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Russia Cutting American Air Power Lead
By Pouring Men, Money, Materials in Effort
By CHARLES CORDRY
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Russia
has been able to whittle down
Americans air power lead by
lavishly pouring men, money
and materials into the effort
since World War II.
While the living standard of
the Russian people has been
kept depressed, the standard of
military power has been pushed
increasingly higher. While the
worst housing shortage in Eu
rope has persisted, the biggest
air force in the world has been
built.
By leaps and bounds, the So
viets created and expanded the
economic, industrial and scien
tific strength that underlies
modern stir power.
These developments are in the
Twining to Appear
Before Committee
Washington (U.R) The Senate
Armed Services committee will
a:.k Gen. Nathan F. Twining
en Tuesday to declare whether
he and Defense Secretary Char
les E. Wilson are at odds over
relative air power of the United
States and Russia.
The Air Force chief of staff
also will be questioned behind
closed doors on whether what
he saw in Russia has altered
his previous worried views on
Red air strength.
Chairman Stuart Symington
(D-Mo.)- of the Armed Services
subcommittee on air power,
charged earlier, after hearing
Wilson, Twining and other wit
nesses, that there were "direct
conflicts" between Wilson's op
timistic claims "for American air
strength and that of Air Force
leaders.
After an 80-minute conference
with President Eisenhower
Thursday Twining told newsmen
he did not think there was
"any conflict" although "there
may be some difference of judg
ment on what's what."
Marine Planes Crash
In Close Formation
Chicago (U.R) Two of four
Marine Cougar jet planes flying
in training formation collided in
flight Saturday, killing one pilot
whose plane crashed in an area
of new residential ' construction
at suburban Glenview.
The second pilot nursed his
plane to the Glenview Naval Air
station and landed with out in
jury. The pilots, neither of whom
was immediately identified, were
marine reservists on a weekend
training mission.
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spotlight now because of the
Senate air power investigation
and the Russian visit of Gen.
Nathan F. Twining. Air Force
chief of staff. For almost a dec
ide military men, particularly
airmen, have been warning a
sometimes skeptical nation what
to expect. But even the airmen
have been startled more than
once by the rapidity of Russian
advances.
Won't Settle Controversy
The Senate inquiry will not
settle the controversy whether
Russia may overtake and sur
pass U.S. air power in a few
years. Neither the Eisenhower
administration nor its Demo
cratic critics, nor the worried
airmen, are likely to change
their minds.
But the investigation appar
ently has swept away any doubt
that the once "backward" Rus
sians are serious competitors.
Air Secretary Donald A. Quarles
summed it up when he said the
Spviets have greater numbers of
aircraft and are outpacing
America in "rate of progress"
in production and technology.
Despite that, Quarles is confi
dent personally that the Rus
sians will remain second best in
quality.
By Consent Only
On the production side, Rus
sia has stayed ahead in numbers
by American consent. This
country can outproduce the So
viets any time it chooses. The
air power inquiry has testimony
thst the American aircraft in
dustry now is running at only
25 to 50 per cent of capacity,
and could speed up as required.
Russia is not believed to have
that sort of ready, excess capa
city. U.S. industry built 13,150
planes of all types last year. Of
these, 8,400 were for the mili-
Court of Appeals
Judge Takes Oath
San Francisco (U.R) Fred
erick G. Hamley, former chief
justice of the Washington State
Supreme Court", was sworn in
today as a judge of the Federal
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The 52-year-old jurist replaces
retiring Judge Homer T. Bone,
also of Washington state.
Hamley, a native of Seattle and
a Republican, served as water
department superintendent of
Seattle and as city councilman.
He was appointed to the state j
supreme court in 1945 and be- I
came chief justice in 1955.
Hamley reportedly was spon
sored by Washington Gov. Ar-
thur B. Langlie, with whom he '
served on the Seattle City Coun- !
tary services, including about
5. C00 combat types. There prob
ably will be smaller military
output this year because of the
changeovers to new models. Ac
cording to the authoritative new
book "Soviet Air Power" by
Richard E. Stockwell, Russia
built 13.800 aircraft of all types
last year of which about 60 per
cent were combat planes. These
estimates mean that Russia has
built something like 3.200 more
warplanes than America last
year. Stockwell says the Soviet
output will rise substantially
this year following the 1955
changeover to new models.
One of the biggest issues in
the Senate inquiry has been
whether the United States is
building enough B-52 strategic
bombers fast enough.
Mailer of Policy
Lt. Gen. C. S. Irvine, Air
Force production chief, agreed
with subcommitte chairman Stu
art Symington (D.-Mo.) that U.S.
failure to build as many B-52s
ss Russia builds Bison jet bomb
ers is "a matter of policy and
not U.S. productive capability."
The "real concern" of airmen,
as Twining told Congress last
winter, is that the Soviets are
putting more men and money
into this battle of the labora
tories than we are." They thus
are "closing the quality gap" on
which America relies to offset
Soviet numerical superiority.
No Longer Dependent
The Russians no longer can
be considered at all dependent
on captured German scientists
and engineers of whom 2.000 to
3,000 were taken to Russia aft
er World War II. The prodigious
output of MIG-15 jet fighters in
the late 1940s and early 1950s
estimated at 15.000 planes
proved Russia has mastered
mass production techniques and
was becoming a big threat in
the technological race. They got
to be so good that they allowed
many Germans to go home, a
move that has provided the
West with valuable information
sources.
The United States had a big
lead 10 years ago, Quarles says.
But the Soviets now are gradu
ating scientists and engineers at
a "very faster rate" than -we
are. And they already have
achieved a "rough numerical
equality with us."
Monday, July 9, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Washington New Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton, on Demo
cratic charges the Eisenhower administration has given away some
of the nation's resources to private industry:
"If we've given anything away ... it certainly was not intentional."
Westbury N.Y. Mrs. Betty Weinberger, mother of kidnaped
Peter Weinberger, in a television appeal to the kidnaper:
"Once again, in desperation, we appeal to you who have our
taby. We beg you to lei us have some word."
Bangkok, Thailand Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, on
whether the U.S. should accept Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai's
invitation to carry on talks on the Asian situation:
"Until we see changes in the Peiping Chinese government I
will not discuss possibilities."
Grand Canyon. Ariz. David Halperin, spokesman for the Air
lines Pilots association, on the air disaster that took 128 lives:
"We are fully aware that the basic cause of this accident is di
rectly attributable to the completely inadequate and obsolete air
traffic control system."
New York Kentucky Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler, on his
choice for the Democratic presidential nomination:
"My favorite is Chandler of Kentucky."
Hollywood Actres Rita Moreno, on the American male's pre
occupation with girls' sweater measurements:
"America is too bosom conscious. Little girls who have small
bosoms feel they're nothing they're getting horrible complexes
over something they can do nothing about.".
Washington (U.R) The
house Saturday unanimously
passed and sent to the senate a
bill to reorganize and upgrade
the Fish and Wild-Life Service
in an effort to rehabilitate the
nation's fishing industry.
Moscow (U.R) Russia's lead
ers Saturday accepted an invi
tation to visit the Indochinesa
state of Cambodia.
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