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PAOfl TWO WARPLANE TYPES REDUCED TO SPUR FACT0RY0UTPUT Six General Categories Ulti mate Goal in United States Rearmament Drive Br Devon Francis (AP Aviation Editor) Washington, Aug. 7 The army gradually la reducing the number of typea of warplanes in lta defense brochure, and the result, aircraft manufacturers believe, will be reflected In a sharply accelerated output on the production lines. Multiplicity of designs has been one of the banes of air craft manufacture for years. Even Germany, with the world's greatest air force and in the midst of a war, has too many kinds of warplanes for ef ficient mass manufacture, in the opinion of United States army officers. The evidence is accumulating that Hitler's air ministry is cutting down on the number of designs produced. Six Types Planned If the army air corps hews to the line projected for maxl mum production in the air re armament drive, it will have six general categories of planes: interceptors, single-engine pur suits, twin-engine fighters, at tack planes and medium and heavy bombers. Up to now, no fewer than 18 combat types have been in the service of the air corps. That has been due partly to the existence of a tactical ex perimentation program. The army wanted to see what the planes could do, both Individ ually and en masse. It is due partly to the lack of a coord inated program for the employ ment of aircraft in wartime. Army strategy and tactics are I products of the nation's foreign policy, and the air corps has not known what it would be called upon to do. vS-Ati 1111. lllllhMf I CONTINENTAL O.Sl.UINO CORPORAI.ON. PHILADELPHIA. PA. I isA ilj ill jJQii sasaaaaaasaaakHjk TmmmttmmlmmmmaimLLmtmi rttWV ' 1 Mcdford Branch of the UXITED STATES XATIOXAL 1IAXK With the emergence of hemis phere defense as the goal of the rearmament program, the air corps found its work cut out for it. Many In Discard Here are some of the types of aircraft which will go into the discard in the drive for greater air power: single-engine I attacks, day and night bom bardment planes, single-engine bombardment planes, general liaison planes and bi plane pur suits. Remaining In the non-combat types probably will be short range corps and division obser vation planes. The Interceptors for 'local lied" defense, which the army is going to buy by the hun dreds, are typified by the Bell pursuit, made In Buffalo, N. Y. The Curtiss "P-40," made in Buffalo, typifies the new pur suit equipment, and the Lock heed twin-engine fighter, made in Burbank, Cal., the Intercep tor for long-range work. The Boeing "B-17" four-engine bomber, made In Seattle, already standard air corps equipment, and the Consoli dated "B-24," made in San Diego, also four-engined, will provide the general design for long-range bombardment ma chines. Such planes are in tended for forays deep into en emy territory on the theory that the best defense Is an offense. The army's medium bombers will be like the Douglas "B-23." made In Santa Monica, Cal., and attack planes will follow the general lines of the Curtiss "A-20," made In Buffalo. Med ium bombers, unlike the long range planes, are intended for operation in the ground army's theater of action, and attack planes are used for breaking up concentrations of ground troops. The Germans use "Stu- ka" dive bombers for the same purposes. Bomber Main Development The most sensational develop ment In warplanes the world over is the long-range heavy bomber capable of carrying multiple tons of bombs. The I United States army's newest ex-1 periment machine is designed for a "payload of 28 tons. Ger- many is reported to have six and eight-engine long-range bombers in the process of man- ufacture. IF IT'S I MEDFORD MAIL Some American army officers are talking of an even greater simplification in types only two kinds of fighters and two of bombers. The army long ago abandoned the idea of an "ideal" all-purpose plane. As one officer expressed it, "You can't make a plane which will carry 10,000 pounds of bombs, 2,000 miles and still climb to a fighting altitude of 30,000 feet in 10 or IS min utes." FOE OF T' Montreal, Aug. 7. UP) Mont real's mayor, Camiilien Houde, outspoken opponent of con scriotion, has been Interned under the war measures act, the Royal Canadian mounted police announced today. He was taken into custody at the city hall late last night, three days after he handed Montreal newspapermen an in itialed statement asking the population not to comply with COmUUlSOry lUflllUI.Bi ftrifiswa- compulsory tion scheduled to start Au gust 10. Royal Canadian mounted po lice and Quebec provincial po lice cooperated In making the arrest. Houde submitted quiet ly when police surrounded him as ho left the city hail. He was removed to mounted police headquarters and questioned for 35 minutes, then taken to an undisclosed camp for Inter ment. His Interment presumably Is for the duration of war. Opposition Leader R. B. Han son charged in the house of commons Saturday that Houde had "openly defied the law of Canada." AX WIDER BY PORTLAND OFFICER Portland, Aug. 7. UP) Tony Diorio, who attempted to at tack two patrolmen with an ax, was shot and wounded in the hip Tuesday. The shooting occurred as Of ficers D. D. Day and George Cawood attempted to serve a warrant charging Diorio's broth er with assault and battery. The complaint was signed by a sister, Lena Diorio, who said her mother had been beaten. Diorio broke away from a melee participated in by the brothers, the mother and the officers and returned with an ax. Cawood shot him for re fusing to halt. Dam Line Energised Portland, Aug. 7 (P) A 235 mile transmission line connect ing generators of Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams was ener gized yesterday, placing the Co lumbia river industrial area "within immediate reach of two of the greatest power plants in the country." Kaiier's Kin to Wed Doom, The Netherlands (via Berlin), Aug. 7. (.P) Former Kaiser Wilhclm II announced today the engagement of his grandson, 24-year-old Prince Karl Franz Josef von Preusscn, and his stepdaughter, 22-year-old , Princess Henrictte Schocnach 1 Carolath. Hoop Snakat Amerlcus, Ind. (.P) Phvllls Gray says that while cutting had IlKer ring around It WORTH KEEPING IT'S WORTH PROTECTING TRIBUNE. MEDFORD GO WITH NAZIS Texan Given Credit for Prob able Destruction of Ger man Plane in Dogfight London, Aug. 7. (JPr Arthur Donahue, stocky, 27-year-old American volunteer flier from Laredo, Texas, was given credit by the Royal Air Force today for the "probable" destruction of a German plane In a dog fight over the English channel. To Donahue, who Joined up because he "wanted to do some thing more than Just teach other people to fly, the fight was "great fun." Donahue and other members of a Spitfire squadron shot down two Messerschmitt-109 fighters and possibly downed two others in battle off the French port of Calij vesterday TrrtmmrA Vila Donahue had had 1,80(1 hours of flying experience before he enlisted. His name was tem porarily withheld by the R.A.F. because of the British empha sis on teamwork. (Descriptions of him. how ever, had convinced Robert F, Donahue, Lowell, Mass., radio station manager, that he was his brother, Arthur, for the past two years a flying instructor at Laredo. Arthur went to Cannda to enlist with the British air force, and his family received word July 17 of his arrival in England.) The young American Joined the Spitfire squadron lei than 24 hours before the engagement. Known to his British mates as "Texas Shorty." he returned j from the battle with nis plane riddled with machine-gun bul lets but escaped unscratched. First Yankee Mentioned. He was the first American pilot to be mentioned in nir min istry accounts of battles over the channel for the past few weeks. "I was never so tickled In my life," the . American said, de scribing his reactions to the battle. "We went across lis channel to look for trouble, but it was the Germans who found it. 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"I?"11, P""" tr 'utare. for . ? tli GoM'" C",e '""'on.l Kipoaition Is des. lined to become a memory on September B. and our squadron leader set the pace cy cracxing oown one Messerschmitt. He and another pilot saw it dive into the sea. "Then another pilot chased one German toward France and shot pieces off it. I had a good crack at one myself, but sud, denly found two others on me. Something hit the fuselage, shaking us a bit, but we came out of it quickly. Foes Disappear. "While I whirled around an other Messerschmitt fired into the cowling. I had another crack at him before he disap peared then we turned for home. He said he decided tc Join the R.A.F. after France collaps ed, went to Ottawa from Laredo and showed a log-book with 1,500 hours flying time. "In fifteen minutes I was out on the street again with the promise that I would be on the next boat to England, and I was," he said. Weather Northern California: Fair to night and Thursday, but over cast or foggy on coast night and morning; normal temperature: moderate northwest wind. lid mm Will Always Be The IPepHes (3IhiBne2 the reason why. the FINEST GRAIN MALT and AUGUST 7, 1940. . . , The annual Iowa picnic will be held in Lithia park, August 11, according to W. S. Stennett of Ashland, president of the association. The gathering will be In the upper picnic grounds Just above the park auto camp. Those at tending are asked to bring lunch and table service. Coffee and cream will be furnished. The dinner will be at 1 p. m. and will be followed by enter tainment and a short business meeting. Hecla Dividend Spokane, Aug. 7. OP) Di rectors of the Hecla Mining com pany of Wallace, Idaho, declared 15-ccnt dividend on common stock at a meeting here today. The dividend, amounting to $150,000, will be paid September 15 to stockholders of record Aug. 15. ! Use Man Tribune want ada. 1 J q ! A :-3 I . ' V. i sy ii.Jnaai i in WILL BE OF Roosevelt Reveals Home Duty Probable for Legion and VFW if Guard Called Hyde Park, N. Y, Aug. 7. World war veterans and their organizations probably will form President Roosevelt asserted to - day. If and when the National Guard is called into federal ser vice. wr.nooseveu.omapr...- ference the whole question of ; home Cifense ' "'Jne, study stage from the point of view of a l the state, and he had not yet obtained the war de- Mr. Roosevelt told a press con partment's recommendations. But the replacement of the guard for purely home defense duties, once it is brought inuv jopeka's No S fire com federal service under legislation 'ny responded to an alarm, now pending in congress, he said. while the fire laddies were ab probably will be built up around Jent grass in thcIr station'a war veterans and such organiza-' ...rH .....m r: Th. him tions as the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Next Trip Indefinite As for further personal inspec tions of national defense activi ties, the chief executive said he was not yet ready to announce an itinerary. He said he could not tell when an announcement might be made or even whether he might set out this week on a survey trip. The president also said that without question Pan American unity was more an accomplished fact now than ever before. The recent conference of American republics in Havana, he said, was extraordinarily in teresting and extraordinarily successful because it produced: 1. A meeting of minds on de fense of the hemisphere against any non-American power. 2. Steps to solve mutual eco- THE BEST Not necessarily the biggest. is what we wish peopl think of our used car tlol pertinent. CookseyMotorCo. lied Car Lot, 9th 4 Bartlett Dial 3618 s: PRODUCT". Honestly, if we made it any better we wouldn't be allowed to sell it! CHEAP m PRICE BUT NOT Cheap In Quality You can buy OLD KING COLE Wherever GOOD BEER IS SOLD . . . 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