House Deeply Cuts
Army Budget
W A SHINGTON, (/P) — The
army’s 1948 military budget was
cut 8.3 per cent by the House ap
propriations committee yesterday
despite testimony from General
Eisenhower and Secretary Patter
son that “real danger” lies beyond
the “irreducible minimum” of
men and money they had request
ed.
If Congress upholds the com
mittee, the army will receive $3,
240,982,423 in new appropriations
for the fiscal year starting July 1.
President Truman had asked $5,
716,791,500 for the army’s military
activities, exclusive of foreign re
lief and other civil functions to be
financed in a later bill. For the
current year military activities ap
propriations totaled $7,263,542,400.
The committee thus slashed
475,809,077 from next year’s re
quests and cut $2,022,559,977 be
low current year funds.
It did, however, approve the
army’s full request for $280,000,
000 in contract authority to buy
new airplanes.
In addition to the budget cuts
the committee cancelled $1,100,
000,000 of money appropriated for
the current and prior years but
not spent. The army concurred in
the cancellation. Its finance offi
cers explained that (a) the money
was not included in the 1948 bud
get and (b) was no longer needed
for the purposes for which it or
iginally was appropriated.
Ike Denies Asking
For More Shells
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower testified
y?sterday at Andrew J. May’s
t-ial on wartime bribe charges
that he knew “nothing at all about
reported efforts’’ to seek expand
ed yhell production in 1945.
May, former Kentucky Con
gressman, has testified that be
cause Eisenhower was “scream
ing” for more artillery shells in
Europe he protested a cutback
hat year in a shell contract with
the $78,000,000 Garssons muni
tions combine.
Henry and Murray Garsson,
hey figures in the combine are co
defendants with May, who is ac
cused of accepting $55,000 in
bribes from the Garssons while
chairman of the House military
committee.
Charles J. Margotti, defense at
torney, shtfwed Eisenhower a tel
egram sent to Henry Garsson un
der signature of an army officer.
Margotti asked if it were not true
that Eisenhower was seeking ex
panded shell production in Apr-1,
1945.
“This could have nothing to do
with the European theater, be
cause ours was so nearly won this
could not have been sent under
my authority,” replied Eisen
hower, who was Supreme Allied
Commander in Europe then.
“I know nothing at all about it ”
the army chief added.
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DAILY VACATION
BIBLE SCHOOL
COMPLETES 1ST WEEK
Children from the summer Bible
school paraded this morning at
11:00 through the streets carrying
flags and banners and singing pa
triotic songs honoring Memorial
Day.
Today concludes the first week
af Daily Vacation Bible School at
:he Pentecostal Assembly of God.
During this week in the handwork
| period the older children have
i been making religious plaques on
! plyboard and posters. The young
er ones have been sewing on motto
cards, making flags both Christian
and American, working on note
books, and coloring.
During the lesson period the
Bible stories are told with large
cutouts of the different characters
which are brightly colored and
placed on hand-painted flannel
scenery size 36 by 48 inches. The
children have especially enjoyed
these stories told in this manner.
New action choruses, songs, and
Bible verses have also been
taught. During the closing period
• of the school each day a character
story or object lesson is given
1 which is illustrated.
The hours of the school are
, from 9:30 io 12:00 Monday
through Friday, and will continue
all of next week. Friday evening,
June 6 at 8:00 the school will have
its closing exercises which will in
clude Bible drills, memory work,
singing, the presentation of
awards and certificates, and an
I illustrated* Bible story given on
! the flannel-o-graph by Miss Gene
1 vieve White, the director of the
school. The handwork which the
children have done during this
! school will also be on display. Par
ents of the children and friends
are invited to attend this program.
Next Friday, weather permit
ting, the children who have at
tended the school will go on a pic
nic. There will be school in the
morning, but they will be dis
j missed early and go directly from
, the church.
j Many Accidents
Take Many Lives
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NEW YORK, —A four-en
gined United Airlines DC-4 plane
' failed to gain altitude on a takeoff
from LaGuardia field last night
during a heavy thunderstorm and
' crashed in flames, killing 39 of the
48 people aboard in the nation’s
worst commercial airline disaster.
At least 119 persons were killed
i or missing in a series of airplane
mishaps around the world yester
day and last night and almost a
score were injured.
Two trainman were killed early
today in the derailment of the
' Frisco railroad’s Florida Special
I passeriger train in Missouri, and
several passengers were reported
slightly injured.
The United Airlines DC-4 plane
! with 48 aboard crashed just after
! the takeoff at La Guardia Field.
Nine other persons were injured,
at least three of them critically, as
the plane burned after the crash.
A four engined army plane
crashed in the mountains near
; Tokyo, Japan, last night and it
was reported that all 40 aboard
had perished. Burned wreckage
of the plane, carrying 32 passen
gers and a crew of eight inbound
from Korea, was sighted by aerial
observers. It apparently had ex
ploded as it approached for a j
landing. I
Nine members of a 12-man crew,
escaped when a B-29 plane crash
ed shortly after the takeoff from1
Wallace Blasts U.S.j
U. N. Delegates !
BOULDER, Colo. (/P)—Popular
election of part of this country’s
U. N. delegation was urged yes
terday by Henry A. Wallace, who
said the present United States del
egates are “stooges of a militaris
tic state department.
He spoke at a luncheon spon
sored by the Rocky Mountain
Fairbanks, Alaska, yesterday.
Three crew members were report
ed missing. None of the nine sur
vivors was reported injured seri
ously.
Twelve were killed in a colli
sion of two planes at Tillburg, The
Netherlands.
In Iceland, searching parties in
trucks, planes and boats hunted
for an Icelandic Airways DC-3
plane with 24 persons aboard,
missing since the takeoff yester
day noon. Many of the passengers
were women and children.
HOPE, B. C., (tf*)—'Two broth
el's were killed Wednesday when
their two-seater plane crashed on
the Hope-Princeton highway 90
miles east of Vancouver after
swerving to miss a mountain
peak.
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They were Glen Alee, president
of the Lee Transport, Ltd., Van
derhof, B. C., and William Lee,
pilot.
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council for social action and to
3,000 University ef Conorado stu
dents before going to Denver
where he emplaned for Bismarck,
N. D.
The United States U. N. dele
gates are thinking of American
ends “and not world peace,” he
told the luncheon, and election of
two or three of the five would
take the representatives “out from
under the thumb of the state de
partment.”
The former vice president crit
icized “American industrialists”
for “throwing their weight around
all over the world” and warned
that members of the resistance
groups who faced death and tor
ture in France, Norway and Den
mark “don’t scare easily.”
In answer to a student who de
clared that Stalin is following the
principles of Hitler’s Mein Kampf
and seeking world domination,
Wallace said he thought the Sov
iet system & “totally different”
from Naziism, and pointed to r
statement by Stalin that “Com
munism and capitalism can both
exist in the same world side by
side in peace.”
TIME TO QUIT
GARDEN CITY, Kas. (/P)—Alta
Brown, teacher of first grade
classes in Garden City schools for
42 years, resigned yesterday.
“When grandchildren of my for
mer pupils began showing up in
classes this year, I though it was
about time to quit,” she said.
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