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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 Thi stars and stripes sunday augu5� recent a Ion termed Only Throp lib More cuts to follow Mot Balling of ships by Marc hurts a Washington Bureau chief Washington is the defense department s decisions to Mothball 50 Navy ships handhold the line on the number of Active army divisions Only rep resents a drop in the bucket to the Economy moves that lie ahead in the near future Accord ing to Well informed Pentagon officials. Last week the Pentagon announced it would inactivate 50 ships including the anti sub Marine support Carrier ran Dolph the guided missile Light Cruiser Topeka and the nuclear submarine Triton without reducing Fleet strength in support of operations in Vietnam or the size of the 6th Fleet in the  of the ships due for in activation the Pentagon said were Small combatants auxiliaries and amphibious ships of world War ii construction. In addition eight naval air squad Rons Are also due to be Cut. Nearly 1,000 officers and Al most 12,000 enlisted men Are also involved and the net result for the Navy will see a total manpower drop of 13,000 by the end of the fiscal year. Earlier plans for the forma Tion of a new 6th infantry division at fort Campbell ky.,to bolster the army s strategic forces at Home were  no one could put a Fig ure on the Dollar savings by no activating the 6th division they Are believed to be relatively Low. The announced Navy cuts will reduce fiscal year 1969 expenses by about $118 million. Onan pain nothing has \ a n said about the air Force or thu Rine corps but officials even so assuming Thev the order of what has bounced so far Ilu a Aless and Only represent Tion of the cuts that made to Savo up 0 $3in actual spending this year and up to what is called new Hority Money but spent in future years is an overlap in the two the $3 billion Savine Svinki by the Pentagon is half Hussum which Congress has hovercraft patrol a . Navy hovercraft glides Over the shallow Waters of Cau Hal Lagoon to Check whether Digger in foreground is searching for clams or hiding explosives. The Lagoon w Miles South of the demilitarized zone South u. S. Nazi party changes its tactics Washington a no almost one year after the assassination of its founder George Lincoln Rockwell the american nazi party its Nam changed appears outwardly More prosperous More sophisticated. But its private papers Dis close deep splits with several factions competing for a control of the tiny movement. What apparently is the principal nazi organization now known As the National socialist White Peoples party a Swap has bought a two Story build ing in a quiet Middle class neighbourhood in suburban Arlington a. There in a second floor office that is carpeted Wall to Wall in deep red Matthias Koehl jr.,33, presides As National Leader. Seated beneath a four foot Rebanner bearing a Black Swastika Symbol of Adolf Hitler s third Reich Koehl rules a tiny band of armed racists and anti sem ites. I was born a racist Koeh told an interviewer. I never could see the sense of mixing of lacks and Whites. It s highly indecent. I be always believe Din the establishment of an All White  Koehl was second in command last aug. 25 when Rockwell was shot by a sniper outside an Auto Matic laundry in an Arlington shopping Center. The sniper John Patler has since been convicted and sentenced to 20 Yearsin prison. Koehl a native of Milwaukee Speaks glibly and without Hesi tation As he talks of the Aims of the nazis. What we know is coming is race War. Race Waris just around the Corner in historical  while the Basic Aims of the nazis Haven t changed their activities have. They be largely stopped their publicity seeking antics such As the demonstration in 1965 when a Rockwell trooper put on Black face minstrel garb slipped past guards and made a dramatic Entrance into the Well of the House of representatives to protest civil rights legislation. They be turned to use of the Telephone for what Koehl Calls the White Power  nonesuch message opposing the Elevation of associate Justice be Fortas to chief Justice called him a red jew a utterly despicable  More recently Koehu recorded voice urged District of Columbia residents to Date obey the new District gun is ration Law and instead obtain a minimum of Lof rounds of ammunition for each weapon they own. Everyone who registers Hisgun with the Black government in the District will sooner or later be ordered to give up that gun Koehl s re said. The White minority will be dered the administration to trim from government wide spending in the 12-month period. Defense officials working on what is called project 693 to achieve these savings have the Choice of making cuts in re search and development new procurement trimming the size of the armed forces world wide and doing what has been announced so far. In the Case of the Navy officials explain the action has been painless because new ship construction und development is going ahead and the ship that Are going into Mothballs will be on hand should the need arise. Besides the Carrier cruise Rand submarine Oiler ships of the Atlantic Fleet due for a activation Are the destroyers Beale Cony Otway Eaton Gyatt Waller. Beatty Wiley and h. R. Dickson. The destroyer escort Mills gasoline Tanker Matt Bessett auxiliary sub Marine sea cat the attack transports Rockbridge Tel Fairand Monrovia cargo ships Uvalde and Oglethorpe Hig Speed transport Kirwin net Lay tag ship Nahant. Landing Craft the is bulletin the party s repair ship Pandelus and tit official internal publication con minesweepers Bluebird frigate trained pleas to Back party Unity Bird Hummingbird Jacona reject splintering Vietnam is a favorite infiltration Point forthe North vietnamese. Hovercraft inspect the area on a regular basis. A photo that says not a the True the number Curatelo reflex strength of our  agrees to some extent with a recent estimate by feb director j. Edgar Hoover. He said that while the party is believed to have fewer than 100 members through publicity and propaganda it can often achieve influence that is entirely out of proportion to its  said he has a full time staff of 10 to 12 at his Arlington Headquarters most of whom hold other jobs. If everybody had to depend on what they make from the party they  he says. Koehl How Ever holds no other  publicly denies that there Are any splits of factions in the party but one recent Issue of a key splinter group head quartered in the los Angeles area Calls itself the american nazi party. Its publication at tack signed by capt. Geor Ecarpenter National Secretary says that since Rockwell death the nazi movement has no real Leader. All White men i America Are waiting for a Man of the Quality of Adolph hitherto make himself known and Lead the White race to Kingbird Limpkin Meadow Lark Parrot and  Fleet ships clue for in activation Are the destroyed Philip and Sproston. Destroyer escorts Evans Bridget Bauer Hooper Newell Lowe Brister and Koiner submarine Sterlet attack transport Cavalier cargo ship Mathews minesweeper up ing Forest Oiler Cimarron refrigerated stores ship Bellatrix and the stores Issue ships Castor and Pollux. Col. It. Col. R. It. 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