Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1945 — Page 2

Aaa] ; ; i v PAGE 2. : . : . i > Tamm : \ © : = | i : : THU a ; ’ INDIANAPOLIS TIMES fs ____ THURSDAY, AUG. 16, 1945 4% Tabs Bombarded U.S. With 225 Ball ) b: E We D Me Japs Bombarded U.S. With 225 balloon ombs But Effort Was A Dud | E 9 a Ra » i ! . r i . ' $a 5 - v pes By UNITED PRESS description came from Michigan Officials have mot been able | arsenal city, The balloon itself The first balldon known to have | was from La rens . 7 : %, - ’ . USE OF free-floating, bomb- | State Police Capt. Donald 8. | to estimate the total number | never Was found. Another bal- | reached the United States came | Towa Tigo a a. : Severe) na Joe 4 Jour, Japanese bal was unaware that he Was carry- 1 carrying balloons by the Japa- | Leonard, who headed the state \ |aunched. but serial numbers on | loon was found near Grand | down Dec. 4, 1944, near San Pedro, Sune Feported bal. 23 Sheriff sie w oe h oe ing around an anti-personnel nese as a bizarre attempt to | civilian defense program. ' parts of the balloons reached as | Rapids, Mich. Others were re- Cal. It was of a meteorological | loons. >. le yam Ieee : ye re bomb for several days. Officials since gain aerial equality with the | Leonard said the balloons trav- | high as 15,980. ported over Michigan. type and carriéd a radio transmit- | In Nebraska, a balloon exploded ride when he cl to th =" | rescued the Bomb from him and ” United States proved to be a dud.. | eled from the Japanese mainland The Japanese loosed several Most of the bomb-balloons to | ter believed used by the enemy to | in Omaha shortly after midnight | 4 o ne “The a turned it to scientists for now: a United Press survey indicated | at a controlled height of 30.000 to | "hundred bomb-carrying balloons { reach the continent fell in the frace its course. The first balloon | April 18. Other Nebraska com- |. iio opted, oi 4. shipped. to the over S today. | 40,000 feet in five or six days. | in an effort to rain aerial death | Pacific coast area from British which carried bombs was found munities, mostly isolated, also | wo. coast for study study. In the same area an In- said h With the lifting of censorship, | An automatic ‘device released | on San Francisco dufing the | Columbia to Mexico, Thé great- | near Kalispell, Mont,sin Decem- Wi unwelcome hosts to Japanese | rod to have dian family built’ a teepee from I ' it was revealed that some 226 of | gas from the bag when the bal- | United Nations conference. One | est number landed in Washing- ber, 1944. It had already dropped aliohs5 : es Tepe ave | the fabric of a balloon. e rer the paper-constructed balloons | loons went too high, he said. belloon was seen floating in the ‘| ton, Oregon, California and Mon- its explosives. | Some of the balloons landed 0. . nta Rosa, Cal, officials said “] .\ were reported to have reached | Sandbags were released from the | San Francisco area for several | tana. One came down near the A royal Canadian air “férce | DOT Free Heights, Red Elm, Many forest and grass fires | 8 balloon exploded near there added the American continent. Six | basket automatically when the | hours. Finally it drifted east. | atomic bomb plant near Hanford, | fighter group was the first to shoot Philip and several other points were reported to have been | leaving a crater the size of a 4 : deaths and minor material dam- | balloon came down too S00. None of the other balloons, | Wash, but did not explode. down a Japanese bomb-balloon. | 2 South Dakota. A fragment of | touched off by incendiaries from swimming pool. The next day a that t age were believed to be the only | geonard said the balloons were { sighted by allied craft at sea, | The only deaths recorded as a The balloon was downed north of | 2° anti-personnel bomb was | the balloons. | parachute carrying a bomb con- histor, results of the Japanese attempt | equipped to destroy themselves, | was believed to have reached | result of the balloons were in Ore- Bellingham, Wash., last February. | found in Therimopels, : Twenty were found in, te | tainer came down near Santa resid to answer our devastating B-28 | They contained separate time de- | this continent. gon. A balloon was found by a Many in Midwest ® Two balloons at different times | Yakima valley of Washington. Rosa. P raids on the Japanese homeland. vices. to ‘Tele tare bombs.) TH rentat ¢ : ; v ” “fell on the John Swet farm near | Two exploded the same day— One balloon was reported to S | vices to ‘release incendiary bombs, | je greatest distance east the | group of seven church picnickers Many of the balloons were | Ft. Collins, Colo. Oth 1 Feb. 27—o0 n Goldendal drift Arniy intelligence officers stil] | ignite fuses attached to flash | balloons - were known to have | at Lakeview, Ore. One of the | known td have cleared the rado communities re ee 4 Oder and th sa mil = ig eq: Temas Bul Wis go trou were silent concerning the mech- | bombs on the balloons and set | reached was Detroit, Mich. “A | bombs exploded killing six of the | Rockies and 1 : pone als e other es north- | was not confirmed. Twelve bal- H anism of the bombs. The best | off explosives in the baskets | bomb fell on the outskirts of th rou = es and lanuded Ju the Middle | loons, as did towns in Wyom. west of Tacoma. loons were found in Montana -and ads eC pe ye el 5 of ihe | group. West. One of the first reported | ing, North Dakota and Kansas. The family of a Yakima boy | 14 in. British Columbia. be chan; . . : : the adde . | announcement of Secretary of War zation. He also disclosed that the ranean, 120,000 in the Pacific, 3,0 | extr | oh ’ 3,000,000 In Services to Be Hy sium win’ wali oar demesne, et 30 xen pete to_ dependent, oie wile giv Jo the men on SEU BO ME i: will kedp its “critical” score of 85|personnel, regardless of points, has, United States, 78,000 in the. United ; = men into the regular army, he point D bil / d 1 1 ¥ M th on point discharges for the time | been lowered from 40 to 38. States and 50,000 en I ve De Per Poa Deco od ge SRD, She viavy Wi! eeust ste) le draty srry for trreos Biter) 8. : * : | upon request, regardless ear terms. emo ni ze In on $v | The age reduction makes 300,000 | The navy said that 327,000 men for enlisted male personnel; 29 | rr omontrs of th oy ie ii | 3 SEE) he | Burton said he thought that enlisted men. eligible for release |and women are eligible for immedi- enlisted WAVE personnel; 49 for | pat ward Th £ ig TF com-( Soldiers now in service may. ve. fective. (Continued From Page One) (teers for occupation of enemy transportation rather than point| within 90 days after application. [ate discharge under point system male officer personnel, 35 for | Se ge. include the!enlist in the regular army drive, Exy : { zones. ’ | scores should govern the rate of re-| There are more than 500,000 oth- |it has inaugurated The navy will | WAVE officer personnel meda} of honor, navy cross, legion; Discharged soldiers may - re-enlist Shaw ‘he draft law. The navy sald that | Senator Homer Ferguson (R lease of overseas veterans. ers in the army now eligible for [allow '2 point for h : of Tt v : : of Wen Sliver star weds, distin-| within tires mobi And sul ve there w i's continued use of inductees will gfich ) challenged the ides of Stimson said the point score|discharge under the present point figured to the in ear will ve oe Ar ee rg Oe IE 1 FO Sn et-prop (epend upon “national policy” on| i aftin o . [would be lowered from time to tim f 85. Th | = y, 3 when military com- | medals o e army if such awards|to $150 each. All will get 90-day } ; ; : | g men in the 18-26 age e | score 0 . ey include 210,000 | point for each full month of active mitments permit and however | eeping the selective service pro-i.. te. lin t rests Sic pe and that mean-|were made for combat achievement. | furfoughs before ret - . ets ig Li Selisve jets oeerans| he interests of orderly demobili-|in Europe, 60,000 in the Mediter-|duty since Sept. 1, 1939, and 10 while preference among those eli-| Meanwhile, the army launched a|lar ee Bors Ftumng So rm d Tne Z A . “ rom y. - : drove to Neer OTE ese Jill change th tended that occupation is a task . is an el od poAey “Ylfor “mature professional soldiers” Masserat (aonth remains to be seen. There? ; . ! : [rather than “immature boys of 18 dianapoli ;s some sentiment among the law- or 19.” | Aap 1akers to halt the draft immedi- | : ; | ' a ! < e 2 ately, reduce the critical score of| Ferguson and Senator Harold H. : ; y at 5 : RY p ced C (ischarges, and depend upon yolun- | Burton (R. 0), also protested the cf Heady, PY, e : . second p a and his t Hoosier General, Hero of a’ winning { / Vi | Ki 1939 Italian Campaign, Visits Kin m. , S probably He is believed to be the first; z= that the American officer ot have received “It's § in your miles-an-marked.

he surrender of a German general

in world war IL Yet Lt. Gen. willis D. Crittenherger, native Hoosier commanding (he 4th army corps, slipped almost unnoticed through the commotion of the city’s V-J day “rehearsal” yesterday afternoon. He was en route to his Bellagio, Italy, base,

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Anderson. h\ seat is “the old home town. The “first” surrender, the general recalls vividly, occurred April 29 at the height of the gpring- offensive in the Po river valley. The scene -, was the town of Castiglione, and oy the German officer, Lt. Gen. Max will mak Joseph Penzel, chief of staff of the rove Th Ge Liguusien gin 3 y wal Stricklan the beginning of the end lor e land as Nazis in Italy. Lt. Gen. Crittenberger certain t Mechanized Specialist appreciate the heartache of the el- j Tas The first allied soldiers to cross vilian father who lost a son in the dob to 4 the strategic Po, Gen. Crittenber-| war, His younger son, Cpl. Town- lin ger's heterogeneous command in- send Crittenberger, "was killed in tainty, 1 cluded the American 1st armored | the great final offensive in Ger- get it.” division, the 4th infantry division, many, = The other son, Lt. Col. Perse the 6th South African armored, the Willis D. Crittenberger Jr. fought For si Brazilian -expeditionary force and under Gen. Patton in the historic come fr the Italian Legnano army. The tank surge others tl Hoosier commander, like Lt. Gen.! Two brothers, George Critten- be move George 8. Patton, is a specialist in berger, Anderson publisher, and The 1 mechanized warfare. | J. D. Crittenberger, 6493 Broadway, ts Immediately previous %o his ar-! wished him bon voyage at the rival back in the Btates, he had Union station yesterday. Miss Juliet participated in a welcome-home | Crittenberger, his sister, also lives Stra

celebration for Brazilian war vet- in Anderson. The general himself, erans as a guest of the Brazilian when he isn't pushing our foreign government. ill-wishers around, resides with Mrs, The 4th army corps chief can Crittenberger in San Antonio, Tex,

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