Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
|AhiI|erymen on K. P.
Pray for Chances as
j. 5. Parachutists
Youthful Regulars
Keen for SoIdier-like
Duty and Extra Pay
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
atsr atsff c.orrespondent.

Star staff Correspondent.
OGDENSBURG. N. Y. Aug. 2l.-
A lot of Uncle Sans regulars want
to be parachrters.
This Is one phase Of European
warfare which has stirred the mag
nations Of the blue-denimed artil-
lery privates, bored with lawn now
ing and kitchen police. who are
serving as orderlies at the tactical
headquarters Of the LIST Army here in
Ogdensburg.
Gosh" said one 22-year-old
sweaty from moving grass between
the tents, as he slipped inside one
of them for smoke" wish they'd
ask for volunteers for parachute
training. Anything for excitement
after all this KIP. and waiting table
Besides, they give you $40 a month
extra.
But they never give the artillery
chance. It's the infantry gets all
the breaks. They're picking them
for parachuters and we 60 on now
ing lawns"
Inspired by Salaries.
The boy insisted he would leap
from a plane without the slightest
hesitation. He has read all about
how 1t is done. His attitude in
spired q couple Of newspapermen in
the tent to call in the next lawn
mower who passed and ask him If
he would Like to train for parachute
jumping.
"Oh. boy, just let me at it," he
said. But I guess it's no use be-
cause they say you've got to have
high school education and I never
finished. 1t would be about the
biggest break a soldier ever got.
There probably won't be any war.
In peacetime, they'd only have you
jumping out Of planes once or twice
a week and they wouldn't have the
nerve to give you KIP. or anything
like that when you were on such
dangerous duty. Wouldn't it be a
snap"
This psychological inquiry seemed
worth pursuing and in few minutes
five more of these artilleryman-
ordernes, summoned from their
duties, replied In almost identical
terms. Not one viewed the prospect
with anything but the keenest an
ticipation and they were not to be
discouraged.
Suppose the parachute didn't
open?"
Almost to man the reply was the
latest grim joke in Army circles:
But they're guaranteed by the
factory If it fails to open, you just
send it back and get a new one
Mild Taste of Dive Bombing,
One of Uncle Sans citizens, how
ever, isn't volunteering for any dive
bombing In the next war after a
very mild taste Of what this sort OF
fighting must be like under the
tutelage of 1t. H. o. Schultze Of the
Sd Observation Squadron Of Langley
Field, who pilots newspapermen and
distinguished visitors over the field
of mimic battle.
OuSt w oAAOW WAAat Az 40 AAS, AAS
dived his Atom plane about thou
sand feet above a patch of woods at
a speed which he estimated at only
220 miles an hour. This was well
within the safe limit Of the observa-
ton plane. But far as was the ex-
ample from real dive bombing at 40C
miles an hour, it would take q lot OF
conditioning before an inexperi-
enced flyer would be apt to look upon
it as good, clean sport.
The observation flight over this
pond-strewn county, swept by mimic
warfare, during which 1t. Schultze
seemed barely to skim the trees at
times and at others turned the plane
so far on its side that towns and