Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-12-07 | Page 1 | U. S. Defense Inspection Group Greeted by S. L.

. To Address State Bar EDUCATORS TO SPEAK AT STATE BAR MEET Milton D. Green, left, and Fleming James Jr. U. S. Defense Inspection Group Greeted by S. L Congressional Delegation Arrives in Utah by Army Planes; Views Arsenal Ogden The congressional "delegation inspecting continental and Panama canal defense zones arrived at the Salt Lake municipal munici-pal airport late Thursday afternoon. tary affairs committee- and subcommittees sub-committees on the senate committee commit-tee for war deparment appropriations. appropria-tions. Senator Elmer Thomas (D., Okla.l, subcommittee chairman, is leader of the group. He rejoined the nine other congressmen at Salt Lake City after flying here from San Francisco In an army bombing plane. He had left the party at San Francisco to enter Lctterman General hospital in the Presidio for treatment of an infected in-fected tooth. The others are Senators Harry S. Truman, Missouri; Sherman Minton, Indiana; Chan Gurney, South Dakota, and Dennis Chavez, New Mexico, and the following representatives: William D. Byron, By-ron, Maryland; Charles R. Clason, Massachusetts; Thomas E. Martin, Iowa; John J. Sparkman, Alabama, Ala-bama, and Paul V. Shafer, Michigan. Mich-igan. The party will leave Ogden at 8:15 a. m.. Friday and return to Salt Lake City for a trip through Fort Douglas. They will take off at 10 a. m. Friday for Cheyenne, Wyo., to inspect defenses in Wyoming Wyo-ming and Colorauo. They alighted shortly after 3 p. m. from three giant army transport trans-port planes after a flight from Fort Lewis, Wash., where they completed complet-ed Inspection of Pacific coast defenses. de-fenses. A group of prominent government, govern-ment, civic and military leaders greeted the visitors. Included were Governor Henry H. Blood, Senator William H. King, Representatives Repre-sentatives Abe Murdock and J. W. Robinson, and Major Philip Doddridge, Dod-dridge, acting commandant of Fort Douglas. The visitors and members of Utah's congressional delegation, together to-gether with Major Doddridge and other officials of the greeting party, motored to Ogden immediately immedi-ately thereafter, escorted by officers offi-cers of the Utah state highway patrol. At Ogden, the party was met by a delegation of civie and military mili-tary officials, including Frank M. Browning, chairman of the Ogden chamber of commerce military affairs af-fairs committee, and Major I. A. Luke, commander of the army ordnance depot there. After Inspecting the Ogden arsenal ar-senal and the new Hill air deport site at Sunset, the party was scheduled sched-uled to return to Ogden for an informal reception and dinner in the Weber club at the Ben Lomond hotel. The congressmen, senators and representatives are members of the senate and house Joint mill-