Show 1 I i 0 i - 1 Draft Cards May Be Burned On Monday at Midnight WASIL1NGTON March 29 (A— mourning as the "Selective Service Monday midnight American men can toss their draft cards into the furnace The tr S Army will be on its own through enlistments alone to reach and keep the army of 1070000 men which is the goal set for July 1 For some three or four months draft records may be kept at local or county offices in view of the unsettled conditions in the world— most particularly in the middle east where Pres Harry S Truman has recommended that new American aid be granted The senate armed services committee has approved the idea but it must be paused by both houses of congress There will be little general U S Business Resists Plea To Cut Prices - WASIIINGTON March 29 (UP) a—Administration economic leaders conceded Saturday night that they have achieved little stitcess so far In their campaign to petsuade business to cut prices now and thus head off an inflationary spiral and possibly a bust later A source close to Pres Harry S Truman's economic advisory council said the council had encounattered a general titude on the part of business in the matter of reducing prices The council is now preparing a report for Mr Truman on the price situwalt-and-se- e" ation The president in asking for the report said businessmen who can see the handwriting on the wall would be wise to follow the lead of the Ford and International Harvester Cos which put price cuts into effect some weeks ago 'Going to Stand Pat' But many businessmen have told the president's top advisers that they are goinz to stand pat until cottditions settle To this the administration economic missionaries answer: 1 Conditions won't settle until business cuts prices—or at least follows a Iirm" price policy of not boosting therm 2 Price cuts will be insurance against further large wage demands and strikes 3 High rrices will invite tougher sales resistance particularly against "soft goods" when hOtISa WiveS have a chance to buy "durable" items which are now rolling off production lines in thicker streams Would Build It Back One Al the president's closest advisers on business said that of goods will prices on many types Tot come down Amtil inflationary pressure caused by pent-u- p demand lessens Greater production will lower taxes as help he said but proposed by G 0 P congressmen and higher wages would build It back again This administration leader said that some restOctions should be lit1S0 kept on consumer credit Ile warned that removal of exportd controls would permit foreign nations to bid prices of some commodities to three and four times their present levels At the same time be said a retreat into economic isolation which would cut off shipments abroad of agricultural commodities would leave this country with tremendous surpluses and force prices down goods-starve- Darn Payment Interest Hit WASHrsIGTON March 29 U13- )-An appeal was made to the house reclamation subcommittee Saturz reday to lower interest rates oncondam on Boulder due payments struction charges Gilmore Tillman assistant city the attorney for Los Angeles told committee during a hearing on bills to amend the reclamation laws that if interest is to be fixed at 2 for new irrigation projects the game concession should be made for Boulder payments which -now bear 3 interest Clyde Ellis executive manager of the National R E A Cooperative Assn asked the committee to make sure no damage was done Ft E A cooperatives through increased power rates "If power rates should be raised one mil per kilowatt hour" he said "some new projects will no longer be feasible and many already operating may be bankrupt" Chairman Robert F Rockwell tR Colo assured him that "no one on this committee is going to harm R E A knowingly" il Act" (as the army prefers to call it) expires But both the army and the state department will watch voluntary enlistments closely For the time being the state department feels the need of the wordless argument which lies in the existence of a army on call Compulsory Drill Undecided Cores s must lain pass on the proposal for a compulsory military training program which would put all Americans through the basic training the generals now feel necessary because of the speed with which war could come a third time Compulsory trainees would not join the army They would just be trained for it But the program is cut from the same piece of cloth— preparedness To keep its strength the army needs 30000 enlistments a month They are running at about that But Pres Truman has reserved the right to ask congress for of - the draft law The United States was 'still at peace when the act was passed on Sept 16 1940 It was the first peacetime draft this nation had seen and should have caused violent debate But the Germans had rolled over France that summer Denmark the lowlands Norway Czechoslovakia and Poland were out The United States felt the need for trained defense Had to be Sure The life of the act was accompanied by much grumbling because of the frequent changes in age limits and deferment requirements But the men in Washington had to be sure that every pair of able hands was at work where it was most needed There were six registrations All told 10022367 men were drafted And for all the grumbling officers now congratulate themselves that so vast a number could be taken with so few accusations of unfairness and so little scandal Remember the "national lotthe "gold fish bowl" the teries" rl Harbor fathers?" filled The "gold fish bowl" was scholarlwith the 'draft numbers and y-looking Secy of War Henry L Stimson pulled the first number No 158 Remember? The first age limits were 21 men were not through 35 and the United States tb serve outside the After Pearl Harbor the age limits for service went from 18 through 44 and men through 64 were asked to register The limitation to home soil was dropped Nudged to War Jobs Men over 44 were never intended for thilitary service but their registration helped to nudge them jobs gently toward tnecessary war or chocMany an aging tap dancer to a run olate dipper learned bow turret lathe And auto salesmen with precious littlo to sell anyway took to the air plane plants At first attempts were made be-to But that family men bypass as more and more came impossible were needed both for the battle fronta and for war production at well-train- ed - pre-Pea- - home There followed a series of deferment rules for changes in the two major classes: (1) men with dependents (2) men whoin were war needed at home either to the on or jobs "necessary plants national health safety and interest"—the doctor the man who ran a factory cafeteria the industrial engineer Eventually the fact that a man had dependents became very much less important than the distinct need for him on a necessary home job Rules More Stringent By early 1944 the army had seen men in battle and decided the ones it wanted most were those from 18 through 25 Deferment rules for men of those ages became stringent particularly folded and the draft Germany let to up The training sysbegan tem was revised to give youngsters six months before they were shipped abroad Three days after the surrender of Japan the drafting of men over 26 stopped although volunteers through 37 were accepted By Christmas 1945 the army was fathers unless they taking no moreMen with three or volunteered more children couldn't get in at all Last summer for a while there was e draft holiday while the army and the administration tried to determine the new needs For six weeks last fall drafting was 15 alrevived That stopped Oct on the though the law stayed books Now men 17 to 35 may enlist but top officers still feel that the only certain source of manpower Is a draft law On the other hand they know the superior worth of a volunteer army and they know the nation wants it that way Gqe I 1 le?:::::1511:7 I (7i74 yeltooTtejeit tearing that you forget are wearing this tiny precision 'tearing instrument accurately Atted to residual r:ci t PLUS- 11 or FOR WOMEN i 1 I 1441:' 1 - M i Ns u409:1 i ceei hearing loss Enjoy Oho A thrill of going 'locos ohne no en notices you hooting do hpct ( 90 N lip attractivety con Conemor - ctecd4-414te-tl p illt!:--A-- o of the precision Audiometers for testing Americo's ears hove been supplied by Moire Sold on E Z Terms Several Hundred told in Salt Lake City alone if out of Salt Lake write for detailed information MAICO OF UTAH GLEN E THOMPSON Salt' Lake City Utah WELCOME DISTR 54633 CONFERENCE Brooks Arcade Bldg Evenings by Appointment VISITORS Tr 317 3-- NINE BILLIONS OUTSTANDING ON U S LOANS WASHINGTON March 29 Sam the biggest money lender in history had $9280000000 in loans to 58 foreign countries outstanding at the end of 1946 the commerce department said Saturday The department's clearing office for foreign transactions reported that the total of foreign loans and commitments increased only $50000000 in the last quarter of 1946 reflecting a drying up of the flow of credits abroad e as the movement of and war surplus goods tapered off Great Britain the leading beneficiary of United States gov- ernment loans held $4600000000 in credits or more than one-ha- lf of the total This included the $3750000000 advanced to the British last year (CTPS)--Unc- le lend-leas- Senator Asks Wool Trade Bare Incomes - Zilt (Salt gatkt Zeibutte Sui1day March 30 1947 – "A ar 11 McCarthy (R bankruptcy because of the loss of their markets Repeal of the 15 tax on travel "outside of the northern portions of the western hemisphere" will result in big cuts in the cost nof a d transportation to Europe South America The international travel department of the American Automobile Assn says the tax on a first class round-tri- p passage to America England on the steamship has been $9750 and on the Queen Elizabeth $10950 Round-tri- p by Air round-trip air The tax on a has been jou'rney to Englandaround-South F o r the $8801 America air cruise from Miami to Buenos Aires and return the tax has amounted to $140' Travel authorities say the reduction in transportation costs will further stimulate a strong urge for trips abroad this year Much of the Increased travel to Europe however will have to be handled later in the year Summer travel facilities are reported already booked to capacity In 1948 Dodd told a provides argument for legislation to permit the Comto sell its modity Credit Corp stock at a price to compete with foreign wool The three bills under consideration by the committee would pro- that authority The vide corporation may not sell 4 s 1'141" t' ' ' 'ri---I II! 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:c ilfe4"( d 'A Ls of parity ceives from things he has and is based on about 176 items The Agriculture department's order Friday increased the selling wool price of government-owne- d an average of two to three cents The a pound effective Saturday order was based upon parity increases in March I' - "l1177-77:77- now at less than reporter after the Parity represents the ratio behearing that Friday's order in- tween costs of things the producer creasing the figure on wool has to buy and the income he rean parity to sell additional 90 I( 4( ill ''''7tt - ns13111 1"'-'''-'- ' "'' rr?n' '11'4- ‘ et Joseph -- c r II D ‘ -"' et Sen I ' " '' fur-trimm- ed advocated the change to help Wis)farmers He contended many fur of them were thteatened with I : - ''' fur-trimm- ed Aids Fur Farmers - i Cut on Travel Fur Taxes Due Tuesday WASHINGTON March 29 (P)— Lower prices f o r coats and increased travel to South America are expected to result from tax changes which go into effect Tuesday ' These changes are the first tax reductions to be made by the 80th congress One increases substantially the garexemption of ments from the 20 tax on furs tax Another removes the 15 on furs Another removes the 15 tax on travel from this ccountry to places outside the United States Canada Mexico Central America and the Caribbean Besides abolishing the 15 travel tax congress eliminated the tax on steamship tickets themselves to ports outside the United States Canada aVlexico and Puerto Rico Values Fixed Previously the 20 tax on furs coats if the applied to was greater value of the fur-sthan the value of the next most valuable material in the coat It worked out generally that a fur trimmed coat selling for less than $100 was exempt The new law provides that a coat be tax free unless the value of the fur-sis more than three times the value of the next most valuable material in the coat The "next most valuable material" is usually the cloth shell The new exemption provision Will mean say tax experts that in general a coat will have to retail as high as 8145 or in some cases $160 to be taxable The possible to the buyer as a result savings elimination would be 26 of tax on a $140 coat I 1 A3 fur-trimm- ed WASHINGTON March 29 1P- -Sen Milton R Young (R N D) demanded Saturday that representatives of the wool trade testifying on bills to establish a federal support plan for the sheep industry tell the agriculture committee their incomes Saying that Malcolm Green vice president of Draper 'SE Co of Boston had appealed to the committee to permit "the good old Boston industry to live" he placed in the record a statement which he said was taken from court records that Green's firm in 1945 proposed to pay him $18000 salary 72000 bonus and 17579 on his annuity contracts He asked Kenneth Mariner a witness for the National Wool Trade Assn if he didn't receive $91000 salary from his company while he was acting as a government dollar-a-yeman in 1943 Mariner said he "had made that much in some years" but didn't recall about 1943 Asks Subpens' Then Young moved that salary records of all witnesses for the Clinton w9o1 trade be subpenaed K Hester another trade witness suggested an examination of producers incomes as well The committee took no immediare action In addition to the trade witnesses the committee heard N E Dodd undersecretary of agriculture who said he thought import fees would be preferable to an import quota to control foreign shipments Mariner recommended increasHe told ing the wool tariff 50 the committee the foreign price now is "only a little" under the domestic price Salt Laker Testifies James A Hopper of Salt Lake City told the commfttee that consumption of foreign wool in the United States has increased from 5 of the total in 1933 to 80 ' t a o i ' |