Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1945 — Page 17

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Love Birds a Hobby

‘JAMES R. SPALDING, 6371 Washington blvd., has about 150 love birds in a two-room house in his back

yard. But he never dreamed that a

would practically put him in the bird business, When

his daughter, Jacqueline (now Mrs,

5878 Primrose), was just a little girl, someone gave But the bunnies fought too much and she traded them for a pair of guinea pigs. By spring she had 14 guinea pigs instead of two. So she traded again, This time all the guinea pigs went for a pair of live birds. And it was then that Mr, Spalding got the idea of raising the pets for a . He has been at it for about 12 years and has won several prizes. at bird shows’throughout the couhtry. The original birds were green. Mr. Spalding has birds of 11 different colors now, As president of the American Budgerigar®society, he . . . Lloyd Hick= erson, publicity director for the state police, is walk ing around in & brand new state police uniform, the first time he has been in uniform since he took the job. .., One of the “guests at the first fall

her a couple of rabbits.

hobby. . .

lets others in on his bird knowledge,

One

11 WILLIAM KNIPTASH, who is over in” Japan now, thinks his ship holds some kind of reécord, He's an engineering officer on a destroyer escort, the U. 8. 8. Stockdale. On V-E day his ship was in | the middle of the Atlantic headed for England. And on V-J day it was in mid-Pacific, Tokyo bound. Lt. Kniptash’s wife, Betty, lives at 4024 Bowman. .., The nylon sale at Murphy's 5 &. 10 yesterday was the talk of the town. One soldier standing in the line of about 1200 didn’t mind the long wait one bit, He said he had stood in lines longer than that to get - chow in the army. ... One little boy, about 6 or 7, kept running back and forth, counting the nylonseekers ahead of his mother, Then he'd report pack and she could estimate how long she'd have to wait. + « . Another mother wondered if Junior could get a pair, too: He had been waiting in line as long as Junior was about 3 or 4... .. Donna Mikels, Times reporter, helped carry some of the boxes of the precious hose to the counter. of the managers wanted to know if she knew she was going to write a story about the nylon sale before she started to work. She answered no. Then the man looked down at her hose and said: “Maybe we should take pity on you and let you have a pair.” Donna looked down. She had on one stocking of one color and one of another—both rayon,

James R. Spalding . . . love birds

are his hobby.

meeting of the Indianapolis P.-T. A. council at w= Breathtaking

Meridian Heights Presbyterian church yesterday was a little kitten. He just sat and listened. , . . Officers and board members of the, Indianapolis branch of Bundles for America surprised their office secretary, Mrs. W. C. Gordon, yesterday.

They gave her an

antique silver cake dish for her volunteer work for the group at a farewell tea in the home of Mrs. R.

pair of rabbits

Gene Thomas,

However,

It’s

Daring in Burma

(One of a Series)

WASHINGTON. —Stalemated on the Burma front in the spring of 1944, “the allied forces decided upon a daring move against the Japs. Native resistance, could be organized to weaken Jap positions and turn the tide.

allied strategists believed,

The office of pe Strate g ie Services as- if signed Capt k Joseph E. Las zarsky of Hazelton. Pa. t6 drop behind the lines in the heart of northeastern Burma. Capt. Lazar sky had enlisted in the army in Oc-

instructor in * an engineering school, he had volunteered for 088 in April, 1942. He spent five months in. China, traine ing, troops.

Later he had gone tc the Burma theater, to parachute supplies to American scouting parties. Among Jap officers in the Burma theater, a Col

Mariana had become notorious for his cunning, savage fighting. A price of 500 rupees, the equivalent

of $166, had been put on his head. large one for the natives.

Capt. Lazarsky had orders to get Col. Mariana. He parachuted to 8 rice paddy, south of the Jap-held key city of Myitkyina. He had enough K rations for three days, a tommy gun and a .45 pistol. OSS men had been there before. They knew the Kachins in that area were the only Burmese natives

friendly fo the allies.

Aviation.

NEW YORK.—Flight of three army B-29 Superfortresses from Japan to Washington, D. C., brought to light three other B-29 non-stop record flights

this year.

One B-29, in charge of Ma). Gen. Curtis E. Le-

May, who figured in the JapanWashington flight, flew nonstop from Hawaii to Washing ton on June 18. The flight covared 4640 miles in 20 hours, 15 ininutes. The non-stop flight was the last leg of a flight from Cjuam in which 8420 miles were covered with a two-hour. layever at Honolulu for refueling and food. The entire flight took 35 hours, 58 minutes. One of the longest non-stop flights in Thistory occurred on August 23 this year when a B-29

to. Holkaido, Japan, and returned to Guam on a confidential mission. ~The distance covered was 4650 miles non-stop and the plane wis in the air 20 hours, 58 minutes. It was 10 miles longer than the

flight made by LeMay.

One Completed in 24 Hours CARRYING photographs of the first occupational landing in Japan and letters from liberated prisoners of war, a B-29 made a 5400-mile flight from

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday.—The wave of strikes hich ie sweeping the country and, just at present, paralyzing a good deal of the business in New York Oity, must be of concern to everyone in the nation. We who look to the future with the hope that human

beings are going to find ways to adjust their difficulties peacefully, under the laws which operate in the particular areas where, trou

ples occur, are deeply concerned,

The eyes of the world are on this nation, The fact that peace came sooner than we expected, and therefore found us without our reconversion achIEL: in complete running order, not serve as an excuse for

Capt. Joseph F.

Hartley Sherwood. The Bundles for America outfit was started here the day after Pearl Harbor and will close shop tomorrow,

‘Local Boy Makes Good’

SGT. GRANT A. ROBBINS, whose sister, Miss Zila Robbins, teaches at Tech high school, has been running into good luck right and left, local newspaperman, he was doing photo reconnaissance and public relations work for the 14th air force in China and India. in “Yank,” the army newspaper, to be used in the book, “Best From Yank.” Coronet magazine gave him a $100 check for the right to reprint the article, in the states this month Coronet broadcast the story | looking for, on its radio program, The prize-winning article is “Tell It to the Chaplain,” . are buying new suits so fast that merchants are | ment having a hard time keeping anything in stock. + One | other, of the local men’s stores says it's selling an average | something faster, of 150 suits a day.

A former

A ‘story of his was published Then it was chosen Next

And just as he arrived

. . Returning servicemen

~The Indianapo

is Times

SECOND SECTION

Air Transport Advances Due

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 27.— “We don’t know what genius over what night will find the answer we're looking for in jet or turbine power,” remarked William Littlewood, American Airlines’ engineering vice-president. That's the way it is in air transport technical development. There's a feeling that, whatever it is you're if it isn't here now it

{ will be. | The years are a story of develop= of one new plane after aneach to be outstripped by bigger, - more breathtaking. " » » WARTIME development of jet propulsion has fired the imagina-

By Doug las Larsen | tion of yhe commercial airlines men,

too

LAZARSKY was well received when he explained| They have some distance to* go

Myitkyina,

Bhamo.

missions.

Lazarsky

was quiet.

The sum was a

city. The Japs, commanded by Col. Mariana, held. The allies were more anxious than ever to get Mariana and destroy the legend which was growing around his ability among the other natives. On the 76th day, Myitkyina fell—but Mariana and | turbine engines. 100 Jap Soldiers escaped. They were reported fleeing to. the big Jap base of Bhamo, One day the chieftain of the tiny village of | wWuhpru met Lazarsky in the jungle and told him a Jap party had just taken all the food and chased out | the inhabitants. Wuhpru was about 85 miles from

Lazarsky had about 25 men with him then. The others had been deployed along the way on scouting | At about 11 2'clock in the morning he saw the village through the trees. The. Japs could be seen moving about inside. low, was ideally suited for attack.

Japs Taken by Surprise

LAZARSKY placed the 60 millimeter mortar he had with him about 300 yards from the target. The Kachins were about 150 yards away, ready to fire at almost point-blank range, When the firing started the Japs screamed in % terror. Only light fire was returned. The shooting! y's ONE thi continued for about 10 minutes, and then the village | wer as a mil They rushed in to check the dead. After . a few seconds’ inspection, a Kachin ran to Lazarsky with a Jap colonel’s insignia in his hand. Col. Mariana had been killed by one of Lazarsky's off mortar shells. His body was found on a stretcher, in-| , dicating that he had been wounded before. That stage isn't here yet, but en. pers and identification were taken by Lazarsky, and

The village, nestled in a hol-

the body was buried by the villagers.

feted him at a three-day celebration,

gasoline.

pounds.

flew from’ Guam gasoline,

the four

By Eleanor Roosevelt

shown the need for | only, The men in history who have been the most sue- | cessful in advancing the world are the men who never gave tip their ultimate objectives, but who com-

SIX thous

Now we again face an. uncharted situation: deal with human beings, many of whom have not been educated in the past to think of any situation as a whole, We have, however, a great advantage. our industrial leaders have learned that they must think of the situation as a whole, as it affects employers, investors and workers; and among our labor’ leaders we also have men who can be expected to take the same broad view. : $ With that nucleus, we should be able very quickly to develop machinery which will give enough: confidence to all so that management and workers will be | willing to continue working while problems, no matter how difficult they may be, are being adjusted. The strike, which is a weapon of force, should be But. that cannot be until we set a limit on the time allowed for arbitration and until we say that all Interests.shall be equally considered and that concessions shall never be expected from one side!

renounced.

By Max B. Cook

Iwo Jima to Spokane, Wash. on last Sept, 5. It was | i completed in 23 hours, 33 minutes. t Fuel alone on the big Superfortresses, with al maximum total of 8126 gallons, would weigh about | 48,756 pounds, according to figures released by Boeing | Aircraft, These figures have to do with a wartime fully-loaded and armed B-29 and not the stripped | B-29 which made the Washington trip with added

Oil in the four tanks would weigh about 2240 | pound? ‘and the crew of 10 men with their equip-| ment. averaging 235 pounds each, would total 23504

Data Valuable for Future

d rounds of .50 caliber ammunition would weigh about 1830 pounds and 250 pounds of | 20 mm, 137 pounds, Maximum bomb load is given at 20,000 pounds. . { The three Washington planes carried 12 men | instead of the usual 10, and some 9000 gallons of |

Data assembled on the Japan-Washington fight | will prove valuable to airlines when they begin using | the huge C-97, Boeing's peacetime model of B-29. - Figures on the amount of gas consumed by | powerful engines plus other flight ex-| § penses will aid. greatly in figuring peacetime fares | to all points in the world. On the basis of the fuel used in this flight, fares will not have to be too high when the C-97's get going.

Some

His pa- |

They chased |

He left for home after

his mission. For the next two months he spent his yet before today’s conventional type

| of airplane engine reaches top pos-

time teaching the natives how to use American arms | sibilities. and contacting the other OSS men in the area. Chinese and American forces were able to get to | gine could do the job up to 400 For 76 historic days trby attacked the | miles an hour or more, but that be-

| Engineer Littlewood says this ens

| yond this the propeller begins to { run out of capacity. The answer beyond, as engineers see it ioday, probably lies in jet or

® #8 =» J JET and turbine engines start out similarly. Air is taken in with { the forward motion of the machine, {is compressed, mixed with fuel and | ignited. This heated gas expands (and drives a turbine. i In the jet plane the gas passes | through a tail pipe and develops {a powerful “thrust” which forces the plane ahead. In the gas tur- | bine unit the power is harnessed to {a shaft which turns a propeller. | The search is on now for a metal or plastic for the bucket blades of the turbine which can stand 3000degree temperature without wilting. Today's blades can take 1700 de-

it- must. be higher. » ”

itary weapon, but ‘quite another to turn it to eco{nomical use in transport, where payload is the pay-

gineers are sure it will be. It may take some years, though.

grees or so, but the engineers say The airline people know it's better ng to employ Jet 88

commercial air |2er says it looks as though domes-

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1045

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A combination of conventional engine and the jet or turbine idea is possible. The exhaust from today's engine, for example, could

additional power to the propeller shaft. Or the normal exhaust could be converted into small jets, One airplane gompany has already tried this latter experiment= ally—and added 25 miles an hour to a big plane's speed. un » ” TOMORROW will bring commercial superfortresses like those born of the war. The Lockheed Constellation will carry 60 passengers, the Boeing C-97 from ‘72 to 100, the Douglas DC-7 about 118, and the huge Consolidated Vultee Confairs projected by Pan American Airways would carry 204. The larger planes will have four and six engines and will range from 5400 to 12,000 horsepower. The Constellation, which crossed the country in less than seven hours last year, is an 8800-horsepower plane. But engineers like W,. C. Mentzer of United Air Lines say there's a philosophy foward increasing frequency of schedules with planes not so large rather than with giants which would operate less frequently.

to fly nearly full small planes than nearly empty large ones,

COMMERCIAL flying altitudes probably will go up. Engineer Ment-

tic operations will be at 15000 to 20,000 feet on distances of more than 1000 miles; at 500 to 1000 miles it probably would be held to 10,000 to 15,000.

For the next nine months the Japs. steadily lost ground. Lazarsky organized and led a battalion of Kachins against. the retreating Japs. the Japs as far as Lashio on the Burma road. This! was Lazarsky’s destination. the Kachins made him a member of the tribe and

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shima when

| lasted 10 minutes.

is not knocked out approximately’ 30. meeting is going | bridges and flattened houses for B+ miles around, 8o far more

than 60,000 deaths

THE STORY’ OF THE ATOM

na Superfortress dropped the first atomic bomb in warfare, banked for a 270-degree turn and flew away. Smoke, dust

The blast

feet. But it will hardly be the 40,000 feet the bombers have used— at least, not soon. At the high altitudes, pressure cabins will be used to give passengers the breathing comfort of flight at much lower levels. And, of course, higher flying means riding over most rough weather rather than through it. ” ” »

THE AIRMEN gay they're well

run a small turbine to transmit

Loading one of the big cargo liners,

offs, he says, and a radio “glide path” will aid the pilot in landing in bad weather. The big airlines are turning increasing attention to developing air cargo business, and this, too, calls for special technicdl developments. According to C. P. Graddick, United Airlines’ air cargo director, this line's engineers have studied literally hundreds of types of known or projected planes to find the best type for cargo. ” » ” EVEN with planes as short as

{they've been, United has been oper-

Over the oceans it may be 25,000 ating eight stripped planes as “Car~

goliners,” and in a year they've carried mail and express equal to 41,000 transcontinental passengers. On Sunday nights, when other traffic is lightest, United has been flying experimental planeloads of perishables and war materials. This airline has called in Wayne university at Detroit and a big gro-

studies on perishables.

on the way to licking most of the weather problems, President Ralph Damon of Amer~ ican points out that a 500-foot ceiling ‘and one-mile visibility are the present landing limits at LaGuardia field, and predicts that new equip-

ceiling and half-mile visibility, That, he says,

| flight cancellations.

working with a glass company, it

which dry ice is used in a light-|

| weight glass and fabric container, » » n COSTS are the big question mark [in air cargo. Ralph Damon, Ameri-

| {

jcan Alr Lines president, believes

ment. will cut this to a 100-foot| {hat about the best that's likely to | transported by railroads. But they're

be done in the foreseeable future is

means greater a rate of 12 to 15 cents per ton |... jess than carload lot—and and tremendous interest in avids

safety and reliability of service and |mile-for carrying one ton one mile, lie elimination of 80 per cent of 10day’s | that is. , {think they can do it. They're de~ |tion by the public, advances now

Radar, direc-|

Experimentally American, which

| tion-finding equipment and high | nas ambitious alr freight plans, is | frequency radio instead of present), flying loads of green fruits and

| part. » n ”

{of all new equipment, | do it,

| Four-engine

{ short-wave bands will play their|yecetables from Salinas, Cal, to

Cleveland. On one return trip six jeeps were

{it American hopes to be able to

8 » ” 4 SOME potential shippers, espe-

cery chain, to collaborate in its|mile—If overhead operating costs, prise—delivery of new autos by huge Recently, | weren't added to the rates.

developed 'a “flying refrigerator” inimust be included, and allowances | for currency and valuables, delive

|cially in perishables, believe the air| There are applications before the | planes will allow lines could haul produce much more |civil aeronautics board for the wid- | | lower minimum conditions for take-' cheaply--say seven or eight cents a est variety of post-war flying enter-

SKYWAY

_ Here are two views (above and, left) of a jet ~ propulsion mili tary plane. Engineers are now hard at work on methods to apply the jet or turbine principle to commercial 1 planes of the future.

Roomy interior of a Cargoliner which United Air Lines uses in coast-to-coast mail and express service.

glider trains, flying ambulances But airline people say these costs and funeral planes, armored planes | made tor at times low load factors, | eries of food, medicine and departs plane and crew idleness because of | ment store merchandise, oy {pad weather, mechanical trouble| Some will pan out; some will. not, {and so on. But there’s no doubt in the mind of | Airlines know they're not going any aviation man that, given .the | into the vast bulk of heavy ¢aygo | imaginative leadership of a still young industry, channeling of war.s lout to grab a big piece of LCL | technological advances to peace

{ veloping a lot of smart ideas on foreseeable will come in the whol | packaging. which will mean lighter field of air transport. y | weight shipments, too. {

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ALSO, they're telling their custo- | | mers, fast delivery can mean small |

er inventories—less money tied up| Daily Features:

in goods on shelves. | : { Features usually found on 3 ili ilots | There are 350,000 military pilo | this page. appear ay a8

coming back to America, and a lot/| follows» of them will have ideas on staying | clos Saye Page ily. I Ceaesens in_fiying commercially Willie and Joe ....... cai dB

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THE END

1. Skies were clear over Hiro- 2. Another bomb’ wis dropped on the naval base at Nagasaki, and Buperfortresses were ready with others when Jupan surrendered. Material and equipment for

laid down which did promised over and over again. They were satisfied and debris from the explosion the bombs had been sent'to the The problems of only when they feit that they had gained a little more. rose 40000 feet. The Japanese Marianas by fast cruisers, Dissame way, understanding for their point of view and inched for- said the glare of the explosion covery of TNT-loaded balloons

marines in Washington

- ulation th

have heard about

probably from Japanese in substate where one of the bomb factories was located, gave rise to the speeat the Japanese ‘may the

N a

tack. ht bomb was released, Prof. H. D

the wildest nightmare of

bomb before the Hiroshima at3. When the story of the atoinic

Smyth of Princeton wrote-in a war department report’ that “a weapon has been developed that is potentially destructive beyond the imagination. It is so ideally puited to sudden unannounced attack that a country's major cities

o. 16: A New Weapon of War Is Used

weapon has not been created by the devilish inspiration of some genius, but by the arduous labors , of thousands of normal men and women working for the safety of their country” Our government hopes it will be used only for peaceful pursuits and to prevent war in the future. 4. Scientists were fearful atom4¢ bombs might leave dangerous radio-activity in the sofl to cause injuries such as X-rays and radif

away debris from Hiroshima two weeks after the bombing, had suf« fered a change in their blood cells, according to microscope tests. war department statement that “the bomb is combat at sueh a the ground, as to mum blast against stu to disseminate the