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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ___ — : WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1952

58 Allison Powered Jet Planes Span Pacific |

Fighters Land

In Japan After

Mass Flight

- Employees of the Allison Divi-

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jubilant when they learned that = |58 JAllison-powered Thunderjet *

{fighter planes landed in Japan today. 1 The souped-up fighters of the {Strategi¢ Air Forces’ 31st Fighter{Bomber Wing completed the longjest mass transoceanic jet flight lin history. The F-84G planes flew 111,000 miles from Turner Air Base, Ga. to Yokota, Japan, in 12 days. They spanned the Pacific with the aid of B-29 tanker planes which refueled them in the air,

‘Proves Dependability’

Hailing the flight as “pioneer- | ing,” E. B. Newill, general man-| ager Qf Allison Division, said: “The flight is a matter of great | satisfaction to our people because it proved the dependability of jet engines is made possible through quality work and good engineering design.” The company’s employee news{paper has been made over to give {full details of the flight to

' TRAGEDY VICTIMS—Benjamin (left) and Louis Kelly, 10-year workers. 3d twins, drowned yesterday afternoon in Pleasant Run near Bluff | Rodd. They lived at 114 W. Gimber St.

Get Bids on Road, Bridge Projects

The State Highway Commission opened bids yesterday on nearly $4 million worth of-road and bridge improvement projects, including a T90-foot railroad overpass at Richmond. Harold Tharp & Son, Fountain City, entered a low bid of $784, * 992 on the bridge project which commission engineers’ estimated ‘would cost a maximum of $936, 549. ‘Olinger Construction Co., Huntingberg, was lowest of two bidders with $99,745.93 for a span over Buck Creek, south of Sulvan, The engineers’ estimate was $125,314.60. Low bids received by the commission for road projects includ-| ed:

Hipskind Drainage Co., Ft. Wayne, low among five bidders 7470 miles on. U.8. 33 in Adams County from Decatur to the Ohio state line. The estimate was $95,902.

Reunion Set Sunday

WFORDSVILLE, July 15 56th wedding anniversary of Mr. hand to greet the pilots and saidy

w 34th Kentucky reunion of

Garbage Pile-Up

‘Blamed on Strike

GARY, July 16 (UP)—Garbage collections were three weeks behind schedule today and city fathers blamed it on the steel strike. Mayor Peter Mandich said thousands of striking steel workers who have been home for six weeks are spending much of their time cleaning out basements and attics, “They're throwing out everything from stuffed parrots to fringed .surrey-tops,” the mayer said.

Hangs Up Her Shingle

16 (UP)—Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, first Negro to attend the University of Oklahoma Law School, has been admitted to practice by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Miss Fisher won admittanc the law school after a long court battle.

Now, Here's an Uncle CHICAGO, July 16 (UP)~The

and Mrs. Albert Steindler was

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Leading the formation of 58 ‘planes, Col. David C. Schilling, {who has flown every type of engine made by Allison, said the flight proved that jet fighters “can go anywhere, anytime and in ‘any numbers.” Col. Schilling, who won second place in the first Allison Jet Trophy race, has visited the plant several times. He was here for the 500-Mile Race.

One Fatality

The flight had one fatality. Lt. Col.” Elmer G. Da Rosa, Sacramento, Cal, leading one of the three squadrons, was killed yesterday when his plane exploded while approaching Iwo Jima for a landing. Col. Da Rosa, 41, had reported “funny noises” in his plane a few minutes earlier. Arriving at Yokota in two formations, the F-84G jets first swept over the airfield in an fmpressive tight box formation, then peeled off by fours to circle for a landing. With machine-like they glided into their pilots looking like men from another planet with their crash helmets and oxygen masks. Gen. Otto P. Weyland, Far East Air Forces Commander, was on

precision,

the flight is part of a ‘general

pwiordsville will be held in one of the happiest their 24 béefing up of all types of planes” [Hiflgan Park here Sunday. Fea- nieces.and nephews ever had. The in the Far East.

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|Steindlers, who have no children,

of Frank- mailed $1000 checks to each of start anything, we of their 24 nieces and nephews.

“In case anybody wants to we'll be ready for them,” he said. |

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Arm’ As Hassett Quits

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 16—Pres/{dent Truman yesterday accepted {the resignation of William D. Hassett as one of his three secre'taries. | Mr. Hassett, whose departure i caused the President to say “1 thave lost my right arm,” s eryed {the chief executive as correspandjence secretary since the President {entered the White House in 1945, Prior to his service under Mr. {Truman, Mr. Hassett, a former | Washington and foreign corre{spondent, served in a similar post {under the late President Franklin |D. Roosevelt. { He will be 72 next Aug. 28. He has been in poor health re- : (cently and has been absent from his office in the White House for {some weeks, spending some of the back his home in North- : fie a al William D. Hassett The late FDR, grateful for Mr. Mr. Hassett has written thou Hassett’s tremendous store of sands of letters which were sent classical knowledge, once called out over the signature of two ithe veteran secretary, “my combi-| Presidents. ination Buckle, Bartlet and Ro-| Mr. Hassett attempted to ree get.” sign three times before—once in Yesterday, in acceding to Mr.|1948 and twice in 1950 when he | Hasset’s request that he be per-|asked the President to “let the

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which was reported to have flown at 1300 miles an hour yesterday, twice the speed of sound.

‘ ‘Worker Saved After Blackout See Saucers’ Ee 16 (UP) pid nad ut him out of, In Formation

—~Elmer Martin, 55, was rescued the pit opening. Mr. Martin had by fellow workers at the Ja cob pre” lowered into the vat to clean| Veteran Pilots Tell - Of Slswing ‘Things’ |

Schmidt Brewing Co. yesterday np —————————r | Se De Der : » ® Br - - {mitted to resign, the President compulsory .retiremen aw take when he biscked out While SU" Honorary Texan Dies |wrote his secretary: lits course.” , United Press MIAMI, 3 1a., July 16—Two vet- revived by a fire department res-| honorary members of the Republic|

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|pit in a safety chair and blacked July 16 (UP)—Parker G. Wobd- have lost my right arm, as Lee Hassett said: Two fellow workers, Agner Woodward, who was born in Ball-| Truman added. for retirement—written and H. Fortenberry, 30, of Pan Amer-/| —— \ — ” miles per hour. o AT. them.” News, Va., and Norfolk night be-|

jout from lack of oxygen. He was| lward, 82, one of the few surviving said-when Jackson died.” | “My medical record is available of seeing high huge discs zipping gwanson and William Mueller inger, Tex. had farmed a large | “p.S. Mr. Hassett didn’t get spoken — above referred to..and ican Airways, said the “glowing, | “Whoever was in those things,” Mr. Nash ‘and Mr. Fortenberry > fore last when six of the saucers

‘Old Man’ Did It {but I shall not burden you with it in formation at supersonic speed hauled Mr. Martin to safety. [tract of land near Bahia Blanca {this one up. The ‘old man’ himself would appreciate immediate relief orange-red” saucerstmadameuvered | the pilots declared, “had capasaid they were flying their DC-4 / from Ayres appeared 6000 feet below them.

Truman ‘Loses His Right

(pended in a 100-foot malt pit. “No one could have done the| In the resignation which the Mr. Martin was lowered into the] BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, i}, potter and I shall feel as if I'President finally accepted, Mr, eran Airline pilots added to the cue squad and taken to Ancker! lof Texas, died yesterday. Mr. “ flying saucer lore today accounts Hospital. {to his letter of acceptance, Mr.| “I therefore renew all requests Pilots W. B. Nash, 35, and w.|Which Mr. Martin had tied to his|ago. | This acknowledged the fact that said. at a speed of “far above 1000 things absolutely did not contain’ any human beings as we know Sh southward between Newport) tion — a diagonal straight line! l— at about 2000 feet altitude, f . or your.convenience

Then, in a long-hand postscript lunléss’ you so desire.” near Norfolk, Va. They had to cut a broom handle until his retirement eight years did it.” [from official duties,” Mr. Hassett too sharply for human endurance bilities far beyond our own. Those with 10 company officials aboard First they flew in a formabath

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passed over them, he said, they turned sharply westward and were joined by two other discs. He said the eight “saucers” zoomed upward to an estimated 10,000 feet

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