Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1943 — Page 9

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Mechanics Were Heroes in The Battle of Guadalcanal

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Dodson, “of the business of making one plane out of two. That is,

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SOUTH PACIFIC BASE, May 24. -—The little known story of how Guadalcanal was supplied with parts

4-Point Program Urges

two planes would crack up, and] enough parts could be salvaged |

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School 34 Garden

PLANE REPAIRS

sized that motor upkeep is a bottleneck of aircraft maintenance in the field, because though planes normally crack up only by accident motors are sure to require overhaul at regular intervals,

MADE OVERSEAS

from both of them so that one

could be made fiyable. But the damaged parts, which might also have been saved if facilities for repair and maintenance had existed, went onto the junkpile.

Lauds Mechanics Dodscn was in charge of navy en- “Those mechanics did a magnifi- \

gine m-intenance in Pear] Harbor Cent job. Much of the work: had at the time. He said that “in those|to be done at night, without lights early days of the campaign, the us-/and under heavy air raids. It was ual methods of shipping into the|a case of a few turns with a wrench, area could not be maintained. Ships | then back to your foxhole. Often were subject to repeated heavy bom- | the crews who worked all night on

and engines essential to its airplane defenses during the darkest stage of our occupation was told today by Cmdr. J. E. Dodson, aircraft engineering specialist on the staff of the commander, fleet aircraft, South Pacific.

bardment from the air. For a period of weeks, supplies had mostly to be flown into the area. “The transport planes operated at night. They would arrive at Henderson field at dawn, hurriedly discharge their engines and accessories, then load up with wounded personnel to be flown back to the hospitals farther down the line.

Did Repairs Under Fire

“We were able to flv into the area |

hundreds of planes and engines before we got a single engine, plane, or part out of the area for overhaul.” This helped save Guadalcanal, but ft also gave rise to a serious problem. Repairs had to be accomplished on the spot, often under fire, and with no proper facilities. _ “There was a great deal,” said

|salvage turned too in the morning |and worked all day on servicing. | “Those men were heroes as much las any pilot or air gunner. There was among them a solid nucleus of old timers, mechanics who'd been servicing marine planes for years land knew a lot of tricks, but many were brand new graduates of the | training schools, and they reflected great credit on the training program.” The commander said that nothing like the volume of supplies could {be kept flowing by air that would have been possible in the same period if available shipping could ‘have gotten through. “But the |planes were enough to turn the trick. and it was a job which, under those conditions, couldn't have been done by ships.”

THUR

SDAY

July 1st °

Wartime Crops, Not Cot-

ton and Tobacco.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

3,000,000 acrss of Midwestern farm land under water and an estimated 1000 or more tracters idle because of the Eastern seaboard gas shortage, food officials today are worrying over ways and means to make the high wartime crop goals this year. . Adding to their troubles are the petitions and delegations from various C. I. O. unions demanding subsidies to hold down food costs and telling what they believe is wrong with wartime agriculture. Today President Donald Henderson of the C. I. QO. cannery and agricultural union addressed a letter to Chairman Kilgore (D. W. Va.) of the senate subcommittee on technical mobilization asking that the South get out of the cotton and tobacco business and plant wartime foods instead.

Favor Incentive

Included was a four-point program involving conversion from non-essential crops to war crops; [full utilization of available land, manpower, materials, machinery and credit; use of svesidy payments and other necessary incentives to promote conversion of agriculture to full wartime production, and utilization of all united nations resources to produce food, thus saving ship-

Engine Overhauling Now Done on U. S. Aircraft

WASHINGTON, May 24. — With| §

Frank Reimer, James P. Stine, garden instructor, and John Zimmerman (left to right) inspect a few of the 2000 cabbage and tomato plants grown by pupils in windows of the shop room at school 34, Jim Reimer works the press printing grade sheets to be used in rating the pupils’ victory gardens this summer.

Pupils Raise Cabbage and Tomato Plants in Windows

Tomato and cabbage plants ga-|to aid with the national victory lore! |garden project. The children ure|

BLAST JAP SHIPPING | IN NEW GUINEA AREA | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 24 (U. P.).—Allied attack and fighter planes machine-

|gunned 40 Japanese barges and canoes off the nartheast New

They fill the windows of the)

anxious to do their bit.

At Combat Bases.

By B. J. M'QUAID

SOUTH PACIFIC BASE, May 24. Combat zone facilities for major aircraft repairs and overhaul are being established in the south Pacific. Some are in operation. Others are in an advanced stage of installation. Establishments scheduled for completion in a matter of days, plus

those already functioning, will per mit 75 per cent of all engine repair jobs to be done in this area. Formerly all this work had to be sent on the long trek back to Pearl Harbor, or to the States, with resultant heavy demands on shipping and deprivation for long periods of planes urgently needed in the war zones. Structural as well as engine maintenance is provided by the program. Facilities nearing completion will permit every manner of repair job short of the actual rebuilding of entire airplanes. Delicate and complicated mechanisms, such as bomb-

[sights, will get expert servicing.

Rapid Training

South Pacific naval headquarters today permitted Rear Adm. O. B. Hardison and members of his staff to supply correspondents with details of the program. Hardison, recently in command of an aircraft carrier, was recently named a commander of fleet aircraft in the South Pacific.

| shop room at School 34, 1410 Wade | where pupils are learning to

ping, materials and manpower. One of the points cited in the ac- st, companying study entitled “Food— raise their own from seedlings and The Forgotten Front” was that So- save money. viet Russia hadn’t been getting the | Seed store dealers are asking 35 kind and amount of food expected cents a dozen for tomato plants.

Capt. N. A. Draim of Vincennes, Ind. Hardison’s chief of staff, said that in one of its most conspicuous aspects the success of the new program represents a triumph for the navy’s methods of training aircraft

Mr. Stine's garden plans do not stop with raising the plants. In the summer he visits the gardens in which they have been transplanted. Because of the increase in the num-|

Guinea coast and Flying Fortresses made an hour-long attack on Na-| vieng, New Ireland, yesterday, a | communique said today. The coast activity was near Sala-

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from us. But in the lowlands of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas thousands have been made homeless by floods and farmers have seen their newly planted crops completely washed away. Truck farmers suffered the worse plight. The flood covered the commercial potato producing area of

the finest truck farms in Indiana and Illinois. In a single Indiana county 6000 acres of peas were lost. Estimates are not available, but it

wiped out a considerable portion of the reduction in canned goods for this week by the war food administration. Canning Hit

approximately seven million cases of canned fruits and juices, and 23

tomatoes and snap beans. Vegetables for commercial canning particularly suffered from the floods. But their lnss may be masie up in some measure by the Victery Garden programs, officials said. While the continued rainfall was causing floods it was welcome at many of the headwaters where a drought previously had been reported. Spring was late and large cash crops like corn were already several weeks behind. A corn crop can be planted, however, as late as June and result in a good harvest unless killed by early frost, the agriculture department said. So where food crops have been lost by flood they expect feed crops to be produced.

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|The pupils’ plants cost two cents a

ber of gardens this year, women

maua, near which land forces are

mechanics in wholesale lots. Some

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Sour Stomach Jerky Nerves Loss of Appetite = Underweight Digestive Complaints Weakness Poor Complexion

Improper diet, overwork, undue worries, colds, the flu or other illness often impairs the stomach’s digestive functions and reduces tha redblood strength. A person who is operating on only a 70 to 75% healthy blood volume or a stomach digestive capacity of only 50 to 60% normal is severely handicapped.

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may be that the flood will have |

Jtive weeks.

The WFA reductions amount to)

million cases of corn, peas, spinach, |

from the school’s Parent-Teacher | 00064 in small-scale fighting.

Coastal installations also were hit. Darkness prevented observation of the results of the attack on the |enemy base at Kavieng airdrome and harbor but a near miss was scored on an 8000-ton cargo vessel, the bomb dropping only 15 feet |

dozen. That's what they pay for, X ® : !association will form a committee to the certified seeds, purchased bY help with the visits.

James P. Stine, shop teacher and garden club supervisor at the school. Gardens to Be Graded Both the committee and Mr.

This year more than 400 pupils) are enrolled in the schools garden | qiine will rate the pupils’ gardens {on grade sheets printed at the school |

club. In their improvised “greenhouse,” they have raised more than| nt shop. To encourage the chil- | dren to carry their work through *V2

2000 plants. Some already have] \ been taken home to be transplanted | : : Allied fliers made six other at- : Hat ub \ {the summer, some grade points will | > . in the pupils’ victory gardens. |be withheld pending their entrance tacks on Snemy bases north of in the annual fall exhibit of fresh|Australia, including one by heavy

Project Is Nothing New | bombers that sb $ th Lb : land canned produce at the school.|Pombers that set fires at tne muchThe children brought Orange ,i"s, .i'iime ribbons will be awarded hammered Gasmata airdrome on | New Britain, where two of 10 enemy

crates, apple crates and NUMErous = .....c other types of boxes to school. | ‘ in intercepting fighters were shot down.

{ The pupils do not garden

From these, they built boxes for| Th lub the seeds. They sowed the first | ignorance. rough garden clu regular garden

seeds on March 25 and made addi- | Clasees ang he in all pub tional plantings in three consecu- course now being taught all pub-

‘ [lic schools, they learn about preMr. arm , i himself RS REtLSet. ihc. Soe 5 S| paring seed beds, cultivation, insect

Raising plants is nothing new at control and harvesting.

ie § Mr. Stine points out that insect School 34. T for ais it She Seeont Tone control is the hardest subject for

: the pupils to understand. They're, gram has been expanded this year ar pi Jet insects on oRtED ot boats for use in the war against the | axis, the war production board dis-|

_ [the garden first. Actual demonstraHEAVY SOVIET GUNS 2 dus [closed today.

MUCH WAR MATERIAL

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. PJ. —America’s convicts are producing everything from overalls to assault

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observers had been dubious of the practical results of such “mass production” training, but, according to Capt. Draim, it has been thorough ly vindicated by experience in the South Pacific. Lt. Cmdr. S. B. Perreault of Kansas City, Kas. formerly associated with the training program, explained that its success is possible because the maintenance men are trained as specialists, who work together as a team.

Bottleneck

Perreault described training methods whereby, as a final step before being sent into the combat zones, trainees are set to work in actual repair shops in the states and given jobs to do identical with those they will encounter in the field. This is a counterpart, in the repair and maintenance field, for the “operational training” which has been found essential in readying air crew for combat. Cmdr. J. E. Dodson, navy engineer specialist formerly in charge

tions with sprayers and dusters turn, About 50 procurement agencies

the trick in teaching the pupils. } Working with Mr. Stine in pro- {have granted contracts to various priscn industries, it was said. The MOSCOW, May 24 (U. P.).—Concentrated Soviet artillery fire broke |

moting the garden program are H.| has contracted for assault | k for forts and ax boxes. up a large-scale German troop movement, 80 miles northwest of

G. Knight, school principal and army Mrs. Forest Ray, P.-T. A. president. 'boatls, bric Kursk, today. At least two battalions—normally

2000 men—were dispersed and “partly annihilated” by the Russian barrage in the Sevsk area, the Soviet mid-day communique said. The massed guns opened fire after a Soviet reconnaissance unit reported a large infantry column was on the march in the sector. The successful artillery action

TO HINGE ON U. S.

ident Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia believes that America’s postwar policy wili determine the peace and happiness of the world for generations to come. { Addressing a mass meeting of Czech-Americans at the Chicago stadium, he expressed confidence that the world's major problems cap be solved within the framework of the announced united nations objectives. The allied nations must continue the battle together untii Japan as well as Germany and Italy is conquered, Benes said.

LIFT RESTRICTIONS ON OIL FOR STOVES

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P). —The OPA announced today that householders may use their oil cooking stoves this summer regardless of the availability of coal or wood stoves. Shortage of all types of fuel was the reason behind the lifting of restrictions on fuel oil rations for domestic cooking and water heating, the OPA said. A greater saving will result if oil, rather than wood or coal, is used domestically in view of the inadequate supplies of alternate fuels in some areas. The order is effective May 29.

OLD AGE GROUP TO MEET Old Age Pension Group No. 7 will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight at 521 E. 13th st.

CHICAGO, May 24 (U. P.) —Pres- |

came as Soviet patrols continued to jab at enemy lines along the vast Russian front, giving the Germans no respite despite the lull in large-scale fighting. On the Leningrad front, Russian units killed upwards of 200 German troops and wrecked 13 pillboxes, eight dugouts and two observation points, while farther south other forces captured an uninhabited place west of Kalinin.

DEPAUW ALUMNI TO HEAR COL. GARDNER

His experiences in pre-war Russia will be discussed by Col. Everett L. Gardner, director of the Indiana security division, at a DePauw university alumni luncheon Tuesday at the Lincoln hotel. Before the war Col. Gardner spent 10 years in Europe and visited all sections of the U. S. S. R.

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