Show PAPUAN AIR FORCE coCE IS AIDED v LOS ANGELES Jan 10 UP P Un Un Una Une Un- Un UnI I e a e Sams Sam's air strength in the Ha- Ha flan Ha-flan allan iIan islands blands will be increased fold fir under a procurement prom prom pro- pro m now under way Colonel Delos C. C Emmons chief chiefe the e army's air groups In the theland 1 lands land disclosed toda today that under underlie lie e new program the United States would buld have full command of the Ii Pacific by 1938 jIe He said the arm army's s air strength on onlie onlie fi lie defended Island of ot Oahu now comprises two groups group of ot only 10 Janes most of oC which are arc obsolete IUt that the present program would two full wings of oC modern performance pursuit attack range ang-range reconnaissance and andl l squadrons He de- de lined to disclose the number of ot lanes Janes that will be on hand by 1938 By that time however we will willave aye ave ve full command of or the middle Colonel Emmons said This command will extend over a mile WO-miJe radius from Oahu with ur r new speed high-speed range long e and bombardment I think It equally tnt int for proper defense of our Pa- Pa frontier that a similar force forcee e e. e established in Alaska This would have an Interior ase tse perhaps at Fairbanks but lore important to my mind is an perating base in the Aleutian lands at Dutch Harbor or Un- Un aska laska or on an island as far Car west- west ard as weather conditions will Colonel Emmons who Emmons-who who has spent years Scars on Pac Pacific ic coast duty re- re yesterday from Hawaii on nation Ho said he strongly ad- ad the army's development of range long-range overseas and bombardment force with finite doctrine He said the army is building a aw aw aw w air base at Hickam field near earl Harbor and is improving fa- fa at Wheeler Luke and Bel- Bel W ws fields all on Oahu where a navigation school has hasen cn en established |