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Congress Returns For Election
Year Session With Labor Strife,
Demobilization High On Docket
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (P)
The 78th congress began its sec
ond session at noon (EST) today
with a request to its leaders by
President Truman to expedite
action on his unfinished legis
lative program.
Acting House Speaker McCor-
mack of Massachusetts told re
porters the president declared at
a wnue tiouse conierence wun
congressional leaders that he was
"very anxious" for early action
on his legislative program.
McCormack said the entire
program was discussed at the
White House in a general way,
and the strike situation was re
viewed. He quoted the president as be
lieving early action imperative
on his proposal for a law setting
up fact-finding boards to handle
major labor controversies and
providing for a 30-day cooling
off period before strikes take ef
fect Senator Eastland (D-Miss.) told
reporters he would seek im
mediate senate action on the fact
finding legislation asked by the
. president.
"We've either got to get out
some strike legislation or sur
render the country to the CIO,
he said.
As the lawmakers reconvened,
Mr. Truman sent them a recom
mendation that appropriations
and contract authorizations be
cut back by $5,021,887,483.
This would be addition to
$50,345,409,169 in recissions ap
proved by congress near the
close of the last session. v .
Strike Discussion
Eastland said he planned a dis
cussion of strikes on the senate
floor. . . . .
Charles E. Wilson, president
oi uenerai Motors corporation.
and R. J. Thomas and Walter
Reuther, leaders of the CIO Auto
Workers union, had been sched
uled to testify on. the fact-finding
bill before the senate labor
committee this forenoon.
All three informed the senate
group they were unable to be
present because, of the . negotia
tions between them. Wilson
asked to appear later.
McCormack told reporters the
president also is anxious for
prompt action on legislation deal
ing with the United States em
ployment service. Congress
passed a law last year return
ing the employment offices to
state control in 100 days but the
president vetoed it
A bill to retain federal con
trol until the middle of 1947 as
requested by the president will
be considered by the house labor
committee Thursday.
Peacetime Session -
The first full peacetime ses--cion
since 1941 finds congress
somewhat "on the spot" with
a mountain of work ahead, its
White House relations strained
to the breaking point and the
voters displaying a keener-than-1
usual Interest In Capitol Hill ac
tivities.
For this is a congressional elec
tion vear. All 43o house and 3z
of the 96 senate seats will be
filled in November. Hence polit
ical considerations will dictate
many congressional actions.
Tomorrow senate and house
members will hear in person
from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
explanation of demobilization
policy. The lawmakers hope the
informal meeting in the con
gressional library will pacify
complaining GI's abroad and
their relatives and friends at
home.
Committees of both branches
have arranged to resume hear
ings shortly on legislation asked
by Mr. Truman to set up fact
finding boards backed by law to
handle major labor contro
versies. These hearings were
Kidnapers Get
Prison Terms
BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 14 (iP)
District Court Judge Charles
Koelsch sentenced two men to
prison terms here Saturday on
charges of kidnaping.
William Blinkensop was sen
tenced to a term of one to 25
years and William Graves to a
term of iu to years in the
state prison. j
The two men, who allegedly
forced two other men in a taxi-i
cab here December 21 turned i
their earlier plea of innocence to
a plea of guilty, after questioning !
ny James w. tiiaine, prosecuting
attorney.
Roy R. Valkenburg, third
member of the trio charged with
the kidnaping of Thomas W.
Hume, Tacoma, and James S.
Hensley, Seattle, will be tried be
fore a jury January 22. He
pleaded guilty at his arraign
ment last week.
Hensley and Hume told offi
cers earlier that the three men
forced them into a taxicab in an
alley in downtown Boise the
night of December 21, and drove
them toward the railroad sta
tion.
halted last month, despite the
chief executive's request for
action before Christmas.
Congress currently is cool to
the plan, and strong sentiment
is development instead for stiff
union-control legislation. Ready
for house action is a bill to
penalize unions striking in viola
tion of contracts and to curb
union political activities.
If Mr. Truman has any new
ideas on the labor situation, they
probably will be transmitted to
congress in tne annual suue-ot-
the union message scheduled to
be delivered Thursday. Con
gressional leaders say they be
lieve the president win suck to
his guns and insist on his original
proposal.
A second presidential utter
ance, the annual budget message
expected next Monday, will go
far toward shaping congressional
fiscal policies. There have been
mounting demands tor economy
since the war and its unpre
cedented spending ended with
the natibnal debt soaring toward
the S300.0U0.000.000. mark.
Coupled with the budget win
be the 1946 tax program. What
that win be, only time win ten.
But right now there is growing
clamor for reduction or elimi
nation of war-levied excise and
luxury levies. No further cuts
in income taxes are sighted im
mediately.
Wife Out-Judos
Ju-Jitsu Spouse
LANCASTER. Pa Jan. 14
() Nineteen-year-old Mrs.
David N. Noreross won n di
vorce, claiming her ju-Jltsu
expert husband became irritat
ed when she outdid him In
wrestling bouts. She twice
threw the 23-yetir-old navy dis
charged pretty hard, said the
wife, and ho letuliuted, hurting
her feelings.
In tho same court yestcrduv,
Janice N. Clemeute, 20, di
vorced her 21-year-old hus
band, Benjamin, testifying ho
made her take an oatli that she
was not going with other men
after nn oulju board said she
was.
INJURIES FATAL
PORTLAND, Jan. 14 W')
Mrs. Volina Oborg, 34, died here
yesterday of Injuries received
Thursday In the mito-traln crash
north of Canliy In which n north
bound Southern PaclNo train
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