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Show Fugitive r " " 1 & fx" : Patricia Wynn-Williams, little refugee from London a fugitive fugi-tive from an aerial blitzkreig is pictured as she arrived in New York, en route for Chicago, where she and her sister will stay with friends until the war is over. She seemed a bit bashful bash-ful as the cameraman pleads for a "big smile." BUILDING PLANES: Speed Up U. S. arsenals and navy yaads went on 24-hour schedule as contracts con-tracts for arms, ammunitions and ships began to pour out of the office of the national defense commission. Many industrial plants, bidding on thousands of articles needed to equip and train an army, also were given orders amounting to billions of dollars. dol-lars. Bottleneck Production of vitally needed airplanes air-planes still is the headache of all concerned. William Knudsen, production pro-duction chief of the NDC, said American Amer-ican factories now are prepared to turn out planes at the rate of 10,800 a year and by next January will have speeded up to the rate of 18,000 a year. But immediately following this announcement an-nouncement came the depressing news from War Secretary Stimson that although congress had appropriated appro-priated money for 4,000 fighting planes, contracts had been let for only 33 of them. And national guardsmen on maneuvers ma-neuvers at the Canadian border are without equipment. Trucks are used as make-believe heavy tanks, station sta-tion wagons simulate light tanks, logs are passed off as cannon, and gas pipes have signs informing those to whom it may concern that "this is an anti-tank gun." Stimson said businessmen wanted to know, before they undertook contracts, con-tracts, how they would be taxed, as well as assurance of tax credits for the cost of plant expansion. Stimson Stim-son said a company which undertook under-took building of new factories for defense de-fense orders was taking an abnormal risk because the plants might turn out useless in case of "a sudden cession of the emergency." On the QT Inside dope is that some airplane companies are not waiting for congress con-gress to make up its mind about taxes. Planes are being produced and put on the shelf. When congress con-gress passes the tax legislation, planes will be available at once. MISCELLANY: Touring ft Mrs. Alice Cornelius of Glen Head, N. Y., parked her car on a hill and went shopping. The car was missing when she returned. So she walked down to the police station sta-tion at the foot of the street to report it She found: A wall of the police station smashed in, furniture wrecked, a stove overturned, and, halfway up to the chief's desk, her automobile. |