Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1940 — Page 15

FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1940

N.Y. BALLOON - TERROR ENDS

Just a Dawn-to-Dusk Flight, Navy Explains After

Hours of Frenzy. |

LAKEHURST, N. J, July 19 (U

P) The United States Naval Air Station today admitted ownership of “mysterious” balloon which had kept the New York State Police and the constabulary of 36 southern New York communities in a frenzy most of the night

The balloon was on an authorized dusk-to-dawn flight which it ended Milford, Conn, 80 re Navy an-

successfully at

miles from here, the nounced. Four naval balioon's ba

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last evening, Lieut. W. A. Hanger in command I'hey set down at MilTord s tly before dawn to avoid being blown into Long Island Sound t. the Na Station here an1 ed, was 1 there was to 1t B in the small hours of the n ng the balloon, appearing over Ne York towns, had terrified citizen and brought general police ala S Th balloon was “susYiciousy” the police broadcasts said 1 vas trave without running lig! 40 feet above the ground and had held ‘conversations with a citi2 I when t facts came out f the Milford landing, it developed that three young pilots in thei irst long distance traming fg Lie J. Baronowski, Ensign F D. Jackson and Ensign Frank Buckley had merely been carryi a routine assignment. They packed deflated balloon in a basket and shipped back to Naval A Station said the balloon was comparatively small, i pa on 35.000 cubic feet. The first report on the balloon came {from Gus Durham, owner of f public garage and wrecking plant at Briarcliffe Manor, 17 miles north | New Y he look up and saw a round, ghadowy object floating *40 feet above” him. He ran to the police station and told his story to Fred Borho, night patrolman Borho took Durham at his word and sta bun up the wires.

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land. They do claim—and they have proved—that airpower can make ish High Seas Fleet would have head to turn the retrealing army's quate to defend America. In these it impossible for troops in attacked stood stem to stern a mile or so coastal exits into a shambles. [two major instances airpower areas to resist enemy ground off the beach and hammered t0o| That was not the “strategic with- | licked land and seapower. What forces. | bits any effort of a Germany Army drawal” that experts like to LL proof do we want? Airpower has compelled the Brit-|to interfere with embarkation, In | The German Air Force, com-

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Wi | —Harry L. Hastin s, 70, just retired ever been free from political and! RELY Slings Jus

army and navy meddling. What more do we netd to know to learn our own lesson? German airpower, smashing seapower and landpower, made it possible for German ground troops and mechanized forces to gather up the tricks Airpower used in such fashion does not win ‘a war—in evely sense of the word.

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[total handling of gold at $32,000,400,000,

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