Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1941 — Page 3
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"Independent Ar Force—No. = 2
BILLY’ MITCHELL
~ BEGAN
HE FIGHT
Borers Proved in 1920 That Airpla That Airplane Bombs Could Sink Huge Battleships; Agitation for Separate Plane
Command Grows
From His Daring.
This the first in a series of articles in which Mr. Lucey explores “the background of the growing agitation for an independent air force.
. By CHARLES T. LUCEY
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, June 16.—The idea of an al
air force, which i is being revived today as the United States) moves into a new era of air power, springs from one:of the| ; to wear the uniform of the |
most audacious officers ever
United States Army—DBrig.. Gen. William Mitchell:
Billy Mitchell was a Pershing man, picked by the A. E.| | F. commander to head this country’s.air force in France,|
and he was one of the few—Herman Goering was another—
to come out of the how the airplane “Hindenberg looked back to Hannibal's battle of Cannae and made his disposition
to fight the Russians at Tannenburg,” Gen. Mitchell wrote. “Napoleon studied the campaigns of Alexander ‘the Great and Genghis "Kahn. The navies draw their inspiration from the Battle of Actium in the time of the Romans, and the sea fight of Trafalgar. _ “In the development of air power one has to look. ahead and not backward, and figure out what is going to happen, not too much what has happened... That is why the older: services have been psychologically unfit to develop this new arm to the fullest extent practicable with the methods and means at hand.” The then new airplane-vs.-battle-ghip argument was the springboard for the relentless campaign waged by Gen. Mitchell to free military aviation from the control of com- . manding officers of the Army and Navy who knew little about airplanes.
Congress SeiZed Argument
When he announced flatly in 1920 that he could destroy and sink a battleship with bombs dropped from the air, the Navy Secretdry said he knew better. He'd be willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship, he avowed, while the bombs were
pped. : Congress took up the argument and adopted. resolutions authorizing the world’s first direct tests between these two instruments of war.
World War with a sure appreciation of as to revolutionize warfare.
ing the target practice was damaged so badly by the force of the bombs that the vessel made only three miles an hour that night heading back into the Chesapeake. Two days later the destroyer was the target. The plane brigade moved in as in actual afttack—18 pursuit ships leading, to engage any enemy aviation that might ‘appear, then light De Haviland bombers, | then a dozen heavy Martin bomb-|. ers, all in V formation. The big. bombs broke the destroyer in two and she sank. “The demonstration was abso« lutely conclusive,” Gen. Mitchell wrote. “While it was not particularly difficult to sink the vessel itself, those who thought any antiaircraft guns would keep off an attack saw that it was now impossible because under cover of pursuit and lightweight bombardment aviation, the larger bombers could move in with little danger.” Ostfriesland Was Real Test A submarine, a destroyer, a cruiser—but Gen. Mitchell had said a battleship. That was to be.the Oi test. The controversy was hotter than ever after the first tests—the Admirals, Congressmen and newspapermen, as Gen. Mitchell wrote, “spending the night in terrific arguments.” Then came the giant Ostfriesland. Only small bombs were used at first, those which would damage the deck equipment and ‘perhaps put per out. of commission, but not sink er When permission was given at last to use 1100-pound bombs, five of these were dropped from five bombers in rapid succession. ‘Two
: The tests began June 2, 1921, with}hit alongside the Ostfriesland, three
German warships which’ had been|o:
Es turned over to the U. S.—a sub-
marine, a destroyer, the cruiser Frankfort and the battleship Ostfriesland, the latter built under the direction of von Tirpitz himself and salle “unsinkable”—serving as targe
Fleet Stood All Around
' Planes in those days had a short range, and Gen. Mitchell wished the tests held close to shore, but the Navy insisted that the target vessels be anchored 75 miles off the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. - There was tremendous excitement as the time for the tests approached. Most of the Atlantic fleet ~ =—sizable in those days—ranged in a vast circle around the target, although the Navy generally considered the trial quite useless. Congressmen were down from Washington for the big show. “A submarine was the first target. Three bombers under Lieut. Thomas swept over it in V formation, each dropping one bomb. They turned, came back, dropped three bombs :each. The U-boat split in two under the fairly light—180pound—bombs, and sank.
Damaged Ship Mile Away More than a mile away, the con-
densing system of the ship direct-|
on the deck or the sides, "There were “terrific.detonations” as water spouted hundreds of feet into the air and fragments flew into the sea. The bombers under Lieut. Bissell were ready to finish the job, but the control vessel signaled for the attack to stop. Then a squall came up, and the tests were over for that day. of; | 4 “She’s Gone” Under Capt. Lawson, in the next day's tests, a bombing squadron dropped four. 2000-pound bombs alongside battleship. in rapid succession, as Gen. Mitchell himself flew over her, Capt. Strett in the rear seat of his plane stood up, waved his arms and shouted, “She’s gone.” In a minute the mighty Ostfriesland was on her side, in two she was sliding down by the stern and rolling over, in three she was bottomside up, and then she stood
from sight. Some men on watching vessels were so stirred they wept; others shouted and cheered. It was possible, the ‘airmen had proved, to sink a battleship from the air, Billy Mig never let the admiral§ forge
Next: Gen. Mitchell's punish-
ment.
almost straight up and plunged S
"This is the first photo of the survivors of the torpedoed American freighter Robin Moor as they were interviewed by American officials at Reacife, Brazil. ' Left to right: Lieut. Comm. W. A. Rodgman, acting as U. S: Naval observer; John J. Benigan, third officer of the ship; Karl Nilsen, seeond ‘engineer; Virgil Sandestin, third engineer, and WalterJ, Linthicum, U. S. Consul.
HOUSE TO HEAR ‘PEPPER STORY
Military Subcommittee Is
Ready to Open Probe of Asphalt Deal.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, June 16. — How Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) tried to bend State WPA and Treas-
ury procurement officials to his will to get the Eglin Field, Fla., asphalt contract, or part of it, for the PanAmerican Petroleum Corp., will’ be explored by a House Military Affairs Subcommittee when it resumes its investigation of the whole controversy tomorrow. Thus far the subcommittee has heard conflicting testimony about what part, if any, these local Federal officials had in holding up award to the low bidder, Allied Materials, Inc., a Georgia corporation. But there is no conflict ‘as to the heavy political pressure the Senator exerted on behalf of Pan-American, which was finally cut in for a slice of the contract. The two officials involved have been called as witnesses — Roy Schroder, recently promoted from Florida WPA director, which job he held while negotiations were going on, to Southeastern regional WPA director; and Wilbur E. Harkness,
in charge of the Treasury's relief procurement office at Jacksonville. Ic Body no surprise to anyone who of Senator Pepper’s
his conception of his prerogatives as a Senator, that he moved in on officials of WPA and Treasury procurement and anyone else in political office with whom he might have influence. He has a most realistic view of the obligations of officeholders beholden to him. In the hotly contested 1938 election he used the WPA with Administration backing, virtually as his personal political property, in his fight against former Rep. Mark Wilcox and former Governor Dave
holtz. Exploitation of WPA on Senator Pepper's ' behalf in = that year equaled, if it did not exceed, that in Kentucky later the same year on behalf of Senator Alben Barkley (D. Ky.). But it all happened before the country generally became aware of this new technique in elec-
tions, and so passed without real investigation.
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mans as an attack in force, may be be a feeling out expedition.
London is highly suspicious of the lull in German activity, and of the reported German-Russian troop moves which have all Europe in a state of tension. The war is not holding to “the expected pattern. Britain has taken the initiative in the air war of Western Europe, carrying the fight to Germany while the Isles themselvse - have been comparatively free of attack for more than a month. Britain also has taken the initiative in Syria and apparently now in Libya, for the moment at least. Hitler is quiet and doing nothing
spectacular. There is some suspicigr’ in London that the Russian
border situation is an elaborate part of the war of nerves and perhaps a smoke screen to divert attention from a major move elsewhere. The British do not hold too strong
a hope that Hitler will divide his forces by taking on a foe as big as Russia over a vast front. While admitting that anything
sight of the outstanding fact that of the Mediterranean, the Near East
spot, any respite. time gained would be greatly in ir favor. would bring nearer:@aily- the time
knew anything political control in, Florida, or of{when American aid in planes, ships
and war supplies will be in full
speeded up. It is a fixed British belief that if Hitler is to win the war, he must dc it soon. Hence, in spite of the. alarms from the Ealtic to the Black Sea, England’s vigilance against an invasion attempt has not been relaxed.
extreme danger spot. According to some reports, Hitler now has in North Africa a force{t ish Army opposing hip. Crete for a convenient base from which his ' bombers can . operate
against Egypt. Major action in North Africa may| be the next important Sevelopment of the war.
ROCHESTER U. GIVES
ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 16 (U. P.)—Prime Minister Winston Churchill today accepted an honorary decree of Doctor of Laws from Rochester University in a broadcast from No. 10 Downing Street in which he emphasized the
“kinship and unity” between the United States and Britain. Churchill’s address was carried to United States listeners by hte National Broadcasting Co. It followed a speech by Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson in which he told the 91st graduating ‘class of the University that “it is tolerably safe to predict that this will be a long war.” Churchill recalled that his mother was born in Rochester and that his
Hoses 8, Jiope: may happen, the British do not lose|XN:- G
Hitler’s main objectives are conquest No
now Florida WPA director, who was gna Sues and invasion ‘of the Brit-|,
s. St..; Although the British are in a tight| 3 Tt Berto
swing and Britain’s own output!
North Africa also is regarded as an|? about equal in strength to the Brit- son:
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against ‘the British Fleet and|R°
CHURCHILL A DEGREE |X:
Today's War Moves
BY UNITED PRESS WAR EXPERTS ; The British foray into Libya beyond Tobruk, described by the Ger-
the start of an offensive, or it may
The British have been expecting a renewed Axis drive in the North African desert toward the Suez Canal and it is natural that they would want to feel out Hitler's strength and prepare their own defenses jn Western Egypt accordingly.
61 COUNTY MEN ANSWER DRAFT
Local Delegation “Among 202 Due to Report at Fort Today.
Sixty-one men registered in Marion County Draft Boards 1 and 2 were among the 202 scheduled to report at Ft. Harrison today as the induction of draftees in the ninth selective service call continued. Other counties included were Carroll, 10 men; Posey, five; Tippecanoe, 30; Vanderburgh, 65, and
Vigo, 31.
The Marion County men are:
Board 1—Paul Hobert Elkins, 880 Middle Woodruff Place; William Carlton James George Goodyear, 2804 Samuel James Cope! yy 3703 Gal rman Dr.; Chri isto Thomas Mocas, e Edward Dopp
. e Dearborn st.: | tac us 2951 N. Capitol; 9714 _N. Gale St.; Leonard n_ Musgrave, 2221 N. Station 8t.; h' O'Keefe, 2350 N. Searbom rank Bock, 28 2826 N. Oln : rman Andrew Pope, rthage; a! Wilson Yeeks: Clyde: ‘larence Loui
ee, Ave.; der Paul Lundy. 2322 rl Gale St.; George William Brown. g 2208 Parker Ave. .; Eber jagrange Batem 1208 N. Tacoma Ave.; Pon Gordon Austin 2241 Brookside Ave.; ward C. White. 102 Cnaries ecll South gate. av .,, Sn Robert. Arthur Strate, 3538 Sta-
ard 2—Raobert Paul aon, 2222 Belle- : John Carl Doyle, 2112 Park pagers. 2327
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HUGHES ELECTED BY INDIANA CHEMISTS
Edward J. Hughes of Indianapolis was elected president- of the Indiana Chemical Society at the annual meeting Saturday at the Meridian Hills Country Club. Other officers named were H. B. Hass of Lafayette, vice president; R. K. Lewis of Indianapolis, secre-tary-treasurer, and H. A. Shonle of Indianapolis, Charles Bills of Evansville, M. G. Mallon of Lafay-
ette and Edwin Leigh of Ft. Wayne,
directors. Hold-over directors are Lawrence Newburn of Indianapolis, Lu Reibsomer of Greencastle, E. T.
‘grandfather, Leonard Jerome, published a newspaper there.
McBee of Lafayette and George Scherer of Richmond.
| groups took similar action | fense Investigating Committee.
of the strikers at San Francisco to
the meeting and urge ‘the men to
~|ilar draft Saturday for 55 Atlantic
‘| been recognized as bargaining agent
i M. Orton to WashingN.|ton. Mr. Orton had accused the Olney board: i employing strike-breaking
! tlement in the dispute between the
iae:|the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L.'s
:| ganizing campaign among motor G:i| transport and allied workers.
Harold
Machinists : Reject F D. R. ‘Proposal; Eastern Unions Accept Pact.
By UNITED PRESS Government. efforts to prevent labor disputes in the shipbuilding in-
; dustry claimed initial success on the| | East: Coast today in the face of an- | other defeat in the San Francisco|
Strikiig A. P. of L. and C. I. O. machinists voted at ‘San’ Francisco
a EE |
President ‘Roosevelt and
of ‘long cherished principles. Both, ously on a proposal of the Senate De-
Harvey Brown, president of the Machinists International Union, called a meeting Wednesday night
reconsider the President's recommendation that they go back .to work. © Mr. Brown announced in Ww that he would attend
end the strike. Win Pay Boost
A. F. of L, leaders led a back-to-work movement of other craftsmen and enabled shipyards to resume
the originai 1200 A. F. of L. machinists, 400 obtained jobs with other firms meeting their demands. There were 500 C. I. O. workers. The Office of Production Management, which promoted the Pacific '|Coast agreement, completed a sim-
seaboard shipyards.. Delegates representing 33 locals of the industrial union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers (C. I. O.) accepted the nostrike, no-lockout proposal yesterday in a meeting at Camden, N. J. Shipyard operators still must ratify the pact, which would boost wages 12 per cent.
Woodworkers to Return The union also announced it had
for employees of .11 Eastern shipyards of the Bethlehem Steel Co. More than 12,000 members of the International Woodworkers of America (C. 1.0.) return to | camps and sawmills in the Puget Sound area today. The union voted. 30-to 1 to end the 38-day strike under a proposal of C. I. O. President Philip Murray, accepting the T%cent hourly wage increase in the National Defense Mediation Board formula but modifying its other provisions. I.W.A. officials twice had reéjected the Mediation Board formula over Mr. Murray's protests before Mr. Murray summoned I. W. A.
L chia on Closed Shop
The NDMB hoped to reach a set-
A. F. of L. Metal Trades Council’ and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., only major company to reject the West Coast agreement. Negotiations have stalled on union demands for a closed shop. Settlement of.the controversy would not affect the machinists’ strike. In the feud developing between
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, C. I. O. leaders met at Chicago yesterday to plan an or-
It was announced that C. I. O. counsel Lee Pressman would go to Minneapolis this week to aid the organization drive. The C. I. O. issued a charter to a
local Friday after President Roose-
velt had warned against inter-union|
membership raids. Members of the local bolted the A. F. of L.: after the international union attempted to discipline its leaders for alleged radicalism.
APPROVE ROAD NETWORK
WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P.). —The Senate today unanimously approved and sent to the House a bill authorizing a $250,000,000 network of strategic defense roads with 400 highway “flight strips” to serve as emergency. airports.
WILLIS RECOVERING
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 16 (U. P.).—The office of Senator Raymond E. Willis. (R. Ind.) said today 1.| he was making an “excellent recovery” from an operation for gall bladder infection performed last
Wedensday.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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HARRISON IN HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, June 16 (U.P).
pro ‘tempore of. ihe Senate and DE on of the finance committee, undergoes a major intestinal operation - at Emergency - Hospital.
ere Seriously concerned 1. over bis condition and doubled tin
to resume his Sen-
‘| shift, 160-hour week.
WASHINGTON, June 16 (U. P). labor's plan for end-
‘| =-Organized ing the week-end “black-out” in
defense industries ‘will be presented
. | to the Office of Production Manage-
Dent within a week, it’ was learned ay Details have not been: disclosed, but the is expected to outline methods by which certain indus-|chinis {ries could be placed on a threeThe plan has been formulated by the OPM’s labor policy advisory committee, composed of representatives of the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of, Industrial Railroad
: Organizations and the | Brotherhood.
Meanwhile, the urgent need for more industrial production was emphasized by President Roosevelt |p,
.{1ast night in a statement deploring
the , “continued. discrimination”
| against Negroes and other classes of
workers in industry. . He ordered OPM to take jmmediate steps for an “open door of employment” to all workers “regardless, of race, national origin, religion or color.” Mr. Roosevelt, in a memorandum to OPM directors William 8. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman, said we could not afford “grbitarily to ex-
lation from defense Industry
clude large segments” of the popu- | period, they
160-Hour Defense Week Plan Drafted by Labor for Early Submission to OPM
was no indication what counteraction the Government plans in view of the refusal of San Francisco machinists to return to work at 11 shipyards where they have been on strike since May 10. . Other employees are back to work, but officials said production was
President Roosevelt earlier had said that it was imperative that the machinists resume work on the $500,000,000 of defense contracts in their yards. tn view of that it was believed strong pressure would be applied now since the machinists’ rejection yesterday of ‘the President's request. : The request was. relayed to them BY Dregitient President Harvey Brown of the ‘Association
unm after approval by the union's executive board and by C. I O. president Philip Murray. OPM Director Knudsen repeat-
over the week-end. Cbs Bid of the 160-hout wor week contend that it could be installed effectively and be maintained. The remaining eight hours of the week ooulg be utilized for
boing Impeded Wy the lack of Ma- |
-of Ma-|p
three eight-hour shifts every day except Sunday when there would be only two. Numerous problems must be solved before such a program could be’ made effective; for example, there is the question of availability of sufficient materials and labor.
DEAE SP SPURNED
production on a restricted scale. Of |
axes CHURCH LEADERS
Bomber Pilot
Jacqueline Cochran
‘AN EASTERN CANADIAN AIRPORT, June 16 (U. P.).—Jacqueline Cochran, American flier, will pilot” a bomber to Great Britain, it' was- disclosed today. Miss Cochran: will make the. ferry trip as first officer of the bomber and after arriving in England will study women’s air activties in the war, it was said. |
MRS. BADER, ‘HERE 58 YEARS, IS DEAD
Mrs. Katherine Bader, an Indianapolis resident 58 years, died today at the home of her son, Emil Bader, 850 N. Jefferson Ave. She was 87.
- Born mm Wittenberg, Germany, she was a member of St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church ere. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Marie Rademacher and Mrs. Frieda Harrington; two other sons, Christian and John W. Bader, all of Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs. Pauline Degler of Terre Haute and Mrs. Christine Cartheuser of Indianapolis; 12 grandchildren, 11 greatgrandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Conkle Funeral Home. Burial will be at Crown Hill.
TO TAKE GOURSES
The Rev. William C. Nelson, pastor of the Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church, will take a summer course at the Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill, study“The City Church and the Community.” The Rev. Mr. ‘Nelson is one of several people from Indianapolis who will study or teach at summer schools this: year. He is on the comity committee of the Church Federation and will take the course at Garrett in order to serve problems arising in Indianapolis. Mrs. E. Burdette Backus, wife of Dr. Backus, pastor of All Souls Unitarian: Church, will teach at the Lake Geneva Unitarian conference, young people’s division, opening next week. Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation will study at the Hebrew Union College summer institute which be-
SOVIET CHOI
YIELD OR Fic
British Hope Stalin
Resist, but That Might Slow U. S. Aid.
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN : Co ha” Chithgo Dally ‘News. Tac.
LONDON, June 16—It is firm
|believed by competent quarters | |that Soviet Russia will have ei
to fight or to make important ¢
k |cessions to Germany in the w
near future. As people here Sovisage the situ
lation, Germany
hood demand economic conces in: the Ukraine which in off would -turn. that large and rich seetion of Russia into an inexhaustible: source of supply for the Reich. The only question in these people’s minds seems to be whethe Dictator-Premier Josef V. Stalin.
man penetration into the Ukraine, * They appear persuaded that Stalinwants neither to make those con=3 cessions nor to take the alternatives
It is naturally hoped-that it. be impossible for Stalin to sell ¢ the Ukraine and that, conseque
{he will defy the Germans.
'~ More Than Bluff The British are now defini persuaded; in any case, that rumors of impending war between Germany" and Russia are more than any mere bluff or political maneuver. They know that he has between 80 and 100 divisions, including several Panzer divisions, and that strong airstriking forces are on the Russian frontier. : They are also infpressed by the fact that. Germany has made no attempt to allay Russian suspicions of imminent attack. Their conclu= ‘sion is that Hitler (a) must be plan= ning an open attack, (b) he is planning to wring heavy blackmail from Russia, or (c) possibly he. is: planning to force Russia to engage in some fresh peace offensive. 3 The results of a German-Soviet war might or might not be benefi= cial from the British viewpoint. It would provide an excellent opportunity for heavy British offensive against Germany in the West but, on the other hand, it is not certain that Britain. has yet amassed enough of a siriking force to take advantage of the opportunity. Results for Allies Confused : If Germany did seize the Ukraine with comparative ease it would unquestionably strgngthen the Reich for a long and] expensive war. If the Russians resisted successfully in the knockdown-and-drag-out stages of the conflict, or managed to con tinue resistance even east and north of the Ukraine, they might divert enough German power to make things easier for the Allies. ; The moral effect -of such a war might rebound to the Allies” serious disadvantage. In the first place, it would be: bound to confuse Amer ican opinion and delay American’ entry into the war. neutral countries Dominions might be tempted to. slacken their assistance to on the theory that Britain ought to be able to beat. Germany all ‘alone: if the latter were involved ina twofront war. Others would be to feel that Germany was engaged, in a sort of holy war against Stalin’s semi-Oriental despotism, and ina would particularly apply to Catholics all over the world. i If Germany* won handily, some neutrals who now are completely on the fence (such as Sweden, Finland, and Turkey) might go right over to!
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