Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1942 — Page 11
British City on the Humber Took the Most From Nazi| “Night Raiders but Weathered the Storm Well and Is Ready for Anything Else That’s Coming.
By WILLIAM
Copyright, 1942; by The Indianapolis Times and The: Chicago Daily News, Inc. : (Delayed) .—The whole world} has heard about London, Coventry, Plymouth, Bristol and
HULL, Sunday, Aug. 23
what happened to them. durin 1940 and 1941.
The city of Hull would'n now 7 like to apply for a little attention, not; oe “a city: on the northeast coast,” nor “a resi- : dential area on the Humber,”
BRITISH PLANTS DEFY BOMBINGS
Output Fully Resuméd Soon After Raids, Binder
Reports.
By CARROLL BINDER
Co; t, 1942 eo Indianapolis Times Py ae, Daily News: Inc
LONDON, Aug. 26.—The outt standing impression of a fortnight’s touring of the heaviest blitzed industrial centers of England and Scotland is that a comparatively
small amount of interference with)
essential war production, distribution and utilities has heen achieved by enemy air attacks. A- However great the destruction wrought by enemy bombs and incendiaries to factories, railways, docks, water mains and telephone - lines in key centers of production, within an amazingly short time munitions and plane production was resumed, newspapers published, trains opefated and telephone, water and gas service resumed. The visitor is also impressed by the extent to which damaged structures have been neatly cleaned up and salvageable portions utilized elsewhere. It is a striking contrast to the French ‘war zone where I spent 1917 and 1918. ‘ Smoother Than U. S. Streets I traveled many hundreds of miles, over streets in blitzed areas, and did not perceive a single unrepaired hole in the highways over the entire distance. I could not help contrasting this condition with the number of highway holes encountered in similar mileage in unblitzed Chicago. Crater holes around in many areas, representing homes and business premises which must await the availability of labor and materials and the formulation of longrange town planning before they , can be reconstructed. <__ The shells of irreplaceable ancient monuments sicken a. spectator enamored of the historic past. It does not take much imagination to realize that these neatly cleaned-up holes represent the destruction of cherished possessions of innumerable householders and the loss of many civilian lives (through the actual loss of life is far smaller than would have been expected or was originally estimated, I learned from official sources).
Cut Ohly 12 Per Cent
But in a merciless struggle for survival, such as this war, what matters immediately is: the ability of a nation to continue to wage . more effective war despite the worst enemy assaults. That is Britain's proud achievement, which puts all the rest of us in her debt. The British official who is probably the most familiar .with the facls estimates that the total volume of British war production fell between 10 and 12 per cent during the severest period of the blitz, the autumn of 1940. That was: not lay but it was far less than the enemy had anticipated, and the enemy now is unable to inflict anything like that degree of damage on Britain, thanks to the power of the Anglo-American air forces. I encountered an illuminating instance of the speed of reconstruction in industry blitzed during my ‘tour. An important plant was Jibombed on a certain Friday after-
Engineers examined it on Saturday, officials considered the case on Monday and authorized complete rebuilding by Thursday. Within a fortnight of its destruction, a new roof was completed and. emergency Xe machinery installed. I visited another world-renowned establishment whose works were * destroyed by a big bomb. The site - had been cleared within seven days and the plant was in full producHom within three months.
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H STONEMAN A
uring the heavy night raids. : of
but as Hull, one of the . worst battered cities, man for man and house for house, in all.
England. Hull would like: to. have the world know, at this belated date, that it has been hit in between 50 and 100 different raids and that it has been hft time and ‘again since the last bombs fell on most of England's
to have you know that its: sirens have wailed hundreds of fimes, that
‘| whole blocks in widely scattered|
parts of the town have been knocked down by one of the greatest varieties of big and little fire and high explosive bombs ever dropped on a city. It wpuld also like to have the world know that it has weathered the storm well, because it prepared for it long before it broke, that it has still got its chin up and its affairs in order, and ‘is ready for another raid whenever it happens.
Incendiaries Most Damaging
We came to Hull after a nine-day tour, in which we visited all of the hardest hit cities in the United Kingdom. We had been in Plymouth, Bristol," Birmingham, Coventry, Manchester on Clydeside and on Tyneside. It is our candid opinion, as a resident of London in blitztime and after surveying all these and other cities, that Hull has had about the toughest times of them all. The worst-looking ruins in most of Britain’s blitzed cities are a result of fire. That is true of London, Plymouth, Bristol and Coventry; in some cities, it is estimated that nine-tenths of the visible damage has been caused by incendiaries. In Hull, there are plenty of hig patches where everything has been burned flat. But the city has got more than its share of ruins which were caused by the blast of huge high explosive bombs. Blast is what kills most air raid victims, and it is a wonder that Hull's death roll, great though it has been, has not been enormous.
. Began Shelters in 1938
This is where ‘Hull deserves credit as something more than just ariother city which has been unlucky to get smacked. Hull's victims have not been more numerous largely because Hull began to prepare for raids—not in 1940, after it had been given a bad lesson—but way back in 1938. It has spent $4,000,000 on shelters and it has got its money's worth. Hull is a city of about 300,000 people who ‘formerly lived in some 90,000 dwellings. Of these ' 90,000 dwellings, a very high percentage have been damaged, some of them several times. and a good many ruined completely. The procedure In dealing with air raid victims in Hull has been carefully worked out and now functions automatically when bombs begin to drop. It might, serve as a good model for American cities which, like Hull, may be making plans well in advance. Immediately after a raid opens, two types of emergency offices. begin to function; rest centers, which are designed to handle people who have been bombed out, and “district offices,” which are established in districts which are: the particular victims of that” particular raid. District offices contain representatives of various ministries and municipal - departments responsible for giving assistance to victims. A person who has been bombed out and has no place to go is taken immediately to a rest center. The following morning he is/ taken to a district office where arrangements are made to replace lost ration cards and other necessary documents and provide bedding, clothing and food. He then returns to the rest center for a meal, after which he is taken to the temporary billet which has been assigned him. The result of his system is that the population of Hull is as well adjusted as it could possibly be, considering the damages it has suffered. Hull is prouder of this than the mere fact that it has been knocked out, and it should be. Hull
is not punchdrunk. -
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other martyr cities. It would like|:
_ Here is Brig.- Gen. Clayton L.Bissell, named commander of the U. S. army air- forces in China, Burma and India. : |
RECEIVER HEADS GLASS COMPANY
8 Other’ Firms, Including Ball Bros., Convicted On Monopoly Charge.
TOLEDO, O., Aug. 25 (U.P).— Rep. James. A. Shanley (D. Conn.) today became the receiver of the Hartford-Empire Glass 'Cé., Hartford, Conn., as a ‘result of one of
crees ever issued under the Sherman act. Federal Judge Frank L. Kloeb yesterday ordered’ the :- company taken over immediately by a receiver, who was told to strip it of all its managerial functions and install a completely new: set of executives and board members. "Judge Kloeb’s order came after nearly 18 months of hearings on charges by the department of justice that nine glass companies and 61 individual officers of those companies had engaged in a patent monopoly in the glass container industry. Called Mainspring He. found that the monopoly “held the power of life and death over individual companies” which manufactured containers. He named the Hartford-Empire company as the mainspring of the monopoly through its system of licensing other companies to manufacture glass containers. : Other companies found guilty in the decision were: Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo; Empire Machine Co., Portland, Me.: Hazel Atlas Glass Co. Wheeling, W. Va.; Thatcher Manufacturing Co.,. Elmira, N. Y.; Lynch Corp. Anderson, Ind.; Ball Brothers Co., Muncie, Ind.; Corning Glass Co. Corning, N. Y., and the Glass Container Association, Inc., New York: N. VY. Among the 61 individuals were, C. J. Root of Terre Haute and Frank C., George A. and Edmund P. Ball of ‘Muncie. :
ROOSEVELT IS GIVEN PRISON CAMP GIFT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P.)— Ruth Mitchell, American women member of the Jugoslav guerrilla forces who was released recently from a German concentration camp, yesterday presented President Roosevelt with a woven basket as a token of appreciation from ° 360 British women in a German prison camp at Liebenau, Germany. Miss Mitchell, sister of the late Brig. Gen. William (Billy) Mitchell, said: the British women prisoners asked that the simple gift, made from the wrappings of Red Cross fruit packages, Je given to the president as a token of gratitude for American aid. Talking after her conference with the president, Miss Mitchell said conditions in the German prison camps were “horrible” and that
aganda could be bad as the atcual truth.”
MARITIME BOARD
Persons to represent the maritime commission to speed manufacturers’ production of marine equipment are being sought by the U. S. civil service commission. The maritime commission jobs pay $2600 and $3000 a year. rsons with: sales and distribution” experience in factories may earn from $3200 to $3800 a ‘year, ; Other: openings are: Technical
or physics, $1400 to $1800; assistant
| mechanic, power supply equipment,
$1620; attendants at Billings hospital and the station hospital, Ft. Harrison, and Veterans' hospital
“1 here, $800 to $1200.
ATTEND ‘FIRE CONVENTION State Fire Marshal Clem Smith and Russell Johann, director of education in the office, will represent
Pennsylvania firemeén’s {raining conference to. be held Aug. 31 at
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assistant in engineering, metallurgy|:
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