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Good luck and good management had kept down fatalities (three at Randolph, nine at Kelly during the first eleven months of 1940). But the General Headquarters Air Force howled that it had been turned into a school for unfinished "graduates." By last week officers in charge of training saw that their telescoping had gone too far in some respects, could go further in others. They had already decided to set up two more intermediate schools (at Moffett Field, Calif., Maxwell Field. AlaA last week were still waiting for sufficient trainers. Next year's cadets will have 30 additional days of ground school (military history & law, primary navigation, meteorology, etc.) before they begin to fly. Intermediate courses will be expanded to give cadets more training in practical navigation, formation flying, etc. Biggest change in effect wipes out the present "advanced" course at Kelly, substitutes training on military-type planes in specialized schools at Kelly and other fields. The Air Corps thus hopes to keep its speed up and turn out 7,000 specialized pilots next year who will be ready for combat duty.