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Show Reconversion Well On the Way, Jfi'tfi'l.'y.Vt'ivV:, , , ...... , .,(.. trditor'a Note: Sandor s, Klein, of -the' United - Press 'Washington. Staff-feu. Just - complete m M-day, , anile aerial tour to survey reconversion re-conversion conditions. ! .With ' IS, other 'reporters, be visited .communities aaa Miked . with some of tli country's lead- " tag businessmen, lie sums up ' in the following dispatch the -juutoranu of reconversion.) By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff .Correspondent PHILADELPHIA; Oct. 31 CU.fi) Has s Industrial-reconversion been accomplished? ' ." lC're talking about., ma chineryin place to make the pots andpans automobiles, -radios and many other sterns -we've had to do without for about four years, the answer is: - , Reconversion Is almost completed, com-pleted, - If we're talking about walking into stores and showrooms first thing 'in the morning and getting these things on demand, the answer, ans-wer, is: ... . No. Three Answers Apparent These answew'were apparent to all of us, wherever we went on our reconversion tour, "In . the south,, the' southwest, the Pacific coastfhe mid-west and the east Warsaw spanking new automo-Isilesf automo-Isilesf rolling off production - lines. We watched new refrigerators, chlnes,7new ejectrlc gadgets of all Ktnas jaKJmg-shape on assembly Bdt fthe' fact f was that-only a trickle of all these items were flowing xmt of the factories. Why, i asxeq ine men wno- were re sponsible for making them? The answers were the same all over. "We-eed more men in our factories." fac-tories." ' .': "Our parts suppliers plants are on strike." - , "We can't get all the parts we need because our suppliers won't make them at the OPA ceiling price! "We're confused. We can't plan our production until the government govern-ment announces a national policy on wages and prices." "Labor is restless. It won't produce as efficiently as it once did." One industrial leader summed up the trouble in these words: "We don't need to worry about . reconverting our plants. We've got that problem licked. What we need is a reconversion of then mind." Despite the uncertainty of the present, very : industrialist we met was optimistic about ' the economic future of the nation. They were confident that the greatest peacetime production boom in the nation's history was at hand and that it could start rolling almost overnight if the restraining factors could be eliminated. elim-inated. They cited these, favorable factors: 1. The war left a legacy of the greatest industrial plant the nation has ever had. . 2. New mass production techniques tech-niques a lot of them . short-cuts were learned during the war. 3. New kinds of products have been developed and older products prod-ucts have been improved. 4. Many industries are going to have to expand their plant and distribution facilities to meet the great pent-up demands for consumer con-sumer goods; Labor -Situation Disturbing Above alK industrialists -generally were disturbed 'about the labor la-bor situation. Labor's demands for higher wages at this time were particularly disconcerting, they said, because the government continues con-tinues to maintain what they consider a restrictive price policy. Two - .1 ips? Without exception, the industry men say they could not grant any substantial wage raises.- without increasing prices. . ' Here is a brief summary of reconversion re-conversion as we saw it in some of the nation's basic industries: . -Automobiles . In the Detroit area, Pord, General Motors,- Hudson Hud-son and Packard were, producing cars on a 'limited scale. Production rates in all these plants could be boosted sharply except for parts shortages due to strikes at suppliers' sup-pliers' plants. Plymouth will soon have one half-mile assembly line operating, with a second line coming in some weeks thereafter. there-after. This plant made munitions right up : to VJ-day. , Petroleum Most refineries were operating at full capacity on gasoline .of higher octane rating than motorists have ever had before: be-fore: Reconversion was no problem. prob-lem. Steel Fabricators Reconversion Reconver-sion ' was accomplished almost overnight. Heavy backlogs of orders or-ders in ail plants but lack of sufficient suf-ficient labor preventing full capacity capa-city operations. Shipbuilding Virtually at a standstill except in few instances where war contracts were being wound up. One yard. Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss., had $130,000,000 backlog in both government and private domestic do-mestic foreign orders. Ingalls is planning : to build diesel locomotives locomo-tives in existing shipyard facilities. facil-ities. Moore Shipbuilding and Drydock, -San Franclcso, is planning plan-ning to return to steel fabrication fabrica-tion business. Aircraft Production curtailed to point below pre-war rate: Con-solidated-Vultee expects soon to produce hew type commercial plane; Lockheed has a fair amount of orders for its constellation constel-lation airliner; Curtis-Wright at Mother Identifies Baby Clothes 2; ,-.-.;. M I aim fl : , - iw A ; '4zr;f k 1 ' ' f ' '- v 1' "tsr, " - i , v. 23 r ' TV'. (TTj? ll ISA lelephoto Mrs. Marion Emeson weeps as she turns away after Identifying clothes as those of her baby, missing since Oct. 12, when the father, Abe Emeson, disappeared with the baby, leaving a note saying he was a failure. The 10-month-old baby, Adrian, was found in San Francisco Bay, Calif. At left is Matt Sherwood, a neighbor. Rompers ' it.- KNIT Piece MATEY S FOR BROTHER and SISTER 2.95 Sizes 23 4 BABY BLUE - MAISF ;v TAYLOR BROS. SINCE 1866 But Labor , ":, , Buffalo Ja, concentrating on 4 re search on Super-high speed planes and Bell Aircraft is stepping .tip production jort helicopters. r Household w Electrical Equipment and Accessories Production vis under way in most plants but out put relatively slight because, of parts and labor Shortages. t r , . , . Chinese Civil . Va Wdy I nvolvfi United States SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U. S. army forces in China, said today American troops i will not intervene, directly in the' undeclared Chinese civil war, but warned that the turn of' events there eventually may affect the United States "economically. psychologically, and perhaps militarily." Wedemeyer arrived in the United?' States five weeks ago to confer! with military and diplo matic : officials in Washington, D. C. He will leave by plane for Chungking from Hamilton Field tomorrow to resume his command He said he thought the Ameri can press and public should not make up their minds yet about possible U. S. intervention in China's affairs. WIND CAUSES COLLAPSE OF WAREHOUSE TWIN FALLS, Ida., Oct 31 (U.R) A windstorm which reached an estimated 35 miles per hour peak yesterday caused the collapse of the front of a partially construct ed warehouse. Estimate of the damage was not available. No one was injured in the mishap. KNJT by Matey's Sizes 123 Suit These Northern Neighbors' Do Things .V it Chile's President Juan RIos pauses on good will tour o f United States to measure girth of giant redwood at Mulr Woods, Calif, with the help of 11 members of his party. President Rios (center) is entertained in typical typic-al diplomatic pomp during two-d ay stay at San Francisco. Hoard Those Sashveight s; Some Day They May Be Converted to Gold By FREDERICK C. OTIIMAN WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (U.R) Put on your medieval robes, come down into the alchemist's dungeon, and I'll tell you how to turn lead into gold Simple. Take the sash weight from your window, or any handy chunk of lead. Then rearrange the atoms in same in accordance with the standard pattern and that's it: Gold. You've got a solid 21-karat gold sashweight. That's official. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (pronounced Oh- May-Oh-Knee) of Wyoming, put on ms norn-rimmea pince nez, and wondered aloud whether the scientists of the atomic bomb in tended to do much in the way of turning one kind of metal into another. His idea was, if you've got a shortage of tin, say, it would be prejtty handy to make some from old brass door knockers, knock-ers, iron velocipedes, and pewter mugs. Dr. Allen W. Bateman of the foreign economic administration, said it could be done, all right. but for Sen. O'Mohoney not to worry for a while; it'll be a long time before it's as cheap to turn lead into gold as it is to mine your tooth fillings in the first place. That's not the point, however. There's plenty of gold around, but only enough lead is left in the earth of the U. S. A. to last 12 more years. After that we may have to think about turning gold into lead. Or as Dr. C. K. Leith of the vfar production board said: "Eventually our gold hoard in Kentucky will be exchanged for something useful." .What brought this up was an array of scientists called to tell the senate what they thought about spending $4,000,000,000 to lay in a stock pile of metals for the fighting of the next war. They agreed this was a good idea, because they agreed there probably prob-ably would be a next war. May be the United Nations will suc and SPAftKLf GUttr ( utilhitdl circtti tKt ttiuidM, $p'k K ,l,vi n4 Illy fii4 eto'um. W,r ,t t4 wct k t(fCt tkt (MR i ttvl lit! 2450 irii Ffr TAYLOR BROS. SINCE 1866 I 1 jC' - v ceed, but the metal experts have got to be shown. As Dr. Leith put it: "We all welcome a world agen cy to keep the peace, but its now in the state of wishful thinking. The news about metal supplies isn't all bad. There is, fortunate ly, enough air. The ocean is deep. These facts, according to Elmer W. Pehrson of the Bureau of Mines, are good. Nitrogen comes from the air and he said he doubted if we'd ever run out of that. You take water from the ocean, boil it down, and you get magnesium. There s plenty of sea water. We're not likely to run out of salt and our soft coal should last for 4,300 years, but we'd better go easy on iron. Pehrson pro duced a magic lantern to shine upon the wall a chart which indi cated there's only enough iron in the country's mines -to last for 11 years. Dr. Bateman, whose resignation from the government is effective tonight and who doesn't mind looking happy about it, said we'd better pile up some stuff to fight the next war before we fight it, instead of after. He spent the last four years getting metals from foreign lands, and it was no easy job. Mica, tin, talc and tan talite we needed so desperately we had to fly it in from the four ends of the world. This cost so much it gave Dr. Bateman the shudders. Me, too, I think I'm going to hoard those sash weights; some day a lead nickel will be worth more than the genuine article. RAISE AGE LIMIT WASHINGTON. Oct. 31 (U.R-The (U.R-The senate naval affairs com mittee today approved a bill to increase from 21 to 23 the age limit for men entering Annapolis There has been a 14 per cent increase in home consumption of American-made matches in the last six years. in Big. Way J CNEA Teleohoto) Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict ONTARIO, Ore., Oct. 31 (U.R) A Malheur county coroner's jury late yesterday found Wilmer L. Boyer, Ontario businessman who died Sunday, came to his death as a result of a skull fracture suffered in a fall during a fight with his brother and business partner, Ray Boyer." The verdict read "the death resulted through misfortune" in the heat of passion." The fracas took place in front of the Boyer Brothers' store here last Saturday. District Attorney E. Otis Smith said he believed the verdict meant "excusable homicide" and said he would, not bring action against Boyer. Levees along the Mississippi river in Louisiana were raised three feet after the unprecedented unprecedent-ed heights rached in the flood of 1SZ2. bin crmsL to, MuSri 8.98 vSmfyr 'J foii-v jj"-' rf lH'i i 4 lawixrte KIM TAYLOR BROS. SINCE 1866 DAILY HERALD H Concern to Powers By LGtriS F. KEEMLE s China's undeclared civil war ts a tragedy for that unhappy coun try, it also is of deep concern to iuc (iuwcis which are seeituig a stable- post-war world, with -a unified China one of the Bitr Five. The United States and Russia are the outside power most immediately im-mediately involved. Both have military forces still within China, and in the zones most hotly disputed. dis-puted. It is to the interest of all the United Nations, however, that the Chinese factions unite and make a solid contribution ' to world co-operation. The United States is normally bound by long-established tradition tradi-tion and policy not to interfere with China's internal affairs. Moreover, President Truman in his Navy Day speech laid down the principle that "the United Slates will not recognize governments govern-ments set up in any country with the force of a foreign nation. Russia is committed under the Soviet-Chinese treaty not to intervene in-tervene iu China and to recognize the authority of the central government. gov-ernment. Under the circumstances, the United States is skating perilously perilous-ly close to thin ice in the matter of non-intervention. It is true that American forces are not engaged en-gaged in active operations, other than promoting the surrender of the remaining Japanese. It is equally true that troops of the Chungking government are being moved into Communist areas by American airplanes and ship transports; that United States Marines are occupying cities in north China until the Central government forces can take over; that the Chungking armies are partly American-trained and are well equipped with American weapons and material, supplied under lend lease. Presumably, the United States has acted on the assumption that Nationalist troops, representing the legal government recognized by the United States, could take over the liberated areas. of China without civil war. But Ambassador Patrick Hur uiina tivii var Tragedy Km - V V V i I r. f1 XfWumftnwaiceruA PROVO. OTAB COUNTY. OTAH PAfST1 lit WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 31. IMS ",VJA- Deep on World Peace ley's diligent efforts to promote an agreement between the Com- munista and the Chungking gov, eminent have so far. failed. If It comes to a declared, full-scale civil war, the United States wouldi have little' choice but to pull. ouv t4mt Kama - a inf Ara national mediation. ... it may noi necessarily resuii m that. The Communists are over matched and probably would lose out in a finish fight. They can' not expect active military -aid from Russia. On the other hand, if they resorted to Guerilla war--fare, they might .be able to drag; out China's agony for years. - - , ' Idaho Tax Body Needs More Funds BOISE, Ida., Oct. 81 (U.F At a meeting here Nov. 15, the Idaho tax commission will inform' Gov. Charles C. Gossett that it cannot operate after next May unless a special session is' called - to appropriate ap-propriate more funds. Chairman Ed D. Baird, Boise, said that after Dec. 31 the board would have about $23,500 in Its appropriation and that additional-cigaret additional-cigaret stamps for. the cigaret tax must be purchased by February. Control of Germany To Be Transferred WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 CU.R President Truman- today disclosed, dis-closed, a plan whereby military control' of Germany would be transferred to Allied civilian. authorities by next June 1. Mr. Truman read to his news conference a letter from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander com-mander of the United States forces in Europe, outlining the plan to transfer the control of government in Germany to civilian civi-lian authority "at the earliest possible moment." Asked if the same principle would be followed in Japan, the president said yes. , ; "am. $swi&C. a onunim ait dJitiA- $mn coat ovomd : a ft! An a.95 lav? |