Evening star., 1943-04-22
.7,O0O-PIane Output
Seen in April With
Rate Rising Steadily
Nelson Reveals Figures
To Publishers; Popers'
War Aid Pruised
BY the Associated Press.

war AID FrolSed
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 22.-Donald M.
Nelson, chairman of the War Pro-
duction Board, says the United
States rate Of airplane. production
probably will reach 1000 planes this
month or come close to that figure.
Voicing official Government praise
of the aid newspapers gave in the
scrap drive last fall, Mr. Nelson told
general convention session Of the
American Newspaper Publishers As
sociation yesterday that Adolf Hitler
had made his lone great miscalcula-
ton" in failing to count on the
ability of American industry to
swing quickly into war production.
The last previous figure on air.
plane production was released by
Undersecretary of War Robert P.
Patterson last month. Mr.. Patterson
said the rate in February had
reached $500. On this subject Mr..
Nelson said:
SCI eohily yCdI dSo IL any bOOy
could have told us that we could
build 1000 planes in one month we
could have told them they did not
know what they were talking
about.
Higher Production Seen.
I'VE will come close to it this
month. Next month we will build
even more, in the next month even
! more, until we get up to just as large
production as we feel we need-no
matter how many we need"
He said the work the newspapers
did in getting Americans scrap
conscious over night is a general
tribute to the power of the press" ;"
| He added that 'one great lesson
from the scrap drive that should be
| applied in future emergencies of the
! country" was that mo matter how
difficult your problem, if you put it
up to industry, industry will do
the job"
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau, in a telegram to the conven-
ton, also praised the newspapers
aid in the drive The telegram was
read to the publishers by Frank
Tripp, chairman of the Allied News
paper Council and general manager
of the Gannett Newspapers, Inc.
Ads Given to Bond Drive.
More than S26, ,000, 900 in newspaper
| advertising space was contributed
last year to advertise War bonds,
said Chester j. La Roche, chairman
of the Advertising Council, which
has been aiding tie Government in
publicity work. He explained that
of the total, approximately half was
contributed by advertisers and the
other half by the papers themselves.
Y Gerard Swope, president of the
General Electric Co., told the con-
vention that many developments had
come out of the war which would
help raise the standard of living in
the Nation in the postwar period.
he cited research in electronics,
chemistry and plastics as three of
the developments which will be
highly exploited IN the future.
Revelle w. Brown, president of
the Lehlgh Valley Railroad Co. and
chairman of the Committee on
Public Relations of the Eastern
Railroad Presidents Conference. de-
scribed the role of railroads in the
war saying:
To-day under private ownership
and operation, the railroads are
rendering more freight and pas
Senger service than they did in the
war year of 1918 or any other year
in railroad history"
This was accomplished, he said,
with 100000 fewer freight cars, with
$4,000 fewer passenger cars, and
with 10000 fewer locomotives.
Scrap Drive Leader Praised.
Richard w. Slocum, general man.
ager of the Philadelphia Bulletin
and chairman of the Newspapers
United Scrap Drive Committee, who
received citation from Mr.. Nelson
for scrap drive organization work,
reported that while 100000 tons
of scrap metal were urgently needed
to keep steel mills running last fall,
1T seems appropriate to fix the
collection at more than 5000, 900
! tons"
William A. Thomson, director of
the Bureau of Advertising of the
ANPA, declared there has been an
increase in institutional advertis-
ing. showing as it does that busi-
ness has at last found it's voice and
looks forward hopefully to recover
ing its face"