Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1941 — Page 7

THURSDAY, AUG. 21,

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CAMP LEE, Va. Aug. 21 (U.P). —A circus lion broke out of a cage at Camp Lee yesterday and darted through a crowd of 400 soldiers who scattered so fast that none was injured. The 400-pound lion, named “Lady.” had been brought here for an elaborate home-talent circus arranged to raise funds for the soldiers recreation fund Corp. Merritt Mathers, Mason City, Ill, an animal trainer in civilian life, finaliv supervised maneuvering of the lion back into a truck cage “Lady” was trapped In a cos

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SECOND ARMY TAKES A BATH

And General Finds Chiggers Have No Respect for Rank on Maneuvers. By RICHARD C. HOTTELET

United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE SECOND ARMY IN | ARKANSAS, Aug. 21.—Having com{pleted an attack that carried them to new “favorable” positions, the soldiers of the Second Army today

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scrubbed themselves and their {clothes and scratched chigger bites. | No sooner had the battle prob‘lem—the occupation of the 30-mile Guernsey - Washington - BlevinsWallaceburg line—been completed yesterday than regimental and divisional commanders loaded their troops into scores of trucks and took them in relays to the nearest town for a bath. The nearest town was Hope, Ark, and I watched the trucks of the Seventh and Thirtyv-Third Divisions roll in a steady stream to the fair grounds at Hope, where the civ ilian military council had converted an old barn into a shower room for 80 men at a time. As truck after truck pulled up, the men leaped out and, stripping off their clothes as they went, dashed for the entrance, over which hung this sign: “Free showers. soldier's prayer.” Wash Socks Too

They jammed into the barn and took turns washing each other's backs, laughing like schoolboys on an outing. perienced comrades: “You can save a lot of time and trouble if vou keep your socks on while you take vour shower. Then you can wash your reet and your sccks at the same time.” The soldiers spoke highly of the civilian co-operation they had met, not only in Hope but in other towns of the maneuver area. Toynspeone helped bring soldiers who had 1: gotten places on regimental ok to town. One taxij ferried soldiers in and out of town for an hour without charging a fare. I noticed one shiny new sedan that pulled up at the shower room at 20-minute intervals for an hour, each time discharging four soldiers. I asked the driver what he was doing. “I've got an hour to spare,” he said, "and the boys have done enough walking, so I thought I'd help them out.” Apart fro concentrated chiggers. Most them gave it up

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as a near impossibility, but sulphur nail polish were adjudged the remedies All of the men are chigger-bitten. and the insects have no respect for rank “I've got more chigger bites than any man south of the Mason-Dixie line.” one Wbrigadier general said. “I counted 87 from the belt down.

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and each one is as large as a penny.”

By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE THIRD ARMY IN| LOUISIANA, Aug. 21. — If the United States gets into war, watch the “Rolling Fourth”—the streams-| lined “triangular” motorized division {of the Fourth Army Corps of the Third Army. It may make history. The “Rolling Fourth” is not participating in the preliminary Third Army maneuvers and will not en-

It has more urgent matters in hand The division leaves shortly for its home grounds, Ft. Benning, Ga, to be further streamlined into the United States Army's first “tank chaser” division. It hopes to make] its debut as such in the South] Carolina maneuvers, in November. I spent a day watching this deluxe outfit stage its own war games | in the oak and pine forests north! of Winnfield; the remainder of the | Third Army is resting between] maneuver problems today. It was streamlined down to field; kitchens and lightning fast.

Cooking at 40 M. P. H.

For example, while outposts, by| superior firepower, scattered oppos-| ing outposts, advance guards were already bringing up new 350 mm. machine guns and a lightweight mortar which three men can carry, assemble and start firing in less than one minute. Even while the | advance guard was setting up its] guns, supporting troops were un- | loading from trucks immediately behind. : | I found steaming field Kitchens whizzing by. with ccoks preparing

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Motorcycles, jeeps, armored cars and tanks of the 68th Armored Regiment of the 2d Division of S. Army road out in a cloud of dust at Camp Polk, La, The Division is testing Panzer tactics in the biggest war games ever staged in U. S. history.

"Rolling Fourth" Is U. S. Formula for Blitzkrieg

food on liquid fuel stoves as they bowled over rough country roads at 40 miles an hour. One of the rules “Rolling Fourth” is that {its front-line troops must not go hungry, even if a couple of field kitchens are shot up. The “Rolling Fourth” manded by Maj. Gen. Griswold. It already into the “triangular division.” meaning it has only three regiments, each under a colonel.

Gets AA Battalion

The next step in streamlining—to make it the Army's first tank chaser outfit—will make it primarily a combination of infantry, armored [cars and tanks. Its firepower—now {the most discussed factor around Army camps—will be greatly in{creased and it will be built along ‘lines of speed, maneuverability and rapid striking power.

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with scout cars will be transformed into an anti-aircraft: battalion and reconnaissance battalion of light tanks. It will have a counter-strik-ing force of a battalion of medium tanks. ts reorganized strength will be 12,500 men, instead of the present infantry division strength of 15,000. The reduction in manpower will be

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But the most outstanding feature of its reorganization will be a 75-mm. gun mounted on a “halftrack” armored car, i.e, a car with regulation front wheels, but short caterpillar treads instead of rear wheels

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der—freedom of religion and freedom of information. Neither of these points were mentioned in the original declaration. “It 1s unnecessary for me to point out that the declaration of principles includes of necessity the world need for freedom of religion and freedom of information,” the President explained.

Canadian Ships at Scene

“No society of the world organized under the announced principles could survive without these freedoms which are a part of the whole freedom for which we strive.” The message, which Mr. Roosevelt wrote out in longhand on six sheets

of foolscap last night, disclosed for of

the {first time one new detail the conference — that Canadian ships were at the scene along with American and British naval vessels "Over a week ago,” the President said, “IT held several important conferences at sea with the British Prime Minister Because of the factor of safety to British, Canadian and American ships and personnel, no prior announcements of these meetings could properly be made.” The President dispatched the message to Congress today because this was the first occasion since his return to Washington when both House and Senate were in session.

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KENNEDY GIVES MAYOR DETAILS

Chief Flies Back to Boston Returns Sunday to Face Blast Inquiry.

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Boston and paint a scene of a Canadian deer hunt on the white basement walls. Lieut. Phillips, an amateur artist, had suggested the picture about a year ago, according to the Chief. 3. Chief Kennedy denied any knowledge of why Fireman Alfred H. Stumm, who received fatal injuries in the explosion, accompanied Lieut. Phillips.

Said Stumm Had Key

Conflicting to some extent with these disclosures was testimony taken from Lieut, Phillips at. his hospital bedside by Oscar Hagemier, assistant City Attorney. According to Mr. Hagemier, Lieut. Phillips said that Fireman Stumm had the key. City officials confirmed the fact that at the time of the painting, Fireman Stumm had been on duty but that Lieut. Phillips was off that day. Previously, a high Fire Department officer said that Fireman Stumm had started on his vacation Monday. Chief Kennedy took the midnight plane to Boston where he will meet his wife who stayed on there after he was hastily summoned back to the City Monday night by the Mayor and Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach. The Chief is driving back to Indianapolis. He said he would leave Boston tomorrow.

Push 2 Other Probes

Meanwhile, two other investigations were being conducted independently into the tragedy. County Prosecutor Sherwood Blue sald he would examine details of the case to determine whether it

should be presented to the Grand Jury. An investigator was assigned to the case yesterday. A Coroner's inquest begun yesterday brought testimony from two of the firemen who responded to the fire alarm after the explosion that the blast was caused by the ignition of paint remover fumes in the basement by a pilot light burning in a gas heater. Chief Kennedy discounted this theory yesterday, asserting that there was scarcely any damage in the region of the heater. He showed a reporter an open pack of cigarets on the floor. He said he had found the cigarets there when he first entered his house late vesterday after returning from Boston.

Finds Cans in Garage

The Chief also showed a reporter two empty cans of paint remover in his garage. He said he believed these cans contained the remover which caused the blast. Whether the cans came from the Fire Department paint shop or not, he said, he did not know. Funeral services for Fireman Stumm will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the home, 802 N. Graham St., and at 2:30 p. m. at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Burial will be at Concordia Cemetery.

The Husband, Not Marines, Landed

DETROIT, Aug. 21 (U.P) Mrs. Eileen O'Brien Flanigan's allout national defense effort got her a slap in the face and her husband a year's probation. Mrs, Flanigan, comely 22-year-old brunet, last week was named Miss Marine Corps League of Michigan. She posed for a cheek-to-cheek newspaper picture of a Marine recruit. Her estranged husband, Robert, saw the photograph. He found her at work, an argument ensued and she was struck. Recorders’ Judge Joseph A. Gillis, a former Marine, placed the husband on probation for a year. Mrs. Flanigan announced she was a candidate for Miss Marine Corps

0. K. ZONING BOARD

The appropriation, voted recently by the County Council, will cover

IN COUNTY BUDGET tne expense of a secretary, drafts«

Operation of the Marion County Zoning Board was assured today

when the State Tax Board approved |

an appropriation of $2000 for the remainder of 1941.

man and a stenographer for the

board, which drafted a zoning ordi nance several months ago to reguelate building activities in suburban areas.

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at the League's national convention in Indianapolis Aug 27-30.

‘ILLUTRIOUS’ IN U. S., BRITISH PRESS SAYS

NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (U. P).— Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten, a {cousin of King George, is in the | United States to take command of | the British aircraft-carrier Iliustrious, which is being repaired in an “undisclosed American shipyard,” the British press service said today. The Illustrious was damaged by ‘German dive bombers off the coast of Sicily in January. She was commissioned only last year and is 23.000 tons. Lord Mountbatten arrived from Britain Tuesday by Clipper plane.

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