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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1940

I. WAR AT AMERICA'S DOOR, WRITER SAYS

OPEN EVERY THURSDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK

Sears

Air Power Has Made Peril to U. S. Real, Expert Warns; Immediate Expansion of Army, Navy and : Flying Force Is Urged.

BY THOMAS NEA Service

war is on our threshold. It

M. JOHNSON

Military Writer

put its foot in the door at Green-

The land; from the Dutch Indies, East and West, it may walk in on us. Air power, which made those things even possible, may make them

real. This is no scare story.

That is the picture we are facing today. It is an effort to help every American do

What he wants to do—be a hardboiled Yankee realist about one of

the most serious situations this country ever has faced. Such an effort forces itself upon? one of those whose job it has been to analyze this, war and our relationship to it. My analysis comes atter consultation with officers and civilians informed about our national defense. It has also been conditioned by personal experience of the last war and hope] never to see this country in another, Strong Defense Needed In that same hope, the American people have thought, as aggressive arson dropped sparks about them, that they were getting ample fire insurance. What they were getting was a thousand-dollar policy to cover a million-dollar concern. This concern needs for protec-

tion a strong army, navy, and air force. The last two are relative- | ly stronger than the first. But the air power of aggressor nations has rendered almost obsolete not

all, but guite a few, of our planes] and handicapped many of our war-| ships. Even when these handicaps are overcome, the oceans that have, been our sure protection, are that no longer. And even the best] planes and warships alone cannot surely protect this hemisphere or our part of it. The army is less than half ready. Now, we are not going to be attacked today. We shall have more warning than Norway, or Holland, or Belgium. But to prepare against tomorrow which no one can predict and which the highest authorities in Washington believe is very ominous, we have now our last chance.

Urges Budget Increase we should do every-|

In the air | thing to aid the Allies that will) not delay our own arming. Expert | opinion believes the aims can be | reconciled. We should press Work | on medium bombers where the| Germans have outstripped us; on aerial cannon; on more and heav- | jer anti-aircraft guns. | To protect us at sea, Congress) should pass immediately the 11 per cent budget increase already ap-| proved by the Senate Committee, plus whatever additional is needed, especially to strengthen existing ships against air attack. | The marines and the army should | pave trained and ready landing, forces to secure outlying points | against seizure as bases for bombing the Panama Canal or our coasts. : We shfuld strengthen the Phil- |

| |

FEAR SHORTAGE OF SKILLED MEN

‘Army and Navy Push Plans

For Apprenticeship and Training Courses.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 17—War and Navy Department officials, fearing a shortage of highly skilled industrial craftsmen, may prove a bottleneck in the nation’s full-speed-ahead rearmament program, today « pushed plans for greatly broadened apprenticeship and “inservice” training courses. Shortages of shipfitters, marine coppersmiths, machinists,

cials indicated more may develop as

Congress funnels new millions into! *

the shipyards. One of the officers directing the vast shipbuilding program said: “If there are any skilled mechanics in these trades anywhere in the country, I advise them to register at the nearest Navy Yard Labor Board or with the U. S. Civil Service Commission.”

Army Studies Problem

officials who the labor

War have

Department been studying

problem for months said they be-

lieved shortages of skilled workers might be developing in the aviation and machine tool industries. They are urging manufacturers to speed apprenticeship classes and in-serv-ice training—the latter the development of really skilled workers from those now employed and classified as semi-skilled. The aviation industry, it was said, already is turning to the country’s

vocational schools as a source of

young men with sufficient training to serve as a base for developing a high degree of skill in the various crafts. Some labor leaders have insisted there is no shortage of skilled workers. But in the War Department there is disagreement with this contention, and it is suggested that there may be eonsiderable differences of opinion as to what really constitutes a skilled workman. Started in Depression

An Army officer familiar with the problem pointed out today that, in

electri- | cians and toolmakers already are) being experienced, and Navy offi-|

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' "LONDON, May 17

Lgisen 40 per cent, although the tim‘Ber has been in the country all the

935000 to 320000, perhaps even] the legal maximum 420,000. The shortage of ammunition is| most eritical. We lack also enough of various arms; trucks. automo-| piles: uniforms, blankets, shoes, even medical supplies. For all this the War Department needs $528.000.000, and if Congress gave that

sum tomorrow, it could not catch up | Stagnation of ship construction in |

or a year and more without a stupendous effort. For such an effort capital and Jabor may vet be called upon.| Manufacturers who have objected | to taking defense ‘“educational] orders” must cease these objections in the national interest, and their own.

WAR BOOSTS TIMBER PRICES IN BRITAIN

(U. P)— The cost of timber in this country since the outbreak of the war has

time. « The maximum prices fixed by the Timber Control have in most cases Become the minimum prices also. Contracts have been cancelled and remade at the maximum prices officially allowed. Moreover, it takes about seven days of form filling to whtain permission to buy $100 worth ‘of timbel. , The purchaser has to apply to a 4bcal area officer. The area sends + form. The form is returned. Mhe officer returns the form, duly] approved. The form goes to the Supplier for signature. The supplier «tens the form and sends it back. The purchaser returns the finished form to the area officer. After that he can go ahead and buy the tim-

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ready exists in a lack of marine en- | gineers and ship designers, and in| shipfitters and loftsmen who work | lon the steel plates for hulls, decks

and bulkheads.

the postwar period in large part accounts for the shortage in the shipvards. To offset this and to prepare for the rush program now under way, in-service training courses were begun 18 months ago, and the first apprentice schools were opened three years ago.

1918 GROCERY BILL IS PAID BY MINER

SEATTLE, Wash., May 17 (U. P)). —When Paul Ringseth closed his general store in the centrai Alaska mining town of” Livengood 22 vears ago, he marked off as “total loss” nearly $25,006 in unpaid bills. But he reckoned without Tony Zuber, a miner, who with a partner, had a joint debt of $600 on Ringseth's thick ledger. After years of endeavor, Mr. Zu-

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factor who now operates a Seattle grocery.

he wanted to pay his share of the joint bill,” Ringseth disclosed. “He gave me $320 and I gave him a ‘paid in full’ receipt. It was as simple as all that.”

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