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AUTO DEATHS AT ALL-TIME HIGH
3910 Killed in in August, 21% Above Figure for A Year Ago.
CHICAGO, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—The nation’s motorists raced during August to a new all-time peak for traffic toll in human life.’ The National Safety Council reported today that the August death total from automobile accidents was 21 per cent greater than the same month a year ago, and the 13th consecutive month of increased fa-
talities. The 31-day toll was 3910 persons. On the eve of a scheduled meeting
‘of the National Safety Congress,
embracing 10,000 members of 125 the council brought into !sharp focus the urgency of immediate safety precau-
tions on the nation’s highways.
Year’s Figures Are Up
The Congress will meet Oct. 6 at Chicago to formulate a “put-on-the-brakes” campaign under the
guidance of President Roosevelt's recent proclamation emphasizing the significance of traffic safety to national defense. With the unprecedented increase in the traffic death rate during August, the total fatalities for the first eight months of 1941 mounted to 24,030 human lives. This ‘represented an 18 per cent increase over the 20,440 persons killed in the same period of 1940.
Carelessness a Factor
Admitting that greater automobile travel had accounted for some of the increase, the council warned that carelessness apparently was equally responsible, for mileage figures showed only a 12 per cent gain in travel for the 31 days of August. The mileage death rate, the council said, rose only 5 per cent. . Rural traffic fatalities were 25 per cent greater in August, 1941, than the previous August, continuing an average 22 per cent jump for the eight-month period of 1941 over 1940
"Cities of more than 10,000 popu-
lation reported an 18 per cent fatal-
ty increase for August this year.
House Waits on
Defense Bonds
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (U. P.) —“What good is a community house without freedom?” The Booger Hollow, Ark. wom‘en’s club asked itself that ques‘tion, decided that the answer was
* *no good,” and invested $75 it had
saved for such a house in defense bonds. The War Department made the announcement in a three-page ‘press release, including a letter from Mrs. Arthur Jones, the club’s president, to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Booger Hollow is about 100 miles
_, »-Rortheast of Little Rock, has no
post office and no stores. The 38 Booger Hollow families live in a cut in the Ozark Mountains. They have an average annual income of $500 per year which is earned during the cotton - picking season.
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'Arduous War'
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to me, that a reasonably satisfactory result can be realized.” He said he used the phrase “reasonably satisfactory result” as distinguished from such phrases as “the final destruction of Nazi tyranny” or the “defeat of Hitler.” “For,” Mr. Clark said, “I think it is high time to define more precisely what our objectives are . . . first, the reduction, as distinguished from the elimination, of Germany’s military power to a point where it would cease to be a threat to the peace of the world, and second, a new and more effective effort to or the peace through a new association or federation of peoples, whereby our own security would be insured and justifiable hopes would be held out that the reign of law shall at last be established in the world. No Turning Back, He Says “No more than this is needed for a reasonably satisfactory result. No less is required as the objective of our participation in a great war. “When that issue is presented, as it must be soon, I predict that there will be no turning back and that we will go forward, hating the prospects as we all do, but none the less re: solved to see it through.
“We will make that decision both
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F. D. R. and Hull Confer;
Arming of Merchant Ships Main Issue. By LYLE C. WILSON
‘United Press Staft Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Presi-
:| dent Roosevelt and Secretary of
". | State Cordell Hull today drafted an
_ Grenville Clark
as a matter of cold national selfinterest and as a matter of national self-respect which is as necessary to a nation as to an:individual. “I said that the coming war must be both arduous and long. I see no escape from that. The disease has been permitted to run too long 2 an easy or short cure.”
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the instailation of $8,000,000 worth of machinery—hundreds of pieces that are necessary to do the job of manufacturing brass and cartridge cases. While the present crew of workmen totals around 500 men, the force will be more than doubled in November to move in the equipment. Then by early spring—around April 1—Stone & Webster plan to turn over the plant to the Bridgeport Brass Co. which will put to work some 3000 men in three shifts to begin manufacturing, milling and punching out three types of cartridge cases.
Plant’s Background \
The pedigree of the brass plant is this: It is being constructed by Stone & Webster Engineering Co.
of Boston, probably the country’s biggest constructing firm, as agent for the Bridgeport Brass Co. of Boston, which will operate; the plant for the Defense Plant Corporation. The latter is a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. All of which means that it is Uncle Sam’s own plant, operated, being built and operated by private firms. The plant consists of two onestory large buildings. The largest, 1250 by 345 feet, is to be the rolling mill and fabricating shop. The other, 500 by 302 feet, will be the casting shop. The large induction furnaces which will transform the raw materials to ingots and slabs of brass,
5000 Tons of Steel Used
These slabs of brass will then travel through linking corridors to the fabricating plant where rolling
sheets. Heavy presses then will fabricate the cartridge cases. More than 5000 tons of steel has gone into the framework of the two
house the heavy machinery. This machinery will begin rolling into Indianapolis on boxcars in No-
Stone & Webster—each piece has a shipping and airival date and a priority number to assure that it gets here. Most of the machinery has been ordered on a A-1-b rating but offi¢ials said they are asking the top
cause manufacturers now say they can’t get them there on time. Time-Saving System Used The speed with which builders
largely on “synchronization” of the #&rival and installation of the ma-
"| chinery on the pre-arranged sched-
ule. . As a matter of fact every timesaving system that could be devised by the veteran builders of Stone & Webster is being used to hasten the date .when the plant will begin to pour smoke from its funnels. : For instance, temporary spur railroad tracks were built in plant grounds and into the buildings themselves. The pre-cast concrete blocks for plant roof, which come
the very spot where workmen are putting on the roof. The blocks are rolled out of the cars and swung to the workman and into place in virtually one operation. The brass plant was originally
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scheduled to cost Uncle Sam a total of $11,500,000 when finished. But this has been upped by $820,000 by the Government which ordered further expansion of facilities over original plans. It may be expanded further, depending upon the course of the war. Three types of cartridge cases will be manufactured. They are antiaircraft 90 mm. cases; 37 mm. cases for aircraft guns and light antitank weapons, and 105 mm. cases for artillery pieces. The plant capacity will be 15,000,000 pounds of brass per month. In addition, the plant will turn out brass slabs that can be shipped to other case manufacturers. The local plant is just one of five of the same size now being rushed to completion throughout the country. Stone & Webster must get the plant finished as soon as possible, because the company must move on to begin other defense plants.
outline of the Administration plan to modify the existing Neutrality Act. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull met in the White House shortly after the
| Chief Executive returned from Hyde Park, N.
Y. : While indicating clearly that
neutrality revision was the para-
mount subject under discussion, Mr. Hull also said that the nearly twohour conference covered all other phases of the international situation. “We were going over all the different phases of the inferenational situation as they affect matters which we thought called for an exShangs of ideas and discussions,” he d Mr. Hull declined, however, to
trality Act revision which Mr. Roosevelt will discuss tomorrow at a strategy huddle with his legislative leaders.
Willkie Favors Revision
It was assumed that his talk with Mr. Roosevelt also covered the Far Eastern situation, where some tension is again being felt as result of a fresh Japanese press assault on the United States and official Tokyo measures against British citizens leaving the island empire. Despite Mr. Hull’s silence on specific plans for modification of the Neutrality Act, it was believed generally that he recommended the scrapping of those parts of the law which forbid the arming of American merchant vessels and bars them from belligerent ports. Congressional associates said Mr. Hull favors repeal of the entire Neutrality Act except for provision for the munitions control board. It became known simultaneously that Wendell L. Willkie favors amendment to the same extent. Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave amendment prospects a further boost last night in a broadcast specifically calling for authority to arm our ships and for abandonment of combat zone policies which bar them from belliger-
ént ports.
give details of the proposed Neu-
Halian Ships Shell Rebellious Slavs; Thousands’ of Czechs Seized by Nazis
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arrested Baron Constantin von Neurath, who was succeeded Saturday as Nazi “protector” of the Czech area by Reinhard Heydrich, Gestapo deputy. (Berlin denied the von Neurath arrest reports and said that the baron was ill at his estate in Ger-
‘|many.)
A United Press Stockholm dispatch reported as from Norway that an explosion had occurred at Holestrand, in southern Norway, while oxygen bottles were being unloaded from a ship and that the possibility of sabotage was considered. British radio broadcasts quoted the Vichy radio that three French miners, alleged to be Communists, had been executed. The broadcasts also asserted that there were fresh re of sabotage in Hungary and that “hatred” of Germans was growing in Bulgaria; that in Jugoslavia Serb guerrillas had captured 36 German soldiers- and notified German military authorities that they would be shot if any more guerrillas were executed. Radio Moscow reported that in the last two months Serb guerrillas had blown up 200 bridges and 400 ammunition and food dumps and had derailed 17 trains. Moscow re-
WILLKIE TO PRESENT WNUTT AT RALLY
' Times Special WASHINGTON; Sept. 30.—Wen-
dell L. Willkie will introduce Paul
V. McNutt to a Madison Square:
Garden and nation-wide radio audience next Thursday night, it was announced here today. The meeting will be in the interest of United China Relief. Other speakers will be Mayor LaGuardia, Governor Edison of New Jersey, Walter Lippmann, the Chinese Ambassador, Dr. Hu Shih, and Bishop Hall of Hong Kong. The speakers will be preceded by a bevy of entertainers from the stage, screen and radio, including Kate Smith, Jack Benny and Eddie Cantor. With Mr. Willkie presiding, the event will mark the first public platform meeting between the two Indiana University classmates, one of whom won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940 and the other who might have had a chance for the Democratic nomination if President Roosevelt didn’t take a third term.
ported that Czech sabotage was
growing constantly and that the great Skota arms works had been closed down three days. London broadcast reports of rumors in Italy that Adolf Hitler wanted a state of emergency de= clared for all Italy and that. a “great number” of persons had been |; arrested at Milan and Trieste. In an Italian language broadcast, London alleged typhoid fever had broken out among Italian troops on the Eastern Front. The Italian Cabinet, meeting today, followed up decrees rationing bread, corn meal and clothing with an order establishing control over the distribution and sale of wood and charcoal. Consumption of illuminating gas also. was limited. London reported that thousands of persons had been arrested by the Gestapo in Czechoslovakia. A daily Mail dispatch “from the German frontier” (presumably the Swiss side) gave the same report and said that hundreds of persons had been arrested in Praha alone. This dispatch said among persons executed in Czechoslovakia yesterday were the editor of a Praha newspaper, a Praha baker, a cabinet maker and a clerk. Three retired generals — Josef Bely,
FOUR BILLIONS MORE LONDON, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—The House: of Commons today appropriated another $4,000,000,000 in a blanket war grant. Thus far similar appropriations have totaled | $12,000,000,000. The March 7 budget proposed blanket credits of $14,
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TRAIN KILLS TWO .
KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 30 (U. P.). —Two Kokomo men were killed yesterday when they were struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad train at-a county road crossing two miles south of Road 22 at Manship. The victims were Willard Waits, 48, and Clarence Waits, 55.
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Hugo Vojti- and Franz|
Horacher—were executed on charges of plotting a Czech. revolt.
The others shot were charged with having gone about the country collecting arms for the revolt. A Zurich dispatch of the British Exchange Telegraph quotea “‘a neutral observer just returned after onths in Germany, whose judgment and impartiality are affirmed by the editor,” as. writing in the
newspaper Nation of bad conditions in Germany.
growing in both the Nazi Party and in some Army circles. “It is reliably asserted that ds the result of the Russian campaign about 50 per cent of the pick of the German army had been put out of
the losses of German air force squadrons had been as high as 70
According to the dispatch the]: observer said that pessimism was]:
HINTS FINNS TO JOIN AXIS
BERN, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—(CDN)== The newspaper Die Tat of Zurich reports today . from Berlin the possibility that Finland may enter the three-power pact.
action by mid-September and that| i&
per cent,” the observer wrote,
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SAYS KIRBY HIGBE: “When you've been in there throwing everything you’ve got, there’s nothing hits the spot like a Camel. No matter how much I smoke, Camels never wear out their welcome. And I like knowing - there’s less nicotine in the smoke of Camels.”
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