CONGRESSIONAL HIGH COMMAND

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 22, 21 October 1942, Page 5

CONGRESSIONAL HIGH COMMAND

American Proposal (Received October 20, 7 p.m.) - WASHINGTON, October 19. The creation of a Congressional High Command to consider matters relating to the war is proposed in a resolution introduced by Representative Dirksen. The committee would be composed of 21 Senators and a similar number of representatives drawn from the Appropriations, Naval and Military Committees. Four pet hates for the duration of the war are organizers, profiteers, typewriter strategists and needle boys, Admiral Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, told the Investment Bankers’ Association. He explained that he meant union organizers, and added, “As far as they are concerned, for the duration of the war my opinion is that they ought to be shot at sunrise.” Of profiteers, Admiral Land declared: “We will get them if they don’t get themselves.” He advised typewriter strategists to let the President and military experts handle the war. He did not elaborate his references to “needle boys.” The United States, said Admiral Land, was building three ships a day and would be producing four a day by January if the steel was available. “The United States will need 20,000 licensed seamen and 100,000 unlicensed seamen by next year,” he said. “The United States has 241 shipways and 3600 ships contracted to be'built, of which 1098 have been delivered.” Admiral Land warned that because of the longer nights, the submarine menace would be progressively worse during the winter. “We can get on top of the submarine * menace and maybe ameliorate it,” he said, “but we can’t lick it.” “The United States in 1943 will turn out a greater navy than ■ any nation ever possessed,” the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Frank Knox, told a Manchester, New Hampshire, audience. “That is true, both of the number and balance of types of ships. Its onlv equal would be the combined United States and British navies at the beginning of the war.”