European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes april 1948 i Forrestal asks 45 billion outlay National guard uses s 66 combat groups slated in of program april 22 a three year defense with emphasis on expanding air Power was placed be fore Congress Secretary of defense James Forrestal outlined the newest pro Gram to the Senate armed serv ices the program includes a 66 group air combat the Cost for the next fiscal year which begins on july 1 is estimated at increasing fraction ally in the two following manpower estimates Given the latest manpower estimates Given by Forrestal were men and officers Navy and air compared with the previous and the latest figures increase the size of the air Force and army and leave the Navy and marines All the figures Are far above current refunds set for taxpayers april 22 about taxpayers will get refunds on the taxes they paid on their 1947 Secretary of Treasury John Snyder said yes he told a news conference that up to last the Treasury disbursement division had written checks for at the present payments Are being made at the rate of approximately individual payments a Snyder he said refunds Are ahead of the same period last despite a Cut in the Treasury figures show since last july the Treasury has paid out a of in tax and duty re the internal Revenue Bureau estimates that the average individual refund is about Quill quits Alp cites crackpots new april 22 Michael International president of the transport workers Union resigned wednesday As state Vic chairman of the Amer ican labor party and denounced the party As a prisoner of crack screwball and a City councilman and one of the founders of the announced his resignation in a letter to Vito state chairman of the i Adams named for cab april 22 Russell Adams was nominated by president Truman yesterday to be a member of the civil aeronautics his trips probed antiaircraft units organized in 4 states the strange Story of Dean 19yearold who said he made two secret trips to Russia within the last has prompted immigration officials to Start an after he was contacted each time by a soviet agent and almost without any he was flown from Boston to the youth is quoted As april 22 a new streamlined National equipped with nearly planes and bristling with antiaircraft is steadily building into army officers said the new air National guard program is three months ahead of so far men have been organized into 355 air unit operating the air guard will have men by june 30 and planes when fully four states have completed organization of All their antiaircraft artillery they Are Rhode Island and about 440 out of 809 National guard antiaircraft units have been completely they Are either completely Mobile or self propelled units using the latest Type including the 90 my gun used in world War when it reaches full the antiaircraft artillery Section of the National will have men ready for instant action against attacking enemy they will be equipped with radar detecting and fire control they could swing into action against enemy bombers that get through the protecting screen of air National guard and regular air Force National guard strength now stands at officers and Lewis awaits sentence miners Start returning from press dispatches april Alan who ruled that the soft Coal strike has not ended and that National peace and safety Are still in will pronounce sentence on John ump tomorrow for civil contempt of with nearly miners Idle or Over three quarters of the the government has hinted it May ask for further penalties if the miners Are still Idle it is re ported that the miners Are starting Back to work in response to Lewiss both operators and ump officials predicted that All of the soft Coal miners will be n the Job by tomorrow when Lewis returns to the work stoppage protesting the fines against Lewis and the Union reached its Peak wednesday morn ing when miners refused to the Meri began returning afternoon to the after pits they yesterday received Lewiss be n the chaplains will for russians new april 22 thousand Navy and air Force chaplains will Pray for Russia every hour on the hour during their three Day annual conference Here next it was announced president chaplain Robert White said that during the May 1013 chaplains of every Faith will have an Opportunity to ask for divine guidance for the misled people of woman found in boiler april 22 body of an unidentified who apparently had been was found stuffed into a Copper Wash police surgeon Joseph Pandol Fino said the woman had been dead perhaps a death have resulted from natural he How the woman was killed was not immediately dive regains lost uppers new april 22 John Caron hath no greater love than for his store bought on a ferry boat carrying him from new Jersey to Caron suddenly became he leaned against a railing and out popped the dentures into the Hud son made a frantic lunge and fell into the he emerged a few seconds gasping and with the Teeth clutched in his Cromwell to wed again april 22 James former husband of tobacco heiress Doris obtained a marriage License in the District of Columbia to wed Maxine birding miss whose father is manager of the Birmingham Plant of the Lehigh Portland Cement is listed As having received a Reno Marine general Dies april 22 the Navy announced the death of Rufus Herman retired Marine corps officer who once served As military governor of the dominican rank okd april 22 legislation providing permanent fourstar rank for generals Omar Bradley and Carl Spaatz was approved by the House yesterday and sent to the the Bill would permit them to retire on full Bradley is army chief of and Spaatz has retired As air Force chief of staff american conference employees flee colombian revolt Royall pledges ban on totalitarian Rule april army Secretary Kenneth Royall said yesterday that the cannot stand by and permit any totalitarian nation to devour and digest the rest of the Royall told the daughters of the american revolution in a Conven Tion address that such a nation then could concentrate the re sources of the rest of the world against the thirty eight americans arrive in Miami from Bogota after escaping bullets and mob violence in the revolt torn colombian soon after 35 of the mostly women employees of the lifter american left by plane for latest reports say died in the air group lands in Alaska april 22 82nd fighter group of the air Force arrived at Ladd Field Here tuesday from its Home Grenier air Force for a period of routine training operation in the group is composed of the 96th and 97th fighter squad Rons under the command of Henry Viccellio of it also includes a Long Range fighter unit of the strategic air researchers seek peace new april 22 Rockefeller foundation announced today it devoted appropriations of in 1947 to global research and education aimed at the single target of world peace but could not penetrate the soviet the annual report said that foundation representatives travelled Alj Over the world on endowment except in Russia and bul for which it could not obtain scholars in those countries could not be contacted k guard officers Start course april 22 up two Hundred National guard commanders and staff officers from 32 states began a six Day refresher course at the com Mand and Genera staff College at included among the officers were 40 of general Twenty divisions Are the established in has become the highest level educational institution operated by the Boeing mechanics strike april 22 on Worth of commercial and military aircraft has been halted at two Large Boeing plants Here As a result of an unauthorized strike by the mechanics put Down their tools in support of higher wage lion gets St april 22 16yearold lion at the Forest Park was snoozing in his Spectator tossed a cigarette butt at Bill to make him Bill his mane Bill darted about his expressing his Dis pleasure As Only Lions attendants extinguished the fire without serious damage to nhe the the who identified himself As veil of wound up like Wallace dinner makes new april 22 the Campaign fund of the Henry Wallace for president third party was Richer following a a plate dinner in new Wallace told the diners America is heading toward a police slate Type he charged the advocates of our bipartisan for eign policy Are out to enslave the he surprised some listeners by declaring Many of the accusations made against Russia Are Wallace that there is no action of that government which we can Correct or change through Force and
