Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1941 — Page 6

URGE SENATORS | 70 SUPPORT FOF

indiana Committee: Says | £ 8 Deronse Must Proceed - Without Delay.

Lx The Indiana’ Committee for Naong] - ense today urged ‘Us 3. Senators Frederick VanNuys ard Raymond E. Willis ‘to ‘support the 4: National Defense ‘Bill (H, I. 796) now pending in Congress.

the Committee said: e, the undersigned, agree wit renal Willkie’s statement th: : ur democracy today can h to defend itself effectively es hy . & granting the extraordinary powers “now required by the executive } “Mr. Willkie has said that we must not deprive the Administiiition ‘of - the powers imperative ne W, for our defense. » No Obstruction

"At this time undér no circunistances should there be obstruction of legislation: essential to ‘the nz

fur ging’ your support of ‘the: plan‘set if bil vi in the bill introduced Jan; 10 2%td further promote the defense of the United: States (H. R. 1776). 3 “Although we recognize the nece«8ity for “careful -scrutin Gmenasure and of the.desirability of || . fa time limit, we believe that it wou.d : sdmperil the national ‘safety for Con=gress unnecessarily to delay Rach mn

§ Whdreon. » i

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: - Signed. by Committee The letter was signed by:

Mrs. Elias €. Atkins, Ernest R.|| D. ‘Laurance. -Chambars,| ¢Dean Stanley Coulter, Dr. John G.|

i Baltzell,

SCoulter, Joseph J. Daniels, Isidore *PFeibleman, ames W. Fesler, Join iI. Kautz, Bruce L. Kershner, De#n “Frederick D. Kershner, M. O. Landgraf, Hugh McK. Landon, Daniel B. Luten, Hugh ‘McGibney, Robert IL. Moorhead, James W. Noel, Kenneth sOgle, Charles ©. Roemler, John X.\ _ sRuckelshaus, Wendell Sherk, Vil. diam G. Sparks, Booth Tarkington

Miss Elizabeth Trotter, Mrs. Felix ||

sVonnegut, Warrack Wallace, W. L: wane and George L. Denny.

‘SCHRICKER HEADS

INAUGURAL PARTY,

$ * » & fg Soars Henry F. Schricker will shead a large delegation of Demo7 Jcratic leaders at the inaugural cere- - sniohies for President Roosevelt in Washington Monday. $ The Governor will leave by triin| 4tomorrow afternoon with Samuel D.] sdadkson, former Attorney General;

3Geprge Stevens, Second District | and State| | now be made in “zero-zero” weather

; Democratic chairman, {Excise Director Hugh A. Barnhart *£ Others. planning to attend el inaugural include: State Denio-| “cratic Chairman Fred F. Bayes, Mr. ‘and Mrs. John Bingham, State ad ‘Commissioner Thomas R.| tson; former Governor M. Clifford wnsend, Mrs.” Samuel Ralston, \ 3 National Committeewoman ' from Indiana, and Frank M. McHale, 1ia- ‘ ftional Committeeman. t The ‘Governor will attend a ¢ini ner meeting with 30 other Goverriors| Sunday night. as guest of William . Knudsen, National Defense Director. ~ § Monday the Governor will attend) = {aGovernors’ conference on national ; defense matters. ;

U. S. EMPLOYEES RISE WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U. P). $ The Civil Service Commission. to-| % day reported that the number of ¢ Federal employees rose to a record Shigh of 1,111,530 during November, due -to the national defense emerg-|

We safety. | e .agree with Mr.. Willkie in|

‘of this] |

« In an _.open letter to the Hoosier |

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Observers could make out ‘/U. S. Army” printed or the’ balloon and guessed its présence had something ito do ‘with defense. And so it did indirectly. For two days physicists froin the U. S. Bureau of Standards in Washington have been going aloft in the balloon to compare three types®of runway “fog penetrating” approach lights installed for tests in connec‘tion with ‘operation of the racie inistrument or “blind’’ landing system at the airport. Conditions were ideal for the tests ‘during the last two days. The fog iblanketing the airport was the ‘densest in nearly two years and the lights are designed to “burn’| their way through fog t0 aid the pilot in making radio landings. in inclement weather. Factor

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: Extra Safety Although perfect can ‘with use of the réadlo “blind’| landing system—as wes demonstrated Wednesday—experls believe tliat use of fog penetrating approach lights 'in connection with radio will hasten the day when science can pe depended upon solely to bring giant ‘airliners into weather “closed” airports. in safety. The experimenfs are being con(ducted by the Civil Aeronaufiics Au- | thorit and directed by Dr. F. C. Becken~ ridge, ‘physicist 0f the Bureau. of Standards.

Dienhart 5 Passenger The best of the experimental ap-

oe, "lights will be chosen for

“service-testing’”” .by airplanes and will eventually oe used as # model for similar installations in other airports throughout the country. One of the passengers yesterday was I. J, (Nisk) Dienhart, airport

& 1 aaiiy ek ai & a sai i 5 WARRANT

i | superintendent,

who went ‘gloft 200

radio testing station here]

(Nish) Dienhart, airport sup: rintendent, takes a look at

is 20 feet above the ground.

Observers in Blimp Study New Runway Lights Here

By SAM TYNDALL i Residents in the vicinity ¢f the Mw cipal Atrport—-who pay about as much attention to a speecing airliner as they would to a Passing streetcar—peered ouf ®f their windows with surprise yesterday to the vague outline of a balloon suspended over the runways. It was foggy and the big zas-filled kag looked weird. Below the bag, ‘hung a little chair with a man strapped nside

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feet to peer‘at the lights which line the | northwest-southeast runway. The balloon i$ anchored by heavy ropes tied to the ground. Said Mr, Dienhait: “It’s the only way to make a coniparison.” It was his first ride in such a balloon and when he reached | the ground he cracked: ‘“There’s a good Heal more air on all sides than when you're sitting in an airplane—tut I liked the ride.” The lights are expected to serve as an aid to military aviation. as wel: as to commercjal airways. Light experts foresee. tha: time when the lights may be in a position to help guile returning kLombers to their airdromes—if es~if i we were ever fe ever necessary.

ROCKEFELLER, PEW, DIJ PONT GIFTS DROP

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U, P.). —l4embers of thi: Rockefeller, du Poat and Pew families contgibuted $2"6,725 to the Republican Party during 1940—abonut one-fourth of their 1936 contributions, ‘the Senate Cg mpaign = Expenditures Investigaiing Committee disclosed today. Analysis of the Rockefeller contributions showeg ‘that 13 members of the family«eiontributed to the Associated Willkie Clubs of Americi, and Republicin Party groups. The du Pont gifts were made to the same Republican groups in D:laware, Kansas, West Virginia, Ir diaha, ‘Wyoming, Missouri, Tennessee, New Jersey and Maryland. The Pew donations were made to Ripublican groups in New York, Maryland, . Pennsylvania, Vermont, Naw Jersey, Indiana, South Dakota and Reniucky, | _ None exceeded $¢ 000, |

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