FRIDAY. JANUARY 14. 1955
Ike's New Military Plan
Offers Four Choices
WASHINGTON, jan. 13 (IP)—Young men reaching the age of military obligation would have
four general choices under the military manpower program submitted to Congress ' today by Presi
dent Eisenhower, They are:
1. At age 17, a young man could enlist for at least three years in the Army or Marine Corps
or for at least four years in the Navy and Air Force. If he served three years on active duty he
would be obligated to serve ac
tively in the ready reserve for
four years and one year in the
standby reserve. If he served
four years, he would have to
serve in the ready reserve for two
years and in the standby reserve
for two years. With five years of
active duty he would go directly
into the standby reserve for three
years.
Await Draft Call
2. He could wait for a draft call
and serve two years active duty.
Although the draft age would re
main 18 1 / 2 to 26, the exact age .at
which he might be drafted is un
known. He would have all the de
ferment rights now available. Be
cause he would be required to
serve only two years active duty,
the draftee would be obligated to
serve six additional years in the
ready reserve.
Enlist in Reserve
3. Before he reached 19, he could
enlist in the Navy and Marine
Corps reserve for eight years and
agree to serve actively. He would
enlist with the understanding
that he could be called to active
duty for at least 24 months within
two years of enlistment. The num
ber allowed to enlist directly in
the reserve would be governed by
strict quotas so this choice might
not always. be open. Upon a man's
release from active duty, he would
return to the ready reserve.
May Volunteer
4. Between 17 and 19, he could
volunteer for six months active
duty"training if the yearly quota
of about 100,000 has not been
filled. After serving hi s six
months he would be required to
serve nine and one-half years in
the ready reserve. If the quota is
filled he will have to choose one
of the other alternatives.
Thus, the obligation of • six
month trainees is 10 years; that
of all others eight years.
Chinese Bomb
Red-Held island
TAIPEH, Formosa (JP)—Chinese
Nationalist four-engine bombers
blasted Chinese Communist-held
Tienao Island for the f our t h
straight day today and pounded
nearby Toumen Island, air force
headquarters said.
Nationalist warships fired on
three Communist patrol boats in
the same area, around 220 miles
north of Formosa, and forced
them to flee, a communique said.
The surface action was reported
south of Yushan, a Nationalist
island 30 miles northeast of the
Tachen Islands.
—The big bombers roared north
from Formosa in predawn dark
ness, flew . through "heavy anti
aircraft fire" and dropped scores
of bombs, the\ communique re
ported. It said big fires broke out
on the two Communist islands.
In • the afternoon, Nationalist
and Communist fighter • planes
clashed in a brief dogfight.
Britain Develops New
Plane Rescue Systerit
LONDON, 'Jan. 14 ("Pr-.The
British Royal Navy disclosed to
day it has developed a helicopter
rescue system to snatch men from
the sea -in nets,, like fish.
The aerial trawling gear was de
signed by Lt. Cmdr. John S.
Sproule. . .
The net, trailing a sea-anchor
to keep the open side• forward, is
lowered from the rescuing heli
copter by wires. The pilot slowly
flies ahead, scooping a survivor
into the net.
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Senator Reports
U.S. Security Thin
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (iP)Chairman Walter F. George (D-
Ga) quoted Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today as having
told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that. America faces
very real dangers and, "There are places where the margin of se
curity is very thin."
Dulles met in closed session
Hammarskioid
Returns After
Release Effort
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan.
:3 (fP)—UN Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold returned tonight
from Peiping and what he called
the "first state" of his efforts
for release of 11 American air
men jailed as spies in Red China.
He indicated the door is open
to further contact and called for
restraint on all sides.
The 'UN administrative chief
landed at Idlewild Airport at 6:03
p.m. EST to end a two-week,
round-the-world flight on behalf
of the American fliers.
He issued the following state
ment as he stepped off the plane:
"My visit to Peiping was a first
stage in my efforts to release the
11 American fliers and the other
United Nations Command person
nel still detained. I feel that my
talks with Mr Chou En-lai pre
mier-foreign -minister of Red Chi
na were definitely useful for this
purpose. We hope to be able to
continue our contacts. The door
that has been opened - can be kept
open given restraint on all sides:"
• Hammarskjold was met at the
airport. by high UN officials. He
appeared ready for business im
mediately and prepared to plunge
into a conference with chief
American Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr., who was to be given
a full report.
Police Apprehend
Youthful Firebugs
LEWISTOWN, Pa. (IP) Police
have apprehended two boys, aged
8 and 14, whom they said admitted
setting or trying to set at least
eight fires in Lewistown over the
past several weeks.
Police Chief Howard Landis
said yesterday that all but one of
the fires was set on a Wednesday
night. He said the boys, whose
names were withheld because of
their age, were apprehended by
state police Pvt. Quinton Cooper,
one of a group of law-enforcers
who have patroled borough streets
on Wednesday nights for about
two months.
Landis said the boys were al
lowed outside their homes only
on Wednesday night.
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with the committee for one and
one-half hours. The secretary had
no information for reporters when
he left the Capitol, and George's
account was largely in general
terms.
"Secretary Dulles said he con
sidered it indispensable to have
the closest kind of cooperation
with the committee," George said.
"The dangers this country faces,
he declared, are very real. There
are many places where the margin
of security is very thin and might
be lost if we do not present a
united front."
George said Dulles was "rather
guarded" in what he had to retort
on Indochina. The senator added
on his own:
"But the situation seems to be
somewhat more favorable than it
has been."
Northern Viet Nam, one of three
states of Indochina, was, taken
over by the Communists after the
Geneva conference last sunither.
Southern Viet Nam remains tech
nically free.
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Commission
Warfare
SAN JOSE, Costa• Rica M—A five-nation commission, arrived in
a U.S. Air Force plane from Panama today to conduct an on the-spot
investigation of spreading warfare in Costa Rica.
A short time later the Army command announced the capture
of Carlos Lara Hine and said he was one of the "rebel leaders" who
started the uprising at Villa Quesada that set off the warfare on
Tuqsday.
The announcement said he was
captured uninjured in fierce fight
ing yesterday at Rio Peje, a town
near Villa Quesada.
Abandoned Dead
The announcement said the reb
els abandoned one of their dead at
Rio Peje. In addition to Lara,
"many" other rebels were cap
tured. including two seriously
wounded.
A nervous airport guard gave a
trigger-happy welcome to a U.S.
Air Force transport plane that
arrived in advance of the commiS
sidn from the Organization of
American States.
Arrival of the commission in
another U.S. Air Force plane from
Panama a short time later was
without incident. But a single shot
was fired at the transport by a
guard apparently still nervous ov
er yesterday's air attack on San
Jose by a single Plane. The U.S.
plane was a considerable distance
away and the shot was aimed low,
so no damage was done.
To Conduct Survey
The commission was named by
the Organization of American
States to conduct an on-the-spot
survey of the tense situation that
has developed between Costa Rica
and Nicaragua.
Costa Rica charges that the war
fare was instigated and has the
active participation of exiles and
others from Nicaragua. But the
Nicaraguan government, denying
this, said it was a rebellion inside
the country aimed at the over
throw of President Jose Figueres.
The U.S. State Department an
nounced it was cooperating by or
dering American planes to the bat
tle, area to make "paCific observa
tion" flights requested by OAS.
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to Investigate
Costa Rica
Mendes-France
Travels to Talk
With Adenauer
OM E (VP) French Premier
Pierre Mendes.France left today
by special train for Baden Baden
to talk with West German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer about the
arms pool plan which Italy has
given her qualified approval.
The French Premier left at 2:11
p.m. aboard the private coach. of
Italian President Luigi Einaudi On
a four-car special due in Baden
Baden tomorrow morning.
Adenauer is vacationing at that
resort.
During two days of talks here
with Premier Mario. Scelba and
other Italian leaders, the French
Premier won agreement-in-prin
ciple for his plan to set up a
seven-nation agency to control,
arms output and distribution with
in the projected Western Euro
pean Union.
Despite the promise of partial
support, Mendes-France reported
ly was disappointed in the recep
tion given the arms pool plan
by Italian leaders. Sources indi
cated he had hoped for more en
thusiastic backing, which might
aid him in getting an okay from a
less receptive West Germany.
The plan, designed to prevent
West Germany from: overarming
within the WEU, comes up next
Monday before a meeting in Paris
of the seven nations which signed
the still-unratified WEU :reaty
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