Washington, Dec. 2.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana, today charged that United States administration shipping inferior fighting planes to China. The planes which America sent to Chi n be "shot down like clay pigeons," the Senator said.
America's best planes are being sent to England and, Russia, while the poorest ones are being used "by American boys," the senator said, adding that about 500 United States?5 aviators thus far have been permitted to, enlist as pilots for China.
The Senator also charged that second-rate planes were being sent to the Philippines.
Army and Air Corps officials, told of Senator Wheeler's accusations. said, "the United States is not in the habit of making inferior planes, and the planes intended for Britain have recently been directed to China by the British "Our first-line planes are being shipped to the dace where they will be used for fighting, which includes China, and second-line planes are be-used for training "No inferior planes are being sent by the United States to the Philip pines," the officials concluded. United Press
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