The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

situations:
 l. A scattered sdministra-
 tive set-up snarled in red-tape.
 2. Dragging < pr duo tion
 schedules, particularly in bomb
 CTS. (Bombers are the most
 urgent air need of. the British
 at present.)
 The necessity for centrahzing the administration by airplanc activities is one of the most vital in the defense program. Only in siders realize how widely dispersed is control. The Army Air Corps and Navy Bureau of AeronauticS are only two of several agencies concerned with it's management.
 In December, Robert Lovett, World War Navy ace and pronli1l- ent New York attorney, was brought to Washing ton by Secre-s tary Stimson to conduct a survey and bring order out of the tumble. Lovett is still graphing with the problem. h4 f
 Some authorities urge that the post of assistant secretary of war and air. long vacant, !. be revived . to provide centralized control. Created during eCoolidge'S regime, the post was shelved by Hoover as an economy move in 1892 and never+restoFed by Roosevelt.
 WANTED. BOMBERS
 Britain's pressing need is me dium and long range bombers to carry the war with Viger to the industrial centers of Germany and Italy. Sir Hugh Dowding former chief of the RAF Fighter command, now in this country to : try to expedite plane deliveries, has come up against some stark facts. s.'H z, One is that there will be lio ap- prectAble increase in US. bomber output until late in the summer. when. the first of four huge air- craft assembly plants gets into production at Kansas City. These new plants will assemble plane parts made by auto and accessory: manufacturers, and when in fAll, operation saWill boost bomber ,i,go- duetion hysaround 300 aFmoiaths; 1 But even with this increase < plussthe iAy. aircraft plants now < under ccaatruction, Britain's 18;0O0 plane nrder will be, long
 way from the flying fields-to Z. say nothing s1f Army and Nav, Borders and an, addition ,01N-ss
 order now beipx discussed B the f British, .,b < e.TS:5ss s,,, <,
 Production schedules on paper !, lFcall for the cSlnpletion of ass,- :. 900 planes of all. types by July.
 1942 = formidable armadasM
 the ships are built and if Hitler
 waits that long. E x
 NOTE - The plan for mass production of planes through use of. the auto industry, as proposed by Walter ReuSher, of the United Auto, Workers, has made little headway among National Defense and auto magnates. Privately, however, some of the ablest pro- duction officials in the Army think 1t has merit and are eager to see it tried. f.
 A MESSAGE TO CORDELL
 A telegraph messenger came into the State Department with @ package addressed to Secretary of State Hull, Room 2O8." Arriv- ing at the second floor, he found room 2O8, and before anybody could stop him, walked in.
 Cordell Hull looked up from his desk. Accustomed to see Ain- bassadors and Senators walk in the door, he was taken aback to see a messenger boy. But the boy has his package to deliver, and he was going to deliver 1t. He marched across the rom toward Hull.
 You're In Che wrong room,
 sonny" remarked the Secretary
 Of State.
 Before they could get into an argument as to whether this was or was not room 208, . colored messenger got the boy by the arm. and led him out.
 FORD AND LABOR
 It's on official secret. but Ford Motors and the Labor Department had e long conference recently.
 rho meeting, held In deep bo- crecy, was between EdBel Ford aola of Henry md proeldent Of thl