Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1945 — Page 21
_ THURSDAY, AUG. 16,
1945
RELIGION KEYNOTE IN DE-NAZIFICAT
Christianity Is Top Subject at Army’s Education of German - Boys;
- Subjects
School for ReOther Taught.
(Second of a Series)
By EDWARD A. EVANS Scripps-Howard Staft Writer
ATTICHY, France, Aug.
16.—Religion was the first
subject taught in the “school of democracy” for 7000 German boy prisoners of war at the U. S. army's enclosure
No. 15, near here. _
This was partly because teachers for other subjects took time to find, while it was easy to locate 20 Catholic and
Lutherah clergymean and theological students, known to
be strongly anti-Nazi, among the thousands of older prisoners in the barbed wire stockade. “But it was mostly because it seemed a logical : way to begin” says Capt. A. C. Johnson of Mos- : cow, Ida, the § prison com~ i mander, t “Here were all | these thousands :/ of boys, frog. IT ‘down to 12 years old, who remembered nothing but Hitler's regime. It Mr. Evans seemed to us that one of the finest things we could show them about the democratic way of life is that it means freedom for all races and all sects to worship ‘God in their own ways.” : Attendance at classes in religion fs compulsory. Within a month after they ‘began last April, volun- . tary attendance at weekly church services had risen from 5 per cent of the young prisoners to 80 per cent. . OTHER Conor subjects since added to the curriculum are arithmetic, biology, English language, American history, geography, German reading and writing, and vocal and instrumental music. On these the young war prisoners must spend 14 hours a week, with at least two hours more for sports. But the sports, unlike those they knew in Nazi Germany, are carefully “unregimented” games—soccer, handball, cat-and-mouse, drop-the-handkerchief and the like, “ More advanced students may also g¢hoose one or more of a number of courses such as algebra, chemistry, drawing, stenegraphy, geometry, advanced English, French, Greek, Latin, Russian, Spanish, philosophy. » » AND EACH pupil must spend an hour a week studying agricultural, business or vocational subjects. As yet, however, there is almost no equipment for these classes. Indeed, the whole school is short of educational supplies, including notebooks, and chalk for the 50 blackboards. Most of the “text< books” are mimeographed sheets of paper. The American
“superintendent”
of this school is Pfc. Francis Tour-|
tellot of Providence, R. I, who has tiught German at Brown university and at the University of Wiseonsin.
fortunate to find a mdn so enthusiastic and so well qualified.
o o PVT. TOURTELLOT .has constant help. from Capt. Carl A. Zimmerman of St, Peter, Minn, a Lutheran chaplain, and from Sgt.
Kurt Anspach of Detroit, who heads
the group of “educational inspectors” that make frequent surprise visits to all classes to see that everything is going well. All of the actual teaching is done by 124 adult prisoners of war— some of them Austrians, Hungarfans or Czechs—who, though they were forced to serve in Hitler's armies, have been carefully investigated by the Americans and found free of Naziism’s taint. Most of them are highly educated men, many of whom taught in colleges and high schools before the war. The chief music teacher, Dr. Waldemar Sternberg, is a former assistant director of the Hanover
Opera.
» o ” THEIR classes, of about 40 boys each, are held in long, low tents, like those in which the prisoners sleep. The tents are unfloored. In
some the boys ‘sit on the, level|
ground. In others, the hard-packed clay has been carved .away helow ground level to form earthen benches. J Three weeks ago the 7000 pupils were given a written examination in all subjects taught by the school. Many of the questions would be considered extremely tough by most American high school boys. Ten per cent of these young prisoners of war turned in papers that were rated “excellent.” Twenty per cent were marked “good,” 40 per cent “satisfactory,” 20 per ‘cent “passing,” and only 10 per eent “unsatisfactory.” NEXT: Young German war prisoners learn self-government. BELL AIRCRAFT TO BUILD HELICOPTERS BUFFALO, Aug. 16 (U. P.).—The Bell Aircraft Corp. disclosed today that it was planning quantity production of helicopters, designed for commercial, industrial and military purposes. . The company said that negotiations have been started with the government for purchase of its Niagara Falls, N. Y., plant, where it is expected helicopter production will center, and that steps have already been taken to tool up for the job ahead. “For the first time, we can reveal that we are developing not one but several different helicopter models,
both large and small,” a company
His officers say they were statement said.
By KERMIT MCFARLAND Scripps-Howard Staff Writer BOCA RATON, Fla. “Aug, 16— Until the atom bomb came along, radar was regarded by military and naval authorities as the most revo-
WASHINGTON, Aug.16 (U. P.). ~—During the battle of Suriago strait last fall, the captain of @ U. 8. destroyer squadron leader was on the bridge. The commodore was on‘ the same vessel. But he was stationed below watching the radar screens and pilots, and completely shut off from sight of the battle action. . Itt was a spectacular surface fight at fairly close range. The gunfire and the blaze of Japanese ships made an awsome spectacle. The captain telephoned the commodore, “Come up here, for the sight of your life,” he said. “No, thanks,” replied the commodore, “I can see better from here.”
lutionary development in warfare since the airplane. What it has done in war, it will do in peace—and more, Even in war, it has not yet reached its maximum usefulness. New adaptations constantly are being developed. Its ultimate value cannot even now be estimated. Although the army and navy this week for. the first time lifted much of the censorsome of its operations still are secret. Here at Baca Raton, this correspondent was introduced to many of radar’s applications. But some of the latest equipment was protected by armed guards and escorting army air force officials, were tight-lipped about it. These latest developments soon will be available for peacetime use. Commercial aviation and the merchant magine undoubtedly will be the first to benefit from the
ship which has obscured its uses, |.
16 MORE FROM HERE GIVEN DISCHARGES
discharged recently at Camp Atter-
bury under the point system. Four were released as over age, and a local officer has reverted to inactive duty. The men with 85 points or more are Cpl. Rudolph Alvies, 1554 N. Arsenal ave.; Pvt. Jack ‘Day, 3449 W. 10th st.; T. 4th Gr. Virgil Haines, 4136 Kingsley dr.; T. 3d Gr. James Comrie, 529 S. Holmes ave.; Pfc. James Sloan, 238 Reichwein ave.; S. Sgt. Raymond Willis, 1034 N. Exeter ave. T. 5th Gr. Ralph Williams, 414 N. Bradley st.; T. 5th Gr. Francis R. Cravens, 3353 Jennings st.; T. 5th Gr. Herbert Arnold, 4321 College ave.; T. 4th Gr. Coleman Harwell, 1119 W. 30th st.; T. 5th Gr. John Standeford, 629 Dorman st., and Pfc. Irvin Neal, 813 B. Minnesota st. The soldiers released as over age are Pvt. Louis Perkins, 16 Plum st.; Sgt. Robert Malee, 961 E. Tabor st., Pfc. Harry Comingore, 536 N. Exeter ave, and Sgt. Marshall Cherry, 3109 E. 10th st. Capt. “Wendell O. Taber, Indianapolis, has reverted to inactive
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A radar picture, in scope, looks like this in some cases. Here, a plane’s radar has picked up a bomber flying close by. The enemy plane rarely would be near enough to show like this.
land planes at “ceiling zero.” We saw a demonstration of this at the Boca Raton base. It was a clear Florida day, but the pilot installed a blind in his cabin to simulate landing in a fog. Two of the visitors rode with the pilot. The others tuned in the twoway -radio conversation between the huge radar truck parked near the airfield’s runway. Neither the pilot nor the radar operator could see the runway. The radar operator “picked up” the plane on his radar scope, although the bomber, was six miles away. By following the course of the plane solely on his scope, which also indicated the position of the runway, he kept up a constant.fire of Instructions to the pilot.
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Some experts think that without radar commercial aviation would be unable to make further progress. But radar will overcome aviation’s greatest problem—the weather. Proven Success Because it can “see” through clouds, fog, smoke, rain and shew, radar will enable planes to fly as regularly as trains run. It will warn planes of mountain tops, tall buildings and other obstacles. It will keep them on their course in cases of radio failure. Radar’s value in airplane navigation has been thoroughly proven by B-29s operating against Japan. Weather in Japan, according to the army, is in many ways the worst in the world. All winter, cities on the northwestern coasts are cloud-cov-ered. All summer, those on the southeastern coasts are obscured. Yet the B-29s kept up continuous bombing through the use of radar. Radar even will keep a plane out of bad storms. Severe thunderstorms will wreck even the biggest planes. While airships can pass through ordinary cloud formations, thunderheads are dangerous. And while radar will “look .thtough®| > ing. normal cloud formations, it will spot anything as formidable as a
thunderhead: WAR MOTHER DIES Even in clest weather, radar can AFTER SURRENDER
see farther than the human eye—| ELKHART, Ind. Aug. 18 (U. P.). and more accurately. —Services were planned today for Spot Icebergs Mrs. Reta May McDonald, 49, naWith radar, both airplanes and |tjonal vice president of the Mothers ships at sea will know at all times of World War II, and grst presi-
the precise location of other planes : or shipping. Ocean-going ships will dent of the Indiana Chapter of War will be able to spot icebergs, and Mothers. tell their size, location and move-| Mrs. McDonald died yesterday, ment long before they could be shortly after she was told of the seen by pre-war observation facili- {Japanese surrender. She is survived by the husband and two sol-
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