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iistrics of Armed Forces. Labor, Justice. Finance and Economic Affairs. PRESIDENT’S SWAN SONG BOMBS AND DEFICITS I President Truman last week warned Soviet Premier Stalin to steer clear of w ar or risk destruc tion of the Russian homeland by awesome new U. S. atomic weap ons perhaps even dwarfing the hydrogen "hell" bomb. And to the incoming Republican administra tion of President-Elect Eisenhow er. Truman bade Godspeed in coping with the grave problems that lie ahead. W'ith it he coupled this admonition: "We must stick to our guns and carry out our policies.’’ President Truman also laid a $78,600,000,000 valedictory budget, before Congress. Truman’s esti mate of government spending was lor the fiscal yeai 1954. uliich begins July 1. The total was $4. 000.000.000 liighei than spending projected by the President for the current fiscal year and $12,500. 000,000 more than in fiscal 1952, which ended last June 30. The increases were almost en tirely for national security pro grams and pointed, 'Truman said, toward a $10.000.0000,000 deficit j 18 ujiouUis iToui iiuv.\ 1
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