Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1941 — Page 4

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FORGE FAVORED

Stimson. Terms Powerful Bombers the Answer To U. S. Security.

LONG RANGE AIR|Howaii Sky Chit

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P).

—The U, S. Army, profiting by experiences in Europe, is expediting development of a “powerful longranged air force of such size and mobility” that it can strike at any attempted naval attack from overseas or South America, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today. He emphasized the development of air forces in his anual report, which was written in November, prior to the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dgg. 7. That attack resulted in assignment of Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, chief of the Army's Air Force Combat Command, as commander of the Army’s forces at Hawaii. “The recéntly demonstrated effectiveness of air power as against sea power in the confined limits of the Mediterranean has suggested revolutionary possibilities for the defense of American interests in the similar seas of the Southwestern Pacific,” Stimson said.

Favors Single Head

“It has also suggested the enormous powers of a hemispheric defense, which, radiating out from the manufacturers and training grounds of the United States and taking advantage of our now existing ocean and continental bases, may strike at and ward off aggressive hostile sea power long before it is able to approach our shores.” Stimson reported that the Army is pursuing a policy of unifying command of air, ground and sea forces for special theaters of action. He opposed creation of an independent air force such as some Congressional sources have urged. He said there must be a single head for the “Army as a whole” for both

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“At the recent maneuvers in Louisiana, there were employed at least four types of combat planes which were concededly superior to any yet produced by the warring nations of Europe,” he said. “In their work of co-operation with the ground forces at those maneuvers our airmen displayed a spirit and technique of co-operation which, in the light of their comparatively brief training, was: astonishing. An organization which can produce such results in so brief a time should not be subjected to the destructive efforts of hasty legislation. Progress Is Orderly

“We have been progressing by an orderly and good-tempered evolution. It is no time for the intervention of arbitrary or ill-advised experiments.” Discussing the Army in general, Stimson said the major purposes; are to develop: 1. “A powerful long-ranged air force of such size and mobility that, operating centrally from the United States but using as stepping stones our Atlantic and Pacific outposts, it can effectively strike at any naval attack from overseas or South America.” | 2. “Well-trained teams of air and ground forces which can not only immediately meet any hostile expeditionary forces threatening the Western Continent, but which can also furnish the reserves and cadres of trained men and weapons| necessary to save our own country from conquest in the critical event| of a threatened mass invasion of| our boundaries.” Stimson charged Germany with! cold-blooded development of a plan] for “complete world domination” | under a military despotism for four years prior to 1939, when the current war began. He said that never in history has there been such a “carefully planned and powerful aggression.”

U. S. Position Stronger

The collapse of France, he continued, brought the menace to the

Brig. Gen. C. L. Tinker (above) of the Air Corps, has been placed in command of the air forees in Hawaii, replacing Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Martin, who was relieved of his command in the greatest shakeup in modern American military history as a result of the Japanese surprise attack on Hawali.

AUTO ACCIDENTS IN STATE KILL 7

3 Pedestrians Are Among Victims; No Deaths in Marion County.

By UNITED PRESS Seven persons died over the weekend in accidents on Indiana highways. Three victims were pedestrians

There were no fatal accidénts in Marion County.

A bus-truck smashup at the gate

of the Charleston powder plant Saturday injured nine persons. Seven were women employed at the plant, riding the bus home from work. Mrs. George S. Duggan, 18, South Bend, was injured fatally when her husband drove their car into a tree yesterday.

Killed at Richmond

Mrs. George Harper, 61, Richmond, died en route to the hospital late Saturday night after she was struck by a car in Richmond. Jack Gysin, 23, Peru, was killed last night when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a brick wall on Road 24 near Logansport . Leroy Rinehart, 68, Evansville, died from a fractured skull yesterday when he fan his bicycle into a pedestrian and was pitched to the pavement.

Steps to His Death

Morris Joseph Mahoney, 38, Louisville, a pedestrian, was killed two miles north of Henryville when struck by an automobile Saturday. William Whipsell, 78, of Marshall County, was killed Saturday when he got out of a car on a highway north of Plymouth and stepped in front of a car driven by James R. Follin, Walkerton. Richard Clinton Arnold, 31, New Albany, died Saturday from injuries suffered in an auto-bus collision on Route 62 Dec. 186.

CREATION OF ALLIED GOUNGIL SEEN NEAR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P). —Swift moves toward creation of a supreme council of allied strategy were expected this week. A series of conferences at the White House yesterday indicated that the President may have been

Western Hemisphere closer because| Working on details of the plan

of the grave threat of the collapse of British seapower, which then was guarding the Atlantic. But. sending of lend-lease supplies, acquisition of new Atlantic bases from the British in exchange for 50 overage destroyers, creation of air and ground forces on Iceland and Greenland, and the convoying of war materials has strengthened this country’s position, he wrote. “Uninformed critics have suggested that the counfry could be protected by naval and air effort alone,” he continued. “This is far from the

“fact.”

“The garrisons alone of our foreign outposts and possessions require an aggregate of over 200,000 men; and this disregards entirely the nrobile forces that must be immediately necessary to reinforce those garrisons or to defeat the possible blows of the veteran Axis armies aimed at us through other approaches of our continent. “Portions of the African and Asiatic continents have suddenly become possible bases from which landings may be made upon South America or Alaska or the Philippines.” Stimson lauded Soviet Russia’s resistance to Germany’s invasion, and urged that lend lease funds and supplies be made available to the Red Army in the fullest degree possible. Stimson said that in 1940, when rearmament began on a large scale in the United States, the domestic “situation was immeasurably worse” than in 1917 except as to plans for industrial mobilization.

FRIENDSHIP IS MARKED

SANTIAGO, Chile (U. P.) —Ceremonies emphasizing Mexican-Chile-an friendship will take place Dec. 20 at the dedication in Chilean of the new Mexico School (Escuela

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which he said Saturday was being prepared by this country and Great Britain. A early White House caller yesters day was British Ambassador Vis count Halifax. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox; Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of Naval operations, followed Halifax to the White*House. The announcement Saturday revealed that the United States and Britain’ are preparing to bring the Soviet Union, China and the Nethe erlands into “unity of action” and fighting collaboration.

Send More Japs, Wake Troops Ask

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P.). —Two additional enemy air ate tacks on Wake Island were revealed in a Navy communique issued last night, bringing to 12 the total reported by the Navy Department since the war began. Despite these repeated attacks the small Marine garrison continues to hold its central Pacific outpost. The story goes that when Navy Department wirelessed Wake, asking the detachment if anything was wanted, it got this reply: “Yes, send us some more Japanese.”

2 CRITICALLY HURT WHEN HIT BY CARS

Two persons are in a critical cone dition at the City Hospital today as a result of traffic accidents Sate urday night, one the victim of a hit-run motorist. Charles Alberts; 67, of 470% 8. Meridian St. received head injuries and a fractured left arm when he was struck by an automobile which did not stop, at the corner of South and 8. Meridian Sts. Leslie Frederich, 410 S. Alabama St., was struck by a ear driven by Leonard &kiver, 2129 Dexter Ave, while he was crossing New Jersey St. at Massachusetts Ave.

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