Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1941 — Page 14

TOTALS 2500

= 800 ‘at Overseas Bases; |

Ceiling Increased for Flying: Fortresses.

WASHING Nov. 28 (U. P May oe STON. Y.

the present emergency.

The- speech was delivered “off|.

the record,” but now is released for Publication after deletion of -ecerfain material.

. Some of the ‘heretofore secret |

uata about the air force which Armold revealed ' included:

About 800 combat Army planes|

Were at overseas bases last month. The air force strength in October was 17,000 officers, 180,000 men

and 10,000 flying cadets. 'It® will]

reach 41,000 officers. and. 600,000 men when present expansion is complete. Can Operate Around World The Air Corps Ferryving Command, established to fly new planes from American factories to hop-off

Points for Britain and the Near A

East, “is capable of operating around the world.” He said the command’s navigators “study globes—not maps—and they would take a bomber to Tibet or Little America if you gave them 48 hours’ notice.” The ceiling of the Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress’ has been in-| creased from 25,000 to 34,000 feet, which enables the R. A. F. to make day and night raids over Germany with virtual immunity.” The Consolidated B-24 bomber Is so maneuverable despite its size that the R. A. F. has stuck four ‘cannon in the nose, equipped it + with anti-submarine devices and depth charges, and uses it as a fighter. ’ The single engined “Bell P-39 *has demonstrated it is a match for the Spitfire and Messerschmitt up to 16,000 feet.” Eclipsing that performance is the new single-en-gined Republic P-47 B.

26,000 HUNGARIANS ‘FIRED’ BY GERMANS

ISTANBUL, Nov. Hungarian workmen, dissatisfied with working conditions in Germany, are being repatriated to their country, Hungarian diplomatic sources said yesterday. At request of the Hungarian laber office, these reports said. the Germans agreed that all unskilled Hungarian ‘workers in Germany— -an estimated 26,000—will return home by mid-December although they still have six months to serve under their agreement,

enry H. Arnold, deputy. chief of staff of the Air Corps, told || West Point officers and cadets last! month that the United States has! more than 2500 combat planes com- |. pared with 1000 at the beginning of |

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It seems that when they leave Sonja, they join the Army, So it might be well for Gene Turner, who appears with, Sonja Henie in her new “Hollywood Ice Revue” which opens at the Coliseum #Friday, choose his branch. of service if he parts with her. Remember Stewart Reyburn? He was Miss Henie’s partner when she first appeared here. He’s now’ in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Last year and part of the year before, Miss Henie. skated with Harrison “Tommy” Thompson, who is now a member of the United States Army. But they say that Deke is the best ever. He began skating in 1935 in Los Angeles, when he was 15. 3In 1938 he was the national junior champion, and in 1940 and 1941 won the coveted National Senior Men’s Championship. He will be seen with Miss Henie in three numbers, “The

Gay Parisienne”, “The Bird of Paradise”, and the famous tango. Other featured performers in the show are the Brandt Sisters, Helga and Inge, who are the world’s fore-

to| most exponents of pair skating,

combining the grace of the ballet with. the most difficult skating technique. . Jimmy Ceasar and Charles Hadlett, former speed skaters, have perfected a jurfiping act for this year’s ice show, and have recruited the services of Mary Ann Kramer, 19-year-old Long Beach, Cal, girl, who is said to be the only feminine jumper in the business today. Geoffrey Stevens returns this year, He is the comedian who began skating with the Brighton Olympic Hockey Club, an austere English amateur group, then found that it was more fun making customers laugh than it was making them gasp. They've been laughing ever since. j

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If this were ailichenton you wouldnt have fo be told that these sliorutssliaters in the Sonja Henie ice show are wearing red, white and blue. It’s a patriotic precision number, and when you see it, there’ll ‘be 50 additional girls taking part in this opening number of the “Hollywood: Jee Revue of 1942,” which opens at the Coliseum next Friday for a week.

Gene Turner, Sonja's New Leading Man, nly 21, but Is Rated the ‘Best Ever’

Remember that man on the stilts? He's Fritz Dietl, the Austrian champion, and he’s back this year, both on and off his stilts. Two Indianapolis skaters are members of the troupe this year, both of them formerly supervisors at “the Coliseum rink. They are Jack Milligan, who appeared with the show last year, and Ralph Coppinger, a beginner.

The total cost of this third Henie|

show is $200,000, of which $72,000 was spent for costumes. The director is Arthur M. Wirtz, and William H. Burke is production manager. Harry Losee is responsible for the choreography and staging, and Jack Pfeiffer is musical director. Indianapolis won't be just another playing date for the troupe, however. This rink at the Coliseum is what the performers would call the home floor. They rehearsed the show here before going on the road,

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country.

My Friends

1 want to take this opportunity to thank my many friends, ‘who 30 kindly stopped by during these past hectic weeks of, construction, to wish me well, in my new store.

With priorities on almost everything needed, it has been “extremely trying to assemble everything that we desired to put into the construction of the store, and I am deeply appreciative of your keen interest and words of encourage-

Notwithstanding that there still is a little f inishing up to be done here and there, we will be open for business tomorrow, Saturday, and our gala and official opening will be put off for a few days hence.

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Yes, Tomurrow, you. will be able to visit BARNEY 3, my own store, and see what I believe to be the most modern and up-to-the-minute Jewelry store in this part of the

We have assembled. a complete selection of finest jewelry, watches and diamonds, and it is to be our policy to sell at nationally advertised prices on convenient terms. You can pay weekly, semi-monthly or monthly, at no extra cost,

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{Yet the 50,000-a-year rate will soon {be attained. The truth is that not

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it is the producers—of soldiers. An

{B’NAT B’RITH YOUTH

: 18 15.p. m. today.

U. 5. UNLIKELY] Data Valuable to Hitler Leaks Out Through

Many Sourges.

By THOMAS M. JOHNSON i .. Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—This Is the only world capital where the writer is censored only by what dis-|* cretion God gave him or what con-1 science ‘he himself has developed. Here are some results: There is no formal censorship— yet, and there may never be, although ‘a Gov= ernment agency quietly keeps tab on what is : printed and broadcast . here, and with what & effect in Berlin, Rome and : ToKy

0. Careful compilations are said to show that a growing Mr. Johnson tarian propaganda comes from Americans—not anti-interventionists alone but also from objective writers and commentators on our defense effort and politics. They supply Goebbels with gambits and Hitler with histronics, and the German military and naval intelligence services with information worth many spies. But so do Government agencies. For instance, there is the Maritime Commission’s public invitation .tc Nazi submarines to lurk off Boston and sink our supply ships headed for Russia. Reasons? Most Americans either don’t understand war or don’t understand we are in this one, which, all things considered, is not surprising. Crack down? Censorship? Not yet—maybe never, but’ it’s hotter this time than in 1917-18. Then the Government was only rfnning s war, not, as now, trying to run sg social and economic revolution af the same time. (Not my explanation, but that of a notable Government public relations expert.) 2 2 ®

Fight Air Unit Change

Both Army and Navy have adopted public relations tactics recalling the five principles of offensive warfare: Find ‘em; fix ’em; fight em; follow ‘em: finish ‘em. They are fighting to a finish the advocates of an independent air force, Army’s campaign began with Gen. Marshall’s speech to the American |Legion, saying an independent air force had almost lost Britain her empire, - Navy has high ranking officers devoting considerable time to aiming salvos in the same direction. Latest bull's eye Is that the R. A, F., being short on nautical ‘knowl-

edge, slighted: Gevelopins I es for patrol over England’s waters, resulting in more ship s by submarines. Yet American Navy’s not-independent air force has specialized on coastal patrol. American authorities think the independent R. A. F. was heroically effective in defending England; heroically ineffective elsewhere, Production. Surprises Some air technicians and production men; are flabbergasted at Navy and Army plans for expansion which may mean 125,000 planes a year, a three-fold increase in two years. Optimists say the same experts were

astounded at the 50,000 goal the President announced a year ago.

even experts realize what production highs this country can hit once it gets the sledge to swinging, ® # 8 j

~ Most homespun public relationer of all is Secretary of War Stimson. He writes all his own speeches, likes his interviews, and lays /flat all ghost writers. Only Gen. Persh-

ing outdoes him. The A. E. F. com-{ ~|mander, now 75, living in a suite’

at Walter Reed Hospital, turns down big money offers to write magazine articles. He doesn’t think| he ought to kibitz on another gen-| eration’s war. But he tells callers | ‘lhe is tremendously interested in|: ‘| the work his 1918 personal aid, Gen. George .C. Marshall, is Song as Army chief of staff, ® 8 a

Officers Improved

‘Gen. Marshall’s great fundamen: tal problem is less production than

{Army is as strong as. officers who lead and direct it. Most promising strengtheners are the second candidates’ camps now starting, First camps tried to make officers mostly from former sergeants, found some long on leadership but short on education. Second camps seek both qualifications—mainly among selectees ‘ with six months’ who ‘include 29,000 college graduates. Many officers believe they will prove best of all company officers. —————————

10 HELP. IN SERVICES

oung peefile of the Junior Order of oT way Le Jupior Order nual A. Z, A. Sabbath Eve services in the Beth-El Zedeck Temple at

Rabbi on “The i or Yo mothers of the

of the Armo Training Center at Ft. Knox, Ky. is Pvt. James G. Sharpe, son of Mr. fand Mrs. Jersey St.

the Indianapolis table tennis team which: won the Indiana inter-city contest this/ year. He is now going to the Armored Force Clerical Selioel horton ke is learning ping

listed in. the fegular army for three

- In: the. Servioes—

: (Sharpe Is Table Tennis Champ af Knox;

3 Local Yout hs Assigned fo Air Corps

| The first «tennis champion

d Porce Replacement

E, R. Sharpe, 412 N. New {203 Private: Sharpe was a member of

- » 2 Three ‘Indianapolis men who en-

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that has been assigned Area since April; 1925, in naval reserves, will be sold,

today: Navy Department announced

e ship has been stationed at

Michigan Oily and at one time was

the yacht Hermione, acquired by the United States in 1898 for use in the war with Spain. The Hawk Is Ss. Ist Jo bear that pame in the U.S. Navy. ve #® ® 9 3 Lieut. Comm. Grover B. Turner. U. S. N. R., Indianapolis, has been. ordered to duty at the U. 8. Navy 10 | Recruiting Station in the Federal Bldg. He will be an assistant to the officer in charge, Coram. R. H. G. Mathews, U. S. N. R. Lieut. Comm. Turner has 1a member of the Naval Reserve since

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