_, .. . . .. pil6T 0" Nation's Automobile Industry Clicks For. Huge Output !05_ U _. More Than Four Billion Dollars of War Weapons Are Delivered Naval Air Station Destroyed, Strewn with Wreckage BY DAVID J. WILKIE Assoeeated Press Correspondent DETROIT,. Dec. -.- In the 12 months since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the nation's auto- Mobile industry has delivered more. than $4,000,000,000 worth of war wea- pons .to the United States and Allied nations; currently it is producing democracy's battle tools at the rate of $7,000,000,000 a year. That, according to the industry's Automotive Council for War Produc- tion is 75 per cent above the dollar level of the industry's best peace tin year. In disclosing these figures today, the council explained the industry's achievements thus: "Its deliveries of aircraft, fuselage sections, engines, propellors and parts are equal in dollar volume to 50 squadrons of warplanes, each consist- ing of 15 heavy bombers and 30 medi- um bombers and 90 fighters; Terrific Output "Its output of tanks, military ve- hicles .and parts equals the cost of ,equipping 57 armored divisions of the army with their balanced comple- ments of 3,314 motorized units each: "Automotive production of marine equipment amounts, in dollar equiva- lents, to 70 submarines and 650 motor torpedo boats;. "Added to this are millions of dol- lars of guns and .ammunition, range finders, helmets and hundreds of other automotive - produced arma- ments."' What lies ahead on the production front none of the industry's chieftains will venture to guess. Given the raw materials and additional manufactur- ing equipment an expansion of at least another 50 per cent would be possible within the next year. Shifts of War Strategy "Unpredictable shifts of ,war strat- egy already are making themselves felt along automotive assembly lines;" the Council Review pointed out. "Some plants now are operating be-, low peaks previously attained; others face immediate near future curtail-. gent, while still others are being called upon to effect huge expansions. pf productive capacity." But the potentialities of the indus- try as a mass producer of tanks and aircraft, aviation and marine engines, ammunition and shells and scores of pther essentials of mechanized war- fare have been definitely established; the stage now has been reached where ,output capacity is to be concentrated upon the type of weapons that have proved most effective in battle.. 3 Flexible Production A decision to curtain production of7 one type of armament and expand de-1 liyeries of others isn't regarded with- in the industry as a reflection upon the War effort of the former autopo-, bile manufacturer; rather it is accep- ted as an admission by the agencies' directing the nation's war production driye that the erstwhile motorcar in- dustry topped even its own optimistic expectations. Certainly original schedules have been bettered all along the line from, the production of tanks and planes down to machine gun shell clips. In round figures the normal peace- time output of the motorcar industry has an annual wholesale value of approximately $3,500,000,000, but you can't appraise the extent of the war production effort by comparing $4,- 000,000,000 worth of armament to the dollar value of the peace-time output. Unit Costs Down As volume production was reached on -the different articles needed unit costs went down and it is not uncom- mon now to find three and four units being turned out for the cost of one and two a year ago. Thus the $4,000,- 000,000 of deliveries doesn't begin to picture the gigantic outpouring of weapons from the former automobile industry's factories. This fact is worth remembering also when the $7,000,000,000 rate of annual production is placed against estimates of several months ago that the level would be close to $8,000,000,- 000 a year by the end of 1942. 'y Every Method' For reasons of war strategy unit volume of the different weapons be- ing produced by the erstwhile auto- mobile industry cannot be disclosed. It may be said, however, that a stream of armament has been piled up by every method known to the industry for increasing output. What the car industry has done in the war effort isn't confined alone to tlhe volume production of tanks, planes, engines, guns, shells and such things. True, this was the task as- signed to the industry, but the indus- try engineers have gone much farther than that. New Production Technique They have developed production techniques that made possible the "ahead of schedule" report on this first anniversary of Pearl Harbor; they have developed alternate mater- ials that made it possible to save huge amounts of critical metals and other materials and they have worked out many major changes in design to im- prove the tanks, the planes and the guns needed by the Allied nations. And beyond adapting mass produc- tion methods to precision instruments that heretofore always were made by hand they have put into production an undisclosed number of lethal weapons whose details cannot be dis- cussed. 'A Matter of Months' Throughout the industry there is general agreement that the amazing job of converting a gigantic peace- time industry to all-out war produc- tion in a matter of months was made possible by the 100 per cent coopera- tion of all automotive manufacturers. Laying aside competition for the dur- ation each manufacturer has made available to the other all his produc- tion processes and engineering form- ula. Wendell W ilikie Says Leders Overlook Peace' By The Associated Press CHICAGO, Dec. 5.- Wendell L. Willkie, criticizing American Army arrangements with Admiral Jean Darlan in Africa, declared today that "some of our leaders seem to forget that how we win this war may deter- mine whether we win the peace." In an interview published in the Christian Advocate, official news- paper-magazine of the Methodist Church, Willkie charged that Amer- ica had "lost moral force" through the Darlan arrangement, and "there- fore by it, we may lose the peace." "With all my soul, I hate this false finagling with expediency, temporary or permanent... The peoples of the world must be given again the convic- tion that the banners Americans fight under bear bright clean colors:" (Willkie referred to arrangements whereby Adnmiral Darlan, former leader in the Vichy regime, was rec- ognized by Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisen- how, United States Commander, as head of the French government in North Africa. President Roosevelt described the move as a military ex- pedient to save American lives and said it was a temporary arrange- ment.) Willkie called for a clear definition of United Nations war aims which7 the Allied peoples as well as their leaders helped formulate. An explosion sends flames and smoke high into the air in this dramatic photo showing the wreckage- strewn Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor after one of the Japanese sneak attacks of Dec. 7, 1941. Smoke Fills Stricken U.S. Naval Base A ball of smoke fills the sky over Pearl Harbor after the Japs ate tacked. In foreground is capsized minelayer, USS Oglala, and to the left is the USS Helena, 10,000-ton cruiser, hit by an aerial torpedo. Beyond is the superstructure of the USS Pennsylvania, and at right is the USS Maryland, burning. 'At right center the destroyer Shaw is ablaze in drydock. ,.I.. NO SILVER PLATTER COMMISSIONS : Men Are Changed into-Officers, the 'Hard Way' at Fort Custer By The Associated Press strong, willing high school graduate FORT CUSTER, Mich., Dec. 5.- with a flare for inspiring men than They're trying to make officers of for a college professor with all the Andy Ford and his fellow soldiers at degrees he can earn. Fort Custer these days and they're "We're turning -out men who will doing it the hard way. police the world," Col. Kalloch ex- No commissions on a silver platter, plains. "They've got to be good. no gay social functions, no fancy They'll go with divisions and armies frills, but 12 weeks of the strictest to the combat zones and later many discipline, hour after -hour of drill of them will be the leaders of armies and study and marksmanship go into of occupation in territories taken the courses and have earned for it from the enemy, charged with main- the description: "Toughest of all offi- taining order and at the same time cer candidate schools." holding ,the respect of r'esidents in Tt's the Military Police Officer Can- those territories. - - - - - - - - - Clip Here And Mail To.A U.-M. Man In The Armed Forces- - - - SERVICE EDITION 1,-4r Airl i ttn tti tommumb t VOL. I, No. 15 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN DECEMBER 6, j942 CAMPUS ATTENTION was tuined from war prob- lems this week as the sec- ond post-war conference sponsored by the Post-War Council brought Norman Thomas and Bertrand Russell to Ann Arbor to consider problems in America at war's end . . Thomas, four-time candi- date for president on the Socialist ticket, spoke Fri- day night in Rackham Auditorium, predicting American emergence from war as a collectivized state. . Warning that centrali- zation has its dangers, Thomas declared that con- fusion resulting from too much centralization might Post-War Conference Speers ty students... Backed by alumni who cherish mem- ories of pleasant evenings spent behind foaming beakers, owners Stapp and Starbuck went to Lansing Wednesday for a state hearing, only to be told they had to wait a week longer for decision Meanwhile, faithful stu- dent patrons of the tem- porarily defunct taverns occupied their usual tables, reminiscing of days gone by as they downed drafts of milk and plied knitting needles. PAUL WHITE, leading ground gainer for Michi- gan during the past turbu- lent football season, was elected captain of the '44 team Wednesday in meet- Norman Thomas, veteran Socialist candidate for President, and Bertrand Russel, prominent philosopher, I