Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1940 — Page 7

\ FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1940

HERE'S THE JOB [7 50 DESTROYERS WILL GET SOON

It's Escorting Mercy Ships Or Rusty Freighters and Watching Subs.

By BRYDON TAVES

United Press Staff Correspondent

Sinews of Defense

ABOARD A BRITISH DE- | S I ROYER, In North Atlantic, Sept. 6.—One of the jobs to which | §

Britain expects to assign devers traded by the United States for naval base leases in the |} wrding of convoys which still ply ritish waters with an imperturba1ty astonishing to a landlubber. ] days I watched from of this typical escort | parade of merchantmen | through submarine-in-ors. Three were liners almost 1000 children to

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A . One was a rusty Dutch fre in ballast. Others were (Continued from Page ne) heavily-loaded merchantme:r r trim Swedish motorshine. or vessels [May 23, 1040—136,164; on Aug. 15, \ towering masts. 1940—147.513. A typical day for us began with| Now for the details of what is in rders to meet a convoy at sea. progress now and what is to come: Trouble Finding the Ships Defense Funds Our commander told me the de-| Congress was working on regular vers are ideal escort ships be- Army and Navy appropriation bills hev combine three essentials | When Germany invaded the Low-U-Boat hunters, high speed, ands and France in May—the event bility for the installation of de- that marked America's decision to 1g apparatus and depth charge Seek “total” rearmament. They were nmetl record peacetime bills, hut at the We reac chica the rendezvous but! President's request. they were ere was no sign of the convoy we [doubled to a total of approximately sent to pick up. Standing $5.000,000,000. That money became # ders are that the convoy must 'available in June ence its radios and there is only| In response to another White 1ing to do and that is to! House request, a bill carrying anS€ » and down and across the other $5.000,000,000 plus is now alv's route most ready for the President's sigAfter four hours there was still nature. The overall total is $10,ews of the convoy. A thick 496,000,000. Roughly two-thirds of =~ m 1e up and we struck out iit is for the Army; one-third for the A 90-) mm. . anti- -aireraft gun... 1612 have been ordered. ping to meet the ships Navy. nee = tio — x t up oo OU oc a a Aid Engine experts estimated the an- already been summoned into active earl he evening. It had slipped 3 ly e tle v Wo TE In nual engine production rate (1000 service effective Sept. 16. It Is | Hu ‘the TRIS. only a 3 over m H. P. motors or larger ones) was planned to increase the Guard to (that time the Defense Commission, 7070 ‘in January, 1939; 19.280 in|325,000 through enlistments and Timber, Ambulances, Planes | which handles contracts in excess of ‘\arch, 1040, and probably will reach eventually bring it up to full] ore was the same conglomera- $500,000, has cleared orders for $2.,-/59 980 by the end of this year. Istrength of 410,000 by adding con- | of vessels of all descriptions | 187,312,000. In addition. the Army The Defense Commission has ap- (Scripts. Four hundred thousand | onnage. One carried timber and Navy have awarded hundreds|. ..; ceven aircraft engine con-|cOnscripts are due to be inducted in |

acked 1 on the decks. Another |Of smaller contracts. ltracts. The largest was $160,000,- Service by January. ht ambulances, a third had a | Big contracts for airplanes, tanks 000 for 17.000 Pratt & Whitney | The present Army consists of nine | of big crates lashed to the and munitions are among those wasp-type engines. The order will | “streamlined” infantry divisions, ches. They looked like boxed awarded. [require expansion of the present | {WO newly-formed armored and | Snes. wallowirie ii Foul Seas | The Air Forces iplant at Hartford, Conn. A $44,.- {wholly mechanized divisions; one Ww Owl ED x 1g * a5: on Aug. 15, the Army and Navy 000,000 order for 3000 engines was complete and one partly complete so much it was almost : DS) al to Pack Motor Co.. Det it. | cavalry divisions. When the goal sible to keep balance, stand- had approximately 5079 planes on qiven by hackard Motor Co. Doro! tof a 1,200,000 y ;. sitting, or lying down. Dinner hand. Sometime in 1942 this figure In addition, the War Department ® oF <0 B00 MEE BOE 08 and salad shot right |iS expected to be 35,000. Planes on has arranged to obtain 20000 en- nom os 700 tarts wath ar tn Se WA ACs aaals rder og ntr ‘ fgines for the Army and Navy from : al as ’ » late and skidded drunken- order under signed contracts total|8 . J divisions.

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the ward room table. But pi distributed h this ee We enna So, 5 .| Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of plodded steadilv toward ARMY —Trainers, 2731; combat, re Navy is increasing its train sal, with airplanes occasionally | 2514—total 5245. {ing ‘facilities. to ‘build ‘up ‘a ‘force ‘of | Stal, believes the Army has suf-| 3a en: . fa Nake. ; ficient weapons on hand at least to] ng us overhead. NAVY-—Trainers, 1401: combat, 18.500 pilots by July 1, 1942. ~ st bit of excitement was in 1017; miscellaneous, 11—total 2429., The Army has contracted with fosin = DE 1,200,000- pan) e. As we were about to cross| In addition. 2067 planes are con- Private schools for preliminary 2I'Mmy. Duk RR a Ry ya bar to a West Coast port, the sidered tentatively on order because training of 7000 pilots annually and able are largely old. ~~ | nents suddenly picked up a manufacturers have assured the is expanding its own training cen- Here Is a tabulation of essential suspiciously like a submarine. Federal Government of intention to ters. The Army program also en- equipment on hand and on order: “Hurts Us Worse Than You" make contracts as soon as the man- Visages training of 3600 bombardiers ON ON ‘ Bs ufacturers are satisfied with Con- and navigators, HAND ORDER seemed incredible there could | _.. 1 She , ‘and semi 1-boat So close to the ‘Shote BIC sional action on taxes and re- The Army Garand semiok ‘sienial ‘Was ‘given ‘and | 12ted matters. automatic rifles 42,000 198,000 went into action with depth Of the total planes on hand Aug. The Army, which has an author- Springfield and a 15, approximately 3200 are Army ized strength of 375.000 enlisted Enfield rifles .. 2,000.000 effect of our half dozen tins craft and 1897 in the Navy. The regulars, now totals about 289,000 .50 caliber antidevastating. I steeled myself impending supplemental defense men, as compared with 230,772 in aircraft mahe shock and gripped the ®Ppropriation bill provides money May and 174,074 in July, 1939. Re- chine guns 1,014 1,362 ve rail but the exploding charges for an additional 14,394 planes for cruits are averaging about 8000 per 90 mm. anti-air-me off mv feet. All lights the Army and 4028 for the Navy. week. If all of the existing reserve craft guns ' : 1,612 o out on the mess deck. The The program envisions 25,000 planes branches, including the National! 77 mm. artillery 3.000 ship chattered in the Army and 10,000 in the Navy ‘Guard, were mustered into active 7 mm, howitzers 60 120 The lamp shades in my cabin in late 1942 service—and the President now has Tanks : 500 2.200 1iters. Plates and glasses| Aircraft production now has the power to do so—the Army Armored cars 485 861 ed off the tables as great reached the rate of 10,000 annually. 'would have a total force of 672.772. Combat cars 114 100 tains of water shot into the [It is expected to reach an annual There are 120.000 reserve officers Motor vehicles 32.792 36.970 behind and around us rate of 13,000 to 14,000 by January, of whom 8000 are on duty with the|Gas masks .. 407,696 361,000 was our last attack, and the 1941; 24.000 by mid-1941 and 36,000 regulars. The National Guard num- Largest tank now in service never will be known. by early 1942 bers 235000, of which 60,500 have! weighs 22 tons. The Army

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