Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1941 — Page 20
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ships out of commission. But
[1938 President Roosevelt was asked to comment on the
lieved the torpedo boat would wipe the battleship off the
‘two years now, and the antidotes this time have been slow to take
gunk or crippled by aerial bombs
~ trious, the battleship Bismarck, two
- ‘of 1932 for creation of a National
* But Maj. James H. Doolittle, famed
lm pa arin Sen
Role i in Reno
L ANE RECOGNITION INDIANA ELKS
OUGHT SINCE 1918
or
15,000 Visitors Attracted to ‘Bloomington; Officers . Are Elected.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, June 18 (U. P.).—More than 2500 members of the Indiana Elks Association today staged a parade as a feature of their annual convention. Approximately 15,000 other. visitors flocked to Bloomington to witness the pageant of musical units and floats assembled ffom every section of the State. In a session yesterday Joseph 3.
Several Committees Have Hale Povrsd Sparele Co-ordinate Aviation Command, but Service Men So Far Have Prevented It in U. S.
(Editor's Note—This is the third of a series of articles exploring the back-ground of the independent-air- -force idea.)
By CHARLES LES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, June 18.—At a press conference in
presidency of the association, succeeding Glenn L. Miller, Logansport. Cther new officers for the coming year were Ed Lowenthai, Evansville, first vice president; Harry E. McClain, Shelbyvilie, second vice president; Car] T. Bartlett, Muncie, third vice president; Paul G. Jasper, Ft. Wayne, fourth vice president; C. L. Shideler, Terre Haute, secretary; L. E. Yoder, Goshen, treasurer, and J. L. Miller, Eas! dich trustee for a five-year term.
familiar airplane-vs.-battleship argument. When he was a boy, the President recalled, many be-
ocean, but an antidote came in the torpedo-boat destroyer. Then came the submarine
»1t would put all surface|, Today We ere training pilots at
the rate of 12,000 a year (soon it will be 30,000 a year), airplane goals arg in tens of thousands, and military aviation paces all warfare.
NEXT—Lessons of the European war.
Actress Tallulah Bankhead relaxes in Reno with a lion cub, “Winston Churchill,” and a Pekinese, “Anne,” after divorcing John R. Emery. The, cub, afraid of the Peke, is a bottle baby.
as the World War progressed an antidote ‘was found to restore the balance between
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES 2 Get Degrees
STAGE PARADE]
awarded at Cornell: University
Kyle, Gary, was elevated to the
. From Cornell
AMONG THE 1250 degrees Monday, two went anapolis stu- _; dents. Ralph M. Reahard Jr., son of Mr,
and Mrs. |
Ralph Reahard, 5525 N. Meridian St, "received the degree of CH, Bachelor Z : . Science in tive Engineering, and Henry J. Noel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Noel, 5455 N. Meridian St. received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Mr. Reahard is a member of Phi. Gamma Delta, and served on’ the freshman Advisory Com - mittee. Mr. Noel was
elected to Mr. Noel
Sphinx Head and Red Key, hon‘orary : societies, was chairman of
the Junior’ Jamboree ‘Committee: and a member of the Freshman Advisory Committee,
HIGHWAYS WAIT |
to Indi-
' [nounced plans last week for making
RIPPER’ RULING
Don’t Want to Start Big Projects Until Status Is Settled, Adams Says.
Highway Commission officials have formulated plans for the large-scale improvement of several major state roads but are not doing anything about them until the court fight over the G. O. P. “ripper” legislation is settled. “We don’t want to start any big projects when there might be a new Highway Commission over here within 60 minutes,” explained J. D. Adams, Commission chairman. . The present three-man commission is named by -the Governor. The new G. O. P. Highway Commission law provides for a four-man commission, two to be named by the
Governor. Mr. Adams explained that he an-
Road 31 dual-lane from Indianapolis to Jeffersonville because he believed that improvement was so necessary that .it would have to be made regardless of the Cominisdlon’s
personnel.
Governor and two by the Lieutenant |
officials added.
At the State House—
JEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1041
Valuations of i Property In State Show Slight Drop
By EARL RICHERT
Although it happens that Indiana railroads are doing a “land office” business because of the defense boom, their 1941 assessed valuations, announced today by the State Tax Board, are slightly lower ‘on the average than they were last year. The decrease in total valuations is due generally to the reclassification of a few miles of main track on each road as side frack by the Interstate Commerce Commission. - Side track is not as valuable as main track and hence the State Tax Board must cut valuations, mem-
. [bers said. - The in railroad earnings due to the defense business will hot be reflected in taxes- collected unt: 1043, Tax Board officials said, since the valuations® are based on earnings of the previous year. . The defense boom ‘did not affect to any appreciable extent the 1940 earnings of the railroads on which the 1041 valuations are based, Board
Only one railroad, the Monon, had
its valuation: raised by the State Board. The 1941 valuation of the s|company’s Indiana property w
fixed at $8,872,505, an increase
over $89,000 over the 1940 figure. The increase was due to better operating revenues, Board members explained. The .valuation of Indianapolis Railways also was increased slightly by the State Board. The 1941 valuation was set by the State at $1,127,531, an increase of $2000 over 1940. ‘This is a bigger increase than it appears to be, Board- members said, since during 1940 the company retired over nine miles of track. Board officials reported that the local 1941 assessment of Indianapolis Railways, as made by the township assessors, was $3,121,070, a decrease of over $140,000 from the 1940 valuation of $3,261,820. Removal of improvements from the right-of-way of the Indianapolis Union &”Belt Railway was responsible for a $5000 decrease in the valuation of that company’s properties.» The 1041 valuation was fixed at $6,595,706. The 10941 valuations of other big railroads’ as compared with last
.|year are:
1940 $59,477,197 80,641,736 37,231,652 22,886,244 23,629,088
1041 Pennsylvania R. R...$59,418,752 New York Central .. 30,560,687 Big Four ."..a....s 87,176,247 Nickel Plate 22,863,303 Baltimore & Ohio .. 23,623,213
offense and defense. The same thing is true of air-
‘eraft, continued the President. The entidote for the airplane today, he gaid, is the antiaircraft gun and the defense plane.
* No Antidote Yet ‘But the new war has gone nearly
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effect. Air power has dominated 4n virtually all combat areas, and warship after warship has been
or. torpedoes—the cruiser Southampton, the aircraft carrier Illus-
or three Italian battleships at Taranto. And at least some of - the four British cruisers and six destroyers lost at Crete. - Despite this dominange, there is still unrelenting oppositi n here to establishment of military aviation 8s an independent fighting arm— opposition that goes back to the World War. : Army and Navy men have been included on boards and commissions studying the subject—men representing services ruled by a deep enmity against all proposals to free military aviation from their control. - Despite such opposition , there have been some reports strongly on the side of equality for the air force with land and sea forces. * The so-called Lampert Congressional Committee in 1924 recommended separation of aviation from the ground and naval forces and creation of a single Deparyment of National Defense.
Defeated in 1932
On recommendation of the House Committee of Expenditures in the Executive Departments, a clause ‘was inserted in the Economy Bill
Defense Department, but was reJected. - The Baker Board, headed by the late Newton D. Baker, former War Secretary, recommended against the independent air force in 1934.
flier, a board ' member, said in a separate comment: “I believe that the future security of our nation is dependent upon
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