Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1941 — Page 12

PAGE 12 PHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES FRIDAY, DEC. 5, 1041

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PHANTOM PLANE

Mystery of Long Battle in| Ethiopia Cleared Up By ‘Pilot.’

By GEORGE WELLER COP a The Shines Daianapolio Times GONDAR, Dec. 5—One of the mysteries of the long battle for| Gondar and Lake Lana—the unexplained appearance of an unidenti- | fied plane over the no man’s land!

between the British and Italian lines—was solved today when an| engineering officer from Capetown confessed that he was the pilot of] the phantom plane. | In an interview on the summit of a 10,000-foot escarpment where he was helping to build a new high-| way, Alfred Stadler, a young lieutenant who is a . member of the Mr. Weller engineers corps told the story. “We engineers were working upon a swamp section of the road a few weeks ago when we found an abandoned Gladiator fighter,” said the young flaxen-haired engineer, who spent some time in Aurora, Ill, and Cedar City, Iowa, studying tractors.

“I Fixed Her Up”

“The pilot had been hit by ‘ack ack’ and forced to land. Since the $20,000 plane was under shell fire from Italian artillery and located in an inaccessible spot no attempt] at salvage was made after the pilot walked safely into our lines. But we engineers, who never get much chance at anything but hard labor and little glory, became curious. One day I went out and had a look at the plane. I found she had a bullet hole through the oil cooling system and instrument board but nothing else wrong. “We got a little of this and a little of that and I fixed her up. Finally, the boys said to me, ‘Why don’t you fly her?” We waited until the enemy artillery was busy on other objectives and then went out again. “The elephant grass was six feet high around her. We used the propeller as a lawnmower and taxied her up and down, clearing a path to take off. Italian artillery kept landing shells on a hill behind the plane but we kept on working.

Used Up All of Gas

“When all was ready, I got into the cockpit. I had never flown anything but a small sportcraft bebefore and this plane was capable of more than 200 miles an hour. I found everything working properly, even the machine guns, although the plane had been exposed to the weather for three months. “I took off with the rest of the engineers all waving at me. I flew over brigade headquarters and several other planes, astonishing everybody. Wishing I were an aviator instead of an engineer, I flew until all the petrol that had been left was used up and then I landed near our camp.” It is unlikely, however, that the engineers will part with the demon pilot without a struggle because Stadler’s talents are fully in accord with his “Handy Andy” appearance.

Built “Phony” Tank

During the last two battles involving the fortifications outside of Gondar he constructed the only 60-ton tank ever seen in Ethiopia. It was made from three-ply and beaver board, superimposed cn a bulldozer used in road construction. It had sewage pipes of six-inch caliber for armament. i When the phony tank ran across| the meadows it crushed the ele-| phant grass so completely that the] Italians were convinced that it was genuine, Eventually, Stadler’'s tank drew so much artillery fire—which disclosed the location of the enemy gun positions—that the inventor was obliged to abandon it and flee across the meadows back to his own lines, When the war is over Stadler plans to continue selling Americanmade tractors to South African farmers. If a tractor can be made to fly and fight battles, he would like to make it.

MILLION VOLT X-RAY IS USED ON TREES

By Science Service | SCHENECTADY, N. Y, Dec. 5— X-rays at million-volt intensity were used on fruit trees, berry | bushes and vegetable seeds in the| laboratories of the General Electric Co. here, to change the physical] set-up of the heredity-bearing cells) and produce, if possible, new varieties of plants. | The trees and bushes were exposed to the million-volt bombard- | ment for an hour, the seeds for intervals stepped up from 12 to 60 minutes, They have been planted by genetical researchers at the New York State Experiment Station at Geneva. The exposures were conducted by Dr. Bernhard Nebel of Cornell University, assisted by Dr. BE. E. Carlton and C. D. Moriarty, General Electric research men.

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