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LOST. _
BRACELET—Heavy arid chain charm
bracelet among charms gold pipe, baby *
ring and small gold plaque has ‘‘C. Shaw”
engraved on it: reward. Wl. 3026. --20
CAMEO BROOCH, gold mountings with
tiny pearls; liberal reward. GL. 4,866.
CAMERA, folding Kodak, containing roll
120 film, exposed; lost in downtown shop
ping district, probably Kanns. Lansburghs, !
Woodward & Lothrop or 10c store; re
ward. Phone North 6337. _ *
CHESAPEAKE RETRIEVER, male, brown
short hair, no collar; Arlington near
Cherrydale; reward. CH. 2288 or GL.
11759._____I
COAT. long, black, at the Laurel races
Friday;_reward._ Call NO._0796._
COAT. Kelly green: left somewhere' about
2 weeks ago. Call NO. 4709 eves.; EX.
6400. days, Ext. 797. MRS WALSH. —18
FOUNTAIN PEN. black. Parker 51. silver
top; lost Friday morning. OR. 1501. —-18)
DOG, black, without tag. scar across nose,
answers to name of "Blackout”; reward.
HO. 8680 j
DOG. large, white, part German shepherd. ,
missing 10 days._GL. 8364. )
DOG. purebred female rollie. white, tan.
dark blue markings, answers to "Ginger';
reward. Can WA. 3960. _
DOG. small, brtndle colored, white chest, i
male, answers to the name "Zombie SI
0690. _ —19
GLASSES, piescription bifocal dark Air1
Corps, in tan Edmonds optical case. Lib
eral reward if returned to 601 Evans Bldg.
1 420 New York ave, n.w_—19
HANDBAG, lady's, navy blue, contains
keys and glasses: Thursday, on L-4 bus or
Conn, ave. Reward. NO. 5885. —18 j
JADE PIN; lost on Tues night, btw. Wash,
and Laurel. Md. Reward. Call HO. 7300.
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KEY RING, containing approx 8 keys and
2 lady's rings, one solitaire engagement
with large center stone and three small j
stones on each side; one floral design wed
ding band set with 32 small diamonds:
lost between July 8 and July 12: reward.
H n COLLER. 2534 K st n.w.. Wash.. .
D C_ _ _
I till s HAMILTON white gold wrist
watch with 21' diamonds; lost vie. of 13th
and G sts n.w. July 14; sentimental
va’ue. Reward GE. 4912 or GE. 5782.
_ —18
MIDGET SHEPHERD, female, brown and
white left front Daw crippled: answers to;
'Babes’, rew’ard. RE. 9607. 2500 G st.;
n w___ — IS
PEKINGESE, male, black fringes: missing!
from All. home since July 14: liberal
reward_Call GL. 8367. —20
POCKET BOOK, red; downtown. Thursday
afternoon. Reward. Call AD. 5656. —18
RAINCOAT, lady's tan. with hood on Mt.
Pleasant or N. J. ave. st. car. Reward
Call TA. 8040. _—18
RING, diamond cluster, set In platinum;
Kann's Dept. Store. July 15. Reward.
Ever.. VI. 3518; days, RE. 4142. Ext
4008 _ —18_
SORORITY PIN. Kappa Alpha Theta;
downtown Wash. Reward. PAT SCHOOL.
GE. 1371. _ —19
WEDDING RING, yellow gold, carved
roses ®ier.: Thursday night. Reward.
Write Box 1S8-L. Star. 19*
i WHITE EYELET PURSE, vicinity of G
. and 15th sts. n.w.: containing personal
effects and papers. Please call SH. 2281.
WRIST WATCH, lady’s. Le Coultre. be
tween 16th and K sts and Conn. ave. and
NT st.: reward. NA. 2014 9 to 5 wkdays. ‘
WRIST WATCH, lady's gold Hamilton;
Silver Spring area; reward. MRS
MILLER- TA. 6241. __
WRIST WATCH, lady's white gold, gray
cord band: vicinity of N H and Georgia
avis._Reward. Tei. Georgia 1940. •
LOST JULY 12—A lady s Hamilton watch.
In Bucklrsham Theater or vicinity of1
theater and No. Monroe st. Reward,
ext, 3485. —18
FOUND
COLLIE, male, sable and white. Call
OL. 2629. _
DOG. female, brown and white, collar.
vaccination and D. C. tags, well trained
and well fed, Constitution ave. and 10th
■t «.w ; no reward accepted. OR. 2095.
MD BETTER, male._Call GL. 2629. j
ROWBOAT. Potomac above Feeder Dam. i
J^cne WI. 4921 and Identify. 18* 1
War-Tried Methods
Used by RAF in Short
Hops to Supply Berlin
By E. C. Shepherd
North American Newspaper Alliance
LONDON, July 17.—The Royal Air
Force transport command’s share in
carrying necessities to blockaded
Berlin has been organized on lines
similar to the big air transport
operations which served the ad
vances of the British Army through
Belgium and Southwest Germany in
the later stages of the war. Thus,
it has been based on a tried system
of air control on relatively short
hauls and on a quick turn-round at
both ends. The more than 200 Brit
ish planes taking part in the great
"airlift” have flown thousands of air
loads to the former German capital.
Taking the fleet of transport air
craft as it stood at the end of the
first week, the rate of turn-round was
remarkably good. The distance from
the airfield at Wunstorf, near Han
over, to the Gatow Airfield in Berlin
is just 150 miles. The two-engine
Dakotas fully loaded flew that
journey, were unloaded and back at
Wunstorf within 2'i hours. The
faster, four-engine Yorks, with
nearly twice the cargo to be un
loaded, made the same double
journey in 2 hours and 10 minutes.
Russians Check Numbers.
The Russians, apparently distrust
ing the reports of the high intensity
operation, had observers noting the
identification numbers of all air
craft using the air corridor to Ber
lin. However, they must have satis
fied themselves early in the second
week that the same aircraft were
in fact passing to and fro over thei1;
observation point at intervals of
about 1*4 hours.
If they had been in Belgium early
in '1945 they would have seen an
equal intensity of transport opera
tion for the benefit of the army.
Then the loads were largely fuel
and ammunition for the mechanized
units. I often saw 60 transport
aircraft on an airfield at one time
and the business of bringing in fresh
arrivals and sending out the empties
being conducted in orderly fashion
while trucks, backed up to every
transport, swiftly cleared the loads.
The one boon these operations
needed was reasonably dry weather.
That is even more essential in Ger
many.
German Oversight Corrected.
Little trouble had been taken by
the Germans up to the end of the
war to make their airfields weather
proof. Runways were comparatively
few and there were not many peri
meter tracks. Finding good stand
ing ground for fleets of aircraft in
wet weather is still difficult at many
German airfields.
That trouble was met at Wun
storf during the first week of the
air service to Berlin. The runway
served well for the takeoff and land
ing but for loading and fueling the!
aircraft had to be trundled onto the
grass, and flooding soon made this!
boggy. Similar trouble would have
been met if the RAF had tried to
use its normal transport base at
Buckeburg near Minden.
To supplement the stream of land
planes, the British added Sunder
land flying-boats from the Elbe Es
tuary near Hamburg. Naturally,1
however, the technique of control
ling converging lines of traffic was
worked out on a much bigger scale
in the course of wartime ariborne!
operations, particularly at Arnhem
and at the crossing of the Rhine.
Experienced Officers on Job.
On some of those operations, about
600 aircraft were engaged and were
brought to the rendezvous in three
converging streams. Several air
fields were used for the takeoff and
the rate of departure was one trans
port every half minute. We have
not reached so high a rate in the
Berlin operation and, through the
lack of landing grounds in Berlin,
we could not put such large numbers
into service unless arrangements
were made to parachute some of
the supplies. Transport command
handled the big wartime lifts and
acquired a measure of skill and ex
perience in the course of them.
Many of the officers who organized
and controlled those airborne oper
ations have lately been engaged in
Germany.
By comparison the Berlin air lift |
was at first a small task and that
explains why it could be put into
effect so quickly and why there was
no immediate attempt to enlarge its
scope.
The mounting of a big air trans
port operation directed on one par
ticular objective takes a long time.
The organizing of the departure
points, the working out of time,
schedules, the arrangement of re
turn routes and schedules, the brief
ing of individual pilots and the es
tablishment of efficient air controls'
make the process complicated and
prolonged. In fact. Lord Tedder,
chief of Britain's air staff, has said
that -during the advance on Ger
many, si* airborne operations were
projected and abandoned because
events on the ground moved too
fast.
Legion Auxiliary to Meet
The American Legion Auxiliary
of Arlington Post 139 will meet in
the Legion Club House, 3442 Wash
ington boulevard, at 8 p.m., Wednes-!
day.
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UNLOAD AMMUNITION FROM B-29—An Air Force armorer
gunner, John K. Bryan, of New Orleans, La., unloads ammuni
tion from the belly turret of a B-29, one of several which landed
yesterday at Marham Field, England, after a flight from
MacDill Air Base, Fla., by way of Bermuda. The Superfortresses
will participate in maneuvers with Royal Air Force planes dur
ing their two to four weeks in Britain. —AP Wirephoto.
Berlin
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risked heavy training flights in the
air corridors to Berlin.
Soviet Tightens Clamps
On Blockaded Berlin
BERLIN, July 17 (IP).—The Rus
sians made effective today another
clamp on blockaded Berlin.
Russian guards turned back three
or four American vehicles seeking
to reach the Western zones from
Berlin on the Autobahn. The guards
said a Soviet visa was needed to
leave Berlin by automobile.
The one American who passed
"just talked his way through,"
guards said.
Again tonight the Russians in
formed the Berlin safety center
that a small number of Soviet
planes would be engaged in night
flying in the Berlin-Frankfurt and
Berlin-Bueckeburg corridors.
The Russians said their planes
would fly within the circuits of
three airfields in the two corridors
up to a height of 2.500 feet. British !
officials said this is normal pro
cedure. No Soviet planes were re
ported sighted during the day.
Order Issued Week Ago.
The Russian order demanding
Soviet visas for Americans was is
sued a week ago but had not been
carried out until today.
High American officials already
have said the United States does not
recognize thg order. Americans
leaving Berlin now are warned that
they "travel at their own risk"
through the Soviet zone.
Despite the tenseness here, It is
known that there is no plan to re
move American civilians and de
pendents from Berlin. If the block
ade continues and the air lift is un
able to supply sufficient coal for the
Western sectors, Americans will
share the cold, darkness and other
hardships with the Germans.
The three Western sectors at
present, have a supply of coal suf
ficient for five weeks.
Additional restrictions on the use
of gasoline for both Americans and
Germans is in prospect. The use
of private vehicles may be banned
entirely. The ration for Americans
now is five gallons a week.
Further cuts in electricity may be'
necessary. At present the Germans
in the Western sectors are supplied
current four hours a day, the
Americans, British and French
seven hours.
The United States Air Force
made 261 flights into Berlin in the
last 24 hours. They carried 1,451
tons—1,128 tons of food, 320 tons of
coal and three tons of mail.
The RAF in the 24-hour period
made 155 flights, with tonnage not
announced.
The air lift has been hampered
by bad weather ever since it
started. High officials said the
British and Americans together can
bring 4,000 tons of food and coal
per day when more and larger
planes are provided.
The Western sectors require a
minimum of 2,000 tons of food and
2.000 tons of coal daily.
British authorities said regular
flights of coal would start from
the Fassberg Air Field near Celle
in the British zone Monday. The
coal will be carried in Dakotas
<DC-3s', which will be switched
from the food run.
“The flow of food into Berlin is
now considered satisfactory,” a Brit
ish statement said. Germans un
der British supervision have been
working night and day to prepare
the old Fassberg airport for a 24
hour air operation.
British-authorities announced to
night that more than 30 barges
from the British zone have been
held up by the Russians near Wit
tenberge on the Elbe for two weeks
or more.
A British official went to Witteh
berge last week to investigate and
found that crewmen had not been
permitted to land or obtain any
food. They also were unable to move
their barges back to the British zone
since their papers had been taken
from them.
The British official was unable to!
find a competent Soviet official and
returned Wednesday. He went
ashore to meet the Russian com
mander and was arrested. He was
brought to Berlin by the Russians <
Russia About Equal
*
To U. S. in Planes,1
Air Survey Reports
By th* Associated Press
World Aviation Annual, a new
publication, reports Russia has an
air force about the size of that of
the United States, a large and mod
ern aircraft industry, but insuffi
cient airport and airway facilities.
The new book is published jointly
by Aviation Research Institute and
the James Jackson Cabot Profes
sorship of Air Transportation of
Norwich University. J. Parker Van
Zandt, formerly of Brookings Insti
tution, is editor.
The Annual probably is the most
detailed summary of civil and mili
tary aviation throughout the world
published thus far. It covers nearly
100 countries.
The Russian air force is placed
at 400,000 men and 14,000 planes,
"including several hundred jet craft
and at least 100 B-29 type bombers.”
Forty-two per cent of the military
planes are fighters.
The Annual says Russia's “strate
gic bombing force dong range as
sault) is small, and naval aviation
has no aircraft carrier.”
Less Than 50 Well Equipped.
Reporting fewer than 50 properly
equipped landing fields among the
many hundreds in Russia, the book
adds:
"Even fields in many of the larger
cities lack paved runways, hangars
and adequate passenger terminals.
Snow removal facilities are poor,
and some fields cannot operate
throughout the winter.
"No lighted airways exist, and
practically all airlines operate in
daylight only.”
The national weather reporting
service is described as "Excellent,”
with reliance largely on 79 Arctic
observation stations.
The Russians are reported using
aircraft extensively in farming and
forestry, cargo movement and in an
aerial ambulance service, which in
1946 made 15.000 flights from 140
medical stations.
The Soviet has about 20 airframe
plants and twice that many fac
tories devoted to aircraft compo
nents, all welded into an integrated
industry.
The book estimates Russian pro
duction of B-29 type bombers at
1,000 this year, with jet fighter pro
duction running around 200 a
month.
The- industry is primarily in Eu
ropean Russia, with most plants in
the Moscow area land the Volga
Valley.
Five Jet Designs Used.
They are reported to be building
five jet fighter designs, a light jet
bomber, a four-engine jet bomber,
two propeller fighters and half a
dozen transport types.
Moscow keeps in close touch with
aviation in satellite countries. The
and not released until today. He
reported he was unable to make
any arrangements for supplying the
crews with food. Soviet authorities
would not permit the crews to ob
tain food locally.
Pan American Transport
Joins Berlin Air Lift
LONDON. July if (JP).—Aft®
American Airways plane bound from
London to Vienna was taken from its
run at Munich tonight to fly food to
Berlin, a company spokesman re
vealed. It is the first civil plane to
take part in the American "air lift":
to Berlin.
“The plane was not comman
deered,” the spokesman said. "The
Army asked us to help, and we did.
The plane, a Dakota <DC-3>, took
off for Berlin as soon as it was
loaded.”
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Red government shares ownership
of the airlines in three of the four
countries which have their owp air
transport operations and supplies
airplanes to all four.
Taking the world at,large, the
book reports 957.093 miles of air
routes—more than double the pre
war total—with 16.690,029 miles of
flying scheduled weekly. The United
States has 83 per cent of the 111.442
civil aircraft registered in the world.
Super Forts
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Tex., commander of the 28th Group,
told reporters at this Royal Air
Force base the mission had been in
the making for two weeks. He said
it was decided "two or three days
ago” that Britain would be the ob
jective.
Awaits Lemay Instructions.
Col. Henry said missions of this
sort usually last around 30 days and
that he has no reason to suppose
this one will be any different. He
said he expected to get his instruc
tions tomorrow from Gen. Legaay.
Lt. Col. Daniel E. Hawes of Rose
Hill, N. C., deputy commander of
the American B-29 base at Fursten
feldbruck, near Munich, greeted the
crews arriving here. He said the
B-29s probably will engage in joint
maneuvers with the RAF.
The bombers got a banner head
line welcome from London news
papers. For the second day in a
row the story of the Super For
tresses was the main item on the
front pages. ,
“The Yanks are here,” headlined
the Evening News. It noted that
East Anglia’s citizens have been
scanning the skies all day for "an
old familiar insignia—the star of
the United States Air Force.”
The old familiar “Got any gum.
Chum?” echoed, too, around the
East Anglian air fields as the Amer
ican crews stepped from their planes.
Vegetable Growers to Meet
BALTIMORE, July 17 The
Vegetable Growers Association of
America will hold its 40th annua!
convention at the Lord Baltimore
Hotel August 8-12.
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