In his bud t me s e to Con g re President Truman Ati te t t Unc l e a en d in next June Thirtieth wil be ~i cit or ye r roun ne bil ion, nine undre mil ion. In ot . e "Or , o ne undre milli n short of two bil ins; i you c n i Au~li z e w at a un r can't. million less t . n two billi o i . I Today we . ear t a t our Government, i e t~e end of June, has alrea y run up R defici o a billi n, two ~un red •••x• and seventy mil ins· to-thirds of what President Truman guesses tPe s~ort~ge i l l be for the entire year. We've pne bil l ion-two- undred- and seventy-mil l ion in the hole in hirty-eight days. Which sounds li · e bad ne ~ s for the rest of the year. It means t a t the beads of dep rtments, ure u and other government agencies must strain t~e e l ve to meet t e President's de~and for economy, t e emand he made public ev r 1 mont s a o. Just as an ide of o uch it co ~ run~ BU , T 2 ----------- overnm n, Uncle Sam's tot 1 e en e from July first to Au ust Sev nt t at' s five · Pk -- ~ere four billi n, four hundre and seventeen il l i o ns. In the s me period last ye r we pend en bil _ ion, seven- undred- nd-t irty-sev n mil ions. BLAC RK T ------------ A bl c mare rin er a ' i n all o r t e orl as be n brou t to li e t i n Berlin. Te Criminal I e ti ati n Department of the U.S. Arm in ernamv '-' es the " c arge , nd its g ent ;ive ;;i. rre . te t o Ne York r , one in Ber in, one in P ris. Accordin g to he militArV Ruthori iee it's whole family that's involve. The f ~t er w~oee name is avid Warner, and one oft e sons, Al Warner, / are accused of operating at two-~undre1-and-fifty-three West Seventy-second Street, New York City. That's the he ~ douarters, but there are branches not onlv in Be~lin and Paris, but also Shang~ai. The men arrested are Lewis Warne , twenty-to ye rs old, for er Lieutenant i , the Air Force, now~ weather P.xpert for American Ove rs eas lines in Ber in. The Paris brother is Oscar elig W rner, tw nt -nine years old, ~ former ieutenant in the Navy, recently head of an export- I port busines in France. The Army de clare t t t eir operations v been runnin g into the million. Ta they r~ ed in BLAC A KET 2 -------------- - - - - - al o t very kin of oo cou l ol for i price di mo n . , ru g , . i 1 , ci 1 r e . , cur,.ency, perfu ' tc es, clot in an t ~t drug so i al in c ace o ma ny extre e il ne ~ e , nic il i n . T e C.I.D. fi aced is rner, tre Berlin brother, under u e rre t, n is "or of honor not to le ve the ouse. But he broke his parole rushed to c a ble of ice, and ent a me ge to the rest o:f the family with the word a: "T e jig is up.• Thereupon the C.I.D.'s thre" im into jail. The C.I.D• clai that both this Warner and Osc r S~li the Paris brother, have signP.d full confessions. It was an extra od inarily efficient concern, sayeo the C.I.D. Almo t evP.ry V C ember of the family received a etaile accoun of the p~evious day's operations. Robert arner, the Sang i brothe · a former Lieutenant in the N ~ vy, resent i. . trlif i man g er for UNRRA in S anghai. In Line wit t isa •••JX ouot ti o n fro a le er written b his brot er in Paris. Re wa Balin im to is brot er out fo r se n d in g g o od t o h i s N avy a ddr s in ' h a n gh ai, a n d he r ote i n hi s let t er: wyou m ust remembe r fx tmt I o rk f or ON RR A a n d ev e ry b ody think s thi s is a crooked or ga ni za tion. " Robert Warn e r a lso w rote th a t he was sur p rised his b rother in Paris should do s uch a foolish thing just wh " t the fo lish t bing w a s is not made clear. But he adds that even if it me · ant making fifty thousand dollars, it as a bad risk. Then he said: "Never send me a cable through the lavy concernin g business, even if it means making a million dollar profit, because making a m i llion dollars is not worth s p ending six months in jail.• A s recently as June Twent1-ninth the Berl in brother wrote to his faail1 that the C.I.D. was beginnin g to crack down. He added th a t they h a d men everywhere tr a iled by and on~u1:..aJely m w e without being the m . ~ t , hat being sus p ect e d by th C I D 1• s not w ort hw bi 1 e. e • . • A BI.ACK 1 1 R ET ---------------- Here in ew Yor k , repor e c 1 e u on D vid rner, t e · ather w . o is r ired on rqctor fif ty -nine yea o l . Be aid . e wR - na ti ve of Ru :i a, and that~ e name Warner ad been ado ted bv permissio n o f t e Court. He said he w ~ ~ g a t at the accus tins and t a t t ere w s no ille ga l ealin betwe e n himself and his sons. Then e added:-- •1 can't think what they can ~ave been do ing am n them ·e lves." He said he had ano ~eard from either the FBI or t e Army C.I.D. He never sent his sons merchandise or money in any ~uantity to oper a te a bl~ck m rket. All he ha s in the world, he s a id, is those darling children. Two of which darling are reporte rl to have signed a written confession. _QJLLQ__~--~11~ Black arket ----------- Alth o ugh mot Congressmen have gone home , a co m i tee of t h ~ ~ c J ' ' 7 1 n shing ton e ~ ~ special inv est ig at ing the diepos it i o n of s urplus war material, f u e ~ ~ -..Today,\ learned some astonishing things. 'J. ' he Chairman of that committee is Representative Roger LN ... ~.~,,{.,. k , ~ Sl~ughter of Missouri,,A•::u:::;1:::1,-c~~ef ea ted in the ~ a r i e s President Truman. One of its witness•• was an ex-convict, Benjamin J. Fields, who last month figured largely in s ' ( the Senate investigation of the Garsson.-'•~~~-.=1-.=- refused to testify before theSenate Comaittee Ill•"' ~ , o n the grounds that it might incriminate?• In Rineteen Thirty-on.e Fields was convicted of ma il fraul, and served several y e a r s . ~ At one time be clai ed to be publicity agent for a representative of Iin g Farouk of tgypt. Be tol d the Congressmen that in spit e of his prison .§OR LQ_ - 2 r ecord, he h a d a lot of friend s w ho m a y ha ve a ssisted in hi s d e alings, but none ~ i n ~ g ov e rn■ ent employ. He told the Con re s smen how he bought war surplu s mat e rial at a cost far below the market am. businessmen.~rved as a resold it to priv a te contract broker, and received a fee of five percent of the p■Zl"X purchase price, ~~ a split of the difference between what the •• government the got and what <:ta ,A...seller got fr · om the ultime.te bu7er. The committee was particularly interested in Fields' liai!t~ purcha s es of bronze wire screening for which there is a terrific shortag~ in veterans housing project s . Field~~ad no difficulty inAJliiiill fi'Ve-hundred-and-thirty-nine rolls of screening, sold n«o~ the~ to a contractor in Oklahoma City for eight thousand dollars, plus four thoiaand com m ission. answered Fields~••••••\ Ir ny q uest i o ns with the st a tement that he didn't k now or didn't r e member. He coul d n't reme m ber ho s ho ed h im t ha t screening at the Su r p lus Property w are h v use in Richmond, Virginia, could n 't r member wit b xx whom he ca me in t ■ • contact . t the I r Assets Administr a tion in order to buy the stuff. The Goverament altogether has about thirty billion dollars worth of war surplus materials. So far t he W ar Assets A4ministrgtion has disposed of on 1 y f iv e bi 11 ion do 1 la rs worth. R_o be rt M. Litt 1 ej o hD, just recently appointed head of the W. A. A., admitted ' ideal organizat ionjfoii thr ninety percent o~ the ~~ about the way left-over s t u f f ~ d1spoaed complaints o f ~ ~ ;\ from war veterana. And he added that sixty-fiYe pe re ent of those · complain ts ap ' peard to be j uat if ied. ' Little-":john said further that he af making . A plans to tighten up his organization, improve the · procedure, make irregular operations imposaible, anl bar out the ch is elers. n Pr a -:t,.~~ '-) '~ ~ 1- :J t o ay La u a r ia t o ld ne · sp ape rm en A. th t al th oug h D R A w oul d a e to functi o n at the en d of th e ye ar , he is c onfi de nt the countrie s that b il e he \a al k in the A m e r ican delegation at the ON · A c onfe re n c e in Gen e va supported the r es o 1 u t ion of Can a d a fo r t be On it e d N at ions to t ak e over 0NRRA' S functi o ns in Nineteen Forty-seven. Fiorello had words of praise for the people of C7 ✓ echoslovakia, but criticized them for making beer. Be objected to sending g , rain to a country that is makin g beer. One of the reporter s pointed out that the C z ech - bee r i s m ade out of barley unfit for human b eings to eat. Sai LaGuardia - "That m akes no d i:fferen c e." PR IC E S ------ Your ne w c a r, if you a nt o ne in th e lo w er rack e ts, will co t you at l e as t ixty-nine cb ll a rs mo e. Tho s ho want luxury m odel will p ay two hundred and ninety-three dollar ~ mor~ b e cau s e OPA today permitted the maker s a rise of 7. 3 percent, effective a t onc e . What is more, they may even go up five percent more, Ill depend~n w hat happens at the me e ting of the A l ■ lx De ler AaYisory ~ommittee tomorrow. The New Deal Control Boe.rd began functioning today, with the first of a series of bearings. Representatives of farmers, of the food industry, of Lab or and consume rs, are the re in force to urge their inter e st upon the Biard. - - - - o - - - -""" - S p okesmen for the farm g roups told the Board there's tba ~ itxi~ going to be a bumper t is y e a r ~ e n the harvest is ,.... . th ~ crop 10 ea •• A. IA,~ J) ~ in t h e r e - .( scymuch grain h that inflat . ion a ry pri ce s will be _!:>~~°'- i m possible. In fact, the Government may have to step A in again and con t rol the corn and o a ts markets. Since twe .e 1"1o•~ this afterno o n no cable mws has come · to the United States. The reason? '- at.1'1~-AW ~ l"he C. I.O. Telegraphers Onion ' ~ ~ - refus~ to handle..,- news copy from abroad. The only way ,-P correspondents from a, erseas to get •• ~ ~ their ~ J I ~ wa!i by telephone and radio.dJ'az:tla !he &n-t'N haa •• g-..JreTaae~ a.sriaatr--..t.he--.aW.e •••pa•~ Wee~e•• bi-a»., llaek•f• •• ••, ef-t,be --e-t.he!'8, !Mil' ~arrel~ is with !!ess ..!!reless, where three hnndred • • be longing to the A ■ eric an Co ■munic at ions Association of the C.I.0. are on strike. Since press wireless wo•l4 _. - not W i n to the strikers' deaand~ the Onion brought A pressure on its •;t;:;.,s who wort for the cable -~-~·~1 ~ . companies A.to re use to haul le any international~fltCt:lilliL The Onion declines to arbitrat~, and will do nothing until press tirelesa reinstates forty-six - - men who were laid off. PALESTINE ....... ----~ Two more ships o e • • Je ish refugees, two thou- sand of them, arrived in the h rbor of Raifa tod~y. According to all accounts the ships are jammed to the limit. The British tied up four landing crsft which hey have converted into floating barbed wire cages, tied them up near the cargo jetty. Obviously these are to be used to transship the hopeful immigrant to the big British passenger liner which is •~iting to take them all to Cyprus. In Jerusalem, meanwhilo, an attempt was ■ ade to begin the trial of twenty-two Jewish Extremists, members of the Stern organization, survivors of some thirty-three who fought with Briti1h troops on June seventeenth, after planting mines t~at damaged the railway worksho . at Haifa -- damaged it to the tune of . four million dollars. In the battle seven of the Sternists were killed two morP died later. As the trial opened the twenty - two ' defendants sat in silence, handcuffed, and l i s t e ~ I\ wtile the Jud&• Advocate recited the charges.qAu9' ;J;;if,i9:/:'s~ed the prisoners to plead either innocent or guiltJ. Finally one of them stood up and aaid: ••• fought and fell on the bat tlef ie ld. We c\w m and treat11ea\ aa pr iaonera of war.• ... Then they all aaid the1 refuae4 ll to reC_!IDize the proceedings in court. lil kL · ll'"· I'~ ~ ttieJ all ~ose in their seats and b eaan chanting the s,ernlat anthe ■• Thia ■ade it i ■poeaible to hear •1 t esti11on7, so the court took a receaa. In the afternoon the saae prooesa •••repeated.The defendant• lNPi e i u i i ~ • ; ~ t o atop. It " as re p orte d la t e l a t ni gh t that a bril l iant light suddenly a ppeared on the horizon south of Stockholm, Sweden. It fla s he · acro•s the sky on a straight course, some six or seven hundred feet in the air. Some th o u g ht it wa s a ■ eteor. But a Lieutenant of the Swe d ish Air Force who saw the phenoaenom identified it as a rocket. It wa s viaible over Stock ~ olm for several s e conds, then went sped north and exploded. Three others c~me to earth . somewhere in central S w eden. The Air Force Lieutenant said tha rocket ■ were about sixty-five feet long, ahaped like-a cigar, with a green head and white sides. The one he saw moved at teriffic speed on l y a short distance off the ground. Another who wa near the scene of the explosion of one bo■b, -- which went off in the air, -- said there wa ~ a great blast of heat, then fragments rained down, small black metal objects like coal clinkers. Mechanics believe those ix clin k er-like objects ROCtF.TS - 2 --------.......-.- are not part of the bomb itself, but tragment s of the explosive used to propel them. It ia believed th t the a. ro ckets~directed b1 radio and were intended I,.. to return to the place from which they were laanched att.• fting OYer Sweden. So• of them flew a straight . course, others turned in the air, •eering fro a . . . aoutbeaat to n.or t hwest. This is the third Tia i tatioa of the kind •bal the Swedes have had. Chey ha-,\, e UMN....__.im"111?-- .,.....,. ....... ..,......_ · ~a7 Twenty-fourth, ~ July ni~th. ~ Gho ■t focteta of the aaae character were seen ia lialaa4 - ~ fl"'June ninth, in Den ■ark twice during the aonth of lay, 'J "- ll in lorwa1 o•er Oslo Ba1 on Jal7 fourteenth. The1 are not lite th• V-boaba wi\h which the Ger ■ans boabar~d d London in the last ■ ontha of the war, ~ _,__aake~nol■a. l\ A. !he Swedish Aray is inveatigatingJtJie¥. &11 ~ but refuses to give ~ any informatia• of what it has learned so far. A spokesman for the Ar ■J merely says that the authoritie a re doing t~eir utmost to find out the origin of the terrifying mysterious rockets. And now Bugh we'll rocket along to you.