Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-12-14 | Page 6 | Truman Spurs Campaign to Clean Government

Truman Spurs Slurs Campaign To Clean Government t WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V Dee Dec 14 UP President Truman p U tJ s she h c e d ahead Friday to get his government government government govern govern- ment cleanup campaign in full swing as reports persisted that I 1 Attorney General J Howard McGrath's Mc Mc- I I Grath's job Is getting etting increasingly increasingly increasingly less secure II I I Mr Truman hoped to complete complete com com- his housecleaning plan by Sunday Although the President told newsmen Thur Thursday day he knew of no pending cabinet changes a anew anew anew new development came to light in the relations between Mr 11 Tru Tru- man and McGrath l It was learned on unimpeachable able authority that the President had conducted an independent investigation of T. T Lamar Caudle Candle the ousted assistant attorney general w wit without i t h 11 o 0 u t McGrath's 1 knowledge This source said Mr 11 Truman referred to this investigation I when he told reporters that he had been on to Caudle and was ready to fire him before Caudle Ii popped up p as the key figure inthe in inthe I II the tax scandal inquiry by a aHouse aHouse alouse I House louse Ways and Means leans subcommittee I