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Evening star., 1944-05-28
April War Production
Most Disappointing in
Months, Nelson Finds
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

Production of munitions in
April dropped 3 per cent behind
schedule and 2 per cent under
the March volume, Chairman
Donald M. Nelson of the War
Production Board announced
last night, warning that labor
and management must reconcile
differences and exert greater
effort II the armed forces are to
be supplied with the weapons to
assure victory.
While Mr.. Nelson did not place
direct responsibility for the poor
showing Of number of the Ma
tion's war factories in April, he hint
ed strongly that strikes and labor
disputes contributed greatly. He
warned that both labor and man
agement must accept the response
hlity Of reconciling their differ
ences through the wartime pro-
cedures and machinery set up for
that purpose"
A bright spot in the most disap-
pointing war production report in
months was that many OF the in
dividual must" items, ones current
ly held to be most important, kept
well abreast of schedule. Among
these were landing craft, airborne
radar equipment, heavy trucks, trac-
tors, heavy artillery ammunition
and high-preference aircraft models.
Aircraft Production Drops.
A box-score of April production
by major munitions categories, in
cluding comparisons with March
output and with schedules, follows:
Aircraft, including parts and
equipment, down 7 per cent, per
cent below schedule; ships, value of
work done on Army, Navy and
Maritime vessels, including MAIN
tenance and repair, no change from
March, but 2 per cent below sched-
ule; guns and fire control, down 3
per cent, 5 per cent behind sched-
ule; ammunition, up per cent, but
still 4 per cent below schedule; COM
bat and motor vehicles, down 5 per
cent, 2 per cent below schedule, and
c m m u ! cation and electronic
equipment, down 1 per cent, per
cent below schedule.
Although the value of the 1914
munitions program earlier had been
scaled down from $50 900, ,000, 900 to
$50 ,000, ,000, 900, Mr.. Nelson said that
on the basis of production in the
first four months of the year, manu-
facturers will fall about $4,000, ,0O0,-
600 short of the goal.
Maritime ship deliveries last
month we're per cent ahead of
schedule, with cargo ships doing
especially well. Ten new Victory
type car ships were made during
the month, six more than in March.
AL combatant types of ships came
through either on or ahead of
schedule. Destroyers, submarines
and landing vessels did well, with
an especially large gain in LISTS.
AS whole, landing vessels topped
the goal by per cent.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Nursery Open House

Girl Scouts of the Silver Spring
area will serve as Junior hostesses
at the open house at the Fairway
Nursery School today, when the
school, which cares for children of
working mothers, will be open to Wis
ltors froms4 to 6 pm. Members of
the Silver Spring Child Care Com
mittee and teachers will show Wis
itors through the school, which oc-
cuples a wing of the Fairway Com
munity Center at 10100 Greenock
road.
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Progress Club to Meet

The Wheel of Progress Club will
end its season tomorrow evening In
its headquarters at the Washington
Hotel with song and story pro-
gram. Mrs. Stuart Godfrey, vice
president, will speak on Music With
the USO," and Mrs. Amos A. Fries
will give reading entitled What
We Are Fighting For" A group OF
original and war poems will be
read by Mrs. Lucia Ramsey Maxwell
Evening star., 1944-05-28
10000 Remain Idle
In Strikes; Lumber
Industry Hardest Hill
By the Associated Press.

os TIC hssOC1atSO fEeSS.
About 10000 Of the Nations in
dustrial workers remained away
from their jobs yesterday, although
three labor controversies apparently
were settled in the Middle West.
In the Pacific Northwest approx.
mately. 10000 workers in the lum-
Der and sawmill industry were still
idle after protest walkouts last
week. AFL and CIO leaders me-
at Portland. Greg, yesterday to con.
slider the War Labor Boards decla.
ration that walkouts of loggers
boom hands and mill workers mus
cease before wage increase appeal.
would be considered.
The War Labor Board was ac-
cused Of "a complete lack of under
standing of the lumber situation
by the AFL Northwestern Council
OF Lumber and Sawmill Workers In
a telegram asking immediate action
upon appeals.
Walkouts Called wildcat"
Union officials have termed the
walkouts wildcat" They have cut
production an estimated 1900, ,00(
board feet daily. More than 10C
lines Of numbering operations ir
Oregon and Washington were af-
fected by the strikes which came
as a protest against the WILLIS
denial Of pay raises.
The strike OF 1900 employees at
two plants of Parke, Davis & Co
was in its sixth day, while at Muske.
gon, Mich, an agreement wa:
reached at a regional War Labor
Board hearing to have 1900 strik
ing employees of the Campbell
Wyant & Cannon foundry return
to work tomorrow.
At Saginaw, Mich, $500 worker
in the General Motors Chevrole
transmission division remained idl,
following dispute over smoking
regulations.
At Springfield, Ill.,, about 20,
miners employed at the Panthe
Creek Coal Co.'s No. shaft wer,
idle yesterday over what spokesmeI
for an AFL Progressive Coal Min,
Union local said was a disagreement
over portal-to-portal pay settle
ments.
Machine Tool Strike.
More than 1900 workers at th
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturin,
Co., Providence, r. T., makers O
machine tools, remained away TO
the second day in a strike over tn
hiring of a woman to fill Job from
which a man was transferred.
Sixty per cent of the 2.20O EN-.
ployes of the Deere Harvester plan
at East Moline. ILL.,, who were idl,
the past week in an authorized worl
stoppage, returned to their jobs yes
terday, the company reported. Car
Parker, UAW-CIO official, said tn,
union had instructed the men t,
go back to work following a disput,
over vacation pay grievances.
An official of the United State
Cancellation Service announced yes.
terday settlement of a two-day-ole
strike of 600 employees of the So.
cony-Vacuum OIL Co. plant at Eas
st. Louis, Ill.
At Springfield. Mo-, 200 truck driy.
ers returned to their jobs yesterda,
upon assurance Of the War Labo]
Board to give speedy decision II
wage case. The strikers had beer
out since Thursday
Evening star., 1944-05-28
On the Roll Of Honor

The War Department today an
nounced the names of four soldiers
from the Washington area who have
been wounded in action, and the
death in Hawaii OF a sailor from
Washington Grove, Md, was re-
ported by the Navy Department.
Pfc. Wilford 8. Locke, jr., "a, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Locke, sr., 301
Evening star., 1944-05-28
BY DAVID J. WILKIE,
Associated Press Stan Writer.


DETROIT, May 27-Henry Ford,
who has hated war all his life,
said tonight that this war will be
just rehearsal for a more terrible
combat, unless:
Greeds are eliminated:
Disunity in religion is overcome:
National boundary barriers" are
leveled.
And, he added. I'VE have pro-
gressed so rapidly In developing
machinery for killing people that
humanity could not survive another
war"
MIR. Ford, who will be 81 years
old July 80. saw greed as the cause
of wars and depressions and, with
out amplifying his view, said reli-
gious disunity fosters greed.
"The world" he said in an inter-
view, ought to have universal cur
rency for a universal economy with
a universal market. This would
level the boundary barriers between
nations; 1t would be a long step
toward a world federation, which
we must have If there is to be peace
and prosperity for these nations.
+ End of War Not Distant
"We know all the ways fedora
ton of the world cannot be achieved.
We know it can't be done by force;
it can't be done for greed and power.
1t can be done If a nation like our
selves will urged the idea and If the
nations that are suffering for lack
of a federation are givin a free
! choice"
Last March the noted industrialist
voiced a belief that the war might
be over within two months. II had
reliable information at that time to
warrant the belief it would be over
now" he reiterated today. "I am
sorry, as many other people must
be, that it isn't, but I am sure its
end is not far distant"
"One of the things we must look
out for now" he said, as that we
don't have a depression after this
war"
There can and should be-" said
Mr.. Ford, "a peacetime use for all
the factories built for war produc-
ton. None of them need be idle
and there need be no idleness any,
where after the war. I think there
will be a job in the factory or on
the farm for everybody who wants
to work. The unhappiest. man on
earth is the one who has nothing
to do"
America Needs More Industry.
Asserting that every single thing
grown can be used in industry. he
said economic fluctuations could be
leveled of by periodical shifts Of
workers from factory to farm, and
added:
I'VE have not enough industry
to serve Americas needs or the
worlds needs. In this country we
have done pretty well as far as we
have gone, but there must be more
and more industry. 1t is essential
TO political and economic freedom,
Evening star., 1944-05-28

ing among the Pfc. W. 8. Locke, ..
most hardened fighters in the Army.
Pfc. Locke, a native Of Cairo, Ill.,,
moved to the District with his par
ents 10 years ago. He is q graduate
of Central High School, where he
played tackle on the football team.
He was employed by restaurant
chain before entering the Army in
June, 1912. He vent overseas in
Evening star., 1944-05-28

Hamilton street
NV, has been
wounded in ac-
tion in the Ash
attic theater. He
Is q member of
"Merrill's Ma
ra d ers," an
American U Init
under the COM
mand of Brig.
"a en-. FIR n k
Merrill, W h os e
exploits in North
B u r m a have
gained them the
reputation of be-
Evening star., 1944-05-28
Weather Report

District Of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia Partly cloudy and
continued warm With afternoon
thundershowers today and tomor-
row.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah rivers
muddy at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
muddy at Great Falls.
Report Until 10 I'm. Saturday.
Evening star., 1944-05-28

Record Until 10 Pm. Saturday.
Highest. IS. 800 pm. Yesterday year
Lowest. 90. $40 am. Yesterday year
ago, 81. s%
Record Temperatures This Year.
Hishest, 90, on May 22.
Lowest ZIG, on January Q.
Tide Tables.
Evening star., 1944-05-28

Senator Ball, Republican, of
Minnesota, declared, Not until an
international organization to main
tain peace has been established and
demonstrated its effectiveness over
q period of years can we afford even
to consider any substantial reduc-
ton in our naval establishment"
Senator johnson, Democrat, oi
Colorado, said, "If we are to assume
the worldwide responsibilities now
being advocated by American think.
ers, we shall need as a minimum
a large and powerful Navy capabl,
of dominating the Atlantic anc
Pacific Oceans and the smaller sea.
of the Western Hemisphere.
Senator Bushf1eld, Republican O
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
Auburn Prexy Says
Voyles Not Offered Job

AUBURN, Ala, Feb. 28.-tREDr.
L. N. Duncan, president of Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute says
the position Of head football coach
at his school has not been offered
to Carl Voyles, grid mentor for
William and Mary.
DR.. Duncan adds, however, that
Auburn mas been negotiating with
Voyles-along with a number OF
others-in connection with our
problem of selecting a new foot
ball coach"
Late last night Auburn's presi-
cent said Voyles was not in Au-
burn, but declined to comment on
a report from Richmond, Va, that
the W. and M. coach was en- route
here for conferences with APP au-
thorities.
a dispatch Saturday night from
Richmond quoted the Times-Dis-
patch as stating it had a well
VERIFIED report that Voyles had
been rendered the head coaching
assignment at Auburn.
Voyles, one-time No. l assistant
TO Wallace Wade at Duke, joined
W and M. in 1889. His 1912 team,
which won the Southern confer
erce championship, defeated such
foes as Navy, Dartmouth, V. M. I.
and George Washington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
FRENCH TARGETS
BATTERED BY U.S.,

LONDON, Feb. %. -(P)- Heavy
bombers of the United States
Eighth Air Force spear-headed a
series of daylight assaults on en-
envy installations in northern
France today, raising to IS their
record total of operations during
February-six more than in any
ether month.
Working as four separate teams,
two formations of Flying Fort
resses and one each OF Liberators
and medium B-26 Marauders were
virtually unmolested as they struck
at different places along one of the
worlds most bomb-battered strips
the coast of France.
Raj medium bombers joined in
the days widespread blows against
Nazi military detectives, which
Prime Minister Churchill has said
include long-range rocket-guns and
radio-controlled planes.
Loss of six heavy bombers was
the largest for operations against
Pas De Calais since Jan. 81, when
4 similar number failed to return.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
VICTIMS OF GAS
NOW RECOVERING

7o,n Freshwater. about s. years
., .oe one of the persons over
come by gas fumes escaping from '',,
The residence at 1853 Colonial W.
lace Sunday morning, was nm.
proving slightly" at James maih s4
Memorial hospital Monday night,
The three others found in the
house were said to be recovering:
LEROY Blake, 16, of Route |, 1ell-
cd to respond to treatment aomlh :,
istered by county police and died
before reaching the hospital.
According to the account gwen
hy Deputy Sheriff Graham koonsz
who with W. E, Singletary, Jr''
was sent to the house at l2:29 P.
m. in response to a call, the first
indication or escaping gas was re-
ported by Billy Venters, star
News carrier of Audubon, early
Sunday morning.
Venters, smelling the fumes,
knocked on the door but received
no response. He reported the mat
ter to neighbors, who likewise re-
ceived no response but thinking
the occupants were away cameo
the Tide Water Power company
4 serviceman from the utility
cut off the gas service under the
house at about 10 o'clock.
Not until Thomas W. Gray, Jr.'
of Route 3 stopped by the house at
noon to pick up two of his friends
spending the night there was con-
Germ manifested. Gray smelled the
gas. and told the neighbors that
the family was apparently inside.
The rural police were then sum-
moned and made first entry.
Koontz said Mr.. and Mrs. John
Freshwater, Blake, Lewis Fresh
water and Henry Switzerland were
all asleep in their beds, drenched
in perspiration; the house was
saturated with the fumes. Windows
and doors were thrown wide open
and artificial respiration admins
tered to all. Mr.. FreshWater was
said to be the only one of the
group still breathing when the po-
lice arrived.
1t was reported by police that
the family formerly occupying the
home had encountered difficulty
with escaping gas, and that a
baby was found unconscious, ov-
ercome by fumes, a number of
months ago. The report was not
confirmed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29

Cape Fear River stage at Fayette-
vile, 21.95 feet.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-(49-Weather
bureau report of temperature and rain
fall for the "a hours ending pm. in
The principal cotton growing areas and
elseWhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
3 ORDERED HELD
ON 0PA CHARGES

FAYETTEVILLE. Feb. 2S-
ppm. D. Doc) Bennett and
Thad H. Wilmington of Fay
etteviIle and David Surles OF
Benson we're ordered held for
appearance at U. S. district
federal court here next month
after a hearing today before
U. S. Commissioner John ).
Downing on charges OF illegal
possession and transfer Of large
quantities of gasoline, sugar
and shoe ration coupons.
Bond for Bennett was set at
$40, 900 and at $4,000 each for
Wilmington and Surles. Ben
nett and Wilmington had been
held in $4,000 bond and Surles
in $4,000 after their arrest last
Thursday on warrants issued
by Downing. The three arrang-
ed to post bond.
A. A. Corbett, representing
the Raleigh District Office Of
Price Administration (OPA,
testified he found 40 sheets of
various types of gasoline ra-
ton coupons in BENEFITS
home, together with 5t5 sugar
ration stamps. He declared all
were counterfeit.
C0rbett said IL sheets of shoe
ration coupons were at Suries'
home at Benson and that 100
sugar ration coupons and 10
shoe coupons were recovered
from Whittington's car, adding
that the coupons found at
Surles' home were counterfeit
but that it had not been es-
tablished whether those taken
from Whittington's car were
counterfeit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
IN. E. MEDICAL
GROUP CONVENES

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 28.-R-Capt.
J. M. Schmoele, USN, told the 45th
annual meeting of the Trl-State
Medical Association here tonight
that the first base hospital in the
new Hebrides islands treated more
than $4,000 patients in 16 months
and established a mortality rate
Of IL of all patients entering
He. said this compared with an
average of slightly more than 4
per cent during the Fist World
War.
Captain Schmoele was chief OF
surgery of the hospital, a naval
unit organized in San Francisco,
Calf, and hurried into the Pacific
after the Pearl Ha-bor attack, un-
til recently transferred to the naval
hospital at Portsmouth, Va, where
he holds the same position.
The afternoon session was devot-
ed to reading and discussion OF
technical papers. Subjects included
syphilis and it's response to treat
ment. military considerations of al
lergies, the politico-economic stu
alton in regard to medicine, anc
healing wounds after abdominal
operations.
A highlight of tomorrow ses
sions will be a paper on penicilli1
by DR.. E. MEG. Hedgepeth of thu
University of North Carolina medi
cal school.
The Association includes medica
men of the Carolinas and Virginia
Approximately 300 are attending
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
Kentucky And Tech
Seeded No. l And No. 2
In Southeast Tourney

LEXINGTON, KY, Feb. 28-|R
Kentucky and Georgia Tech yes
terday were seeded as No. l and
No. team, respectively, for the
Southeastern conferences eleventh
annual basketball tournament
scheduled to be held in Louisville
on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day nights.
Tulane university and Louisiana
State were ranked third and
fourth by the coaches of the tour.
nament teams.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
U. S. NOW HAS
WOOL SURPLUS
BY JAMES MARROW AND
GEORGE ZIELKE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-lA-'
This country, which feared a short
age of wool after Pearl Harbor.
now wallows in it.
There still are limitations on its
use in clothing although there will
be adequate clothing for all. For
instance:
No two pairs of pants with a
suit: no vest with a double-breast-
ed suit; no pleats in women's
dresses.
The War Production Board laws
down those restrictions, giving
these reasons: Scarcity of man
power and materials like rayon.
More manpower is used in max
ing two pairs of pants; needed
rayon goes into vest Innings.
If those limitations irk you. WPB
nevertheless says there is no pros
pect they will be lifted.
This country's wool stockpile
was tiny at Pearl Harbor time.
Immediate conservation steps were
taken: less wool in clothing, no
trouser cuffs.
Washington feared the Japanese
might cut off imports from Aus
tralia and New Zealand. that we
might have to depend on domestic
output alone.
The japanese did not cut off the
imports. Wool piled up.
Before Pearl Harbor we produc-
ed about $50 million pounds Of
wool yearly, used all Of it, plus
about 140 million pounds imported.
After Pearl Harbor, with the
civilian and enormous Army needs,
we required l billion pounds of
wool year. We got it, used it.
had some left over. ...
In 1912 and 1913 this country i'm
ported between 500 and 500 million
pounds each year, may import the
same this year. Now we have a
stock pile of approximately 300
million pounds of foreign wool.
The armed services buy the do
mestic clip, says WPB, at $l.1s a
pound. which is Is cents a pound
higher than manufacturers pay for
the foreign wool going into civilian
use.
WPB gives this explanation for
the difference in price: The Amer
lean government subsidies domes-
tic wool growers by permitting
them to charge 10 cents a pound
more than can be charged for the
foreign product.
In addition to the foreign stock
pile the British have at least 40
million pounds of wool here under
bond. Some American wool inter-
ests fear that British wool may
be dumped on the American mar
ket, ruin domestic production.
1t was confidently said at WPB
that this is an unnecessary fear,
that everything indicates the Brit
ish wish to keep that wool for
themselves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
ARMY TERMINATES
PLANE CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. -R-
The Army announced today ter
m,nation of contracts with three
companies for building training
Names. in line with the gradual
conversion of production from
training to combat type aircraft
At the outset of the war, about
GU per cent OF aircraft production
was devoted to training planes
;n,t this percentage has been
changing to put emphasis on the
construction of fighter and POM
Der types.
Today's War Department an.
,o,,ncement said that the neeo "
,te Army Air Forces for training
danes has been met and that work
ers on that type Of planes VIII re-
t,,rn to building combat SHIPS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
HOW TO TEACH JUNIOR
TO EAT HIS SPINACH

HUTCHINSON, Kas up n
first time spinach was nl,.a W.,
before Hugh A Grant. Junior y
father told him: "'S
"You're too young to eat s.,.
ach. Don't touch it, ''u'
The boy passed it up. Thu 49,,
time spinach Il. was on the table bs
asked for ''just a little taste TIC
His dad turned him down, cos
but the next time Junior b.,,..
for a taste Grant gave in %"
Young Grant has liked his ,,i,
ach eve.-: since. 'pA
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29

Argentina's most important me-
tai export is tungsten, used in
steel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
FIRST AID BY
SPECIAL DELIVERY

BOUGAINVILLE RHJohn Hura,
Wyandotte, Mich, Marine private
first class, lay on a stretcher nurs-
ing his wounds from a japanese
machine gun.
A Navy Corpsman bandaged the
wounds and then asked the Ma
rine if there was anything else
he could do to make him COM
Portable.
'Why yes" said Hura with a
laugh, could you bring me let.
ter from home?
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
DOG LEARNS
MUTE LANGUAGE

CIR E VILE, S. c. IL
Butch" has been educated with
out, sound effects but the bright
eyed little terrier owned by
Charles Moskowitz, a deaf mute,
is one of the smartest pooches in
town.
MoskoWitz trained Butch with
the manual alphabet used by deaf
mutes and is certain the dog
knows at least a third of it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
FRENCH EXECUTED

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-(R-The
German-controlled Vichy radio said
today that six French 'terrorists'
had been executed at Thononles
Bains in the Haute Savoie depart.
ment after their conviction by a
military court. The broadcast was
reported by the u. S. Foreign
Broadcast Intelligence Service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY

GREENVILLE, S. C. (P-A man
"a stranger to the cashiers-goes
regularly to a theater box office
here and buys three or four tick
cts with the request, Give them
to the next servicemen who come
tc the theater." He explained he
had q son in service
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
FOR G.. MOVIE PROTECTOR

ALEXANDRIA. La, Army Air
Field (P)-Pvt. Ransom Jones, who
operates the movie protector at
the post theater. received unique
training for the job
- Jones worked nine years o r
screen actress Joan Crawford at
her Hollywood estate; aside from
serving as bodyguard for the ac-
tress, he projected her elaborate
home movies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-29
IMPOSSIBLE

BUFFALO, N. Y. Fab 90
RHGeorge T. McGows ~, 20,
lector of internal revenno col
Can Do" "eo No
Just a sample of wb,.
you've got me doing since ! T, gat
your income tax form" s0'
The letter contained six mana,
dolls, cut from the incoree ' per
instruction sheet. 'dS