Seek Civilian
Board To Referee
Air-Navy Row
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON, </P)—Two key
Congressmen today proposed that
President Truman name a civilian
board to referee the bitter row
over defense plans which has
erupted in the armed forces.
Their suggestion closely paral
lelled one already offered Mr.
Truman by the army-navy union,
an organization of present and
former servicemen. The lawmak
ers’ proposal came on the heels of
the President’s news conference
statement ystrday that he sees no
need to change the fundamentals
of present defense policy.
Nevertheless, said Keps. Kroons
tD.-La.) and Price (D.-Ill.), there
is a disagreement and it should be
settled. The two lawmakers are
members of the House armed
services committee.
They brought up the plan after
listening for more than a week as
the navy fired repeated charges
that the fighting power of the fleet
is being weakened, while the air
force gets funds and favors and
builds B-36’s to carry out a kind
of warfare that the admirals call
ed wrong.
Previously the air force had
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j made the giant intercontinental
bomber sound like a good thing to
a lot of Congressmen.
Brooks suggested to a reporter
that the civilian board be named
to find out who is right and settle
the trouble that has boiled up in
the armed forces. Price nodded
agreement.
The navy sent in its top officer,
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, to wind
| up its case yesterday. The marines
I take over Monday. Then the big
■ brass and civilian chiefs of the
j army and air force, and secretary
l of defense Johnson, get their
chance to sound off.
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term does not run out until next
July but Attlee could call an elec
tion at any time. There had been
demands from some quarters for
an early election because of the fi
nancial crisis.
A special United Nations concil
iation group appeared bogged
down today in its efforts to find a
basis for peace in the Balkans.
Further talks are scheduled with
the United States, British and Rus
sian delegates.
Informed sources in Prague ex
plained the terror raids by police
on small businessmen in the last
few days as part of a government
campaign to wipe out all Czech
private enterprise by the end of
this year.
Thousands of small business
men have been arrested and their
stores taken over by government
administrators under the national
ization plan. Many of the arrested
shop owners have been reported
sent to labor camps for two-year
terms.
In Washington, U. S. Secretary
of State Acheson referred to the
newly recreated Soviet-sponsored
East German government as “an
atocratic communist regime.”
He denounced the government
proclaimed last Friday in Berlin
as “subservient” and controlled
by Moscow-directed communists.
He pledged continued full support
from the U. S., Britain and France
for the West German Republic.
The prime ministers of the three I
i Benelux nations — Belgium, the
Neherlands, and Luxembourg—
are meting in Luxembourg today
to bring their economic union
closed to a common monetary and
commercial system.
Friday, October 14, 1949
Victorious Chinese communists |
headed into defenseless Canton to
day. Nationalist troops hove de
serted the city, which has been
the Nationalist capital, and muni
cipal officials were reported open
ing the negotiations for surrender.
The Reds were said to be in po
sssesion of the civilian and mili
tary airfields on the outskirts of
Canton. Police attempted to main
tain order until the conquerors
take full control.
Chungking, the wartime capial i
■
on the upper Yangtze in the inte-1
rior, is again the Nationalist cap- ,
| ital.
At Lake Success, the United Na
tions security council is discuss
ing Russia’s demand for a world ;
count of atomic weapons. TheSov
proposal has no provision by I
which the census could be veri
fied; and is certain to be rejected.
France has submitted an amend
ment to the Russian plan whicn
would call for a count on both
conventional arms as well as atom
weapons and for U. N. inspection
to guarantee the truth of the
count. Russia has always opposed
such verification as an infringe
ment of Soviet sovereignty.
A bitter international political
tilt is developing over the election
td fill a seat on the security coun
cil. Russia is supporting her satel
lite, Czechoslovakia. The United
States is supporting Soviet-out- j
cast Yugoslavia. A non-Russian
Eastern Europe source said Russia
would regard the election of Yugo
slavia as breaking up the princi
ple of four-power agreement upon
which the U. N. was founded.
By a narrow squeak, Socialist
Jules Moch is premier of France
today. The former minister of the
interior, who won a reputation as
a “strong man” in curbing last
year’s communist-directed strikes.
won by only a one-vote margin in
the national assembly.
Now he faces the task ot naming
a cabinet which can cope with the
nation’s mounting wage-price cri
sis brought on by the devaluation
of the franc. Moeh replaces Henri
Queqille, whose coalition cabinet
split on the same issue last week,
forcing him to resign.
A Hungarian appeal court today
upheld the death sentence of Las
zlo Rajk, former communist for
eign minister and two others con
victed of plotting to make Hun
gary a satellite of Premier Mar
shal Tito of Yugoslavia. Prison sen
tences for others convicted in the
same plot were also confirmed.
Western observers in Moscow
said Prmier Stalin’s message to
the Soviet-sponsor edEastern Ger
man government in Berlin is the
most important Soviet pronounce
ment of the German question
since the war. Stalin said in his
message that the Germans and
Russians together could keep Eu
rope peaceful by fighting as hard
for peace as they fought for war.
In Prague, by a unanimous
show of hands, Czechoslovakia’s
' parliament passed two bills aimed
at rigid control of churches, es
pecially the Roman Catholic
church. Ths new laws become ef
fective Nov. 1.
Captain Accas
Of Ladd Field,
Died Of Polio
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—An autopsy
performed upon the body of Capt.
George A. Accas, 28, Ladd Air
Base public information officer
who died there Sunday, brought a
tentative diagnosis of polio as the
cause of his death.
Fort Richardson medical au
thorities said that further labora
tory tests will be made at the Wal
ter Reed hospital in Washington,
D. C.
Officials said they believed Ac
cas contracted polio while accom
panying the Ladd Field baseball
team to the world wide air force
baseball tournament at Mitchell
Field, N. Y.
The appointment was announc
ed of Capt. Charles Tyler of the
57th fighter wing military person
nel section, Elmendorf Field to
succeed Accas.
Tyler, who is now on leave, was
formerly with the public informa
tion technical division of the air
training command, with headquar
ters at Scott Air Force Base. 111.
He is expected to arrive at Ladd
'■ Field within two weeks.
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