Show Expert Reports To f Utah Senator s A ANGELES GELES Sept 8 S AP APty AP- AP ri 5 ty B. B Shearer experimental expert expert expert ex ex- ex- ex pert for the American navy during the toe world war who has been In Investigating in- in r naval conditions on the at the request of ot Senator William H. H King of Utah last night made public a report on aviation fLairs fairs which he has forwarded to toS S pator King The report reveals reveal the United States air services service's standing 16 per cent In size and effectiveness ef- ef as compared with France fince ance and anc Japan rated at per percent percent percent cent each and Great Britain 58 p p per r centI cent I The report which also deals with the American army air strength In conjunction with the navy submits st I the foIl following estimates s as necessary increases to bring these services up to a standard comparable to the air strength of ot foreign powers Officers men men machines machines ma ma- chines SHOWS SEA STRENGTH Referring to the American navys navy's surface and submarine craft cratt which ate are declared to be essential to the country's defense in operation co-operation with the air the report points out that of naval haval vessels es els in commission and reserve Great Britain has the United States and Japan 3 8 I In In Inthe the Pacific It adds the speed speedOS ot OS the United States fleet Is only orly sixteen knots as compared to fo Jaan's Japans Japan's Japans Japan's Ja Ja- Ja- Ja pans pan's ans an's two twenty-two knots and declares that the greatest American naval guns uns are outranged yards by bythe bythe bythe the Japanese The Shearer report referring to Colonel William Mitchell's Mitchells Mitch Mitch- ells ell's attack on the army and navy air se services vices says say Colonel Mitchell brings out a avital avital avital vital point in his charges n namely melr that an air attack on this country would come via yia Alaska where only tort miles of water separate I Us from rom Asia SLAM BLAMES ES POLITICS Many w will ill support Colonel Mitchell Mitch Mitch- ell elI if he will confine hi his attack to tow w where ere it belongs to the political I heads He knows that both services services ser ser- ser ser- vices Ices the army and navy are forced to play politics Congress knows the facts Th Tho direct fault and remedy lies lLes with the people who are not Interested In in the army the navy or national i defense The popular slogan of or orI I reduce taxes' taxes has killed all sense of proportion Summarizing the situation on the 1 Pacific the report says I The fleet must be fulI fully maintained maintained main main- tamed naval bases must be built and above e all our air defense must be developed I I |