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sl.l Billion Offices Bill Cut
61 Pet. by House Committee;
Basic Policy Changes Ordered
Savings Claimed on
First Funds Measure
Surpass Estimates
The House Appropriations
Committee wielded a heavy ax
today on the first 1954 money
bill and wound up claiming $2.8
billion of savings in a measure
that covered only sl.l billion of
budget estimates.
This unusual bit of arithmetic
was accomplished by ordering
Other Stories Related to Latest Supply
Bill. A-3 and A-19
basic changes in Government
policies on top of actual budget
cuts. The bill itself provides for
a score of independent boards
and commissions and the com
mittee started out by making a
61 per cent cut in the budget
estimates for these agencies.
This meant cutting the budget
figures from sl.l billion to $451
million.
In addition to this slash of
$721 million, the committee di
rected the executive branch to
adopt policies which it said would
result in a further improvement;
in the cash condition of the
Treasury to the tune of $2.1 bil- :
lion.
For example, it ordered the
Government to sell to private in
vestors $1 billion of home mort
gages of the Federal National
Mortgage Association.
Public Housing Projects Halted.
It also ordered a halt on any
new public housing projects, and
estimated this would result in a
long-run saving of $795 million.
The House committee also or
dered the refunding of bonds of
local housing authorities held by
the Federal Housing Adminis
tration to the extent of $271
million.
The actual money cut was the
largest ever imposed by the com
mittee in the so-called independ
ent offices appropriation bill.
Coming as it did on the first of
the regular 1953 money bills, it
started the G. O. P. economy
drive off with a bang.
The bill's total in new money
for use during the fiscal year
starting next July 1 was $542,-
516,350 below what the same
agencies received for the present
fiscal year. In most cases it will
mean deep personnel cuts.
Largest reductions from
amounts requested by former
President Truman in his January
budget were in funds for the
Civil Service Commission and for
stockpiling critical and strategic
materials.
$176,139,000 Plea Denied.
The committee denied the en
tire $176,139,000 requested for
the Government’s normal con
tribution to the Civil Service
Retirement and Disability Fund
and all of the $192,015,000 re
quested for payment of interest
on what the Government already
owes the fund. It said operation
of such a fund in Government
results in the accumulation of
money that could be put to better
use.
In past years Congress has ap
propriated annually an amount
estimated to be equal to what
will be paid out of the civil serv
ice fund, plus interest from time
to time on the deficit in past
Federal payments. Contributions j
of Federal workers are aug- ;
(See APPROPRIATIONS, A-3.) j
Fever Is Gone, \
But President
Calls Off Golf
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Staff Correspondent
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 17.
President Eisenhower shook off
his fever today, but the in
testinal disorder that struck him
yesterday still was causing
trouble. His physician, Maj.
Gen. Howard Snyder, confined
him to quarters at the Augusta
National Golf Club and ruled
out any chance of golf for the
day.
The President had been run
ning only a slight temperature.
Diminishing Presidential Smile Reflects
Stress of Busy Day. Page A-7
Chicago Industrialist Named to Succeed
Larson as GSA Chief. Page A-2
since being stricken with what
was called food poisoning.
James C. Hagerty, Gen. Eisen
hower’s press secretary, said the !
President was up at 7:30 a.m.
today, had "a small, light break
fast,” then went back to bed.
‘‘He still has some abdominal
pain,” Mr. Hagerty added. ‘‘He
will remain in bed throughout
the day and will not play golf.”
The trouble seemed to trace to
some fish that Gen. Eisenhower
ate Wednesday night at the Au
gusta Club. The indisposition
first manifested itself yesterday
morning. But the President had
• a full schedule in Washington
and Salisbury, N. C., and he de
cided to go through with his pro
gram.
Despite his illness, the Presi
dent set up a cabinet meeting
In Washington, with Vice Presi
dent Nixon presiding.
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44 Pet. Cut Recommended
In Planners' Operating Budget
House Group Bars Any Funds to Expand
Park System in Capital Area Next Year
The House Appropriations
Committee today denied the
National Capital Planning Com
mission any money to expand
j the Washington area’s park sys
tem next year, and slashed its
request for operating expenses
by 44 per cent.
In addition, the committee
denied a request for $2.5 million
to enable the District to push
the compietion of the Piney
Branch relief sewer designed to
end the flooding of streets and
basements in areas near Fifth
and Ingaham streets N.W.
This was “passed over with
out prejudice” to await hearings,
scheduled' to start April 27, on
the regular 1954 District budget.
The denial of land acquisi
tion funds had been expected. A
request in the Truman budget
for $1,250,000 was knocked out
last month by the new adminis
tration.
Third Futile Year.
The action would mark the
third year in which Congress
would have failed to advance
adequate loans to carry out
park, parkway and playground,
provisions of the 23-year-old
Capper-Cramton Act.
"The same reasons exist today
as existed heretofore—the de
mand for economy and a bal
anced budget,” the Appropria
tions Committee declared in a
report.
Nevertheless, NCPC officials
240,000 U. S. Jobs
To Be Cut Next Year,
Civil Service Expects
25,000 in Washington
Will Be Eliminated,
House Committee Told
By Joseph Young
I estimates that Government em
ployment during the fiscal year
starting July 1 will be reduced
by 240,000 jobs. Key members
of the House Appropriations
The Civil Service Commission
Committee indicate that the re
duction may be even greater.
The 240,000 job figure would
be approximately 10 per cent of
Government’s employment to
tal of nearly 2.5 million. It
would mean the loss of about
25.000 of the 250.000 Federal
jobs in Washington.
Agencies Designated.
The commission’s estimate
was contained in hearings be
fore a House Appropriations
subcommittee on the 1954 inde
pendent offices bill, released
yesterday.
In reporting out that bill today,
the full House Appropriations
Committee recommended several
personnel slashes for several
agencies, as follows:
Public Housing Administration,
j about 1,600 jobs, including 300 in
I Washington.
Housing and Home Finance
I Agency’s administrative office
j here, about 1,200 jobs,
j Civil Service Commission, 700
jobs, including 300 in Wash
ington.
The committee voted the Na
tional Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics enough money to
hire about 1,400 new employes.
Other agencies such as General
Service Administration, Tariff
Commission, Securities and Ex
change Commission, Federal
Trade Commission received
enough money in the bill to en
able them to maintain their
i Present personnel strength.
During the hearings, David F.
Williams, chief of the Civil Serv
(See JOBS, Page A-3.)
Pakistan's Envoy Here
New Choice for Premier
By the Associated Press
KARACHI, Pakistan, April 17.
—The Pakistan cabinet headed
by Khwaja Nazimuddin was dis
missed today.
Mohammed Ali, now Ambas
j sador to Washington, was asked
by the governor general, Ghulam
Mohammed, to form a new gov
ernment.
(Information reaching New
Delhi said the governor gen
eral charged Mr. Nazimuddin
had proved himself “inade
quate to grapple with the
problems facing the country.”)
Mr. Nazimuddin 58, became
Premier of Pakistan on October
19, 1951. He succeeded Liaquat
Ali Khan, who was assassinated.
Ambassador Ali is now in
Karachi. Mahmud Shafqat,
charge d’affaires, said the am
bassador left a week ago for
routine consultations. Mr. Shaf
qat said he had no news of to
day’s events until a reporter for
The star read the dispatch to
I him. The ambassador’s wife
l and two sons are in Washington.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1953—SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES.
fought hard for the $1.2 million
request in testimony before the
committee. They have warned,
in the wake of reports the Budg
et Bureau would like to kill or
modify the land acquisition act,
that failure to make appropria
tions seriously threatens the en
tire program.
Biggest body blow to the NCPC
—and the new National Capital
Regional Planning Council—
however, was the cut in operat
ing expenses from $175,000 to
$97,915.
The Budget Bureau, in last
month’s economy revision, had
trimmed the $175,000 request to
onl’y $155,000.
Same Sum for Employes.
The cut gives the commission
the same amount appropriated
for the current year. It also
gives the same amount for em
ployes, $88,206, although the
commission had asked $144,000
for this purpose.
Several of the 10 additional
employes sought, officials said,
were to have worked mainly for
the new regional council.
The council, set up last year
in an act which reorganized the
commission, has no staff em
ployes, and was banking heavily
on the original request. The cut,
officials said, means the com
mission will have to get along
with its present 16 employes, de
voting only such time as they i
can spare to the council.
Eisenhower Reported
Ready to Reorganize
Voice, Point 4 Units
Would Be Independent;
Reductions Planned
In State Department
By Garnett D. Horner
President Eisenhower is be
lieved to be about ready to send
to Congress a reorganization plan
for the State Department, trans
ferring international information
and Point Four activities out of
that agency.
At the same time these devel
opments within the State De-
Once-Suspended Voice Aide Named
Special Consultant to Chief. Page A-6
partment, affecting personnel,
came to light today:
1. Top officials have decided to
abolish a departmental unit
called the management staff. Os
the 50 employes in the unit, 27
are being eliminated and 23
transferred to other divisions.
2. Formal notice of an im
pending reduction-in-force, ex
pending reduction in force, ex
between 100 and 200 department
employes, was circulated to all
personnel today.
3. Some officials were work
ing overtime to prepare a re
duction-in-force program for
the Foreign Service, expected to
mean loss of Jobs for around
200 staff employes abroad.
Independent of Major Plan.
j These actions, described as a
start toward an “austerity pro
gram” for the State Depart
| ment in a move to achieve
' substantial economies, were be
ing taken independently of the i
major reorganization plan, said
to be ready to go to Congress
for approval.
Details of the reorganization
were not available officially, but
it was understood that the Pres
ident would propose:
1. Setting up the Internation
al Information Administration,
which has directed the Voice of
America and other propaganda
activities within the State De
partment, as an independent
agency under some arrangement
whereby it can continue to re
ceive policy guidance from the
! department.
2. Transferring to the Mutual!
Security Administration the !
State Department’s Technical
Co-operation Adminsitration,
whieh directs Point Four activ
ities around the world.
Hits Operating Functions.
The main aim of the reor
ganization plan, worked out by
a commission headed by Nelson
Rockefeller, was said to be to
eliminate operating, as distinct
from policy functions, from the
State Department.
I The IAA now employs more
| than 9,000 persons. 3,100 of them ;
I within the United States. It has
| been operating on a budget of'
: $95.7 million this fiscal year. The
I Truman administration asked
that this be increased to $114.5
million for the next fiscal year
Current administration plans
are to cut this request to slightly
less than $95 million.
TCA employes, at last report,
included less than 1,000 Amer
icans plus some 1,300 native
workers abroad.
Poll Shows 396
Plan to Quit if
Dr. Astin Leaves
Statement Promised
By Weeks; Hearings
Start Wednesday
By James E. Roper
A secret poll showed today
that the Bureau of Standards
may lose 396 employes if the
dismissal of Dr. Allen V. Astin
as bureau director goes in effect
at midnight.
Supporters of Dr. Astin, how
ever hoped Secretary of Com
merce Weeks would hold up the
ouster until Congress has time
to investigate the row that
started over the merits of a bat
tery additive.
Secretary Weeks promised a
statement “in the very near fu
ture.”
As he appeared before the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors at the Statler Hotel, Sec
retary Weeks was asked:
“Can you give us assurances
that the unpublished reasons for
Dr. Astin’s resignation when pub
lished will provide an open-and
shut case for the action?”
Secretary Weeks replied: “I
have no comment to make at
this time. I expect to have an
announcement in the very near
future.”
Hearing Starts Wednesday.
Chairman Thye of the Senate
Small Business Committee an
nounced, meanwhile, that the
committee will jjegin public hear
ings on the Astin affair at 10
a.m. Wednesday. He invited Dr.
Astin to be the first witness.
The alarming consequences of
j a possible blowup at the Bureau
of Standards prompted repre
sentatives of the bureau’s 17
; technical divisions to confer se
i cretly.
The division directors or thei*
| representatives matched notes on
; morale in their units and what
would happen unless the integ
-1 rity of the bureau and Dr. Astin
is vindicated. An official who
I attended told The Star that the
! division chiefs concluded they
eventually would lose 396 scien
■ tists and top technicians.
These workers would leave the
bureau gradually over the next
few months. The division chiefs
said many of the departures
would be quiet, but could be
traced to the impact of the Astin
incident. The bureau unit
working on projects for the
Atomic Energy Commission
would be virtually destroyed.
The bureau has 4,800 employes
of all types.
One official said the poll was
intended to answer an anxious
inquiry of Senator Ellender,
Democrat, of Louisiana about
reports that resignations of key
personnel may come. One
official said he hoped the poll
would not be interpreted as a
strike threat, but rather an ap
praisal of the outlook at the
bureau.
Top Officials Not Told.
To try to head off political
repercussions, the division chiefs
reportedly called their meeting
without the knowledge of Dr.
Astin, Acting Director Wallace
R. Brode, or the two associate
directors. This group is still
trying to maintain calm rela
tions with the Commerce De
partment.
Secretary Weeks and Assistant
Secretary Craig R. Sheaffer
forced Dr. Astin to resign. They
charged that he and the bureau
were prejudiced when they re
ported after tests that an addi
tive, sold under the trade name
of AD-X 2, failed to improve old
batteries being used for such
ordinary purposes as starting au
tomobile engines.
The bureau is completing an
exhaustive report on another
series of tests on the additive.
The bureau has concluded once
(Continued on Page A-3, Col. 1.)
Red Shore Guns Score Hit
On Destroyer Maddox
ly tha Aoociatad Prats
Enemy guns scored one direct
hit on the destroyer Maddox off
Korea yesterday, wounding one
seaman critically and causing
minor damage to the ship, the
Navy announced.
The wounded man was identi
fied as Seaman Frank Nick Ca
taldo, Des Moines, lowa.
The Navy said today at least
two North Korean batteries fired
! 156 rounds at the Maddox in
j Wonsan Harbor off the Korean
east coast. A single shell hit
the destroyer on the main deck,
portside, but damage was “not
serious,” the Navy reported, and
the ship was able to maintain a
steady return of fire.
Customer Joins Circus Act,
Falls 50 Feet From Rigging
By thi Associated Press
NEW YORK. April 17.—The
aerialists of the circus received
unexpected competition last
night from a customer at Madi
son Square Garden.
Celso R. Lorenzo, 33, arose
from his front-row second bal
cony seat in the midst of the
show of the Ringling Brothers
and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
He stepped across the guard
rail. seized an overhead wire in
the rigging for trapezes and
other equipment, and swung out
Heifetz Slugged, Hand Hurt
After Strauss Sonata in Israel
Violinist May Cancel
Remainder of Tour;
Threat Telephoned
By tho Associated Press
JERUSALEM, April 17. —An
unidentified assailant slugged
Violinist Jascha Heifetz with an
iron bar early today, injuring his
right hand. It appeared he
might have to cancel the remain
der of his recital series here.
Mr. Heifetz was struck short
ly after he played a sonata
by German Composer Richard
StraUss. Strauss’ music is un
welcome in Israel, because of
his work with the Nazis not long
after Adolf Hitler came to power.
Shortly after the attack on Mr.
Heifetz, an anonymous caller
phoned the Voice of Israel radio
station and said the slugging was
carried out by Hanoar Haivri
(Hebrew Youth Movement). The
caller said Mr. Heifetz had bet
ter get out of Israel or the attack
would be repeated. Hanoar Hai
vri is reported to be an illegal,
extremist, nationalist organiza
tion.
The Israel Philharmonic Or
chestra, under whose auspices
the Jewish-American artist is
touring Israel, issued a state
ment condemning the “cowardly
act.”
Mr. Heifetz’* at first dis
regarded medical advice and
said he would go ahead with
concerts tonight at Rehovot and
tomorrow at Tel Aviv. Later,
however, his hand was reported
paining him and aides said they
doubted he could perform. Rumor
has it his hands are insured for
$300,000.
Strauss, who died in 1949
at 85, was president from 1933
to 1935 of the Nazi Music Cham
ber under Propaganda Minister
U. N. and Reds Will Confer
Sunday on New Truce Talks
By th» Associated Press
MUNSAN, Korea, April 17.
The United Nations and Com
munists today agreed to hold a
liaison meeting Sunday to dis
cuss resumption of the long
suspended Korean armistice
talks.
The agreement came less than
15 hours after the U. N. told the
Sabres Bag 4 MIGs; Reds Are Repulsed
in Attacks on 5 Hills. Page A-4
Few Returning POWs Are Unable to
Walk, Red Newsman Says. Page A-4
Reds It was ready to reopen the
talks, providing the Reds do no
stalling on the over-all exchange
of prisoners—the last big ob
stacle to an armistice.
The U. N. had asked for the
liaison meeting tomorrow to work
out details for starting the new
talks. The Reds, however, sug
gested 11 a.m. Sunday (9 p.m.
EST Saturday). The U. N.
agreed.
'Will Study Technical Details.
Allied spokesmen said the liai
son groups probably would do
little more than discuss the
technical details of resuming
full-scale armistice talks.
(A Peiping broadcast heard
hand over hand for nearly
40 feet.
Once clear of the first balcony
and the main level seats. Lorenzo
clung to the wire with one hand
and waved to the audience with
the other.
Then he fell 50 feet to the
arena floor. After an exami
nation Lorenzo walked smilingly
to an ambulance.
Doctors said he had suffered
only possible rib fractures. Police
said he evidently had been
drinking.
If? ; ■
—Star Staff Photo.
JASCHA HEIFETZ.'
Paul Josef Goebbels. The year
before his death a Gewnan de
nazification court cleared him of
charges of Nazism, but he still
is no favorite with some circles
here.
The attack was made as Mr.
Heifetz stepped from a taxi in
front of the King David Hotel,
after receiving an ovation from
the capacity audience attending
his concert. The violinist said
his assailant said a few words
to him. apparently in Hebrew,
which he did not understand.
Police searched the area but
were unable to find the attacker.
Mr. Heifetz had played the
sonata twice before during his
Israeli tour. He was applauded
the first time, but after the sec
ond playing the audience sat in
stony silence.
In answer to complaints of
Strauss’ alleged Nazi asso
ciations, he had declared that
only artistic considerations
should be valid in drawing up
concert programs.
in Tokyo reiterated that the
Communists would insist on
forced repatriation, the very
issue that caused the armistice
talks to break down last Oc
tober.
(The broadcast quoted an
editorial in Peiping’s World
Culture, a fortnightly publica
tion, obviously written before
the latest Allied offer was
made. It said the principle
that all prisoners must be sent
home after an armistice “is
one from which there can be
no deviation, nor can it be
abandoned.”)
Allied agreement to get the
truce talks under way came as
a Communist convoy carrying
disabled American and British
prisoners neared Kaesong, just
6 miles from the Panmunjom
neutral area where the exchange
of sick and wounded captives
begins Monday. The first con
voy, which arrived last night,
contained only South Korean
prisoners, a Communist news
correspondent reported.
A third convoy is en route
south and the Commists said still
another, bearing non-Koreans,
will leave the Red prison camp
at Pyoktong Sunday and reach
Kaesong Tuesday.
In a letter turned over to
Communist staff officers at
Panmunjom the allies proposed:
1. That Switzerland take cus
tody of prisoners who do not
want to return home.
60 Days for Persuasion.
2. That the Reds be given 60
days to persuade them to go
home and that Switzerland ar
range the “peaceable disposition”
of those who still refuse re
patriation.
3. That staff officers meet in
Panmunjom at an early date
to arrange for resumption of the
armistice talks.
The U. N. warned that it would
break off the negotiations again
(See TRUCE, Page A-4.) 1
Dressing Up for Opera
The opera’s coming to town. Naturally,
the women will look their most glamorous,
but what of the men? The Star’s fashion
editor, Eleni, has some tips for both on
Page B-I.
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Diplomats in Moscow
See Official Answer
To Eisenhower Ta'k
More Optimistic Ones
Hopeful for Easing
Os World Tension
By Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press Foreign Corresoondent
MOSCOW, April 17.—The
Soviet press reported President
Eisenhower’s foreign policy |
speech with unusual speed and
a lack of abuse.
Some of the foreign diplomats
in Moscow believe there is a
Text of Eisenhower's Program for Peace
Handed to Soviet. Page A-7
Speech Raises Hope in Europe Moscow
Will Relax Stand. Page A-7
■ ——— —■— -,
good chance of some sort of
official answer to the President.
The more optimistic picture the
United States and the Soviet
Union as on the verge of easing
world tension and possibly set
tling some of their outstanding
differences.
Soviet Press Acts Quickly.
In 10 years of covering Moscow
news, this correspondent does
not recall any time when the
Soviet press acted so quickly as
in reporting Gen. Eisenhower’s
address. Pravda appeared with
its acoount only a few hours j
after the President addressed the !
American Society of Newspaper j
Editors.
All papers published the same
story—a Tass dispatch from New
York—and Moscow radio read
the message several times.
Pravda gave it a prominent
place in its foreign news page,
just below an account of United
Nations proceedings. The other
papers similarly used it in con
spicuous positions.
Not Praised Nor Condemned.
Neither press nor radio praised
the President’s speech, but nei
ther did they condemn it out of
hand.
Commenting on it, Tass said
Gen. Eisenhower iri blaming the
Soviet Union for the interna
tional situation failed to cite any
facts to back up his contention.
The dispatch also accused the
President of by-passing China
and “re-establishment of her
national rights” and the question
of a unified Germany as laid
down by the Potsdam agreement.
The papers were singularly
mild in comment, considering
some of the things Eisenhower
said.
Bulletins
Red Cross Over Quota
The 1953 Metropolitan area
Red Cross campaign today
went over it; $1,531,000 quota.
Contributions reported at to
day’s victory luncheon in the
United States Chamber of
Commerce building brought
total collections to $1,532,901.
Civilians to Be Freed
The State Department today
received word through Moscow
that North Korean authorities
“are taking measures to re
lease” seven American civilians
held since beginning of the
Korean war in 1950. Three
other Americans were reported
to have died in captivity and
three others were listed as
missing. Among those listed
as dead was Bishop Patrick
J. Byrne of the MaryknoU
Order, a native of Washington.
School Case Gets Review
RICHMOND, Va. UP). —The
Virginia Supreme Court of Ap
peals today agreed to review
the Arlington County case in
volving the question of wheth
er Federal employes legally can
serve as members of school
boards. The court yesterday
waived its usual procedure to
hear arguments before decid
ing whether to grant the re
view.
Plea to Extend
Draft Act Past
1955 Is Planned
Editors Told 145
Justice Attorneys
Have Left Office
By John V. Horner
Important new policy decisions
and plans of the Eisenhower ad
ministration today were disclosed
in detail by Government leaders
addressing the American Society
of Newspaper Editors.
Among the highlights were:
1. A declaration by Dr. John A.
) Hannah, Assistaant Secretary of
Press Distorts News, Senator Morse Says;
Cites Speech Report. Page A S
Defense for Manpower, that the
administration will seek exten
sion of the draft act past the
1955 expiration date, even if
peace should come in Korea.
2. Disclosure by Attorney Gen
eral Brownell that 145 of the
Justice Department’s 1,600 at
torneys have left office, mostly
by request. He said a number of
the group were incompetents,
undesirables, or both.
3. A detailed explanation by
Mr. Brownell of the administra
tion plan to abolish the Federal
Loyalty Review Board program
and replace it with a “broad em
ploye security program.” Its
basis will be that the head of
each department or agency will
set up an effective program,
supervised by an inter-depart
mental group searching out
“deficiencies.” He disclosed the
President would include it in an
executive order which will be
issued in a few days.
Dr. Hannah’s major policy ad
dress on manpower problems left
no doubt that the administra
tion sees no letup in the need for
strong armed forces.
Need for Strong Force Seen.
“A year from'now, we will be
appearing before the Congress
asking for an extension of the
(Selective Service) act,” he de
clared.
“Should there be a period of
relaxing international tension
meanwhile, we hope the news
| papers of the country will ex
plain and reiterate to the peo
ple of this country the necessity
for keeping our defenses strong
and alert, even though it entails
the continued drafting of all
young men for two years of in
voluntary service.”
First Public Address.
In his first public address since
taking office, the manpower au
thority cited the problem of try
ing to keep abreast of military
personnel needs. He said:
“Assuming first, that the
strength of our uniformed forces
will be continued at or near our
present strength of 3.5 million
| men and women, and second,
that the period of involuntary
• service remains at 24 months, we
I will continue to. use manpower
faster than the males in our pop
ulation turn 18>/2 years of age,
and become eligible to be
drafted.
“It is estimated that in about
30 months we will have ex
hausted our pool of men who
meet the current physical and
mental standards for military
service.”
Dr. Hannah said the “hard
and unpleasant facts” of the sit
uation are a great incentive for
devising means-to achieve a more
efficient utilization of manpower.
He said the Defense Department
is striving to find the complete
answer to the challenge and he
held out hope that recommen
dations of a committee on re
organizing the department will
help point the way to the objec
tive.
His remarks came in the wake
of statements by Secretary of
Defense Wilson that effort will
be made to reduce the number
of men in uniform.
Dr. Hannah also Indicated to
the editors that new Defense of
ficials have not changed their
ideas with reference to the mo
bilization base concept which
they inherited from the Truman
administration. •
Only Few Plan Fight.
Mr. Brownell, discussing the
exodus of Justice Department
attorneys, said most decided to
resign rather than face charges
and have their records be
smirched. A few. he said, have
indicated that they intended to
fight dismissals.
He cited several examples of
cases which led to forced resig
nations.
In one. he said, an attorney
who was about to prosecute a
well-know criminal was found
to have had 82 traffic convic
tions, including speeding, reck
(Continued on Page A-5, Col. 1.)
Eisenhower Pilot:
Father-Son Story
AIR MINDED—Like father, like
ton, are Jomes D. Draper and his ton,
William G. Draper, President Eisen
hower's personal pilot and Air Force
aide. Writer W. H. Shippen traces
their mutual interest in flying and
golf on Page A-19.
Guide for Readers
Amusem'ts A-16-17 Last, Found .. A-3
Classified - C-6-15 Dbituary A-20
Comics ...A-32-33 Radio-TV A-31
Editorial A-10 Sports C-l-5
Edit'l Articles, A-11 Woman's
Financial _A-28-29j Section B-l-4