Show Round Merry-Go-Round Early Selection Secret J Now Leaks Out f fV By Drew Pearson V WASHINGTON One Inside reason f M dynamic Louis Johnson was anxo anxious to d dynamic Steve Earl Early y as ns his under ct cr of national defense has now leaked out au Real Peal fact is that Early p F D fot ft R Ra 8 f fo press relations ex expert pert was not Joh Jo first choice He tried hied first to persuade man to appoint John M M. Franklin Frankli n h head had A Athe the United States Slates Steamship lines b but president turned thumbs down dorm cold cause Franklin was a vigorous Dewey porter Johnson also wanted I Truman to U John J. J McCloy president of or the W bank and former assistant set sacra war However McCloy also u is do Dewey and the president wanted a a. nn crat whom h he personally trusted t Actually it was the pres president dent hm who suggested Steve Early Truman pens to be one of the few men in fn Wi Vi ington who knows just how much rear fey Johnson has for Earlys Early's judgment In TA f if it hadn't been for Early Johnson erf never have been secretary of defense t tot Disappointed Man In Man In 1940 1910 only trampled on Johnsons Johnson's ambition to vice ice president in favor of Henry W Wai but he bypassed Johnson and named E li L L. L Stimson as secretary of war J then assistant secretary of war WU terly disappointed and started west wed Ing with anger The White HO House e hea about it it also heard that Johnson WU route to Colorado Springs to meet V W w Willkie then preparing his race as 23 GO nominee for president Steve Early immediately had Jo Johas plane grounded halfway acro across s the coca and got the Indignant ass assistant stant semi scat of war on the telephone For an to hour 10 minutes he pleaded with Johnson en cn phone Early had been one of Louies Louie's I friends had long tried to tomake make him rum se tary of war instead of Harry W N There is no question but that Joh Johnson on been led lcd to believe he was definitely become secretary of war and that he lie been given the political double cross ft he had done a great job 0 of j arming the United States desp despite te is opposition In the end hoa hai Early persuaded him to proceed proceed not not Colorado Springs but to Los Angeles a loyal Democrat 1 Now the man who guided the then secretary of war will ill be at his r r. r hand as undersecretary of national deft dd k Air vs s Navy A Navy A table beating T it i slinging row that rattled window p the house appropriations committee tot place last week over squeezing moil of the army and navy Part of tie the j was over the old question of more oh vessels or more airplanes 1 f The uproar started when Qi Ch Clarence Cannon of Missouri e subcommittee for giving hiving the arm armed amidei- amidei 1 ices half a billion dollars more than Pal dent Truman asked for fc This is the worst bill that hu has from a subcommittee this session tia dered Chairman Cannon It Its s terrible B Bought ought to be recommitted If A At t least of this q p should be cut out of the bill biH Its It's prey to give the navy all that met that thal admirals who still think they're bing fj b r ing the Spanish-American Spanish war can cal outdated warships at a time when i sir air l ler pc pool pooler er is all J fc This brought a hot retort from c chi subcommittee member Albert Engel E Pi publican of Michigan I resent the i aaa i he stormed beating the ube have always been a strong power air CM and this bill does not discriminate ag agthe agala the air force J. J You say the Ule bill should be cut ea I tinned linued the Michigan Republican Well Veit I wont won't take the responsibility for cutt aut 4 the defense program at a time like tB Furthermore Im I'm standing b by my SU If I didn't think it was doing a g foe god elJ I job would resign n. Cannon finally agreed to withhold ld hi hl threatened motion to recommit the bill w called for a vote to report it 1 Theres nothing else I can do at t til stage he explained explained but I still dont don't B the bill biB 1 I Note Privately many COD agree with Representative Cannon Cannon tt that t p plot i ilot l lot of water can be cut from the a ann forces budget For instance cagey S Sam Rayburn recently asked the army take over recreation facilities at Texo lake a flood control project in his leis u now run by the interior depart Reason The army y can spend plenty tyl d a apartments apartment's money on recreation while the Interior budget is pruned to the bone bonet |