.
GOOD EVENIN
G E
VERYB
O
DY:
Toni
ht we
have President Truman's long
expected messa e to
Con
g
ress
o
n
t
e
vital issue of
whether the
Army and
N
a
vy
s~ould be merged
1
into
a
single department
of
na
a-
4dL4~
--P1'&4,
he is
for
it.
I
urge
i t , " ~
Truman
••t•
to the
~
,o~-~!-''cP~
~
lawmakers,
~as
the
t
.,
st means
or
keepi~ the peace."
Aai
~~-~
~Me aa ead
tQ
all
effieial
e~p•u•••
a
eppeei+,ion ea \he par+,
ef
\he
la•r
O~half
hour
after the
President's
message was read to
Cong~ess,
the
Bavy
directed
all
its officers
to
refrain
fro ■
opposition
except when
called as witnesses before
committees
of Con
g
ress.
•Further studies of the
problem would
serve
~
-P~-=
~
-~
no useful purpose," said~-
f•11••~
And he
a
dd
ed:
ttxsaz■fatx
•Agra
ere
p
onsibili
t
y
wi
ll
re
st
u
p
on
Con
g
res
s
,
if
it
cont
in
u
es
to delay t i s most
import
an
ur
ge
nt
measure."
LEAD. 2
----
Any future war, he pointed out, will break out
more suddenly and more violently even than the last ne.
And our own country most probably
will
be the tirst
target.
Therefore, the
■ ost
effective insurance we
can contrive will be to unify the services.
Only thus
can
we
show the world that we really mean business,
that we are going to be at least prepared for the next
conflict.
The President proposes
a
seven point
program,
beginning with
a
single department of national defense,
charged with the full responsibility for armed n,tional
security, to be composed of all the armed and civilian
forces now inc1uded in the War and Navy departments.
At
the
hea
d
of
this he wants
a
civilian cabinet member,
a Secretary of Rational Defense.
To
help
bia
-
will be
a
civilian Under-Secretary, and several civilia~
Assistant Secretaries. This Department of National
...J
Defense will comprise three
branches,
land, n
val,Aair,
with an Assistant Secret
a
ry
fore ch. T~e Un er-Secr
e
tary
LEAD
3
--
-
and As
ist~nt
Secretaries are to
be
available at all
c,\I\.
tiaes for ssignments
at ta•
or era of the President
or the Secretary.
Ia
addition, the Presi ent and the Secretary
of
Rational Defense
will
have power to set up central
coordinating
and
service bureau• in the
a•med
services.
~
These AK have principally to
do
with
procurement,
4
to reduce costs and eliminate the
duplication
that
exists at present.
The President then
w
ants
iii
Chief-of-Staff
A
for the ov
~-all
department, with
subordinate
commander ■
for Army, lavy and Air. And there will be
an Advisory Board to the Presi ent and th
Secretary,
composed
of
the Chief-of-Staff,
n
u
hose three
commanders
of
Ary, Navy an
Air.
Row
for the other momentous request in
President Truman's message.
Be wants peacetime
universal training, calls it
an ess~ntial
of
this
program.
Re
dismissed with ouiet empha is the
sug
estion
that
unifica
ion of the s rvices would
LEAD •
4
------
give too much p~wer to one
m
an
a
n
d
mi
g
ht le
d
to
militarisa.
He said t~ere is
no
basis for such fear,
provided we have civilian control of t•e military
establishment.
Actually, t
h
at control would be
'1P
-re..
-r" ..;,
L*'
strengthened when the services are unified • ._.
pointed out that if there is another war it will take
place aiaultaneously
on
l
an
d
, aea and in tbe
air,
~
witb weapons of infinitely greater spe~d
anl
~ ! -
range.
& ■ a
lie.Said~
•Although strong opposit
:..
on
has been
expressed
by
outstanding senior offices and
c
ivilian
leaders,
I
can assure the Congress that once
unific
a
tion bas been decided
as
t
he
p
olicy
of
this
nation, there is no officer or civilian in any service
who will not contribute his utmost to make unification
-
~
a
success."
: . S ~
~
_
~
~
-tr.,,
~
~
~CT~~ie;a~·u;
~
~~
AN,
Force on the
s
a
m
e
level as
t
e Army and
l
a
vy. •~e
should
A
I\
organize to
p
rovide pa
ity
f
or air
p
ow
~r
:
s
i
d
e.
An
d
h
e
added: "Air po
w
er has
been
d
ev
e
loped to a po
i
nt
where its responsibiliti s are equal to tho e of
land
an
rl
a
power
&hd
its contributi
o
n to our strategic
pla111
1ng
i
as
grec:.t.
•
So
it begins to look as tho
the
drea~ of Billy ~itcbell, Hap
A~nold,
Tuohy
Spaatz,
Ji
I
y
Doolittle,
end
all
,
he
others,
rnay
come
to pass!
The President
feel3
that the
arine
Corps
should
re ain a part of
the
Navy.
And
r·nally,
h~ declares th tour military
p
o l ic
y
a ho u 1
o
b e c o p
le
t
e 1
y
consist en
t
w
it
h
ou
r
ioreign
policy.
The most significant
newa
fro■ Mo
s
cow,
where
the Big Thre
e
For
_
i~n Minister
s
are in co
nf
erence, ia
that Secretary Byrnes went to the ~realin today for
a session with Stalin. The Soviet Chief also received
British
F
oreign Secretary Bevin, but not at the
saae
tiaa as
Byrnes.
At Byrne• audition, Foreign
Coamisaar
Molotov was present,
likewise Aabaasador Barriaan.
le are not told what they discussed; but
we aay
•••u••
that t
h
e subject of China
caae
up during the conversa-
tion,
likewise
Iran.
And
by
the
way,
there ia an authority on that
p
a
rt
of the world in the studio with
■ e
tonight.
L.T.
A
.,
"
h
V
tch
.
t
-
revol
in
North
t
na
I
,..nn
f.
th
0
h
V
ri
st
u
c
:,
0
incl
ude
the
aotoaotiotra
:
or
in
,
n
..
,
Jl
2~•·
v rn'1
2
nt
,
I
hav
b
n
en
..
i
kin
of
y
+'ri
0
nd,
...
J.
Chri
ty
ilson,
0
11v
d
for ov
_
t
~
nty
y
.·
r
s
in
h
·
t
_
art of
~ers
ia --
i
n
Tab r
i
z •
Dr.
i
l
on c
a
e
in
·
r o
:a
?
r
inc
ton
on
t
h
1 •
.
tor
:a
y
day
.
o, let's he
rlha
t
he cant
11
11a
ab
out
this
ol
it
i
c a
l
s
tor
i
n
Azel
·
ba
ij
a
n.
r 1@
it
too
n
e
ar
Christm
·
to introduc!,Az
er
baijan
nota,
Dr •
.
ilson?
--o--
uite the contrary, Lo-ell.
Chrlat■ hl
1•
just the
ti11e
to
t·
1
·
.
bout Azerb·
ijan.
The
h::-ee
'
lae
n,
th
e
agl,
r
eputed
to
have
co ■
e
froa
there
~
t
t
o
ir Chri
s
tmas
gifts,
to the
infant
Chr
ist,
on
th
t
fi
st
C
u
rist~a.
The to
m
b of one
o!
the
W
ise Yen
ls
E
till
point. d
ut
iD
a
city
.·.
e:
t
of Lol
a
Uruala.
Azer
baijan
·
as
a part o
th
~
r
':'
::.
t
kingdom
foun
ed
by
Cyru
an
Darlu
,
which
the
1
i
t
v
er
of
the
J)o
k of
I
1
8
U
5
p
ri
a
n
•
un r
d
- nd-t
e
nt7-
nd-
s
e
ven
~
rovin
c
~
n
xt
n
de
d
ve
n
f
rom In i
a
unto
thb
p
i
a
.
B
ut
t
h
r
, ..
se
t,
w
h·
t
a
o
ut
it.?
- o--
D
y
a
f
t r
C
Y
,
c~n
tly,
th
n
·
se
of
'1
hoae
town,
T
o
rlz, h
~
-
b e
n
in
t
h
tJ
h
c.
dlin
e
-
. Bo
.
e
v
•~
r,
I
d
oubt
.
b
th r co r
·"
..
.-
pon
de
n
t
-
,
c
o
11
e
nt
·
tors
i l editorial
writ
e
r
s
h
v
gr
·,
sp
ed
the
ull
i
nific
a
nce of
w
h
•
t
la
going on ov
e
r th
e
·
e in Azerba
iJ
a
n.
--o--
L.
TI :
All right, Dootor, yo
u t
ell
us
the sto17 behind
those headl
in
-
s.
'
.
• L
The
p
oint of
maln
3
port
a
nce i
s
th
a
t
Just
a
s
the
w
a
r
ln E
rs
t
Aaia
a
nd th
e
Pacific 11ay b
e
tr
a
ced
straight b ck to the Ja
pa
ne
s
e occ
•p
atl
D
of Mancburla
in Nineteen Thlrt7-one,
s
o
if Azerbaijan is t
a
ken
fro ■
Ir
a
n I am cer
ta
in
it
w
ill
c
a
u
~
e troubl
e
f
or
a
loag,
lon 6
ti
'!
to co
e.
Th
.,..~
i
,.
rikin
t.ral
1
et.
.
en
t
~e
"
nclturi
:.:
r
i
t,
•
•ha
t i
:J
t
11
klng
n
1
~
i
i
e,..
n
ij
an.
n
.
WO
I
l
thin
lh
iploa
tic
chni
..
u
e
1.bht
f
,.,
e
l
pro
v
ed
in
e
lin
nte
en
Thirty-one.
ut,
h
re
.. e
find
it
h
p
e
Llt
J.
a
in;
t
e
install tion
•·
utonJ 11oua"
upp_
-
gov
.
rnaent.
ell,
hat to
do?
Th
e
n
. ,
gov
~
rna
e
nt la
nor
th
w
'1
t
_
r
n
I
ran
1
s
in
po
;
e
r.
--o--
•
•
•
Th
e
e
may
till
be
tiae.
~merica,
lrltaln
and Sovi
t Rua
~
la
h
a
ve
all
ign
d a solean
1
de
to
aarantee
the
territorial integrity of
Iran.
Soviet
p
olicy
still
cold
be chan
d.
Surly it ould
be
bet
for ....
ovi
t
.
u
~
1
ia,
in
thP.
e
.d,
to
·
ct ln
th
e
spirlt.
as well
a
the letter,
of her agr9eaent, and leave
Iran,
a
lo7al ally in the
·
ur,
le•ve her the int
grity of
her
borers. Allow
her to have
b
r
polit\cal
f~•doa.
--o--
"
L. •
--
Po
bout
t
t
oil
t
h
ovie
t
ant?
--o--
,
.
U
•
h
e
------
I
u
-
s
!
'
no
litician!
B
ut
I do
fe
el
th
·
t
if
th
:
fo
Jncati
n
of
ao
, n
orlcl
o
rd
er
ia
b
_
gan
ith
such
n inju
~
tic
a
the~ p~ratlon
ot
Azerbaijan
from Iran,
then th
fo ndati n will••••••
cru111ble.
!h,
situ
~
tt
,
n
ut
th
e
is
a
veritable
political atom
bomb.
It could bl
a
t
all
hope
of
orlcl
?Cc
and order.
Th
t
ledg
e
d ord
of
the Big Three,
iven to Iran
month
~
go,
should
be
like
the
l
wa
of
the
iedes and
P
ers
lons of old. It should
stand.
It
s
boald not be taapered
ith!
-- .. o--•-
AD U.N.O.
:----------
Te
o
t
e
r
day I
1
raise
t
e
de
n
permament
ome o
f
the
O.N.O.
should
n
o
t be in any
at
the
Ame
ican
city which dr
a
ws
the color line.
Today
G
eat
Britain
a ded its voice
o
th
a
eman
.
And at the
meetin
to
da
y in London,
a
British
delegate, P.J.Noel-Baker, objected
to the
u gestion
that the United States should
be
consi ere
d
the host
state.
wTbe United States," said Noel-Baker, "is not
going to do
more
nor pay any more than any other
United Nation.
w
And
headed: "We will not be asking
the United States for
large
free
gifts."
That certainly is a novel statement to come
fro'll abroad.
':'h
i
rnL
,
1
y
•
0
·
nd
o
rt
h
.
i.
n
o
·
i
L
n
on,
h
on of a
o
1
·
an
d
u
i
h
ngl
·
h
f
ily
1
'"
i
d
t
e
enalty
fo
on
.
Acor
in
"'
to
h
en
ten
f
t
e
court
.
a
o
,
~
n
pt
1
a
i
tly
in
a
"'a
h
~
a
stalled.
It
~as
el
ieved
th
t
the
wo
,
an
wa
·
Ona
\"
ing, hi
·
wife,
an a
ct re
·
s.
L
a
ni
h
his
fathe,
a
fo
e
ecretory of
(:tate
for India,
ith his
.
otbe ,
8aid
g
oodbye
to hi
m
in the
death
ce
ll.
TR
TY
--------
tr
from
T
9
overn
m
ent
of
Gre
t
Brit
a
in i
about
to sin
y
with
the
Ki
n
gd
om of
Siam.
o
y
com
e
ingt
on that Uncle
Sm
a
a
ked
t e
w
o
0
ov
rnrn
ent
s
to hold
off
the
s
i n
ing of
that
tre
ty
until w
e
ave
been c
ons
ulte
d
.
T
ere
is
n
o
official expl n
a
tion
f
o
r t
is move.
Un
o
ffic
i
lly, we
learn
that
W sbi
ngton is
anxious
that
t
e
independence
and strengtb of Thailan
d
be preserved.
T
h
er
~
are rumors that the British are
asking
pretty
harsh term, such as censorship controls
and
trade
conce sions. These are interpreted as
an
infringement
of the independence of Siam.
The
British, of course, look upon
S
iam
a
an
ex-enemy
country. But the United St
at
es never
recognised
the
declaration
of war from
Bangkok,
considering that
the regime in
Thailand at
that
time
was a
puppet
g
ove n
m
ent. Henc
e
,
we al
·•
ays
consi
d
ere
d
the
Siamese
as
secret allies.
The
news was
bro
k
en in
.
in
g
ton by A~ting
Seer
try
en Ate eson
1
~
tol
new
~
ermen
be
hoped
both
e British
and Siame e
iplomats
would
pe mit our gove
nment to complete its
iscussions
with
London
before
the treaty
is concluded. The United
States
has cons:id
erable interests
in
Siam.
,,
..
Ne
un
,~
n
,
y tr
t
Gener
lis imo Chin
ai-s
e
ill
meet
G
neral
Geor
e
ars
a 1
,
our
new Am a
or
to
Cina
in
N nkin.
C
iang
is no
in Nan
·
in,
n
Fo eign
inist
r,
N•
'~n~,
l e t
C un
~k
in
by
1 ne
tod~y
to
att••i
join him
at
N nking.
Gen
ral a~s
.
all
~ r i v e d at
anila an
i l l
t
k
off e rly to orro
"
morning for China. He will probably s o
first in
Shan
ai to confer
wit
Amerio n ~omm nders.
llcVAY
_____
...
__
A h
1
cV
y,
"'c
o
n
ing of
·cer
of th
~
cruis r
I
IAN
O
S,
~
foun
y
t
c
urt-
a
.
ti
l.1:r-~" iriee.
liim
et,
W&ellit1gio1h
-Offieielly
,
"tlle
verdict rea
d
s
that
be suffered
a
vessel
0
t
e
N
vy
to
be
azarded.
In
other
ord
'
t,e
i
•
guilty
on
only
one
point
of the
in ictment
brought
against
im.
Ae
-~
~
ot
fettM
guilty
f
ne 1 igence
1
an
Re
-wn.a
categorically ac uitted of the
C
arge
of
inefficiency. The basis of that charge was
his
failure
-
to order the crew to abandon ~hip promptly enoug~.
A miral Baker,
Presi
'
ent
of
t~e Court,
explaineaftbat
this charge bad not been proved.
R·s
uilt, s~id the court-martial, lay in
failin
to order his ship to zigzag in waters were
enemy
sub
arines might be encountered.
1M.:ray•s testimony be explained th
the had
"
he
did
il
•
t
think
not
ordere
the
zigzag
course
ecau
it
necessary,
in
view
oft
e
poor
visi
ility.
e
himself
n
several
at
.
e
i
nes
e
te
tifie
th
t
there
wa
no
moon an
th
t
vieib
i
lity
was poor.
YcVAY
-
,,
____
...,
Evi
n
i
t
e
e
t.
ny
0
e
J
n
e
CO
,
·
n
u
r,
s
imo
o,
t
t con
ted
6
pt
in
C
y.
R
mot
'
&e
'J-&
skipper
f
he
Jap
subma
ine
w
ir.
J
s
1
,
1
the Indianapolis,
it.
told
t
e
court
t
t
visibili
·.
y
wa
excellent
n
t
t
he
·
a
s·
g
rte
the cruiser
-e-t
a di&taRca
0£
tea
t,..peQeeaa
metePa
qttite
clearlr,n
the moonli
ht.
The punishment for Capt
in
cVay may
be
censure,
reduction in grade, demot·on
n the promotion
list,
or
dismissal
from the
Navy.
la extreme eaeee,
it
Q.Qu)d be e.e&ifl,
1'ut
t,1',at
ie
not
cuntemple.tee
ia
t.~i•
i1rn'tJe.nee.
We
de not
knew
yet
wlrte.+s
een\enee
t~e •
.
'1
.41~J
~
couat
■ ar:l.nl
re1:om1NPmleJ.,
~ : , \ t h e papersJ\lt•••
to be r
evie
ed
by
t
be Secretary
of the Navy, ,
.
ho has
power to
reverse
the
verdict
of the court.
ADD
llcVAY
--------
The prosecuting
officer, as
re
o
uired
by
law,
read in
full
Captain
YoVay's record as an officer in
the United States Navy.
It is
a
highly distinguished
one, including
many
awards for fine service and
valor.
Captain McVay
won a
commendation from Admiral Raymond
Spruance, former commander of
the Fifth Fleet. The
IIDIAllPOLIS
was Admiral Spruance's flagship in several
carrier attacks on Japan.
TAXES
------
Her@
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Q.
Ne
w
Year's me
ss
a e on t
a
xes,
Ret.
e&-
& t i ~ o l d
.
s
some
h
ope.
Jt
oeaee fpea
t~e
aaa meei
infl~ential
out
~a ihie ~•eiaeoa,
Representative Dou
g
hton of Rortb
Carolina, Chairman of the
W
ays and Means Committee of
---~
the llouse
1
A
Hts Committee
is
g
o ~ e t to work on
a new tax bill in the spring~
, ~ 1 1 ~•
eem•
,
reductions in it, particularly for individuals.
Tbe1
~
w,il.l
!:M
\he -iteet
.t,rea,
provided business is good and
receipts under the present laws are heavier than
we
r.
expect.
But
1
there will be no substantial reduction
\
until the budget is balanced.
wAnd,• added Doughton,
"if Congress keeps on making appropriations and
increasing peace
time
expenditures, nobody can tell
when that will be.•
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LEGION
------
A
uni
ue
organization
c
a
me
into
being at
New York
-
today.
It
is
the
Legion
of the Ameri c
·
an
1
omen Veterans.
Never
before
in
.
any country
has
there
been an
organ
ization
of war veterans of that sex.
Th
e
Acting
National Commander is
U
rs.
Patricia Deuse,
who
in
private life is fashion counsellor in
a
Fifth Avenue
shop.
She
by spring,
expects to
h
ave
nearly a thousand
me ■ bers
-4.c
an
d
says
sbe
118a
already
applications
from
A
some eight
hundred~••••••
lo
fewer than
t
hre
e
hundred
'
-12•
~
~
..
~
~-«..e_,,
thousand women
rl•
wad~
honorably discharged
fro■
all branches
of
the
service.
BLIZZA"gD
------
This
blizzard we
are
·
av1ng
in
t
e
eas
might
be
worse, bu
we
would hate to
see
it.
the ba
news is
t
.
a
the
Weather
Bureau
will
not pro ise any end to
it
until
late
tomorrow.
B th
t
t
Y
a
ime we
shall
have
bad
twelve
inches
of snow. The worst
part
of it is that it
has
been blown
on the winds
of
a gale, whic
.
is
piling
the stuff up across
highways
and city streets
in huge
drifts.
Communications are crippled in New York City,
Boston, Washington and Philadelphia,
plus, of cour1e,
nuaerou1 aaaller cities, and bandreds of towns and
Yillages,
fro ■
lashingtoa,D.C. to Portland, Maine.
Tbi•
stora is not a gift
fro ■
the north.
It was born.
according to the weather sharks, in the great
S ■ ok7
Mountains of l-0rth Carolina, and
it
rages aa tar
net
as Indiana.
Schools are closed aoat
••erywhere, ao that
the children aay n t be snowbound.
An offshoot of that blizzard on the coast struck
Buffalo, le• York, again just as it was digging out
fro ■
the weekend
stor ■
that plunged fifty-eight inches
of
snow
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on the lak~ city.
To help
■ ove
railroad traffic, Governo
:
Dewey of New York has units of the
Bo ■e
Guard helpin
g
the railroad
■en
a
t Buffalo.
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B re's
oo
news fort
ose la
ies
ho
h
ve
fretted
a out
not
being
able to
procure
Nylons for
Christmas.
A news
dispatch tells
of large department
stores with a complete line --
all ~izes
and sbades.
Also, we are told t a t there
are
no mobs of women
pushing an
fighting and gouging to get close to the
,
,
.~~- counters.
T~e price, fifteen dollars a pair.
'
0~ yes, I forg~t to say,
those
department stores
full
of nylons are down
in
Argentina and Uruguay.
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hep . .
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- LTP.1945.12.19i.pdf
- LTP.1945.12.19ii.pdf