Plan Studied to Give
Johnson Most Extra
Unification Powers
ly th« Auociatad Pr««
Secretary of Defense Johnson
probably will get most—but not
all—of the power he has asked to
stop family fights among the
armed forces.
* Members of the House Armed
Services Committee said today
they are working out a compro
mise under which Congress would
keep a close watch on military
goings-on while giving Mr. John
son much of the extra authority
he says he needs.
Mr. Johnson will return to Cap
itol Hill tomorrow for more com
mittee questioning on a bill to
tighten up the 1947 unification
law and give the armed services
a single civilian business manager.
The Senate passed the bill more
than a month ago.
Three Changes Expected.
House members said the bill as
passed by the Senate probably will
be modified along these lines:
1. A section will be added giv
ing the Secretaries and Chiefs of
Stiff of the three services a clear
ly stated right to take their trou-,
bles to Congress. Mr. Johnson
told the committee last week he
has no quarrel with that so long
as “they don’t go behind my back.”
2. The Joint Chiefs of Staff,
plus a permanent chairman to be
picked from one of the services,
would be the principal military
advisers to the Secretary and the
President—not the chairman
alone, as in the Senate bill.
3. The Secretary would be re
quired to report to Congress twice
a year on progress in his depart
ment. He now reports only once
a year.
Otherwise, these House com
mitteemen said, the bill probably
will not be changed much.
Will Control Policies.
The Secretary will get the di
rect control he asked last week
over policies of the three services.
Herbert Hoover, who headed a
commission studying reorganiza
tion of the executive branch of
the Government last year, told
the committee the Secretary
should have more direct authority
to make the unification law work.
The present National Military
Establishment, including the three
services as military departments,
will be changed to a single de
partment. Mr. Hoover and Mr.
Johnson recommended this, but
Ferdinand Eberstadt, who made
the armed forces study for Mr.
Hoover’s commission, did not. He
told the committee last week it
might lead to a single military
chief of staff.
Chiefs to Have Chairman.
The Joint Chiefs will be given
a chairman'but he will not have
military precedence over the Joint
Chiefs. Mr. Hoover said such a
provision, now in the Senate-ap
proved bill, would have the effect
of establishing a chief of staff in
everything but name.
The bill probably will contain
a flat ban on the transfer of per
sonnel from one service to another.
The bill now would permit such
transfers if the services, and the
individuals concerned, were will
ing *
This ban will be put into the
bill, House members said, to make
sure the Marine Corps cannot be
swallowed up by the Army and
naval aviation by the Air Force.
Mr. Johnson has said he does not
Intend to make such transfers, but
the House committee wants to
make sure.
Johnson Urges Arming
Of Atlantic Pact Nations
WHEELING, W. Va„ July 5 (/P).
—Defense Secretary Louis A.
Johnson told an Independence
Day rally here yesterday that
America should back up the North
Atlantic Pact with arms to mem
ber nations because “our own
security is bound up in their
liberty.”
His speech was delivered at a
rally which was part of an
American Legion State convention
here. Secretary Johnson is a for
mer national commander of the
legion.
“Fundamentally,” Secretary
Johnson said, “the men and
women chains must help them
selves. But we can do more than
merely sit on the sidelines and
watch. The spirit of our own
Declaration of Independence re
quires us to do more.”
“We have signed the North
Atlantic Pact,” he continued,
“which is an agreement among
freedom-loving Nations that an
attack by an autocratic aggressor
of any one of the signers is an at
tack on all. And we should back
it up by sending military as
sistance to the nations which are
our companions in freedom, not
because of generous altruism, but
because our own security is bound
up in their liberty.”
Arab Refugee Needs
Set at 15 Million
•y tha Associated Frost
Congress may be asked to pro
vide at least $15,000,000 more to
help resettle Arabs who fled from
the Israeli section of Palestine.
Officials said about 800,000 of
these refugees are scattered
through the Middle East, unable
to And work, and dependent al
most entirely on a $32,000,000
United Nations relief and resettle
ment program now due to end in
August.
There may be riots and blood
shed. These officials said, unless
the program is extended at least
another year.
Additional funds would be used
partly in payments to Trans
Jordan and Syria for resettle
ment projects there—and to
Israel, if that nation can be per
suaded to accept some of the
refugees.
The United States contribution
$o the U. N. fund for this year
totaled about $16,000,000. Only
. $12,000,000 of it has been spent,
under a rule laid down by Con
gress that the full amount could
not be made available until other
^nations had paid up their sharj^
PIGGOTT, ARK.—IT WAS ‘LES BIFFLE’ DAY—The home folks honored Senate Secretary
Leslie Biffle yesterday. Vice President Barkley (left) flew here from Paducah, Ky., to “show my
love for Les Biffle” and to unveil this bronze bust of the Senate officer. The bust was made
on commission from the Arkansas Society of Washington and will be placed in the post office.
The whole town turned its Independence Day celebration into a "Les Biffle Day.” President
Truman sent greetings. _ ^ __—A P. Wirephoto.
British Chiefs See
Schuman on Growing
Crisis in Finances
ly th* Associated Press
LONDON, July 5.—British gov
ernment leaders conferred pri
vately with French Foreign Min
ister Robert Schuman yesterday
on Britain's financial crisis. Fur
ther conferences are scheduled
this week with Secretary of the
Treasury Snyder.
Meanwhile, London newsp£>pers
estimated Britain’s dollar and gold
reserve had dwindled to $1,600,
000,000—a figure $400,000,000 be
low what is considered the dan
ger level.
A Foreign Office spokesman said
Mr. Schuman came to London for
talks with Foreign Secretary Bevin
on undisclosed Germany problems
and organization of the Parlia
ment of Western Europe which
meets at Strasbourg in August.
Schuman Sees Cripps.
An official source, however, said
Mr. Schuman also talked with Sir
Stafford Cripps, chancelor of the
Exchequer. He said Sir Cripps
brought Mr. Schuman up-to-date
on Britain's dollar and gold crisis.
From Paris came word that Mr.
Snyder conferred yesterday with
W. Averell Harriman, Marshall
Plan Ambassador, who is expected
to accompany Mr. Snyder to Lon
don Thursday for talks with
Sir Cripps.
Britain’s financial losses will
not be announced by Cripps
until tomorrow, when he is sched
uled to speak in the House of
Commons.
The press saw Britain lapsing
into even harder times, with fewer
dollars being spent for gasoline,
tobacco, food and raw materials
for industry.
sales vo u. s. item soiuuon.
Treasury experts see a solution
in increased production and more
British sales to the United States.
A 10 per cent increase, they say,
would tip the scales. But Britain
faces stiff competition with Amer
ican prices.
Some American observers sug
gest devaluation of the pound.
Mr. Snyder is said to favor this
move. But Treasury officials hold
that devaluation would not aid
production.
The British press suggests that
the United State* give dollar aid
to backward areas, opening them
up to trade with Europe; replace
Marshall Plan aid with long-term
support of European currencies
until 1960, and take over the cost
of defense of Britain and Europe.
Government Asks More Money.
The Labor government made a
surprise request to Parliament
today for £21,338,894 ($85,335,576)
more spending money.
The supplementary budget es
timates came three months after
the Cripps, in a “hard labor”
budget speech, called for a whop
ping £3,826,000,000 ($15,304,000,
000) to run the country until next
March 31.
Today’s added requests surprised
members of the House of Com
mons who recalled that Cripps’
budget speech had warned that
only in “special cases, such as
major changes of policy,” would
supplementary estimates be sub
mitted.
Most of the new estimates were
earmarked for use in British
colonies. The biggest single item
was £10,000,000 ($40,000,000)
sought to repay British-owned
companies in Burma for losses
in the war and later fighting there.
Among requests or money for
domestic use was a plea for
£1,000,000 ($4,000,000) for dent
ists in Britain’s socialized medicine
scheme. The money is needed,
said a Treasury white paper, to
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shown to be inadequate.”
France Offers 'Solutions'
For Dollar-Trade Problem
PARIS, July 5 OPt.—Prance to
day proposed some “solutions” to
the United States to the twin
problems of coping with dollar
shortages in Marshall Plan coun
tries and broadening trade in
Europe.
This was reported at a news
conference by Finance Minister
Maurice Petsche, who met with
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder.
Mr. Petsche refused to comment
on reports published abroad that
he asked some kind of aid for
Europe beyond the Marshall Plan,
or on French press reports that a
“super” Marshall Plan is under
discussion.
With Mr. Snyder at the meet
ing were William McChesney
Martin, Assistant Treasury Secre
tary, and William Tomlinson, a
United States Treasury repre
sentative here.
Mr. Snyder told newsmen after
the meeting that he was going to
talk it once with Mr. Lewis W.
Douglas, American Ambassador to
Britain, who arrived from London
this morning.
Koch Prosecutors Seeking
To Get Evidence in U. S.
ty the Associated Press
MUNICH, Germany, July 5.—
Two German prosecutors have ap
plied for visas t* go to the United
States in search of evidence
against Use Koch, the former
“queen” of Buchenwald concentra
tion camp. Bavarian officials said
today.
Mrs. Koch is to be tried by a
German court after she finishes
this fall the four-year prison term
imposed by an American War
Crimes Court. An original sentence
of life had been commuted.
The lawyers want to interview
former prisoners now in the United
States. They are Dr. Johann Ilkow
and Dr. Ernst Jagomast, both
Bavarian state prosecutors.
Dr. Alfred Seidel, Mrs. Koch’s
defense counsel, also is seeking a
visa to accompany them and cross
examine their witnesses.
Man. Who Helped Cripple
In Fight Held in Stabbings
>y the Associated Pres*
BALTIMORE, July 5.—A man
who came to the aid of a cripple
being mauled by two brothers
faces charges for stabbings which
resulted in oae death.
Police said Charles Heflin, 20.
a laborer, was to be arraigned to
day. Both the brothers were
stabbed with a screwdriver, and
one died in University Hospital.
The cripple, Richard Rickies, 19,
told police he was standing in a
doorway when the brothers came
up and one asked:
“Where is he—or where is she?”
Then they dragged him into
the street and began beating him,
Mr. Rickies said. At that point
two unidentified men came along,
the cripple said, and one threw
himself into the fracas.
Police said the intervener fatally
stabbed Richard Earl Smith, 21,
and wounded his brother, Ernest
Smith, 24._
Wife Kissing Husband
Sends Them to Hospital
Sy the Aifociatad Prow
ATLANTA, Ga., July 5.—Mrs.
Melvin E. Cook leaned over to kiss
her husband on the cheek yester
day and landed in a hospital.
Mr. Cook was driving home from
a holiday trip to Savannah. He
lost control of the car and it
turned over twice.
Mrs. Cook's shoulder was frac
tured and her husband’s scalp
split.
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Social Security Plan
To Treble Payroll Tax
In 15 Years Reported
ty the Associated Press
Congressional drafters of new
social security legislation were re
ported today to have agreed ten
tatively to let payroll taxes treble
in 15 years. They also would
bring about 12,000,000 more per
sons under old age insurance.
Definite decisions had not been
made, but the House Ways and
Means Committee was understood,
after weeks of closed sessions, to
have drawn a rough draft of legis
lation which would:
1. Let the payroll taxes, now 1
per. cent against employes’ pay
and employers’ payrolls alike, in
crease January 1, 1950, to 1 % per
cent on each, and on January 1,
1952, to 2 per cent each. This is
now provided by law. The new
proposal would add provisions for
an increase to 2 per cent in
1960 and to 3 per cent on each
in 1965.
2. Add 12,000,000 to the approx
imately 30,000,000 persons already
covered by old age and survivors
insurance. President Truman re
quested that coverage be extended
to 20,000,000 more. The commit
tee appears willing to extend cov
erage to the self employed—such
as doctors, lawyers, business men
—to household workers and sev
eral smaller categories. But it
has not put farm operators and
farm workers among those to be
blanketed under the insurance.
3. Boost benefits under the in
surance program, probably by
more than 50 per cent, to meet
increased cost of living. Pay
ments to Insured persons over 65
now average about $25 a month.
This probably would jump to $40
or more.
4. New disability insurance pay
ments. meaning that insured per
sons who become totally and per
manently disabled would draw
benefits just as though they had
reached the retirement age.
Some 5.000,000 self-employed
persons may be required to pay
social security taxes one and one
half times greater than other
classifications of covered employes.
A new social security bill may
be presented by the committee to
the House within two weeks, but
there is little, if any, prospect that
Congress will act on it before
next year._
Richard Biggs Installed
By Martinsburg Rotary
Special Dispatch to Tho Star
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5.—Richard A. Biggs was installed
yesterday as new president of the
Martinsburg Rotary Club. He suc
ceeds F. E. Straw.
Other officers installed, were
Hugh S. Byrer, vice president; J.
Arthur Hopper, secretary; Dudley
Harley, treasurer, and Louis Ko
gelschatz, sergeant at arms.
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Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu,
Consultant for Textile
Museum Here, Dies
Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, con
sultant for the Textile Museum
here and outstanding scholar in
Islamic arts, died yesterday at
Oeorge Washington University
Hospital alter an illness of three
months.
Boro at Erivan in the Caucasus
Mountains, Dr. Aga-Oglu studied
at the University of Moscow,
Istanbul, Berlin and Jena. He re
ceived his Ph. D. at the Univer
sity of Vienna.
He became an American citizen
in 1937 and married the former
Dorothy Pace, an author who
writes under her maiden name.
The couple came to Washington
about a year and a half ago when
Dr. Aga-Oglu became consultant
at the museum. Their home is
at 2401 Calvert street N.W.
Author of 30 Articles.
Author of about 50 articles and
books on Islamic art, he was
founder and editor of the Ars
Islamic, a museum periodical pub
lished in Ann Arbor, Mich.
He had been director of the Na
tional Museum at Istanbul, cura
tor of the Near Eastern depart
ment of the Detroit Institute of
Art, history professor of Islamic
arts, a Freer fellow and lecturer
in Oriental arts at the University
of Michigan, and visiting pro
fessor of the summer seminar
in Arabic and Islamic studies at
Princeton.
Dr. Aga-Oglu was also honorary
curator of the Near Eastern de
partment of the M. E. de Young
Memorial Museum in San Fran
cisco, where he organized an ex
hibition of Islamic art.
He had acted at Princeton as
commentator at the bi-centennial
conferences on Near Eastern Cul
ture and Society. He represented
the University of Michigan and
the Detroit Institute of Arts at
the Millenium Celebration of Fir
dawsi during the Congress of
Orientalists at Teheran, Iran, in
1934. ‘
Dr. Aga-Oglu was ajnember of
the selection committee for the
International Exhibition of Per
sian Art at Burlington House,
London, in 1931.
Besides his widow, he is sur
vived by a daughter. Miss Gulte
kin Aga-Oglu, a student at the
University of Michigan.
Funeral and burial services will
be private.
Youth, 17, Shoots Self While Girl
Pleads With Him on Telephone
ly th« AuociaUd Prtss
WINTER HAVEN, Fla., July
5.—A 17-year-old high school
junior was near death today after
shooting himself despite frantic
pleas by telephone from his teen
age girl friend.
Winter Haven hospital attend
ants said William C. Rackley was
in "very critical” condition with
gunshot wound in his right side.
The shooting took place at the
Rackley home last night while
the girl, 16-year-old Betty
Thrasher, was listening on the
telephone at her home in Eagle
Lake, 6 miles away.
“He called about 7 o’clock and
told me I’d better keep talking as
this was the last chance I’d have,”
she told Policemen Ross I. Robert
son and J. A. Turner.
“I begged him not to do it. Twice
I heard the hammer click but the
gun did not go off.
"He told me to hold the phone,
he was going to play a phono
graph record. I could hear faint
music but could not identify tha
song.
“There are just 30 seconds left
to go.” he said, and,<then I heard
the explosion.”
Police found young Rackley on
a bed in his home, the gun and
telephone by his side. They said
they knew of no motive for tha
shooting.
The youth, who was a member
of the high school band, and Miss
Thrasher finished the sophomore
class together. The young girl
said they had been out a few times
but had not gone together regu
larly.
Five Thailand Burglars
Killed by Policemen
By the Associated Press
BANGKOK, Siam.—It’s fatal to
get caught red-handed in a burg
lary in Thailand. An informer
tipped off police, who rushed to
the house near the Rama VI
Bridge where five burglars were
at work. In the ensuing strug
gle all five were shot to death.
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