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17,000 ENGINES ORDERED BY U. S.

United Aircraft to Expand, Get Tools From Navy For Big Contract.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (U. P. —Navy Secretary Frank Knox an-

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES °_

LONDON STAYS IN BED FOR RAID

German ‘Jay Flying’ Planes Fail to Keep Half of City Awake.

By WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent

80 Per Cent of Plane Output

last year to date by Great Britain and France. A total of 1648 had been delivered to France up to the time of her capitulation to Germany in the middle of June. The French had ordered 4934.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Negotiations are under way among members of the British purchasing hs. sion, the aviation industry, and administration and Army and Navy|Ihe balance of the order, Bo officials, to speed up production and | Planes, has been Takin over by ng delivery of American military planes| land which, herself, has ordere

; [4778, so that the total British order to England for defense against the during the period covers 8064 planes.

Believed Delivered to British Air Force

THURSDAY, AUG. 29, 1940 7

45 GERMAN BISHOPS GIVE TROOPS THANKS ©

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Administration officials here re-| fused to divulge the actual number of planes contracted for, sold and delivered to England. The inquirer is passed from one agency to another. Foreign purchases are through the Treasury Department and Treasury Secretary Henry W, Morgenthau Jr. seems to be responsible for the secrecy order.

BERLIN, Aug. 29 (U, P.).—=The official German News Agency D. N. B. said yesterday that 45 of the 48 Catholic bishops of Germany who recently concluded a conference at Fulda had decided to hold spe-

handled cial ceremonies of gratitude to Gere

man troops after completion of the final German victory.” The services, it was said, also will express loyalty to Adolf Hitler,

One official said he assumed the

The conference expressed thanks

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nounced today that United Aircraft Corp. has agreed to manufacture ig Pratt & Whitney engines for e Army and Navy at S $160,000,000. y bigs The agreement, representing the largest aircraft engine order of the | defense program, is contingent upon Congress furnishing the necessary funds in the pending $4,900.000.000 supplemental defense appropriation measure. Mr. Knox said that a formal contract will be signed soon and that the deal is separate from any British orders. He said that the 17.000 engines, which will meet all of the Army and Navy requirements for the 1941 and | 1942 fiscal years from that concern, | will be delivered to both services.

LONDON, Aug. 29-—For seven hours and 10 minutes, a record, “jitter” raiders bombed London last

night, dropping more than 1000 jon of airplanes, which just now iS peen put into service is not dis-

bombs on the city, but halt the clouded by controversy as to actual .jgsed. 8,000,000 people went to bed and results; for the higher the produc- Deliveries of American planes to

stayed there. tion, the more planes Yin be avail- |, th France and England from the Police complained that many | 301 for stile to Sngland, middle of last year thus aggregate Londoners were being unhelpful mn! n i EE a | 212 n night raids and threatened to “take | F b ; ) stimates vary as to the present {had been ordered to leav ; - against persons who holq Produced are being sold to ‘Great productive capacity of the American inaugurated Oct. 4 when Rev. Wal- iD, CE ave Coren rooftop parties and carelessly flash Britain was confirmed today in au-lajreraft industry, but the figure that ter Smith Kilpatrick, 26, becomes | flashlights and lighted cigarets. (thoritative aviation industry quar- seems to be generally accepted in| president of Cedarville College. The| WED 72 YEARS The raid was the most severe of | [ers |the industry is 800 per month for all | Mr. Rev. Kilpatrick, who was grad- | JAY, Vi, Aug. 30 (U, P.)~Mr, the war, but it was apparently| Latest figures from the same types of planes, which would be 9600 uated from Cedarville in 1034, suc- and Mrs. Gilbert Lucier, 93 and 89 aimed at keeping Londoners awake [sources put at 9712 the number of a year. It is hoped to step this up ceeds Dr. W. R. McChesney, pres- respectively, celebrate their 72d for the sixth night. planes ordered since the middle of ‘rapidly. |ident since 1915. | wedding anniversary this fall.

7 Hours; 12 Planes -

figures were kept secret on request | '© the German soldiers for their of the British who did not want the | ‘Victorious advance and defense of information to get to the Germans,|the German Homeland” and exdefense program, including produc- actually have arived in England and Members of Congress have tried, jn [Pressed opinion that “without the vain, to obtain figures. successful repelling of enemy invasion the Catholic Church in Ger-

many would have been unable to HEADS COLLEGE AT 26 carry on the care of souls undisXENIA, O., Aug. 29 (U. P)—|turbed,” the agency said. One of the youngest college presi-| D. N. B. confirmed earlier Vichy

dents in the United States will be 'ePOrts that Bishop Heintz of Metz

Nad SHVHoR, . Of these, it is estimated that 2864 This effort ties in with the 8€N- have been delivered to British pureral drive to hasten the American| hasing agents here. How many

Handling tree trunks like this is as easy as falling off a log for this sturdy British ‘“‘lumberjill.” A member of the Women’s Land Army Community, encamped in a wooded area of Suffolk, she's doing her bit for Britain's defense by taking over a lumberjack’s job. | The alarm was given at 8:50 p. tn. | Csm——— | ae ; and continued until 4 a. m., shortly | Ban a p ‘before dawn. Apparently not more | (than a dozen planes participated. | | The raid was of the type de(scribed as “jay flying” by the London Evening News. The planes (sweep In singly over the city and | {then dash for home as soon as a [companion bomber arrives. Though bombs fell on 19 separate |seciions of the city last night, none {have yet been dropped on the; | fashionable West End, in the “night | [life district, or in central London.

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: |trons amused until they could go ‘home. | The alarm interrupted the film | (“Lillian Russell” at the Odeon | cided to stay, the film was resumed. | . | The first words that came from the {be no war.” | A pet Australian parakeet, in a shelter during the raid, kept shout- | ing: “Here's those planes again. TARR | Down with Hitler!” " Railroad | & g with commuters awaiting the re-|

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