Show U 0 W washington D C VS NAVY the selective service system advertising it but there has been some fierce rowing behind the scenes over the induction standards of it the army and navy though the army has liberalized its physical and mental requirements to increase the number of draft and likewise keep the induction of married men at a minimum the navy still clings to the higher standards in effect while it was taking only enlisted men virtually all physical requirements are higher for the navy but the biggest difference is in the mentality tests tor for the two services navy induction doctors wont pass a man unless he has a fair IQ whereas army doctors are required to approve lower standards result is that thousands of indu inductees who express a preference fort for the he navy are turned down and find themselves in an army uniform instead the tact fact that the arm has to take these navy castoffs ca is bitter medi cine to war department hig hups and brig gen lewis B hershey selective service director made a strong protest about it behind closed doors recently to the war manpower commissions management labor policy commit committee te e the standards for both services should be uniform hershey declared adding that if 11 the navys standards were brought down to conform forr with those of the army it would help offset the need of inducting married men especially those with children the navy has been turning down a large number of at single men for or physical or mental reasons he hershey ashey pointed out how has the difference in standards affected the army the draft director was asked its affected us plenty ex exploded plod hershey the navy selects whom it wants and the army gets all the lower element the committee agreed with hershey promised to recommend to boss paul mcnutt that he endeavor to have the navys standards lowered FRANK NAVY NAV TALK vice admiral fred horne home assistant chief of naval operations has been holding some quiet black blackboard boar d talks with the house and senate naval affairs committees and these talks have been a real step toward congressional executive operation cooperation co horne home by his frankness and willingness to admit navy mistakes made a better impression than any other navy man appearing before congress horne home was high in his praise of our naval officers and men but frankly admitted that the navy was caught off guard in the savo island battle of august 9 just after the marines landed at guadalcanal Guadal canal he said there here was no excuse for this defeat that hat a board of inquiry was now investigating and there probably would be heavy penalties for the guilty horne home said that apparently the captains of the cruisers sunk had not ordered their men to battle stations lie he also revealed that an australian admiral that night was in command of 0 the screening force of cruisers and destroyers supposed to be protecting the main task force orce horne home admitted that the austra lian ian officer and admiral kelly turner chief of the allied task force knew anew a jap scouting fleet was in the vicinity but figure it would risk an attack the commanders calculated that the earliest possible time the japs could reach savo island was after daybreak next morning therefore the australian admiral left his bis flagship the canberra and spent the night on admiral turners flagship 25 miles from the scene of battle no orders were given meanwhile w hile to australian and american officers under turner and the australian tr and they were caught completely p off base when the japs struck at about a m japs cornered jo in Aleut aleutians ians on the more optimistic side admiral horne home reported the united states bad sunk a great many jap cruisers and that despite the defeat at savo island we had been definitely superior in operational strategy in the aleutians Aleut ians the japs are so completely bottled up horne home reported that we probably could wipe them out at any time our submarine patrol has been especially effective in these waters with the result that the japs are desperately hard up tor for food aviation gasoline and other supplies horne home also made no attempt to m minimize e the a seriousness of the submarine menace CAPITAL CHAFF C L interesting question why is it that army air crashes during training and operations right here in the U S A are military secrets could it be that some persons are trying to protect themselves from public indignation dig nation qt fl one ot of the roads running through the woods around ft benning ga is la belled burma road boad another approach but RM most mosi popular among soldiers is the road to singapore because at the end they hope to find dorothy lamour |