Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1934 — Page 3

JUNE 4, 1934.

U. S. 5 YEARS LATE IN ARMY AIRMDGRESS Corps Lacks Personnel and Equipment, Survey Discloses. (Continued From Page One) this system, either because of lack of funds or failure by those in command to realize the importance of such training. Navy Force Rated as Best 10. The United States naval air force, while also under strength as to equipment and personnel, is generally rated as the best in the world, and operates with a minimum of friction and internal dissension. The military air services of the nation represent a large nvestment. The government spent, directly and indirectly, more than $1,400,000,000 for military aviation in the period from July 1, 1919, to June 30, 1933. Viewed alone, the figure seems large, but actually it represents only a small proportion of the total bill for military defense. Tables are published in an adjoining column showing how the army spent $122,233,850.47 during this period for construction of new heavier-than-air equipment, while the navy was spending $113,196,867.45 for the same purpose. The army expenditure was larger because the 1926 national deefnse plan authorized the air corps to have 1,800 planes in 1931 compared to the naval bureau of aeronautics’ 1,000 planes. The navy attained this mark but the army still is short of it. Air Corps Has 1,199 Planes The air corps on March 15 had 1,199 airplanes within the territorial limits of the United States. In addition, there were 211 planes in foreign possessions and 139 assigned to the national guard. These guard planes generall are old and nearly obsolete. The 1,199 planes of the regular ,army ranged from primary trainers to high-hpeed, multi-engined bocmers. A study of them show's that there were only 445 fighting planes —pursuits, attacks and bombers. But not all of these planes acwere w'ith tactical units, that is with groups prepared to go immediately to the defense of the nation. Scores were assigned to schools for advanced training of students. Others were used in administrative w'ork and many more were experimental models, either undergoing test or already tested and found not suited for production. 60 Per Ceit of Planes Available Thus probably not more than 60 per cent or about 265 of the army’s total of fighting planes were available for emergency defense. Furfther study shows that most of the fighting planes are relatively slow and inefficient compared to the ships now being built. The government naturally keeps secret information concerning its new' military planes. It does not w'ant to inform foreign powers of new developments. Neither do foreign powers want the nited States to know what they have. Foulois Drops Hint But occasionally the military men drop a hint about their new planes. For instance, Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the air corps, recently told a house committee that the Martin bombers “proposed for purchase with public works administration funds will have a top speed of 207 miles an hour at 4,000 feet.” Some of these planes, on a prior order, have been delivered and are now in use. General Foulois also mentioned two-seater pursuits at 256 miles an hour at 15,000 feet altitude and attack planes at 207 miles an hour. - Fast Pursuits Available Major C. W. Howard told another subcommittee that pursuit planes are available today with speeds in excess of 260 miles an hour at about 10,000 feet. These figures on official records —

TABLE SHOWS SPEED OF AIR CORPS CRAFT The following tables provide a break-dow r n of the high speed characteristics of the Air Corps’ three types of fighting planes as of March 15: pursuit Single models, mainly experimental or undergoine test. IS High speed of less than 170 m. p. h 24 High speed from 170 to 190 m. p. h 130 High speed over 190 m. p. h.... 84 Total 251 BOMBARDMENT Single models 6 High speed of less than 120 m. p. h 21 High speed from 120 to 140 m. p h 63 High sped more than 180 m. p. h 11 Total 101 ATTACK Single models 4 High speed less than 150 m. p. h 38 High speed more than 180 m. p. h 51 Total 93 SUMMARY Pursuits over 190 m. p. h 84 Bombardment over 180 m. p. h. 11 Attacks over 180 m. p. h 51 Total 146

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ONE OF ARMY’S 51 ATTACK PLANES FASTER THAN 180 MILES AN HOUR

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pursuits at 256 to 260 miles per hour, attacks at 207 miles per hour, and bombers at more than 200 miles per hour—provide a yardstick for evaluating the efficiency of the 1,199 planes of the air corps. In an adjoining column are published three tables listing the various speed classifications of the three types of fighting planes. These tables show— Bombers are available at 207 miles an hour, but only eleven of the corps’ 101 bombers had a speed in excess of 180 miles an hour. Pursuits are available at 256 to 260 miles an hour, but only eightyfour of the corps’ 251 pursuits had a speed in excess of 190 miles an hour. Attacks are available at 207 miles an hour, but only fifty-one of the corps’ ninety-three attacks have a speed in excess of 180 miles an hour. These figures do not include the single models, of which there are only twenty-three in the three groups. Only 146 Up to Date Thus there are only 146 fighting planes at all comparable to those now r being built. Observation planes, used for liaison w r ith the artillery or for general scouting purposes, have a military value, of course, but they are not the type of planes to be used to defeat an enemy attacking air force. The corps had 276 observations. Excluding fourteen amphibians, which generally do not have high speed because they must carry gear for alighting both on land and water, and fourteen more of single models, the record shows that only six planes in this class had a speed in excess of 180 miles an hour. Performance Increases Swiftly Aircraft performance has increased swifter throughout the world in the last three years than at any time since the first plane was flown, and it was during this period that the United States army air corps more or less marked time. The result is that it is not only deficient in strength, but sharply deficient in swift, hard-hitting fighting planes. The question of what the depression and enforced economy did to the air corps, and how much of the blame for the present situation is due ta lack of funds, will be discussed tomorrow. STUDENT TO GET DEGREE Francis M. Feeney Will Receive Award at Xavier University. Francis M. Feeney, 510 North Bancroft streeet, will be among 100 candidates who will receive degrees at Xavier university Wednesday night ai Cincinnati. He will receive the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He is a graduate of Cathedral high school.

Cost of U. S. Air Forces The following tables, compiled from official governmental records, show the direct and indirect cost of the army air corps and the navy bureau of aeronautics by fiscal years. The first column in each table lists the total cost and the second column the amount expended each year for construction of new equipment. The 1926 national defense plan w r as based on 1,800 planes for the army and 1,000 for the navy: ARMY. I NAVY. New New Total. Equipment. Total. Equipment. 1920 $60,339,224.09 $3,487,363.70 1920 $48,373,884.90 $4,616,257.59 1921 62.147,200.20 7,442,190.39 1921 39,816,812.90 4,530,822.40 1922 47 546,218.37 5,328.376.75 1922 36 548,965.05 5,380,345,00 1923 36,344,298.33 3,007.833.87 1923 .... 35,347.962.74 6,167.393.69 1924 40,666,524.55 2,997,349,95 1924 57.827,981.21 5.852,978.76 1925 40 097.158.30 4,625,404.28 1925 42,033,665.97 4.923,335.59 1926 45.960,770.60 ,6 960.027.52 1926 42,360 597.63 5.270.563.54 1927 45,268,164.02 7,751,009.15 1927 48,282.225.42 9,004,907 95 1928 53,512.756.86 10,134.076.75 1928 44,143,300.47 8,488,339.29 1929 59,284,846.46 13,490,220.35 1929 50,246,735.88 16,595,472.19 1930 70 668.834.27 16,254.647.97 1930 50 157,253.13 14,244,994.65 1931 78,514,153.44 17,620.865.26 1931 57,410,076.32 12,199,032.01 1932 76.808.700.83 15,429.704.50 1932 51,521.979.11 8.726,461.79 1933 59,138,236.35 7,704,774.53 1933 52,718.113.70 7,195,963.00 Total. $776,297,086.67 $122,233,850.47 Total. $656,789,553.83 $113,196,867.45 Note—The navy total includes almost $8,000,000 for rigid airships and about $90,000,000 for the aircraft carriers Ranger, Saratoga and Lexington, together with their equipage and gears, and payments for ordnance, engineering, construction, repair, naval reserve, maintenance, medical department and more than $15,000,000 for public works by the bureau of yards and docks. The total cost of the air corps includes more than $135,000,000 issues from war reserve, and expenditures by signal corps, medical department, ordnance department, quartermaster corps, chemical warfare, engineers, organized reserves, militia bureau and contingent expenses of the war department.

2 SERGEANTS DETAILED TO STRAY DOG ROUNDUP Officers Will Aid Humane Society in Drive. Dog catching began in earnest this w r eek with the detailing of two police sergeants to the duty of aiding the Indianapolis Humane Society in rounding up stray dogs. Because of the number of per-

II Consider the Railroads (f —for Service \ Railroads must be considered as investors, as employers, as purchasers and as taxpayers, but their chief i claim to the consideration of the \ public is on account of the service they perform. V The settlement and development l cf this part of the country, the rise ' \ of its cities, the expansion of ayriculI ture, the growth of industry and the flow of trade have all followed the improvements that have been wrought Ain railway transportation. Railroads are also of continuing importance. Their rails are the arteries of commerce. Their service sustains the life of business. They meet the needs of massed population for massed transportation. We in this country need railroads —railroads that are alert to their important responsibilities as carriers of the nation's business. Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. PATRONAGE L. A. DOWNS HELPS THE President RAILROADS Illinois Central System SERVE YOU

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sons bitten during the last W'eek by stray dogs, the police department has detailed Sergeant Charles Quack and Sergeant William Dever to a special police car, equipped to pick up dogs. The policemen will tour the cit;] daily picking up dogs without licenser, and stray dogs and will answer radio calls when persons are bitten.

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JOHN SAULTER RITES ARE SET FOR TOMORROW Body to Lie in State at Scottish Cathedral Before Service. Funeral services for John Theron Saulter, 2008 North Alabama street, will be held in the Scottish Rite Cathedral at 2:30 tomorrow. The body will lie in state from 12:30 to 2:30. with a guard of honor from the De Molay commandery, Knights Templar. Burial will be in Crown Hill with services at the grave in charge of Oriental Lodge 500, F. & A. M. Mr. Saulter died Friday night on a train en route to Indianapolis from Syracuse, N. Y., where he had served as an arbitrator in a newspaper labor controversy. He was engaged in the investment securities business, with offices in the HumeMansur building. Leonard Baumann Rites Body of Leonard C. Baumann, 39, Flint, Mich., former Indianapolis resident, who was drowned in Lake Van Ettan, Mich., last November, was recovered yesterday and will be brought here for funeral services. Mr. Baumann is survived by his mother, Mrs. Ada Krueger, and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Wiegels and Mrs. Irene Arnold, all of Indianapolis. Mrs. Hattie Orr Services Set Funeral services were to be held at 2 today for Mrs. Hattie Orr, 75, 1133 North Drexel avenue, who died Thursday at Deaconess hospital. Surviving her are three sons, Herbert, Charles and Noble Orr, and two daughters, Mrs. Jessie Parrish, Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. Goldie Abbott, Indianapolis. Oliver W’ood Fatally Hurt Oliver Kenneth Wood, 22, of 5407 Burgess avenue, will be buried in Memorial Park cemetery tomorrow', following funeral services at Shirley Brothers central chapel at 10. Mr. Wood was injured fatally Saturday when he was caught between two freight cars. He was an employe of Kingan & Cos. With another employe, Dallas Page, 21, of 344 West Thirty-first street, Mr. Wood was looking for empty push carts. The two men attempted to pass between two coal cars on a switching track. Before Mr. Wood could get through, the cars were shunted by a switch engine. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Marialice Wood, a year-old son, Kenneth; his parents ; Mr. and Mrs. Elon Wood, and two sisters, Mrs. Edith Aldag and Mrs. Georgia M. Fairley, Roberts, 111. Nelson Landers, 15, Dies Blood poisoning caused the death yesterday of Nelson Landers, 15, of 1540 Villa avenue, in city hospital. He was the son of Lieutenant Ourie N. Landers, Engine House 3. Poisoning resulted from a fever blister on the boy’s lip. He had been a patient at the hospital*”only a few days. Two operations failed

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Fred Vogel The Luther league of Gethsemane Lutheran church will present “Here Comes Charlie,” a three-act comedy by Jay Tobias, at 8 Wednesday in the Brookside United Brethren church, Eleventh and Olney streets. Fred Vogel and Gladys Stevens will have principal roles with Fred Reiter, Virginia Allen, Naomi Dietz, Betty Palmer, Donald McCloskey, Mary Alice Burch and Gaylord Allen in supporting roles. Mr. Allen also directed the production. to save his life. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Former Resident Dies Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Watts, 57, Chicago, former resident of Indianapolis, will be held in the Flanner & Buchanan funeral home at 2 tomorrow. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Survivors are the mother, Mrs. Sarah I. Ross, Aberdeen, S. D.; a son, Ross Watts, Chicago; two daughters, Miss Mabel Watts, Chicago, at whose home Mrs. Watts died, and Mrs. Grace Stroben, Detroit; a sister, Mrs. Muriel Matthews, Aberdeen, and a brother, Guy Ross, Indianapolis. William Piel Rites Set Services for William W. Piel, 58, of 5294 North Meridian street, were to be held at 2:30 this afternoon in the English Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, of which he was a member. Mr. Piel died Saturday in the Methodist hospital. lOWA BALLOTS TODAY; INTEREST IS SLIGHT Democrats Unopposed in Primary; G. O. P. Seeks Comeback. By United, Press DES MOINES. la., June 4.—lowa voters, apparently unexcited by eight weeks of oratorical fireworks over state taxation problems, went to the polls today to select party candidates for state offices. Democratic incumbents, solidly intrenched in the state house, generally were not opposed for renomination, but Republican forces indicated in the vigor of their internecine war that the 1932 landslide which ended forty-eight years of domination has aroused the G. O. P. to new life. Leaders of both parties expected a light vote, held down by oppressive heat and an uninteresting campaign.

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MOOR AGAIN 1$ i CONVICTED OF 1 SLAYING WIFE High School Teacher Guilty of Murder; Sentenced to Life. By United Press MARSHALL, 111., June 4.—Hubert Moor, Robinson high school teacher, today was found guilty for the second time on a charge of slaying his wife, the daughter of an Indianapolis minister, and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a circuit court jury. The jury, deliberating since Saturday afternoon, returned the verdict shortly after 9 a. m. today, A mistrial narrowly was averted when Henry Greenwell, a juror, be- : came violently ill. After the verdict, was announced, Mr. Greenwell was rushed to a physician’s office in a serious condition. Moor, who was granted anew trial by the state supreme court while he awaited execution, took the verdict calmly. He had pleaded insanity. The state showed that three days before Moor’s wife was killed, the Robinson teacher had passed an examination with high honors at the University of Illinois. The school teacher’s confession, made after a week of questioning" when his wife was killed, was introduced into the court record. At that time Moor said he killed his wife “because she left dirty dishes iii the sink.” VETERAN BUTLER BAND MEMBERS GET TUITION Seven Semester Members Have Chance for Free Term. Members of the Butler university band who have played in the organization for seven consecutive semesters will henceforth be granted free tuition during their eighth and last semseter in the university, according to recent action of the Butler board of trustees. J. B. Vandaworker, director, in announcing the new plan, said certain requirements must be met by candid dates for the free tuition in addition to mere membership in the organization for seven semesters. An academic average of B— or better, no overcuts, performance to the satisfaction of the director, and appearance in full uniform at all public performances are the requirements which must be satisfied, according to Mr. Vandaworker. 4 ARE POISONED BY HOME-CANNED BERRIES Three Women and Child Are Victims; Condition of One Critical. A jar of home-canned blackberries caused three women and a child to be sent to city hospital Saturday suffering from ptomaine poison. The victims are Mrs. Minnie Spellman, 57; her daughter. Mrs. Ruth Everetts, 34; Laura Jane Everetts, 6, and Mrs. Joyce Comstock, 35. They all live at 1432 Everett street. Mrs. Comstock was reported to be in a critical condition today.