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~~ 'PHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _- WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23, 1940 © VOTE NAME CHANGE °'

Paris Night Clubs Are Prosperous but Food Lines Are Long FOR ‘GERMAN HOUSE’

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~ BOMBERS USIN

RADIO BEAMS AS TARGET GUIDES

English and Nazi Equipment Used in War Inferior - To That in U. S.

By MAJ. AL WILLIAMS

~The Battle of Britain and the Battle of Berlin have developed into 8 battle of radio beams. England and Germany are running heavy schedules on their respective bombing airlines. Each day the pressure increases on each airline. The desired results are not profit and loss sheets, in the normal sense, but tests of the civilian capacities of the respective peoples, and the capacities of their internal mechanics to withstand the destruction. The battle of : radio beams ; comes into the Maj. Williams picture when the bomber pilots seek straight direction to desired target cities. The air navigation problem involved is complete. There are no airways radio beams, of course, marking directional guidance. Such facilities are peculiarly American. Europe has never gone in for beams that would lead directly from Paris to London or Berlin.

Gives Direction Sign

The Europeans concentrated, in peacetime airline transportation, on the system of determining the position of a plane in the air by ob- _ taining the direction of the ship from two radio receiving stations. When the direction is obtained, indicating that the ship is on a certain compass-bearing from two stations, lines are drawn on a map. ‘The ship must be where the two * lines intersect. In this battle of radio beams, darkness, clouds, ground mist or fog prevails. The night-bombing pilots face the task of making good their flight paths to a target city and knowing when they are over that city. The Germans, for instance, launched a regular radio directional beam on a wave length secretly selected. Let us assume that beam led straight to London. It would only guide the bomber pilot on a flight path toward London. From another land position, the Germans launched - another radio beam intersecting the first beam right over London. Flying the first beam, the pilot kept right on until his receiver picked up the second beam signal. Then he knew he was at the intersection and so over London—and he reached down and pulled his bomb-release lever.

British Catch on The Germans got away with this for a few nights, and then the British caught on. The next night, they covered that intersection of

the two beams with a box barrage

of anti-aircraft fire, beginning as goon as they knew the Germans had started for London. The following night, the Germans aimed the same two beams at the identical intersection point, and kept them fixed for 10 or 15 minutes—then switched the intersection points somewhere €lss. This shifting of intersection points went on awhile, and then attacks were launched on the scheme of intermittent radio direction signals. The British, facing the same job of telling their pilots when they were over Berlin and other target cities of Germany, - worked the trick—from a submarine sending station far in the wastes of the North Sea and another station in England. Then the British cut the beam directed from England and sent out both their beams from submarines whose positions were carefully calculated. Uncanny, isn’t it? Airpower is alert to everything that happens arcund it. Just a few radio signals, otherwise harmless, can guide a terrible bombing attack to its objective.

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By GLENN STADLER United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS (Via Berlin), Oct. 23.— The Stock Exchange has reopened and night clubs report a sharp revival of business, but Parisians still are standing in line to get food and fuel. There are queues in all parts of the city. There seems to be no method of reducing the necessity of standing for hours to obtain meat, butter, sugar, salt and milk, but despite rationing there appears to be no severe shortage of these foods in Paris. The newspaper Aujourd Hui gave some special advice to Parisians on how to make a little food go a long way by mastication.

“If we wish to economize and keep in good health we must know how to eat,” the newspaper advised. “A piece of bread should be chewed 70 times, ‘a piece of meat about 200. All food should be ground to a pulp. Then you’ll find you need much less food.” Another money exchange market dealing strictly in cash was the Pari Mutuel which reopened on Oct. 12 with the fall race meeting at Auteuil. Important three-day conferences to meet the serious unemployment problem — an estimated 1,000,000 men were out of work—were opened here by Minister of Finance Yves Bouthillier. German authorities announced they planned to reopen the

textile industry and aimed at doubling production. » But much remained to be done before anything resembling normalcy could be expected. As far as could be determined on a recent Germ an -=-conducted press tour through Northern France, reconstruction being carried on was chiefly to re-establish communications, such as highways, railroads, telegraph and telephone lines. Workers were slowly digging their way through blocks and blocks of debris in the main business sections of Beauvais and Amiens, indicating that it would require years to re-

build these destroyed cities. Signs stuck on some piles of bricks an-

nounced that business was being carried on as usual at some other address. American business firms remain inactive in Paris, with chief expectations for the future operations

held by the oil companies. The American colony is: thinning out, encouraged by daily advice from the embassy to leave. American

than 100 persons wishing to return

home on a Red Cross or Govern-' ment ship because they have not

sufficient money to pay fare. There have been renewed rumors around Paris that the Vichy Government may return here before Christmas. The fact that Vice Premier Pierre Laval already had

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visited Paris four times to confer with high German authorities added impetus to these reports. Political activities here have been discouraged. In the past few weeks 30 Communists were arrested in the industrial suburbs of St. Denis and Clichy for distributing literature. , There was no recent talk of separate French civilian government here in opposition to- Vichy. Newspapers have devoted much altention to United States news as the American election date approaches. Newspaper sales were reaching record highs, with Le Matin and Paris Soir reporting sales of nearly 1,000,000 each daily. The

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Petit Parisien reappeared in Paris and dedicated itself to “assisting as much as possible in France's spiritual and physical rebirth.”

Paris night life moved at increased tempo. Some clubs remained open all night for dancing at “German officer prices.”

SHOOTS DEAD DEER HANFORD, Cal, Oct. 21 (U. P.).— The next time Manuel E. Lewis kills a deer, he won't take time out to suspend it in a tree. Before he could get it suspended, another hunter

spotted it, and his bullet missed Lewis by a few inches before lodging in the head of the already dead

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 23 (U. P.).—The board of directors of the German House today voted unanimously “under pressure of various none German and other organizations, such as the American Legion, that meet there,” to change the name of the building to “St. Louis House.” Adam Wekerle, board president, said that “because some people associate all things German with the Nazis it was deemed best to make

the change. Some of the directors were opposed to the change at first, but the final action was unanimous.” German House was built originally to afford a meeting place for various St. Louis German societies.

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