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Irene Hervey (L) with Allan Jones and Rosemary Lane in the cinema version of the George Abbott, Rodgers and Hart stage auccèrs, "The Boys From Syracuse." The picture is ม modern musical farce with ancient Greek backgrounds. Other notabice in the large cast include Joe Penner, Martha Raye. Charles Butterworth. Alan Mowbray, Eric Blore and Samuel S., Hinds. At the King's Theatre.
MR. KNUDSEN ON U.S. 'PLANE PRODUCTION RISE
.
HUNTING THE
SNARK IN
THE ATLANTIC
Although ships at sea in war-time
avoid using
.
their wireless, states Reu- ter's Correspondent with the Atlantic Fleet, con- stant conversation is nevertheless carried on among units of a squa- dron by signalling lamp.
Recently a cruiser was ordered to-oil a destroyer — on operatión which is carried out by reducing speed a few knots. The cruiser, which was experiencing some en- gine trouble, signalled back to the flagship: "I feel like the Bellman, 19th yerse, Fit first, 'Hunting of the Snark "
Although
the the captain of flagship and other officers could recite several verses of Lewis Carroll's poem, no one could place the verse in question. A general appeal was sent through the ship for a copy of "The Hunting of the Snark," and within 15 minutes the Commander Engineer mount- ed the bridge with his finger on the verse:__
Navigation was always a dif-
ficult art,
The "ith only one ship and one
bell,
And he feared he must really
decline for his part Undertaking another as well, The olling operation was hand- ed over to another cruiser. but "The Hunting of the Snark," in another passage, provided an ap- propriate retort to the first crui-
engine troublė:
We should all of us grieve, as
you may well believe.
A TOTAL OF 3,470 high-powered aeroplane ser, which had failed to report her engines were delivered by American manufacturers in February, an increase of 343 over the previous month, William S. Knudsen, Director General of the Office of Production Management, said in Washington.
Of this number 2,767 went to the Army and Navy and Great Britain, Mr. Knudsen said, citing the record on aeroplane engines as characteristic of a general increase in defence production.
Mr. Knudsen branded as "stuff and nonsense" reports that Amerkan 'planes were unsatisfac- tory to the British in many res- pects.
"I'm no fl'er myself," he said, "but they keep taking 'em. That's all I need to know."
since last July," Mr. Knudsen said, "You see, we are gradually. shoving the dots in this direc-| tion."
He indicated the west. "That's what everybody asked us to do, so that is what we are
Mr. Knudsen answered ques-doing. tions on the defence programme at a press conference.
If you never were met with
again,
But surely, my man, when the
voyage, began,
You might have suggested it
then.
TRAWLER GOT A BOMBER
"We are in good old
"In justice to American enter-England at last! It's like "What is the situation as to pro-prise, the Army and the Navy and coming home." These duction?" he was asked. Are to the people engaged in this ef- things beginning to move now?”
He called for a large pin-dotted map of the country.
fort, I say we are doing something were the words of the pilot These pinheads may de just dots of a German bomber to you, but they mean production which was shot down by
to me.' #1
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Mr. Knudsen
said that the a trawler off Yarmouth. "Every one of those dota is a shortage of machine tools was project started expanded still a major problem and added!
that the labour situation was be-. coming acute.
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He remarked that an Inventory of machine tools was being made with a view to finding out where they were, located and how they could be used. This is in prepara t'on for a more intensive drive for "farming out" subcontracts by primary contractors, he explained.
The
pilot and three others of the bomber crew were captured by two unarmed civilians who - were out for a walk,
The bomber, a. Junkers 88, had attacked the British trawler Gal- vaini. S
So fierce was the trawler's re ply that the bomber was hit, caught. fire, and made
a crash landing on the coast at Horsey, a village ten miles from Yarmouth. The trawler and its crew. untouched
were
One of the bomber crew had an
burned.TAKA AG
He indicated disagreement with injured leg, and another was! at least one phase of the ReutherThe plane was seen to crash by plan for mass production of 'planes Mr. H. E. Thain, a shopkeeper and and engines, that relating to the Mr. R. Sadler, his friend. use of existing automobile `plant tools and equipment.
He said that a check-up on the Cadillac plant, which, Walter P. Reuther, chief of the General Mo- tors Division of the United÷Auto- mobile Workers (C. 1.0.), author of the plan, gavn as in example, revealed that only 15 per cent of standard equipment could be used for the production; of neroplane engines, Mr. Reuther will make a turther study, and meet with OPM cfficials later, Mr. Knudsen said.
"To say you can use existing equipment for making a complete aeroplane engine in an automobile plant is just not so," he said. say it just can't be done." 3,500 Engines A Month
-The two men ran to the ma- ching and saw the crew. going: towards the sea with: a rubber:- boat, but the Germans" stopped::
·when called upon, and have the twoman their revolversi pentr The pilot, a-man-of about forty,tu, could speak English, Mr: Thain told a reporter." He said, I had a go at a trawler but the trawler got me first."
of engines required for a monthly plane output of 1,500 expected by July.
The chamber based its estimate on a survey of the three big promi ducers, Pratt & Whitney,-Wright Aeronautical and Allison, v
QIf the chamber'g, July: estimate: is attained, there will be enough motors each?
a month to power at The Aeronautical Chamber of lessi 1:800 military planes, rang...... Conimerce estimated that the ing, from 5-single-engined pursult angine, craft © to--four-engined » bombers, "three major aeroplan mahufacturers - would.
cofficials saldy monthly output of 3,500 to 3,7004 big anginan. by July,
That rate would relieve ing engine shortages, and la: small surplus, over the
Im September 1889, the com- put of the three manu-
arem was 200 to 300 “biz¦ en«.
inth. A year later the had risen to 1,000