Show Four Committees Sift Waste Mismanagement 'Kickbacks' and Extravagances of Military WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourtary supplies Both groups committee have that vast savings are possible bycongressional America's worldwide mill- - establishment of a single purchastary structure under the closest ing agency to buy all military re-recent of audit years qurrements public Military officials summoned tn Investigators have probed every- -thina from the cost of shoes to air- testify at oublic hearinoa have the committees often countered some of the eqarges openly competing with each other brought by various committeemen search for waste in the military es But they have not answered all tabkshmerit criticism directed at their manageThe legislators have mads)' it ment The full story in each Invesplain they are just beginning most tigation has not Jeen told The committees and their Overlapping investigations of the to an airbase project near the North Pole meant a rate of 000 a year for laborers and $17000 ' for mechanise The government spent $1 million on wages before the workmen ar- rived at the base and 3 17000 lot standby pay" while they WMU3m home awaiting onMn Pick said bonuses were necessary because the work was hazardous k and pay accumulated while the workmen underwent investigations The situation which the Herbert airfield nroaram have and recent sensations' apse foreign are Bonner subcommittees 1 — The Lyndon B Johnson (D- - brought the most concrete develop- n Favor Single Agency toe teemed that workers for' Si Rep Hardy sent five of his subsuper-secrairbase "near the committee Congress has recommended esFrench investigators toinforma-tiotablishment of a single agency tt North Pole" hsd coUefted three Morocco North n Africa for a single million dollars in pay before on a project to construct five buy military supplies and the job e a cost catalog recording items on hand or at reaching fields bomber 2 The Hardy house ex- initially estimated at $250 million contemplated purchases Bonner said the Pentagon issued When he scheduled hearings on penditures subcommittee reported instructions last July for the servthat between $25 and $50 million their reports the Johnson commithave been lost by waste kicklMMi tee resumed its own sessions ices to move toward centralized in the construc- ffSSIij then announced he would purchasing But he added the only and tion of North African airfields turn over his data to the senate definite step has been to inaugurate 3 The Bonner house group but he released much at II an experiment now underway by which the army medical depot at said in a special statement Wednesday expenditures subcommittee Alameda Calif buys all medical that despite unification the air force was planning to establish i! Outline of Situation supplies used by he three services From this report and committee in Korea and the seven western own supply system and other special services at an added cost "run- testimony this is an outline of states the Morocco situation: IWNrbert says several million dolinto the billions" ning 4 The Herbert house Shortly after the Korean war lars annually are being wasted to inarmed services subcommittee re- started the Pentagon authorized a maintain 15 separate catalogs rush project to build five bomber stead of one Rep Jack Z Anderson ported the armed forces were in French Morocco The implihas introduced a bill to spending millions of dollars un- bases a was cation that invasion Soviet of a single catalog adoption require necessarily through competitive the middle east was feared The subcommittee investigations buying practices and "mismanage- of The six months' project was have involved various phases of ment" of supply systems In general the Johnson and scheduled to begin in January 1951 fcssjnulti billion dollar supply sysHardy groups are concerned now but work did not start until April tem The legislators have charged Wife exploring the cost and methods It was delayed by negotiations that military officials do not want the French to enter Morocco to centralize because they want to f constructing overseas airbases with and by Bsasntsin their "supply empires" or complicated Vas Savings Possible changes in location to keep Ameri- create new ones comThe Bonner and Herbert can Tht Herbert subcommittee has away from Moroccan mittees are probing the entire In- citiesgarrisons a "chamber of horrors" arra-Rctricate system or purchasing miliWorkmen were recruited at bonus exhibit of different prices — from pay and materials hastily assembled several dollars to a few cents — The air force let the construction paid for identical items by the three NATURE'S MOST contract through the army engi- services neers to the Atlas Construction Co Archibald S Alexander underRICHLY r William J Cassidy resident of the army testified that secretary COLORED TREE! in North Africa for the srmy different prices inevitably resulted audit agency swore before the from different circumstances when Hardy subcommittee that irregu- each contract was let He offered lar practices" mushroomed no concrete promise of when single T US described a "conspiracy to agency buying could be expected boost prices "kickbacks" on the Herbert has charged that "Pentapurchase of supplies and110 over- gon propagandists are trying to perdivert interest from the probe Vice charges ranging from 25 to cent as the result of alleged "col- Admiral Charles W Fox chief of lusion" between the sellers and naval materiel said publicity sursomeone in the contractors' office rounding the subcommittee's He said there was no adequate conwas ' eating into the trol over workers and 1000 were innards of American morale" fired in one day for excessive drinkBut the probe apparently is just ing and loafing getting underway Personnel Incompetent Cassidy said incompetent personnel were transported to North Africa at government expense and some workers' wives were taken tgSKPjqHHisslfrB'there for cheap maternal care The auditor said nearly four mil- WASHINGTON (UP) — It will lirn dollars in expense vouchers NEW have been disapproved He said he be at least another 30 days before was threatened with dismissal etc President Truman discloses whethrefusing to okay one voucher sec- er he will run for Edwin V Huggins assistant SPfCSftt 'Jfs made that clear this week retary of the air force testified beV MAR fore the Johnson committee that when he announced he is going to the final cost of the project could Key West Fla and will NOT make Of FIR not be estimated The Atlas Co any political announcement while $" Grows Anywhere! on vacation a operating sa basis is fl7on million Trie president isn't expected to behind on its come back from his vacation until i accounts he said sir $2) Huggins said the fields finally just in time for the Democratic In faH ttiis h - moil goravoutly end Jefferson-Jackso- n could handle any plane party's big constructed colors In oil America TV dinner here March 29 now in service but air force offiret or a brilliant roiy irarlst — cers feared expensive maintenance brighter tnon you can imaainvl In would be necessary to keep them serine Hw trm It fug of boautiful tcor-operating Ac you can t flewer Lt lien Lewis A Pick enter of v from r the ar- -y engineers testified that ' arfacriy htt "oyfutni one airfield was abandoned at an SSSSalsSllsst wonderfully graceful win estimated loss of SI 43000 when add mteiMndavs voiuo to your propWASHINGTON (AP) — The runway extensions to make it lit erty and gis you years of proud satbombers became too expensive is going to nominate Gen president isfaction Roacbat hoiaht to 70 foot Pick said he went to North Africa Hoyt Vandenberg for a further Sent ideal trantplanKng ize 3 to S to term as chief of staff of investigate "bad rumors" but feed On anloel trees can be plewtsd that considering the the air force Presidential Secre contended or stored at your convenience Limited was well done rush the job tary Joseph Short announced yessupply and tney can't last long at Brig Gen J C Hardin an arnry terday order now! Send $1 for rhee prices— Gen Curtis Le May will be nomengineering expert said French $2 for 3 postage prepaid C O D'i authorities have made "surprise" inated for the post' of vice chief If not delighted return at welcome demands for 124 percent tax on al! of air staff Short said once for money back SXTKA GIFT— materials and equipment shipped If you order at once you II receive a M°rccof°r tTbses: !ltilou5t Turned Over to U S i: colorful Red Twig Dogwood will r f r ci BUENOS AIRES AP — Saul French The matter now is under Saulsen Kruse Nurseries Dept S4705 23 of Detroit was turned negotiation he said tningten over to the U S embassy Friday w 0ftfl 513 Nome Pay night after spending 15 days under The Johnson committee brought Argentine arrest Embassy offl- out that premium pay for workmen cials said ha is in good health contend-rasslgne- THE OGDEN 2A (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINE- SUNDAY MORNING MARCH — mm'' Big Medal for Tiny Boy In Making $13-piac- 'sflpjjt '"Bjlf Ma are hybrids and often benefit from combining the best in the hereditary make-u- p of the original partners Immigration and population movements and conquests bring ths kind of mixing Falling in love also promotes it The scientist is Dr George D Snell who does research on generics and the role of heredity In cancer at the Roscoe B Jackson memorial laboratory Bar Harbor SBBSSSBBBBBBBBBBBBn long-rang- (D-V- a) ' g O D-L- inter-teste- (R-Cal- if) — -- W ast-minu- te d aurf-fa- President Won'4 Say for Month - " Royal RED I ion $100-a-pla- te Renominate Vandenberg Will ! ei-- 1m 14-mo- 1 1° B v : v i c--o VILLAGE FLOORS OF "QUALITY CONTROLLED" -- f ' - 'I ' - 3k a ' - : ' ' -- M Mr and Mrs Archie Van Winkle look at their son Barrik as he wears the congressional medal of henof presented to his father recently by President Truman The baby (born February 24) seems unimpressed by the high honor Van Winkle won the medal for heroism in Korea while serving with the U S marine corps Poor Lively Elizabeth II Faces Life of Loneliness London (AP)—It's a lonely from now on for Elizabeth II the lively young woman of 25 who has become sovereign queen of an empire and first lady of the BritI ish commonwealth her parents were well Laua of her future of exalted responsi- bilities Both referred to her as a lonely girl Two days after funeral of King Eliza- George VI Queen Mother both in one of her rare public statements asked Britons to con- that her daughter had been called to a "great and lonely sta- tion" Five years earlier the late king had commented sadly that her position marked his daughter for solitude Standing beside the grave of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa the king on tour with his farrv v observed that Elizabeth had sauntered off by herself "There goes Elizabeth poor lonely girl" he remarked to a southern Rhodesian minister "She will be lonely all her life" Many may wonder how lonely an exalted young woman in a palace can be because the life of Elizabeth II is rich in human contacts The young queen has two babies and her husband is the Duke of Edinburgh who keeps up energetic associations with an interesting world The queen has a mother a end grandmother a lively sister—Lonbefore her lies the whole of don's vivid society She has a prime minister Winston Churchill who will see her at least once a week and conversation with Mr Churchin is never dull No Time for Friends For a young woman with such contacts loneliness would not seem to be a grave personal problem but a modern British sovereign simply doesn't have time for friends or relatives or relaxations British sovereigns do not have any real authority but they are consulted about an incredible number of things In some circles there Is a guilty impression that King George VI never rugged physically might have been worked to death working day will shape up some-lif-e 4 thing as follows: "First thing in the morning of course is ten Then the swift round of routine starts 'First come snappy interviews with members of her 'personal staff who get their assign-Botments fQr the day Twd or thrM newspapers must be read with some thoroughness That takes time even after secretaries have marked the important items which mustn't be skipped Next comes the private secretary Sir Alan Lascelles' He brings ers from the cabinet which must be scanned and some of them thoroughly read The queen and Sir Alan then discuss the program for the day An assistant secretary appears with an armful of routine documents A great number must be signed Many decisions must be I i h pap-aid- office telegrams from Foreign g The embassies follow sovereign keeps in close touch with foreign relations There is no attempt as in Queen Victoria's day to try to influence policy directly but those telegrams suggest matters to be taken up with the prime minister Next there is personal Correspondence the British royal family tries to answer every letter In the week after thelate king's death telegramaand cables were received at Buckingham palace Letters came at the rate of 2000 a day Mast Make Decisions After the personal mail is out of the way Queen Elizabeth likely will have to make some decisions for officials of her household Buckingham palace is as complicated to run as' a big hotel and while the queen isn't burdened with details she is responsible and must know about major problems After the household officers come officials of the royal estates Windsor castle Sandrigham and Balmoral It is a considerable operation in accountancy Finally comes the The keeper of the privy purse queen must keep posted as to how she stands financially it's quite possible for a sovereign to go broke With such worries out of the way The London Daily Mail discussed official business starts Invariably there are audiences with goverthis view and observed: "There ia much talk of a new nors of colonies and dependencies Elizabethan age and we believe on visit and other officials who it is possible But the inspiration have a lot to say for it cm iid not come from a tired and jaded sovereign The vitality Blames 2 c Postcards and freshness of the queen's young ST LOUIS (UP)— The St Louis womanhood are today a precious Co a public utility national possession Let us treasure County Water seeking a rate increase cited an operational increase of $361338 in 8nappy Interviews its application It blamed tne two If nothing is done about it pal cent postcard on which it mails its ace sources said Queen Elizabeth'sbills to customers far-flun- 15-1- nim-ble-witt- ed MA-TI-C- O A Thlck-9- x9 58 anthropologists have noted that great civilizations have followed the mingling of two or more races such as the mingling of Alpine pea-pi- e with Nordic or Mediterranean The mixing is likely to produce very vigorous people he says At first the new people may spend a century or two developing their nation's resources then they may well turn to greater artistic and scientific development The United States may be in this stage now Another exampje is the descendants of nine Britishmutineers who landed on the Pitcairn islands in 1789 bringing with them Polynesian women from Tahiti Studies show thst the male descendants — hybrids between the British and Polynesians—were taller better physical specimens more fertile and more vigorous than the parent stocks CVirtrcma 'Profit' "Tt?!!? WASHINGTON (UP) — The chamber of commerce of the United States said yesterday the U S treasury has chalked up almost $1 090090000 "profit" from the unemployment insurance system at the expense of the states military reservation Brooks' statement was in reply to m rvuiu rue-uSutton u- allegations by Rep Fat was built at that the BORDENTOWN N JF (UP) — Tenn) lodge taxpayers expense as a private Seven persons were injured yester- hideaway for the general day when an skidding automobile set which piled up According to Brooks' statement a up a d New Washington D C patent attorney 25 cars on the Charles M Thomas built a home Jersey turnpike north of the Bor- two-cgarage siaDie ana oxner dentown interchange buildings on Travis iaxe tn wti and 1942 he said Thomas sold 621 Will Tour Europe acres of land including these buildNEW YORK (UP) — Thirty-nin- e ings to the army as part of the newspaper and radio editors left reservation for $72500 by airplane yesterday for a tour of 10 European and Thaw for Television? middle eastern countries WASHINGTON (AP)— Paul A Walker new chairman of the Fed- To Fight Rail Seizure eral Communications Commission WASHINGTON (UP) — The nasaid yesterday his agency still has tion's railway unions representing television of hopes "unfreezing" 1500000 workers will fight almost March the of end this before President Truman's request for "renewal of his special war power to Sees Truman Win seize and operate the railroads a spokesman "said yesterday y NEW YORK (AP) — of Labor Michael J Galvin yesterday predicted that not only Journalism Code would President Truman run for UNITED NATIONS N Y (UP) this fall but the Demo- Newspaper executives and informa56 run percratic party would up tion experts from 12 countries will cent of the popular vote- meet here tomorrow to continue drafting of an international code nun p chain-eeactio- snow-covere- ar one-mont- Under-Secretar- Find Wreckage of ethics for journalists despite United States warnings that such a code would restrict rather than ROANOKE RAPIDS N C (UP) The wreckage of a light plane that disappeared in a blinding electrical storm last night was found in s pasture near here today The only occupant was s New York salesman courage freedom of press 'Cooking up Deal' WASHINGTON — (UP) James P Kem charged yesterday that the administration was "cooking up a deal" to educate iron curNewsman 72 Dies tain country escapees at US taxNEW YORK (AP)— Keats Speed payer expense and was immediately executive editor of the old New challenged by the displaced persons York Sun and one of the nation's commission newspapermen died yesterday He was 72 Backs Alaska Statehood best-know- n (UP) — Sen H WASHINGTON Trawler Sunk Alexander Smith (R-J) is planning to ask the senate to reconsider its vote shelving the Alaskan statehood bill Sen Joseph C O'Mahoney reported yesterday N Way' - to work almost instantly Others dissolve slowly don't go into action until they reach the intestines where they act most effectively This chemical control over timing makes drugs more effective and saves money by cutting"the requirement on amount of drugs that otherwise would have to be taken says Drr Niels C Klendshoj executive By Vera Haugland of Arner Co pharmaceutical manufacturers JvUnBepa'rter VsIlllWdt nil uiwv x uia9 Too High to Do Any Good eant men vice-preside- WASHINGTON — Ren China's' Water Geta Harder ma rip in Russia air force is stay- CHICAGO (AP) — Hard water often gets harder in winter rea- ing so high in the sky that it is son is that lakes rivers and reser- failing to accomplish its mission voirs get water from two sources — in Korea from the earth's surface and from That is the conclusion of defense -- -- ' j very hard underground water When freezing weather stops the surface flow the continuing underflow makes the lake or river ground r ardor says George Klumb director of the Culligan Soft Water Institute Northbrook 111 To Probe $1000 Shipping Fees WASHINGTON (AP) and department authorities pilots other experts recently returned from the battle area The reds have 900 or more Mig- fighters in the theatre They roam the upper altitudes over the battle zone m greet numbers But only with compare- -tive rarity — despite the advanabove — do tages of attack from they descendany more to the flight — Fees and profits involved in the shipping of munitions to Korea and of XS S aid materiel to Europe headed yesterday for senate investigation One competent source declining to be named said profits averaging more than $1000 a day "are not unusual" on some of the charters Sen Lyndon B Johnson disclosed bis senate preparedness subcommittee has a preliminary study of the fees and profits under to way which he expects will lead ' story public airing of the Johnson told a reporter he was instructing his staff to make "a detailed study" of the reasons "why we run up the costs of these programs by dealing through middlemen" and of how contracts are negotiated (D-Te- x) j WMeh Better Plane? Which is the better plane? Ma J Gen Donald L putt vice comnf tKo air fnrre research and development command told a that congressional committeeto that add ap- question is liketotryingbananas The get pies and pears answer depends upon the purpose for which the plane is required Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg air chief of staff makes this point-by-1- 5 point comparison: j The Mig15 nas a slight vantage over the 6 in rate of at gii altitudes The " suPe "itUdesthe ? F-8- °iner!the CTJgL!T-g5- r sys-tem- lc "The red fliers don't attack our bases or supply lines for they've been warned that we would be forced to retaliate with strikes into Manchuria" one observer said Stay Up There "They stay up there trying td lure our planes up to 40000 feet where they have much the advantage "Their mission is definitely defensive — yet they can't do anything decisive about our interdiction operations — the cutting of enemy supply lines — when they stay 'way up there to The Migs have forced not 'operate only at night hut havetactithe U N seriously affected cal mission — the interruption of supply lines 'Trie reds have also failed in their attempt to set up airbases in Korea "What the Russians are doing though is training large numbers of pilots in jet flying and to some extent In jet combat" the observer said Recently America's greatest jet ace Major George A Davis was quoted as saying that "The Migs are so much better than the Sabres that something must be done" Davis was declared missing in action following a battle in two and between ' 10 Mig-lS- s At Lubbock Texas bis wife made public a letter in which he had said: "We lose so many planes and so v B-2- mid-Februa- ry F-8- 6s SSSo feet VilSSL'Lli an 6 has equivalent speed and at ran rmtdive the Mia-16 pears to handle better The class is in the 4 Above 25000 feet the Mig is somewhat faster than the 8 and being lighter it has a higher servservice ceilice ceiling The 6 ing is given merely as "over F-8- 5 F-8- F-o- F-8- 45-0- feet" The engine used in the Mig-1- 5 d has greater thrust than the thrust of the engine in the F-- 8 now in combat But we have jet engines of far higher thrust in production and development as we must assume 5 5200-poun- they have" says Vandenberg Plana Are Compromise "All airplanes are a compromise of lighting characteristics The are roughly and the 6 Mig-1- 5 in the same general area of technical development" reds have Vandenberg says the Mig-15 but to the superior fighters num- in not have yet appeared they ' SSk Most Sabrejet pilots believe their deplane is of better areodynamic of sign than the Mig As evidence this they cite a number of inhas dived stances in which an 6 away from a Mig or has pursued and caught a Mig and 'sent eit out The Russian-madof control built though they planes ruggedly are go out of control as tney approach" the speed of sound the American fliers report Interdiction fortunately is a 6 job 0 Stars Shooting Thunderjets and other planes go on shooting truck convoys up railroads andoverhead keep an while Sabrejets eve on the commies upstairs In combat with the Migfcjg have been scoring better than IV to 1 At the last count the Sabrejets had shot dowmjfip at a cost of 23 Mig-15- s Wgf burden of Mig combat has fallen upon the two fighter wings in Korea about 150 is equipped with pit The Mig-1- 5 seats - Mig lot armor and ejection have been - seen usingjHi pilots a e parachutes a bail-odevice developed by the Germans As Interceptor The Mig-1- 5 was designed as an interceptor presumably to knock ana uuier msm— down It has a tude bombers cannon in the belly and Mia But wing cannon Vandenberg says: "When you add large calibre armament to an aircraft the number of rounds that you can fire is require swictly limited This esateed accuracy which is difficult at high speeds To date our 50 calibre machine gun has proved superior to the "Russian-installe- d cannon of the That's the view of the top ace too Shortly before he was shot Davis remarked F-8- F-8- - REGULAR' 10c 12c 14c EACH WHILE THEY LAS- T- tree-skippin- F-8- g F-8- F-8- T 11 F-8- 6s 5 Installation Accassorias Available New for VILLAGE FLOORS 6SSS Fr Your with ut VACUUM LlmHmd 2-97- Time Only 69 Demonstration in Your Homo COUNTRY CLUB APPLIANCE 39 iS nign-spee- bon-typ- smi — DIAL J ALLOWANCE TRADE-I- N OPEN EVENINGS TILL 7 EASY TERMS V I PIANOS Distinguished Products of Famous Company ff n 94-Year--Old Dunkley MUSIC OGDEN LOGAN I II - 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V Inch er made ALT TILE DARK MEDIUM Me d As a hobby be has been in what among groups does to humans Often this mixing of heredity brings superior individuals or national achievement he writes in the Quarterly Review of Biology May Be en Verge of Genius The United States represents a mixing of stocks In fact Dr Snell says the United States may be on the verge of a brilliant flowering of genius in thought and art because of it Dr Snell says historians and cross-breedi- I a FT MEAD Md (UP) — Lt Gen Brooks Second army commander tonight denied that a luxurious lakeside lodge at A P Hill military reservation in Vir- ginia had been built at taxpayers' expense for his personal use Brooks in a statement issued by his office further said he never thee spent a night at the lodge or stayed overnight anywhere on the 77000-acr- e Edward H NEW YORK (AP) — Love It seems can be credited with an as'' i gist in making nations great A scientist writes that national greatness may often follow intermarriage of different stocks or races of people Their offspring ' elBBBBBBBBBeBSaaS 'Sflfor 8SsT et (D-N- BuiM Taxpayer Expend Br Alton X Blakeslee A F Science Beporter pre-wor- Toda General Denies Nations Greai d i price-boostin- 7he Nation love Assists R 2 1952 JS-Z- K Mig-15- |