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TWO Vt Ad Headquarter Court. 4900 THE PITTSBURGH PRESS. Other Pkm Departments, Cort 7200 SATURDAY. AUGUST 9, lMt 4 65,000 Westinghouse Employes Take Time Out for Picnic Today The Washington Merry -Go-Round I Dare Say TOKYO SILENT ONU.S.WARNING OVER THAILAND Japan Believed Still Debating Policy; Break With Mexico Seen By DREW TEARSON and ROBERT R. ALLEN WASHINGTON The scene is a conference room in the War Seated around a long table are group of generals and manufacturers British as well as American.

In front of each is a microphone, but the discussion is not being broadcast to a listening world. It is strictly confidential, with each detail transcribed on a wax recording and filed so there shall be no mistake about the the Tank Committee conference table, the most interesting is a 1 be promises being made to the United States or Britain. At the head of the table Li a slight, mild-mannered man with thinning grey hair. General G. M.

Barnes of the Ordnance Corps. Seated near him are Ed Hunt of Chrysler, H. B. Ensign of American Car and Foundry, Charles Wright of Pullman Standard. H.

S. Colby of Baldwin Locomotive, S. Bechhold of the Pressed Steel Car Pittsburgh, and several others. This is the Tank Committee. And to the men around this table has recently come word that President Roosevelt demands more tanks, and in a hurry.

Already the members of the Tank Committee and their factories have 4700 light and medium tanks on order and are turning them out at the rate of about 300 a month. In addition to the American orders, this group has a British order for 200 million dollars worth of medium tanks. However, Germany has a reserve alone of 6500 tanks. And with every battle on the Russian front showing the ever-increasing importance of the tank, Roosevelt has now written letters to Secretary of War Stimson and OPM Bosses Knudsen and Hillman, demanding that tank production be rushed full speed. British Need Tanks Lack of tanks, it has now leaked out, is why the British have not been able to land an invading force on the European continent.

Also it is why the British could not continue the offensive in Libya. The companies represented by the gentlemen seated around the table of the Tank Committee have done an excellent job of producing tanks. They are turning them out more quickly than the Army expected. But even so, when they reach full production they will only produce about 800 tanks a month. At this rate, which will not be reached for another year, it will take two years to match the reserves accumulated by Hitler, Therefore, the chief question facing the OPM and American industry is to spread out tank production among other factories first, by letting smaller firms make tank parts on sub-contract; sec ond, by drafting a great many other factories now making farm machinery, automobiles, into the tank production program.

Without drastic action, and without curtailing the "business as usual" program in other in dustries. no real speedup of the tank program will be possible. German-Born Expert Of all the men grouped around (Copyrirht. 1041. for be tes ns '1 pPM tf-kf XikM 11 4 ywipN i w4i 1 Ira -A rSfeg i I i i Employes of the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing more than 65,000 strong, will take over Kennywood Park today for the 53rd annual outing.

Fleet-footed racers will vie for departmental honors. Some of them are shown here. No. 1 Relay contenders limbering up are, left to right, Mildred Busch, Ulaine Fair, Mae Kerr, Ann Russell, Eva Stover and Clara Wit. No.

2 Dorothy (Peanuts) Evans in a workout for the races. No. 3 Vice President A. C. Streamer.

No. 4 I. B. Stiefel, manager industrial relations for the company. No.

5 Champion in the 50-100-yard A. M. of A. A. Wilma Leaux, is out to win for her division in the relay race, but she will have to beat No.

6 Former champion of the same class, Mary Bradley, who will run for the motor division. No. 7 John Metcalfe, chairman of the executive committee. Henry McLcmore's Viewpoint- slender, boyish figure of about 40 who is manager of the Pressed Steel Car Co. and president of the Armored Tank Corp.

It happens that S. Bechhold was born in Germany, and fought in the German Army during the last war. Yet no one in the group now working overtime to build tanks for use against Hitler is more determined to speed production, more determined that Hitler shall not win this war. Bechhold was the first private manufacturer of tanks in the United States. Prior to the out break of war.

American tanks were manufactured only by the Gov ernment itself in its arsenal at Rock Island. 111. Private! industry, except for Bechhold, did not go in for tanks. The story of how the German- born Bechhold reached a position of eminence and trust, where he now sits in on the military secrets of the United States and Great Britain, illustrates the traditional melting-pot theory of the American system. Fed Up With Militarism Bechhold was 16 when drafted into the German army in 1916, saw desultory service for which he had no enthusiasm whatever, and like thousands of other German boys, got thoroughly fed up with the German military system.

So in 1922, having saved up enough money for trans-atlantio passage, he came to America. Landing in New York with 140 in his pocket, he got a job wrapping packages at $14 a week. "Jobs were easy to get in those days." Bechhold says. And studying English at night, he soon got to be a clerk in an export firm at $16 a week, remained with the same company four years until he was drawing a salesman's' salary of $70 a week. By that time he had saved enough money to go to Europe to set up agencies for the sale of technical equipment.

This proved so successful that he spent part of his time in the United States, part in Europe for the next few years. One of the things which impressed Bechhold during his visits was the manner in which one part of Europe was arming and the other was blissfully somnolent. Alarmed at this, he. established contacts at the State Department and over a period of several years sent in detailed reports on German rearmament. One of these reports predicted the Nazi Anschluss between Austria and Germany 18 months before it happened.

PiHsbiirrh Ptm Formula in Befriending South Americans have dreamed of being summoned Yours for a bigger, happier, and safer North America." Strangely enough the De Pam- pases didn't answer this note of solid good will and friendship. I heard in a roundabout way that Mr. De Pampas, after reading the note, said, "Who in the hell is this guy, and why snouia ne oe so in terested in me all of a sudden? One night I Just went over, uninvited, and called on the De Pampas family. They were a little surprised, but they let me in, and I really went to town. I praised their housP, their furniture, and everything I could lay my eyes on.

They had some old friends In, but I shoved them aside and talked the most, and tried to sell them on the idea that when we lived so clce together, it was a shame we didn't see one another more often. A few nights ago I took the Bouth. Americans out to dinner. I gave them the best of everything and in order to be sure they realized, this I showed them the check. The De Pampas family actually got sick of my constant attention.

They told some friends that they wished the hell I would quit fawning around, and come right out and say what I was trying to get out of them. Needed Ten Bucks That hurt me. but not as much as what Mr. De Pampas did a dayfm so ago. He met me on the street and.

Just when I was telling him what a great fellow he was, and asking if there was anything I could do for him. he up and asked me for a loan. Said he needed 10 bucks, but couldn't put up any collateral. I finally told him this: "Listen, De Pamp, ol boy, I would, like to let you have the 10 bucks, but surely you must have something around your house worth $15 that I could have as security. You know how much I love you, and what you mean to me, but just because you have the honor of knowing me is no reason you should ask a favor oC me." How about It.

Washington? Didn't 1 do the right thing? The Restorative By FLORENCE FISHER PARRY JONES BEACH, I A plane swoops down, circles over us in a lordly way, and then makes off as though dis pleased over the sight of sprawling mortals below. I think: Supposing he were getting his first glimpse of man kind, after, say, an absence of ten thousand years What would he see? What would he think? He would see Mrs. Tarry a beach of unsurpassed beauty: white, clean, wide, smooth, rolling out to the oft, quiet sea. For miles upon milps he could fly the length of this beach and marvel at its sameness with the beach that he had left these ten thousand years ago A change in outlines here and there, a width, a slight recession in the duaes; but quit as it first was, before the footprint of the earliest Crusoe set toes upon it. He would see that the sea held the same purity and the sky above the same washed blueaess.

He would breathe the same sweet air moist, with salt odors. And he would marvel that the earth could stay sober so pure and unchanged and so simple, hearing as how its inhabitants had been these centuries so misbehaving He would look, then, at the masses of human beings sprawled along parts of the shore in great amazing numbers, closely herded as though whipped into a packed huddle by a wrathful throng. How else account for these creat spots of congested humanity, while yonder, close beside, are wide, lonely sweeps of beach quite uninhabited? From his lofty place In the sky above, this mass of humanity would look like brightly speckled ants moving sluggishly over a flattened anthill, most of them quite inert and prone, as though flung down by an angry hand and left in grotesque attitudes, to bake and die Here Beow But coming close, he would discover that their condition was no thralldom imposed as punishment, but deliberately embraced. These prostrate mortals, of their own inclination, revolve slowly about as though each one were on an invisible spit, exposing the surface of his anatomy to the blaze of sun with the absorption and de votion of a religious rite! He brings his plane nearer, and cirles close above a segment of this strange humanity Here is a small tribe or clan, no doubt the members of a family. Thev are squatted in a kind of broken circle, some huddled under an umbrella, some prostrate and lifeless under the broiling sun.

Thev are naked well, nearly naked. Black, glorified fig-leaves on the men, gay breast-plates on the women: and all of them made of bronze or copper or so their skins make them appear to be. They are doing nothing. They are saying nothing. They are thinking nothing.

They simply ARE. They have achieved a static state of being, resembling in essence the insensate consciousness of a jellyfish that might have bepn cast up by the sea. On close examination, however, it will be seen that many of them are eating especially the smaller members, who presumably are children though there is no way to be sure of this except that they are smaller in size and slightly more active. But they are creatures of no ace. They all are primitives, nearly nude, most of the also very ugly and unshapely.

The women have ugly veins and sagging torsos. The men purple, shining bald pates and protruding bellys. Here and there moves a skeleton. Yonder walks what seems to be an ostrich, but is indeed a mortal man pot-bellied on two match sticks. Sitting like bronze gods upon a loftv perch are Superior Beings, beautiful to look at.

strong and lean and young. The letters Life-Guard'' are spread in black across their great chests. Now and then they leap into the sea and drag a spent and blueish frog in from the depths. Our god from the skies could circle over this scene from sunrise until sunset and see no evidence, in any mortal on the beach, that mankind has changed an iota in ten thousand years. The leaves' pattern, yes.

perhaps. The hairless heads of men. But in all else, here is your Primitive, the name who sat in eons past, insensate under the sun beside the sea. What spell, what strange therapy does the sea yield, does the shore give, that when mankind gathered there it casts off all its layers and becomes again the elemental creature God created? Surely our young philospoher in his plane could marvel at the queer phenomenon that all along the white sands of the earth's shore lines are human beings spread in innocent abandon, living but to take in the air and sun, feel it upon their naked bodies, and cool them in the curling waves. And then, removed from it, these same humans turning into creatures unrecognizable; pursuing lives and enterprises to confound the apprehension of the tods! Dreaming dreams, building bridges and planes and nations and things of imperishable beauty; boring the earth, charting the seas, smashing the atom, com-mandinthe lightning, destroying each other, remodeling the face Pf the earth! THESE SAME MORTALS.

These same, who look! are lying here, smooth -browned and empty-minded, on the hot smooth sand, hour into hour, day into day My dream philosopher of the skies is pone his plane swings up and out to the spaces above the sea and I am left here, one of the moving anthill on the sands rrx Own Good Neighbor Policy Tried Out by Columnist By ROBERT BEU.AIRE United Press Staff Writer TOKYO, Aug. 9 Government quarters maintained silence today regarding United States and British warnings against a Japanese move into Thailand, (Siam). It was significant that the newspapers, excepting the ultra-nationalistic Kokumin. refrained from commenting editorially. That was believed to indicate the government still is debating its attitude.

The only government comment was the charge of Koh Ishii, chief of the Cabinet Information board, that the United States, Britain, China and The Netherlands were attempting to encircle Japan. Expec-t No Jap Statement Certain well-informed quarters said, however, it was unlikely that any statement of policy would be made. They pointed out that Japan repeatedly has signified a peaceful attitude toward Thailand. Kokumin said insinuations by Cordell Hull of the U. S.

and Anthony Eden of Britain that Japan is threatening Thailand's independence are "too serious a matter, to be ignored in silence." The newspaper urged the government to "break the silence and torpedo Anglo-Atnei ican false propaganda." It warned that an over-long official silence might give credence to the Anglo-American inferences and create a "disturbing influence upon unsettled East Asia." Mexico Breaks With Japs? In a dispatch from New York, Asahi quoted "authentic sources" as saying that Mexico had decided to terminate its long and friendly' relations with Japan. The dispatch said the Mexican government is becoming a puppet of the U. S. and asserted that a diplomatic break would result from President Manuel Avila Camacho's complete pro-United States policy. SYDNEY, Australia, Aug.

9 Goto Goto, new Japanese consul, said on his arrival today that he would not have been sent if Japan believed war was imminent in the Pacific. He arrived from Yokohama aboard the Japanese liner Kasima Maru. Japs Say Stores Oil in Australia By The United Press TOKYO, Aug. 9 The newspaper Miyako in a dispatch from San Francisco said today that the United States was storing large quantities of oil in Australia for use by American warships, as part of the British-U. S.

plan to encircle Japan. Its dispatch said six U. S. tankers had left the U. S.

for Australia Aug. 4 and claimed that storage of American oil reserves in Australia could be regarded as Auto Accident Kills Penn State Student By The United. Press BELLEFONTE, Aug. 9 One Pennsylvania State College student was killed and two others were in jured 3'esterday in an auto accident near Potters Mills, six miles east of State College. The victim was Allan J.

Gussack 19, of Richmond Hill, N. who died in an ambulance en route to Bellefonte Hospital. Injured were Vergil Mulholland, 21, of Reading, driver, and Sallv Duffy of State College. They suffered lacerations of the head. Young Mulholland told State po lice the car wheels caught on the berm of the road.

When he wrenched the steering wheel to right the car it swerved across the road and turned over. Fireman Injured, Machine Crashes James Lavelle, tillerman on a hook and ladder truck, suffered a broken right ankle today when the I vehicle crashed into a parked wucki while en route to fight a rubbish fire. Mr. Lavelle, of 737 Cuslin said the wheel of the truck hit a steel spring lying in the 300 block of Dinwiddie and that the spring struck him on the ankle and caused him to lose control of the tiller. The rear of the fire truck smashed against the parked truck of Max Levine.

The rubbish fire, in the 1200 block of Our Alley, was put out without damage. TODE TUTTLE Joe Elby wuz so dumb he couldn't see th' possibilities in th' oil stock a promoter tried to sell him so he saved $700. 1 LOOK'S COOL AN lrES BUT I COMFORTABLE HE'S SO DECEITFUL its filr smP BAOLY KfALLY Cent a Quart Rise in Milk He Follows Government Hitherto Neglected By HENRY McLEMORE NEW YORK One of the burning ambitions of my life has been Price Due Next Saturday Another Similar Increase Before Winter Foreseen; Labor, Material and Tax Costs Blamed to earn enough money so that I could give enough money to a presidential campaign to force recognition of my talents as a diplomat. YouH never know how often I to Washington and handed a portolio, a secret code, a money belt, a Elaborate Rites Mark Burial Of Mussolini's Son Army and Diplomatic Corps In Attendance By The United Press FORLI, Italy, Aug. 8 The body of Capt.

Pilot Bruno Mussolini, who was killed two days ago in an airplane crash at Pisa, w-as buried today in the Mussolini family crypt at bovia di Predappio, 10 miles from Porli. The ceremony was the most elaborate accorded to any of the Italians who have fallen since Italy entered the war. Burial services were attended by II Buce and his family and high Fascist, army, navy and government personages. All of the marshals of Italy attended the services and others present were the German and Jap anese ambassadors and other members of the diplomatic corps. Italian admirals, generals and high civil leaders came from all parts of the country for the ceremony.

Mussolini walked behind the coffin in the two-mile procession from the church to the grave. He kept his eyes on the flower covered iiearse, raising them only when the cortege arrived at the cemetery. Then he turned to the foreign diplomats and said: thank you gentlemen for hav ing wanted to render high honors to one of Italy's soldiers." Only members of the Mussolini family were present when the coffin was placed in the crypt. Writer Kills Self RIVERSIDE, Aug. 9 Dillwyn Parrish, writer and former husband of Wampus star Gigi Parrish, shot himself to death yesterday at his home in Hemet, the coroner's office reported.

Parrish, who had suffered from a leg amputation, was di vorced by his actress wife in 1935 on charges of cruelty. ALL IN A LIFETIME By 0ARN VOU I Draft Appeals Must Be Heard, Official Warns State Chief Hints Some Are Deprived of Rights State Draft Chief William Mather Lewis, hinting that some registrants were being deprived of their right to appeal for deferment, warned to day in a strongly-worded statement that no local board or Government appeal agent can refuse to give a registrant the chance to appeal his case. Every registrant is entitled to appeal from any classification by his local board," Dr. Lewis said. 'and no one has the right to deny him that privilege.

'In all cases, local boards and Government appeal agents must make every effort to insure protection of the registrant's right of ap peal regardless of whether or not they think the appeal is justified. "Any registrant who is dissatisfied with the classification given to him by his local board may appeal to the Board of Appeals and no one has the legal power to interfere with his efforts to have his case reviewed." The only limitation to his right of appeal. Dr. Lewis said, was that it must be made within 10 days after his notice of classification had been mailed to him. But, he said, even that period could be "extended." Dr.

Lewis anded that the appeal could be made by the registrant, a person claiming to be dependent upon him or an employer who deems him an "occupationally necessary" man. Glen-Hazel Heights Contract Approved A bid of $3,825,041 for the "construction of 1001 housing units for defense workers at Glen-Hazel Heights was approved by the Pittsburgh Housing Authority yesterday. Award of the contract to Ster-rett fc of Chicago, lowest of six bidders, was recommended to housing officials at Washington. The Glen-Hazel project, biggest in the State and third largest in the country, is intended to house workers of the Jones Laughlin Steel the Mesta Machine Co. and other plants in the Duquesne-Homestead area.

Dr. B. J. Hovde. defense housing director here, said he hoped con struction could he started Monday.

The contract will call for comple tion in 150 days. Greensburg Bargaining Vote Brings Deadlock By The United Press GREENSBURG, Aug. 9 A National Labor Relations Board ex aminer announced today that a bargaining election vote at the plant of the Imperial Light Products Co of Greensburg resulted in a tie. In an election Wednesday 43 voters balloted for the CIO United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union, 41 for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F.

of and 10 other votes cast were challenged. A recount of the challenged votes showed that eight votes were valid and the other two void. Of the eight admitted, five were for the A. F. of L.

union and three for the CIO organization, causing a deadlocked vote at 46 to 46. A. R. Johnson, business agent of the Pittsburgh local of the A. F.

of L. union, said he would probably appeal the result of the election to the three-man board in Washington. If the NLRB examiner is upheld, another election will be held. Legion Tosl ricnie Schenley Post No. 663.

of the American Legion. will hold a picnic at Daniel's Farm," of! Babeock tomorrow. T. A. Pickle is in charge.

Retail milk prices will rise from 13 to 14 cents a quart, in the Pittsburgh district next Saturday, and the State Milk Control Commission warned today that increasing "production costs" may force the price up another cent before winter. The price-boosting order, affecting four classes of milk, was issued pri marily to cover rising costs of labor and materials and higher taxes which both the dealers and pro ducers must face, the commission said. The increase, two-thirds of which will be passed on directly to the producers, will grant them the high est price scale in any market in the State and higher than in any of the surrounding marketing areas in Ohio and West Virginia, the commission explained. Cream Price Raised Besides the cent-a-quart increase in the price of regular Grade milk, the retail price of cream also will go up one cent per half-pint. Regular milk sold in pint bottles will be Frank Beck THAT AND THESE STREAMLINED CARS ARE SO SMOOTH CAN'T MANS A TRAFFIC TICKET ON THAT KID U0OU ONLY BEAT IT, TD FORGET book of etiquet, and the private phone number of a career diplomat who could get me out of trouble when I blabbed off at the wrong time.

It was a pretty mean shock to me, not so long ago, when I realized that unless I ran acrcss an ambassador's job at a marked down fire sale. I didn't have a chance to represent this country in an official way. My honesty made me admit Mr. McLemore to mvself that this country just doesn't go in for foreign representa tives who are behind in mommy payments on their cars. Sets Out to Prove Ability Then came a happy thought.

Perhaps. I figured. I could prove myself so valuable in wooing Latin- American friendship that wasn- ington would be forced to accept me as a first class diplomat. Then I started out to be a diplo mat in my own small way. I chose a South American iamny in mv own neighborhood, a Mr.

and Mrs. Carlos De Pampas, to work on. I had only a nodding acquaint ance witn tnem wnen iiuncneu my good neighbor policy. As a matter of fact, I had paid little atten tion to them for years. My first diplomatic act was to write them a letter.

It read: Dearest Mr. and Mrs. De Pam pas: Although we nave Deen neign-bors for years, it has been only in the past few months that I re alized how much I loved you ana craved your friendship. Really, you don't know how much I love you. 'Scarcely a day goes by that I don't say to my wife what swell people the De Pampas' are, and how grand it would be if we all got together.

We know you'll be delighted to know that we have grown to love you. Fails to Get Reply "Please feel free to call on us to patronize you at any time you want i 1 THE WHOLE THINS. JUr. increased from seven to eight cents "The order does not provide the full increase requested by pro ducers," the commission said. "To have done so would have required ncreasing the price to at least 15 cents per quart.

However, the commission warned that "if present producer costs con tinue to rise such an increase may be necessary to meet winter condi tions." Other Counties Affected A corresponding cent-a-quart in retail milk prices also was approved for Area 3, embracing Washington, Greene, Fayette, Somerset and In diana Counties. There, the price of milk will go up from 12 to 13 cents. For producers in the Pittsburgh marketing area, the order raised the price of Class 1 milk to $3.32 per hundredweight, an increase of 32 cents, and Class 1-A to $2.45 a hundredweight, an increase of 25 cents. The prices on Class 2 and 3 milk, which are based on an intricate for mula, were increased 10 cents per hundredweight, bringing them up to an estimated $1.71 and $1.42, respectively. The commission pointed out that these prices would give dairymen here a considerably higher return than that received bv producers in such large cities as New York, Detroit and Chicago.

The new price scale is expected to yeld 50 cents more per hundred weight (approximately 46 quarts), of which 32 cents will be passed on to the producer and 18 cents retained by the dealer, who, the commission said, must meet "increased cost of distribution as well as higher taxes and labor and materals costs. The commission also said that dairymen are facing the additional hardship of a shortage of farm labor due to high industrial wage scales which milk producers are un able to meet. Jap Puppet Regime Headquarters Fired SHANGHAI, Aug. 9 A huge in cendiary bomb today set fire to the five-story Central China Daily News building, housing the official organ of Wang Ching-Wei's Japanese- sponsored regime at Nanking. The bombing coincided with the anni versary of the outbreak of fight ing between Chinese and Japanese troops in the Shanghai area in 1937.

It occurred while Shanghai, in eluding the Japanese occupied dis tricts. the French concession and the International Settlement were filled with troops pa troling to pre vent anniversary outbreaks. immm Actions you regret..