Show R afi W PEA washington D C ARMY VS NAVY the sale selective etive service system y isn 22 t advertising it but there has b been some a fierce arc wag rowing behind the scenes fiver over the induction inducts standards of the army irelnd and 0 navy th though oh ane army y has hag liberalized I 1 its is phi physical and mental re quirt in remen ments ta to increase the number of draft 1 and ad likewise kelp keep the in induction no t I 1 of married rr men at is a minimum the navy still clings to the higher standards in effect while it was taking only enlisted max men vi virtually ritually all physics physical require m ments ant are higher for the navy but the biggest difference is in the me mentality tests tor far the two ler services vices navy induction doctors wont won t me pass a ma man unless he has a fair I 1 Q whereas army doctors are required to ampro approve a lower standards result 11 ll is that thousands of inductees who express I 1 a preference nce forthe navy are turned d down and ad do find d themselves in an army uniform instead the tact et tb that t th the army jul has lam to take te kiy th these a navy ca castoffs off is a bitter medicine di vi a to war department hig hups and ad brig ge gen lewis B hershey ile selective se servi service I 1 director re to reels made a strong g protest pretest about it belfitt behind closed in sd doors her recently to the war manpower commission a management labor poll policy commit committee atee the standards for both services should be uniform gerthey Her they declared adding that if the navys standards were brought down to conform f with those of it the army it ammy would help offset the need of inducting married men mail especially those with children the navy has bee been t turning tg g down a large number of single men for physical or mental reasons hershey pointed out how has the difference in standards affected the army armye the draft d director was asked it a affe affected t ad us plenty exploded ct he hershey r shey the navy selects whom it wants and the army 91 gets all the lower element the committee agreed with hershey promised to recommend to boss paul mcnutt that he en deavor to have the navy a standards lowered FRANK NAVY N VY TALK vice admiral fred horne home as assistant suit chief of naval operations has been holding some quiet blackboard talks with the house and senate east esval ad stairs committees and the these anal tal talks fl 3 have been a real step toward congressional abic operation pe to horne home by his frankness and ad willingness to a admit d mit navy mistakes made ad a better impression than any other navy man appearing appear mg before congress home was high in his praise of our n naval aval officers and men but frank frankly dreitel admitted st that the navy was caughy caught off guard iti in the savo island battle of f august 9 lust just after the marines landed i at guadalcanal Guadal canal he said there was no excuse for this defeat that a board of inquiry was now investigating and there probably would would guilty be heavy penalties for fee the horne home said that apparently tive the captains a of the b emall cruisers ril sunk link had ca edere them not ordered d their men to battle stations lie he also is revealed that an australian admiral that night was in common command cruiser 0 of f the screening for force of cruisers a and destroyers supposed to be protecting the main task force horne home admitted that the australian officer and admiral kelly turner chief of the allied task force knew a jap scouting fleet was in the vicinity but didn dian t figure it would risk an attack the commanders calculated that the earliest possible poss uble tune time the japs could reach savo is land was after a daybreak next morning hi therefore the austral australian ian admiral J left f this his flagship the canberra and spent the night eight on admiral turner a flagship 25 miles e fr from the t at scene of 1 battle no orders were given meanwhile t to a australian and american officers under turner turn and the australian tr and they were caught completely off base when the japs alc struck ack at about 1 50 a on m JP japs cornered in aleutian Aleut ians on the more optimistic side admiral horne home reported the united states had sunk a great many jap critis cruisers ers and that despite th the e de defeat f cut at savo savo island we had been definitely superior bior in operational strategy in the t h a in aleutians Aleut ians the japs are so completely completely bullied bottled up home me ri reported that at w we probably y could wipe th them em out at 1 any time e our submarine patrol has h as been especially effective in these wite waters r with the result that J the he JP japs to are re d desperately P hard up for food aviation gasoline and other supplies P lies home firm albo I 1 made no att attempt crop t to minimize the seriousness s of the Is submarine ab menace CAP CAPITAL ITAL CHAFF fl 41 inhere 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