European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes thursday february 2, 1950 it1 n . Won t Pioneer transport aircraft funds for project Are refused Washington feb. 1 a air Secretary w. Stuart Symington disclosed that president Truman has rejected a defense department recommendation for use of government funds to do pioneering work in development of transport proposal called for the government to Bear the expense of developing two Low Cost Long Range cargo or transport aircraft. The idea would be to hav the prototype ships ready for copying if More were of the planes would be Best suited to military needs and adapt Able to maximum utilization by the civil air transport Industry. The other would be Best suited for com Mercial transport and adaptable to maximum military use in Esse of War. Jet transports Symington placed the estimated Cost of each plane assuming Only one was bought at �15,000,000. He told the Senate conferee committee that legislation to carry out such a program drafted by the defense department was turned Down by the budget Bureau last Friday As not in Accord wit ii the program of the Deputy defense Secretary Stephen Early testified that a very real deficit exists Between the present number of military and civilian transport planes and the number that would be required in wartime. He said there Are similar deficits in other types of transportation but that it is proportionately larger in . Edwin c. Johnson to col committee chairman asked if Symington Felt it necessary for this country to develop a Jet transport plane to keep Pace with other nations. While Symington said it might be desirable from a civilian stand Point he doubted the necessity Attis time. Bases in Alaska called Pushover Washington feb. 1 up Russia easily could capture alaskan bases and strike a death blow at the ., alaskan Delegate e. L. Bar Jett believes. Bartlett addressed a women patriotic conference Here. Our main military installations Are at Anchorage and Fairbanks. It is no secret that today they i Ould be captured without any expenditure or any considerable he said Fairbanks and Anchorage could fall before one Parachute division or at most important Industrial City in Ilie . Is removed from the bomb ing Range of Alaska he asserted. The great alaskan airfields of Elmendorf Ladd and Ellison Are practically without combat troops to defend them he added. He Eaid the 17th naval District with Headquarters in Kodiak does not have a single ship assigned to it. By contract Bartlett said Russia in Siberia has established cities developed industries and has a functioning Economy which is so essential to armed Liberty cited As Point of .-uk difference Dayton. Feb. 1 a Cecil Palmer a British Book publisher end author who is on a sneaking tour of the . Told the annual meeting of the Dayton chamber of Commerce the difference Between the americans and British today is that americans Are unaware that they have Liberty. In England we Are unaware that we have nearly lost it Jap reconstruction cited by Gray Washington feb. I up army Secretary Gordon Gray re ported to president Truman Prog Ress in every phase of Japan s reconstruction in the past Gray s report waa contained Indefenso Secretary Louis a. John son s annual report to the president covering fiscal year 39-19 activities of the armed forces. Gray reported economic stabilization received greatest emphasis in the japanese occupation. Japan was required to Institute certain financial reforms in order to insure the greatest possible utilization of United states assist Ance he reported. Budget balanced in an introduction to the Over All report Johnson said this emphasis attempts to increase production for Export so that Large imports Esse Tiu to this trading nation can be balanced by proceeds de Rived Gray said most significant of the economic stabilization measures adopted was a balanced budget for fiscal year 1949, he reported that since must import food to sustain even the Barest Standard of living proceeds from exports must cover imports to prevent Trade troop strength the report said . Troop strength in Japan on june 30. 1949, consisted of four infantry divisions and seven antiaircraft battalions. Strength in the Ryukyu was Given As one in Fantry regiment and two antiaircraft battalions. He said Tota army strength in the far East including Korea and the Philippines was reduced from 133,000 to 123,500 during the period. The report said far East naval forces supporting the occupation of Japan and Korea were maintained at the strength of one Cruiser four destroyers and miscellaneous sup Poi and Small Craft until last Quarter of 1949 when reduction to meet plans for the next fiscal year necessitated redeployment of the . Maestro defies Tschaikowsky hex los Angeles feb. I Arthur Rodzinski acknowledged yesterday lie s disturbed about the deaths of musicians who play the Pat Etique but says hell conduct it anyway thursday and Friday i do feel queer about this Tschaikowsky thing said the Maestro. After All he whole it. You know with a foreboding of death and he died six weeks after it was a clarinet St died last week in Sweden. His was the third death among musicians who have played t Chaikowsky s sixth symphony recently. Rodzinski affirmed that musicians Are very superstitious and added that he never takes the podium without a picture of his family in his pocket. mining voted head of chemical group Gellhausen feb. 1 is it col Ralph b. Cummings co Hanau chemical depot has been elected president of the armed forces chemical Assn., european chapter other new officers include first vice president m sgt Watts second vice president capt Ernest c. Wright Secretary treasurer maj Charles h. Mcnary Board of directors co Charles b. Loucks maj Marvin a. Middlebrooks Cape Russell a. Baker. Sec William a Henderson and sgt Raymond w. Edsen. One Day before the fade out "?tr-r7? this normally jammed haul away lot at the Plymouth Plant in Detroit was empty a Day after this picture was taut the strike against the Chrysler corp., called by the United Auto workers Cio stopped Assembly lines dead cutting off the daily flow of cars to the haul away lot. Acme legion fights new draft Washington feb. 1 a the american legion has come out against president Truman proposal to continue the draft Law. Instead the legion advocated a pro Gram of Universal military training. The legion s position was outlined to the House armed services com Mittee by Miles d. Kennedy director of its National legislative com Mission. The House committee is considering or. Truman s request for a three year Extension of the draft act beyond next june. Several other foes of keeping the draft Law alive also appeared be fore the committee. Kennedy said the legion had sup ported past peacetime draft Laws As a temporary expedient but the value of selective or Tiee As a deterrent to enemy aggression has Long since potential strength of the american nation can Best be organized through National Security train ing and now is the time for enact ment of this program he added. Actu opposes Robert s. Tubbs a member of he Kent county mich., draft Board also opposed Extension of selective service. He advocated what he called the grand rapids plan by which Volunteer selective serv ice boards would handle recruit ment for the armed services. The women s Christian temper Ance Union registered its opposition through miss Elizabeth a. Smart of Evanston 111., who said the Droit is Noi behalf of the co m m i 11 e e against Jim Crow in military serv ice and training Grant Reynolds of Washington urged that any future draft Law contain safeguards against discrimination. Continuance of the draft As an emergency measure was urged by maj Gen Ellard a. Walsh pres ident of the National guard Assn. Its continuance he said would save valuable time in the event it be comes necessary to mobilize in the future. Wreaths Mark for s grave on 68th birthday Hyde Park n.y., feb. 1 a president Truman sent a Wreath to be on the grave of Franklin d. Roosevelt on the 66th anniversary of the late president s birth. A group of cadets from the .military Academy at West Point crossed the Hudson River to attend the ceremony. Wanda Wiley 1950 March of dimes girl also placed a Wreath on or. Roosevelt s grave. The huge Floral piece was contributed by the people of Alabama. Pat Russell of Birmingham March of dimes stale chairman for Alabama accompanied the a year old Austin tex., girl at the wreaths were to be placed on the grave by mrs. Roosevelt widow of the president and school children of Hyde Park. Papers prepare the late president s 63th birth Day brought near to completion one of his favorite projects the opening of his personal papers to archivists have been Busy for two and one half years in the stack room of the Franklin d. Roosevelt Library Here classifying the millions of documents which Roosevelt said should be available to the nation eighty five per cent of the mate rial will be opened March 17. The remainder will be kept under Seal for another 25 years. Reynolds to run for Senate on states eights platform , n. C., feb. 1 up former sen. Robert r. Reynolds . Has announced he will seek the seat of sen. Frank p. Graham . On a platform advocating states rights lower taxes and a halt to foreign spending. Reynolds who served in the Senate from 1032 to 1945, promised also to seek better old age pensions and medical care for the aged an to halt immigration which he called a threat to full employment. Mail delivered by i tickets Glendale Calif., feb. 1 up four rockets carrying 2,400 letters flashed across the desert for a mile in a unique demonstration Satur Day the Racket research Institute has Institute said the 11-foot rockets were shot from Inyo county across Searles Lake to san Ber Nardino county a distance of about a Mie and arrived in the postal jurisdiction of Trona Calif. Letters bearing the 6-Certt air mail stamp honouring the Wright Brothers were delivered to the Trona Post office for forwarding to their destinations All Over the world George James Institute director said such rocket mail flights Are Only a preliminary to larger Long distance mail delivery at he said experimental rocket mail flights started a 1931. Chinig to enter phone talks Washington feb. 1 up Federal mediation director Cyrus s. Ching hurried Back to the Cap ital yesterday to take Over govern ment peace efforts in the threat ened feb. 8 nationwide Telephone has been on a month Long tour of mediation service offices in the West. His top aids William n. Margolin and Peter s e i t a planned to Brief him on the phone crisis and then meet with pres ident Joseph a. Beirne of the communications workers of America Cio Beirne announced that 100,000 phone workers who have been poised to strike for weeks will be called out if there is no change in their contract deadlock with Bell system companies. The Union expects another 150,000 workers to refuse to Cross picket lines. Pattern agreement the strike would Start at 6 am local ordered mediators in the Field to try to bring the Union and companies together. In most cases negotiations broke Down Long before the strike threat was raised. The government s strategy is believed to he aimed at arranging settlement Between the Union and a company like Western electric which is close to the Parent Amer ican Telephone & Telegraph co. Such an agreement would be used As a pattern for the Industry. The Union has appealed to the Public to help it Jam company switchboards by the Over use of telephones. It already has received a pledge of cooperation from the Parent Union is demanding a general but unspecified wage increase a 35-hour week Shorter apprentice periods improved pensions an elimination of wage differentials. Beirne said most Bell companies have made no counterproposal and have rejected the Union s suggestion that the demands be submitted to arbitration. Pilots warned on use of Antihistaminic drugs Washington feb. 1 a the civil aeronautics administration has warned pilots to be care Ful in using any of the Antihistaminic drugs for treatment of colds when planning to Fly pilots should he certain that to drugs no not cause drowsiness or dizziness or other dangerous reactions the Caa said. Fort Sifa Al fie1 or i j rtt my 2or. To1.1 my a i he. Tile the car
