Show i NAVY FOUND EQUAL I TO BIG TASK BY COMMITTEE But Congressional Investigators Investigators gators Pick Holes in Other Branches By Robert B. B Smith International News Service Staff Cor- Cor respondent WASHINGTON Dec 24 The Thc The three-day three Yuletide lull lun In the the- congressional congressional congressional con con- gressional Investigation Into the tho conduct conduct conduct con con- duct of the the- war enabled the investigators investigators today to take stock of their I tin findings dIngs to date tate These proven facts clamoring for correction glared at them out of the tho maze of the last ten days' days investigations American troops are being sent Into the tho trenches with uniforms 27 per percent percent percent cent Interior Inferior to tho the British and French Tho TIm American army Is 13 virtually without machine guns except what General 1 Pershing gets from the be French government and deliveries will not begin until next April The Tho rifle output of American factories factories factories fac fac- I tories has been bach reduced substantially one-half one since war wai war was declared with the result that hundreds of thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of troops in training are still sun Un unarm unarmed d. d The quartermasters quartermaster's department Is still unable to clothe clotho and equip the thelast thelast thelast last 16 15 per cent of tho the first men drafted Not ot one ship of ot Americas America's much much- heralded gigantic win the tho war merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant fleet Is yet ready for use due largely to restriction In n the shipping board On the credit side the investigators Found tho the navy In satisfactory condition condition condi condl- tion Uon measuring up to Its big Job in encouraging fashion They found also the promise of ot a new deal In the shipping administration with authorIty authority authority author author- ity centralized BO so as to minimize friction In the tho future They learned I that the tho army Is hi wen well fed that the themen themen themen men In the training camps are no longer shivering for want of ot sufficient sufficient dent winter clothing that shoes are areno areno areno no longer pinching Sammy's feet and that the new machine guns and rifles when delivered will be the best in I I I the world although this last assertion assertion asser asser- tion Is disputed by some authorities authorities l. ties I Thus far politics has been boen conspicuously conspicuously con con- conI I absent In the Democratic gone after aUer facts with zeal equal to If It not ater than their Republican col col- col- col J leagues lagues ag es Republican an leaders however how- how of their thell ever river river- are aro secret belief that th the disclosures to date have finished an nn abundance of ot material material material mate mate- rial for thc tho ho coming congressional campaign The They insist that tho the war department ba has bas ther cardinal pre precept of ot war war I timo Is everything and and gone to needless needs nerds of ot In rifle and macli machine me gun Jun requirements s. s sacrificing priceless days and weeks and months Looking Into the future of ot the tho probing the tho Investigators found themselves s still confronted with heaps of ot charges reports and rumors to tobe tobe tobe be Inquired about The coal question ques ques- tion has ha not been touched yet The railroad problem Is still awaiting so so- lution Aircraft production is on the Investigating calendar Supply and cantonment contracts especially y the theco co cost t plus kind denounced as nl vi vicious vicious vi 1 cious claus by bv many senators are to come comeIn comeIn comein in for a thorough sifting The instigators investigators hives s have ha plenty of ot WOI-t WOI ahead ot of them fOI foi- many a week |