Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1940, Page 28

Streamlined Army To Begin War Games At Benning Tomorrow Test Will Be Preliminary To Corps Maneuvers To Start on April 27 By the Associated Press. FORT BENNING, Ga., April 13.— Concentration of United States Army troops for corps training emphasiz- ing streamlined mobility paralleled swift expansion of the European war front this week. Teamwork to co-ordinate the ef- forts of motorized forces is the first concern of officers in a two-week series of war games starting here tomorrow, one phase of a national preparedness program About 45,000 men, assembled from posts as far distant as Fort Ethan Allen, Vt, and Fort Lewis, Wash,, are assigned four exercises to test modernized organizations and equip- ment., Most of them are embraced in the Nation’s first full Army corps to be ~reanized since the World War, the € The commander is Maj. Gen. Walter Campbell Short. It includes three of new-style divisions, the 1st, bth and 6th. Nominal opposition for the games is provided by a provisional corps of 6,000 men, headed by Brig. Gen. Robert O. Van Horn. To Develop Procedure. In the Army’s language, the gen- eral purpose is “to develop methods of procedure and an effective tacti- <al control of Jarge units under as- sumed conditions of combat.” Ref- erees pass on each engagement. About 600 square miles of pine- dotted West Georgia land is avail- able for the test—the Fort Benning Infantry School Reservation and surrounding farms on which the owners have granted trespass rights. Mechanized and horse ¢tavalry, truck-transported infantry, tanks, planes, artillery and supporting units will take to the field with full equip- ment except for ammunition. Ex- plosive effects are obtained through | the detonation of noisy but relative- ly harmless blocks of TNT. ‘War Games to Follow. The maneuvers are to be followed | by the Army's largest peacetime | war games in May between the|tee head the list of distinguished |8 OF dead five officers and 10 sea- | the 9th Corps, | guests for the annual banquet of | men of the destroyer Gurkha, which ! made up of Southwestern units, in | the Society of Natives to be held at | Wwas sunk Tuesday by German bomb- the Sabine River Valley of Louisiana “ the Mayflower Hotel April 22, it was | ers off Norway. Three other crew- 4th Corps and and Texas. About 25000 men in | training at Texas forts will enter 9th Corps maneuvers April 27 to May 7. | Reorganization and expansion of | the military establishment was given impetus with the outbreak of Euro- pean hostilities last fall. The Army | is newly recruited to its full author- {zed strength of 227,000. Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of | staff, testified before a House Ap- | propriations Committee recently | that “if Europe blazes in the late| spring or summer” there should be‘ “added precautions in this country.” | Germany's invasion of Scandanavia, | he commented Tuesday, “appears at the moment” to be the type of de- velopment to which he referred. Chinese and Japanese Air Forces Active By the Associated Press. HONG KONG, April 13.—Bombing squadrons of both Far Easteérn bel-| ligerents struck today, the Chinese | claiming they damaged a warship and munitions dump at Yochow, Japan's Yangtze Valley base, while | the Japanese said they destroyed | many military establishments along the Chinese supply road from Indo- China. l Chinese quarters said their planes suffered no losses when they dropped mixed loads of bombs and propa- ganda leaflets on Japanese naval and military concentrations at Yochow. Japanese reports said their fighter | planes shot down 2 of 16 chinese; raiders and drove off the rest. Japanese said their army and| navy air units heavily and success- fully attacked river crossings and | storage points along the 350-| mile “lifeline” highway connecting Chiang Kai-shek’s Central China | supply base, Kweiyang, with French | Indo-China. i Chinese sources also reported that their land forces occupied a number | of towns in the vicinity of Nanning, | but they did not indicate whether | the Chinese drive had loosened the | Japanese hold on the strategically located southern Kwangsi center which the Japanese took last No- | vember. | Nazi "Falcon Expeditions’ To Greenland Held Augury | B the Associated Press. | BOONTON, N. J., April 13.—Capt. | R. Luff Meredith, United States| Army Air Corps, retired, said to-| day he deemed it “considerably sig- nificant,” in view of Germany’s in- | vasion of Denmark, that Field| Marshal Goering sent “falcon ex- | peditions” to Greenland and Ice- | land in 1937 and 1938. | Capt. Meredith, one of the Na-| tion's leading falconers and a pilot during the World War, expressed belief the expeditions might have| been ‘intended to obtain informa- tion for future action. He said that although Goering was a known falconer, “it seemed strange that he should put the gov-| ernment to such an expense when | it was undergoing such economic and political change.” | Five Germans stayed in Green- land six months and returned after capturing six gyrfalcons, Capt. Meredith said, adding: “They had sufficient time to un- cover a lot of general and specific information about Greenland.” Mauna Loa Hurls Lava 500 Feet Into Air By the Associated Press. HILO, Hawaii, April 13.—Lava was hurled some 500 feet into the | air in the great central firepit of | Mauna Loa today—higher than at any time since the eruption began. | Then the glowing fountains dropped | an estimated 170 feet | An observation party at the sum- | mit of the volcano, which began erupting last Monday for the first time since 1935, telepnoned Edward ‘Wingate, superintendent of Hawaii National Park, that a lake of lava of considerable size was forming be- low the west wall of Mokuaweoweo crater. DETROIT.—JESSEL WEDS SH yesterday of George Jessel, 42-year-old comedian, and Lois An- drew, 16-year-old New York showgirl. (center), Minister to Canada and husband of Doris Duke, acted as best man, Notables Will Attend Society of Natives Fefe Chairman King of the Senate Dis- | tricc Committee and Chairman Ran- dolph of the House District Commit- | announced last night. | Other guests will include John | Russell Young, newly appointed Dis- trict Commissioner; Col. C. B. Gar- | nett, president of the Virginia State | Soclety, and George C. Calvert, pres- | § | ident of the Maryland Society. The annual award of the ‘society te the outstanding native of the District for 1939 will be presented to Justice Bolitha J. Laws by William E. Richardson, former president of | the society. The invocation will be | by the Very Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary, | president of Georgetown University. | In addition, the program will include | musical selections by the C. & P. | Telephone Co. quartet, readings by | Robert B. Davidson and piano se- { lections by Mrs. Gertrude Mockbee. | John M. Howard is chairman. of the Banquet Committee. Wind Floods Dust Bowl SUGAR CITY, Colo., April 13 (#). —A stiff wind blew some of Lake Meredith’s waters up onto the prai- rie in this one-time dust bowl area today. After the blow farmers gathered 30 truckloads of carp, which they will plant in corn hills as fertilizer. The government o.f Nicaragua has started a war on rising living costs. 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