Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1939 — Page 9
SCOUTS TO NOTE ANNIVERSARY OF LOCAL COUNCIL
Offer of Shilling 30 Years Ago Was Start of ‘Organization.
Intensive outdoor activities this fall will ‘mark the 25th anniversary
of the Indianapolis and Central Indiana Boy Scout Council—an organization that really owes its existence to a discussion over a shilling 30 years ago, The discussion took place between W. D, Boyce, Chicago publisher, and an English Boy Scout who had guid-}: ed him through a London fog. The publisher offered the youth a shilling. The youth refused. It was a “good deed.” Mr. Boyce brought back to America a trunkload of literature describing the English Boy Scout As- - sociation, founded by Sir Robert Baden-Powell in 1906. In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated in the District of Columbia. Five years later, the Indianapolis Council was organized.
Contests Scheduled
This fall, 3621 Indianapolis Scouts in 131 troops will begin recruiting new boys and preparing for contests in scout lore. ~ October’s activities are devoted mainly to knot tying contests between patrols. ‘Next month, troops will make overnight hikes to the Scout Reservation to brush up on camping techniques learned last summer. The program is mapped for all winter and spring. Signalling, first aid and firebuilding will feature December activities. Inter-patrol contests will continue in|, all branches of scout activitity in preparation for the district contests in January. Teams from each troop will meet
IDAY, OCT. 13, 1939
Allies C Can % Be Silat in Offensive War.
denced by Munich just a year ago.
invasion forces,’
Liddel | Hart,
‘Waiting’ Tactics Pointed To in New Book by Expert.
By PAUL FRIGGENS NEA Service Staff Correspondent
If the Allies seem: to be waging a “waiting” war on the Nazis, it may be because the British are extremely vulnerable and unprepared and the French cannot expect to lick Germany by an offensive. This is the conclusion drawn from Liddell. Hart, eminent British his{torian and military authority, in his latesti book, “The Defense of Britain,” | just published by Random House. rx
A combination of factors ad-
versely affect Britain at the outset of the European war, Maj. Hart de_clares.
Prepared Too Late
Britain began her military preparations appallingly late as was evithe capitulation at
The British Isles are the most
vulnerable to air attack of all big
countries. It is doubtful whether the pow-
erful British fleet is equal to the challenge Tokyo fleets, assuming Italy should join the Nazis and Japan threaten British action in the Far East.
of the Rome-Berlin-
Finally, there is the relative un-
preparedness of the French, particularly from an offensive viewpoint.
True, says Maj. Hart, the Allies
are arming today at a tremendous rate. German strength, even surpass it.
They may hope to offset the
Air Transport Cited Meanwhile, here are some of the
factors in the British picture as Maj. Hart sees them.
“There is now,” says Maj. Hart,
‘a serious threat of a new kind of |
(in Britain) by ‘ground though not by an ‘army.’ “In the Russian maneuvers of
at Tomlinson Hall in the latter part of January for city-wide contests. The winner will represent Indian-
apolis in state-wide activities. Pilgrimages Set
~~ which
During February, patriotic pilgrimages, a father-and-son banquet and a special celebration for. the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America are planned. March activities will be climaxed by a mammoth court of honor at scout promotions will be Spring nature hikes, emwill be con-
made. phasizing bird study, ducted.
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had assembled on the ground and driven off the defenders.
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DELIVERY TO BRITAIN
BURBANK, Cal, Oct. 13 (U. P)). —Sixty Lockheed bombing planes built for Britain will be flown across the ‘country to Newark next week to be ready for quick delivery in event the arms, embargo is lifted. This is believed to be the largest delivery by an American aircraft company. However, it will not be a mass flight. The planes will be flown at the. rate of one or two.a day by the company’s 14 test pilots
jand will make an easy three-day
trip of it. _ The planes are part of an order
{for 250 which had not been com-
pleted at the time the embargo went
into effect.
Bri tish S tra tegist, Declares
NORTHERN S IRELAND
Industrial
At: Takeoff From Port “At Bloomington.
Times Special nd BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. 13.— A hot ash from a cigaret ignited a plane taxilng at the Bloomington for a takeoff yesterday afternoon and the flying instructor and a passenger escaped to safety. The instructor was Blaine W. Bradfute Jr., son of the publisher
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British forti towns shelle
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London Berlin,
Great Britain . . . most vulnerable of all big nations to air attack.
then the scale of the forces used in such operations has been increased.” While Maj.-Hart does not greatly fear this type of invasion, he points out sabotage . agents might be dropped individually or in parties to cut telephone lines, blow up roads and bridges, dislocate troop movements. Until now, England’s air program
By UNITED PRESS Germany began the current European war with an unprecedented attack on merchant shipping, but her successes in the first week of hostilities were reduced by more than 68 per cent in the third week, a survey disclosed today. And the Allied convoy system and anti-submarine campaign, slow in getting under way, reached a point of effectiveness after the third week at which weekly shipping losses suffered by Gfeat Britain and France aggregated fewer tons than those of neutral countries.
In the first 38 days of the war,
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has been tragically slow, say Maj. Hart. This may have repercussions since “unfortunately, of all great countries, England is, with the exception of Japan, the most vulnerable to air attack.” . “Britain’s problem,” as Maj. Hart sees it, “is to prevent quick results
|and the passenger was Tom Stevens,
a local salesman, As airport attendants saw smoke coming from - the plane," nearly
GAME UPSETS GOVERNOR “PROVIDENCE, R. I, Oct. 13 (U. P.). — While entertaining half the State Police force at his Oakland
" |Farm in Portsmouth, Governor Wil-
liam H. Vanderbilt suffered a sacro-
game. He contented himself with acting as umpire when he entertained the other half of the force a week later.
TWO. ESCAPE As! AIRPLANE BURNS
| Cigaret Ash Blamed for. Fire
ready to takeoff, they. flagged young Bradfute down, . !
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Time# Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Oct. 18.
—The = perennial “wallflower” ‘problem ; seems. to. have been: - solved at Indiana State Teachers’
College by a happy mathematical
- twist. of fate. ; - ‘When Registrar Harry B Elder totaled up his final enrollment figures for the fall quarter he found that the school had 800 men and 800 women students. “There should be no trouble in ‘ every student getting a ‘date’ for social events this year,” is Mr. Elder's comment.
TOOT RECOGNIZED, - THIEF IS ARRESTED
BERLIN, N. J, Oct. 13 (U. P.) —
The ears of Frank J. White caused
the roundup of a gang of petty auto thieves near here. Mr. White had a set of twin horns and a spare tire stolen from his auto while parked in front of his home in Pine Hill. Twentyfour hours later he recognized the sound of his horns on a passing
‘vehicle.
He notified .State Police who arrested the driver. The driver implicated several others as his companions in a series of Camden County thefts.
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Attack by Germans on Sea Appears Throttled
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up_to and including last Tuesday, 60 Allied or neutral merchant ships totaling 222,800 tons were sunk by German ‘submarines or by mines. This toll ‘included 35 British and Prench vessels aggregating 164,923 tons and 25 neutral vessels aggre; gating 57,877 tons. . Weekly merchant marine losses since the start of the war, not including six German freighters sunk by the Allies, were as.follows: First Week —Allied, 10 ships, 62,306 tons; neutral, three ships, 6747 tons. Total; 13 ships, 69,053 tons. Second Week—Allied, 12 ships, 63,842 tons; neutral, two ships, 8760 tons. Total, 14 ships, 72,602 tons. Third Week—Allied, eight ships, 18,231 tons; neutral, two ships, 4622 tons. Total, 10 ships, 22,853 tons. Fourth Week—Allied. three ships, 12.357 tons; neutral, 10 ships, 14.913 tons. Total, 13 ships, 27,270 tons. Fifth Week—Allied, , two ships, 8187 tons; neutral, five ships, 12,918 tons. ‘Total, seven ships, 21,105 tons. " Pirst Three Days of Sixth Week —Allied. no ships; neutral, three ships, 9917 tons.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (U. P.) — Plans for early strengthening of aerial defenses in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Panama are being rushed at the War Department, it was
Jearned today. Heavy plane reinforcements will be sent to those points as soon as the craft become available under the Army’s 300-million-dollar air expansion program. That program is designed to assure the Army 5500 planes by July 1, 1941. It was indicated that the program, which also calls for heavy personnel increases to match the added plane strength, will result in approximately doubling the number of air units at the outlying and continental bases. One of the first moves, scheduled for next few weeks, will be the dispatch of almost 200 pursuit, bombing. amphibian and transport planes to Hawaii. The Army maintains a garrison of 20,000 men there.
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