Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1940, Page 5

12 Soldiers Bail Out As Four Planes Are Damaged in Games Three Pursuit Ships And Transport Figure In Accidents B the Associated Press. McCOMB, Miss., May 4.—A series of landing accidents in the 3d Army’s huge maneuvers today damaged three pursuit planes and so badly wrecked the undercarriage of a transport that 12 soldiers had to parachute to safety before it pan- eaked to earth, No one was injured and it was believed all four ships would be re- paired in time to take part in the war games which began today and which will move into high gear Shrough Western Louisiana next week., The aecidents occurred as the ships, en route from Selfridge Field, Mieh, sought a landing at the Mc- Comb Afrport, which has been turned into the air base of the ®Blue” forces in the maneuvers, Pilot Pancakes Plane. 14. J. M. Joplin brought the C-33, the transport whose base is at San Antonio, Tex., to rest in a field at Georgetown, Miss., 60 miles north of McComb, where the wheels and pro- peller were wrecked when the ship overshot the field and struck an em- bankment. Joplin’s co-pilot, & lieutenant; 2aree sergeants, five corporals, & pri- vate and two crew members bailed out over Georgetown. The damaged pursuit planes were all T-35's. One piloted by I.t. Harry B. Riley damaged a wing tip in a collision with a truck. The others, flown by Lts. R. L. Matthews and P. B. Blanchard, ran off the field and into rough ground, damaging their land~ ing gear. Maj. W. R. Taylor, executive offi- cer with 40 ships that landed during the day, blamed the C-33’s accident on “a heavy load and a short field.” 70,000 Men Begin Moving. The streamlined 3d Army'’s 70,000 Regulars begin moving tomorrow for a $1,000,000-a-day test of the Nation's defense against lightning tactics now being used on the battlefields of Europe. The War Department has de- scribed the maneuvers, costing about $28,000,000 and spreading in full force from May 11 through May 25 across Western Louisiana and East- ern Texas, as the “high point in Regular Army training.” No foreign military attaches have been invited to witness this greatest peacetime war show in United States history. The lessons learned from the highly mobilized German Army’s blitzkrieg in Poland and even the motorized Italian columns in Ethi- opia will be tested against an American background of cut-over pine land, valley and rivers which Army men have termed probably the most ideal terrain in the Nation for the problem at hand. Regular Army units from 33 States have been pulled into these “games” which will pit the “Blue” 4th Corps, operating in Louisiana, against the invading “Red” 9th Corps moving in from Texas across the Sabine River. Civilians to Warn of Planes. Probably the largest civilian corps ever organized to take part in American war games has been turned into an aircraft warning system in Florida, Alabama, Mis- | eissippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. American Legionnaires will be the backbone of this civilian group reporting on the movements of “Red” or invading army airplanes. The quartermasters for months have been preparing to supply 177 freight carloads of food and 190 carloads of gasoline for the troops whose first units start moving at dawn tomorrow toward Louisiana's make-believe battlefield. Both Army corps will have reach- ed full strength by May 11, when they take up positions. The clash will take place at top speed. For, from the conflicts the strategists have found that the | shuttling of men and supplies by | trucks permits a streamlined, “tri-| angular” division to march 45 miles a day for long periods against 15 miles for the World War type of “square” division. The new, more highly mobile “triangular” division needs less man power—about 11,000 against 22,000 or more in the old type—and has three infantry regiments in- stead of four with a redisposition of artillery and supporting units. The division—there are two or more to a corps—contains practi- cally all of the various arms, is large enough to have effective strik- ing force and smal. enough to be easily maneuvered and directed. FEquipped with improved weapons, it has a fire power equivalent to that of the old-time divisions despite numerical inferiority. Animals Are Not Used. All animal transportation of sup- plies has been eliminated. This &trips the division to a fighting force which can be entrucked and moved 50 to 100 miles in a night as compared with the old rate of march of 12 to 15 miles, A new type of cavalry fights from ‘machines like tanks, armored or combat cars and scout cars, Armed with rifles, machine guns, 87-mm. guns and even 75-mm. can- non, such a force has a wide radius of action, with considerable striking er. While the use of motors had already been thoroughly tried—as have the new weapons and type of equipment—the testing so far has been comparatively by units. The maneuvers this month will bring these units together on the grand scale. Gen. George C.'Marshall, chief of staff, said the 70,000 troops would have virtually complete transport and arms equipment for the games. He said mass orders for thousands of specially built military trucks had been so speeded at the War Depart- ment’s request that only a few 715- ton “prime movers” for heavy artil- lery would be missing. “Some of the transport vehicles will be delivered during the maneu- wvers,” he added, “but that is the sort of thing experienced in wartime, and war conditions will be simulated as far as possible.” Only the effect of projectiles will be missing. Camera guns and the observations of a hundred referees will estimate that. Bands are to play as usual in most London parks during the sum- AT, ‘ SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 5, .1940—PART ONE. A PICTURE STORY OF A BATTLE AT SEA—These photos, passed by German censors, dramatically describe a recent battle in which a British destroyer was sunk by a German warship as the latter was en route to Norway. Above: The Nazi craft cutting through the sea, spray breaking over its bow. ~—Wide World Photos. Burvivors belng helped aboard Nasl. vessel. - O of the-suryivors ia wounded, ! } |Labor Boafd Tactics Are Denounced by Ex-Senafor Reed Missourian Urges Abolition Of Agency if ‘One-Tenth Of Charges Are True’ By the Associated Press. James A. Reed, former Democratic Senator from Missouri, denounced National Labor Relations Board tactics yesterday as “the sort of thing engaged in by racketeers.” He told the special House com- mittee investigating the board that the agency ought to be “abolished overnight” if even one-tenth of the committee’s charges against it were true. The witness testified he never had read “such a catalogue of improper, unjudicial, unfair rulings and acts” as those attributed to the board in the committee’s report recommend- ing sweeping changes in the Na- tional Labor Relations Act. During a recital of the experi- ences of his wife's firm, the Don- nelly Garment Co. of Kansas City, with both the board and the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Mr. Reed referred to in- stances cited in the committee re- port to show that the board helped to institute boycotts against com- panies as “a process of condemna- tion without a hearing.” Charges Lobbying. # “A man or a board that will do that thing,” the Missourian asserted, “furnishes the indubitable evidence that it is prejudicial, motivated by vindictive motives and is utterly unfit to sit as a judicial tribunal anywhere under the American flag.” Declaring that lawyers had been hiréd to prevent amendment of the act and that they had lobbied for the purpose, Mr. Reed added: “If that’s part of the New Deal, they had better perform a surgical operation and cut the cancer out.” After hearing N. Barr Miller, a review attorney for the board who said he had never practiced law, testify he had suggested changes ‘which were made in the trial ex- aminer’s report on the Donnelly case, Mr. Reed declared it appeared to him the board had employed “amateurs.” Inexperience and Incompetence. “Henry Ford can build up for 40 or 50 years a tremendous business,” Mr. Reed said, “and pay wages higher than others but he can be haled before utterly inexperienced and incompetent people—boys just out of law school and girls just out of colleges, carefully selected for their views and their prejudices.” Meanwhile, Chairman Smith pre- dicted his investigating commitiee’s amendments to the Labor Relations Act would pass the House despite rejection of proposed revisions of another keystone of administration labor policy, the wage-hour law. On the other hand, Representa- tive Murdock, Democrat, of Utah took the wage-hour vote to mean that any amendments to the labor act would be less sweeping than the Smith amendments. Mr. Murdock, who is a member of the Smith com- mittee, is opposed to the Smith amendments. May Come Up Next Week. ‘The Smith changes, 17 in all, may come up in the House next week, A 5x7 Enlargement With FILMS 2 5 ¢ Developed Printed ACE Pl:IOTO SERVICE Every 6 or 8 Exp. Roll and Apex Radie C AT TINE S 17 gy o THEN] T OFF NRE. ! SO, WHAT GOOD IS A WATCH IF IT ISN'T . ACCURATE? and 4] be returned {o you with “pre of its accuracy. roof here whe ormance ~_of is ed by the Iatest scientifie nt, plus the experience rained master watch experts. 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Mr. Smith contended the issues involved in the wage-hour fight and the coming battle over the labor law were “totally different.”’ Mr. Murdock, however, was much heart- ened by the wage-hour vote. “The overzealous opponents of labor legislation were emphatically given to understand by the wage- hour action,” Mr. Murdock said, “that the House certainly is opposed :n destructive amendments to labor aws.” The Smith amendments will come before the House as an alternative for less sweeping amendments pro- posed by the House Labor Com- mittee, The latter would add two more members to the present board, per- mit employers to petition for col- lective bargaining elections, make employer-employe contracts un- challengeable for one year and set up safeguards for craft unions. Berlin (Continued From Pirst Page.) forward turrets,” said the commu- nique. “Half a minute after the bombs hit, shooting flames flared of smoke. After the clouds disap- peared there was nothing more of the ship to be seen except debris.” A single bomb, German experts said, must have hit a powder maga- ers were dropped. The impression was that the bat- tieship was shielding the departure of British troops from Namsos. They embarked Thursday night. Hastens to Inform Hitler. No sooner had the power diver unit reported the fea* to Marshal Goering than he hurried to the Reich Chancellery to tell Adolf Hit- ler about it. The two decided, then, to with- hold the news until this noon “to see whether Churchill (British First Lord of the Admiralty) will have the courage to admit this terrific loss.” Mr. Churchill, however, said nothing. “For some time we have been waiting for an opportunity to prove to the world that even a battleship can be sunk by air raiders,” said oneG man lnhthe know today. “Gen. Erhardt Milch, Secreta: of State in the Air Ministry, we;}; personally to Norway with orders from the Fuehrer and Goering that, if and when the hour for the test came, a battleship must be sunk, come what may. “We are simply amazed, ourselves, | that the experiment succeeded l without so much as a single loss for us. Our air force was determined to send wave after wave of power divers into action and to continue the assault, even §f at first, every attacking plane was shot down. “In our fondest dreams we didn't think it possible that the job could :m‘cl::rsxp‘l:‘ad in less than three out the 1 e 0ss of a single Retreat Termed Disastrous. German accounts of the British- French abandonment of Namsos and Central Norway said t, retreat FINE RUG Robt. L. 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