New Security Program Designed To
Keep Subversives From Armed Forces
WASHINGTON, UP — Secretary
of Defense Wilson Thursday an
nounced a security program de
M signed “to clean out and keep
out” of the armed forces persons
deemed to be security or loyalty
risks.
Wilson announced the new dir
ective, and the security-loyalty
yardsticks it lays down, at a pub
lic hearing before the Senate
‘ Armed Services Committee.
Its objective, he said, is to pro
vide uniform standards for the
Army, Navy and Air Force and
“to speed up our procedures for
getting such individuals out o'f the
service and for keeping them out.”
The new directive declares a
general policy that the Defense
Department will assume that ac
ceptance or retention of any mem
ber of the armed services is clear
• ly consistent with the interest of
national security “unless and un
til a determination to the con
trary is made.”
“However,” it continues, “when
credible information which raises |
the question of security is re-1
ceived action will be taken to de-1
termine whether acceptance or!
retention is consistent with the I
interests of national security.
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In the cases of draftees the dir
ective declares:
1. “Known Communists will not
be inducted into the armed ser
vices.”
2. Inductees who do not satis
factorily” fill our loyalty ques
tionnaires or whose question
naires disclose “significant derog
atory information . . . will be ac
cepted into the service and re
tained on non-sensitive assign
ments in the lowest enlisted pay
grade permitted by law, pending
completion of a thorough investi
gation.”
The order continues:
“In the event this investigation
reveals that further retention
would be inconsistent with the
interests of national security, he
(the inductee) will be separated
under other than honorable con
ditions. Should the investigation
disclose insufficient derogatory
information to warrant separa
tion in the the interest of national
security, he will be continue*! in
the service and thereafter ap
propriately assigned,” the charac
ter of his ultimate discharge to
be determined by his subsequent
conduct.”
Konc For Agreement On
S^ne nf Invest'qration Of
McCarthy-Army Row
WASHINGTON, WV--Tnvestiga
int senators said 'oday they hope
to agree next week on the overall
scope of their probing into the!
' bitter row between Sen. McCar- 1
thy and high Army officials.
The Senate Investigations sub
committee, which McCarthy
heads, has voted to launch on
April 21 televised public hear
ings to seek the truth amid
charges exchanged in the dispute
over alleged seeking of favors for
a drafted consultant to the sub
* committee, and alleged “black
mail” attempts to divert probes
of Army matters.
• * Sen. Mundt 1R-SD1, who will i
preside at the hearings, told re- ;
porters a necessary early step will!
be some effort to decide how far
back the subcommittee must ex
plore into controversies between
McCarthy on the one hand and
Secretary of the Army Stevens
and John G. Adams, Army gen
eral counsel, on the other.
McCarthy said yesterday he
does not know know anything
about Ray H. Jenkins, the Knox
ville, Tenn., lawyer engaged Wed- ,
nesday by the subcommittee as its i
special counsel for the pending j
investigation.
Pioneer Meeting Notes
Nome Pioneers of Alaska held
its regular Wednesday evening
session April 7th with President
Bob Scott presiding. John W. Ray
mond, Alaska born, formerly of
Fairbanks and now residing in
the Nome district, was admitted
to' Alaska’s organization of pio
neers. He is engaged in gold plac
er mining.
George Bodis and George Go
shaw recently returned from the
States and told of meeting other
Pioneers while in Seattle. Both
said they were glad to be back
again in their home town.
Lauri Mattila was reported as
still being ill and is again back
from the hospital at his home.
Secretary Goshaw assumed his
duties for the first time, relieving
Fred Bockman, who has served
faithfully and efficiently as sec
retary.
After the meeting everyone en
joyed the homemade cakes and
coffee served by James Walsh
and William Ullrich. President
Bob Scott announced the next
regular meeting, on Wednesday
evening, April 21st and urged all
Pioneers to attend.
Modern Jericho in Jordan, 840
feet below sea level is the world’s
lowest lying town, says the Na
tional Georgaphic Society.
In Coma 3 Months
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—“Hi, Mom; Hi Dad.” Those four
words spoken by a 15-year-old boy were the answer to the prayers
and the faith that have sustained his parents for three months. On
Dec. 5th, Freddie Burmester, a high school student, was critically
injured in an accident on his motor scooter. Freddie has been in a
coma for that time, he awakened and talked to his mother and
father. He is shown eating his first meal while nurse Vernice
Yarbrough looks on.
Army Maneuvers
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WEST GERMANY—A scene
reminiscent of World War II
shows men of the 4th Infantry
Division in an army duk, fording
a channel in the Rhine River
during a recent exercise. The
U. S. troops in Germany hold
several maneuvers each year,
using rivers to practice amphib
ious and combined operations,
in winter and in summer, fre
quently in cooperation with the
Air Force.
French Destroy
Red Preparations
For New Attack
HANOI, Indochina, UPl—French
Union troops, fanning out over a
wide area around Dien Bien Phu
Thursday, destroyed a long string
of enemy trenches being built for
a fresh assault on the northwest
Indochina bastion.
Sixty rebels were killed in the
operations, the French said.
Grenades and tank guns were
used to crush in the rebel diggings
on a sector almost two miles west
and southwest of the heart of the
fortress. Then infantrymen closed
in for hand-to-hand fighting to
rout the survivors.
French warplanes, supplied by
the United States, broadened
their bombing and strafing at
tacks on the rebels’ supply lines.
Military depots at Yenbay, on the
Red River 120 miles northeast of
Dien Bien Phu, were blown up,
the pilots said, and several hun
dred trucks hauling war materiel
to the besiegers were destroyed.
(Fresh aerial aid was reported
to have arrived from the United
States, this time a shipment of
U.S. C-47 transports. The French
News Agency announced their
landing in a dispatch from Saigon.
A group of B-26 bombers got in
earlier this week to reinforce the
aerial onslaught.)
Plane Smashes Hospital
CAIRO, UP)—A single-engined
Egyptian air force plane plowed
through a hospital in suburban
Cairo Thursday, leaving patients
and staff unhurt.
An offical spokesman said the
pilot was killed.
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