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6IX MZDTOKD (OKZOOH) MAIL TKIBT7NE Tfcnndar, July 7. 19SS Jeu West Sennas. Army Will ie Patterned sed in Mer Methods U fimenea Yank Equipment, Training Planned For Fighting Forte Editor'! Note: West Germany'! army soon wUl b a reality. THe emer gence of this new military force is one of the most portentious developments since the end of World War II. A re view of this new army Is given in the following dispatch. By RUDY WECHMAR United Press Correspondent Bonn, Germany (U.R) West Germany is going to raise a thor oughly Americanized army. The new 500,000-man German fighting force will step into American style uniforms. It will be trained by American instruc tors in the use of American weapons.. It will fly American Dlanes. The new German soldier, 19S5 version, will lack two of his most widely known features of former days high jackboots and clicking heels. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's "GI" will march on rubber-soled shoes. French Foreign Minister An toine Pinay. when he learned this recently, wisecracked: "This time we won't even hear them." About 400,000 men will serve in the West German Army. There will be 80,000 in the air force and 20,000 in the small coastal navy. The new fighting force; which will be part of Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther's North Atlantic Treaty Defense Organization, will consist of 150,000 volun teers and 350,000 draftees. First Volunteers The Adenauer government is trying at the moment to push its first rearmament legislation through Parliament so it can call up the first volunteers this year. The force will be grouped into 12 army divisions plus support ing troops, an air force of fighter and fighter-bomber wings and a pocket navy which will include few small coastal submarines. The 12 divisions, six armored four mechanized and two mo torized infantry will be organ ized in the most modern manner and equipped with the latest j American weapons. Each regiment, even each bat talion of a German division will be a small self-supporting unit However, the tank regiments will be organized so all could be withdrawn from their divisions and combined into a powerful 3000-tank fighting arm. Most of the army's supporting units will be self-propelled artil lery, anti-tank brigades, special "fire brigade" tank regiments and other high-power forces. Eye To Russia The organization of the new fighting force will be modeled on American lines. But it will be modeled also with an eye on one possible enemy S o v i e t Russia. This highly-technical German army, will be supported by spe cial Russian style mortar regi ments, radar battalions and commando-raid squads. The German G.I. will wear khahi or field gray uniforms, American style. He will wear an Eisenhower jacket and probably an American style helmet. About 90 per cent of equip ment will come from the United States, probable through a modi fied lease-lend arrangement. Included will be 3000 Fatten tanks, about 1300 fighter planes, Heavy artillery, mortars, ma chine guns and other equipment. The planes will include F8S Sa- brejets. - The 30 to 40 German generals will be veterans of the former German army. Most of them have held the rank of coloneL All generals will be screened by a special committee for political reliability. , German officers will be fly ing to the United States soon to be trained in American plane and tank tactics. They will re turn to be instructors in the new army. 1, 234 HoaHao Rebels Killed or Surrender Saigon, Indochina - (U.R) The Vietnamese high command reported today that the national army has killed or accepted the surrender of 1,234 Hoa Hao sect rebels in the past two days. The report covered violent fighting in western Cochin-China where fanatic Gen. Ba Cut used "suicide" troops to save the main portion of his rebel army. The high command said 247 of the insurgents were killed. Military Works Changes Agreed Washington (U.R) A House- Senate conference committee Wednesday agreed on a long series of changes in a $2,300,000 military public works authoriza tion bill. ; The compromise measure, awaiting final enactment in the House and Senate, would author ize construction of a large num ber of projects. Money to cover construction costs will be appro priated in a separate bill. New sums for certain items changed include: Fort Huachuca, Ariz., " $5, 913,000. West Coast Ammunition Ter minal, Calif., $3,209,000. Naval shipyard, Bremerton, Wash., $2,200,000. Camp Pendleton, Calif., $648,- 000. Naval magazine, Port Chicago, Calif., $241,000. Portland international airport, Portland, Ore., $554,000. Castle Air Force Base, Mer ced, Calif., $15,550,000. Fairchild Air Force Base, Spo kane, Wash, $2,187,000. Travis Air Force Base, Fair field, Calif., $9,769,000. Cold Shoulder Due Former Soldiers Washington (U.R) No red carpet reception awaits the three former American soldiers who chose Communism at Panmun- jom but now regret it and want to return home. Government officials said to day that the Defense and Justice . departments are investigating every aspect of the turncoats conduct since they first became Korean war prisoners. When they step 'over the Red China border and are delivered to American consular authori ties, they will be told immedi ately that if they return to the United States they are subject to U.S. laws "for any wrongful act" they may have committed. The three men now sheduled to be delivered in Hong Kong at 9 p.m. (PST) Friday are Otho G. Bell, Olympia, Wash, Wil liam A. Cowart, Monticello, Ark., and Lewie W. Griggs, Jacksonville, Tex. All were cor porals when captured by the Reds in Korea. - - - , Birthdays Added To Paid Holidays- San Francisco (U.R) AFL Automobile Workers and Em ployers signed a new contract yesterday adding a union mem ber's birthday to the list of paid holidays. Besides the birthday, the paid holidays are now New Year's Day,, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Admission Day. If an employe has to work on his birthday, he gets double time. If his birthday falls on one of the other seven holidays, he'll get double pay. If he has to work, he gets triple pay. The contract also provided for a 23-cent hourly increase over three years. The contract was signed by Auto Painters' Local 1073 and Garage Employes Local 665 with organizations representing auto dealers, repair shops and auto parts jobbers. The contract did not call for employers to wish any worker a happy birthday. Bloomington, 111. U.R) William O'Brien was in jail on a drunk driving charge when he learned the City Council had approved his $1,500 claim for injuries received when he was a city employee. But city officials said he wouldn't get the money soon enough to pay a $29 fine to avoid part of the jail sentence. LOOKS AND WASHES LIKE BAKED ENAMEL "-7 S .T pert Gal. $8.6! J WtelrOj Ready to oat, aasy to apply. dries quickly. No Cm is tmd see Jtf Grain &CMr Your Horn Town Hardware 225 East Sixth California Team Wins Powder Puff Derby and $800 Springfield, Mass. (U.R) A sister team from California today won the ninth annual "Powder Puff" derby. Mrs. Frances S. Bera of Los Angeles, a flying instructor, and her sister, Edna Bower of Long Beach, won the $800 first prize money for the best time in the 2800-mile handicap race from Long Beach to Barnes-Westfield Airport here. The winning plane was a Ces sna 180. The handicap is figured on "par speed," or the air speed at 75 per cent of maximum horsepower. The $500 second prize went to Alice Roberts of Phoenix, and her co-pilot, Iris Crichell of Pales Verdes Estates, Calif., flying a Beechcraft Bonanza. In third place for $400 on cor rected time was a Bellanca Cruisair flown by Esther H. Gardiner, Waterford, Conn., and co-pilot Clarissa H. Holcomb, of Westfield, Mass. Fourth place and $200 went to Margaret Calloway of Fort Worth, Tex., and co-pilot Lindy Boyes of Piedmont, Calif., fly ing a Cessna. In ninth place was Shirley B. Froyd, Inglewood, Calif., and co pilot Joyce Agree, Inglewood, Piper Tri-Pacer. In tenth was Doris Seacret, IS) JSS HEAT'S REALLY ON John Rutledge, smelter boss in a shop of Jones & McLaughlin Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., perspires after tapping an open hearth furnace. Outside temperature was 94 as na tion's steel mills resumed operations.. , Elko, Nev., and co-pilot Helen Mcintosh, Sunland, Calif., Ces sna 140A. Forty-two planes out of 47 starters finished the transcon tinental race. Bock Stairs: Gary Cooper Capitol Guest By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer Washington (U.R) Back stairs at the White House: A recent guest, and President Eisenhower probably did not know it, was Gary Cooper. Mr. Eisenhower was away on a recent Sunday and Cooper spent "most of the day striding dramatically up and down West Executive Ave. while making scenes for his new movie about Billy Mitchell, the pioneer of the Air Force. Several key Secret Service agents missing from Washington. They're in Europe making ad vance arrangements for Mr. Eis enhower's attendance at the Big Four meeting in Geneva. Not only key men from Wash ington have been sent abroad, but some agents from other cities who had extensive experience with European law enforcement problems. Meantime, back at the White House the small staff that will accompany . the President to Switzerland is nursing a collec tion of sore arms due to inocu lations for the trip. COMPROMISE ON SKIRTS Jackson, Miss. U.R) Cen tral High School drum major ettes last year designed costumes with very brief skirts. This year critics demanded knee length skirts. Principal Charles Holla day appointed a special commit tee to work out a compromise. The new skirts will be midway between knee and thigh. : Tourists going to Europe re quire little more than a recent smallpox vaccination to get back into this country. But the White House conference personnel are receiving the full schedule of shots given troops going abroad. The President was interrupted in a New England speech re cently by the loud mooing of a heifer he was about to receive as a gift. The crowd roared with delight because - the previous speaker, Sen. Style s Bridges (R-N.H.) seemed quite nettled -when he was interrupted by the same creature and in the same bovine manner. The President joined in the laughter. ' ..: "You see," he said. "I think that is fine. After, all, it is New Hampshire talking." Interesting items from "The Great American Heritage," Bela Kornitzer's new book, on the five Eisenhower brothers: Four of the five brothers, in cluding the President have given up smoking. Earl of La Grange, 111., and Charleroi, Pa., is the re maining smoker. '. The President's mother ' and father permitted no whiskey in their house except one small bottle for medicinal purposes. And this bottle, according to Earl, lasted at least 20 years. Arthur, the Kansas City, Mo., banker, told Kornitzer, "I think I'm probably the only brother that doesn't belong to a church. That doesn't mean that I haven't got mother's religion in my souL" Daly's U-Criva Medford Airport - . P(efa TUMI fit? 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