Show WHO'S 4 J NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW TEW YORK This department flushes lushes a swarm of at rumors about drastic changes in our naval building plans said to have been inD induced in- in by new B British D h t D. D Disasters r x rIlls problems of deBring deBring de- de Bring Check on against and sub sub- planes o Our ur Naval N a v a I PI ans marines as disclosed disclosed dis- dis closed by British disasters So far as we can learn there arc are impending some possible c changes anges in personnel and a general check and overhauling of work on new ships to date but nothing revolutionary Itis It Itis Itis is indicated that there will be in intensive intensive intensive in- in studies and training in coord coordination coordination co co- co- co ord ordination of sh ships s planes and sub sub- marines marmes At the the- highest peak of American Ameri Amen can naval construction in peacetime peacetime peacetime peace peace- time history Rear Admiral Alexander Alexander Alexander Al Al- Hamilton Van Keuren Is made chief of the bureau of ot construction and repair That puts him hin right in the wheelhouse wheelhouse wheelhouse wheel- wheel house of th the navy efficiency drive as this is the testing acid-testing bureau for fighting ships and it bears the responsibility for their being sound and fit structurally and in design Defects have been found and are arc being remedied remedied remedied reme reme- died in several ton cruis cruis- ers Admiral Van Keuren a navy technician technician technician tech tech- for 36 years is one of ot the most highly rated specialists in naval naval naval na na- na- na val construction He smokes a drop- drop stem pipe carries on easily and informally informally informally in in- formally and marshals engineering data with a precise mastery of detail de de- de- de tail His previous post has been that of ot industrial manager at the Philadelphia navy yard He is a dependable safeguard against pitted or pithy armor armor plate such as we heard of years ago He is a native of Michigan graduated from Annapolis Annapolis Annap Annap- olis oils in hi 1903 His predecessor in the bureau Rear Admiral W. W G. G Du DuBos DuBose DuBose Bose Bos becomes commander of at the new model basin at Carderock Md O AJ J. J GEN DANIEL VAN VOORHIS VOORHIS VOORHIS MA MAJ HIS assigned to the supreme command in the Panama Canal Zone is an officer up from the ranks who has been r us j Our Gold Guard entrusted with Now Gets Canal many critically Z Zo one n a t fo 0 W Watch a t c h important as- as in inthe inthe the past past among among them the guardianship guardianship guardian guardian- ship of the bulk of the nations nation's 17 17 gold reserve at Fort Knox Ky The fact of his selection is evidence of at the crucial importance importance importance tance of the canal defenses in the eyes of the high command From Zanesville Ohio he enlisted enlisted en en- listed in the Tenth P Pennsylvania infantry in hi 1898 and won a commission commission commission com com- mission as second lieutenant in inthe inthe the Philippine insurrection He Heis Heis Heis is the army specialist in mechanized mech defense and attack and just now the canal is a concentration concentration concentration concen concen- of swift mechanization In the World war he was chief- chief staff of-staff at Brest and holds the Distinguished Service medal the Navy Cross the Silver Star and the Legion of Honor decora decora- c N HIS new book The Defense of IN Britain Capt Liddell Hart the British military expert says Our chief risk of losing a war lies in trying try- try ing to win the r t r BrItain Britain's s Danger anger war war warHis His genIs genIs genIs gen- gen Is in Trying to eral cral finding is Win Win Says Hart that modern war var cannot be supported in the style to which it has been accustomed and observes that War will only be ended when the power-lusting power nations recognize its futility The growing power of modern defense is bringing that prospect in sight In his preceding book Europe in Arms published in August 1937 he thought there was hope of ending war in the limitations of at the military military military mili mili- tary mind headed Fat-headed generals would cling to gaudy mass attack and make war so stupid and ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous lous that anybody surviving would just forget it it But the trouble witha with a a war expert is that you cant can't bottle him up and other nations in the past have used him as a military consultant In the W World war a stripling just out of Cambridge a L captain and a 1 war correspondent he gave the generals a lacing to the limit of the censorship and although although although al al- though they growled menacingly menacing menacing- l ly they took look him Into their counsels lie He Invented a lot of new trick plans plaus including the indirect approach and the expanding ex cx torrent system and his reputation was well on its way before the war ended He has scolded many of ot the main panjandrums of the big war in the war post years apparently with public approval judging from the theale sale ale of ot his books He was a war buddy of Lawrence of ot Arabia and insisted that this human cryptogram knew more about war than all the generals put together Consolidated Features Features Service |