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VOL. LXXVI , NO. 11,702 JUNEAU,^ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1951_MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_PRICE TEN CENTS
Russia Plans to Take Over World, Truman
^NORTHERN NOTEBOOK
By BOB DE ARMONI)
(Second of a Series)
With the Alaska Statehood Com
mittee now nearing the end of its
second year of existence, it is high
time for its chairman, Elder Robert
Bruce Atwood, to climb out of his
rose-colored ivory pulpit, lay off his
excoriation of Senator Hugh Butler
and other honest friends of Alaska,
rawhide the members of his com
mittee out of the underbrush and
set them to the task they were
appointed to perform.
The Statehood Committee was
created by the 19th Legislature and
set up primarily to gather or have
gathered such information as would
be helpful in drafting a state con
stitution; to make studies of that
information and of other state con
stitutions, and to draft a consti
tution for the proposed state of
Alaska.
In addition — secondarily and
along toward the tail end of the
enabling act — the committee was
given the prerogative of assisting
the passage of statehood legislation
in Congress.
Now, in the nearly 22 months
since the committee was created
and the 18 months since it became
formally organized, it has ignored
its primary function—that of gath
ering pertinent information and
working it into a constitution.
As to its secondary function—that
of assisting in the passage of a
statehood bill—the best that can be
said of the committee’s efforts is
that they have been a total and
dismal fizzle.
It is granted that the committee
was handicapped when the Board
of Administration shoved its very
sizeable appropriation into the ice
box soon after the legislature ad
journed in 1949. But a big chunk of
the appropriation was defrosted
last year and at least $25,000 was
handed to the committee.
What did the committee do with
it? Well, they squandered a large
portion of it in hiring a former
gag-writer for the Saturday Eve
ning Post to tout the statehood bill
among the Senators. In so doing
they gained no friends whatever for
the cause of statehood and perhaps
lost a few.
It has been estimated by people
familiar with such matters that two
years of trained, intensive and well
directed effort will be required to
bring forth an adequate constitu
tion for the new state,
to In Hawaii, which is also a candi
date for statehood, they have long
since completed their studies and
drafted a constitution, so that in
this as well as in many other re
spects Hawaii is far in front of
Alaska in the running of this
sweepstakes.
And now, after a precious year
and a half is forever crossed from
the calendar, a meeting of the
Statehood Committee was called by
Chairman Atwood for last Saturday
—“to consider plans to launch a re
search program with a view toward
developing a fundamental principle
for a state constitution,” according
to the press dispatches.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Copyright, 1951, Dy Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Vl^ASHINGTON—To understand
fully the tragic headlines from
Korea, it is necessary to know the
main strategy being followed in the
Pentagon Building, plus some of
the differences between the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and General Mac
Arthur.
One factor is that, whereas Joint
Chiefs were lax in letting MacAr
thur spread his troops out over
North Manchuria as easy prey
to the Chinese last November, they
are now leaning over backward to
be tough. Some observers believe
that* if they had kept a tighter
checkrein on MacArthur last Nov
ember, and a looser checkrein oh
him now, things might be better.
For today he is getting no rein
forcements from the United States.
Second factor is that Pentagon
leaders decided some time ago that
our most practical move in Korea
was to retire. While this was not
a hard-and-fast decision, it prob
ably explains our current withdraw
als.
In brief, our policy is to let Mac
lContinued on Page Four)
After his long neglect of the major
business of his committee, it looks
suspiciously as though the chair
man is trying to kick up a little
show of activity so he can put the
bite on the coming legislature for
another hunk of the taxpayers’
j money.
It is interesting to note also
that “members probably will dis
cuss the feasibility of making some
changes in the new legislation.”
The only major change that has
had recent publicity is one to
eliminate a clause prohibiting the
creation of Indian reservations in
Alaska by administrative depart
ments. This is a change that is
going to find little favor with most
Alaskans.
This talk of changes in the legis
lation is an entirely different tack
than the one sailed by some of the
top members of the committee when
they spoke their pieces last year at
hearings on H.B. 331 of the 81st
Congress—the Alaska statehood bill
that passed the House and came to!
a timely and deserved death in the
Senate.
At the hearings, although some
of these committee members ad
mitted under cross-examination
that the bill could stand improve
ment, they urged its passage, im
mediately and without change.
The fact that the bill, as it was
i turned out by the House, would
have sold the bulk of Alaska to per
petual enslavement by the federal
bureaucrats bothered those advo
cates not at all. What they were
interested in was the name of state
hood and a handful of high and
lucrative offices for easy picking,
and never mind the cost.
Chairman Atwood and his vice
chairman and fellow editor, Willie
L. Baker, have flayed and slandered
all who hinted that the statehood
bill might have some serious short
comings. And any and all who made
suggestions for changes and im
provements to the bill have been
linked, in the slatherings of Atwood, j
Baker and Co., with the capitalistic j
and absentee "interests,” the Com- j
intern, the devil. General Wu,
Ananias and The Thing.
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RESUME OF ALASKA
ROADS IS GIVEN BY
NOYES, LIONS CLUB
Visiting district engineers and
head of division of the Alaska Road
Commission were guests of Col. John
R. Noyes, Road Commissioner, at
a regular luncheon meeting of the
Lions Club at the Baranof Hotel
this noon.
Colonel Noyes spoke on the Alaska
road building program and said that
an average of $25,000,000 yearly was
being spent on road development
in connection with national defense
I and territorial development. He
I gave a resume of the extent and
i condition of roads in Alaska, and
stressed the importance of a better
ferry connection between south
eastern Alaska and the interior.
Ed Chester introduced Ralph O.
Zwolsman from the area American
Red Cross office in San Francisco,
who spoke briefly on the import
ance of civilian defense.
Art Hedges, chairman of the bas
ketball committee, announced that
all seats for the Globetrotters-Ju
neau All Stars basketball game for
tomorrow night had been sold and
that 400 standing room tickets
would be sold at the door tomorrow
night.
DISCUSS AIRFIELDS
AT JUNEAU MEETING
■ Development problems in connec
tion with airfield facilities in Alaska
were being discussed here today by
Ed Fisher of the CAA from Anchor
age, Arnold Francis of the local
CAA office, and Kenneth Kadow of
the Alaska Field Committee. No
definite action could be taken by
the group but possibilities "3 ere be
ing explored for the future.
WALKERS MOVE
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Walker have
moved from the Baranof Hotel
to an apartment at Pat Gilmore’s.
Walker is electronics technician j
chief with the U. 8. Coast Guard :
j here. ;
MEAT PRICES
MAY SOON BE
CONTROLLED
WASHINdTON, Jan. 8—Wl—Eco
nomic Stabilization Administrator
Alan Valentine said today “a big
try” will be made "as soon as we
can" to control skyrocketing meat
prices.
He hinted broadly that the ef
fort might be accompanied by ra
tioning and “probably subsidies.”
"The real fact is we don’t know
to what extent meat prices can
be controlled, but as soon as we
can we’ll make a try at it, and it
will be a big try,” Valentine said.
This statement, made in an in
terview with the Weekly News
Magazine “U. S. News and World
Report,” coincided significantly
with a speedup in the agency’s
drive to build up a staff big enough
for the gigantic job of controlling
prices and wages. Valentine ordered
the recruiting stepup.
In promising an attempt at con
trolling meat prices, the PSA Chief
indicated that he considered food
costs a major obstacle in the path
of possible new wage controls.
Asked if “the lack of any control
of meats makes it impossible to
handle the stabilization of wages,”
he answered:
"That’s the point. Not impossible,
but difficult."
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Eisenhower
Right on Job
For Men, Guns
Confers with French Mili
tary Leader on West
European Army
PARIS, Jan. 8—»#>—The top mili
tary leaders of France met with
General of the Army Dwight D.
Eisenhower today to talk, in terms
of men and guns, of their contribu
tion to his Atlantic Army.
Among them was Gen. Alphonse
Juin, career soldier and an Eisen
hower colleague of World War II,
who is strongly reported due to be
the Atlantic Army’s ground forces
commander.
The famous American general
paid calls on Premier Rene Pleven
and Foreign Minister Robert Schu
man early today, and then went
to the Defense Ministry to get
down to work.
Big Conference
Defense Minister Jules Moch re
ceived him privately Ifroc. then
convened a session of his highest
ranking officers and chiefs of
staffs.
Eisenhower made his tour to
day with only his chief strategists,
Lieut. Gen. Alfred M. Guenther,
and two aides, plus two French
officers as translators and escorts.
The famed World War II leader
arrived in Paris yesterday to head
an international force to defertd
the west against Communism. At
once he served warning that any
nation, tempted to test the power
of the west had better think long
and carefully about starting any
thing.
Fends Off Aggression
Eisenhower’s arrivel here marks
his first formal visit to one of tHe
European powers that will give him
men and machines for the army
the 12-nation Atlantic Pact signers
has asked him to create to fend off
aggression from the east.
After a quick tour of the North
Atlantic Treaty countries, Eisen
hower is slated to return to Wash
ington late this month. He comes
back here around mid-February
to begin the task of putting into
full operation his supreme head
quarters Allied Powers in Europe.
„ WORKMAN TRANSFERRED
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis J. Workman
left yesterday on the Baranof for
Washington, D. C., where he has
been transferred. He was a civil
engineer with the Bureau of Re
clamation here and will now be
with the Defense Materials Divi
sion of the Department of Interior.
i
U. N. FORCES
RACE SOUTH;
TIME GAINED
Hold Off Overwhelming
Hordes of Chinese fo
Gain Road for Refreaf
(By the Associated Press)
Allied rearguard forces yielded
the ruins of Wonju to an over
whelming horde of Chinese and
North Reds today after a bitter
holding action that bought precious
time.
Red troops entered the burning
road and rail center as U.N. forces
withdrew to new positions.
The Allies had fought fiercely for
the city, 55 miles southeast of Seoul,
to buy time for the main body of
U.N. forces to retreat southwest
ward from Seoul on the road lead
ing to the southeast port of Pusan.
A.P. Correspondent Tom Lambert
reported in a delayed dispatch that
the main forces Sunday had pulled
back south of Osan, 28 air miles
south of Seoul.
A later field dispatch reported
the Chinese entered Osan Monday.
It narrowed the gap between the
Reds and U.N. forces falling back
in Western Korea.
That’s 50 miles southwest of
| Wonju and on the main route from
I the burned and abandoned South
! Korean capital to Taejon and Pu
san. It was at Osan that the first
American soldier to fight in the
Korean war was killed last July.
Wonju’s defenders battled Satur
day, Sunday and Sunday night to
keep the Red hordes from sweeping
into the gateway city to the heart
of South Korea. A web of roads lead
from Wonju into the interior.
Held at bay by the grim defenders
were seven Chinese armies, possibly
210,000 men, and their Korean Red
comrades.
In the fight for time, B-29 Super
fortresses raided Kimpo airfield, 12
I miles northwest of Seoul, and
Pyongyang, the Korean Red capi
tal. Allied naval units maintained
their bombardments of supply points
and communications lines on both
coasts.
In spite of this, military men in
Tokyo noted that the Chinese op
erations time-table in Korea was
equalling or exceeding that of the
original North Korean tide at the
beginning of the war.
MAN HUNT
MADE FOR
DESPERADO
BLYTHE. Calif., Jan. 8—<£>—'The
frantic, bloody trail of badman Bill
Cook winds through the barren
reaches of northwest Mexico today.
The territorial police of Baja
California joined the far-flung
search for the saWed-off, boastful
killer after the car of one of his
victims was found abandoned 40
miles south of the border yesterday.
Officers of the state of Sonora
were alerted to watch for the stocky
desperado in case he might try to
cross the Colorado river and head
south deep into Mexico.
The 24-year-old ex-convict from
Joplin, Mo., the object of one of
the west’s greatest man hunts, may
be forced to turn back toward the
U.S. border by the very nature of
the barren desert country to which
he has fled.
The 1947 blue Buick sedan of
Robert H. Dewey. 32, of Seattle, was
discovered by Police Chief Ouy
Woodward of Elcentro, Calif., who
on a hunch drove south from the
bordertown of Mexccall, toward San
Felipe, Sunday afternoon.
Dewey’s body was found near
Ogliby, Calif., Saturday in a sher
iff’s car after Cook had kidnapped,
tied and thrown out Deputy Homer
Waldrip, 27. of Blythe. Earlier, Cook
was sought throughout Arkansas,
Texas and Oklahoma for question
ing about the missing family of
Carl Mosser, his wife and three
children from Atwood. 111.
‘‘I've murdered seven other peo
ple and I would just as soon murder
you,” Waldrip quoted the desperado.
STATEHOOD COM.
MAKES ATTACK ON
SENATOR RUSSELL
Passes Long Resolution
Against Stand Taken by
Anti-Statehooder
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 8—iff!
—Alaska's statehood committee de
nounced yesterday an anti-state
hood startd which it labeled as a
•‘proposed hoisting of a white flag
in the face of the Red Flag.”
The committee attributed the
proposal to Senator Russell (D-Ga)
chairman of the Senate Armed
i Services Committee. It quoted him
j as having said, during the state
! hood debate in the Senate last
month, that he did not favor state
hood for the territories because
that action "will fix an obligation
on the Federal Government to
defend their rights in case of any
great emergency.”
Resolution Passed
The Alaska Statehood Commit
tee demanded by resolution that
the defense which the Senator
would provide only for the states
promptly be given to strategic Al
aska through prompt admission of
Alaska to full statehood.”
The resolution was addressed to
President Truman and Congress.
In denouncing the proposal at
tributed to the Senate, the commit
tee resolution declared:
Attacks Declaration
“This unprecedented declaration
of policy constitutes a betrayal of
the American citizens of Alaska
and is counter to pledges, principles
and traditions of the United States
and a violation of the basic con
cept of equality under which Amer
ican citizens of Alaska are cons
cripted for armed service, pay all
Federal taxes and perform all other
duties without the privilege of
full representation in Congress.*’
Defense Taken Up
"It has become evident through
recent history that Alaska never
has been and is not adequately
defended despite warnings by such
far-sighted military leaders as the
late' Gen. Billy Michell, the late
1 General of the Air Force. H .H.
Arnold, General Eisenhower and |
others.”
“The doctrine gives greatest aid
and comfort to America’s Com- j
munlst enemies who repeatedly de
clared that they do not acknow
ledge the validity of Russia’s sale
of Alaska to the United States;”
Declares Alarm, Alaska
“The doctrine already has spread
great alarm in Alaska, creating an
exodus of some of its citizens, an
affrighting of investment capital
and widespread discouragement of
Alaska’s effort to build up Alaska
into a bulwark of democracy and
defense for the western hemis
phere;”
“The doctrine constitutes an in
vitation to aggressors only 54 miles
away to seize our great reservoir
of oil and strategic mineral depos
its, fisheries, forests and hydro
electric resources and strategic
bases for bombing the 48 states.”
No Comment
Senator Russell said in Wash
ington today that he had no com
ment to make on the statehood
committee’s “White Flag” blast.
Russell said in the Senate Nov.
30 in defending his stand for states
rights while opposing statehood for
Alaska: “There is nothing that is
Inconsistent, in defending the rights
of states, in opposing the making
of new states which will fix an ob
ligation to defend their rights in a
case of great emergency.”
from anchorage
Marian Scott of Anchorage is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 3%. American Can
86%, American Tel. and Tel. 151%,
Anaconda 42, Douglas Aircraft 98%,
General Electric 50%, General Mo
tors 48%, Goodyear 69, Kennecott
76, Libby McNeill and Libby 9,
Northern Pacific 33%, Standard Oil
of California 92%, Twentieth Cen
tury Fox 21%. U8. Steel 46. Pound
2 AO 1/16, Canadian Exchange
95A7%.
Sales today were 2,780,000 shares.
Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 242.29, rails 79.17, utilities
j 41.77. * j
STATEHOOD
BILLS BY
O'MAHONEY
WASHINGTON, Jan, 8 — (.41 —
Bills to grant statehood to the two
territories were introduced today
by Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo)
shortly before the President de
livered his message.
Senate bills Nos. 49 and 50 wefe
also introduced to make Hawaii
and Alaska the 49th and 50th states.
Both were sponsored by Senator
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo), chairman of
the Insular Affairs Committee.
He was Joined by 21 other Sena
tors on the Hawaii bill and by 19 on
the Alaska measure.
A Hawaii statehood bill was in
troduced in the House by Delegate
Farrington, the territory’s voteless
member of Congress, when th$
82nd Congress opened Wednesday.
Alaska’s Delegate Bartlett is ex
pected to introduce the Alaska
statehood bill this week.
The House voted statehood for
the two territories in the last ses
sion of Congress. The bills were not
brought to a vote in the Senate.
O’Mahoney’s Alaska bill elimi
nated a previous provision forbid
ding the Interior Department to
create any additional native re
servations, pending statehood.
In the Hawaii bill the validity
of last year’s constitutional con
vention and its selection of delegates
would be recognized.
HO MENTION OF
STATEHOOD MADE
TRUMAN MESSAGE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—— Pre
sident Truman made no mention of
statehood for Hawaii and Alaska in
his State of the Union Message to
Congress today.
Pour times in previous years
Mr. Truman has asked Congress
to pass legislation granting stat*~.
hood to Hawaii and Alaska.
Four times in previous years Mr.
Truman has asked Congress to pass
legislation granting statehood to
Hawaii and Alaska.
In one paragraph in his message
today he said:
"Above all, we must remember
that the fundamentals of our
strength rest upon the freedoms of
our people. We must continue our
efforts to achieve the full realiza
tion of our Democratic ideals. We
must uphold freedom of speech and
freedom of conscience in our land.
We must assure equal rights and
equal opportunities to all our cit
izens.”
JUDSON TO .dEXICO
Art Judson is ’..ere from G'.lena
visiting his mother, MS’s. Fred
Schindler, and relatives. He leaves
tomorrow for a two months trip to
Mexico City, Mexico and expects to
return about March 1 enroute to
his Job with the Mbrris-Knudson
Construction Co., Galena.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
Denali from Seattle due 6 tonight.
Baranof scheduled to sail from
Seattle 5 p.m. Friday.
Princess Norah scheduled to sail
from Vancouver January 17.
•
• WEATHER REPORT
• Temperature* for 24-Hour Period
• ending 4:20 o’clock thl* morning
• In Juneau—Maximum, 41;
• minimum, 34.
• At Airport^Maximum, 38;
• minimum, 32.
•
• FORECAST
• (Jsneeu and Vicinity)
• Mostly cloudy with rain
• showers tonight and Tues
• day. Lowest temperature to
• night near 34 degrees. High
• est Tuesday near 40. South
• easterly winds decreasing to
• night but increasing to 15
• to 25 miles per hour Tuesday.
•
• PRECIPITATION
• (Paat 24 hour* ending 7:30 a.m. today
• City of Juneau—0.18 inches;
• since Jan. 1 — 1.99 inches;
• since July 1—39.98 inches,
• At Airport — 0.20 inches;
• since Jan. 1 — 1.23 inches;
• since July 1—29.23 inches.
President Declares We Must
Fight to Keep Our Freedom;
Full War-Time Mobilization
Nearing; Asks Complete Unity
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 — Wl —
President Truman said today Rus
sia’s leaders are out "to take over
the world .step by step" and warned
“we will fight, if fight we must,
to keep our freedom and to prevent
justice from being destroyed.”
In a personally delivered “State
of the Union” message to Congress,
Mr. Truman said, too, the United
States is "willing, as we have al
ways been, to negotiate honorable
settlements with the Soviet Union.”
“But we will not engage in ap
peasement.”
Mr. Truman’s 3,500-word message
was first of all a defense of his
foreign policy which is geared to
the idea of building American and
Western European strength to the
point where Russia will respect it.
It was second of a general out
line of what has been done so far
in the way of military mobilization
and a broad sketching of what is to
come.
Full Mobilization
“We are preparing for full war
time mobilization, if that should
j become necessary,” Mr. Truman
; said.
As part of that preparation, the
President said he wants changes in
the draft law, higher taxes, greater
wage-price controls powers, "im
provement” of labor and farm laws,
aid to education, and federal aid
for training medical men and wo
men.
Specific Proposals Coming
He gave no details on any of
these. Precisely what he proposes
will come out piece-meal in special
messages and through submission
of specific legislative proposals to
the Congress.
| Mr. Truman omitted any specific
mention of many of the proposals
he has called the “fair deal”—such
as civil rights laws—which Congress
in the past has refused to give him.
But he emphasized the possible
long range nature of the present
era of tension and told the legisla
tors they should give continued at
tention to “the measures which our
country will need for the long pull.”
He continued:
Social Insurance
“To take just cue example—we
need to continue and complete the
work of rounding out our system of
social insurance. We still need to
improve our protection against un
employment and old age. We still
need to provide insurance against
loss of earnings through sickness,
and against the high costs of mod
ern medical care.
“Above all, we must remember
that the fundamentals of our
strength rest upon the freedoms of
our people.”
Gravest Task, History
Solemnly, the President told the
lawmakers they face “as grave a
task as any Congress in the history
of the republic.”
Emphasizing the uncertainty of
the times ahead, he said:
“Peace is precious to us. It is the
way of life we strive for with all
the strength and wisdom we possess.
JUDGE FOLIA WILL
HEAR PETITIONS FOR
(ITIZENSRIP JAN. 2(
Petitions for naturalization as
citizens of the United States of
America will be heard by Judge
George W. Folta in the U.S. District
Court in Juneau on January 25, it
was made known today by Clerk of
the Court J. W. Lei vers.
Anyone who wishes to be heard
in the naturalization proceedings
should report to the office of the
Clerk of the Court in the Federal
building in order to go to the office
of the U.S. District Attorney for
examination as soon as possible.
Leivers said no examinations will be
given on January 25.
WEST JUNEAU MEETING
Bill Hixson of West Juneau an
nounced today that a meeting would
be held at his home Wednesday
evening at 8 p.m. to elect officials
of the West Juneau Water Com
pany. All residents of the area are
invited to attend, he said.
“But more precious than peace
are freedom and Justice.
"We will fight, if fight we must,
to keep our freedom and to pre
vent justice from being destroyed.”
And finally, hfe closed by saying:
Peace, Freedom, Justice
"This is our cause—peace, free
dom, justice.
"We will pursue this cause with
determination and humility, asking
divine guidance that in all we do
we may follow God's will.”
Mr. Truman pledged that this
country will not abandon its lead
ership of “the community of free
nations.”
Replies, Hoover, Taft
Replying, in effect, to recent de
mands by former President Herbert
Hoover and Republican Senator
Robert A. Taft that this country
i limit its military aid to Western
Europe, the President declared
America's national security is too
deeply Involved to allow any with
drawal of help.
"Our national security,” he said,
“would be gravely prejudiced if the
Soviet Union were to succeed in
harnessing to its war machine the
resources and the manpower of the
free nations on the borders of its
empire.”
Plans for Industry?
In his report on mobilization ef
forts, the President said American
industry must be made capable of
producing 50,000 planes and 35,000
tanks a year. But he said he hoped
there would never be any necessity
to produce that many.
Much of his address was con
cerned with the grave international
situation and he appealed to the
legislators:
"I ask the Congress for unity in
these crucial days.”
World Conquest Threat
The President said the threat “of
world conquest” by Russia is “a
total threat and the danger is a
common girder."
They he went on to say:
“We are preparing for full war
time mobilization, if that should be
necessary. And we are continuing
to build a strong and growing
economy, able to maintain whatever
effort may be required for as long
as necessary.”
Joint Session
Mr. Truman spoke in the House
chamber to a Joint session of House
and Senate. Also In his audience
were the members of the diplomatic
corps, cabinet officers and high
government officials.
Mrs. Truman occupied a front row
seat in the gallery. She was dressed
in a dark green coat, with a small
black hat. The only light touch to
her dress was a pearl choker.
Precautions Taken
Extraordinary precautions were
taken for Mr. Truman's safety.
Hours before he arrived at the
Capitol, soldiers with gleaming
bayonets took up stations all around
the building.
Scores of extra police also were
on hand.
Mr. Truman walked into the
chamber precisely at one o’clock.
The Congress members applauded.
It was 13 minutes after the Presi
dent began speaking before the
next applause came from the law
makers. This was when he asserted
that countries which have had
Marshall Plan aid "ure now ready
to use this strength in helping to
build a strong combined defense
against aggression.”
More Applause
There were loud bursts of ap
plause after and when the Presi
dent mentioned Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the Supreme North At
lantic Commander, and urged sup
port of the General in his new task.
There was vigorous applause, too,
for his assertion that the United
States “will not engage in appease- .
ment.”
“Rigid Economy”
The President grinned widely as
Republicans responded with yells
and applause when he called for
"rigid economy” in non-defense
spending.
Both Republicans and Democrats
gave audible approval to the Presi
dent’s call for unity.
There was thunderous applause
when he completed his address at
1:32 p.m.