Washington, O. C. BOMBER OUTPUT Though not announced by the White House, two impelling factors were behind tho President's sensa tional letter to Secretary Stimson asking for an immediate increase in the monthly output of bombers. One was the obvious need of pro viding Britain with more and big ger planes to carry the offensive to Germany. Second, known only to inside authorities, was Intelligence information that the Nazis are in creasing the bomber force of their Luftwaffe. The reports are that the German air force now consists of the following: Six main air fleets, each compris ing 1,000 bombers, 625 fighters and 75 rcconnaisanec planes, a total of 10,200. Also there is an independent air unit of 2,750 planes, a naval air service of 1,000, an operational train ing unit of 050, and a transport or ganization of 3,500 planes. In addi tion to these first-line ships, is a reserve of 12,000 others, plus 5,000 trainers and transports. Grand total: About 35,000 planes. German airplane production ca pacity is estimated at 3,000 planes a month, including about 500 bombers. However, except for bombers, Ger many is not now using her full pro duction capacity as she doesn't need that many new planes a month. Nazi March production is estimat ed at 2,200 ships of all types, but only 1,000 in April. In May, how ever, Intelligence reports are that Nazi plane production is being stepped up to replace Balkan and North African losses. Reports are vague about what the Nazis are doing with the nine gov ernment and eleven private aircraft plants in France, most of them lo cated in the occupied zone; also re garding the eight Dutch factories, including the Kokker works, and the seventeen Belgian plants. These plants have large potential producing capacity, but best infor mation is that the Nazis are strip ping them of their machine tools and other equipment. How much this will boost the Nazis' 3,000 planes a month is only a guess. U. S. Goal. Weakest link in German plane production is aluminum. From cap« tured planes, the British estimate that the Nazis use about 500 pounds of this vital metal per ship. The American average is 5,000 pounds. The undisclosed bomber goal of 1941 to which Roosevelt referred in his letter to Stimson, is 600 a month. The four new assembly plants in Omaha, Tulsa, Kansas City and Fort Wortli should produce about 300 bombers a month. To double their output it will be necessary to build and equip at least as many new plants, plus taking over an in creased ratio of automobile and oth er plant facilities to turn out the nec essary parts. The letter which OPM Director General Knudsen sent auto makers that they will have to hold down their 1942 car production to 78.5 per cent of this year's output, is con sidered only a beginning. Insiders predict that there will be another big cut soon. LATIN ADMIRALS The state department scored a ten-strike when it finally persuaded the navy to invite the chiefs of Latin American navies to visit the United States. The junket definitely carried weight. For the United States navy, without any ifs, ands or buts, is the most powerful in the world, and the thing that counts in South America today is the belief that this country can really ward off Nazi invasion. Behind the scenes, the man who helped most to dress the stage for Latin American admirals was John ny Thomason, better known for his prolific pen portraits of the marines (Red Pants, Fix Bayonets, Jeb Stuart, Salt Winds and Gobi Dust). Thomason, now a colonel in the marines, had served in Latin Amer ica, knew the importance of the ad mirals' visit. Other U. S. brass hats didn't. Admiral Harold Stark, chief .of naval operations, fumed and fret ted, only wanted to show the Good Neighbors a few East coast stations. At this point Johnny Thomason re marked: "This visit is giving you a pain in the neck. How about letting me take it over?" Thomason insisted that the trip was important enough to do it right, demanded more entertainment money from the White House and got it. At first he worked on the idea of meeting the admirals with U. S. cruisers at Barranquilla, Co lombia, taking them out to the mid- Atlantic to view the U. S. naval pa trol at work. This was given up as too long, and a coast-to-coast in spection of U. S. naval stations was substituted. * • » MERRY-GO-ROUND The G.0.P.-controlled Kansas legislature hit Rep. Jack Houston, long Kansas Democrat, with every thing but the waterbucket in gerry mandering his district, but he takes it philosophically. "When a sales man makes good on the job," he says wi'.h a grin, "his territory is in creased." • • • U. S. military intelligence places the number of German panzer divi sions at not over 20 out of a total of 2CO divisions. Draft Objectors Put to Work r*r~i'««" "' ■> IPI'M"" I ' lr l l»^"MljW»ywHy«|«W | F l l" '"U HHH'I W»»| I' I|||| V • •'•5P'-WW| A group of conscientious draft objectors being signed into Camp Patapsco, Elkridge, Md., America's first camp for conscientious objec tors, where they will serve their year doing non-military service. They will be put to work improving roads and doing conservation work. Seated at desk is Dr. E. Wiidman, director of the camp. By July 21 such camps will be in operation throughout the country under administra tion of the American Friends Service committee. Largest Transport of Its Kind f 'V . . . ~ •• •• iw - v • --' . ' yV The world's largest twin-motored airliner, the new 36-passenger Cur tiss-Wright transport plane. The plane, designed for army troop trans port, arrived in New York after a non-stop flight from St. Louis. It can accommodate 40 soldiers. Cruising at 60 per cent of full speed, it averaged better than 215 miles an hour on the 933-mile test Bight. Full Equipment Swims to Harden Tommy' ~v t i lilH. * { J Krym|K| f*WWL. I|bl&^ Officers and non-commissioned officers of the British army are shown somewhere in England, In the most strenuous part of their "harden ing" course. At the top, a detail of men takes a swim with full equip ment. Below, the men with rifles strapped to their backs and in full kit clamber from the water after their chilly dip. Hawaiian Lei Queen Rules Festivities Shown In the center of (his picture, with her court attendant!, Is Pauline H'esscl, Lcl Queen, as she ruled over the annual Lei Day festivi ties In Honolulu, Hawaii. The coronation of her majesty at the Uni versity uf Hawaii was the high spot of this colorful celebration. THE DANBURY REPORTER. THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1941 Rules New State The duke of Spoleto, 41-year-old cousin of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, who has been named king of the new Axis-created state of Cro atia. The new kingdom was carved from Jugoslavia, with areas taken by Germany and Italy as a result of victorious war. Men Hitler Trusted W Ernest Roehm (left) and Rudolf Hess, the only two men whom Hitler fully trusted seven years ago. Yet Roehm was assassinated in a "purge" and now Hess has fled Ger many. 'lnvestigated' ■ fIF ■! A German alien, Frederick Rels, 43, of Oakland, Calif., was Jailed in San Francisco with, the polic* claim, Bethlehem Steel company shipyard blueprints in his posses sion. FBI agents began an immedi ate investigation. Women's Leader Jr " : : /|||. & . lli "■ V^W::v -■ | * gills* ■s s .-/ Mrs. J. L. Whitehurst, of BaltU more, who was elected president of the General Federation of Women's Clnbs at their Triennial eonventloa la Atlantic City. Items I Never Knew .. , 'Til Now (Bui uhich you knew all along)) Rob't Sherwood's fine play, "There Shall Be No Night," won the Pulitzer Prize, which should have happened a year ago. This is regarded as highly encouraging to the theater in general—having the Pulitzers only one year behind the parade. Billy Gilbert has narr.cJ his es tate "Gezunt Heights." Ned Russell, of the United Press, was given a 3-week vacation in Dub lin, and came back with a story which shows the extreme eagerness and the extreme ends to which the Irish Free State is going to pre serve its neutrality. The Irish navy (consisting of two torpedo motor boats) was ordered out on maneu vers, and their instructions read: "You will proceed from the harbor to sea, where you will meet and engage either the Hood or the Scharnhorst ..." James Gleason plans his sixteenth newspaper managing editor on the screen in the soon-due "Affection ately Yours." (That's either a rec ord or a rut!) At Fort Williams, there is a Pri vate William Williams, who comes from Williams Street, Williamson, W. Va. (Or, to put it briefly, where there's a Williams, there's a Wil liams.) A discussion was in progress about democracy, and one of the group seemed to think his ancestry entitled him to a dogmatic view on everything. "I think," he smirked, "that the argument on America should end with my views. After all —my ancestors came over on the Mayflower" ... "You're lucky," was soprano Genevieve Rowe's com ment, "after all, the immigration laws are a bit stricter now." The America First outfit claims in its ads that it hasn't wealthy backers ... A few months ago that group was asked for a list of its backers, but refused to give it. Finally they gave a partial list— which included many wealthy men and women . . . Why have they such short memories? According to Wilfred J. Funk, the average dog has a vocabulary of 60 words. (That's the number of words it undersstands.) In the new book, "Men and Poli tics," the author says: "Germany has no unemployment. But nei ther has a prison." According to the Open Book, whether a black cat following is bad luck depends on whether you're a man or a mouse. You can tell the difference be tween a Nazi and a British plane by their sounds. Nazi bombers sound like this: "Voom, voom, voom. Vooma-doom-voom" . . . British planes sound like: "Yowzer yowzeryowzeryowzer" ... Or so returning correspondents are telling the Stork Clubbers, at any rate. When it was rumored Marshal Goering might receive an Austrian Knighthood, Punch suggested hij new title be: "Sir Cumference." Memos of a .. . Girl Friday: Dear W. W.: After two months of trailing Jan Valtin, Steve Birming ham (the Dies Committee sleith) caught up with him in the parking lot opposite The Algonk and served him with a summons . . . Jimmy Walker evened things with certain Hollywood people (formerly of Broadway) at the Jack Benny af fair. Jimmy called to the spotlight man and said: "Please turn off the light so I can see the people who couldn't see me the last four years." The Nat'l Defense Organization is sponsoring R. H. Markham's excit ing reply to Anne Lindbergh's book. He calls his: "The Wave of the Past!" Be sure and read! Just got a button reading: "I'm a Copperhead." It is the emblem of a West coast outfit whose meetings are attended regularly by most Bund members out there. The head of it is the chairman at the Save America First meetings in L. A. . . . Quentin Reynolds sent a cable to friends saying: "The Saturday blitz and the arrival of Hess took Londoners' minds of! the war!"— Your Girl Fri day. Private Paper» . . . Of a Cub Reporter: Jimmy Oorsey kept the gagging going when he relayed the one about the same dictators who were argu ing over the division of spoils . . . Hitler, of course, was conceding nothing to his very Junior Axis part ner in crime ..... Finally, Benito could stand the humiliation no long er 1 , and he blurted: "Listen, Hitler. Where would you be today i( it weren't for my help?" . . . Hitler retqrted' "In London!" 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