Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1940 — Page 10

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Yeggs hammered the combination Parker, 55, a merchant policeman,

mons. _ {off a safe at the Consumers Petro- discovered the theft. : | | i Weavhe: Thomas M rs Col. Richard Lieber, Indianapolis,| Among leaders in park develop-|leum Co., 951 W. New York St. last| Burglars forced the rear door in| The Indiana Coal Merchants’ As- ty Re oI. (Evansville) chairman of the National State ment expected will be H. S. Wagner night and obtained an undetermined the home of Edward Semensky, 1457 sociation will hold its 10th annual schymaker, South ‘Berld: Walter | | Parks, Conference Board of Direc-|of Akron, O., conference president; amount of money, according to po-|Union St. last night and obtained convention May 14 and 15 in the Klehfoth, Richmond; Denton V, tors, and Gov. M. Clifford Town-|Tom Wallace, Louisville Times edi- |lice. : ot Bn jewelry valued at $27.90, Po- | Hotel ls Myers: Mn Op; Aurora; Howard Mutz, Edin- , Adians at the ] a ’ {lice said. {/ cie, In a Bankers’ Association|burg; M. R. McVey, Hammond: sng Jill Jeprevesi in Ung a) the tor; Maj. W. A. Welch, consultant| “Entrance was gained by removing| ie pa) Wiseman, 939 E. 9th |president, will make the keynote ad- | Phil | P. Bash, Huntington, and to be held at Starved Rock State|With the Palisades Interstate Park a piece of cardBoard used to cover|st, Apt. 314, reported to police that|dress. | : Charles V. Cross, Robert W. BidPark, in Illinois, May 12. Commission of Newer, and James J.|a broken glass window and then her apartment was ransacked yes-| More than 500 retail coal deal-|lack,. Lyon Logsdon and Harry After the conference, a group of [McEntee, CCC director. breaking a lock on the door. James! terday and $8.30 taken. / ers are expected to attend. The|Woods, Indianapolis.

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| By THOMAS M. JOHNSON Noted Military Writer | NEW YORK, April 9 (NEA).— The. country looks toward its Army today, more anxiously than since 1918, and it asks: : re those marching men just “fronting” for an antiquated organization, ill-prepa to defend us and our democracy? e question first arose with deadly urgency eight months ago. Then, as the lightning struck Poland, the results of our large-scale maneuvers at Plattsburg, N. Y, burst upon the country. ~Qur Army has revealed unpreparedness that was “deplorable and inexcusable,” in the words of Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, who directed the maneuvers. Those words

"~ aroused the country, and today it

asks: - : “What has the Army been doing since Plattsburg?”

Ended an Old Era

Gen. Drum, from his headquarters at Governor's Island, New vork, from where he commands the country’s most vital area, the mines, industries, financial centers of the Northeast, makes this reply: “For the Army, the Plattsburg revelations ended an old era and began a new. | “The Army has been giving itself a ruthless going-over; a ‘course of sprouts’ It has been marching— faster and father than ever in peacetime. It has increased its numbers by 25 per cent while modernizing and streamlining its methods. “Grouping some 70,000 regulars into six new-type divisions, the Army has sent them South for intensive field training. It has given its National Guard extra training in field ‘and armory. “Such training corrects the most glaring weakness Plattsburg revealed—that the Army didn’t know how to. fight. The Guard, and even the regulars, needed to learn the ‘mechanism of battle’—just how under complex modern conditions, to advance, hold ground, maintain liaison, supply and command. “But the Army is learning, as I can see wherever I go. It is many times better organized than at the corresponding stage in World War 1." April, 1917, found us without a single organized division. Our flungtogether units took a year and more to enter battle. Today many Guard divisions would take only three months, though others, this writer believes, would take up to| nine months. Most, of the regulars would take much less, although corps and Army staffs are still being improvised,

Equipment Is Bottleneck

As for equipment? “That's a tight bottleneck,” said Gen. Drum. “But we are infinitely better off than before Plattsburg, or in 1917. Our artillery was so meager we didn’t even take it to France. We had practically no combat airplanes and a handful of combat pilots. “Today we have over 2000 planes and an industry capable of much larger production. We could almost completely equip a Gr men, but

you wouldn't want your boy to be a soldier with such equipment, for it is mostly 1918 model. “Since Plattsburg there has been a great speedup in producing some

! very fine new weapons. The troops have not yet received them in great numbers, and must | learn to use them. , “To have a modernly equipped, well-trained army of not a million, but the less than a half million [called for by our present plans, will {take until 1942. Should events force further expansion, plans are ready. They have been worked ouf by the Army Industrial College, which was undreamed of in 1917. “While reorganizing the Army, the General Staff also has been building around the country a ramart of protective outworks that were hadly needed for our own defense and for that of the Western Beniisphere. It has strengthened Panama and Hawaii, is fortifying Puerto Rico and Alaska.

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leading male role in the comedydrama “The 2 Closed Door” which will be presented by the Indiana Walther League tomorrow and Thursday. Performances will be in the Amer-| ican United Life: Insurance Auditorium, 30 W.. Fall Creek ; gg vi 2s Mr. Schwomeyer eanor Brandt has the leading feminine role. The Walther League is a [Lutheran | Church organizatio for young people. ‘

Builders Club to Give Party—The Republican Builders Club of the First Ward will sponsor a card party at the Odd Fellows Hall at 8 p. m. Thursday. On April 25th the group will hold open house for all Repub-’ lican candidates. :

Kaltenborn te Speak-—H. V, Kaltenborn, radio commentator, is to speak at Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School, April 18 at 8:15 p. m. He will discuss “We Look at the World.” His lecture is being sponsored by the St. Margaret's Hospital Guild.

6 LOCAL YOUTHS T0 SEEK AWARD

Six | Indianapolis high school seniors are competing for a $4000 college scholarship being offered by the Radio Corporation of America for the study of radio science.

They are Robert McKeand, 1623 E. Vermont St.; James Neerman, 730 N. Riley Ave.; Chalmer H. Lewis; Edward ‘Henry O’Nan, 545 Fletcher Ave.; Thomas Martin, 2949 Washington Blvd.; Alfred S. Lake, 22 W. 20th St., and Harry Robert Elder, 2925 Park Ave. On April 23 they will be given a special science examination which has been prepared by Columbia University professors and leading radio scientists. The nation’s 10 students who make the top ranking will receive a month's all-expense trip to New York City and Camden, N. J., where they will tour the research laboratories of the National Broadcasting Co., RCA Victor and other communications services, and the New York World's Fair. Judges will select one of them on Sept. 1 as the most likely to succeed in a radio science career. He will receive the scholarship. The others will receive $100.

CEMETERY OFFICIALS TO MEET THURSDAY

“Marion County cemetery owners, trustees and officials will meet at 6 p. m. Thursday at St. Roch's Church Hall, 2600 S. Meridian St., to discuss mutual problems in operation. Invitations have been sent to officials of 48 cemeteries and memorial parks in the county. Edward L. Dietz, Indiana Association of Cemetery Officials president, will preside. A committee to formulate plans for. a county organization which would co-operate with state and regional groups will make its report. Committee members are Thomas Blackwell, Holy Cross: F. J. Gantner, St. Joseph; Guy F. Lohss, Concordia; Orrin J. Perrott, Floral Park} Walter H. Wheeler, Memorial Parki and Anna B. Feeley, Glen Haven Memorial Park.

DR. KRAFT TO GIVE ‘EOSINOPHILIA’ TALK

The Indianapolis Medical Society will (hold a joint meeting tonight with} the City Hospital staff. Papers to be read will be on “Clinical Significance of Eosinophilia,” by Dr. Bennett Kraft; “Use of the Miller-Abbott Tube in Intestinal Obstruction,” by Dr. H. A. Brocksmith; “Hypertension,” by Dr. I. H. Page, and “The Reactions from Intravenous Diodrast,” by Dr. William N. Wishard Jr.

TALK HERE CANCELED

The scheduled appearance of Donald J. Reese of the International Nickel Co. before the Central Indiana Chapter of the American Foundrymen’s Association on April 19 here has been canceled. Mr. Reese was to have spoken on “Cupola Operation” at a meeting in the Hotel Washington.

THIEVES STRIKE WOMAN

Three shabbily dressed men last night accosted Mrs. Beckett, 52, of 2437 College Ave., in

of money. She told police one of the men grabbed her! while another struck her in the mouth and the third took her purse.

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