Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1945 — Page 19

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“THURSDAY, JULY 26,

1945 1

hennault Pitches Winner

~ As He Leaves AAF Post

By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent

KUNMING, China,. July 23 (Delayed) ~China's oldest baseball |

player, a gum chewing 55-yeay<old farewell game today. His knuckle

twirler named Chennault, won his ball and outside drop were work=

ing well when the catcher said, “Chuck it to me, general.” Maj. Gen. Claire I.’ Chennaul bore down hard, though he grand]

eight hits and four bases on balls. Just resigned ‘leadership of the American alr forces, emphasized 4nfleld tactics as tight as his famous fighterplane’ defensé, With bases loaded and only one out, in the eighth inning, Chennault retired the side.

-|of the Jap to turn dreund and give

The walnut-faced vetefan, who has

adopted. I taught the boys to run like the dickens if the Japs got behind them" and never turn. into a dog-fight until far enough ahead

him the full force of our support

The final score, when the general drew off his glove . for the last time § in the "China ‘§ theater, was to 3. Mr. Weller Chennault, who has been engrossed with fighter tactics nearly as long as he has been playing baseball, also is China's” o'l'dest foreign military friend. The slow . but straight-talking Louisianian is extremely popular with his junior officers and with G. L's.

In Top Form He quits his China job at, ap-

parently, the top-of his physical.

and administrative capacities. Anyone who doubted his fitness, needed only to see the veteran leader of the Flying Tigers trying to run out infield hits today. His chunky body in. faded blue and white stripes, moved with an agility belying the fact that he was retired from the army eight years ago .for physical disability and ceased flying hot fighters just before the war, “This war has failed to change the basic truth about the proportions of air power discovered by Billy Mitchell,” Chennault told writers in his farewell interview. “Mitchell said the ideal air force should have 60 per cent fighters, 30 per cent bombers, 10 per cent reconnaissance planes. Despite the advances of super-armored and

super-armed bombers, the fighters

are still the power.” Chennault's methods, which have made Jap planes over China rare, as admitted by the Nazis in Germany, are based. on a groundbound warning system. ‘These methods changed Chungking in a single year from the most bombed city in the world to a completely unbombed one. Sketching on a pad, Chennault showed how he had divided all approaches to Chungking into

squares. “y pincetii ams with but two ears each in these squares. What the Flying Tigers and our subsequent fighters- have needed has been time to climb height... We had fire power and speed over the Japs, but they haa maneuverability over us.” Chennault said the old army. systems had emphasized dog-fight-ing, which he had discouraged.

Taught Get-Away Tactics

cornerstone of air

ron of R. A. F. fighters teaching dog-fighting to zeros. We Amerfcins were teaching hit and get sway tactics. Many a brave R. A.

. |locomotives, 27 planes were used, “In Rangoon we had one squad-|

firepower.” Chennault said that due to the trans-Pacific push of Fleet Adm. Chester W, Nimitz and General of Army Douglas MacArthur, the air war in China has been put on a different level. Chennault praised Chinese pilots as superior to, most Japs because they were able to think individually during air combat.

18 ENGINES SHIPPED

PLYMOUTH, O. (U.P.)—Eighteen locomotives, recently . constructed in this tiny town of 1500, now are chugging over narrow-gauge rail: ways in the hills and jungles “of Burma. It was another “firsty written into’ the annals of air transportation by the army air transport command. 4 The 18 locomotives, produced at the plant ‘of the Fate-Root-Heath Co. here, were flown from & Miami (Fla.) airport right into Burma by the ATC’s big cargo planes, On Jan. 8, Gen. Brehon Somervel, commanding general of the Army Service Forces, received a wire from the U, S. commanding general in the China-Burma-India theater, asking that delivery to .he British of 18 five-ton, gas meter gauge locomotives, already approved through lend-lease, be expedited because “advances in North Burma require expansion of transportation equipment.” That same day, Fate-Root-Heath officials were alerted by telephone on the rush order, even though contracts had not yet been placed. Written confirmation followed from the army service forces international division. The last locomotive had to be in Miami, ready to be flown, by April 17. Thirtyfive triple-A priorities got all the materials together, Assemblage of the first three locomotives began March 27. The engines were put together, tested and knocked down for shipment within two days. Then the three, weighing 12,000 pounds each complete with crates and accessories, were fushed by .the transportatiom corps traffic control “division to Miami. For the entire shipment of 18

including twin-engine and four-| engine carriers. And in those same shipments, ATC found room for a quantity of other cargo, fitting in

BY PLANE TO BURMA

and around the locomotive parts.

F. fighter, who refused to turn nis ; back on the Japs lost his: life in 5 | consequence before our tactics were :

. * Col. Leighton N. Smit tralian Air Marshal Rich: apolis this morning.

THE HIGHEST ranking member of the Australian air force, Air Marshal Richard Williams, and Mrs. Williams arrived in Union station this morning for a two-day visit to the army service forces training center and army finance school at Ft. Har« rison. Col. Leighton N. Smith, commanding officer of the center and service school, ‘met. the visitors at the station. They went then to the post where the air chief, whose rank is equal to that of an

(left)

Air Chief

of Ft. Harrison, welcomed Aus-

fd Williams and Mrs. Williams to Indian-

American three-star general, was to speak to the personnel on the Australian air force. He was scheduled to deliver a series of orientation lectures at the center. Air Marshal Williams will be the guest of honor at two receptions today and one tomor--row- at which Col. Smith, Col. ‘Henry E, Tisdale, post come mander, and other high ranking post and ASFTC officers will be in attendance, He will leave Saturday for . Cincinnati where he is scheduled for a radio appearance.

Brazil Women Lose Chance To Be Cops, Fire Lassies

BRAZIL, - July - 26 city of 8000 got a let-down today, for Mayor Clint Wilson said it probably won't have fire lassies and women cops after all, But there was a first-class dispute between the city fathers and Brazil's seven firemen and eight policemen over pay raises, and the mayor was caught in the middle. Wilsan refused, however, to get excited over the threat by the firemen and policemen to strike Aug. 1 unless they get a 30 per cent pay increase to $170 a month, Pledges Protection “TH take care of that when the time comes,” Wilson said, “and I won't have to hire women. We are going to have full fire and police protetcion, too.” Townspeople had looked forward

(U. P.) —This |

to women “manning” the fire wagons and - toting guns and billy clubs, The possibility was publicized in the daily newspaper. Wilson said that the firemen and policemerr felt they had been mistreated because the 1945 legislature raised” the salaries of police and fire chiefs to $200 a month. Compromise Offered The firemen and policemen hired a lawyer and went before the city council, asking the hike. The city council offered a 15 per cent raise. “This is a small town,” the mayor countered. “That's a lot of money to pay our firemen and policemen.” Wilson refused to speculate about the source of necessary manpower if the strike comes off, but he was “pretty certain’ that he wouldn’t have to hire women.

DEAN OF CHEMISTRY: WINS GIBBS AWARD

, By Science Service STATE COLLEGE, Pa—The Willard Gibbs medal award of the Chicago section of the American Chemical society goes this year to Dr. Frank C. Whitmore, dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics of Pennsylvania State college. Dean Whitmore was selected as the 34th recipient of this prized medal by a jury of 12 prominent American chemists because of his outstanding contributions to ‘organic chemistry, and his vigorous leadership in the advancement of

chemistry for national benefit, The | formal presentation will be in Sep- | tember. Much of the work of Dr. Whitmore has been accomplished here

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WANTS MOVIES T0 RE-EDUCATE JAPS

By Science Service -- WASHINOTON.-—Movies can be uséd to educate the Japanese people in democracy after the war. Plans for such re-education should be acted on immediately, and China is

‘|best able to produce movies for that

purpose, Miss Jean Lyon, Head of the visual department of Chinese News Service, said at a

ton Visual War Workers,

the Japanese ways of thought and language, Miss Lyon pointed out.

have been betrayed by the war

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st, ne or ot re | woman and. stabbed. her 19. times,

testimony showed.

‘ The jury deliberated three hours,

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