Show gp NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service NEW YORK in the last nine L years this typewriter has reported p on the achievements of about americans distinguished in the arts ar of war no A rr r I 1 flier of and pea peace ceIf if navy got wings the appraisal the hard way of personnel resources is important in a critical hour the record of this file is encouraging hitler has not repealed the axiom that the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts and that being the case this onlooker is convinced that we have what it takes considering particularly ticul arly the requirements for courage and highly specialized ability citations of individual preparedness are rear admiral john H towers ranking aviation officer of the navy and major general 11 II H arnold chief of the army air corps they are flexibly minded men who never have been grounded by precedent they came all the way up from primitive and hazardous aviation and from their altitude they have seen farther over the horizon than most of the rest of us and they warned us admiral towers is the only survivor of the first three men assigned to naval aviation in 1911 commander john rodgers was killed in 1926 and commander T G ellyson in 1928 towers himself has had many a close brush with death it was in may 1919 that he commanded the transatlantic flight of the wobbly but determined he and his mates sagging down into the sea taxied 60 hours over miles to the azores in 1913 he was bucked out of a lurching seaplane caught a strap as he fell and dropped 1700 feet with the hurtling plane into chesapeake bay the navys no I 1 flier was born in rome ga in 1886 glenn curtiss taught him to fly at hammonds port N Y succeeding rear A ad d miral mira r dook cook he became a rear admiral and head of the bureau of naval aeronautics in june 1939 9 he is a west pointer of the class of 1906 major general arnold known in in the air corps as happy arnold i for obvious reasons was assigned to aviation in 1911 and trained by the wright broth i f of t air A cowboy ers at day thrilled capital ton ohio in in sprocket job 1912 he caught the attention of the then complacent countr country jr by riding a clattering chain and sprocket job 30 miles around washington in the same year he coaxed a quaint sort of currier and ives plane up to the perilous height of feet it was a national sensation they began calling him the ride em cowboy of of the air when the world war started we had bad 35 pilots and 55 planes lieutenant arnold was clamoring for more then andt and as general he be has been out in front the last year insisting that air strength would decide any ino modern d war one of his most notable achievements was his brilliant leadership of a hazardous plane survey over the alaska mountain ranges he is a native of glad gladyn gladwyn yn pa and was graduated from west point in 19 1907 07 0 EAR ADMIRAL samuel M robe rob ra inson blames delay in ship construction st to restrictive labor la laws ws short work weeks and inadequate or qualified adm robinson rates high a as lions As co navy appraiser of ship construction he is cast in an important role in the hard pressing enterprise of naval expansion he is chief of the navy bureau of engineering appointed september 13 and appears in the opening arguments primarily as a technician rather than as a policy adviser when and if there is a decision as to just what we want to defend what will be needed to defend it and how much it will cost admiral robinson will no doubt score highly in the technical information please he is 53 years old a native of eulogy texas was graduated from west point in 1899 and engaged thereafter in never spectacular but crucially important naval engineering 0 FRIEND of mine who until a afew A few months ago had haa lived in italy several years tells me that crown prince humbert of italy not 0 only aly is a holdout against the fascist regime but that he has a tremendous personal following which he could and would launch against italis entry into the war my friend believes that his opposition to the axis and the war must have been sharpened by the fact that his wife the former princess marie jose is a daughter of the late king kine albert of belgium |