Armed Services
Unification Asked
In New House Bill
WASHINGTON, UP! — Complete
unification of the Army, Navy
and Air Force would be ordered
by a bill prepared for House intro
duction today.
Its author claimed it would
save three billion dollars or more
a year.
The author is Rep. Frank Ko
walki ('D-Connl, a retired Army
colonel and persistent critic of
what he calls waste and misuse
of manpower in the armed serv
ices.
“The old, taken-for-granted dis
. tinctions between land, sea and
air warfare have been obliterated
by today’s awesome weapons . . .”
Kowalski said in an accompany
ing statement. “I realize fully the
drastic nature of the bill, but the
failure of a whole series of so
called reorganizations is plain.”
The legislation would create a
single defense force under a ci
vilian secretary with command
authority subject only to the
President.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff —
made up of the present service
chiefs plus a chairman — would
be abolished, and the post of Dep
uty Secretary, to be filled by a
career military officer, would be
created.
Instead of land, sea and air
forces, the military would be
grouped into nine functional
branches, each headed by a chief
answerable directly to the Sec
retary of Defense. The branches
would be designated combat, pro
gram, personnel, development,
procurement, transportation,
training, inspection and service.
Income Tax Director
Warns of Close Check
On Interest, Dividends
SEATTLE — Stop! Take a sec
ond look at that Federal Income
Tax return you are filling out.
Did you declare all of the divi
dends you received last year? And
all of tiie interest you received or
were credited with?
It is important that you report
these amounts, Mr. William E.
Ftank, District Director of U. S.
Internal Revenue Service said
here last week.
“The law requires you to report
all dividends received and all in
terest received or credited to your
account last year,” Mr. Frank
said.
He cautioned that his office
will make a closer check this year
of dividend and interest items as
part of the nationwide Internal
Revenue Service program to close
the $5-billion gap in unreported
dividends and interest.
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Kennedy Opens Campaign
Battle in New Hampshire;
Blasts Primary Slackers
NASHUA, N. H., Jffi — Senator
John Kennedy hit the campaign
trail in New Hampshire today
and criticized other Democratic
Presidential aspirants for staying
out of state primary elections.
“Primary contests not only edu
cate the public, they educate the
candidate as well,” Kehnedy!
said. “I regret that more candi
dates in both parties will not join
me here in that discussion.”
New Hampshire holds the na
tion’s first primary on March 8.
Kennedy said that in addition
to this primary he is going into
“five or six other” state elections.
He is already entered in Wiscon
sin, Nebraska and Oregon. “And
I intend to make up my mind
about two others in the next few
weeks,” he said.
He did not identify the other
two states. However, it is pos
sible that California, with a mass
ive 81 delegate votes in the na
tional convention, may be one of
the two states.
Kennedy said that after Adlai
Stevenson’s sweeping Tictory
in the California primary in 1956
it was “inevitable” that he would i
be the Presidential nominee.
He said the same thing was '
true after General Eisenhower’s
victory in the New Hampshire
primary in 1952.
Navy’s Bathyscaph
Sets New Record
WASHINGTON, UR — The U. S.
Navy’s Bathyscaph set a new
world’s record Saturday by div-1
ing to the bottom of the Marianas
Trench in the Pacific, a depth of
more than seven miles.
The Navy announced that scien
tist Jaques Piccard and Navy Lt.
Don Walsh of San Diego were |
aboard the Bathyscaph.
The 37,800-foot dive was com- (
pleted shortly before 1 a.m. when
the Bathyscaph, named the Tri
este, came to the surface. The
descent into the deepest' known
hole in the world’s oceans also
demonstrated that the depth was
considerably greater than was
previously estimated.
At the depth of 7.15 miles, the
stout hull of the Bathyscaph was
under a pressure of 16,883 pounds
per square inch.
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ANCHORAGE, UR — Alaska
may now be the biggest state, but
listen to this: March of Dimes
contributions are displayed in
glass jars in front of the Anchor
age Post Office, one for every
state, and the largest single con
tribution to be seen is a fifty
dollar bill. It’s in the jar for
Texas. ... Of course it’s confed
erate money, suh.
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Bartlett Assures
No Cuts Planned
For Ladd Base
WASHINGTON, UP) — Sen. Bob
Bartlett squelched rumors last
week that the Defense Depart
ment is planning military cut
backs in the Fairbanks area.
Authoritative information given
him here is “that there are simply
no plans to eliminate the Ladd
base as either an Air Force or
Army installation,” Bartlett said.
iHe made the statement in the
wake of rumors that Ladd would
be abandoned as an Air Force
installation.
Secretary of the Army Wilber
Brucker announced while in Alas
ka earlier last week that he knew
of no intention to cut military
strength at the base near Fair
banks, Bartlett pointed out.
3-Day Lake Erie Ride Will
Test New Air Force
Ejection Seat Capsule
DUNKIRKEN, N. Y., UP) — The
Air Force will put an airman
afloat for 72 hours on ice-rimmed
Lake Erie beginning tomorrow.
He’ll be enclosed in an experi
mental capsule, designed to pro
tect crew members forced to eject
from high-speed aircraft. The cap
sule is planned for the super
sonic B-58 Hustler.
Tests using a dummy have been
under way since Thursday off
this lakeside city, about 40 miles
southwest ,of Buffalo.
One of two men from Wright
Paterson Air Force Base will fill
the capsule. T/Sgt. Jimmy Graves
of Harriman, Tex. or Airman 1/c
Bruce Barwise of Bovey, Minn.,
have been selected.
The Air Force said it will test
survival capability of the cap
sule, its equipment, mobility, and
other related factors. The capsule
would operate like the present
i aircraft ejection seat escape sys
tem, but the airman ' would be
sealed in as he is parachuted to
earth.
The capsule will be tethered to
a Coast Guard ship aiding the
operation. The tests are a contin
uation of water tests last year
off Key West, Fla.
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SHREWSBURY, Mass., Wl — A
heavy door fell from a U. S. Ma
rine Cor^s helicopter onto de
serted Dean Park Sunday night.
Then the pilot landed the craft
nearby, retrieved the door, and
flew back to the South Wey
mouth, Mass., Naval Air Station
without mishap.
Family of Eight Found
Dead 3 Days From Gas
In Indiana Home
MARION, Ind., Iff) — Eight
members of a Marion family were
found dead in their small home
here Saturday, and authorities
said they apparently were as
phyxiated.
Police identfied the dead as Mr.
and Mrs. Franklin Copp and their
six children, ranging in age from
two to 11.
Newspapers from Thursday,
Friday and Saturday were found
on a front porch, indicating the
family had been dead several
days.
A bread man found the bodies
Saturday morning when he made
his delivery. The coroner said the
family may have been overcome
toy gas and then asphyxiated. He
said a gas heater and flue had
not been cleaned for some time,
and the flue was clogged with de
posits of carbon.
Broadcasting Co. Chief
Asks Fines, Imprisonment
Be Levied for ‘Payola’
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Donald
H. McGannon, president of West
inghouse Broadcasting Co., pro
posed today that payola be pun
ished by fines and imprisonment.
Testifying before the Federal
Communications Commission at
hearings on possible government
controls over radio and TV pro
gramming, McGannon urged the
FOC to ask Congress for a “com
mercial bribery law.”
He submitted a draft of a pro-’
posed bill which would provide
fines up to $500 or imprisonment
up to ohe year, or both, for any
one offering or accepting private
pay for public plugs.
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Air Force Cargo
Plane Ditches On
Kuskokwim Ice
ANCHORAGE, '(* — Eleven
persons aboard an Air Force
C-123 escaped injury when the
crippled cargo plane made a suc
cessful belly landing yesterday
on a frozen river about 500 miles
west of here.
The C-123 was returning from
a supply mission to Cape Ro
manzof on the Bering Sea, when
one of its two engines caught
fire.
After sending out a distress
call, the pilot managed to ex
tinguish the fire and feather the
propeller but could not keep the
plane aloft. He slithered to a
safe, wheels-up stop on the ice
of the Kuskokwim River.
Two bush pilots with ski
equipped planes reached the scene
quickly and removed the five
crew members and six passengers
to Bethel, where an Air Force
plane picked them up and brought
them here.
Aliens Again Reminded
January Is Month for
Filing Address Reports
ANCHORAGE — J. M. Swing,
Commissioner of Immigration and
Naturalization, again reminded
all aliens in the United States
that January is the month in
which they must report their ad
dresses.
The commissioner stated, “The
address reports submitted by
aliens every January are re- 1
quired by law. The only classes
of aliens who are excused from
this requirement are diplomats,
persons accredited to certain inter
national organizations, such as
the United Nations, and persons
admitted temporarily as agricul
tural laborers.”
He stated that it is quite easy
for an alien to report. He
may obtain a card for this pur
pose at any post office or office
of the Immigration and Naturali
zation Service. Facilities are
available at those offices to fill
out cards, after which they should
be returned to the clerk from
whom obtained.
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