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Show LEW FREE PRESS. LEHI. t'TAH U. S. Aviation Industry Is Grooving Up, But Don't Dare Call It a War Boom! Seren Wtst Coast Plants Working at Full Steam; Employ 30,000 Men. i . . "1 At I-- , NATIONAL AFFAIRS VTtTif"r' proclamation t..- Willi I - ,.- i Beach airport to waiting would carry freighters which wad them through ters to Great Britain. This was the "gunning" signal for American aviation, war-infeste- dog-flg- ht half-cocke- Bur-ban- WILHELMINA A peek inside the Aortft American Aviation, Inc., plant at Inglewood, Califs iubs'idiary of General Motors and one of the nation's leading concerns. Being built here are basic combat and 047 observa- ships. Wings of 7 planes are seen in the foreground. planes for the Australian govern- ers are wise enough to look for-Tl,..,'J .nlt,. ment. In addition the plant is turnon the 10 touches outtransout commercial about put finishing ing ports each month. A year ago last doors than invest in new factories month Lockheed had 2,700 employ- which a few years hence might be ees. Last March there were 4,500 ghosts. Down south, at San Diego you'll and this fall it was stepped up to 8,700, with a monthly payroll ex- find the same bustling at Ryan and Consolidated factories. Ryan, which ceeding a million dollars. got its start in 1926 when a slim U. S. Orders Come First. Lockheed's military "backlog" of young fellow named Lindbergh orders last month stood at about asked for a plane capable of flying $7,025,000, including quite a few of 3,000 miles, specializes in teaching planes. the XP-3interceptor pursuit planes pilots and building training Ships Get Bigger, Too. which the United States army has Consolidated, right next door to ordered. American army and naval aircraft, manufacturers are Ryan, and Boeing up in Seattle are careful to point out, is not being giv- building most of Uncle Sam's mamassemen second position to foreign or- moth planes. In lines at Consolidated bly you'll A of meticulous ders. group government inspectors is on hand in each find army and navy bombers alfactory, keeping things moving and most as big as the Yankee Clipper. plane has wheels that equally important keeping them The army stand 4V4 feet high the largest ever secret. Lockheed's physical problem is used on a ship. Those "flying fortresses" you've typical. Her 523,000 square feet of floor space is double the capacity of read about come from Boeing, which last year, but there still isn't enough also builds Pan American clippers room. But the plane manufactur- - and "stratoliners." Up Seattle way they used to make great ado about christening new ships and watching them take the air for the first time. But nowadays it's mere routine. Boeing has 39 flying fortresses of the type to turn out for the d of which are army, about already finished. They'll soon start on an $8,000,000 order for more fortresses of the type. Sandwiched in are nine stratoliners at in as this 1914, crisis, Through Wilhelmina has stood firm knowing $350,000 a copy (minus the engines) that no aggressor could expect any and six more clippers for at a total cost of $3,000,-00help from factions within the Dutch frontiers. Her subjects know her as The manufacturers a "housewifely queen'! who, in 1918, themselves, was clever enough to turn a threat- taking the entire matter in .stride, ened, revolution into a love feast. are inclined to lean back in their The day her socialist subjects chairs and talk about the effect it planned to revolt, she issued a proc- will have on aviation's future. A lamation announcing important so- few years ago, they point out, the industry was just limping along cial and economic reforms. As a result the Netherlands now without money for experimentation has a successful system of poor re- and new developments. Then look lief and workmen's compensation. what happened along came Uncle The.Zuider Zee has been reclaimed Sam with a lot of new ideas and a until the Dutch have a new prov- fetish for making his air force the world's best. Today everybody's ince. from the kids in college to She has held her throne longer than any other European ruler. their grandmothers. You can't stop Known as the "Dutch Victoria," she a boom like that. takes- her place as the only woman to sit around the continent's table. This is a signal success for the inexperienced ruler of 41 years ago who took charge of a nation where monarchy was on the wane. 'Too Belong to Them.' A life of exile is Wilhelmina got her first taste of new to the new royal life when still a wee child. Led to the palace balcony by her president of Poland in exile mother, she looked down on a sea that chap with the tongue- of subjects and asked, "Mama, do all those people belong to me?" Her twisting name of Wladyslaw mother replied quietly, "No, dear, Raczkiewicz. When the Polish govern-me- n you belong to them." Wilhelmina's father, William III, fled bombarded was the son of a Russian princess. and established its new headWillful like all Romanoffs, he bein the Paris embassy, Racz- came discouraged when he could quarters kiewicz was not conquer the indomitable spirit of a choice ais Dutch subjects. Broken, he with- togood lead this drew from active governmental par- homeless ticipation and lived abroad many of state. He his later years. The dowager Queen knows Emma retrieved much of the Or- it's like what to be ange popularity after his death, but a man withit was Wilhelmina's task to stem the out a counupsurge of revolution. try; he was One reason for her popularity is even a complete scorn of the hidebound exile. born in customs of royalty. Wilhelmina His name is rides a bicycle, dresses plainly and Raczkiewicz ?acations informally not as queen pronounced of the Netherlands but as the Countwith accent on the mid-H- e ess vaa Buren. She occasionally was born in an visits Switzerland, Norway and Eng- die syllable. of Russia called Kutais, outpost land but her calls are seldom of the his father, a Polish noble"state" variety and she discourages where had been sent by the tsar for return visits from other rulers un- man, political activity. less they have business to discuss. Raczkiewicz is very familiar with Her reason is that state visits cost his homeland's Russian conquerers. toe much. He learned law at the University of Rejected Nasi Protest. Dorpat, practiced two years in Wilhelmina's neutrality wasn't Minsk, and entered the Russian even jarred by the marriage of her army as a reserve officer in 1914. daughter, Princess Juliana, to GerHe. was among the first Poles to many's Prince Bernhard ru see a chance for freedom when the When the Nazis ob- Russian revolution broke in 1917. jected to her demanding passDorta Throwing himself into a combined of German guests at the wedding political-militar- y activity, he organshe uawcrru COIOIV; i his n thi ized a secret Polish military force of marriage my daughter to the man en Russian oil. This group paved she loves; it is not the of the way for organized resistance to Holland and Germany."marriage , the Soviet in eastern Poland. - 0-4- j I 1 I 8 side-by-si- Dutch Queen Works for Peace But Shuns Red Tape Diplomacy HIT WILL b my lift's tndeavor to riign a is expected from m aueen th House of Orange. Faithful to the uith to enhance the respeci constitution, of the name end flag, of the Netherlands. I with to be e just ruler over the possessions and colonies . . . and to contribute to your personal and spiritual, welfare to the best of my ability. Trusting in Cod end praying that He will strengthen me, I lake the reins of government.'' Forty-on- e years ago a handsome on the royal bal-- , and gave her pledge to the 8,500,000 subjects who dwell in a nation no larger than Maryland, and to 64,000,000 subjects in" the DutchN East Indies. Queen Wilhel-'tnin- a Today faces a more desperate international situation with the same pledge, hoping to escape invasion by the French, British or Germans, Knows Her People. The queen popped into headlines recently when she joined King Leopold of Belgium In offering her mediation services to the warring nations. The offer was refused and a few days later a border clash occurred between Dutch and Nazi nationalsstrongly reminiscent of the disputes leading to Poland's lass of 18 stood cony in Amsterdam .. s Ty " V A p one-thir- Pan-Ameri- 0. air-mind- Experienced 'Exile' Heads Polish State Founded in France PRIS. Lippe-Bieslerfel- d. WILHELMINA Plain, unassuming, the Dutch queen's social consciousness is her greatest asset m preserving the Netherlands' new trality. She has few troubles on her frontiers. November were 10 to 1, ....- TO this I I O Tl bta AUkfih With Applique Q1 t m i. Jung r :i But the! mighty thinner every iUustrate tnis, -- nc soe tispeace that pros- year. mid-Septe- - The oddsj -- uuiu - " Kut nev- - agams; of the( ertheless there were takers 1 long shot. f it llow Shreud Political Observers Dope It Out i Av pashms p. y" but it was not unexpected. Early this year France and Britain began buying war planes from firms like Lockheed, Douglas, Vultee, Ryan and Consolidated. In fact those were French planes nine American-mad- e which engaged 27 Nazi craft in the of World War II a first few day ago. Airplane manufacturers aren't god just because the ing off arms embargo has been lifted. Nor Is their expansion during 1939 being based on a wild hope for war profits. But Uncle Sam has placed enough orders with them to bring his air force to something like 5,500 planes by 1941, and this, coupled with commercial orders and those from abroad, has changed the industry from a starving infant into a strapping youngster. Many Foreign Orders. Lockheed is a good example of the seven major plane factories scattered up and down our Pacific k coast Lockheed is located at and as you approach from the air it looks like a giant factory whose walls have been knocked out by the pressure of expansion from within. Which is just about the case. Lockheed has completed most of the 250 big bombers ordered by Britain before the war started and is starting on an order of 80 similar uith uar order t- m m time. ar.u Vrn I ii v1 RriCrTltPTl mm a..m nomir'a"si tfc.se there gum, hears that German army offtie-uicers plotted Soviet in efplaced fect. Within a few minutes huge bombers were moving on barges from New York's North "cash-and-carr- ri ,ft cou!d peace of empects . . . Importance bargo votes in presidential camfxiign . . . Washington Late one OS ANGELES. - afternoon the news sped Roosevelt's T 1 cnances gloom - rflM if frt Laymen offset economists "adily becomethings hapseem at will; things ftM. fe"s umrr-porta- CARTER FIELD (Scieaaed b Western Newspaper Union.) out of Washington that congress had lifted the arms embargo. Next day President t N By GREGORY LAND IS I .MV-if of the re WASHINGTON.-M- ost Deal economists have not been cptimisUc about business and employ ment prospects for the coming spring. They have heavily discount-ined prosperity from war orders, sisting that these will not be so great But the chief thing as expected. worrying them is inventories. They insist that American producers have piled up tremendous stocks in anticipation of popular demand, that this demand has not increased in proportion, and that hence production must ease off. They are not predicting anything remotely resem-in a crasn just an increase unemployment. These arguments are pretty near-tioly the whole case of those left wing- who have been screaming laters . .w snendin? orev bv the - fnp a federal government. It is only fair to say at this point that this desire for federal spending, so essential in the eyes of most left wingers, is neither the chicken nor the egg in this case. Some of the government economists making this prediction of spring conditions are personally not in sympathy with spending at all. They are holdovers not appointees given places at the n 1 suggestion of the Frankfurter-Cor-coran-Cohe- n group. But to the layman, so ignorant of statistics that he might have difficulty understanding one of the elaborate charts so dear to the economists, there is much skepticism about these gloomy prophecies. The war orders are very tangible. They are tremendous. They promise to Far from slowing grow bigger. them down, sinking of ships carrying the supplies to Britain and France will increase the demand, for every cargo sunk must be replaced. For example, if a situation should arise under which every other cargo exported to Europe were destroyed, and continuation of this condition clearly faced the British and French, they would still be compelled to keep on buying, and to buy twice as much as though the seas were clear! They have to defend themselves and eventually to win the war, as they see it, and though neither the British nor the French will like washing, money, money is not and cannot, be, the prime essential for a long time to come. on peace The logic of those betting Poland that havins conquered over obtained all.the objectswould and . c.artPd- .u. wnicn uic and e peace . umi, ucc v IdliC o MotnnaB and iiriiain, . iiupt . . 1 ttliv th 1 Franre of liberating Poland, would accepi Hitler's offer. observThe shrewdest political war is if the that believe ers here next and June r.ext t'U going on for running politicians November, a cast having benefit by oftice will ..v, vote calculated to neip omani reverse, France, and suffer by the except in a nuir;Ler of congressionto have al districts so small as not If tne significance. national much United States should meantime have gotten into the war, it is true, side might be able the to say "I told you so," but that would not be very good political medicine for a country in the fresh sound as it fury of a war fever, later. four be years might Hear German Army Officers Plotted Soviet Tie-UOne of the reasons being given in circles diplomatic here in Washington for the Soviet-Napact is the utter distrust by the high German army officers of Italy. Not that they distrusted Mus solini's intentions. What they lacKed confidence in was the fighting ability of the Italian army and navy. Further, they regarded Italy as being highly vulnerable to attack by Britain and France. Altogether they figured that, as an ally, Italy would be a liability rather than an i Biseba Ire .! L i mou X pro-embar- BJ jjbscbx I Bob'i the t 'lit. lite fcda't Pattern rn - 4 vent 2282 1 are so easr k uiebc pdu-ijcapply you'll be surprised to your bed of pansies grow so Qui. I ly. Pattern 2282 contains a Di 0 t 1 terbt'i irho ywrite tl basel gram of Block; accurate pafigj jknown pieces; directions for mafca Jay, it quilt; illustrations; yardages. Js just Send 15 cents in coins for ft hii pattern to The Sewing Circle K. Jiert ai dlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Aw fcefore New York, N. Y. nease write your name, ij. Jlnl ge of dress ana pattern number plairjj. Thoug 5 1 p well-inform- zi asset. CLOTHESPIN NOSE Ha cold pinched your not ihut at if with a dothetpin? Lay a Luden't oo your tongue. A it melts, cool menthol vapor ri&et, help penetrate clogged na- - al pataagea with every breath. ..help relieve that "clothespin now!" ok JV. LUDEN'S 50 Menthol Cough Drop According to these reports, based excellent authority, the high German officers had been plotting for Presume Ability with the Soviet for many the tie-u- p Some of the authorities Men who undertake consider!-years. place the conception of the notion ble things, even in a regular waj, I in German army circles as far back ought to give us ground to pre--l as 1923. W. G. Krivitzky, in his ar- sume ability. Burke. ticles in the Saturday Evening Post, has told his own conviction that Stalin finally became converted to the idea immediately after Hitler's famous purge. Up to that time Her Is Amazing Relief of phia he had doubted whether Hitler was Condition Do to Sluggish Bowels sufficiently ruthless to stay in powing t er long enough to be a real ally. 'and The two theories, coming from Quid, Lborougii, refreshing, invigorating. D peodable relief from nek heed aches, bilious apeO, I On such widely separated sources, fit tired feeling when associated with constipttitt NRtafW 'men tool together very nicely. Especially as UfiWrnn DSclr iiiuiuut man drosKist. Make the tta the reports about the objectives, jferet If Dot delighted, returj the box to us. We il now accomplished, of the high Ger refund the purchase ?plagi man' officers are that they did not of t May Fly Planes to Europe fet INK aDHa today. UL .I convince Hitler of the soundness oi nine To Avoid Menace their plans until just prior to the outlout Already there is talk about flying break of the war. seas Best Friend , the planes to Europe from New"The process was very much like ;sox Emer said "Your best friend," foundlandto circumvent the sub- water wearing away rock," said one marine menace. But it is obvious of this writer s informants. "Hit- son, "is the one who can make yoiti Fax that the more serious the submarine ler did not accept the ' idea readily do what you know you ought Tl menace becomes, and the more seri- at all. When it was finally put to do." ous the menace of German bomb- him, after a long process of maj letting Det: ing planes' becomes,' the more air- him hear this or that report that fan planes Britain and France will need the Italian army would be of no DO YOU LACK PEP? both to fight Nazi planes and to value, and this and that discussion wer Phoenix, Aril. 28b spot Nazi subs. of how vulnerable Italy would be to W. F 1341 Griffin, Dr. 33 more St., says Starting from that; and looking at British and French attacks, Hitler Pierce's GoMen Medial the whole situation with a cold eco- almost had a brainstorm. gar to P brlped Discovery nomic eye, it is obvious that Amer11. me a fine appetite an l 'What!' he shouted to the of alto stronger much felt ican factories producing planes, mu- ficers at this L particular conference. its use. I had more nitions and other supplies for the anH was able to sleep lie up Germany with the Commit qui rour dmgrat Ask better." allies are going to be kept pretty em? Absurd.' But he had been set of today for Dr. Fiercer busy. It is just as obvious that the thinking about it, and Golden Medical Dw all soon it pretty ttblen sire, New fa tablets. or Kquid in ery those people working plants will became obvious that no other course L 50c.. liquid $1 and $1.35. He have money to spend, and hence could be followed. hai will buy things calculated to keep "What the British and French Ail other lines of production occupied. were All for Fame about I cannot imagthinking pia 1 The very argument so much used ine. But The desire for fame is the 2 every opr. even by left wingers as to the advantage son m Berlin knew what was desire that is laid aside sin going the wise. Tacitus. oi teaerai spending in that the dol in lars SI?ent keeP riSht on circulating on Officers High Army w mis Kept "4""' Pegging Away at Hitler Besides, there will be heavy fedpil Every now and then, according to er eral spending, even though no great this new WPA fund or anything of the ficer version, some high army ofwould be able to see Hitler kind is voted by congress. er ior some reason or other. Always sp Votes something would be said by the May Figure Embargo ar to army Hitler representative In Presidential Campaign which b; would ba calculated to makp him hi The Republicans are headed for a see the i,0 LornHarry Mtr.,Beo Beciett.Mp.foraerl, inevitability of the tieup with lot of grief in the presidential cam the Soviet, no matter what its cost so soon to 31 open if the old There was no need for paign similar work WNU W maxim of history, that one must at ivioscow. btalin had been con judge the future by the past, holds vciicu io me Good Counsel ineory for several good. The point is that an over- years. aval For nrmB nrp of little whelming majority of the Republicoufr An entirely new twist on the w,rO good is abroad, unless there cans in the house and senate voted story has been brought back from sel et home. Cicero. against lifting the arms embargo, Berlin by Americans while the Democrats, also in overwith excellent connections since the whelming majority, voted to lift it. outbreak of the war. This theory The number of Republicans in the not soundly substantiated but interhouse voting against accepting the is that Hitler did not intend conference report actually the final esting, to keep faith with Stalin when he vote on the embargo was 141. To agreed to give his high army Help Them Cleanse the Blo these must be added four Repub- finally officers their way as to the of Harmful Body Waste lican members not voting but paired tieup with the Soviet. Tour kidneys are constantly lt against it, which brings the total to was that Hitler The essence of this waste matter from the blood streamy hoped to use the 145. Only 19 Republican house kidneya sometimes lac l tneir ,w?,rTT; alliance as a sure-fir- e not act as Nature Intended ' members voted to approve the con- Russian stopmove Imparities that, if retained. w ference report, with one more, mak- per to prevent Britain and France Poison the system and npsct tne War Then he hPed body machinery. . ing 20, paired on that side. Thus Inn v when Symptoms may be nsnj bckc" it came to de the ratio is 7V to 1. Whereas the of persistent headache, attacks ai'""; ivenng, either in Poland, around Democrats in the house voted 222 the letting p nighta. emMmt. of under the a feeling or eyes Baltic, in the Balkans for the conference report, or for anxiety and loss of pep andbladda ,rflil. But destiny moved Other signs of kidney or lifting the arms embargo, and only scanvj order are sometime burning, alloweTfo -r29 voted against it, a ratio of about Lrtlta" too frequent urination. w 7 There should be no doubt thst uui on ine war limb to 1. treatment is wiser than neclf"; (, ueiure mey were apprized of It really amounts to this, that the deal Coan's PilU. Doan't have been the between Reriin nnd new t friends for more than forty 7JT Democrats voted to follow their So They bav a nation-wid- e rePi'S started they fighVing TappeTl & President leader, Are recommended by grateful pejP Roosevelt, while ently Stalin will iL ii pPt vour luithtx"' oountrv over. Atk the Republicans voted to follow isoH Wda Prom". danger ""..Uui mucn their leaders, with almost an equal double-crosOf a proportion of each party bolting BeU Syndlcata-W- NU on 0UT0FS0RTS! test-- 1 at : ener-- well-inform- 47-- il well-inform- gf a,nf:re e ,;,.. " .. s! Servlca.1 mrnm |