The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-04-09

General Sees no
Motive For Support
For Navy

For Navy
General Carl SpaatE, new Army
Air Force chief. Is a bitter. out
spoken foe OF the Navy and espe-
cially OF the Naval Air Force.
A. a private dinner in Washing
ton recently. Spaatx attacked the
Navy in an "off-the-record" speech
in which ne told a group OF aviation
writer's that he saw no reason why
Congress should spend any money
on the Navy.
Il happened that a Navy admiral
Of lower rank than SpaatE was sit
ting at the head table when the
general fired his broadside at the
Navy. or course, the admiral made
his report to his superiors and the
tension between the Army and
Navy increased.
High-ranking officers in both the
Army and Navy privately express
regret over Spaatz's attitude. They
say that his line OF thinking that
all the nation needs is an Army
air force is Just as dangerous as
proposing that all the country
needs is a large Navy with plenty
of carrier planes. SpaatL left the
impression that not only the Navy
should be eliminated but also the
Army ground forces-that the Air
Force could do the Job alone In the
future.
One listener asked SpaatE wheth.
er America could have captured
Salpan without the Navy and he
replied that we now have the is
land and there was no use discuss
ing the Issue.
He also was asked what would
happen l. America should tangle
with Russia over the Kuriles and
he replied that bombers would
make the island chain untenable.
Administration leaders face an
uphill fight in the battle to extend
price control which expires June
80.
Opposition Spokesman, led by
witnesses from the National Manu-
facturers' Association, struck some
hard blows before the House Bank
ing Committee hearing and Demo
cratic managers admit that the path
10 OPA extension is rocker than
before.
Republicans and southern Demo.
Gratis, who have teamed up on hous'
ing and other legislation, believe
that .ney can drive through the
House a bobtailed price control re.
newal measure that will contain
these four limitations:
/. Termination OF price control
on Dec. 81, with authority granted
the President to extend It for three
additional months by executive or
der II necessary.
2. Machinery for abandonment OF
price ceilings on individual articles
during the latter half OF 1946 as
soon as production o. the articles
reaches a particular point.
3. Gradual elimination OF subsid-
les paid by the government to hold
down food prices.
4. A provision that price ceilings
shall be fixed high enough to per
init cost of production plus rea.
sonable profit on each article.
A hitherto unpublished analysis
by the Bureau OF Labor Statistics
estimates the total OF United
States Airlines employment five
years after the end Of the war at
anywhere from $4,000 to 10000
persons.
A figure somewhere within this
range would compare with $4,000
employed at the end OF 1910 and
more than twice that number at
the beginning OF 1915.
The BIS soberly recognizes how
ever, that there will be AN over
supply" o. labor in practically all
aviation occupations.
The bureau foresees a maximum
OF $4,000 jobs Tor pilots both with
airlines and in other fields by the
fifth postwar year.
In contrast, there now are some
100000 pilots in or being discharged
from the armed forces.