Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1942 — Page 13

THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1942

The Indianapolis Times

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Hoosier Vagabond

ALBUQUERQUE, Jan. brand-new dog. The whole thing was sort of fantastic. That Girl said one evening last fall that she'd like a Great Dane. She said that if she ever had a dog it had to be a big one. She said the only trouble with a Great Dane was that it wasn’t big enough. She said what she'd really like to have was a dog as big as a horse. So we talked a while along that line, and then she said that if she couldn't have a dog as big as a horse she'd like a “toy” dog so little you could hardly see it. She me is a woman of terrific extremes. RY She said she'd read in a magazine x that they now have toy shepherds so tiny you can put one in a shoe. She said one of these would serve the purpose. So when I went to Washington recently I inquired around about toy shepherds. Finally we tracked our desire down to its lair, and over near Falls Church, Va., we found a whole kennelful of toy shepherds. Well, it turned out they weren't little enough to in a shoe. They weren't little enough to put in a rubber boot, or even in two rubber boots. But they were pretty little. And they were mighty sweet. So I said okay, wrap one up, I'll take it. I left by plane the next day. The dog was delivered to me at the airport by the kennel people. They had it in a nice lightweight wooden box. I said “Hello dog,” and we both got on the airplane and flew away.

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PROBABLY NO DCG has ever flown so far and geen so many people in her first week away from home. Our westward journey was an epic and a torture, but I'll have to tell you all that some evening sitting before a fireplace. When we finally got here the poor thing didn’t know whether she was a dog or a flywheel, and she had the shakes and the shivers something terrible. But she had nothing on me. I was shaking too, with

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

INDIANAPOLIS HOCKEY FANS have been pretty riled up about the officiating at the Capitals’ home games. The crowd last Sunday night was constantly in an uproar and all in favor of scalping the referee and the whole visiting team. All of which seems to indicate that ‘Indianapolis hockey is becoming of age. During the first hockey season here, the visitors could toss one of the Capital players up into the 44-cent seats and draw no more than mild attention. That was because the crowd didn't understand th® game, and hadn't warmed up to it. Now, a loose stick, or an accidental board bump brings the crowd screaming in protest. Towns where they have had hockey longer we have are still more vehement, we hear. Vegetables—and sometimes even the fans—gather on the ice to tell off the referee. The Caps have another game tonight and our only suggestion is that the referee be especially careful. because there’ll be a lot of soldiers and sailors present, and some of them will be carrying brooms to use in the broom-ball game between halves,

All for Defense UNABLE TO START his car after the Butler Forum Tuesday night, Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, the county civilian defense chief, saw a couple of ladies driving away and asked them to give his ear a push. Graciously, they consented. Just as his motor glarted, the bumpers on the two cars became locked. A couple of spectators tried. unsuccessfully, to disengage the bumpers. Then the ladies’ car motor died and wouldn't start . So the Genera] towed their car several blocks to a filling station. As he drove into the station, the

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WASHINGTON. Jan. 8—If it the spirit of America that breathed through every phrase in President Roosevelt's address to Congress, then this war will be won. The peace will be won. The united nations will have a chance then, if they are intelligent enough to seize it, to shape the post-war world to democratic ideals of freedom and with respect for the dignity of the human being. That is possible. It is the vista that President Roosevelt opened up for the years to come. Mr. Roosevelt was cool and bold. He stood on the foundation rock of the mighty resources of America and challenged us to do a heroic job of a size fitting to a nation of our inherent strength. All we need is the audacity, the courage, the will to follow him up the path he pointed out. It 1s a hard and rugged path. I am glad Mr. Roosevelt told us frankly about that. This was no time to deceive u y the comforting belief that it would be an easy journey. That speech to Congress sould have been made only by a man with great courage, with great confidence in the strength of America. and with complete faith in the stamina of the American people. This is a speech that needs to be read and read again so that the full weight of its challenge sinks in.

Figures Are Breath-Taking

THE FIGURES IN planes, tanks and ships are breath-taking But this is a nation that makes more than four million automobiles a year. This ic a nation that makes more steel than all of Europe. This it the nation that taught Hitler mass production. It is our own game that we must beat him at.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday —I had a chance to see the tremendous development at the naval ammunition base at Hingham, Mass, yesterday. Then, before lunch. our hostesses, Mrs. Gordon MacGregor

and Mrs. Janet Raymond, took us to a meeting of the League of Women Voters. After- = n ward, Mrs. MacGregor and I went over all the very beautiful pictures for her book. Then Miss Thompson and I caught the 4:20 plane and arrived in New York City in time to dine at home and go to the theater. I had planned on seeing “In Time to Come,” but on getting out of the taxi, I was confronted by two pickets who belonged to the musicians’ union. I do not cross a picket line and so I turned in my

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I must add. however, that I am writing a line on the subject to the head of the union. In war time it is considered essential to play “The Star-Spangled 4 Banner” but to employ musicians for Uap purpose

By Ernie Pyle

anxiety that That Girl might not like her. For after all, she was neither as big as a horse nor as little as a shoe. But I needn't have worried. For the new owner took to the dog in such colossal fashion that I'm in a jealous rage. I don't get any attention at all. The dog has by now wrought an outstanding change in our lives. Why is it that two purportedly sane people, suddenly confronted with dog ownership, actually turn into simpering idiots, and drool and burble and talk baby-talk until they have to sit and laugh at themselves in their clearer moments? We get practically sick at our stomachs when the dog's nose gets hot, for we are sure she is dying. Her refusal to drink milk with an egg in it causes long and serious conferences. If she runs around sniffing at things, we know she is going to have a fit. If she lies down quietly and goes to sleep, we are positive she is just about to have a stroke.

The Ungrateful Whelp! AND BUY THINGS?

two hours downtown haunting the stores looking for dog things. I've bought rubber rats, rubber bones, plastic bones, rubber balls, cloth balls, wire combs, rubber combs, leather leashes, chain leashes, flea powder, dog-bath soap, three dog books, dog biscuits, dog mattresses, canned dog food, hamburger, two dog magazines, and have clipped a coupon in one of them and sent away for two more dog books and a sack of cedar dog-bedding. And the damn dog won't play with her rubber rats and won't lie on her dog-mattress and won't eat her dog biscuits. All she wants to do is either sit on our laps or else get out in the big south lot and scamper and play all day and half the night. Actually the other night That Girl, who should have been snug in her convalescent bed, was out there in the yard in the cold moonlight of 2 a. m. playing catch-the-ball with this beast, just because it woke up and seemed restless in the house. Yes, it's wonderful to own a dog. I'm glad*I'm on my way again. If I stayed here another month I'll bet I wouldn't have an ounce of sense left.

bumpers disengaged. General Tyndall walked back to the ladies’ car and in his most chivalrous manner expressed his gratitude for their help. The ladies, recognizing him, replied: “Oh, that's all right, General. Just put it down to civilian defense.”

A Lot of Shoveling

HAROLD L. TURNER, of Wilking's organ department, read the President's reference to spending 60 biilions in the next fiscal year, and he got to thinking that 60 billions in cash would make a mighty big stack. So he got out his pencil and started figuring. After wearing out several pencils and permanently wrinkling his brow, he found that a man shoveling 8200 at a crack, and taking a shovelful every 10 seconds, couldnt shovel away the entire pile of cash in less than 90-odd years. . . . The reason Bill Elder, manager of Loew's, is popping his vest buttons is 7 pounds 10 ounces of red-faced progeny which arrived at St. Vincent's yesterday. The name: Bill Jr,

That Little Red Fox

A LITTLE RED FOX with an intense patriotism has been causing quite a bit of annoyance to Wallace O. Lee and other landowners northwest of the City. On his estate at 5800 N. Delong Road, Mr. Lee has quite an extensive collection of wildfowl, including a number of rare varieties. Among them are Japanese Silkies, a species of chickens, and some Hungarian wild ducks. The other day, Bob Durrett, the caretaker, told Wallace that something had been carrying away the stock. “I saw Mr. Russell Miller,” said Bob, “and he told me he had taken a shot at a red fox right back of the place here. “And you know what? That doggoned fox didn't take anything except those old Japanese Silkies and the Hungarian ducks.” *

By Raymond Clapper

Why, there wasn't a day | for the first two weeks that I didn't spend at least

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longest. Wear dark glasses, or polaroid glasses if you can, to shield your eyes

from the glare of the sun. 2. Watch airplanes at night and in the dusk of early evening and dawn. 3. Few people are able to memorize the entire looks of a plane as you would a friend's face, or to distinguish one plane from a closely similar model in this way. Instead, look for details of construction. I will list a few of these for you in this article. You can add to the list yourself. 4. Start games with other airplane identification fans. Play them as tourists play automobile poker. Allow 10 points for each of the distinguishing features list- + ed below. The player first noting wing location, tail features, number of motors, and so on adds 10 points to his score.

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Hobby In England

5. In England little groups of airplane spotters are getting together ih clubs to follow this field as a new fascinating hobby. That the ability of every man, woman and child in England to be able to tell friendly airplane from foe is extremely important to the safety of the whole nation adds a particular thrill to the sport of this new skill. Here is a new field for your own local Science Club or Aviation Club. 6. Study silhouettes. The view you get of an airplane when you view it against the back-drop of a bright sky is not at all like what you see when the plane is on the ground and the sun shining down on it from above. For that reason the black silhouettes which nevertheless give a three-dimensional effect are particularly helpful in learning to spot planes in flight. They are better for this purpose than photographs which show numbers, insignia, and so on seldom dis-

If we had now the 60.000 planes, the 45,000 tanks,

the eight million additional tons of shipping that Mr.!

Roosevelt asks this year, we would be reading victory news from every battlefront right now, We intend not only to match the Axis but to be! overwhelmingly superior. Mr. Roosevelt has set up| a goal that the Axis cannot possibly approach, as he! said. Next year he wants 125.000 planes, 75.000 tanks | and 10 million tons of shipping. There will be head-shaking. We will be told it! cannot be done. Mr. Roosevelt is going to try. | I'm glad he set his sights high. We have always had them too low. When a sales manager calls in his | crew he always gives them quotas which they think| are impossible. A hard-driving sales manager will drive his salesmen into outdoing themselves. That is what Mr. Roosevelt is trying to do now. That is! what he ought to do.

The Great Opportunity

MR. ROOSEVELT referred frequently to the | united nations, and to the hope of establishing se-| curity after the war. With the military strength that the united nations/ will possess after this war, with American military strength alone unmatched in all history on the basis of the program just outlined, the united nations will have in hand the force with which to establish security, and to insure that no butcher regimes can ever get started again. This time, maybe we won't be so stupid as to throw it away as we did before. This time, maybe, even the Senate will be smart enough to see that it is better | to keep the united nations together and have peace, than to fall apart and have another world war. The road Mr. Roosevelt shows us is hard. But at! its end is offered. for a second time, the great opportunity which is ours for the taking.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

and this purpose only, seems to be rather difficult. They certainly could not make a living wage on a short engagement of this kind. In this particular case, the theater was being picketed because it was using a record instead of employing musicians. There opened today, in New York City, by the Karamu artists, an exhibition at the Associated American Artists Galleries, Til Fifth Avenue. Karamu House in Cleveland, O, has developed Negro artists in the theater, dance, music, painting, graphic and plastic arts. I am sure this exhibition will be of great interest to those who care about the contribution to American culture of all our people. Mr. Aubrey Williams came to breakfast with me this morning and I went to the office of civilian defense for a few minutes before attending a committee meeting at the office of Administrator McNutt, which lasted until 12 o'clock. Later I had a talk with Mr.

tinguishable in the air. They are also better than another type of silhouette commonly

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effect. Get hold of all the silhouettes you can for study. A book of British, German and American silhouettes is available in handy pocket size for you to take along on field trips. It is “Aircraft Recognition,” a Penguin Book by R. A. Saville-Sneath. Another will be published soon containing Japanese silhouettes; and the latest American and German models. Watch newspaper pictures and movies. Here are some of the features for you to look for in studying the silhouettes and airplanes.

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Number of Wings

BY FAR the largest number of airplanes you are likely to see are single-wing, or monoplanes. If you observe, therefore, that a particular plane is a biplane, you have immensely simplified identification. On this page you will see the silhouette of a Japanese biplane used as a dive bomber, and the British “Albacore” which has taken part in many raids on invasion ports and coastal airdromes. Both can presumably be used from aircraft carriers. Most obvious differences between friend and foe in this case are: glassed in cockpits on “Albacore”; distance that the fuselage projects forward of wings on “Albacore”: and relatively stubby fuselage of Jap plane. British plane has “trousered” legs but wheels without spats. The Japanese dive bomber has spats but no trousers. Land or water? One of the easiest observations to make on a distant plane is probably to determine whether it is a flying boat, seaplane with floats or pontoons. or whether it is a land plane. Number of motors. Three - and Jour-motor planes ‘are relatively uncommon. Note these or whether a single motor or twin-motor job. Type of motor. A stream-lined effect on the motor generally means a liquid-cooled engine. The radial motor has a snub-nosed appearance. Modern designs, how-

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Skillful Recognition Of Varying Types May Help Save Lives

Study of Official Silhouettes of U. S., Japanese, German and British Machines Will Help

You Tell Friend from Foe.

By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER Science Service Psychology Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Thousands of lives may depend, some day, on your being able to spot airplanes in the distant sky and know friend from foe. It is not too soon to train yourself now to tell bomber from training plane, scouting plane from airliner, U. S. or British plane from German and Japanese. Aviation-minded America nevertheless still finds it difficult to know one airplane from another when they are flying at high altitudes and are viewed from the ground. The secret lies in a training course in observation which you can give yourself, following these hints of psy-

1. Watch airplanes constantly under all sorts of conGo to an airport if you can and watch the airliners taking off. Watch them as they fade into the distant sky. Notice what details fade from sight first, which are visible

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Official photographs of the U.S, Army Air Corps of Japanese airplane silhouettes are show here. From top to bottom, Heavy Bomber 9 (similar to the German Junkers Ju B86), Heavy Bomber 98, Light Bomber 97, Light Bomber 98 and Dive Bomber 97.

the wing has littie or no taper, moderate taper, or full taper: whether taper is on leading edge only, trailing edge only, both edges, or whether wings are elliptical. The Albacore has no taper. Notice also the tips of the wings —whether rounded, pointed, or square cut. Position of wing. In a monoplane, the height of the wings with reference to the fuselage is important for identification. In the parasol high-wing type, the wing is well above the body and is attached to it by struts. The shoulder high-wing type has wings attached at the “shoulder” of the fuselage.

All the Japanese monoplanes | illustrated on this page are of the |

low-wing or midwing type, in which the wings are attached to fuselage in the positions indicated by the names. Wing dihedral. The head-on or tail view of a plane or silhouette

shows the tilt, the angle at which | the wings are attached to the fuse- | lage, known as the dihedral. With |

little or no dihedral, the wings form a flat or straight line. Other classifications are moderate dihedral, in which the wings tilt upward like the raised wings of a

bird in flight. Sometimes a plane

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Most familiar in the air over the United States is this air liner (above), the Douglas D.C. 8.

in the center section with full dihedral only in the extreme outer section near the wing tips.

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Two Types of Gull Wings

THE GULL wing has full dihedral in the center section with no dihedral in the rest of the wings. The inverted gull wing has “‘anhedral,” or a droop, in the center section and then an upward lift in the outer sections of the wings. Wing span and aspect ratio. The length of the wings and the proportion of length to width are very difficult to observe from the ground. Tail. The tail is, in airplane spotting, what the radiator is in automobile identification. On a European plane, it is almost like the designer's signature, so dis= tinctive is the work of each maker. Note first whether the tail is simple, with single fin and rudder, or compound with twin fins and rudders. In the compound unit, note the position of fin and rudder on the tailplane. Are they above it, below it, or midway? How far out from the fuselage? You will notice that with a few exceptions compound tail units occur on planes with more than one motor. Identification of German planes is much easier than is telling Japanese planes from either German models or American planes. This is because so many Japanese airs planes are frank copies of wellknown German designs and our own. There also is the possibility that the Japanese are actually using German airplanes and the American planes bought from us during 1938 and 1939. These could easily be converted for war use. ” ” ”

Spotting Flying Boats THEREFORE, train yourself to notice all the small details you can possibly detect in flight with a view to distinguishing between, say, the Douglas D.C. 2 or D.C. 3, familiar air liners, and a clever copy or adaptation of this type. Strain your eyes for a flying boat of this description: Monoplane with high wing, braced. No wheels or floats—a boat. Two inline engines, but easily mistaken for a single engine boat because motors are mounted in tandem. Uniformly tapered wings with rounded tips, have no dihedral. Simple tail. Unusual distinguish= ing characteristics are the lateral sponsons, or stub wings, built into the hull to serve as water stabilizers in place of wing floats. Can you find this boat in the silhouettes on this page? Can you find it in the skies? If the East Coast is ever attacked by a German bomber, it may very well be by a military version of this Dornier 18, which made the first crossing of the North Atlantic ever made by a regular passenger flying boat. It was then catapult launched from the mother ship, “Schwabenland,” at its only stop for refueling. Or it might be the four-engine Blohm and Voss, which made more than 100 Atlantic crossings just before the war. This seaplane is easily distinguished by its inverted gull wing and unusual elevated twin tail with a single flipper.

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The Japanese silhouettes (above) are of their heavy bomber 97— probably a militarized copy of the D.C. 3. The Douglas “Boston” (right) is made by the same com-

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Note the engine nacelles projecting

back of the wings, underslung motors, shoulder position of the wings

and very marked dihedral of the tailplane.

These features distinguish

it from the other two twin engine planes. All silhouettes of Japanese planes on this page are official photographs of the U. S. Army Air

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All other silhouettes here are from R. A, Saville-Sneath’s book

“Aircraft Recognition” (Penguin Books).

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Two flying boats, both with high wings, braced; both long-distance

bombers with about the same cruising range, and about equal in length —these two ships can readily be distinguished.

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American Consolidated PBY 5 (Catalina); at right is the Cerman

Dornier Do 18. placing of the two motors.

Note the square cut wings of the Catalina and the Note, in the Dornier, the slender fuselage,

the side view of the motors, and the stub wings built into the hull as

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It is easy to tell a biplane from a monoplane. These two biplanes operate from aircraft carriers. The Japanese plane at the left is a dive bomber. (96). The British “Albacore” is a torpedo-spotter-

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ports and coastal airdromes. motor, landing gear?

What differences do you note in wings,

HOLD EVERYTHING

PAT, OFF,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Napoleon retreated from Moscow in 1809, 1812, or 1815?

2—Name the French actress whom Tyrone Power married in 1939.

3—When Great Britain declared war on Germany was the Dominion of Canada at liberty to choose whether it would or would not do the same?

4—Was there a real pirate named Cant. Kidd? 5—Name the capital of Thailand. 6-—What is an I. O. U.? T7—Who was the Republican Vice Presidential nominee in 1940?

Answers

1—1812. 2—Annabella. 3—It was free to choose. 4-—-Yes. 5=Bangkok. 6—A written acknowledgement of debt. T—Charles L. McNary. 8 [J f J

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