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MI1MBF.R OF ASSOCIATED TRUSS
Intensive Offensive In "43
The middle of the year 1943 will find the United
States and Great Britain ready for intensive offensive
action. All present estimates and indications are that
at this time a turning point in the war will arrive.
Until the middle of 1943, however, unless some un
foreseen action takes place, such as the sinking of the
Japanese Navy, the United States and Britain will con
tinue fighting a defensive war. At the present time, our
industries are not geared up for an offensive war.
Today we are spending about one-fifth of our nation
al income on war. The American industrial goal, as
announced bv President Roosevelt ,is a war expendi
ture of $50,060,000,000 annually by the middle of 1943;
this is one-half of our national income.
The present problem of the Army is to build a fight
ing force qf about 7.000.000 men. This is a big order
and cannot be filled overnight. It should be remembep
ed that in the present Army program to supply a force
of 2,000,000 men, nearly one-fourth of this supply job
is completed. Thus, to supply an army nearly four
times as large as our present one presents a very diffi
cult supply job.
In the Air Force today there are fewer than 500,
000 men. The present plans now being made are to
increase this air force four or five times its present size.
Our two-ocean navy which may be finished by 1944
will require naval personnel to be doubled to about
1.000,000 men. The speed of production of naval vessels
is far ahead of schedule and other measures are being
taken to increase the production rate.
The United States Merchant Marine program to
produce 1,2000 ships will probably be at least doubled.
The rate of production of merchant ships at the pres
ent time is more than one a day; this rate will be
more than doubled before the end of 1942.
(Generals
Gallant MacArthur, the tjhorn an the s!de of the
Japanese thrust, possesses another honor that is not
usually known. As far as we are able to ascertain,
MacArthur is the only soldier in the United States'
Army who has twice held the rank of a full general.
The rank of general has been very rare in American
history. Even George Washington, general and com
mander-in-chief of the original Continental Army
from June 15, 1775. to December 23, 1783. did not hold
the rank of general in the United States army. Wash
ington was appointed lieutenant general and command
er-in-chief of the young American army in 1798. An
act of Congress was passed the next year creating a
rank of general, but history fails to reveal that the
appointment was ever made. So we come down to
the following and very limited list of generals of the
United States Army:
Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War; William T. Sherman,
Civil War; Philip H. Sheridan, Civil War; John J.
Pershing. World War; Tasker H. Bliss, World War;
Peyton C. March, World War; Charles P. Summerall,
chief of staff; Douglas MacArthur,chief of staff; Malin
Craig, chief of staff; George C. Marshall, chief of staff;
Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic
forces in World War No. II.
Many notable soldiers are not on that list, due large
ly to the fact that governmental regulations regarding
army rankings have changed. Now every chief of staff
is a temporary general until his term is expired, but
such a situation has only existed since 19,30. Missing
from that list are such officers at George Washington,
John Schofield, Nelson Miles, Hunter Liggett. Robert
Bullard, Hugh A. Drum, Winfield Scott, Phil Kearney
and many others.
General MacAuthur's father—Arthur MacArthur—
was a lieutenant general, and undoubtedly he would
have held the rank of a full general in this day and age.
We should also mention the fact that John L. Hines,
who was chief of staff as a major general just before
the new law was enacted making full generals of offic
ers in that position; was declared a full general by a
special act of Congress in 1940, some years after he
retired.
But back to MacArthur. Decorated for bravery many
times in France, he became the youngest chief of staff
of the United States army through appointment by
President Hoover. Pres dent Roosevelt re-appointed
him—and then Manuel Quezon, president of the Phil
ippines, asked if he could borrow him If history serves
us right, Mr. Quezon, a Philippine rebel at the turn of
the century, surrendered to Gen. Arthur MacArthur,
and the “kid” was right there, with a bar on his shoul
ders instead of four stars.
Manuel Quezon said at that time—in 1935—that lie
feared Japan and liked the MacArthurs. He certainly
had the right idea.—Sheridan (Wyoming) Press.
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Nelson Orders Radio Set
Making for Public to Halt
COMPLETE SWITCH EXPECTED BY JUNE 30
NO CURB ON RETAIL SALES IS YET IN VIEW
WASHINGTON — The War
; Production Board, headed by
'■ Donald M. Nelson, gave orders
| that the manufacture of radios
! and phonographs for civilian use
be discontinued after April 22 so
that the fifty-five manufacturers
in the industry could devote their
plants to war production, chiefly
radio sending and receiving sets
and airplane detcct'on apparatus
for the Army and Navy.
In an earlier order civilian pro
duction by large manufacturers
was limited between Jan. 23 and
April 23 to 55 percent of their
production rate in the first nine
months of 1941 and that of small
producers to 65 percent. The new
order permits each manufactur
er to complete sets begun before
April 22 if he does not 'use more
than $500 worth of materials, not
including the cost of wooden eab
inets. Continued manufacture of
replacements parts is permitted,
and this, the W P B said, will
make it possible to keep the bulk
of existing home radios in effic
ient operating condition during
the war.
1941 Employment 30,000
The order affects companies
which in 1941 employed about
.30,000 persons, produced more
than 13.000,000 sots, and did a
business of aboui $240,000,000.
using 2100 tons of aluminum:
10,500 tons of copper: 2.90 tons of
nickel and 70,000 tons of steel, all
critical materials.
Robert Berner, chief of the
WPB radio section, said the or
der would not result in unemploy
ment for any appreciable period,
but that employment would be
greatly increased by the switch
to militny production, with 95
percent of the switch to be com
pleted before June 30.
The 55 companies already have'
military orders aggregating $500.
000,000, it was said, while an
equal amount of such contracts is
held by other radio campanies
not normally engaged in civilian
nroductinn. All except thrteen of
the 55 companies affected by the
order have begun participating in
the military business.
Subcontracting Plan Ready
The ordnance branch and the
radio section of the consumers 1
durable goods branch of the
WPB, to facilitate the conversion
of the smaller companies, have
worked out a subcontracting plan
whereby each affected company
which is not a prime contractor
will be ass gned to a prime con
tract ho’der, thus forming a ser
ies of ‘family production groups.'
The load of war production, it
was stated, would be so evenly
distributed that there would be
'work tor every company which
is capable of performing the pre
cise operations demanded by the
Army and Navy.
The WPB estimated that pro
duction of home radios this year
will be 3,000,000 before produc
tion stops, increasing to about
60,000,000 the number of home,
radios in the nation.
•No Curb on Retail Sales
WASHINGTON <A>) — The gov
ernment has made no move to
freeze retail stocks of radio sets,
and the WPB said that sales
i would continue on a “first come,
first served basis until avaiable
supplies were exhausted.
Conversion Being Speeded
Radio set makers who could be
reached indicated that rapid pro
, gross was being made in convertr
ing their plants to the full-time
manufacture of war materials. It
is believed that all will be fully
i ready to undertake the new- jobs ■
when they are allocated.
, The entire plant of Freed-Eise-.
| mann will be ready in less than
i ten days to go on “full war pro
duction basis, ' a representative,
i said. A number of radio-engineer
ing specialists, skilled testers and
! bench workers have been taken
on in tiro past few days. Other
set makers reported similar pre
parations.
On Feb. 13, when the War Pro
-duct.on Board warned the conn
try’s civilian radio set manufac- j
hirers "to b'> ready” to cease nor
mal operations after April 22 to
take on a:her jobs, a- survey
made throughout the Eastern
part of the United States indicate
ed that there would be “complete
accord" with the order when it:
came.
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\t ceremonies aboard an aircraft carrier in-Pearl Harbor, Admiral \imitz pinned
a Distinguished Service medal on Vice Admiral W. F. Halsey, Jr., for the latter’s
vuccewsf.it raids on Japanese bases on the ,T^-wF;d ;tml Gilbert Islands.
Harold id D xon of La Mesa, Calif., got a handshake from Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz Mid a Navy Cross during ceremo lies at Pearl Harbor. Dixon and his two
companions (1-r) Gene Aldrich or Sikes on, Mo., and Anthony Pastula of Youngs
town, O., drifted for 34 days in the South Seas in a rubber raft after their land
plane came down at sea.
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Here are pictures made at various times in the career of General Douglas Mac
Arthur, whose arrival in Australia to assume the Supreme Command in that re
gion was announced by the War Department. Left to right: In Washington in
1937: at a dinner in Washington in 1935, and at a Congressional labor committee
hearing in 1933.