Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1941 — Page 5

TUESDAY, AUG. 19, 1941

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BURNS CAUSE DEATH OF MUNCIE WOMAN

MUNCIE, Ind. Aug. 19 (U.P).— Mrs. Ona E. Snodgrass, 48. Muncie, died last night of burns received yesterday when flames from a basement stove leaped to her clothing. n preparing a fire to heat water, she stuffed paper in the stove, ! lighted it, then poured kerosene on| the flames, relatives believed. The) kerosene can exploded, burning her | about the head and body.

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By RICHARD C. HOTTELET United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THE SECOND ARMY IN

| ARKANSAS. —Officers say the new

United States army has made wonderful progress in the eight months

;/since mobilization started, but in

comparing it with the panzer forces of Hitler I can see that it still needs considerable polishing. I was watching the 33d and 35th Divisions of infantry and the 60th Field Artillery Brigade move across the Little Missouri River at night. A blackout had been imposed. But I noted that the blackout was not anywhere near as complete as I had seen on numberless similar occasions with the German Army even far behind the front. I mentioned this to one officer, who replied: “That's not too tragic. These troops are here to learn and they will do better next time.”

Bridge Approaches Slip

The engineers threw two foot bridges across the stream in 25 minutes and then set up a heavy pontoon bridge supposed to support 13 tons. They were working with pontoons that weighed 1850 pounds each, but they seemed to handle them efficiently, lacing them together and then connecting them with approaches from the bank. There was a slip, however. when equipment began to move out onto the bridge. The approaches had been placed on the sloping river bed and thev slipped, causing about three hours delay while they were being relocated. The troops were moving into a maneuver area of 1200 square miles where the Second Army for the next two weeks will conduct maneuvers preparatory to the September games when the Second Army meets the Third in the climax of the biggest show the Army ever attempted.

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Preceding the units that I watched cross the Little Missouri were strong detachments which went over in small assault boats to “cleanse” the area around the bridgehead so that the enemy could

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= By UNITED PRESS The Second and Third Armies of the United States, comprising 550,000 men, have started in the pine forests of Louisiana and Arkansas the greatest war maneuvers ever undertaken in this

country. The orders have gone out to commanding officers to make the maneuvers realistic above all else; make them as nearly like actual warfare as is possible without real bombs and bullets. The United Press has assigned Richard C. Hottelet and Leon Kay, veteran war correspondents just returned from the battle fields of Europe, to report this great peace-time oifensive. The backgrcund Mr. Hottelet attained while serving with the United Press in Germany and that Mr. Kay got while reporting the collapse of Jugoslavia will enable them to draw interesting contrasts between the actual technique of European armies at war and the new United States Army engaged in its biggest maneuvers. Throughout the war games Mr. Hottelet and Mr. Kay will report troop movements to Kansas City just as they filed dispatches on European battles to Zurich, London and New York.

not shell the troops during the crossing. Already in the maneuver area was the 107th Horse-Mechanized Regiment which had been engaging enemy units for two days. The regiment included fast armored scout cars and one “horse-portee”’—a unit in which the horses are transported in swift motor vans and mounted only where the terrain requires. This regiment was assigned to feel out enemy strength and report back to corps headquarters via radio and motorcycle messenger. Corps observation planes sweeping over the area at the same time kept in constant touch with ground forces.

Quick Decisions on Spot Where troops encountered the military umpire he informed them that he represented some specific-

ally armed enemy group and thus gave the reconnoitering officers a problem which they were forced to

solve on the spot. Involved in this entire action are about 35,000 soldiers. They are assigned to protect the main body of the Second Army which lies behind them and to the east. Under the tactical problem outlined these units are to make repeated thrusts against the enemy until Saturday when, under the pressure of superior enemy strength they will withdraw

maneuvers. Everything is being done to give the officers and men a taste of what actual war-time campaigning is like —1941 style. With this in view several squadrons of Navy dive bombers undertook a dive-bomb-ing attack on the new positions of the 33d and 35th. It was the first time that dive bombers had been used in Army maneuvers in this country.

100,000 DEFENDING WASHINGTON STATE

CENTRALIA, Wash, Aug. 19 (U. P.).—The “battle of Washington,”

an imaginary invasion of the Pacific Coast, today centered on a vital 13-mile line blocking the road to Olympia. The “enemy coalition” force, which last week “seized” Hawaii and invaded the mainland, was theoretically fighting from a landhold won at Grays Harbor with dive bombers and parachute troops. The drive inland was in three directions: Toward Oakville on the South, McCleary and Olympia in the center and Shelton in the north. The main battle front was along a 13-mile line from Oakville to MecCleary. Fifty thousand men from Ft. Lewis are in the field and another 50000 reinforcements are moving in from other Western states. Defending officers were getting information on the position of in-

|vaders from state police, motorists {and woodsmen. | Aerial activity, mostly imaginary, was widespread. Red planes |straffed the defenders and at- | tempted to bomb supply units but { defenders’ communiques reported |slight damage and few casualties.

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in which 100,000 troops are fighting |

So Real Blitzkrieg

Blue Forces’ March In Louisiana.

By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE THIRD ARMY IN

LOUISIANA .—The Third Army is making its war maneuvers look so much like the real thing it's hard to believe I am not witnessing an-

Germany moved into Jugoslavia. Although the maneuvers are called war games, they looked like anvthing but games as I watched light and medium tanks crashing amid clouds of red dust, through the pine woods of Leuisiana with the crews manning the guns as if they actually were moving into enemy lines. I never would have believed ihat maneuvers could be made to look so much iike the real war I saw in Europe. Road-stained motorcycle dispatch riders whizzed by at frequent intervals as the mechanized column progressed. Low-slung highspeed “jeeps,” filled with steel-hel-

highways in all directions. Further realism came into the scene when Pvt. James D. Robinson, 20, was killed when his tank overturned. As in real war, the accident didn’t stop the advance of the Blue forces moving from northern Louisiana to repel an “invasion” of Red forces which have landed their forces on the Gulf Coast and are moving northward. The war games are just entering their first phase with the Third Army engaging in open maneuvers involving only its own troops preparatory to the climax of the show which comes when the Third Army roe the Second Army in Septemr. Tanks Meet Cavalry

Lieut. Gen. Walter Krueger, commander of the Third Army, has instructed each of his commanding generals in charge of the Red and the Blue forces as to the tactical situation but beyond that each commander is left to his own devices. This technique constitutes “open” maneuvers as opposed to “controlled” maneuvers wherein umpires direct each force as to what their movements shall be. The opening phases are expected to test the Blue tanks against the Red cavalry over terrain suitable to both. Intense heat and humidity provide hardships to both the opposing forces. I wondered if this region were specifically chosen for the maneuvers to simulate hot, dusty conditions of some possible future theater of more serious Army activity, but I was unable to get any responsible person to comment. “The Third Army is here in Louisiana by War Department order,” Gen. Krueger said. “We have come because we have here almost ideal maneuver ground in which to

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develop and test our methods of training.” The conditions may have been ideal so far as the Army was concerned but I'll venture some of the boys in the tanks, who were constantly munching salt tablets to make up for the rivulets of perspiration streaming down their backs, felt differently. “Our training,” Gen. Krueger said, “is based on the idea of creating an army that will fight effectively if need be under any conditions of terrain or climate”

Water Is One Big Job

One phase of the situation which reminds observers of desert warfare is the water supply problem. Engineering divisions have mobile purification plants capable of handling 1,500,000 gallons of water daily together with equipment for storage transport to troops “at the front.” The Army has leased 20,000,000 acres of land for the maneuvers and a claims board has bcen set up to pass on damage claims arising from the passage of troops. The officers have been instructed to avoid posted seedling areas, active oil and milling operations and cemeteries but the order includes this phrase: “Where the tactical situation does not demand.” The implication is that the Army is so vitally interested in giving its troops experience that closely resemble actual warfare that 1t is willing to settle whatever claims arise if commanding officers deem it expeditious to move across posted property.

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City and State Leaders Address Rally Tonight At War Memorial.

The City’s outstanding figures in| aviation will address a public mass | meeting at the Indiana World War | Memorial tonight in honor of the part aviation is playing in national] defense. | The meeting is being staged as one | lot the features in the observance of | national Aviation Day today. | Princpal speakers at tonight's aviation rally will be Governor

H. Weir Cook, Indiana's World War ace, now on duty with the Air Corps| materiel division at Lambert Field, Mo. Other aviation figures who will be on hand are Col. Roscoe Turner,| the country’s air speed king; Robert Shank, Hoosier airport manager anc one of the country’s pioneer air mail pilots, and Newton Frey, a member | of the first U. S. Army Air Corps.

Unger Is Chairman

Others prominent in loeal and State aviation circles who will be| present are I. J. (Nish) Dienhart,| superintendent of the Indianapolis | Municipal Airport; Ned Bottoms,| manager of the Irvington Airport; | Gordon Lackey, manager of the SKy | Harber Airport, and Elvan Tarking- | ton of the Tarkington Aviation Co. at Municipal Airport. Harold Unger, president of the Indianapolis Aerc Club who has] arranged the meeting, will be chair- | man of the rally and introduce the| speakers. A musical program and a motion | picture on aviation will precede the | addresses. An open forum discus- | sion at which aviation leaders will, answer questions on aviation sub- | jects will be held following the address. Starts at 7:30

Representatives of nearly every phase of the local military and civil aviation business are scheduled to| attend the meeting. A reception for| honor guests will follow the open | forum discussion. The meeting will | open at 7:30 p. m. | Chief feature of Aviation Day! preceding tonight's meeting was to be a mass flight of private planes over Indianapolis at noon. Private planes basing at the city's four airports were to join in the formation.

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