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WEST, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 7, 1941.
THE WEST NEWS
CECHOSLOVAK PUBLISHING COMPANY — PUBLISHERS
LEONARD WEBB — EDITOR
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Latest Figures on
U. S. Defense Program
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DEFENSE PRODUCTION IS
ENCOURAGING BUT NATION
HAS LONG WAY TO GO
(By H. S. SIMS. JR.)
Although the people of Great
Britain and Canada are spending
50 per cent of their income for
national defense, we of th? United
States are currently spending only
15 per cent of our total income to
arm ourselves and to arm those
fighting aggression By the end of
1942 we will probably be spending
a little over one-fourth of our in-
come for national defense.
This year, it has been estimated,
that we will produce 8 billion dol-
lars in defense goods which is over
five times the amount that was
produced last year. In 1942 defense
production is expected to be two
and a half times as large as it was
this year.
31 Fighting Planes a Day
In checking the production re-
cords of airplanes in the United
States, we find that in July. 1940.
we produced 561 military planes;
January of this year, military plane
production climbed to 1016; last
July, we produced 1460 planes;
and In September, the last month
for which the government has re-
leased figures. United States air-
craft factories turned out 1914
■hips.
1 "In government reports, however,
military planes include both com-
bat planes and training planes.
And, unfortunately, the vast ma-
jority of all military planes that
we have constructed have been
training planes.
For this reason, It Is particularly
significant that over half of the
1914 military planes produced In
September were combat rather
than training ships, according to
OPM.
In other words, during last Sep-
tember aircraft factories In the
United States turned out an aver-
age of more than 31 military planes
a day that could be used in actual
fighting
Two-Ocean Navy
less than two years ago the
United States decided to have a
two-ocean navy. Since that time a
total of 135 ships have been add-
ed to our fleet. This Is only 55
ahips less than was added to our
navy in the eighteen years prior
to this time.
The most noteworthy feature In
the naval construction program In
1941 was the addition of two
powerful battleships, the Wash-
ington and the North Carolina, to
the fleet. The 8outh Dakota and
Masmchusetts. two other battle-
ahlps. were also launched this
year.
Here is the strength of our navy
today battleships, 17; aircraft car-
riers, 6; cruisers, 37; destroyers,
171; submarines, 113.
DEFENSE
BOND
QUIZ
Today we are building 15 battle-
ships, 12 aircraft carriers, 54 crui-
sers, 193 destroyers, and 73 sub-
marines.
The shipping outlook is much
better now than it was this past
spring. At that time the Germans I
were sinking five or six ships for
every one that we built.
Ships, Tanks and Guns
By the first of next year we will
be producing one merchant ship a
day. or about three times as many
as we were building last spring.
During the last three months of
1942. OPM estimates that we will
be producing two ships a day.
English shipping losses have been , .......
cut in half, or to a little less than !"»»: fond of himself, I am sure he will
one ship a day as a result of the 1 am engaged to a boy who will be glad for you to do your bit in;
assistance rendered by the United have to g0 10 th« Army ln a <fw enreitaining some of Uncle Sam's
States Navy in ■ atroUing the At- weelM We had Planntd 10 get *»ys ln such an innocent way. He
lantic and the absorption of Nazi wln.tef.. bdt_.„n™ _POfltl°.n_ln‘ |
energy in the Russian battle.
Q I cannot find the word "De-
fense" anywhere on the Defense
Savings Stamps I have bought. Are
they merely Postal 8avings 8tamps
or do’s my money invested in
these Stamps go into the Defense
Program?
A. The money you use to pur-
chase these Stamps goes definitely
Into the Defense Program. The
Stamps bear the words "America
on Guard." which indicates that
they are on integral part of the
Defense Program.
Q. What is the Treasury’s pur-
pose in putting Defense Savings
Stamps on sale In retail stores
throughout the Nation?
A. To make it as easy as possible
for Americans everywhere to buy
these Stamps, which, as everyone
knows, may be exchanged at many
post offices and banks for Defense
Savings Bonds.
There are 28 plants in the United
salary will be only twenty-one vited where there are girls who are
dollars a month and he will be anxious to make life a little nlder
States actuallT producing guns away most of the ttaie, 100 80 we for the soldiers—any may agree to
and tanks there are about 22 are undecided what to do. Will it these dances even if he does object
plants being constructed; and 13 be better to marry Q0W «“*» Uve t0 sP<*ial dates with fecial boys,
others are planned j aPart for a year or wiU lt be bct^r All young people enjoy the com-
The sad factor about ordinance'10 walt until after he has *emd fany of the other sex even when
production is that there are noj hls tlme? .lhey are not *n With them.
heavy guns or tanks in production.j 1 have a Part-time job that pays LOUISA.
Light and medium tanks are roll- ™ enou*h 10 b“y my c‘othes and -
„ff ,ho ,in„„ hv thp hundred* help a little with the grocery bills uear
ing off the lines by the hundreds £__o B My child will not be six until
January and his teacher sent him
home when I tried to start him to
Answer; « school. Don’t you think he is old
I think your wisest plan »ijl be enough for school? He Is an un-
Will You Smile
Will He Leave Any?
Do you believe in heredity?’’
"Absolutely; that’s how I got all
my money.”
and therefore, their salaries will be • *
lower than their normal stipend, . . * "* “ „
but will average more than $2^000. . Udy vUltor a prs0n: W«U>
In the cast are Charles Boyer, Rita 1 |,ave„you any pIftns for your fu‘
Hayworth, Edward G. Robinson, u^e , . , _. . .
Joel McCrea, Charles Laughton, I °on1vlct: 0h’ yes’ >ady’ fve
Lanchester, Paul Robeson, tbe( plans of tW0 banlcs and a P°st
Ethel Waters and Eddie Anderson, j0 lce , ,
Spaaking of Eddie Anderson re-' a Rake
minds us that Anderson, Jack1 Secretary of punk golf club—
Benny’s butler, Is doing right well well, what do you think of the
for himself these days. The Negro course?
comedian owns a yacht, a station' visitor-Oh, perfectly amazing;
wagon with a horse trailer, four By the way, what is your rule
race horsjs and a larger limousine t when a ball U lost on the putting
every month; combat vehicles, ex-
clusive of tanks, are ln mass-pro-
duction; and machine guns and
Garand rifles are being produced
in large enough quantities to meet
all of our needs,
New Machine Tools
at home.
Tennessee.
•’UNDECIDED."
Machine tools are needed to
to wait to get married until sites usually bright child,
your young man Is out of the Georgia.
Army. He Is not In a position to
support you now and I can’t see
where anything will be gained by
MOTHER.
Answer:
Every child Is different from
build planes, tanks, ships, and having the ceremony performed others' and some children do all
guns. Since all production depends at present. If he had a commission right who are started to school so
upon the production of machine and was making enough to sup- youn9- Others get inferiority corn-
tools, machine tools themselves are port a wife, you might be better pIex from trying to keep up
of vital Interest to us. satisfied to get married and live ln children who are older and there-
in 1941 the United States will a place as near the camp as pos-
produce almost twice as many ! sible, but under the circumstances,
machine tools as were produced ln I it seems to me that waiting will
1940 And the machine tools pro- j be the wisest plan,
duced in the 24-month period of j LOUISA,
1940-1941 have a capacity equal to j v -
that of all of the machine tools ln l-*31 ^oldsa:
existence in all plants in the Uni-
ted States on January 3. 1940.
It Is apparent from the foregoing
My boy friend has gone to the
Navy and a camp of air pilots Is good kindergarten training
near the town I live In. I promised this helps him a great deal when
fore find it easier to learn.
My experience, as a teacher, was
that children who started school
nearer the age of seven than six
had a much easier time and en-
joyed school more than their bro-
thers who started so young.
A child of five or six really need*
and
figures, released by OPM that the my friend, not to go with any boys he starts school. If there Is no
while he was away, but do you kindergarten In your community,
think there would be any harm in a good idea is for a group of
helping entertain these air cadets? mothers to get together and or-
United States has done a great
deal ln the way of defense pro-
duction, but lt is also evident that
the United States has a long way
to go If the requirements for all-
out defense are to be met.
Last year and this year most
Americans were not called on for
any considerable sacrifice for de-
fense because non-defense pro-
duction increased despite the em-
phasis placed on war materials.
The story for 1942, however, will be
different: OPM plans to cut non-
defense production by one-third.
That means that we Americans are
not going to have as many cars,
radios, etc ; we are going to have
to sacrifice.
All of the girls ln town have been ganlre a home kindergarten for
urged to come to dances given their little group. Each mother can
them. We do not go to or from the give * morning a week and direct
dances with them and are well their little group ln simple songs,
chaperoned while we are there. Do day modeling, games, hand work
you think my friend would object and by telling them stories. Any
to that?
Alabama.
SUE.
Answer:
Why don’t you write to your
friend Just as you have written to
me and see what he says? If he is
a sensible chap, who is not too
librarian will help you find books
that will aid you ln this very
worthwhile work.
LOUISA.
Address your letters to:
"Louisa, r. O. Box 574,
Washington, D. C.
SCREEN STARS
Ask Our Agent for Special Round
Trip Rates on parties of 10 or
more. , *
• • •
Charter an Interurban for your next
group trip.
• • •
Keep the crowd together. It is more
fun.
OUR PARTY RATES ARE LOW
By the time Hollywood and Den-
ham, England, get through with
us, we shall certainly be RAir -
minded Hollywood has assisted ln
exploiting the R. A. F. by means
of ’’Dive Bombers," "Flight Patrol,"
“Eagle 8quadron." “Shadows of
Their Wings," "A Yank In the R.
A. F.” and soon the March ef
Time Is Issuing a survey of the
RAF
The British Air Ministry Is also
assisting greatly in the making of
such British fiction films about
the RAJ1, as "Spitfire," “The First
of the Few,” and “One of Our Air-
craft Failed to Return.” However,
the most outstanding of them all
is that one recently released. “Tar-
gets for Tonight," witch shows the
first actual shots of British bomb-
| Ing raids over enemy territory.
Uncle Sam la doing hls bit, also,
| In creating interest and enthusl-
asm for hls air am. when the
: latest of, a series of documentary
- film*. "Bomber", made by the Of-
fice of Emergency
Film Unit, was released. This film
was produced at the Glenn L. Mar-
tin plant, ln Baltimore, and gives
a short, but striking, description of
the making and assembling of the
medium bomber known as the B-
28.
Tyronne Power has the worst
sort of luck with hls left leg. Dur-
ing the turning of "Brigham
Young" a piece of a ski jabbed
deeply Into hls right thigh. Dur-
ing the making of “The Mark of
Zorro,” Power dropped a five gal-
lon jug on hls foot and broke two
toes. As if that wasn’t enough,
during a scene ln "Son of Fury,”
hls latest film, while be was swim-
ming ln a shallow pool, he cut a
three-inch gash in hls righ foot.
With the addition of Irene Dunne
and W. C. Fields to “Tales of Man-
hattan,” Twentieth Century-Pox’s
budget for principal players was
brought to an estimated S300.000
Because the picture will be made
than his boss.
When Jimmy Rogers signed a
contract with Hal Roach to appear
with Noah Berry, Jr., ln Dudes
Are Pretty People,” he stipulated
that there should be no exploita-
tion of hls father's name in public-
izing his efforts. Jimmy is the
youngest son of the late Will
Rogers.
Bud Abbot and Lou Costello's
next comedy will be “Pardon My
Tl Crazy,” Broadway musical! S'len’***
hit of about ten years ago, will be • •
green?
• •
Dismissing s Dead One
He—8hall I sing, "Then You’ll
Remember Me?”
She (fed up)—No, please, I wish
to remember you as kindly as pos-
sible.
• •
Up and Doing
First Office Girl—See you have
taken to wearing those high French
heels?
revised by Metro, which has owned
it for some time. Mickey Rooney
His Option
ttsssr - —vMivsrr
Unofficial rumors at present are
to the effect that Gary Cooper and ^
Annabella, wife of Tyrone Power, y
will have the roles of Robert Jor-'
cowardice In battle.
Well, Pat, have you anything
dan and Marla, respectfully, in
Paramount's "For Whom The Bell
Tolls”. Production Is scheduled to
begin sometime during November.
Metro has finally decided on the
title for the film which has at one
"Please, sor, before we went In-
to action you said, 'Strike for home
and country,’ and I struck for
home.”
Terrible Predicament ..y
The gob was worrying "Tell me
about it,” said hls pal. "Qet It off
time or another been "Miss Achilles’ your Chest."
Heel." “Her Honor” and "Bachelor "j wlsh j
Girl Number One.” It will be re-
leased as "Design For Scandal.”
One of the most promising of
the finds among the juveniles re-
cently is an English boy. Roddy
McDowall, 12, whose performance
In “How Green Was My Valley” Is
described as “out of this world.”
Roddy looks like a Dickens char-
acter and Is the living Image of
Oliver Twist.
-)o(-
The automobile driver of cul-
ture rarely becomes Involved in a
collision.
a
A life that stands still Is a
monument to the past rather than
a promise to the future.
could” groaned the
gob. “I’ve got Marguerite’ tatooed
there and the girl I’m engaged to
marry is named Helen.’
• •
Modern Forty-Niners
Young Hennery had come to the
! city to take the preliminary steps
for becoming president of the
United States or something, the
old Hennery had accompanied Mm
for a few last words of admonition
and advice.
“8on.” he asked, “you see them
vast mountains of apartment
buildln’s?”
“Yes, father."
"Well, you stay away from the
my boy. Thar’s gold diggers
them thar mountains.”
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Editor: Leonard Webb.
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