European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Much the stars and stripes Page 3 Johnson says hell push drive Loel Minaie Secretary reviews Progress of 1st year in Post Secretary of defense Louit Johnson will Complete first year is March in the following he reviews that by Dayton Moore March 20 defense Secretary Louis Johnson mid yesterday he is determined press drive to eliminate fat from the military and the same time increase the combat Power of the armed the defense chief made the state ment in an interview reviewing Bis first Stormy year in the he said flatly he is going through with his Economy despite All National Security Economy he Johnson said the joint chiefs of staff and secretaries of the Navy and air Force agree with him that is the most that should needs to be on defense during the fiscal this he will not wreck the american we therefore will oppose efforts to Cut the and at the same time we have no plans to ask for increases Over that amount Navy and air Force spend ing was running at the rate of about when Johnson be came defense Secretary last March 2i Johnson spiked rumours that he would resign i like the Challenge of that he i intend to stay until it is finished or until president tru Man tells me i am no longer Truman has indicated he is pleased the Job Johnson is doing and intends to keep him in the Post Johnson said Nib double barrelled program of econ Tny and unification of the armed services is pro Gressing the nations defences Are far better than a year and getting Batterall the he the Navy and air Force now Are More Alert and in a better state of readiness than they have since but he added there is much still to be Johnson said his Economy program Secretary Vionis Johnson likes Job was based on eliminating waste and getting uniformed personnel from behind desks and into combat and new military equipment with part of the he praised the three services lot the manner in which they Are carrying out the there now is an intense rivalry among the Navy and air Force to get their uniformed men into combat Johnson Hie defense Secretary will be out of the country on International duties on the anniversary of his Swearingin he has called a meet ing of the North Atlantic defense of which he is in the Hague april the most controversial of president Truman Johnson hag found much of the last 12 months his dismissal of civilian closing Down of military installations and reductions in sizes of the armed services ranking officers of the Navy and the but he has stuck to his after being a Orrt Johnson warned the lop officers at the Pentagon either to get edly behind unification or get former Navy Secretary John adm Louis rear adm Joel Boone and capt John Crommelin Are proof he meant Sullivan quit in a Huff after Johnson abruptly cancelled the navys Denfeld was fired As chief of naval operations because he opposed Johnsons unification Boone was ousted recently from a stresses Economy As twin Aims of policy joint medical Board because he  go along with a Hospital Economy Crommelin was furloughed on half pay after a persisted in publicly criticizing de sense officials and during the year Congress granted Johnsons request for increased Powers Over the armed he struck a blow for unification by abolishing the separate Navy and air Force Days and merging them into one armed forces despite the staggering responsibilities of his Johnson has borne up under orders from presi Dent he has tried to get away to his Home every next weekend will the sixth straight that he has been unable to do Johnsons weight is about the same As a year 190 his health has been with the exception of bad which caused him to go to Florida for two Short vacations this keep your shirt vet told Onn Sli refund Check delay March 20 veterans still waiting for their Nesli dividend checks have been Tow once again be the veterans administration re ported that the so called first pay Cycle is almost by the end of the the Treasury is expected to begin sending out checks under the cleanup the Treasury has placed in the mail there still Are More than others to go out before the a cleans up All the application received so priority system in its first pay the a in followed a priority system based on the last three digits in the veterans service serial the Agency wishes now it had never mentioned the system in about one Veteran in 15 is an exception to the a thinks that every exception has queried the Agency on Why he Hast yet received his dividend there Many Why a policy Aldef May be in exception his application May have been la Ler there May Jive a mechanical error in prepare peace1 unit wants  March 20 the communist dominated world committee of peace partisans wound up its third session in Stock Holm that the members of the government which first uses the atom bomb in a be declared War in another resold invited people Good Faith to another peace session which will be held in Italy in the third Quarter of the session was attended by left wingers and communists from Alt Over the 8 23 Hurt As crowd panics in theater fire March 20 persons were trampled to death and 23 were injured when the audience in a Piraeus movie theater panicked last night after was seen com ing from the projection police said a film had caught but flames were put out before the building was ing records or the voucher that Tell the Treasury what size Check to in there Are a number of special categories which Are being handled some must be handled by much slower process than the mechanical Mas production system processing the majority of the the mailman will get his first Batch of these Han processed checks this that when the a will Start mailing checks to veterans who live in Philippines and in foreign coun the checks have been delayed because of the Long addresses of veterans receiving All of the foreign checks will be mailed by the end of the a Day since the Check writing began in mid january the dividend payments have been mailed at a rate of about a there May be a or a in that rate when the first pay Cycle is com a officials said they cannot yet estimate whether payments in one Cycle can be handled rapidly As those processed the first the a Hopes that virtually All payments on the Spe Cial dividend will be sent out by the end after a trickle of new apr plications and special cases May keep the a from closing its books special dividend for there is no cutoff Date by which policyholders must apply for their so almost veterans but of an eligible have 2 gis reported injured in Italy March 20 injured saturday a car crash near were slightly improved last Doc tors l the Cpl Burl and sgt j of were on leave from Byrd probably will be Able to leave the Hospital in four or five but whose leg was will require longer a Good mattress secret lies in its stuffing March 8tt cause the mattress he bad just bought at an auction for 175 francs was too Bulky to a resident of the Village of up sign Mont radio t stopped and emptied the stuffing in a inside he found francs in 17 packets of francs the Money returned to the members of a family who had auctioned the mattress with other effects inherited from a dead French try 5 yanks in absent a for Sale of checks March 20 americans went on trial in their absence in a French court charged with Selling bogus travellers c h e c is and violating French currency and customs they were named among 64 defendants in the which resulted from investigation of a Black Market currency ring which oper ated in Paris in police three 1 two of the Benny of new York and Gerald of were deported during the invest and other three re turned to new York before charges were the court record police identified the other three As Phil Moise Elefant and Stanley Paul All of new the counterfeit ring is charged with obtaining and circulating nearly Worth of Feit travellers checks made by three police said attempts had been made to extradite Wengrow and Elefant for the but the government had 3 in Texas National guard killed on training flight Forth March 20 a threes Texas National guard fliers were killed sunday when two Light Liaison planes crashed after touch ing wings in killed were 2d it Lewis bean Iselt Charles and 2d it Fres All of fort the two planes were the National guard base at Eagle Mountain cake near paper Fri Hunts a scientists March 20 the Fri is trying to find two top level atomic scientists who have disappeared from Britain after months of secret research work the daily graphic said the paper said the two who had Access to top secrets at Britain Harwell atom were believed to have left for the where All ports Are being watched for Scotland Yards special Branch is investigating and wants to More about their relationship to Klaus German born convicted atomic the graphic it said the two whom it termed scientists in the highest category of atomic were the subject of a Long coded Mes Sage sent from Britain to Security Headquarters in Washington activities described the message contained a state ment on All their activities since they came to the paper a highly placed informant said arrests on both sides of the at lactic might be expected within two or three the graphic it added that one of the whose name it did not was believed to have travelled to Scot land and Liverpool then his Way to boarded a where he May have indonesian devaluation causes trading confusion March in City Trad ing today followed the governments weekend that cur Rency would be devalued by tearing banknotes in the government ordered All shops to remain but most store keepers refused to accept the divided paper citizens were Hoard Ingall Small Edgar Rice Burroughs Dies March 20 up author Edgar Bice who created died yesterday of a heart he was us charged with Deal on Yugo influence spheres March 20 Moshe i a member of Jar Shal Titos eight Man asserted yesterday that Britain and the user reached agreement in 1944 to Divide their spheres of in in Yugoslavia on a 5050 his claim was advanced before a mass meeting in Belgrade preceding the country first general elections since scheduled for March big part of his address was devoted to discounting the users claims that it liberated Yugoslavia and furnished it with major War time Pilade said that on wished moral and military Aid to the russians As Early As through its revolt against the Ger Man Truman message condoles widow of Gen Fairchild March 20 president Truman today extended he deepest sympathy to Muir Fairchild on the death of her Gen Vic chief oi9tatt of the air in a message from key Truman told Fairchild her husband was recognized As an Able administrator whose technical knowl Edge and wide experience enabled him to make an outstanding contribution to the coun sete of the fair mid died Friday night following a heart Ito his raid Bird March 20 of police swooped sown on cars in London Bir Market area yester Day to break up a Wack Market in wild for the Royal society for prevention of cruelty to Ani Mals accompanied the who issued several summonses for the illegal trapping wild Bird trappers have taken advantage of a shortage of aviary bred songsters and have made huge according to the average Selling Price is forty Birds were Taj teen away by the police thirty were taken to Spca to be Teh which had been held in a Case eight inches Long and five to Nemea