Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-26

tionaI defense IL broader than
the mere production OF weapons.
4 Ii IL broad enough 10 include
their use. We have found that
our activities must constantly
widen.
KNKOX FACES CALL
81 believe we can say with
/ certainty that the committee
may call Secretary OF the Navy
Frank Knox before II, though
that action may not come until
after the elections"
His announc e ment reflected
growing dissatisfaction In Wash
ington with the navy's handling of
its information TO the public in the
South Seas campaign. The Senate
naval affairs committee has failed
10 bring before II Secretary Knox
or Admiral King, chief of naval
operations.
Members OF the Senate and the
House expressed the opinion that
an oligsrchy OF ageing admirals
was in the drivers seat In the
navy. and that the OVERRIDE the
control OF Secretary Knox.
WANT YOUNG MEN
One question. II was said fire.
quently on Capitol Hill, will be
why a 59.year-admiral was re-
moved from command In the south
Pacific. only TO be replaced by a
60-year-old man; and the opinion
was freely expressed that the
need OF the navy is for younger
more aggressive blood.
A navy department spokesman
said today that any changes In
subsidiary commands involved ir
the substitution of Vice Admiral
William F. Halsey Jr. for Vivt
Admiral Robert L. Chormley ir
the south Pacific area will be an
nounced AS soon as practicable.
! Senators and congressman gen.
orally agreed that super-censor-
ship Is making the conflict with
Japan an unknown war for the
American people. They agreed
that divided command has cost
US heavy losses. and that rivalry
between the army and the navy
Is reaching serious intensity.
TARDY WAR NEWS
Senator Charles L. McNary oil
Oregon, Senate minority leader
said:
1.-THE public IL entitled 10 q
statement Of the exact situation
In the Solomons-ln every ac-
ton Of the war. IL does not
seem to be getting II. The an
nouncement that three cruisers
were sunk, coming as IL did
nearly three months after the
fact, seems TO be unnecessarily
tardy.
81 have always thought that q
disclosure OF facts was the
proper thing for the American
people, and that they should he
more speedily disclosed"
Senators and representative
agreed that the published crit
icsms made by Hanson w. Bald
win. military editor of the New
York Times, who has just returned
from a tour of the South Pacific
are unfortunately all TOO true"
Baldwin found that the navy II
the Solomons lacked audacity, tina
it was playing a defensive role il
an offensive action.
He reported that the three Amer
lean and one Australian cruiser
sunk there were caught as the,
patrolled narrow waters, shot dowI
like ducks on a rock" And h,
reported that other warships wer,
caught flat-footed in the same wa,
a fe Wright later, and sunk.
DIMOND AGREES
Delegate Anthony j. Dimond o
. Alaska. member OF the House mill
tary affairs committee, who ha
been pressing for ever increasing
action TO expel the japanese from
lne AleulldnS, sdlO.
Every one who visits the
South Pacific battlefield comes
back with opinions Identical to
those OF Mr.. Baldwin. have
heard them even from military
men. and they preach the virtue
Of unified command.
1T may be difficult to accom-
plish that, In view Of our historic
setup Of q separated army and
, navy. but somehow II must he
done, and done In such a way no
bad effects result from the join
Ing Of the two.
The whole country In aware
of the jealousy between the army
and navy, expressed mostly, as
Mr.. Baldwin points out. by the
Younger officers. Well, n united