Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1938 — Page 19

PILOTS" SAFETY 0 COME FIRST

‘IN AIR PROGRAM ¢

_ Adequate Training Promised In Army Defense Plan For More Planes.

Times Special : ~~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — The War Department is determined to play safe with human lives when the projected expansion of the Air ‘Corps gets under way. It was learned officially today that

plans now being worked out for a|.

vastly augmented air defense will . be so paced as to avoid any “speedup” in the training of the necessary new pilots.

Army officers still wince when re- |: minded of the fatal crashes that at- |:

tended the Army's flying of the air mail in 1934. They are mindful also

of reports from England that a| * shortening of the training -course|:

for new British pilots, necessitated by the rush to rearm, has been reflected in an increased casualty rate among cadets.

The increasing complexity of the ol

art of flying, evidenced superficially by the congested instrument boards of modern planes, has added greatly « to the curriculum of-aviation training schools.

Training Takes Time

While it is a fairly quick and]

- simple matter to teach a man to take off and land a plane in good weather at a good airport, it is a - slow painstaking job to make him competent at flying by instrument through the night or through fog, . at combat aerobatics, and at ma-chine-gunning, bombing and photography. ~~ A “lick and a promise” in blindflying instruction, instead of a careful and complete course, is apt to leave a green pilot in dire straits in an emergency. “The public may rest assured that no short cuts in training will be permitted when the personnel of the Air Corps is being enlarged to man the new planes,” a War Department spokesman said today. “Our position is quite different . from that of England. Our danger is potential rather than immediate. There is no necessity for slapdash methods in training pilots.”

Working on Plans

It was pointed out that an in‘crease in the number of planes, and in the number of hours flown, will probably result in larger total casualties, by the law of averages. But the Army sees no reason for an increase in the ratio of crashes to miles flown, even if, as Assistant Secretary of War Johnson predicts, we “double—yes, triple and perhaps even quadruple—our present air force.”

J President's request to Congress for

Mrs. Pauline Kim and her son, Robert, 4152 years old, are shown as they arrived in New York on the liner Samaria to enlist the aid of the State Department in behalf of Mrs. Kim’s husband, Herbert Kim, now in jail in Russia. Mrs. Kim, the former Pauline Liebman, of Brooklyn, lost her citizenship when she married Kim, a Chinese, in 1930 after a romance at New York University. She was readmitted to the country as a “Chinese alien” on a six-month permit.

: pulmonary ailments such as pneu-

GIVEN PARTIAL CANGER BLAME

Hazards Unknown Generation Ago Found Contributing to Death Rate.

CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (U. P.)—Dr. Philip B. Matz, Washington, D. C,, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association today that certain industrial hazards unknown a generation ago may be at least partially responsible for an increase in cancers of the lung. He cited heredity and preceding

monia and influenza as other possible agents in the disease. He is

chief of the research division of the - Veterans’ Administration and

|studies of 138 cases of lung cancer F

found among veterans. He found that in the case of the veterans, poisonous gases also were a causative agent. The gase§ injured the lungs and left them open to attack when the subject reached the cancer age of Bpproximately 40 or beyond. Investigators found that 50, or 36 per cent, of the total previously had engaged in occupations or industries in which there was a possibility of irritation of the respiratory tract. Among these were listed road workers, metal grinders, employes in gas works and persons engaged in the tobacco trade. In other independent studies, the percentage had run higher, the article said. A study of autopsies in the veterans’ group disclosed that lung cancers increased 120.8 per cent between 1932 and 1937 and that the percentage of increase in relation to all cancer was 69.6 per cent.

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an increase in the national defense outlay. In immediate charge of these plans is Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, 52, chief of the Air Corps, whom the Wright brothers taught to fly in 1911. Twenty-six years ago Gen. Arnold, then a second lieutenant five years out of West Point, set a new | altitude record of 6540 feet. In 1934 he led the Army's mass!

Army technicians. are hard at] work on the details of the proposed | air force expansion. lov The great cost of even doubling the present authorization of 23 20 | first-line Army planes would be only the beginning of the outlay. Personnel must be trained and added to the payroll. It has been found that the minimum requirement to man and service an average plane is about 10 men. Thus! 2320 new planes would mean, rough- | ly, 23,200 more officers and men.

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be housed—either in Government | buildings. or privately at Government expense. A large sum would be required for

fueling “the new planes with the!to all pupils from the first to the

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| flight to Alaska and return. In the | same year, when the Army took | ver the air mail, he was in charge of that operation in the West.

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