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SEPARATE U.S. AIR 3

FORCE

Williams Stresses Need of Proper Foundation in Building Unified Aviation Unit Embracing 50,000 Planes; Cites Need of Army, Navy Co-operation.

By MAJ. AL WILLIAMS Times Aviation Editor

—The President's message to Congress visualizing 50,000 airplanes as American airpower means organization of a separate air force, comparable in autonomy and administrative structure, to the existing Army and Navy Departments.

WASHINGTON, May 17

Whether he knows it or

U.S, TO TRAIN 10,000 CIVILAN AVIATORS

CHICAGO, Mav 17 (U. P).— Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, announced today, under direct authorization from President Roosevelt, plans for organization of nine camps for train-

ing an estimated 10.000 additional.

civilians as airplane pilots. Col. Knox returned today from a conference with the President. He said the camps would be opened In the nine U. S. Army Corps Areas about July 1. He said the camps would be promoted entirely by civilians and operated as an extension of the Civil Aeronautics Authority with direct supervision by the Army. The project, for which civilian boards are being set up immediately to promote enlistment, will be financed through the expected emergency defense appropriation probably through the CAA budget, he

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[fy ineffectiveness of the present air said. The Army, he said, had agreed | services plan and completely nullify to the desired objective of a real Amertentage, |ican airpower.

3000 Aim at

PROPOSED

not, it means overhauling an antiquated national defense system into three departments—Army, Navy, and Air.

Immediate attack from Eu-

rope is in the President's mind alone. There's time to build America’s! |airpower, but only on & sound foun-| (dation and not by erecting the roof | first and working down. The 50,000 [planes recommended by the President is as revolutionary and rad(ical an upset of Army and Navy defense tradition in this country, as the defeat of British sea power by German airpower in Norway and domination of land operation by |airpower in Poland and the Low Countries. | But whether the President or |Congress will bd able to unseat the vested interests of existing national |defense to clear a way for airpower, lis open to serious question. Nevertheless, such way should be cleared (before another penny is spent. Thousands of more planes under [the existing system will but intensi-

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Three thousand Indianapolis youngsters were ready to begin shooting at the 1940 City marbles tournament championship at 3:30 Pp. m. tocay. Contestants will knuckle down immediately after school at 38 sec-

Cites New Problems We have no aerial tactics for 50,000 planes, or adequate air research results to justify selection of types of planes, no adequate training facilities for pilot personnel in|tions throughout the City. Officials such proportions. Such airpower declared this year’s tournament is nothing more or less than an air| field is one of the largest ever asarmy, and must be based on ade-|Sembled here, quate organization. In pre-tournament competition The British were forced to con- yesterday, two sectional winners solidate army and navy air services| emerged to compete with the winin the last war to achieve the ners of today's sectionals for disrequisite airpower, and they are de- | trict honors next Friday. ficient in airpower today because Two Win Sectionals they failed to adhere to this consol- . They are Robert King, 13, of

idation. The organization of a : separate, unified, and autonomous Our Lady of Lourdes, and Lucien Barrick, 11, of the First United

air force was the first provision of the Germans to insure unhampered . \ ’ Brethren Church. Both will receive development of German airpower. the bronze sectional medals. Robert King defeated Alfred Forrentino

The Ttalians also organized an autonomous, independent and self and Lucien Barrick won ‘over Claude Sanders in the section

administered air force. The Ger(finals.

mans and Italians made autonomy stick. The British fumbled this . : vital and «distinctive issue, and it was ti So Do ng We aa in this specific fumbling, wherein municipal parks and playgrounds the British Government lost con: ly, direct today's sectionals. Memol & hin > ay NY Polionl bers of the Catholic Youth Organizait eh a th z A tion will officiate at parochial games SC N RnpUwer. and physical education teachers, at Refers to Nazi Study public school games It is fantastic folly and wishful Some sections were so large that hoping to spend any more money in |g, mey officials despaired of completing the contests before Monday,

quest of American airpower without covering this angle. The order of airpower is, orgahization, research, pilot training and mass production of fighting planes. Meshed and geared, these factors must turn as truly as timing gears in an engine, or airpower becomes ineffective, In 1938, the Germans had 7500 research scientists on full time intensive schedule to determine types cf plane. England had about 400. France 175, and the U. S. about 250. As a result, the Germans started this war by freezing types already selected, and holding seven refined types of fighters and bombers, completely tested and approved, in reserve. Airpower today must be set up to act in co-ordination with or independent of Army and Navy. If unified control and command were ever at a premium in the land and sea force, it is of the essence for airpower.

{In the Cathedral section alone, more than 30 entrants are ready to o.

Extra Officials Engaged

Patrick J. Rooney, secretary of Catholic Youth Organization, who has charge of the parochial sections, said that uncompleted playoffs there this afternoon will be continued until Monday. Similar situations were expected to develop at the community centers which have been jammed with youngsters practicing all week. Paal Haagma, City recreation supervisor, and A. J. Thatcher and Hugh McGinnis, WPA recreation officials, in charge of these sections, sa:d they would try to complete the sectional round tonight with extra judges and referees. The Public School sections will be conducted under direction of

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A tournament official will be on duty at City Hall until 7 p. m. io interpret questions of rules and to compile lists of winners. Tonight's victors will be published here tomorrow. Winners Get Medals

In this afternoon’s contest, entrants will compete in groups of SiX. As many as 10 rings may be in action at once. In the semi-finals ot the section, two contestants will compete at a ring. Each sectional winner receives a bronze medal suspended from a Oo ise trict winners receive silver medals and the district runner-up champion, a gold medal. To the City champion goes a gold statue of a marble player poised to shoot, mounted on a pedestal bearing a gold tablet on which the winner's name will be inscribed.

Ex-Champion Officiates

Yesterday's First United Brethren Church sectional drew an excited crowd of boys and girls as spectators. The game was played under chill, gray skies, but the weather failed to dampen the contest. George Filer, WPA recreation supervisor, himself a City marbles champion in 1926, officiated. Lucien Barrick took the first game from Claude Sanders, 7 to 5. In the

The following are the sections entered in today's tournament and the managers: C. Y. O. centers under direction

thedral, Holy Cross St. Philips, Little Flower, Our Lady of Lourdes, Holy Rosary, St. Patrick, St. Rita and St. Catherine.

Other Sections Listed

Recreation centers under diree{tion of Messrs. Haagsma, McGinnis and Thatcher: Northeast Community Center, Brookside, Indianapolis Orphanage, English Ave, Boys’ Club, Jewish Community Cen! ter, Mayer Chapel, Rhodius, Lauter | Boys’ Club, Hawthorne, Municipal Gardens, Meridian Methodist Church, Kirshbaum Center, Flanner House, Fayette Center, Irvington Area, South Side Calvary, N. Y. A. Works Experiment, Douglas Boys’ Club, J. T. V. Hill, Lockefield Gardens and the Senate Y. M. C. A, The following school sections are under direction of Mr. Rath: Schools 2, 10, 8, 12, 18, 39, 85 and 76.

ALERT WOMAN AIDS IN YOUTH'S CAPTURE

Miss Anne Potter had a premonition that all was not well when she heard a knock last night at the door of Mr. and Mrs. Rudy C. Smith, who live in the other half of her double at 6006 College Ave, The Smiths were away from home. Mrs. Potter saw a youth leave the porch, return two other times and knock. She looked up the telephone number of Police Headquarters. After the vouth had knocked @ third time she and her sister, Miss Rachel Potter, heard someone in the Smith home. Turning on the water tap and making conventional household noises to cover the buzz of the phone dial, the sisters called police Sergt. Walter Baase responded. He saw a youth emerge from a rear window in the Smith home and called for him to halt. The youth ran south then turned east. Sergt. Baase fired and the bullet went through the fugitive’s thigh. He fell. He was identified as John Diggs,

THE INDIKSAPOLIS TIVES Roosevelt Urges Construction of Plane Factories Inland to Avoid Coast Raid Peril

DEMOCRATIC LEADE

Princeton, of Mr. Rooney: Joan of Arc, Ca-| chairman, announced today that she will not be a candidate for re-elec-

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June is “probably off.” However, he added, he hoped sometime this summer to make an overnight trip to North Carolina to dedicate the Great Smoky National Park which he had planned to dedicate en route to the West. Mr. Roosevelt said that personnel

preparedness program. There will be an acute need for skilled mechanics to fabricate the wast air fleet, and additional pilots must be trained to fly the planes. The Youth Administration will do some of the training work. Production of high quality aviation gasoline represents a problem, he said, adding it might be wise to build up big reserves of airplane fuel in standing stock piles and expand production facilities,

Explains ‘Blank Check’

Discussing the $200,000,000 “blank check” item in the program which he asked be left to his discretion to spend, Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that this fund will be utilized to meet contingencies and situations which could not possibly have been visual ized at the time the program was drafted. He indicated that Government funds may be used to build new airplane plants for production of part

he projected in yesterday's message. Conceivably, some of the $200. 000,000 fund assigned to the President might be used for development | of Government-owned plants. Such plants, said the President, | probably would be operated private ly, although title would be retained by the Government. Tt was in connection with this point that he ais closed Federal officials are exerting | pressure on airplane manufacturers | to persuade them to locate all new plant units somewhere between the | Rocky Mountains and the Allegheny | Range.

Decries Defeatism |

If America cannot meet the!

challenge entailed in this defense |

program in a time of peace, said | the President, it certainly could |

not master the infinitely bigger |

Job which would be thrust before | it in the event of an invasion or threat of invasion. Mr. Roosevelt would not predict | rm" R | | NOT TO RUN AGAIN

Mrs. Sanford K. Trippet,

of |

State Democratic vice |

tion at the annual reorganization

meeting of the State Committee here tomorrow. The Committee is expected to re- | elect Fred F. Bays as state chair-! man and select a keynote speaker

for the State Convention at the Fair Grounds June 27, Mrs. Edna Bingham, Indianapolis, Democratic nominee for State Representative, has been mentioned for the vice chairmanship to succeed Mrs. Trippet. “I realize that from a geographical standpoint it would not be good politics for me to ask for re-elece tion since I live in the same district as Mr. Bays,” Mrs. Trippet said in announcing her withdrawal.

CLAUDE STRIDER, 59, IS HEART VICTIM

Claude Strider, 141 W, 19th St. houseman at the Women's Department Club, 17th and Meridian Sts., for more than 16 years, died yesterday of a heart attack. His death occured shortly after he returned from Detroit where he attended a national conference of the A. M. E. Church. He was 59, Mr. Strider was chancellor commander of Pride of the West Lodge, oldest colored Knights of Pythias lodge in Indianapolis, and grand chancellor of the State colored K. of

A. M. E. Church. ) Survivors are his wife, Anna; two

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how quickly his objective of an airforce of 50,000 planes might be realized. We sald he would rather not answer the question now, add ing that in two or three weeks he may have a better picture of the

situation, Indications elsewhere were that the army and navy expect to have around 30,000 planes in two years, In Congress, Chairman May in- | troduced his new bill as the House (Military Committee heard Brig. Gen. L. D. Gasser, army deputy chief <of~stafl, explain that the [legislation would “take the lid off” ‘| restrictions as to the amount of equipment the Army could acquire. [The only limitation left would be |in the amount of money provided [by Congress. The May bill specifically would authorize: 1. Construction at military posts, (including acquisition of land, for (manufacture, maintenance and [storage of equipment, munitions and military supplies. | 2. Suspension of monetary limi[tations on individual projects until June 30, 1942, 3. Suspension of any limitation on (the number of airplanes which can be equipped and put into the serv ice with the money appropriated.

the enlistment of flying cadets and the number of reserve Air Oorps of-

ficers that may be ordered to ace tive duty. The present Air Corps limit is 5000 planes, Gen Gasser said the Edgewood, Md, arsenal would be improved, another powder factory built, and procurement of ordnance-especially anti-aircraft guns and ammunition —Speeded up at a cost of $64,000,000. The outlined plans to spend [$82,000,000 to modernize planes on order in conformance with latest European combat developments, Such as increasing the armor, weapons carried and installing selfsealing gas tanks; $185,000000 for additional aviation and to train 7000 pilots; and $31,000,000 to speed up procurement of critical defense ma[terial now on order, To Rep. Forest A. Harness (D. Ind.) Gasser said the department plans to build two “important plants.” These are, he said, a smokeless powder plant to produce [200,000 pounds of powder per day, at a cost of $30,000,000; and a cart. ridge loading plant at a cost of from | $500,000 to $600,000, | Warehouses and storage plants must also be built, to store accumu=lated stocks of munitions, he said. Congressional committees dealing [with the big new program all keyed

of the 50,000 airplane armada which | Similar suspension of restrictions on | their work to a high speed.

B. 0. P. SELECTS. SAMUEL PYROR

Takes Position Left Vacant Through Death of Ralph Williams.

PHILADELPHIA May 17 (U.P), Samuel F Pyror Jr. of Greenwich, Conn., today was selected to succeed Ralph BE Williams as senior vice chairman of the Republican Nas tional Committee, Mr, Williams, dean of the com= mittee and chairman on arranges ments for the Republican conven {ion here June 24, died in Jeffere son Hospital last night several hours after suffering a cerebral hemors

rhage. He coliapsed while addresses ing a meeting of the committee, Mr. Pyror is assistant to the prese ident of the American Brake, Shoe & Foundry Co.

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BALTZELL TO HEAR BROWN PLEA JUNE 24

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