Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1940, Page 5

_ Engine Manufacture - To Set Pace for Air | Program, Joueit Says Capacity of 25,000 Motors by Fall of ‘41 Seen for 3 Biggest Plants Alrplane engines “will set the pace” in expansion of the Nation’s air fleets, a spokesman for American airplane manufacturers predicted today. Col. John H. Jouett, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Cor3- merce, declared in an interview that adding to warplane production facilities will be cheaper and quicker than expansion of engine factories. In completing present expansion plans caused by Allled purchases, the three large airplané manufac- turers will have a capacity of about 25,000 engines of 1,000 horsepower .nl?l higher by late fall of 1941, he said. The two largest engine makers, Wright and Pratt & Whitney, are working at near capacity now, turn- ing out air-cooled engines for the Army, Navy, transport lines and the Allies. The only company manufacturing Hquid-cooled engines suitable for military planes, which permit greater streamplining and therefore more speed) is reported turning out less than cne a day—all for Army use in the new 400-mile-an-hour pur- suit plenes designed for that type engine. Not at Its Peak Yet. This Allison engine has not yet reached the operating perfection of the air-cooled engines, one neutral source declared. The appointment of William S. Knudsen, president of General Motors, as director of industrial production of the defense plans, may have been dictated by the necessity for a greater production of engines rather than airplanes. The Allison engine is manufactured by a subsidiary of General Motors and engines lend themselves more readily to straight line mass pro- duction than would planes, he said. The possibility that aviation en- gines may be produced by automobile manufacturers in the near future was advanced by William B. Stout, one of the earliest designers of all- metal airplanes and producer of the famous Ford tri-motor transport plane. He declared that automobile man- ufacturers can redesign tooling so that the more technically advanced aviation engines could be produced in vast quantities. La Guardia Approves Idea. Mayor La Guardia of New York, & World War fiyer, told the forum yes- terday that this step is probably the most logical. It may mean that manufacturers will find it necessary | to avoid new auto models this year, which would relieve pressure on tool makers supplying the ‘Allies. The cost of retooling for annual changes is estimated at $75,000,000. As an alternative to complete manufacture by automobile com- panies, one airplane executive de- clared it might be possible to “farm out” the manufacture of engine parts to subcontractors. The parts would be assembled by the company which originally owned the designs. Col. Jouett predicted further that mass production of airplanes in the sense that it has been applied to automobiles “will never come as long as the Army and Navy continues changing (models) as they do.” He declined to recommend standardiza- tion of selected models. A survey showed that aviation plants producing the majority of combat planes were operating at nearly three full shifts and at top capacity, even without the new orders which will soon flow from the President’s program. The Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore gas em- ployes working around t] ck. Gen. Hodges Is Assigned To Fifth Corps Command Brig. Gen. Campbell B. Hodges, a former presidential military aide, has been ordered to command the 5th Corps Area, with headquarters at Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio. Effective June 1, he will succeed Maj. Gen. David L. Stone, who re- tires for age August 31. Gen. Hodges commands the 5th Division, which is participating with the 3¢ Army in the Southern maneuvers. A native of Bossier Parish, La., Gen. Hodges has served here a number of times. In 1933 he was military aide to President Roosevelt. On graduation from the Army War College in 1933, he accompanied the War Widows’ and Mothers’ Pil- grimags to France. After serving in France during the World War, he was ordered to ‘Washington for duty with the per- eonnel branch of the general staff. Gen. Hodges holds the Distin- guished Service Medal, the Spanish Cross of Military Merit, the Morocco Peace Medal and is a commander in the Rumanian Order of the Star. ‘Gang’s All Here, Boys' Band Plays At Cemetery By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 30— James Lanagan, director of the student band of North Lafayette Township High School, provided his boys with a full list of ap- propriate numbers they may play at Memorial Day services this year. Last year while the band was at ease in a cemetery, some one requested the boys to play some- thing. 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Subsidy fo Keep Airport in Operation Appeals to Edison and Other Federal Officials; Field Closes at Midnight By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., May 30.—Big air- liners today were making their fare- well visits to Newark Airport, once the world’s busiest. as city officials pressed a drive to have the Federal Treasury “angel” the fleld back to former eminence. Mayor Meyer C. Ellenstein said last night he had been in touch with Secretary of the Navy Edison and other Washington officials in a move to have the Federal Government buy, lease or subsidize the airport in line with the national defense program. Several weeks ago Mayor Kllen- stein announced the municipally-op- erated traffic control tower—sky cop of the airlanes—would shut down at midnight May 30. The Civil Aeronautics Authority then ordered the four major airlines— Transcontinental, American, United and Eastern—to suspend their 117 daily flights here. A C. 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