Show washington D 0 PLENTY OF TRAINED PILOTS general arnold did not say so in his report to the secretary of war but the tremendous job of expanding air forces personnel is almost finished he might have penned a little footnote saying we have pilots running out of our ears 14 no cadet training bases have been closed as yet but the army will close approximately one dozen schools tor for training pilots between now and april air forces officials find that the elaborate program has now produced enough competent navigators and pilots to finish the job in both theaters of war the tip off to this to is found in recent changes in policy of the transport command army transport command which does non combat flying all over the world has always preferred to take pilots from the open market usually from the airlines these pilots are specially trained in safe efficient transport flying as distinguished from the combat type of tr training dining in the army air forces recently however transport command nd has been forbidden to take on civilian pilots and has been forced to accept combat trained pilots from the air forces MIRACLE WORKERS miracles happen even in washington farm security administration heir to all the grief of rex tugwell and long confined to tho the capitol hill dog house Is now emerging into the warm sunlight of congressional favor A simple me matter of southern friendship did it the miracle resulted from the tact fact that frank Hancoc kand harold cooley were a couple of 0 congressmen from north carolina hancock now out of congress has just been a appointed head of farm security hence congressman cooley formerly deadliest critic is now a supporter and friend all ali during the tha past year operated on a shoestring its funds were cut and congress frowned on almost everything it tried to do but now a report of a house housa agriculture subcommittee which cooley heads Is about to give a cle clean an bill of health and recommend that it be continued as a permanent agency the report will not whitewash mr tugwell or any of his works in fact it will sharply criticize au all the tha old resettlement projects already in process of liquidation but it will give strong approval to two other programs rehabilitation and tenant purchase also there willbe a proposal for combining the lending programs of farm security with two types of farm credit administration loans with a new corporation to handle the joint lending activity EXIT BOMBSIGHT there is every indication that the V U S bombing to which the japs I 1 will be subjected in 19 1944 44 will be without benefit of bombsight the norden bombsight has been publicized as the great secret appliance which will help us win the war it has been highly successful in the european theater but in the pacific it has actually become excess baggage supply officers in washington are still to planes for pacific action but fliers are urging that the device be left at home they have found that the most successful air attack in the pacific is the low level treetop tree top bombing in which medium bombers sweep in on the target and let the bombs drop when they are so close they cant ml miss so this is better than any precision instrument ever invented also it Is less dangerous than high altitude bombing coming in low the planes avoid detection by the enemy whereas the high alti tude planes are caught both by instruments 0 st tru and vision the treetop tree top flying requires greater pilot skill also the use of de bayed action bombs so that the plane can get away from the target before it blows up under the plane this Is the kind of work work that mat was done in the famous battle of the bismarck sea in which every jap ship was destroyed it was also how the nazis sneaked up on borl berl and wreaked wrecked havoc with allied shipping MERRY MERKY GO ROUND 41 the budget bureau several times has offered cordell huu hull oil au the money he needs for the state department part ment if he will only clean house and get in some good men C 4 the A F L executive committee will finally vote john L lewis mine workers into the A F L at this months meeting in florida 41 harold ickes and henry wallace who love each other too much when wallace was secretary of agriculture have made up jesse jones not love tor for him brought them together fl 41 instead ot of cutting down red tape the war department is increasing it it opened the new year by requiring reception clerks at all entrances of the giant pentagon kull building ding to td ask no less than 14 questions ot of each visitor and write down all 11 answers answer on a pink blue or yellow sling filing card guess the army thinks we are losing the war not winning it |