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DEATHLESS DEER Dy Hcysa end Alicia Patterson "Kl ZT 7Wv If JOLLY DECENT OF LAOV WATTLE TO GtYE HER HEIRLOOMS TO THE BRITISH WAR NOW, YOU GET TO WORK OH THOSE DISHES "tT- I LL SERVE THE COFFEE! RELIEFTir nu I C5 ry must twmimfc (SUPERB) 36 Bays' DO 5 P5 CO Xfl ai 10 U.S. AIR ARMIES SERVING OVERSEAS This is the second in a series of articles on the reorganization of the Army Air Forces. This is the third of four articles detailing the construction of a Liberty ship from the pouring of the steel to the offcial trial of the completed vessel. Sloan" Taylor, News reporter, and Joseph Costa, News photographer, spent three weeks at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant at Sparrows Point, and the Bethlehem-Fairchild shipyard in Baltimore watching the Liberty fleet in the making.

Sixteen pages of exclusive photos showing the building of a Liberty ship from the prefabrication of parts to its voyage down Chesapeake Bay will appear in the rotogravure section of tomorrow's Sunday News. By LOWELL LIMPUS Washington, D. May 7. Approximately three-quarters of the major elements constituting Uncle Sam's great new aerial armada have been assigned to the business of fighting and the great majority are all set to do that fighting abroad. Ten already have been established overseas.

That's the outstanding fact revealed by a survey of our new- By SLOAN TAYLOR Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, May 7. The 130th Liberty ship built at this yard was launched at 4:30 P. M. today. The vessel as regular production schedule Walter C.

Haines, a production department supervisor, wanted me to see the mechanical operations of launching, so we went to the head of the shipway instead of the launching 5HAUISERVE1 THE COFFEE. MADAM? Out a Ship sliding ways and bow cradle after they had been removed by an outfitting tower crane. The ways and cradle had been lashed to the hull by steel lines looped under the keel from the upper deck. The other tugs nuzzled the vessel to the outfitting pier. The fragments of the champagne bottle were saved for the sponsor of the vessel.

It is an old seagoing custom. "Are they going to lay a new keel now?" I asked Haines. He laughed. "You've seen pictures of that sort of thing but it isn't done. Look down there." He pointed to six men in hip boots at the water-end of the ways.

Three engineers and three carpenters. The carpenters were setting up a wooden frame about six feet high and five feet wide. The engineers were stretching the levelling lines for the keel blocks, as the first step in preparation for laying a new keel tomorrow. In each of the 16 shipways hert? there is a Liberty ship in some stage of incubation. (The operation of the out' fitting piers and an official trial of a Liberty ship will be described in the last article of this series in tomorrow's Sunday News.) Joan of Arc Day Algiers, May 7 (JP).

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It was the signal for the burners to begin cutting the holding plates. These had been bored with 16 holes, -inch in diameter, in a straight line across. The burners directed the flames of their gas torches against the holding plates. When the partitions between the holes were reached, the holding plates broke with a report as loud as a cannon shot. The champagne bottle crashed on the bow and the Liberty slipped gracefully down the ways as every whistle in the yard and those on four tugboats in the river opened full blast.

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Res. Seats A lv streamlined air forces. These great combat groupings are the outfits to which Gen. Hap Arnold, commander of all our air forces, is now free to devote his personal attention, following the staff reorganization discussed in the preceding article. They will carry out the global strategy outlined by the combined chiefs of staff, of which high command group Arnold is himself a member.

Of the remaining major elements, about one-eighth will be devoted to training reinforcements for the combat units and the bal ance to their supply and service. The entire field organization is broken down into more than a score of air commands and air forces, plus a single big school of applied tactics, located at Orlando, Scheduled to Expand. Each is scheduled to increase in size, as the air force expands toward its goal. Most of the combat units are separate air forces, assigned to various war theatres. Some like the 12th in North 'Africa and the 14th in China, already have won outstanding reputations.

Some now are winning similar fame, while still others are waiting to plunge into the fray. Of the 10 aerial armies now serving outside the United States five are in Pacific theatres, three in Afro-European theatres and two are watching our outlying passes-sions. Thus, the Fifth Air Force is in the Southwest Pacific, the Seventh and 13th are in the Southern Pacific, the 10th is in India and the 14th in China. The Eighth is in the British Isles, and Ninth in the Middle East and the 12th in North Africa. The Sixth holds the Caribbean area and the 11th mounts guard on Alaska.

These air forces operate under the orders of the various theatre commanders men like MacArthur and Eisenhower but Arnold, unlike the commanders of the ground and service forces, keeps in close touch with his men under such circumstances. He's responsible for their supply and maintenance and he watches their operation. Never Tells How To Do It. He may advise them what to do after they get to the front and even when to do it but he never tells them how it is to be done. That is left up to the air force commander in the field.

Arnold keeps in even closer touch with Major Gen. J. E. Chaney's AMISKMKNTS TOM'W AFT. I am, in re-ark itouo' front P.

1 platlorm. We stood under the bottom of the vessel, forward of the sliding ways, where we could see the two holding plates burned. Launching Defined. The holding plates are sheets of steel five feet long, 34 inches wide and -t -inch thick. They are bolted to the sliding ways ana anchored to the shipway.

When they are severed (burned by two men with gas torches) the vessel goes down the ways. That is launching. The sliding ways, 12-by-12-inch timbers, are made fast end to end. They extend down the ways and deep into the water. They rest on permanent ways, which are built into the shipway.

The sliding ways, moving on top of the permanent ways, bear the vessel down to the water. Prior to launching day the permanent ways are lathered with three tons of grease and the sliding ways are placed upon the slippery surface. Then, the holding plates are bolted to the ends of the sliding ways and the blocks on the permanent ways, thus preventing the vessel from slipping Deiore tne Durning. Inspected by Diver. The day before the launching a sea diver inspects the ways, walking to the point where they terminate under the Water of the Pa-tapsco River, into which the vessels here are launched.

The signal for the launching is a long, shrill blast on a whistle. The superintendent of launching waved to a member of the launching crew standing by the whistle when the time came for the signal. At the first note, the launching crew, consisting of four gangs of 20 men each, seized heavy, steel-headed mauls and began knocking loose the chocks remaining under the vessel. Painters dashed under the hull and daubed the areas that had been covered by the shoring. The launching foreman inspected both sides of the vessel to determine whether all chocks and ob- HOTELS KKSTAI KAXTS SIT'S CAY! IT'S FUNS IT'S THE ATURDAY NITE DANCE tin the Colorful l'lE ItOOM Ti(h iltr Tropical Islanders Dancing nnil Ent.

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H. Arnold Gen. W. T. Larson Top men in aerial war.

First Air Force and Brig. Gen. W. E. Kepner's Fourth, because they are assigned to the Eastern and Western Defense Commands, under Lieut.

Gen. Hugh Drum and Lieut. Gen. J. L.

Dewitt, respectively, here in the United tates. And they cooperate with units of Brig. Gen. W. T.

Larson's anti-submarine command in our coastal defenses. The First and Fourth are concentrated along the coasts, but Larson's command is scattered all over the globe, as well. Its wings and groups (the air force equivalent of brigades and regiments) are stationed wherever the U-boat menace looms, but it operates from a headquarters in New York. Larson reports directly to Ar nold, as do Major Gen. H.

L. George with the Air Transport Command and Brig. Gen. F. S.

Bo-rum, who has the Troop Carrier Command. (The former carries troops and supplies to the front; the latter handles them after they reach it.) Also reporting directly to Arnold are the second and third Air Forces, under Major Gens. Davenport Johnson and St. Clair Street, respectively. They are helping to train air crews as they serve with the Second and Third Field Armies, in inland areas.

Help to Train Crews. Focusing its attention upon safe ty precautions is the newest group of all the Flight Control Command, headed by Col. S. R. Harris Jr.

It is especially interested in weather and communications and its personnel has been placed in virtually every control tower on every field from which Army planes operate. They tell the boys when to fly and when to come down. For a description of the Orlando school, see the next article in this series. It Will appear soon. AMISKMKNTS i EVE.

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