PATROLS IN ATLANTIC

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1941, Page 7

PATROLS IN ATLANTIC

MANY U.S.A. VESSELS IN USE

ACTIVITIES EXTENDED

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WASHINGTON, April 28.

Disclosing that the United States Atlantic fleet’s patrol operations’had already been greatly extended, informed circles indicated that the navy had concentrated large numbers of small war vessels along the eastern seaboard in recent months. These craft are most useful for patrol work. Functioning in close collaboration with these are longrange aeroplanes and cruisers. The navy has been building increasing quantities of small craft, and most of them have gone to the Atlantic rather than to the Pacific fleet. , *x, • It is believed that the Atlantic squadron, which originally consisted of 125 vessels, now numbers at least 200, the vast majority of which are operating off the New England and Canadian coasts.

JAPAN TO ACT?

(Recd. April 29, 1 P.™-). oo LONDON,. April 28.

The Associated Press Rome correspondent says: The “Popolo di Rom indicated that Japan is ready to help Italy and Germany to prevent American supplies reaching Britain. Lhe newspaper added that Japan had a - ready declared her readiness to act under the Tripartite Pact.

LINDBERGH RESIGNS.

(Recd. April 29, 1 p.m.). NEW YORK, April 28.

Colonel Lindbergh, in a letter to Mr. Roosevelt announcing he was resigning his commission as Colonel in the United States Army and Air Corps reserve, said that Mr. Roosevelt s Press conference remarks left him no honourable alternative.

COAL STRIKE.

WASHINGTON, April 28. A grave situation has been created by the collapse of the Defence Mediation Board’s attempt to settle the coal strike in the United States, as many defence industries are already hampered as a result oi the coal shortage.

PRESIDENT CONCERNED

(Recd. April 29, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 28. Secretary Early said that Mr. Roosevelt, to-day, was making an intensive study of the coal deadlock. Mr. Early said the situation was very serious. Mr. Roosevelt planned to confer especially with the ActingChairman (Mr. Davis) of the .Mediation Board, surveying its unsuccessful efforts. The Southern Railroad announced it is suspending services temporarily on twenty-one routes in the Southern States in order to save coal for the main line service. Forty-two trains will be stopped after to-night. Only twenty days’ coal supply remain.

MORE PRODUCTION NEEDED

WASHINGTON,' April 28

Mr. James Kemper, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, at the annual meeting, said: Every employed person must do twenty-five per cent, more work, if both the defence and civilian needs are to be fulfilled. We must either work more, or go without some things we have won. The present high level of business activity is being sustained by defence production and British aid efforts. Business and industry must begin now to develop comprehensive post-war employment programmes, when the wholesale need for employment again becomes acute.

Mr. Kemper submitted a scheme calling for private and public business co-operation, investigation and research, aiming to utilise the utmost resources of economic assets in a comprehensive postwar reconstruction and employment programme. Mr. Kemper, concluding, urged taking a leaf from Britain’s book. “She, under the very guns and bombs of Germany, is pressed as we certainly ate not. The British, nevertheless,' most careful not to cripple industry, are producing for foreign trade. Let us produce all out for aid for Britain, but do not let us make the mistake of completely disrupting our economy by hystericaal derangement or normal production.

PRIORITIES APPROVED

WASHINGTON, April 28.

The House Naval Affairs Committee to-day, approved the Office of Production Management’s request for broad powers to impose priorities and ration all materials needed for production of war supplies for the United States and Britain.

PRESIDENT’S BROADCAST

(Recd. April 29, 12.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 28.

Mr. Roosevelt will make a speech, the ostensible subject being the defence savings drive, on Wednesday evening, which will be broadcast on a nation-wide network, also by the short-wave stations WCAB, on 49/5 metres, and WCBX, on 25/31 metres.

Secretary Morgenthau and Post-master-General Walker will also speak, but it is not known in what order.

WORK FOR UNIONISTS

(Recd. April 29, 1 p.m.). WASHINGTON, April 28

The Supreme Court to-day ruled that the National Labour Relations Board can require an employer to hire men who have been denied employment because of their union connections.