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THE IXDIAXAPOLIS STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943. 8 200 ARMY NURSES Wong "Sirocco Perfume 10.00 also S.S0 and 16.50 SOUGHT IN AREA Indianapolis Red Cross Delegated to Act In Emergency. -'if: vv 7 U.uV A si i -v 'tmceL WitklmTuckiTuM A demand that 200 nurses be recruited immediately for service in the Army Nurse Corp to meet an emergency situation was voiced in a telegram received yesterday by Mrs. G. D.

French, chairman of the Red Cross nurse recruiting committee. The telegram read: "Fifth Service Command reports emergency demand for 200 nurses immediately. National headquarters processing all applications received to date. Can you help?" It was signed by Marguerite Wales, in charge of Red Cross nurse recruiting for the Eastern area. The urgency of the need for nurses was reiterated by Lieut.

Col. Mildred Carter, superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, Fifth Service Command, Columbus, in a telephone call to Lieut. Ilean Moore, assigned to the officer procurement district here. Appeals for Help, The Indianapolis Red Cross chapter which has been delegated to assume responsibility for the recruiting of nurses for the armed forces promptly appealed for help to the Indiana Nursing Council for War Service. Mrs.

Mary E. York, chairman of the council and president of the Indiana State Nurses' Association, pledged full co-operation and said she would get in touch immediately with "key" nurses over the slate. Lieut. Col. Carter declared a state of emergency existed and a minimum of 200 nurses must be inducted into the Army Nurse Corps without delay.

She explained a number of nurses are being assigned elsewhere and that the staffs of the army hospitals of the Fifth Service Command are being substantially reduced for the time being. It is understood that nurses are being sent overseas in large numbers to care for the casualties and that military hospitals in this country are beginning to face skeletonized nursing care. NEW, 9-POINT, SCIENTIFIC FUR COAT 9 M00f WILL COST YOU ONLY- Cleaning by Furrier Method Glazing and water-Repelling Check Rips and Tears Check Ruching, Lining New Buttons, If Needed New Loops, If Needed Demothizing Electrifying Pay Next Fall 3 INSURANCE AT 2 OF VALUATION City Hall Promised End of Heat Wave The City Hall has been hot literally if not politically since Mayor Robert H. Tyndall and his official family have taken over. Edward G.

Hereth, city purchasing agent, declared yesterday that the building "has been overheated since Jan. 1" and asked the Board of Public Works to order the chief custodian to "watch the thermometer more closely." "It's too late to save on the January, February and March steam heating bills, which aggregated but at least 10 per cent may be saved in the future," he added. "Too often I've seen the mercury around 82 degrees." Harmon A. Campbell, Works Board president, promised "relief from the heat," attributing part of the trouble to the fact that the building has not had a chief custodian much of the time. The first one was dismissed.

Because of illness, his successor has been unable to work and now a third man is being sought for the job, Mr. Campbell said. Permit Meat Exchange Retailers may exchange cuts of meat, which customers find defective or unfit for use, for other meat of the same point value, the OPA announced yesterday. But it was emphasized that the butcher cannot refund ration stamps to the customer, although any difference in money price may be adjusted as necessary. FUR COAT STORAGE WITH DAILY CARE CJ nfl Insured ONLY -UU 0UT-OF-T0WNERS Send us your coof by expren collect.

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Secret weapons of war that are destined to speed the end of the world conflict are taking their places on the precision line beside the world-famed Norden bombsight in the naval ordnance plant, 21st street and Arlington avenue. This fact became known for the first time yesterday when the Bureau of Naval Ordnance in Washington relaxed its "tight-lipped" policy and permitted Capt. George P. kraker, commanding officer in charge of the plant, to discuss operations there with Indianapolis newspapermen. AU Pritn Plut Tat Anything the newsmen observed ASSON last of five new naval ordnance plants to be completed for World War II.

must, of necessity, remain a navy secret, but certain pertinent facts surrounding the manufacture of the precision instruments, their value to the United Nations and their destructive power, were made Coty "Paris" Perfume 9.75 others 2.25 to 20.00 Altesse Massenet Perfume 17.50 public by Capt. Kraker in an inter; Also Peacetime Industry. Another disclosure made by the commanding officer that is of vital concern to Indianapolis residents is that the plant will remain in operation after the war has been won. The production of bombsights may be slowed down, but the plant has been equipped with machinery and tools that will guarantee full cate parts and it does not require that, must be exacting and perfect. "The Indianapolis naval ord view.

Within the year, the ordnance plant, operated for the Navy Department by the Lukas-Harold Corporation, will have reached capacity production and will have become the world's largest manufacturer of Norden bombsights. a series of sub-assemlilir'S that "definitely Is not a war plant. It was designed to meet the peacetime needs of navy ordnance. 'It will remain in operation so long nance plant," Capt. Kraker em- must produce a completed product I peacetime operation to meet naval Paralysis Fund Collection In City Sets New Record The highest sum ever raised in a izations of Indianapolis, the Jewish organizations and Indianapolis B.P.O.

Elks. The Hook Drug Company and L. Strauss Co. led business films. The Curtiss-Wright Corporation employes led the war plant eroups.

Oflicers and men of Fort Benjamin Harrison contributed $295. Leaders Get Awards. During the last two years the what has been characterized as the most modern precision manufacturing plant in the world. The plant is completely air conditioned and not one particle of dust or shavings is permitted to escape into the air lest the delicate mechanism of the sight be injured. All of the waste materials are salvaged and used again through an intricate filtering process at the tool and grinding machines.

Approximately 15 miles of soft-colored fluorescent lighting has been installed in the huge building and the machines and floors are kept as clean as the furniture and floor coverings in the most immaculate living room. Training Difficult. Capt. Kraker explained that although the Norden bombsights are in quantity production at the various plants operated by naval ordnance, considerable difficulty has been experienced in training bombardiers to operate them. "It is not just a matter of looking through a telescope and then letting a bomb drop," the commanding officer said.

The navy captain did not elaborate on the "intricate operation" other than to remark that "the operator must turn some cranks before the bomb is released." Nor did Capt. Kraker agree with some published reports that the sight has reached accuracy sufficient to "hit a pickle in a pickle barrel." The Norden sight," the captain admitted, "is the most accurate that has ever been produced and no enemy nation has been able to develop any that compares with it, nor has the enemy developed one that uses the same principle." Stress Pattern Bombing. All bombsights turned out by the Germans and the Japs are designed for pattern bombing, whereas the Norden sight is designed to hit a given target "right on the nose." The Norden bombsight is a precision-plus instrument. A watch, as there is a Bureau of Naval Ordnance. It is geared to manufacture anything in aviation The bombsights are delivered directly to the navy and army ordnance bureaus for distribution to planes under Ihe jurisdiction of the two branches of the armfd forces.

campaign sponsored by the Marion county chapter of the National Marion county chapter made possible the introduction of the Kenny method of treatment at Riley Hos army purchases the sights from the Naval Ordnance Bureau I through an agreement entered Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was reported yesterday. At a luncheon for 50 representatives and chairmen of the January pital. The chapter has supported this institution along with the City Full Production Near. Before many more months have passed, the undisclosed secret war weapons will be in full production. The "tooling up" stage for these new weapons has been reached and they will be ready for the precision line soon.

All of these weapons have to do with aviation ordnance equipment and they involve sighting, computation and transmission. That's as much as Capt. Kraker has to say about them now. The commanding officer disclosed, however, they are the brain child of Carl Norden, inventor of the bomb sight and that some of them involve the same principles of operation. Capt.

Kraker also revealed that the plant is meeting and exceeding Hospital, the Roberts and Negro drive, held In the Board of Trade building, the net figure of $23,002.17 ordnance needs. Although the design, the speed, the maneuvering ability of fighter planes has changed drastically within the span of the last few years, there has been little or no change in the Norden bombsight since it was turned over to the Bureau of Naval Ordnance in Washington about 15 years ago by the inventor. "Mr. Norden looked ahead to the war in the air as it would be fought many years hence when he perfected the sight," Paul H. Berger vice-president and managing director of the Lukas-Harold Corporation, declared.

"That is why we have been required to make only a few minor changes in the manuafcturing process." Manufactures All Parts. The managing director disclosed that the complete sight, with its several thousand precision parts, is manufactured and assembled here. was announced. Topping the list of contributions was the amount of $7,000.64 ob fcW 7 Z'rAvw', schools for eight years. The chapter awarded special mementoes to Mr.

Collins, Mr. Patton, Evan B. Walker, a member of the board of directors, and Don Keller, 1943 fund director. Officers of the chapter are Judge H. Nathan Swaim, president; Mrs.

tained through joint efforts of Marion county theater owners, with Kenneth C. Collins as chairman. Athletic events, with W. Blaine into between fire two departments. The first bombsight was produced at the local plant last November and since that time production schedules have been met or exceeded, Copt.

Kraker said. The plant covers 14 acres. Merchant Marine Purser Is Visiting Parents Here Raymond Conerty, a purser In the United States Merchant Marine, is visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, James II. Conerty, 237 North Randolph street.

For the last eight months he has been on convoy duty in the Atlantic ocean. A member of the merchant marine for two years, he Is a grad its production quotas of bomb- sights now, although it was the I'atton as chairman, was second, giving $4,045.72. The "wishing wells" on downtown city streets, under the direction of Mrs. J. Francis Huffman, netted $3,972.92.

Labor organizations as groups were leaders with CIO groups contributing a total of $1,338.78 and D. Keenan, vice-president; L. J. Badoliet, secretary; W. S.

Akin, executive secretary, and Evans Rust, treasurer. The board of directors include, besides the executive officers, Henry O. Goett, Mrs. Louis Markun, Jack B. Kammins, Mr.

Walker, A. B. Good, Dr. Clement T. Malan, Dr.

R. B. Storms, Judge Dan V. White and Wallace O. Lee, AT FIRST SIGN OF A Only a few employes, however, see ISANCE makliiK quite a nuisance of himitelf at leant from the viewpoint of the pair of kitten.

For Nuisance, a IZ-day-old puppy, knows when It is feeding time, is is evidenced by the picture. AFL groups $972.99. A special The yellow tabby doesn't seem to mind. I He car, owned ny Mr. direct by mail letter brought 740 individual contributions totaling and Mrs.

William Farls, 3303 East 33d street, In fact, adopted Nuisance the finished sight. The majority of the men and women working in the plant see only that small section of the sight they make at their respective sub-asserhbly posts. The employes, more than 40 per cent of whom are women, work In chairman of the board1. for example, is a simple instru-1 a companion for her new kittens. The pup, owned by Miss Naomi Faris, 11 years old, refused to become a bottle baby, but did not hesi Roger Beane assisted Mr.

Keller KZS USE $2,268.86. Other organizations makinir good contributions were Negro organ uate of Arsenal Technical High School. ment by comparison, for it can boast but a fraction of the intri- as 1943 fund director. tate in Joining the kittens at meal time. 46 TABLETS.

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