Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1942, Page 7

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We can| expect direct action now at any| time.” Urges U. §. to Act Now. Similar views were expressed by | Senators Bone, Democrat, of Wash- | ington, Norris, Independent, of Ne- braska and Gillette, Democrat, of Towa in separate interviews, with the latter urging that the United | States and her Allies get the jump by holding all French vessels and supplies in port and occupying the | numerous French insular possessions | in the Western Hemisphere. | Axis seizure of the French fleet was indeed the general foreboding | of all Senators in touch with the| uncertain career of the Vichy gov- ernment because of the return to| power of Laval, ardent collabora- | tionist | There have been critical moments before in the tortuous course of | French-American diplomacy since the dark day in 1940 when the aged | Marshal Petain asked the Germans for an armistice | But this time developments have moved toward a show-down with a rapidity causing more than usual | concern in official quarters here. 1t was Tuesday that Mr. Laval's sudden reascendancy confronted the United States with the urgent need | of re-examining its whole policy | toward Vichy | The same day a Vichy commu- | nique announced rejection of the | latest American note to that gov- ernment as a document “couched in injurious terms which tend to discredit in the eyves of the world the conduct of French citizens.” | Welles Halts Ships. Yesterday Acting Secretary Welles | disclosed that the United States | had abruptly halted arrangements for the departure of two French ships with cargo for French North | Africa and had suspended plans ‘to | send a Red Cross ship to Unoccu- | pled France with medical supplies condensed milk and clothing Later in the day hints dropped | by the German-controlled Paris | radio or circulating in official quar- ters in Vichy led observers in Bern | to expect issuance of a slalementi openly declaring the Vichy g0V~ | ernment’s solidarity with Germany And last night the cables brought news that all Americans in unoc- cupied France had been asked by United States consular officials to | leave for the United States as soon as_possible. M. Henry-Haye's visit to the State | Department today was understood | to be connected with & communi- cation from Vichy to the United States Government, and its nature was a subject of lively conjecture in diplomatic quarters. | Some observers, on the basis of | the disturbing reports from Eur- ope, were therefore alert for some- thing more significant and far- | reaching than the formal presenta- | tion of Vichy's already announced rejection of the American note. They suggested, instead, that the occa- sion would produce an all-out com- mitment for Vichy-German collab- oration Definite Break Anticipated. Should such a policy be pro- claimed by Vichy today it would be practically impossible for the United States to continue normal diplo- matic relations with that govern- ment For in the statement of American policy contained in the note just rejected by Vichy it was made clear by Mr. W that the United States has no use for collaborationists and would not consider a collaboration- ist regime as qualified to represent the French people. Discussing the possible appearance the French fleet in the future against the United Nations, Senator Li s had this to say Hitler will get that fleet even if it means overrunning all of the part of France now classed as un- occupied. We Know we can ex- he worst from his paranoic have | Bone and some other vers of the Naval Affairs Com- tee took some comfort in the t that the French fleet has been orted in port largely sought the armistice d the fact th French 1ato . 1940 was believed required specially officers and men for oper Loss of the French fleet may in- volve mar nasty complications It may aid the Mediterranean there for the Ital- Axis by the 1ans effort in t increasing diffi ish while ies ing Tribute to Admiral Leahy. Senator Bone paid tribute to Ad- miral Leahy, who has been serv- ing as United States Ambassador at Vichy, and has been a force in bol- stering up the resistance of the veteran Pet to demands from Germany Senator Gillette, also & Naval Af- fairs Committee member. said he favored rupture of diplomatic re- lations with the Vichy government and immediate seizure of French holdings, recalling that attempts to | appease Japan had failed | 'The veteran Senator Norris said he could not believe that France ‘would permit use of her fleet against | the United States, but agreed with { Senator Gillette that there was| nothing to gain by temporizing with Vichy. i \en'orvs to cut Axis supply lines, were STAR, WASHINGTON D. C. THURSDAY, THE MACARTHURS IN MELBOURNE—Gen. Douglas MacArthur is shown with his wife as they arrived at Melbourne, Australia, March 21. York yesterday. This photo is from newsreels which arrived in New —A. P. Wirephoto. Re& ReprorIrAdv-ances | As;é;fibly-Lfr;e Techmque Through Holes Knifed To Produce Ship a Day Mass-Production Methods and Welding Responsible for Construction Miracle In Line Near Bryansk Dozen Settlements Which Nazis Abandoned Are Occupied, Soviet Says Br the Associated Press. | KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April 16 —Red Army units, which knifed through the first line of Nazi fortifications in the Bryansk sec- | tor southwest of Moscow, have advanced and occupied a dozen settlements abandoned by the Germans, dispatches said today. A central front report related that | the Germans were increasing their | was torn down to make room for it. troop reinforcements constantly for sparring attacks against the Red Army. { It cited 18 minor counterattacks by the 263d German Division. The 63d Division was said to have tried | 12, all failing, and six reserve bat- | taions which recently joined the | Henry J. Kaiser, whose companies 63d were said to have been badly | mauled Thawing of snow banks has un- | | covered the bedies of Germans killed | in winter operations, adding to hor- | rible aspects of the front, the dis- | patch said | Counterattacks Repulsed. | Red Army forces, already credited | with breaking the first German lines in the Bryansk sector, have repulsed reserve-bolstered counterattacks and | captured another fortified point on | the central front, the Russians an- | nounced. The exact site of the battle was not identified The mid-day communique reported | there were “no significant changes at the front” overnight. Front-line dispatches said guer- rillas hampered the movement of Nazi reinforcements to the Bryansk | sector, where Germany's divisions re- | putedly are directed by Field Mar- shal Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch Before Adolf Hitler assumed su- preme command last December 19 Marshal von Brauchitsch was the Nazi commander in chief. Red Navy units in Arctic waters, who reported the destruction of one German transport Monday in their said to have disposed of two more, Axis Attacks Only Test Forays, London Says | LONDON. April 16 (# —Qualified observers said today Axis attacks on the Russian front this spring had been only test forays and expressed | the belief that the Germans would not attemnt to unloose a full-scale offensive on the central front until about May 15. when weather and terrain conditions will be more fa- vorable Planes Fire Two Vessels At Murmansk, Nazis Say BERLIN (From German Broad- casts). April 16 (. —The German high command said today two mer- | chant ships were set afire and | seven enemy planes were shot down in a Nazi air attack on the Soviet Far Northern port of Murmansk “A number of bomb hits was scored on quay installations and supply depots.” the communique said Supervised Playgrounds Sought for Friendship ervised playgrounds Priendship community months was the Friendshij which met The Edu ee of the group, headed by Mrs rothy Tucker, was instructed to investigate the possibilities for pro- vision of summer play facilities Co-operation of the Janney Par- ent-Teach Association will be sought as part of the association’s campaign Measures to relieve traffic tion at the intersection of W sin and Massachusetts avenues N'W. will be asked of the Traffic Depart- ment. Members pointed out that left-hand turns into Massachusetts avenue impede the traffic flow along both thoroughfares, and suggested that a traffic officer be stationed at the intersection. Carmen Garofalo, chairman of a special committee, reported that one-hour parking along the east side of Wisconsin avenue between Albe- marle and Brandywine streets N'W had been granted during the past month. | onges- | “Northeaster,” long known in Eng- | will be interchangeable from one | |ing to the basic principles of any {are used, so far as possible, for | | in terms of thousands of tons, were By THOMAS R. HENRY. | Star Staff Correspendent SAN FRANCISCO, April 16.—A 10,500-ton cargo ship every other day. | Next month, with news ways now | under construction, it expects to lines every day. These ships are ready to go to sea, with bunks made up and flowers on the captain’s table. The entire plant is only about a year old. A 2,000,000-ton mountain | Hardened mass-production experts | gasped at the speed and magnitude | of the job and at developments which constitute the greatest revo- lution in the history of shipbuilding. The plant is that of Todd-Califor- nia, under the personal direction of have been the contractors for some of the largest engineering operations | ever carried out in this country—in- cluding the Boulder, Grand. Coulee and Bonneville Dams. This unexampled speed of produc- tion, the plant engineers explain, re- | sults from the thorough application of mass-production methods for the | first time to shipbuilding. | Interchangeable Parts. ‘The cargo ship now being built s a modification of the so-called land. Parts, as in an automobile, | ship to another. The work is being set up accord- mass production industry. The whole is cut down into as many parts | as possible, each made separately, placed on production lines and fitted together as the line moves so that with the final step the | completed ship is ready to move out to sea. Special purpose machines every operation. But an assembly line for a 10,000~ ton ship hitherto has baffled the | imagination of plant engineers. A | vessel has been put together all | ing to keep the wrinkles out of steel sheets.” Another difficulty with welding | shipbuilding firm here is building a | Was the angles from which it was | | necessary to work, some of them almost impossible. This is overcome with the prefabrication methods to a large extent The ships now are launched, but | turn one ship off its titanic assembly | when the new ways are completed there will be no launchings. They will be built in docks in which the water will be raised to sea leve! when | | they are ready to go and they will simply sail out to sea. 1 Job for 30,000 Men. | ‘The actual ship-a-day record set for next month is planned as an accomplishment of both the yards | here and those operated by Lhe‘ Kaiser interests in Oregon. Alm-; gether, it is a job for about 30.000 | men. The full-capacity, mass-pro- | duction schedule, it is expected, will be under way next year. | Work of constructing the ship- yards is going forward at a rapid pace, but there is no waiting (or‘ the various factories where the pre- | fabricated parts are made to be completed. The operations are being | carried on in the open while walls and roofs are constructed. | The biggest development of all, | the company engineers believe, will | come after the war, when shipbuild- | ing—always in the past a craft for | skilled workmen—will be brought to a stage where these yards alone may | be able to produce the total world tonnage very cheaply. The new plants are financed by | | the Government and will be turned | over to the Government after the | War. | Eire Warns of Blackout DUBLIN, April 16 (#) —The Eire government ordered the people yes- terday to be ready to equip them- selves “for observance of a complete blackout on short notice.” in one place. Any other system was | N\ considered impossible. But the imaginations of Mr. Kaiser and his associates, conditioned to thinking spurred by the desperate need of the United Nations for more bottoms, | and their progress has been at a breath-taking pace. Modified Production Line. Obviously such a heavy structure | as a ship cannot move along an ! assembly line in quite the same fashion as an automobile, however gigantic the moving cranes. This can be done, however, with four or five major parts such as the hull, | the engine room, the deck and deck house. There is an assembly line | | for each. Each section starts along a roll- | ing table where each part is put | in place at appropriate stations. When it is completed it rolls onto an 85-ton trailer which takes it to the ways where the ship itself is being assembled. There a gigantic crane will pick up such a mammoth section as a completed deck and deck house, the latter all furnished and sets it in place ready to be welded into the completed struc- ture. Much of the success of this mass production speed, the engineers ex- plain, is due to the developments in electric welding. Formerly a ship of the size and design of the 10.500-ton freighter would have re- quired the driving of 500,000 rivets With the new welding techniques, which have been demonstrated su- perior, the number of rivets has been cut down to 33,000 Similar developments in economy and time have been applied to each of the individual parts. Much of this welding in the past has been con- sidered impossible, due to the likeli- hood of geting a little out of line, because of such factors as heat ex- pansion of metals, and hence throw- ing the whole ship askew Experimented First. 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