Legislative hearings

Judge Winton C. Arnold (right) gives testimony in opposition to Alaska Statehood at Senate hearings. Also pictured, left to right: Senator Hugh Butler; Senator Clinton P. Anderson; Senator Glen H. Taylor; and Senator Zales Ecton. All others unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

President Charles E. Wilson of General Motors today condemned President Truman's proposed fact-finding legislation and called instead for a "principle-finding" board. Testifying before the Senate Labor Committee, Wilson said that any legislation intended to settle labor-management disputes should include a statement of principle under which the machinery would operate. From: Beth Gore.

Former Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles is shown as he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee here in Washington today. After looking at several of the microfilms, he said that publication of some of the documents would be "prejudicial to the nation's interest." From: Beth Gore.

Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren, appearing before the Mead Committee today, said that "everybody and his brother," apparently encouraged by laxity of Federal War Profit Renegotiation laws, "were out to get the Government during the lush war years." Warren told the committee that untold billions were "given away" by the Government during renegotiations of war contracts From: Beth Gore.

Henry A. Wallace told Congress today that President Truman's preparedness program would set off an armaments race leading inevitably to "unnecessary war." Mr. Wallace appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee. From: Beth Gore.

Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., President Harry S. Truman's nominee to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board, denied that he was in any way connected with the failure of the Vardaman Shoe Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The President's Naval Aide endeavored to show the Senate Committee that he was not in operating control of the company at the time it was placed in receivership in 1942 or several months previously. From: Beth Gore.

General Alexander A. Vandegrift, the fighting Marine Commandant, appearing before a Senate Committee today, strongly opposed the merger of the Army and the Navy into a single department. From: Beth Gore.

General A. A. Vandegrift, head of the U.S. Marines, told a surprised Senate committee today that proposed unification of the Armed Services would reduce the Marine Corps to "military impotence" and strip it of "everything but name." Vandegrift was the first high active officer in Armed Service to oppose provisions of President Truman's unification program. From: Beth Gore.

Marriner S. Eccles, right, retiring Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, shown here with Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, today told the House-Senate Economic Committee that the country is still threatened with inflationary dangers which may lead "to economic chaos and the possible collapse of our system." From: Beth Gore.

Photo of Gerald L. K. Smith, head of the American First Party, asking the House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate Walter Winchell, Eddie Cantor, Frank Sinatra, Ingrid Bergman and Edward G. Robinson. "I am just an old-fashioned, Bible-believing, Christ-loving American," he said. From: Beth Gore.