two. SOCIAL SECURITY Congress should extend benefits to those not covered; provide prepaid medical care, with sickness and disability benefits. WORLD AFFAIRS WORLD PEACE We want to "build and preserve a just peace." This can be done only on a basis of justice for all nations. UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION "Our ultimate se curity . . . requires that we begin .now to develop UNO as the representative of the world as one society ... a great voice to speak constantly and responsibility in terms of world collaboration and world well-being." ATOMIC ENERGY Favors mutually-effective safeguards through UNO that will permit fullest international control. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Lend-lease settlements on basis that will not encumber world trade; 'continued foreign loans to stimulate U. S. trade. U. S. in next 18 months will put S5.3 billion into Export-Import bank loans, British loan, and participa tion in world bank and stabilization fund THE PAST AND THE FUTURE "We have won a great war we, the nations of plain people who hate war. ... In the test, we found a strength of unity that . . . crushed the power, of those who sought by force to deny our faith in the dignity of man. I doubt if the tasks of the future-are more difficult. But If they are, our strength and our knowledge and our understanding will be equal to those task3." FINANCIAL PICTURE This, in brief, is the financial picture Mr.- Truman presented for the 1947 fiscal year which begins July 1 this year: SPENDING 535.860,000.000. INCOME S31,513.000,000. DEFICIT $4,347,000,000. The president proposes to meet the deficit by dipping into the treasury's cash balance its supply of ready cash already on hand. He intends to use the same source for funds to retire nearly $8,000,000,000 of the national debt in this next 18 months. This would cut the national debt from more than $279,000,000,000 now to $275,000,000,000 by June 30, 1946, and to $271,000,000,000 by June 30, 1947. It would cut the treasury's cash balance down from $28,000, 000,000 at the start of this calendar year to $3,200,000,000 by the end of June, 1947. Predicting his budget on existing and proposed legislation the president particularly warned that there must be no further tax reductions if the government's income is to reach the budgeted amount. It was the first time that anticipated spending not al ready authorized by Congress had been included in the budget PLANE REPORTED IN FLUNG FALL Indio, Cal., Jan. 21 UR An unidentified plane was re ported to have crashed in flames today in the rugged San Bernardino mountains 12 miles north of here, the sheriff's of fice said. Hennan Walker, Oklahoma City, said he saw the plane go into a flaming dive as ho was driving along the highway. His wife corroborated his report. Officers said that a twin engine plane was missine on a flight from Burbank to Las Vegas, Nev., via Palm Springs. PROSECUTION RESTS IN HOMMA'S HEARING Manila. Jan. 21 (UP.) The prosecution rested its case today against Lt. Gen. Masaharu Horn ma and the defense was granted a week'6 recess to prepare its case for the former Japanese commander in the Philippines. Trial will be resumed Jan. 28. War Cost U. S. $354 Billion Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R1 President Truman today placed the direct eot of World War II to the United States at approxi mately $354,000,000,000. That is the sum of military expenditures, lend-leas, and re lated direct war ccts from July 1, 1C40, when the war emergency lgan. to June 30. 1947. lt does not include billions of indirect war expenses pay ments to veterans, interest on debt. etc. Such indirect cosU will total about $11 billion In the coming fiscal year alone. Authorizations for direct U. S. war expenditures went ai high as $431 billior, but billions of this were not needed when the war ended. Mr. Truman estimated actual sums paid out for direct costs would total about $354 bil.ioa when most uf the bills axe Liquidated la 1D4.7. Junked Equipment Will Be Returned From Germany.Only Washington. Jan. 21 (U.R) The War department today an nounced its policy on return from overseas of junk metal from scrapped airplanes, guns and equipment. The army won't bring back iron scrap from anywhere but Germany, except where it can be used as ballast in ships. It hasn't made up its mind about whether it is worth while- to bring Junk Iron back from Japan. Lead and tin bearing scrap will be brought back to help ease shortages in the United States. NEW AIR RECORD New York. Jan. 21 (U.R) A Pan American Airways Clipper, a four motored Constellation, held a record today after flying 3.425 miles from New York to Lisbon in nine hours and 58 minutes. Previous record for a commercial trip across the At lantic was 12 hours, 57 minutes established on a Washington to Paris flight Dec. 4, 1945. MEDFORD Unit.d Pros Fortieth Year s F Mosccw Resolution Unani mously Adopted By Politi cal, Security Committee London, Jan. 21 (U.R) The UNO political and security committee adopted unanimous ly today the Moscow resolution for establishment of an atomic energy commission. The resolution was adopted 46 to 0. The Philippine com monwealth delegate was the only member present who ab stained from voting. The Philip pines raised the only objection to the composition of the pro posed commission. Small Nations Oppose Some of the small nations pleaded for a delay in the vot ing, but they were overruled. The vote came unexpectedly today after the big powers had appealed for quick action. Committee action on the atomic energy resolution was tantamount to final approval. The resolution still requires formal approval by the full assembly before the commission can actually be created. UNO officials meanwhile were considering how to handle Iran's complaint against Rus sia, which was submitted offic ially on Saturday. The security council prob ably will receive the protest at its next regular meeting. S. P. PLANS TWO DE LUXE IRIS A pair of de luxe diesel-pow-ered daytime streamliners, to be called the Shasta Daylights, will be placed in daily service be tween Portland and San Fran cisco by the Southern Pacific company. President A. T. Mer cier informed S. P. officials here today. The new trains will operate over the Shasta route, it was stated, but bus service will be established from Grants Pass south to Dunsmuir, and from Roseburg north to Eugene to provide direct connections with Siskiyou line points. Keep Siskiyou Train Present overnight train serv ice between Grants Pass and San Francisco, and between Ashland and Portland, will remain in ef fect. Along with his official an nouncement of the new coach streamliners, Mr. Mercier also revealed plans for progressive streamlining of the Cascades, premier sleeper trains on the Portland-San Francisco run. It is hoped the Shasta Day lights can be put in operation by the end of the year and that the new cars being planned for the Cascades will begin arriving early in 1947. WEATHER Northern California Gener ally clear today, tonight and Tuesday; except morning fogs interior valleys and most cloudy extreme northern part; slightly warmer southern San Joaquin valley today; gentle variable winds off coast. Truman Paints Bright Farm Future With Income Double 1936-39 Net Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R) In his state of the union message today. President Truman painted a bright picture for America's farmers. The chief executive told the farmers that demand for their products will continue to be strong and prices high at least for the next year or so. Mr. Truman promised the na tion's farmers that the govern ment will continue to make good on its price support commit ments. But he warned that food pries must be held where they are to prevent disastrous infla tion. That, he added, means continuing price control and food subsidies. The president said that the de cline In food prices expected after the end of the war has not appeared and is not likely to occur for many months to come. Full L' -4 Wire TO DEGAULLE CHAIR Former Premier and Minis ter of State Would Suc ceed French President Paris, Jan. 21 (UP.) Former Premier Edouard Herriot and Vincent Aurinl, minister of (o(n ii.ri (he leading candi dates' today to succeed Gen. Charles DeGaulle as president of France in a cumuiun s.- ernment. DeGaullc's sudden resigna tion last night precipiatcd in mnnmivprine bv the three political "parties to find a man with sufficient pomicai aim popular support to fill the post he has held since its creation. Action Final The resignation of DeGaulle was described officially as Mf;i ori irrevocable." Cabinet Director Gaston Palewski said DeGaulle would retire aei in itely from political life." The aggressive communists were reported ready to propose their leader, Maurice Thorez. as the new president at the head of a three party coalition with the socialists and popular republicans. In event of a coalition of communists, socialists and the more conservative popular re publicans, the socialist Auriol seemed a likely choice. The official reason given for n.r..nl'. resignation was said to be his refusal to accept a 20 per cent cut in military expen ditures demanded by the left- wing parties. Fundamentally, me resigna tion was based on a much deep er fight between DeGaulle and the left-wing organizations. Lipstick Message Blames Drink In Slaying of Woman Beardstown, 111., Jan. 21 (U.R) The body of Lucille Rife, 30, of Beardstown. was found in a hotel room today. Written In lipstick on the wall was this message; 'I killed her while I was drunk." Ivan de Silva. 21, a Jackson ville, 111., war veteran, who had registered at the hotel with Miss Rife,, was arrested several hours later. Police said de Silva admitted strangling the woman with one of her stockings. Truman May Take Florida Vacation Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R) President Truman may take a short vacation in Florida next month. The White House today de clined to give dates or possible location, but said Mr. Truman "may possibly take a short vaca tion which will take him to Flor ida." Press Secretary Charles G. Ross added that olans for the trip are still "quite tentative." Thus, he reasoned, food subsi dies must be continued beyond June 30. 1946. However, he a.ked congress to continue sub sidies with the provision that they be removed as soon as it is indicated that the cost of living will decline below present levels. Mr. Truman said farm prices are expected to remain at least at present levels in the immedi ate future. For the next 12 months, he added, they will yield a net farm income double the lB.'i6-to-IB39 average. The president noted that farm ers are in a better condition than ever to meet production goals which in 1046 call for a slightly higher acreage than in 1945. He explained that mortgages are lower and savings higher than at any time In history, machinery and supplies will be available In larger volume and farm labor problem will be lea acuta. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1946. DU STRY--1,680, 'ABLE DOCUMENT,' MORSE'S VIEW OF TRUMAN MESSAGE Oregon Senator Says Con gress Should Proceed To Stand Up and Be Counted Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R) Congressional reaction to Pres ident Truman's message today divided generally across party lines, with democrats approving his recommendations for cut ting government expenditures almost in half and republicans calling for further reductions in federal spending. House republican leader Jo seph W. Martin, Jr., Mass., said "it is good to sec the budget heading in the direction of bal ance," but "it is not what the budget messages say that counts most, but what the score sheet shows hen the record is com pleted next June." Demo Praises Acting house speaker John W. McCormack, D., Mass., said the president's communication was an "excellent, comprehen sive message. Sen. Wayne Morse. R.,-Ore.. described the message as being "on the whole, an eminently able" document. He thought "congress should proceed with out stalling or delny to stand up and be counted man by man on recommendations." He agreed With Mr. Truman on the "basic principles of labor relations, namely that voluntary, rather than compulsory, procedures should prevail. CAPTAfSlLE HURT IN CRASH Cant. Walter H. Steele of Camp White was critically In jured about 1 a. m. yesterday when cars driven by Capt. Steel and Earl Hanscom, Eagle Point, collided head on near the Intersection of Crater Lake Highway and Hilton Road. Hanscom and dipt. Steele were brought to the Community hospital, the captain later being transferred to the hospital at Camp White. Hanscom suffered only slight head Injuries and was to be discharged from the hosnital today. State police arc Investigating the accident. Philandering Wife Feeds Vet Poison Los Angeles, Jan. 21 U.R Mrs. Virginia McElhinncy, 28 confessed today she fed her late husband ant paste In his cof fee so he wouldn't learn of her unfaithfulness while he was overseas, police announced. She was booked on suspicion of murder after a coroner s autopsy revealed arsenic in the blood of McElhinncy, 28. who died Dec. 30 in veterans' hospi tal, west Los Angeles. , JEWISH TERRORISTS STAGE NEW VIOLENCE Jerusalem, Jan. 21 'U.R) Saboteurs blew up a coast guard station at Givat Olga, halfway between Tclaviv and Haifa, last night injuring 14 British soldiers and one British policeman, au thorities announced today. The new violence, blamed by police on members of the Jewish resistance movement, occurred while troops and police still were investigating outbreaks which caused four deaths in Jerusalem Saturday. JUNEAU HAS FIRE Juneau. Alaska, Jan. 21 'li F?) Investigators are probing the snow -drifted ruins of the Juneau's Coliseum -theater, searching for cause of the blaze which last night gutted the mo tion picture house and the 26 apartments above it. Regular firemen and hundreds of volun teers manned 30 hoses to battle the roaring fire which for hours thrp!i1rneri the muin hlrw-k nf 'juucau'j buiiucjs district. Strikers Walk Out 1 $h , ftp fAcmm Tclfphoio) Members of United Steel Workers (O. I. O.) mwch before the mntn pat of Jones and Uiughlln Steel Corporation plant at Pittsburgh, Fa picket iiig 48 hours ahead of scheduled national walkout. Filibustering Southern Democrats Get Rest During Truman's Message Washington, Jan. 21 tU.P.) Filibustering southern democrats gave their throats a welcome rest today while a clerk read President Truman's 32.000-word state of - the - union and budget message in the senate. They agreed to the reading, however, only after receiving as surance that the Interruption would not jeopardize their fili buster against a bill to create a permanent fair employment practice commission. John Crockett, 81-year-old sen ale reading clerk, began reading the message a few minutes after noon. Twenty republicans, 13 democrats and Sen. Robert M. LaFollctle, Prog., Wis., were in their seats at the time. In the house, reading of the message began at 12:06 p. m and was Interrupted a few min utes later by a demand for a quorum call. The roll call was completed at 12:33 p. ni. with 303 members present, a quorum. The reading FT. LEWIS CLOSE SET FOR JAN. 31 Fort Lewis, Jan. 21 (U.R) Army officials report more than 15,000 troops are slated to de bark at Tacoma and be cleared through the northwest Fort Lewis staging area before the area is de activated at the end of this month. The troops will be placed aboard troop trains and sent to separation centers throughout the nation. The vanguard Is scheduled to di-hark Wednesday when the U.fi.E). Sht-lby arrives from Na goya with 755 army personnel aboard. LAST RITES TUESDAY FOR MRS. G00DHEW Ashland. Jan. 21 Funeral services will be held at the Lit- willer Funeral Home here at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Anna Sophie Goodhcw. 57. who nnH flunv here Saturday. Rev. James Vet- ter will officiate and Interment will be In Mountain View ceme terv. The deceased is survived by her husband, John, a son Law rence of Eagle Point, and a daughter. Lola, of nienrlnle. Calif. ANo surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Mae Rogers. Los Angeles; Mrs. Lillian Hilton. Wenatchee. Wash., and Delia Olson. Harrison. Ida.; three brothers. Henry Johnson. Coeur d' Al-ne, Ida., Louis, Wallace, Ida , and James, Lewlston, Ida. FAMILY ESCAPE FIRE Portland, Jan. 21 lU.R) Fire officials report Mr. and Mrs. W. Nash and their three young sons escaped serious Injury early to day when fire gutted their boat house homo on the second floor of Lee McCudy's river store and moorage at the east side of the Willamette below tho Morrison bridge- Tribune United Press Full ATEST Ahead of Schedule was resumed but Rep. Robert L. Doughton, D., N. C, arose to make a point of order too noisy he said. Members walked in and out as the reading progressed Others sat in their seats, listen ing with varying degrees of In terest. One republican read a newspaper part of the time. A democrat scanned the Congres sional Record. STAGE UPRISING Athens, Jan. 21 (U.R) The Greek government imposed rigid martial law In the southern Peloponnesus cities of Kalamnta and Sparta today and dispatched motorized forces to subdue an uprising by the monarchist "X" organization that has cost 60 lives. Prime. Minister Themistocles Snphoulis ordered establishment of courts martial with powers to carry out sentences immediately. Arrest of the "X" leaders in the two cities was expected. The royaHsl forces have been rampaging since Saturday, when they killed 30 left-wing support ers in a cafe fight, then attacked the Kalamnta police station and freed 30 of their own men who had been arrested. Former members of ELAS, the military force of the left-wing EAM movement, were fighting beside the police against the Roy alists. Police and soldiers guard ed the prison where many ELAS men who fought in the 1U44 civil war are detained. Medford Students Receive Party Bid University of Oregon, Eugene, Jan. 21 (Special) llortense Jen nings, daughter of Dr. and Mrs George S. Jennings, Churlenc Thurston, daughter of Mrs. Gladys Thurston, and Marilyn Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wright, all of Med ford, will be guests of Mortar Hoard, senior women's honorary In the University of Oregon, at its annual Smarty Party for ell freshmen women maintaining a B average or above for their first term of school. LEFT WING PARTISANS WIN RHINELAND VOTE Frankfurt, Jan. 21 UR) A final tally on Germany's first free elections since 1033 reveal ed today that the left-wing social democratic parly scored a three-to-two popular victory yesterday over the Tightest Christian democrats in the heavily Catholic rhincland. Early returns put the Chris tian democrats well out in front In the 17 Hessian coun ties where township council men were being elected In com munities with populations of J,00O or lea. Luted Wire NO. 256. FARM EQUIPMENT PLANTS ADDED TO ROSTER OF IDLE International Harvester Co. Workers Walk Out in 11 Factories Strike Orderly . By United Press Walkouts in steel mills from coast to coast sent the number of strike-Idled American work ers to a new high of 1,680,000 to day. In the mlghtest strike blow ever aimed at U. S. industry, an estimated 750,000 steel workers went off the job in 1,200 plants located in 30 states. Another 30,000 workers went on strike in the farm equipment industry, where members of the CIO Farm Equipment Workers union walked out on the Inter national Harvester company in 11 plants. Strike Orderly The steel strike was orderly, and 11 hours after it started there was only one report of a disturbance. That was at Cin cinnati where a non-striker was arrested for waving pistol at pickets. The strike started officially at 12:01 a. m. Philip Murray, presi dent of the steel workers and of the CIO, said lt was 100 per cent effective. Murray said the next move was up to the com pany in tho dispute over the un ion's wage demands. Elsewhere in the critical re conversion picture: 1. The government reportedly was ready to end a strike of nearly 300,000 CIO and AFL packinghouse workers by seizure of strikebound meat plants, pos sibly by midweek. 2. Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach called a confer ence tomorrow with officials of the Westlnghouse and General Electric companier and the Unit ed Electrical Workers (CIO), whose 200,000 members have been on strike since last Tues day. 3. New York's vast transporta tion system was threatened as CIO transport workers officials announced that a date would be named tonight for a strike of 32,000 subway, streetcar, bus and elevated workers. Long Fight Seen The CIO steel workers' once postponed strike call became ef fective at midnight when pickets marched to the mills to take up their wage battle. lioth sides set tled down for a long, hard fight. Tho strike, climaxing months of negotiation over the union's bid for more pay, was accom plished without Incident. Words and statistics Bnd conferences had failed. Civilian Production Adminis trator John D. Small in Wash ington termed the walkout a "national disaster." He warned thai luuny tactnries would fcc forced to shut down or curtail operations for lack of steel, ad ding still more thousands to the nation's strike Idled. Except for a scattering of small companies, led by Henry J. Kaiser's Fontana Steel Co., in California, which met the un ion's wage demands, operations had ceased. And throughout the rest of the country pickets ringed the plants of General Motors, the "big three" of the electrical in dustry and the major meat pack ers. A high government official said seizure appeared the only course for ending the six-day . meat strike and replenishing supplies, already down to 25 per cent of normal. He said no date had been fixed but that it might come tomorrow or Wednesday. San Francisco averages 22 Inches of rain annually, 68 per cent of all possible sunshine. Weather rORFCAST Cloudy tonlht and TutuUy with occasional light rain, tnoilty In moun tains. lightly warmer to num. Temp. Hlih'it VnlrdaT Loweil this Morning . - M BLOw 00 IDLE
