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.
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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."
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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
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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
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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'
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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
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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'
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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
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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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