Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1943 — Page 2

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REPORTS NAPLES IS U.S. 8th Air Force, Out of Experimental Stage, Ready to Hit Hard at Nazi Europe BYRNES TURNS DOWN CITY OF THE DEAD" By TOM WOLF United States air force here Cos | tenacious plugging, by small-scale almost casual, manner masks his|of the 8th air force. One of a tore Selivery. Ereeice REPORTERS’ REQUEST

A | Times Special Writer | sisted " himself and six other offi- |S ope of the value of day- driving, keen, ruthless mind. He/|light yellow brick walls is entirely NKARA, Turkey, July 1 (U. P).! HEADQUARTERS, 8TH AIR|cers There were no planes, no light bombing of Europe, that Gen.|deals in blacks and whites, never |covered with a huge map of t e before dinner. ~A traveller arriving from ttaly | FORCE, ENGLAND, July J ~The Crewe | Baker—first as boss of the bombers grays. It's either “yes” or “no,” | Buropean theater oe rio [and tennis ote pe, lave. fair golf WASHINGTON, July 1 (U. P.)#% today claimed that 300.000 fresh 8th air force has emerged from | Building the outfit in Britain was] here, then as commander of the| Ry . ‘maybe.” It was his forceful | Other walls have pictures of planes ball. Essentially gregarious, with a Reporters and photographers who Gérn \iOB0 } SH the token and experimental stage. no simple matter, The 8th air/Whole air force—at last has a real| "yes" rather than a “maybe” that and operational charts. On one side quiet, dry sense of humor, he is tried to cover the Wallace-Jones= ¥ han roops ad moved into the Today for the first time it has the| | force had been activated in Savan-|force at his disposal. finally defeated the critics of day-|of the room there's a long table invariably entertaining a host of | Byrnes meeting at the White House Fascist hoot since the fall of Tu- planes and crews—not on order, but nah, Ga, and was scheduled for an| “Satisfied? It's impossible to | !i2ht bombing. where the general lunches daily with British friends. He's a top-notch | nisla and said that the great port here in fighting trim, in England — entirely different theater. The satisfy me until Germany is de-| Months of long days of ceaseless his staff and guests. |bridge and poker player. When he Yesterday coulan's gey closer stig city of Naples had suffered tre- to throw its real share of weight planes arrived here slowly. When feated"” Gen. Baker said. “But I'm work are behind Gen. Baker's vie<| The general's desk is small and Can, he gets into bed at 10:30 and, Lali mendous damage from air bomb- into the devastating ait war which they did arrive, the Americans at cheerful about the rate of building. |tories. His day starts with break-|piled high with papers, He's short, reads until midnight, | The White House is patrolled ardment. : is being unleashed against the home got cockeyed notions that the We now have a bomber force big fast with six staff officers who live |stocky, with a dimpled chin and | He likes best his twice-weekly in-|these days by military police and He described Naples as a ‘city of Nazis, (token force here was setting the enough to do a real job. Today we with him in a handsome stucco dark brows which accentuate his | spection trips. Not one for white secret service agents, well armed the dead” and said that parts of it More responsible than any other | continent afire-—a notion which are meeting four times as much | house in a London suburb close to|baldness. He talks quietly and|gloves, heel-clicking or parades, he's| with pistols or rifles and bayonets, were so flattened that it would be single person for this vitally im- | played into the hands of those ex- fighter opposition as we met last his office, easily, rocking gently in a leather fond of the company oF his combat | {and the new east wing of the White 8 waste of time to drop any more portant achievement is its ecom- erting pressure to divert to other fall. ‘That's how Germany esti-| He is at his office at about 8:30. swivel chair and drawing on his crews, of whom he is inordinately House where Byrnes’ office is locat« bombs, manding general, Ira C. Faker. | theaters aircraft scheduled for mates our importance.” | 1t is a spacious corner room in one|ever-present pipe. One of the army's proud. “The only publicity I want | ed is forbidden territory even for I'he roval palace has heen de- When Maj. Gen. Baker ariived in! Britain. | Not being satisfied is typical of of the sprawling temporary build-| most articulate, he can dictate a|is for the combat crews,” the gen-'reporters and photographers who gtroved, he reported. Britain in February, 1942, the! It ha® been only by ceaseless, | the soft-spoken general. His quiet, ings which houses the headquarters speech straight oft and never look | eral savs : | hold White House credentials.

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