The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-12
Observations
Battleships,
Carriers Still Divide
Our Admirals

AltuOuSu the greatest naval "oA
In history is now over. an almost
fierce. battle is being fought within
the Navy Department between the
advocates OF cArrier-based air pow.
er and the admirals who cling to
the superiority OF the battleship.
While there is no question or
serapping either type OF ship In
volVed, there Is a definite feeling
among older admirals that sea
power should be conferred around
dreadhfughts rather than carriers.
II is estimated that It will be 10
years before the brass hats-old
Navy style-can be weeded out or
the service through retirement or
death In the meantime they
will .emain In the saddle and run
the Navy according TO their ideas.
Naval tradition established COM
mand of a battleship as the great
goal Of officers who rose TO their
ambition after years Of work on
small vessels.
While neither side will admit II
publicly. there is a pronounced rift
between the carrier admirals, who
are also 1airmen, and the old-line
officers who reached their peak by
achieving the command OF battle
ships.
The up-and-coming admirals, how
ever, are bolstered by their cham
pion, Navy Secretary James Y.
Forresta., who is already on rec
ord as saying that every Annapolis
man of the future must take air
training IL he wants to get along
in the Navy.
LEADERS IN THE OIL INDUS
TRY, shortly after the beginning
of the CLIO oil strike, conceded pri-
vately that they make a big mis-
take in jumping the gun and offer
ing Is per cent wage increase
TO workers.
They admitted that in jumping
the gun on clio wage negotiations
they put themselves in a bad posi-
ton. from their viewpoint, in two
ways.
In the FIRST place the oil mag
mates later realized that by their
voluntary action they put a floor
under the negotiations and guar
anteed from the outset that the
union would be given an increase
of somewhere between Is per cent
and its 80 per cent demand.
In the second place they found
that the Is per cent increase, COM
! ing in advance of the unions de-
mand, forced the Clio to ask for a
80 per cent increase or some fig-
ure appreciably above the COM
pany offer.
Labor experts privately endorse
this industry reasoning.
SHORTLY AFTER THE SEN.
ATE confirmed Stuart Symington
as the big boss Of the surplus pro-
perry disposal job he named his
brother-in-law, James (Jerry)
Wadsworth of New York as one of
his chief assistants. -
Wadsworth will be deputy ad-
ministrator for claimant agencies.
This means that he will be IN
charge of applications from federal,
state and local agencies for surplus
war goods as well as disposal or
such goods TO hospitals, institu-
tons, small business and veterans.
Jerry" Wadsworth, incidentally,
is the son Of New York states
veteran congressman, James W.
Wadsworth. an outstanding leader
In the Republican ranks.
THE ARRIVAL OF ex-ambassa-
dor to the Argentine. Spruille
Braden. in Washington was not
able for the presence Of the unre-
ported personages who were on
hand to greet him.
Braden, back in the capital to as
sumo his new State Department
| post, las long taken a stand against
the repressive activities OF the
Peron-Farrell regime. Despite this,
several members Of the Argentine
embassy were present TO welcome
him hack to the United States.
Argentine Ambassador Desig-
nate Felipe Espil had not yet ar
rived in the United States to take
up HIS post so he was among the
missing at Braden's arrival.
The Argentine welcome party
greeted the former ambassador
with the orthodox Latin.American
embrace and the greatest cordiali-,
ty.
The heads of several other Latin.
American embassies in the capital
also came TO greet Braden as an
expression OF goodwill and, appar-
entity, as an endorsement OF his
stand against the present Argentine
regime.