TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
Russian Airpower Is A Huge Question Mark
Washington (U.F.)—Russian air power is tremendous . . . just fair
. . . highly overrated.
e your choice. And you won't be contradicted with
Each day or so a new "authoritative" article explains the nature of Russian air power. It collides with yesterday's piece, just as yesterday's contested the "misinformation" in that of the day before.
Government departments say little. One claim is that they don't want to let Russia know how much they know.
Maybe. That might have explained air force peeves when William S. Friedman, a wartime intelligence man, revealed in Air Force magazine that Russia is developing a B-36-class bomber. But Friedman scooped Gen. Hoyt V. Vandenberg, air force chief, who was about to announce in the Saturday Evening Post that "we know for sure" Russia is working on such a plane.
The trade papers in particular are stumbling over each other to "correct misconceptions."
Possibly another and more serious explanation for infrequent government comment on Russian air power is that there is little factual material in the files.
For instance, foreign aircraft recognition manuals used by tactical units in Korea were all but blank where characteristics of Russian planes should have been itemized. It was several days before the Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG) type 15 jet
fighter was identified as such when it entered the war.
Some pictures of Russian planes used to brief pilots were artists' conceptions taken from civilian publications—and labelled "confidential."
The mass of material now being published, by diligent and responsible people, reveals major differences of opinion on how the Communists would use air power offensively and, what air defenses they have and where they are deployed.
What Russia's aircraft production rates are and what part Germans have had in postwar Soviet developments.
How many Russian planes are ready for combat and how they compare with ours.
There is even a difference of opinion over what the Reds call their aircraft types.
Rear Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias, retired naval intelligence officer, says in his book, "Behind Closed Doors" that Russia now has "embraced the idea of strategic bombing," and is building up an independent long-range striking force.
American Aviation magazine, using "official and private sources both here and abroad," assures that Russia has subordinated strategic bombing and still considers the airplane as an extension of artillery for direct assistance to ground armies.
General Vandenberg says the Russians have "at least" 450 bombers that could hit American targets. He calls them copies of our B-29s which could carry A-bombs on one-way missions.
way missions.
Friedman, who has built up intelligence sources all over Europe for 20 years, says people who should know better "underestimate the Russian potential." He says it has "far more" than 1,000 long-range bombers as good as America's B-50s.
American Aviation says Russian air power has been "consistently over-valued." But Aviation Week, a McGraw-Hill publication, says Russia is no match for America in strategic air force although it is building "desperately."
Vandenberg says Russia has 20,000 first-line planes of all types. Zacharias figures from 15,500 to 23,500 and quotes British intelligence estimates running as high as 43,000.
American Aviation says Russia's annual production rate is 8,500 of all types. Zacharias' British sources say up to 17,200. There have been much higher estimates published here.
While German influence is supposed to be strong on Russian aviation, British writers William Green and Roy Cross wrote in the American Magazine Ordnance that the work of Russians is responsible for progress to at least an equal extent. But the same writers said in the magazine Aero-Digest that the German imprint is on "every aspect" of Russian power.
Aviation Week says Russia's MIG-15 is a 747-mile an hour plane. Others say Russia sacrifices speed for maneuverability so that the MIG is slower than the American Sabre. The Sabre has out-performed the MIG on both counts in Korea.
From all the current discussion, you can conclude that Russia has more, perhaps many more, combat planes than the Western powers. You also can conclude that, at the moment, she is producing more annually. It is also possible that her armies have enormous air cover and Russia is working hard on long-range bombing and is coming up in the next few years with a plane at least in the B-36 class. Then, too, you can conclude that Russia's aircraft production potential is lower than America's.
You just can't be sure.
Two More Students On Fine Arts List
The names of two fine arts freshmen were omitted from the School of Fine Arts honor roll that was published in the University Daily Kansan March 7. The students who should be included on the honor roll are Beverly Ann Barnhardt and James A. York. ___
Spokane, Wash. (U.P.)—The government destroyed almost two tons of candy bars which were ruined in a warehouse here, U.S. food inspector, C. Paul Marshall, said storage space was not refrigerated and the candy, including most of the popular brands, became wormy and insect-infested.
Destroy Two Tons Of Candy
Loewenguth String Group Presents Chamber Music
By STANFORD E. LEHMBERG
Members of the Leowenguth String ensemble — Alfred Leowenguth and Maurice Fueri, violinists, and Pierre Basseux, cellist—and their accomplished pianist, Marisa Reguiles, presented four trios Monday night in Strong auditorium.
Loeillet's "Sonata in D for Two Volins and Piano" was first on the program. Mr. Loewenguth. Mr. Fueri, and Miss Regules played the early eighteenth century music with a gleaming freshness that made the work alive with meaning.
Miss Regules and Mr. Fueri were joined by Mr. Basseux for the "Trio in D, Op. 70, No. 1" by Beethoven. Although their reading was far from superficial, the performers failed to reach the depths of the introspective large. The brighter allegro and presto were more convincingly interpreted.
US Must Awaken Sociologist Says
Luigi Boecherini, an Italian composer and cellist roughly contemporary with Beethoven, was a prolific writer of chamber works. From
The Korean crisis has made communities conscious of conditions of which they "may have been oblivious." E. Gordon Erickson, assistant professor of sociology, said Sunday in the first of a series of radio broadcasts by the department of sociology.
He pointed out that apathy is more to be feared than conflict. Community effectiveness in the pursuits of a better life requires more than casual, transitory participation by a few.
Speaking over KLWN, Dr. Erickson said because Korea has made us more aware of our problems, communities can reflect and choose between bold alternatives rather than improvise adjustments. "This calls for organized community planning," he added.
"The apathetic element in every community is often aroused when nurses which they might have helped prevent descend upon them. Then they react violently or provoke violence in others," he said.
The second speaker in the series will be E. Jackson Baur, associate professor of sociology and anthropology. He will speak Sunday over KLWN on juvenile delinquency. KLWN is 1320 on the dial.
his 50 string trios Mr. Loewenguth Mr. Fueri, and Mr. Basseux selected the early "Trio in G Minor, Op. 9, No. 3"—a graceful if perhaps trivial work.
Mendelsohn's "Trio in D Minor, Op. 49" was the last of the four trios and the most compelling. Miss Regules, Mr. Loewenguth, and Mr. Basseux had obviously studied the trio carefully and let no phrase slip by without extracting its full emotional content. In response to appreciative applause the three performers repeated the trio's scherzo as an encore.
The concert was the last in the chamber music series for the academic year.
Society Picks Four Officers
Other officers are Jerome Grunt, vice-president; Keith Wolfenbarger, recording secretary, and Donald Ford, corresponding secretary. All are graduate students.
Ivan Shields was elected president of Phi Sigma, honorary biological society, at a recent meeting.
Sgt. Beuford D. McDonald, McLouth, an engineering freshman at K.U. in 1945-46, was listed today by the department of defense as wounded in Korea.
Wounded: Pfc. Darven Blane Ameiseger, Elk City; Pfc. Edwin Leon Lamb, Baxter Springs; Cpl. Stanley Jerry Serrap, Timken; Cpcl. Henry Walter Miller, Leavenworth; Sgt. Ralph Thomas Shenfield, Leavenworth; and Pfc. Seybert Leroy Smith, Protection.
Ex-Student Hurt In Korea
Missing in action: Cpl. Howard G.
Elder, Axell; Sgt. Luther V. Rominger,
Pretty Prairie; Sgt. Robert James Wichman, Seneca; Sgt. Harold Sylvene Duryea, Chapman; Sgt.
James Davis McCain, Junction City;
Pvt. Ralph Lee Parks, Salina; Cpl.
Roy Stumbough, Bethel; and Pvt.
Edwin Albert Wert, Salina.
Other army casualties from Kansas were listed as follows:
Injured: Pyt. Bobby Dear Larson,
Washburn university, Topeka.
Congressmen Shoot The Bull In Congressional Directory
Washington (D.C.)-when a rookie senator or congressman writes his own profile for the Congressional Directory, he usually yanks out the stops.
He gives you the business about all his kin, the last time he was out at the polls and maybe his boy scout record on medals won for knot-tying and fire-building-without any matches—in the woods.
Rep. Chester Bartow McMullen,
(D. Fla.), went on modestly for a
few lines and held off on adjectives
it until it came to hobbies. Then he
broke down and confessed in fine
print that among his hobbies is the
dandy game of golf. Hole in one—
on two occasions.
One new house member even included a line about his dog.
The Directory for the first session of the 82nd congress just came out. Let's take a few of the newcomers at random, with no attempt to poke fun at high office.
Appearing among the freshman is an old friend of mine from Springfield, Mo—one O. K. Armstrong. He bare-footed in the Missouri Ozarks as a kid and for many years was a fixture around the state house at Jefferson City. With becoming modest, O. K. confesses to service in the first World War, and to the fact that he did almost as much
McMullen didn't let us know whether he ever managed to break 100. Most of the "youngsters" on the Hill are rightly proud of their war records, if any, of the fact that they once taught the gospel in Sunday school, belonged to certain college fraternities and lodges. A couple of them even mention the pole vault and dash records they set back in county "X" while in high school.
Hey Americans—If You Play Soccer, Here's Your Chance
More Americans are wanted on the newly organized soccer team which represents 16 nationalities.
Alan Walton, graduate student and captain of the team, said that Americans interested in joining the team so strongly urged to do so.
writing as legislating and made more money with his typewriter than he did in law-making.
The team, organized about a month ago, plays informal games every weekend at the stadium. It plans to play out-of-town soccer teams in the future.
Some of the members, new and old, prefer to add their nicknames to the stuff they put in the directory. One is Rep. C. W. Bishop of Illinois. He puts his nickname "Runt" in his own write-up.
Some of the old boys kind of ho hum their profiles. Like the Republican representative from the 7th district of Missouri. His copy always reads, simply:
"Dewey Short, Republican, Galena, Mo."
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