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Top-Priority Problems
Await Truman On Return
From Missouri Home
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman, back from a Christmas
visit to ins Missouri home, jug
gled a heavy load of top-priority
problems Saturday — one report
edly concerning next year’s mili
tary budget.
Military and mobilization of
ficials showed him their recom
mendations for national defense
spending at a 45 - minute White
Hov.se meeting Friday. They came
away looking a bit glum.
A hastily called Pentagon meet
ing of Secretary of Defense Lov
ett and his budget experts fol
lowed immediately.
This gave rise to speculation
that total estimates for the needs
of the armed forces—and for re
lated items like foreign aid —
might have run into presidential
resistance.
Budget problems weren’t the
President’s only concern. He is
still searching for a method to
carry out a drastic crackdown on
wrong-doers in government.
A threatened steel strike was
-another matter of major import
ance confronting the President.
Hurricane Winds Lash
Europe’s Atlantic Coast
LONDON, (/P)—Howling hum
can winds washed mountainous
seas over sinking ships along Eu
rope’s Atlantic coast Saturday and
set off a series of frantic distress
calls.
At least seven threatened ves
sels, including two American
freighters, radioed SOS signals.
One ship was driven aground.
Others were taking water rapidly
and in serious danger.
Winds as high as 89 miles an
hour whipped up the worst east
ern Atlantic storm in many years.
Hundreds of small boats were
sunk at anchor on the French and
English coasts. Coastal towns
from Spain to Denmark were bat
tered.
Most transatlantic air travel
halted after the Shannon River
washed over low - lying Shannon
International Airport.
The Queen Mary finally docked
at Southampton 72 hours late. Its
captain, said the trip was the
worst he had made since 1914.
PARIS, (/P)—As if it mattered
in wine-loving France, the price
of drinkable water piped into
homes went up today from four
to six cents a cubic meter.
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Allies Make Most
•important And
'Final Concession '
By GEORGE A. McARTHUR
MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — United
! Nations negotiators Saturday
made their “most important con
cession”—and their final one—in
an effort to break the long dead
lock in the Korean truce talks.
The U.N. negotiators said they
would abandon their demand for
aerial reconnaissance and negoti
ate the question of troop rotation
if the Reds would accept without
change a new compromise plan
for policing a truce. 4
Maj. Gen. Howard M. Turner
told the Reds the plan is the
U.N.’s final offer.
“We have now coryeded to your
unreasonable viewsf all that we
can concede. From this moment
we have and shall have nothing
further to propose,” Turner de
clared.
“It is now clearly and unequi
vocably up to you. The future is
in your hands.”
The Reds asked to consider the
1 proposal overnight.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
official U.N. spokesman, said the
decision to withdraw the demand
for aerial observation during an
armistice was made “with the
greatest reluctance.”
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby said the
communists “grudgingly” agreed
to* supply information on all U.N.
and South Korean soldiers they N
have captured. In return, the
Allies will give the Reds further
data on the list of Red prisoners
given the communists Dec. 18. He
said the U.N. is not too hopeful
the Reds will supply much addi
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tional information “but at least
we got crur foot in the door.”
Suicide Wills Brain
To Harry Truman
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — “My
small estate I bequeath to my
mother; my body to the nearest
accredited medical school; my
soul and heart to all the girls,
and my brain to Harry Truman.”
This note and the body of Gor
don Van Ess, 45, laborer, were
found in a hotel room Friday by
the maid.
Police officers who made the
note public said it is in Van Ess’
handwriting. They said he appar
ently died of poison.
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