Show aa i U DR W ICA R EN ita washington D C BRITISH the long discussed transport ot of american made bombers to england by flying them across the atlantic finally will get under way in a couple of weeks the exact date route and number of ships is a secret but the planes 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 the first flights will be made by british crews who already are in canada these men are crack transport p pilots and navigators ra trained in celestial navigation american flyers accustomed to piloting on radio beams will not be used until later possibly not before spring they will have to undergo training on the route england 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 the air over its islands this lack of powerful offensive planes has hai handicapped britain both in smashing at vital german areas and in crippling italy the weak sister of the axis one factor aiding the british is the lengthening of the night this made possible the recent raids on northern italis industrial centers and as the nights grow still longer these attacks will be increased YOUTH TRAINING with the conscription bill undergoing heavy attack on capitol hill 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 koput to i put through the non combative phase of defense which he outlined last may the program as described by roosevelt himself consists of two parts 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 the U S office of education and national youth administration have prepared complete blueprints for training hundreds of thousands of youths in the many crafts needed by a modern army Th ethree agencies are ready to swing into action at once on these programs all they need is the money but although members of congress repeatedly peat edly have urged roosevelt to 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 two men harold D smith penny pinching budget director and sidney hillman 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 timid about possible A F of L and C I 1 0 protests has backed and filled congressional leaders under fire over the conscription bill are sore at the delay on the non combative training plan they feel that if it had been submitted simultaneously it would have considerably eased the way for the military program note NYA and education office chiefs estimate the cost of the non combative program at around this would train youths in the in the NYA and ir in vocational schools supervised by e office of education during an entire I 1 year FIR CONE sen charles rys plane trip to oregon for his vice presidential acceptance ceremonies will be the first time he has traveled by air also it will be the first time in nearly a year that he has visited his hia beloved ancestral home located a few miles from salem on the mission bottom road the mcnary farm was homesteaded homestead ed by his pioneering new england grandfather james mcnary 95 years ago at that time it was a dense primeval forest and many of the giant old trees still remain WILLKIE BITS two outstanding oddities about wendell willkie are that he drive a car does not own a car and carry a watch everybody knows he went to ind indiana university few know he also attended oberlin college in ohio 1916 he s still till thinks the democrat pla torm form of 1932 which he supported k Is one of the best ever written n salary which russell davenport of fortune foran e sacrificed to join willkie 1 was i |