Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1952 — Page 4

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Troops | To Typi New [Aussie Airborne Unit

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SYDNEY, Australia, May 30-—Australia is training a ig! ed” paratroop division which it believes will

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Illamtown air base, 10 from industrial Newcastle,

graduated and a third group rigorous training. a two-mile-square patch of soil, scratched out of virgin abou

ern Pacific bastion of the democraces,

with the world’s best in toughness and striking po-

i. hints to become a paratrooper initial groups of what will Pe merely has to volunteer to be| a's first airborne division |i yen into consideration.

t 100 miles from Sydney, sically requires each paratrooper ustralian school of combined! and air warfare is doing its height and no less than 180| t to make Australia the south- pounds weight.

Examination Tough

He must then pass a tough medical examination which ba-

to be at least 6 feet one inch in

After ‘the “medical” comes an examination by expert army psy-

Here, Australia’s toughest fight-chologists before the budding ing men, in a brief but intensified paratroop is ‘ready for Willlamfour weeks, are training under town school and the heavy four strict British methods and British weexs ‘training that will mold

experts, him into a type of fighting ma-

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The Aus rallan airborne divi- chine rapid reasl ision, when completed, will be cap- tary imnortance. © {able of Integration with either, 1, oy; weeks at the school, { United Kingdom or United States|,, , {rginee has heart-breaking, { units, or will. be able to stand|... «iretching ground training { alorie as an integral part of the, on “mock. up” training gear. x Australian armed forces. * The “mock-up” gear is equip3 eir British training allows the ! Austrailain unit to be welded i quickly into any British airborne + force if required. ! Only a short refresher-conver- { sion course will be needed to fit ! the Australian paratrooper into . any , United States outfit, even { though American methods vary ; considerably from those of the i Ufited Kingdom. ! As Squadron Leader C. Bourn, . 4 chief . instructor and brains behind the Aussie “sky-soldier,” said: “Our boys will be able to fight anywhere, any time and with anybody. : Different Pattern ‘We've used the British method

is simpler than the U. 8. system.

of paratroop instruction because it

|ment designed to simulate the ‘aircraft from which the paratroop will jump, the parachute that brings him to earth, and the dangers he will meet in drifting some 1000 feet earthward at the mercy of the elements and the enemy. ; Trial Is Tough ° Few paratroops can forget their first introduction to the jumping towers at Willlamtown. Some 30 feet off the ground, the trainees leap from a platform into space, to be stopped short with a sickening, shoulderwrenching jerk, simulating exactly the same tug they will experience in leaving an aircraft flying over-a dropping Zone. It 1s at those towers that the

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. JUST PLAIN SORROW-—Toby Berry, 5, of Shreve, O., won't experience any sweetness in the sorrow he'll feel when he is parted from his rare twin Guernsey calves. Their very rarity will mean one certain thing—the animals will be sold for veal when they get just

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Charging that policyholders within. the 60-day limit set by, rotected from an in-|law. It accused Mid-West gf. vioshioula be Pp lav: its charter by having di- : : [rectors who are not Indiana resiState Insurance Commission filed | dents, ty a court complaint to place the Mr, Viehmann accused the firm Mid-West Insurance Co. into re-| of issuing payment drafts that

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May 30 horses and made cowboys out of (UP)—About 1500 cattle and 200 slaughter house workers. hogs stampeded from a stockyard| Biit the police, with instructions fire yesterday and ran ‘panic from a radio headquarters, got stricken through the streets. Po-|to the strays first and sent most licemen in radio guided ‘squad of .them bawling back toward cars and western style cowboys the Armour plant. on horseback corraled them in| “I've got to hand it to the po.

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The uniformed officers wailed Job, and I believe We've gotten all their sirens as they chased cattle| the animals we'rgmgoing to find.”

. Insurance Commissioner Frank J. Viehmann, in“the suit filed yesterday in Superior Court 1, charged the Indianapolis firm is insolvent or “in imminent danger” of being - insolvent. MidWest, a charter company with| several housand policyholders in Indiana and other states, operates out of central offices at 408 State Life Building. |

‘Willful Violation’

The state charged Mid-West! with “willful violation” of its charter, by falling to pay claims

West is the target of several-fed-eral and state court suits, and has failed to pay judgments to policyholderS as ordered by courts. | State intervention against Mid-| West was allowed in a ruling yesterday by Judge John Niblack, who will hear the receivership complaint.

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Million Workers Idled By Strikes in April

WASHINGTON, May 30 (UP) --The Labor Department reported

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Last December, the automotive capital had 122,000 workers without jobs, most of them victims of government cuts in civilian out-

Detroit Reduces Jobless Ranks DETROIT, May 30 (UP)—De-only 52,000 Detroiters are unem-

ployed, the lowest number since April, 1951. And some auto companies that were giving employes layoff .notices last winter are finding it tough to find workmen needed right now as they prepare to start building the weapons in volume. Top skilled mechanics, layout men and tool and die experts almost always are in short supply.

“The Americans stick closer to expert instructors weed out those De Dorman dea of Daratroops| who wouldn’t make good para-TUSIO-an’ pm tial troop material. If the nerves of airborne. soldiers. ¢ “Qur idea here at Willlamstown Is to deglamorize airborne troops and make parachute jumping an every-day affair, “That way we're going ‘to have more paratroops, with a better . outlook on paratroop combat methods, and suffer not at all from any fall in the standard of the finished sky-soldier.” . Rigorous physical and mental standards must ‘be passed by

it is better that they break during the training stages, and if the jumping towers don't break them, nothing will, instructors beHeve.

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VALPARAISO, May 30 (UP)— Ruth Wachholtz will complete a one-family assault on education when she is graduated. from ValUniversity Sutday. Ruth

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any of the trainees are to break,|.

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