European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1953 the stars and stripes Page 3 House group to sift freeze if on officers 29 a the House armed services com rail tee has agreed to make an immediate study of ways to remove a freeze on officers in the armed chairman Dewey Short r said the policy is destroying in passing on military appropriations last clamped a tight ceiling on the number of each service could naval officers hit As a result of the which was sponsored by Glenn Davis about full lieutenants in the Navy eligible for examination before april 1 and an other Junior Grade lieutenants Are Frozen in their present said Robert committee Short told the commit 7 tee some Navy lieutenants have f been told they must either leave the service or accept he the freeze will prevent the air from expanding beyond its present level of about 97 As As restricting the the committee decided to sched be Public possibly next on the question which Short said just creates fury in the serv i offshore Tab 29 will buy about in equipment from North at i Antic treaty organization countries in the fiscal year ending next Lincoln head of the Mutual Agency in said in a speech prepared for delivery before the american chamber of in Gordon said this offshore procurement program fill be vigorously pursued with r threefold purpose provide arms and equip nent for Western build up Western european capacity for defense Dollar Market create a Dollar Market of substantial Gordon said there was no truth recent press reports that the ministers at their Decem meeting in Paris decided to half the nato he said that at the Paris meet the size of the Force goals for a bids year and next year was not u b j e c t of that to Terrill be decided at the Spring but the Mesa official added december meeting did give new emphasis to Quality As com pared with Quantity of Tato air chiefs Confer m 29 Gen Lauris commander chief Allied air forces in Central conferred Here today with Jop officials of Allied air new envoy to France and family investment banker Douglas president Eisenhower Choice As ambassador to appears with his family in their far with him and his wife Are daughters Phyllis left and press photo casualties in Korea Rise 182 in week 29 Battle casualties in Korea now total an increase of 182 Over last weeks the defense department said the relatively Small increase is about the same As the number of casualties which have been reported for the past several the casualties included All those whose next of Kin have been Noti fied through last the casualties include miss previously reported missing but returned to military breakdown mis captured and previously missing but returned to military Navy casualties 363 84 missing and four previously missing but returned to military Marine 498 missing and 20 previously missing jut returned to military air 41 827 our captured and 44 previously missing but returned to military 1st lady leads off 29 the polio got under Way yesterday with an official sendoff from the nations hew first l Mamie turned on House porch Light and contributed to show every on How the Campaign than mothers around the country were scheduled o Call last night at where a porch Light had been turned on indicate residents wanted to word Aster sues for divorce 29 wealthy son of Virginia born lady Astor and a direct descendant famed John Jacob Astor of new has filed suit for divorce against his titled the daughter of a British film f named in the Case As correspond ent is a Man identified Only As the appears in the list of undefended petitions and be heard later in succeeded to the title i third Viscount last september on fee death of his Waldorf who was born in new York and later became prominent in British Public actors 73yearold lady served 25 years in the House of commons and was known in both the and Britain for her wit and championship of the Fem Inist Astor himself was in commons from 1935 to 1945 and served Dur ing the War As a lieutenant com Mander in the Royal Navy Volun Teer he was married in 1945 to the Sarah daughter of the sixth lord Grant who is prominent in film pro a son was born in Decem Ber 195l senators report ties up fund for overseas bases 29 chairman Leverett Saltonstall r of the Senate armed serv ices committee said yesterday earmarked for overseas defense projects is being held up because of a report by Russell Long and Wayne Morse Saltonstall said the two have been asked to appear at a secret committee session 5 to explain their which has not been made inspected air bases while Saltonstall did not say he obviously was referring to a trip Long and Morse made last year to inspect the nations network of air bases in Europe and North the Senate has appropriated funds for an extensive air base building but much of the building has not yet Long and Morse both have been sharply critical of the air base an armed services sub committee headed then by Lyndon Johnson made a report last year accusing air Force arid army engineers of per mitting widespread kick backs and waste in the air base us Jet to Australia sets 22hour Mark 29 Royal air Force twinset Canberra bomber landed yesterday at Dar 22 hours and 8 min utes after taking off from to slash in half the existing rec Ord for the the previous set by a propeller driven Raf Lancaster bomber in was 45 hours and 35 the Pilot on the record breaking run by Way of Fay id in the Suez canal and was flight it Leslie the navigator was flight it John Anthony religious controversy flares in Conant of 29 crossfire of religious controversy arose yesterday Over the nomination of James former president of Harvard As High commissioner for with the nomination temporarily held in abeyance by the Senate foreign relations Karl Mundt and Joseph Mccarthy ranged into positions of at least tentative Mccarthy told newsmen he had received a tremendous number of letters opposing most of them from it was believed the Wisconsin senator might seek to Block confirmation when the nomination reaches the Senate he said he plans no personal action until after the committee has heard Conant at the same Leverett Saltonstall and Joseph a prominent Baptist Leader rallied to con ants speech on schools the background of the Contro Versy centers on a speech Conant delivered in Boston last april in which he declared private schools create a dual educational system harmful to democratic Unity in this divisive is de fined As tending to create dissension or archbishop Richard gushing of Boston and other Catholic Lead ers promptly denounced con ants speech As an attack on the Catho Lic system of private parochial schools for Catholic children As contrasted with the nonsectarian Public school a sidestepped any comment on the religious phases of the but told news men he believes Conant is a too Bookish sort of fellow for the Job in in not at All enthusiastic about the Conant Mundt i Haven decided whether ill vote against but i do think a better Choice could have been Baptist defends Conant executive director of the Baptist Public affairs office came to con ants defense with a statement contending that a Campaign has been conducted against Conant through the Church Dawson said con ants Boston speech has been continuously mis construed by a minority and he it has been asserted by this group that on ant attacked private and Paro Chial whereas he cordially recognized the right of such schools to exist As determined by the supreme congressional sources said the Way appeared to have been cleared for Early Senate consideration of con ants appoint United press the Senate foreign relations it was had decided to dispense with Fri Clear Ance of Conant and other major diplomatic nominees of the new such a checkup for loyalty and communist affiliations can take from two to six rail shares Pace selective gains new 29 the Stock Market recorded further selective improvement yesterday with rail shares again closing prices Allied chemical up Ameri can can unchanged american smelting up american Tele phone off Anaconda Copper Bethlehem steel up general International International tip u steel Chrysler up motors up a Harvester off i Nickel off u Standard tra Samerica off off we Stinehouse electric up Canadian Pacific unchanged Central up 4 Pennsylvania Railroad up Southern Pacific up Bank of America 31 to unchanged pan american airways off Para mount pictures up Emerson electric us not ready Eden states 29 Secretary Anthony Eden answered Secretary of state John Foster Dulles demand that Europe unite by declaring last night that Brit Ain is not ready to join any political this parliament is not ready to join a political federation and it would be quite wrong to give false Hopes in this Eden said in the House of Eden answered questions in com Mons on the european army a Day after Dulles specifically warned France and Britain to move toward Unity or risk a change in american foreign former labor under Secretary for War Wyatt asked Eden to take the initiative in getting the european defense Community treaty renegotiated so that Britain could join the cities reasons Eden the six governments concerned Are aware of the reasons which preclude this country from becom ing a member of the european de sense i am glad to have this Opportunity of reaffirming that the Brit ish government regard the entry into Force of the european defense Community treaty signed last May As an essential Factor in strengthen ing the european defense Effort to wards in addition to their contribution to her majesty govern ment demonstrated their practical support of the Edc by signing a treaty of Mutual assistance with those members subscribing to the protocol of nato and in the Tri Partite declaration of May last it is also their intention to arrange for the closest possible Polit ical Liaison with the institutions of the Edc and military association with the european defense life editorial stirs French complaint 29 up tiie French embassy has protested to the state department about a life Magazine editorial which when will French politicians Start being their political age French minister Roger Seydoux complained to Michael Mcoder special assistant to the Secretary of state and department press Mcdermott was understood to have pointed that the department has no control Over the press or magazines in this coun but he agreed to Forward the protest to higher department a a French spokesman said the embassy regarded the editorial As very estonians in Sweden form exile government 29 estonian exile government has been formed by a group of estonian refugees living in this it was reported August chairman of the estonian National Council and estonians last ambassador to initiated the forming of an exile Cabinet during a recent visit to
