Long-Range Bombers or
Carrier Planes Win Defense Spot?
Trial Nears for
Capt.Crommelin
Washington, Oct. 25 ()
The navy moved a tep nearer a
decision today on whether to
court martial Capt. John G.
Crommelin for releasing navy
documents which touched off
the congressional inquiry into
Pentagon policies.
Cormmelin himself disclosed
that he has been asked officially
whether he wants to make a
statement. He told reporters
that Admiral Louis E. Denfeld,
chief of naval operations, wrote
him that he should advise the
navy immediately if he did not
wish to make one.
This was generally regarded
as preliminary to a decision on
the court martial question. Sec
retary of the Navy Matthews
had instructed that "appropriate
action" -should be taken against
Crommelin.
Asked by reporters if he in
tended to make a statement.
Crommelin said he did "but I
have not yet decided what I
want to say."
He said he would talk ith
his friends before preparing his
atatement.
Commelin, 48-year-old naval
flier, slipped to reporters on
Oct. 3 a letter from Vice Admir
al Gerald F. Bogan to Secretary
Matthews expressing concern
over low navy morale. Its publi
cation helped bring on the long
congressional hearings on mili
. tary policies.
Crommelin was suspended
when he acknowledged giving
out the letter. The navy called it
a "confidential" paper.
At the Pentagon, the hearings
apparently have produced only
an uneasy truce.
(Editor'! Note: This is an article summing up and analys
ing the armed services controversy.)
By BARNEY LIVINGSTONE
Washington, Oct. 25 What is to be the nation's first line
of defense? The strategic long-range bomber? Or naval car
rier aviation?
Thii verv much in brief, is the thorny question which the
admirals and the generals have been airing in all its proa and
and cons before a perplexed na-
tion in recent weeks. j j. The prime retaliatory wea-
On the solution of these dif- pon upon the outbreak of war.
ferences strategic versus tac-j 2. The best weapon to destroy
tical airpower may rest the i the war-making potential' of the
course of initial U.S. defense enemy.
strategy in case of war. 3. And finally, the only wea-
The navy's admirals touched
off the explosive dispute with
the assertion that too much de
pendence is being laid on un
proven trategic bombing (the
raiding of distant targets as
contrasted with air attacks in
close support of other fighting
forces).
Underlying the whole dispute
is the universally held assump
tion among our military plan
ners that the next war if it
comes will pit me unuea
States against the world's great
est land power. Namely, So
viet Russia.
Sir Francis Bacon laid down
an old rule of war:
He that commands the sea
is at great liberty, and may take
as much or as little of the war
as he will."
But time effects changes in
war as in all else. Bacon's apho
rism has now been amended to
provide thBt he who would com
mand the course of war must;
first command the air.
And how to command the air
is what is bothering the admir
als and the generals.
Our strategic air planners, in
their testimony before the house
armed services committee, have
stated that the long-range stra
tegic bomber is:
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Air Force Chiefs Raps Navy Testifying before the house
armed services committee in Washington, Gen. Hoyt S. Van
denberg (right), U. S. air force chief of staff, charged that
the navy seeks to repudiate the national war plan which "is
in fact" now preventing Russia from aggression. At left is
Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington. (Acme Telepholo)
Demonstration Given
At Silverfon Hills
Stlverton Hills Misi Betty
Boetticher, Salem, assistant to
Miss Eleanor Trindle, Marion
county horn demonstration
agent, was guest speaker at the
week end meeting of the Sii
verton Hills extension unit at
the community hall in an all day
session. Miss Boetticher's talk
was on "Window Treatment."
A 9 o'clock forenoon meeting
ii announced for Tuesday, No
vember 1, with special practice
on better-cotton-dress work shop
at the Victor Hadley home.
Those Interested are urged to
take advantage of this oppor
tunity in preparation for the
general meeting of the unit dur
ing February for "Better Dress
Work Shop" day, when special
help from Salem is furnished.
. The next meeting is announC'
ed for the third Thursday in No'
vember.
Mrs. Bryan Gordon ia Hills
unit chairman; Mrs. Alexander
Sturge is vice chairman and pub
lic relations chairman; Mrs. Carl
Koehler If secretary-treasurer.
Gervais Grade School
Observes Halloween
Gervais The fifth and sixth
grades of the Gervais grade
school under the direction of
their teacher, Miss Caroline Zu
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ber presented a Halloween pro
gram for the entertainment at
the meeting of the PTA at the
grade school building.
Guest speakers were Mrs.
Ralph Sipprell, Marion county
council president who gave a
short talk and Mrs. A. F. de-
Lespinasse of .Hubbard who
spoke on juvenile delinquency
and customs in Holland. In the
near future the organization will
sponsor a cake sale.
The November meeting will
be preceded by a 7:30 o'clock
potluck supper at the grade
school building. Refreshments
were served by Mrs. Bruce Bar-
ner, Mrs. Bert Knowlcs and
Mrs. Frank Coats.
pon by which we can strike in
to the heart of Russia the na
tion occupying the greatest land
mass in the world.
Some Insight into what these
army and air force planners
think is furnished by Gen. Omar
Bradley, chairman of the joint
chiefs of staff. He told con
gress: "Ultimately . , . we will have
to carry the war back to the en
emy by all means at our dis
posal. I am convinced that this
will include strategic air bomb
ardment, and large-scale land
operations.
"I also believe that after the
initial phases are over, there
will be little need for any cam
paign similar to the Pacific island-hopping
that took place
during the last war ... I also
predict that large-scale amphibi
ous operations, such as those in
Sicily and Normandy, will never
occur again."
This conception relegates the
navy, it says, to the "second pri
ority" air role of anti-submarine
and convoy duty.
What, then, is the navy's ap
praisal of strategic bombing?
The admirals say that high
flying strategic bombers, by the
very inaccuracy of their bomb
drops, cannot constitute a major
factor in the war picture.
In contrast with the precise
tactical bombing of carrier
fighters, the navy says:
1. The strategic bomber is
vulnerable to fighter defense,
and must take unacceptable losses.-
2. The inaccuracy of high-
level bombing serves only the
end of civilian mass slaughter.
3. That strategic air warfare,
without ability to secure es
sential forward fighting bases,
can end only in a stalemate and
a war of attrition for both
sides.
. Admiral Arthur W. Radford,
the navy's top air admiral,
summed up the differences be
tween strategic and tactical con
cepts this way:
"It is my opinion that the air
force is concentrating on slow.
expensive, very vulnerable, sin
gle - purpose, heavy atomic
bombers at the expense of small
fast bombers and extremely high
performance fighters for which
we now have such an urgent
need in great numbers.
"These smaller, faster types
are much more efficient in de
stroying such key targets of stra
tegic air warfare as bridges,
canal locks, tunnels, and trans
port equipment. Further, these
types will give us real air power
and that flexibility which is the
key to the full application of
air power ... we will not then
have 10 many eggs in one bas
ket."
With the fast carrier task
force mobile floating air fields
the navy sayt it holds the
aces of mobility and surprise.
With these it contends it can
secure forward bases and win
strategic ends denied to the un
escorted bomber,
But the air force's top man.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, says
tactical short range naval air
power no matter how good it
is won't get at Russia's heart
land.
Can you put wings on an
aircraft carriers?" he inquires
Target in House Hearing
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CbpHbI Jfiurnai, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, Oclsber 25, 19i9 it
YOUNGER SET BEST MOVIE-GOERS
Good Word for Teen-Agers:
Serious-Minded and Spiritual
By FATKICIA CLARY
Hollywood iW A movie producer finally has come out ith
a kind word for bobby-soxers. Sam Engel say today's teen
agers are serious-minded and hepped on the spiritual side of life.
"Teen-agers are remarkably mature in their interests and pref
erences," Engei declared, and he didn't have his finger crossed.
"We have miscalculated their
tastes in movies." Li i s,- -...
1 1 ... J III III 1 1 II- I'll.-1 1 w I .
Most movie makers have as-
ii said, "indicates that young
movie-goers like more serious
. . . must be to find a counter
balance to the potential enemy's
masses of ground troops other
than equal masses of American
"Of al! methods of conduct
ing strategic bombing, the inter
continental method would be by
far the most costly " he says.
Regardless, General Vanden
berg says the strategic bomber Lnd Alliei grouri(J troops."
is cneaper in me long run. Th. arc lhe issu.
He says it is a deterrent to So- On the one hand, the inter-
viet aggression, forces the en-(continental bomber operating in
emy to build up costly defenses, dependency against strategic
and permits destruction of the targets. On the other, the potent
warmaking potential after the punch of carrier air power oper-
fighting starts. ating at the tactical level closer
Tactical aviation, he declares.jto the theater of fighting.
Nevertheless, Vice Admiral, serves only to support ground
R. B. Carney, the navy's logistics troops and divisions.
experts, calls it "foolhardy to "Is it supposed that we buiidj
exclusively commit the safety ofiand maintain a standing armyj
the entire United States and icapabie of meeting the masses of
possibly the Democratic world an enemy on the ground in equal
to one prohibitively costly man-to-man, body-to-body, gun-
we8pon." jto-gun combat? ... .
"This alternative is militarily
sumed that young folk want
j only wildly colored musicals, jfare
westerns ana Horror pictures.
Now ngel lays he's had a stack Gamblers Arrested
jof letter, saying they really pre- PortjBni 2S TvJ
jfer "cerebral and spiritual .ub- Nevafa cSobm(,B wjso 4
Ijects. ioui to" fast enough were!
, .. J behind Jail bars today. Muni-i
The letters came after Engri C3S Jurisr J. J. OniSSra wntn
produced "Come to the Stable." jCiiH Jad4 3S Efno cksb 0M,r
a religious story about two nww.iator. and Warren J. Brewer, 2B,
irfwena noung ana ieiesie!Rena and Stanitv. Iriahn i 3Rft
He said 65 percent of the Set- oossessioa of saroblins tmnn.
ters from people who ident if ied i me!,t found in one of two cars
i themselves as being young com
mented on the diffn'f'e1 Tirit
ual qualities of the picture,
Now that he thinks b it,
Engei says, he's not surprised
that teen-agers like serious,
thoughtful tnemes.
"They are comparatively new
iat the business of living." he
said. "They feel things intense
ly. They are capabie of pro
found emotional reactions. May-
they were driving when seized
by detectivea. The other count
was vagrancy.
ONE Ilsi8 Caniera
( Tfsai Kseps j
tin m vooi
be after one gets too mature, one
gets a little numbed to the emc-;
tionat impact of the drama."
Cited for Help;
Then Go on Strike
Hazleton, Pa., Oct. 25 W)
Friday the 1,500 workers at
the Dupian corp., were given
a citation for their import
ance in Bazieton's economic
life.
Saturday they were on
strike. The members of the
CIO textile workers union
said they learned the com
pany wasn't going to pay a
Christmas bonus this year
and that they were protesting.
Company spokesmen said a
I per cent Christmas bonus
was paid last year because
"earnings were good." The
company hasn't been doing as
well financially this year, they
said, but added no decision
about a Christmas bonus has
been made as yet.
Walter Norbiad Plans
Early Return to State
Astoria, Oct. 25 VP Sep. Wai
ter Norbiad and his family are
to arrive here in about five or
six days, A. W. Norbiad, father
of the Astoria congressional rep
resentative, said today.
Rep. Norbiad will open hia
Astoria and Saiem offices im
mediately on his return. Mrs.
Dorothy Woodring, his secretary,
will be in charge of the Salem
office.
Red Quits Bridges;
Must Go to Jail Soon
New York, Oct. 25 Si RS Rich
ard Gladsteln, San Francisco at
torney in the trait of the 3 1 con
victed communist leaders, said
today he has withdrawn as coun
sel for Harry Bridges, west
coast union boss, in order to
begin serving a six months pris
on term for contempt 01 court
on Nov. 15.
Bridges is scheduled to stand
trial in San Francisco Nov. 34
on charges of fraudulently ob
taining citizenship.
Gladstein and five other law
yers were given prison sentences
by Federal Judge Harold Med
ina immediately after a Jury
found the 11 communist leaders
guilty of conspiring to teach and
advocate the overthrow of the
United States government by
force and violence.
Gladstein's announcement
that he has withdrawn as
Bridges lawyer was issued
through the publicity office of
the 11 communist leaders here.
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The way ticket-buyers are
streaming to "Come to the Sta
ble" has convinced Engel that
it's ait wrong to wail that the
bobby-soxers are giddy, light-
hearted and ignorant of theS fen-nnHw. ftiriwfc Mi.
a,,u 111 ill J VWUM A V V M b
ine younger set makes up
most of the theatr-goers, he
pointed out, 3 a picture'1 go
ing to do well at the box-office,
it has to be with their help.
"The fact that more serious
screen efforts have been suc-
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