1941 Newspaper Abstracts

Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, April 17, 1941:
p. , c. -

DEFENSE SPEED
URGED BY FLYER

Roscoe Turner Asserts
Nazis Can Blast Cities
Before Nation's Ready

        INDIANAPOLIS, April 16. (AP) Col. Roscoe Turner, famed speed
flyer, today said that "if our defense effort isn't speeded up, the
German air force will be able to blow down all the cities of our eastern
seaboard."
        Turner, speaking at a convention of the Indiana Restaurant
Association, advocated consolidation of the Army and Navy air forces into
a separate command, and added that plane production in the United States
should be increased.
        "Right now airplane bodies are being produced in quantities, but
production of engines and propellors doesn't keep pace," he continued.
        "Its an open secret in the industry that new warplanes are being
flown across the continent and then the propellors have to be taken off
and shipped back to the factories on the West Coast to be fastened on the
next batch of planes.
        "We won't get away from this sort of bottleneck until our
aviation preparedness program is directed by aviation people."
        Emphasizing that the European war is "mechanized," Col. Turner
declared, "the soldiers are the men in the factories."



The Weekly Corinthian, Forty-Sixth Year No. 23, Thursday, June 5, 1941:
p. 1, c. 2 -

ROSCOE TURNER
IN FINE HOME

Corinth's First Citizen Of
The Air Opens Spendid
Institute In Indiana

        The Daily Corinthian is in receipt of a beautiful souvenir
program announcing the dedication and opening of the magnificent Aviation
Institute, Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corp., at Indianapolis, Ind.
        The front page of the program shows the smiling countenance of
Corinth's first citizen of the air, who is president and manager of the
institute, along with that of the splendid building which houses the
institute.
        Second page of the program gives the career of Col. Roscoe Turner
in aviation, beginning in 1917 when he enlisted in the ambulance service
immediately after the declaration of war, his transfer to the aviation
branch of the Army, commisssion as second lieutenant, promotion to first
lieutenant in 1918, ten months overseas service including duty with the
second Army headquarters and Sixth Corps, his service with the Third Army
at Goblenz in Germany and his discharge as a first lieutentant in 1919.
        The career of the famous flier is then detailed from 1919 to 1927
when he operated airplane barnstorming "Flying Circus" squadron
throughout the country, and concluded with a chronological list of events
in the life of one of America's foremost aviation exponents who became
president and manager of his own business in 1940.  Included in the list
of lodges, societies, clubs, etc., to which Col. Turner belongs is his
honorary membership in the Anderson, S.C., Lions Club, Exchange Club of
Meridian, Miss., and the Kiwanis, Meridian, Miss., and the Kiwanis Club
of Cleveland, Ohio.
        A long list of the services offered by the institute to aviators
and fliers in general is listed in the program, together with a picture
showing the 24 trophies which have been accumulated by Corinth's leading
exponent of flying during his career in aviation circles.
        Col. Turner is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R.L.Turner, who reside a
short distance west of Corinth.


Abstracts (c) Copyright 1993 Stephanie L. Sandy

    Data transcription by: Milton Sandy, Jr. Corinth, MS - June 24, 1993