Evening star., 1943-06-20

January. to a total of 1000 Army
and Navy planes.
He said production lapses mean
that men in training camps will
be denied needed equipment so that
shipments may be maintained to
men overseas or about to move to
fighting fronts.
II the situation continues" he
added, even our overseas troops
Will suffer from shortages of criti-
Cal equipment -. The Army will
not even have its basic equipment
by the end of the year If this
condition continues"
To permit a shortage to develop
even temporarily into a too little
and too late" situation, Mr.. Pat
terson declared, will cost thousands
OF lives tomorrow.
The Army supply schedule. to
which all our military plans for
defeating the Axis are geared, calls
Tor a continued increase through
out all OF l943. This rate must be
maintained if we are to reach our
goal"
OvercOnfldenoe Blamed.
Mr.. Patterson blamed overconfi-
dence inspired by the Tunisian VIC
tory and successful bombing raids
over Europe, and said:
The Tunisian victory means a
speed up in our already crowded
timetable of military operations, The
steadily increasing rate of produc-
ton called for by the 1943 Armv
production schedule must be main
tanned If that timetable is to be met,
FAILURE to appreciate the gravity
OF our situation and the need for
continued increased efforts to meet
our continually increasing needs is
evident by the coal strike, the Akron
strikes and other stoppages in war
and related industries. and bv the
tendency Of certain manufacturers
10 divert too much time. thought and
energy to the design and develop-
ment of competitive civilian non
essentials"
questioned about the effect of de-
creased production of war supplies
on lnductions, he said the Armv's
size might vary over year, but that
was not tied to the supply program,
he pointed out that equipment de-
mandS cover troops of other nations
as we'll as the United States.
In Cincinnati, Frederick C. Cray-
lord, president of the National As
ISOLATION of Manufacturers, ad-
mitted that there was a spirit of
complacency in the country due to
rnmors of overproduction, but
added that apparent overproduction
resulted from cancellations of orders
because of lessons learned in battle.
Tank-olsters.' he said, "prac-
tically put tanks out of business so
we wanted more tank busters. for
example. Industry is conscious
that we haven't enough. Manage
ment is not complacent, but is alert
and driving its factories to the point
at which they are handicapped by
having outproduced available ma
terials.
The problem is change over and
we know that overall volume of pro-
ouction next year must be consider
ably higher than this year, probably
a quarter higher.
Il think We can make it."
Work Together on Problems.
Mr.. Crawford said labor nat
urally fears that when the present
task peters out they'll be out of a
job but added
We are working with labor
closely on problems created when
ever the war shows some weapon to
be obsolete
Mr.. Crawford reported that de-
spite the present lag, industrial out
put now was twice as good as we ex-
pected before the war.
America has done in two years"
ne said, What Germany did in 10.
Russia in 20 and Japan in 30"
Mr.. Patterson also announced
cancellation of 206 leases for hotels
used by the Army Air Forces to
house soldiers in technical training
courses. He said the hotels origi-
nally saved at least five months in
putting the training program into
operation, but that the movement
OF men to overseas bases, vacating
Army facilities here. has reached
the point where the Air Forces
technical training command can be
relocated at ARMY posts