INDUSTRY OPPOSED'
TO WARPROfITEER
General Foods Heed De
clares Nation’s Plants And
Mills "Getting Ready Fast”
New York, June 25 Ameri
can industry, Colby M. Chester,
chairman oi General Foods cor
poration, asserted, wants "no
monkey business, no profiteer-J
ing, no tricky stuff and no politics'
in our mobilization of the defen
se of our free system of life.”
Addressing the annual conven
tion of the National Editorial as
sociation, Chester dealared the
nation’s industrial system was
“getting ready fast. In experien
ce, in talent, in skilled workers,
in factories and materials ond
assembly line efficiency, we shall
face the job ahead with confi
dence.”
Admittedly, he said, "we would
prefer to devote all this energy
and money to constructive effort,
but when dictators thrust this
menace upon the world we have
no choice. We don’t want America
turned into a battlefield. Instead,
We must arm America to keep
peace.”
He termed the United States
the juiciest prize of war on the
face of the earth” and added:
“Like bombs, reality explodes in
our faces, revealing a fat, rich and
unready republic in paril. The true
facts, the naked realities and the
dangers, and the stoutness of de
fenses—these we must inventory
today, before it is too late.”
Chester warned the editors and
publishers against mistakes he
said European newspapers had
made in telling their countrymen
they were safe and placing an op
timistic light on all news.
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Pontiac Sales
Continue With
Record Pace
Deliveries of Pontiac cars for
the first ten daprs of June were
6,631, a gain of 49 per cent over
the 4,498 new cars delivered 1 udr
ing the same period of June last
year, according to D. U. Bathrick,
general sales manager of Pon
tiac Motor Division.
Although there has been no
let up in production of cars at
the Pontiac factories, inventories
again showed a decline during the
last ten days, and unfilled orders'
continued at a record breaking
rate with from one and one half
times as many on hand as there'
were one year ago.
Bathrick points out that con
trary to the expectations of many
observers unsettled conditions in
this country brought about by
the war have not resulted in any
slowing down in automobile sal
es. Pontiac’s increase of 49 per
cent over the first ten day per
iod of June 1939 is a step up over
the May rate of sales which were
42 percent above May of 1939.
Used car sales by Pontiac deal -
rrs continued at the record break
ing rate that was established in
M-tv with an irerease of 26.5 per
cent over the first period of June,
1939. Stocks of used cars contin
ued the decline which has been
steady for the last four ten-day
periods, while turnover was at
the .'■exceptionally high rate of
30.7 days. Ten days used car sales
vcr the highest for any first ten
day period es June in Pontiac's
history.
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Hocutt Urges
Parents To Warn
Os Street Dangers
Raleigh, June 26 A plea to
North Carolina parents to drill
into their children the dangers of
running into the street and high- 1
way was voiced this week by Ro-'
nald Hocutt, Director of the High-'
way Safety division.
Noting that the May traffic faJ
tality report showed an increase
in child pedestrian deaths ip this
state and also that several child-!
ren were killed in traffic acci-'
dents on North Carolina streets
rnd highways the first two weeks'
of June, the safety director said:)
“The fact that ten or more
children in our state have died
in the past thirty days as a re
sult of playing in the street or
running into the street or high
way should point a lesson to ev
ery mother and father in North
Caroliha.
“Children are not as well ac
quainted with traffic hazards as
their parents are, and it is the
duty and responsibility of par
ents to pass on to their children
the benefits of their knowledge 1
and experience in coping with;
traffic. j
I
“And not only must parents
impress upon their children the
danger es playing in the street or
running into the street or high
way. but away from traffic.
“Our children deserve every
protection we can afford them.
Let’s all work together to stop
this slaughter of the innocent on
our streets and highways.”
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