European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes March 1950 Crommelin handed indefinite furlough March 17 Navy has decided to punish John persistent critic of Pentagon by furlough ing him indefinitely at half pay instead of trying him in a court the action amounts to his involuntary and Crommelin blamed it on the army and air Force general he has been blaming them All along for what he called a serious weakening of the Navy in the unification Senate defeats key Plank in housing plan Secretary of the Navy Francis p Matthews announced the punish ment would become effective april a Navy spokesman said it was for continued actions prejudicial to the adm Forrest chief of naval sent orders to Crommelin 21 to Stop publicly criticizing the organization or officials of the defense department or any officer or group of officers criticism continued in speeches and interviews since the Navy flier has continued to attack the Prussiani Zed Genera staff contending that the joint chiefs of staff leans toward the Overall military command once set up in Crommelin also said in an inter View March 7 that the army and air Force were trying to kill the Marine More than 20 years Navy plus credit for combat make Melin eligible for retirement at three quarters pay if he but he ruled out retirement in a press conference held at san Francisco after the Navy announced the furlough no intention of i have no intention of quitting or retiring from the he Crommelin denied that he bed been sek Irig a court which might have claimed new Public attention for his my recent orders were that i was not to be publicly critical of the defense establishment or any he if they had told me to be i would have been As to being that is just a matter of How you define it following announcement of the decision to furlough Crommelin a Navy spokesman said the flier continues to be an officer of the Navy and has obligations to the Navy and his for labels red talk nonsense March 17 Eleanor Roosevelt has called charges of communism in the state department utter and Complete nonsense it an inter View she described As irresponsible charges by association accusations of communist leanings against Dorothy a former state department attached1 for a time to the United asserting her Confidence that miss Kenyon is not a Roosevelt asked have we reached the Point in this country where we must be afraid to join an organization for fear some of its members May have been or might now be communists vets receiving Public Aid to get bonuses March 17 the Federal Security administration said it has agreed to a plan whereby Pennsylvania May pay state veterans Bonus to veterans receiving Public Federal Security administrator Oscar Ewing said that when the state passed a Bonus Law recently it naturally wanted those receiving Public assistance to get the Bonus he this was not possible under Pennsylvania existing Public assistance the state asked the Fra for advice in mending its March 17 the Senate has knocked the key Plank out of president Truman new housing program with a 4333 vote against a cooperative loan plan for Middle income after scrapping that the Senate then passed and sent to the House the omnibus Bill which contains authority for about Worth of government Loans and insurance in a variety of hous ing the administration setback was engineered by John Bricker who contended the Lon term loan provisions Atlow interest rates for coops discriminated against other groups now receiving Federal housing Brickers motion to strike out that Section of the Bill was backed by 29 other republicans and 13 3 to be tried in probe March 17 a general courts martial were ordered yesterday for the com manding operations officer and the navigator of the Battle ship Missouri As a result of the vessels grounding in Chesapeake Bay on the officers to be tried Are capt William commander John operations and it cmdr Frank the courts material will be convened on March 27 at Norfolk naval the trials will begin a naval spokesman if the defendants Are All proceed Ings will be the courts martial were ordered by rear adm Allan com Mander of the Cruiser at lactic after a review of the proceedings of the naval court of inquiry last which heard 50 official says senators hid do evidence March 17 Harry displaced per sons has charged that the Senate judiciary sub com alleged Shups in the do program had concealed evidence that might have barred undesirable refugees from the before the that he had asked its Richard last sept 1 for evidence fraud in the he said Arens never gave Hirn the although the counsel had said he had it Ugo chairman of the do had assured the program had operated successfully and had not endangered National he denied program had been poorly administered or had permitted emigration of bad Security phony scored such charges have been made by congressmen the do Law president Truman would like to see it the Senate has Laid aside do Legisla Tion until March while the sub holds its Rosenfield said he had asked Arens for the evidence because it w6uld have Given the commis Sion a simple Way to Correct the fraud there has been a lot of phony talk that is not based on be he said the commission has a Good batting average in weeding out fraud cases and that its system is devised to Stop he said the chances of Dps slipping into this country with faked papers Are practically woman seeks Job to keep to set March 17 a families on Relief in Nassau county have been told  have to quit buying television but one woman declared shed go off Relief and get a Job if necessary to keep county welfare Edwin Wallace said he had investigated eight oases in which families receiving Relief were buy ing television sets on the instalment of he Only the woman refused to return Wallace said she was so upset she told me that before she would give up her television set Shell go off Relief and get a she is appealing her Case to the state department of social Wallace a gift from his part Days George Fri undercover agent in the Pittsburgh communist and his look Over the cat they received in 1947 from Roy wife of the former head of the communist party in Western going to states Brig Howard Peckham former arc head Nash agrees to pensions March 17 pension plan won by the United Auto workers Cio from the Nash Kelvin Tor corp without a strike fanned Hopes in labor circles Here yesterday of an Early break in the Chrysler the Law and four smaller unions reached an agreement with Nash giving the Law everything the Union has been demanding in its 51dayold walkout at features of the Nash settlement the Law a fully funded pension plan and an insurance program which meets the 10centanhour pattern already established in a substantial Section of the automobile the Nash plan provides workers a month including social Security to those retiring at 65 with 25 years of serv the is to run for five years from next july Ingrid asks custody of 12 March 17 Ingrid Bergman has asked the los Angeles Superior court to Grant her custody of her 12yearold daughter and sued her former Hus Peter for in Cash end a division of their the swedish actress also demanded am accounting of All personal and real property which she said was to the custody of Lindstrom and 10 other unidentified the filed by the actress Hollywood said the 000 waste salary paid her after taxes for acting in she made the picture for father of her child born recently in miss Bergman asked that she be declared sole owner of interest in the movie to which she said Lindstrom claimed part steels net income listed at millions new March 17 expressing Confidence in Tihe chairman Irving of the steel said in his annual report that the corporations net income increased last year to or per common these figures were an Advance from or per com Mon share on the present basis in fire destroys Woolen Mill March 17 a fire destroyed four wooden buildings of the Moose head Woolen second largest in the Gen Peckham to sail april 4 for Post March 17 Gen Howard 7966th Neucom will depart Tor the the Navy ship general Rose from Bremerhaven april for has assignment new York quartermaster procurement it was announced who was european from May 1947 to was responsible for the implementation of the Graves registration program in Western under approximately world War ii dead were returned to the nearly others have been interred in permanent cemeteries in Belgium eng Holland and accompanied by Peckham and their left Paris wednesday for a Short trip to Switzerland and Germany prior to their departure for the press curbed in sea games March 17 the world press will get no daily coverage from the largest War naval Maneu vers because of a 1949 agreement Between Canada and the commanders of and the press officers covering joint Canadian and British exercises that started in the carib bean monday were reminded of the agreement in instructions labelled press officers in the defense department have these standing instructions dated commanders of the Cari Bex Maneu vers were told that american reports cannot be re leased for publication until they have been cleaned by the Canadian government in one official this cumbersome arrangement will mean Long he explained that press copy and official communiques would be air mailed from the Caribbean to they would then be sent to Ottawa for approval by the Canadian ters of defense and external of Connally says has lifted Oil Bank March 17 Tom Connally chair Man of the Senate foreign relays tons said that has receded from her position against imports of Dollar Oil into the Sterling Connally told reporters As he had agreed to modify amendments to the Ega act in would have prohibited Britain from discriminating against any f he added he had been informed by Eca officials that the British have modified their stand but did not know any Sandia abase received High fire Security rating Mardt 17 Days before a guard House fire tolled 15 military trial the Sandia secret weapons base was rated fourth among army installations for fire prevent Tion the certificate from the nation fire just receive was dated March the House fire was March a boar of inquiry has interviewed its witness in an exhaustive sea for the