Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1940 — Page 10

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POWER IN WAR

“Chicagoan Stresses’ Warth

CITES PRINTING

Of Books in ‘Speech To Librarians, The throttling of the printing

MAGINOT UNIT'S

FALL DESCRIBED

Captured Blockhouse at Great Sacrifice.

By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent

Writer Tells How Germans

Airpower in Mediterranean ~ Is Safe Bet Over Any Fleet ‘By MAJOR AL WILLIAMS [in fact, the air control she claims

Seripps-Howard Aviation Editor [for the Mediterranean. vo With even American naval ex-| .The only real effort British air-

AL OIRE RE 8 WY A cer of pr 8 Frome, 1 IN. SIDE PLAYLOT |wouc'oarsiss 11 1=RLNilL | He said that before considering . d

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School 84 P.-T. A- Asks Use

= 33g pe 80Y purchase, the Park Boar « 1] [should investigate the possibility of {lifting ‘a ‘permanent injunction is =. i/sued in 1927 which prevents the | a | School: Board and the: City. from’ utilizing a School City lot immedi. ately: east of School 84 as a playground. He pointed out that no

rts conceding ‘the inability of Din to operate close to on in the face of large air concentrations, ‘it is impossible to understand how the British expect seaLrg ~ power. to succeed’

power: could make would ‘be ‘with the aid of aircraft carriers, which certainly have no more. business ‘in the narrow, restricted Mediterranean than, they did in the North Sea. Operating against shore-based airplanes, carrier planes are at a

Of Tract for Children at

residents appeared before the Park

57th and Central.

A delegation. of 50 North Side

use now is made of the lot which, ge. said, is. 200 by 150 feet. - Park Board President Jackie] WwW. Joseph said the Board would take the request for the playground un. der advisement, :

Press in Europe gives. forcible evidence of its power and the respect in which printing is held, Douglas C. McMurtrie, printing historian from cago, said last night. He ke at the annual banquet of the 18th annual Special Libraries Association convention at the Claypool Hotel. The four-day convention will close tonight with a summary of sessions results.

He suggested that City and School : Board attorneys investigate possibility of removing the injunc- ~~ /'tion from the school land.

against airpower

sad disadvantage. The British fleet in the Mediter- disadyantag ee

would have all it could do to. keep out of the way of Italian airpower. “Airpower ‘evidently has . hamstrung seapower in the North Sea, where seapower was nearer . ‘its home bases. Now string out the life-line of seapower into the Mediterranean and it is exposed for a flanking

WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES AT THE AISNE, June 6.—I have learned how the Germans captured a French blockhouse on the Maginot Line, | Located at the end of the line in the Montmedy Sector; it was composed of two independent turrets | :jconnected by an underground pas--sage and four observation: posts |" ng on, i e attacks, c out with su-|. Mr. McMurtrie said the invention preme viciousness, lasted for several : Maj. Al Williams 2inira bly strike with equal effectiveness in

of printing 500 years ago had made Ca. : Le ys and automatic weapons and | Possible public education and high | : =~ # # |artillery inflicted tremendous losses 0 : : present-day standards of intelli-| § : : 4 SDL th Gertie. y work in conjunction with the air either or any ‘direction. If Italy| He proposed that the City acquire gence. : ps ; A 3 ee by Tolohon force. She has swift and dreadeq|906S Strike, her leaders know!a tract of land south of 57th St. beDiscusses Value of Books - Repo y X1elephone “mosquito”. fleets of torpedo boats, [SPOU8h about the practical uses of [tween Washington Blvd. and Cen“At the same time » he sald, “it The final explosion reduced the She is in an ideal position for Sot airpower from the Ethiopian and tral Ave, peo Bas Boon Port eliotn blockhouse to a rubble heap, bury- tling the unanswered challenge to|SP2Rish campaigns to hold thejr| Lester C. Morris, attorney reprewhen a ruler desires to subjugate ing its crew. Thousands of Ger- British seapower, armies as defense elements on their senting property owners opposed to mans, I was told, were sacrificed |” 1, such a stage setting, air power |OWn side of the Alps and attend to the acquisition of additional land really comes into its own, as land-|foreign business with airpower. .. for a playground, asserted! that the

Board today to. debate a proposal ple ound

ranean, a far tigher waterway than the North . Sea, is made to order for air Dower against}s any sea fleet, thousand miles or more to

Italy's subma- RIF raids, rine forces are| Liéllan airpower, poised in the

middle of the Mediterranean, could

- The proposal, which can the School's’ Parent-TeachalllAss ciation, was presented to the Board by William Krieg, attorney, representing about 200 property owners. Mr. Krieg said tthat the schbol playground was. inadequate for the 500 children attending the school and “something should be gone to keep children off the street.”

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people, he must first throttle be to smash this one blockhouse. printing press and sack its printed di the reports of the : Products, which inerre obo saying 0 he A ho dl tele- | Pased aircraft can readily reach the freedom of thought.” phoned to the rear while the action | Strategically important sea areas. tH aisle Fojnle out {has any on. Gorman jou and Alps Attack Means Deadlock how much knowledge has come § zn poses Pi An Allied land attack from the through books or how rare books commander that his “bell” was |north, over the Alps, would mean were at one time in the world’s his- wrecked. as conclusive a deadlock as the Maginot and Siegfried Lines. From land bases in southern France, Al-

At 7:45 p. m., one turret had collapsed. : The commander’s next report said lied air forces would be able to harry military and air bases in Italy with such contingents as they may

that shells had fallen inside the turret and smashed the guns. Gerfeel able to release from the northern combat zones. i

man artillery continued its destruction. All night long the men inside the good turret kept their guns in action. But if the British refused to toss their full air strength into the near-, by Norwegian theater, they are unlikely to be inclined to commit!

Explosions Shake Earth themselves to moving large units of

At 3 p. m. the next day the commander telephoned headquarters air power to greater distances from home. That leaves a major bortion

that the bombardment had reached of the Mediterranean air operations

the maximum of violence. Germans were sending over to the French—who are not ready. What About Gibraltar?

enormous projectiles that exploded Assume that' Mussolini dares the

teveral minutes after landing, greatest, most dramatic coup of all

Boys and elephants are the two most important constituents of any cirous. {

The younger - generation of Indianapolis today revived its preGhristmes etiquette, complete with courtesy and consideration of elders. Nearly all of them came in when it was time for dinner, without being called twice. A large percentage of them went to bed on time and stayed there, without calling after parents had gotton downstairs for the evening that they wanted a drink of water. | : : A radical few, even, were reThe third general session of the ported to have suggested themconvention was held this: morning selves that maybe the ‘grass needed and the delegates were to split into cutting and did daddy think they special groups for meetings this/could do it right. | afternoon. : - -|. The answer is the same as it was The biological sciences group were last year about this time. - A circus to hear Dr. William H. Crawford, |is coming tomorrow. e Ringling Indiana University School of Den- Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Cirtistry dean, and C. R. Gutermuth, jcus, billed with remarkable restraint

Ty. . He said that in the 15th Century the average family didn’t own. a single book. Each book was written by hand and often took more than a year to complete. Its cost represented a year’s income. Bibles took four years and more to write, he said, and ‘many medieval churches could not afford to have one. ’ ;

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performance begins with a stupendous performance of the Return of Marco Polo, which, in spite of its title, the circus will have you know, is entirely new. Also, the puhlicity department is at pains to point out that, in the performance, 1999 others, besides Marco, take part in his return.

For the first time Alfred Court’s wild animals will perform in’ Amer-

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sending great showers of earth and concrete sykward with each hit. The earth trembled for a hundred yards in all directions and the Frenchmen in the bowels of the blockhouse

Indiana Department of Conserva- os bieser and hetter than last yen Siueational dente. Uitte year, will arrive here ‘early tomorarry V. Wade, lerican row from Dayton, O. in four Life Insurance Co. vice president, trains, Shows will be given at 2:15 was to talk on “What, Where and|gnq 8:15 p. m. at the Southeasthe to he. Ipsujance group atlern and Keystone Aves. show e erican o1rices. grounds. ng iSTante SOD D 08a mean. Last year the show was billed as iss Margaret Lloyd of Atlanta. the biggest ever, so you've got Miss chairman: |. Miss Jeanette some idea of what to expect this Smith of Boston, Mass., vice chair. | e8T" Nevertheless: and even so, es 3 the publicity this year contained Ioan, and Migs Nora Shreve of Fi.ly37 Der tort fooor adjectives and Wayne, Ind. secretary. those it does contain are 1.65 per cent less flamboyant, than last year. However, the publicity did manage to get across that Gargantua

« DROWNS IN GRAVEL PIT MARION, Ind. June 6 (U. P.).—

ica, instead of in Europe. The anin:als are polar bears, lions, tigers, leopards, black panthers, jaguars and Siberian snow leopards. None of these likes any of the others and they all don’t like Mr. Court who uses neither gun, nor chair nor crowbar on them as they mind him to a “T.” The tent is air-conditioned and the tent city will be up and down in one day, with only the afternoon and night performances. That’s why junior probably will drink all the water he wants before going to bed tonight, and will - eat all his breakfast without: a quibble

were shaken.

ported his one turret ing out.

was still hold-

blockhouse, At 12:10 a. m, an explosion wrecked a second “bell” and at 1:20

had been put out of action.. At dawn, the commander report-

ed that German shock troops ran through the anti-tank field of rails, braving fire from a nearby blockhouse. J The Germans approached with

That evening the commander re-

German infantrymen were piled in great heaps of dead before the

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time by slamming the gates of the Mediterranean with an air blitzkrieg seizure of Gibraltar, locking the entire Allied sea fleet in that sea. What new types of machinery must be invented or built? The answer is, “none,” since the

machinery is already available in the Italian air force.

a. m. the third and fourth bells].

Gibraltar is worth the dare, since it symbolizes the solidity and permanence of the British Empire. Its loss, in addition to strategic. factors, would be a stunning moral blow to the Allies. - | Italy is determined to establish

tomorrow.

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hand grenades which detonated with terrific violence. That was the commander's last report. At 5:45 a. m. the blockhouse no longer replied to an urgent call. It was a rubble of ruins.

the Great, the monstrous ape, will be making his second tour this year, even more frightful than last

Lyman Lawson, 17, center on the Sweetser High - School basketball team,” drowned last night in a gravel pit as he was wading with|year. : friends ‘who were swimming. | At got over that there. are sevcould not swim. eral new acts, and that the whole

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