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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
3TANKS, 8 ENGINES

So one of the things we ought 10
be thinking about is how we can
get Standardization in order TO
minimize the maintenance prob
lem, and yet here is what is going
on IN the auto industry here to-
DAY Se-nL1he lack of this
overall coordination and planning
that We are proposing.
We are going to have three
tanks built in the Detroit area.
each with different engine.
l took the problem up with a
number of people in Washington.
and they asked me TO develop it.
| talked TO Mr. Nelson about il.
and other people | went 10 MIR.
Edsel Ford and discussed il with
him.
Mr. EdScl Ford told me that
the Ford Motor Company could
use 80 per cent of the Lincoln
tooling equipment; they would
have TO augment certain tight
spots on their line; with 10 per
cent new tooling they could turn
out. in the Lincoln plant. all the
tank engines needed for Ford pro-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01

ing program on new models to the
necessities of the defense program.
The trouble was that the orders
for defense material did not come
out fast enough for us to get at
the Job. We ourselves in General
Motors agreed that we would put
any defense stuff ahead of our
tooling, even though it made our
Jobs late.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
TANKS TAKES KNOCKS

The maintenance problem on a
truck is relatively much more sim
pie than on a tank. because a
tank is heavy, and you grind the
CUTS out of its motor very quickly
yet we could not get two trucks,
but we have three tanks.
REUTHER-In answer TO sew
eraI questions: Mr.. Wilson contin-
ually gets back 10 the statement
that the Reuther plan was a pub
licity and political stunt and that
its effect was to undermine the
confidence of the American people
as far as management is con-
cerned.
That is a very serious question,
because certainly in this hour of
crisis. we want the maximum of
confidence in the people who are
leading American industry and
leading the nation,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
BELOW AVERAGE

Under this policy. on figures
available before Pearl Harbor. the
corporation took supply contracts
for hundreds of millions of dollars
and on tho average asked the gov
eminent for less than 10 cents per
dollar on supply contracts for pur-
chaSeS Of facilities, while the aver
age over the country asked for
20 cents 10 purchase facilities for
each dollars worth of supply con-
tracts.
After Pearl Harbor. and we
found our country was actually in
serious war. an additional policy
was adopted ANY machines or
material which General Motors
now has. and which are not disable
in the discharge OF the war pro-
duction obligations we can our
selves fulfill -ma-Nill- make avail
able 10 any other manufactures
who can use them in war produc-
tiOn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
pretty good hand 10 keep in
operation, isn't IL ."
c. r.. WILSON
This was January, 1912.

his was January, l942.
My point here is that manage
Iment knowing the capacity of the
Industry - management, knowing
the needs of our nation-did not
give the degree of leadership that
II was equipped 10 give in the de-
Tense effort. and that il should
have given. Management certainly
cannot say that they were not re-
Sponsible for giving leadership in
these matters.
HE MEANT 1T
WILSON Well, l don't like to
braG about the corporation but |
really meant what | said when |
said that we did the automobile
business with our left hand. while
we were tooling up anything we
could get with our right.
One of the few things that is
really correct in the Reuthcr plan
is that there was some surplus
capacity In the industry. That
simply meant that what | said was
absolutely the faCt-that we could
build the cars, and we built them
rather easily last year.
But Mr.. Reuther, in his remarks,
asked about induStry's plan. or
what the corporations plan had
been. | think l can state il pretty
quickly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
GM POLICY

This is what we call and what
is. the General Motors policy and
plan for defense and war produc-
.tlon. 1t is not a publicity and po-
litical plan That is the reason we
never said anything about it. IT
is a plan 10 do the lob:
] Active cooperation with the
government in the planning for
the production OF defense material.
acceptance of pilot orders, engi-
ineerlng cooperation and actual
production of such defense mate
rial as We can obtain orders for
and can get equipment TO produce.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
Wilson and Reuh Answer Questions Fired at Them From Floor
MUST GET GOING

which kind of engine he thinks
ought to be standardized.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
MUST BE TRIED

I think the services are entitled
to have some of these tanks and
find out which ones are the best
for the purpose. This question OF
product is a difficult one. but il
must come first.
This question of number of air
planes required-my attention was
just called 10 a technical write-up
here, THE Automotive Industries,
on the German planes. This ar
ticle lists So different types OF
lplanes the Germans are now using,
so that the idea that the Germans
are winning this war because they
have standardized on airplaneS
hardly holds water.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
REUTHERS EXAMPLES

REUTER- | would like to say
that until we get the overall pro-
duction effort co-ordinated and
planned on an induStTy-wide basis.
America is not going to achieve
the maximum production that is
possible. i want to cite some Spe-
cific examples of what l mean:
We are going into the produc-
ton of the Nd tank in the auto
industry. Ford, Chrysler and Cen
eral Motors are all going TO build
the same tank. 1t is the latest de-
sign of the NIB which IS now in
production at Chryslcr.
One of the things that is most
important about tanks is the main
tenancc problem. The British eX-
perience has been that a tank will
hold up about 300 hours under ac-
tual operations in battle, and they
have more difficulty with the
problem because they had lack of
misunderstanding have 81 va
rietieS of tanks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01

6 purchase, or Subcontract out
side the corporation, component
parts for all our defense projects
to the limit of the current ca
pacity of the sources which are
equipped for the specific type of
manufacture. and whom we know
from past experience are depend
able and competent, or from such
,other sources as we feel upon an
investigation are dependable and
competent
I The corporations buildings
and equipment should be used on
defense production 10 the limit.
Money should be requested from
the government for new facilities
only when they are absolutely
necessary and are not needed by
the corporation after the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
Photo by Times STAFF Photographer

duction, Chrysler production and
General Motors production. plus
all the required replacement
motors.
EACH TO HIS OWN
We could get complete stand
ardization / asked why that
wasn't done. They said:
"WelI, there is lot Of resist
ance against it. Everybody
wants TO put their own motor
in"
Now, these are the kind of things
that are happening.
If Ford can build all the tank
engines. and that engine has been
under test. then why
aren't the Ford engines put in
all the tanks? Then General Mo
tors and Chrysler can concentrate
on some other aspects of defense
production.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
If GOOD, USE 1T

REUTHER-On the question OF
whether the Ford engine is a good
engine, if il not a good engine il
should not be put in the tanks
at all.
Some months back we tried "a
get the army TO agree TO have
Ford build trucks, because we had
"a problem of unemployment al
Ford'S.
The army refused to buy Ford
trucks of the ton and half class
because they said they had &c
have complete standardization or
the Chevrolet.
We at that time proposed what
we termed hemisphere standard
ization. that is. all the trucks in
the United States and South
America be Chevrolet trucks. and
the trucks for lend-lease export
for the Burma road. and the Rus
sian and British fronts, would be
Ford trucks. The army said no
il had TO have universal standard
iZatiOn.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01

ought 10 be STANDARDIZED.
MUST GET GOING
REUTHER-lf we were in a
position TO be able TO pick the mo-
ltor,\ the one we could get enough
of, and that being the best motor.
that would be fine, but we are in
a period now where you have got
TO take the motor you can get
enough of TO supply every one, and
get it into production.
The Ford people are the only
people in position to do that
Their motor is more powerful, il
has more horsepower, it is simple
in design. 1t burns the same kind
of fuel as a truck. l think the
army ought to pick the Ford en-
CINE, and put il in all the tanks,
and have a uniform. standardized
motor.
NOT OUT TO SELL
WILSON, would like TO say
a little more about that. | am not
lSelling General Motors Diesel en-
gines, nor opposing the use of Ford
engineS. l think that we all ought
to realize the great difficulties of
farming our country suddenly. when
we don't know exactly what is the
best thing TO do. Many times you
have TO try out some things.
The services are quite able. at
any time they are sure of what
should be done, TO ask the manu-
facturers TO do it and have the
manufactures do it. / don't per-
sonally know how good the Ford
engine is or is not. / know it is a
lneyV engine
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
ATTEMPT AT ANSWER

Industry had a responsibility.
Labor did not know any more
about the needs of the nation than
industry, yet we al least put our
best foot forward and said:
"Here, we think this can be
done"
Why didn't industry say IL isn't
practical, here is the way it ought
10 be done?
WILSON You have all heard
the reading of the plan. II was a
plan TO produce 100000 automo-
biles and use whatever excess
capacity existed in the industry 10
produce one airplane at the rate
of 500 day. l would like 10 ask
Mr.. Reuther if that was not super
imposing the defense program Or
business as usual.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01

sponsibility in this period than ii
does during normal periods. Ger
tainly. during period OF national
crisis such as we have got now. IL
becomes the responsibility of every
section of the population 10 make
that maximum contribution.
l think that the armed services
have responsibilities aside from
the question of production. think
the armed services have got TO say
just what they need, how many
tanks. what the size Of the tanks
are. the cruising radius. their fire
power. how many airplanes they
need. the design. and that sort Of
thing. and from there on the queS-
tion of how they can be produced,
the methods, the techniques-it
becomes a production problem
which people like Mr.. Wilson must
assume the responsibility for.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
WITH LEFT HAND

QUEST1ON-"You mean you
are doing your greatest business
with your left hand?
WIISON-"Yes, sir"
QUESTION - That IL q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-01
BUY, SUBCONTRACT

renegotiate the price after cos
and production experience.
Evening star., 1942-04-22
Danaher 10 Address
KNIGHTS OF Columbus

Announcement that Senator DAN
aher, Republican, of Connecticut,
will be the main speaker at the 4th
anniversary banquet of the Knights
Of Columbus May today headed a
series of events planned by the
Knights.
The candidates who were admitted
into membership in Washington
Council No. 224 last night at exer-
cises at the Willard Hotel will be
part of 45th anniversary class
which will receive the honorS of the
third degree Sunday afternoon, May
3.
The supreme Office of the knights
of Columbus will be represented at
the anniversary banquet and dance
by Supreme Secretary Joseph Lamb,
1t was announced.
Meanwhile James G. Naughton,
grand knight of Spalding Council,
K. c.. announced that tomorrow
night has been selected as the date
for supper dance celebrating the
43rd anniversary of the council. The
affair will be held at the Mayfiower
Hotel
Robert Frederick Brady is general
chairman. Mr. Naughton is in
charge of reception and Harry R.
Statham of tickets and reservations.
Evening star., 1942-04-22

Don't be ashamed to carry home a
a box that isn't wrapped in precious
paper. Be ashamed of waste.
Evening star., 1942-04-22
Missing Persons

Those hduing information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
NTH the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Ma
ttondl 1000.
Lester Wright. jr., l3, S feet IL
inches, l20 pounds, blond hair, wear
ing white shirt, light green trousers,
tennis shoes. missing from 2l5 Fiji
teenth street N. Z. since April Is.
Tobias Ropkin. Is. wearing light
blue sweat shirt, green trousers,
brown shoes. white socks. missing
from $50 Delafield place NV. since
yesterday.
Jorge Baxaton Cervilla. 26, S feet
inches. l35 pounds. brown eyes,
black hair, slightly stopped Shoul-
ders, missing from Takoma Park,
Md, since April Is.
Leroy Saunders, Is, colored, S
feet inches. $50 pounds. wearing
brown trousers and shoes. green re-
versible coat, gray hat, missing from
ll1S Montello avenue NE. since
April l9
Roy Jefferson. l2, colored. 100
pounds. wearing blue trousers,
brown lumber jacket. missing from
1922 Ninth street NV. since yester-
day.
James Hamilton Crosby, II. COL
ored, 5 feet s inches, slender, wear
ing blue and gray sport shirt. dark
brown trousers. brown shoes. missing
/ from 2o22 L street NV. since April
/ Is.
Martha Martin. is, colored, feet
inches, ll2 pounds, small protrud-
+ ing mole on left side of neck, grayiSh
blue plaid coat, black skirt. missing
from 1915 Washington place NE
{ since Monday.
Norman Jones, 10, colored. wear
ing brown -checkered corduroy trou-
SerS. light blue shirt, green coat
brown tennis shoes, missing from
SGT Florida avenue NV. since
yesterday
George NJ. Skinner. "a colored.
feet 10 inches. $50 pounds. wearing
brown shoes, blue tie, has been miss
ing from 1913 Swami street NV
since Monday.
Evening star., 1942-04-22
Wafer Gate Concerts
One Of Symphony's
Spectacular Successes
KindIer's Idea Coueht
Public Foney and Drew
80, 900 TO One Program

fThiS is the third OF q series OF
articles on the activities OF the
National Symphony Orchestra,
notD conducting a campaign to
raise $4,000 for its 1928 sea-
SON.
Evening star., 1942-04-22
so to 100 Norweeions
Held; Teachers Warned

b the Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, April 22.-Between
so and 100 more Norwegians were re-
ported to have been arrested in Ger
man-occupied Olso during the last
few days, and Josef Terboven.
neichscommissioner, has warned
teachers in that country that their
attempts to strike" against the
Nazi-supported Quisling regime
would not be tolerated.
Those arrested we're said to in
clude President Henschien of the
Kristiania Folkebank, Per Krogh, a
well-known artist; Johan Haanes, a
tennis player who often competed at
Wimbledon. and Maj. Ragnvald, a
former aide to the exiled King
Haakon. No reason for the arrests
was given.
Evening star., 1942-04-22
Symphony Campaign
Workers Report
S52,696 Raised
Approach Hallway
Marx; Drive Slotted
To Close Soturdoy

The National Symphony Orches-
tras sustaining fund drive virtually
reached the halfway point yester.
day with pledges totaling $50. .s96.sS
representing 4s2 per cent OF the
goal of $4,000.
Reports turned in at q luncheon
at the Mayflower Hotel. second in
the drive which will end Saturday
showed that sls.77e 80 had been
raised since last Friday. The sum
represented Sal new pledges. bring
ing the total TO date to 909.
Only two Of the campaign COM
mittees had averages better than
that for the drive as a whole. These
were the metropolitan group. which
reported a total of SAT 7,437.5o, or
So 3 per cent OF its $50 100 quota. and
the Army group, with 81 1.050l55. or
81 per cent OF its 81 900 quota.
Business Group 80 Per Cent.
Amounts raised by the seven
other groups follow:
Business and professional. s4.-
654 so. for 1872 per cent of a sl4 1000
quota, associations. S2.l22, for 30.3
per cent Of a $1,000 quota; educa-
ton, 1902 so, for ST per cent OF a
81 500 quota; Government, 81. .333 so,
for l4.8 per cent of a 50 900 quota !:
Navy. sl,40425. for Alb per cent
OF a S3,400 quota; Orchestra Guild,
50 ,63005, for 33 per cent of a 1000
quota, and suburban, $730, for 1872
per cent Of a $4,000 quota.
Drive on New Projects.
E. R. Finkenstaedt. general chair
man. announced after the reports
had been made that the total repre-
sented every contribution made so
far in the drive He urged commit
tees to canvass their old contacts.
but TO pay particular attention TO
new prospects, explaining there were
more new names on the campaign
list this year than ever ebfore.
The luncheon was dedicated to
the military services. Principal
speaker was Rabbi Norman GerSten-
field OF the Washington Hebrew
Congregation. Nine. Olga Samar-
Off f-Stokowksi, who was scheduled to
speak, was unable to attend and
sent a telegram expressing her sup
port in the drive.
Evening star., 1942-04-22

thoroughly but gent
ly washed, removing
all dirt, grit and
grease. Protect your
floor coverings .
send them to Mr..
Pyle at SAINT ary
today.
Evening star., 1942-04-22
Five More Axis Planes
Shot Down Over MoItu
B, th. Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VALLETTA, Malta. April 22-R.
A p fighters shot down five more
Axis aircraft yesterday. bringing the
total Of enemy planes destroyed
over Malta In two days to is. an on
cial announcement said. Twenty
eight other planes were damaged in
two days. eight of them so seriously
they probably did not reach their
bases.
Twelve of the damaged planes
were hit in two air attacks on the
island yesterday. An oficial recap
itulation of Mondays air fights
raised the number of destroyed en-
envy aircraft from 7 to IL
The tally Of planes shot down did
not include a late-afternoon raid.
Evening star., 1942-04-22

the crowd OF $1,000 persons who at
tended the final program that sum-
mer. filing the last of the Water
Gates 1000 seats and spreading
out, fanshape. along the river bank
Nor had he foreseen the wel-laden
canoes which drifted up out of the
darkness and came to rest at the
side of the orchestra's barge.
The two-year break in the sum-
mer symphonies, occurring in 1896
and 1887 from lack of funds. caused
Washington to realize that some
thing very definite had gone out
of its cultural and community life
Newspapers said as much, and the
National Symphony Orchestra be-
gan to make plans to resume the
concerts by whatever financial
legerdemain was possible.
In 1888 the summer symphonies
were started anew, but unfavorable
weather conditions caused so many
postponements that the concerts for
the season ended in a deficit of
about $4,000. Taking account of
this, Harold A. Brooks, chairman,
said I'VE hope some way will be
found to cover the deficit. How
ever. the value of these concerts
cannot be estimated solely in dol
lars and cents"
Draws 10000.
BY the following year the deficit
had been taken care of and the
public had come to realize the
value of the outdoor symphonies.
It's appreciation was evidenced at
a concert on July u of that season
when $4,000 persons swarmed down
into the Water Gate, among them
President Roosevelt. An audience
of the same size was present at
the final program of the summer S
series in August.
Attendance at the Water Gate
reached an all time peak last sum-
mer at patriotic songfest in which
the National Symphony Orchestra
participated Thirty thousand per-
sons were present on that occasion
to hear its instruments, tuned to
Beethoven and Mozart and Tschai-
kowsky. get hot to popular tunes.
DR.. Kinder had not promised
these overf1owing crowds back In
1881 and 1882. But he had given
assurance then that people would
come not alone to hear good music,
but to relax and to be entertained
in an atmosphere fitted to such a
combination. His idea, it has de-
veloped, has brought symphonic
music to the ears of untold num-
berS who never would have heard it
except for the outdoor series.
Evening star., 1942-04-22
MIR. Pyle Says, Now the time to hove sanitoT
CLEAN YOUR PRECIOUS RUGS

Because we clean rugs and carpets only
you get specialized Service-backed by
Mr.. Pyle'S AZ years experience-in addi-
ton Sanitary Cleaning carries the Good
Housekeeping Guarantee as advertised
therein. You take no chanceS-when
you send your rugs to Sanitary you re-
ceive the best possible workmanship
the most careful attention-all rugs are
Evening star., 1942-04-22


raise $4,000 for its 1928 sea-
SON.
The series of summer concerts in
stituted at the Water Gate in 1885
and repeated since then with only
tWo-year break has been the most
surprising undertaking attempted to
date by the National Symphony Or
chestra.
1t was no idle dream of DR.. Hans
Kinder. the orchestra's conductor,
when he talked as early as the 1872
season of the delight of outdoor
music. He had enjoyed it elsewhere
at Lewisohn Stadium, at Robin
Hood Dell. at Ravinia and at the
Hollywood Bowl, where he had con-
Quoted.
His idea grew. Soon a committee
was trekking through parks in
search of a site. The more they
looked the more the Water Gate
stood out as the ideal spot.
10000 Attend.
But it was July IA, 1885, before
the first Sunset Symphony" was
played there Washington took the
innovation by storm. Ten thousand
persons crowded into the outdoor
amphitheater on the Potomac River
banks to tune their ears to SYM
phony and to breathe deeply of the
night.
Cool evening breezes tempered the
air and kept mosquitoes away. Frogs
croaked along the river The audi
snce succumbed to the mood and
gazed in swelling awe at lazy moon
and twinkling stars ESthetically,
it was music lovers dream come
true, except for airplanes which in
variably hovered overhead when the
softest music was played.
News of the unusual entertain
ment which had come to the audi
ence that evening from an accousti-
cal shell moored 40 feet out in the
water spread rapidly. Attendance
constantly increased throughout a
six-week series of concerts.
DR.. Kinder had not anticipated
Evening star., 1942-04-22
Honolulu Water Front
Made Restricted Area
~ the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, April 22-Lt. Gen.
Delos c. Emmons, military governor
of Hawaii, has designated the Hon.
olulu shipping area a restricted zone
to which entry will be limited to in
dividuals and vehicles properly
identified and to passengers of inter
island and Pacific ships.
Employment Of enemy aliens with
in the restricted district will be per-
mitted only under conditions pre-
scribed by the provost marshal. All
persons found in the waterfront
area without proper authority or
identification will be arrested.