Show YAP W washington D 0 BRITISH BOMBERS the long discussed transport of american made bombers to england en 9 by lying flying them across tho the atlantic finally will got get under way in a couple of weeks the exact date route and number of ships Is a secret but tho the planes plan es will be two motor Lock heeds known in england as hudson middleweight middle weight bombers and they will depart from the big airport at bottwood Bots wood newfoundland found land which was enlarged expressly for this purpose also tho the first lights flights will be made by british crows crews who already are in canada these men are arc crack transport pilots and navigators trained in celestial navigation american flyers accustomed to piloting on radio beams will not bo be used until later possibly not before spring they will have to undergo training on the route england E Is seriously deficient in long range bombers as it has had to concentrate wholly on fighting planes pursuits interceptors Intercept ors and divers in order to keep control of 0 tho the air over its islands this lack of powerful offensive planes has handicapped britain both in smashing nt at vital german areas and in crippling italy the weak sister of tho the axis one factor aiding the tha british Is tho the lengthening of the night this made possible the recent ro raids on northern italia industrial centers and as tho the nights grow still longer these attacks will be increased YOUTH TRAINING with the conscription bill undergoing heavy attack on capitol tho the president himself Is under fire on another phase of national defense in this case the criticism comes from his own advisers who demand that he act they want him to put through the non combative phase of defense which he outlined last may the program as described by roosevelt himself consists of two parts part ono one devoted to training mechanics cooks and other non combative craftsmen the second to training fighting men for planes tanks and guns to date all efforts have been concentrated cent rated on the second part of the program nothing tangible has yet been done about the first the non combative part tho the U S office of education and national youth administration have prepared complete blueprints for training hundreds of thousands of youths in tho the many crafts needed by a modern army the three agencies oro are ready to swing into action nt at once on these programs all they need Is the money but although members of congress repeatedly peat edly have urged roosevelt to got get busy nothing has happened in conferences he has readily agreed to the necessity for this training but beyond that zero insiders blame the deadlock on an two my min harold D smith penny pinching budget director and sidney hillman Hlll man labor member of the national defense commission roosevelt instructed smith to prepare budget estimates and hillman to submit plans but neither has complied smith whose functions are wholly administrative has raised policy objections that are none of his affair while hillman Hlll man timid about possible A F of L and C 1 I 0 protests has hacked backed and filled congressional leaders under fire over the conscription bill are sore at the delay on the non combative training plan they feel eel that it if it had been submitted simultaneously it would have considerably eased cased the way for the military program note noie NYA and education mee chiefs estimate the cost of the non combative program nt at around this would train youths in the in the NYA and in voca lional schools supervised by the of flee fice of education during an entire year 0 0 FIR CONE sen charles charley rys plane trip to oregon for his vice presidential acceptance ceremonies will be tho the first time he lias bas traveled by air also it will be the first time in nearly a year that he has visited his beloved ancestral an home located a few miles from from salem on the mission bottom road the mcnary farm was homesteader homestead cd ed by his pioneering now new england grandfather james mcnary 85 95 years ago at af that time it was a dense primeval forest and many of the giant glan told old trees still remain 0 0 0 if WILLKIE BITS two outstanding oddities about abou t wendell willkie are that he drive a acar car does not own a car and carry a w watch atch everybody knows he went to indiana university few know he also attended oberlin college in ohio 1916 he still thinks the democrat plat form of 1932 which lie he supported Is one of the best ever written salary which russell rus ell davenport of fortune sacrificed to joto join wilkle was |