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{ 40-HOUR WEEK ATO MEET NEEDS,

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TUESDAY, Nov. 2,

1940 _

FLEMING SAYS:

Training Unskilled Jobbers' One of Big Tasks, Adds Administrator. By BRUCE CATTON

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Alfred P. Sloan's recent suggestion that the| six-day week should supplant the five-day week in American industry as soon as “the slack of unemployment has been taken up” scarcely caused the raising of-an eyebrow in Washington. And though the General Motors chairman was advancing his idea, as a measure to speed up defense production, Col.| § Philip B. Fleming, head of the Gov-# ernment Wage-Hour Division, de-| 38 2 s clares flatly that neither the Na-| # i JE —— rs tional Defense Commission nor the ; i

Missed Deat

ARMY 1S FIRST, AIRLINES TOLD

‘Stimson Urges Delay in Expansion Because of Warplane Needs.

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON . United Press War Expert !

British reports that the Greeks have cut Italian communications in the Porto Edda-Argyrokastron section of southwestern Albania indicate the development of a new Greek offensive aimed directly at the Albanian Adriatic Coast. It should require considerable effort by the Greeks to extend this movement, but if it succeeds on a wide scale, the Italians will face the danger of eing cut off from home” communications. Today's WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U. P).|ptalian communique, asserting that enemy units landing on the Epirus —Secretary of War Henry L. Stim-| coast, were partly destroyed seemingly refers to this new Greek attack, son said today that the Army op-| The Italians state that the Greeks were only “partly” destroyed, so that poses commercial airline expansion jt is reasonable to accept the Lon- § now because of the need of mili-| gon version of the new thrust. ‘tary planes, | The Greeks are attempting to : | Mr. Stimson explained at a spe-outflank the Italians in the strate Srawn {asi Wie landing was 2 gar. | cial press conference that some air-igic area of Argyrokastron, instead prise a air. . . | craft companies were misrepresent- of making a frontal attack. To carry| If the Greeks are in sufficient |ing the War Department's position out their plan, it seems that troops|force, they should be able to get | on the matter. | were embarked from the island of | astride the coastal road leading from | “The Army does not ask that the Corfu, about four miles from the|Argyrokastron about 50 miles north- | service now being furnished by the {southwestern Albanian Coast, and ward to Valona, one of Albania’s | commercial airlines be cut down effected a landing near Porto Edda,|two major ports on the Adriatic. The \or interferred with,” Mr. Stimson which had been a coastal supply Italians will have to resist this adR said. “What it has proposed is base for the Italians in this sector.| vance with all possible strength or that the commercial airlines be not| The movement shows strategic |else face the possibility of isolation ® | permitted to expand their business skill of a high order on the part of |in the southwestern sector of their | during the present rational emerg- the Greeks as well as unusual battle front. ency.” : {daring. It is difficult for troops to| The new Greek offensive is indeMr. Stimson said that the matter land at coastal points controlled by| pendent of the attack being made

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Ttalfans farther north in the direction of Durazzo, Albania's principal

port. Stiffer Italian defensive fighting should now result if the Fascists | are not to find themselves fighting | precariously with their backs to the | sea. Reports from Rome that two] divisions of reinforcing troops have | reached Albania show the Italian| High Command realizes the danger | of the situation. Whether two divisions are enough | depends on the number of troops | the Greeks can throw into the fighting. The Greeks now are on the of- | fensive everywhere in Albania, | which normally should require a| three-to-one superiority over the] Italians. In mountain warfare, however, | the ordinary rules of tactics and]

strategy do not always apply.

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” last July Col. resident Roosevelt that he wanted i %

~ but only one complaint has come in

American businessman has given any indication that the 40-hour week is slowing up the defense pro-| gram, | “I'm a soldier and I'm primarily interested in national defense,” | says Col. Fleming. “If I saw any

a handicap to our defense efforts I'd be the first one to go to Congress and ask for a change. But I don’t.” : Only One Complaint Fleming wrote informed |at once if the 40hour week was slowing up defense

production anywhere... The President gave the letter wide publicity,

—from a small concern which com-

Date ho poian't set nova | Sf on Sty em Babies, Amarillo

, Far more important than lengthining the work week, the Colonel thinks, is training the unskilled un-| employed for skilled jobs. He points] out that the wage-hour law is amply | flexible to make this easy. “We can step in on a plant-|

expansion basis| and give employers ment to sit in front w certificates for| hiring apprentices! instead of in the rear seat by him-| and learners, at less than the min-) gif. imum wage if necessary, at any time pole crashed down across a: street

that it's advisable,” he says.

Employers Are Co-operating In general, Col. Fleming believes

the wage-hour law is coming to be! iaved closed today. accepted as a permanent feature of | warned to keep their children in-|

the American industrial landscape. | 4oc away from the still snapping,

“I'think in the last year or so!

we've developed a consciousness |

\ Thong both employers and labor | nity partly illuminated by colored What the law

says.

We've had a lot of help from trade associations.

lications and sending them out to

“What I'm striving for now—and|

I think I can see the goal ahead of teur station W5AVM. and I have reported swept from his boat in the us—is to make a routine periodic in- heen at the sending controls of my swirling backwater of spection of every employer covered station. W5ECL, constantly.

by the act.”

{and crumpled the rear of the Ye left the sendin SY | hs vi ss-section g room except for Hie De ee i an hour or so of sleep, and one or 100 EXPECTED AT i .

\dangerous broken power lines.

is| being enforced,” he oon signs. partly by the flickering “Because that is true, busi- jjohts of candles and oil and gas 8 S13 adi ness is helping to enforce the BY, os but mostly dark. (of Louisiana out into the Gulf of Insurance Building.

Many of them are go- of an amateur radio station, WS5ECL, | ing right to bat. reprinting our pub-/ qld of the tiring hours spent in had been rescued from rooftops and | communicating with the their members to help them comply | world. . with the law,

THEY WILL BRING RESULTS,

| now is before the National Defense the enemy and since the Italians |from Koritza in eastern Albania, { 3 | Commission priorities board. Hel only “partly” succeeded in their re-!which is seeking to drive the VICKS VA-TRO-NOL | TRY A WANT AD IN THE TIMES,

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| said that the airlines are contem-

plating ordering a 100 per cent expansion of their large planes by | 1942 from {factories now lagging! gE lon vital defense orders,

24 OF 133 DRAFTEES om REJECTED AT FORT

A sudden decision to sit in front of this tas with the driver | Twenty-four of the 133 draftees! probably saved the life of J. A. Harrington in Amarillo, Tex. The power |yeporting to Ft. Harrison yesterday line pole, its cross arms and wires weighted down by a five-inch sheath for induction into the Army in the of ice, fell just as the cab passed, piercing the rear of the vehicle. [fing] contingent of the first call Neither man was injured. {were rejected because of physical 2 A “ 8.8 | detects, { This is the largest number that | | had been rejected in any one day so |far, a ratio of better than ome out : : : : LS rejected yesterday, seven | [s Doing Fine, Considering were because of bad teeth; four be- | § {cause of defective feet; three, poor | |vision; two, heart ailments; one, dis- | {honorable discharge from the Army; |

ith the driver WSECL, are powered by storage Seven because of miscellaneous dei batteries. My sending equipment is 1€CUS. 3 A telephone in the basement.of my home. A The 109 men accepted Jesierdey| friend brought in a gasoline lan- Were to be sent to Ft. Thomas, Ky.,

| 'tern. Redburn and I have never today. 1

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He was lucky.

‘us has been on duty all the time.” PURDUE MEETING |

Mothers were| Rain Moves to Gulf More than 100 persons are ex- | The rain which caused misery Pected to attend the semi-annual | ‘and destruction from the far north- dinner meeting of the Purdue Dads west corner of the Panhandle to and Mothers Association, Central the southeast corner of the state at Indiana Group, which will be held {Port Arthur, 700 miles away, was ab 6:30. p. m. Friday in the, audi- | moving southeast across the bayous torium of the American United Life]

Schools were closed yesterday and

Last night Amarillo was a weird;

Speakers and the subjects they will discuss at the meeting are Dr. F. B. Knight, director of education) and applied psychology at Purdie] University: “Questions I Yould Ask if IT Were a‘ Purdue Parent,’ and William A. Hanley, director of engineering at Eli Lilly & Co. and : president of the American Sagiety Bav of Mechanical Engineers: “An En-| : gineer's Recent Experience in Eu-

Dr. William B. Thomas, operator | Mexico. Although hundreds of residents

outside | thousands of dollars worth of cattle {and crops had heen destroyed, only He messaged: : one death had-heen reported. «J. B., Redburn. operator of ama-| on unidentified fisherinan was

Galvestor His body had not been found.

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The 80,000 residents of the three] HERO OF 1898 DIES | cities hardest hit suffered mostly! RANGOON, ‘Burma, Nov. 26 from the inconvenience caused by! (U. P.). — Ralph Earnshaw, 65,! lack of electric power, telephone Spanish-American War veteran and | service ‘and water. holder of the Congressional Medal, With restoration of water to Am- awarded him for saving passengers |arillo, the major deficiency there from the burning liner, Hardinge,| {was in the milk and bread supply, died today. Mr. Earnshaw came to both disrupted when electric pas- Burma immediately after the Spanteurizing. and baking units were ish-American War, in which he made useless. It was not expected, served under Col. Theodore Roosehowever, that the shortage would velt. become critical. = Railroad lines! were still open and available tol take emergency supplies into the] city. Highways were opening as| the ice thawed today. In east and south Texas, the| Brazos, Trinity, Neches, Sabine and Little Rivers had made great lakes of the alluvial plain from San Antonio east to Beaumont and of the gentle valleys from Nacogdoches! south to Houston. |

Red Cross Mobilized

National Guard, Army and pri-| vate planes flew over the area, sub-| merged in from a few inches to many feet of muddy water, spotting for volunteers in boats the stranded! householders clinging to their roof-| tops. ! Fear was felt for hundreds of; hunters in the low marshlands] along the Gulf coast where there is| no high land. Coast Guard patrol- | men, aided by a volunteer air arm, | were scanning the area. ol The Red Cross, which said it al-| ready had under control any need | arising in the north, was mobilizing | to furnish shelter and food for the south Texas flood refugees.

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