Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1940, Page 4

Pursuit-Bomber Air Force Indicates Sfay-ai-Home War Decision on These Two Principal Types Would Add Defensive Power By JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. The anticipated decision by the Army Air Corps to concentrate its air-defense program on the produc- tion of two combat types of air- planes—pursuit and bombardment— will constitute an event of almost revolutionary importance in Ameri- can air defense and at the same time will serve notice on the world’s military powers that the whole mis- sion of United States air power is to guarantee the integrity of the Western Hemisphere against all ag- gression, in the opinion of military authorities. Such an air force would be de- signed basically for defense of the United States and its neighbor re- publics and, by its nature, would be relatively inefficient for assign- ment to such a melee of air and ground forces as now is in progress in Europe. The bombardment-pursuit air force would be of maximum effi- ciency for its intended defense mis- sion—the denying of a foothold anywhere in the New World to an European or Asiatic aggressor or any combination of the totalitarian powers, or the breaking up of an enemy expeditionary force by air or sea. Other Types Represented. ‘The decision to concentrate on a pursuit-bombardment air force, in about 50-50 proportions, is regarded as almost certain to result from emergency studies now being made by military authorities in antici- pation of the launching of Presi- dent Roosevelt’s 50,000-airplane pro- gram. This program also would include thousands of observation and reconnaissance airplanes, which are not classed as combat types and are not considered as a part of the air force proper, although they are essential to efficient air- force operation as well as to effi- cient ground and sea operations. The decision would mean aban- donment of the attack airplane as an independent type and would re- sult in the immediate further de- velopment of a light bombardment airplane which would in some de- gree be the defensive counterpart of the famous German Stukas—the “blitzkrieg airplane”—a purely of- fensive type of tremendous power. The attack airplane, a type de- veloped by the United States Army Air Corps following the World War, has been manufactured in large numbers in the past and is the weapon of many squadrons of the General Headquarters Air Force. Against Ground Troops. | ‘The attack type is an outgrowth of the “ground-strafing” tactics of the World War. It is designed ex- clusively for use against ground troops on the battlefield, troop col- umns in the advance zone, tanks and armored cars, machine-gun nests and artillery. The attack squadron flies habitually at the low- est possible altitude, just off the treetops. It employs light bombs, machine guns and chemicals with equal effectiveness, usually in com- bination and relies on surprise to make its deadly attacks effective. In these respects it is used ex- actly as the Germans are employ- ing their Stukas over the battle- fields. The German dive bombers, however, are being used for more diversified purposes than those for which our attack airplanes were designed. They are employed in waves by the Germans for the bombing of targets, which are the exclusive objective of present United States bombers. Abandoning of the attack airplane type may be taken as indicative of & change of policy on the part of United States air power, since it means that the Air Corps has been relieved of a major part of its “ground-strafing” role. This role 1t would be called upon to play only in fighting an active ground army, as would be the case if the United States Army were to organize an expeditionary force for duty abroad in such a battle as that now raging in Europe. Gives Hint of Policy. In other words, by dropping the attack airplane as a distinct type, the Army Air Corps expresses its confidence that it never will be called upon to fight a ground army of a powerful enemy in this hemi- sphere and asserts, as a matter of policy, that it will not be organized to fight offensively in Europe or Asia. But, by concentrating on pursuit and bombardment types, the Air Corps will arm itself to meet with the utmost power any attempt to invade the New World by air or sea. Its whole mission has become the smashing of any enemy before he cap land a ground army in the Americas. The bombardment airplanes to be eonstructed under this new policy would be of types which could be used at long range against an enemy navy or troop transports within 1,000 miles of our coasts. They also would be of types suit- able for blasting out of existence air bases an aggressive enemy might attempt to establish by air. A third type of bombardment airplane ‘would be suitable for general utility purposes and, to some extent, would replace the obsolete attack air- plane, It could be used, if neces- sary, against parachute troops, hnding parties from a fleet, or pos- sible offensive units of the fifth eolumn, or “Trojan horse” type. The three types of bombardment airplanes upon which the United States is expected to rely under its new defense program, therefore, will be heavy bombers, medium bombers and light bombers. Flying Fortress Type. ‘The heavy bombers, designed for long-range work against an enemy sea force or ‘against an enemy at- tempting to establish bases at such remote points as Greenland, Alaska, the Galapagos, the West Indies, or in South America, will be of the four-engine “flying fortress” ‘The Air Corps now has two of these types in production—the Boeing B-17, which was the original flying fortress, and the Consolidated B-24, & more recent development of the same type. The B-17 is credited with a top speed of 250 miles per hour, which is too sldw in the light of world developments. An ad- vanced model of the B-17, said to have a speed of 300 miles per hour or better, now is going into pro- duction and probably will be pur- chased in large numbers. The B-24 ’,\ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NAZIS TAKE A VILLAGE—This photo, sent by radio from Berlin to New York, shows German infantry advancing into a French village. The troops are proceeding cautiously, on the lookout for land mines or “booby traps.” Passed by German censor. has a new type of high-speed wing developed by Consolidated for an ocean-flying boat. With this new, relatively thin wing, the B-24 is credited with a top speed of better than 300 miles per hour. Of pri- mary importance is the fact that the B-24 was designed with an eye to mass production. The program would indicate that the Army does not propose at pres- ent to go further with development of the giant Boeing B-15—the “super-flying fortress,” only one of which has been built. This great airplane recently completed & non- stop flight from Langley Field, Va., to Panama, Of the medium bomber type, the Air Corps has the Douglas B-18 in considerable numbers. This type, with a top speed of 210 miles per hour, however, has become too slow and is being replaced by the new Douglas B-23, which is credited with a top speed of better than 300 miles per hour. The Army already has ordered more than 200 of the B-23 type. Light Bombers Being Developed. The light bomber is pretty much in the development stage, although three types of light, or “attack bombers” passed the design com- petition stage last year. They were developed by Lockheed, Stearman and Martin. It is hoped that cur~ rent research will develop impor- tant new planes in this category. Pursuit airplanes also will be developed in three types, under present plans. These are the “fight- er,” “interceptor” and “accompany- ing” types. The fighter is the classical pur- suit type—the kind known to the World War pilot as the “chasse.” It is designed exclusively to fight enemy aircraft and was the famous “dog fighter” of the World War. It is the “dawn patrol” airplane— the type which keeps the high, thin air and patrols in wait for enemy flyers of any description, though the enemy pursuit is its chief prey. The fighter pilot is the most ag- gressive of all flyers and his mis- sion, even though he is a part of a wholly defensive team, is purely offensive~he pounces on enemy airplanes wherever encountered, with the sole aim of shooting them down, breaking them up and driv- ing them off. Excell in Fighter Planes. ‘The United States today has some amazing fighters—perhaps the finest combat airplanes the world has yet seen. One of the newes: is the Grum- man fighter, unofficially credited with a top speed of 450 miles per hour, and carrying two cannon and four heavy machine guns. The Army and Navy have trial models, the Army’s job powered with liquid- cooled Allison engines which are expected to give it even better per- formance than the one which already has been delivered to the Navy. The Army has nearly 100 of the similar Lockheed P-38 on order and the Army has ordered enough of the wicked Bell Airacudas, with pusher propellers, to equip a squadron for service test purposes. The interceptor type is designed primarily to beat off enemy bombers, for which it waits on the ground on the “alert.” It is designed to climb more rapidly than any other airplane and is among the fastest of all the types. Present types are single- engined ships, and among them are the Curtiss P-40, of which the Army has ordered 500. This very fast ship, with an Allison liquid-cooled engine as its power plant, is replacing the earlier Curtiss P-36. which, with a speed of 350 miles per hour, credited was too slow, though the Allies have ordered many of them. The sensa- tional new Bell “Aircobra,” with a single engine mounted behind the pilot, driving a tractor propeller by means of a shaft passing between the pilot’s legs, is another of the inter- changed hands three times in 1914. Between Roubaix and Valen- ciennes, another sector of the en- velopment front, southeast of Lille, German troops attacked French border fortifications, the high com- mand said. To the south, between Valen- clennes and Vimy, it was said that “the attack on both sides of Douai is progressing in a northwestern direction.” South of Sedan, near the hinge of the big and little Maginot Lines, sector of the first German penetra- tion into France, German troops “in recent days wrenched an important hillside strong point from the en- emey after stout fighting and kept it despite heavy counterattacks.” Channel Ports Bombed. The German air force lashed at Allied lines threatening the two sides of its sallent to the Channel, which forms the lower jaw of the trap, and crashed bombs into Bel- glan and French Channel ports, “destroying or heavily damaging one destroyer and seven merchant ships or transports with a total tonnage of roughly 20,000.” “An additional destroyer, as pre- viously reported, was sunk by anti- aircraft artillery,” said the com- munique. This destroyer had been identi- fled by DNB, official news agency, as French and the scene of the sink- ing as the English Channel. German airmen were said to have scored bomb hits on troop and tank concentrations, marching columns, rail lines, airports, anti-aircraft po- sitions inland and artillery positions, quays, shipyards, docks, moles and gasoline storage tanks in Belgian and French Channel ports. The high command acknowledged only seven planes missing in yes- terday’s operations, as against an Allied total of 84—27 shot down in air fighting, 14 by anti-aircraft and the remainder destroyed on the ground. New Air Attack at Narvik. The air force was said to have wrought fresh destruction in the Narvik sector of far Northern Nor- way, Where two cruisers were “'so seriously hit May 23 that they can be regarded a total loss” and a transport and two supply ships were sunk and another damaged and a large tanker hit. The Germans holding Narvik under Allied siege were reported reinforced by mountain chasseur units parachuted into the German camp. ‘The German radio—apparently in partial duplication of the high com- mand’s communique — announced that off Norway warplanes badly damaged a British aircraft carrier, put out of commission a battleship, sank one cruiser and two supply ships and damaged still another cruiser, two more supply ships and tanker. a : “The battleship, which as pre- viously reported, was badly hit in the bow on the day before, was hit on the stern by three new bombs,” the broadcast said. “The vessel lay motionless and made no further at- tempt to defend itself.” Silent on Island Attack. The German troops engaged in the march on Calais were inspired by the belief that their swift-mov- ing assault was laying the ground- work for the long-awaited attack on Great Britain. Military authorities refused to discuss this, but in some quarters it was predicted this phase in the development of the war might be- come apparent within the next week. Before any large-scale operation can be aimed directly at England, however, these sources pointed out, | it would be highly desirable, if not absolutely necessary, first to “elim- inate the half million to a million Allied forces trapped in the triangle bounded on one side by the sea and on the two other sides by German ceptor type being tested by both |armi services. The “accompanying” pursuit, a convoy fighter, is in the process of development and must be & heavy long-range type capable of ace companying bombers on long mis- sions. . Berlin (Continued From First Page.) prelude to any jumpoff toward the English shore. “The ring around the Belgian army, units of the 1st, 7th and 9th French armies and the main body of the English Expeditionary Force was considerably increased and thereby definitely closed,” said the high command’s review of yesterday's operations. The ring—it now might be called a garrote—was tightened on its eastern front by capture of Ghent type. it and Courtrai and of the Lys River, sequels to an earlier smash of Nazi divisions across the Scheldt, which in one section paral- lels the north-south Lys River line. 15 Miles From Lille. The capture of Courtrai on the Lys brought a barb of the German envelopment front 15 miles north- east of the French industrial city of Lille, just inside the French bor- der. Lillie’s peacetime population ‘was more than 100,000 and it was & center of wgm mmmwu‘.wu" les. Roughly, they drew the land sides of this triangle from Calais south- east for 80 miles to Cambrai, and from there almost due north to & point on the coast north of the an- cient Belgian city of Ghent. To achieve “elimination” of these French, Belgian and British troops and capture of as much as possible of their excellent motorized equip- ment, increasing pressure was be- ing applied from both sides. Smash West Across Belgium. In addition to the force driving northwest from the Somme, other German columns smashed - west across Belgium, cracking Scheldt River fortifications and driving into Ghent and Tournai. It was admitted that the Allied troops in what the Germans called the “sack” were putting up stub- born resistance, especially in the regions of Arras and Cambrai. But “sack” at the strongly fortified in- dustrial city of Lille, insisted they had frustrated all Allied attempts in this area to fight southward and effect a junction with the main French Army along the Somme. Public attention in Germany was being focussed more and more on England as the chief enemy. Thus & German air attack on two British oft the Norwegian ore port of Narvik and the Nasi assumption was reported jubilantly over the radio last night. Further emphasis on England as the chief objective was given by the morning papers, which played up s new type of small speed boat, which carries two torpedo tubes on the foredeck and is regarded as a naval aovclty with unsuspected possibili- es. They saild these craft, carrying crews of only 19 men, presented a grave danger to even the largest warship—and by implication, to the transports with which England is reported to be sending fresh troops into France. Yet another hint of the thrust against England was contained in repeated assertions by military au- thorities thgt Allled—and particu- larly British—air bombing of non- military objects would, at the proper moment, be avenged effectively. London (Continued From First Page.) the demands which the state is com- pelled to make upon their endur-| ance and their capacity for sacri- ce. “The gravity of the situation deep- ens hour by hour and we are all called upon to make & supreme ef- fort to defend the country to pre- serve our liberties and to win the war.” Conscription 0. K.'d. The conference indorsed the con- scription of labor and property and in a message to the fighting forces sald: “We are unitedly resolved that all our industrial resources shall be used to the full to provide arms and the munitions you need.” Although details were lacking, the government permitted this informa- tion to reach the public: The Royal Air Force and the fleet’s air arm had harassed Ger- man troops concentrating near the coast of the English Channel. put- ting out of action at least three tanks. R. A, F. bombers had fired enemy oil tanks at Rotterdam and sunk a German torpedo boat in part of their regular night-long operations. The Air Ministry also declared that British planes destroyed or se- riously damaged 40 German bomb- ers and fighter planes over the French and Belgian battlefronts yes- terday while losing 19. A communique said 31 German planes were seen to “burst into flames or crash on landing” and nine more were put out of action. The ministry said this brought en- emy losses at the hands of the Brit- ish to 120 planes in the last three days. British military circles said the French high command had re- quested secrecy on the locations of fighting until a battle had been de- cided, and that the ban on news was likely to continue indefinitely. Registration of 27-year-old men began today as munitions, aircraft and other industries started the seven-day work week with assur- ances that wartime dictatorial pow- ers given the government Wednes- day would not mean a loss to the workers of their “hard-won liber- ties.” Nazl bombs fell on three sections of England, injuring eight men in the North Riding (district) of York- shire, & girl in Essex, the county east of London, and striking rural areas of East Anglia. The raids in Yorkshire apparently were aimed at steel factories; the others, it was felt, were attempts to shake the morale of civilians al- ready disturbed by numerous arrests of possible “fifth columnists.” Last night's civilian injuries were England’s first in an actual raid. A month ago two civilians were killed and over 150 injured when a German mine-laying plane crashed in a terrific explosion at Clacton- on-the-Sea. On May 10 German raiders dropped 24 incendiary and 20 high explosive bombs near Chilham, in Kent, and three days ago a German bomber flying over Sussex dropped its full load in order to speed its escape. But there were no casual- ties in either case. Scotland suffered casualties earlier in the year, when one man was killed and seven persons were in- Jured in a bombing raid on Scapa Silent on Navy Operations. No authoritative information was for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs betweeh 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. —Wide World Radio Photo. lished or attempting to withdraw the expeditionary force as it did in Norway. Shortly before noon, Southeast English coastal towns heard a steady cannonading from across the Channel. There were reports also that observers in those towns had seen flashes of machine-gun fire in the skies, indicating that Royal Air Force flyers were attacking German planes over the Channel. The Ministry of Information said “a German claim that eight ships and two minesweepers have been lost off the coast of South Africa from the effects of German mines is entirely false.” “No news of loss from enemy mines in this area of a single vessel of any kind has reached London,” the Ministry said. May Be Attack Prelude. All of the stabs by Nazi bombers were regarded as forerunners of a mass attack that, with mechanized German columns occupying the Channel port of Boulogne and push- ing north to Calais, may be expected shortly. They served as added spurs in the feverish British drive to turn out armaments to halt the Nazi war | machine and meet the threat of invasion that already had forced British workers to give up their tra- ditional week-end holidays. The pressing need for armaments was emphasized by military ex- perts. They said that under the German technique of employing air- craft, tanks and parachute troops, the Nazis’ offensive power had greatly outstripped their defense and that therefore the Allies’ only chance to recover lay in achieving superiority in all armaments. The nation’s civil servants, almost a million strong, offered voluntarily to work additional hours, and the government indicated it would take full advantage of the offer at once. At the same time, the government went ahead with arming the “minute men” and strengthening the home defense forces against direct attack by parachute troops. One military expert even suggested that Thomp- son submachine guns (“Tommy guns”) be ordered immediately from the United States as the most ef- fective weapon against such raiders. The Daily Express, one of the newspapers owned by Lord Beaver- brook, the Minister for Aircraft Pro- duction, called Adolf Hitler “a gangster on an international scale.” ‘The paper predicted: . “If we endure these next few weel and months, the big Capone in Ber- 1lin will tumble and crumble like the little Capone in Chicago.” Better Relations Sought. Diplomatically, Britain strove to improve relatipns with Russia and Spain, two countries ideologically opposed to her. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, Left Wing Socialist member of Parlia- ment and former Labor party leader, was chosen to head a trade mission to Moscaw if the Soviet accepts him. The purpose of the mission would be to discover whether a basis for trade negotiations can be found. Commenting on yesterday’s ap- pointment of Sir Samuel Hoare as Ar:xdbmador to Madrid, the Times said: “It is the clearest proof which the SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1940. Army Officers Study Lessons Gained in Louisiana Maneuvers Dive-Bombing Planes Found to Be Greatest Need in Swift Attack By the Associated Press. CAMP BEAUREGARD, La., May 25.—Army officers, fortified with the lessons gained from this Nation's greatest peace-time war games, went into a huddle today to study the United States’ needs in equipment in the light of European hostilities. Umpires also tackled the task of deciding just what happened be- tween the “Blue” defending forces and the “Red” invading contingent involving approximately 70,000 sol- diers in the 3d Army manuevers. One need — dive-bombing war- planes — was revealed yesterday when the Red forces defeated a nu- merically stronger defense force in the country’s first test with a blitz- krieg ending the three-week games. The experiment, carried out by pur- suit planes substituting for dive- bombers, will result in pressure to re-establish an attack bomber wing in the Air Corps, military observers indicated. Highways leading in all directions from the “war zone” are expected to be crowded within the next few days with hard-bitten doughboys, mechanized units and infantry trucks heading homeward. Officers have worked out to the minutest detail the route which the returning forces will take, where they will bivouac, where one unit has priority over others on the high- ways, and the day on which they will reach their home barracks. Units making the longest jour- ney home were the Headquarters Company and Company P, 68th In- fantry, which will require 13 days to reach Fort Lewis, Wash. ‘The exodus is expected to be com- pleted by early June. Funds Cut, Labor Board Drops 53 of Staff As a result of a $337,000 cut in appropriations for 1940-41, the Na- tional Labor Relations Board has dropped 53 members from its staff, while five more have resigned. Last available figures on March 30 showed 498 board employes here and 408 in the field. More lay-offs will be made, prin- cipally in the clerical staff, it was said at the board’s offices yesterday. Dr. David J. Saposs, head of the economics division, who has been a foremost target of congressional criticism, is being retained, at least for the present. Reductions so far have been in the legal, litigation, review, eco- nomic, trial examiner and field examiner divisions, here and in the field. Forum, Centuryverge With Current History By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—Forum and Century Magazine will be’ merged with Current History beginning with the July issue, Henry Goddard Leach, editor of Forum since 1923, announced yesterday. The new monthly will be called Current His- tory and Forum. Mr. Leach will serve as advisory editor, while John T. Hackett and E. Trevor of Current History will be editors. British government could give of the importance they attach to the rela- tions of this country with the Spain of Gen. Franco. “The policy of strict neutrality which Great Britain adopted during the (Spanish) civil war—and which Spain might be said to be recipro- cating during what is really a Euro- pean civil war—was misunderstood in Spain chiefly because a section of opinion here which sympathized with the so-called Republicans was particularly vociferous.” CLEAN YOUR FURNACE Soot plus damp weather can ruin Flue Pipes! NA. 8680 HEATING E. J. FEBREY & CO. INCORPORATED STILE HAIRDRESSING SALON Kresge Bldg., 1105 G Street N.W. Rooms 203-205 Is Now Being Air Conditioned flu/s GE AIRTEMP . SUMMER COMFORT IS INEXPENSIVE AT PEPCO LOW RATES . . Sold and Iystalled by (@rrFiTh: (ONSUMERS OMPANY 1413 N. Y. Ave. ME. 4840 ROCHESTER, N. Y—ELECT- ED _MODERATOR—Dr. Wil- liam L. Young, president of Park College, Parkville, Mo., is the newly elected moderator of the 152d Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. —A. P. Wirephoto. Victim of Burglar Scores Second Victory ‘The stay-away sign for burglars was hung today on the house at 1201 West Virginia avenue NE., where William S. Scheer, 30, the public enemy’s No. 1 enemy, lives. For Mr. Scheer has just been credited with his second victory in two encounters with robbers. Last October he was held up on the street and several days later cap- tured, unaided, the man who robbed him. Early yesterday Mr. Scheer was aroused from sleep by sounds in his home. He saw a burglar leaving the place, carrying his trousers. Mr. Scheer called police and a few minutes later a suspect was cap- tured while climbing up a front porch a short distance away. The suspect gave his name as Joseph A. Fletcher, 20, of 1222 Lin- den street N.E. Police charged him immediately with 10 cases of burg- lary and said he was suspected in 24 other robberies. Mr. Scheer is employed as an elec- trician at the Government Printing Office. Scots Ready for Raids All Edinburgh, Scotland, prepared for air raids. Guests of one of the leading hotels found a typed list of air raid precaution instructions on every table in the lounge. The last paragraph read “Dining room cus- tomers who wish fo go to the shelter should tell their waiter, who will &% present their bill immediately.” War Service Objector Resolution Is Tabled By Presbyterians Assembly Votes to Renew Negotiations + For United Church By the Associated Press, ROCHESTER, N. Y, May 25— Commissioners to the 152d Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America tabled by a close vote yesterday a recommen- dation urging Congress to exempt conscientiows objectors from mili- o tary service and giving them equal standing within the church. Previously, the Assembly voted to renew negotiations looking toward union with the United Presbyterian Church of North America and to continue unity discussions with the Protestant Episcopal Church, the -« Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern) and the Reformed church in America. The Assembly decided the Pres- bytery of Southern Virginia, Synod of Catawba, erred in refusing a pastorate at Petersburg to the Rev. Thomas A. Robinson. ‘The commissioners heard Bishop Henry Wise Hobson of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio term church union a “moral issue * * * to fight against it is to fight against God.” Dr. Charles W. Welch of Louis- ville, assembly moderator in 1938-39, offered the recommendation of the church’s general council on the status of Presbyterian conscientious objectors. The Rev. A. D. Minick of Cresson, Pa., moved to table the recommen- dation “because of these troubled times and the church’s historic stand for righteousness.” Bishop Hobson, emphasizing that he spoke unofficially, declared he be- lieved union of the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches “is God’s will.” A special committee, noting that “evidently there are too many sem- inaries for the number of students enrolled,” recommended merging the present institutions at Dubuque, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebr., and unit- ing the seminary at Bloomfield, N. J., either with them or another in- stitution. Farmer Killed by Bull FRESNO, Calif., May 25 (#).—A bull charged Charles C. Colb yesterday as the 59-year-old rancher stepped from his car stalled in a field. He was gored and trampled to death. RESORTS. ROCK POINT, MD. Rock Point Hotel, Rock Point, Maryland. €o. W. Lancaster, Proprietor.” Open May seatood dinners, fishing 3; reasonable rates. Routes Phone Wayside 2100. 5 and 3. 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