Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-09
House Begins
Voting on Mass
Control Ideas
Several Days Work
Due on Amendments
Before Final Decision
BY the Associated Press

The House begins voting today
on bill to extend price, wage,
rent and other economic controls
with the administration SEEM
ingly doomed to another drubbing.
A mass of amendments must be
handled before any final decisions
are reached and this may take
several days.
President Truman discussed the
legislation with his leaders at their
weekly conference today and
House Speaker Rayburn said I'VE
are hoping to get a little better
bill than some people think appar-
ent at this time"
Asked if the House measure
would "be good enough to satisfy
the President" Speaker Rayburn
said it was impossible to tell what
was going to come out in several
days of debate.
The truce talks scheduled to
start this evening at Kaesong,
Korea, may further complicate the
controversial issue which has
hared into a political free-for-all.
Although Mr.. Truman and his
spokesman have cautioned re-
'peatedly that the prospect of a
cease-flre in the Far East should
mot be regarded as a reason to let
down the Nations guard, the law
makers may be inclined to put OF
l. vote on such important matters
as proposed ban on price roll
backs, pending outcome of the
Korean negotiations.
Wilson to Broadcast Tonight.
Mr.. Truman is sending his top
mobilizer, Charles E. Wilson. into
the control scrap tonight. Mr..
Wilson will make what has been
billed as a major policy speech"
The speech will be carried by
the radio networks from $3.50 pm.
to 10 pm. The Star station.
WMAL, will broadcast the speech
at that time and WMAL-TV will
carry it at II pm, as will the NBC
television chain.
| Mr.. Wilson, it was learned, will
stress that the Nation cannot af-
ford to let its mobilization effort
lag no matter what happens in
Korea, because of the continuing
worldwide threat of communism.
| An about opposition group.
evidently still in a minority, wants
to abolish all controls at once, and
might pick up considerable
strength in the event of an
armistice agreement in Korea.
The House bill calls for a one
year extension of the controls.
with numerous restrictions and
conditions. 1t consists of 81 sep
arate committee amendments to
the 1850 Defense Production Act.
Another 20 or 80 are likely to be
offered from the floor by indi-
vidual members. Each amend
ment is subject to a tentative
vote when the House works as
big committee. plus final roll
call later if the members desire.
Further Rollbacks Curtailed.
The control extension already
passed by the Senate would dras-
tically curtail any future price
rollbacks. The House measure
would prohibit them altogether.
But even that provision isn't
strong enough for the House Agri-
culture Committee, which demands
that the 10 per cent rollback on
beef already carried out be re-
scinded.
Over the week end, however, the
agriculture group considered
possible modification of it's pro-
posed ban on rollbacks past, pres
ent or future, to permit price adj
justments on manufactured prod
ucts of non-agricultural nature.
1 However, under the farm groups
view, the manufacturers of such
goods would have to be allowed
their current production costs plus
reasonable" profit, based on
1946-49 returns.
The decision on rollbacks is not
expected before mid-week. Mean
while, sharp division of sentiment
is expected over several other
sections.
One of these would revise the
makeup of the Wage Sterilization
Board so as to give the public
members majority control and
(See CONTROLS, Page A-8.)