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(EADERS oppose HEALTH PROGRAM 5 J1 pss on President Trumans >gl 1 £or a national compulsory ?r°P0S ' ..heaith insurance’’ sys 3rE'Ptndav showed an approximate |even-to-four opposition. The Associated Press conducted 1 f-rmal poll among members I-* *?e‘ fore the Christmas recess on the ?U,C you favor President Tru man s proposal for a national pre Ta d 'health insurance” plan o be financed by additional social se f"ity taxes and by general gov mpnt revenues? ^One hundred and forty one bal t were returned. Of these, 72 °oed “no” and 43 v,ote,d y.es/:, ^Seventeen were ‘undecided,’ three were ‘non-committal, and £ others gave qualified answers Of the 141 ballots returned 75 ■rre from republicans, 63 from Uomocrat' one from an American S arty member and two by Congressmen who d.d not give their party designation. Legislative bills based on the -relrdent's proposal - but making no provisions as to the manner in "tich the health insurance pro gram would be financed - have been introduced by Senators Wag m-NY) and Murray (D-Mont) and by Rep. Dingell (D-Mich) . The bills were referred to committees for study. , , The American Medical Associa tion, which claims a strong mem bership is strongly opposed to the president’s proposal for a pre-pay ment plan that would be financed by taxation and administered un der federal law. The AMA says such a system —ctltiifa “socialized medi WUUiU --- cine.” President Truman in his Nov. 19 message to Congress said the pro gram he recommends is “not se rialized medicine” and added: "Socialized medicine means that all doctors work as employes of the government. The American people want no such system. No such system is proposed.’’ While the AMA as a group is opposed to President Truman’s proposal, some individual mem bers of the AMA say they are in favor of it. Two separate organizations of physicians — both of which claim their members are also members of the AMA—have been on record for several years as favoring a system of compulsory pre-paid in surance to cover costs of medical and surgical care. FILE SUIT LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12—UP) — Relatives of the late Mrs. E. De lora Krebs Cline filed suit in Su perior Court today against Alfred Leonard Cline, to prevent his dis posing of any property he held in joint tenancy with her and alleg ing that he gave her “hypnotic drugs and poison to deprive her of her mental faculties.” The two-millionth shipment by air express in a single year is re ported by the Railway Express. So Slimming 9247 SIZES 34.44 , Marian Martin ... 0 °' e!-v *o look at, still lovelier virti|0U" PaUe™ 9247 sUms you by •-hcn.iH .vcrtical line. waist and shirrings. Sweetheart neck p Is' Buttons optional. 36 924,7 cornes in sizes 34, Lf8'40' 44, 46. 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(International Soundphoto) Today and Tomorrow by WALTER LIPPMANN -■ ____._ _ THE PROTEST OF THE TROOPS While a full explanation, and then a thorough review, of the de mobilization must wait until Gen eral Eisenhower testifies next week, the mam facts are already known and the main questions that have to be answered are reasonably clear. We can see where Congress and the public can most usefully fix their attention. • * * The demonstrations, which be gan in the Manila area and were followed by some others elsewhere have occurred—we must note after more than two-thirds of the troops due to come home had al ready come home. Since the fight ing ended in Europe eight months ago and in the Pacific five months ago, some 4,000,000 men have been brought back from overseas. Another 1,800,000 are due to come home by July 1 of this year, that is to say during the first six months of 1946. The demonstra tions have taken place among these men—actually among the last half of the last third of those who are to come home. Their dis content arises out of the fact that the shipping exists to bring all of them home in three months—at the rate of 600,000 a month— whereas the War Department has announced that it will bring them home only within six months—at the rate of 300,000 a month. The homesick and bored troops af fected are those who could be brought home by March, and have now been told they must wait un til April, May, and June. Those who are slowed down until the spring resent it because they are being held not by lack of ships, which would be understandable and acceptable, but by a War De partment policy which has not been explained, and will be de batable when it is explained. * * * Explanation must begin with the size of the army which the War Department is planning to main tain overseas after July 1, when the demobilization will be com pleted. The plans call lor 797,000 American troops overseas—335,000 in Europe (including Italy), 375, 000 in the Pacific, and 87,000 else where. If the War Department could by volunteer enlistment and by Selective Service get enough men and could train them by March and could move them over seas so as not to fall below a to tal of 797,000 there would be no slow-down. It is bee use the War Depart ment is not going to get these re placements by March that it is holding some of the men who would otherwise be home by March. * * * The figure that needs to be ex plained and reviewed, because it is controlling, is the 797,000 troops who are to be maintained over seas, on present plans, after the veterans of this war have come home. It is evident that if the figure were ■ smaller, there would be that much less of a slowdown. It is also evident that if the new army of occupation and for over seas garrisons could be recruited faster, there would be that much less slowdown. But the figure has a greater im portance than that. The slow down, hard as it is on the men im mediately affected, is a passing problem: At worst 300,000 men will be overseas three months, an other 300,000 men will be overseas two months, and another 300,000 will be overseas one month lo"gei than they had been given reason to expect. But after all these men are home, the real question will remain, which is whether the figure is a correct estimate ol the army which this country should maintain overseas during the postwar. It may be th e correct figure But it may not be. That there is doubt about it is proved by the fact that during the last three months the War Department has revised it considerably, reducing its estimate made in September by 400,000. This was a reduction by nearly one-quarter of the tota Army—overseas and continental— and of about one-third if the re duction is applied to the overseas Army alone. Such variation shows that the estimate of what we need overseas to carry out our commit ments is at this moment at best only an informed' guess. It cannot become better than that until we break down the fig ure and ask how it was arrived at. Then we shall find that the real issues which have to be deter mined begin to define themselves. * * e The bulk of these overseas troops are to be used for the oc cupation of Germany and Japan, virtually all of the remainder to garrison our outposts. Now the size of our two Armies of Occu pation needs thinking about, and I venture to say it has not been thought about sufficiently. How many troops we need depends up on what kind of force we could best use in the defeated countries, and what mission we ask them to carry out. I believe that the estimate for Germany is unsound—that both the objective and the military in strument to achieve that objective are wrongly conceived and should be re-examined. * * • The objective, which has been set by the President and' the State Department, is to keep Ger many demilitarized by occupying, so far as we are concerned, a large quarter of Germany. It is hoped that this will result even tually in reeducating the German nation. Such an objective obvious ly requires a large army for a long time. There is another way to demili tarize permanently. That is to separate from ther sovereignty of Germany, and to keep perma nently under the control of her European neighbors, the war po tential of the Ruhr Valley—chief ly its coal mines. This would un doubtedly demilitarize Germany, and it would not require a long occupation of the whole of Ger many by large'Allied garrisons. Once this political surgery had been performed, the kind of force needed to make Germany obedient would no longer have to be a large garrison army. It could be a con stabulary backed up by a very small, highly-armed and swift moving, striking force. The whole of it could be composed of profes sionals—none of it would have to be made up of amateurs tem porarily doing a job they have no taste, no aptitude and no training to do. * * * If we push the analysis far enough we shall find that the makers of our foreign policy have been hesitating to make clear po litical decisions, and that the War Department has given much too little thought to the character of the forces of occupation. As a result we are committed to an in flated estimate of the number of men. It calls for so many men be cause our political objective is not simple but vague and' complex, and because there is no plan for recruiting and giving special train ing to a smaller number who would be more efficient for a sim ple objective. If the State Department would make the objective simpler and more definite, if the War Depart ment would not let quantities of troops be a substitute for special quality, we should stand a much better chance of achieving our war aims without an unending series of crises. GOOD YEAR ’45 DEDHAM, Mass.—(VP)—The Ded ham Society for Apprehending Horse Thieves reported at its 135th annual meeting that not a single horse had been stolen in Dedham during the past year, but that 300 active members had been added to the club. Total paid membership is now 2,216. The maximum age for entering the U. S. Military Academy at West Point now is 24 instead of 22 years V HITLER ORDERED DEATH OF SEAMEN NUERNBERG, Jan. 14—(g5)—In an effort to render American ship ping construction useless by creat ing a shortage of seamen, Adolf Hitler early in 1942 directed' Ger man U-boats to kill or capture crews of torpedoed vessels, evid ence introduced today in the Nazi war crimes trial disclosed. The fuehrer’s orders were dis closed in notes on a conversation between Hitler and Japanese am bassador Hiroshi Oshima in the presence of foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop on Jan. 3, 1942. The notes were submitted to the international tribunal. “The fuehrer pointed out that however many ships the United States built, one of their main problems would be the lack of personnel,” the memorandum con tinued. “For that reason even merchant ships would be sunk without warning, with the intention of killing as many of the crew as possible. “Once it gets around that most of the seamen are lost in the sink ings, the Americans would scon have difficulties in enlisting new people.” Other evidence intended to show that the Nazi naval command de liberately sponsored a campaign of sea terror was ready for sub mission as allied prosecutors sought to bolster the charges against Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz. Doenitz is first on the list of 10 defendants whose individual cases Britain and the United States hope to conclude this week. Clear ing the way for French and Rus sian prosecutors to start their cases next week. Delegation Advocates 50-Year Jap Policing TOKYO, Jan. 14.—(ff)—Allied oc cupation of Japan for as long as 50 years was advocated today by Tomas Confesor, chief Philippinens delegate to the Far Eastern com mission. “I believe we should keep troops here for from 25 to 50 years,” Con fesor said in the first statement by any commission member on the length of military occupation. COPS WATCH FEET INDIANAPOLIS (U.PJ — When a burglar robbed Haag’s drugstore, he left a clew almost as good as a footprint. Besides taking $65 in cash, he made off with several pairs ofc size 13 sox. Indianapolis police are hunting a big-footed buglar wearing new stockings. The state general fund of Wyo ming is over $4,000,000, for the highest in its history. TOMORROW ALRIGHT Dependable ^//-VEGETABLE LAXATIVE ARE ONLY AS DlIECTIft GET A 25? BOX * always rely on this great rub for CHEST COLDS To Relieve Coughs—Aching Muscles At the first sign of a cold —the Quin tuplets’ chests, throats and backs are immediately rubbed with Musterole. Musterole instantly starts to relieve coughs, sore throat and aching muscle-; of colds. It actually helps break up painful local congestion. Makes breath ing easier. Great for grown-ups, too! HOUSE MEMBERS HONOR JOE ERVIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—OP) — Former colleagues paid tribute today to the late Rep. Joe W. Ervin (D-N. C.) before the House, after a brief session, adjourned out of respect to his memory. Ervin was found dead Christ mas day in his gas-filled Washing ton apartment. The coroner said he committed suicide. Rep. Bonner (D-N. C.) told the House, “he was too devoted to his duty, took too much work home at night.” Rep. Rankin (D-Miss.) said “certain matters before the House disturbed Joe Ervin and disturb all of us who love the good. He worried over problems until it de stroyed his health and life.” Rep. Whittington, (D-Miss.) at tributed the Ervin suicide to over work, and Rep. Vursell (R-Ill.) said the problems of his country killed him. Rep. Pickett (D-Tex.) described Ervin as “one of the soundest and best workers of Congress.” At the suggestion of Rep. Dough ton (D-N. C.) the House passed a resolution of “deep sorrow” ovei Ervin’s death. TWO-IN-ONE COCONUT SHREVEPORT, La. (U.R) — Twc for the price of one. Mrs. Gloria Vucinovich bought a coconut at the market, took ii home and cut it open. Inside was another undeveloped coconut. Santa Fe, N. M., settled in 1608, is the second oldest town in the United States. RURITAN NATIONAL OPENS CONVENTION AT ELIZABETH CITY ELIZABETH CITY, Jan. 14.—(/P) —Ruritan National launched its 16th annual convention here today with about 500 delegates present. The opening day’s events of the two-day session called for a wel coming address by Mayor Jerome B. Flora, followed by a business session during which district gov ernors and national officers will make their reports. Governor R. Gregg Cherry of North Carolina will be the principal speaker at tonights banquet. Strick land Gillilan of Washington will speak at tomorrow night’s conclud ing banqet. Carlton E. Holladay of Wakefield, Va., is serving as convention chair-1 man. L. T. Hall of Windsor, Va..; heads the national organization, which is rpade up of farmers and business men whose aim is com munity service. COURT TEACHES PARENTS PORT HURON, Mich. (U.R)— Parents of delinquent children here are going to school. Nine fam-j dies were represented when thej first of a series of classes in home-11 making was held under the direc-1' tion of juvenile court. The pronunciation of the name of the state of Arkansas is Ar-kan Baw, but the Arkansas River Ja pronounced Ar-kansas. 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"The Regular Army Offers You One of ® the World’s Best Jobs" WAR DEPARTMENT Lg OFFICE OF THE CHIEf OF STAFF « •The purpose of the Army’s world-wide gj enlistment campaign is twofold: *° r**®a*® Jjl| ucn of long and arduous .ar »" « *” *“* to return to civilian life-and to build a strong Regular Army of volunteers. , WP "By our victory we have won the respect V; of- the world.^ We can lose that respect, and '■ Iwith it our influence toward a just and peaceful i b order, if .. reduce our nilltary forces to | the point where they become weak or ineffective. |g •The Congress has enacted and the President jj has approved legislation which makes enlistment in the Regular Army more attractive than eveT before in our history. It gives the soldier position in the new peacetime Army that merits the respect of all our citizens. "Every American should know the valuable provisions in this new Armed Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act. • They help place your Regular Army on the highest plane of any army on earth „ith advanced study, training and travel at good pay in a career of high duty and responsibility. "There is a solid obligation on all of us to safeguard the victory we have won at such enormous cost, 'The rapid rebuilding of our j Regular Army is a vital necessity if we are j to meet that obligation." Chief of Staff, United States Army j MEN NOW IN THE ARMY who reenlist before Feb ruary 1 will be reenlisted in their present grade. Men who have been hon orably discharged can re enlist within 20 days after discharge in the grade they held at the time of discharge, provided they reenlist before February J, 1946. PAY PER MONTH-ENLISTED MEN W In Addition to Food, Lodging, Clothes and Medical Can 1 MONTHLY « RETIREMENT Starring |NCOME AFTER: (os* Pay Per 20 Years' 30 Years' Master Sergeant Uonth Strrlet Urrle* or First Sergeant #138.00 #89.70 #155.25 Technical Sergeant 114.00 74.10 128.25 Start Sergeant . . 96.00 62.40 108.00 Sergeant .... 78.00 50.70 87.75 Corporal . . . 66.00 42.90 74.25 Private First Clast. 54.00 35.10 60.75 Private .... 50.00 32.50 56J5 la)—Plus 20% Increase for Service Overseas. (b)—Plus 50% if Member of Flying Crews, Par achutist, etc. (c)—Plus 5% Increase in Pay for Each 3 Years of Service. Highlights of the kjEW ENLISTMENT ACT : 1. Enlistments for 1%, 2 or 3 year*. (1-year enlistments permitted for men now in Army with at least 6 months’ service.) 12. Enlistment age 17 to 34 years inclu sive, except for men now in Army, who may reenlist at any age, and former ser vice men, depending on length of service. 3. Men reenlisting retain their present grades, if they reenlist within 20 day* after discharge and before Feb. 1, 1946. 4. The best pay scale, medical care, food, quarters and clothing in the history of our Army. 5. An increase in the reenustment bonus to $50 for each year of active ser vice since such bonus was last paid, or since last entry into service. 6. Up to 90 days’ paid furlough, de pending on length of service, with fur lough travel paid to home and retuAi, for men now in the Army who reenlist. 7. A 30-day furlough every year at full pay. 8. Mustering-out pay (based upon length of service) to all men who are discharged to reenlist. 4. Option to retire at half pay for life after 20 years’ service — increasing to three-quarters pay after 30 years’ service. All previous active federal military ser vice counts toward retirement. 10. Benefits under the GI Bill at Rights. 11. Family allowances for the term of enlistment for dependents ojf men who enlist or reenlist before July 1, 1946. 12. Choice of branch of service and overseas theater in the Air, Ground or Service Forces on 3-year enlistments. 13. Privilege of benefits of National Service Life Insurance. 14. Reserve and A.U.S. commissioned officers who have been released from active duty may be enlisted in Grade 1 (Master Sergeant) and still retain their reserve commissions. ._ REENLIST NOW AT YOUR NEAREST U. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION 203 P. 0. BLDG. WILMINGTON, N. C. h *
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