The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-04
by Dre1C Pearson

day about calling special session of Congress to deal with the meat shortage.
 She also flied out in her attempt to induce Tru- man to order Agriculture Secretary Anderson to re- scind price controls on meat.
 "The meat shortage is extremely critical in my state" said Mrs. Rogers 'We can't even get meat TOT the hospitals. You've got to do something"
 Truman replied that he aware of the situa- tion in Massachusetts and elsewhere and was deeply troubled by it, but that there was little he could do cattlemen refused to market their beef
 He added he had no intention of upsetting the Stabiizaton program by steps to abolish meat con trols through action by Anderson and the Price De- control Board. He was solidly behind. Anderson in the atters stand against lifting the ceilings Truman said, and it would take lot to make him change ms mind.
 "wel why don't you call special session of Congress to deal with the probem?" persisted Mrs. Rogers '"The OPA extension bill isn't working, so why not let's admit it and pass another law that will enable people to buy meat even ii 1t means oolng away with price controls?"
 Truman replied that he himself didn't like the OPA bill passed by Congress but was compelled to sign it have no controls at all
 "No," he added q don't intend to call back Con- gress to deal with the meat shortage-not just yet anyway don't think it would solve anything
 
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 President Truman has abandoned plans for nation wide -storming tour in behalf of Demo- cratic Congressional candidates. Too many of his old Senate buddies whom he not scheduled to support by personal visits would be offended. Instead Truman will confne his active campaign to two radio speeches one about October 10, the other week before Elec- ton Day . If former Solicitor General Howard McGrath is elected to the Senate next month, the first law partners in many year will be operating actively the floor of the upper chamber-McGrath and Senator Theodore F. Green, both Al men. Nazis in Spain able to fly the gold they hid in Spain to Argentina. The U.S.A. and Britain this week lifted all control freight leaving Spain. While silver Senators advised their silver mining stituens to keep silver off the market, black mar keteers of Mexican silver cleaning up in the New England where silver is needed for manufactur- ing The Treasury is now investigating the tax pay mens of these illicit silver dealers and they get ting scared Last week of them walked into the tax collectors office here and handed $80000 in cash which, he said, he had forgotten all about.