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What Do ‘French Think? ONE GROUP of Frenchmen holds that the re-

which later the people might find difficult to dislodge. I have spent considerable time trying to find out what the people of France—the forty millions who have been under Hitler's heel for four years—really think. I believe I am as qualified as most non-French observers to do this because for a dozen years my home was in France.

I am convinced that at this moment nobody can

say with certainty what they think.

Need Is Urgent IN AN interview Gen. De Gaulle said, “There is

political pie, because America does not want one French faction above another, because America holds that France's forty. millions, and they alone, have the right to name their government. Recognition of Gen. De Gaulle as the provisional president of France is not necessary. But an understanding covering all phases of French collaboration is vital

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE HEAVY RAINS this week were the answer to a gardener's prayer—also a pain in his neck. They made the vegetables grow like magic—also the weeds. Already, the victory gdrdeners are beginning to boast about their super-duper crops, And so, in order not to % be beaten, we hasten to report, with all due modesty, on the state of our own beet crop. Best beets we ever saw. Some of them are 2 inches in diameter. They're so good for showing off purposes that we hate to pull them. We'll tell you about our wonderful tomatoes some other day, . .. Mrs, Carl J. Burger, 4830 Wentworth blvd. tells us she has a bumper crop of Madonna lilies this year. She has five bulbs, on which are i 51 blooms, Last year there were just 20—four to the bulb. , . , Speaking of bumper crops, the cherry situation this year has been most gratifying. More cherries than we've seen in years, and we haven't run into a single worm. Of course, we might have missed a few, . . . George H. (Jack) Sims, who has operated the newsstand on the Big Four building corner—southeast corner of Maryland and Meridian—the last 15 years or so, has sold his stand. Jack, a regular “fixture” at the corner, has been ill and decided to seek a different type of work. He has hundreds of friends and customers who will miss him. . , . Among the unusual pets around town is a crow. It was seen in a cage in the backyard of a house at New York and Senate ave. the other day,

What's a Premiere? FRANCES FOOTE. of the business branch HNbrary is puzzled. 8he calls our attention to an ad in Wednesday's Indianapolis Times announcing the “world premiere” of the movie, “Home in Indiana” at the Indiana theater. And then she reports that the Cincinnati Enquirer, same day, announces the “world premiere” of “Home in Indiana” is to be at Cincin-

In Washington

WASHINGTON, June 16—Invasion of Europe found the office of war information achieving its absolute nadir of usefulness to the domestic press and radio. OWT Director Eimer Davis held a press conference on D-day morning, but like a lot of other

civilian officials in Washington, he didn't have anything important to say, too. And later in the day OWI admitted that it wasn’t doing much broadcasting overseas because it figured the people in Fortress Europe would be too busy to listen. OWT's overseas division may have a big job ahead of it in propagandizing Europe and psychologically softening up- Germany for the kill. It has been given a flock of money to do this job in the next fiscal year. But right now, with the invasion at its most crucial point, the outfit could not appear more futile, ’ . This drift into uselessness has been going on gradually, like creeping paralysis, A year or so ago, Director Davis tried a series of weekly press conferences to review the war and answer questions. They produced nothing and were discontinued, Then when Editor Palmer Hoyt of the Portland Oregonian was made director of OWI's Domestic News Service, things got hot. Mr, Hoyt came in on the principle that OWI should make the army and navy give out more news or quit. He made progress. The daily noon meetings in Elmer Davis’ office with repre. sentatives of the army and navy public relations departments frequently became stormy sessions and lasted an hour or more.

Nary Hurried Tarawa News

HOW MUCH news OWT actually forced army and navy to give out was-never disclosed, but there was a nice fight over forcing release of the story on the Nazi's sneak raid on Bari, Italy, which the army held

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday. — The all-day meetine which was held here yesterday, I felt accomplished its objective. The organizations represented agreed that they would build up a roster of available women in various flelds and this roster would be made ob- . tainable to government officials. They decided to appoint national and international committees which will now, and in the future, present and consider postwar problems. This ought to be of real value and the by-product may

nati’s Palace theater. How, shé asked, could both Indianapolis and Cincinnati have the world premiere? Frankly, we don't know. Maybe they mean it's the first time in the world that the movie has been shown in Indianapolis, and ditto for Cincinnati... . . We've

just received a request to try to round up 500 bathing |

suits or bathing trunks for service men out at Ft. Harrison. Arch Grossman, head of the Red Cross camp and hospital committee, tells us that now that they have WACs out at the fort, the boys have to wear a little more in the way of bathing suits in the fort pool than they used to wear. They could use a few suits for the WACs, too. If you have any suits to donate, leave them at the Red Cross chapter house on North Meridian, or at the blood donor center. If you can't deliver them, phone LI. 1441 and the Red Cross will attempt to pick them up.

War Mother Sought

THE COMMITTEE in charge of the Folmer Graflex display of war pictures in the windows of the power and light company is looking for a certain war mother, Just a week ago today noon, she and her elderly mother walked into the display room. She said she recognized one of the soldiers shown in one of the pictures as her son. A busy attendant explained that the pictures were being given away to persons who buy $250 in war bonds at the exhibit, The mother

sald she couldn't afford that much, and she left,{may be carried or a large quantity

saying she might be back in a few days. The attendant neglected to get her name and address. As soon as the committee learned of the matter, they promptly placed a “sold” sign on the picture, to hold it for the boy's

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ing commanders in readiness at all confined to the West Pacific area. Because of its great range—a vital secret—and its great speed at extremely high altitudes, the B20 is one heavy bomber that does not need fighter escorts. Fighters could not begin to attain the range ‘even with auxiliary gas tanks—and | the Superfortress, with its bevy of | 50-caliber guns and a 20 millimeter !eannon, is capable of taking good care of itself against flocks of enemy | fighters. | One and a half times as big as

| the famed Flying Fortress, the B-29 |1s so beautifully streamlined that

{at a distance, the average layman {might think it the smaller ship. Its {wing span is more than 141 feet. {It is 98 feet long, and its overall {height is 27 feet. It is long and 'cylindrical in shape, with slender, {tapering wings. Its single fin and {rudder closely resemble the efli- | cient dorsal fin of the B-17 Fortress. {Its engines are nearly twice as jpowerful as those of the Flying | Fortress, turning up 8800 horsepower on takeoff. The B-17 Flying | Fortress engines total 4300 horsepower on takeoff. The engines of | 2200 horsepower each are eighteen lcylinder radial air-cooled Wright | Cyclones. Its huge 16%:-foot four{bladed Hamilton-Standard propel{lers are the largest ever installed on any aircraft. Its huge bomb bay /carries an unbelievable load and is iso constructed that large bombs

of smaller bombs, Use Multiple Guns

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New Four-Engine Plane Packs Terrific Punch, Has No Use for Escort

B. COOK

Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor : © WICHITA, Kas, June 16.—America’s Super-Fortress B-20, announced in action against the Japs, is'the largest, fastest, highest fly ins. Hardest iting. heaviest loaded, longest range air-dreadnaught yet traditional conquer ies. e of the That| Development of the B-20 has made necessary the formation of new global air force—the 20th—just announced. This air force is headed by Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold himself, supervision of the point chief of staff, straight from Washington, D. C. It can operate throughout the world, with the individual theater bomb-

who is directing operation under

times to dispatch Super-Fortresses

to any point on.the globe at short notice. Right now, its activities are

Wingspan 141, Monument 284

The B-29 “Super-Fortress” bomber which attacked Japan yesterday has a wingspan of nearly half the height of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors monument on the Circle. The monument measures 284% feet from the sidewalk to the top and the B-29 “SuperFortress” wings spread out 1412 feet.

! American “Superfortress” B-29 bombers attacked Japan proper yesterday in what has been hailed the opening step in a new-type of offensive against the Japanese. Sleek, huge, with four-bladed pro-

as atfene one of the “Superfortresses” {

is shown in flight.

r : The huge wing assembly weigh- lected in making it an efficient;

ing; 11 tons is installed in the fuseye structure of the B-29 in a mattdr of minutes through use of a powerful electric crane. It is lowred gently, slipping into the fuse-

any airplane has yet approached tojiage with only a few thousandths

being all electrically operated. Ever piece of equipment that moves activated either by an electric mo or cables, with the exception of the braking system, which is hydraulis.. One hundred and fifty motors of #19 different types are utilized.

Designed and developed by Baeing, the Superfortress is a midwing four-engine all-metal maioplane with a tri-cycle landing , One of the great engineering achievements is its wings which have more aerodynamic refinejnent than ever has been achieved, in a wing of its type and magnitude. It carries a greater load of furl and bombs per square foot than any other wing ever built. This was achieved by development of a new airfoil section known as the Boeing

mother. But she didn’t return. The committee fears Enemy plane can attack’ the Super- | 117 wing and the incorporation of that perhaps she started to return .but, seeing the fortress that the B-29's guns cannot a remarkable set of wing flyps which “sold” sign on the picture in the window, thought A Feach. The fire control system de-| constitute nearly 50% of ‘the wing she was too late and didn’t stop. If the mother of veloped by General Electric includes area. They give the B-29 its short that boy will visit the exhibit again and ask for Bill ® computing gun sight which auto-| takeoff performance and/short disBradley, or get in touch with Prank Sharp at WFBM, | matically computes the “lead” on tance landing qualities.

she will receive the picture. There are plenty of

volunteers who will buy the $250 in bonds just to

see that she receives the picture,

By Peter Edson

up a couple of weeks and the navy actually outdid itself in getting fast coverage on Tarawa.. For his liaison man with army and navy, Hoyt picked George Lyon, former Buffalo and New York City editor, who gave a good account of himself, though he sometimes made the army and navy press officers pretty peeved. Lyon was finally sent to Eng-

speed and direction of the B-29,

the target while putting the sight directly on the target. It computes the speed of the enemy plane and adjusts itself accordingly with the|

Wing Weighs 11 Tons

of an inch clearance. Fully loaded the B-29 can take off with three engines and can fly on two, In a matter of seconds

about and concentrate terrific fire on one spot. The guns are so operated that they will not fire unless the enemy plane or object is at the right distance. The bomber ceiling

altitudes its speed is comparable with the fastest fighters at the same altitude,

Retractable Wheels

Each engine has twin exhaust driven turbo superchargers. This]

{dual installation was necessary be-| |cause no Single supercharger as-!

{sembly was large enough for the| {high horsepowered engines used.|

The nose wheel landing gear con- | sists of dual wheels, the first to be | oq; more than six months prior to

|used on an airplane. The main

{landing gear also has dual wheels. !

Despite its size the Superfortress is still “cleaner” aerodynamically than the smaller Flying Fortress. Land-

is well over 30,000 feet, and at high’

fighting machine. The writer, in a] flight over Wichita, had an oppor-| tunity to view -a bomber crew at their posts and to roam at will over the B-29. Much of it was “crawling” instead of “roaming” because

| every available foot of space has

been used for equipment. Once in their positions, however, the crew members are comfortable and per-

most of its armament can be swung | form their jobs effortlessly.

Landing Is Smooth

On takeoff, the heavy ship took to the air easily after a moderate run.

Pearl Harbor the B-29 production program assumed national proportions when the war department contracted with the Bell Aircraft

Co., the Fisher Body division bf -

General Motors and North American Aviation, Inc., to become partners with Boeing in the B-29 production program. This involved construction of a huge new plant to be operated by Bell in Marietta, Ga., and another operated by Fisher at Cleveland. Later Boeing's new plant at Renton, Wash., was added to the program in place of North American which no longer is participating. Later Boeing's

The pilot reported that no effort was required to operate the controls wnich are so evenly balanced that

no additional power or “boost” is

required as in some planes. Pilot|1; mage its maiden test flight with

|the late Edmund T. Allen, Boeing

‘feel”, he said, was “perfect.” The landing, on return to the field, was so smooth that only a slight jar was felt. Field test pilots i reported that the B-29 is a “pilot's dream.” The Superfortress was ordered in

| was scheduled for Feb. 1, 1943. Pro-'

| duction required construction of an entire new plant, as the Boeing

plant 2 in Seattle was ordered converted to B-29 manufacture,

The- first

| director of flight and aerodynamics, at the controls on Sept. 21: Allen then reported that they had “a ! most excellent airplane.” The com-

{pany without hesitation gives Allen

full credit for development of the

production at Wichita on May 18, | highly efficient Superfortress wing. | Gen. H H. Arnold, commanding United States entering the war, | Delivery of the first Superfortress B-29 as an airplane which places | previous four-motored bombing leraft in the “light heavy class.” | Gen. Arnold characterized as “su-

U. 8. army air forces, describes the

Gross weight is perha.ps twice as Ing gear Is completely retractable. | yjchjta division had but one plant perb” combat records of previous

great as that of the 'Flying Fortress. It carries a ¢rew of 11,

| house doors close flush for stream-

Armament consists of power tur-| ard it was so constructed that its|lning.

Primary Trainer was being manu- | tactured. A huge modern factory

!rets with multiple gun installations crew can operate at extremely high! Despite its hugeness, not a single was constructed without delay.

and guns. The B-29 is the nearest!

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HOMES ASKED FOR 40 ARMY FAMILIES

| Families of 40 army finance school officers will begin to arrive here

land to help make arrangements for U. S. newsmen Tuesday from Durham, N. C, in. assigned to cover the invasion. On the clipper after 8n army shift that will station the Lyon departed, the army sent its Col. F. V. Fitzgerald Officers at Ft. Harrison permanently.| to the same place with a similar assignment, “Pitz”, Homes Registry, Inc. an agency. had been the best and almost the only army spokes- Of the United War Fund, appealed | man on military operations and he and Lyon used to today through its director, Mrs, tangle frequently. } Esther A. Manthei, for rental listWith Palmer Hoyt's return to his job and Lyon's ings from Indianapolis residents. departure, OWI settled down to a humdrum opera- Located at 120 Monument circle,’ tion on war news. Maj.-Gen Alexander D. Surles, he Woy d= will accept listings head of army public relations, began coming less fre- °¥ - { quently to Davis’ non meetings, sending a subordinate, Mrs. Manthel said that the of-

Capt. Leland P. Lovette, head of the navy public re- ficers, some with one or two chil-j-

altitudes with comfort.

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i Mary Frames Donavon Pattersom Auble

Scholarships to 23 Howe high

lations, did likewise. Looks Like Army-Navy Victory

ARMY AND NAVY, giving every outward sign of co-operating to the fullest with OWI, appeared to have won the argument and were running their own shows about as they pleased. The payoff came recently when correspondents assigned to th: war and navy departments, getting a

little fed up with war department runarounds on spe-

cial requests, decided to take matters into their own hands. Forming an association, they presented de-

mands that a competent army spokesman be appoint-!

ed to succeed Col. Fitzgerald and be available at all times to provide background and tactical information on the then-forthdoming invasion. Army complied with the assignment of Brig. Gen. John Magruder to this post. It is from his twice-daily briefing sessions with the correspondents assigned to the Pentagon that much of the information is given for the interpretive invasion articles now receive out of Washington. The interesting detail about this is that none of the correspondents even thought about taking their

dren, would be particularly inter-| | ested in finding homes convenient

to Ft. Harrison transportation,

HELLENIC GROUP WILL CONFER HER

The American Hellenic Educa{tional Progressive Association will meet in annual state convention Sunday and Monday at’ the Claypool hotel. | Preceding a business session, a {banquet will be held at 7:15 p. m. | Sunday, with a Maj. George Vournas, supreme president, now on |army duty, as the Principal speakjer. Governor Schricker, Mayor { Tyndall, Ralph Gates and Leo Lamberson, South Bend, supreme [counselor of the order, are also

{scheduled to address ‘the group.

troubles to OWI. It has beco he as me that dead Participating chapters at: the

. meeting will be from Kokomo, Ani derson, Muncie, Ft. Wayne, South

_ By Eleanor Roosevelt Sie Tm = Fst

{ PLAN CARD PARTY The speaker of the evening was George E. Sterling. The U. 8. A. chapter of America of the federal communications commission in charge, War Mothers “will hold a publi of what might be called the FBI service of the air,'card party Monday at 1:30 p. mi. who gave us an interesting and instructive talk. I at Foodecraft. Re realized again that every occupation has its own! vocabulary, and I hope that other people were more! familiar with some of the words which Mr. Sterling used than I was. : Today I had some people lunch with me and some more people are coming in for tea and dinner. Tonight I am off for a long week-end in the country.

| school graduates were announced today. Don Auble received a Yale university scholarship, while Miss Mary Frances Patterson gained an award. to Ball State Teachers’

{ college. Other ‘graduates who were given

! scholagships are: Butler univer- | sity —sJeannette Ballard, Mar- | jorie , Garrett, Jeanne Malott, Bettey Myers, Joan Newby, Alice Pettinger and Lois Ridge; Franklin /college—Martha Scott and Dompthy Smith: Indiana universitw—Kent Crawford, Charlene Davis, Mildred Marshall, Betty Moi fitt, Anne Pope, Virginia Ree¢se, Jack Rennoe and Carolyn Sullivan; Indiana university exteyasion—Lois Van Arendonk; Indjana university N. C. A. G. U— Beverly Hull and Louise Miller; ilwaukee-Downer college—Suzne Fisher; Purdue university— rt Masten; Purdue university fdivision of technical institutes— James Bayly.

CHANG WILL SPEAK ON JAP ATROCITIES

Japanese atrocities in China will be cited by Calvin C. Chang of Shanghai at the Monday alumni iuncheon of Sigma Delta Kappa, na-

‘tional legal fraternity, in the Clay-

pool hotel. Author of a new English-Chinese automotive dictionary, Mr, Chang, a

| St. John's university graduate, re-|§ tly was elected president of the| |

Indiana chapter of the Chinese In-

, stitute of Engineers.

{PIANO STUDENTS : TO GIVE RECITAL||

Piano students of Reep will present a y at 8 p* m. at the building.

Wednes-

Adrienne

[hoa the gear sets and the wheel; which the Boeing PT-17 Kaydet | heavy bombers—the B-17 and Con-

| solidated B-29 Liberator—but said {that the B-29 “is as far ahead of {these two aircraft as they are out

cubic foot of space has been neg- | Scarcely more than a month after in front of pre-war bombers.”

Howe Announces EXPANSION PLANNED Morine League (WILLIAM FISHBACK

engineer are drawing up blueprints for the proposed $2,500,000 expan-

pital, Dr. Charles W. Myers, superintendent, announced today.

to the City hospital board some time ago and are now being sub-

ning committee.

{bed psychopathic unit; a 150-bed | isolation or contagious -unit; en-

commodate 100 more, and revamping of present buildings into wards {to segregate types of cases,

PLAN FATHERS DAY Fathers of the parish served by

at a communion breakfast. They have invited as their guests about 100 service men. The mothers of the parish will serve the breakfast in the school hall. Al .G. Feeney will speak.

sion and remodeling of the City hos- |

Arthur Henry, chief engineer for a the city, and the architectural firm 3 of McGuire & Shook are working, on the plans which were presented |

mitted to the city’s post-war plan-|

Recommendations include a 200- | | bed unit for paying patients; a 150-!

largement of the nurses’ home to ac- |

| Sacred Heart church, 1530 Union st.,| will celebrate Fathers day Sunday

the com- | mandant of the newly organized | marine corps league detachment to be known as the 500-Mile de- ! Si » tachment, r # i detachment is being formed in memory of the 16th battalion U. S. M. C. reserve, formerly of Indianapolis, now in active combat. Other officers

ton, senior vicecommandant; junior vice-com-mandant; Raymond Demaree, judge advocate; Charles Depka, chief of staff; Harold Perkins, sergeant-at-arms; Charles Edwards, chaplain; LaVern Batten adjutant and paymaster; E. L. Thornhil, Edward Ketchum and Charles Lynch, trustees.

B. G. Buchanan Mid Garrar,

SUPPER PLANNED

City Old Age Pension groups will serve a public supper Monday at 6:30 p. m. at the hall of Group 17, State and Hoyt aves.

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arships | FOR CITY HOSPITAL _ Unit Organized IS DEAD AT AGE 90

Architects and Indianapolis’ city! B. G. Buchanan is

| William Owen Fishback, 4223 | Carrollton ave., died today. He was | 90. Born in Batavia, O., he had { worked on newspapers in Washing- | ton, D. C., and Terre Haute and was |a staff member on the Indianapolis Sentinel. Suryivors are a daughter, Mary of the Carrollton ave. address,'and | five sons, Paul of Indianapolis, Fred R. of Cleveland, O.; John of Wash|ington, D. C., Richard of Akron, O, (and George of Columbus, O. Funeral services will be conducted {by the Rev. Sidney B. Harry at 3 ip. m., tomorrow in Flanner & | Buchanan mortuary. Cremation will follow.

JOHN N. GULLEFER,

BANKER, DIES AT 88

John N. Gullefer, president of the New Augusta bank, died today in his farm home on W, 56th st He was 88. | A prominent farmer in the com{munity, he was president of the {local Farmers Mutual Insurance | Co. and a member of the I. O. O. F. in New Augusta and the Bethel Methodist church. ! He is survived by his wife, Lillie. | Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Grant Howard at 2:30 Pp. m. Monday in the Bethel Methodist church. Burial will be in Crown Hill,

"BORDER VETERANS WILL HEAR MILLER

The Mexican Border Veterans will have as guest speaker at their state convention Sunday in the Colunibia

of personnel for Camp Atterbury. Maj. Walker Mahurin, Ft. Wayne flying ace who downed 21 planes,

B-29 was ready “for | its initial taxi tests on Sept. 9, 1942,

club Maj. Clifford S. Miller, director

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