The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 29, 1953, Page 3

Friday, May 29, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 Early Confirmation For Joint Chiefs Of Staff In Capitol By EDWIN B, HAAKINSON — | wings, Twining said, ate essential ion’ WASHINGIN @ —' President |", the nation’s security. Eisenhower's new team of defense | planes, depending upon type. For- Chiefs appeared certain today of} mer President Truman's budget Speedy Senate confirmation, but} ¢alled for about 16% billion dollars fumbles continved in Congress | for the year starting July 1 and 143 about cutbacks in Air Force funds| wings by mid-1955. Eisenhower's and goals, budget trimmed these to about 1144 A-unanimous vote of approval by | billions and 120 the Senate Armed Services Com- mittee, after relatively brief hear- ings, yesterday’ sent. the nomina- wings. g Sen. Byrd (D-Va), one of the lawmakers who backed the new Joint Chiefs, sald: the .air power tions“te the’ Senate for indicated} easy confirmation, probably next ‘Tuesday. Adm, Arthor W. Radford, the first ‘non-Army man selected | as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was hurrying back to the a Pacific to wind-up his duties as e Navy commander in that theater. ‘I was due in Formosa Monday but. probably. can’t reach there until Tuesday,” he said, adding that issue is far from settled. will peed = Army: Chief of Staff, headed back for Europe even before the ‘committee vote, As| MAE WEST ACCEPTS Commercial Use... We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clean, Pure : Hike In Power For Molotov Is Seen In Moscow By THOMAS P, WHITNEY MOSCOW #—Western diplomats in Moscow said today they regard- ed replacement of military control by a civilian Soviet High Commis- sioner in East Germany as con- siderably strengthening the power of Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. He will now hav¢, they said, di- tect and personal control of Ger- man affairs in the Soviet occupied zone.’ Previously these had beén indirectly, the whole Soviet gov- ernment. : The Kremlin announced yester- day that V. S. Semyonov, one of this country's leading German ex- perts, had been appointed. Soviet High Commissioner for Germany. y over from Gen. Vas- 5 of. the ‘Soviet ho will now : wcppiee & peelacecitt rage | Change In Tax . Law Is Asked WASHINGTON i — Sen. Mans- field (D-Mont) urged yesterday that tax laws be tightened to pre- vent movie stars from avoiding U.S. imeome taxes by living and working abroad. « He said present law exempts cit- izens working abroad for 17 out of 18 months from taxes “on the income earned abroad.” taken advantage of it,” Mansfield told the: Senate, Mansfield mentioned Gene Kelly, Claudette Colbert, Errol Flynn and Gary Cooper as among those he con! are “said to be taking advantage of. the - provision. Some stars, he szid, “concede. the tax-saving purpose in their for- eign travel but others deny a def- inite tie-in,’* PLANE SEAT DESIGN CHANGED BY NAA WASHINGTON i#—The nation’s first commercial passenger , serv- ice with rearward-tacing seats is being inaugurated today by North American. Airlines. tight secrecy was clamped” the latest GM-UAW talks. The Chrysler - e * ’ e ae a t a s