European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August Page 4 the stars and stripes Truman asks Navy to Cut spending t i fit i jct Battle veterans Aid Senate in munition probe 3 Battlefront veterans helped the sen ate War investigating committee yesterday in its determined Hunt Lor munitions makers who produced defective ammunition As the Trail grew from one combat Soldier came an offer to Supply the committee with lot numbers of bad shells sup plied the 100th chemical Morter in a second letter related a Complete report had been furnished the j chemical warfare service of a test j at Bragg during which a mortar Shell exploded at the muzzle killing or wounding an entire these reports show the lot num Ber of the defective round and from that information the manufacturer can be it vet kept record a third former a Veteran of the european informed the committee he kept a record of defective shells sent to the 65th chemical in records of this work must be some place and i believe you could get some valuable information from he with these and More than 50 other letters in committee members declared they would press for Quick delivery of lot numbers of All Shell purchases and names of manufacturers to whom those lot numbers were 1 79 Hurt in train crash 3 a crowded commuter train crashed into the rear of another Shore bound passenger train of the Central rail Road of last killing one and injuring at least 79 the dead Man was the fireman of the oncoming Robert Hen of Jersey who was buried under tons of Coal from an overturned Coal among the slightly injured was the Engineer of the identified by Central As Wil Liam Oneill of port a Railroad spokesman said Oneill was too shaken to give a coherent account of the the Impact hurled the last car of the standing which was on an adjoining Railroad against a girder and onto its Side with part of a car hanging Over and threatening to crash onto the the engine and Coal car were overturned and the boiler showering the wrecked car with live two fire alarms brought All Avail Able apparatus to the wreck and firemen quelled a fire which had started within a few Council allocates Rice Tor indians 3 International emergency food coun cil has set aside tons of Rice for shipment to India in the last half the Indian re quest for to be set aside from the Pool of world was the successor to the combined food said that applications for Rice from those nations in which it forms the Basic Cereal diet had asked for More than tons for the six month and that there were less than tons on the councils Central committee consists of representatives of the United Australia and the United to China it has allocated tons of a needed tons for the last half of the other allocations Are expected to be published an Indian spokesman said that his country share of Rice was highly this is one Way of looking at it the film land photographer got a Bright idea and decided to give his camera a As a result he posed Juli a Hollywood on a ladder and took her picture through the Lens of Lellay envisions Range for robot planes 3 army Curtis Lemay says the will have developed within the next three years robot planes with a cruising Range of Miles and capable of delivering Large ton Nages of explosives on selected chief of the army air Force development and experimental staff and former commander of the Long Range bombers that hit Japan with atomic spoke at a Chicago association of Commerce meeting in Observance of the army air forces 39th he predicted that by 1950 science May develop Jet propelled aircraft which will be Able to carry the next atomic bomb used in he said a powerful air with a cruising Range sufficient to destroy enemy planes in flight and at their could protect the in the event of air raid cant be stopped once its but we propose to have a Fleet Strong enough to Stop any attack in its he distance is Best defense against experts say 3 is the Best defense against the atom president Harry Truman atom bomb evaluators made this pronouncement in the report released last after careful study of the offensive results of the underwater of the combined effects of an underwater and an overhead explosion the commission reports that it might effectively dispose of a Fleek for Many the two Bikini tests strongly indicated that future wars employ ing atom bombs May Well destroy nations and change the present opa Grants hike in shirt prices 3 office of Price administration has granted a general 11 per cent retail Price increase for mens shorts and also authorized was an additional 10percent increase for mens and boys dress shirts and boys Low priced sports shirts in cases where this does not raise prices beyond opa some opa officials have estimated that forthcoming additional clothing increases will run an other 15 or 20 per standards of the report War Mast be eliminated to those of us who have witnessed the devastating effects of these it it is evident that if there is to be any Security or safety in the War must be eliminated As a Means settling differences among a second report published simultaneously by the White House and the joint chiefs of staff evaluation Board declared that not too soon for immediate intensive re search into several atom bomb including the study of the poisoning of Large volumes of and the Protection not Only of ships Crews Fau the populations of cities against radiological Jackson silent on his returning to supreme court 3 Justice Robert Jackson returned from Nurnberg but declined to say whether he will resume his duties on the supreme asked when he May return to Jackson said that depends on the course of events before departure from Nurnberg Jackson said he would be gone Only Jackson commenting on the that seized from the germans convinced nun beyond doubt that had taken place which i did not believe before could be committed in the twentieth size of debt cited in plea to chieftains 3 president Truman called urgently for All government agencies to Cut Down on their he specs Cally named the Navy and i maritime i am asking the secretaries of i Navy and maritime commis j Sion to reduce expenditures sub i Stan tally below the amounts they had previously programmed for this fiscal the president the Economy Call followed Dis closure that Dwight Eisen 1 Hower and Chester Nimitz j contend army and Navy budgets have already been Cut to a letter to departments a letter to department Heads said present inflationary situation i and the need for reducing Public debt make it imperative expenditures be held to the lowest possible our present fiscal situation is a most serious we Are faced with a continued substantial budget deficit in the present fiscal even those Federal expenditures which Are most necessary have the effect of increasing inflationary pressures in the total National we must do everything within our Power to reduce inflationary one most effective Means of doing this is to reduce Federal expend toward this end i sent letters dealing with specific programs to Heads of a few i am asking the secretaries of Navy and maritime commission to reduce expenditures substantially below the amounts they had previously programmed for this fiscal i am asking various agencies concerned i with Public works to postpone commitments and actual construction Asar As possible and to keep expenditure programs within certain specified smaller economies in addition to such major curtail ments As May be smaller economies must not be in this connection it is particularly important the Federal government not compete with private demand or items in Short such items As construction Auto mobiles and office equipment should not be purchased before except in cases of urgent salaries for personal services Are the largest single item of expense in As you know it is the intention of Congress and of the administration that the recent civilian pay increase be absorbed to a very considerable believe this can be done if Active attention is Given to All feasible methods of improving personnel Economy and Short cuts should tie introduced in All opera necessary reorganizations of staff should be completed quickly to promote efficiency in going Forward with essential i am counting upon your support in this student Exchange approved 3 president Truman yesterday signed into Law legislation authorizing the state department to use the proceeds j from the Sale of surplus property abroad to finance a program fur an j to amen Exchange of students with foreign yesterday he will not run Mepen Dently for seeks to up exports of dried eggs to Britain 3 United states agriculture department said that it is extending its program to obtain an additional pounds of dried eggs for Export to the United this will bring the total purchases since the departments program was begun in january to Wheeler gives up Senate race 3 Burton Wheeler Defeated for renomination in the recent Montana announced Relief shipments of fats to halt 3 foreign Relief shipments of fats and oils will be halted at the end of this year because of an increasingly critical shortage of those products for Domestic according to w acting director of the department of agriculture fats and oils he told the House special food committee yesterday that 1947 supplies of fats for Margarine salad oils and other products Wil be pounds less than in he our policy that there be no Relief ship ments after january we want to keep the stores available for Domestic cab oks changes in Lockheed design 3 civil aeronautics Board announced tonight that it had approved modifications on the Lockheed constellations which permit the planes return to regular service constellations were grounded for one month following a crash in which All five of the Crew were burned to state employee returns to lauds soviet women new 3 charged by russian police last May with committing acts of hooliganism in a Moscow taxi while Riding with a russian returned from Europe with Praise for soviet handsome 36yearold state department said he was confined to the embassy from May 7 to july 12 to prevent his arrest by the russian he declined to comment on the charge that he committed insolent acts against the theres some thing about the russian girls that gets the he