Daily Appointment Sheet for President Harry S. Truman

Thursday, April 18th: AND RECORDE 10.00 an The President will receive from Mr. Luther Miller and Senator John H. Bankhead, 2d., of Alabama, a bull calf, gift of the Birmingham Stock Show, of which Mr. Miller is chairman. The President is being given this calf so that he may give it to UNNRA or some similar organization now or later. Guests will be: Senator John H. Bankhead, 2d., Albama; Mr. Luther Miller; Mr. Max McLaughlin, Presi- dent Alabama Future Farmers; Mr. Billy Smith, President, Alabama 4-H Club; Mr. P.O. Davis, Dir. Agricultural Extension Service, Alabama; Mr. Walter Randolph, Pres. Alabama Farm Protection Federation; Mr. Bedell Munro, Pres. Penn. Central Airlines; Mr. Arthur Sartain, Secretary to Senator Bankhead. 10.15 am Senator Harley M. Kilgore, W. Va. (Asked for the appointment) 10.30 am Honorable Chester Bowles 10.45 an (Mr. Mize Peters; Mr. J. B. Hodge) 11.00 am The President will open the Buddy Poppy Drive for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, by buying it from their war orphan, Betty Lou Hall, who is from their home at Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Guests: Betty Lou Hall (Orphan of World War II); Mr. Joseph M. Stack, Commander in Chief, V.F.W.; Mr. Omar B. Ketchum, Natl. Legislative Rep. V.F.W.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams, in charge of VFW Natl. Hone and acting as parents of Betty Lou; Miss G. C. Leffingwell, Dir. of V.F.W. Buddy Poppy Publicity; Mrs. M. Frances Anderson, Natl. Pres. Ladies Auxiliary, V.F.W. (Betty Lou is four years of age, orphan of Arthur Alvin Hall, Infantry, killed in action in European theatre in December, 1944. The Child's home was originally in Lansing, Michigan, and the mother and four sisters and brothers were admitted to the V.F.W. National Home in June, 1945. Mr. Ross has given permission for movietone News to be present, in view of fact child is orphan of this war, etc.) 11.15 am Honorable Leif Erickson, (Montana Supreme Court); Mr. Frank M. Swacker (N.Y. lawyer); Dr. Gordon S. Watkins (Univ. of Calif.) (Railroad Emergency Fact Finding Board, asked through Dr. Steelman to see the President) 11.30 am (Mr. LeRoy V. Brant, of Etude Magazine) (This off record interview arranged by Cong. Anderson, California. Brant doing story on the President for Etude, and has submitted questionnaire) 12.00 Rear Admiral Ellery W. Stone, Chief Commissioner of the Allied Commission for Italy. (Is now in Washington, having returned ffom Rome for con- sultations with the State, War and Navy Departments re- garding Allied policy in Italy. The Admiral desirous of seeing the President in order to inform him concerning situation in Italy)