National Guard Leaders Pleased By Ike's Promise at Conference; Hoover Advocates Cut in Budget

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--National Guard leaders reported today a "most satisfactory" reaction from President Eisenhower to their worries that a new Pentagon training order might harm or destroy the Guard.

Maj. Gen. Melton A. Reckord, speaking for himself and three other generals who called on the President, said:

"The President was very gracious and gave us his assurance that he will not permit the Guard to be destroyed. That satisfied me."

The four Guard generals asked to see Eisenhower in an aftermath of criticisms expressed by Secretary of Defense Wilson last week.

Wilson's name was not mentioned at today's White House meeting, Reckord told reporters.

Hoover Foresees Depression

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--Former President Hoover said today that the current inflation shows signs of a depression "agony" like that which best his own administration.

In an appeal for governmental conference, Hoover repeated Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey's recent forecast that big federal budgets, if long continued, will produce "a depression that will curl your hair."

"Mine has already been curled once--and I think I can detect the signs."

Humphrey Urges Restraint

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey said today the people will have to ask less from Washington if the government is to spend less.

He said he believed that to a considerable degree, "the avoidance of a disastrous inflation depends on the courage, self-restraint and determination of the people themselves."

"If these pressures are continually made for more spending, the Congress responds and the executive must respond, too," Humphrey told the Senate-House Economic Committee.