Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1940 — Page 40
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NO WARNING CAME WHEN BOMBS FEL
There Was a Terrific Blow, and Three Houses Were Gutted; but of All the Spectators Only One Elderly Woman Showed Effect of Strain.
What would you see and hear and do if bombs began dropping around your home? In the following dispatch, Harry Flory, European News Manager for the United Press, gives an American's vivid and detailed answer,
FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1940
BY HARRY FLORY
United Press Staff Correspondent : LONDON, Oct, 18.—There was no warning—no whistling sound. Instead there was a sudden, terrific wham! and the clink of breaking glass mingled with the explosion of a German aerial bomb. The house shook violently. I dived flat on the floor yelling: “Duck!” ; My dinner guest in the ground floor dining room of the
five-story London house I share with a friend sat immobile
in his chair. The maid who had just served dessert stood ; : : : at the door. The sound of) 7 a Be Jor men and young me = : falling glass continued, but] GPA T0 BE USED : Lo Sa Ee : : : our house remained standing. | a. FT. Sin I arose from the floor feeling very | | g : 3 silly. We all laughed. | BY ARMY NAVY 4 4 th St, My friend said later I first looked | ¥ | ; . 3 : Tea Bat cross, apparently because he and | ioe | : - ; - 3 \; : i 7] :
the maid had {failed to take my
sound advice and also because of President 0. K.’s Saratoga my awkwardness in diving: to the’ As Hospital Base for
floor. |
Clothing of this high caliber is obviously outstanding at
The house fs in _on€ of thas Armed Forces. 15.95. Only because we ordered them months ago could
lovely garden squares of Londons ; West End. We judged the bomp| SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.| must have fallen in the garden, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Federal medical] perhaps even on the trench shelter Authorities, envisioning an increase in which 50 or 60 persons usually cardiac diseases in the Army and | sought safety Y INavy due to the draft, have begun oa plans to treat veterans at the famed | Lock Blown Off Door Saratoga Spa, for years a meeting | ; i {ground for American society. i b or brow, Sor Sond on tha Success of the plan might lead to,
‘establishment of similar treatment | lock completely off the door. Our [centers at other watering places |
feet crunched on glass in the front |. t nited Stat ; hall. The heavy. blackout curtains | iq snout the United States, thes
2 the window on the first stair = pctaplished co-operatively with lapome were down and light Was officials of the state-operated spa, streaming out. After ‘turning out the program would permit simulthe light, we extinguished the elec- taneous treatment of up to 1500 _ tric heater fireplaces. because there veterans and found a military hoswas a strong smell of gas. ‘pital and research center for cardiac We walked across the glass cov- ailments caused by arthritis, inered street into the garden looking {flammatory rheumatism and such for the bomb but found nothing. maladies. The plan already has the An ARP warden in a nearby church [approval of President Roosevelt. hall knew nothing. ; | The President said the state An old lady, our neighbor was reservation, containing healthful shrieking unintelligible gibberish. mineral springs, marble-columned Her house had been hit by an bathhouses and clinical rooms, incendiary bomb a couple of weeks possessed perfect facilities for large before. She was the only person [scale treatment of cardiac diseases. of the dozens I saw that evening | It was explained that mobilization who showed any signs of strain. fof manpower under the draft will , ia : (multiply cardiac cases tremendously So We Finished Dinner lin the military ranks, not as a diReturning to the house we found rect result of the service, but rather the maid and cook already had ex- from the normal incidence of such plored the entire house and had diseases upon large groups of indifound this damage—about a quar- viduals. : ter of the windows were broken. | Among facilities at the spa are some window frames were bent or (he new Roosevelt baths, which were broken. The door of the servant's constructed with a $3,200,000 RFC entrance In the basement areaway ‘loan. Nearby are the exclusive Linhad heen blown from its hinges, con baths anc the less expensive the ceiling plaster was down in Washington baths. three rooms and there were a couple | Tn of cracks in the top fleor wall. We zat down and finished our 50,000 FILIPINOS IN
dinner, My friend discovered he had
spilled red wine over his apple. pie | but said it tasted fine. I found bits! U, S, ARM PR E
of glass in mine. In addition to] WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P).
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glass from the dining room windows which had been blown through the | american defense strategy for the wooden shutters, one small electric Far East now includes a plan to light bulb in the chandelier above io 50000 Filipinos into the U. the dinner table had been shat- go a.py if necessary, it was learned | tered. The glass on my pie probably today. | cane from that. 2 Informed sources said details have | he listened to the BBC Tens been completed and the plan is| broadcast at 9 p. m. and then went ready for use when needed. Philip- | outside again to re-explore the pine officials were said to have aided | SCENE. ; : by suggesting that <heir people | 3 Houses Gutted would willingly co-operate with the | We found that three houses di- United States in defense of its inagonally across the square had been |terests in the Far East if a pledge |
MEN'S GORDUROY SLACKS... 3-5 completely gutted and those ad-.were given that the Islands would | 3 : joining them were almost destroyed. | be defended against attack and not |
Two ambulances were waiting abandoned in event of trouble. \ The very latest model high waisted belted slacks with zipper fly. Well tailored of
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while the salvagers dug in the {dent Manuel Quezon has offered de- | good looking as it is tough. Greens, light tans, teal blues. Sizes 28 to 42.
BLOCK S—Downstairs S tore.”
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wreckage for servants buried in the |fense co-operation to the War De- | basement. A hundred yards away partment in any Far Eastern crisis, another bomb had fallen mn the it was learned, but no action on his! street just outside one wing of a big proposal has been taken yet. i apartment house, breaking a water | This was learned as the Govern- | main, flooding the basement of the ment opened negotiations designed ! house and drowning several persons to extend further financial aid to - who took refuge there. China. The United States already Apparently both bombs fell al- has loansd China about $85,000,000 most simultaneously, as we had of which $35,000,000 has been rebeen conscious of only one expio- paid. mostly in form of raw mee) sion. The ARP warden walked back | terials. to the house with us for a quick| "Federal Loan Administrator Jesse drink of whisky neat and then re-|H, Jones announced the new nego- |
turned to work. [tiations with T.'V. Soong, chairman | =~ : a ; z Eo i ; Extra Value “es Extra Style Doors Blasted Open of the Bank of China, | : « : : : : : At the Price!
Another tour of exploration out- | zide and we found that every front ; ; e 0 L D LA B E 1’ y H A TS
BLOCK'S—Downstairs Store
door along our side of the square
was blasted open. Most of the - houses were iinoccupied and some i i p g were even without furniture. We eve 0 in closed most of the doors. although | THIS QUICK, At first sneeze, sniffle, | several had been split down the! panpy way OF nasal irritation, put |
middle by the concussion.
We explored the mews beside the house, especially my own garage to see if the Ford sports model was all right. It was. Only a bit of plaster had fallen near it.
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