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delete information they desired to
keep of the record"
Maj. Gen. Lewis E. Hershey, Sc
lective service director, told the
committee in response to a query
about the Armys refusal to accept
men 38 years or older that there
we're some very grave doubts in
my mind whether you can continue
to hold that 38-year line"
OF $4,000, 900 men between 18 and
38 years now registered, he said. only
about 100000 can be expected to
pass present physical examinations.
Asked by Senator Burton, Repub-
hcan, Of Ohio if obtaining II .0OO,00O
meant inclusion of farmers and
everything else" Gen. Hershey de-
clared:
That is right And that does not
include 100000 out of the % 900 900
that would be frozen in agriculture. 3
The II 100000 figure, he concluded,
is too large unless they lower the
physical standards or utilize older
men"
Threat to Strategy Seen.
1t. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney,
deputy chief of staff, who testified
on the reported strength of the Axis
air force and Germany's army, told
the committee in replying to ques-
tons on agricultural output that he
didn't expect the Nation would eat
as well this year as last.
And next year he added. I'VE
may not eat as well as we eat
in 1913"
Don't you think it is inadvisable
to continue to take people from the
farms when you have four or five
million men in the Army in this
country" asked Chairman Bank
head
We must have enough men in
the Army to win the war" replied
Gen. McNarney. adding that war
strategy probably would fail" if a
planned army of 100000 by the
end of the year was lowered by
100000.
Will Hold Air Superiority.
Maj. Gen. l. H. Edwards, assistant
chief Of staff, disclosed the Army's
upward revision by 200, 900 men over
the original estimate of an overseas
strength of 100000 by the end of
the year.
While Gen. McNarney said ship
ping is the main bottleneck in get
ting men overseas and the Army
could use" more abroad now, Gen.
Edwards declared the plans for
shipping a great overseas force were
made after a study of the shipping
situation.
An Army air force of 900 SQUAD
rons to match the Axis, he said, was
projected for this year and en-
braced a personnel Of 2,450 900 men.
This, added to the 900 squadrons OF
other United Nations, he remarked,
will give the Allies a two-to-one
superiority.
See FL Edge on Enemy.
Maj. Gen w. D. Styer, chief of
staff of Army Service and Supply.
testified, however, that intelligence
figures estimated that the Axis will
have a superiority next year In
ground forces over what the United
Nations can muster"
We, OF course. are extremely in
terested IN terminating the war at
the very earliest possible moment"
he said in defending the Army ex-
pansion program. And if we don't
have the forces to do that, the war
is going to drag on, and it might
even be conceivable it will turn
against us"
The increased American armed
forces, he said, can be raised and
properly supported with an adequate
civilian economy and can be trans
ported to the areas where we need
them most during the year 1913"
Navy Seeks 100000.
Gen. Styer estimated it would take
one man in 10 of the Nations popu-
lation to get the desired Army. The
Germans and British, he added
have a 10-to-1 ratio.
Vice Admiral F. ]. Horne, vice
chief OF naval operations, expressed
belief the Nation can maintain about
10000 900 men overseas at the end OF
1914. The pooled troop transport
capacity, he said, is sufficient to
move 10000 men monthly to the
theaters Of operation.
! Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs
chief Of Navy personnel, said the
Navy would have 100000 on active
duty June 80
Requirements TO December 81
1913" he said, "necessitate 1870 900
officers and l.850,000 enlisted or &
total of 100000 naval personnel tr
active duty"