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MEET THE PRESIDENT:
(No.3) From Senate to White House
(Third of a Four-Part Feature)
ALMOST OVERNIGHT, Senator Harry S. Truman was
raised from rel<a ive obscurity to national prominence as
chairman of the toar investigating committee. So high was
its prestige that the granting of funds for its work was al
most autpmaiic. After the first appropria ion, the Senate
never voted less than $100,000 at a time. Truman’s com
mittee became :he symbol lor honesty in carrying out war
contrac'5.
Before the Dcmocra’ic national convention at Chicago
in 1944, Truman turned down suggestions from his friends
that he enter his name as candidate for vice president.
“I have the best job any man could have, and I want to
stick to i he said. But Truman was drafted as a com
promise candidate, ‘o be Franklin D. Roosveelt's fourth
term running mate. Resigning from the war investigating
committee, he campaigned vigorously.
Three months after his inauguration, President Roose
velt died. Barry S. Truman, whose formal education end
ed with high school, a former Missouri farm boy who had
always worked hard and lived simply, moved into the
highest office in the land, faced with a tremendous re
sponsibility.
“Last night the whole weight of the moon and stars and
all the planets fell on me,” he told reporters. "Please pray
for me, 1 mean that.”
In his first speech to Congress, Truman endorsed a
world organization to maintain the peace. President
Roosevelt nad arranged the Snn Francisco Conference, in
which statesmen of 50 nations produced the Charter of the
United Nations. He died 13 days before the delegates were
to convene, and Prsideni Truman carried on in his place.
On his 61st bir hday, May 8, 1945, President Truman
nn Me d he liner nditional surrender of Germany. “For
hi* v'etory we join in offering our thanks to the Provi
nce Which has guided and sustained us through the
dirk days of adverosity,” he said. He led the nation in
humble thanksgiving and joined in solemn prayers for
world peace.
At Po sdam. he conferred with Soviet Premier Joseph
S‘al:n. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and after the
latter’s defeat in the British elections, with Prime Minis
0
ter Clement Attlee. The Big Three discussd a mas er pla >
for reconstruction of Europe and for dictating uncondh
.o:is surrender terms to Japan. Truman’s primary objec
t've was to get final agreement on Russia's entry into the
war a tains! Japan. The meeting took place from July 17
to August 2, 1045.
D •. Vnnncvnr Rush, who supervised ‘he war work cf
American scientists, has revealed that President TrurnaJ*
made his decision to use the atom bomb against Japanese
cities while attending the Potsdam Conference. On Aug
ust G. 1945, Hiroshima, once Japan’s most modernized
e :y. was blasted to ruins by an atomic explosion. Three
days 'ater half of Nagasaki was reduced to rubble. Next
day Jaoan offered to accept the Po‘sdam surrender ul
timatum.
V-J Day was proclaimed on September 2, the day the
Japanese signed unconditional surrender terms aboard
the battleship Missouri, anchored in Toyko Bay. “God’s
help has brought us this victory,” said President Truman
“Wi'h His help we will attain peace and prosperity foj
ourselves and all the world in the years ahead.”
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New Taxes Certain
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~ome tax legisla ion i- a certain
ty.
They are Gunnard Engebreth of
Anehorage and John Butrovich,
Jr. ,of Fairbanks.
Engebreth said he plans to offer
a measure, however, for a business
licensing tax instead of income or
property taxes. It is based on a
similar tax law now used by sev
eral States. Engebreth says it
should raise six million dollars
for the biennium, bringing the
Terri'ory’s total expectations to
twelve million.
He predicted the proposed sev
enteen-million dollar budget may
have to be cut considerably.
Butrovich and Sen. E. B. Col
lins of Fairbanks also said enten
sive cuts should be made in bud
get estimates. Dutrovich endorses
income and property taxes in
principle.
■ Collins, one veteran old-line Re
|
j publican, favors a sales tax as the
fairest in spreading the tax bur
den to all and the cheapest to col
lect.
“I don’t think the Territory
could get more than 30 cents on
the dollar from income or proper
ty ‘axes because of the high cost
of collecting them,” said Collins.
Engebreth also criticized the
two tax proposals as costly.
Collins criticized the calling of
j the special as “needless” and an
: attempt of the administration to
| “speed measures through inexpe
l rienced Democratic legislators.
“We recognize some new reven
ue is needed,” he said, “but the
! regular session could have han
I died the problem.”
He also predicted many mines
will be forced to close if the pro
1 perty tax is enacted.
Two middle-of-the-road Repub
licans, belonging to a group upon
whose support Democrats are
counting to put through revenue
legislation, said today passing of
are the most equitable and dlrec -
ed against those best able to pay.
Truman Making
Cabinet Changes
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g.ess as possibly only the first of
several changes in top personnel.
Speculation involved the posts of
secretary of defense Forrestal, sec
retary of interior Krug and secre
tary of commerce Sawyer.
Acheson’s confirmation was
forecast on the basis of his person
al acquaintance with many Sena
tors and the unwritten rule that
a President can name almost any
body he chooses to his cabinet.
But there was evidence that
s >mc influential Republicans—and
a few Democrats—were disap
pointed at the choice.
Significantly, perhaps, Senators
Smith of New Jersey, Hicken
looper of Iowa and Lodge of Mas
sachusetts, Republican members
of the foreign relations group, de
clined to comment publicly on the
change. So did Senator George of
Georgia, a Derm>cratic member.
SPORTS SHORTS
George Washington Unive -:Ty *
basketball squad plays 23 grm*
this season.
Cleveland Indian pitch: n.. st;.
Gene Bearden led the Ame a *
League hurlers in his first sensr.
with an earned run averag of 2.4?.
Three pitchers in the American
League won 20 or more game' r>
1948. Twenty-game winners wert
Boh Lemon and Gene Bearden < f
the Cleveland Indians. Hal Ne
houser of Detroit won 21.
Harry Watson of the Toronto
Maple Leafs of the National Hoc
key League scored nine of his first
11 goals on his home ice.
A1 Severance is in his 13th sea
son as head basketball coach at
Villanova college basketball squad
are from Philadelphia, all four of
the others from nearby New Jer
sey.
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