Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Truman Gives Up Plan
For Alaskan Vacation;
Signs Foreign. Relief
by he Associated Press


President Truman yesterday signed
the $3.50, 900 900 foreign relief bill
and dug further into the work that
piled up while he visited his ailing
mother in Missouri.
His schedule now Is so heavy.
Presidential Press Secretary Charles
G. Ross said, that the projected
summer vacation in Alaska has been
dropped.
Mr.. Truman does have plans for
two brief journeys this month. Next
week end he will meet with old
comrades of the 35th Division in
Kansas City and after that will go
to Ottawa to address the Canadian
Parliament.
He will leave Washington by plane
for Kansas City Friday morning and
Is expected to drop in" on his
mother, Mrs. Martha E. Truman,
now recovering at Grandview, Mo
He will address the 35th Division
reunion Saturday night.
Will Go TO Canada BY Rail.
The three-day goodwill visit to
Canada will be made by train. Mr..
Truman plans to leave here Monday
evening, June 9, and depart from
Ottawa on the evening of June 10
Secretary of the Interior Krug had
invited the President to visit Alaska
and the trip was under considera-
ton, Mr.. Ross said, but Mr. Truman
now has definitely decided" against
IL.
One compelling reason, Mr.. Ross
explained. is that the President must
ktay in Washington for week or
10 days after Congress adjourns, to
approve or veto legislation. A trip
therefore probably would be impos-
sible until mid-August when, Mr..
Ross said, the foggy season makes
Alaskan travel highly unfavorable. u
The relief act signed yesterday
authorizes assistance to Italy
Greece, Hungary, Austria, Poland
China and Trieste.
To Name Administrator.
simultaneously, the President is
sued all executive order yesting his
authority over the funds in Secretary
Of State Marshall. Mr.. Truman still
must appoint field administrator
Other presidential actions carried
forward the work Of dismantling
wartime orders and controls.
BY proclamation, Mr.. Truman re-
scinded the emergency power to
seize ships and control the move
ments of vessels, granted to the
Secretary of the Treasury and the
Governor of the Panama Canal in
1910.
BY executive order, the President
restored the peacetime prohibition
against Government purchase of
prison-made goods. The restriction
was lifted in 1912 to bring Federal
and State prisons into war pro-
duction.
Other Orders Signed.
Other executive orders signed
yesterday Cd authorized the trans
fer of Federal employees to the United
States missions to Greece and Tur-
key; 90 restored some Federal
military land to Hawii for public
works; and go added three inter
national bodies to the list of organ
izations granted taX-eXemption.
The three are the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Gull
tural Organization, the International
Cival Aviation Organization. and the
international Telecommunication
Union.
Mr.. Truman also added a new
military tribunal to those trying
major war criminals in Germany
He named as members Charles B
Sears, former associate judge of the
New York Court of Appeals; William
C. ChristianSon, former associate
justice of the. Minnesota Supreme
Court; and Frank N Richmond
former judge of the Indiana
Supreme Court. AS an alternate
member he chose Richard billiard
Dixon, former judge of the North
Carolina Superior Court.