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WM Defying The ‘Hump’ ‘By Max B. Cook (Mr. Cook” Scripps-Howard aviation editor, 1s substituting {oday for Ernie Pyle, who is on vacation bu
expects to resume writing in the near future.)
) $ New YORK, Dec. 4—This is the story of four guys who went searching for the worst weather they could find over the notoriously turbulent China-Burma-India “Hump.” And at the risk of their lives, they solved problems which have enabled army air service and air transport commands to keep a continual flow of vital men and materiel passing over the most dangerous air route in the world. Flying conditions had been so bad that it was absolutely impossible for technicians and test pilots in the States to equip planes which could successfully fly under all the weather conditions found over the “Hump.” Special instruments had to be devised. Problems of icing and vapor-lock had to be faced, along with scores of others which developed on one flight after another. One day a brand new airplane arrived at C-B-I air service command headquarters. . It was boarded by Henry D. Redder and John W, Wells, technical representatives of the P. & W. Aircraft Division of United Aircraft corporation; Richard L. O'Connor, technical representative of Curtiss-Wright Airplane company, Buffalo, and Col. Lloyd R. Davidson, experienced test pilot of the C-B-I air service command. (Redder’s home is at 19 East Gunhill road, New York City.) For several months they sent the airplane straight into the howling gales and sleet over the “Hump.” Then they set out to look for tougher weather and made flights over portions of the unsurveyed Himalayas and Tibet, looking for king:size storms,
All Four Decorated
THE STORY oftheir. adventures and success came from Staff Sergeant C. M, Sievert, ex-Tips-on-Tables editor, ex-automobile editor, ex-travel and ex-resorts editor of the New York World-Telegram, now doing ASC public relations in the C-B-I area. “This week,” reports Sgt. Sievert, “the téchnical representatives are recommended by their chief, Col. Thomas MacDonald , of ASC’s maintenance division, for one of thé highest awards bestowed by the war department on civilians—the Emblem for Meritorious Civilian Service. The flying colonel, Lloyd R. David. son, has been awarded the distinguished flying cross.” Sievert relates that when the new airplane arrived 1 was right off the assembly line, It had been
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
“WHAT 1S THE NAME of that song?” asks Eddie Merndon, 1824 Brookside. The song he refers to is the signoff tune for the Kraft Music. Hall program. It’s been haunting him and he just has to know what ft is. He called WIRE, the station over which it is broadcast, and no one there knew. Then he went to several music stores and whistled the tune for them. Yep, they recognized fit, but they couldn't think of the name, If any of you recognize the tune, drop a note to Mr, Herndon. @The program Is carried Thursdays nights. . . , Here's another addition to the appropriate names department: -Luthér Rich was elected treasurer -of the Christian Men Builders class. . .". The hobby le of Fred H. Geiger of Walron, Ind, is collecting pictures of older type locomotives, those in use up to 15 or 20 years ago. Mr. Geiger asks help in findihg a picture—side view, closeup—of the type he saw pulling a passenger train out of Indianapolis on the ofl, E. & W. (now the Nickel Plate) in the early twenties. The locomotive he saw was No. 318, and = picture of any engine of the same type would do. His address Is Fred H. Geiger, Route 1, Box 203, Waldron, Ind. .
A New Wrinkle
FORREST VAN FOSSAN, assistant chief meter reader for the water company, observed a new wrinkle in hitchhiking the other day. While driving on N. Pennsylvania, he saw a young man attempting to thumb his way and holding up a pack of cigarets. as bait. . . . Speaking of cigarets, Al Lindop sent us three German cigarets sent home from overseas by a serviceman. The tobacco in them looked like a combination of birdseed and weeds, and smelled a little like tea. We induced John Bowen to smoke one, and they lived up to the name on them: “Korfu rot.” We couldn't get anyone else to try one of the cigarets «not after they had gotten a whiff of the one John
America Flies
THE ROBOT BOMB is here to stay, and the magnitude of its role in the next war Is beyond imag-
ination, To jeer at what the Britons first called “buzz.bombs,” and later learned to dread, is to revive the attitude of those blind men who, from 1919 to 1940, had little more than tolerant ridicule for the airplane and airpower, You will remember that they called the airplane a military toy —Jlater grudgingly regarding it as an auxiliary arm of armies and navies. [Eventually they awakened to the dread recognition that this weapon now holds. the balance of military power, One of the most *interesting phenomenons of human psychology is that from the very first days of history man has greeted with contempt the advent of any new weapon which enabled men to kill one another from a distance, instead of joining battle handsto-hand.
Gunpowder Denounced
THE MAN who could defeat an opponent in hand-to-hand battle was a hero, and the victor who killed an enemy with a hurled missile other than the spear was a sneak warrior. The users of gunpowder on the combat flelds of
My Day
WASHINGTON, Sunday. — Saturday morning I -
went over to speak in the Pan-American building at the meeting held in celebration of Pan-American Health day. I think it is interesting to note the emphasis that is now being laid on public health services throughout the world and on the need for S0-operation everywhere. Our public health service in this country may be good, but if Dr. Thomas Parran, who is the head of it, cannot rely on getting -the necessary information and cooperation from othér countries, we are placed at a great disadvantage. ' The s#*ne. thing holds true for the other countries, where we are
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concerned. ] In the future; it. seems to me that publichealth is going to be increasingly important to the nations of the world, If a whole community does not live under : no one in the community is en-
tested under conditions of flight that did not obtain anywhere else in the world, due to the actions of the monsoons and the record height of the Himalayas plateau and its fence of crags and peaks.
command's technicians were. called on by the air freight line operators. and fourth echelon—or medium and heavy work— and maintenance and repairs for U.S. military airplanes including transports, fliers become in preliminary flights at high altitudes over the Assam valley and the unconsciously put in many a week of at least 110 hours and kept going at times for 36 hours at a stretch without noticing passage of time,
Built Special Equipment
caused them to spend six weeks building special test equipment in Central India. when a aealous pilot mistook the job, throught the cargo was awaiting flight to China, and took off. China, the airplane was damaged in a Jap raid and the instrumentation was lost ever, in four weeks in another new airplane through assistance of A.
depot,
regular loads of aircraft supplies. stretches of the high route which offered the worst turbulence, cloud formations and sub-Arctic colds to test anti-icing and de-icing performances. trip both engines iced and the plane lost air speed to a point of almost stalling. The men should have
cal dangers weré present. Cargo ropes were cut loose and cargo prepared for dumping overboard. Success, however, was writing its story on the instruments. They found the answers to vapor-lock, icing in. the
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To solve the problems of icing and vapor-lock hat showed up at high altitudes, C. B. I. air service
A. S. C. handles all third
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NEED FOR further complicated instrumentation They had it completed In It was duplicated, how-
S. C. soldier-mechanics at. the air
The group then began flying the “Hump” with They sought out
On one
jumped but their job was to ascertain what mechani-
unseen carburetor air induction system, and to deicing. “Results,” reports Sievert, “were assembled and forwarded to the ‘faciory at ‘Buffalo, N, Y. and] findings made known to all of the A. S. C. Third | and Fourth Echelon Service Groups and Service| Centers. Aviation engineers accepted the modifications and began production of airplanes now able to lick the ‘Hump’ without much difficulty.” They had done their job—and well.
was smoking. . . . Here's a. chance to do something for convalescent soldiers at Wakeman General hospital, Camp Atterbury. The occupational therapy department, which has the task of keeping the con-
valescents busy and interested, needs old belt buckles, leather and leatherette, for various projects. The five
local chapters of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority have assumed the task of locating these materials for. the hospital, and are placing salvage receptacles in two
downtown locations. One is in front of the Business Furniture Co., 112 E. Maryland, and another inside Stationers, Inc., 38 N. Pennsylvania. See if you can't| round up some materials to help ‘the boys.
Agoin, Again and Again
DONALD COX, 8S. K. 1-¢, who has made numerous trips overseas aboard a destroyer on convoy duty, has met his brother, Lester, a SeaBee, not once but four times on foreign soil. Twice, the meetings occurred in Africa, once in Sicily and just recently in Southern France. That beats most of the “it'z a small world” items we have read. The boys are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Cox, 525 N. Keystone ave Another brother, Emerson, is on a destroyer in the Pacific, while a sister, Naomi, is a stenographer at the Federal building. . . . City Councilman Otto Worley's son, Capt. Joseph P, Worley, now in India, is quite fond of the oatmeal cookies his mother bakes. So Mrs. Worley got husy a few weeks ago aud baked some cookies, sending him a tin boxful. Back came a letter saying the cookies had arrived in fine shape and were thoroughly enjoyed. They tasted like | freshly, baked cookies, Capt. Worley said, and he| was preity broad in his hints for more. Not long ago, he writes, the men became hungry for fis, so one of the lieutenants threw some handgrenades in a stream, and Capt. Worley, a surgeon with the Marauders, swam in and got 30 pounds of fish. He has gone on several tiger hunts. . . . In Saturday's column, we made an error in naming the days for paper salvage drive. “Thursday is for the collection of paper in the SOUTHEAST section of town,
By Maj. Al Williams
Europe were regarded as mean, cowardly, unchivalrous fellows, and as such they were denied the right to surrender, Later, as gunpowder weapons became more effective, the charge of cowardice was forgotten as wiser leaders sought greater projectile efficiency, }
Sends Machinery to War
THE PATTERN for the robot bomb was sketched by the first slingshot, the bow and arrow and the powder-driven bullet. These weapons enabled men to kill other men at increasingly greater distances. And now, in the robot bomb, airpower has demonstrated its capacity to destroy men, cities and ithtions by sending its machinery to war and keeping ‘its manpower at home. Nothing can be gained by ethical or academic discussion of the winged, pilotless missile which wreaks destruction hundreds of miles away from the base. The robot bomb, according to Prime Minister Churchill, has damaged 800,000 structures in England, This robot flew in level trajectories within the range of anti-aircraft fire and the fire of patrolling alrcraft, And now, only a few months later, a new robot has been developed to travel in curved flight paths, descending almost vertically from the stratosphere. Increase the range of the robot and improve its accuracy and we face a direct challenge to our entire conception of heavy bombardment,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
These services were in the past rather narrowly interpreted, embracing only safeguards against bringing in diseases from other countries and spreading of diseases within our own nation's borders, It seems to me, however, that nutrition, as well as sanitary conditions in homes and in communities, should increasingly be the business of public health doctors. In addition, the regular care of people not in a financial position to obtain adequate medical attention could certainly be considered a part of our pub{ic health service. I received yesterday from John Groth, an artist.
correspondent just returned from overseas, a pamphlet entitled “The Camp of Disappearing Men,” for }
| city’s high schools.
THE POST-WAR PERIOD
By JOSEPH B. JARVIS
THOUSANDS of men now in the armed forces were recruited from the nation’s classrooms, Their eventual discharge from service confronts the United States with an educational problem of staggering size. Already a few handfuls of veterans of world war II are trickling - back to ecivilian® life—now, a trickle; later on, an evergrowing stream, The return to study will be easy for some, hard for others. It will require a searching frankness on the part of both the veterans and the school. Of prime importance is the realization that for ‘these men the post-war period is already here. » ” » IN INDIANAPOLIS the public school system for many months has been cognizant of this problem. To help its hundreds of former students adjust themselves, the schools have established a counseling and guidance service for veterans before their study programs are developed. This service functions independently in each “of the city's high schools and at the board of - commissioners’ headquarters, but its aims and methods are co-or-dinated through a committee on guidance and a post-war planning committee of high school principals. At present about 27 veterans of world war II are enrolled in the Some have had extended combat duty; others were separated from service after only a few weeks of basic training. » ” IN EVERY CASE there is a problem of adjustment — mental or physical, many times both— which may be more pronounced in some men than in others. In every case there has been an interruption of schooling, and all have been exposed to entirely new environments, habits and opportunities. In ‘every case this question sooner or later faces each veteran: “Should I go back to school?” For some the answer is easy; for others extremely difficult, Men like Willard Shannon, a third class petty officer in the navy who was injured seriously at Guadalcanal, would find the first to be true. “I knew I wanted to go back to school long before I was discharged,” he declared. “I made up my mind in a naval hospital. They had me in there to treat a flash burn on the back of my head. I had plenty of time to think—to think about my future.” Shannon, a. Tech high school student, was injured when the U. S. Seminole, a navy salvage ship, blew up off Guadalcanal Oct. 25, 1942. The boatswain mate was injured by the explosion of the three-inch cannon he manned.
1 J » - WHILE IN THE navy Shannon
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War veterans all,
toring an automobile engine.
mixed with navy air force pilots, His observation: “Nice fellows.” His decision: “I'm studying aeronautical - engineering . now; working nights at CurtissWright.” His goal: “Someday I'm going to fly, too. I figure anyone who can take a plane apart should be able to get a pilot's license,” Shannon, who lives at 2369 N. Adams st., was in service a year and nine months. Por eight months he was hospitalized by the flash burn. His case is typical of men who have- seen action. At 19 he. is beginning another lifetime. » sn » IN SOME CASES the school's part in determining the veteran's ambitions and capabilities is not easy. Special aptitude, personality and intelligence tests sometime provide the only means by which guidance counselors can make their determination. Take George A, Virgne, 19, 1052 N. Tibbs ave., who was undecided about returning to school when he left the navy in May of this year after eight months’ service. For three months he tried working, but he was not satisfied. Finally he visited the veterans’ counselor at the United
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States employment service office and before long he was back at Tech, Now he has ambitions towards a journalistic career.
THEN THERE'S the experience of Charles E. Habig, 19, 3456 8. Delaware st., who enlisted in the navy after six months’ training in engine mechanics. He was placed on the inactive list and assigned to work for Pan-Ameér-fcan Airways at Hawaii as an aircraft engine mechanic. When he was discharged this fall after 14 months’ duty, he decided to pursue. ‘mechanics further, He will attend Indiana university - after graduation from Tech in January. But it wasn't as easy as it looks, he'll tell you, to turn down the opportunity to make good money as a licensed aircraft engine mechanie. » » » ANOTHER NAVY veteran, James R. Kurrasch, 17, of 2822 Lockburn st. ‘became familiar with trucks and motors while training at Sampson, N. Y. “When I came back, I immediately asked about auto shop courses, found Ben Davis, which I dropped out of to join the navy, didn't have one, so I tried Tech,” he explained.
IS HERE NOW FOR SOME FIGHTING MEN —
Our War Il Veterans Go Back to School
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they're back at Tech high school completing their education. Left to right, George A. Virgne and Willard Shannon watch James R. Kurrasch as he explains a fine point in ‘doc-.
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Kurrasch may face service again when he registers for the draft, but he'll. graduate from Tech first and have good training in mechanics behind him, Summing up the school's guidance efforts, H. L. Harshman, assistant superintendent of schools in charge of extension - services,
program, “Our program is,” of course, subject to changes that. experience in helping veterans find their propér niches will suggest,” he said. ve z » o . . MR. HARSHMAN, who is assisted by Emmett A. Rice, J. Fred Murphy and Robert T. Harrison, directors of youth services, counseling services. and vocational education, respectively, outlined two immediate objectives of “a current program: 1. To determine the extent to which schools are meeting the present needs of the veterans. 2. To determine the extent to which the schools may need to evaluate and adjust their programs further. It's a beginning” Mr. Harshman concluded, “which we hope will have as successful an ending.”
FLOWERS AND BEES— Nazis Use Naive Story to Teach
By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent SAVERNE, Alsace, Dec. 4.— The Nazis propagafidized the old story of the bees, the butterflies and the flowers to teach Alsatians not only the facts of life but that the Germans were the master race and should not mix blood with the Jews. Flaborate instructions issued to school teachers teaching .the story, as written by Alfred Vogel of Ettlingen and profusely illustrated with color plates. » » » here, was incredibly naive although an introduction written by Author Vogel said his book was intended for use “not only in elementary and high schools but also in institutions of higher learning and technical schools.” The lessons began with instructions for school garden experi-
evolution of new varieties of flowers. ) Little Albert and Marie prog-
ments, Then they were ready for heavy political thinking which Herr Doktor Vogel asserted must ‘be applied to basic biological and hereditary conclusions. ‘. ” » THE GERMANS must stay on farms, the instruction said, because when they move to the
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ments in cross pollination and |
ressed to wheat and corn experi-
cities they have fewer babies and the Fatherland must have more babies, One plate explained slaughter of males in western and
population, was menaced by their greater procreative activity,
central Europe by attempting” le. prove that Germany, with smaller
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DEFENDS FLYING ACES—
sary to air operatoins, The tanned, wiry, 34-year-old ace—who shot down nine Japanese planes in 95 minudes in the battle of the Philippines sea Oct. 24—said at an interview that he differed with the admiral who declared recently that publicity and adulation for pilots who shoot down numerous enemy planes tend to break up teamwork. The admiral said he thought
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{ (15) attained it. “I have tried to emphasize that what we accomplished was through the efforts of our fighters, | our dive-bombers and our torpedo planes, | “I happened to be lucky insofar | as running into enemy planes was concerned, | “In leading a division, T was usually able to make the first run | on Japs we met.” ” ” ~ LT. BERT MORRIS, the former wayne. Morris of Hollywood, hacked - up MecCampbell's stateMorris, who got seven ene planes himself, declared the other pilots were never jeal-
Navy Pilot With 34 Nips Shot Down Says Competition Breeds Success
By DAN M'GUIRE United Press Staff Correspondent PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 4. Cmdr. David McCampbell of Los Angeles; the navy's top ace who, with 34 Jap planes to his credit, is the second ranking American airman— said today he disagreed with Rear Adm. Thomas L. Sprague’s theory that competition among pilots tends to break up the teamwork neces-
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| the “ace” idea was being carried | | too far. | ” ” n “YES, TEAMWORK is our greatest objective,” McCampbell declared, “I think our air group
ous while the commander was running up his sensational record. “On the contrary,’ Morris added, “we were pulling for him to get ahead of the army boys.” McCampbell said he believed that competition among pilots, squadrons and ships was one of the reasons for the great success of American airmen in combat. ” ” ”
HIS THEORY of successful combat flying is simple: “See the other guy first” ° The commander said a fighter pilot usually passes through three stages. “At first you're too eager and anxious. “Then after you've shot down six or eight planes you tend to get careless, This second stage ends when you get chased or
shot up a few times. “Then, in the third stage, you become rather methodical and weigh the military necessity and the chances instead of diving in | headlong.”
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Labor Plan to. Split Pending Social Security Bill
By FRED W. PERKINS . NEW ORLEANS, Dec, 4~The Wagner - Murray = Dingell = bills now pending in congress, which would provide everything in
social security “including the kitchen sink,” will be split into four or five
separate prose posals replace ing the om
ure, according to the American Federaation of Labor
who have just wound up their annual
convention The A. 7. of L. has
been carrying the ball in this field of social legislation, with support from the rival C. I. O.
Under the projected plan, which is yet to be cleared with the congressmen who have the last say, extension of old age and survivors’ insurance to “the missing 20 million” would be put up to congress in a bill distinct from others dealing with such controversial questions as socalled “socialized medicine” and federalization of state employment insurance systems,
The A. F, of L. men have noted that the complete Wagner-Mur-ray-Dingell bills have been rest ing in congressional committees for a year and a half, without even hearings. . 8 ” THEY appear to realize the truth of what congressional ob servers have been telling them-— that it would be easier to get favorable action on the popular paris of the propositions by divorcing them from the proposals which aroused strong group opposition.
Foremost in the popular class is the proposal to give social security cards to the 20 million workers who were left out by the original law,
They include agricultural work= ers, the self-employed, and employees of state and local govern. ments not now covered by public pension plans.
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Barnaby will be found today on page 17.
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS—
{| THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST MAS. KEPT HiI6 PROMIGE
which he did the illustrations.
It is a story of German atrocities in Oswiecim, and is published by the Polish labor group. I do not know whether it is generally available to the public, but it!
should certainly be given wide distribution,
‘The story is made vivid by the illustrations. Tt isa tale to fill’ you with horror, worse, than almost any-| conjure up. And the ehd
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By Laurene Rose Diehl
MY GOODNESS TGooonEss TR TWO YOUNG
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We, the Women Servicemen Like Rambling
Letters Best
o By RUTH MILLETT HE HAS been living on letters for a couple of years—and so have his friends. The young servicemen gave a detailed answer to my question: “What kind of letters do the most to remind servicemen of home?” His answer,
these words was: “The rambling letters that go into details of everyday living. All too "often the woman a man 7 loves seems to feel she must A put ‘news’ in her letters. And so she hits the highlights of her life. ” » »
“NOR is it ‘unusual for her to say, ‘I haven't written for several days, because there has been nothing to write about’ If she only knew it, nothing is too triv-
away from home,
“fie would be interested in hearing that she went down town to buy curtains, stopped in at the drugstore for a coke, and what the, people who stopped to talk with her had to say.
“And the serviceman wants to hear all sorts of anecdotes about Junior (especially the kind he can get some fun out of repeating) for that is the only way he has of
keeping up with his growth and development. ” " ~ “HE LIKE to find clippings
stuck into the letter, too, the kind
at home.”
That ought to be good news to all the women who write regularly to servicemen, women's lives are id Just now.
But if it is the little details of everyday living at home the men want to hear—they can certainly give them plenty of chit-chat.
Marott-to Buy Bonds of Scouts
THE OFFICE of George J. Marott in the Marott hotel will be the goal of a concerted rush by Boy Scouts and Cubs after school today, Mr. Marott announced yesterday that he would buy & $256 war bond
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