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race, but today’s U. S. policy calls for a Navy second to 1one and equaled only by Great Britain's. Appropriations for the next fiscal year will give the War and Navy Departments about a billion dollars, which is more than three times as much as the war machine cost in the last prewar year of 1916.

Volunteering Lagged

America had heen by no means sold on sending ia large Army to Europe when we entered the World War. The regular Army of 1916 had only 107,000 officers and men, and there were 132,000 members of the National Guard. Gen. Peyton March, who became chief of staff, records that this Army was “of nol practical military value for warfare in Europe.” Gen. Pershing found that there were but 550 guns in reserve and only enough shells for a nine-hour bombardment. The Army had 55 airplanes, of which 51 were classed as “obsolete” and four as “obsolescent.” Thus, loans were for a long time about all this: country gave the | § Allies—financial advances soon were | amounting to half a billion dollars a month. t ‘

Everything Done in Hurry Everything else had to be done in | a frenzied hurry. There was no| great rush of volunteers to the col-! ors, and three weeks aiter declara- | tion of war Congress adopted mili- | tary conscription and the draft. | Voges. ; i Fo Gen. Pershing has written that| The industrial ‘mibilization plan “with some exceptions it was prac- | is designed to assure ‘prompt equiptically six months before training | ment and supply of g huge army. of our Army was under way.” He| All over the country officerss are blames this on the building of can- | surveying industrial | plants which tonments to- house the new troops. | would supply the -various branches Gen. March insisted there was! of the service in wartime. Tre War further needless delay in using | Department knows at all times the American troops after they arrived | maximum capacities of such olants, in France—there were about 300,000 | keeping elaborate up-to-date recthere by April, 1918, although soon jonds with’ lists of plant facililies. afterward they were arriving at the : | rate of about 300,000 a month. Air Plget WE The Navy was in somewhat bet- | Regulations have been prepared ter condition. Congress had voted a | which would curtail | civilian conprogram of eight! new battleships, | sumption of - certain commaddities but most of these| were abandoned immediately upon declaraticn of after the declaration of war and iwar, The Army especially witches the Navy concentrated on a big [size of domestic stocks of a ‘ticles fleet of destroyers and other smaller | which this country must iraport, craft. | such as rubber. None of the principal types of | Neither in organization nor equipguns used by the American troops ment do the Armies of 1917 and were of American manufacture. | 1937 much resemble each other. The Mortars were obtained from the old aviation unit of the Signal British and tanks from the French. | corps, with its 55 poor planes, has Ready for Action | grown into an Air Corps of: 1600 | planes, 1425 officers and 16,00¢ enToday the War and Navy De- listed men. partments have a complete indus-| In the World War practically anytrial mobilization scheme designed thing that could fly was pressec into to gear the economic system on to yge. the war machine with all possible | into efficiency and speed. The Sheppard | couple of nails into the side os

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Pilots bundied a few bombs | the cockpit and. pound:d a|

Today’s defense of the Panama Canal involves the use of heavy ordinance like this 14-inch railway gun, shown firing in joint Army and Navy maneuvers as part of the defense against a naval attack.

| 13 four-engine planes which have

| been dubbed “flying fortresses.” War |

| specializing in such pleasantries as |

Army Rifle Improved Biggest single improvement in infantry equipment is the development

The

bill designed to curb war profits,

which contains the War | Policies | Commission’s plan, provides for mil- |

itary conscription of all men between 21 and 31, Presidentisl power to mobilize industry and control it

ship as sights for bombing raids. | of the new semiautomatic shoulder

| rifle, a cross between a repeating

Most of World War planes had a | rifie and a machine gun. speed of 90 miles. an hour. Today | As to personnel, the number of en-

the Army has planes which average | listed men in the Army has in-

Order “Flying Fortresses”

through licensess, and seemingly, 225 miles an hour. It has ordered

‘creased from 102,000 in 1916, to 138,-

U.S. Now Forging Mightiest Peacetime War Machine

{ 000. The National Guard has in- | creased from 132,000 to 168.000. More significantly from the stand- { point of the future, the number of officers has risen from 5000 to 12,000 and there is now an Officers’ Reserve Corps of 115,000, which did not exist before the war. This year’s appropriation for the Army is $378,000.000, as compared with $165,000, 000 in 1916.

Navy Strengthened

The number of general staff officers has been increased enormously las a result of World War experience. Also with a view to more efficiency, the country has been divided into four army areas and nine corps areas. The Navy, which cost the country $154,000,000 in 1916, received appr6priations of $530,000,000 for 1937. A large increase in size, plus normal progress in engineering, represents most of the- change since 1917. Maximum speed of battleships has been increased from 21 knots to 27 knots in 20 years. Range ‘of the Navy’s big guns has been increased from 10 miles to about twice that distance. Aircraft carriers also have come into the picture in a big way. planes. Now it has 970, with 1705 | ordered. 15 Capital Ships Now Its strength boosted somewhat by preparedness measures; the Navy had 58 armored ships of 845,000 tons in 1917, with 14 of 467,000 tons under construction. Five battle cruisers of

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3 LOCAL STUDENTS IN DEPAUW ELECTION

Times Special GREENCASTLE, April 7. — De Pauw students today were to choose members of the student executive board and student affairs. Fifteen members for the student executive board and seven for the student affairs committee were to be selected. Candidates of the dominant University party included Rosalind Barrows, 6825 College Ave., Indianapolis, and John Lynn, 704 West Drive, Woodruff Place, Indianapolis. Nominees of the opposition Constitution sparty included Jack West, 5004 E. ew York St. Indianapolis.

PATROLS HUNT 3 VICTIMS OF MIDAIR CRASH

Four Killed When Two Navy Bombers Collide Off - West Coast.

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las transport plane that crashed in a snowstorm Saturday with eight persons aboard. The eight are feared killed. Last night they camped on a ridge only about eight miles from the scene of America’s ninth airline disaster in three months. It will take the ground party several hours to cover the distance. There was no broken trail ahead. Snow lay 25 feet deep in the canyons and 8 feet deep on the slopes. The wreckage was almost inaccessible.

! Ice Is Blamed

| craft Corp. at Santa Monica, Cal, | said the crash probably was caused ‘by ice forming on the ailerons, the same cause attributed to the crash of a T. W. A. plane near Pittsburgh two weeks ago, in which 13 persons | died. | The Douglas plane was not { equipped with one of the new de- | frosting devices, the Douglas repre- | sentative said. It carried a radio receiver that would have enabled lit to follow a radio beam director,

A spokesman for the Douglas Air- |

he said, but Pilot Glen Moser had taken the plane nearly 100 miles south of the regular air route, provably to find\an opening through the snowstorm. It was a new twin-motored planc with 190-foot wingspread, built for the Dutch K. L. M. airlines, and was being ferried across the country tec New York for shipment abroad. The wreckage was discovered yestérday by Maj. A. D. Smith, T. W. A. division superintendent, who had joined the search in a scouting plane. He said the plane had rammed into the side’ of a cliff, about 8500 feet up, and only the tail rose out of the snowbank.

Army Flier Plunges To Death in Sea

By United Press GALVESTON, Tex., April 7.— Lieut. A. E. Livingston, Army ier, was killed today when his puisuit plane plunged into the Gulf of Mex-

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1937.

BUTLER MEN CHASE

“ANNOYER OF COEDS

Prowler Followed Them to Sorority House, Girls Say.

A Butler fraternity turned posse last night to aid ‘three coeds in- distress. Sigma Chi members scoured 46th St. for more than an hour after receiving an S. O. S. from the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority house across the street. - The girls said a swarthy nian had watched them as jet rode home on a hus, They said he got off when they did and followed them down the stret. When they entered the house the man ran across the street and hid behind a tree,

ico three-quarters of a mile offskore, | The boys searched the neighbor-

He was a member of the Fifth A my | DO Jouna ne ie > Ds parsus Group, stationed 8) FL | police this was the second time the Crockett. = Iman had followed them within a Coast Guardsmen started sezrch | eek. for Livingston's body and the plane | Fle ER wreckage. CANAL HEARINGS SET | By Unilcd Press REPORT 6 RA MISHAPS wasHINGTON, April 7—In a i ee | surprise move the House Rivers and Only six accidents resulting in | Harbors Sense today haved ; set le- | to open hearings tomorrow on the loss of Hime occurred on i proposed $197,000,000 Florida ship ment Administration projects at

i 1 canal. Decatur, Burns City and Nashville re tt ci Ls during February, W. C. Crozier, w SENIORS ELECT OFFICERS gional safety director, reported 50- | The Shortridge High School Senday. There are 988 workers on iors elected four class day officers these three Indiana projects. | yesterday. Robert Shank was elect A total of 40 accidents were ‘e- (cd giftorian; Julia Jean Rowe, hise ported in the state for the mo: th |torian; Eleanor Cook, prophet, and by Mr. Crozier. | James Hudson, will-maker.

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