Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1940 — Page 20

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How Sa f

Air bssksion

‘Has Come Far —On Paper

By. ss 'T. LUCEY and . LEE G. MILLER Times Spe tial Writers

WASHINGTON, June 19.— The air arm of American defense has come a long way— princi on paper — since

Preside ent Roosevelt told Con-

“no re onsible officer” advocated building our air forces up to equality with “certain other nations.’ “The war changed ‘the President's views. On May 16 of this year he told Congress: “I should like to see this nation geared up to the ability to turn out at least 50,000 planes a year. Rr mermire, I believe that this nation should plan at this time a program that would provide ‘us with miffitary and naval planes.” Currently Congress is voting money hand over fist in an effort to get ire towand - this objective. But what does | our air defense amount tp, as of today? The Army and Navy have fewer than 5 airplanes of all kinds, old and new, trainers and transports as well as fighters and bombers. (And many of these are being turned back io the Stufarturers for sale to the Allies. : a.

Three Amel Lacking

They have no planes embodying the new, lessons of the European war. Listen to Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the. Army Air Corps: “A year ago we believed that some of our airplanes had ample performance as compared with airplanes in the rest of the world. Everything went along beautifully until the Germans went into Poland.” | Then it developed that the Army ‘was asleep at the switch in regard to three fundathentsls of modern air war:| 1. Leak-proof | gasoline tanks. 2. Shell-firing guns. 3. Armor to protect crews. | To fly one of the Army's B-18 bombers, against modern planes “would be suicide,” he testified at Senate hearings. The Army has about 300 B-18's. There Are Encouraging Factors

That fis a dismal picture. But there are encouraging factors. . While Gen. Arnold admits that

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A $206,427 Pike Township school addition in Marion County and a $216,860 sewer improvement program for Columbus were among eight projects approved today by State A Administrator John K. Jennings and submitted to Washington. | Pike Township is the sponsor of the school project and will bear $94,829 of the cost.

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“we were on the wrong tack so far as our gadgets were concerned,” he insists that our “individual airplanes still stand out so far as performance is concerned.” Unquestionably the Army’s 50-odd Flying Fortresses are formidable ships as they stand. And the combat planes now on order will have the new German innovations. The Allies’ eagerness to buy Army and Navy planes is evidence that the existing models are by no means valueless. In at least one “gadget,” our military aviators are confident they have the world beaten. That is the secret bomb sight, reputedly marvel of precision which permits accurate bombing from great heights. Not even the Allies have been per-

: of 1902 farms were enumerated in lL Dubois County compared to 2209 in

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| Perrysville (Vermillion) 453 435 |

mitted so far to buy this instrument or even inspect it. Today the Navy and Marine Corps have 2623 pilots. and the Army at last report had 2041, 1—5564. ‘Under: new legislat enlarging air training facilities, the Navy hopes within a year to be turning out pilots at a rate of 6600 a year. Similarly, the Army’s program calls for producing 7000 pilots a year.

eventually, these would’ require 400,000 men.’ Total, Army and Navy—'700,000 men. That is almost twice the combined personnel. of the whole Army and Navy today. In short, America is ouf to buy air power in: enormous quantities. Whether it will get enough of it before an occasion for its use in action arises, is another question. Whether it-will use it in the right way is also a question. Maj. Al Williams insists that effective air power .is impossible unless a separate Department of Aviation is.created, entirely .apart from the War and Navy Departments There is considerable support for this among service air officers—but they do not admit it publicly - since the high commands are ‘opposed

NEXT—The Army finds the soft

spots. §

1 Walter

Claims oo Missing In-

surance Agent ‘Mount

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" The oft I Problems ‘of the estate of | Ho F. Tucker, missce salesmen, today were hds of J. Albert Smith, rust Co. trust officer,

[Fei by Carl Wilde, | bankruptcy, and Jackiel

claims ag oh Tucker — total $35,000 and that additional claims ed between now and the Dec. 18 deadline. The next hearing will be July 3, when Mrs. Tucker is to testify. Some Tucker property is in her name or is held jointly with her missing jusband.. Mr. Smith as trustee succeeds [yers, who was appointed Judge Baltzell soon after uptcy case was filed. Mr. ' June 15, became Fourth . S. Postmaster General.

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2 FROM HERE GRADUATED

Two seniors from Indianapolis were a degrees at the University of Chicago's 200th convocation last week. Richard Leon Glasser, son of Mrs Julia Glasser, 3735 N. Meridian St., was awarded the bachelor of arts ‘degree and George M. Mess ler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack G. Messmer, 1230 Sterling St., received he doctor of law degree.

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Long, Expensive Process

The production of military pilots is a long and expensive process. Ordinarily nine months of basis training is provided before an Army pilot gets tactical training with a combat unit. And most of the would-be fliers are weeded out at the start or along the way. Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, says that 75,000 young men will have to be “processed” in order to produce 7000 trained pilots. Pilots are only a fraction of the manpower required by aviation. The Army figures that every plane demands roughly 10 men to maintain it.. Capt. Kenneth Whiting, U. S. N., says the Navy needs between 20 and 40 men for each plane, depending on the type. Taking 30 as the Navy average, that would mean 300,000 men to ‘maintain the 10,000 planes which is the Navy's eventual goal. If the Army got 40,000 planes

HENDRICKS, DUBOIS SHOW GENSUS GAINS

A gain of almost 500 in the population of Hendricks County and an] increase of nearly 2000 in the Dubois County population were re-| ported . in the Census Area offices here today. Gains also were reported in the populations of the cities of Crawfordsville, Greencastle, Rockville and Plainfield. The preliminary

figure for Hendricks County this year was put at 20,152 compared to 19.795 recorded in the 1930 census. The Dubois County total is 22.543 | compared to 20,553 in 1930. A total

1935 and 1947 in 1930. Populations of the cities and

City (county) 1940 1930

(Montgomery) 11,119 10,355 |

Greencastle (Putnam) 4388 4613 |

Rockville (Parke) 2208 1832 | Plainfield (Hendricks) 1807 1617 |

TWO HOOSIERS ELECTED Times Special 2 CINCINNATI, O., June 19.—University of Cincinnati authorities to- | day announced the election of Eil-| bert Linville, Anderson, Ind., and |

Eugene R. Engelbrecht, Tell City, | Ind., to the Dormitory Council, gov- | erning body of the residents of the

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