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Senator Lodge Sees 7-Million-Man Army For Western Europe \ ly tho Associated Press Senator Lodge, Republican, of Massachusetts hinted today that } the Atlantic Pact army in West ern Europe may number some 7 million men within “the next few years.” While other Senators wrangled over details of the administra tion’s new $8.5 billion foreign aid program. Senator Lodge told a reporter this country must step In with full support. Declaring that the United States should have a completely trained and organized field army of about 350,000 in Europe during the next year, he added: “In the next few years this should be no more than 5 per cent of the total forces there.” Eisenhower Aide Testifies. The 350,000 figure Senator Lodge proposed for the American con tribution to the international army being organized under Gen. Eisenhower is 5 per cent of 7 million. Gen. Eisenhower’s deputy and chief of staff in the North At lantic Treaty Organization, Gen. Alfred M. Gruenthre, was called ot testify today on the foreign aid plan. Hearings are before the Joint Foreign Relations and Armed (Services Committees and are be ing held in private. Senator Brewster, Republican, of Maifie, and other Republicans on the two committees said Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, had disagreed with the tes timony by Secretary of Defense Marshal that United States Army forces in Europe would total 400, 000 by,the end of 1952. Gne. Col ”***" wumuvu jwoucxuaj. Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, who is presiding, told re porters that Gen. Collins set the total for United States ground and Air Force contributions at 344,000 by the end of the fiscal 1952. That was some 56,000 less than Gen. Marshall had said would be sent to Europe. Hurried Testimony Blamed. Senator Brewster said Gen. Marshall had made "a serious mis i take.” Senator Connally called it “Just one of those things” result ing from hurried testimony and from “estimates that were a little loose.” Senator Lodge differed sharply with Senators who were trying to question the numbers or totals of United States and other troops needed immediately. “We ought to have a field army of about 350,000 over there,” Sena tor Lodge said. He was an Army staff officer during World War II. Failure to provide all the neces sary supporting troops, Senator Lodge said, would be “as bad as sending them over without rifles.” He added that “as far as the j United States Army is concerned! you have got to have six divi sions and all the stuff that goes with them.” Senator Connally disclosed that Senator Brewster had protested ( yesterday against release to news men and the public of only the prepared statements by Gen. Collins, Assistant Secretary of State George W. Perkins and 'Richard M. Bissell, Jr., deputy director of ECA. Senator Brewster contended this would give a “one-sided” picture unless supplemented by question-and-answer testimony at the closed-door session, Senator Connally said. Senator Brewster Inter tnlri re porters that if only the state ments of the “trained seals” for the administration were released the result would be “10 days of • propaganda” for the multi-billion dollar bill. Senator Connally quoted Mr. Bissell as telling the lawmakers that Europe could have gotten along with $675 million economic aid during the next year, if the military rearmament program had not come along adding a full billion to needs. Secret Trial Under Way In Haile Selassie Plot By th« Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Aug. 1.—A secret trial of three persons charged with plotting to assassi nate Emperor Haile Selassie and overthrow the government was re ported under way today in the Ethiopian parliament building. Seven others were convicted and sentenced to death last week in a secret trial on similar charges. It was understood that evidence in the trial of the seven led to the trial of the three additional defendants. according to a repeated* *j nationwide survey of doctors in every branch of medicine! . WARNS OF THREAT TO MINOR LEAGUES—George C. Traut man (right), minor league boss, talks with Harry Simmons, International League public relations chief, as they appear today before a House subcommittee probing monopoly influences in organized baseball. Mr. Trautman said minor leagues would die if baseball drops the rule protecting clubs’ exclusive ter ritories. —AP Photo. - -. ■ .- ■■ ■■ .... ' ■ ■■ Probe (Continued From First Page.) tors of minor league clubs as of last month, only 291 made their living as baseball executives, he .said. The remainder varied from bankers, lawyers and business executives to farmers, morticians and housewives. “Earn-While-You-Learn’’ Setup. If these club owners do not have the protection of the “re serve clause” to give them con tinuity of players for their teams, Mr. Trautman argued, the incen tive to maintain the club would be lost. ; He pictured the lower, class minor leagues as an earn-while you-leam set-up for young ball players, a “prep school" for the majors. Of the 500 major league players today, he said, only about 10 did not come up from the minors. In 1950, he reported, approxi mately 11,000 players competed in 58 minor leagues. This year approximately 8,000 players are in the uniforms of 359 clubs in 49 minor leagues. Of these clubs, he said, 73 are owned outright by major league clubs, 136 have working agreements with higher classification clubs and 150 are independently owned and oper ated. Celler to Insist on Changes. The subcommittee already is talking about altering the setup as far as the- West Coast is con cerned. The Pacific Coast League now is in the highest classification of the minors—a Triple-A League —but the subcommittee has been questioning witnesses about the possibility of making it a third major league or pulling out some of the Pacific clubs to join the National and American Leagues. Subcommittee Chairman Celler told newsmen he is going to "in sist” on changes in organized baseball’s structure to bring ma jor league baseball to the West Coast. “We can’t have this ironclad system forever,” he declared. "The situation is intolerable. There must be changes. I’m going to insist on it.” Mr. Celler already has indicated the form his insistence may take. He told National League Presi dent Ford Frick that the majors must "reorient their thinking” about the West Coast if the subcommittee Is to recommend exemption of baseball from anti trust laws. Celler Clarifies Stand. At the start of today’s hearings, however, Mr. Celler said he wanted to dispel incorrectly drawn inferences that the com mittee has already come to the conclusion that the Pacific Coast League should be a third major league. He termed that Impression "en tirely erroneous," but he added that he does have a very strong feeling that those in control of the major leagues should do some constructive thinking on the whole problem of the location of major league franchises. Despite radi cal changes in the location of the population, Mr. Celler went on, the only changes that have been made in the baseball rules on franchises have been to make them more restrictive. Mr. Celler said this is a "ser ious problem that applies not only to the Pacific Coast but also to 6uch towns as Baltimore, Mil waukee, Houston, Minneapolis and Montreal. Coast Sentiment Sought. Mr. Frick contends the Pacific Coast League will get big-league status whenever the Western club owners generate a "burning de sire” for it. He told the subcom mittee no request for major league status is now pending from the West Coast. To find out how the Pacific club owners feel about getting into the majors, Mr. Celler directed his staff to call as a Witness Leslie O’Connor, general counsel for the Pacific Coast League. Mr. O’Con nor, former secretary-treasurer of major-league baseball and aide to i/uc mw iukii ^uuiuiisMuner jtven esaw Mountain Landis for 20 years, took the legal post after serving two years as general man ager of the Chicago White Sox. Before plunging into the minor league picture with Mr, Trautman. the subcommittee was briefed on baseball’s coming-of-age struggles. The baseball history lecture was given by Harry *Simmons, public relations man for the Inter national League and recognized as a baseball historian. • Mr. Simmons shed some his torical light on the “reserve clause,” the arrangment by which club owners control the destinies of their players. The subcommit tee has been told baseball hiust have the "reserve clause” to main tain balanced competition and keep the rich clubs from raiding the poor ones for players. Mr. Simmons said the reserve rule was first proposed in 1879 as a method of cutting the payroll. He added, however, that the re serve rule never did become an effective means of cutting player salaries. It did bring stability to the clubs/ he said, “but at that time the league was thinking not so much of stability as of sur vival.” County Auxiliary to Meet The monthly meeting of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Prince Georges County Volunteei Fire Department will be held at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in St. John’s Par ish Hall, Thirty-Fourth street and Rainier avenue. Mount Rainier, Md. The Brentwoo*' Auxiliary will act as hosts. Sell or Trade TburCertSp ut. i4th&-i5tm 1114 VERMONT AVENUE, N. W. NA. 9850 •FORMERLY HILL 4 TIBBBITS IBattle Amid Peace Talk Gains Peak for Alfi/es (Continued From First Page.) positions as easily as in assault. From their observation posts in th erocky crags, the Korean Reds continually called in mortar and artillery fire against the Allies, folding all road traffic to run the gauntlett on its way to the front, again and again. Worse, "Fool Mountain” had three guardian hills — placed as strategically as the bastion of a scientifically planned fortress. „ I Fort five nights in a row before the jump off date of July 26 the Air Force bombed and blasted the hill positions, A total of 37% tons of bombs was dropped in tHe face of some of the heaviest machinegun fire the Air Force has met in the Ko rean war. The hills were full of 51 caliber machineguns, and they often opened fire When the planes were still 500 feet high. It was per haps the first time in the war the Reds so boldly faced Allied air might. At dawn on the 26th the in fantry started up the guardian hills. They made 2,000 yards and then were stopped cold. Then began a seesaw fight that went on for five days and parts of five nights. The main assault was directed against “no number” hill' for if it could be taken the win ners could pour in flanking fire on the main positions. Reds Fight Bitterly. Three times in three days the Allies attacked the hill and each time they were thrown off by bit ter North Korean counterattacks. On the fourth day they took it. Then yesterday, preceded by a withering artillery barrage, they advanced against “Fool Moun tain” under cover of fire from “No Number” hill. Slowly the tough infantrymen made their way up the rocky slopes. They had clos support from tanks that fired almost point blank into the enemy bunkers. Some of the bunkers, carved from rock, had only one entrance— their firing slit—and were de fended to. the death by North Koreans who had no way out. Unless, of course, they had chosen to surrender. The infantry used grenades find flame throwers against some de fenders. Finally the last assault position was reached late Mon day afternoon. Remnants of Enemy Flee. Once again artillery blasted the craggy slopes and—as it sud denly stopped — the infantry stormed upward. Allied guns from "No Number” laced the top of the crest. That did it. The attack by th)p crack troops swept up, broke ttie last of the resistance in 45 minutes and finally secured the eldest at 5:45 p.m. > All that was left of the enemy, probably not more than two'pla toons, was seen fleeing down! the north slope of the mountain. The dog-tired infantrymen looked down from their prjize. Across the flatlands below they could see for 7 miles. The positions had been reverseyl Now the Communists would he galled by Allied artillery and mon tars while the delegates debated! peace. The victory was sweet, but id had been savage. There were Al lied dead and wounded. And on the slopes and in the smoking bunkers were scores of dead com munists. Only five prisoners were taken. British Lend French 4 Subs PARIS, Aug. 1 UP).—'The French Navy Ministry today announced that Great Britain is lending France four submarines for four years. The submarines are now being reconditioned in Britain. Simple Filter Traps Germs in Water By the Associated Press A new and simple device for detecting certain germs in water supplies was announced today by the government. Officials said it has “some potentialities” as a de fense against germ warfare. The United States Public Health Service told of the development in a statement which said it may be of “great significance for sanitary bacteriology and rural sanitation.” Health service officials told a re porter it could be important in the Case of a bacteriological at tack on this country. The new device is a small filter —about the size of a silver dollar —and assistant Surgeon General Mark D. Hollis said: "The apparatus ... is so simple nnd so readily portable that bac teriologists may find it possible to extend their services to rural com munities and other areas lacking the usual laboratory facilities.” The health service said the filter is placed in water to “trap” seirms. Its pores are so tiny that no bacteria can pass through the filter, although viruses—which are smaller than bacteria—may get through. Bacteria are germs of the type Motorists' Curse Falls on Engineer, Louder and Longer ty *h« Associated Press LONDON. August 1.—*ver toot your auto horn and then not bo able to shut it off? Well, imagine how the engine driver of a Southern Railways train felt yesterday. He pulled the whistle chain at Chatham and the chain broke with the whistle valve open. The locomotive shrieked all the 30 miles into London’s Cannon street station—a 50-minute run. It took engineers there another 20 minutes to muffle it. that cause diseases like typhoid fever. Viruses cause maladies like polio and influenza. After the germs are trapped, the small Alter disk is placed in a small dish containing a material designed to make the germs de velop so they can be identified. One official said a big advan tage of the new technique, is that a health officer can put the ap paratus in the pocket of his shirt, allowing the germs to “grow” with the aid of body heat. Dr. Hollis said the cost of tests using the filters will be much less than by methods now used. ' '..-•■•• :^=Rpssler Furniture Modern • 14th and Euclid N.W. • Shop Evenings 'til 9.---. ■ —.—- "'^\\ Rossler Buys Entire Factory Stock 1 of Solid Mahogany Tables... I Prices Go Tumbling Down! I Bossier's Tremendous Purchase Brings Prices On These Tables Spinning to an All-Time Low! Rossler puts his tremendous buying power to work once more and the result is this fabulous, never-before-heard-of low price on the finest Bleached and Silver Fox Mahogany Tables. 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