Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1941 — Page 13
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Things to Come By Raymond Clapper|
LONDON; Sept. 11.—0t late there has been a distion, here and in the United States, to asiime that the war can be decided in Russia. "To that view Lord Beaverbrook, who may be con.Sidered the second man in England, takes emphatic exception. He. believes that Hitler is ‘bound to attack England, regardless of the outcome in Russia.
If Hitler wins in. Russia he must still break England before he can get peace. If he sees that Russia is unconquerable that will givé him all the more impelling ‘reason to turn quickly against England with a desperate stab for quick victory in the west. Therefore, - Beaverbrook believes, England must expect to be the final battleground on which the. war will. be decided. Thus, in his powerful position: as head of the ministry of supply, and as the most dyramic figure
in England after Churchill, Beaverbrook is doing his
ene to prepare the British Isles: for the supreme attack which he believes inevitable. For that reason he. is driving hard to increase tank production. I was invited to Beaverbrook’s office for a Sunday noon luncheon. The whole office force ‘was working Secretaries were rushing in and out. Im-
busily. 3 portant British officials were either coming person-
ally -to consult Beaverbrook or were talking to him by telephone. The man’s energy is so enormous that _ he cannot sit still, even at luncheon. If he wants ” ‘a second helping he is apt to leap up himself to get. it.
‘# No waiter, no secretary, can move fast enough to
keep pace with him: There was no Sabbath quiet around the ministry of supply headquarters.
Putting It on the Line
.. Because of the .importance that American supplies must have in this war, Beaverbrook had no hesitation in outlining the situation, as he sees it, for the benefit of the American people. “England today is in the position of a man who has gone over Niagara Falls and has lived through that, but who is still struggling in the dangerous whirlpools,” he said. “That is to say, we passed through great dangers last year but we still face . other great dangers. © “There are many doors and windows through which we may be attacked. Germany holds a front extending from Scandinavia to the French port of Cherbourg. We may expect attacks at many points along this front. They may come in through our
foothold and set up a line on British soil. It is expected that Germany will attempt to use bases on|
‘on this island but to give help to the Russians who _are bearing the brunt of the battle. They are making
‘ful of all bombers.
They surely will attempt to establish a
witkows-trom the skies. to come across the Channel. “We may expect Germany to try
the French coast from which to extend communications across to England mining the Channel where the communications attempt to operate in an effort to fence out the British naval forces, “I am confident, no matter what happens in Russia —and the Russians are giving a superb account of themselves—that Hitler will strike at us. I belisve this because he cannot get peace anywhere except| in London. There is no use his trying to get it else-
where, and there can be no peace for Hitler so long a as| .
London stands.”
Fortresses—More Fortresses
I asked Beaverbrook particularly what he wished to say about the role of the United States . . . “Tt is not for me to tell the Uhited States what 1t should do,” he replied. “But-I.can recite our needs. We need from you more war materials of all kinds, and quickly. “Today we have not only to sustain our own front
a splendid stand, but they have suffered serious losses. The great iron-ore district of Xrivoi-Rog has been lost to them. The steel works of Dnepropetrovsk— Russia’s Pittsburgh—are in: German hands. Men cannot fight without machines. And if Russia’s front 4s to be sustained her industrial losses must be made good.
creased American production can this island be held secure and the Russians be enabled at the same time to hur} back the invader. “Your flying fortress is the most valuable and useI say this with all respect to the Stirlings, Halifaxes and Manchesters which were introduced while I was minister of aircraft production. Naturally, I take a certain satisfaction in them. The Flying Fortress won’t carry so large a load as some of our bombers, but it will carry a load higher than before, with a bigger measure of safety and a higher degree of efficiency. When it’s a Fortress bombing, it gets home. “From the Boeing plants on the West Coast of America to Berlin on the River Spree is a long journey. It is a safe one for the Fortresses that make it, but it is not at all agreeable for our hosts in Berlin. We hope you will continue to send us Fortresses and more Fortresses.”
Because of the serious illness of his wits, Ernie Pyle has been forced to discontinue his column for a few days. Mr. Pyle has flown to Albuquerque to be with Mrs. Pyle. and hopes to resume his column soon.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town")
* BRICKS ARE BRICKS, ordinarily, but out at the Gas Company's Prospect St. plant, workmen are nursing along some new brick coke ovens as if they'd
cost a million dollars—which is just what they did gost.
The 41 new ovens -will increase gas and coke production a third.. All except some outside finish work has been completed and the heating of the ovens has been started. It takes about two months to warm up the bricks to the 2400 degrees (Fahrenheit) required for making gas. And once warmed up, they've got to- stay warm, or they're. ruined. Right now the bricks are being tempered by warm air.- Gradually the air will become hotter and hotter, and then the engineers will get around to starting small, and then larger, fires in the ovens. Three kinds of brick are used in the ovens—silica, common and fire brick, each with a different degree of expansion—and it’s a delicate engineering feat to build the ovens and allow just the right space for expansion. . The contractor won't say when the battery will be ready for use but he hints at the middle of October.
Spare Those Paddles
. MONUMENT CIRCLE is popular for a lot. of things, among them fraternity and sorority initiations. ' Quite frequently, if youre in the vicinity, you can see neophytes trudging across the burning ‘sands, sometimes not even a jump ahead of the paddle. ° For instance, Monday night a group of young and not so younz women, evidently a sorority group, put three girls in slacks through their paces. girls had to play leap frog around one quadrant of the Circle. Then they had to skip the Tope clear around it. That really winded them, too
Aviation
If the British have learned to appreciate the value of long-range planning, they will-be doing some hard thinking on the type of machinery they will need if ~and when an invasion is launched against them. On the air end of the anti-invasion machinery, the cards are all face up. The world knows by this time that the only thing that can stop bombers and dive-bombers is single-seater fighters and more single-seater fighters.
The bombers are mighty use-
ful, too, in preventing consolidation and concentration of forces incidental to an invasion move. And they are of vital utility in smashing airdromes from which the shorter-ranged enemy . planes would have to operate, So far as types of single-seater: and Wombers are concerned, the British and Germans are both pretty well committed, and neither has any great reason for seeking radically new equip--ment. More speed and gunfire power are always at A premium, and both belligerents are pretty well .satisfled with their ace cards. As for defense against ground forces, the story is plain. Tank traps, anti-tank guns, barbed wire, and all the thousand devices and expedients, including
4 ‘Precautions against keeping the highways clear of ¥ noncombatants, are all attended to.
Cannon Not Big Enough
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My Day
% HYDE PARK, Wednesday. — Messages have poured int’ to the President from every part of the world, as well as from every corner of the United States. In ‘cases il is impossible to find the addresses of
Some of the kina people, I know that it will not be
possible adequately to acknowledge 7 2 these ‘expressions of sympathy and understanding, and so I want to express to all those who read this column, the President's deep apPeéciation, as well as my own, for this outpouring of kindly sym-
A loss of this kind always re‘minds people of their own losses, and they are full of understanding a and express their feelings in y ways. Probably the
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“That is our task today, and to perform it we must || “have the help of the United States. Only by in-
Next came the ceremony of carrying lighted|]
candles as one of the older women read from a ritual book. It wound up by the girls being given some old newspapers to sell in front of the Circle Theater. ‘Oh well, girls will be girls.
Maybe They Ate Too Heartily
OUT ROAD 29 a little this side of Zionsville there's a combination filling station and chicken| dinner place known as Zimmer's Frog Pond. While the Rock Island Refinery has been going up nearby, the Frog Pond, one of the few eating places available, has been doing a landoffice luncheon business. The other noon the workers were shocked to find the place locked and a sign on the door: “Closed. Have gone fishing.” The workers are pretty unhappy, especially since they hear the fishing trip ‘may last all month. . . . In case any of you have been worrying about it, the Democratic Editorial Association is all fixed up on priorities Ior its banquet at French Lick Springs Hotel Sept. 20. Here's the menu handed us by Ray Smith, the Governor’s secretary: Fresh shrimp cock-. tail, cream of asparagus, croutons; celery hearts, mixed olives, fried Indiana chicken, country style; caulifiower Mornay, lorette potatoes, “bibb -lettuee sala) french dressing; green apple pled ala mode, and coffee.
Every Cloud Has Its—
THAT AIRPLANE accident in which Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker was injured critically several months ago had its compensations. Eddie, who's also pres dent and general manager of Eastern Air Lines, has been recuperating at his summer home in Connecticut, playing an occasional game of golf. Since his injury, we hear, Eddie’s golf swing has lost some of its power and distance, BUT his direction is improved
that would be worth being hurt in a plane crash.
By Maj. Al Williams
Germans are suicidally determined to carry out such a'land invasion of England. . The planes in use in the R.A. F. today, including the Hawker Hurricanes and latest developments in that type, plus the Supermarine Spitfires, are equipped with 20-millimeter cannon (plus the usual 30-30 light machine guns). But these 20-mm. cannon are ineffective against tanks—even moderate sized tanks— and they are the largest aerial guns used by the British, who are reported to have thousands of them. This is where one of our American single-seater fighters—and it’s truly an American conception of a modern fighting Plane--could play’ a key part. I mean the Bell Airacobra.
Will the British Use It It is a fine shooting platform, first, because the
forward to the propeller) permits the nose of the “Cobra” to be thinned out. and narrowed, The effect of this reduction in ‘the fuselage in front of the pilot is to increase his range of visibility. Better than even this feature is the 37-millimeter cannon in the “Cobra’s” nose, firing ‘through: the hollow stub shaft on which the prop is mounted. This 37-mm. cannon hurls a really destructive projectile, capable of piercing the armor of fair-sized tanks. These facts are known and have been proved by actual] tests. A few hundred of these flying antitank guns can do more, and cover more ground, than thousands of similar. or heavier ground-based guns BE 20 myading faiee u epends upon the new] uired British faculiy—if acquired even yet—to id DE built in g foreign country without changing or altering it.
. By Eleanor Roosevelt
Anne left for Boston at 6:30.
finished his exams, but he is still attached to th Bos until Friday and had to report today. : in sdsool
He has
Jimmie, Rommie,
after an early supper to fly back from New York Ci to Washington, since Jimmy and Elliott both had be at work this morning. Franklin and Ethel’s little boy, rived late yesterday afternoon to stay until Ethel gets settled for the winter. He has been at Hyde Park a good deal and my mother-in-law was devoted to him. He was very fond of her, in fact, he ‘would mimic the way she called him when she came to see him last winter. He has been told that she has gone away for a long time, but for a while at least, I am sure he Wil ass her in the house. * o'clock today, + Iny husband and I will start back to Washington. If circumstances permit, I shall come back fairly soon to attend to many details before the resident returns to Hyde Park. It is extrahow many. are and how many older person.
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Elliott and Ruth left last night :
which will Army’s new A-24s, a dive bomber; :
1. The “Flying Cannon,” P and most. heavily armed.” :
P-39 Bell Airacobra.
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“One of the fastest
'2.'The “Lightning” Lockheed P-38 interceptor. It’s the “fastest” |
in all’ classes. 3. The Curtiss P-40. Sin as the “Kittyhawk.”
4. The Marin B-26 medium bomber.
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A later model, the P-40E, is known to the “Very maneuverable.” :
“Fastest. o ie class.”
/ 000 Pursuits aid Bombers To Work With Land Troops|;
.By -SAM. TYNDALL WHEN THE ARMY Air Force goes into its first large-scale opera-
three of the seven types of planes:
pursuit ships.
This was revealed today in a
“is the finest in the world.” More ‘than 1000 of the Air Corps’
latest pursuits and bombers will operate with the: 300,000 - ground. troops in the Louisiana maneuvers, and Secretary Lovett described the types of craft to be used.
8 8.8 THE . PURSUIT classification of
the participating Air Force will be entirely composed: of Allison-pow-ered models, one of which—the P-38 —Mr. Lovett ‘described as “the fastest military plane in the world today.
The P-38—which is going to the
British under the nickname, “Lightning,” is powered by two 12-cylinder liquid-cooled engines built in Speedway City.
Mounting 37 mm. “cannons” and
50 ‘cal. machine guns, Mr. Lovett said its “two supercharged engines give it a performance of well over 400 ‘miles per hour with full mili-
tary load.
The other two planes using the
Allison engine are the famous Airacobra, P-39 and the latest model in the widely-known Curtiss P-40-series, the P-40E. Both these Planes are single-engined.
Of the, P-39, Mr. Lovett said “if
has demonstrated in: recent tests that” it is one of the: fastest and} most heavily armed combat planes Airacobra | Hall: Cam |mounts a nose-firing 37 ‘mm. can-| non in addition to 50. and. 30: cal. machine guns. ;
existence.” The
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“As A MIDDLE altitude fighter, |. as well as for attack on ground ‘tar-|
gets, this unconventional plane has no equal,” the-plane “unconventional,”
Mr. Lovett ‘was referring to the ] :
clonal nose mounting of the 1
P-40’ series.
Mr. Lovett said. In|
tion in the giant Second and Third Army maneuvers beginning Monday,
to be used will be Allison-powered
press conference announcement in
Washington by Robert A. Lovett, ‘Assistant Secretary ‘of War for Air, who declared that participating Air Force—from the point of view of
quality—'
commanders will have in operation the “finest in the world” from the standpoint of quality, Mr. Lovett said “we still have a long way to go in point of quantity.” “But production is now beginning 10° roll and our share of it from here on should enable us to equip combat units at the rate of about one squadron every other day,” he said. coming months.” Mr. Lovett said his statements with respect to quality of American aircraft were based on the best information available from abroad, and on the results of tests “our own pilots have made with foreign
equipment.”
CENTRAL T0 SELECT ‘TYPICAL’ FRESHMAN
The “most typical” freshman man and woman will be chosen tomorrow evening at Indiana Central College at the conclusion of ile annual “Big Mixer.” The program will begin at 6:15 p.. m, with a dinner in the Dailey Hall . Dining - , according’ to Kenneth Kraft of ‘Dayton, 0, Stu~ dent ; ;Christian Association social committee head. A general pro-
TRUCK SAFETY
Plans for Fourth Annual Inter-Fleet Contest to Be Made Monday.
Plans for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce fourth annual Inter-Fleet Safety Contest will be made at a luncheon meeting Monday in the Antlers Hotel. The contest is designed to cut down the number of traffic accidents involving commercial vehicles.
‘Every firm or individual in Indian-
apolis operating one or more com-
the contest, which will’ start in -a few weeks. Contestants will be classified according to the number and ‘size of their vehicles and according fo whether the fleets are inter-city or intra-city. P. Elbert Glass of the Crown Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co., who is ‘chairman of the Chamber's Safety Council's Inter-Fleet (Jommittee, pointed out that there have been : 5000 ‘traffic : crashes reported to Indianapolis police so far this
“This means,” he said, “that the hazards: to commercial vehicles, which are on the streets: constantly and in congested areas most of the time, are rising in proportion to the number of accidents, which has doubled in three years. : “Virtually every contestant ‘last
“This rate should increase in | year
over the previous. year or finished the contest without an accident to its fleet.” The contest will be.’ patterned test has proven. ni three pretests . conducted by the National Safety Council. Drivers .and firms earning. recognition will be .given awards at the end. of the contest. Othey: members of the InterFleet committee are: F. N. Daniel, Old . Underwriters, . Inc.; Ross C. Davis, Omar Baking Co.; J. Duane 2 Polk Sanitary Milk Co.; A. F. Hook, Hook Drug.Co.; John T. Martin, Indiana Railroad; Ross J. Moore, Market = Parking Garage; Jerry Scher, . Kroger, Grocery & Baking Co, and F. E, Thornburgh,
gram. will follow on the Fast Men's A pus. Se i
Richman Bros.
"HOLD EVERYTHING
The P-40E, which mounts: six 501 per,
cal. machine guns, Mr, Lovett said, “is very maneuverable and has fine
. |than its Franklin III, ar-
several SG bY Alison
types
‘Other Ei are. the
-A=20, light attack ‘bomber,
“so fast,” Mr. Lovett said, “that the | British use it as & Bight fighter uit: |:
latest” models =
DRIVE TO OPEN
mercial - vehicles is eligible to enter |
year had a reduction: in accidents|.
Ask Nation-Wide Hay Fever War
SAULTE. STE. MARIE, Mich, Sept. 11 (U, P.).—Hay fever sufferers from seven states yesterday asserted that 6,000,000 Americans are incapacitated six mo#iths each year and urged Congress to declare a war of tion upon ragweed. .Conferees to the convention of. the Hay Fever Association of America; the victims pointed out that legislation: had been passed: to rid the nation of barberry and black currant bushes, and marijuana. In a resolution dispatched to Congress, they suggested that Federal restrictions be set up for control of: ragweed .and that the: states adopt similar laws.
ASK BROOKSIDE
IMPROVEMENTS -
Civic Club Leaders Wade in To Solve Traffic and Other Problems.
The problems confronting the residents of the triangle formed by Massachusetts Ave., 10th St. and Arlington, Ave. are typical, but their militant civic organization has waded in to solve them. This arganization—the Brookside Civic League—lists its difficulties thus: 1. Traffic—the use of Brookside Ave. by large trucks and. the overcrowding .of Commerce Ave. '2. 'Transportation—the ‘need of more frequent streetcar service. 3. Civic improvement—elimination of a smoke and odor nuisance originating at nearby factories,
Traffic Is Heavy
The traffic problem is to be taken| tothe Safety -Board by Raymond | Van Tassell, chairman of the league's safety-committee. A sharp turn: on Massachusetts Ave, which trucks find hard to negotiate, has 1éd to their veering over to Brookside Ave. : : Brookside Ave. is not a truck route, but Mrs. Julia B. Alexander,
_|who lives at 2832 Brookside, re=
ported that there are as. many as 35 heavy trucks an hour rumbling
‘ Iback and. forth through this resi-
dential district. A narrow street, Commerce - Ave, is loaded with traffic coming off ‘the| termination of 16th St. at Roosevelt Ave. School children at School}
33 alse mush depend ‘oR cummiersq
to get to their classes. = Want Trackless Trolleys
So the leagud is oing 1o'ask the | Safety Board for a- stop. Jighs at]
STATE DOCTORS
T0 MEET HERE
More Than 2000 Physicians Will Attend Convention Sept. 23+
More than 2000 Indiana physie cians and their families are expected to attend the 92d annual convention of the Indiana State Medical Assoe ciation here Sept. 23, 24 and 25. An extensive program embracing the latest scientific discoveries in medicine and surgery has been are ranged for the three-day Meeting at the Claypool Hotel. Additional features of the cone: | vention program this year will be clinics at the Indiana University Matienl Center and at City Hos«
The first day of the session will ii largely to entertainment, evenis and association busie ness meetings. ' There will be the annual golf tournament, trap and skeet shoot and the evening smoker at Murat Temple.
National Leaders Here.
Scientific programs will open Wednesday, Sept. 24, with Dr. M, A. Austin, of Anderson, presidente elect of the Association, presiding, Dr. A. M. Mitchell, of Terre Haure; retiring ‘president, will make the annual address from the chair at the opening meeting. Re Dr.- Fred W. Rankin, of ton, Ky., president-elect of the
“Mickey” MacDougall, author, will be the principal speak ers at the annual banquet Wednesday night at the Scottish Rite hall. The convention will close with the general scientific program Thurs« day morning. This sessions is to be
.|addressed by nationally known leads
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—One whois skilled In that branch of medical science that treats Jiconses of the eye is called an + O=U==, . 2—Which. two pictures won Academy “Awards ‘for Bette Davis 3—Which famous Ue Davie is the “Father of his counfry”?" 4—Name the capital of Wyoming, 5—Who wrote “Pippa Passes”? S—The female of ‘the. red deer 3 called h--d What 8: 8 baste commodity
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ASK THE Toes.