Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1942 — Page 20

Attack Buna.

i By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent EN. MacARTHUR'S HEADJARTERS, Australia, Oct, 13.— ; n troops, resuming a slow Owen Stanley pountains of New ‘Guinea, have efsted contact with the Japanese

1 lively skirmishes are in prog-|:

, it was announced today.

pi 6 was expected that the Aus-|}

lian operation would reveal,

hin ‘in next few days, whether. . Japanese intended to defend]:

2 'Kokoda gap over the hump of : he mountains or withdraw into the orthern: foothills around Kokoda age, where they would have a horter and easier supply line and Australian supply problem ild be correspondingly more dif-

attacked enemy installations hits. ° NAMED TO PURDUE POST "LAFAYETTE, Oct. 13 (U. P).~— , Frank C. Hockema, assistant

the president, has been appointgd military counselor at Purdue uni-

gall Jacobs, chairman of the joint &rmy-navy personnel board.

; “Buna yesterday, scoring direct |!

In. ceremonies held on the school grounds, the 700. pupils of:

| the whiole course of warfare in the.

Supremacy May Change]

Entire Course of Air, Warfare.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United - Press Foreign Editor LONDON, Oct. 13 (U. P.)—The American flying fortress may change,

air.

today after studying the remarkable

success which the big Boeing four-| motored daylight ‘bombers have|' achieved in actual combat against] the best fighter craft the Germans

can send against them. These experts believe—if the for-

ki [tresses maintain their record of air

supremacy—that the next develop-

: {ment in air war will be the produc- | tion-of a big aerial cruiser which

will make the present-day fighters

i |look as puny as.a torpedo boat be-

side a naval cruiser. They do not expect this change

|overnight. There is no reason to

St. Joan of Arc school yesterday: observed the blessing of a new

9dV6 Your AWNINGS

This

Way

7 Take your awnings down no later than

November 1.

& Be sure they are thoroughly dry; brush well to remove all dirt.

2 Fold canvas carefully and wrap: securely in paper, with all ropes attached.

4 Store in a dry, clean place.

IMPORTANT DETAILS

(R) Remove belts holding lower rods, or arms, to building.

(8) Pull awning up and remove screw eyes, If used, otherwise ’ loosen thumb nut In head rod clamps, which will then let awning come free from building.

(C) Remove pulleys, or glass rings, as the case may be, with all . ‘ropes, as the awning Is taken down.

(D) Save all screws, bolts and miscellaneous hardware. They may be very difficult to replace next Spring.

school boy could help you. And, perhaps, too, a neighber has:

[est there's @ "handy-man” in your vicinity—ora arora]

the ladder you'll need — or you have the ladder he'll need.

Rss are important and practical suggestions that will help you save your awnings for next Summer—and we hope many other summers. Fore40 years we have made your awnings : & + put them up in the ‘Spring . + + taken ‘them down in the Fall . .. - and stored them

for the Winter.

We cannot give you this service this year because Uncle Sam has asked us to make needed goods for our fighting men.. So, we are putting every ounce of our energy into that job. Until the war is over hat ds-all

* we can do.

But your awnings id come down and be protected meanwhile. Some day we’ll be doing these tasks for you again and gladly. Meanwhile . ; : * Please take your awnings

‘down.

flag. The pupils are shown returinng to their classes led by (left to right) Joan Myers, Ruth Markey, Jackie Carr and Patly Gass. Manning the drums to the right are Miss Loretfa Martin, a music teacher, and Sister Charles Ann, The Rev.. Fr. Clement Bosler blessed the flag.

EXPECT 3000 AT CHURCH PARLE

| North American. Christian Convention Opens Here

Tomorrow.

Between 3000 and 5000 delegates are expected here tomorrow for the opening of the North American

Christian convention in Cadle Tabernacle. The conference will be the last held by that group for the duration. Outstanding Christian church ministers from all sections of the country are scheduled for addresses keyed to the convention theme “This Is the Victory, Even Our Faith.” Among the prominent pastors are the Rev. J. Warren Hastings, pastor of the National City church in Washington, and the Rev. P. H Welshimer of Canton, O.

Bible Leader to Talk

Scheduled for the Saturday afternoon session is a: lecture by J. L. Baronia, president of the Manila Bible seminary, in the Philippines. Mrs. W. D. Cunningham, who will speak at the women’s banquet on Saturday night, was in Tokyo at Ther mission station when war was declared. She returned recently. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Allison, missionaries to the Philippines, are among others who will report,

McBride on Program

Scheduled for. the luncheon of leaders of Christian service camps on Saturday is a discussion by Paul W. McBride of Tulsa, Okla. Other outstanding leaders, who will speak at sessions continuing through Sunday, include R. M. Bell, Kimberlin Heights, Tenn.; George R. Davis, Chickasha, Okla.; Walter Fiscus, Eugene, Ore.; ‘Mr. and Mrs. Ralph . Pollock, Nebo, Ill; G. S. Bennett, New Castle, Pa.; W. A. Fite, Grayson, Ky.; Harry Poll, Cincinnati, O.; Joe Dampier, G. H. Cachiaras, Minneapolis, Minn.; W. R. Walker. Columbus, and Francis M. Arant, Joplin, Mo. - Dean E. Walker of the college of religion at Butler university is the convention president.

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believe that the all-purpose Spitfire, generally regarded as the finest in the world, is going to be outmoded next month or even next year. But the experts do believe the trend is setting in toward ever bigger, more powerful; better-armed and better-armored fighter planes.

Experts Were Wrong

British experts at one stage in the war were inclined to belittle the fortresses. That was before they started daylight raids over Europe. Even after the first few raids some assumed the Germans were holding back their fighters until they had discovered the weak spots of the Boeings. But the fortress raids continued and the prize Nazi Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitts were beaten off with remarkably small American casualties. And sometimes there were heavy enemy losses, including 13 FW-190’s one afternoon.

Thea reason for this success now is well known — especially to the Germans. The fortresses fly in formation, come hell, high water or a hundred Messerschmitts. They can fire their 50-caliber machine guns in any direction. When they are attacked, there may be as many as 72 machine guns going at once, setting up a curtain of fire that is all but impenetrable.

Hits Not a Kill

That doesn’t mean the fortresses can’t be hit. They can and are, by the Nazi's cannon-bearing fighters. But, they are’ tough aircraft and a hit usually is far from a kill. Although this may seem highly satisfactory from the allied point of view, there is a great deal more to the picture. Some of it both sides know and some still is a matter of secret information. One thing we know is that the Germans have a big, two-motored stratosphere bomber, which, with its cabin sealed, has flown over

-1England at somewhere more than

40,000 feet—eight miles—high, and beyond. the range of the ordinary fighter. They also have a four-motored Heinkel-177, which probably is the plane they are believed by some to be planning to use in any token bombing of New York. In this plane the engines are mounted in tandem so that at first glance it appears to be a two-motored plane.

Nazis Work Desperately

The allies have not intercepted Sige of these planes yet, but they

It is obvious that the Germans must be working desperately on a method or a machine to stop the fortresses. In view of the number af times they have tackled the big Boeing bombers with Mttle luck, it can be no secret to the Germans that their first job must be to break up the formations and get in close. They have ‘done this so far only with fighters, and those machines were blown apart in midair by the terrific fortress fire. Allied experts are planning against German success in- solving their problem and it is here that the idea of an aerial cruiser arises. To break up fortress formations, the Germans require a battle plane that mounts much heavier cannon than those used now. They need

a plane thdt can remain outside! the fortress range and defend it-|

self against allied fighters while it rakes the’ formations of big American planes in daylight encounters.

Need Large Cruisers

Suppose the Nazis converted their HE-177 into a fighter? It would be a large and speedy cruiser that could mount much larger cannon and would be strongly defended itself against American fortress or, ardinary fighter attack. In such an event, similar aerial ‘cruisers would be required by the allies to convoy the fortresses to their target and return,

One of the chief problems of

builders of big planes is a. stable gun mount that will take recoil.

That was the word of air experts]

Roane Waring (left), new ational American Legion oosmander, was honored by Indianapolis businessmen at a luncheon given in the Columbia ‘club yesterday by Harry Reid * (right), president of the

Tadisuapoll Ballvays.

SECRET SURVEY

Personally Decorates 27 Heroes on Solomons Inspection Trip.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent HEADQUARTERS, UNITED ‘| STATES PACIFIC FLEET, Pearl

Harbor, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—Adm.

chief of the Pacific fleet, has paid a secret visit of inspection to the

personally decorated 27 marin& and navy heroes, it was announced today. Among those who. received navy

crosses as they lined up in front Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, com-

mander in chief in the Solomons, were high officers, hardened vet-

traditions of the fighting forces.

and avia who had an into whole ‘fleets of Japanese planes lone. . Has Faith in Future

There were men who had risked their lives again and again to bring out wounded: comrades and men who had deliberately exposed themselves to enemy fire to aid the winning of a skirmish. As he faced the decorated men in front of Vandegrift's headquarters, with the 'wild jungled hills and blood stained beaches of Guadalcanal island for a frame, Nimitz said they amd their comrades had been an inspiration to all American

fore xpressed faith Chester W. Nimitz, commander in semed forces snd expr

“Good work. More power to you,”

; he ‘said’ 10. each man as he pinned “Solomon islands fighting front and oni ‘the: medal

Secrecy concerning Nimitz’ visit

to the Solomons, 3000: miles from his headquarters here, was main-

: tained until today. The means of crosses and .dislinguished fiyIng|,, “Loo "and the duration of

of the field headquarters of Maj.| Dis Stay were not announced.

. NAVY BANS DIARIES NEW YORK, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—

erans of the ranks and boys new in| The navy has forbidden its sailors action who had upheld the highest|and officers to keep diaries, the Army and Naval Journal revealed

There were gray-haired officers|today. Furthermore; present diaries who had led their men into enemy |of navy men must be destroyed imfire, privates who had charged sin-|mediately, lest they fall into the gle handed into machine gun fire,| hands of the enemy.

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