Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1942 — Page 16

SELF-DELIVERY OF

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| Maj. De Seversky Insists It Is Practical to Send Craft

To Hawaii, Iceland and Africa Under Their Own Power.

: NEW YORK, May 25.—Self-delivery of American’s deadly fighter planes to such distant key points as Hawaii, " Yeeland and Africa—making shipment by sluggish convoy as obsolete as the baling-wire planes of the last war—was called a comparatively practical matter by Maj. Alex#nder P. de Seversky, world-famous flier and plane designer, in an exclusive interview in the New York World-Telegram.

Branding as “absurd” the delivery of 200-miles-an-hour planes by 10-miles-an-hour convoy, the dark, tense avia“tion expert said that modifi-

cation could be made on all

U. 8. planes, those already aloft asiwell as the nearly 200,000 planned for 1942 and 1943. { Elaborating on a plan mentioned : inj his new book, “Victory Through

{ Air Power,” Maj. de Seversky said & that such modification is a simple

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matter. While he would not list details, for fear of giving away possible military secrets, he said that the changes could be made at a comparatively minor cost. Whatever encumbrances would be imposed on the planes to increase their ranges, could be disposed of prior to combat after arrival at their destination. Fatal to Hesitate

More than any other single factor, Maj. de Seversky said, the government’s reliance on the convoy as a means of plane transportation has been responsible for allied setbacks in the Pacific to date. Currently, the army is flying some planes across — chiefly. the giant bombers, which have a much longer range of flight than the pursuit and fighter planes as they now are equipped—but Maj. de

Seversky proposes that all planes be sent to their destinations under their own power. It is no new crusade that this Russian-born designer and ace is carrying on, this campaign for long-range planes that has come to an angry head in his "bes ller book. Three or four years ago he

li tried to interest the government | in the idea, insisting that modern

warfare would be waged chiefly in

{| the air. He presented plans and

| arguments; he made tests in pur-

suit planes of his own design. Pleas Fell on Deaf Ears “They're still there in the files,”

fl Maj. de Seversky said, not bitterly, i |

byt sadly. “The plans, the argu-

! ments, the reports of the tests.”

In his book, Maj. de Seversky explains that his arguments for lorig-range pursuit and fighter ships fell on deaf war department ears as far back as 1938. ‘To prove their feasibility, the major made

‘long-distance hops in modified army

pursuits between New York and Los Angeles, New York and Havana, setting records en route. Officials said the flights proved nothing because “Seversky, with his experience, could fly a broomstick.” Today, the major declared, recently released photographs show that some of the suggested modifications are finally bejng made. “Only now, after the Japs have struck seriously and shown the value of long-range flying, do we— potentially the greatest air-power nation—begin to imitate them,” he

1 | said. * He insisted that had it not

been for official “short-sightedness” pursuit. planes could have been flown swifitly and with considerable

' safety to Hawaii, Guam, Wake and

the Philippines when they needed them so badly. Flaying those leaders of our armed services who saw the war as “a war on land and sea,” to whom “a bomber or a pursuit plane was nothing but an adjunct—just another shell to throw at the enemy,” Maj. de Seversky called for long-range planes and a separate air force, like Britain's RAF. “This is an air war,” he said. (“I will be decided in the air. We'll win it through the use of air power. Of that I am certain. America has all the ingredients for mastery of the skies. Our task is to unshackle our natural aeronautical

genius.

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Allied Vessel Fights After Attack Until Set Afire;

Survivors Landed.

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 25 (U. P.).—Survivors of an allied ship which downed at feast nine Japanese planes and, after fighting on through 10 direct bomb hits, was crippled only when an enemy plane crashed on its deck and set it on fire arrived in port today. « Some of the 100 survivors remained on the ship after putting out the fire. They were rescued by a destroyer. The others were picked up after spending five days in a lifeboat. One of the lifeboat party died. The destroyer sank the ship. The ship was off the Australian coast when a Japanese. plane fleet attacked it.

All Above Decks Hurt

Diving low, the enemy planes first dropped bombs and then machine gunned the decks. Practically everybody above deck was wounded, and many below were burned or scalded. “They hit us 10 times, and near misses by 250 pound bombs blew holes in our sides,” a member of the crew said.

riddled. We listed over but we could have made it if one Japanese plane had not crashed on our deck just abaft the funnel.”

Thrown Overboard A young engineer,

was thrown .overboard during the attack. He was picked up by others on a life raft. “The Japanese machine gunned us in the water but no one on my raft was hit,” he said. “We must have drifted nearly all day before a lifeboat took us aboard. “Por five days and nights we drifted. It was unadulterated agony by daylight, as the heat increased the pain of our wounds. “We drank water sparingly. There were nearly 30 of us in the boat. One died before we were picked up by an allied ship.”

WOMAN SLUGGED AS SHE ENTERS HOME

As she was walking up to the entrance of her home at 1402 Brookside ave., Mrs. Jessie Dunn, 56, was slugged last night by a man who suddenly came from behind a bush. Mrs. Dunn said. the man grabbed her and when she resisted, hit her in the stomach. Then he ran, without robbing her. Bertha Bullen, Methodist hospital superintendent of nurses, was awakened early yesterday by a man in the nurses’ home at 1812 N. Capitol ave. He had turned on the lights and when he saw her, he jumped out a window. The intruder took a purse containing $10.

FARM GROUP SEEKS OUSTER OF TUGWELL

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 25 (U. P.).—The Puerto Rico Farmers association, representing more than 500,000 persons, demanded today the immediate removal of Governor Rexford G. Tugwell, alleging he was “detrimental to the island's best interests.” A resolution adopted by a vote of 504 to 10 made eight charges against Mr. Tugwell and said his retention would be “dangerous to the tranquillity on an island which is a vital defense outpost.” The farmers’ action followed expressions of disapproval over the recent transfer of his naval aid, Lieut. Comm. Thomas C. Hennings, to a Pacific post. This prompted rumors that a purge of all official anti-Tugwell elements was imminent.

District 21 of the Indianapolis air raid protection system will hear Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, county defense director, at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at school 47, Ray st. and Warren ave. Chief Charles E. Gregory of the Indianapolis fire department will demonstrate the control of fire bombs and a patriotic sketch will be given. John E. Hampe is chair-

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WASHINGTON, May 25 (U. PJ). —Shortages in war-needed metals have become so serious that the war production board soon will revise ts allocation and priority system to direct their flow from the mines to the finished products. An order, to be issued within a week or 10 days, will establish the most drastic controls ever set up over metals in this country. The present system has been too loose, some officials said, and WPB surveys have disclosed leakages to non-essential uses as the metals went from plant to plant. The proposed “end use” classification will make it possible for WPB officials to identify each shipment of materials until it finally has become part of a tank, ship, plane, gun or essential civilian product. Under the “end use” system, it will be possible to earmark a mine’s daily output for a Qesige

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