Show 1000 PLANES A MONTH washington th the figure which defense commission experts have fixed privately for or new factories for that new plane production program M I 1 Is this Is the p pro ra gram recently announced by william S knudsen present plane deliveries to the ar army m Y navy and to th the e british are around 1000 fighting ships per month the ardys production goal planes a month by 1942 with a comparable increase tin in engine output obviously means an enormous expansion of manufacturing faculties facilities some of the companies already are erecting new plants in addition to previous enlargements curtiss wright and glenn martin have new facilities under daybell way bell aircraft Is adding square square feet of space near buffalo boeing at seattle received for a new plant and for the same purpose but all this Is only a drop in the bucket if planes per year are ore actually to be turned out production facilities will have to be tripled if more than planes engines and armament for them are to come off the assembly lines each month PROBLEM TOWNS the defense commission is getting its noisiest nois iest headaches f from om the demand man d of inland communities for defense industries hardly a day passes without a bombardment of demands that plants be located in certain localities to this din has now been added a barrage of new demands by towns that have already been favored these defense boom towns overrun with thousands of new residents are confronted with serious housing sanitation police and other problems and are a hounding the commission for h help z p in some places the problem is so serious that the commission is considering recommending to congress a public works program which would give them the projects outright that is per cent free an example of such a boom town is charlestown Charles town ind site of what may become the worlds largest powder plant A sleepy hamlet of overnight charlestown Charles town was transformed into a seething city of with perhaps in prospect by january as the new powder plant expands naturally this boom brought thousands of workers speculators camp followers and others to charlestown Charles town housing soon be became came nonexistent non existent prices skyrocketed sky rocketed and one enterprising realtor even started to subdivide an ancient cemetery into town lots the town has no sewer system the tiny municipally owned water plant is totally inadequate and the comman community ity treasury is so broke that it cant even pay the salary of a town marshal although a government payroll of more than is now cashed every week at the towns bank the boom has spread to jeffersonville Jeffer sonville 12 miles away and to new albany 18 miles distant where housing cant be had for love or money in this dilemma the town fathers turned to uncle sam to the the U S housing authority the federal housing administration even the white house and finally to frank bane director of the state and local division of the defense commission at the presidents orders a plan has been worked out under which the defense commission the state of indiana and the town will set u up P a joint planning body to transform charlestown Charles town into a community capable of meeting its problems inauguration STANDS the presidential inauguration Is nearly three months off but already white carpenters are busy erecting stands and seats on capitol plaza reason for this unusual haste Is the defense program it if we waited much longer loneer explains divid david lynn veteran capitol a architect we be able to get any lumber the ere erection ebion of the great camps for the selective service trainees has caused a shortage in the lumber market the government is buying up a all the good lumber it can get for the canton ments the lumber shortage also will affect the seating capacity there will be room for only spectators 2000 less than in 1937 congress appropriated the same amount of money as four years ago but with increased material and lumber costs the going as far O MERR MERRY GO the expanding war department now occupies no less than 11 build ings or parts efthem of them in washington and a new big building is going up commerce secretary jesse jones Is planning to reorganize the business advisory council hi be inherited aror from harry Hopkins and wake make it a more forthright outfit jese plans plan to add a num number berof of email business men to the group there te is none non on an it now |