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Plans Air-Conditioning Of Entire
Nation; Great Scheme Is Unfolded
WASHINGTON. May 11 — Robert H. Hinckley is
tackling the biggest air-conditioning job in history. He
wants to “air-condition” the whole country. Lest that
raise a picture of a vast sealed dome stretching from
Seattle to Miami and Boston to San Diego, with filters
going full blast day and night, let me hasten to make
clear what Hinckley means.
Hinckley is assistant secretary of commerce for air.
To him it’s not enough that America be “air-minded. ’
“This and succeeding generations,” he explains,
“must become what I call ‘air-conditioned’ if the Unit
ed States is to be a nation on wings, which it is surely
going to be.
“When 1 say air-conditioned 1 mean that we must
become conditioned to the air and the machines of the
air in just the same way that we are conditioned to
the ground and the machines of the ground.
Today we pilot an automobile along the ground as
easily as we walk, with as little conscious thought or
effort. We must learn to pilot an airplane through the
air with the same sure, almost automatic responses.”
The announcement that aeronautics is to be taught
in the nation’s high schools was a big slap on the back
for genial, bald-headed Bob Hinckley. The Civil Aero
nautics Administration, under Hinckley, and the Of
fice of Education, backed bv the Army and Navy, are
diving into plans that they hope will let this country
catch up with Nazi Germany, where such training
was begun back in the middle '30s.
Hitler Youth were building model planes in the pri
mary school in those days, and older boys were skim
ming the landscape in gliders and sailplanes. A few
years later they were dive-bombing London and Crete.
CAA launched a test program involving 317 stu
dents in 113 colleges and universities in 1939. After
France fell Congress authorized a great expansion of
this program. “A1J told,” Hinckley pridefully declares,
“we’ve taught almost 75,000 young Americans to fly.
Some 15,000 of them are now flving for the Armv and
Navy.”
The training program is centered entirely on the
w’ar effort now. Some 45,000 students are to be put
through the elementary flying course each year, along
with 31.000 mechanics.
But to Hinckley that’s still not enough. He’s waiting
for the day when young Americans will start aviation
education in high school —perhaps even in the lower
grades. Not just because of the need for military pilots,
either. Hinckley is looking farther than that —to the
day when America will be “air-conditioned. ’
“The world is changing under the influence of the
airplane,” he tells you. “Every student, whether boy
or girl, should know the why and wherefor.”
— By Jack Stinnett.
Adm. Stark Is Certain Of \ ictorv
V
LONDON, May — The commander of United States
naval forces in European waters, former chief of naval
operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, told a news con
ference “there is no question whatever but that the
superior strength of the combined nations is bound to
win this war.”
The conference was Stark's first since he arrived in
London to take over his new duties. Admiral Stark
answered his questions with a quick decision that made
him a favorite with London news correspondents. Said
Admiral Stark:
Will Lick Hitler
"We will lick Hitler. No man ever put such a curse
on the world as Hitler, but even with his running start
we shall stop him and beat him before we are through.”
Admiral Stark said he had much to say about Ger
man submarine campaign and the efforts taken to best
it, but most of what he ihad to say could not be made
public. However, he said that Germany’s submarines
in this war were faster than those of world war no. 1
but he pointed out that the speed of surface combat
ships also has been increased. He pointed out that the
Alantic is Britain's lifeline today. He added: “I can
assure you that every possible study and cooperation
is taking place between the American and British
navies to defeat the submarine.”
Speaking of shipping production in the United States
he disclosed that last month American shipyards were
turning out two ships a day. This rate of production;
is to be maintained and increased.
Stark said the British and American navies are pool-:
ing all their information and facilities to win the war.
Mrs. Hermann To Bo
OPA Chief In Juneau
Coupled with t|ie announce
ment of Mrs. Mildred Hermann’s
appointment as Territorial Ad
ministrator for the Office of!
Price Administration, came the I
statement that OPA price ced
ing regulations soon will be ap-j
plied on goods sold in A’aska. '
The Governor’s Office said that
Mrs, Hermann’s appointment was!
announced by the OPA in Wash
ington, D. and that it was'
made upon the recommendation
of Gov. Ernest Gruening.
With the appointment of an
Administrator for Alaska, price,
ceilings for the entire United!
States, announced last month folj
lowing the President's radio ad
dress, soon will b» made applic-:
i able to Alaska, the Governor’s!
, Office declared.
Mrs. Hermann, Juneau attor
ney, will not only have charge of
the rationing of automobileS^and
tires—a program instituted in A!
a ska soon after the outbreak of
war—but also will head up the
more important field of enforced
price ceilings on all goods desig
nated by the OPA.
Further announcement con
cerning the program will be
made soon by Mrs. Hermann,
who will establish a local office
immediately. i
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Uiv Defense Bonds and Stamps j
Extracts From Testimony President
Of Standard Oil of New Jersey
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WASHINGTON — During the public hearings on
the reason for the delay in quantity production of syn
thetic rubber in the United States, the Truman Investi
gating Committee held a secret session at which offic
ials of Standard Oil of New Jersey were closely ques
tioned. In the course of this secret interrogation, W. S.
Farish, President of the corporation, declared that
plans for the production of synthetic rubber “were
held in a state of suspended animation” for several
months by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The following are extracts of Farish’s heretofore
undisclosed testimony taken from the official transcript
of the secret session:
Mr. Farish: “In June, 1940 to October, 1940, a com
mittee of the Advisory Committee and the Council of
National Defense were the government agency to con
sider and promote synthetic rubber. This committee
soon found that it could make only suggestion which no
one was authorized to carry out, so in the fall of 1940
the responsibility was turned over to the RFC.
State of Suspended Animation
“This agency worked upon the rubber plan with
' Standard and other companies, which led to the com
pletion of a definite program in January, 1941. These
plans called for 75 percent of the capital to come from
the government and 25 percent from industry. They
were held in a state of suspended animation by the
RFC for several months, due possibly, to a desire to
save taxpayers money. Finally, on June 22, 1942, Stand
ard was authorized to go ahead with its part of a new
and larger program financed largely by Defense Plant
Corporation.”
Mr. Howard (another Standard official): “Our at
titude is perhaps best shown on this matter of plans
in this way: in July 1941, we were asked by RFC to
prepare plans for a 15,000 ton plant. That work was
suspended by RFC a little later. Despite that suspen
sion we continued at our own expense on those plans
in order that there might be no delay, and when the
war broke out in the Pacific and we were ordered to
resume work on the plans, they were virtually com
plete.”
Mysterious Influence
Mr. Farish: “I would like to make just one comment
on the general objective, as I understand it, that this
sub-committee is dealing with, and that is, you are
trying to find out, has there been any delay in the pro
duction of synthetic rubber, If there has been any
delay, whose fault is it or what caused it? I simply
want to reiterate that I can’t find any logical reason
why any rubber company or any oil company would
be concerned with, or a party to, any delay.
“There has been some reluctance, and I might say
some slow movement, on the part of government au
thorities. My thinking apparatus tells me there has
been, perhaps, some influence at work that has caused
some delay.’’
Senator Truman: “We want to find out what that in
fluence is and see if we can stop it.’
Mr. Farish: “I don’t know what has caused the de
lay. There has been some reluctance on the part of the
government to push this question and to put money
into it. They might have thought nothing was going to
happen to our supplies in the Far East. They might
not have taken the threat of a shortage seriously, or
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tions.”
Note:- In his testimony before the Committee, RFC
Boss Jesse Jones vehemently denied that he was re
sponsible for the synthetic rubber delay.
(“Washington Mc-rry-IGo-Round’' Drew Pearson & Robert S. Alien)