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The deployment of strong U.S. Naval units throughout the sea lanes
north of Australia suggested yesterday that big sea battles are still
brewing in the Solomon chain for control of the barrier bases north of
Australia-New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, and others even
more distant. The seizure of Tulagi Harbor, only good warship haven
in the Southeast Solomons, and capture of a big air base on Guadal-
canal Island, putting the entire chain within easy pursuit and bomber
range of U.S. air forces have strengthened the American position for
the coming battles.
Bomber Output
Is Accelerated
ByBoeing Co.
Gov't Approves Additional
Schedules; 40 Per Cent
Of CapacityNow Used
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 18.-(P)--
The big bombers that made Mon-
day's spectacular raid over France
will be produced at a tremendously
accelerated rate, starting immediate-
ly, it was announced today by H.
Oliver West, executive vice-president
and production chief of the Boeing
Aircraft Company.
West said the government had ap-
proved "additional schedules" and
that "indications received from
Washington" a few days ago led him
to believe shortages retarding pro-
duction would be relieved.
"We are operating at only 40 per
cent of our ultimate capacity," West
told newspaper correspondents on
the National Association of Manu-
facturers tour of war plants, "but
under the new schedules we'll accel-
erate until we reach 100 per cent a
year from now. This means a 40 or
50 per cent increase over the maxi-
mum rate we had set as a goal for
next December."
Since April, women workers have
replaced men by the thousands at
this plant, with as many as 300 girls
hired in one day. Women now make
up 26 per cent of the personnel.
West said that "in spite of cer-
tain disadvantages," more and more
women would be hired.
"We've found that women cause
some disturbance in the -shops," said
West, "a great many of them. are
here for other than sefious purposes.
It is difficuit to impress on them
the need for obeying dress regula-
tions, most.of which are intended
for their safety."
West said the misfits gradually
were being weeded out,
He declared that the use of women
had "proved so satisfactory in gen-
eral" .that Boeing expected to have
50 per cent or more women :in its
Seattle plants within 4 few months.
Army Directs
Air-Watchers
LANSING, Aug. 18 -(JP)- Capt.
Donald S. Leonard, State Comman-
der of the Citizens Defense Corps,
announced today that Michigan's
air raid spotters will serve hence-
forth as a separate branch of the
Civilian Protective Service.
To be identified as the Michigan
Aircraft Detection Corps, the air-
watchers will be largely under super-
vision and direction of the Army,
Leonard said.
The existing organization is func-
tioning well, Leonard said, and it
will not be uprooted. "Rather," he
said, "it will become the nucleus,
with plans calling for augmenting
and supplementing it since the mil-
itary is well pleased with it."
Leonard also announced formation
of a state committee to speed the
air-raid warning training program.
It will be headed by Lieut. Col.
Owen J. Cleary, chief warden of
Michigan, and will foster expansion
of warden instructor staffs in areas
where training lags.
Capt. Lawrence A. Lyon of the
State Police was named chief of the
new aircraft detection corps, mem-
bers of which will be provided with
a special insignia and will receive
intensive training.
Experiencing a mushroom-like
growth last semester from a plan
put into effect at a Lincoln Coopera-
tive House party to one of the cam-
pus' major projects, the Bomber-
Scholarship organization is one of
the groups which will receive a share
of the proceeds of Friday's Summer
Prom.
The Lincoln House plan to collect
enough money for the government
to purchase a bomber and with that
money buy government bonds which
would be converted to scholarships
for ex-service men after the war,
quickly resulted in a campus-wide
project headed by a committee rep-
resenting various campus organiza-
tions.
At first under Art Rude, '42, and
now headed by Anthony Stampolis,
Grad., the Bomber-Scholarship Com-
mittee has collected over $5,300. A
large number of campus organiza-
tions have contributed to the fund,
the greatest single contribution being
that of the J-Hop Committee, which
gave $1,950.
Other groups-in particular fra-
ternities and sororities-have devised
means whereby as great a contribu-
tion as possible could be made. A
number of them gave up having
bands at their dances, so that they
could contribute more to the Bomber
Scholarship fund. Some made con-
tributions on the part of individual
members compulsory.
Also, a swing concert was held on
April 15, the proceeds going to the
Bomber-Scholarship.
The goal set by the Committee is
$100,000; this is the amount which,
would be needed to purchase a bomb-
er. Stampolis urges all groups which.
have not contributed to do so as soon
as possible and those which have, to
contribute as much more as they can.
Larry MacPliail Takes
Army Physical Exam
NEW YORK, Aug. 18.--(P)--Larry
MacPhail, President of the Brooklyn
Dodgers, took a physical examina.-
tion for the Army last Thursday it
was learned today from the Army
recruiting service.
The Army, however, declined to
give the results of the examination
and MacPhail refused to comment.
MacPhail was a captain in the
first World War and was one of a
group which vainly sought to kidnap
the Kaiser.
Bomber-Scholarship To Benefit
From Funds Of Summer Pro
Miller Says Modern
Heavy Guns Obsolete
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Low Tax Rates, Population
Shifts Are Contributing
Factors, Says Eggertsen
The' rapidly expanding population
of the new war plant communities
is making it difficult for the schools
to make their facilities adequate, de-
clared Prof. Claude Eggertsen of the
education school in yesterday's edu-
cation series lecture.
He pointed out that although tfhe
schools of all war plant communities
find adjustment to this new order
very difficult, the communities most
affected are those which have been
overcrowded, those which have a low
tax rate for schools and those which
formerly failed to relate the school
to the community needs.
Consequently, even if the federal
government had made general sub-
sidies to systems overwhelmed by
population shifts, he explained, the
solutions to the new problems would
vary according to tle ability of the
community to organize quickly and
effectively. . N
In adjusting to the war condi-
tions, Prof. Eggertsen declared, the
schools must not only meet the ordi-
nary demands of peaeetime, but must
also provide facilities for community
recreation and adult education. The
state and the federal governments
must aid, he said, by giving both ad-
vice and money to .the communities
for their educational programs.
In Monday's lecture Dean J. B.
Edmonson pf the education school
stated that the schools cannot be set
apart from the communities and
that this fact should pave the way
for effective cooperation between
teachers' organizations and citizens.
Planes and tanks have made
heavy artillery obsolete in modern
warfare, Col. Henry W. Miller of
the engineering school recently de-
clared in the technical Journal
"Army Ordnance."
The artillery of the future, he
continued, will consist of any wea-
pons which can destroy tanks and
airplanes, since an army must ei-
ther destroy these offensive wea-
pons. or be destroyed by them.
Col. Miller, who is the chairmane
of the Department of Mechanism
and Engineering Drawing explain-
ed that the mobility increased ef-
fectiveness and the advantage of
direct observation of planes and
tanks has made the old style artil-
lery ineffective.
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DOUBLE A
To Meet The Need
NEW YORK, Aug. 18 -(A')- Sir
Galahad, a 20-ton bronze knight who
has stood guard outside the 'portals
of a biscuit company for two decades,
goes forth to war shortly, but not
in King Arthur tradition.
The statue will be melted to be
used in the making of death-dealing
shells for the Axis, the company an-
nounced today.
Can't Meet The Need
MARTINEZ, Calif., Aug. 18 - -(P)
Clarence E. Fleager resigned as
county rationing board chairman
today.
His resignation said he had worn
out his tires in board work and
wasn't eligible for new ones.
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To 'Meat' The Need
SANTA MARIA, Califs, Aug. 18
-(A')- Butcher Clem Ruskauff'.re-
fuses to wrap any customer's meat
unless change is taken in War
Stamps.
It works, because he sold $3,000
in stamps and bonds during July,
says Harold S. Chase, County War
Bond Chairman.
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Need We Say More?,
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug,.18 -(A)
-City Editor Null Adams of:the
Memphis Press-Scimitar decided to
spend his vacation at home--you
know, loafing, odd jobs, man-
about-the-house stuff.
The first day he decided to fix
the attic fan. He fell through the
ceiling. a ..
Next day, he tackled the hedge-
ran into a hornet's nest.t
Disgusted he went. horseback
riding.:
Quick Soldier Marriages,
One word
that can win (or lose) the war!
HEN YOU ADD it all up ; ; When you
cut through the fog . One word is going
to win this war or lose it.
That one word is ;
We're going to win this war;;; if we spit
on our hands. If we work till it hurts: If
we SWEAT instead of perspire.
If we roll out far more guns-far more tanks
-far more ships-far more planes.
And if we don't forget for a minute that guns
and tanks and ships and planes cannot pay
for themselves!
If we remember it takes money. Lots of it.
The Government is asking us to lend it. Not
just our spare cash. But every blessed dollar
The Government wants us to buy Stamjps and
Bonds with it. And still more Stamps ad
Bonds.
Let's not make the fatal mistake of sitting back
and letting the other fellow do it. Let's do
it now. Everybody. You. Me. Us. All.'
Start now buying Stamps and Bonds everypay
day.
Show the man behind the gun, the man on
the sea, the man in the air, that you're going
to see this thing through-and see it through
NOW#
Remember, you can start buying Bands by buy-
ing Stampsfor as little as 10 cents and that you
get a $25.00 (maturity value} Bond (Serrs )
tfor only $18.75.
t
we can affords
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