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Show NEWS REVIEW Congress Will Convene; No Russia: Chile, Brazil TRUMAN CALLS Congress to Meet Congress, summoned by President Truman, will convene con-vene in special session at noon, November 17, to deal with: 1. "The alarming and continuing" continu-ing" high prices at home and, 2. The pressing need for rapid-fire emergency need abroad. President Truman's summoning of congress a month and a half before be-fore it normally would have reconvened re-convened marked a definite climax in U. S. domestic events for 1947. Although doubt existed for a long time as to whether a special session ses-sion would be called to meet the two problems which have been screaming with urgency all year, it was the only really logical step to take. Mr. Truman took it decisively. He conferred with his cabinet, and he conferred with key congressional leaders of both parties. He did not ask their advice on a special session; ses-sion; he informed them simply that he was calling one. "It is urgently necessary," he I said, "for the congress to take legislative leg-islative action designed to put an end to the continued rise in prices . . . and to meet the crisis in Western Europe!" Concerning prices, the President would not ask for consumer controls, con-trols, but for authority for allocation alloca-tion of certain materials. European relief, scheduled to be given priority pri-ority over the price muddle in congressional con-gressional action, was highlighted by the growing desperation in France and Italy. t, DENIAL: No Force James F. Byrnes, said James F Byrnes somewhat angrily, was and is a patient man. Moreover, he did not advocate in his recently published pub-lished memoirs, "Frankly Speaking," Speak-ing," that force should be used, if necessary, to drive the Russians out of Germany. The former U. S. secretary of state made that rebuttal after widely wide-ly printed reviews of his book had stated that he was urging the building build-ing of more and bigger atomic bombs and the use of force against the recalcitrant Red army. He reiterated his belief that the U. S., Great Britain and France should proceed with a general German Ger-man peace conference, regardless of the Soviet Union's attitude. If the Russians refused to sign the treaty, then the other nations should appeal to the security council coun-cil of the U. N. to order the Russians Rus-sians out because, Byrnes said, "we will then be facing a situation likely to endanger the peace." He Ate Nails and Stuff When surgeons operated on James S. Payne, inmate of Kansas state prison, to remove a nail from tjis throa,t, they discovered that the man) was virtually a perambulating junk sho. Three and a half pounds of metal, met-al, including two complete safety razors without blades, was the loot the doctors recovered from Payne's case-hardened stomach. The convict, con-vict, serving an arson term, gave no reason for his metallic diet. |
