Show 4 ZFbc Friday Morning- - Salt ffakc tribune- Chief of OPA OPA Approves FPC Orders Full Inquiry Price Hike on On Runs Out of Files Utility’s Missing Gas Into Grief Pancake Flour WASHINGTON Jyly — full inquiry was ordered by Noiv Those Jeeps Can Really Go Places Giant Plane Passes Test As Troopship 30 OP) military transport plane aircraft the Curtiss-Vt'ngcorporation said Its speed of course is secret but a prototype of the Commando spanned the Atlantic nonstop in less than tine hours The Commando has a wingspan of 108 feet weighs 50000 pounds fully loaded and is powered by two Pratt and Whitney engines Aside from the ground and flight the giant troopship subjected before long (Continued from Page One) tests to which of the sky was acreage and the existence of railbe mg turned road a tremendous over to the army the most inter- trained trackage personnel together with terminal facilities would mean esting phase of the trials involved demon- that "75 per cent of the convera senes of strations sion” wouldn’t involve conversion The 712th military police bat- at all talion was used and at a signal He estimated that 30 per cent from Major Robert A Williams of the tools now in use could go soldiers charged up into plane construction "and the fully equipped time and efforts of every small manufacrunways at double-quic- k poured through a large door in the turer in the country could be enside of the fuselage listed m supplying tools and materials needed” Cars Driven Aboard When you are short of someInside the soldiers took their thing "start building it” he said places on lightweight folding seats describing that as the way "to crack a bottleneck” Imirg the walls of the cabin The oldier demonstration found acKaiser said he had been told ceptable "jeep” scout cars were there was a shortage of chrome driven aboard after which sol- for use in steel but "there is ample diers again dashed up the ramps chrome in the ground of California and took their places an excavation job and it is The transportation of troops and to get it merely out’’ scout cars is only on4 of the many All Type Needed military missions for which the Commando is designed During the day Robert P PatThe framework of the aenal terson undersecretary of war told giant is designed to accommodate reporters that although it was the dead weight of artillery army desirable to have more tractors trucks aircraft engines planes the country could notcargo lose aviation gasoline and other mo- sight of the urgent need for buildbile equipment and supplies re- ing combat aircraft and merchant quired by the modern mechanized ships Any program to increase the production of cargo planes army The beauty of the Commando should be considered in the light the company said is its ability to of these factors he said "We need all types of planes” land in comparatively small fields and take off from these fields he said "but we still have rewith a full load Due to its large quirements both for our own army for combat flap area it lands at a much lower and for the allies I don’t see a surplus of speed than that of pursuit or planes them In sight” bomber planes a large It was originally designed for The army already has domestic airlines as a cargo plane program he asserted of cargo luxury liner with soft uphol- and thein importance view of the seats lavatories shipping planes roomy stery “but it wide aisles and other passenger problem is w'ould be hazardous to predict to excomforts and Curtiss-Wrigpended more than $2000000 be- what extent the shipping nov fore an acceptable craft evolved carried by water could be shifted Now it is made to order for the to transport by air” U S army And it’s definitely bad Voice Opposition news for the axis Theodore T Wright assistant chief of the W P B aircraft branch Razor Heir Bankrupt expressed opposition to creation of the new board to speed cargo LOS ANGELES July 30 UP) — planes asserting before the miliKing G Gillette son of the late tary subcommittee it would overrazor tycoon King C Gilette filed lap the duties of the joint aircraft a voluntary petition in bankruptcy committee of which he is a memtroop-carryi- I swing open to receive army scout cars during tests of the giant troop-carryiaircraft ng Kaiser Pleads Ford Predicts Air Freight ' For Start on Planes At End of War Cargo grueling 2000-horsepow- er ng self-evide- nt ht ber Thursday ®f selliac eliminate SYSTEM MAKER-TO-YO- U the retail store overhead and profit a well a all middlemen’s tolls You Receive 100 Value for Your Money When jou purchase your clothes direct from the larje Pullman Tailor Shops Toor suit will he personally fitted to you and you alone aisurlnf you complete satisfaction style and fit Tailored-to-Ord- UP)— low-pric- court 'Thursday on complaint of the cat’s owner but sentence was suspended He said "the fine would have been worth it anyway to get some sleep” ed ed Henderson pleaded "How am I the fuel tank of an automobile) supposed to get the car here” "Get somebody to push you In may be made of an amount of here I guess” offered the attend- gasoline not in excess of one unit ant unsympathetically to enable a vehicle stranded for "That’s not necessary” Hender- lack of fuel to reach a source of son contended “The regulations supply” they specified In such provide for emergencies like this cases the service station attendI’m responsible for those regula- ant keeps the ration book until the tions I ought to know Got a car for which it was issued is copy? I’ll show you” brought to the station for identifiThe attendant didn’t have a copy cation and wouldn’t change his mind Just to get things straightened Henderson taxied to his office and out in case of future need Henlooked up the regulations just to derson personally marked and aube sure tographed a copy of the regula"Bulk transfers (meaning trans- tions and sent it to his service fers into a container other than’ station 1 Children’ Mower In the little Martha-Mar- y chapel presented with a bouquet of 78 roses by the children who attend the various schools in the village From Mrs Ford he received a new necktie and a luggage bag Host at a breakfast for a small group of newsmen and company officials Ford declined to predict how long the war might last but reiterated his conviction that "nobody ever wins anything out of in Greenfield village Ford was armed conflict” Parrying questions about the probable duration of the war Ford remarked smilingly: "It might end in a few months: suppose you tell me how long it will last” Outcome of War and records of Arkansas’ predecessor companies now being sought by the federal power commission were not made available to an examiner of the federal trade commission during that agency's investigation of the com- Set Armory Dedication HELENA Mont July 30 (UP) of the state armory board Thursday completed plans for the dedication of the $200000 Helena armory with appropriate ceremonies Saturday evemng Govpany" Several audit reports required ernor Sam C Ford and Chief Justo be preserved permanently by tice Howard A Johnson of the commission regulations also were supreme court will be speakers — Members f i? — M- - SEP I in our sparkling collection of the season's loveliest i Exclusively Hollywood Designed— Supreme Quality— Below Ceiling Price for Our AUGUST FUR SALE! IN THE FUR BUSINESS FOR A HALF CENTURY and as leading furriers we know from experience knowledge and authority that unquestionably this is the time to buy a good FUR COAT WE’VE BEEN "Perhaps out of this war we may learn to think” he went on: “And if you cause people to think ultimately they will think right — after they have made a lot of mistakes That’s education and it is only through education that we can have happiness and pros- Hollywood Designed'Furs are skillfully fashioned to make them soft smooth and supple designed to drape? gracefully to flatter your figure You are invited to see these new Fur Coats— lovelier than ever before— and remember there is no priority needed and there is no hindrance " to the war effort when you buy FUR Our perity” Ford called women in industry in many “just as good as men and Instances possessing a little better brain capacity” He said he had no apprehension that the war industries and their high wages for women would have an upsetting effect upon normal domestic concepts in the postwar area “After the war they’ll resume their place in the home” he asserted A the federal power commission Thursday ‘‘so thatf appropriate steps may be taken to transmit evidence to the attorney general of the United States for the prosecution of Arkansas Power and Light company and such of its officers or employes as may be responsible for attempting to destroy books and records” Destruction was attempted the agency said on the day it sought about to be destroyed the FPC missing records of the company said Cross reported that the execuand its predecessors in connection tive assistant explained the rewith an investigation of the origiand destruction were nenal cost of the Arkansas' prop moval cessitated by a need for filing ertles space The commission said Thursday’s In its order of July 21 institutorder followed a report by George ing the search for the Arkansas T Cross an F P C staff member company’s books and records the said there were reathat on July 22 he was in the commission to believe the sonable grounds company’s offices in Pine Bluff missing documents had been withArk and noted that a large waste held or destroyed in violation of basket was being filled with docustatute and declared that ments correspondence and other federal Bond and Share Electric papers from the files of O C subsidiaries “have pursuedcompany Shores the company’s executive ular course of conduct of a regfailing assistant to produce books and records of A review of the papers the their and such failagency quoted the Cross report ures predecessors have been totally without disclosed a file of tjie late Harvey C Couch former president of the satisfactory explanation” company “showing that the books li -- astic about the future el ijjA DETROIT July 30 MP— Freight carrying airplanes will go far toward solving the world’s distribution system after the war but the "family airplane” to replace the family car still is somewhat remote Henry Foj-- said Thursday It was Ford’s seventy-nint- h birthday and viewing the first car he built a half century ago along with the somewhat crude equipment he had at that time he remarked that he guessed he "must be getting on in years” But he was in perfect health and enthusi- Planes Called Key to Victory PULIA LAX’S FROM 30 low-pric- al (C-46- July Price Administrator Leon Henderson who figures out all the rationing programs ran out of gasoline and into a bit of grief Thursday The office of war information issued a release telling the 6) ht Brands Low-Price- d WASHINGTON July 30 UP) — Price ceilings cracked again Thursday under pressure of higher raw material and labor costs with approval by the office of price administration of an increase of 1 uncent a package on thus: story Henderson can a advertised brands of pancake and Carrying trudged to a service station w’here buckwheat pancake flour he regularly trades Leon Henderson OPA admin"Can’t do it” said the attendant said that unless dealers istrator aS the price boss handed him the can "Regulations say the gas has had been granted speedy relief to to be served in the tank of the permit profitable handling of the car Look at the notice inside your items many sellers would have been forced to discontinue the ration book” lines “I know but I’m out of gas” WASHINGTON BUFFALO N Y July 30 UP! news for Hitler HIrohito Sc Co was released here Thursday with the announcement that the new Curtiss Commando (C-4military transport plane has passed exhaustive tests and already is in quantity production The Commando more than twice as large as any domestic airliner now m operation can transport troops and scout cars simultaneously An idea of its size can be gained by research engineers’ claims that 35 of these craft could have transported all of the estimated 30000 tons of material earned by 7700 trucks over the Burma road during one month — and more quickly Nine Hours to Europe Torpedo-shape- d and of construction the Commando has a Jeeps take to the air as doors of a big Curtiss top speed approaching that of ) Commando combat Increase on Henderson’s Can — Bsd all-met- Dealers Granted Oil Station Man Won’t Fill Curtiss Airship Carries Cars Soldiers Guns -- July 31 1942 - j I A- 1942-4- 3 Skunk Goafs Assembled Muskrat Owed Luxurious Marminks i u I r j Safala Blended Muskrat IS 1 59 SI 39 SS9 natural Gray Kidskins SOD SI 19 o-r°- Z remans i LOS ANGELES July 30 (UP) — Major Alexander P de Seversky noted plane designer and authority on air tactics and strategy said Thursday night that America must win the war with air power or she will not win it Speaking at the Blue Network’s “Town Meeting of the Air” De Seversky said in this war "the problem is to bring sufficient destruction to the enemy in his home land” "Why insist on carrying this destruction on ships and on the shoulders of millions of ground troops— in a mile by mile and island by island procedure— when we can do it more directly more expeditiously more surely by con- er BOTH FOR centrated air attack?" the airman "Besides" he added "there is We w’ill win by really no choice air power or we will not rin at all” Another Group 2 SUITS Both for $3450 The largest selection of new woolens In the west to choose from A selection of over 40000 yards of materials TOO PE9P1E HCT 5B8SE tSC itlll - FBiimnn bjhdusbu toil SOUTH CJE5T TtmPlt E —0 130-13- 2 fTI Portuguese Ship Lands Refugees BALTIMORE July 30 CP) — The -ton Portuguese steamer Nyassa docked here Thursday with nearly 800 refugees from Europe and the middle east Naval intelligence officers said the passengers included a party of about 150 Polish technicians and their families en route to Canada 38 refugee children from France and about 160 children from other 8000 nations i |