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| A judge fined him 1000 zlotys
for disorderly conduct.
Retirement
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contractors Meyers was retired at
$461 a month, 1t was brought out at
the hearing, and yesterday Repre-
sentative Bennett, Republican, OF
Missouri declared on the House floor
that Meyers was now getting total
of $3.50, including other allowances.
Retirement of top-ranking officers
of the Army and Navy have brought
charges that many used their mill
tary positions to get high salaried
jobs in civilian life. Brig. Gen. John
E. Dahlquist, deputy director OF
personnel and administration, de-
clared such charges absolutely
unfounded."
"Of course, few of them may
have been lucky enough to get jobs,
but the bulk of them did not get any
work at all and are now finding 1t
mighty tough going making ends
meet with these high prices" he
said. TOO, most of them have
travelled around so much that they
haven't sunk their roots anywhere.
The plain unvarnished truth OF
it Is that the average Army officer
just isn't qualified for anything
outside of the Army he added.
Among those officers who have
retired have been two who took jobs
with the far-fung enterprises OF
Howard Hughes, whose plane con-
tracts were the original reason for
the Senate War Investigating Com
mittee's current inquiry. They are
1t. Gen. Ira c. Eaker, former chief
of the air staff, now with the Hughes
Tool Co., and Maj. Gen. Arthur r.
Wilson, who became vice president
and European director of Trans
World Airline. Gen. Wilson, who
once was liaison officer with the
same committee, resigned his TWA
post in March Of this year, however.
Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, COM
manding general of the Army Serv-
ice Forces during the war, retired
with the rank of major general, on
April 80, 1916, and became presi-
dent OF the Koppers Corp. of Pitts
burgh.
| George Heads Airline.
1t. Gen. Harold L. George, who
retired as a major general, now Is
president of the Peruvian Interna-
tional Airways. He is former COM
manding general of the Air Trans
port Command.
Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, for
mer assistant chief of staff, who
retired in October, 1946, is now with
the Ethyl Corp. in Baton Rouge, La.
Brig. Gen. Joseph F. Battley, who
retired July 81 after 80 years service,
became executive assistant to the
president of the National Paint,
Varnish g. Lacquer Association
here. He was in the Army Service
Forces and assisted Gen. Somervell
in reorganization of its construction
division.
1t. Gen. Barton K. Yount, former
commanding general of the Air
Force Training Command, now
operates school for businessmen
interested in trading with South
American firms at Thunderbird Air
Base near Yuma, Ariz., which was
declared surplus.
Many of the Reserve general Of
fcers who won names for them
selves during the war have gone
back to their old jobs, which, Gen.
Dalquist said, often leads to the
belief they are Regular officers who
have obtained high-Salaried posi-
tions. They have not been retired
and are on inactive status.
Includes Doolittle.
1t. Gen. James H. Doolittle, a.
Reserve, now on inactive status, for
instance, is vice president of the
Shell Oil Co.; Brig. Gen. Hanford
MacNider, who fought in the Philip
pines, is president of the Northwest
ern States Portland Cement Co.,
Mason City, Iowa. and Brig. Gen.
David Sarnoff, who served with
Gen. Eisenhower at SHAEF, is pres
ident of the Radio Corp. of America.
Others in this Reserve inactive
duty category include Maj. Gen.
William J. Donovan, wartime diz
rector of the OSS, now a lawyer,
and Maj. Gen. Carl R. Gray, jr., who
ran the railroad service in the ETO,
president of the Chicago g. North
Western Railroad and just ap-
pointed head of the Veterans Ad
ministration.
A large number of the Reserve
generals now inactiveshold top posi-
tions with airlines to which they
returned after the war.
The matter of armed services re-
tirements was the subject Of ex-
haustive hearings by the House
Armed Forces Committee early this
year, when 1t studied bill which
would place a uniform nondisability
retirement plan in. effect for all the
services The measure was reported
favorably by the group and now Isl
pending on the House calendar.
Passage to Be Sought.
Chairman Andrews of the House
Committee said today an effort will
be made to pass the bill in January.
A number Of the committee men,
bers have been active on the subject
of retirements, including Repre-
sentatives Skies of Florida and
Brooks of Louisiana, both Demo-
Gratis. Both have made speeches on
the subject on the House floor.
Representative Cooley, Democrat,
of North Carolina, not a commit
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