Evening star., 1950-05-19
Truman and Johnson
Attend Dinner tonight
Honoring Services

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President Truman and Defense
Secretary johnson will address a
dinner at the Hotel Statler to-
night In celebration of Armed
Forces Day, which is tomorrow.
Top military and civilian de-
fense figures will be among the
750 persons expected to attend
the dinner at 7:30 o'clock. DR..
Vannevar Bush, president of the
Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton, will preside.
The President will review a
parade of crack troops of all the
services tomorrow in the first
celebration of the unified forces.
Each arm formerly celebrated its
own "day." Gen. Eisenhower will
be with him in the reviewing
stand south of the White House
on Constitution avenue.
Other Notables in Stand.
Others in the stand will be
Secretary johnson, Stephen T.
Early, Deputy Secretary of De-
fense, and Admiral William D.
Leahy, former Presidential Chief
of Staff.
The parade, starting at 10 am,
will proceed along Constitution
avenue from the Capitol to Sew
enteenth street NV. Seventeen
bands will be in the line of march.
Meetings and ceremonies mark
ing the unified Armed Forces Day
are being held throughout the
Nation. They got underway yes
terday, are continuing today and
tonight and, with demonstrations,
reach full flood tomorrow.
One of the events is the dis
patch tomorrow by the Strategic
Air Command of eight six-engine
B-36s to fly as many routes, TAX
ing them over all 48 State Capt.
tails and about 200 other cities.
Flight to Pass Over Capital.
The flight, which will pass over
Washington, will start in TenneS-
see, the plane passing over Mem
phis at am. 1t will swing over
Kentucky. Ohio, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Western New
York. 1t will be over Washington
and Boiling Air Force Base as part
of the celebration there at 3:12
pm. The flight will be completed
over Chattanooga, Tenn, at 6:22
pm.
Speeches made by top military
leaders and others in connection
with the event sounded warnings
of the dangers the Nation faces
and the necessity of preparation.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
Force Chief of Staff, said today
that the Air Force is too weak
to continue an all-out war for
more than a few months. He
spoke at a luncheon in Detroit. |
Matter of Arithmetic.
He declared that even with the
lowest loss rates that can be pre-
dicted, first-line United States
combat planes would be used up
in a short period of heavy opera
tionS. And he added that the air.
craft industry is in no position
now to replace heavy combat
losses.
ut is matter of simple arith-
metic," he said, that at least two
years would be required for our
present aircraft industry to re-
build our present Air Force and
enable it to continue combat &C
tion." 3as~ - i.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
is to speak in San Francisco this
afternoon.
Bernard N. Baruch, flnancier
and adviser to Presidents, spoke
in New York last night and said
the United States can lose any
future war by failure to mobilize
now. He said also that atomic
bombs or anything else should
pe USED on any nation starting
conflict.
"Capital of Indecision."
He made two addresses. He told
a Columbia University seminar on
economic mobilization that "these
are the years of decision which
we are now passing through. Yet
Washington today is the capital
of indecision."
Although the cold war now is in
its fifth year, we still lack the
equivalent of a global strategy for
peace-waging, he said.
He also spoke on an American
Broadcasting Co. network, with |
members of the United Nations
Correspondents Association TAX
ing part. He urged an interna-
tional atomic control plan which
he initiated and which has been
backed by the United States and
other nations but blocked by Rus
Sia.