Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1942 — Page 11
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1942
BRITISH CONVOY)
OUTSMART NAZIS
Writer Describes How ‘Black Beetles’ Pass Through E-Boat Alley in Light of Full Moon Without Firing Shot or Seeing Mine.
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright. 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
SOMEWHERE ON THE NORTH SEA, May 31 (De-layed).—E-boat alley has lost its pep and the Germans have lost their battle against “the black beetles,” the great col-
lection of floating this and that which plies along the east
coast of England. Our convoy has just come through E-boat alley in the
light of the full moon, without firing a shot, or even seeing
a mine, We saw one German reconnaissance plane, far off on the eastern horizon, so it wasn’t a question of sneaking
through. The only other) ol RH raiding aircraft and, on calm, dark planes we saw were our own mEhis =poats. The large minefighters and a great congre-igeids in the middle of the North
gation of mighty four-jsea seem to prevent U-boats from
operating over here. motored bombers that roared The British answer to their probover us
in the moonlight, lem is as many-sided as the problem headed for Cologne. itself, and largely secret. But the At one time, yesterday (Satur-
{substance of the system is thorday), when we passed another con-
|oughness. voy, there were ships all over the
There are now plenty of escort : ships and, in the more dangerous place, happily smoking away as ge though there had never been
a stretches, the escort is so formidable : that it makes you wish the Germans Hitler. We weren't much more than woulg try something. Convoys are 40 miles from the coast of Holland. i/o py fghters and they travel at the time. British Outwit Enemy
so close to shore that more fighters can be called up within a few There is nothing ‘accidental about this fantastic situation and it isn’t
minutes if a big attack develops. The black beetles themselves are due to any lack of effort or interest on the part of the Huns. The]
now properly arraed. There isn’t a ship in our convoy which doesn’t \ have at least ] -1 channel along which we passed was, tern and a or in hi literally lined in places by mastsi =... ore. Some of them
and funnels of sunken ships, tragic] . : ob i «(ha anti- | witnesses to the fact that it wasn't have multiple light ti-aircraft
larm . always like this. | ament.
E-boat alley has been made safe for black beetles and visiting Amer-| o. . of them tows a small barican newspapermen by a combina- : tion of quick thinking, persistence | rage balloon as protection against and bravery. The fact that the dive-bombers. So in daylight any British have been able to do it and | E-boat or plane which tried to atthe way in which they have done|tack would stand a good chance of it, may serve as an inspiration and | being blown to pieces. On a moonsomething of an example to the light night attack it would also be United States, with its heavy coastal (dangerous. On dark, calm nights shipping losses. |E-boats and planes can attack, but The key to British success has in the area where the E-boats’ range peen the ability of the British navy allows them to operate, they find to outthink the enemy whenever plenty of trouble. he has pulled some new rabbit out] The last E-boat which came this of the hat. The east coast convoy|way was sighted in the dark and a pusiness has gone through a number |small destroyer sneaked up to of stages, each marked by the in-|within 200 yards, switched on a troduction of some new German searchlight and put a star shell weapon or method, and immediately |into the E-boat’s innards, blowing ~ thereafter by the development of (it to smithereens. E-boat alley is
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$50 SERVICE PAY 1S NOW ASSURED
‘Aid to Dependents of Our Service Men Also Is Agreed Upon.
American soldiers, sailors and marines today were assured of becoming the world’s best paid fighters.
on legislation increasing the minimum pay of service men to $50 a month, and setting up a system of allowances for dependents of those men who earn up to $78 a month. Only formalities remain to be observed on the military pay bill. The new scales take effect June 1 and compare with the $45-a-month pay of the Australians, the next highest paid fighters, and the 30 cents a month paid the Japanese private. The Soviet union pays its privates about $4 a month.
Reject $46 Compromise The months of wrangling over the
| bill ended yesterday when the sen-
ate voted, 58 to 20, to accept the $50 minimum for buck privates and apprentice seamen for which the house had voted twice. The senate first had insisted upon $42-a-month. Upon the insistence of Senator Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Wis.) it finally rejected an
suitable counter-measurers by the still laughing about the German British. sailor who was being seasick in the;
Won Over Maghetic Mines stern of the E-boat when that hap- | At the beginning of the war,
attempt to compromise at $46—midway between the $50 house figure and the $42 senate figure. Conferees were scheduled to meet
pened. shipping along this coast was men-
today to put the orders of senate and house into a formal agreement
WASHINGTON, June 8 (U.P)—|
The senate and house have agreed|
Destroyers and other escort ships are floating laboratories as well as aced principally by ordinary contact mines and, to a lesser extent,
by raiding aircraft. The answer
miniature fortresses. Some of their y,..¢ could be ratified by both methods are still strictly secret, but |p ouces and sent to President
was to keep the channel well swept | work. and to maintain fighter patrols over convoys.
This happy period was rudely in-
Destroyer Never Asleep
Although this has been a quiet
terrupted, after a few weeks, by a|trip and was just about bound to series of resounding explosions all pe, our destroyer has not been along the coast. The Germans had | 55leep at any moment during the introduced magnetic mines. The trip Its instruments have been in magnetic mine was a terrific in-|constant operation and the officers strument; the mouth of the Thames and men who man the ship have
| passed without record vote, carry-
the important thing is that they roosevelt for signature.
House Makes Changes
Meanwhile, the senate received from the house a dependents’ bill,
ing allowances of $50 and up for families of men drafted into the armed services. The house harmonized its allowance scales with those of the sen-
estuary and the waters all along the coast are still dotted with the wrecks of ships lost in that way. The British solved that problem, eventually, by producing degaussing apparatus which immunized any ship carrying it. They would have saved a great deal of shipping if they had begun to install such apparatus before the magnetic mines first appeared, but that was one time when they were caught napping. The principle of the magnetic mine was an old story.
At Mercy of Planes for Time
The British were faced by a new and even more terrific problem when the Germans reached the channel in the summer of 1940. Their convoys began to be attacked by large forces of aircraft and were
{been on their toes. Action stations ate, but made minor amendments is the rule rather than the excep- | that will require senate acceptance tion even when there's not one or a conference with the house. chance in 50 of having trouble and: The pay bill makes these changes our guns are trained at every plane | in existing monthly pay for soldiers, that appears. sailors and marines.
The skipper—a wiry, young man RANK Present New 0 0 hi . S. C. duri Private—apprentice seaman ....$ 30* $ 50 f 81, ho got S D. 8 C d ng First class private—seaman .... 36 54 the Norwegian campaign—isn’t tak- Corporal —seaman, 1st class hi a se . , . : ant—petty officers class ing any chances on losing a possible Sta seret petty Licer 2d os. a 3 . 9 3 st sergt.—petiy officer 1st class 4 E-boat or German plane. He's still Mstr. sergt.—chief petty officer. 126 138
kicking himself because on one occasion he missed a possible shot at an E-boat which he suddenly encountered in a quiet area. His first lieutenant is a veteran of the battle of the Atlantic, who got the D. S. C. when his destroyer sank three E-boats in one day. All our officers and men are like {so many rabbit hunters who have
{been having a thin time and are
*$21 for first four months. The bill also raises the pay of second lieutenants and ensigns— from $1500 a year to $1800—and increases the allowances given commissioned officers for subsistence |and quarters. Only the lowest rank ‘of commissioned officers get an increase in pay. : Deducts $22 monthly
The dependents’ bill call for de-
‘vithin range of E-boat, or destroyer, | etermined to get something for the attack. What was worse was the, pefore going home. The officers fact that their ships were not prop- (do their drinking, if any, ashore, rly armed and that there were not |, 4 get their fun afloat by con-
enough escort vessels to go around. {templating the next fight and raz-
| families.
duction of $22 a month from the pay of enlisted men of the four lower grades, to be given to their Government allowances
Large convoys used to risk the trap right in the middle of mass daylight raids on Britain with only one destroyer as escort. Why and how they got by without awful losses is still a mystery to everybody. The next chapter in the story was marked by the use of acoustic mines and E-boats which sneaked in on calm dark nights in order to ambush passing convoys. There were many frantic battles in which British destroyers and fast motor boats gave German raiders a bad lacing.
Today convoys have to Worry said today at the opening of the received by dependents in this group
about mines of three different types —contact, magnetic and acoustic—
zing merchant skippers for failing ‘are added to the deductions. {to go faster. Their trouble is that! Wives and children are designated [they have done their business too C12SS A dependents. Parents | well; they will have no objections ‘grandparents, brothers, sisters, if and when the next Nazi bunny Srandchildren are in Class B. If a jsoldier has dependents in both [classes an additional 85 is deducted CALLS FOR END TO HATRED from his pay, making a total of $27. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. June 9 (u.| Government payments to Class A | P.) —“The church in America to- | dependents begin at $28 monthly to day must stop this senseless, hellish | > wife, who would thus get a total excitation to hatred,” Dr. P. \ of $50. Class B dependents’ contri- | Bersell of Minneapolis, president of 2utions from the government begin | the Lutheran Augustana synod, at $15 for a parent, but the totals
comes popping out of the hat.
83d annual convention of the larg- 2r® Smaller if the soldier aiso has est Swedish group in America. [Class A dependents.
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to have
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FATHER'S DAY IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK!
There Are Typical Cases
While the amounts received by dependents will differ according to
bus “runs” were very nearly dupli-.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES All for One at Bus Terminal—Business Booms
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DUPLICATION OF SERVICE AT END
Most Schedules Are Bit Slower; Soldier Travel Presents Problem.
By FREMONT POWER
Call RI-6381 and the girl says, pleasantly, “bus terminal.” Ask] her about the schedule of any line and she will have the answer at her fingertips. If the Greyhound doesn’t have a
bus soon, perhaps the Indiana Rail- | road will. Once arrived at the station, if | you find the Greyhound vehicle] filled you may be advised to take another line's bus, leaving shortly afterward. The other line will accept the Greyhound ticket.
Services Co-ordinated
Competition is not being wiped | out, but it is taking a back seat. Under the prodding auspices of) the office of defense transportation, bus companies are co-ordinating their services, working together on! schedules and exchanging tickets. | It’s wartime economy—and with gasoline rationing around the corner, still more changes, and more drastic ones, may be made. The time! may come when you must have a better reason than a visit to Aunt Matilda to board a bus. Where once the world’s greatest system of electric transportation was headquartered — in Traction Terminal — busses have completely taken over. Five o'clock in the evening there presents a picture of | panting vehicles leaving for all points, and swarms of people on the run to catch them.
Business Keeps Gaining
Business is booming and the end hasn’t been reached yet! In April of this year, 43 per cent more passengers were handled at the station than in 1941. Here's what happened at Traction Terminal in terms of number of peo- |
ple arriving and departing, by months: 1941 1942 Jan. cebenneee 209,417 312,193 : Feb. cieeienees 217,432 303,577 | March ceeeeeee. 254641 345,613 | April ..........266283 378279
And even last year showed a 15 per cent gain over 1940. A total of 3,373,352 left or arrived at the termi-/ nal last year. Y Time was, of course, when many cations of other companies’. This, says the ODT, is out.
Duplication Ceases
If a run is not profitable, the companies are being ordered, then abandon it—and the public service commission take the hindmost. For instance, Greyhound used to
PHOTOREFLEX STUDIO . .
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‘the soldjer’s family relationships, ‘the following table indicates the
most typical cases:
APPROVES TAX FOR
POLICE PENSION FUND
: The Indiana supreme court ruled | yesterday that municipalities must (levy a property tax in addition to | the present two-tenths of a mill tax to meet police fund payments if available funds are in-
‘amounts payable in some of the [9:05 and 10:48 p. m. |
7| reasons for two companies to dupli-/
Cov. From Total Contrb. Soldier Wife a on 1d 8 ife. if no chi ..... 828 22 Wife with one child 40 2% * Wife with two children = 50 22 v2 To Class B (if there is no Class A dependent): | One parent . 15 22 37 TWO parents a - 22 47 One parent. one sister... 20 22 42 One parent, two sisters . 25 22 4 To Class B (if there is also a Class A deOne erent 4 4 ren EID DAS pian h 25 5 32 Ore parent, one sister .. 20 2 5 One parent, two sisters.. 25 30
offer five trips from Indianapolis to Terre Haute in the afternoon and ‘night before midnight—2, 3:15, 5:15,
But the Indiana Railroad also has busses to Terre Haute at 1:30, 3:30, 4:30 and 5:45 p. m., and so Greyhound has dropped the 3:15 and | 5:15 p. m. runs. The ODT sees no,
cate schedules that closely. | In other cases, the Indiana Rail-, road may give up some of its runs.
Travel to Fort Heavy
Hereafter, in most cases the sur- | plus passengers will be advised to take a later bus, even if it is operated by a different company. | Soldiers, of course, have presented | a large problem to the firms. Indiana Railroad is now running busses every 30 to 40 minutes to Ft.! Harrison 24 hours a day. The man’ in uniform gets a roundtrip ticket for 25 cents, the civilian for 45 cents. may set up a regular
1. Bus terminal at 5 o’clock in the evening is filled with vehicles loading “for all points.” This is commuters’ headquarters, 2. Soldiers account for a great part of the increase in bus travel They're going home on furlough—or coming back to camp. 3. Ticket sellers have a busy, frenzied time of it. Soon the consolidated ticket counter is to be moved where the news and candy stand is now. This will remedy crowded conditions.
Gr
COURT TO INSTRUCT YOUTHS ON TRAFFIC
More than 150 youthful traffic violators, aged 11 to 17, will attend a court of instruction in Municipal court, room 4, at 7 p. m. today. The youngsters, who were seen by police officers to have run red lights, ridden two on a bicycle, thumbed rides, played in the streets, etc., will be addressed by Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of Juvenile court, Capt. Leo Troutman of the police traffic department and Sergt. Albert Magenheimer, safety education director of the public schools. Each child must be accompanied by at least one of his or her parents.
DIPLOMATS REACH U. S.
JERSEY CITY, N. J,, June 9 (U. P.).—The Swedish-American liner Gripsholm, traveling under a safe conduct in an arrangement with the axis for exchange of diplomats and nationals, arrived today from Gothenburg, Sweden, with 199 American and Swedish passengers.
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LABOR ADVISERS TO HELP MNUTT
Eleven to Study Steps for Full Mobilization of
Workers.
WASHINGTON, June 9 (U. P.).—= Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the
war manpower commission today named 11 members of a manage= ment-labor policy committee to recommend steps toward full mobilization of labor, The committee was to meet today for the first time and hold weekly meetings hereafter, Mr. McNutt said. Three additional members will be named later. The members representing mane agement were R. Conrad Cooper, assistant vice president of the Wheeling Steel Corp., Wheeling, W., Va.; H. A. Enochs, chief of pere sonnel of the Pennsylvania Raile road, Philadelphia; R. E. Gillmore, president of the Sperry Gyroscope: Co., Brooklyn; R. Randall Irwin, die rector of industrial relations of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Burbank, Cal, and C, F. Whipple, president of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett &s Co., Chicago. Labor members were Frank P, Fenton, director of organization of the A. F. of L.; John P. Frey, presie dent of the metal trades departs ment of the A. F.'of L.; George Masterson, president of journeymen plumbers and steamfitters, A. F. of L.; Clinton S. Golden, assistant to the president of the United Steel Workers, GC, I. O.; John Green, president of marine and shipbuild= ing workers, C. I. O, and Walter P, Reuther, member of the executive board of united automobile, aircraft and agricultural implement worke ers, C. I. O.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY ARRANGES PICNIC
The Indiana section of the Amer ican Chemical society will hold a picnic next Saturday at Meridian Hills country club. There will be golf and bridge in the afternoon, a dinner at 7 p. m, and a talk on “Chemical Warfare” by Dr. R. More ris Shreve, Purdue university proe fessor. Sectional officers for 1042-43 will be installed.
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