Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1940 — Page 5

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: Summer Courses Planned in Mechanics, Radio and Photography.

By RUTH FINNEY _ Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June 21.—The voluntary training: program that ' the Administration was planning a week ago for behind-the-line service to the armed forces has been abandohed. The National Youth Administration and its training courses will be expanded so as 'to keep vocational training schools open during

i the summer, giving courses in mo-

; chanics, machine-tool work, radio ; and photography. : Now training plans await com-

‘+ pletion of the compulsory program

. outlined by President Roosevelt. : Mechanics Needed

: NYA probably will start some * training courses with the tools it

+ has available because of the urgent

- need for airplane mechanics. It

' takes longer to train an airplane|

+ mechanic than to train a flier. : The training program for CCC » camps probably will get under way

: before the new plan is pushed » through. New enrollments are about

. to be made. The voluntary noncombatant training program was intended to prepare a million young men for service of various kinds. But the slow rate of .enlistments in the « Army discouraged the Administra- : tion about getting voluntary recruits. Only the Third and Fourth Corps

< ‘Areas have been able to fill their

. quotas of enlistments for the Army. The Third Corps . Area includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The Fourth Corps Area includes the entire . southeastern portion of the country,

: es far west as the Mississippi River.

C. M. T. C. Plans Unknown It has not been announced

: whether plans for tripling the C,M. : TT. C. this summer will be aban-

: doned. t © Completion of the detailed compulsory training program is ex- . pected by the last week in July. *. Congressional leaders believe con- : giderable education will be necessary . before all parts of the country understand the reasons for the plan.

3 CHILDREN HURT IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

i Three children were -injured, one seriously, in traffic yesterday. Six-year-old Bobby Aller, of 4305 i E. 30th Sty was cut when he dashed » into the path of a car driven by|! ! Claude O'Maley, 39, of Richmond, i Ind. A physician passing the scene “of the accident gave the boy first aid. At the City Hospital his ccndition was described as serious. 3 The other children were Mildred { Jean Stratter, 8, of 1331 Barrow St., « who was bruised yhen struck by a i truck at 16th and Yandes Sts., and * 1l-year-olds Fred Ritzendollar, 1234 i WW. New York St, who received a ! broken left foot when struck hy a : truck while crossing the Harding St. _ bridge. They were treated ¢" the : City Hospital.

| VACANCIES OPEN AT FT. HARRISON

: For the first time in eight months, : Indiana Army recruiting stations : have vacancies for service at Ft. ? Harrison.| Col. Enrique Urrutia Jr., : gecriiing station commander, said : Indiana stations have been assigned

40 vacancies for the 11th Infantry : quartered at the local post. ¢ Col.

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still exist for Ft. Knox, : Ky., Ft. Benning, Ga., and Ft. Hoyle, Md. In connection with the drive ; for Ft. Harrison recruits, a party of f 24 enlisted men from the 11th In- : fantry are visiting 17 Indiana cities. . Capt. John Culleton, a field artil- * lery officer, until recently stationed : at Ft. Louis, Wash, has been - named second in command of the : Army recruiting station here. He ? arrived this week. :

: GARY ‘LADYBIRD’ : HOPES FOR LICENSE

© Times Special: « GARY, Ind, June 21.—Known as 3 the only “ladybird” in the Lake- ? Porter County area, Miss Marguerite : Ehlers, 21, is looking forward. to { completing 35 hours in the air to : obtain a private pilot’s license be- : fore July 4. She has a full time job : rand is thé sole support of six : brothers and sisters. She “soloed” on Memorial day, and already has a dozen flying hours * to her credit. When she leaves work each day, she hurries home, prepares dinner, washes the dishes and ! tidies the house. Then she hurries to the airport to add a half-hour or more to her flying time.

: WPA WILL IMPROVE EVANSVILLE AIRPORT

3 i Times Special { WASHINGTON, D. Cc. June 21.— : Improvement of the Evansville, Ind., i Municipal airport at a cost of $641,013 was approved by WPA adminisi trator F. C. Herrington here today. : The project is part of the National i defense program. . Airport runways will be longthened, grounds will be graded and a new hanger constructed. The City of Evansville is to provide $251,363 while the Government will provide 89,650.

$3 | SQUIRRELS WARNED TO ‘MAN THE FORTS’

Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner : of the Department of Conservati\, i today warned all Indiana squirreis i to be on the lookout for ‘hunters i from Sept. 2 to Oct 31. Daily limit : will be five. Mr. Simmons said { the opening date was selected beicause Sept. 1 falls on Sunday this year, =

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By CHARLES T. LUCEY and LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writers WASHINGTON, June 21.—Defense is big business—our biggest business—and it is getting bigger fast. Congress is voting more than five billion dollars at this session alone for the Army and Navy, compared to less than a billion a year before 1939. And that is only a beginning. Taxpayers are about to feel the impact: That, too, is only a beginning. More taxes are in prospect, if not at this session then next year. In Germany’s controlled economy, human and material resources are commandeered at the government’s price. In this country, at least in peacetime, the Government is in effect just another buyer and hirer, competing in the open market for goods and men. Consequently, it has to pay well.

Costs Higher in U. S.

The enlisted men in our armed services draw something like 20 times the pay that France, for instance, gives her conscripted Poilus. Base pay of an American soldier is $21 a month. War ships cost far more to build in this country than elsewhere. The new emphasis on aviation and on mechanized troops is stepping up the Army’s investment per man. "The cost of naval construction has advanced sharply. Where the battleship West Virginia, which is the newest American capital ship now in commission, cost 26 million to build in the early ’20s, the newly launched battleships Washington and Nerth Carolina are costing three times as much, or more. The 45-000-ton battleships now on order will cost close to a tenth of a billion apiece. An aircraft carrier comes to $35,000,000 nowadays, a light cruiser to $22,300,000, a de=stroyer to $7,500,000, a submarine to $6,500,000. Here’s Cost of Planes

As to aviation, here is a recent list of the estimated cost of various types of Navy planes, with full equipment and spare parts: Scouting ......cev......$ 66,000 Fighting 76,000 Scout bombing ... , Torpedo bombing...... 141,000 Patrol bombing ........ 289,000 Transport ....... evesees 130,000. Advance training ...... 30,000 Primary training ...... 18,000

To build the Navy's air force up to 10,000 planes over a period of years,

estimated $2,250,000,000, as follows: New planes $1,150,000,000 New shore facilities 410,000,000 Training pilots ... 90,000,000 Ordnance equipment 300,000,000

Figures like that make a fellows income-tax return—even under the new tax bill—look pretty small, Mass production may reduce the unit cost of airplanes. But at best, considering that as many as 250,000 rivets go into a hig bomber, real

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Times-Acme Photo.

Their decks crammed with fighting planes, the U. S. aircraft garriers Ranger, Saratoga and Lexington steam out to meet the enemy during Navy games.

More and Bigger U. S. Taxes Needed to Pay for Defense

air power will be enormouy SZpensive. - Now, About Operation Cost >

Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps, estimates that it costs the Army about $50,000 per plane for operation, maintenance and replacements. “At that rate, 50,000 planes would cost—aside from the initial investment—21% billion a year. That's more than double the total national defense expenditure in recent years. Or take taanks. Even a light tank costs the Army about $25,000. And modern armies use them by the thousands. A 1%-inch anti-tank gun costs $5000 a copy. : A Garand semi-automatic’ rifle, standard equipment for the infantryman of the future, comes to $40. A gas mask costs $9.25. It costs the Army from $60 to $80 a year to Jeep an enlisted man clothed. : Enormous stores of fighting equipment have to be accumulated in advance to supply the citizen army that would be called into being in wartime,

Defense Will Cost Us Much

You can get a rough idea from the estimated requirements in ammunition for the “Protective Mobilization Plan” force of a million men: More than 700,000,000 cartridges for rifles, pistols and machine guns. Nearly 4,000,000 shells for anti-

aircraft guns. More than 7,000,000 shells for 75millimeter guns and howitzers. And so on, through a long list up to the little matter of 5644 projectiles of 2100 pounds each for the 16-inch guns. How well these plans will work is something else again. The one thing we can be sure of, war or no war, is that defense is going to cost us sums in the next few years that will make New Deal relief spending look like small change.

HGOSIER ON LINER MENACED BY SUB

Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 21.— When the S. S. Washington, the American liner that was challenged by a German submarine June 11, docks in New York tomorrow, it will bring home an Evansville young woman who has been in Europe since before the Nazi invasion.

She is Mrs. Marion Cunningham

Conger, wife of a New York newspaper correspondent. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Cunningham, live here and received word from their daughter via ship-to-shore telephone. The parents said their daughter told them she and a friend were put aboard: one of the liner’s lifeboats and were ready to be lowered into the water when the German U-Boat commander recognized the ship as American.

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LAWYERS TO HOLD PICNIC TOMORROW

The “legal minds” of Indianapolis will take the day off tomorrow for the annual Lawyers Association picnic at Forest Park at Noblesville. Golf, baseball, horseshoes, tennis and bridge will be the order of the day. Judge Edwin K. Steers is golf committee chairman. Opposing captains in the baseball game will be Judge Charles J. Karabell for the Republicans and Judge Henry O. Goett for the Democrats. Earle Knightlinger ‘will have charge of the horseshoe contest and tennis will be directed by Robert H., Orbison. Floyd W. Burns and Charles D. Babcock are co-chair-men of the ladies’ bridge tournament.

LEGION DRAFTS DEFENSE ADVICE

Parley With -Army, Navy, FBI.

The American Legion's

fense and Americanism activities to combat subversive influences will be sent to executive committee members for a vote July 1. The draft of the proposals has

{been completed ‘at national head-

quarters here. They were drawn by a special committee, composed of heads of other committees, andi appointed by National ‘Commander Raymond J. Kelly. The committee held several con. ferences in Washington with reprd. sentatives of the Army and Navy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Legion officials here refused to reveal the content of the recommendations, but said they would embody the organization's proposals made since 1919 with new ones made necessary by present world condi-

program.”

National Commander Kelly is due Lhere tomorrow on a routine visit to clear his desk of mail and handle Legion matte which have arose since the executive committee meeting several weeks ago. He will go from here to New Jersey on. Legion business.

. Legion officials 1s predicted that this year’s national convention in Boston in September will see more business transacted, because of war conditions, than any convention in years. More than 1,000,000 words giving information about the meeting will be written here and sent to newspapers and publications in all parts of the country.

. STARTS NARCOTICS TERM HUNTINGTON, Ind., June 21. (U. P.) —Raymond Byrd, Columbus, O., today began a six months’ sentence on the Penal Farm for the forgery

of a prescription for narcotics. He pleaded guilty in City Court.

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