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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes August 19j0v Johnson gives breakdown on Arni spending Laph of some spent by the armed forces in the past tour Only per gone into new ships and those figures were disclosed in a Teller from Secretary of defense Johnson which was made by chairman Carl Vinson of the House armed serv ices in Johnson 60 per cent of the president Truman recently requested for armed forces spending is ear marked for responds to request Johnson said the Lota spending for the period from july 1945 to june fiscal years 1946 to of he 45 per or was used to pay off world War ii such As terminal leave for separated Mili tary the defense official submitted the figures in response to a request by 1he House committee for information on How military appropriations have been used in recent the committee has been conduct ing an inquiry behind closed doors on the stale at preparedness of the military forces and on How they have spent the Money appropriated by Congress since the end of the if isl food Johnsons letter included a break Down on How the armed forces cent the average appropriation they received from con Gress in each of the four peacetime years which ended last june the largest single a or 41 per cent of the annual for clothing and an average of or shout 25 per cent was spent to operate and maintain air tanks and military in major procurement of weapons and equipment amounted or is per cent an research and development on new weapons accounted for a the remaining annually spent for National guard and Reserve classified retired Mili tary Public works and other percentage increases it is worthy of Johnson thai the percentage of the an Nual total that has gone into major procurement has increased from a Low of 6 per cent to 1947 to a High of j9vj per cent in the fiscal year that ended last month it is also worthy of note Iha 60 per eem of the presidents recently  supple mental budget is for major procure Truman requested the supple mental appropriation last week to be added to the figure of approximately set aside for armed forces spending in the big general appropriation Bill now before con the original budget figure and the supplemental request both Are for military needs during the year which ends next june Wendell will Les son engaged to girl 1 engagement of Philip Only son of the late 1940 presidential Wendell and Rosalie of was miss whose Mother is Republican National con unities Wonana for is a 1950 graduate of Smith she met at a Box lunch supper by live gop National Commilee at of last Walker finds fighting has its Bright Side eighth army he in 1 Gen Walton commit Terr of american Frond troops in observed Here this like every Fhone Jias its Bright hair unemployment problem tit but we have had to desert the 48hoor for the Weirton steel convicted in Balking Union 1 the Weirton steel its Succes National steel seven top officials of the two and five officers of an Independent company Union have been adjudged guilty of contempt of court by the circuit court of the ruling was an aftermath of strikes in at the company and the court held that the defend ants violated a decree of May ordering the company to Dis establish two company dominated unions and to keep hands off the rights of workers to join any Union of their deputies the Weirton Independent Union was set up after the the court for the principal Pur pose of blocking efforts of the United Steeh workers Cio to organize workers at the two plants the court said that the Weirton Union furnished 200 members As potential Deputy sheriffs to meet with Force and violence the organizing efforts of the Cio the company unduly interfered with the activities of the Independent the court the court withheld punitive penalties on the defendants to give them a Chance to purge them selves of the contempt judgment by Dis establishing the Independent Union and guaranteeing the workers the right to join a Union of their the court did assess expenses totalling on the defendants without specify ing How they were to be guide to korean names 1 of the most confusing aspect of the korean conflict for correspondents the similarity of the place names of Riany korean cities and its a for to a correspondent sits Down to a map to look for Hungju and passes Over c h o n g j Yongju Sangjun and Kwangju before he arrives at his of there Are Wensan and Pyongyang and Pyung and Yongdok and some Are but then theres the utterly simple Little Gem of the affable third sect Arv of the korean Mission said the for con is in in the korean the names sound different than in he ending in san or Sansei Grare names of mountains or towns Maun Iafe by stand for Dong of Long Means a settlement is or its pass is designated by suffix of Long an Island Trade Rock is Island is a Sandbar or 1 is a Kang and gang mean Pando is Peninsula and to Means Inlet or port instil inliae7 mean s seize youths for Slaughter by Charles a command 1 front line soldiers Are learning with dread a new Insan translated from it Mearis human sea the words Are used in terror by seeing South korean refugees referring to thousands of korean kids snatched up communists and forced into the front they Are the ones in the forefront of massive North korean frontal they Are the Insan according to it George Wright of gis also have another name for the Insan they Call them cornstaikers7 Wright explained you just keep chopping totem Down and Down like and All the time there Are More of them to Bob up behind the fallen while your guns Are getting hotter and loiter ers rare whole lines waver fall and still others push behind so you have to allow others 19 do the mowing Down while you grab fresh ammunition and Start it used to be a common sight to see Young korean men loitering in towns through retreating american and South korean troops they preferred to behind and be liberated the now you dont see Many the South korean youngsters joined the Stream of refugees which has flooded into the area still held by Allied no truth to food shortage fears of a food shortage to the huge stores of hang in cold like Here missing gis Kin enlists for Korea to even score 1 the scene was army air Force recruiting a Bla chained youth was about through his physical exam i thought id go Over there and i even the he said voice so quiet it was hard to catch his asking Lor infantry and i want to to told air Force it Donald Story came out the youth was Norman he is the brother 21yearold pfc Robert i who refused to accept discharge the army in last week lie was he his brother much id been thinking of enlisting Ever since he the family think of the idea but then when this happened to my brother figured the hed probably the same thing for me i was the boys have five sister Sand their Mother is the processing said Weir put Down for service in Eastern command churchgoers ride 1 up City buses were filled Here sunday with passengers got rides because they said they going Church or coming the coach is of Fering churchgoers rides from 8 to 1 pm for the next 15 Sun Days in a novel Experiment to Jacksonville a reported Good 50pp0yiid on toe halts Superman theft 1 2iyearold Superman calmly lugged a Safe into his but Melv Lri two he failed to notice a who watched his of strength1 and he dropped Safe on his the errors put him in a guards Dillinger told the Safe contained less than where i Csc by landed Means Inlet Lim explained that the sip Keri language goes Back compared forthe in up a written the like she adopted chinese than when american missionaries and traders began writing Korea they had of p u 11 i n g place names Lim t Standard evolved and e n t u 1 even Korea produced map with lettering showed two names Many the japanese last added a third name to i capture capital of Lim Pri meet ample originally used chinese under the Best Seoul pronounced Wool with an the the japanese since the City longer a capital and Bui the korean of character inv out some parts of a v e definite meanings but others Are names with to in 1 a ordinance outlawing communist party was openly Here unidentified persons tossed hundreds of peace from a downtown police reported the leaflets a immediate i Vestiga to determine the the Birmingham City  adopted an Iii it unlawful for corny list live wit Tun j5 City 180lday jail term if acted after Bull Connor i All 180day t found Connor succeeded the1 chief of1 the Hal Drexy jail term 1 11 i 1 a t unemployed hasten to sky scraper he Lake nearly Ted v nations of the the new in skyscraper a Ino nth for the the Gyroscope co to regain its now leased to Tfaye As temporary company needs the Plant to increased defense iraqi Admi is slaying i said Ejon Hioye of Tatry to the knife slaying worker who was Girt a to his janitors Cha Mchuin told and ton detective she killed returned  
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