Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1945 — Page 15

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Takeoff at Dawn

By Max B Cook

(Ernie Pyle’s first dispatches ‘from the Pac ific war zone are expecied to y stlit soon),

ABOARD U. 8. 8. BENNINGTON. ESSEX-CLASS (Delayed), = “Five o'clock, Sir!” (0500), - We slid out of our cod iad suppressed a yell 1 as

. our bare feet touched the cold steel floor of the

carrier's cabin, “ Five minutes later . we were feeling our way through the dark- . ness, down. two companion-ways to the tremendously large hangar deck and one more to the ward room ,and the officers’ mess. There, sleepy-eyed pilots "were breakfasting. heartily on fruit Juice, cereal, bacon, and eggs and wonderful coffee. We had asked fo accompany -early sub-patrol, know how it felt to be catapulted

L from the flight deck of a big carrier, to fly over the wide Expanse of water and to come in to a fast i “arrested” landing.

Breakfast over, we climbed back to the air-con-ditioned torpedo squadron's ready room where the pilots were “briefed” by Cmdr. W. F. Eadie, commanding officer of the squadron, It was Cmdr. Eadie who rescued Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker,

_Battle-Like Activity i + THE PATROL was “to take off at 013 &nd “the

pilots replenished themselves with more hot -coffee

_ (always on hand) from their private pantry before i running down to the flight deck, along a wind-lashed

catwalk. At 063 G. Q. (General Quarters) was sounded and every assigned man on the ship had to be at his post. ,The rumbling sound of bombers and fighters being hauled to position and the roar of powerful engines as they were warmed up for flight stirred the huge carrier into battle-like activity. As we stepped from a narrow catwalk onto the flight deck under forbidding clouds, Avenger torpedo bombers, Hellcats and SB2C Helldiver dive bombers, engines roaring, were lined up ready for takeoff. Our Avenger carried a pilot, Ensign L. FP. Ross, of Grosse Roint, Mich, a tai] gunner-radio man and a vi . . l :

We wanted to °

rear turret qrmer atop the fuselage behind the pilot. We squirmed our way laboriously through a side door in the tail and climbed, more laboriously, into the remarkably small turret with back toward Pilot Ross. Strapped entire horizon. Directly in front of us was a gunsight over which we placed our hands for protection from the jolt that was to come. A yellow-clad starter whirled his right arm signaling the pilot to “rev up” the engine to top speed, the arm dropped and we shot over the deck, out over the bow of the carrier and climbed up toward the overcast. Destroyer es-

corts became specks and the huge Essex-type carrier

faded into the distance,

Visibility Almost Zero

SUDDENLY, OFF our portstde, a speedy Hellcat fighter plane appeared from :nowhere as our escort. Its pilot smiled and genially waved that everything now was okay. We sat back and relaxed. Some 30 miles ahead of the carrier we encountered rain squalls. After two hours of stormy weather we circled back toward the ship, dove low over the flight deck and dropped a sandbag weighted message advising of the weather. Other bombers came in from their flight areas with the same reports and with visibility almost zero we were ordered in.. Circling around te the left, Ensign Ross made his

- Vv f the escortin, RO OL BOING oe iremmmptibkpminrrieerinratoie last. turn over. one of the escorting destroyers Te

500 yards off the‘stern and swung.in low, with wheels, flaps and landing Hook down. With beatitiful timing he caught the first cable on the flight deck with the landing hook and we almost stopped dead. Blurred figures dashed in from the side, unhooked the cable, the engine roared and we taxied up deck out of the way of the next bomber, only seconds away.

What had been a real experience to us is only a

part of the everyday existence of the heroic. pilots and crews of America's huge aircraft carrier fleet. In or out of battle Zones they take to the air and land with regularity. It is seldom that these welltrained fliers and efficient bombers and fighters meet with accident on daily routine. Now and then it does happen and two such instances will be discussed in another article.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PERSONS IN the lobby of the Columbia club New Year's day were amazed to see. Ray Palmer, the assistant clerk, and several other persons crawling around on their hands and knees back of the counter. They were using flashlights and giving the floor a minute inspection. Fnquiry . revealed Mr. Palmer had lost the diamond out of his Masonic ring. Several hours of searching the floor failed to produce the diamond. Mr. Palmer was about to give up.. Just then, he had ocea-

sion to get something qut of a

lock box, and there in the box— the safest spot in the club—was his diamond. It had dropped out of the ring when he had visited the box earlier in the morning. . During the holiday school va‘cation, several girls went up to the Riviera club to rehearse their roles in the Shortridge Junior Vaudeville, scheduled for Feb. 9 and 10. Afterwdrd, when they were ready to board the feeder bus on Illinois, one of the girls, Betty Hubble, removed her glove, in which she kept her money. Just then, a big police dog ran up and grabbed the glove, spilling the money and running away with the glove. Betty picked up her money, then began chasing the playful dog. She managed to grab one end of the glove, but the dog held the other end, meanwhile growling ferociously. Betty wasn't sure whether -he meant it or was just playing, so she was afraid to pull too hard. Finally, she managed to get the glove back, and hurried to board the bus which still was waiting for her. What a time!

Coals to Newcastle?

WE'LL PROBABLY get in trouble with the California chamber of commerce, but we think this item'’s worth relating, anyway. We got it from one of our agents who bought some grapefruit the other morning in Rowland & Bradley's market, 38th and College. The clerk who waited on her said the wife of an officer stationed at Pt. Harrison was in the store the other day and bought a quantity of grapefruit to

America Flies

AVIATION IS MAKING a bold bid for a new flying engine, and the world is on the threshold

of a new power era. For generations the reciprocating steam engine was the world's workhdrse. This type

of steam pressure, timed by valves, was exerted against a piston which moved in a straight line toward the other end of ‘the cylinder. The piston had to be raced to the end of its stroke, stopped and reversed. The demands for increased power grew until the point was reached in the reciprocating steam engine where any further increase in the sizes of pistons.and the cylinders (and necessarily of weights) was impractical. Then came Parson’s steam turbine, a Jotary power-producing In its simplest form, the turbine is merely a on the perimeter of which are fitted vanes

plant, wheel,

with minimum clearances with the casing ‘walls éfi-"

closing the entire apparatus. The steam from jets impinges on the vanes, causing the Wheel to turn, thus producing rotary power.

More, but Smaller, Pistons’

NOW LET'S look at the modern aircraft engine. Here again we find a.reciprocating engine, with pistons traveling in straight lines and the power developed by each piston converted to rotary power by means of connecting rods attached to the crankshaft. Instead of steam moving the pistons, it is the quick expansion created by the combustion of gas-air mixtures. Our first internal combustion engine had few

NEW YORK, Thursday. ~This morning I visited the Metropolitan vocational high school. “An old acquaintance, Franklig J. Keller,-is the principal of this school, which is pioneering in maritime education, The boys who leave this school are prepared to smn -serve-in-the merchant marine; and y i during the war they are also acceptable to the navy. After graduation they may go from here to the merchant marine academy. But-they may also go to college, and if they wish they may go immediately to work on shipboard. Many of the graduates have already made names - for themselves as heros on merchant ships in various parts ‘of the world. Many others are working in occupations on land connected with shipping. At 1 o'clock I reached Mrs. Willlam Sporborg’s for

~ a lunch given in honor of Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, To those of us interested in international affairs, Mrs, ° : Catt, 8till is an inspiration and a leader, Many of the

women doing active work today can look back upon the first steps undertaken I can remember very well how proud I to be Whom Mie, nny

“to be safe.”

closer to the impracticable limit.

send to her folks out in California. It seems they send baskets of fruit to her, but no grapefruit.. They bemoan the fact they can’t get any out there. And here we thought California had everything! . . . George Saas of the gas company is mad at us because of the item the other day about the “swear box” with which some girls out at Lukas-Harold raised funds for The Times’ recent Mile-O-Dimes. His. assistant, Helén LaMar, read the item, and decided to do likewise. She got a big box, labeled it the “Helen LaMar Relief Fund,” estdblished wates of 5 cents for ordinary cuss words and 15 cents for “other words.” And now George has to do &ll his talking with his hands, +. "The "item dBott "the Teader “Who wanted to know where to find some clothespins brought at least a couple of responses. Mike's Loan Office on Washington st.’ phoned and said they had a lot of them. And Murphy's 5 and 10 sent word they had a “fair” supply. They probably won't have them long, after this gets out.

Too Close for Comfort

WAYNE HARMON, 305 N. Temple, suggests that the warning lights on the New York st. railroad crossing, east of Pine st., do not come on soon enough to give traffic ‘adequate warning—particularly when the streets are slippery. He tells us: “Within the last two weeks, I know of three very ‘near misses’ being scored on three overloaded city busses. On one occasion, the lights came on with the bus about 15 feet from the first tracks. Due to the icy pavement, the bus was across the first tracks before it came to a stop. Before it could be backed up, a fast passenger train went by. The people in the front of the bus almost could have touched the train as it went by.” He adds that it wasn't the bus driver's fault, either. Sounds like something ought to be done. How about it? ... A streetcar operator (Illinois st. line) stopped in Tommy's Grill at Maryland and Kentucky the other day and ordered a regular breakfast—stack of wheats, etc. As soon as that was downed, he- ordéred a regular dinner—chicken and everything that goes with it. “You must be pretty hungry,” commented the waitress. “I missed my breakfast,” the operator explained, “and I'm just eating both meals now.”

By Maj. Al Williams

pistons, and they were large. As the demands for Increased gas engines grew, we built engines with more but smaller pistons and ran them faster. . Our first air-cooled aircraft engine was a sevencylinder affair of about 220 horsepower. Next was a nine-cylinder job which turned out 450 h. p.

Complications Increase

THEN WE WENT to 14 cylinders (double row). then to the current 17-cylinder job, which turns out about 2000 h. p. Thus each big increase in horsepower meant more cylinders and pistons. But all this time we were working with a four-cycle power plant —intake, compression, power and exhaust. Only one stroke in every four turned out power. Engines of 3000 and even 5000 h. p. with the cylinders arranged in multiple rows, are in the making. But the complication in each “instance approaches For instance, a 24-cylinder aircraft engine needs 96 valves and two crankshafts, or 12 power impulses for each revolution

"of the crankshaft.

Today our~foremust aircraft engine builders are striving to perfect the gas turbine, wherein the combustion of gas-air niixture instead of steam exerts pressures: through nozzles against the vanes of a turbine wheel. Necessarily, the development of new heat-resistant metals was required. And the groundwork for this metallurgical development was provided by the creators of the successful turbo superchargers. Jet propulsion will drive an aircraft at: terrific speed, but the fuel consumption is impracticably high at the present time, except for military craft. That problem may be licked some day, but the most feasible power plant for -aircraft seems to be the gas turbine engine.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

years ago, when her book, "The Red Network,” first|.

appeared. I had not yet learnéd n those days that one’s enemies may be a great asset. But I felt quite sure that if I shared mention with Mrs. Catt, even if it

~Was-meant tobe derogatory;it--must-be a privilege |:

and an honor. I am happy to have been included as one of Mrs, Catt's friends at this lunch. Just seeing her will make me go back to Washington full of the desire to work on Some of the things which she still feels are important.: Last night Mrs. Morgentiag ‘and I saw. “A” Bell for Adano.” This is the play by Paul Osborn based on John Hersey’s novel, with Fredric Mareff as Maj. Joppolo and Margo as Tina, the charmihg daughter of the old fisherman who has to be miade to believe in democracy before he will go fishing again, I thought all the parts were very well taken, and

he play improved as it went along.

The play is good drama, and even the little speeches on democracy, which one might think would be" difficult to make impressive, from the audience. : i I liked the book so ‘much that 1 was afraid the Diay Would be a disappointment, I can report that it

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. We had a perfect 360 degree view of the|

brought applause |. |

SECOND SECTION 2

By CURT RIESS NEA Staff Writer

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. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1945

ONDON.—For the last

fortnight. war reports have been full of cases of German spies, saboteurs and fifth columnists.

"At first glance it seems”

the Nazis now are reaching the type of spectacular romantic underground warfare that preceded actual war during the thirties. The impression of this reporter

cases to be taken bona fide.

It is my belief that the Nazis now are waging a war of nerves

on a large scale, trying to intimi- -

date and rend the jittery allies. I also believe the war of nerves will continue during the coming months to an unheard of scale, probably with new secret weapons of psychological warfare. » ” » WHAT HAVE the recent weeks brought? There was the story of two Nazi battalions disguised as American .and British forces parachuted behind our lines with the purpose of killing pour most. important officers. Accounts said that they carried vitriol and other poison to throw in the allied officers’ faces. This supposedly was only part of an elaborate scheme of sabotage and murder. : » » » A CAPTURED document allegedly proved that two months ago English-speaking Nazi soldiers were. recalled from the front for training for this special task. American uniforms supposedly were taken from American pris oners who were stripped, then shot. "Special cotirsés were held for .plowing up bridges and supply dumps, etc. Belgium supposedly was infested by German spies in Belgian uniforms or civilian clothes. Most of these spies were captured, some already shot.

World's Largest Concrete and Cinder Building Erected for G. I. Mail

NAZIS WAGING NEW LARGE- SCALE WAR OF. NERVES— -

_ +®ypem. are V-3 rockets of unbe-

“than V-2

A German caption on this photo obtained through a neutral source says young soldiers are being taught to use anti-tank arms at short range. The instructor is Maj. Kiesgen, who holds the iron cross for

having destroyed five tanks in “hand to hand” fighting.

To back

waning armed might, however, the Germans are engaged in a largescale war of nerves, threatening increased use of terror weapons,

# ON THE face of it, it seems strange that the Germans acted so clumsily that most of the spies and saboteurs not -only were caught, but that Belgium and France were thoroughly alarmed and are now ona wholesale mans hunt. But if alarming the allies was the real goal of the Nazis, they succeeded. That this was their goal is indicated by the German broadcast to Belgium in which the popula-

New York Embarkation Port

Handles 50

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—On the site of the old Madison Square Garden Bowl in Long Isldnd City, where hundreds of thousands of fight fans watched heavyweight

titlef bouts, Uncle Sam has built a modern miracle’ of postal efficiency to serve his millions of fighting men. Eleven foreign fronts served by the New York port of embarkation receive their mai] from this mammoth sorting station, the world’s largest structure of concrete and cinder block. The structure, covering 60,000 square feet of floor space, was built in just 106 days, ‘an incredibly short time for so vast a project. This time includes everything from prepara-

for security reasons.

>» HANNAH ¢

Million Parcels

tion of plans to pounding-the last nail, . Erection of the building was rushed when it became apparent that the volume of Christmas mail would triple that of last year. Army and postoffice authorities perfected a method . of handling 50 million parcels on an assembly line principle. Three railroad spurs were built as part of the buildigg,

tion was" asked to flee for its: life “before you are slain by the onrushing Germans.” 5 ” » “DON'T STAY in your towns and villages. German armies are using ‘a horrifying new weapon. Not a single human being ‘will remain alive where these weapons are used.” Surely if surprise was intended, *such broadcasts would not have been made, The intention of a war of

Fifty © railroad cars can be accommo-"*

dated at one time. ' Electrie “mules” carry. the mai] from trucks and railroad cars to four great work areas where 8000 civilian employees sort and bag mail according to key, numbers used The army maintains a separate portion of the building where bags are checked and marked for their final destination.

COLLEGE TO MARK 15TH ANNIVERSARY

‘Times Special ’ TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan; 5— Ceremonies commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding -of Indiana State Teachers college will be held at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow in the student union auditorium.

| The diamond jubilee celebration will extend through Sunday when

a special ‘afternoon concert will feature the college orchestra and a tea will be given for guests and friends of the college.

OPEN HOUSE PLANNED FOR 2 SOLDIER. SONS

‘ Open house for Cpl. Robert E. Capp and Pvt. John O. Capp, who will be home on furlough, will be held from 3 tq 8 p. m. Sunday at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. o J. Capp, 557 N, Dearborn . Cpl. A an armorer in theces, will arrive tonight from base in Sacremento, Cal. Pvt,

Railroad spurs built inte the building ean accommodate 50 cars Assembly line process speeds sorting of mail.

at a time.

-a--Their. hope of creating panic |

nerves is obvious in the - enormous propaganda - the Germans make everywhere for the new Vweapons which, according to | lievable fo: ve, through smaller Again, if the weapon were supposed- to surprise, it would not have beer described so painstakingly by the.German staff. iw by, a MORE EXAMPLES could be given, but all prove that. the Germans are less interested in surprise than in shocking the civilian populations ‘behind our lines:

and thus creating difficulties” for allied armies is not ‘entirely un- _ founded.

The population of Belgium and-{—

France still remembers fifth columpnist warfare and wholesale treason after 1940. People who believe themselves liberated for good may plunge into utter despair, believing the worst, though actual] German successes are far from justifying such panic. Buf nerves of 1945 no longer are what they used to be.

5 o ”

THERE IS no panic yet, bit great. apprehension, and therefore it is doubly necessary for the public to understand the real purpose. behind the new Nazi maneuvers, “Perhaps the Nazis not only hope to influence civilian morale on the continent, but also ta divert allied attention from anothér offensive, such as a possible new. U-boat war or a.comeback of the luftwaffe based on jet-pro-pelled planes, both of which are possibilities, allied intelligence reports here. ” n ”

. PERHAPS, however, a new Uboat warfare and a comeback of the luftwaffe must also be relegated into the territory of psychological warfare. In any case, we must not make the mistake of 1939 and 1940 in letting ourselves be terrorized by German pronouncements;

‘Foo-Fire" in German Skies Has U. S. Scientists Guessing

WASHINGTON, “Jan. §5—Reports of mysterious balls of “fire racing along = with - American planes on night missions over Germany, nicknamed “foo-fire” by our pilots, have scientists here frankly guessing. No Qne wants to venture a flatfooted opinion regarding either the nature or the purpose of the device. About the only point of general agreement is that it is cer tainly not radio-controlled, as some of the pilots have suggested. . If it follows the movements of planes as closely as the published descriptions state, it must make use of some attractive force, magnetic or otherwise; inherent in the plane itself, - physicists here believe. No known kind of control from the ground could make it stick so tight to the néar neighborhood of its target. Since the descriptions all agree that the mysterious fireballs have neither explosive nor incendiary effect, their purpose remains largely conjectural. The Ivo most ‘plausible guesses are’ - ONE: They are intended to df

ze the eyes of the pilots, breaking |

down their careful® bujt-up night

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TWO: They serve as Rellysioie

ners, rather than the elusive dark

shape of. the plane itself. Some of the scientists quizzed about the “foo-fighters” were inclined to doubt their reality as actual Nazi weapons. The pilots may see lights, all right, they admitted; but these may be due to simple natural causes. One conjecture was that they may be some kind of silent electrical discharge, resembling the St: Elmo's fires sometimes seen dancing at mastheads and spar-ends of

Another ‘Was that brilliant flak bursts produce the fiery, persistent “spots before the eyes” known to psychologists as after-images. ‘An after-image seen out of the tai) of one’s’ eye finight easily produce the impression of a ball of fire hovering near the wingtip.

COMMITTEE OF 0. E: S. TO SPONSOR "PARTY

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Dies Action Is Blow to C.1.O. Hopes

By FRED Ww. PERKINS

WASHINGTON, Jan, § ~The C, I. O. ‘has more reason today to wonder “wha. won the election,” and its president, Philip Murray is expected to have a statement on that subject before long. When the house surprised many of (ts own members by voting to make a perma.nent institu tion of its committee on:

Tus American

“the ‘was merely one of . a “series plasting the ope ot C"I. O. leaders that their part in the election would result immediately in - greatly expanded political influence. This series ingludes President Roosevelt's, refusal to withdraw his nomination of high state department aides opposed by the C. I. O.; the C. 1. O's failure to drive . an. unmistakable crack in the Little Steel formula of wag: control, which is a matter for presidential determination: the report of the house campaign investigating committee, which contained recomimendations that would hamstring ‘he C. I, © Political Action Committee. ® . ® THE report of ‘War Mobilization Director Byrnes this week als. contained - suggestions repugnant to the C.I.O.—those for makin: labor unions as well as obstinate employers subject to court action by the war labor board.

Most conspicuous in this series was the house vote of 207 to 18s reviving the “Dies committee,” engineered by the crafty Representative Rankin (D. Miss.);, who caught the house leadership and its supporters off guard.

This vote gives permanency and definite house standing, with power to initiate legislation, out of a group that the C.1.0. anu others not associated with it hoped to remove from the congressiona: picture, even to the extent of doing away with its records. ” » » THIS vote was rolled up by a. combination of most of the Republican meniWers with most of the Southern conservative Democrats—a coalition that frequently was in the saddle in the last congress, and which now demonstrates that it is still able to perform eflectively, even Shiugh its strength has been cut

Republican leaders jubilant. One called the vote the “high tide for the New Deal, because we could have won by a hundred votes under different circumstances.” Another described it as “an answer to radicalism.” Representative Woodruff, of Michigan, chairman of the Re"publican - conference, declared it. -Was “the lustiest. blow dealt sub-

versive activities by this congress in the last 25 years.” a J ” ». A C. L 0. SUPPORTER saw consolation in. “the probability that Rankin will be chairman of the new committee, and this poil taxer and reactionary will give it as bad a name as Martin Dies did.” ° But this thought apparently was premature, because the Mississippi congressman said he had no intention of giving up the chairmanship of the world war . veterans legislation . committee, which would bar him from heading the new body. “But I do propose to see,” declared Mr. Rankin, “that a good, sound American is made chairman of the new committee.” 2 a. THE NEW committee's membership will be chosen like that of other regular committees—initially by the “committee on committees” of the majority and minority sides,

with ratification by the house as. a whole,

activities action

Samplings of house opinion indicated a desire for a “moderate” to take the place of Mr. Dies, who did not run for renomination. Most of the new house members who received ©. L 0. support in their campaigns were on hand to vote “no.” But recorded

with the C. I. 'O. supporters was Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R.. Conn), who was a special object of C. L O., attacks in the campaign. Mri Luce's record shows consistency in voting aeabsish the committee,

MAI .SACKETT GETS

RELIEF FROM FLYING

Maj. C. R. Sackett, who has spent more than two years with the Sth air force in England, has returned to this country. He has heen placed {on an inactive duty status by the "| army. : . The major, ‘who, lives at 5677 Carrollton ave, will resume his connection with the Sadkett & Salmon, Inc, insurance agency ab 663 E. 38th st.

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