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Show PAGE 2 fSEFRiYtf SUNDAY HERALD Tru ma it Pleads OPA After Veto Of Measure (Continued Iron Faro One) committee, which will consider it Monday. ODaniel's objection climaxed one of the worst parliamentary muddles to beset . congress in years and sounded the death knell for whatever chance there was of getting temporary extension throufh congress bezore ine ex plration of the present price control law. - Even, thonrh eentrols are certain to lapse tomorrow midnight, stabilisation officials offic-ials said any eosaing price rises could bo brought back la line when and If congress acts to.reimpose and extend controls. Mr. Truman's veto of the OPA bill passed by congress yesterday was sustained by the house after brief but heated debate. The vote' to override the -veto was 173 to 142, or 37 votes short of the necessary .two thirds. With 313 house members present, 210 votes would have Jeen neces sary to override the veto. The house upheld the veto a few hours after Mr. Truman re jected the amendment-riddled OPA extension bill on grpundi it would legalize inflation ano lead the nation to economic dis aster. In vetoing the bill, Mr. Truman ignored the advice of his legislative legis-lative leaders that it was "this bill or nothing at all." Instead, the president upheld, the view of Chester Bowles, who resigned last night as economU. stabilizer in protest against thef-type of bill congress had approved. In his 4,500-word veto message, Mr. Truman expressed fervent hope that congress would not adjourn ad-journ for the week-end without votinc a continuation of OPA. MI cannot bring myself to believe," be-lieve," he said, "that the representatives repre-sentatives of the American people peo-ple will permit the greet calamity calam-ity which will befall this country coun-try if price and rent control end at midnight Sunday." He will further explain his veto ve-to to the public at o'clock tonight to-night (EST) in a 15-minute address ad-dress over all radio networks. His veto message, however, made it amply clear that the con sidered the bill a death-dealing device to both price controls and wage stabilization. "If this were allowed to become law. he said, "the American people would believe be-lieve that they were protected protect-ed by a workable price control con-trol bill. Bat they would not be protected, and they would eon eome to the bitter reali sation of the truth. "It is only fair to tell them the " Ifeta now" and that the presi-dentwill presi-dentwill seek to do in his radis address. Mr. Truman's veto, one ' of th boldest actions of his career, struck all Washington like a bombshell. He had been urged to sign it by his four top congressional congres-sional lieutenants Senate Administration Ad-ministration Leader Alben W Barkley, Senate President Kenneth Ken-neth McKellar, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, and McCormack, as house majority leader. Their stand had led to a belief that the president Would sign the bill. And when Mr. Truman ac cepted Bowies' resignation last nicht. it was taken s .further, ev idence that be had reluctantly decided not to risk a veto. But Harry S. Truman, the man whom destiny lifted into the na tion's highest office, would have .none of it. He slapped on the bill a veto thai was sustained despite warnings by his legislative "big four" that he must accept this bill or get nothing else. The veto took both Barkley and Raybourn by surprise. Both appeared ap-peared angered by the president's action. . Mr. Truman told congress that ' the bill did not present a choice between continued price stability and inflation "it is a choice between inflation with a statute and inflation without one." "In the end," he added, "this bill would lead to disaster." Mr. Truman himself outlined for the law makers a four-point hill to succeed the interim extension ex-tension resolution which he requested. re-quested. This permanent bill, he said, should: 1. Extend the stabilization laws for a full year. (The vetoed Every Afternoon (Excepting Saturday) and Sunday Sunday Herald Published Sunday . , Morning Published by the Harald Corporation, Corpora-tion, 60 -South First West Street, Prove, Utah. Entered as second class natter at the portoffic la Prevo, Utah, under th act of March 3. 1879 Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county. 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Set forth a new policy lor orderly removal ."of price controls during the coming year as supply Increases, provided ..that, callings are not lifted 'whara it?is clear that serious price .rises would re-ult." re-ult." The nresident said he would not oppose the Independent price decontrol board ' oroposea in the vetoed bill f there were such a restriction. 4. Require adjustments oi price ceilings only where necessary neces-sary to increase total, production of needed goods. (The . congres sional proposal contained new nrlce-nrofits formula ' that, as sure higher prices for virtually every processor or manufactur er.) Mr. Truman also told congress he opposed the proposal to transfer trans-fer control over food and agricultural agri-cultural prices from OPA to the secretary of agriculture because it was "unsound" to spilt autnor- tty- . , But his fundamental oojecxion to the bill was based on the num erous cost-profits amendments which he said "would raise the price of living commodities." He singled out .lor special crit icism the amendment by Sen. Robert Ro-bert A. Taft, R., O. under that DroDosal. OPA would be required to allow manufacturers and pro cessors to base their prices on levels prevailing Oct. 115, 1941, and to add on all subsequent increases in-creases in per unit cost. All increases in-creases under the Taft amend ment would have been passed on to consumers. Denouncing the Taft amend ment as a veritable "Bonanza" to industry, Mr. Truman said: It is that amendment wnicn would compel thousands of need less price increases amounting to millions of dollars, in tne name of stimulating production, (It) primes peak profits on every pro duct, even where production is already coins at full bust ana profits are eminently satisfactory. "As Industry after industry accepts ac-cepts the invitation of the Taft amendment, prices will go up and uo. The president said the Taft proposal would bring especially "unreasonable" price increases on automobiles, washing machines, refrigerators and other items which are just returning to market. mar-ket. The overall bill, Mr. Truman said, would boost the average nrice of low-cost cars by from $223 to $250. send the cost of steel up from $4 to $8 a ton and force price increases on food, clothing and housing materials. Mr. Truman also assailed cost- price provisions authorized by Sen. Kenneth Wherry, R., Neb., and Rep. Fred Crawford, R., Mich. These, he 1 said, would simply make sure that the price increases granted industry by the Taft amendment would be "pyramided "pyra-mided by generous wholesalers' and retailers' marups." The president said he wondered wonder-ed if congress was aware, when it approved such amendments, that it was killing the wage stabilization stabiliza-tion program. He quoted from a wage stabilization board letter which said the bill presents "no possibility of wage stabilization." Thus, he said, the bill would start the vicious, spiral of inflationprice infla-tionprice increases, higher pay demands by labor to meet increased in-creased living costs, strikes, slowdowns slow-downs . in production, and so on around! . Questions (Continued from Page One) tension' to two or three weeks while a new attempt was made to draft a permanent measure satisfactory to the president and to congressional critics of OPA. Q. If prices go up Monday, can they be pushed back to their present levels? A, Retiring stabilization director di-rector Chester Bowles says there is no reason they cannot. Q. How about wage controls? A. Those, too, expire at mid night tomorrow. Q. Do the food subsidies con tinue? a. uovernment officials say the subsidy payments will end af midnight tomorrow. They said discontinuance of subsidies alone would raise the price of meat about two cents a pound, milk two to three cents a quart and butter 12 to 18 cents. Q. Does sugar rationing end? A. No. The government's rationing authority comes from the second war powers act, and congress voted an extension of that law. Veto Angers Democratic Congressmen By RAYMOND XAUR United Frees Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. June 29 U. President Truman angered his congressional spokesmen today by spurning their advice and vetoing ve-toing the much-amended price control bill. Administration leaders in both house and senate had urged, Mr. l rum an to sign tne bill on grounds it was the best he .could get. By refusing .the president appeared to be risking a grave breach in his relations with congress. con-gress. ; - .v..' . - Mr. Truman's action reflected what was probably the deepest split between the executive and congress since the late President Roosevelt vetod a general tax bill in the winter of 1944t Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, who resigned ever the Roosevelt message and was reelected leader Immediately, ', was obviously angered by Mr. Truman's veto today. House . speaker Sam Rayburn of ; Texas also appeared Irritated. Barkley, referring to Mr. Tru man's conference with legislative leaders yesterday, said: We thought we were" being called down there to . give our counsel. We gave the best we knew. Apparently it wasn't good enough." Some house members told re porters the veto was "the worst slap'!- Mr. Truman had given congress. Critics of OPA, accused ine president ox Killing price con trol. Sen. Robert A. Taft. R.. O.. author of an amendment which was sharply criticized in the veto message, said the veto was "the most Inflationary move which could be made" "This takes the lid off," he said. But Chester Bowles, who re signed as stabilisation director last night with a plea. for a veto, praised Mr. Truman's decision, In a radio address (Mutual) he said, "Every family in this coun try owes President Truman a vote of thanks for his tremendously courageous action." Bowles described the vetoed veto-ed bill as "monstrous and impossible." im-possible." He aald he was hopeful congress would "come through" In the Interests Inter-ests of all the people. ' President William Green of the American Federation of Labor said congress had failed the nation na-tion once in approving the inadequate inade-quate legislation and now was "on trial again. Green endorsed the president's veto. Chairman Walter George, D., Ga., of the house finance committee com-mittee branded the president's veto message as a "rehash" of old arguments. He said it was a denial de-nial of congress' power to express ex-press itself. Rep. Jesse Wolcott. R.. Mich- said the president had been misadvised. mis-advised. Sen. Joseph F. Guffy, D., Pa., was "thoroughly in accord" with the action. "The president's veto sustains my vote in opposition to the passage of the bill,' he said. The American Veterans com mittee, a World War II veterans group, praised the veto and said. congressmen must now show where they stand with the peo ple or with tne special interest lobbies." Sen. Styles Bridges, R.. N. H.. said the veto "means probably the end of all price control." He labeled the action illogical. Meanwhile, White House Sec retary Charles G. Ross reported that several hundred telegrams had been received at the White House by mid-afternoon commenting com-menting on the veto. Of 112 he inspected himself, he said, 111 praised the decision. Chiang (Continued from Page One) Harbin and partially evacuate northern Kiangsu. 3. Agreement to readjust their troop dispositions in Shangtung, Hopei and Anhwei. Some reports said that Nation alist forces which are standing by ready to jump-off in an of fensive in Manchuria have al ready launched their drive against tne communists in Hopei and Shantung. This little house is designed de-signed to accommodate small family efficiently with a minimum of friction. fric-tion. Done in red brick with crisp white trim it makes a pleasant addition addi-tion to any neighbor-hood. neighbor-hood. Modern Home Chamber of Commerce Building unice Mo. l University Youth SuspectedOf ludnop Sloyi ng (Continued from Page One) their report before talking to the youth again. Helrens showed signs of weak ening today shortly before ques tioning was. resumed, and began calling for his mother. He talked lucidly on almost any subject until un-til the Degnan case was mention ed, 'Whereupon he lapsed into a stupor. Tuoby based his contention that Helrens was "the man" pri marily upon the reports of finger print experts who found "nine points of similarity" between Helrens' prints and those on $20,000 ransom note left in the bedroom of Suzanne Degnan Nine points are adequate for identification, offiicals said, and on occasion as few as four have been considered convincing. The Helrens prints were sent to the federal bureau of lnvestlga tion In Washington for "corrobo ration" of the findings of Chicago officers. Helrens was captured three days ago and charged with burg lary. The 17-year-old student was trapped on the stair landing of an aaprtment building, and furious ly resisted officers. He tried to shoot one, but the pistol just snapped. One policeman subdued him by banging him on the head with a flower pot. But in his fight, Helrens ruptured one policeman, and it took a half dozen officers to strap him in a hospital bed at the city jail. Helrens' record is full of con trasts. He was by turns a model student and a thief or worse. He robbed apartments and then set fire to them. Apprehended, he was placed in a private reforms tory. Then he went to a Catholic academy where he made the honor roll and earned a good conduct medal. When he took an entrance ex amination at the Liberty uni versity of Chicago, his marks were so high that he skipped the last year of high school and the first year oz college ana was enrolled en-rolled as a sophomore. His friends knew him as a well-adjusted well-adjusted fellow who dieted and took uncommonly good care of his excellent 0-foot, 180-pound body. He was fairly religious, and his girl friend said she never noticed anything unusual about him. But, unknown to his colleagues, he was living a precocious Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde existence. At nights he prowled and stole and assaulted and possibly murdered. Authorities said that in addition to the fingerprints Helrens was linked to the Degnan case by: 1. Discovery of a set of stolen surgical Instruments in his uni versity dormitory room. 2. The disclosure that "hidden writing" on the ransom note Included In-cluded letters which apparently formed the name of one of his burglary victims. 3. The youth's juvenile police record and the discovery of burg lary loot in his room. 4. The fact that he formerly lived in the Degnan neighborhood and apparently had committed burglaries near the Degnan home. 5. Disclosure that his finger prints matched those taken from the wall In the apartment of a former army nurse who was as saulted and robbed last November. Novem-ber. Truman (Continued from Page One) would not pass a resolution continuing the old law and that "for a few days at least, we might be without any price control law." The president said, however. that he could not believe that congress would permit such a condition to exist long. Further, Mr. Truman asserted, I was sure that when this issue was presented to the American people and to the congress there could be only one answer." "That answer," he said, "is that the congress should immediately pass a resolution continuing present price and rent controls until the congress can pass a workable bill." Mr. Truman said what he had done by his veto was to call a spaoe a spade. He said he was now relying on the American people and upon a "patriotic and cooperative congress" to save the country from disastrous infla tion. Tiooo: PUkN Plan Bureau Phone 396 pj -TT-! iff UOM Target Ship Awaits U8S NEVADA the "bulTaeye" target ship. Battleship Nevada Waits to Die In Bikini Bomb Tests By FRANK II. BARTHOLOMEW United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD USS NEVADA. BI KINI LAGOON, June 28 U.R Strong in her quiet dignity, de spite a garish coat of red paint. the battleship Nevada waits to die. Clearing skies indicated that the first post-war atomic bomb will come hurtling down upon her 40 hours hence. Pionioned fore and aft by heavy anchors so she cannot swing or shift her position to avoid the blow from the air, this one-time queen of the sea awaits the end of her career. . The curious impression of sturdiness one feels aboard the Nevada makes understandable the freely-expressed opinion of her crew that they will come back aboard her again after its all over. Her officers do not share that opinion however. Signs stencilled stencil-led at various installations along Senate (Continued from Page One) vision enabling agencies to continue con-tinue at their present spending rates into the 1947 fiscal year until congress gives them addi tional funds. The rider dealing with fore men, sponsored by Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn., was rejected 34 to 31, after some members ob jected to its inclusion in an ap propriation bill. The union curb already has been vetoed once by Fresident Truman, when he kill ed the Case anti-strike bill. which contained an identical feature. Ball's rider aimed to "freeze" the status of supervisory employes em-ployes pending a congressional study of possible revisions in the Wagner labor act. The act now permits union activities on the nart of foremen srouDS. The amendment wculd have prohibit ed the use of national labor rela tions board funds for considering petitions for. union recognition field on . the part of the . supervisory' super-visory' workers. Ball told the senate that his move was designed to avert an organizing drive aimed at foremen, fore-men, which he said soon may be launched by the CIO and AFL. The senate approved and sent to the White House a record peace time appropriation of $4,-119,659,300 $4,-119,659,300 for the navy department. depart-ment. The bill included a controversial con-troversial provision authorizing the navy to continue torpedo production pro-duction at its Forest Park. 111., plant. This provision was bitterly bitter-ly opposed by New England senators sen-ators who said it meant closing the Newport, R. I., naval torpedo station, except for its testing and research functions. Also approved was a $67,292,287 supply bill for government corporations cor-porations and independent agen cies, senate action increased tne house bills total by $21,746,000, mainly for the Tennessee Valey authority. TVA got an additional $17,666,000 for continued construction con-struction of the Watauga and South Holston dams and $3,000,- 000 for construction of a fertilizer manufacturing facility at Mobile, Ala. The bill now goes to a joint senate-house conference to iron out differences. Can Bet Your ON A HAND you m Certified Quality Job Malone Electric Co. Certified Industrial & Domestic Wiring Contractor PHONE 761 f JFate wv,- -j her deck "Danger Explosives" explain their belief. The .Nevada carries magazines full of live ammunition and it is expected that if the blast does not sink her and it may not the super-heat generated by the explosion will burn her wooden covered decks, turn her armor-plate armor-plate white hot, and set off her magazines. I ti addition to the humiliation of a slapdash coat of red paint broken with streaks of white and yellow, the dying Nevada carries a strangely assorted cargo on her maindeck. There are two pieces of special armor plate laid flush and secured, one of them already pierced with test shots: there are two M-26-A army tanks, and three seaplanes: a screen rigged on the foredeck so crewmen can enjoy movies up to the day she dies, and finally eight goats and eight pigs are snuffling in crates on the fantail. With her in death row are the destroyer Hughes dead ahead, and the submarine Skate immediately imme-diately astern. On her starboard side is the aircraft carrier Independence In-dependence with planes and gasoline gaso-line truck on her flight deck. Beyond Be-yond the independence is the horrendous Jap battleship Na- gato, looking like a floating junkyard. junk-yard. Beyond the Nagato is the famed cruiser Salt Lake City. Atomic (Continued from Page One) j ley reported by radio tonight that Blandy had decided to go ahead with the operation as planned.) Weather men amoard the Mt. McMniey meanwhile came up with a gloomy forecast of "bad weather" for Tuesday and Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Otherwise the weather looked about 50-50, with shifting clouds sometimes obscuring the skies over the shuttel fleet moving the crews out of the harbor. The U. S. S. Nevada, target pinpoint of the array ships was the first to be evacuated. The 1,200 men aboard packed their gear and went over the side in relays to the waiting transports. The observers who arrived yesterday yes-terday morning spent the day touring the target array, and watching the placement of the delicate instruments aboard the ships. From the cleancut German cruiser Prinz Eugen to the battered Japanese battleship Nagato with its forward superstructure su-perstructure looking like a rusted bed-spring, everything is in readiness for the fourth atomic bomb. The old Nevada gleamed "in the sunshine as the skies cleared dur ing the tour. Eight pigs grunted noisily on the Nevada's fantail, unaware that for them life is possibly very short and quickly over. About 1,000 yards away was the carrier Independence, its decks stacked with planes, fire- trucks and oil tanks and looking like the most vulnerable of the lot. In a giant circle of approxi mately three miles, other vessels including the Pennsylvania, the New York, and Arkansas stood in rows while their crews deserted them for the evacuation fleet. LIKE THIS BUT IT'S NO CINCH Take The Gamble Out of Your Wiring Problems by Insisting Upon a Don't Drink.lf Ymi ftrivA Car, Warns Highway Officer If you must celebrate the Fourth of July by drinking, stay out of yqur automobile. ?" This blunt warning was served on Utah county motorists Saturday by Captain L. A. Christenson of the state highway patrol, whose men will set up nightly blockades at strategic points in the county ' before, during and after the holiday in an open war on drunken drivers. . Drivers coming away from places of amusement will be closely watched. Captain Christenson said, but a blockade may be expected anywhere. (J. S. Protests China's Removal Of 400 Germans From the Export List By WALTER BUNDLE United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, June 29 (U.R) The United States has notified China that it regards China's removal of 400 Germans from a U. S. list of "dangerous and objectionable" Nazis as an "unfriendly act," it was learned tonight. The angry American protest, it was learned, has caused the Chinese abruptly to restore all but about 40 of the Nazis to the list of Germans who will be shipped ship-ped July 7 to Germany aboard the Marine Robin. Many of the Nazis, it was learned, had paid from $15,-000 $15,-000 to $75,000 dollars (American) (Ameri-can) to get the Chinese to strike their names from the list. The stern American attitude, it was learned, spread consternation consterna-tion among both corrupt Chinese officials who took the names off the list and in the German community com-munity of Shanghai. The order to restore all but about 40 of the names to the list was issued by the Nanking government gov-ernment and precipitated a wild scramble as Chinese officials rushed to repay the money given them by the Germans before the Nazis could expose the graft recipients, re-cipients, according to reports here. The German repatriation prob lem has been growing more and more acute here. The original repatriation re-patriation list carried about 1500 names of Nazis. It was drafted after lengthy investigation of German operations in China. The investigation disclosed the activity of the so-called "Ehr-hardt "Ehr-hardt Bureau" which continued to engage in anti-Allied espionage for the Japanese after Germany's surrender. Nearly a score of Ehrhardt operatives have been rounded up by Americans and charged with violation of the German surrender terms. Others on the repatriation list included all categories of Germans who engaged in in telligence. propaganda and other anti-Allied operations throughout the war. Many of . them were described as "more dangerous" than the Ehrhardt bureau men. The list was given to the Chinese who engaged to round up the Nazis. However, the Chi nese displayed little interest, it A HAVE Your CAR INSPECTED NOW Avoid Last Minute Bush Frampton Motor 97 WEST THIRD SOUTH PHONE 2166 HOW TO AVOID DIFFICULT AND DISAGREEABLE JOBS Electricity can do many of jobs for you on your farm . . . just as it is now doing " for sive low but f Profit by (better FARMING J 0&3 OGOO C3C3ECGCJB was said, in rounding up suck persons as Hugo Soennes, former bodyguard of Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek Kai-Shek and several other Germans holding advisory positions in the Chinese government. Other Chinese officials, it was said, intervened in behalf of Germans Ger-mans whose technical skills were being employed in government or private business. Due to the delicacy of American Ameri-can relations with China, because of Gen. George C. Marshall's truce mission, it was understood, the Americans withheld any immediate immedi-ate action in the situation. TRUMAN SIGNS BILL WASHINGTON, June 29 (UE-r-President Truman today signed o Kill ratavinit Immttfrflf Inn rp- strictions for foreign fiances of. ' U. S. soldiers. The bill permits the fiances to enter this country for a three-month three-month period as a visitor prior to July 1, 1947. Upon marriage, they would automatically be entitled to remain in this country. ' 4 Re-Elect for A Second Term THERON S. HALL for SHERIFF (Incumbent) There Is No Substitute for Proven Efficiency! Primary July 9 (Paid Political Adv. by Hall Supporters) the difficult and disagreeable thousands of other progres - ( farmers. 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