Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1943 — Page 23
| tional Army Thinking Undergoes Transition as New Field Service Regulations Proclaim Land : And Air Power Independent |
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 51 (U. \P.) — Traditional army nking on use of air power—Ilong considered an auxiliary the ground forces—has undergone such a transition as esult of experience in this war that new army field service lations proclaim the equality of ground and air forces. “Land power and air power are co-equal and interde-
nt forces; neither is an
auxiliary to the other,” says
doctrine of command and employment of air- power, ged July 21 by Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff,
now revealed publicly. Proponents of a separate ir force pointed to this statent as establishing the prine of a separate air force. At least it acknowledges autonomy of the air fore. Within the arms. This fact also has been marked by
the promotion of Gen. Henry H.'German Agency Reports.
chief of the air forces, to the rank of full general last March. Falls in 2 Categories The new army manual says U. 8. army aviation falls into two general categories: First, that directly under the command of the commanding general of the army air ves; second, units assigned to the theater of task force command-
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“The inherent flexibility of air
r is its greatest asset,” the reg-
jataion says. “This flexibility makes 48 possible to employ the whole Weight of the available air power against selected, areas in turn; such ntrated use of the air striking C is a battle-winning factor of the first importance. “Control of available air power must be centralized and command must be exercised through the air { commander if this inherent flexibility and ability to deliver a decisive blow are to be fully ex- . Therefore, the command of a and ground forces in a theof operations will be vested in the superior commander charged with the actual conduct of operations in the theater, who will exer-
cise command of air forces through |
the air force commander and command of ground forces through the ground force co nder.
ASSERT ALLIES T0 ATTACK ROME
Feverish Activity Around Naples.
LONDON, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Signs of allied preparations for an Imminent air-and-sea assault on Rome were reported by the official German news agency DNB today coincidental with a Swiss report that the Vatican has renewed its efforts to have the former capital recognized as an open city. . DNB, quoting “well-informed sources in Rome,” said the Americans and British had concentrated considerable air-borne units behind the front “ready for the take-off” and concluded from feverish allied
|efforts to repair Naplés harbor that {a “great maritime action is im-
minent.” Activity Increases
“These conclusions are confirmed | by notably increased allied shipping along the southwest coast of Italy,” DNB said. “Berlin military circles see little reason to doubt the Italian information, since in the past it has proved extraordinarily informative many times.” DNB said very heavy and continuous allied air attacks on the main roads along both west and east toasts of Italy, combined with a]
“The superior commander will not |‘ ‘great” regrouping of ground forces, army air forces to units of also pointed to imminent large-scale ground forces under his. com-|actions,
| mand except when such ground | force units are operating independor are isolated by distance or
The allied 5th and 8th armies at present are assaulting strong German mountain positions 90 to 100 miles south and southeast of Rome.
products at levels “which can only be regarded: as extortionate” in view of the economic status of those with the greatest need of the vita. min—the poor. Berge, chief of the justice departs ment's anti-trust division, made the charge against the foundation--{Which has no formal connection with and is not controlled by the University of Wisconsin—at the second of a series of appearances before a senate military affairs subcommittee which is considering a bill to set up a national: ‘office of scientific mobilization, The foundation's licensing pro-. gram, Berge said, was organized along the lines of an international cartel. : | Cite Foreign Links ““T'he foundation is party to an agreement with the omnipresent I. G. Farbenindustrie of Germany and to another agreement with Joseph Nathan & Co. of Great Britain,” said, * ... Nathan and I G. are prohibited from exporting to the United States, and the domestic licensees of the foundation are prohibited from exporting to Germany or Great Britain.” Berge alsp charged that foundation has: 1. Considered plans to denature and adulterate Vitaniin D preparations in order to maintain high prices. 2. Exhibited a lack of interest in research unless a commercial advantage could be obtained. 3. Used threats of patent litigations weak,” to eliminate competition. 4. Suppressed competing processes. | 5. Attempted to suppress scientific resedarch data at variance with its monopolistic interests, 6. Acted as a police organization for its licensees by setting up al |black-list of price-cutting distributors. Vitamin D is said to be essential for proper growth of hone, and is
the
and tooth decay. ; The Steenbock processes for activating certain materials with Vitamin D were patented in the early 20's, but the university of Wisconsin declined to accept them for commercial development, The president of the university's alumni . association, George I. Haight, a Chicago patent attorney recognized the possibilities and organized the foundation for exploitation of the patents and any
tion has fixed prices for Vitamin DJ
he! " . | The baby daughter of an army flight surgeon, killed in plane crash, is given memorial bonus.
“which it knew were very |
supposed to prevent and cure rickets |
Times Special - BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 21. —Barbara Ann Badertscher, 9-months-old daughter of Capt. Robert C. Badertscher, army flight surgeon who was killed in an air force tomber crash in South America last month, has been presented with an educational fund of war bonds as a memorial to her father. The bonds were purchased and presented to her by medical stu-
| {istration frem March 16 to Oet
dents of the Indiana university medical school in Indianapolis in the presence of her mother, the former Martha Robinson, of Bloomington. The bonds were presented to the baby by two cadet eommanders of the medical school student body, M. H. Smith of West Lafayette of the navy cadets, and Harold R. Martin of West Lafavette, army specialized training unit,
Harriman's Daughter Takes
Gin Rummy to
LONDON, Oct. 21 the first time in history, the palatial | American embassy in Moscow has a working -girl—an expert at ginrummy and tennis—as hostess, She is Kathleen Harriman, 25, who gave up .her job with the London bureau of ~an American News Weekly to accompany her father, W. Averell Harriman, to Moscow. , Kathleen, slender and glamorous, is the kind of a working girl who does jobs nobody else wants to do. “Kathleen works harder than most people and would give up a
[others it might acquire,
week end at the prime minister's
Soviet Capital
(U, P.).—For country
home to carry out the
|drabbest assignment,” her friends
in London said. * Before leaving for Moscow, she] arranged for a regular job in the embassy: She mastered two Russian words, “yes” and “no.” As a reporter in London for several months, Kathleen covered the
visit of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to England last winter, but admitted “I don’t like to write” “I much preferred my job with the news magazine, managing the office and doing legwork for the
boss,” she said.
{Justice Department Repre-
- [tervention in the longstanding pro
| Kaiser, then chairman of the board
LONDON, Oct. 31 (U, Pyi=
strong German attacks along the offensive on a wide sectoy, of central Bosnia, a partisan communique: said
sentative Is Present at | "nes
Hearings.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (U, P.) — Possibility of justice department in-
way near the Montenegrian capital of Cetinje, 25 miles north of the Albanian border, and the partisans claimed to have beaten off repeated German attacks. Farther north,- fierce guerrilla duction and labor difficulties of the bands were battling axis troops Brewstar Aeronautical Corp. arose|along an 85-mile stretch of the today as a representative of the central and: southern Dalmatian criminal division was called to sit | const from Trogir to Ston. in on hearings being conducted by
Jugosiay partisans’ have Smashed ye Adriatic coast and have taken. the y
T Heavy fighting was reported under
Denver, Colo, Is one ‘of 17 icans safely aboard a British. po en route home from a Clerman prison camp today, but he probably would be dead if-an enraged Ger-
a house naval affairs subcommittee. Chairman Carl Vinson, (D, Ga); of the full committee asked that the justice department be represented following testimony yesterday by former Brewster President Frederick
BIOFF REVEALS Si RACKET DETAILS
he was placed | Everyone Afraid of Every- | one Else, He Testifies
In Extortion Trial.
NEW YORK, Oct. Uv, PP), Everyone was afraid of everybody else at the beginning of the big shakedown of the motion picture industry, William BlofT testified yesterday under cross-examination in| the trial of eight alleged associates for extortion. “The producers were afraid of me, and I was afraid of their talk« ing to the police.” Biofl said in de|s ribing the 1936 meeting between the International Alllance of Theing to the break,” he said, “was my, Atrical Stage Employees and reprerefusal to allow the union to join sentatives of the movie industry in sponsoring that company party.’ | Pr jor to the meeting, Blof said, he Other incidents, including a re- |acting as personal representative for fusal to go over the head of a selec-|George E. Browne, convicted presitive service official and give thel/dent of the union, had approached union a voice in determining draft|Nicholas Schenck, president of deferments, led Tom de Lorenze, | Loew's, Inc, with a demand for | president of the local, to call him a|”two or three million dollars.” | pussyfooter,” declare war and! Through negotiations with {withdraw from the agreement that Stitz, representative of RKO-a we would work together, Riebel said. | Another source. of trouble, he business with because “he. was an | Etated, stemmed from a British old customer” —it was agreed that bomber - contract requiring 500 to four large motion picture companies | 1200 engineering adjustments per would pay the union $50,000 each | week. [and that each of two smaller comna— | panies would contribute $25,000, Asked by Defense Attorney James
SLAUGHTER HOUSE D, C. Murray if he hat told the SUSPENDED BY OPA movie representatives not to talk,
Bloff replied, “they couldn't afford Proprietors of Sam Satinsky's [to talk”
slaughter house, 1450 W. Troy ave. “Didn't you know you were playwere ordered to suspend business in ing the role of an extortionist?” rationed meats for six months at| “well, not an extortionist, * Bloff an OPA hearing yesterday. [1 replied, “just getting money.’ This was the heaviest ea. to “You knew that was extortion.”
1943. Riebel sald charge of Brewster by Henry and now president, with the assurance that the labor troubles were
about over, 21
Recites Incidents
He said labor-management coe operation broke down because he refused to “let the union take all the credit for the work at Brewster," and cited union objections to a com-pany-sponsored party to witness the New York show “Star and Garter” as leading to a “Declaration of War” against management by the union, “One of the four incidents lead-
thus far assessed in this area for| «I found that out later.” violation of price and rationing; “you knew they were victims of regulations and will become effec-/a shakedown.” tive Nov. 1. | “Well, something like that,” Bloff The proprietors, Sam and Anne said. “I thought the stockholders Satinsky, were charged with failure would be the victims.” to account for more than one mil-| He laughingly explained that the lion meat ration points, exceeding| charges still were on RKO's books slaughtering. quota and selling and he expected to be sued for them | meat above ceiling prices, [but “that doesn't bother me.’
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' SATIN STRIPER . . . day or night interest with suits or het shirts. Sets striped
man mob had got him when his {bomber crashed near Hamburg [three months ago. ; | Springer was one of 4339 sick and wounded allied prisoners who left for the United Kingdom today aboard the British steamers Atlantis and Empress of Russia and the | Swedish liner Drottningholm, com pleting the first German-allied [prisoner exchange of the war, His experience confirmed reports from Britons aboard the exchange ships that German civilians were so {bitter against t allied airmen that they tried repeatedly to mob them. Descri Rald
While they agreed that the Gere {man military made every effort to protect their prisoners, Springer and other fliers said the civilians sometimes were able to -mistreat captured airmen, He is a former jockey who raced in West coast meets until 1939. “Iwas in the Fortress raid on Hamburg on July 25,” he said. “We ran into a helluva opposition. The German fighters——about 80-—~bunched up on us and flak was all around. Ome engine was knocked out and then Nos. 3 and. 4 went out, but we reached the target and dropped all our bombs and then all of us {bailed out, { “TI landed about
30 kilometers
Leo | from Hamburg, almost in the arms
of three German soldiers. 1 was
man Bioff said he was glad to do |shot up by the flak and needed at-
tention. ‘The soldiers took me to {where seven other Americans were | gathered and herded us into a boxcar for a two-hour ride to Luenburg, “We got out there to catch ane {other train, but then the fun began, A large, angry crowd gathered at the station and called us every kind of name—in pretty good English {and let us know what they'd do if they got hold of us.
Called ‘American Swine’
“One fellow shouting into a loudspeaker got the crowd madder and madder. His favorite expression was ‘American swine.’ “The crowd threw rocks and poured hot coffee on us. Our guards got scared and sald we had to beat [it. We ducked through alleys and | backyards in the blackout, toward the police station. We were almost there when “we ran into another crowd trying to get to the station ahead of us.
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