Gen. Curtis Lei
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Editor's Note: To tough, hard
driving Gen. Curtis Lemay, the
possibility of atomic war is never
academic He and his men of the
Strategic Air Command live j with
11 every uajr. -
and night, they train continuously
for the big. fateful blow. Here s
a ddseup of the SAC boss by an
AP correspondent who's A veteran
of generals and wars.)
By DON WHITEHEAD
OMAHA, Neb. t - Out: here
in the brown, wind-swept center
of America, a stern-faced man is
polishing a fighting machine on
which the whole free world may
one day depend for survival-
He hopes that day never will
come - an atomic war between
the United States and Russia., He
hopes and believes his efforts have
shaped an instrument f or enforc
ing peace in the world. i
But if war does come, he alone
will have at his command more
destructive power umu ou. uv
bined armed forces of mankind
since the dawn of history. His wJl
be the power to wipe out cities
. . .the power to leave key areas
of an enemy nation ton. and bleed
ing within a few thunderous hours.
This man is four-star Gen. Cur
tis Emerson Lemay. His machine
is the Air Force's Strategic Air
Command the atom bombers
also will be the hydrogen
bombers.
Depends oh Lemay
If there is any one military man
the Russians should Fear above all
others in another war perhaps
he is Lemay. For it would be his
bombers which would carry the
main weight of retaliatory atomic j
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GEN. CURTIS LEMAY
"At War Every Day"
Adlai Won't
to
To McCarthy'
NEW YORK tfi - Adlai E. Stev
enson' said Saturday he will not
reply to Sen McCarthy's "20-count
Tarty, declaring "I will not stoop
to the senator's level."
Stevenson said he had read the
charges of Sen. McCarthy, who
Friday night in Milwaukee accused
the Democrats of "20 years of
treason" and called Stevenson the
"attorney for ihe defense." Mc
Carthy asked Stevenson to plead
guilty or not guilty.
Stevenson flew here from Boston
with his son, John Fell Stevenson,
17; William Blair, an aide, and
Mrs. Carol Evans, his secretary.
lie luiicuut u via a auca&ni wui.
"While saying he planned no re
ply to any of McCarthy's state
ments, the unsuccessful 1952 Dem
ocratic presidential candidate did
ay, however, it was "the first I
heard of it" when asked for com
ment nn McCarthy's statement that
Stevenson had been given the task
of formulating America's postwar
policy for Italy. -
McCarthy had added:
- mat policy according 10 me
sworn testimony of Gen. Bedell
Smith was to 'connive" to bring
Communists into the Italin govern
ment and to bring the Communist
leader, Togliatti, back from Mos
cow. . ." v
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'The proper person to consult
would be Bedell Smith
"At that time I never heard of
Togliatti."
Stevenson said he spent only six
weeks in Italy and that his work
was "not political but technical.
Smith was not available for com
ment.
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of
attack against Russia. The out
come of the war might well, be
determined within a matter of
days, depending on how efficiently
Lemay and his men are doing and
will do their jobsTi; i ' ti
Day and night his .bomber and
crews remain on the ( ready. Day
and night, regardless! of weather,
they work to perfect bombing tech
niques. Someone has . said that
SAC "is at war every day. .
Who is this general shouldering
such an awesome responsibility?
Why was he chosen above .all
others? How well has he done his
job? Is he the ruthless, machine-,
like- driver he has been pictured?
Why is he one of the most con
troversial men in military life
today? . i -1 v f
Air Force Legend i j -J "
You don't come by all the an
swers easily, because at 47 Lemay
already is an Air Force j legend.
It is sometimes hard- to separate,
legend from fact, j i f
In appearance. Lemay is stocky
and heavy-jowled. j He weighs " 1S5
pounds and stands 5 104. His hazel
eyes are set under black brows.
His thick black hair is tinged with
gray. Most of the time he has a
cigar stuck between bis jaws. His
face , has a stern, set look older
than his years. A stnile j doesn't
come easily.. ! j
In the legend, i Lemay;
Georgie Patton with wings.
"old Ironpants." ' I i ' ' j
He's a general who 'regards men t
and machines with the same cold s
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eye. rie s ine man wno can i
at a bomber crew and tell you
whether they'll come; home alive
from a combat mission. He's the
real tough guy you respect but
cant Jove
"Has No Friends" !
some oi me stories-go ie una.
A group of colonels invited Le-
jiman should have dinner with his
friends, and the commanding gen-
Ural has no friends."! ' j
At a reception m England.;
talkative woman asked Lemay why
he was so quiet and he said:
"Lady, if you talk all the time,
you don't learn anything." ?
. To his staff, Lemay said: "!f
any of you have anything to say,
then get up and say it even ;if
you think it's stupid. If you are
stupid, everybody knows it any
way" li .
Marines Run Second j
Comparing the esprit of the Ma
rines with the spirit of i his own
command: "The Marines are run
ning second." M ! 1
On the whittling away from the
military men of "such privileges as
the commissary and medical aid
for dependents: "If j you keep tip
that sort of thing, you make this
a career for saps and suckers. And
you can't trust the security of this
nation to second class citizens."
It is true that Lemay; has built
up a pride and spirit within his
command that probably can't :be
matched by any other military out
fit outside the Marines.;
The word has gone around that
"old Ironpants" gives you a fair
shake if you're on his team.
The true driving force behind
Lemay has been his conviction that
air power properly used j is
the key to victory Jin war. Once
a fighter pilot, he shifted to bomb
ers early in his career. I
"I saw the real ipower of thei
Air Force was in the bombers.'' i
he says. "I wanted to be with
them." ;
Blunt Talk ! i
Lemay has gambled his career
and his life many times to prove
his beliefs to himself and to others.
He made enemies. He left a trail
of wounded feelings behind him
with his blunt talk. But in the
crises, the Air Force has turned
to Lemay time after time as their
!'get it done guy. ;
Example: '
In World War II. Lemay was
one of the first to take the B17's
into combat. He led 20 missions
personally and fought successfully
to prove that mass daylight
bombing was practical,: something
the British had insisted couldnt
be done. ! !
He worked out a new "staggered
box" formation for bombers which
gave them greater protective fire
power and sharply reduced losses.
He proved that bombers could bore
straight in to theit targets, drop
their bombs more accurately and
come home with fewer losses than
in attempting "evasive" action to
avoid flak.
Sent to Pacific !
Example: In 1945. Lemay was
sent to "the Mariannas to jack; up
the lagging B29 campaign in! the
Pacific. The bombers had been
trying and often failing -4 to
hit their targets, from high alti
tudes because of ; overcast and
high velocity winds over Japan.
Lemay made his' decision.! He
sent the bombers in at only S.000
to 12.000 feet He gambled that
this tactic would confuse enemy
antiaircraft gunners. And he was
right His B29s began plastering
their targets right Ion the nose.
Example: In the early days of
the cold war in Europe, it was
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eight-engined sweptwing bomber is the weapon Ithat is "going to keep that red fellow in his place "
An undisclosed number of the bombers will be built at Seattle for the Air Force, Gen Curtis
Lemay's Strategic Air Command. Two experimental models were built and tested previously (AP
f 11 CfJllUlU. j . .
Lemay who was chosen to head
the U. S. Air Forces there. He
scored perhaps the. greatest of the
cold-war victories with the Berlin
Airlift It was a precision air opi
eration that kept the Allies in Ber
lin and finally broke the Red
blockade. ; "
Fight With Navy -
Example: Late in 1948. the Air
Force was in a hitter fight with
the Navy over strategic air policjr.
The Air Force felt the future pi
its strategic air program was at
stake. ' i ' ' i - i '
Lemay was given the command.
Today, the long fight seems to
have ,been won. The Eisenhower
administration's "new look" at
military strategy has put main re
liance on strategic aitpower to
keep the peace -4 and JhKsmash
an enemy in another war. This
policy has shifted the military
spotlight to Lemay and his atom
bombers. ' i!
Since taking his SAC command,
Lemay. has fought to achieve the
goal of an intercontinental bomb
ing force capable of carrying out
its war mission. The mission: De
stroy the enemy's bomb bases,
smash the enemy's war-making
power by destroying his industries
and communications and support
the ground forces. I
Brought Realism; !.
One Air Force general looking
back at that beginning says: "Le
may bought realism and hard-
driving objectivity into SAC." I
Today Lemay commands rough
ly 150.000 men. His command ex
tends over the Fifteenth Air Force
at Riverside, Calif.; the Eighth
Air Force at Fort Wrorth. Tex.;
the Second Air Force at Shreve
port. La. ; the Seventh Air Division
at South Ruislip, England; and the
Fifth Air Division at Rabat, French
Morocco. .1 ; -:: .' t
Day after day, week after week,
the bombers roar, into the strato
sphere on missions to: "bomb"
targets in Denver, Seattle, Tampa.
Salt Lake City or Birmingham. Ex
cept for the bomb itself, every
phase of the operation so far as
possible is carried out 1 precisely
as it would be in war. Then the
names of Denver, Seattle, and
Birmingham would be changed to
names like Sevastopol, . Moscow,
Stalingrad.
Crews Organized! ? :
Here s how Lentay has organized
his operation: ' j:
Readiness Crews and planes
stay on a ready basis around the
clock. It is hammered into the
men that the loss of one hour; in
another war might be fatal. Their
flight bags are packed for takeoff
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der! constant care.' Plans have
been made and there are repealed
drills for movement to foreign
bases. Each crew knows its war
target. r '
The men have spent hours and
weeks studying where the bomb
would be dropped the exact cor
ner of a building or the cross
roads which would be the aiming
point. They know the pattern their
targets make on radar screens bet
ter than they know their own home
towns. Some of this information on
targets came from old German
Luftwaffe photographs. Other in
formation has ben added from
other intelligence sources.
Bombing accuracy Here is the
payoff for the whole operation. Le
may asks there no longer is any
from 40,000 feet in any kind of
weather. Accuracy has improved
better than 400 per cent due- to
improved electronic equipment and
bomber efficiency.
Mnch Statistics
Efficiency Each month the
SAC comptroller feeds facts and
figures into tabulating machines,
facts and figures on how person
nel and equipment are used, how
many flights are made by celes
tial navigation, how well the sup
ply system works, the number of
bombs dropped visually ; and by
radar, the bombing accuracy, etc.
Out of this mass of statistics
Lemay can tell at a glance the
efficiency rating? , of each wing,
group, squadron ' and crew. The
record is based on performance.
Machines take no excuses.'
jOnce a colonel complained to Le
may he had been "marked down"
inl efficiency because an eagle flew
into one of his planes and damaged
it The general said: "We can't af
ford to distinguish between the un
fortunate and the inefficient The
result is the same."
Learn Survival
Survival training Lemay insists
every , crew learn how . to survive
in hostile country or in the Arctic
if shot down. They study the find
ings of experts, and then go into
wild mountain country, to live with
their "survival kits" as best they
can. This training' has brought
some interesting results. The plane
commander, absolute leader in the
air, is not always the leader on the
ground. Prhaps it is a sergeant
raised in the hill country to whom
the men look for leadership. Thus
the men get to know each other
better. . . ,-.
As for their -"get home chances
in case of war with Russia Le
may : is highly optimistic. He is
planning - no kamikaze attack in
which -.men and - machines are
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The figures are secret but Le
may is sure all but a remarkably
small percentage of his bombers
would return from atom bombing
attacks. His command figures the
defenders haven't yet narrowed the
margin of advantage held by of
fensive attackers.
Bomber crews Lemay says:
"There is as much difference be
tween the SAC crew today and the
World War II bomber crew as
there is between a bush league
baseball team and the New York
Yankees." J
You wouldn't recognize in these
crews the wild-blue-yonder boys of
a few years ago. Each, crew is
carefully handpicked. and works
from that time on as a team. The
crew that climbs to the select list
has to fight to stay there. The
competition is terrific be
cause reaching the select : list
means better pay, privileges and
greater prestige. 1
Previous Combat
The average aircraft command
er today is a mature 32 years old.
He is married, and has at least
one child. He has been a member
of a SAC crew for 33 months. He
has had nine yars of service in
the Air Force. He has an average
of 39 combat missions either in
World War II or Korea. He is a
major and his monthly pay is
about $750.
Lemay gives you the .impression
that he walks a lonely life in which
there are onjy a few people with
whom- he can feel completely at
ease. Except for occasional es
capes, he is the prisoner oi his
work. t
Sometimes he gets away for
three or four days of hunting or
fishing. "I like to throw a line in
the water and then just sit and
look stupid," he said. But there is
no real escape. His office must
know every move he makes and
where he is at all times of the
day and . night
"I just don t remember the last
time I had a real vacation," he
said. ?
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PORTLAND OB Mrs. Antonia
Crater,; Newberg, was elected Fri
day vice president of the Oregon
Education Assn., and will become
president by automatic progression
next year.
Warren H. Tinker of Portland
became president Mrs. Agnes
Booth, i Salem, was one of the
trustees installed. - '
The association ended its annual
convention Saturday with a series
of ' discussion and .workshop meet
ings.:,'' . f I .
Speakers Friday stressed the
importance of improving relations
between schools and the public.
Dr. William G. Carr,: executive
secretary of the National Educa
tion Assn., said schools "need the
help of the public desperately."
Portland School Supt. J. W
Edwards said good teaching in
the classroom is always the best
public relations."
. Dr." Richard R. Powell, Columbia
University law professor, said the
American heritage cannot be saved
by persons fearful of change. He
said the need is to keep a "nice
balance" between tradition and
change."
Bellingliam
Area Plane
Crash Kills 2
BELLINGHAM, Wash. .On - Two
men were killed in the crash of a j
light plane near the Mount Baker
Highway 25 miles northeast of Bel
lingham Saturday afternoon.
They were tentatively identified
as Rollin Wood, Bellingham, and
Wayne W. Craig, Route 1, Everson.
The two had left Bellingham in a
two-seated Piper Cruiser in an at
tempt find a trace of Howard F.
Johnstone, Bellingham, who has
been missing since March 6. John
stone's car was found in the Nook
sack River near Maple Falls, on
March 10.
First reports indicated the plane
had taken off from a field near
the community of Maple, Falls. It
went into a sharp bank at a low
altitude while attempting to clear
trees at the edge of pasture and
nosed into the ground.
Wood was a brother-in-law of the
missing Johnstone. Wood had been
employed as an assistant engineer
at the Pacific American Fisheries
here and was piloting the plane
when it took from the -Bellingham
airport at 10 a. m. The plane was
owned by the Bellingham Flying
Service.
Craig, a flier with the Air Force
in World War II, was employed by
the Columbia Valley Lumber Co. of
Bellingham.'
Ronald Chase, 29,
Dies, Funeral Set
Monday at Lyons
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Ronald C. Chase, 29, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clem Chase of Lyons,
who died Thursday in Eugene.
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Nebr., May 9, 1924- and came to
Oregon about eight years ago.
He is also survived by his wife,
Jean, of Eugene, a sister, Mrs. El
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brothers, Floyd, Bernard and Wil
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Italy Foreign
Son Termed
ROMEB j A letter calling
the son of Italy's Foreign Min
ister ine -assassta for f dope
ring threw the sensational Wil
ma Montesi scandal triaHoton
uproar aaruraay.
The explosive
letter,- signed
by pretty Anna Maria Moneta
Caglio, rocked anew the hard
pressed government of Premier
Mario Scelba.
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Loses Ground
The State of Oregon's $282,
000 suit for damages in the 1951
Sardine Creek fire took a set
back this week end.
Circuit Court Judge George
It Duncan sustained a demurrer,
filed by three of the five de
fendants, which in effect torn
pels the statej to re-file the suit
against either the defendants
who were successful on the de
murrer or against the other two.
The demurre? was sustained on
the grounds of a, misjoinder, "of
causes of action. f
The .suit grew out ofa fire on
state and other lands in the San
tiam Canyon! between Aug. 20
and Sept. 2 1951. The state
charged the defendants did not
exercise sufficient caution.
Defendants! prevailing on the
demurrer were Ford M. Con
verse and Edith Converse, own
ers of land onto which the fire
spread, and Russel L. Halecox,
who at oee time managed log
ging operstions on the Con
verses' land, j
The other i defendants in the
suit are the Vancouver Plywood
Company and Jess Lee, doing
business as , the Lee Cogging
Company, who had a contract
with the Vancouver Plywood
Company to operate on the
land.
The State of Oregon, as plain
tiff, is acting for the Clackamas
Marion and Linn County Fire
Control Associations. Plaintiff
now will have to file an amend
ed complaint to resume action
in the case.
Attorneys for the three de
fendants who prevailed on the
demurrer are Allan G. Carson
and Wallace P. Carson. Attor
neys for the state are Manley B.
Strayer of Portland and District
Attorney Kenneth E. Brown of
Marion County."
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j Minister's
j Assassin
NaUonal Police Chief Tomaso
,y .VUilMJ
i Pavone resigned recently , after
oeia g mentioned m testimony Jn
the case. .
' Only last Tuesday Scelba and
his Cabinet expressed thir nii.
parity" with Foreign Minister
Attilio Piccioni, who reportedly
had offered to resign. The Com
munist press has Jed the attack
on Scelba's egime, saying the
trial disclosed, scandal .in high
government circles. -Sensational
Testimony
-miss iaguo t letter was p
duced at the trial of Silvano
Muto, 25-year-old magazine edi
tor accused of "'false and alarm
ist reporting of the death of
party girl Wilma Montesi. While
testimony has been sensational,
Muto is the only one facing ,
criminal charges.
The letter said: "
;"I have known that Ugo Mon
tagna is the chief of a dope ring
with the consequent disappear
ance of mady, women. . He is the
brains of the ring while Piero .
Picconi is the assassin."
"Knew Toe Much" , .
;Both Piero Piccioni, son of the
Foreign Minister, and the self
styled Marquis Montagna were
mentioned by "Miss Caglio in di
rect testimony as "knowing too
much" about Wilma's death. She
alleged that they had sought out
Pavone to "hush tip"' the case.
! The shapely 22-year-old Wil
ma was found dead on the sands
of Ostia beach, 15 miles from
Rome, last April Police ruled
she died of accidental drown
ing. - . '
'Muto wrote that she had. been
dumped on the beach and left
to die after being given too much
drugs at a wild party attended
by social and political notables
I Muto gave Anna Maria, admit-
ted one-time $800 a month mis
tress of Montagna, as one of his
sources for his magazine, article.
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