GEN. ARNOLD OUTLINES
NEW BOMBER PLANS
WASHINGTON — A sufficient
number of trained pilots to fly
the Air Corps bombardmet air
planes under the “500 bombers s
month program” has been assur
ed by Major General H. H. Ar
nold, chief of the Army Air
Forces.
This assurance is based upon
the estab ishment of 14 two-en
gined advanced flying schools, It
of which have been previouslj
enounced, and a chance in the
eligibility regulations for multi
engined airplane pilots.
Od regulations required tha
to fly as principal pilot on four
engine airplanes a man mus
have 2,000 hours of flying tim<
and 10 years of experlene?
These regulations were predicat
ed upon the scarcity of such air
planes and the economic factor:
involved.
Qualifications
The present minimum qaulific
ati-ons for eligibility of an indiv
idual for selection as principa
pilot of four-engined militarj
airplanes are:
“a. That he is an active ratec
pilot whose official rscord indie
ates that he is credited with no
less than 750 hours as a ratec
pilot in military airplanes am
that he has held a military rat
ing as heav:er-than-air pilot, am
has been on active duty as sue’:
continuously, for a total of no
less than 2 years.
“b. That he is an active rate:
pilot whose official record in
dicates that he is credited will
not less than 500 hours, IV2 year
of continuous duty as active rat
ed pilot, has been on duty in ;
multi-engined equipped bombar<
ment or reconnaissance unit fo:
fit least one year, and is a quali
fied principal pilot of a multi
J e'gined bombardment type of
I airplane.” .-.
To be el gible for principal pi
lot on two-engined airplanes a
pilot must ho'd a rating as pilot
of military heavier-than-air air
craft. be on duty as such, and be
•credited officially with at least
300 pilot hours in military air
planes.
j
Amo’d Explains
The transition training from
two to four engine equipment is
a matter of only 3-5 hours de
pending upon the experience of
the pilot. General Arnold stated.
The pilot-student must be famil
iar with the technical orders and
operating knowledge of, and abil
itv to explain the operation of all
, instruments, controls, starting
ignition and fuel system, radic
equipment and other special in
stal attons on this type of equip
ment. His course of transition
training will cover all maneu
j vers essential for the safe and
1 efficient operation of the air
plane. which includes flying on
the minimum number of engines
required to maintain flight in ar
emergency.
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WALRUS BILL IS ON
WAY TO WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Aug. — The
Senate has passed and sent tr
the White House for thd Presi
dent’s signature, the bill outlaw
. ing the gil ing, selling and posses
j don of Arctic or Bering sea wal
1 runs snd also places a ban on
. exports. This chiefly discourages
i the Eskimos from killing the wa:
; ruses for ivory tusks.
The bill allows the Eskimo tc
i kill the walurs for food or do
[ thing.
• The once abundant walrusses
• are now extinct over much of ths
■ former northern range.
DRAFT CHIEF SPEAK S—Brig. Gen. Lewis E. Her
sfcey, acting director bf selective service, was among those who
testified on possible draft period extension. At left: Capt. K V.
Keesiing, Jr., selective service legislative officer.
DEFENSE
BOND _
Q. C5an my children buy Defense Savings Stamps?
A. Yes. Hundreds of thousands of American child
ren are buying Stamps rgeularly as their share
in the national savings program.
Q. Why should children be encouraged to buy
Savings Stamps?
A. Because by buying Stamps they write their
names on a Roll of Honor of Americans who
are doing their part to show the dictators that
united America will never flinch to preserve
her sacred liberty.
Q. After my child has collected enough Stamps to
exchange for a Bond, can the Bond be register
ed in the child’s name?
A. Yes. A minor may own a Defense Savings
Bond. Many parents are registering Bonds in
their children’s names to prepare for future ed
ucational needs.
Note.—To purchase Defense Bonds and Stamps,
go to the nearest post office or bank, or write
for information to the Treasurer of the United
t States, Washington, D. C.
I If Russians Lose,
Alaska May Have
Hitler as Neighbor
! -
j WASHINGTON —Reduction of
! the distance separating nazi Ger
many and the United States from
3.000 miles of Atlantic Ocean to
30 miles cf Be-^g Sea is a re-!
mote but time the le-Ss^real pos-i
•sib: ity if the German army is]
able to walk through the Sovietj
on the three-moVhs’ time table,
schedule that Berlin has announci
ed.
It is a fantastic thing to cdffr
sider. yet so many fantastic
things have happened in this
crrzv war that it is unwise and
, unsafe to disregard the crazy
possibility that the Stars and
Stripes floating over Alaska and
the Aleutian is'ands might face
a swa tika over Siberia- and the
peninsula of Kamchatka.
And the possibility of actual
conflict in this territory, remote;
as it is, makes obvious to even
the most unmilitary mind a type]
•of warfare more bitter than the
campaign which the Soviets wag
c-d against the Finns in the Arc-i
I tic regions of the eastern Scan-1
dinavian peninsula. Long, long
lines of communication and sup-i
ply. Extremes of temperature. A
; rugged, almost roadless moun-|
tain terrain. A dependence on
polar flying that would tax ma
chines and men to the utmost,
j While the United States has
j supremacy in the Pacific ocean, J
Honolulu and Seattle are some
,3.000 mi!es from the Bering Sea.i
| and the Bering Sea is not thej
' Pacific. And while the United!
States has been strengthening its:
air bases and fortifications in Al
jaska. the advantage would seem
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to be with the side that holds Si
beria.
Soviet Russia ha built an ex
tensive system of airports from
Archangel eastward along the
Arctic circle to the Bering
Straits. Recall ‘he flights of Wil
ey Post and Howard Hughes and
you see the danger here.
Furthermore, the Soviet has
two formidable armies of some
52 divisions — an independent
force of some 800.000 men, includ
ing 10 air divisions and 11 mech
anized brigades on the Manchuk
uan border west of Vladivostok.
The throat does not come from
that force, of course, but from
the fact that behind this vast
army is a complete and independ
ent source of munitions supply
and shops for the maintenance of
aircraft and tanks.
Armies operating from these
bases would not be dependent on
supplies from European Russia
or Germany, while American
forces based in Alaska would be
almost entirely dependent on
supplies from the United States.
MUST DESTROY ARMY
Before the United States works
itself into a good scare over the
possibility of having the Ger
mans in control of the western
■side of the Bering. the Nazis
must of course overcome these
formidaVe eastern Siberian arm
ies of the Soviet, and they must
also cross the 5.000 miles of Si
berian plain, that might never
happen.
But if the German army oper
ates with the thoroughness it has
in past campaigns and complete
ly destroys or disintegrates its
opponents, as all too many peo
P e fear it may in Soviet Russia,
then there will be nothing to
stop the Nazis in their march to
the east. And whever holds the
trans-Siberian railroad holds Si
beria.
2,000 MILES OF WAR
u
On the 2,000-mile Russo-German front, Moscow claimcid heavy
counter-pffensives at Smolensk and Zhitomir. Berlin said Russian
forces were trapped in Estonia by a drive along the west side of
Lake Peipus, that a pincer around Smolensk had cleaned out Reds
inside; and that all of Bessarabia had been taken — putting the
Nazis within 20 miles ofOdessa.
CALL TO ARMS IN MOHAWK VALLEY —Through the Mohawk valley where drums beat 290 years ago throbs a
new war call—loudest at Schoharie, N. Y.. where some 200 volunteers have signed up with Sheriff Eli W. Shelmandine (seated) to de
fend their county against invasion, to meet emergencies threatening Schoharie. Any reputable citizen owning a firearm and able to buy
his own ammunition can become one of 1941’s “Minute Men.”
GETTING 1 F I I lO FIGHT ’—Men from universities and colleges in the Fourth corps area take the high hurdles in rcgula*
. „„ tion uniform in camn at Clemsnn R r as part of tests thev must pass before getting “fit to fight’* certificates.