The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-19
Air Power

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 Air Power
 The advocates of the development of air power who have been disci- pies of the teachings of the late General William Mitchell wer e much comforted recently by Gener- al MacArthur's comment with re- spect to the use of air power in the Southwest Pacific. The experience gained in that area is of the high est importance to Alaska and Alas kans by reason of the vast extent of the Territory and the lack of any means of speedy travel on the ground. The text of General Mac Arthurs statement follows:
 The destruction of remnants of the enemy forces in the Sanananda Area concludes the Papuan cam paign. The Horii Army (Lt. Gen. TomitaTO Horii commanded the es- timated 15,00O Japanese troops in Papua) has been annihilated.
 The outstanding military lesson of this campaign was the continu- ous calculated application of air power inherent in the potentialities Of every component of the air forces employed in the most inti- mate tactical and logical union with ground troops.
 The effect of this modern in strumentality was sharply accentu- ated by the geographical limita- tions of this theater. For months on end, air transport with constant fighter coverage moved complete in fantry regiments and artillery bat talions across the almost impene- trable mountains and jungles of Papua and the reaches of the sea, transported field hospitals and other base installations to the front, supplied the troops and evacuated casualties.
 For hundreds of miles bombers provided all-around reconnaissance, protected the coast from hostile naval intervention and blasted the way for the infantry as it drove forward.
 "A new form of campaign was tested which points the way to the ultimate defeat of the enemy fin the Pacific.
 "The offensive and defensive power of the air and the adapta- bility, range and capacity of it's transport in an effective eombina- tiOn with ground forces tactical and strategical clements of a brOadened conception of warfare that will permit the application of offensive power in swift, massive strokes rather than the dilatory and costly island-to-island advance that some have assumed to be necessary in a theater where the enemy's far flung strengths are dispersed throughout a vast expanse of arch ipelagos.
 Air forces and ground forces were welded together in Papua, and when in sufficient strength with proper naval support, their indis- soluble union points the way to victory through new and broadened strategic and tactical conceptions"
 Price Control
 One of the most momentous con- tinuing jobs confronting Congress as we'll as the executive, is the need for adequate price control Every one realizes that unrestrained in, flation would be an almost bound less disaster. Although Leon Hen derson, the first Price Administra tor, finally fell into so much dis favor that his resignation becam, inevitable, at least under his lead ership prices were Kept fairly sta ble. Several events of recent oc currence. indicate that the price are not now firmly stabilized a might be hoped. The new Price Ad ministratorb former United State Senator Prentiss Brown, who's ability is recognized by everyone said that we may look for an in crease of prices as much as six per cent within the next year. The re cent strike of the anthracite "cOa miners, while set off by a union or der directing each of them to pa increased dues, was in part, at leas motivated by a demand for highe wages. In his address before tn War Labor Board, John L. Lewi who is President of the Unite Mine Workers covering both al thracite and bituminous mine said that demand would he made {