THE WINDSOR DAILY STAR, WINDSOR, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 22. 1941 -PAGE THIRTEEN 'WHITE ELEPHANT' OF POST-WAR DAYS NOW U. S. DEFENCE KEY Huge Arms Production Muscle Shoals Plants Making Aluminum and Expanding FLORENCE, May 22. -Muscle Shoals, the 000,000 "white elephant" of he post- War decade, is back in the national defence picture as a source of vital war materials.
PRODUCES ALUMINUM PRODUCTION of aluminum, primary metal for plane manufacture, began today in the $30,000,000 Metals Co. plant here and a $6,500,000 ammonium nitrate unit is being built. The new Reynolds adds 000.000 pounds annually to the nation's aluminum capacity and far more than that to its capacity for alumina, the first product in the reduction of aluminum from bauxite. Aluminum was produced here in commercial quantities just six months to the day after the first spade of dirt was turned in what had been a cabbage field. BUILD ROLLING MILL A rolling mill, to process the aluminum ingots into plates for use in planes, is well under way and will be in operation by late summer.
The ammonium nitrate plant will produce ammonia and ammonium nitrate for use in the manufacture of explosives. It is being built adjacent to old nitrate plant No. 2, a $65,000,000 unit of the World War development which was not completed until long after the war ended. The need for a domestic source of nitrate was the reason for the original Muscle Shoals development: Nitrate plant No. 1, costing some $12,000,000, is termed obsolete by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which fell heir to the plants in 1933.
plans for its utilization have been announced. The two nitrate plants and Wilson Dam. the latter built at a cost of 000.000 to supply power for them, were sought by Henry Ford, the Alamama Power and others after work was suspended in April, 1941, for lack of funds. After a long wrangle in Congress, the war department retained title and spent an additional $7,500,000 to complete the project. Generation of power at Wilson Dam began in September, 1925, and the war department started selling it to the Alabama Power Co.
and later to the Tennessee Electric Power Co. They were customers until the dam became the first unit in the Tennessee Valley Authority system, which now has an installed generating capacity of more than 1,000,000 kilowatts. Maritime Day Is Celebrated BY UNITED STATES Keynote Urgency of Speed in Ship Program WASHINGTON, May shipyards jammed with a gigantic merchant building program, the United States today observed National Maritime Day--the 122nd anniversary of the Savannah's departure on the first successful trans-Atlantic voyage by steam. A ceremonial observance was scheduled here aboard the Maritime Commission's training ship American Seaman, but due to emergency conditions, the Washington navy yard open to the public. Similar exercises.
the commission said, will take place at the principal ports on the Atlantic, gulf and Pacific. coasts and on the Great Lakes. The anniversary's keynote this year was the urgency of speed in the nation's merchantmen construction program, which has been vastly expanded since the pre-war days when it first got under way. The original construction program -a -range undertaking--called for 50 ships a year for a ten-year period. To this, President Roosevelt has added a 412-ship emergency program, and the Maritime Commission reported this well ahead of schedule today.
Board Confers Collects, Exchanges Data on Raw Materials in Both Lands MONTREAL, May newlyformed material co-ordination committee of Canada and the United States met for the first time yesterday in a closed session. A committee statement said its purpose "is to collect and exchange information on the raw material supplies in the United States and Canada. "It is aiming at knowledge, simplicity, speed and economy in the joint war effort. It wants a composite picture, simple yet accurate. "The committee has put in a very useful day." Attending the meeting were Metals Controller G.
C. Bateman of Toronto and Power Controller Herbert J. Symington of Montreal, Canadian members, and Edward R. Stettinius, director of priorities in the Office of Production Management, and William L. Blatt, deputy of the O.P.M.'s production division, representing the United States.
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HOUSE SUSPENDS THE House was on questions when a loud thunder clap shook the windows of the centre block, housing the Commons. Suddenly the lights went out, leaving the chamber, in the centre of the building and without direct window lighting, in darkness. continued to ask questions. Ministers, replied called to them. And flashlights Han- so as to continue taking their notes.
In one corner of the chamber a member lighted a match. Another one flashed on a cigaret lighter. Finally Conservative Leader Hanson suggested the House recess until power was restored and Prime Minister Mackenzie King agreed. The House was suspended at 3:25 p.m. and resumed at 3:30 p.m.
The day had been hot and close and members went to the parliament buildings under lowering grey clouds. Shortly after three o'clock heavy rain swept down on the capital and it changed to hail that in 20 minutes had whitened the grounds of the parliament buildings. DAMAGE TO CROPS The hail was believed to have caused some damage to garden crops but W. J. Croskery, of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, said it was so short-lived that the moisture would do more good than the harm that might be caused by the hailstones.
Here and there windows were broken and trees stripped of branches. For a time the water ran inches deep along curbstones. A barn on the farm of John J. Bergin, near Manotick, and an empty barn owned by Orville Morgan, at South March, were destroyed by lightning-started fires, and a team of horses was killed in March Township by a lightning bolt. Trees broken by the storm disrupted power lines along the Ayler road across the Ottawa River from Ottawa.
Aylmer, was without power for several hours. DRUGS BOOSTED Profiteering druggists in Australia have boosted prices 400 percent. FISH All Kinds of SEA FOOD and LAKE FISH Fresh Red Spring lh. SALMON 30c FRESH lb. HALIBUT FRESH IN lb.
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Among the Canadians were Howard Clark of Toronto; Fruond Goudreau of Quebec City; Omer Levesque of Mont Joli, D. Chapman of Vancouver; of Glace Bay, N.S.; H. R. McDonald of Edmonton; Bill Munn of Regina; J. F.
Lambert of Winnipeg; McClusky of Kirkland Lake, N. Ogilvie of Ottawa, and Sid Gannon of Montreal. STAR PHOTOGRAPHER Adjutant on the voyage was stocky Bert Johnson, formerly Windsor Daily Star photographer, who joined Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters in England as official photographer. Among the Australians who received final training in Canada was Peter Kingsford-Smith, nephew of the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, famous trans-Pacific flier. Four United States youths were in the group.
They were Harry Garvin of New York City, Edwin Davis of East Orange, N.J., James Walker, of Corpus Christie, and J. B. Spangler, of Bethlehem, Pa. Howard Clark of Toronto looked wistfully into the roareds a flight of bombers over, "Boy, look at that formation. I'd sure like to be with them." Raymond Goudreau of Quebec City and Omer Levesque of Mont Joli, used the word "swell" to describe England and its hospitality.
Goudreau added with a grin: "They ask us to speak French to see what it sounds like." Japan Starts Flour Rations High-Priced Food Is Hard to Obtain; Eggs and Meat Scarce TOKIO, May was added today to the list of rationed articles in Japan, which include rice, charcoal, sugar, sake and beer. Under a new decree the flour allowance for a family of four during June will be one and one-quarter pounds. Vegetables have not been rationed but they are going up in price, and eggs and meat are difficult to obtain, with four meatless days a month the rule in Tokio. Milk is available only to children, while butter is scarce. Long lines form daily in front of bread shops and the supply usually is exhausted long before the demand is filled.
PERU TO MAKE RAYON M. Manufacture of rayon is to be started in Peru. One Angle "A ONDON, man who May doesn't know the date of his marriage, doesn't deserve a divorce," Mr. Justice J. C.
Makins told a plaintiff in a divorce action who seemed uncertain of just when he joined the ranks of the benedicts in Supreme Court Wednesday. Divorces were granted to Lena R. Box of Parkhill, from Kenneth A. Box, with Greta Morrow named corespondent; and to Homer Hardy of London from Gwendoline Olive Hardy, with Dick Last named as co-respondent. Gets Overseas Post OTTAWA, May G.
Congdon, superintendent of the Atlantic division of immigration for the department of mines and resources, will leave for England during the summer to become commissioner of European immigration for Canada. He has been stationed at Ottawa with the department since 1928. He will succeed W. R. Little, who will be superannuated in October.
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