Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1940 — Page 17

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KONOYE NAMES Production of Garand Rifle Bogs Down After 3 T0 FILL KEY Army Bigwigs Demand Many Design Changes

CABINET 08S

Foreign, Navy, W War Heads

Decided; Expansionists’ Policy Indicated.

TOKYO, July 18 (U. P.).—Prince Fumimaro konoye, Premier-desig-nate, named the key men of his new cabinet today and prepared to draft a foreign and national defense |

program which was expected to!

embark the country on a strong ex- |

pansionist policy and draw it nearer to the axis powers, Germany and Italy Yosuke Matsuoka, versity graduate,

Uniand

Oregon diplomat

former president of the South Man- |

churia + Railroad, named Foreign Minister to succeed Hachiro Arita, who had been of over-friendliness toward the United States and Great Britain. Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida was retained in the post of Navy Minister Konoye was expected to announce late today his choice of Lieut. Gen Eiki Tojo, inspector general of the air forces, as war minister. Tojo was the choice of the army's big th ee—retiring War Minister Gen inroku Hata: Prince Kotohito Rano n, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Lieut. Gen. Otozo Yamada, Inspector General of Military Education Departing from

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If U.S. Has to Fight Within | Year It Will Use 1903 Springfields.

By ALLAN KELLER

Times Special Writer

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July | Production of the Garand automatic rifle, which has been called the greatest advance in infantry arms since the World War, has bogged down badly and if this fcountry has to fight within the next vear, most of its fighting will be done with the 1903 Springfield. A survey made in this city, where the weapon was designed by John C. Garand, revealed todayegthat the (great potentialities of American | production capacity have been hamstrung bv failure to“freeze” the design of the gun, already a cause of argument in military circles, and permit the jigs, dies, tools and gauges to be standardized for its manufacture at high speed. Production schedules were set un after Garand's new rifle—~in which is ejected by a the gas which accepted by At first about 150 200 a

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piston activated by propels the bullet—was the Army high command these schedules called for rifles a week and then for week Missed Goal Each Week

men who work in the armory vou for months the actual output rifles even these low goals goal was missed, 680 guns, sometimes ms the

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Controls Getting Tighter;

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Times-Acme Photo.

The new Garand rifle (above) fires eight shots simply by a squeeze of the trigger while the 1903 Springfield (below) musi be operated

manualiy after each shot.

ing firm into the Garand picture more guns have been placed in the hands of the regular Army and a few guard units. Still the number | is small. In terms of an enlarge] army of 600,000 men the figure is today actually negligible. Failure to produce the new weapons more rapidly rests largely in the laps of the Army and War Debigwigs, who have been unable to accept the Garand as it ood and who have forced innu-

It is the concensus here among

gun-making experts that not more

than 5000 of the ordered 65,000 Garands have been turned over to the Army This cannot be interpreted as a

governments. None has a contract for making Garands except the | Winchester company.

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Auto Tags Lose Paint;

Ex-Convict Is Blamed

FRANKFORT, Ky. July 18 (U, P.).—Release of a prisoner from the State Reformatory here last year is causing Kentucky motorists a lot of inconvenience with

their license plates. The paint is fading from the

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ATMOSPHERE OF WAR SPREADING ABOUT HALIFAX

Conversation Guarded; Rumors Grow Fast.

This is the last of nine articles by Mr. Love.

By JOHN W, LOVE Times Special Writer

HALIFAX, N. 8, July: 18—The | {real war atmosphere has been! speading over Halifax only in the ! | last couple of weeks. The water- | | front feels the concussion of évents abroad, the city the inflation of war | buNiness, | Controls of all kinds tighten, con- | servation is more guarded, rumors | circulate faster, news grows harder | to get, fewer pictures are taken or approved and the unemployed begin | to choose between jobs. Precautions of the military and naval forces are again increasing day by day. More are in prospect. Blackouts have been practiced for some time.

Population Doubled

It is not true, as they tell you In Toronto, that Halifax is a “mad-| house,” but the city government is admitting the population is now | nearly double its peacetime 60,000. As many as 15000 sailors, includ- | ing those of a dozen maritime na-| tions, will sometimes be walking the streets. Add to these the soldiers stationed here or passing through the port, the resident naval officers and British civilians, tour- | ists attracted by the pleasant excite-

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1940 plates which went into production after the convict was released, prison officials disclosed today. The inmate had been in charge of the license plate manufacture since the reformatory began to make them six years ago. Last year a new man had to be placed in charge and his predecessor apparently forgot to tell him all the tricks of the license trade. County clerks report a “heavy rush for substitute plates, which the state has offered to furnish free.

ment, the workmen brought in here, and the city is full. And yet they say it is much more orderly than it was in the Great War. None of the ruckuses of those days, nothing more than the routine fights. For a long time Halifax has been | the place where a visitor from the United States was allowed to get closest to war. From atop the citadel hill he may, if he is lucky, watch a convoy leave,

All Ships Camouflaged

For days the cargo ships have accumulated in the Bedford Basin back of the town. All are camouflaged in gray and: brown—none in the dazzle configuration they used in the last war. The Ispectator' may know something is (about to happen from the pull of | smoke which hangs over the road‘stead. | Presently they are steaming out through the narrows, past a flag station as if they were on a race course, oui through the anti-submarine gate % EE g and off to sea. The black trawlers, i ; iy the mine sweepers, have been busy : y in the lower bay. The destroyers are dim shapes out on the horizon.

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tions in the Caribbean. The Canadian commander is £L£ommodore H. E. Reid, in whose charge is the whole Canadian navy of 80 vessels. Neither officer has ipower to give orders to the other, Today life in Halifax things happening — events could hardly be concealed fr streets so : : : steep—or they pick ro * Some From Our Higher Price Lines! cail on the naval or military au- | * Some Were Specially Purchased! thoriiies for verification. * Some from Wasson’s 3rd Floor! | Outbound news is censored and * Many Famous Name Shoes! Many one, two and three pairs of a kind! BroThe French still have a shore! ken lots and short lines of Women's High Grade station here but its status is in| 72x108 and 63x108-Inch, extra long sheets in sizes tor twin or 34 beds. Positively No Dressing! One day only!

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WOMAN MAYOR HAS WAY

| SILVERTON, Ore, July 18 (U. | P.).—Zetta Schlador, Silverton’s | woman mayor, won a clash with the | city council, composed of men. She {decided the local police should wear { uniforms. The ccuncil objected, in- | sisting that perhaps the policemen | did not want to wear uniforms, She | replied that it was not a question | of what the police wished to wear | but of what she wished them to | wear. They are now wearing nni- | forms,

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