Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1942, Page 17

Private Flyers Told To Help War Effort or Accept Grounding Planes Over Restricted Areas ‘Very Likely To Be Shot Down’ By W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr. Private fiyers must join some sort of organized war effort or accept almost total grounding for the dura- tion. This fact wasfconveyed gently but firmly yesterday to aviation writers invited here by Federal authorities in hope they will help get the gen- eral idea across to the public. It was explained in all courtesy that fighter planes .are now aloft with loaded guns to insure that no unauthorized fiyers will go barging about over areas which might be damaged or mapped from the sky. This was made clear in a nice way. “If youre making an unauthor- fzed flight over some restricted area,” said Maj. Reed Landis. avia- tion aide to Mayor La Guardia. di- rector of Civilian Defense, “—don't worry about having your license re- voked, or that you may be fined or Jjailed . . . you may be shot down.” “Very Likely” to Be Shot Down. Questioned on the subject, Maj. Gen. John F. Curry, formerly of the Army Air Corps, and new com- mander of the Civil Air Patrol, de- clared that “no private airplane should fly in the United States whose flight plans are not known to the Alr Force Combat Command.” He added that planes making un- authorized flights over sections deemed important in the defense scheme are “very likely to be shot down, and properly.so.” ' The meeting was called at the Commerce Department auditorium to enlist support of the writers in organization of the National Civil Air Patrol. More than 1,000 appli- cations a day are being received at the Office of Civilian Defense for enrollment in the C. A. P, it was said. and this number is increasing. | Women as well as men are being accepted, along with ground per- sonnel, airport guards and helpers, | automobile drivers, clerical em- ployes. medical officers, etc. Many Pilots on Duty Now. SIDELIGHTS ON NEW COMMANDER OF ALLIED FORCES— Gen. Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, newly named supreme com- mander of the anti-Axis fighting forces in the Southwest Pacific area, with his daughter Felicity (left) and wife, Lady Wavell. Prime Minister Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons, described Gen. Wavell as a “master of war.” laid out by the Red Cross. The nex!I step will be to familiarize enrollees| with the general organization of the | Army, Navy, Marine Corps and air forces and with fundamentals of military operations. To Get Special Courses. Volunteers will then proceed to special courses for which their skills qualify them. whether as pilots, ob- servers, mechanics, officer workers, Sugar Price Ceiling Increased 24 Cents Per 100 Pounds THE SUNDAY STAR, s WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 4, 1942. All Arms Plants Told To Start Working 1-Day, 1-Night Week Army Supervisor Wants ‘Nothing Less Than 100% Co-operation’ Federal Judge Grants Fidelity Permission To Reorganize Attorneys Say Appeals In Case of Wheeling Firm Are Almost Certain By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Jan. 3—Warring that “from now on there can be no dif- ference between weekdays and Sun- days for companies working on air- craft orders,” Col. Alonzo M. Drake, supervisor of the Central Air Corps Procurement District, tenight called on all arms plants to adopt immedi- ately a production schedule of seven and seven nights. “Nothing less than 100 per cent co-operation from management and labor will do the job,” he said. “We can't afford to fumble the ball in this game we are playing. We can't due to production fumbles.” His statement following the issu- ance of a special War Department order to thousands of contractors working on munitions orders. skilled labor immediately institute training programs to provide per- sonnel for extra shifts “Some companies already adopted comprehensive training programs,” he said. “Others simply are talking about it. The time for talk is past. Let’s have action. “An all-out production program means a shorter war. Delays, shut- downs, untrained personnel, waste, inefficiency and business as usual with week-end holidays will reces- bave win the war while on the defensive | Col. Drake further demanded that | companies faced with shortages of | CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jan, 3— | Pederal Judge Ben Moore, assum- |ing jurisdiction over the involved | affairs of the $25000000 Fidelity Assurance Association, today gave it permission to reorganize as a combination insurance-annuity cor- poration. The Wheeling (W. Va.) company, formerly known as the Pidelity In- vestment Association, sold between 1911 and 1940 an estimated face value of $600.000,000 in savings con- | tracts in 29 States. An official said the real value of | present contracts is around $25.- 1 000,000 and such value never had exceeded $40.000,000 because many | contracts had not been carried to | maturity. Appeal Is Forecast. ‘The decision permitting reorgan- ization under the Federal Bank- ruptcy Act almost certainly will be appealed to the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Va. lawyers said. | At Madison, Wis., where an esti- mated $2,000000 worth of Pidelity securities are deposited for the pro- | tection of contract holders, Deputy Attorney General J. Ward Rector predicted an appeal would be taken. Other States which contested tfle jurisdictiop of the southern West guards or automobile drivers. Pilots will be required to learn all possible about the terrain within 20 to 50 miles of their home airports. Consumers Won't Be Affected Until Existing Stocks Are Exhausted There will be special courses in map reading, meteorology, aerial navi- gation and communication, includ-| Ceiling prices of raw cane sugar ing radio, signal lights and panels.| will be raised 24 cents to $3.74 a Ground crews will be trained in| hundred pounds tomorrow, it was maintenance and servicing of air-| gnngunced last night. By the Associated Press. Many experienced pilots who have | applied for enrollment in the patrol now are being assigned to ferrying military planes for the combat serv- ices, it was said. Request for the names of qualified flyers was made of Gen. Curry by the War Depart- ment shortly after the first appli- cations began to flood C. A. P. head- quarters. The general admitted his | group is losing some of its best men before they can be enrolled, but ex- | pressed gratification that the armed services will benefit The C. A. P, units of which are being formed at Congressional Air- port on Rockville pike, in Maryland, and at Beacon Airport, on the Rich- mond highway below Alexandria, is | rapidly being welded into a national utility organization under command of Gen. Curry. Already the State wings, still in process of formation. have been called on to discharge urgent mis- | gions. In Ohio, for example, uni- dentified airplanes were flying over | certain arsenals. Gas pipe lines vital to defense plants needed to be pa- trolled. C. A. P. pilots located and | grounded the objectionable planes | and still are patrolling the pipe | lines. | planes. This figure is in line with the Col. Blee said there will be “no| aimless fiving. but rather the ful-| terms under which the Government filment of specific missTons de-|is purchasing Cuba’s 1942 crop of signed to further the skills of the| sugar and molasses airplane crews.” The speaker paid | y4 ¢ explained that refiners now tribute to the loyalty of fiyers as| : a group while explaining that the had on hand considerable stocks of suspension of all licenses after the | sugar, bought under the previous declaration of war was & NeCessary | ceilings, and said that no price in- precepon, | crease shbuld affect consumers until The licenses were revalidated by | those stocks were exhausted. Mean- C. A. A. inspectors as rapidly as pos- | while. O, P. A. will complete its in- sible, he said. C. A. A. inspectors yestigations of refining costs and now are engaged in issuing identifl- | gy he able to determine what in- cation cards which must be held by | crease in refined sugar prices is all pilots after January 8. necessary. Permits for Private Flying. Announcing the new ceiling. Leon The C. A. A. board. it was said. s | genderson, price administrator, said considering & proposal to permit gpnropriate adjustments would be private flying only from airports made in the maximum prices of re- which can provide a guard service | fineq and other “direct” consump- during the period of activity at the | tion sugar on the basis of studies ‘1;,7;‘,’;:"( antfiies BeraAEl IS | of refining costs and present stocks. i plan files, he said. | TR 7 i ) necessary in case the intercepter mgefse"“n"s:‘;’:&’ ;:Ige:":fg;txgsg command of the Army Air FOICES | expected eventually, but that there wishes to check the identity of sus- | ghould be none immediately. picious airplanes. Changes in ori- | The new raw sugar célling is ginal flight plans, which might pased on deliveries at New York result from accidents or weather |quty paid. It comperes with A conditions, must be reported to the | former maximum of $3.50 for New home airport. It was said that at|york deliveries. least ¢1,200 of the approximately servant attends. He is 58, lost land’s only good general.” Bitter Cold Sweeps Southern Europe, Adding fo Distress Turkey, Italy and Spain Are Reported Hard Hit; Fuel Supplies Short By the Associated Press. The British strategist and chief of the British Empire forces which smashed the Axis forces in Africa last win- ter is an excellent horseman. Here he gives his mount some sugar after an early morning canter. After the African sitate a much longer war, with the | Virginia court are Illinois, Ohio, armed forces compelled to make Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Ala- needless sacrifices of life | bama, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, ‘We should not wait until United | Kansas. Kentucky, Pennsylvania and States cities are bombed to awaken.” | Virginia, Col. Drake is in charge of all AirSIens bl a e ] Order Was Rescinded. campaign he was made com- mander for India and Burma, the post he held when his new command came. -~—— Gen. Wavell reading a paper at breakfast as an Egyptian an eye in the first World War, and customarily wears a monocle, The Nazis called him “Eng- —A. P. Photos. closed until January 19 to conserve | fuel, the people are suffering from sharp cold and unusually heavy snowstorms. In Southern Italy the snow fell to a great depth as far| south as Taranto and Brindisi. and | the temperature fell to six degrees Centigrade below freezing (21 de- | grees above zero, Fahrenheit). Famed Mount Vesuvius is covered with snow, and so are the huls‘ around Rome. Several persons have been reported frozen to death in| various parts of the country | From Tirana, the capital of Albania, came reports that the en- | tire counwry had been in the gnp‘[ Evacuation of 2 Schools In Case of Raid Studied Plans to evacuate McKinley and Anacostia Junior - Senior High | Schools in case of an air raid are being considered by school officials, | it was learned yesterday | Both were described as being near possible military objectives of a Washington bombing—the McKin- ley near the Eckington Railroad Yards and the Anacostia near the Bolling Field and Naval Air Station. | At present the official plan for schools in case of air raids is to keep the children within the build- ings at a point determined by offi- cials as the safest in each building. This is in accord with the official plan developed by the Office of Civilian Defense. | It is understood, however, that School Supt. Frank W. Ballou has been told by the civilian defense chiefs that the O. C. D. plan is an over-all guide and not inflexible | where variation appears to be the | better solution. No definite decision | has yet been made on the plan to evacuate the two high achools. | Other matters involving panm-! accessory procurement in the 27 States between the Appalachians and the Rockies and from Canada to the Guif. Crash Near Petersburg Kills Man, Hurts 2 Others By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Jan. 3.—One person was killed and two others were in- Jured tonight when an automobile crashed into the Atlantic Coast Line underpass on the Richmond-Peters- burg turnpike, about 7 miles north of Petersburg Police listed the man killed as George Glenn Welch, 22, of Winston- Salem, N. C., and his companions said he was employed at the Nor- folk Navy Yard. The injured were Jordan Heywood, also employed at the navy yard, and an unidentified girl companion. The injured were taken to a Petersburg hospital Seven persons were injured earlier in another crash at the Hopewell road intersection. IGNITION REPAIRS STARTER GHES 15 MILLIR-DUDLEY 1716 14™St. NW. NORTH 9300 | 'The Federal court last June 6 ap=- pointed the Central Trust Co. of Charleston as trustee and ordered | all assets turned over to it by the several States and the receivers. This took precedence over the ree ceivership action instituted in & | State court last spring. Judge Moore later rescinded the order for transfer of securities by ordering the State involved to “freeze” them until the hearing ended. Prolonged hearings on the juris- dictional question were held through the late summer and fall ADVERTISEMENT. 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A P. is "the greatest thing that ever happened to civil aviation.” advanced 24 cents, that for sugar {at ports on the Gulf and south of | Cape Hatteras was, in effect, in- | creased 25 cents by a change in ex- isting differentials. Under the old schedule, the price at the Southern points was fixed at two cents under the New York price | cold is sweeping Southern Europe, adding to the suffering of people al- ready distressed by lack of fuel. In Turkey an intense cold wave lowest level in 25 vears. Numerous victims to the cold are reported from some Turkish regions and trans- portation services have been para- has dropped the thermometer to the | of cold for several days. In the|pgiion of school buildings and school southern region the temperature has | employes in the defense program will fallen to ten degrees below zero cen- | pe considered at & meeting of the tigrade (14 degrees above zero Fah- | Board of Education at 3:30 pm.| renheit) and the snow in some sec- | wednesday at the Franklin School. tors of the country has fallen 10| ————————————————————— the unusual depth of three feet. | above zero Fahrenheit), breaking Madrid reported a cold wave in | water mains and making the supply | the Aragon region of Spain., with | of water difficult in many districts. MASON & HAMLIN, CHICKERING, STORY & CLARK, HUNTINGTON, MUSETTE, CABLE, MARSHALL & Arlinéton Youth Safe, » r s ¢ to compensate for the rter ship- | lyzed | the temperature falling to 16 degrees Many people are reported to have volunteer airport guards, to tow Dt shol hip. been frozen to death in Spain. targets for anti-aircraft batteries and provide practice for search- light batteries and civilian spotter nets Maj. Landis expressed the view that the C. A. P. is the best means of keeping private flving active at a time when all other warring na- tions have eliminated this form of aviation. He warned this might happen in the United Statees un- | less private flvers can organize and | demonstrate their usefulness and | gelf-discipline A staff of volunteers at the Office | of Civilian Defense is checking ap- | plications for ‘enrollment in the | C. A. P. with the files of the Federal | Bureau of Investigation, the Civil | Aeronautics Administration and other Government agencies. Ac- | ceptances are being returned as rapidly as possible to wing com- manders of the various States. Training Planned. ‘The general training plan for the‘, C. A. P. was explained by Gol. Harry | Blee, in charge of this phase of the | program. He said there would be a training and operations officer at-| tached to each wing, group and| squadron. The first general course will be| on military courtesy and discipline. Col. Blee said. followed by infant: drill as applied to foot troops with- | out arms. This. he said. should con- tribute to morale and the spirit of cohesion | The third study will be that of the local civilian defense setup, in- cluding a special course of first aid Martin, Flynn Agree on Defense Bond Sale Plan The national organizations of the | Republican and Democratic parties, acting through their chairmen, have | agreed upon a plan to aid the Gov- | ernment in the sale of Defense | bonds and stamps | Chairman Martin of the Republi- can National Committee yesterday addressed a letter to all State Re- publican chairmen, asking them to get in touch with the officials in | their States handling the sale of bonds and stamps and to offer the | services of their organizations to | advance the sale. | A similar letter is being sent by Chairman Flynn of the Democratic National Committee to the key men | of the Democratic organizations in all the States. Several weeks ago Chairman Flynn suggested to Chairman Mar- tin that the national political or- ganizations should be used to help | the war effort of the Country, and | Mr. Martin at once agreed to the proposal. It is expected that other steps will be taken later, in addition to aiding the financial effort of the Country for war. | | | | | | | | Arlington, Va., received a post card ping distance from Cuba. The new | schedule limits the differential to one cent, thus permitting an ef-| fective increase from $3.48 to $3.73 a hundred pounds in the Southern price. Pearl Harbor Note Says | Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Ratcliffe, sr., of 2914 Twenty-fourth street North yesterday from their son, V. A.| Ratcliffe, jr, 20, an aerial photog- rapher who had been stationed at' Pearl Harbor, stating he was safe | and in good health. | He was graduated from Wash- ington-Lee High School, Arlington, | two years ago. DR. CARLETON VAUGHAN DR. JACQUES L. SHERMAN DENTISTS 404 Seventh Street N.W. Washington, D. C. 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