MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1943
'Fighting 165th Lives Up to 'Fighting 65th'
DELAY ON PATTON
ALSO HITS OTHER
-Chandler said the committee
decided to bold them all up
temporarily rather than single
out Patton from the list
Earlier, Sen. William Langer,
R., N. D., said in a statement
that he wanted to know whether
it was true that Patton pulled
out his revolver when he up
braided the soldier for not wear
ing his leggings, and whether
eight ,other soldiers who were
nearby put their rifles in con
dition to use because Patton
was "so abusive."
The building of single
bomber involves approximately
12,000 telephone calls.
The women of Britain have
replaced men in almost every
type of occupation. Sixty per
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factory workers are women. In
some factories making big guns
more than 70 per cent of the
staff are women.
Replacement Program Must
Senate Committee Action
Holds Up Generalships
For Four Additional Men.
Start Now Says Truman
Committee In Review.
NOW! ORDER
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Washington, Dee. 18 (U.(5
The Truman committee warned
the nation today that It haa coast
ed to the limit on Ita nrewar re-
aerves of transportation facill
ties and that replacement pro
grams must be launched Imme
diately if a disastrous collar e
is to be avoided.
"If we act iow, an Impending
crisis may be avoided by means
more satisfactory tan any
measures which could be Ukki
once the crisis is actually upon
us, the senate s special war in
vestigating .committee declared
in a report on transportation
problems.
Fine So Far
The report paid high tribute
' fa the transportation job so far
accomplished, and a a I d it
couldn't have been done if there
hadn't been prewar reserves aa
well as splendid war-time con
servatlon and utilliation.
But, it added, the transporta
tion is increasing. Equipment la
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Displaying souvenirs Just brought back from the front tines, men of the U. 8. 169th Infantry, formerly New
York's "Fighting mth," gather 'round for a U. S. Army Signal Corps photographer to snap their picture after
fighting at Butarltarl drove on Makln Island. Note the Jan flag and enemy marine bulimia tha born "found."
wearing out. Manpower is grow
ing scarcer.
'An indication of the serious
ness of the situation lies in the
fact that experts in forecasting
the 1044 transportation burden
have based their figures, not up
on estimated demand, but on es
timated maximum capacity," the
report pointed out.
Point by point, the committee
reviewed the situation affecting
all types of transportation facili
ties rail, highway, air, barge
and plnellne.
' Pipeline Plan Lauded
It found the rail, highway and
air transport outlook most criti
cal. The barge program, con
ceived In emergency, was found
to have been "so delayed by end
less conferences" that It bene
fits were negligible. Only the
pipeline program received
plaudits.
The committee found that rail
roads have received during 1842
and will receive during 1943
only a fraction of their estimated
equipment requirements.
It blamed War Production
Board priority ratlnga for the
fact that locomotive production
reached only 165, Instead of the
scheduled 724, in the first nine
months of this year. WPB since
has lifted delaying restrictions.
WPB Blamed
Freight cars present similar
problem, end the committee
laahed out at the WPB for stop
ping without notice freight ear
production on April 14, l9-3.
The WPB order restricted freight
car production to only two types.
The committee .aid1 "production
was delayed several months be
fore railroads discovered which
builders would be permitted to
build what types. of cars.
Aa for passenger cars, the com
mittee said the public "will have
to accept the discomforts of rail
passenger travel as one of the
burdens of war and should plan
to travel as little as possible."
Lack New Trucks
Lack of new trucks and the
shortage of replacement parts
and tires constitute the biggest
drawback to adequate highway
transportation, the committee
aid.
The WPB approved production
of 7,800 heavy trucks during the
last half of 1943, but none of
them had been completed by tha
end of October, The committee
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estimated that 490 will be built
by the end of the year, but the
7,800 will not be ready before
the middle of 1944 and then
only if schedules for component
parts such as engines, axela and
transmissions can be revised.
The committee blamed the
WPB scrap drive in 1942 for
part of the replacement parts
shortage. The drive resulted in
4.000.000 motor vehicles being
broken up and shipped to ateel
milla, the committee said.
"A tremendous number of
serviceable parts, which In nor
mal times would have been fed
back Into the motor transport
system, were destroyed, and th
civilian market waa deprived of
these reserves," the report
added. . .
WPB Acts Lata
WPB didn't act to correct the
situation until May 19, 1943,
when It prohibited the acrannlns
of serviceable parts.
"The situation with respect
to tires' Is extremely critical,"
the committee reported. "Mili
tary and civilian truck and bus
requirements for 1944 total In
the neighborhood of 21,000,000
tires. The most recent survev
Indicates a production capacity
of only 18,000,000. This leaves
a deficiency of approximately
3,000,000 tires . . . because of
this deficiency, the trucks ched
uled In the 1944 truck produc
tion program will be eaulnoed
with no spare tlrea, except for
ine military trucks to be used
in combat areas and the trucks
provided for Russia."
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Camp White, Dec. 16 -Believing
the help shortage also
might be bothering Santa Clous'
toy factory up at the North Pole,
Lt. John Berry of the 96th Di
vision special services office has
become a voluntary helper of
old St. Nick by bringing a big
sack of toys and gifts back from
Chicago.
They will be given out by a
"real" Santa Claus to the chil
dren of 96th Division officer
and enlisted men at the chil
dren's Christmas party to be
held Wednesday, Dec. 22 from
1 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. at the
Riverside USO (n Medford.
A committee of officers' wives
headed by Mrs. James L. Brad
ley has announced that with the
compilation of names of chil
dren of 96th personnel, arrange
ments have been virtually com
pleted. Bob Titus of the Med
ford USO Is assisting the committee.
A 10 per cent reduction by
consumers In the use of coal
for heating, electricity, and man-1
ufnetured gas could save, re-1
spectlvely, 20 million tons of I
coal, four million tons of coal '
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Washington, Dec. 16. (U.R
A senate military affairs sub
committee today formally de
cided to defer "temporarily"
action on the promotion of
Lieut Gen. George S. Patton,
Jr., whose .treatment of enlisted
men has been the subject of
controversy.
Patton's permanent rank Is
colonel. President Roosevelt's
nomination of Patton to be a
major general on the permanent
list has been pending before the
sub-committee.
The formal i e e I si o n for
further postponement of actior
was announced by Sen. Alberi
B. Chandler, D., Ky sub-committee
chairman, after a poll of
members.
Slappings Confined
Chandler said the committee
was influenced by War depart
ment confirmation that Patton
slapped two soldiers in Sicilian
field hospitals during August
and berated a third, whose
ankles were swollen, for failure
to wear leggings. Chandler said
lt was possible that there may
have been other similar but un
reported Incidents.
The subcommittee decision,
he said, "leaves Patton avail
able for service in the field
with without rewarding his
conduct with a promotion in
permanent rank."
The decision also holds up
permanent major generalship
promotions for four others who
were on the same nomination
list which President Roosevelt
sent to the senate Oct. 1. They
are Lieut Gens. Jonathan M
Wainwrlght Joseph W. Still
well, Brehon B. Somervell and
Joseph T. McNarney.
Nine Brigadier Generals
In addition, the list contains
the names of nine others nomin
ated to . permanent rank . of
brigadier general, .They are
Geprge C. Kenny, Carl SpaaU,
Omar Nelson Bradley, Ira C.
Eaker, Millard F. Harmon,
Robert L. Eichelberger. Thomas
Troy Handy, Walter Bedell
Smith and Wayne Mark Clark
all now serving in the tem
porary rank of lieutenant
general.
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