Truman, Congress
Girding For Battle
On Finances
WASHINGTON. UP) — Fresh
signs of deep-seated differences,
between Capitol Hill and the
White House were clearly appar
ent yesterday as the 80th Con
gress reassembled in an atmos
phere of election-year wariness.
The gulf which divides the
President and the Republican
controlled legislative branch was
pointed up perfectly by a new re
port that Mr. Truman might pro
pose higher taxes on corporation
profits in order to leave a margin
for low bracket personal income
tax relief without cutting total
government revenues.
Even as Mr. Truman was put
ting the finishing touches to what
lieutenants described as a “slug
ging message” to be delivered in
person today, Republicans staked
out the lines for a fight of their
own to cut taxes and slash gov-!
ernment spending.
There were these session-eve
developments to indicate that dull
moments will be few and far be
tween:
1. Chairman Taber (R.-N. Y.) of;
the House appropriations commit
tee called the President’s report-;
ed budget of $40,000,000,000 “too
damn high” and promised to whit
tle it down to size.
2. Chairman Knutson (R.-Minn.»
of the House ways and means
sommittee reiterated his deter
mination, with leadership back
ing, to jam through a $5,600,000,000
tax-reduction bill which will pro
vide at least a percentage reduc
tion for everybody.
3. The administration aban
doned its attempt to have Con
gress specify a possible $17,000,
000,000 outlay for European re
covery over the next four years
but ran into new Republican re
mands for further alterations in
the hotly debated Marshall Pro
gram.
4. Top GOP leaders in both Sen
ate and House fired a verbal
"Tailor Made” Houses
Packaged On Trucks
(By Gene Plowden) '
((/P) Newsfeatures)
MIAMI, Fla. (^P) — A novel
method of house assembly here is
helping to keep Miami at the top
of the list in postwar home con
struction.
In developing Essex Village in
suburban Hialeah, Thomas P.
Coogan, regional vice president of
the National Association of Home
Builders and president of the Flo
rida Home Builders* Association,
has put his assembly ideas into
mass production that has been
yielding an average of two homes
completed daily.
The 37,000,000 development
will include 600 homes, 70 two
family houses and 112 apartment
units, the latter for rental. There
also will be a $400,000 community
center to meet the needs of the
3,000 persons who will reside in
the development.
Carpenters on this job don't
need a saw a square or a rule.
They are strictly hammer-and
broadside at the administration
and blamed it for the present
high cost of living.
PASSENGERS
and Express
Outbound on Flight 6
Deadline 11:30 A.M.
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nail men. All the sawing and mea
suring is done in an assembly
yard, where power equipment
turns out the lumber needed with
a minimum of labor and a maxi
mum of speed.
The procedure is not pre-fab
rication, but it employs similar
time-saving principles. After the
home buyer has chosen from one
of the nine home designs, the four
walls are put together in the as
sembly yard, so that no adjust
ments or trimmings are necessary.
. As each wall is completed, it is
hoisted on to the side of a truck.
When four walls are aboard, off
the truck goes to the site. The con
crete foundation has been poured
and has hardened.
One by one, in a period of less
than half an hour, the four walls
are unloaded by a hoist, bolted to
the foundation, and fastened to
gether.
Next the rafters go in, and the
roofers follow.
The exact amount of lumber re
quired for partitioning has been
delivered, cut to measure. The ga
bles. too, are pre-assembled and
delivered complete.
Financed through FHA and G.I.
loans to veterans, the dwellings
sell for $6,700 for two-bedroom
homes and $7,500 for three-bed
room units. Veterans are able to
buy the houses, including refrig
erator, stove and hot water heat
er, without a down payment. Al
most 200 homes are now occupied
and 250 more on the construction
schedule are spoker for.
Dancer Unable To
Satisfy Police
OKLAHOMA CITY, i/Pi —Eve
lyn West, visiting burlesque queen
from Los Angeles, is still having
trouble cooling her Hollywood
dance routine down to official
Oklahoma City temperatures.
She was first arrested at the
club jamboree on Dec. 27 and
charged with disorderly conduct.
In police court Monday she failed
to convince the judge her dance
was “classical” and paid a $20
fine and costs.
Last night two art critics from
the vice squad dropped in at the
club and reviewed her latest
show. They charged her with dis
orderly conduct all over again.
EASTERN STARS MET WITH
MRS. A. STEINWANDEL
The new officers of the Order
of Eastern Star held their first
meeting Monday night with Wor
thy Matron Mrs. A. Steinwandel
presiding. After a special obliga
tion ceremony light refreshments
were served by the Worthy Ma
tron.
Oil Well Lost
Amid Shifting !
Sands Of Time
(oP) Newsfeatures'
CASPER, Wyo. (A3) — Thc*re
have been many .tales of lost gold
and silver mines in the wilds of
the Rocky Mountains, and now
the Sinclair-Wyoming Oil Co., re-1
ports the loss of an oil well.
The abandoned well is in the
Ferris oil fields of Natroma coun
ty and Sinclair has a map which
purports to show the exact loca
tion. But Sinclair still can’t find it.
Pierre La Fleiche, stale mineral
supervisor, disclosed that the well
valuable chiefly for the consider- !
able quantity of casing and pipe
left in the hole, was covered to a
depth of 50 to 100 feel by one of
the big migratory sand dunes in
that area.
Eventually the dune, moving 20
to 30 feet annually, will shift
away, uncovering the location
again.
Following the oil field map, a
Sinclair crew dug into sand di- j
rectlv over what they thought was i
i the well site, but it wasn’t there, j
Electric “doodle bugs’’ combed
, the area sending forth signals
I when underground metal was
contacted. Bulldozers bored into
dunes only to uncover an old
wheel or some other piece of
scrap metal.
Sinclair sold the lost well to
Fred Goodstein for pipe salvaging
purposes but under the contract
Goodstein will pay only on the
basis of the amount of pipe recov
ered. So Sinclair can't collect un
til the property is located.
JIM FRYE APPOINTED
U. S. COMMISSIONER
James Frye, who has been em
ployed with the Nome Nugget for
■ several years was appointed U. S.
! Commissioner of the Second Divi
sion by Judge Joseph E. Kehoe
before his departure. Mr. Frye
took over his duties yesterday
Stassen To Testify
Before Committee
WASHINGTON, <IP) — Harold
E. Stassen’s appearance b fa:a
Senate committee to back u,i his
assertions that governmen nsd
ers have profitted lrom c . aod
ity speculation was delay yes
terday until Friday.
Stassen, a candidate lor
publican Presidential nonr. lion,
will be the first witness .en a
Senate appropriations si .'-com
mittee headed by Senator i-'ergu
son (R.-Mich.) reopens public
hearings into commodity specula
tion.
Ferguson announced the sched
ule change as the commit! •? re
sumed taking secret testimony
from government employee who
have acknowledge* trad.. , n
commodities.
Pachyaena Bones
Bare Wild lays
In Old Wyoming
((IP) Newsfeatures)
POWELL, Wyo. (IP)—A p : \al
skeleton of a pachyaena, dere-:b
ed as a carniverous animal ap
proximating the size of a great
dane dog. was the prize find by
Princeton University paleon‘ol<>
gists during three months’ search
in the McCollough peak region.
Dr. Glen Jepsen, Princeton cur
ator of paleontology, said the ani
mal roamed the region millions of
years ago. He termed the speci
men extremely rare.
The group plan- to return again
later for a more intensive search
of the district. Members include
Robert V. Witter of Princeton,
Merle Harris, professor of physics
and general geology at the uni
versity of Minnesota, and Paul
Shoup, New York City.
morning and will be assisted by
| Mrs. Billee M. Frye as deputy.
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