PAOfl TWO
WARPLANE TYPES
REDUCED TO SPUR
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. Four
miles from Calais, at 10.000 feet,
we saw five Messermschinltt
109s and somewhere around was
a larger group of them.
"We sailed right Into them
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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
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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.
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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-
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nomic problems of North, Cen
tral and South America.
3. Prospects of controlling
fifth column activities originat
ing outside -the Americas.
Cas Ban Explained
' In response to questions, the
oresident said the limiting of
i sales of aviation gasoline to west
ern hemisphere nations supplied
a good illustration of steps to
I bring about material and eco
nomic unity, now that spiritual
! unity of the Americas has been
I accomplished.
His order last week which re
stricted sales of the fuel, Mr.
Roosevelt said, might be termed
a Pan American defense meas
ure. Because of defense require
ments of the United States and
other American nations, he said,
we can't afford to have aviation
, gas go to Europe and Asia,
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