Show a 2 A: S Stuiday Morning-- - It -- -r New Defense Agency Crirds To Expedite Lagging Production of Armament t eaker Sex' Produces Planes for National Defense - ' 2194t October gakt irr'ibune Field 'Maneuvers Toughen U S Fighting Forces Can Match World's Best - 44 --Ai C Group Headed by Vice President Surveys Raw Materials And Plans Wide Subcontracting '' 1 i Organization Rapidly Shapes Up After Speedy Start 'Main Need Now Is Equipment -- ' - WASHINGTON Oct 11 (The Salt Lake Tribune Special NEW ORLEANS Oct 11 (The Salt Lake Tribune Special News Service)—An entirely new approach to the problem of News Service):—The army is getting over its growing pains and arming the United States has been taken by S PA Et the new toughened by training and field experience should be a comsuper-agenc- y for defense and officials predict that shortly perpetent though small force that can command respect among the haps within weeks a drastically revised and vastly augmented world armies by the time it has the equipment to fight program will be adopted There are many Officers—high Such a move is urgently required low—who believe the army ' for reasons of national safety say too fast A year ago the de- high officials who for months mand was for speed for it was have expressed alarm at the slow rate at which defense production not clear how soon the : soldiers has been picking up basing their might be called upon '—I opinions on army and navy reN ow most of th e army up past ports of production—figures which e L5D"Cs3 mark la r°t-nth back they cannot reveal for reasons of arnaM-un- it to to review secrecy returning military One of these men Stacy May training that was rushed throughin rethe early months to target pracwho as chief of the bureau of AB Program Army ti cs th at was curtailed because search and statistics for 0 P there was no ammunition has access to all information on innAT:1 Held as Blow t:14e defense production recently reGo Through Maneuvers turned from a month's trip to To Peace Hike Over Desert Economy Almost of the ta-- England where the British gov17274741(7 tionS combat divisions already ernment enabled him to make a ' IsoswoomwammembiewitimoZL NEW YORK Oct 11 (The Salt DAYTON Ohio Oct 11 (The have gone through field exercises thorough analysis of its was probest test Of fitnesa and duction program He is a Rocke- Lake Tribune Special News Service)-Salt take Tribune Special News —the Inside and Melba Welsh remove paint masking and clean Three hundred fifty women are doing men's work and draw short of war The greatfeller foundation economist on- --Whin ability Washington authorithe canopy windows Top left Blanche Patton does slum!-nu-n' Service)—The army is ready to est maneuvers with the Second leave Ing men's pay at the Vu lies aircraft plant at Downey Cal 12 oounce balanced army opposing the Third have "At our present rate we could ties this week decreed a halt in Here they are at some of the Jobs at which they are making just welding on electrical terminal boxes in the sheet metal dish out serene in the knowledge been concluded in Louisiana The meals go on for 10 years or perhaps 1942 for all building construction FerMcCann on on left and Lower Lou records the tho left Edith power leading fuselage great Mary shop Hight on Fourth the vrellt army exercises indefinitely without beating the not essential to defense or vital that its men can thrive on them coast were guson form a crack riveting team In the subassembly dein August The First conveyor assembly Une of Vu itee basic trainers Mary Helen axis" said May in an interview in welfare the country took emergencies public Grimes left makes' electrical installations as Alys Harris army in the northeastern section partment of the plant Way to Beat Hitler The new streamlined ration pro- is beginning its test to run the longest step yet in cutting On the other band this country away from even the semblance of viding 3500 calories daily was through November in the Carocould "decisively triedon 10 men from Wright field linas a peacetime economy But—"finished troops- cannot Hitler" he added and the war air the army corps' great testing business For the from be recovery could be won in 1943 or 1944 if the produced in a year" :So says laboratory here and four univer- Lieutenant General Lesley J Mc- - scheduled production rate the depression bottom of 1932 has present ' Nair the soldier who has been This had at its 'heart a rise in building for 1942 were doubled sity professors during a seven-da- y would mean that half our national construction which particularly trek achms parched New most closely concerned with the Income or about $45000000000 In the field of small homes has of America's new army Mexico and won its wings handily training As chief of staff of general headwould be spent next year for de- reached veritable boom Vultee Employs 350 in Manufacturing proportions Major D B Dill reported Satur- quarters he was top man in the fense compared to the present in recent years program day Newest-Battleshiiplan to spend about $22000000- i Not even the planned drastic cut Gun in Coast Plant Classifying Departments sun000 This year we are spending In and Summing up the great Loiti si n a blistered feet "Beyond most automobiles of production meneuvers General McNair told about $13500000000 Dill of "none said American gadget spectacburn" Major Bores Gives Official Praises Their Efficiency Tonr Shells Hurls Company the officials of the Second "Our program has been consis- typical higher ular though it was in highlighting the party suffered any ill effects and Third armies that the printently behind the need and we the new Miles No End More Trouble of Than 22 economy and at the conclusion of the trip cipal fault" found among the have been consistently behind the Is as on 30 different types of direct DOWNEY Cal Oct 11 fundamentally important moat of them were in better phys- troops were the result of lack of Jobs Program" said May put including production Women are doing men's work But the supplies priorities and business observers here said 11 assem11 Salt small sub Oct WASHINGTON NEW YORK Oct (The (The ical condition many being labora- leadership ' wages in the ting together and gettin g mens "I feel emphatically thst leadallocations board May added is Bit at Fountainhead ServNews Lake Tribune News Salt bdIrtieus Lake Tribune tory workers unaccustomed to ahip Special Special porepessraetis7paliinght tariprvaeytsguannad busineas and command can and must airplane manufacturing taking steps 13in the rightto direcexDill When the supply priorities and ice)—Bigger and better gurts mark Service)—Could the army substi- arduous occupations be improved" he declared on the tion "S P A is going are women and 350 It There installation of spell allocations the fittings ' board made its momen- the colorful advance of American tute more accurately descriptive plained would be unfair to create an irnout the job and tell what has to tous decision on the of Vultee in roll Aircraft pay fuselages shop equipment to hold building to ' terms for the overworked word Biscuit Chief Item be done to get this thing finbepreseion that all leadership is and they are in every manufac- power assembly line the bare essentials of defense and naval power in the 129 years bad for there are a host of fine ished to Men who less the have "caliber" recruits gave up jobs tween the old Constitutiod and the turing 'department except might A pemmican biscuit containing leaders actually exercising responAnother official closely connect- health it deliberatelyof post-192- 9 and center them in aluminum the patwelding assembly wing trouble : the principal virtually all essentials for a sible command while many other identifying the sparkplug modern U S S North Carolina ed with SPAB said that agency tern shop and the foundry and lathe operation were released for balanced diet is the ration's main- potentially fine leaders have not guns Captain Isaac Hull would be behas ordered a study of the full recovery to further the defense heavier work hammer ' shop to effort is about As the it to stay Each meal package also con-a yet had a real opportunity to exway of only womPerelle says many of the "The efficiency of these wornwildered if he could rettirn from military goods requirements score On of alone the the ercise the leadership of which they jobs the axistaking into en came well qualiflea for the be sure of the difference between tains two graham crackers and the Valhalla of naval heroes to en on the job proves a greater ' of chewing gum are capable stick e consideration the needs of this na- slice into construction unquestionof a direct could have ahare caliber field respontible jobs they production gun menu enlivened is bitakfast The e as "So know no far beneficiaries ably will have wide repercussions compare his Constitutionith I drastic tion of the sumed in stepping up produchandled by women it the and a 5C1 caliber machine gun by powdered soluble coffee with purge of weak leaders is contemhow great they would be North Carolina The contrasts be- national tion of military aircraft They for Instance is including South America and of though emergency so required" tablets and al plated although the 13111111 t12-1a was matter of still through experi- sugar malted milk dispute the civil economy tween the ships 'are amazing had built and C W Perelle general man- include who says girls 1 110aS cif small M W Watson president of the Nes ence and memory tic doubttelly ha!beea elarLtied in operated their own amateur raThe old seaman would have been ager of Vultee's tield division tidy Supply Sources In addition to Ithe Associated General Contractors of cases by performance durmany wornthe dio automobiles listt1 stations rued Forttinately Vultee began ilvtapons employing biscuit the luncheon ing these maneuvers APAB hass ordered also a study America estimated 1500000 men- proud of the North Carolina on her en last April Because It seems auto mechanics by hobby on which the army ynainly relies pemmican been of their shells ability to withstand the routine pack contains a bamt loaf tin tube reasonable and probable that leadof the United States' full produc- in the building trades and 3000- recent trial Nine of machine tools and operators ofis The dextrose of bouillon paste and relatively brief' guns' will be improved by removal tive powers 10 laarti where aultA COO more handling supplies mar- flashed from the flaming mouths of repetitive operations requir- One was a welder who made ficial designations however are tablets The supper package sports ership of weak officers as developments fuel tanks for transportation of likely to plies can be increased and what is keting and shiPping would 'lose of the great shipts maliti battery ing manual dexterity the worn- be of little help in learn- pork-besausage chocolate fudge warrant in each cast" the maximum which to oil war in World soon France were en the all in tried them nearly lemonade ing and tablets for making The office of production man- For the first time an American States can produce I Yet the average age of womof plane manufac- A 50 caliber machine gun fires The new ration has the advan- Dearth of Officers When these facts have been agement at Washington thought ship demonstrated its ability to departments rune 27 14 is en at one-hais ture Vultee them a years inch using Today cartridge over the army's type C fieldI exactly Probably the principal ream ascertained the defense officials 800000 would lose nondefense discharge in salvo 18000 pounds in diameter But a huge coastal tage ration because it does not require there will be no purge of will have two items of information building jobs with perhaps 200000 of defense gun which hurls a t to g With pushshells be palatable Major quate officers is the dearth of heating which they never have had before: of these being' reabsorbed in their projectile weighing more than a Dill said good ones Thousands of enlisted What the full need is and what trades at defense construction button ease and 'sustain the shock ton over the horizon also may be structUral damand inducted men are in officer must be done to fill the need a weapon of 50 caliber Developed by Quartermasters leaving a net loss of 600000 jobs of firing without schools but the flow has age The fact that Vice President i Produced by the quartermasters training' Several Meanings not been great enough thus far Wallace is chairman of SPAS AFL Estimates j Would Look la Vala at research laboratory to allow replacement of the unfit William L Hutcheson vice presThe explanation is the word cal- subsistence Mites prestige to the agency's inThe captain would have looked Chicago In cooperation with Dr among officers who have had come to iber has several Working boss di-is ident of the American Federation possess vestigators Ancel Keys of Minnesota‘univer- charge of - the troops durieg the for targets because some d since Donald IL Nelson executive of Labor which has the main stake vainly it meanings by the ration probably will be- peat year rector Also on the board as in the building trades unions did 12 seconds after their discharge the French from the Italian about say come standard equipment in avia were into the shells the The summer maneuvers demosof subse11 plunging mean the sixteenth century and WASHINGTON Oct not believe the ban would William Knudsen director DUNPAN FIELD San Antonio kits" packs attached strated tion "jtmgle ocean one thing forcefully—gies horizon the spouting Texas Oct- - 11 (UP)—An army Attorney General Biddle ruled quently found its way into Eng- to beyond 0 P M and Leon Henderson price Immediate widespread unemployover parachutes of pilotssflying the soldiers lish ment because so many of the men geysers of water 100 feet into the Interesting: work to administrator Indeed unless the :target is flying fortress bomber attempt- Sunday that negotiations for escaliber means the wilderness the war department do and you need not worry &bout SPAR already is getting already were at work on defense air Primarily at great ing a takeoff Saturday failed to tablishment of industrial pools Inside measurement of the bore or aralotmeed their morale things done For instance Nei building-- 40 per cent of the car- a fixed objective ranges General Marshall said "the seal son has been prodding Jesse Zones penters and joiners' union for distances are fixed by - airplane get off the ground plowed through could be carried on under auspices diameter of a gun barrel although and energy the endurance and the It may just as well apply to a federal loan administrator to get example But he thought there spotting of of office the managedemolished two a frame production building The gunners of Old 'Ironsides thermometer tube Thus the fahim to hurry along two projects to might be 'trouble later when despirit of the troops have ben a never fired at an unseen enemy automobiles and burst into flames ment without violating the anti- miliar French 75 an army field model of excellence" Increase the annual output of fense work tapered off trust laws The armies demonstrated they artillery stand-b- y since the World aluminum by 600000000 pounds and building men They had to see the target and against the field hospital Both OP It are learning well what to do with But each plan for collaboration war measures exactly 75 millimeand that of magnesium by 400- - here were agreed that the effect perhaps close in to board her The pilot First Lieutenant M ters inside its barrel or approxiTheir projectiles were round shot H what they've got The men—al000000 pounds of the plan on the country-wid- e Morgan San Ant Onto and the of large and small comPanies in mately 29 inches most 400000 of them traveling in Inserted into and mouth the gun's would be situation spotty defense for job Scans Copper Output Caliber has a more specialized down its smooth bore copilot First Lieutenant ltobert bidding collectively about 50000 vehicles—showed Where much of the construction rammed was limited byi the area Reichstadt Omaha Neb were contracts he said would be sub- meaning when applied to light that Nelson also is looking into the such as homes roads dams drain- 1Sighting they could follow maneuver case however In this it weapons de13 crew fire and Two of killed other and get to objectives with a of orders to to see the review the the how situation superior porthole by justice copper ject age etc has had little direct con- power depended upon the position members were hospitalized(Continued from Page One) refers to the fractional part of an reasonable Also nection speed without twisting could before the supply can be increased pools with the defense program Inch with no connection with the in knots And divisions the Hubert O Criss Dun- partment defense great outlays SPAB a few days ago gave ap- the local dislocatimis may be rela- of the ship with relation to the canCorporal including French decimal system Thus the budget' come demonstrated that moving field was hurt when the plane operate enemy they ' for to proval to a plan for increasing in severe scrutiny 30 a inside diameter caliber of colought tively Principal objective of the as in war the struck his car system would the steel ingot capacity by 10- - In defense plant areas around Could Fire 1050 Yards gun barrel measures ex"rhe nondefense expenditures function It supply was the bomber was laboration 0 P M officials ex- machine The fret time 000000 tons annually This was army cantonmentsor in localities three-tentor small actly 30 are been a had very test such proportionately formulated and presented by where the home building has been Varying with the powder charge en route to its base at Albuquer- plained would be great of an inch as do the Gar-an- d those for defense posed with (her que N M and swerved from the agreements which would enable Knudsen who still is working largely for essential workers the the Constitution's compared rifles and Springfield half-wa- y across small businesses to obtain consteadily on the problems of pro- net result may be negligible it wu main armiment) could be elevated diagonal runway purposes" he said 'It seems to Fitness Proved 5 degrees and fire shells of 554 the field Witnesses said It never tracts and keep their plants op- tee of Decimal Point duction out me that if we are going to make pointed There could be on question of Inches in diameter up to ranges of left the ground Careening wild- erating during the emergency Farming out of defense orders Because a fraction of an inch houson 1050 yards the Is involved the decimal point is any real saving we ouglit to make the physical fitness of the solIn requesting an opinion to small plants by subcontracting ly it crashed into a building six weeks including The revolving sturretp of the ing a classroom and the intelli- situation John Lord O'Brian before the caliber designa- certain 'whether the government is diers For recently has become a major un- Resigns From Bendix the four weeks of interarmy games North Carolina assure a-- consider- gence bureau 0 P M counsel told Biddle that placed of out worth dollar's but tions of these its weapons dertakingofOPMaiweilasthe light SOUTH BEND Ind Oct 11 (Al able arc of effective fire without The injured men were identified many companies were unable to omitted when measurements are getting preceding the army Ix army army and navy For months the the defense outlays!' stage the men from the south efforts to increase the amount of —Donald 'O Scott president and shifting the ship's position Large-calib- as Second Lieutenant T B Mc- bid singly because of their small in millimeters and west lived and general manager of the Bendix guns nitro -- cellulose Knight and Staff Seargent J J Mae or their inability to make To add confusion caliber may 'L Follette agreed with Byrd and north east subcontracting had yielded only extensive changes in production mean something entirely differ- George that blanket percentage traveled in hot warampy country the charges and high elevations of SO Jones meager results but now the con- Home Appliances Inc since1936 and death to 40 degrees give extreme ranges machinery They could however ent when referring to heavy guns reductions in the budget:would be and the toll of sicknesswar tract distribution division under company's organization in lower was than far obtain contracts or subcontracts There it is used as a term of measa mew director Floyd B Odium Saturdayi announced his resigna- exceeding 22 miles for 'The inquiry commit- ment estimates based on departexpertshells weighing a ton or more has been made an independent tion "to pursue other activity" by joining with other companies urement of the barrels length impractical tee faced they said the necessity ence and pooling facilities and experi- rather than its diameter Thus unit reporting directly to Knudof all exence O'Brian said coastal de- of a minute inspection to It wasmaneuver officially stated that ex-in the tube of a sen and it is setting up a vast an effort in up pile a it could be such 50 measured gun-ocalibers The penditures fense the of offices replied attorney general network throughout while 0 P M could lawfully Internally from breech to muzzle relatively minor savings into a pected that 133 men would die that ELIZABETH Cm N C Oct initiate formation of the pools "the is 50 times RS diameter substantial aggregate 'Rifles and submachine guns are Actually the fatalities were 88 — Two submarine chasers 11 conand most of them the result of of these of rate at the preliminary legality being produced i Far-Flun- g were launched Elizabeth at City inaccidents during the moveand discussions traffic ferences 2500 a These more than depends day ments in the preltrrorsey phases Saturday and dedicated to Re a r largely upon the nature of the acclude the Garand semiautomatic Admiral Felix Gygax of Norfolk tion which follows" exercise with During the two-werifle the automatic Browning and WASHINGTON—United States navy captures German-sponsorVa to the mission of "maintaining 28 lost their army army submachine against the Thompson gun the freedom of the seas" Arctic outpost operating radio station in GreenTwo-Ye- ar lives in maneuvers and seven in Every ship of the 'two-oceThe admiral was joined in the e accidents land 20 prisoners on way to American port--Sto- ry page I iiavy has been contracted for 250 Lieutenant General was no sicknesi even relaunching by There launched been have T ' 8 columns netfighting ships and two t one of its of 11 VP— WASHINGTON Oct R L Harris of North Carolina pose sembling epidemic proportions this year and 213have been comwork& who lauded the workers of the and the hospital lista surgeons The t federal communications missioned The keels of 436 ships MOSCOW—Russian government orders evacuation from said commission The separate to for here how knowing shipyard said were far below the tgure of increased have been laid during the year commission Saturday Blue and 'women of Red Moscow all of war the VII 11 not children and in vital ALTO PALO Cal Oct "build both speedily and well" ownership engaged 40000 the army set as usual Exand 986 ships areamder construcof standard C license Is the B "so N genernetworks of period —Radio and meteorological equipwork Its war front pushes closer to soviet capitaL—AtorY statistics were not avallaNe tion To speed production the to be desirable act from one to ment used in an experimental debroadcast stations recognized ally column 6 z in is Immediately its navy shipyards working pagel that we believe a separation will fense project at Stanford univerNoted Temperance two years and at the same time week and on a for a soon occur without the spur of a was near fire sity damaged by three-shi- ft BERLIN—Nazis claim panzer spearheads have pushed ordered its proposed rules govday basis Dies Lecturer legal mandate" Okeha Extradition Carnegie laboratory Saturday electo within 65 miles of Mostow—Story page I column 5 added any policy requiring erning radio networks made efIt E Professor Terman F Dies' General Retired SACI1A1MNITO Cal Oct-- 11 sale of substantial properties PASADENA Cal Oct 11 UM— trical engineering department fective November 15 LONDON—R A I' aided by American Eagle sqUadron 1—overnor C L Olson SaturDr Ira Landreth 76 temperance head said the equipment valued at should be applied "with due reWASHMTGTON Oct 11 The network rules were for deal heavy air blows on German targets Flight Lieutenant lecturer who was one of the lead- $2500 was badly damaged in the amended however in several gard for the preservation of fair day approved Illinois' requestGood Major General Charles G Treat of extradition the suscommission and the Jerry one values amendment retired veteran of the SpanishChez ley Gordon Peterson of Utah given special mention— ing forces in putting over the pro- blaze apparently originating from respects wishes to avoid the semblance of charged in Cook county with emhibition movement of a decade an electrical defect A routine reArnerican and World wars 'died pending indefinitely a rule which 1 column 4 page Story illNation1r died would was in B to an the Reed Walter made at have pressure on N B C to effect a bezzlement and held In Los AngeI agents ago hospital port required Saturday Saturday after les forced sale" ness of two month& San Francisco at the ate of 81 al Broadcasting company to dis liand Expérts Split On Effect of BuWing Ban N omasinLY 125 ozRation Meal SP on - :: - two-thir- ds - 4 lik- s - 12 9 Years See Women Perform Men's Work Army Recruits Vast Gains m In Aircraft Factories Wrèstle With out-produ- ce - Word 'Caliber' NaJy Gumiery - 100-mi- le ' war-dominat- ed - short-circuit- ed out-produ- ce as-b- lend-leas- - - - ever-prese- nt 18-in- the-Unite- ef d lf 16-in- ch Bomber Crah U S Approves Pools- for Kills Two On Texas Field Defense Plants armor-piercin- s - was-adapte- (— - 1 Byrd Suggests Two Billion CuA m Budget - - four-engin- ed hs Inter-compa- hs ny - er 16-in- Navy Launefics ch Two Sub Chasers Summary of Major New From Front 16-in- -- ' ed an ch f Flames Damage Defense Project ! 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