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Show DREW PEARSON Army Supplants Navy in Favor FOR 13 long years under Franklin Roosevelt the navy had the inner track at the White House. Now, under ex-Capt. Harry Truman, former commander of Battery D, 129th field artillery, the situation is reversed. Political reports from various parts of the country indicate that Mr. Truman's loyalty to his personal doctor. Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, will cost him perhaps a million votes. The public seems to resent the fact that Graham, sitting at the right hand of the President, speculated in the grain market, even more than they resent the speculation of Ed Pauley, who wasn't so close to the President. Nevertheless, Mr. Truman remains loyal to the army doctor. Meanwhile, almost unnoticed by the public is the fact that Rear Adm. James Foskett has left the White House for "sea duty." Admiral Foskett is the President's former naval aide. Actually the reason for his exit is not necessity for going to sea, but the fact that he had a row with the army th army in this case represented by Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan. General Vaughan, a former manufacturer's representative in St. Louis, who used to train with Mr. Truman in the Missouri national guard, hai got the President into all sorts of personal pickles. But despite that fact he continues to be one of the most influential White House hangers-on. |