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FOUR-TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1942
Oklahoma City Times
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riding the skies, practicing, (Wirephoto.)
The committeee reported that, vol-
untary refunds by war contractors and
Arms at Home
the
prospects
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this comin? winter.''
Alaska area has long been recognized,"
In a
transcript of carefully edited
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Century Fox Film Corp. surrendered
to a United States marshal Tuesday
to begin serving a sentence of a year
and a day imposed in May 1941 lor
income tax evasion.
after the senate had approved and
sent to the house a revised measure
extending government compensation
payments to the relatives of civilians
tions committee of the 1943 army sup-1
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Inc. Lend-Lease
$8,442,031,908
onto carriers completely without air
cover.
From that point on this battle bo-
President Roberto Ortiz would resign
strengthened the domestic political
position of acting President Ramon
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engineers corps to survey the project renegotiation of contracts had raised
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come. The crew sensed that this fight
was going to be different.
The planes reached their objective
finally. The attack squadron had to
hunt for targets and hunting used
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Link Urged As
Japs Approach
WASHINGTON, June 23. — (A) —
Amid mounting concern over the ap-
proach of Japanese forces to Alaska,
the army disclosed Tuesday that it
was considering construction of a rail-
road linking that, rich territory with
the United States.
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of the island and headed straight for , •
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ing tour of the Pacific, we are a little
shocked to discover that despite the
changed methods of delivering the
dynamite, the basis for success was
old-fashioned navy savvy, plus com-
mon horse sense.
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Sturdevant of the corps of engineers,
told the committee that the army
expected to have "some sort" of a
highway to Alaska "available for use
staff, in explaining war needs to
the house appropriations com-
mittee. stressed the present sit-
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Both Arnold and Echols disclosed
that the air force was building up big
, reserve depots of plane spare parts
I "In strategic locations all over the
Carriers of Oklahoma, and W. W.
Warren, district director of the office
of defense transportation here.
One-Day Roadaide Hunt
Reveala Many Old Tire a
TUGUNGA, Calif., June 23.—(P-
Robert Masser says rubber, like gold, is
where you find it.
So he made a one-day trip into the
desert, looking under Joshua trees. un-
der mesquite and Juniper. He returned
at nightfall with 3,755 pounds of tires
discarded along the highway by luck-
leu motorists.
He aed them, of course, to Tu-
Junga’s Balvage pile.
•Through June 15 15 days short of the end of the fiscal year.
Snyder said that this country was spending for war in May, at
the rate of 38 percent of its national income. .Cpa.cu w a
rate of 45 percent in Canada. 55 percent in the United Kingdom
and an estimate of more than 60 percent in Germany.
The bill considered Tuesday includes $730,365,695 for liquida-
tion of contracts included under previous legislation.
Alaska," said Somervell. "One will be
by sea. one will be by air. one will be
road, and one may be by railroad."
Representative Engel iR.. Mich.), a
member of the committee, referred to
"newspaper reports and some con-
gressional comments to the effect that
the road was going to be placed where
the Canadian officials want it and
where our officials did not think it
should go."
The army chiefs asserted they knew
nothing of the controversy, and Stur-
devant declared that the war depart-
ment had made its selection of the
route for "military reasons."
costs,” he added, "and this is the
error of under-estimating the
task ahead of us.”
New Army Bill Larger
Than World War I Cost
mander of the army's service of sup-
plies. said earlier. testi- -uuuuuny cuiteu
"We have four metnods-we hope to tes tmonyamade public by the commit-
have four methods—of getting into
BUENOS AIRES, June 23 — (P)—
News of the sinking of the Argentine
freighter Rio Tercero further compli-
cated Argentina's neutrality policy
rated until the critical moment, when
it was necessary to fight him. The
time came in the last hours before
the battle when a lot of mental
couver island as "inescapable inci-
dents of war."
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Y-Gun of Subchaser Stirs Mighty Deep
A depthcharge from the Y-gun on the stern of an 83-foot subchaser powers a geyser which rises 80
£ leu J” At the suspiclon or a perBcop th° Subchaser heads tor
came more and more difficult to
no, follow. Our pilots knew what they
'were doing all right. And when they
CHUNGKING, June 23 —(P— The
Japanese are making powerful bid for
control of railways in east China in
the hope of quickly linking Shanghai
and Singapore by rail. but have been
stopped along vital routes in Kwang-
tung and Kiangsi provinces, a Chi-
nese spokesman declared Tuesday.
Using more troops and planes in
Kiangsi province than anywhere else
in east China, the Japanese have even
brought up reinforcements from the
South Seas, the spokesman said, but
still have been unable to close the 50-
mile gap in the northeast-southwest
railway that traverses that province,
Fighting still is raging around
Shangjao on the east and Kweiki on
the west, he said, and a Japanese plan
to invade the coastal province of Fu-
kien from Kiangsi has been thwarted.
Appealing for more arms, he de-
clared Japan's achievement of a rail-
way connection from Singapore to
Shanghai was "the key to successful
continuation of her war against the
United Nations,"
Another objective is elimination of
east China bases from which the al-
lies could attack Japan
With their naval losses mounting
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WASHINGTON, June 23 —(P —
Japanese incursions in the Aleutian
Islands and continued axis submarine
depredations prompted suggestions in
congressional quarters Tuesday that
world."
No New Applicants
For WAAC Accepted
Acceptance of more women's aux-
iliary army corps officer applications
here is not contemplated following
war department announcement in
Washington. D C. that the number
of applicants to be trained will be
doubled. Lieut. Col. F H. Hollings-
worth, army recruiting officer for the
state, declared Tuesday.
Any increase in this state's quota
of woman officer trainees will come
from among the original 500 appli-
cants, the officer said.
The war department's announce-
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of large economies.
WASHINGTON, June 23.—(P)—A $42,820,003,606 army supply
bill—largest in history—was sent to the house by its appropria-
tions committee Tuesday to finance an army with a strength of
4,500,000 by July 1, 1943, and to send war material to other United
Nations.
The measure amounted in itself to more than this country's
direct outlay for the World war and would boost to $205,311.233 542
the total authorized or appropriated for defense and war in the
last three years.
The committee explained the necessity for the expenditures by
quoting Lieut. Gen. J. T. McNarney, the army's deputy chief of
-------- • staff.
WASHINGTON, June 23— T—The
feminine question soon may be— to
be WANS or a WAAC?"
Those tens of thousands of disap-
pointed candidates for the women's
auxiliary army corps officer training
school can take renewed heart. The
Not only did we not force the en-
emv into any strategic pocket in ad-
vance but we were favored by
miracles of scouting. The enemy's
striking force actually was not. 10-
Russia, China and Britain with equip-
ment.
Senator Bone (D. Wash ) of the
naval committee described enemy
munications picked up a call in plain ' '
from a Jap admiral stating that he , ,
was being bombed—a true bill. He
was asking for help which apparently 1 ■
he never got. Returning pilots re-
ported that after their attack they had ' '
seen Jap crews getting ready to aban-
don a couple of ships and even at that
time hundreds of men were in the ► .
water.. One of our pilots forced down
and afloat in a rubber boat saw much • •
or the attack and reported that a Jap
cruiser, sank one of ihe disabled ship. " '
without making any effort to pick up
its crew, " '
ment. revealed that after the first 450
WAAC officers are trained at Fort
Des Moines, Iowa, beginning July 20.
a second school for a like number of
appointees will be held.
Minesweeper Launched
CLEVELAND, June 23. — (JP) — Tie
last of eight steel minesweepers being
built for the navy by the American
Ship Building Co. was launched Tues-
day at the company yards here.
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perhaps two, a couple of battle
me morning or June 4 navy patrol mnPatrdesomescrulsers and the third,
planes at Midway picked lupPJp ; fartherawest anns.soccupation force
carrier and planes inbound from the ships, four l- ting
northWe.moved over toward the line four sepinne venaen
on.which these planes were coming in , and escorting cruisers
and once again seemed to have re- -
duced the operation to the mathe-
matical. Once again tacticians
have been in
wA striking force, which WAs the one
we had most to do with-a covering
up gasoline. The length of time they [planes lying all over the Pacific, his a
could afford to lose smashing up the carriers sunk or burning and his bat- • 7
fleet was a serious consideration. The "a"—------------- •------ ■
Japs, instead of scouting for possible
air opposition, had gone straight, for
Midway. Not. only had bombers gone
to Midway but fighters also. So our
attack swooped out of the thin clouds
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Film Man Goes to Prison
NEW YORK. June 23. — (PP, —
on record who seems to have been un-
convinced by the demonstrations was
the Japanese admiral. With his
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-........ wn. m OI mental .T? tions. .They knew, for instance,
adaptability entered into the tactics that thev had attacked the Kagi and
Patrol planes made contact with Akasi and 8 couple of carriers of the
the enemy about noon on Wednesday Soryu. class. They reported the po-
June 3. and picked up what "sem sitions well enough. And ’ ‘
the main battle fleet 700 miles, Al-
most due west of Midway. We had
kept on our westerly course. In the
morning the Japs would hate come
about 350 miles east. We would have
traveled about the same distance or a
little better, and we would alter our
course to be within about an hours
bombing time of them.
as compared to a rorsmeredstemhoskprsntdttvyears2ot.
... 68.841.610.752 (including new navy program)
Figures made public by Representative Snyder iD., Pa.', chair-
man of tne appropriations subcommittee on army expenditures
services of andsasthatthisanationspent atotal of $145,000,000,000 for peace ; employed on outpost military installa-
,'h„ ________ . ‘ he period of 1 789-1939, inclusive. His figures on the tions, such as at Wake Island, who
spending rate since then: 1940, $9,127,400,000' 1941 $12 774 900000' I suffered from enemv actinn
1942, $30.204,400.000.’ ’ ‛‛0U‛
nation is “the most critical
which this country has ever en- CL’ D *1 N. !•.
countered There is one error >hIp erls Neutrality
which we must avoid at all
Two Jap Forces
Everything was working well until a
late report indicated that the first
was too languid. A second look by ob- pllots were homeless and desperate I wron" yeu w"
servers showed no carriers. I face to face with a death due in a lett of them.
There' were four heavy ships in the1 few.minutes no matter what they
group, 'at least two of them battle- i might do, that came over to make two 1
ships." The planes bombed these attarke....... * '
ships leaving one battleship "burning
furiously" and the other badly dam-
aged. But it was apparent from the
makeup of this force that It did not
represent the main body of the Jap
fleet. The conclusion was obvious—
somewhere in the neighborhood of
Midway was more of the Jap fleet
and nobody knew where that was.
It was at this juncture that the in-
genuity of the United States com-
mander became a factor. He looked at
the map, concluded they would have to
come down from the north—almost
scribed as "one of the fronts of mod- uP-A. Perfectly executed trick that
ern warfare," the city that might be 1 depended for its effect on the perfect
bombed from the air. timing that comes of long drill. We
The Pepper measure was sent to the are. ready to figure that from now on
finance committee for further study I victory would always follow the
strategist who could do the best black-
board and chalktalk, bark in Pearl
Harbor.
first major engagement of its pattern On the other hand. Senator Pepper a 4A 1
in history. (D Fla ), a member of the foreign " f i
For the first time in naval warfare relations committee, contended no
big ships had to hold bark and wait amount of submarine marauding
for the war to come to them, if thev should divert attention from what he
------------ ' termed the principal job of supplying
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have been made complete and well > •
authenticated when most likely some- A
bony in Tokyo heard what had al- ‘ *
ready happened to him. About that
time anyway he decided to withdraw. ‘ 3
Chase of Japs Begins , .
The United States task force planes
took up the pursuit on Friday, June 5. • ft*
came roaring home out of the sun in
early afternoon they brought a
stirring collection of tales.
They were accurate in their de-
Man Who Expected to Die
mam- At Age of 80, 88
“ BURLINGTON Mich lune 91— , ----manuve au wu years
(P)-Wilard Hyatt, who boughthi " illness and near-blindness,
tombstone 23 years ago and was so
sure he'd die when he was 80 years
old that he had the date "1934" in-
scribed on it, celebrated his eightv-
eighth birthday Tuesday and now be-
lieves he'll live to be 100.
About 60 business men whose work
is affected by federal transportation
regulations will meet at 6:30 p m
Wednesday in the Huckins hotel to
consider the new restrictions and their
effect.
M. D. Pemberton, secretary-manager
of the state wholesale credit associa-
tion, will be in charge of the meet-
ing. Speakers will include I. G. Bent-
ley, transportation secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce; Fred Cline,
secretary of the Associated Motor
that the Jap attack h.dh' that time
But nobody was tthnd benyamashed.
of threpswsrxnewntneyanhad na
conatituted one of the ndothone had
He forces ever sent Out on "8 wo bat-
mugiuonhapfasre W“ n° whak
A a matter of fact th. only peraon
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"The war department regards our
present situation as the most critical
which this country has ever encoun-
tered.
23.550 Plants included
The omnibus measure provided #12 -
700,000,000 for financing war material
for the United Nations, bringing to
862,944 650,000 the total of lend-lease
aid thus far approved by congress
it included $11.316.698.910 for 23,-
550 planes and spare parts. Army
chiefs and the committee joined in as-
suring congress that the allotment
would complete the war department's
part of President Roosevelt's produc-
tion program, calling for 60,000 planes
this year and 125,000 in 1943
as indications that
tee General McNarney declared that
the "army's every effort is being di-
rected to making our power felt bv
offensive action in consonance with
the accepted basic strategy of the
United Nations."
Plant Officials Praised
"This," the report said, "reflects the
zeal of the war department to ...
tain profits at fair levels, and it re-
05 "oe । niects the high type of men running
. The need for a road to open the the plants upon which we are so
largely dependent for the production
or munitions."
ship and sank two heavy cruisers of > I >
the Mogami class. The army mean- I
wn w......- so bv 3 p. m.' time reported that Fortresses had f'
' battlenew von. some sort of damaged two Ise! class battleships. Bv , £
tntne and. that.the Japanese were I nightfall it began to look as if all the 2
save"uh» ithout too.much success, to carriers were down including possibly . .
save what they could out of complete ---
disaster.
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the civilian pensions which he said lose.
were involved in the Pepper proposal. । 1 - . „
Pepper served notice, however. that A, 1. , K Common sense , stay in the background vulnerable
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heude । formanceggnute Rockne usedto thik ‘ °ndetteitarationvomow
navy shortly may be signing up volun-
teers in a women's auxiliary service
The senate naval affairs committee — -pp.,,
Tuesday begins considering a bill in- avoid providing 'too little, too late
troduced by Senator Walsh <D„ Mass.) "Our present pipe Une is long," he
to place women in non-combat shore said, "extending entirely around the
jobs, thus releasing men for more world. You have to fill it before the
active duty. material comes out the other end
me: ..Navy Is Preparing This requires large amounts of sup-
This bill, which makes the auxiliary i Plies."
a branch of the naval reserves, does He listed the problem of "working
not go as far as a bill, sponsored by out the details" as the "chief botti.
Representative Maas lR" Minn, and neck" in the procram’s achievement,
already passed by the house, which Rubber Pinch Felt
would take women right into the In its report, the committee found
While th. v. 181 the question of obtaining raw
eWhile the two branches of congress materials generally is "quite satisfac
seek-sgreementon.whether the future T" but added that’ the S“rubber
-Juh .J are to be in the navy , phase is rather disturbing "
oronwith the navy' the navy depart- So seriously does the committee re
ment wentahead with discussions and card the rubber-tire problem that it
coated “ to be ready when U is called upon the American M;t
As head of th. n.m .00 .. desist immediately from using their
admirals and „ t W auxiliary the automobiles for anv other than the
Snasansrgntoman"espsrmseza. m .-W. od boys
McAfee, president of Weilesley coH aoy an ituence Upon hastenang the
com.
with officials at the naw department continueto.be 8 year of punprece-
Other women college admnistrtnr; . dented airforce expansion." and ex-
also have been here in conference as pressed belief that facilities and ma-
the tentative plan is to set u train- tertal would be available to meet the
Ing schools on college campuses president s plane production program.
An eastern college—Smith and Vas- ' From Major Gen. O' P' Echols of
sar have been spoken of— is under the army air corps came the report
consideration as a training center for that the army was pressing its devel-
the officers and a mid-western uni- l opment of high altitude aircraft,
versity for the enlisted personnel, eneines with inerausnd ------- -nd
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large transports, three or
seaplane tenders, supply ships
, Score ig ruzpnngdestroyers.
- .The..first day of battle ended with
too much error lf they nad n"nela Aeaas Tn AAm arhisracsndddam)
too much on previous calculations, ported hits on two bnttierhysously.re-
Surprise the Surprisers [ships were atire between us and I he
We. kept on toward the north andisland-at least one of themanathe
slightly west and then shortly there heavy cruiser. We considered | hi
was no doubt about the position of I sorJ" surprine and puzzlement, we
the enemy. Jap planes came over Mid- [ hadkert 10, the idea thAt at any me
Way, Junt as.six months ago, nimost1 mentaihe fight might conform to
to the day, they had come over Pearl [ precedent.
Harbor. I But time went on and darknae.
.Again our force commander took cameean V?' guncrews secured and
the situation aa given him. He sent; werxedttMen.fell aSleep where thev
his planes up and started them to-wressitting all over the ship and bv
ward the direction whence the attack- 2.P.m Save for the iads eternally on
er. would come to Midway. i 8uArdthe.crew out of
Truethia force had"been in plenty thNobndyahad.anyedoubtby thartime
of action and had been under fire ।
often enough to make veterans of
crew and officers. But we had had
little experience to prepare us for a
knockdown fight. As it turned out no-
body in the world had the experience
to prepare him for the sort of battle
we actually fought becaune it wu the
Measure Sent to House Prov ides For *
4,500,000 Troops Strength bv July, 1943;
U. S. Situation Called ‘Most Critical’
one in t he covering unit on which the .
army operated. • ■>
w. knaw h«a T- it looked as if the chase might con- E
30"sikneyWtby about4P.m that of I tinue all across the Pacific tothe old I'
to the sttack titheadbrought ' bombing ground about Marcus island . j,
save tho in the had beenydes troyed But on Saturday morning scouts dis- »
place to Sandandts Theyshad n covered that the Japs had found a wav • V
be nearly gone gAsoline must I to increase their speed by deserting I
It was a group of those nU... .1 [cripples. Ships still able to make ' B'
.......n ft I
[ craft such as battered cruisers and de- L
a, came over in mat. t. i stroyers remained to meet the last
attacks on one of our carriers Most ' American attacks. The line of retreat. < <•
of them were shot down after thev for the south force had turned by this
had done a spirited and errtttrvet hey time toward Wake where the crocks
of bombing. But they didn't sink the and hulks could get some protection
ship and one felt the whole b nsinthe i from land-based planes. The faster
was very futile and changing the in however, had headed straight , ,
evitable not any more than you wouM for Tokyo.
expect. y wouid There were three bombing attack. • ,
Word from our scattered fronts 1 on the third day. One carrier, prob-
began to come in in dizzy profusion ably something left over from the cov- '
Army, planes were reported attacking ering contingent, was given a good
A battleship, our planes had seen no ! shellacking and was definitely in a
battleship. Army planes were reported ! Isinking condition when the bomber. . ,
dropring some bombs on a carrier left.. On a second flight the squadron
_ But that carrier was not in the same couldn’t find the carrier but they did ‘ '
from due north— because’they “wouid [ Drtionsasthe.one our squadrons had discoyersone ol the more durable of
have been spotted if approachng Prom orked upon at noon. the battleshiups and they dropped it
any other direction. ?!Pmayhn hrom tSoindue time evidence was pieced ' clunks on it. The ack-ack was neg- '
been as simply calculated as all that had eom- that the Japanese 1 8 a .
Japs’would znssk thXkMpllw during the •e?o"nd°'Jour rom-
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So we steamed north and early in
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Senator Urges Midway Naval Air Battle Called Senator Urges
Home Defense Weirdest Until Another Occurs U. S. to Keep
Insurance Plan By ROBERT J. CASEY
WASHINGTON, i June 23.—- WrTH THE PACIFiCFLEETWOFPNILSWAP ISLAND, June 7 -
10,000,000 ervmanstnsur may takepart (Qutline of Battle Movements.)—The naval-air battle of Midway
.......... in home defense work was proposed by sand will probably be an architect's model for sea engagements
Ortiz, Inactive for nearly two years 1 Senator George (D, Ga.) Tuesday as for some time to come. For awhile, perhaps, it will be the most
-■cause of illness and near-blindness, an alternative to federal cash benefits ; fantastic encounter of its kind, but only till a new one comes alone
witnin « azeenemzctionommite, । and that will probably be soon. The weirdest thing aboumlesir one some or the » equipment now
I tiling can be considered welder than another, is the fact that you being produced be diverted to defens.
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Bomber Crews Practice in Texas for Deadly Show ers on Enemv
dallymtheanapanrseoknowsthytmneb Flying in formation across the vast target ranges of Texas, bombardiers being groomed for aerial offensive release three
portation for effective prosecution of [ pairs of bombs in a patterned prelude to their days of real action. Night and day, cadets at the Midland flying school
the war, the spokesman said. nding the skies, practicing. (Wirenhoto.)
However, as we start out of this
Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Gui- . -------- —......... — ।
nazu, who announced the sinking of beaded by George, had before it. a -------------, — - .—-----, ...
the 4,800-ton vessel. said he did not ’ proposal by Senator Pepper (D., Fla ) । can’t base any predictions for the future on its results of American shores,
know "... torpedoed or Nomatter
actual attack or of accidents involving . 1 erpret the proceedings, we have smashed the declared he was "sick and tired" of
military equipment. Japanese until their carrier strength is much reduced. And we having such materials lost as were
George, who led a successful fight i have taken away from the Japs the mechanism for any immediate taken by the Nazis in the fall of
-- J J , „ . .... mnuuo, ii against immediate consideration of mass offensive. «-__Tobruk.
lOftff LilULI the measure Monday, told reporters he under the new order it appears
WASHIN~MAKno — mi « personally favored low-cost govern- । there aren't going to be anv s„nerior
. ......vuu w pian th WASHNGTON, June 23.—The following table shows how ment insurance similar to that avai-or inferior reetsis Ts Ptt
Events will etol the com itte the. moun ap ro ed 1 or. — and war for the abl tosolc ers instead orau 101 izing s commanders and those that1
. ■ 11 no doubt alter our plans fiscal years 1941-42-43 has grown to $205 311 ill 549. the civilian pensions which he said Jose,
m the future, just as they have in the I e-"" " ‘91911*33,*: were involved in the Pannap wane1 1
past. There is, however, one error .
which we must avoid at all costs, and .... Army
this is the error of underestimating 1941 ........$13,138,205,165
the task ahead of us." ' 1942 ........ 71,335.461.573
tivdeveported thesenemy’s most effec- 1943 ........ 42.089.637,372
Plus” navy program • ■
and added that the army was concen- .Total—
trating on developing counter meas- 1941 ........$25,995,243,580
urestcanti-aircraft and submarine >942 ........110.474.379.210
weapons, and an increase in the use 1943 .....
of camouflace and smoke screens.
Supply Needs Studied
back from a conference with
Erutain s war chiefs. Lieut. Gen B B
Somervell, in charge of the s
supply, outlined in detail the army's
needs as it grows from an enlisted
strensth of 2.800,000 at present to 4,-
500,000 in another 12 months.
Much of his testimony was stricken
from the transcript for reasons of
military secrecy, but he told the com-
mittee that since equipment must be
planned at least a year in advance,
the strengths must be based upon our
maximum capabilities of manpower,
production, and shipping. In order to
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It was impossible for our planes to • .
attempt, rescue work although some
patrol flying boats went about rescue ’ *
work. Of necessity our warships were
too far away. • ■
i A third flight or our bombers and
torpedo planes on the last day found
few targets save destroyers. By mom- » i
tu the. waterlogged fleet was gone.
The battle. WM over on the morning of • •
ine fourth day and we gave up the
chae and turned our attention to ’
comments of headquarters,
nStrategists had pointed out that Ja-
pan had encaped with * considerabie •
strength of eurface craft, that his re-
trement might not yet be classed aa '
defeat since he might be able to re-
arm, assemble airplane reinforcement 1
and come back to battle with a sort 0
erreverse technique. Some people are
hard to convince. i ,
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