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EDITORIAL
Facts About
Planes
(Juneau Empire)
To be successful, the defense
effort must enlist the enthusiastic
cooperation of the whole coun
try. It cannot do this if th pub
lic is kept too much in the dark
to know how the program is pro
gressing. It must know in a broad
way what has been done, what re
mains to be3 done, in what direc
1
in what directions we are s r
iously lagging. The public should
know everything about the de
fense program, in short, that is
not properly a military secret.
The Administration has still to
follow a policy of adequate public
ity, or even a consistent policy.
Take once more, as an example,
the production of airplanes, in
which there is more popular in
terest than in any other item.
The OPM now’ announces tha
plane manufacturers delivered
972 completed units during Feb
ruary to thi Army Navy, Great
Britain, other Governments and
commercial airlines. This ccmpar
cs with a figure of 1,036 planes
put out for January and 799
planes for December.
But how is the public t. inter
pret these figures or to make com
parisons? How many of the plan
es delivered in February wer
for commercial airlines? Should
not this figure be stated separate
ly from that of military planes?
If the figure given out fer Janu
ary and Deo mber also includ
ed commercial transport deliver
ies, the fact was not previously
made clear. We have been told
that 60 percent of the Decern
to r and January figures repre
sented training and the rest com
bat planes. Apparently this rati
still obtains, but it has not been
jnade clear whether it does or
not,
It might be revealing too much1
information to the Germans to
break down th monthly airplane
production figures into toe exact
number of medium and heavy
bombers, fighters, and so on. But
at least the production of train
ing and combat planes could be
presented as separate figures.
Wh n five or six training planes
can be built for the cost of one
pursuit plane, and 20 for the cost
of one heavy bbmber.it is close
to meaningles to lump all these
types in the same total.
No matter how much an indiv
idual knows, he w'ill always ru1
across an expert who has stud
ied less and knows more.
k rainces
llnter Service
Over e
CAA Civilian P lot trainee'
row are volunte ring for Ihf
Army and Navy air services at
the rate of well over 190 per
we k D nald H. Connolly .Admir
i tr d r of C vil Aeronautics, shH
; ■» the basis of the latest
ava ! >b’ ■ lists of flying cadets re
leased bv the services.
One-fiflh of all flying cadets
entering the Air Corpi in March,
and more than one-fourth of the
nominees accepted for naval avia
'tion training during Apri, were
CAA p lot trainees, he explain
ed.
The latest figures show tha‘
' out of the March class of 2062
flyrg cadets. 453, or 22 per cent,
v. re graduates of the CPT The
Navy figure (for April) w s 26
CPT trainees out of a total of
940 approximately 27%.
"Each time we get a new sc
of satisfies they bear out our of
ten repeated sta‘ement that w
are providing a cornsdc back
leg of pilot material from which
the services can ob.ain large num
bers of ‘air-wise’ young men,”
■aid G nerai Ck nroily. ‘‘The num
ber jlining the Air Corps in
March, tor example, is 23 per
c. rt larger than th iumber in
February.”
‘‘The majority are college stu
dents between th ■ ag’s of.19 and
7’ an 1 is a matter of national
policy arc not subjee :he draft
rulings. However, thi fact that
they are volunteering in increas
ingly large numbers all the time
seems to me to answer these per
sons who questioned thi patriot
i m of our yourg men when the
pledge of s 'vice .cos inserted
last summer in the application
for pilot training.”
To date Army <ch ols have
drawn 3,723 gradu. tss of the
CAA traming and th* Navy, 1,801
accord.ng to official service re
cords. ,
These figures include only
those stu len.s who are now m
mili ary training or have be.;
definitely accepted and are awai
ing orders.
Ptoui ut ... ,L r E.j.io can now
te had at *> Nm e ki..g . u.tict
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|W A I T I N C—Any day now
there may come a plaintive call
and Buck, leader in fhe St. Ber
nards’ ski patrol on Baldy moun
tain at Sun Valley, Idaho, is
u. >. ready for it.
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PREGNANT THOUGH T—Swifter knowledge of expec*
tent motherhood may accompany the discovery by Illinois scien
t -is. Dr. V. Freda (left) and Dr. Frederick H. Fails, of a new
one-Four test for pregnancy. In the test colostrum, a watery fluid
t ret d iu the breasts during pregnancy, is injected into skin; a
I regnant woman shows no reaction, no inflammation of skin.
Soldiers V ill
Cuard Boeing
Necessary
y
?r‘\TTI,E. M?v 2°* -- M'»v r
ViHiken of Seattle said he recH”
v 1 an admonition from on “au
thority in Washington, D. C., a'
he rght hand of the President”
; that For'1 ral troops would be sent
‘o Seattle if nece=sary to project
property of the Boeing Aircraf
C mpany’s plant. The Mayor r?
vealed this information to a
group of business ar.d profession
i >1 leader - who had called a mo i
ing to considw: civic defense mat
I ters.
The committee discussed the ad
visability of quick acti: n to fill
he p i: n of chief of police.
Police Chief S ars has been re
p.'o'nted by the mayor. The ap- i
poiotment is now before the city
c; uncil for confirmation. The
mayor's group in the council ex
! press*-d approval of Sears.
Violence broke out yest) rday
uts'de the main plant of the Bo.
ing Comp... y b-lween pamphlet
li -t; ibuting CIO me mb-, rs and
AFL affiliated workers. Fists and
rotten eggs flew until th_ police
rintervened.
71.: F ing plan; i? a union
1 s p under jurisdiction of the
A.' . A ronau.'icai 1M clianic
but the CIO Automobile
s' rs recently started a drive
n ' n borship in the plant.
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T.r'rnON. M~v 0,1 — The Lon
•n N°w ■ CKr—tie epnc led to
f Pr-i TJ - •■‘o ’ Ptntf1- ’ '! 'r page
di'orirl for direct par ir nation
' th? war.
T n^wspinc said that Brit
■ rit is not apprali'2 to America
to ?;;ve the B it'.sh Empire from
aggression, but rather to help do
'cat. the f r^os that are a threat
- democracy every where in the
• arid.
STIMSON l IKE KNOX,
AG A NST NEUTRAL LAW
WASHINGTON, May 22 — Sec
re.ary of Wa: Henry L. Stimson
s-a led thi Neutrality Act as a
vioL tion of our most sacred and
important tradition of our for
eign policy and freedom of the
seas.”
Like Secretary f the Navy
Frank Knox, who termed the Neu
trality Act as barring American
sapping from war zones a “ter
.;oL blunder,” Stimson stressed
nat he was speaking as an in
dividual rather than as secretary
f war.
Stimson added, however, that
v hat iie described as a conflict
b.Twc; n the Neutrality Act and
.he freedom of tbs seas in con
ection with the principle have
b n “very carefully considered”
i connection with delivering
unilions to Britain.
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phasis on canaries. Once, she even sewed feathers back on a canary scalped by another bird.
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