Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22

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Mrs. Muller proposed this AVE.
point program:
/. Raise the draft age to 50.
2. Reinduct young men previously
exempted or declared surplus to
Army needs.
8. Provide dependency allotments
Tor young men of school age and
arrange for their education while in
service overseas.
4. Continue the draft law beyond
its May IS expiration date.
S. Lower the Army's physical
standards.
May Promises Consideration.
Chairman May promised the wom-
en- that their points will be raised
when we deal with selective serv-
Ice"
Somewhat Modified, the women
allowed Gen. Eisenhower to leave
with Mr.. May for the committee
hearing. .'..
Mr.. May declared that several bills
now pending before the committee
cover the priority release of fathers,
students and other special groups.
To this Gen. Eisenhower declared
that If these special group" bills
are enacted into law they would
arouse the antagonism of the 9TH
ers who are not governed by the
pending bills. IF enacted into law
Congress would have to tell us
which of our Jobs they didn't want
us to do"
Gen. Eisenhower told the commit
tee that although there are TOO 1000
fathers In the Army now, 10000 of
them will have been discharged by
July /.
Discounts Agitators.
In answer to a query on the pos
sibility that subversive organiza-
tons had been responsible for the
troop demonstrations abroad, Gen.
Eisenhower declared he was con-
WINGED that SO per cent of the unrest
was genuine but that it was pos
slble agitators had taken advantage
OF the situation.
Asked II the Army is doing any,
thing to discover such subyersiye
activities, he replied.
Il prefer not to tell in open ses-
sion what the Army is doing. What
we are doing is being done with good
sense and we are certainly doing our
best"
Troops In the Philippines, he said,
now number 279, 900, but will be re-
duced to $4,000 by July /. Although
efforts are being made to recruit
Filipino scouts, only indifferent"
results have been achieved. Be-
cause OF their concern over the eco
nomic future, he said, the Philip
pine government and population are
mot doing as much as they should"
toward replacing American troops
with their own forces.
1000 Volunteers a Day.
He estimated that the Army was
receiving 1000 volunteers a day for
enlistments and that up to yester-
day it had about 100000 in the Reg
ular Army. BY July /, he estimated,
there would be, roughly, 100000 VOL
unteers. This includes men now in
the air force.
Answering a question. from Rep
resentative Short, Republican, of
Missouri. as to the economic value
OF guarding supply dumps in out
OF the way places Of the world, Gen.
Eisenhower declared that he has
called to the attention of every
theater commander the necessity
for weighing the decision to destroy
dumps or guard them. 1t is possible
that the cost Of guarding the surplus
material is more expensive than the
material is worth, he said. I'VE
have no authority to abandon any
tof the material, but we can bring
it to the attention, of Congress to
get that authority" T :
I'm other words. it may be cheaper
to dump the stuff into the sea, !"
said Mr.. Short.
II have no doubt, especially In
isolated stations" Gen. Eisenhower
replied. -.
| Congress showed little inclination,
meanwhile, to speed action on Presi-
dent Humans three-point military
program.
Members looked with particular
skepticism at Mr.. Truman's request
in his state of the Union message
for an extension of the Draft Act
beyond its May IS expiration date.
Aside from saying he has no plans
for early consideration of the ex-
tension, Chairman May withheld
comment on the Presidents plea, not
only for the draft continuance, but
for merger of the Army and the
Navy and for universal military
training.
But Mr.. Mays colleagues on the
committee said privately they see
little chance for action on the draft
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