United States Easy
Prey For A
Surprise Attack
(By Elton C. Fay)
<<Ah Military Affairs Rep >r*er
WASHINGTON (Ah—The United
States—its wartime aircraft detec
tion network all but dismantled—
is virtually wide open to a sur
prise attack from the air.
An unofficial survey h3> i~d
cated this, following the disclosure
recently of a document dealing
with war department thinking on
the national security effects of c.^.•
atomic bomb.
That document, prepared pri
marily for Congressional use,
commented that present-day meth
ods of delivering an atomic attack
are limited to long-range bombers
or bombs smuggled in by agents.
Rocket delivery is something to be
reckoned with in the future, the
paper said.
Questioned by a reporter con
cerning the aerial assault theory,
officers assigned to the develop
ment and employment of defense
weapons emphasized that the
greatst problem would be the de
tection of any attacking force in
time to get fighter aircraft and
anti-aircraft guns into action.
During the war the seacoasts,
borders and interior of the coun
try were covered by a tie-in radar
network which detected the ap
proach of aircraft and plotted its
course as it moved inland.
Demobilization reduced army
and navy manpower to the point,
where it it became impossible
to operate this detection complex.
While it is presumed that local de
fense areas still in operation con
tinue to use radar detection equip
ment, they are not numerous
enough nor linked together to form
a screen.
One officer summed it up this
way: “It would be possible today
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Customs Bureau
Uses Pressure
WASHINGTON. i/P»— Senators
::i c urge of appropriations studied
i committee report charging the U.
> customs bureau with "gross in
con petence” and "a bald attempt"
* p ; sure Congress for money.
V a result of ‘ho reoort, Sena
: r Cordon 'R.-Oe.>, indicated, the
.jar*;uu will have a tough time per
suading his appropriations sub
committee to restore a $3,500,000
House slash in funds for the fiscal
year starting July 1.
Cordon told reporters he hopes
the report, by the Senate expendi
tures committee, will serve as a
warning to other government agen
cies protesting House cuts in their
appropriations.
The expenditures group said the
bureau should be "thoroughly
overhauled” and forced to get by
with the $320,500,000 the House
; voted to give it.
It added that dismissal notices
the bureau sent to 1,500 border
i and port patrol officers after the
House acted were “completely un
warranted” and “a bald attempt to
arouse the public into demanding
a restoration )f the reduction in
expenditures.”
The report said the bureau could
have some $350 000 a year it now (
pays for overtime if it staggered
1 the 40-hour week of its employees
to cover Saturday and Sunday.
for a foreign aircraft to approach
and fly clear across the United
States without ever being report
ed.”
Experts agree that until the ad
vent of guided missiles and im
provement in the accuracy of roc
ket-type weapons, the defense
against attack by air must rest, as
it did in World War II. promarily
on anti-aircraft artillery and fight
er airplanes.
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Modern Life Brings
New References
As evidence of the growing com
plexity of modern life. 144 new
topics have found a place in the
Encyclopaedia Britannica within
‘he past year, according to Walter
Yust, editor-in-chief of the 179
year-old reference work.
The latest revision of the the
2 '. °.009-word encyclopaedia has
;u.s‘ been completed and publish -
e 1. in keeping with Britannica’s
policy of continuous revision to
keep all articles current.
Among the 144 new articles in
the 1947 printing—none of which
have before appeared in the Bri
tannica—are “Gertrude Stein,”
“Cyclotron,” “Luzon,” “Iono
sphere.” “Ice on Aircraft,” “Phylo
geny of Animals,” “Behavior of
Embryos,” “Freon,” and “Laundry
Industry.”
In addition, more than 409 arti
cles were completely rewritten
and 885 were revised for the new
printing by such authorities as Ely
C u 1 b ertson, Raymond Massey,
Emile Henry Gauvreau, Granville
Hicks and the late Admiral Russell
R. Waesche of the United States
Coast Guard.
Impressive numbers of business
and industrial specialists are among
the new contributors to Britannica,
evidence of the continued recogni
tion of business and industrial
leaders as the outstanding authori
ties in their fields.
For example, Karl Kelchner Dar
row, research physicist for the Bell
Telephone laboratories, has rewrit
ten the article on “Physics;” Saul
Dushman, assistant director of the
research laboratory of the General
Electric Company, has prepared
“Thermionics” Walter Lichtenstein
vice-president of the First National
Bank of Chicago, is the author of
“Bank for International Settle
ments,” and Alfred J. Lotka, as
sistant statistician, Metropolitan
Life Insurance company, has re
vised the article on “Longevity.”
The 1947 printing contains, in
all, articles by more than 4,000
distinguished scholars and authori
ties from 62 countries and about
550 universities, colleges and other
scientific, cultural and educational
institutions.
Britannica’s policy of continu
ous revision requires that every ar
ticle must be reviewed at least
twice every ten years, Yust pointed
out. Continuous revision is accom
plished, he explained, by dividing
the publication into a schedule of
30 major subject-matter classifica
tions which are reviewed periodi
cally and assigned to specialists for
revision or rewriting. Classifica
tions in which knowledge is rap
idly incerasing are reviewed every
year.
j During its. first 162 years, only
14 editions of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica were published. Since
1932, however, when E. H. Powell,
president of the company, devised
j its plan for continuous revision,
one or more new printings of the |
| reference work has been completed
every year.
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OVERSIGHT
GARDNER, Kans. (/P) —Gard
ner’s city officials may hold over
another two-year-term — because
! they forgot to hold an election last
week.
They were preparing to hold the
city election today—until Mayor
Charles E. Cramer returned from
' a three-weeks absence and called
attention to a change in the state
laws. !
Under the new statute, the elec
| tion was supposed to be last Tues
| day.
Some States Adopt
Daylight Saving
NEW YORK, (ZP>—Daylight sav
' ing time began at 2 a.m. Sunday
for at least one-third of the na
tion’s 140,000,000 population —
largely in the northeast.
Changing the clock is not so pop
ular in the south, west and mid
west, where the rural voice is
stronger. The hour lost by turning
the clock ahead will be made up
Sept. 2tf when standard time re
turns.
Radio program times will be ad
vanced one hour in standard time
areas as the four net works chang
ed to daylight saving time. At least
three of the chains, however, plan
to make recordings of some pro
grams so that stations in standard
time areas can broadcast them at
the usual time if they desirer
Airlines will retain standard
time schedules.
The United States contains
1,500,000 square miles favorable
for the accumulation of oil, only
half of which has been explored.
Rudy York
Burned In Fire
BOSTON, .-P' — P.udy York,
S.U.,g.ng "vOSto.l Zu. i*JX -US.
ojoe;..;*; who shu* e, i three-run
•o::.c over tile oft f old wall in
Fr.day r- game with the Philadel
phia Athletics, was half-dragged,
half-carried cut of his flaming ho
tel m early Saturday.
A -'••>ct-'r who examined York ir
the lobby s3i.d he suffered only
slight smoke inhalation.
Red Sox general manager Eddie
Collins’ office said York had re
ported to a secretary that he was
“all right” and would play in to
day’s game.
York probably escaped more se
rious injury because Miss Mary
Kent. 51. who lives on the third
floor of the hotel above York
awoke to find smoke rising
from the floor opening beneath a
radiator.
Night engineer Ben Petruzzi
'raced the smoke to York’s room
and entered with a pass key when
pounding on the door failed to
awaken the ball player.
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