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Wilson, Finletter Tell Defense Views Under GOP, Democratic Administrations - Editor'i not: National ttfne pnl - "Irv 1$ a b)K liu In Ihn political cam naign. Leading apftk. mn for th- two major partial prrtent thrir virwa on It in the following- ttatrmenta written for the United Preai. The Democratic ipokeiman i Taom a K. Finletter. who wat aecreurv of Ihe Air force In the Truman adminis tration, 1954-12. -Many believe he would be appointed aecretarv of de fense If Adlal Mevensoa were elerted President- lhe Republican fpoketman it rharlea E. WlUon. who haa been sec retary of defense throurhoul the fcl aenhowrr administration. THE REPUBLICAN CASE By CHARLES E. WILSON Secretary of Detente Written lor United Pri The clear objective of our Na ; tional defense policy if to pre-S-'ierve the security of the United States and its fundamental insti tutions. Shortly after the shooting was er.cd in Korea by concluding an honorable armistice, our mili tary programs were reviewed. A new policy of strength for the w long pull was adopted. This t,"new look" emphasized air pow - r and new and more effective weapons with a saving in man power. Great progress has been made dn improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our entire mil itary establishment. Our retalia tory striking power is today greater and more effective than ..ever before. This striking power Is not based on a single strategy but remains flexible to meet JShstever emergency may arise. It U this capability that makes our armed forces the effective guardian of world peace. -Rapidly Improving System We are rapidly improving our continental defense sytem. Our reserve forces are being steadily strengthened as an im portant part of our military es tablishment. Our military services have the most modern and effective weap ons and equipment that science and technology can provide. A carefully planned research and development program is designed to insure that this continues to be true. To halt any important part of this program without reliable checks on ihe activities of other governments, particularly the testing of new weapons, could only Imperil the safety of our country. We have made military ca reers more attractive through the nactment of numerous career Incentive laws and are studying what further improvements should be made in this area. New Procurement Policies We have adopted and spelled out new policies in defense pro curement to make sure that small business concerns have a full and fair chance to obtain defense contracts and sub-contracts. We in the Defense Department recognize the obligation we share with the rest of the executive branch, the Congress and the American people to improve un derstanding throughout the world if mankind is to avoid the destruction and horror that would result from a global war using today's fantastic weapons. Through maintaining a sound defense as a continuing policy we will preserve what at times may seem to be an uneasy peace until men of good will, through out the world, have had time to complete the foundations for a just and lasting peace. I am frequently asked. "Is the United States secure against at tack?'' Can Inflict Defeat My reply is that we are. I am confident that, in any war in which the United States may be come engaged, we have today the weapons and military power to inflict a disastrous defeat up on any enemy. I am also frequently asked, "Is any nation ahead of us in the arms race or likely to be ahead of us in the next few years?" My reply is that no nation is ahead of us now, nor will any be in the years ahead if we resolutely follow our present programs under President Eisen hower's leadership. Fortunately for the world as well as our own ) country, he combines actual ex j perience in combat with a thor- uugn understanding 01 me peace ful instincts and desires of the American people. No other citi zen is so well qualified to deter mine our military requirements and guide us on the road to peace as is our commander-in-chief. THE DEMOCRATIC CASE By THOMAS K. JINLETTER Former Air Force Secretary Written for United Press The Democratic case on de fense is that the present policy of our government is unneces sarily taking chances with the security of the United States. The purpose of defense plan ning in peace time is to give our country the forces it needs (1) to prevent war by making other nations fear to attack us and (2) to be ready for war i neverthe less war should come. In the day of the hydrogen bomb the first of these purposes is all important. Nobody will win the next war. There must be no next war. Planning for Future Under the Truman administra tion the United States had a de fense force which was over whelmingly superior to the Rus- Stevenson Plunges Into Five-Day Swing In Vote-Rich Areas Portland Woman, 22, Charged With Murder Portland U.R Blondean Elois Allen, 22, was charged with murder yesterday in con nection with the fatal shooting Sunday night of Betty Jean Scott. 24, in the north Portland home where both lived. Detectives Einar Moen and Philip Jackson said that Mrs. Allen first told them an un known assailant shot the woman but later changed her story and said it was accidental. The de tectives said the two women ap parently had struggled over an argument which involved Mrs. Allen's brother and younger lister. James Willis Gipson, 34, was wounded in the arm when the pistol discharged. The detec tives said Mrs. Alien told them she obtained the gun but that it went off again as she tried to set the safety, striking Miss Scott In the neck. Mrs. Allen told police she first told the story of the unknown assailant because she was afraid she would lose custody of her five-year-old daughter. Chicago (U.R; Adlai E. Ste venson plunged into the final two weeks of his campaign to day with a five-day swing cen tered on vote rich New York, Illinois and California. Stevenson, still embroiled in a running fight over his ideas about ending H-bomb tests, was scheduled to leave by plane this afternoon for New York City. He will campaign in that area until Thursday, when he returns to Illinois for a visit at Springfield Thursday. Stevenson will fly to Cali fornia for addresses in San Fran cisco and Los Angeles Satur day. Enroute, he will stop art Albuquerque, N.M., and on his way back he will spend Satur day night in Phoenix, Ariz. H-Bomb Hot Issue The booty involved in Steven son's tour this week is consid erable New York, Illinois and California carry 104 electoral votes of the 266 needed to win the presidency in the election two weeks from today. Stevenson's view that this na tion should take the lead in seeking an end to H-bomb tests shapes up as the hottest issue currently, and possibly until Sioux Falls. S. D. CUR! Dwight Nystrom spotted some carp trying to swim upstream in a roadside ditch near Lake Madison. He got out of his car and clubbed eight of them to death with a number nine golf iron. Ike To Undergo Physical Checkup During Week End Washin gton U.R) President Eisenhower this week end will undergo the "head to toe" physi cal examination that he prom ised to have before election day. The White House said results of the examination will be re leased at the latest on Monday eight days before the voters go to the polls. Enters Hospital Saturday White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced Monday the President will en ter Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday and remain overnight while undergoing the "head to toe" check up. Hagerty said the President felt "fine" after his five-day campagn swing to the West Coast last week. The President today continued to press his reelection campaign. He prepared to release this afternoon a special reply to Democratic presidential nomi nee Adlai Stevenson's proposal to halt H-bomb testing. He will speak tonight at the 75th anni versary celebration of the AFL CIA Carpenters Union at the Sheraton-Park hotel here. The talk will not be broadcast. Interview Wednesday The President will be inter viewed Wednesday by a panel of GOP women in an afternoon television appearance. He will speak at Madison Square Garden in New York Thursday night. Hagerty said top miiltary and civilian doctors who attended the President for his ileitis operation and after his heart at tack will take part in examing him. He said a report on the re sults will be issued if possible on Sunday but " no later than Monday." ..tw, t -ii5et- -?. , - v 1, " o DRIVE-IN CLEANERS O election day. The Democratic nominee add ed fuel to the fire Monday with a statement saying he agreed with President Eisenhower in resenting the way Russian Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin came out late last week in support of an end to the tests. Bulganin endorsed, the view of "certain prominent public fig ures" in America on the issue, a term taken by some to refer to Stevenson. Mr. Eisenhower raid he regarded this as an inter ference in this nation's internal affairs. Shares Resentment Stevenson said "I share fully President Eisenhower's resent ment," but added, "the real is sue is what we are going to do to save the world from hydrogen disaster." Stevenson aimed criticism at the President's strongly-worded reply to Bulganin. "Viewed from the standpoint not of politics, but of peace, I think the President's reply is unfortunate," Stevenson said. The Democrat said Bulganin may have offered to halt Rus sian H-bomb tests "for propa ganda purposes only." but it was possible to move ahead now to ward a stop to the further ex plosion of hydrogen bombs." SP Workers Killed In Crash With Train Klamath Falls (U.R) Two Southern Pacific railroad em ployees were killed yesterday near Erickson. Cilaf., about 50 miles south of here, when 'the section car on which they were riding collided with the south bound Shasta Daylight. Southern Pacific officials id entified the men as L. L. Wells, 65, and Ralph Farrar, 25. They were members of a welding crew working out of Penoyar, Calif., near Weed. Two other men on the sec tion car. Foreman Ray Stude baker, and Forest Bateman, a helper, jumped from the car and escaped with only cuts and bruises. sians, particularly in air atomic power. There was a great gap be tween us and the Russians, not only in bombs but in the air planes and missiles which would carry these bombs. Also we were planning for the future. We had a good program to keep ahead of the Russians in research and development, that is in the qual ity of our aircraft, missiles and weapons. We have lost this advantage. The gap between us and the Rus sians has been nearly closed. Testimony before the Symington committee in the Senate has shown that most of our lead in the quality of airplanes has been lost to the Russians in the past three and one half years. Our great deterrent power is ap proaching the point where it may be lost completely. Some Unaroidable Some of this is unavoidable. The Russians are putting on a crash program for the A-bomb, the H-bomb, the airplanes and missiles (both in numbers and in quality) and above all in their planning for the future, that is in reasearch and development. Still, there is no reason why this great United States could not put on a crash program too. There is no reason why we should lose this race to the Rus sians. Why is this happening? One reason is that the Eisenhower administration started in 1S53 with a S5 billion cut in the Air Force, and did it with no ex planation to the people of the country why its Air Force should be cut by a third. The administration did this for fiscal reasons, to cut expenses, to bal ance the budget. Since then we have recovered some of the ground we lost to the Russians but not enough. We are not yet taking the Russian threat seri ously enough. Improvement Needed 1 have emphasized air atomic power. There are many other things in defense planning and the defense establishment which need improvement. But this is the most important one. Because of it depends our hope that our people may be saved the horrors of hydrogen war. I know the Republican answer to this will be that no such sit uation as I have described is pos sible as long as General Eisen hower is president. But I would point out that defense planning in peace is by no means wholly a military matter. It is a ques tion of national policy about which men may differ. Some time ago, on March 20,. 1950, just three months before the Korean war started, General Eisenhower testified before a congressional committee that our military budget should not be over S15 billion a year and that our Air Force should be about one-third of its presently plan ned size. Shortly afterwards we were spending at the rate of S60 billion a year. Even now we are spending well over $30 billion; and our plans are for 137 Air Force wings instead of the 48 which General Eisenhower rec ommended. Not Faulty Judgment No one will claim -this judg ment of President Eisenhower's at the time was a faulty military judgment. It is simply a differ ence in the philosophy of the force levels which are desirable as a matter of national policy. The present loss of American air atomic superiority over Russia is due not to a faulty military judg ment but a difference in judg ment as to the purposes our mil itary forces should serve and above all as the amount of money we are willing to spend for them. 702 West Main St. Finest Qujlity Cleaning Quick 2 Hour Service Latest Type Equipment Convenient Drive-Up Windows Free Ford Tickets 844 South Riverside Kefauver Charges Soil Bank Money Used To Get Votes Waterloo, Iowa !U.R Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) charged today that the Eisen hower administration is spend ing soil bank money as election bait in states where the Repub licans are in political trouble. . "The soil bank is being cut and trimmed to fit the political needs of the Eisenhower admin istration," the vice presidential candidate said in a speech pre pared for delivery before a com bined AFL-CIO and national farmers organization meeting at the fair grounds here. "I am sure Iowa iarmers will not be fooled by Republican leap year sympathy" he said. "Very little of the money is going to states that are consid ered to go Democratic," he said on his second trip to Iowa since Oct. 12. "Not much more of it is going to states that are con sidered safely Republican. "The money is being spent in states where Republicans are in the most serious political trouble, states like Iowa," Ke fauver said. "One fifth of the whole national total that is be ing spent on the soil bank is go ing into Iowa." Kefauver said he was in favor of the soil bank which he said was originated by the Democrats anyway. 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