Armed Services
To Slash Many
( jvilian Johs j
(Continued from Page One)
next June 30. Then it is calculated I
to bring a saving of $500,000,000
a year thereafter.
A total of 50 installations will
be closed down, many will be cut
severely.
These savings weer worked out
by the individual services them
selves, the army, navy and air
force.
The navy shipyard at Long
Beach. Calif., was ordered prac
tically closed down to a custorial
basis.
Its civilian employment was re
duced from 5,800 on July 31, 1949
to a proposed 400.
Brooklyn naval shipyard’s civil
ian employment—12,225 on July
31—was ordered cut by 3,385.
Some of these reductions will
go into effect immediately and
others will start in about three
months.
But the full effect is not expect
ed to be felt until the next fiscal
year beginning July 1, 1950. John
son is reported to be aiming to
hold defense spending in that year
to $13,400,000,000. That would be
$1,5 h),0U0,UU0 less than proposed
for he current fiscal year.
T j 41.000 cut in employment
for the army Will bring its total
civilian force down to 336,000 for
mill ry and civilian functions, in
due! ng rivers and harbors work.
T'.1 navy reduction of 76,000
will 1 >wer its civilian employment
to 2 1.000. The air force slash of
18,0 Jj will leave 151,000.
Name Author Of
B-36 Note
WASHINGTON, <>P)—Cedric R.
Worth, special assistant to the un
dersecretary of the navy, ack
nowledged today he wrote the
“mysterious d o c u m e nt” that
brought about the investigation of
the B-36 bomber.
“I wrote it,” Worth testified
when chairman Vinson (D.-lVa.»
called him before the House
armed services committee in the
inquiry.
The writer’s identity came out
quickly after the committee’s
counsel had threatened to resign
unless the author of the document
was named immediately.
The counsel, Joseph B. Keenan,
said everybody seemed to know
who authored the mysterious let
ter except the committee staff.
Under such circumstances, he
said, he did not wish to continue
his work with the committee un
less the author’s name was
brought forth.
When Worth was called before
the committee, chairman Vinson
asked him, “Did you deliver any
document relating to the B-36 to
Congressman Dean?” Dean is a
i Democratic member of Congress
from North Carolina.
Worth said he did.
I “Where did you get it?” Vinson
1 asked.
1 wrote it,” Worth replied.
The flurry over the document
held up for a time the testimony
of high army and navy officers
called to give their opinions on
the giant atomic bomb carrying
plane.
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tention on security problems.
Russia has its own cold war
with communist Yugoslavia. The
Moscow press levelled propaganda
guns at Premier Marshal Tito
again today. The Soviet army
newspaper Red Star pictured Tito
as a blood thirsty dog of the “fas
cist gestapo breed.” Hungarian
and Czechoslovakian newspapers
stepped up their anti-Tito propa
ganda barrage.
Chiang Kai-Shek made a hur
ried flight to Chungking today in
an attempt to prevent nationalist
warlords from possibly making
secret agreements with the Chi
nese communists.
Szechwan province warlords have
been at odds with the nationalist
army commander in southwest
China. Ghiang is attempting to
patch up their differences. The
nationalists want to make Chung
king their capital should Canton
fall. The communist war machine
continued to roll towards Canton.
However, Chiang was presented
with reports of nationalist victo
ries in Hunan province, and the
nationalist position in center China
looked brighter.
Finland’s central trade union
federation has expelled commun
ist-dominated unions. The com
munists have been leading wild
cat strikes causing widespread in
dustrial strife. Observers said the
expulsion of four communist-led
unions from the central body
might split the trade union move
ment wide open. Russia keeps a
watchful eye on any anti-com
munist move in Finland, which
borders on the Soviet Union.
Britain s financial probl e m s
came before the consultative as
sembly of the Council of Europe.
Lord Layton, British Liberal, pre
dicted that the British pound soon
will be devalued and he urged
that other European currencies be
revalued simultaneously. Top Bri
tish officials mee*t in Washington
early next month to discuss the
British financial crisis.
Loan Prospects
‘Look Fairly Good’
J
SEATTLE, u<P) — Efforts of J.
Gerald Williams, Alaska attorney
general, to borrow $1,000,000 from
Seattle financiers to bolster the
Territory’s economy “look fairly
good,’’ he reported yesterday.
Williams said Seattle bankers
expressed 'interest but indicated
they would like Alaska banks to
paritcipate in the loan. Also, they
wanted more detailed informaiton
on Territorial balance sheets.
Williams said Alaskans were
responding to the income tax, in
effect since January 1, by filing
returns. However, he added, they
weer not enclosing money with
their returns. It is one of three
new Territorial taxes which have
been challenged in court.
Williams left for Juneau today
to confer with bankers in Alaska.
Eunice Logan, teacher for the
ANS from Kotzebue is visiting in
town for a few days before school
opens this fall. Miss Logan made
many friends in Nome while sta
tioned here as a teacher for the
ANS.
June Dunbar, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Dunbar has been
enrolled in St. Helen’s Hall, Epis
copal Church school at Portland
from where her older sister, Bon
nie Ann was graduated last year,
according to the headmistress,
Jane Allen Saxton.
R. W. Acord. formerly pilot for
Wien’s is here as manufacturer’s
representative for several well
known lines including S and W,
Centennial Mills, and Blake, Mof
fet and Towne. His headquarters
are in Fairbanks from where he
operates his own plane.
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in the street.
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