Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1942, Page 4

A—2 % Navy Having Trouble Keeping Shipyards Going 24 Hours a Day Senate May Act Today On $26,000,000,000 Appropriation Bill By J. A. O'LEARY. The Navy is having great -diffi- culty finding enough mechanics to man the night shifts in ship- yards building warships, Secre- tary Knox told the Senate Ap- propriations Committee in hear- ings made public today on the $26,500,000,000 naval supply bill. The Secretary called this the “greatest naval war any nation ever faced” and described what the de- partment is doing to speed comple- tion of two-ocean navy. The testimony was made public as the Senate prepared to act this afternoon on the bill, the largest in history. The Senate Committee has added $6,500,000,000 since the House | passed it. In its present form it/ contains $8,000,000,000 for naval | aviation and an equal amount for continuing work on surface vessels, $944,000,000 to Repair British Ships. | A $944,000,000 item was asked by | the Navy, it was disclosed, to cover | requests of the British Repair Mls-‘ slon. | Admiral Alexander H. Van Keu- | ren of the Bureau of Ships testified | that a “big item” in Arfierican naval | vards was the repair of BrmshJ‘ ships, an expense covered in the past under lease-lend authorization, “That item is the most appre- ciated act that this Government has done for Great Britain,” Ad- miral Van Keuren said. The admiral said the Navy had investigated the sources of.supply and founqd it could supply British needs without dislocations of its own ship program. Although the Navy is trying to keep the work shops going 24 hours & day, Mr. Knox testified, the available force of workers is dis- tributed as follows: 60 per cent on the day shift, 30 per cent on the evening shift, 4nd 10 per cent on the late night force. Third Shift Is the Thorn. “There is great difficulty in get- ting men to work on that third shift,” said the Secretary, “and we are racking our brains for methods and possible plans under which we can enlarge the second and third shifts so as to make for a 24-hour use of all machine tools and facili- ties. It is not an easy thing to do. It is particularly difficult because of lack of supervisory force (fore- men if experience) for the third | shift.” In explaining how the manpower supply is spread out, he said if a plznt has 1,000 men available, 600 are on the day force. 300 on the early night erew and 100 on the remaining | shift. | The Secretary said the Navy is “more or less freezing” ship designs | to avoid any delay due to experi- mentation. 1 After describing how the Navy| must protect shipment of ‘supplies | across the Atlantic and the Pacific, | guand the Panama Canal and patrol | the coasts of North and South | America, Mr. Knox observed: Navy Has “Stupendous Task.” “So that when you come to di- | vide up this one-ocean Navy over | all of the oceans of the earth and with all of these problems of ade- quate protection, you can under- stand the stupendous size of our task.” Admiral J. H. Towers, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, told of the Navy's goal of producing 18,000 | planes this year. “For the calendar year 1943 he said, “the President’s program calls for a total of 120,000 planes, 21,000 of which are scheduled to be Navy | types.” While Secretary Knex was pic- turing the problems of getting fight- ing equipment to the distant war theaters, he said the difficult prob- lem is to transport the fighter planes that protect the bombers. Large aircraft can be flown to any thea- ter, he said, but fighters cannot be flown “and you cannot convey them set up, except very extravagantly.” ‘The only practical way to ship them in adequate quantities is to ship them knocked down, he said. Ex-D. C. Man Named Official for Air Line The appointment of Lynn H. { Dennis as supervisor of stations for Northeast Airlines was announced | today by D. A. Duff, general traffic | and sales manager for the airline. Mr. Dennis, who left Washington | for New England, has worked with : Transcontinental & Western Air | and Pan-American Airways. As an | employe of the latter company he | assisted in laying out the ocean air | route across the Pacific. While in ‘Washington he was assistant district traffic manager for Pennsylvania- Central Airlines. DES MOINES, IOWA.—THRILLED—“It’s sure a thrill,” was Mrs. THE Edward Herfindahl's exclamation when she looked at the wire- photo of her husband, the first “casualty” of the A. E. F. “some- where in Northern Ireland.” Pvt. Herfindahl is resting in a hos- pital after an influenza attack. —A. P. Wirephoto. Communiques Japs Lose Heavily In Philippine Thrusts War Department communique No. 88, issued at 9:30 a.m. today, follows: 1. Philippine theater. During the past 24 hours the enemy attacked on the right and left of our troops in Batan. These attacks were repulsed with heavy Japanese losses. This action was a continuance of the fighting which has been in progress dur- ing the past few days. Attacks were launched on the east and west sectors by the 16th “and 65th Japanese Divisions, un=- der command of Lt. Gen. Nara. These assaults were co-ordinated and timed to take place simul- taneously. Headlong thrusts were made on the west coast, aimed at what the enemy mistakenly thought to be our flank and rear. Picked troops known as Tatori executed simultaneous attacks at several points along the west coast line, like the fingers of & clawing hand. Captured aerial maps showed the Japanese plan and the urgent character of the mission. There was savage fight- ing in the underbrush. Our in- fantry, supported by artillery and mortar fire, forced the invaders back to the coast. Those who attempted flight by sea were ° drowned. The others were de- stroyed or captured In the east sector the Japanese 65th Division attempted a frontal attack and an envelopment in the Pilar area. The frontal at- tack was made by the 142d Jap- anese Infantry. A simultaneous attempt at envelopment was made by the Japanese 141st and 122d Regiments of Infantry. The frontal attack was stopped by our artillery fire before it got well under way. The envelop- ment was repulsed with heavy losses to the Japanese. With reference to the fighting on the west coast, Gen. MacAr- thur said: All enemy thrusts on the west coast have now been com- pletely mastered. The enemy troops employed in this des- perate venture were his best. ‘They were shock units especially trained and selected. They have now been entirely destroyed. They resisted with the courage which is characteristic of Jap- anese troops, but at the end were glad to surrender. Thev are being treated with the respect and con- sideration which their gallantry so well merits. 2. There is nothing to report from other areas. Navy Department Communique No. 36, based on reports received up | to noon yesterday, follows: 1. Central Pacific: A surprise attack has been made on Japanese naval and air bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. The attack was executed by surface and air units of the United States Pacific fleet. In the Marshalls, bases on the islands of Jaluit, Wotje, Kwaja- lein, Roi (in the Kwajalein Atoll), Weather Report 5 (Purnished by the United District of Columbia—Somewha winds. States Weather Bureau.) t colder tonight, with diminishing | Maryland and Virginia—Somewhat colder tonight, snow flurries in mountains of extreme west portion, ending by midnight. ‘West Virginia—Somewlwst colder tonight, snow flurries, ending by midnight. River Report. Potomao and Shenandoah Rivers clear at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy at Great Falls today. > Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) | dl o | | — Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon toaay.) Highest, 63 per cent, at 7:30 a.m. today. tenoRest.’ 42 per cent, at'1:30 Pini Fes Preeipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the ate): . | Capital (current month to d Month, 1042, Ayerage. Record, January 1 55 7.83 a7 February 84 3 Sun, today March 84 Sun. tomorrow April 13 Moon. Today | May £ Automobile lights must be turned on one- | June - .94 Balf hour after sunset. fll;“-t« -63 Report for Last 48 Hours. September 5 ‘Temperature. | Getoby Degrees. | November. 48 | December Record for La 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 42, at 2 p.m. yesterday. Year Towest, 25, at 7:30 a.m. today. Year g0, 32. Record Temperatures This Year. Wighest, 65, on January 18, Zowest. 6. on Janusty 11. Temperatures in Various Cities. Tempera- Precipi- ture. tion, Albuquerque, N. Mex. Ga. emphi iami. Memphis._ Tenn. M M i ‘Taroa (in the Maloelap Atol) were raided. Makin Island, occupied by the Japanese since December 7, 1941, also was attacked. Admiral Nimitz reports that while no large enemy combatant vessels were found, many enemy fleet auxiliaries were sunk, beached or otherwise damaged extensively, Japanese military installations on shore were hit hard by naval aviation units and shellfire. Many enemy airplanes were destroyed both on the ground and in the air. Our naval aircraft struck the enemy positions and ships with bombs, torpedoes and guns. Qur surface ships meanwhile heavily bombarded several of the enemy’s key shore positions. Two of our surface vessels received minor damage from near bomb misses. Eleven American aircraft failed to return from the attack. Our total personnel losses are not vet known, but are believed to have been slight. 2. There is nothing to report from other areas. i b War Department Communique No. 87, covering reports received up to 1 pm. yesterday, follows: 1. Philippine theater: Several strong enemy thrusts at our lines on the Batan Penin- sula during the past 24 hours were repelled. A night attack on our center was thrown back. The fighting was heavy, but all our positions were firmly held. Ene- my losses were relatively large. Artillery activity on both sides was heavy throughout the day. An enemy force assembled at Ternate on the south side of Manila Bay, opposite Corregidor, apparently with the object of attempting a landing on our island fortifications. Numerous launches and barges were col- lected near Ternate for the pro- Jected expedition. Our big guns were suddenly concentrated on this force. The surprises was complete and the force and its equipment were destroyed. 2. There is nothing to report from other areas. Bishop Says War Spurs Christian Service Preaching at St. John's Episcopal Church yesterday, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, as- serted the war is challenging fol- lowers of Christ to learn the real meaning of Christian service and sacrifice in ministering to suffering humanity. Unselfishness, he said, must be demonstrated before the Christian ideal of living can be obtained. i’hlllppines_ (Continued From First Page.) vasion boats, so that military men considered it likely that manpower losses of the enemy at Ternate also had been heavy. Corregidor itself is a 4-mile-long island. The fortifications there are called Fort Mills. A few miles from the Corregidor stronghold is Fort Drum, a massive concrete fortifica- tion resembling a battleship even to the extent of steel turrets and cage mast. The fort was built on an islet called El Fraile. Somewhat farther away, to the west, is Fort Frank, on another island and®10 miles or so to the | north is Fort Hughes on Caballo Island. The guns of these fortifica- tions range in caliber up to 12 inches. .\w Ten-Point Efficiency Program Pgoposed By Curfew Sponsor Favors Ousting ‘Parasites’ And Unfit Employes and Compulsory Housing Plan ‘Whether curfew should or should not ring—well, one of these nights— for Government girls remained un- der the legislative scrutiny of Rep- resentative Wilson, Republican, of Indiana, today as he broadened his plan for the more efficient admin- istration of Federal offices. The first-térm Representative from Indiana, whose 10 p.m. curfew proposal stirred up a tempest in Federal circles, took occasion today, among other things, to embrace President Roosevelt's suggestion that “parasites” be run out of town. A parasite being, in Mr. Wilson's vocabulary, any one who contributes nothing to the public welfare and merely clutters up the community. His 10 Points Are Listed. Mr. Wilson announced that his ge “1. Removal of employes from overstaffed departments. “2. Removal of inefficient em- ployers and employes. Promotion on merit, especially the adminis- trators. “3. Training of incoming employes | somewhere outside of Washington. “4, Doubling up of shifts. . Removal of ‘parasites’ ashington, “6. Compulsory use of elaborate { living quarters not contributing to the national defense. “7. Government seizure and use of social clubs not contributing to national defense. “8. Mass decentralization of non- defense agencies. | “9. Utilization of all available help in the District of Columbia, | including retired men and women. “10. A substantial building pro- | gram.” Says Girls “Misunderstood.” from | only a part of the plan to promote efficiency, Mr. Wiison explained. Tt may or may not be necessary, he said, and certainly is aimed only at | the girls who arrive at the office | half asleep and bedraggled | “Alot of girls seem to have misun- derstood me.” he added. “I'm not | trying _to stop all their dates or | recreation. If a girl does not have to work next day, she certainly wouldn't be included in the curfew. | And if her work is efficient, I would | leave her out. I would apply it only | to the girls who are not producing.” | How such s system could be | worked out is a matter that Mr. ‘Wilson apparently has not yet con- | sidered. There are so many other phases to the problem of wartime | efficiency, he pointed out. | Representative Wilson, by the w | does not employ in his office any “bachelor” Government girl. His | clerical work is done by a married | couple. l The Indianan said he wanted to correct the impression that a ste- nographer in the office of Lt. Gen William Knudsen had to write a | letter three times before it was ac- | | ceptable. It was another office in | the O. P. M., not the War Produc- tion Board, Mr. Wilson explained. Libya (Continued Prom First Page.) ettt = s = s | of Bengasi, and the desert point of El Abiar. 35 miles due east of the Axis-held Libyan port, the German | high command announced today. | Axis Advance Continues {In Libya, Italians Say ROME_ (From Italian Broad- | casts), Feb. 2 (A —The Italian | high command said today British | troops operating in some sectors | of the Jebel front of Libya had been | thrown backe by Italian and Ger- was continuing. The Italians added that Axis soldiers and also raided shipping in the port of Tobruk. Meanwhile, German planes car- rying on the offensfve against the British Mediterranean base of Mal- | ta attacked the island yesterday | and caused a large fire, the Italians | said. | They reported numerous airplanes were destroyed on the ground. M-;diterrdrnefion (Continued Prom First Plg!;\ British are not sure that Malta can Marshal Goering’s visit to Sicily may indicate a considerable rein- forcement of German air units in the Mediterranean area. Several months ago when Adolf Hitler's Russian drive was at its height it planes had been withdrawn. Crete Attack Recalled. The Axis version of the latest raid on Malta suggested in & small way the sort of attack with which the Germans gained control of the air borne troops. ‘What turn the Axis offensive might take in the Mediterranean zone is conjectural—ranging from powerful reinforcements of the land drive through Eastern Libya, toward | Alexandria and Suez, to a possible attempt at air-borne capture of the Alexandria base and the nearby canal. Summary of Foreign. X Russians reported knifing on through Ukraine mine fields. Page A-1 10,000 guerrillas reported fighting Hungarians. Page A-4 Japanese commander in Changsha defeats reported dead. Page A-4 British retreat 100 miles east of Bengasi. Page A-1 Subs sink destroyer off Canada's coast, Germans say. Page A-5 Australia acts swiftly to put defense measures into effect. Page A-7 Rios victor over Ibanez in Chilean presidential race. Page A-7 "| Greeks harboring ever-increasing hatred for Nazis. Page A-10 Quisling becomes Premier of Nor- way in Oslo ceremony. National. ‘Treasury, Post Office Departments ask $1,112,926. Page A-1 ‘Welders' strike spreads; vital ship ‘work proceeds. Page A-2 Postal service may make profit next year. Page A-§ L} Page B-8| Today's Star President orders central point of in- formation. Page A-6 Committee says airplane goal can be reached. ~ Page A-7 Biddle warns against persecuting aliens. Page B-7 Washington and Vicinity. PFormer Central High student, Coast Guardsman lost at sea. Page A-1 | Church robber steals pocketbooks | ~ during sermon. Page A-2 Democratic dinners will be held Feb- ruary 23. age A-3 Co-defendants held liable for half- damage in suits. Page B-1 Citation urged for private who gave Pearl Harbor warning. Page A-6 Western High students give 7,000 books to campaign. Page A-6 Motorists without auto stamps risk fine. Three killed in auto mishaps here and hearby. - Page B-1 Liquor tax repeal bill before Vir- ginis House today. Page B-) Miscellany. Nature’s énm © Page BY .l ral plan embraced these points: | man troops and the. Axis ldvance‘ planes bombed retreating British | , be held against all-out air attack. was announced that the German | over Crete in advance of their air- | Page B-T' Work on Vital Ships Proceeds as Srike Of Welders Spreads Idle Seattle and Tacoma Workers Are Called To Start Picketing By the Associated . TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 2—In- dependent welders were called to | picket duty today in their spread- | ing walkout against busy Seattle | and Taeoma shipyards, but work proceeded on ships vital to Amer- ica’s war effort. More than 1,000 welders were be- Heved idle at the big Tacoma plant of the Seattle-Tacoma shipyard and a smaller number at Seattle. The walkout, a new outbreak of an old inter-union dispute, began Pri- day, over the dismissal of several welders from the Tacoma yard be- A, F, L, Bollermakers’ Union. The shipyard operates under an A. F. L. contract which specifies the dismissal of all men not in good | union standing, The welders have | protested that they are forced to | pay dues to a number of A. F. L. | unicns as they move from one weld- | ing job to another. | Shelly Knudsen, new executive secretary of the Seattle local of the | United Weldors and Burners’ Union, said arrangements were made for | picketing several Seattle shipyards | today, | Week-end developments included: | 1. Thomas Crowe, international | representative of the Bollermakers' | Union, emerged from a meeting of {3,500 union members here late ves- | terday with the declaration that | “we are getting offers by wire and | mail all the time from welders,” | and 50 to 300 new men were ready | to- step into the vacated jobs. All | are coming here at their own ex- pense, he added. 2. In Seattle, a meeting of 500 | welders voted unanimously to ask As for the potential curfew, that's Government operation of the ship- | jystment. | yards “to protect the welders and insure production.” Dave Basor re- signed as their executive secretary | and James O'Brien as president of the local, declaring they wished to | free welders of any charges of per- sonal domination by them. 3. Paul R. Porter, chairman of the Ship Stabilization Committee of the War Production Board, telegraphed Mr. Basor that “a strike in the ship- vards while our Nation is at war and American lives are at stake is in- tolerable.” Mrs. Roosevelt Frowns On War-Fervor Weddings | By the Associated Press. | PENSACOLA, Fla., Feb. 2.—Col- lege girls were cautioned last night by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt against entering into hasty mariages as & | result of “patriotic fetvar.” | “You will need every bit of prep- aration. you can get to meet the conditions of the present and the future,” Mrs. Roosevelt said, “and a hasty marriage does not always turn out well even though you enter it because of patriotic fervor.” Mrs. Roosevelt, speaking on her regular weekly sponsored broadcast, said that if a girl were in college “it is probably wiser not to curtail your preparation for life by a hasty marriage because your beau is going into the Ar®ay.” She made it clear that she did not allude to any marriage resulting from a friendship “over a period of time” since this was entirely an_individual decision. Besides cautioning against ‘hasty marriages, Mrs. Roosevelt advised college seniors to “stay at your work in school until you are told you are needed.” Lectures Start T;ight On Catholic Doctrines ‘The first of a series of lectures | explaining the teachings, doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church will be given at 8 o'clock tonight at | St. Gabriel's Hall, Webster street at Grant Circle. ‘The lectures will be given by the Rev. William J. Sweeney of St. Gabriel's Church and will be on a weekly schedule. The lectures are designed not only for prospective converts, but for all who wish to have authoritative information about the denomination. SPECIAL Actual sales records in Post | Exchanges, Sales Commis- | saries, Ship’s Stores, Ship’s ServiceStores,and Canteens show that with men in the Army, the Navy, the Ma- | rines, and the Coast Guard the favorite cigarette is CAMEL cause of non-payment of dues to the | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1942, American Industry Goes to War— Chevrolet Plant lllustrates Difficulty of Switchover Machines Are Designed to Do Just One Job And Cannot Be Used for New Demands Second of & Series. By THOMAS R. BENRY, Star Staft Correspondent. DETROIT, Feb. 2—The last Chevrolet rolled off the line late one gray afternoon last week. The fading light of the winter sun through the grimy windows qseemed to the few score workers gathered about to be falling on the closing scene of an epoch in human history. It may be a long, long time before another shining green car, miracle of the American mass pro-<- duction technique, is born again out | of the roofed 65 acres of eternally | turning wheels. For the last decade these cars—filled with gas, oil and water and all ready to be driven wherever the long roads beckon— have been coming to the end of the production line at & constant rate of one a minute for 12 hours each working day. | ~This great factory, largest of | Chevrolet plants, is being turned over completely to producing imple- | ments of war—chiefly armored ve- hicles. There are walls and roofs, the shining new cars of today will be hopelessly outmoded when peace comes again. Veteran engineers and machinists were sad when they watched the products which were the pride of their lives tossed out like so much junk. The great Chevrolet plant hardly could be called a collection of machines. It is one great, in- finitely complex machine—one of the three or four most gigantic machines on earth. One might as well have taken a hammer and smashed it. power plants, men, trained brains| | and practically nothing else for the| Getting rid of the machine is | titanic job in hand. | only the first part of the job. Mass | " Product of Specialized Machines, | Production cannot go on without | The Chevrolet was the product of & Similar machine with thousands | hundreds of highly specialized ma- | Of parts. Ever since the factory | chines. Lathes, drills, presses and knew what was to be its part in all the rest have been design through the years, each for one job | ks and one only- that necessary to pro- | MEht and day designing the essen- duce a rt for a Chevrolet. Al tial elements of a titanic robot lathe, (orp:“mple. was not the sort | Which will make armored vehicles | of lathe one would find in a ma-|in the same way the old one made | chine shop or even in a small in- | Chevrolets. | dustry. It was a lathe designed to The Major Problem. | cut just so much, perhaps a few| That is not so difficult. | thousands of an inch, off the top of | is to break down the new product an engine block, at just the right into its smallest parts and devise time in just the right place. It the precise mechanisms which will would take a block of metal just so ' make those parts. Then they can big and no bigger—or with, at the be put on the assembly lines. best, a very slight margin of ad-| But it will be & major problem to get the new machines. Neithe: Chevrolet nor any other branch of the General Motors Corp. is equipped to make them. They must be or- dered from machine tool com- panies, installed at enormous labor and expense, and workmen given the training—actually not a great deal—needed to tend them. Probably in six months, it is be- lieved, the new instruments of war will be rolling off the line about in the same manner as Chevrolets have for the last 10 years. Mean- while such machinery as is not too specialized is being salvaged and adapted to new jobs. Men are be- ing trained so far as is possible in the absence of machines with which to train them. But the Michigan Unemployment Compensation Com- mission will have to take care of thousands of them for a few months until the engineers can get the new line started. Tomorrow—The Current Job of General Motors. Such has been the technique of mass production which has made possible the millions of Chevrolets crowding®American highways. The machine was made to do one job perfectly, without the slightest pos- sibility of error. A drilled hole in a sheet of metal one-five-hundredth of an inch out of place or a ten- thousandth of an inch too small in diameter might mean stopping the whole production line, with enor- mous wastage of power and time, until the error was located. The automobile industry simply could not afford such a possibility. Human eye and hand, however skilled, are bound to make mistakes. | They cannot be trusted to adjust a machine. The machine has only one job to do. It does it in precisely the same way, millions and millions of times, without ever being changed. Weakness of Mass Production. | Such has been the strength and. in the present emergency, the weak- ness of mass production. For the = S SR lathe made to exact specifications for shaving a thousandth of an inch Odlum to Address Ad Men off & block of steel a foot wide and , Flloyd B. Odlum, economic adviser 2 feet long cannot be changed to shave a five-hundredth of an inch off a block 14 inches wide and 3 feet long. ‘This s hardly an exaggeration. The machines in the Chevrolet fac- ‘War Production Board, will address members of the Advertising Club of Washington at a luncheon at 12:30 pm. Wednesday at the Raleigh Hotel. ed | War production, its engineers and | draughtsmen have been working | The job | to Donald M. Nelson. chief of the | Church Robber Steals Choir's Pockethooks During Services Several Purse Snatchings And Housebreakings Keep Police Busy Robbery in a church during services in which the minister de- livered a sermon on “The Importe | ance of Spiritual Values Over Ma- terial Values” and a series of purse-snatchings and housebreak- ings kept police busy yesterday. The church robber entered the | first floor kitchen in the rear of | the Wesley Methodist ~Church, | Connecticut avenue and Jocelyn | streets N.-W., and departed with the pocketbooks of seven choir members who used the kitchen es | = dressing room, | _The victimized choir sinzers were Doris_Little, 4701 Connecticut ave- nue N.W. who lost a gold wrist watch and $3 in change; Marcia Roberts, an employe of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, $51: Mrs. Gertruc> Bucknell, 3900 | street N.W., a pocketbook with her | eyeglasses and $1 in change: Mary | McCallum, 3622 Ordway street N.W., | $125; Mrs. Ferne E. Philiips, 5433 Connecticut avenue N.W., $8; Mary A. Everett, 5409 Thirty-ninth street | N.W., $15, and Nancy Wise, 3738 Jenifer street N.W., $7. Miss Wise is the daughter of the pastor, the Rev. Clarence E. Wise. Two Boys Held. In ansther church robbery re- | ported to police, William O. Cooley, 5517 Thirty-ninth street N.W., lost an overcoat valued at $25 from the cloakroom of the Presbyterian Church at Chevy Chase Circle and Patterson street N.W. Police were holding two boys sus- pected of participating in a purse- snatching early yesterday at Seve enth street and Independence avee nue S.W. Catherine Cross, 1701 Six= teenth street N.W., victim of the purse-snatching, said the pocketbook contained $12 in bills and a wrist watch valued at $40. Police later found the purse and the watch in a yard in the 200 block of Eighth street S.W. Another Woman Robbed. Another victim of purse-snatching was Mrs. Mary A. Eckard, 2222 I street N.W., who told police the snatching occurred early yesterday while she was walking near her home. The handbag contained $25 in bills, some change and a railroad pass. Two men were robbed early yes= terday by strong-arm methods. Samuel Lutsky, 32 V street N.W, reported that he was waiting for a bus at Seventh street and Rhode Island avenue N.W. when a colored man struck him behind the ear and took his wallet containing $36. William B. Price, 161 U street NW., said three colored men strong- armed him at North Capitol street and Rhode Island avenue N.W. and | robbed him of $23 i Ann Vargo, 1234 Massachusetts { avenue N.W_, reported to police that $70 in bills was taken from her room early yesterday. Her empty purse was found in the bathtub. Also victimized at the same address were Roy Woolbright and Robert Apple- ton, whoses losses totaled $63. The first American newspaper was published at Boston in 1690. tory were designed to make parts for Chevrolets—parts so exact in dimensions that any one of them made at any time can be fitted into any Chevrolet anywhere in the world. Such a part is absolutely useless for any other purpose. It couldn't possibly be made to fit a Cadillac or a Pontiac. The particular job to which this factory has been assigned is not far removed from the ordinary au- tomobile-making technique. But the | fact that it has automobile-making | machinery—actually is a disadvan- | tage. | Machines Tossed Out. | Machines which have cost up to | $60,000 and which weigh many tons are being moved laboriously from | the factory and, for want of storage | space, covered with grease and placed under tarpaulins in vacant ! lots. There they will remain until | the end of the war. 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