Evening star., 1948-09-13
6. 0. P. DoubIe-Cross
OF Nations Farmers,
New Truman Charqe

President Truman today was pol
ishing UP another weapon for hi
war on the Eightieth Congress-th'
charge that the COP had double
crossed" the farmers.
Preparing for his second invasion
Of the farm belt Saturday, when HI
speaks at the national plowing con
test at Dexter, Iowa, the President!
newest strategy seemingly wa!
tipped of last night when Nationa
Chairman McGrath declared in Z
statement that the Republicans hae
hamstrung the price-support pro-
gram by denying funds to the Com.
modify Credit Corp to increase it.
storage facilities.
This meant, the Rhode Islanc
Senator said, that the CCC-whicf
buys farmers surplus crops or makes
loans on them to support prices
would have to sell these crops about
as quickly as 1t got them.
CHARGES COP Weished.
"If the CCC has to flood the
market with crops, prices will be
forced down. together with price
supports, and many of the major
purposes of the support program
would be lost" Senator McGratE
continued.
why did the Republican Con-
gress slap farmers in the face this
way?" he asked. The COP welshed
on it's parity promises under pressure
from American grain interests-an-
other of the special interests that
controlled the Republican reins dur
ing the do nothing Eightieth Con-
greSs."
Along with this line of attack
the President is expected also to take
Congress to task for failing to act
on the long-range agricultural pro-
gram he urged unsuccessfully at
both the regular and special sessions
Mr.. Truman did some spade work
on his speaking program which will
carry him to the Coast, in week
end aboard the yacht Williamsburg
He returned to the Capital late yes
terday.
May Speak in Arkansas.
The possibility that President
Truman might speak in Little Rock
developed today when he told g
group headed by former Gov. Car
e. Bailey of Arkansas that he Woule
see if his schedule could be re-
arranged to permit attendance a.
the Arkansas livestock show, which
runs from October 4 to October III
The Presidents tentative plan
call for his return to Washington
October l.
Accompanying Mr.. Bailey to ths
Presidents office were Secretary o.
the Treasury Snyder and Leslie
Biffe. secretary to the Senate
minority, and Judge Bolon Turner
of the United States Tax Court
all natives of Arkansas.
Henry Wallace also got in tne
farm act over the week end, when
Progressive Party headquarters
confer in Chicago with farm lead
ers tomorrow and Wednesday. He
speaks in Chicago tomorrow night.
Dewey's Silence Hit.
In other developments, Postmas-
ter General Donaldson went before
a Democratic outing in Providence
r. L, to put in plug for the Tru-
man-Barkley ticket and Senator
Green of Rhode Island, who seeks
reelection, and the C1O news
sibed that the Republican labor
speech in Detroit Tuesday was left
to Harold E. Stassen perhaps be-
cause Dewey has little hope thai
the Republicans will win any sub
stantial number of votes from unior
members" 49,.
The paper observed that "ths
silent Mr.. Dewey" has been "ouie'
on a dozen major issues during thu
past year or more" President Tru'
man, it said, went down the line
in his Detroit Labor Day speech
"for the type Of program Endorsed
t.,, the RIO"