Evening star., 1948-11-30
Senator Hill 10 Raise
Cain Until Services
Acquire Real Unity
BY the Assoeioied Press

Senator Hill, Democrat, of Ala
bama warned the Nations mill
tary chiefs today he intends to
"raise cain until there is real
unification of the armed forces" "
AS a member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, Senator Hill
said, he will demand in the next
Congress that the Army, Navy and
Air Force put aside their petty
fighting" for the country's good.
In an interview before leaving
for Alabama, the Senator said:
THE time has come for Secretary
of Defense Forrestal to knock some
heads together, or if need be, to
knock some heads off, I'd carry out
the intentions of the law passed by
Congress to give us unificatlon In
fact and not in fancy"
Helped Draft Legislation.
Senator Hill was a member of the
Senate Armed Services Subcommit-
tee which began studying unification
legislation in 1914. He said "the
Navy raised such strong objections"
that the bill was not approved until
last year. But the spirit and the
intent of the act have not been
carried out Senator Hill said.
The veteran Alabama Senator die
not single out any specific instances,
but the Air Force and Navy have
| been uuarreling openly over their
sky assignments.
Air Forces advocates claim that
despite service agreements on wal
time tasks the Navy is trying to
cut into the Air Forces long-range
bombing job with its carrier-based
planes.
Senator Hill said the country now
is confronted by two dangerous
situations" because the armed serv-
ices have not settled their disputes.
The first danger he said, is
that I'VE do not have team of
armed forces which Congress felt
was necessary for defense. The
/ three separate services are fighting
one another.
The second danger is those fel-
lows are asking so much money
without unification that it is a
| threat to our economy
I'VE simply cannot push up the
/ cost of defense without doing grave
damage to this Nations economy"
| Senator Hill said the National
debt after World War I was s26,0OO,-
100000 while the next budget may
provide about ,000,000000 for de-
fense alone.
Here we are spending in one year
more than half the National debt
/ for 1918 and we still don't have
unified fighting force. 1t cannot be
tolerated"
! NOurse PrOds Leaders.
1T would be interesting to know"
he continued, how much of the
money we give the armed services is
used in their fight against eacn
other rather than in building
team to give us the defense which
the unHication act contemplated"
In that connection, the military
chiefs already have received some
prodding from the chairman OF the
Presidents Council of Economic Ad-
visers, Edwin G. Nourse.
He told a Pentagon conference
early this month the men Entrusted
with the military effort" should "di-
rect every dollar to the point of
greatest effectiveness and forego
every outlay based on traditional
practice, corps prides or dispensable
ceremony
Tydings Approves Inquiry.
/ Senator Hills threat to raise
cain" about the way uniication has
been handled ran counter to the
stand of Senator Tydings, Democrat,
of Maryland, who is slated to be-
come chairman of the Armed Serv-
ices Committee.
Senator Tydings told reporter
last Friday that he was opposed to
congressional investigation. The
rough edges are being rounded