Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1943 — Page 32

American Legion color guard. » . »

The meeting will be conducted by Officer Reynolds, zone 5 policeman, and includes organizations of ‘districts 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45 and 46. ® 8 = .. Wilfred R. Mason, captain of auxiliary police and school chairman of district 42, has announced the opening of a basic training school for volunteers at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Butherland Presbyterian church, 28th and Guilford sts.

NAZIS TIGHTEN NOOSE

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 22 (U, P).— Dispatches from Copenhagen said today that Nazi occupation author ities tightened martial law at several places in Denmark as result of attacks on Germans.

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To Brag of Their Good Luck, However. By EDWIN A. JOHNSON

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept, 22. — Al-

=| though the airmen of world war I

were extremely superstitious, present-day flyers like to insist ghat aviation 1s just a business with no more superstitions than packing meat or selling dry goods, according to a survey made by writers for the Army Times. Most modern pilots do not carry

| lucky pieces, nor do they wear their

best girl's scarf as did the knights of world war I airmen. Only one in 80 flyers has any feeling about the number “13,” though a few consider it a lucky number. Scarcely any carry a rabbit's foot. Yet a number of customs and habits have been developed by they men who fly. Some represent individual characteristics while others have an origin in reason.

Double Purpose

“Geronimo!” yells every paratrooper as he leaps from the plane. Emptying the lungs helps equalize the lower air pressure at great heights, and yelling is a psychological factor. Just why the first man to yell and jump used “Geronimo” is not known, but the cry is here to stay. Contrary to navy practice of renaming an unlucky ship, airmen consider all planes lucky and held fast to the name of ithe original craft. A crew may have as number of planes damaged and replaced, but as long as they fly together in a ship of that type, it always bears the same name. The love for old planes and clothing is not a superstition but a practical need. No matter how battered a plane may become, the pilot always prefers it to a better conditioned plane. He- knows its idiosyncrasies. . Becoming conscious of new clothing may distract the pilot just when every faculty is needed for the job at hand. Old eaps become relics of sentimentality and woe betide the mechanic who mistakes one, though it is easily

Not. Superstitions’

Most. pilots will indignantly deny any superstitious gesture, but one ex-cavalryman at Brooks field, Tex., confessed that the pats the “flank” of each plane he boards. Another touches a ring with his thumb before taxiing to take-off position. ‘The custom of giving a dollar, the “lucky buck,” to the first enlisted man who salutes a newlycommissioned officer started at Brooks from Duncan field. One never talks of good luck in the army air forcés. One cadet was unmercifully pummeled by his classmates for remarking that not one serious accident had occurred in the 10-month training period of the class. Luck Talk Taboo

An instructor, regulating air traffie from the control tower, mentioned with understandable pride that not one of his flying students had suffered the slightest accident while under his tutelage. Immediately afterward, within 10 minutes, two students made “ground loops” in landing. Sticking chewing gum on the wing or fuselage seems to be a bit

“JoI business from Hollywood. Ac~+iually,. pilots are. just as supersti«

tious, or as unsuperstitious, as anyone else. In other words they are perfectly normal—which, after all, : Just the way the air force wants em. :

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