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Washington, D. C.
AUTO CUT
That fanfared OPM cut of 26 ty
per cent in auto production drew no
cheers from war department chiefs.
To them it was a big disappoint­
ment
First of all the cut looks a lot
bigger than it actually is. For one
thing tlie OPM carefully did not re­
veal in its hoopla press releases
was the fact that even with this
curtailment auto production still
will be 10 per cent greater than in
1933 and 1939.
In other words, notwithstanding
the increasing shortage of strategic
raw materials, such as steel, rub­
ber, alloys and other metals, auto
production is to continue at levels
higher than in the peaceful years of
'38 and '39.
Another reason for the army
gloom was that it wanted an imme­
diate cut of at least 50 per cent
For months war department heads
pleaded and argued with OPM mo­
guls for drastic curtailment on the
ground that the material going into
pleasure cars are desperately need­
ed for planes, tanks, ships, guns and
other vital armaments.
But for
months the OPM masterminds did
absolutely nothing.
Finally, in July, scrappy QPACS
Director Leon Henderson, who has
seen eye-to-eye with the army on
this issue from the start, took the
bull by the horns and “ordered"
a 50 per cent slash.
OPM's reaction was to hit the ceil­
ing. It refused to accept the ruling.
And while OPM battled behind the
scenes with OPACS. autos continued
to roll off assembly lines in record­
breaking numbers. However, Hen­
derson's bare-knuckling finally took
effect. The 2614 per cent cut is a
little less than half of what the army
and Henderson wanted, but it is 64
per cent more than OPM's original
figure.
LUKE AND El.MFR ON THAT
SEA CONFERENCE
"What do you think of the eight
point
program?"
asked
Luke
Twitchell of his brother Elmer.
“Well. Wilson needed 14." replied
Elmer. "So you see Roosevelt took
six strokes off Woodrow's game."
"And Roosevelt is playing over a
much tougher course," said Luke,
always the golfer.
"1’11 say so,” agreed Elmer.
“They didn't have so many hidden
greens in Wilson's time, the course
didn't cover so much territory and
there were fewer contestants."
"I suppose it ain't quite right to
speak of a terrible war like this in
terms of golf.” sighed Luke.
"Why not?" snapped Elmer. "It
has all the violence, bad manners,
cheating and general brutality of
the public links game, anyhow."
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Shown here are the ruins of a canning factory at Swedesboro, N. J.,
after a tornado had ripped it to pieces. George Hcniple, of Swedesboro,
waa crushed to death when a 150-foot steel slack at the cannery fell on
and smashed the truck In which he was sitting. Eighty others were In­
jured in the cannery. Other sections of Delaware and New Jersey suffered
"Why meet on a battleship to damage from the storm.
frame a program for peace and
brotherly love?" asked Luke, plain­
ly puzzled.
"Dramatic suspense, color, mys­
tery and all that,” explained Elmer.
"It ain't so much what you do or
say in a crisis like this. It's how
you put it over. That meeting had
everything but sex appeal."
“All it needed was some John
Powers’ models,” nodded Luke.
"It got across without ’em,” in­
sisted Elmer, “but I wonder they
weren't used, at that. John Bull
and Uncle Sam are out to fire the
imagination of the world, kindle the
enthusiasms of all friends of free-
TANKS FOR BRITAIN
dom and get their message into the
Some time ago the Merry-Go- mikes and onto the front pages ev­
Round revealed that a chief objec­ erywhere. And this sea huddle did
tive of Lord Beaverbrook’s visit was I it”
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to get more tanks—tanks for Iran;
tanks for Egypt, tanks eventually
"Whoever thought Churchill, num­
for an invasion of the continent. ber one man of the British empire,
Beaverbrook particularly wanted the would leave London, fly to sea and
new powerful 32 formers that soon hold a conference with the Presi­
will roll off the Chrysler assembly dent of the United States in mid­
ocean? And who ever thought the
line at the rate of 450 a month.
It can now be revealed that the President of ’he United States could
British supply minister will not go drop everything at Washington to
home empty handed. He will take go to sea for the same purpose?”
back with him very cheering assur­ asked Luke.
"It would even have been cut out
ances regarding the division of these
tanks between the U. S. and British of a movie script as too far­
armed forces. But that isn’t the end fetched,” declared Elmer. "Get the
picture! Roosevelt gets on his yacht
of his tank problem.
Allotting tanks to the British In and disappears in one of the big
this country is one thing, but deliv­ moments of history. His disappear­
ering them across the Atlantic is ance is so complete even the news­
reel men can't find him. The sus­
another.
In fact, the problem of transport­ pense is terrific. Democrats every­
ing large numbers of 32-ton tanks where begin to fear something has
is the toughest shipping problem happened to him."
“And Republicans begin to fear
maritime experts have faced since
the magnetic mine, which ravaged something has not," put in Luke.
see
shipping until the de-magnetizing de­
vices were evolved.
"Rumors of a conference with
In a nutshell here is the problem: Churchill at sea are spread, but dis­
For every shipload of light 12 ton credited as something that the hair
tanks sent to England or Africa, the tonic company would delete as in­
same ship plus nearly three-fourths credible even if Gabriel Heatter put
of another ship would be required to it in his radio broadcast,” contin­
transport the same number of 32- ued Elmer. "Nevertheless it turns
ton tanks. In other words, they are out to be the real McCoy.”
bigger. Translated into specific fig­
“Can you imagine the fit Hitler
ures—that 26-ship convoy which must have thrown when he turned
landed 560 light tanks at Alexandria aside from his Russian blitz in what
three months ago would have had he thought was one of his big mo­
to consist of 44 vessels to carry ments and realized that Winston and
the sange number of medium tanks.
Frankie had grabbed all the head­
With shipping scarcer than hen's lines?" asked Luke.
teeth, a difference of 18 ships is an
"He’s still howling." said Elmer.
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extremely important factor. Also,
the necessity of traveling in slow
“What do you think of the eight
convoys further reduces the amount points themselves?" asked Luke.
of shipping available. Some experts
“I don’t see much new," replied
estimated this reduction as high as Elmer. "They're just Wilson's old
50 per cent In addition the British model streamlined and with the fluid
sometimes take an excessively long drive. But there was nothing wrong
time to unload cargoes.
with the 14 points except that we
So the tank problem thus also be­ forgot ’em too soon.”
comes an acute shipping problem.
"Do you think the Roosevelt-
One bright spot in the situation is Churchill eight points could have
the great redaction in ship losses In been improved?” asked Luke.
the last 60 days since the extension
“I do,” declared Elmer.
of the U. S. neutrality patrols. But
“By what?” asked Luke.
the basic problem of securing more
“By a ninth point,” snapped El­
cargo bottoms still remains.
mer. “A ninth point pledging Uncle
Note: Since January 1, U. S. ship­ Sam and John Bull not to go to
yards have turned out a total of 56 sleep standing up in the middle of a
cargo vessels.
bowling alley.”
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
Army officers are singing the
praises of 20th Century-Fox's Darryl
Zanuck and many movie moguls
for their big job in filming 100 reels
of army training films. This was
the first time training films have
ever been taken, and Hollywood did
them for 40 per cent of what it would
have cost Hollywood itself to do the
job. In other words, the army only
had to pay union labor and cost of
film. Hollywood supplying the stu­
dios, production, overhead and ev­
erything else.
The Washington Diplomatic corps
is goggle-eyed over Mrs. Warren
Pierson's new book, "The Good
Neighbor Murder.” Her husband is
head of the Export-Import Bank
which loans millions to the Good
Neighbors.
Dr. I. Lubin, brilliant White House
defense expert, is the most “officed”
official in Washington. He has an
office in the White House, another
in the labor department as head of
the bureau of labor statistics, a
third in the labor division of OPM,
and a fourth in the treasury as an
adviser to Secretary Morgenthau.
QUCH n cute looking girl, he Just
17 hud to tell her "I'm glnd I
met you!" But immediately ahe
plants a doubt in his mind with
her crude “It's mutual, I'm sure!”
If only she'd leurned n correct
reply such ns "I enjoyed meeting
you, too!" As it Is, he’s glnd he
didn't ask her for a dute—she
might embarrass him wherever
they’d go.
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MORE REVIEW
New ‘Tank Killer' in Action
The U. S. S, Silvcrsidcs, another
$6,000.000 submarine for the navy, is
launched at Mare Island. Vallejo,
Calif. Five other submarines are
under construction al the Mare Is­
land navy yard. Mrs. James J. Ho­
gan was sponsor.
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The U. S. army’s provisional GIIQ tank destroyer battalion unveiled
Its weapons at impressive demonstrations at Fort Meade. Md. This sound­
photo shows a fast new “tank killer" (at left) firing Its "5-mm weapon at
tank (right) during tactical experiments in maneuvers.
Pierre Laval, foremost collabora­
tor with German “new order,” who
was shot in Versailles by an assas­
sin posing as a volunteer in French
legion recruited to fight Russia.
Duke of Kent \\ elcoined to New \ ork
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Training schooner, Verna, one of
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His royal highness, the duke of Kent, brother of King George VI of conversion to U. H. service, sails
England, is welcomed to New York city by Mayor Fiorello IL LaGuardia. from New York on maiden training
The duke, in a plane of the Canadian air force, landed at LaGuardia cruise with some 100 apprentice sca-
field, where this picture was made. He took an automobile for Hyde i men aboard. The ship was present­
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And not for home defense!
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Athens, acting under Nazi orders,
A chain of five bombs rocked downtown Havana injuring 15 persons
is to change the name of a main
street from Franklin D. Roosevelt and wrecking store fronts. Police believe the bombs were thrown by
Boulevard to the Rue de la Paper- > an anti-Hpanish political group. The store "La Moda,” well known to
hanger or something. It will do it tourists from Miami and other parts of the U. 8., is shown after the
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