1941-01-13 — Page 7

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CHIEF INSPECTOR-President Roosevelt, in automobilo at right, visits the Bell aircraft factory at Buffalo and inspects progress of defence orders there. He is shown looking over a 50 mm. machine-gun of a type to be installed in naval planes.

1,000 Air Engines A Month On Way At Motor Plant

January 13, 1941,

By Ernie Bushmiller

HISSS S

HISSSSS

HISS

FOOD RATIONING

IN HOLLAND

It is a commonplace that wherever German soldiery sets foot destitution is rampant. So the former prosperous Holland will now also have her "winter_rellef," Instituted at the behest of Seyss-Inquart, Reich Commissioner for Holland.

It is to be feared that the greater part of the collections will not reach the needy, but will go to strengthen the Nazis.

Holland, traditional country

of fishermen, has to import her Increase Of Rates

fish from Scandinavia. This is not only because fishing in tho North Sea has become extreme- ly dangerous, but in consequenco of German looting, which has created an acute scarcity of food.

The German-inspired attempts to form a single political party in the Netherlands have had no results. At A joint meeting of the two largest Prutestant partles, recently held in Aunsterdum, Dr Slotemaker de Bruine, an ex-Minister in the Cabinet of Dr Collin, and leader of the Christian Historical Party, rejected totalitarianism.

In Shanghai

Special Meeting Called

The Senior Consul in Shanghai has. issued a publie notre convening, at the request of the

Shanghai Municipal Council and under author-

of the ity

Land Regulations, 21 special meeting of ratepayers 01 Thursday, January 23.

the recommendations of the Council

The principal Resolutions present] to increase the levies of Land Tax and General Municipal and Special uary 1, 1941, by the Rates from January addition of

of a surcharge of 40 per: "Do not expect of us that we shall, cent, on the existing ross levies.

A further Resolution which is to for tlie make of national unity, drive uul of public life that which is most be introduced by the Council

provides sacred to us," he said. "Spiritual for the levy from January 1, 1941, freedom lies in our bloodfreedom of Licence Fees in accordance with of religion, school and opinion." the modlications of the existing

The Police Commissioner of The Sch

Schedule of such feea which have Hague has again been obliged to been unanimously recommended by warn the public against sabotage, the Sources of Revenue Sub-Com- such as the demolition of military mittee of the Municipal Economy traffic signals placed by the Germans.

Committee and adopted by the Council.

Bones Instead of Meat Meanwhile, "Frij Nederland," the

Engines designed specifically for use in swift interceptor pursuit planes are expected to be rolling off the production line of an Indianapolis factory at the rate of 1,000 a month by November, 1941, announces the General Motors Corporation,

The statement on the output of its Allison division was the first made by the Corporationment per person, and half that for since the stepping up of production on the heels of a lesson taught by the European war-that the liquid-cooled engine apparently was dominating the fighting plane field.

MOTHER KISSES MAN WHO SHOT HER SON

Free Dutch paper publisited in Lon don, states in Its current issue that after a few days' experience of meat rationing Dutch women know that the Nazi weekly ration of 14oz of

children, means little, since the meat

A soldier who shot a comrade was allotted to butchers contains a pre-embraced and kissed by the dead ponderance of bones, The output of the Allison Company is doubly important to

and the price has increased by nearly an accident," she said.

Tobacco, toe, has been rationed, man's mother at the inquest in Lon- don. "I quite understand. It was American defence because it manufactures the only engine of its

200 per cent. There is an aculo Evidence was given that while on of cigars, cheroots and quard duty, Fusilier Harold George Corps and for Britain's Royal Air Force. The interceptor pur-clearettes. Some 20,000

Sumatra tobacco have just been sent rifle in fun at Lance-Corporal Des- bales of Watson, aged twenty-six, aimed his suit is the type of plane being used by the R.A.F. in fending off

to Germany. air assaults in the battle of Britain.

mond Walby, a

friend. The Allison engine, developed General Marshall Cornwall and Air over a long period of years, has Vice-Marshal, Elmhurst, representing been adapted to three makes of the Middle East Command, are arriving to-day for one of the pursuits the bimotored Lock-

Staff Talks At type presently available for pursuit planes for the Army Air scarcity

Ankara

Ankara, Jan. 12.

periodical exchanges of viewn with heed, the Bell "Airacobru,”and. the Turkish General Staft which have the Curtiss P-40-and to thej taken place since the signature of the Bell "Airacuda," known as a Anglo-Turkish Alliance. "

Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, who is bomber destroyer.

resident ul Ankara as personal re- Only a service orden of 13 planes) presentative of the Commander-in-was placed by the Army for "Aira- chief Mediterranean Fleet, will be rudas." present at the talks-Reuter,

BORIS

KARLOFF KILLS

ARAOFF

...TO TURN TIME

BACKWARD!

BEFORE

I HANG

EVELYN KEYES BRUCE BENNETT Screen play by 9. D. Andrius Directed by HICK GRINDE

A COLUMBIA FICTURE

Warsaw Jew Walled In

New Ghetto

The three makes of pursuits cur- Approximately 500,000 Jews rently represent the United States'

are leading a new life behind an bid for air superiority in the cate eight-foot concrete wall built by Kory of fast fighters. Until the Packard Motor Car Company, which Germans to enclose the ghetto is expected to manufacture quan- district of Warsaw, state dis- lty of British-design Iquid-cooled patches from the former Polish engines, and the Ford Motor Com- capital.

any, which is working on its own

ture.

Possibilities

design. Hel Into production, the The wall-unusual in modern Allison division of General Motors times-surrounds 100 or more will bear the entire burden of pur-j sult plane "in-line" engine manufac- city blocks and closes off 200 streets and even street car lines. The Allison liquid-cooled engine Warsaw have been required to take By German decree, all Jews in makes a substantial contribution to up residence in the ghetto, which a plane's speed because with its lies in the central district of the city. cylinders in line, like those of an It has become overcrowded, with as cutomobile. It affords greater pos- many as seven persons living in one Mibilities for streamlining than the room in some buildings. better-known, star-shaped radial en-

"Health Measure"

rine.

in

the

All the German and British pur The Germans built the wall last sults are powered with this type of winter, paying the action was not engine. For the last decade United States has lagged behind anti-Semitic but simply a health other world powers

measure to protect Poles-and-Jews the manu facture of in-line neroplane engines, low total war.

alike from the pestilences likely to largely because air-cooled radials were lighter for horsepower, casler, to cool and easier to service.

They left 18 entrances open-but recently effective all persons who wish to enter or leave must have a

Increase in Production special pasa. This applies also to The General Motors announcement any Genille Pole wishing to enter the divulged that 288 Allisons were district temporarily, manufactured in October as against The German decree brought about' 223 in September and only 73 inja wave of frantic purchases outside July and 65 in August. Some parts the ghetto in an effort to stock up of the engine are made by the Cor-on things which may not be pro- poration's Cadillac unit.

|cured within.

For month the production of planes designed to lake the Allison has exceeded the supply of engines.

The Allison output now is expected Hitler Gives Away

to creep up to the scheduled -plane

onipat,

C. E. Wilson, General Motors Act-

Polish Treasures

Ing President, sald a total of 13,000 HITLER is trying to win the sym- men would be employed in manu-pathy of the Spanish Catholics by facturing Allisons when full produc- giving them treasures stolen from tion was attained.

the churches of Poland. Equipped with Allison engines, the Three railway corrloges filed with Lockheed inlerceptor has a top speed vessels, pictures and statues recently NEXT CHANGE at the hour. The single-engine bell, of a churches damaged during the elvil alightly more than 400 miles an arrived in Spain for presentation to

KING'S

of.

novel design which places the engine war. behind the pilot and given him a A Polish priest, who was shown" greater field of fire with a cannon Hitler's gifts in Madrid, told a British and as many as eight machine guns, correspondent that he recognised two, can achieve about 390 miles an hour, big cups and other articles from? and the Curtles about 370. ·

Warsaw Cathedral.

Many Diseases

The Germans have ordered ail cycle and motor-car tyres to be sur- it was loaded, and the bullet entered Walby fred his own rifle, forgetting rendered, and those who possess Watson's chest. He said he did not tyres of any sort must deliver them aim at anything particular, and did within 21 days.

not pull the trigger, which must have caught in his equipment. Concerning-German-health,aBoth men came from Newcastle Hague doctor wriles in "Frij Neder- The verdict was "Death by misadven- land": "Statistics I have seen prove ture." that in several types of diseases, particularly scarlet fever, diphtheria and infantile mortality, the pub- lleised German health record proves to be a record only in having the worst figures for all Western Europe. Perhaps this is ter plan."

the long term dividend of Goering's 'Guns for But-

Prisoners Escape From Devil's Is.

A story of giving provisions at sea to nine exhausted men who said they had escaped from the French penal colony on Devil's Island was told by an American tanker captain, who arrived at Paulsboro, NJ. Sinclair saldi

Capt. H. L. Dahlat of the L. P. his crew sighted the Carribbean Sea 1,000 miles from the men adrift in an open boat in the

penal colony off South America. He said they had been without food and water for five days.

Ship's officers, he said, gave them food and 50 gallons of water.

Dahlof sald he heard later by radio that the men had landed safely on Halil.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange OMelal Summary issued Saturday says:

The market continued very quiet.

Buyers

Canton Ins. $205 Untons Ins. $405

H.K. Fire Iris. $105 Wharves $04

Trams $17.85

Star Ferrics $01

Yaumati Ferries $24.25 Ropes $8

Dairy Farms $10.10 Entertainments $7 Constructions "0" $1.80

Sellers Lights Rta Cts.95 Electrics $40.40% Cements $18.00 Watsons $11.40 Vibro Piling' $7,70

Sales

H.K. Govt. 31⁄2% Loan (1939) 04 Trams $17.00

Lights X. Kis $8.25 Lights Rts Cts.90

Swan, Culbertson & Fritz

Investment Bankers and Brokers

Members of New York Colton Exchange

Chicago Board of Trado

Manila Stock Exchange

Winnipeg Grain Exchange

Commodity Exchange, Inc, New York

Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Montrent

New York Coffee and Bogar Exeliange

Hongkong Sharebrokers Association

Shanghai Stock Exchange

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