Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1941 — Page 30

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Both Sides Of Th

Curly-Headed Boy of 19 Is

Best Pilot at One Airdrome. By JOE ALEX MORRIS

(Copyright, 1941, by United Press.) THE ROYAL AIR FORCE officer's pointer circles across a big

| | | |

map on the wall of the bomber |

base briefing room and comes to rest on a German port. “This,” he says to half a hundred young flying officers, “is your target area and this thin line is your target.” The flying officers lean forward, soaking up the details outlined in black and white on the chart. Most of them had seen that target port before; had seen it from

an altitude of 10,000 feet on a |

clear night when brought out contrast between land and water and when British bursts of gunfire dotted the winding coastline. Outside the airdrome briefing room the low clouds are lifting and, in 12 hours, these boys will

moonlight |

be heading for the German coast, |

looking for a pin-point on a thou-

sand miles of shore line, carrying |

death and destruction and hope of Great Britain for ultimate victory. For if Britain is to win this war, these youngsters in giant bombers must do the dirty work by carrying the conflict to the enemy, The again were plains

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officer's pointer moves “These aerial photographs taken vesterdav.” he ex“Here vou can see the

the |

Joe Alex Morris

| harbor entrance. Here is the river | and the line of docks. | your target.

Here is Each of you carry six 250-pounders.”

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Bombs from 1000 Feet

While navigation and meteor=ology experts explain technical questions to the pilots, I look

| around the room. There are many

veteran officers at a bomber base

but you can usually pick out the |

pilots. They look as if they should be decorating a college campus with no worry more serious than mid-term exams. Sitting next to

me is a boy of 19, delicately hand- |

some and with a ring of black

will

curls that fall across his forehead as he studies the map. His name is Bill, and he seems utterly incapable of any task of war. I turn to my guide and whisper: “How about this fellow Bill?

| What can he do?”

“You remember that piece in the newspapers last week about an R. A. F. pilot dropping his bombs at a thousand-feet altitude over a factory in north Ttaly?” he replies. “Well, that was Bill.” We walk from the briefing room with Bill and Ted, a blond, freckled young New Zealander of 20 with buck teeth and a remarkable ability to have a good time. Both are veterans of many raids and rated as the best pilots at the base. »

lce-Cold All the Time

“See you about midnight,” they say casually as we part. past the air raid shelters piled with sandbags, the wing commander’'s office with its two-inch thick steel shutters and the big hangars in which airplanes are seldom to be seen. The ground crews are “bombing up” when we reach the first of the widely-scat-tered planes. A little tractor with iron-wheeled trucks rolling behind is going from plane to plane, delivering great yellow bombs that, dropped from 5000 feet, would blast through the armor of a modern warship. J We stop in front of Bill's plane, a towering green and brown ship with black underside for camouflage. A ground crew of five men, working in biting cold with bare hands is loading bombs

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War: A Big British Bomber Base And Hitler Youth

We climb up into the plane. Tt is about the size of a commercial air liner. The pilot's seat high up near the entrance is a plate of bare steel. He sits on his parachute. The second pilot is usually the bomb aimer. He has a small collapsible seat but he lies on his stomach on the padded floor to release bombs. Ahead of him, in a little transparent turret at the nose of the craft, is the forward Two long, slim stick out of the

i turret, which can be turned com-

pletely around in two seconds. It is icy cold in the turret, even

when the plane is on the ground.

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Just Keep to the Right The navigator and radio operator are in a compartment behind the pilot, and far back on the tail

| of the plane is a second turret

We g0 |

| about

| away on the German | wondering if the anti-aireraft fire | will be heavy tonight. denly, without saving a definite

| darkness.

for the rear machine-gunner,

in one of the

Crews gather in little

removed from stands with us. encased soft flying boot, taps noiselessly on the concrete floor,

Bill

| much.

The wing commander, redheaded and completely business like, strides in with final instructions. The weather is unchanged.

| The clouds will lift to 1000 feet by

dawn. Keep just to the right of the flare path in taking off Watch for ice on the wings. “You should be back about dawn,” he says as the meeting breaks up. The flying officers begin pulling on layers of sweaters, wind-break-ers, long heavy stockings and overalls of tough, silk-like material. Fleece-lined jackets and boots sometimes complete their costumes. In addition they must wear their “Mae West” inflated life jackets and parachutes. The sergeants, usually machine gunners, wear heavy garments which are lined with electric heating pads that they plug in after climbing into the gun turrets,

” ” LJ

Guided by 'Goose-Neck'

Out on the runways it is black

and cold. The inky sky seems to |

close down on us the moment we leave the hangar. Bill's pleasant face is a tight mask as he sucks

at the last cigaret before the take- | the |

off. His crew is already at plane, We stumble out on where the whir of motors is beginning to break out from half a dozen different directions. Suddenly a dim line of shaded lights

snaps on, with a “goose-neck” (a |}

special type flare) at the other end of the field. The lights guide the planes down the runway and

| the goose-neck shows them when

they must lift their ton of high explosives off the ground in order to clear obstacles ahead.

Bill's plane looms up suddenly

In front of us, a bulky shape on which the racing propellers make two hazy circles of light. He puts his arms out to stop us. “Don't get too close,” he says. s0 dark you can't tell how away those propellers are.” We stand there talking for a bit unimportant things. again that it's cold as

far

say

three coast

hours and

about that thin line

Then, sud-

goodbye, Bill is gone into the

of him hoisting himself into the belly of the bomber before the

| hatch slams shut and there is only | darkness again, and the noise of | | the mighty motors.

Next—Flight to coast,

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Nursery Is Proudest Nazi Achievement at Huge Engine Factory.

By LYLE C. WILSON (Copyright, 1941, by United Press.) Director Helmut Stein of the Humboldd-Deutz Diesel Works in Cologne takes pride in two things: His employee honor system. The powertul engines that roll

| off his smooth assembly line.

But at Nazi Party headquarters the main interest in Director Stein's huge, sprawling plant is

| the nursery.

That nursery, and others in steel

| plants and manufacturing estab-

lishments in Germany, provide part of the answer to such questions as why workers there seem reasonably contented. It also demonstrates that the foundation

of the Hitler Youth movement is

in the cradle. Catch ‘em young. The Humboldt-Deutz nursery

| where working mothers check their

children during an eight or tenhour working day was equipped for the care and feeding of youngsters. We came to it just after lunch and tiptoed into a glass

| inclosed room where 40 to 50 poWe don't say |

tential .ittle storm troopers and prospective mothers of the New

| Order were having their afternoon

nap. ” »n n

Afternoons for Hitler

“Shhhhh” shushed the matron, but the door squeaked behind her and the children were suddenly awake. Dozens of hands and arms waved in their kindergarten version of the Nazi salute. Then came

| a treble:

Heil Hitler!” The babies ranged in age from a

| year or so to about five years and already the older ones had been

conditioned, three seconds out of sound sleep, to sound the party A little further along in their lives they are headed for the Hitler Youth movement proper with its uniforms, its communal

| play and work and its indoctrina- | tion with the idea that the world

is Germany's apple, just about

| peeled for the eating.

Not even in the ninth vear of Naziism has the division of youth= ful attention and endeavor been satisfactorily adjusted among fam=ily, school and Hitler Youth responsibilities. But the party is In mid-Febru-ary the Voelkischer Beobachter, Chancellor Hitler's own newss-

| eation of German

Lyle C. Wilson paper, announced that Hitler Youth leaders and the Education Ministry had reached agreement on a schedule to “unify” the edu= vouth. The schedule proposed division of the school day into a morning period by school-work proper and the afternoon solely for Hitler Youth marches, demonstrations and training. The Voelkischer Beobachter explained that this arrangement would eliminate the imposition of “too many claims on the time of the children.” Theretofore Hitler Youth activities had taken place after the afternoon school session or, in some instances, had cons flicted with the fixed schedule of study, ” ”

Copybook Punishment

The Nazi party can deal with juvenile rebellion too. In Brussels this winter there appeared a rash of chalked inscription on walis, billboards, and sidewalks throughout the city. In the copybook print typical of children the letters “R. A F,” stared at the occupying forces wherever they might look. To the children in suburban Etterbeek, Germany presented this formal warning which they were required to inscribe in their copybooks: “The German authorities,” duti= fully wrote the Etterbeek children, “several times have warned us that they will not tolerate a repetition of certain chalk inscriptions whose authors generally are pupils of the

Etterbeek schools. Those inscrip-

tions have been made on school

| walls, the walls of private houses,

and sidewalks, We must declare that the German authorities will take serious measures against children as well as their parents if the conditions complained of continue to occur.” Children have a special place in the Nazi system. They are better fed than their elders unless the parent happens to be engaged in heavy labor or is a military flier, front-line trooper or a naval rat ing on active service on the sure face or under the sea. As in England there is a standing invitation

| to parents, especially in exposed

Western Germany, to send their

! children to the east, far from the

reach of enemy air raiders, ” » ”

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Thousands of children have gone

Bremen, Cologne, Mulheimi, Essen, Oberhausen, Duisberg, and such vital industrial

| and port areas was impressive, It

might mean that there has been

no concentration of air attack on

any German city sufficient to blast its people to death or toward safety; or perhaps it is because British npombs are so well directed that they rarely miss the factories, railway yauds, docks, and other military objectives at which they are aimed. Either way, the children are still in the west. The only child with whom I discussed this subject seriously was a young lady of nine. I was spending the day with her family in Berlin, “Aren't you anxious to go on to

| the southeast where there aren't { any air raids?” I asked her,

“Oh, no,” she said. “I couldn't

| leave papa and mamma and my school. | in the air raid shelter. I may have

See, this is my own chair

it for myself whenever the alarm

goes.”

» ” ”

Touches 2,500,000 Youth

Although eastern refugees from air raids would separate a child from its family it would not interrupt the instruction in Nazi principles, whether the refugee found

| sanctuary in a private home or a | boys’

or girls’ dormitory. There are four youth organizations: Jungfolk Por boys 10 to 14 years of age; Hitler Youth for boys of 14 to 18; Jungmadel for younger

y girls, | they reach the age of 21

| tion of the youth movement well more

| sehool control,” runs

| missing for a bit. | dragging at his real home, he will

and Madel for girls until The nation iz divided into five main territories for administra« and than 2.500.000 voung people are actively engaged in it. “Apart from parental and the official explanation of youth movement objectives, “the entire youth is to undergo body mental and moral training in the spirit of National Socialism for national service, The Hitler Youth command is primar= ily concerned with expounding to

| boys and girls the basic ideas of

National Socialist philosophy and

| imparting a knowledge of race and

soil as the foundations of national life.” There is a recreatiohal side of the program devoted to camping, hiking and the “homes” or club=

| houses which are described as the | core of the smallest units of Gers | man youth,

“You can always count on meets

| Ing some of the Hitler Youth in | the homes,” says Hitler Germany, | a volume distributed by the propas= | ganda ministry.

“In fact, it 1s there parents first go if their son is Finding time

have gone around to the home of

| his ‘fellowship’ or ‘commradeship.’

. + + Every civilized nation has te devote itself without respite to

| the task of training its youth.”

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MANGANO ESCAPES CHAIR IN 2D TRIAL

i CHICAGO, March 28 (U. P.).== (Jerry Mangano, 23, once given the (death penalty for the slaying of park policeman Harry Francois, was [sentenced to 199 vears for the same offense last night after a Criminal Court jury found him guilty a see= fond time but failed to recommend (death, The jury returned its verdict after considering the case three hours, | Defense Attorney James Burke, who previously had offered to plead ‘his client guilty in return [promise of a life term sentence, waived the opportunity to petition {for a new trial, Judge John Sbharbaro the jury's recommendation, passed [sentence immediately, In his instructions to Judge Sbarbaro had said “The only way you can eontinue to have policemen of this coms {munity feel secure in the performs= (ance of their duty it to return a

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