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Costa RicA and Nicaragua
clashed, then IN 1850 when
Haiti and the Dominican Re-
public tangled. AS q corollary
of the 1850 action, the GAS
ordered dissolution of a Carib-
bean Legion, sponsored princi-
pally by Cuba and Guatemala,
which was said to have designs
on Nicaragua and the Dominic
can Republic.
The other peace : making
channel, of course. is the
United Nations. Apparently
the leftist government which
has been in control in Guate-
mala prefers to take its chances
with the Security Council rath-
er than with the GAS. Qua
temala's delegate to the United
Nations protested to- the United
States Henry Cabot Lodge. jr.,
president of the Security
Council for this month. against
the criminal invasion OF my
country" and demanded spe-
cial meeting Of the Security
Council this week end. Mr..
Lodge said he would call the
Security Council together at 2
pm. Monday, but the Guate'
malan delegate pressed for an
earlier convocation.
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described as "a few months"
Of basic training before going
into the reserve for eight years.
(The "few" months, it was be-
lieved. probably would be four.O
A third category, made
UP Of graduates Of both &C
tive and UNIT training. would
be q service callable reserve"
These would be men who had
not seen combat service. Their
obligations would include
compulsory weekly drills and
two-week summer camps, or
four-week camps for those
who could not attend drill
nights.
Q Still a fourth group, Ia
beled the "selectively callable
reserve" would be made up Of
older veterans with combat
experience.
Priority for service In event
of an. emergency would be
Cd active servicemen; CD
service-callable reserve; CD.
selectively callahle reserve.
Chance Of getting this new
form Of UNIT in effect this
year: Nil.
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power In efforts to free her.
When she was finally pulled
loose. ofncials began remem-
bering that the Missouri still
was around. at $6.7 million Q
year.
Representative Vinson, Dem
ocrat, Of Georgia, then chair
man Of the House Armed Serv-
ices Committee, announced he
would seek to retire the Mo
and put a carrier to sea in her
place. She cost too much, he
said. That was February /,
the day she was freed.
The next day. Admiral w.
H. p. Blandy retired as COM
mander in chief Of the Atlantic
Fleet and told q press confer
ence that it was difficult to
Justify use of the Missouri.
He, too, favored replacing her
with one. or possibly two, car
riers.
Then, in mid-February, De-
tense Secretary johnson, on
recommendation Of Admiral
Forrest p. Sherman, chief Of
naval operations, said the Mis-
, souri, would become q train
ing school ship" and her OPP
Grating cost halved.
Another Escape
The mo" had escaped
mothballs once more.
When the Korean war began
in June Of 1850. the Missouri
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In 10 short years. the Mis-
souri, built o wealth Of Navy
lore. Aside from her war
duties. she made q trip to Rio
de Janeiro with President Tru-
man aboard and o trip to
IStanbul. ostenSibly to return
the body of Turkish Ambassa-
dor Mehmet EStegun, who died
in the United States. That trip
aroused the wrath Of the Reds,
who said it was in reality q
show Of power.
The trip came amid reports
that Red army troops were
moving across Iran toward the
Turkish border. Powerful units
of the British Mediterranean
Fleet joined the Missouri, with
the Admiralty announcing that
it would be improper to permit
the American ship to proceed
without the honor Of q British
escort.
One Of the Mos worst en-
counters was with q group Of
10000 sightseers. school chill
dren all, who swarmed her
decks in New York shortly after
she returned from the Japa-
neSe surrender signing. The
encounter sent her to the New
York Navy Yard for repairs.
It appears now that her ad-
ventures are over. With the
current emphasis on air power,
she may never emerge from
mothballs.
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Mighty Mo-
Slated for
MothboHs

These are unhappy days In
the State Of Missouri-spe-
cific location, Independence
now that the Navy has finally
decided to put the Mighty
Mo" into mothballs.
For former President Tru-
man, there was o lot Of senti-
mental attachment for the
q. s. s. Missouri, worlds
mightiest battleship. He kept
her afloat while he was Presi-
dent, amidst Q storm Of criti-
cism during the fight over
battlewagons VS.. lighter, spec
der craft.
It was Miss Margaret Tru-
man, daughter Of Senator and
Mrs. Truman, 4701 Connect
cut avenue NV" who was
listed as. the vessels sponsor
when she was launched in
January Of 1914. And she was
named for the Senator's home
State.
She was built in jig time,
nine months sooner than ex-
pected, and was the pride Of
Missouri and the pride Of the
fleet-the acme of modern de-
sign, power and speed
The Missouri compiled a
good battle record during
World War II, withstanding
kamikaze attacks in the South
Pacific. The suicide planes
seemed to bounce off her heavy
decks. She was Admiral Hal
Sey's flagship, and when the
war with Japan ended, her
decks were the scene Of the
signing of the surrender docu-
mentS.
But after the war. the men
who worry about peacetime
budgets took another look at
the Missouri, and at her sister
ships, the Iowa, Wisconsin and
New Jersey. It was costing
more than Sc million a year
to keep them afloat.
Heods for MothboIIs
BY August Of 1913, the Wis
son and New Jersey were In
mothballS. It was announced
that the Iowa was next. and
there were reports that the
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again proved q quality claimed
for her when she was built
that she was nearly Is stable
as land as q base for big guns.
She was ref1tted for action.
manned. hurried to the Carib-
bean for quick maneuvers,
and from there made an
11,000-mile dash to Korean
waters. En- route she battled
a hurricane of Cape Hat
teras, lodged a tropical storm
at Panama and rode into Ko-
rean waters on the tail Of q
typhoon.
Her first assignment: Bonn
bardment of the North Ko-
rean coast near Chonglin, rail
and communications center "a
miles from the Manchurian
border. The Missouri made
two duty tours in Korea, rak-
ing the coast with fire. On her
last, she was subjected to
enemy fire for the first time
since the campaigns at Two
Jima and Okinawa during
World War II. but no hits
were scored. The Iowa, New
Jersey and Wisconsin, mean
time, were brought out Of
mothballS to join her.
All four battleships still are
q part Of the fleet, with the
Missouri now scheduled as the
first to 60 back In mothballs.
The others are expected to
follow soon.
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80 t
Death of a Senator

At 81, Lester Galloway Hunt
had had enough Of Washing
ton. The Democratic senior
Senator from Wyoming, ailing
for several months, already
had announced he would not
run for reelection in Novem-
Der.
Yesterday morning, in his
Office on Capitol Hill, Lester
Hunt decided he had had
enough, not only Of Washing
ton, but of everything. He was
found shot in the head, ap-
parently by his own hand. and
was taken to Casualty hospital.
There. shortly after noon yes
terday, he died.
A dentist in the little town
Of Lander, DR.. Hunt took his
first flier in State politics In
1892. From 1912 to 1913 he
was Governor Of Wyoming,
and in 1913 was elected to the
Senate.
His death leaves the Senate
division at AZ Democrats, ~
Republicans and / independ-
ent who normally votes Demo-
cratic. But his successor, to be
appointed by a Republican
Governor, undoubtedly will be
a Republican. giving the
G.. o. p. q bare half Of the
Senate and giving Republican
Vice President Nixon the OPP
portunity to cast a tie-break-
ing vote in the unlikely event
that a full Senate splits strictly
along party lines.
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By John W. Thompson. j..

~ John w. Ihompsohs ~. !
been appropriated for and
probably neUer iDill."
Representative TabeF, Re-
publican, Of New York. chair
man Of the Appropriations
Committee and no friend Of
the District-NO.
a. I just iDGnt to cGu
attention to the fact that an
authorization bin Is not q
contract :"
Representative Fernandez,
Democrat. Of New Mexico
Yes.
II hope Congress sDill not
90 back on its contract and
iOilI, like the other tG1pGy-
ers iuhose tar bills tDere in
creased, make good on Its
OtUn share. That Is the least
ne can expect II iUe are to.
keep faith NTH the people OF
Washington"
Representative Smith, DEM
ocrat. Of Virginia. member of
the House District Committee
and the House for many
years-Yes.
90. The theory OF the
plan that tUGS finally adopt
ed tDGS that this work ought
to be done, that it ought to
be shared partly By the tar
payers of the District and
partly By the Federal Co..
eminent. That tOGS the
scheme and that pGs the
plan Which lDGs adopted.
when tDe did that tUe
raised the tGreS on the
citizens of the District OF
Columbia. We even did the
pery unusual thing OF put
ting a sales tar on food.
~ tUonder. IT zoe are going
to cut dotDn on this part that
the Federal Government Is
going to pay, IT tDe ought not
to 90 back and revise the
tGres on the people of the
District OF Columbia; in
other tDordS, ought iDe not
repeal this bill If iDe are not
going to carry it out? They
may say 1t Is not a contract:
it may not be q binding con-
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Bradbury, director Of the Los
Almos laboratory where the
H-bomb development was
centered. fatty contradicted
DR.. Teller, rejected the sug-
gestion that there had been
any delay in the program, and
voiced full faith in DR.. Open
heimer. II do not regard him
as a security risk" DR.. Brad
bury declared. A
The I'VE members of the
Acc are now considering their
final verdict in the strange
case Of DR.. Oppenheimer.
With the recommendation Of
their special Security Board
they will weigh the testimony
of a blue-ribbon roster of the
Nations foremost scientific
leaders and political and mill
tary men close to the atomic
program since its inception.
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situation: Congress enacted
q public works program for the
Nations Capital imposing new
and increased taxes on the
residents Of the District and
authorizing an increase In the
Federal payment Of % million
to pay for it. The philosophy
behind the program from the
beginning was the joint re-
Sponsibility Of the city and
Uncle Sam to split the cost Of
the necessary improvements.
Question: Was this author
ization legally or morally
binding on the House Approp-
riations Committee to approve
the full amount Of the 50 mil
lion increase?
Some interesting answers to
this were provided In the House
floor debate on the District
budget the other day. At issue
was the action Of the Appro-
priations Committee in slash
ing a million from that
amount. This would have left,
the Federal payment ct $16
million instead Of the author
lied $40 million.
Comment from key law
makers was as follows:
Representative Wilson, Re-
publican, Of Indiana, chairman
Of the Appropriations Subcom-
mittee which handled the city
budget and q good friend Of
the District-NO.
I'VE do not feel ne are
obligated to appropriate a
dime merely because the
House passed an authorize.
ton bill. That does not
oblioGte the Committee on
Appropriations to Gppro-
pirate one dime"
Representative NOrrell, DEM
ocrat, Of ArkanSaS-NO.
90. There Is no con-
tract with anybody; you
knoto that. Yes, there Is an
authorization. I Doted for it.
But there Is not a
congregational district in
this country that has not
also had an authorization OF
money, and some of these
authorization haze never
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Missouri was soon to follow.
In December Of that year,
President Truman boarded the
big battlewagon at Norfolk for
formal presentation Of Q $10.-
900 281-piece silver service.
gift Of the State Of Missouri.
After the presentation cere-
monies. he told reporters:
Some smart alec who poses
as a spokesman for the Navy
has stated that the Missouri is
to be put out of commission.
The Missouri is not to be put
out of commission. I want to
make that as emphatic as pos
sible. I am speaking as the
President Of the United States. !"
The Missouri stayed. plying
peacetime missions.
The controversy over her
SGT million a year upkeep died,
and might have remained dead
but for a sandbar in CheSa-
peake Bay which held the at
tention of the Nation for Is
days.
The Missouri was headed out
to sea on a routine run to
Guantanamo, Cuba, at S knots
when her bottom hit Thimble
Shoals, q mile and q half north
Of Old Poi1t Comfort light
house at a:45 am. on January
II, 1850.
She hung there IS days while
the Navy tried tugs, dredging,
blasting and the Mos own
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UNI

For years American defense
officials have toyed with the
idea of universal military
training for young men
whether in peacetime or war
time. During most Of this
period, UNIT has gone so far
and no farther because Of the
ostensible difficulty of setting
up such a training program
side by side with the draft.
In the '40s, the Army es-
tablished a UNIT experimental
unit at Fort Knox, KY. This
was a showcase outfit, in
which hand-picked noncoms
bossed hand-picked trainees
under practically utopian con-
ditions, with no beer sold in
PXs and no cusSwords from
the sergeants. The Fort Knox
experiment-more a public re-
lations gimmick than an &C.
tual trial-waS abandoned
several years ago. But the idea
has remained in the minds of
past and present Pentagonians.
including President EiSen-
hover. who was Chief Of Stan
during the UNIT trial.
Last Friday, ct Quantico,
Va, Assistant Secretary Of De-
Tense John A. Hannah revealed
q plan that would create q
ready reserve" Of 8 million
men. The plan was UNIT
warmed over and somewhat
modified to cope with the need
for q simultaneous draft.
The Honnoh Plan
Essential points Of the Han
nah plan:
. Draft boards. possibly by
lot, would assign youths to
active or reserve categorieS on
reaching the age Of 1914.
o Men listed as active" would
do two years in regular
branches of the service, plus
six years in the reserve or
D tional Guard. The others
I'd get what DR.. Hannah
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Nearby Votes

Votes Of nearby Maryland
and Virginia legislators on
major roll calls, June 1918.
Senute
Amendment by Monroney.
Democrat, Oklahoma, to bar
payment Of salary to any en-
ploye of the State Depart
ment's Bureau of Consular and
Security Affairs who does not
come under the jurisdiction Of
the Hatch Act. CThe amend
ment was aimed, Monroney
said, at r. w. Scott Mcleod,
head of the Bureau0 Rejected,
35-41.
Fer: Byrd 3D., Va.
Against: Beall and Butler CR., Md.
Absent: Robertson 3D.. Val.
Amendment by Kennedy.
Democrat, Massachusetts, to
increase by $3.50 million funds
for Army. Rejected, $3.50.
Against: Bean. Butler. Byrd. Robert
son.
House
Motion by Patman, Demo-
crat, Texas, to recommit a bill
extending authority Of the
Treasury Department to sell
securities to Federal Reserve
banks. with instructions to
authorize such sales only when
Treasury does not have avail
able funds already deposited in
Federal Reserve and CONNER
cial banks. Rejected, 80-250.
Against: Hyde, Small, Broyhill. smith.
Amendment by O'Hara. Re-
publican, Minnesota to the
District Of Columbia appro-
priations bill increasing by 81
million the Federal contribu-
ton to District of Columbia
general fund while increasing
by SIS million funds allocated
for capital improvements.
Agreed to 186-168.
Fer: hyde. Small. BroyhiIl. Smith.
Compiled b. consrsssional Quarterly
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Defense
Administration Backs
Pressure on Frunce,
ItuIy TO Rutify EDO

The House Foreign Affairs
Committee acted this week to
prod France and Italy toward
ratification of the European
Defense Community pact. The
committee, by a vote Of ID to
2, added q revised version OF
the 1853 Richards Amendment
to the Military Security Act
Of 1854, providing United
States arms aid to six Euro
pean nations.
The new amendment, Spon-
sored by Representative James
p. Richards; Democrat, OF
South Carolina, withholds mil
itary aid from nations that
have not ratified EDO. Last
years amendment withheld
about one-half of the 81 bill
lion authorized military aid
to all six nations-Belgium,
Luxembourg, West Germany,
the Netherlands, France and
Italy. Since then. four have
ratified, leaving only France
and Italy out in the cold. No
one seemed too sure the
amendment would have the de-
sired effect.
Harold E. StaSsen, Foreign
Oper atoms Administration
chief, has called the applica-
ton Of such pressure as that
implicit in the Richards rider
"unwise." At his press con-
ference on Tuesday, Secretary
Of State Dulles reported that
the 1858 amendment already
was curbing arms aid to some
countries. Mr.. Dulles said the
supplies held of thus far had
been of minor proportions and
were being stockpiled in Eu-
rope. But he warned that the
full effects Of the amendment
would begin to be felt within
the next six months unless
Congress acted to revise the
"all-or-nothing" proviso in the
1853 act.
The new Richards amend
ment would apply to arms
aid authorized last year as well
as to that proposed in the 1854
measure. Under its terms, the
President would have some
discretion in Withholding ship
ments to France and Italy
even if EDO ratification is not
forthcoming; the amendment
provides that deliveries be
made to nations which have
ratified the EDO pact and a..
are developing collective de-
Tense programs in q manner
satisfactory to the United
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Congress
Administration Lists
More Coins Than Usual
In Congress Last Week

The Eisenhower administra-
ton experienced q better week
than usual at the hands Of
Congress. In addition to Sc
curing Senate passage of the
new look" military budget
and winning preliminary ap-
prevail Of an eaSed policy to-
ward French and Italian foot
dragging on EDO (see above),
the administration rescued
its public housing bill from
the hostile House Rules Com
mittee. BY a top-heavy vote
of 36O-to-19 the House voted
to send the bill to conference
with the Senate without
strings.
The rules group previously
had decreed that confereeS
be instructed to oppose the
Senate-approved 100000 new
units Of public housing for
construction over the next
four years. Thursdays action
by the House doesn't assure
final passage Of the confer
ence measure, but adminiStra-
ton supporters see at least q
chance for saving the public
housing features of the bill
If the conferees are success
full.
Also on Thursday, % Sem
ators Joined in q move to win
approval for Gen. Eisenhower's
liberal trade program. Led by
Senator Gore, Democrat, Of
Tennessee. the group intro
duced the administrations
original measure as a Substi-
tute for the Reciprocal Trade
Act extension Of only one year
voted by the House. The adj
miniStration has asked q
three-year extension. All the
supporters Of the administra-
tion-backed substitute are
Democrats with the exception
of Senator Morse, independ-
ent, Of Oregon.
Form Surplus Bill
Another source Of gratiflca-
ton for the > administration
was the action Of the House
Wednesday in passing the
farm surplus disposal bill
without q proposed ban on the
sale Of SURPRISES to the Soviet
Union or any Of its satellites.
On the losing side was an
other rebuff from the House
Agriculture Committee on the
administration farm program.
BY q vote Of % to 6 the COM
mittee voted to require the
Secretary of Agriculture to
support dairy product prices
at 80 per cent Of parity. Pres-
emit supports are set at Is per
cent since Secretary Benson's
action on April ID. The COM
mittee softened the impact Of
its move. however, by provid-
, ing that the Secretary could
use direct subsidy payments to
dairy farmers in order to avoid
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Metropolitan Scene
When Is d Promise Not a Promise?

tract: Nerertheless Il sDas
the scheme that iDGs pro-
posed and adopted"
Representative O'Hara, Re.
publican. Of Minnesota. chair
m&n Of the House group which
worked on the works program
and proposer Of an amend
ment to restore the cut In the
Federal payment-Yes.
g. We should start
NTH the pery first Gppro-
priGtion and liUe up to our.
part OF the agreement as the
Legislative body for the Dis
trict of Columbia"
Later, In response to Q query
whether he felt his committee
on the public works program
had made Q commitment to
the people Of the District, Mr..
OHara replied:
II certainly feel iDe did
make a commitment"
Mr.. Wilson interviewed:
~ dislike Uery much to
hear the gentleman say he.
as an individual or as q
member of a committee COM
mitted the Appropriations
Committee to appropriate q
certain sum OF money, be-.
cause you cannot do it and
you knotD you cannot do it.
You haze no moral or legal
right to do it,"
Mr.. O'Hara replied: 90.
If the Appropriations Com
nIittee makes a mistake.
then the House has the re-
SponSibility OF correcting it.
I heartily disagree NTH
the Appropriations Commit.
tee Which says they knotU
more about it than anybody
else. I feel they haze equal
ability NTH any other com.
mittee, but the final deter.
minGtion is for the House"
What did the House do? It
went with the gentlemen from
New Mexico, Virginia and Min
nesota. It restored the 81 mill
lion cut.
The action does not mean or
suggest that all authorizations
are contractS-legal or moral.
But 1t means that this one was.
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The Oppenheimer Case

Developments this week In
the security clearance case OF
DR.. Robert Oppenheimer, ia
nous nuclear physicist and
chief architect of the World
War II development Of the
atomic bomb, did little to raise
the scientists hopes for sue
cess in his last-ditch fight
against the security risk"
label.
Tagged as loyal" but still
a security risk by q 2-to-1 de-
cision of . special Security
Board of the Atomic Energy
Commission on June /, DR..
Oppenheimer appealed to the
full membership Of the Acc
to reverse the boards curious
recommendation. But on Mon
day it was announced that
Mai. Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols.
general manager Of the Acc.
would recommend that the
Security Boards findings be
sustained. Gen. Nichols rec
concentrations were described
as more critical of DR.. Open
heimer than the majority re-
port of the Security Board.
Another blow to the scien-
lists hopes came from Repre-
sentative Sterling Cole, Re-
publican, of New York, chair
man of the Joint Congress
sional Committee on Atomic
Energy. Mr.. Cole voiced what
well may be a determining
comment on the Oppenheimer
case when he said in q tele-
vision interview in New York
last Sunday that the joint
committee had no plans for
looking into the findings OF
the Security Board in the OPP
penheimer case. But, he added,
IF the commission reverseS it
self and clears DR.. Open
heimer, then we may hold
hearings" Observers thought
this had an ominous sound.
The Story Brooks
On Tuesday the Acc re-
leased a92 pages Of fine print
for publication-the transcript
Of the testimony heard by the
Security Board In the Open
heimer case with an unre-
vealed number Of deletions for
security reaSonS).
The voluminous testimony in
the released transcript showed
two top scientists in the H
bomb development project at
odds on the attitude Of DR..
Oppenheimer. DR.. Edward
Teller, Hungarian-born ply
sicist credited with q major
role in the successful develop
ment of the hydrogen bomb.
declared that DR.. Oppenheimer
failed to give the project
moral support" and may have
delayed its development as
mach as four years. On the
other hand, DR.. Norris Z.
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Weeks Review Defense Budget, UNIT, Oppenheimer Case

further Stockpiling Of surplus
butter and cheese.
The House voted to over
rule its Appropriations Com
mittee on Tuesday when it re-
stored 81 million Slashed by
the committee from the Fed
eral payment to the District.
The District Of Columbia pub
lie works bill now carries the
full $40 million authorized.