Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1942 — Page 4

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Curtiss’ Commando mili-

adiy gear jammed on its routine army-acceptance flight. Seven men circled ‘the airport in

oe for eight and a half

working desperately to rethe landing ' wheels, which Stuck in the retracted position, None of the seven was injured ‘When Curtiss t pilot Herbert Pisher slid the big ship into the fleld on its belly. Fisher said he had proposed that his comanions out in parachutes, but they

A ‘broken oil line to the hydraulic device which locks the. wheels in

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position for landing caused the trouble. Lloyd Childs, Curtiss’ chief test pilot, transferred tins of oil to the crippled Commando from another plane, but Fisher said that as fast as the new oil was poured into the reservoir, it leaked out through the break in the line. The men succeeded in partially releasing the gear just before Fisher decided on a crash landing. “At first I hoped the gear was going to hold,” he said, “but the ship bounced twice and the wheels collapsed.” Ambulances and fire cine stood by on the field but were not needed. Aboard with Fisher were First Lieut. John D. Begley, army copilot; Ellis Trefethen, Don York and Capt. J. N. Van Washauser of the Curtiss company; Army Capt. O'Neill, and, rtson C. Caldwell, a visiting Royal Canadian air force pilot credited with shooting down 25 planes in North Africa. The commando took off on its acceptance flight yesterday morning. | Its landing gear was discovered to jammed at 11 a: m, and its fuel}supply had been expected momentarily to fail from that time it landed at 7:28 p. m.

Fisher Was Known as

| ‘Hawk’ at C. of C.

Herbert Fisher was known as “The Hawk” at the Indianapolis

Chamber of Commerce because of his interest In aviation. He was employed there in 1926 as an office boy and from 1934 to 1938 was avi~' ation secretary. As secretary of the Indiana Aircraft Trades association, he planned the air tour of some 50 civilian pilots throughout the state in- 1935, 1936 and 1937. ' Associates at the Chamber of Commerce said Mr.

‘Fisher started to fly in 1934.

His father, Harold O. Fisher, resides at 1823 E, 30th st.

PARKER LEAVES “Y” HERE Vernon D. Parker, a Y. M. C. A. secretary here since 1932, will leave Monday for Rochester, N. Y.; where he will begin his duties as boys’

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Gets Only Three Bullet|j Holes in Fight on Mission Over Wake. HAWAIIAN AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Aug. 7 (U., P.)—The crew of a flying fortress which shot down four, perhaps five, of six Japanese planes, believe the Japanese ‘have very little on. Wake island, where the fortress was attacked. The crew took pictures, converted what looked like an easy Japanese victory into a triumph for themselves and brought the flying fortress back with only three bullet|: holes in it. Maj. George E, Glober, 27, of San Angelo, Tex., said the fortress made four runs oger Wake before the Japanese planes, including four Navy-Os and two he believed -were| 3%

German Heinkels or Messerschmitt, 190s,#attacked. a Zeros Disintegrate SE B . “The zeros just disintegrated and : Yoo Clipe: Ching 3 bites a ot >: " n New Yor e’s one o the pieces started falling out,” he first Chinese n: allowed.

said. “It wasn’t fun, but we got a ashore from ships docking in U. lot of confidence in ourselves out of| S. ports. the fight. We under-rated the J: so long, We don’t under-rate nem now.” Ui Glober said the six Japanesey : pighes attacked from all directions) ® f " and made three passes at the fortress as close as 150 feet, but hit it only three times. Lieut. Harry W. Smith, 28, of Bucksport, Me., the navigator, said It Was 2 Torpedo Instead he believed he got the first enem Fore ® Y| Of a ‘Fish,’ That Attacked “A. fighter pulled up beneath as we cut loose at the plane,” he said. In Gulf. “I saw the plane burning, then black smoke, and it quivered violently and By UNITED. PE ESS went Spiing downward like a| A torpedo which suddenly swerved leaf.” into the side of a medium-sized © It was the crew’s first time under {American vessel carrying 406 perfire, but they behaved calmly while|sons in the Gulf of Mexico sank Japanesé “anti-aircraft guns fired |the 433d merchant ship ‘lost to axis shells that exploded 50 feet from operations in the western Atlantic their plane’s tail. sia since mid- xJania}y; si % he navy announce e sinking Shoots Plane in Nose yesterday, along with the torpedo“We were too busy to notice|ing, probably by a Japanese submuch,” Glober said. plans doing lazy 8's on our tail came |can merchantman in the Indian too close. We shot him down.” ocean. It was the fourth merchant A gunner shot down a third plae | Vessel lost in that theater. which came so close he didn’t rieed| An unofficial compilation showed to use his sights. He “shot it all to |8t least 449 ships sunk by axis subhell,” Glober said. He saw the plane Marines and mines. Twelve have disintegrate. Finally, another gun-|8°0€ down in the Pacific, ner shot directly into the nose of 25 Believed Lost a zero, It spun toward the ocean, : dropping pieces as it fell. : lost on the ship sunk in the gulf. The fifth enemy fighter disap-|rye eighth naval district announced peared and the sixth gave up the|inhat 10 crewmen and 15 of the veschase, in In heavy w Weaiher sel’'s ‘270 passengers were dead or _ |missing. Several survivors, landed at a-gulf port, were injured. 1, S. T0 ENLARGE Survivors said the torpedo which sank their.ship ran a parallel course before it suddenly changed course NURSE SCHOOL PLA Eng struck the vessel aft. They ught when they first saw its WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P.).— ic, that it was caused by a playFederal Security Administrator Paul|ful porpoise. V. McNutt has announced plans for Ss other. yee! ves sunk with- « 3 ” SS e S eas a “substantial increase” in the] coast of ‘Africa. nurse-training program of the de- Capt. mosthenis Helmis, the fense health and welfare services. Nutt said new training|submarine was Japanese. centers; made possible by a $3,500,000f Argentine maritime officials disappropriation, will be established |closed at Buenos Aires that 30 sur“in strategic areas throughout the|vivors of the 616l1-ton Norwegian country in connection with colleges tanker Havsten had been picked up and universities.” by an Argentine vessel 350 miles “The army and navy are calling | west of Trinidad. It was not made for 3000 graduate nurses a month clear whether the Havsten had been for the next 12 months, and many |sunk by enemy attacks» of these nurses will be taken from civilian institutions,” he added. “If war and civilian needs are to be met, approximately 55,000 young women must enroll in schools of nursing by July 1, 1943, and 65,000 by July 1, 1944,” he said. 3 ARE INDICTED IN “WAR CONTRACT CASE PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7 (U.P) —

dicted three partners in the defunct Souderton Pants Co., Souderton, Pa., for embezzlement and conversion of

2500 pairs of army trousers valued at more than $10,000. In the first case of war contract irregularities in this defense area, the jury cifed Paul Waitsman, 43; Maxwell Waitsman, 49, cousins, and Max Apieischmitt, 65, all .of Phila~ delphia. Bench warrants were issued for their arrest and bail was fixed at $5000 each by Federal Judge George| - A. Welsh,

MACARTHUR HONORS " AUSTRALIAN HERO

AN ADVANCED ALLIED BASE, “Aug. 7 (U. P.).—~—Gen. Douglas ‘MacArthur has awarded the distinguished service cross posthumsously to Lieut. Col. W. T. Owen, first Australian to receive an American decoration in this war. Col. Owen was decorated for his defense on the plateau of the Owen Stanley range in New Guinea dur-| ing a moonlight engagement in which he hand-grenaded the enemy until he was fatally wounded.

ANOTHER IRISH QUIN DIES DUBLIN, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—The fourth of the Leydon quintuplets died last night. The only survivor of the children born a week ago is a boy, one of the two born with three girls to Mrs. ‘Thomas Leyden the wife of a farmer.

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By KARL ESKELUND United Press Staff Correspond U. S. ARMY AR « BASE IN CHINA, Aug. 7~Flanes of the

[| United States bombsr command |caught the Japanese fiatfooted at

an airdrome near Canton and destroyed at least 10 grounded enemy

planes, it was Feporise officially to-

The raid, in which no United States planes were lost, was an-

{nounced a short timz after Brig.

Gen. Olaire L. Chenault, commander of the U, $. air force in China, told me the Japanese were using their best planes and specially trained pilots in a suicidal effort to drive United States air

| forces out of China.

The communique said the Japanese were taken completely by surprise at the Tienho airdrome. Besides smashing the 10 planes as the

craft, several hits wire made on runways. Japs Use Best Planes “The Japs now sre making an

all-out effort to drive the United

States air forces in central China from their bases, bu: theyll run head-on against an unbreakable wall,” Chennault said. “They are using their best planes —new model zeros Which they thought superior to TU. S. pursuit ships. The zeros flown in suicide

are piloted by men especially trained for combat against Americans.” Chennault said in an interview that the Japanese weére determined to oust the Americans at all costs because the United States planes based in central China were a strong threat to vital areas occupied by the Japanese, especially in the Yangtze valley. The attacks on Hengyang have cost the enemy 15 new-type zeros to date. “The new zeros gre far better than the old ones,” _“hennault declared, “but they inferior to our planes, It #11 take the Japanese at least two years to construct anything equaling our newest.” EE olen a air chief in China re-

had forced American units to give up an air field in Chia or Burma.

Refutes Nippon Claims

“We evacuated ou: bases only when Japanese ground forces approached;” he said. ; Asserting that fle American pilots were “eager ani doing fine,” Chennault said the Japanese were making false claims tc make up for their lack, of success. He flatly denied yesterday's Japanese announcement that Nip‘ponese planes had bonbed Chungking, Kunming and El veilin. \ “That claim is a lie’ said Chennault, “because I visited two of those cities, and ther: weren’t any Japanese . planes within many files. ?

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