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SPECIAL B - 19 EDITION
 World's Largest Airplane

B-19 Bomber built by Douglas Aircroft Company

for U. S. Army Air Corps

designing and building . . .·

9000 drawings required , which would cover an area of four acres.
500 engineers, technicians and mechanics employed on craft.
700,000 hours engineering time.
42,500 hours research and testing time.
1,250,000 hours shop time.
4 years from start of design to first flight.

construction detail ...

212 ft. wing spread .

132 ft. fuselage length.
42 ft. 9 in. overall height to top of rudder.
61 ft. span of horizontal stabilizer.
8 ft. diameter of main landing gear wheels (4 ft . 6 in. diameter of nose wheel).
2 miles of control cable.
10 miles of electrical wiring (enclosed in conduits).
3,000,000 rivets.
4 Wright Duplex-Cyclone engines , each generating 2000 horsepower.
17 ft. Hamilton-Standard propellers .
140,000 pounds- normal gross weight.
164,000 pounds-alternate gross weight.

performance .
Speed-in excess of 200 m.p.h.
Landing speed -69 m.p.h.
Range-7750 miles.
Fuel capacity- 11,000 gallons.
Flight crew- 10 men (sleeping accommodations for 8).
Bomb capacity- 18 tons.
Total load capacity- 28 tons.

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June SPECIAL B
B-- 19
19 EDITION 1941

Published by the CONTENTS

Departments of Industrial and
A DREAM COME TRUE 4
Public Relations
Douglas Aircraft Company
GUARDIAN OF A HEMISPHERE 5
A. M. ROCHLEN
Director
2,000,000 MAN-HOURS 6
JACK G. ANDERSON, Assistant
BUILDING THE BIGGEST- IN SEVEN STORY STEEL JIG 8
FREDERIC C. COONRADT
Managing Editor
THE B- 19--READY TO FLY 12
Contributors to This Issue
AL A. ADAMS BRAVEN DYER PRODUCTION PARTNERS 14
DON BLACK RAY HOSKINS
MAJ. GEN. G. H. BRETT ROY JOHNSON A FLYING LABORATORY OF AERONAUTICAL SCIENCE 16
COL ROB'T CANDEE LT. ROB'T KINKEAD
PAUL CHALMERS LARRY KRONQUIST THE MEN AND THE JOB 18
NED CRAWFORD BERT D. LYNN
This issue published in cooperation CITY OF WINGS · 20
with Office of the Chief of United
States Army Air Corps.

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CHECK AND DOUBLE-CHECK 22

B- 19

THE Army's B- 19, world's largest airplane, is a tribute to the vision and daring
of men who plan and build. It is the product of a thousand brains and a million
hands, a triumph of American initiative and engineering.

The Douglas organization, 31,000 strong, is proud that to it has been given
the privilege and opportunity of crystallizing man's aeronautical advancement
into this giant of the skies. Ours was but a partial contribution . The first frail
craft at Kitty Hawk, researchers and dreamers of all lands, the U. S. Army Air
Corps experts, and the hosts of unknown soldiers of science everywhere, have
made the B- 19 possible. To all these we are grateful .

In dedicating this magnificent structure to the service of our nation we join.

with all men of good will in the hope that this airplane in days to come may fulfill
missions of peace and commerce as well as duties of defense.

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In Development Since 1930, the B- 19 Is

a Triumph of the Mind of Man , Says
Army Air Corps Chief. It is-

A DREAM

COME TRUE

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Major General, Chief of the Air Corps

THERE are forces in the minds of men- in the minds of

many men -that permit them to triumph over mere matter.
Such a triumph is exemplified in the B- 19, the dream that
has come true. I wish that I might claim exclusive credit for
having dreamed this dream. But I cannot claim the credit,
because the dream was not mine alone. Nor was it the sole
and single vision of any one man .
It was, in fact, the dream of many men, and that it comes
true gives credit to as many men, and to hundreds, yes,
thousands more, who translated that dream into the B- 19.
That such an airplane as the B- 19 was necessary became
apparent to the Air Corps back in Nineteen Twenty. More
than twenty years ago we knew that existing bombers were
not adequate. We knew that they had so little speed that
their employment in unprotected formations against fighter
aircraft was dangerous. We knew that they had too little.
range.
We knew that the difficulties to be overcome were great.
But we knew that the NEED to overcome them would be
even greater. Not the least of these difficulties was the ignor-
ance of the earthbound-the failure of those who were not
air-minded either to see accomplished facts or to dream
dreams.
Knowledge of aerodynamics and aircraft engineering was
limited by the fact that many of the practices standard today
had not yet been invented. But the aircraft branch of our
Materiel Division went to work.
From the drafting board, from the laboratory, went re-
quests and suggestions to airplane manufacturers . The B- 1
and the B- 2 series were born.
Development continued through the the B-8's, built by
Fokker, the first bombers to have closed cabins.
And from these came the Boeing- built B-9's and the
Martin-built B- 10's which startled the aviation world.
These were the first all- metal airplanes. Retractable land-
ing gear, controllable pitch propellers were developed for
MAJOR GENERAL George H. Brett, chief of the U. S.
Army Air Corps, calls B- 19 a "Wright field on wings."
not weight
them , and they were FAST -but they were
carriers.
With the B- 15 weight-carrying ability and speed were
combined. And with the Flying Fortress -the B- 17-the
public imagination was fired, and even greater demands
were made upon us.
Those greater demands began to be met in 1930, when
the first drawings were made for the B- 19 .
Space is lacking for a lengthy recital of the difficulties
overcome in getting funds to start the B- 19 on its way, of
the greater difficulties taken in stride in completing it.
Great credit is due the Douglas Aircraft company which
built the B- 19 . Each part was the largest that ever had been
built. It was even necessary to construct the nation's largest
airplane hangar for the B- 19.
There was the great problem of landing fields. It was
solved.
There was need for engines capable of developing more
than 2000 horse power each. They were produced .
We of the Air Corps think of the B- 19 as a "Wright Field
on wings" as a flying laboratory for the development and
for the testing of airplane ideas of the future.
Great things and the B- 19 is a great thing-may be
dealt with properly only in terms of humble simplicity.
There will be-and there are other dreams. And they
will come true.
Today we stand not at Z but at A in the aviation alphabet.
This Bombing Behemoth-this B- 19- is one of the Air
Corps ' dreams come true.

PAGE FOUR DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

GUARDIAN
* CONCEIVED by the United States
Army Air Corps and designed and
built by the Douglas Aircraft company.
the B-19, "Guardian of a Hemisphere,"
is the world's largest and most power-
ful military airplane.
When Major General Henry H. Ar-
nold, now deputy chief of staff in
charge of the newly created Army Air
force, last August dramatically ordered
lowered the curtain which for two
years had shielded the nation's largest
and most fascinating mystery, he re-
vealed to the world the existence of not
only the largest airplane in the world
in sheer bulk, but also the airplane
with the greatest carrying capacity the
world has ever seen and longest range
any airplane has ever had, and further,
the most powerfully armed military
plane that has ever been built.
Nothing but superlatives can be used
to describe the impressive size of this
latest addition to the armed might of
the United States. Its four Wright Du-
plex Cyclone engines develop more than
8000 horsepower, power equivalent to
that generated by the enormous steam
turbines of a 10,000 ton ocean liner. Its
range is 7750 miles, or more than three
times that of the destroyers used by
the United States Navy during the first
World War.
The weight of the B-19, fully
loaded, is 164,000 pounds, three times
the weight of the DC-4. If it were a
transport plane it could carry 125 pas
SPECIAL B-19 EDITION
OF A HEMISPHERE
MAJOR GENERAL H. H. Arnold,
deputy chief of staff and head of
new United States Army Air Force.
sengers and a large crew from coast
to coast non-stop. Its maximum bomb
load is 18 tons.
Despite its great size engineers say
it will be able to land and take off at
any standard airport in the United
States.
The fuel capacity of this flying battle-
ship is 11,000 gallons, approximately
the same amount of gasoline carried
in a standard railway tank car .
In its interior layout the B-19 more
nearly resembles a ship than the air-
planes in operation today. A large,
soundproofed, heated and ventilated
bridge deck in the forward and upper
end of the fuselage houses the ship's
commander, navigator and radio oper-
ator, engineer, pilot and co-pilot . The
rest of the normal operating crew
consists of a chief mechanic and four
relief crew members, a total of ten.
Their accommodations include a galley
and ward room and cabin with sleeping
facilities for eight on full length
three-quarter width berths. Such were
necessary because of the fact that on
long flights the ship may remain in the
air for more than two days.
When used on attack missions the
ship will carry an extra crew in addi-
tion to the flight crew to man the vari
ous battle stations.
Companionways and hatches which
run throughout the airplane make all
parts of the interior accessible, from
the tail to the nose and out into the
wings as far as the landing lights, lo-
cated beyond the outboard engines on
each side of the ship. Each of the en-
gines is accessible in flight and is so
installed that most minor repairs and
adjustments could easily be made while
in the air. A loudspeaker system will
connect all stations within the ship .
In addition to the four main engines.
the B- 19 has two auxiliary engines to
provide power for the hydraulic sys-
tems, electricity for radio and light and
to operate many other power driven
mechanisms the airplane contains.
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WING nearly disappears into distance
when viewed down leading edge.
CONTROL surfaces, not a wing, is structure in jig below. There is as much area
in B-19 elevator and horizontal stabilizer as in wing of 10 passenger transport.
2,000,000 MAN - HOURS
FIVE years of research and study,
three and one half years of engineering,
more than two years of construction
and millions of dollars are represented
in the Douglas B- 19, the world's larg.
est, most powerful and most completely
equipped airplane.
More than size alone makes the B- 19
the remarkable airplane it most cer-
tainly is. In every phase of its design ,
construction, and operation, perfection
in every detail was sought. So success-
ful were these efforts that Douglas en
gineers believe the B- 19 changes the
cardinal aeronautical axiom that an air-
plane is obsolete the moment it comes
off the drafting board.
Advanced Design
The B- 19, conceived in theory by the
Air Corps years before it was in the
design room, has in its design and con-
struction every advance in the science
of flight contained in airplanes of other
types which are still on the drafting
boards today, the engineers say.
It was in the fall of 1935 that the
United States Army Air Corps sent to
a number of aircraft companies a set
of specifications for an airplane which
was to surpass all others in range, load
and equipment carried.
Douglas and one other company
submitted preliminary designs to
Wright field. each was given
a contract to go ahead with the design
for guaranteed performances and to
build a mockup. Three months and
more than $ 150.000 later, 60 engineers
and 80 men on mockup had completed
the job for Douglas. In April of 1936
Douglas was announced the winner of
WORK PRO
the competition. In the spring of 1937
the contracts were signed and engineers
began the complete task of design-
ing the airplane and each of its multi-
tude of parts and equipment.
Problem in Installations
The general design of the airplane
presented no great problem that could
not be solved through methods long
proven in the building of hundreds of
military and commercial airplanes. Size
alone presented no overwhelming ob-
stacles and such problems as did arise
were in many cases solved on the DC-4
which, until the present, has been the
largest landplane ever built in this
country.
The great problem tackled by the
engineers and shop men on the B- 19
was the installation of the equipment
within the ship . There was the problem
of the electrical system whose two gen-
erators develop 15 kilowatts, as much
electricity as is used by the largest de-
partment store in Santa Monica. There
was the radio, four sending and re-
ceiving sets used for different purposes,
which altogether amount to as much
radio equipment as that contained in a
medium sized commercial broadcasting
station. There was more armament to be
installed than any three military ships
in the world ever contained . There was
the telephone system with 24 stations to
be considered .
The engineers had to design and the
shop to build a complete oxygen dis-
tribution system for altitude flying,
something never before attempted on a
large scale. Contained in special bottles
DOUBLE-DECKED is fuselage. On top
sit pilots, below bombardier , gunners .
UCED WORLD'S LARGEST
and piped to all stations in the airplane,
the system will supply sufficient oxygen
to sustain the normal ten man crew for
100 hours at 20,000 feet, well above the
range of most anti- aircraft guns.
The control of an airplane of such
dimensions also presented problems.
Power steering apparatus, virtually un-
heard of in airplanes when the B- 19
was first laid out, had to be developed .
Tricycle Gear
Construction of the tricycle landing
gear, fully retractable was also a maj-
or problem. So large are the oleo struts
on the main landing wheels that no ma-
chines existed two years ago capable of
machining these enormous precision
parts except great naval arsenal lathes
used in turning out 12 and 16 inch
guns. Consequently the Cleveland Pneu-
matic Tool company, which made the
landing gear to Douglas designs, had
to build the machines capable of doing
the job before it could construct the
oleo struts .
All these things and many more, the
ten miles of electrical wiring in the
ship, the fire alarm system, the 3,000 , -
000 rivets, add up to make the building
of the B- 19 one of the nation's major
engineering triumphs. It is most com-
parable to the construction of a great
steamship with the very great difference
that the construction of large steam-
ships has been learned through years
of experience while the building of the
B- 19 was an entirely new undertaking.
The total man-hours to complete the
B- 19 will surpass two million by the
time it takes to the air. Of these more
ENGINES are accessible in flight. Pho-
to taken through engine from front.
AIRPLANE
than 1,250,000 will have been in the
shop, 700,000 in engineering and 42,-
500 in research and test.
Much of the research and test work
on the huge airplane was completed be-
fore the first flight. Static tests, vibra-
tion tests, hydraulic tests, engine cool-
ing tests and all others which were
possible before flight will be completed
before the airplane leaves Clover field
and the Douglas Santa Monica plant.
Once in the air the great ship will
be given the most thorough series of
flight tests any airplane has ever had.
SIZE can best be seen and appreciated
The Army plans to turn it into a virtu-
in details. Above, landing wheel wells.
al flying laboratory for gathering and
checking tactical and structural data
from which will come more great long
range bombers and cargo and troop
transports of the future. For, as the
official Army public release of data on
the airplane said : "This airplane rep-
resents a further step toward solving
the question of the best combination of
size, speed, range, weight and carrying
ability in view of the latest require-
ments for bombardment airplanes . "
Airplanes of Tomorrow
From it Douglas engineers and shop
men probably have already learned
more about large, long range airplanes,
their problems, their performances and
their costs than is known by anyone
else in the world . The only ship of its
type in the world today it will in the
future become the experimental model
from which will come the great trans-
continental and transoceanic landplanes
of the future, the airplanes that will
conquer any distance to any place on MORE idea of size can be obtained in
the surface of the globe. this picture of one engine nacelle.
MOST POWERFUL ever used in an airplane are Wright Duplex Cyclone engines
in B-19, more than 2000 horsepower. Below, one of the engines being installed.

Overshadowing everything else during B-19 construction was the huge jig in which rested wing section. Nearly 200 men are
THE biggest job of airplane con-
struction ever completed was accomp-
Building the lished with the largest set of steel jigs
ever used in the aircraft industry.
The wing jig alone was as big as a
fair sized office building, more than 200
Biggest feet long and 48 feet high. It contained
seven different working levels and the
riveted structural steel of which it was
constructed weighed 105,000 pounds.
In seven story Gigantic though they were, these
jigs had to be as accurate as a small
jig used to make a rudder on an at-
ste tack ship. For these jigs, lined-up and
el jig
measured with surveyor's transits and
calipers, were the framework in which
the major structural parts of the air-
PAGE EIGHT
RRET
plane were held in place during as-
sembly and established precisely the
mathematically exact contours and
measurements of the completed air-
plane.
Shown in the photograph above is
the wing and fuselage center section in
their jig during construction . Nearly
200 workmen, the day shift of the shop
crew that worked on the airplane, are
shown standing on the various working
levels of the jig. In the foreground is
the rear section of the fuselage. The
nose section of the airplane was built
in another jig behind the wing jig.
Built into the jigs were complete fa-
cilities for the men working on the
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
en standing on the seven different working levels of jig. Photo was taken from top of tail and shows fuselage in foreground.
various parts of the airplane. There
were installed work benches, tool racks
and lockers, and electric power and
compressed air for power tools.
When finished, the huge wing had
to be lifted from its steel cradle and
turned into a horizontal position for
splicing to the tail and nose sections.
No simple task was this, for although
the structure to be handled was not an
entire airplane, it weighed 34,000
pounds. But so precise were the pre-
liminary calculations and arrangements
that none of the three sections had to
be realigned for joining.
Collaborating in carefully checked
studies and experiments , Douglas en-
SPECIAL B-19 EDITION
gineers and bridge building experts of
the Bethlehem Steel company evolved a
" working script" for the turning op-
eration. With a profile model of the
airplane, wires and pulleys, the entire
process was carried out in miniature
again and again. To test in advance the
rafters of the huge hangar, lead weights
totaling 68,000 pounds, twice the weight
to be lifted, were suspended by cables
from the roof.
Two electric winches were then con-
nected to the wing by cables running
through blocks in the rafters. Half of
the great steel jig was cut away with
torches and all was ready.
Early one morning, with trained
crews at their stations, the signal was
given and the wing turning began.
Moving with clocklike regularity, sev-
eral feet at a time, then stopping for
careful checking, the wing structure was
raised from its cradle, then gently low-
ered into place between the nose and
tail sections, fitting perfectly.
Once it was out of the jig and into
place, work stands were built around
the great ship. These were of welded
steel tube and required approximately
ten tons of material to build. With the
three sections assembled, work proceed-
ed full speed on the power plants, con-
trol system, instruments, armament and
other interior installations.
PAGE NINE
Under construction. Enclosed in a maze of steel, the B-19 began to assume shape early in 1940. Wing jig was seven stories high.
MORE THAN 42 feet in the air towered the vertical fin of the B-19 under con- POISED in midair the huge wing, from
struction, below. Tail group shown without movable surfaces- rudder and elevators. below, presents a startling perspective.
 MODEL, devised by Basil Bybee, tool
design, worked out in precise detail
problem of moving the B- 19 wing.

THE B- 19 began in a huge, seven-

story, 53-ton steel jig holding the wing
and fuselage center section in a vertical
position, the fuselage rear section in
normal position, as shown on the pre-
ceding page. To join the two was the
READY to move. Cleared of jig, the wing and fuselage center section ready to be
most spectacular job of the ship's con- joined to rear section. It took from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. to raise wing out of jig,
struction . After Douglas engineers de- lower it into position. Each movement was charted in advance to fraction of inch.
vised the method, the hoisting engineers
who moved the steel in the Golden Gate
bridge took over. So accurate were the
calculations and execution of the move-
ment that no shifting of wing or fuse-
lage had to be made after the hoisting
cables were removed.

For size comparison note a workman

in the lower right corner of picture.

HALFWAY into position is the B-19 wing above just removed from jig. Below,
several weeks later the joining is completed, installation of engines, armament and
controls is well along. Following were complete tests in hangar and on field.
D

MAN-MADE tempests come from these giant Wright Duplex-Cyclone engines which
will pull the B-19. Photograph taken through control compartment window.
PRODUCTION
NOT only the Douglas Aircraft com-
pany but scores of other companies,
producers of aircraft parts and acces-
sories, had to develop new designs,
techniques and machinery to make
possible the largest, most powerful air-
plane ever built.
Everything about the Douglas B- 19
must be described in superlatives the
engines are the most powerful aircooled
engines ever built, the propellers are
the largest ever to pull an airplane,
the tires, the wheels, the brakes, the
shock struts on the landing gear are
the world's largest .
One of these jobs, the building of
the landing gear struts, in turn led to
PAGE FOURTEEN
PARTNERS
another world's largest-the largest
turret lathe in the world.
When Army Air Corps specifications
for the landing gear on the B- 19 went
out many months ago there were no
lathes in existence anywhere capable
of machining the enormous steel forg
ings needed. The Cleveland Pneumatic
Tool company, which was awarded the
contract by the Army, had to begin
at the very beginning and build the
enormous lathe on which to machine
the struts .
The big lathe has a swing of 150
inches . The bed is 27 feet long and 10
feet wide. It is large enough to turn.
a cylinder 32 inches in diameter, 15
feet long, and will take stock more than
12 inches in diameter through the
spindle.
These landing gear struts, and also
the wheels, brakes and tires which they
support, are many times larger than
any ever built before because not only
is the B- 19 the largest airplane ever
built but all previous large airplanes
used multiple wheels .
The largest previous airplane was
the ponderous, slow Russian propagan-
da ship, the Maxim Gorky, which had
eight wheels. The next largest of the
foreign landplanes was a German
Junkers which weighed about 50,000
pounds and had four main wheels.
Larger than the latter and the only
other big airplane with comparable
landing gear was another Douglas, the
DC-4 prototype. It weighed 65,000
pounds and the weight was largely
supported by the two main wheels, the
nose wheel being only lightly loaded.
The B- 19 wheels, together with the
brakes, were manufactured by Bendix
Aviation. Each has a rated capacity in
excess of 70,000 pounds, by far the
greatest capacity of any airplane wheel
which has ever been built.
The wheels, each of which carries
two brake drums on opposite sides,
were made from heavy duty magnesium
alloy and in the casting of the main
body of the wheel more than one ton
of this magnesium alloy was poured.
Two thirds of it was machined off in
making the finished wheel.
In making the original test wheel,
three apparently successful castings
were made before the test casting. Each
of these castings was cut up into more
than 140 specimens, machined, ex-
amined and tested before the final
castings were made.
The brakes are 30 inches in size, again
by far the largest ever used in an air-
plane since neither of the European
airplanes used brakes at all. The brake
drums are steel forgings which weigh
200 pounds each, having had more than
400 pounds machined off during manu-
facture. Brake lining, in special block
form, is so thick that it is necessary
to bolt the blocks into place rather
than rivet as in the case of conventional
lining. The weight of one wheel -tire as-
sembly is 2700 pounds, as much as a
light automobile.
The 8' main tires on the B- 19 are so
enormous that the air with which each
is inflated weighs 28 pounds. They are
not 4 ply or 6 ply like an automobile
tire, but 24 ply. These 24 layers of
fabric which give the tires the strength
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to withstand the impact of the landing
of the 82 ton airplane are reinforced
with a multitude of steel wire. Curi-
ously, however, the rubber on the B- 19's
tires is no thicker than that on an auto-
mobile tire, 5/8 of an inch. The rubber
is thin, relatively speaking, because the
tire is built to stand shock and weight,
not miles of travel on the ground .
The tires and tubes were manufac-
tured by the Firestone Tire and Rubber
company.
To pull the 164,000 pound B- 19
through the air at a speed in excess of
200 miles per hour requires the largest
propellers ever made.
Aelous, mythical Greek god of the
wind, would have held his breath in
awe at the man-made tempests created
by these giant, full -feathering hydro-
matic units, each 17 feet in diameter.
Revolving at normal blade angle under
full power, Douglas engineers estimate
such a propeller will throw back a
windstream that even at a distance of
100 feet will still be roaring along at
more than 75 miles per hour. A force
12 wind on the Beaufort scale, the most
powerful recorded by meteorologists, 8
is 75 miles per hour, the speed of a
full hurricane .
Manufacture of these huge propellers
and machining of the intricate mechan-
ism by means of which their pitch is
automatically adjusted was a triumph
of precision metalworking. Each weigh-
ing 700 pounds, the units were pro-
duced from solid aluminum alloy forg
ings by Hamilton Standard propellers
division of United Aircraft.
Conception of their size is best
LANDING GEAR on the world's largest airplane is nearly three times as huge as
gained by comparison . For instance, the largest previous airplane landing gear, that on the Douglas DC-4. Above it is
the propellers on the Douglas DC-3, shown during tests conducted on its retracting mechanism before first flight.

WHEEL AND TIRE of the B- 19 dwarf even a large automobile. Tires are 24 ply world standard in transport planes, are
and the air with which the two giant main tires are inflated weighs 56 pounds. but 11 feet 3 inches in diameter.
Pressure is 60 pounds. Rubber on the tires is only 5/8 of an inch thick in the center.
Smaller by several feet than a B- 19
propeller are the blades that create the
windstream for California Institute of
Technology's famous wind tunnel.
Back of the B- 19's propellers are en-
gines which turn up as much horse-
power as the immense steam turbines of
a 10,000 ton ocean liner. Each of the
four Wright Duplex- Cyclones, 18 cylin-
der air cooled engines, produces more
than 2000 horsepower.
Nearly twice as powerful as any pro-
duction airplane engine made in any
country they are the culmination of
more than 20 years of research in air
cooled airplane engines in America.
These 20 years have seen the radial en-
gine in America boosted from 200
horsepower to ten times that amount .

PAGE FIFTEEN
 TEST-FLYING the largest and most
spectacular airplane the world has ever
seen! Those will be flights certain to
write new chapters in the history of
engineering and blaze new trails in
man's conquest of the sky.
Yet the selected group of U. S. Army
Air Corps and Douglas Aircraft com-
pany engineers and technical experts
who will conduct flight tests of the B- 19
have mapped their program in exacting
and matter-of-fact manner, accepting
their dramatic role as a routine task
that in the normal course of things will
follow completion of the super-bomber.
When the great airplane roars down
the runway at Clover field under the
finely-skilled touch of Major Stanley
Umstead, and takes wing for March
field, it will already have been equip-
ped with the principal portion of its
test equipment. After the landing at
March, more will be set in place, to
make up the largest quantity of test
equipment ever installed in a single air-
plane-nearly two tons of it.
How extensive is the test program?
Air Corps specifications call for re-
corded test flights aggregating 30 hours
of flying time. This may extend over
a total working time of weeks or even
months.
Nor is this simply a job of discover-
ing how the airplane will fly and
maneuver, for it involves putting the
giant B- 19 through rigid proof-testing
under the severest conditions, tests that
will prove the strength of every inch of
its structure and demonstrate the qual-
ity of every item of its equipment.
Much of this testing was done before
a single rivet was hammered home. In
fact the engineering design of the B- 19
and all important parts were "paper
tested" in the blue-print stage. For this
reason, unlike the DC-4 procedure, it
was not necessary to subject the com-
pletely assembled plane to as exhaustive
a series of static tests. However, inter-
related structures on the finished
product were static tested to substant-
iate the coordinate strength of surfaces
and adjacent structures.
Thus wings and the fuselage were
tested to several times maximum load
capacity, by sections as well as com-
plete assembly. The wing also was
checked to determine its ability to sup-
port engine nacelle loads, with approxi-
mately 15,000 pounds applied to the
power plant assembly's center of gravity.
Each control surface was static
checked for strength and stiffness. Tail
surfaces were loaded to 27,800 pounds,
flaps to 6,700 pounds, ailerons to 4, -
900 pounds, rudder to 5,700 pounds
all tests with due consideration for
effect of the full wing span. Not only
was each portion of the system sub-
jected to separate tests for strength and
rigidity but the complete control sys-
tem as a whole was tested to Douglas
standards and the Army Air Corps re-
quirements. All of this proving was
done under the supervision of Rodney
Dunbar, whose Dept. 76T is under the
direction of Wilbur L. Horton.
Prior to all this, of course, were the
wind tunnel scale-model tests to which
all planes are subjected . Total time de-
voted to wind tunnel testing amounted
to 800 hours.
Vital and successful as these were,
they were but preliminary to the "acid
test" under service conditions in the
air.
At March field a group of approxi-
mately 50 Douglas engineers, technic-
ians and servicing experts will groom
and handle the B- 19 during the period
of its flight tests, remaining with the
big ship until its formal delivery to the
Army. The Douglas crews will be head-
ed by Schuyler Kleinhans, assistant
chief engineer of Douglas Santa
Monica plant, and general co-ordinator

A FLYING LABORATORY OF AERONAUTICAL

When the B-19 roars down the runway at Clover field, Santa Monica, on its initial flight it will contain more than 4000 pounds
 of flight-testing ; Nelson Baird, B- 19
project engineer, assistant co- ordinator
and head of engineering testing ; War-
ren Dickinson , in charge of flight-test-
ing ; Jack Grant, in charge of opera-
tion and maintenance .
Air Corps shops and equipment at
the field will be made available for the
airplane's servicing and maintenance.
With Major Umstead at the controls,
and Major Howard G. Bunker as co-
pilot, a dozen Douglas and Army
technicians stationed at various posts
in the big plane during its flight-tests
will act as observers, read instruments
and record data.
Major Umstead, because of his many
years of experience in test and service
flying of the largest types of Air Corps
bombers and transports, is eminently
qualified to take the controls on the
first flights of the new super bomber.
As chief of the flying branch of the
Air Corps' materiel division, Major
Umstead has test flown all the Army's
"flying fortress " and other large type
bombers including the B- 15, B- 17 and
the more recent B-24.
Flight plans call for one of the most
extensive testing programs in the
history of aviation. It is a program that
will employ equipment costing thou-
SCIENCE
of test equipment costing thousands of dollars.
FLIGHT ENGINEER Jack Grant will
be at the engine controls, above, of the
huge bomber during its test flights.
sands of dollars and weighing nearly
4000 pounds. To link the multitude of
pick-up points, instruments and auto-
matic recorders, nearly 10 miles of
wires and tubes are required.
These installations were made by De-
partment 76F, under the supervision of
A. M. Oeland . Furthermore , responsi-
bility for accurate functioning of such
instruments during flight tests out of
March field and their future mainte-
nance will continue to rest with this
department.
Incidentally , some of this test equip-
ment is so highly specialized it could
not be purchased in the market and was
machined by 76M. Constructed by 76R,
many other such special
among
units, was the 96 -tube manometer panel ,
largest ever used for flight testing and
yet crowded into one small unit . The
innumerable string gauge pads scatter-
ed to remote sections of the plane were
installed and calibrated by 76E, whose
specialists also are responsible for in-
dicators, functional checks and mainte-
nance during all flight checks.
During preliminary flight-tests, en-
gines, propellers, controls, landing
gear, brakes and auxiliary power plants
are to be given every manner of rigor-
ous test. Following this, performance
tests for instrument calibrations, speed
at various altitudes, landing and take-
off distances, range under different load
conditions , and climb at varying power
and engine combinations . Third phase
of testing will comprise cooling tests
for engines and fuel and oil installa-
tions.
PILOT on initial flight of the B- 19
will be Maj. Stanley Umstead of Air
Corps, shown at airplane's controls.
Extensive tests also will be conducted
in connection with stability and con-
trollability, structural strength, heating
and ventilating and other phases.
Elaborate equipment will be em-
ployed to make readings at literally
thousands of pickup points, show these
readings on instruments assembled on
special panelboards, and automatically
record the data by means of still pho-
tographs taken at regular intervals and
movie cameras operating continuously
and automatically in front of the panel.
boards.
To check temperatures and pressures
of the power plants and their accessor-
ies, thermocouples at various locations
will send impulses along miles of wire
and tubing to indicators assembled in
special test quarters . The thermocouple
is a thermometer-like device that reg-
isters heat by converting it into elec-
trical waves which are transmitted to
an indicator that gauges millionths
of a volt. Through an additional net-
work of wires, gauges scattered
through the airplane will provide im-
pulses to form lines on graphs, in-
stantaneously recording even the slight-
est stress or strain.
Douglas flight-test plans, extensive
as they are, do not complete the story
of the B- 19 as a "flying laboratory,"
for after United States Army Air Corps'
acceptance of the super-bomber it will
undergo further checks and tests. From
this combined program will come in-
formation and data on the design, con-
struction and operation of large air-
planes that augur a new era in the in-
spiring advance of aviation.
PAGE SEVENTEEN
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The Douglas men who, in cooperation with Air Corps engineers, designed the B- 19, its parts and accessories.

THE MEN AND THE JOB

BIG as it is, the Douglas B- 19 Army
bomber looms even larger when meas-
ured by the yardstick of human energy
applied to its construction.
True, a few hundred skilled crafts-
men put it together. In a wider sense
it is the combined handicraft of all
31,000 Douglas employes. For, how-
ever indirectly, every man and woman
on the company payroll had a hand in
the finished product.
TOP MEN in the building of the B-19 were, left to right, Carl A. Cover, Douglas'
executive vice president, Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of Air Corps during the
ship's construction, and Donald W. Douglas, president of Douglas Aircraft.
Other thousands, often unwittingly,
also served. Scientists in the quiet
laboratory, for instance, transportation
crews both afloat and ashore, artisans
and engineers, technical experts and
specialists, mechanics, tool - makers.
farmers and merchants, stenographers,
politicians, men of high station and
low.
To give all credit where credit is due,
therefore, is not possible. Nor is it un-
fair, then, to single out those key Doug.
las men upon whom rested the re-
sponsibility of finally correlating the
sum total of all the human effort put
forth to produce the B- 19.
The original design of the B- 19 was
laid out to Air Corps specifications by
E. F. Burton, then chief designer and
now Santa Monica chief engineer . On
this plane Burton worked under the
direction of A. E. Raymond, vice presi-
dent in charge of engineering and Fred
Herman, then chief engineer at Santa
Monica, now in that capacity at Long
Beach.
On completion of this basic design
and the mockup, it was approved by the
U. S. Army Air Corps and the con-
struction contract issued . The import-
ant post of project engineer went to
Schuyler Kleinhans, with Nelson A.
Baird as his assistant. On these two
fell the responsibility of coordinating
design detail for the physical product.
Later, when Kleinhans became assist-

PAGE EIGHTEEN DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

 The first shift crew on "Project D", the B- 19. About 400 shop men worked full-time on the airplane.
ant chief designer (now assistant chief
engineer ) . Baird took over as project
engineer.
The engineering work was divided
into groups with the following men in
charge : Ivar Shogran, power plant.
with J. B. Edwards and R. Diehl as
assistants ; W. Boughton, electrical ,
with C. Violette and H. McKinney as
assistants ; H. Adams, hydraulics and
landing gear, with C. Chambers and H.
Reimel as assistants ; E. Van Dyke,
surface controls, with A. Farr as as-
sistant ; L. Stocking, armament ; A.
Thorngren, tail surfaces ; J. Lipp,
wings ; R. Wolford, fuselage and fur-
nishings ; L. Carter, stress, with C.
Second shift crew on the B-19. The shop put in 1,250,000 man-hours in construction.
Strang as assistant ; H. Gunning ,
weight control , with F. Porter as assist-
ant; W. Oswald, aerodynamics ; W.
Dickinson, flight test.
In the shop, original plans for con-
struction of the B- 19 were laid down
by Elmer Hartz , assistant superintend-
ent, now assistant factory manager ; by
Fred Essig, shop project man who now
is company procurement representa-
tive in Detroit ; by George Huggins,
tooling department supervisor, now di-
rector of tooling.
Detailed plans and organization
which followed were handled by Lee
Hagan, Frank Hillman and Frank
Roberts, supervisors. Hagan and Hill-
=
man are now assistant superintendents,
Roberts at Long Beach.
In tooling, G. A. Huggins was as-
sisted by Wayne Davies, B. L. Bybee,
Bill Burke and Charles Hunter.
Working with Fred Essig as shop
project consultants were Bill Hume and
Bill Angelmeyer. The planning work
was supervised by Ray Schulz, assisted
by Harry Little and Herman Olson, as
leadmen .
The following key men played im-
portant roles in parts fabrication : El-
mer Schulz, C. G. Anderson , Floyd
Modlin, Kenny Ball, Wally Allport,
• Concluded on Page Twenty-two.

F-37
F-36
1
MOIS
Like a busy street is main aisle, "Avenue F", at lunch time.
'CITY OF WINGS'
FROM America's largest airplane 000,000 attack ships, bombers and mili-
manufacturer comes the world's larg tary transports are rolling off mechan-
est bomber. ized Douglas production lines at an
Originally conceived in theory by the ever-accelerating rate.
United States Army Air Corps, the B- 19 What the organization is achieving
was designed, engineered and construct- in the defense of democracy is symbol-
ed by an organization whose far -flung ized by its main plant at Santa Moni-
plants and streamlined efficiency have ca a virtual production city pledged
made it an industrial giant-a giant in to America's aerial security.
production for national defense. City within a city, the " Douglas com-
With two greatly expanded plants op- munity" has in two years tripled its
erating around-the-clock at Santa Mon- population, a record few American
ica and El Segundo, a third huge as- towns can equal . On January 1 , 1941 ,
sembly plant nearing completion at employment at the Santa Monica plant
Long Beach, Calif. , and a fourth fac- exceeded 16,000 men and women, while
tory under construction in Tulsa, Okla. , at the start of 1939 it totaled but 5100 !
the Douglas organization today com- Not merely in large and growing pop-
prises 31,000 men and women, will ulace, however, does the giant Santa
eventually exceed 55.000. Monica plant resemble a progressive
Under a backlog of more than $500 ,- city, for today it boasts its own fire
PAGE TWENTY
and police departments , telephone sys-
tem, radio station, bank, postoffice, li-
braries, street railway, schools, hos-
pitals and recreational and athletic
leagues. Many of these are more ex-
tensive in size and scope than is usually
afforded by actual cities of equivalent
population.
As national defense production sched-
ules were accelerated , the factory ex-
panded and employment soared, but
there was no letdown in activities de-
signed to benefit the health and welfare
of employes, and increase the efficiency
of the organization . On the contrary ,
these efforts are being intensified to
such an extent the "Douglas family"
has now taken on the aspects and ap-
pearance of a well- organized and civic-
minded community-a family whose
great workshop's lights blaze through
the night as thousands of skilled " mem-
bers" keep production lines humming
24 hours a day.
How big is the Douglas organiza-
tion's "our town ?" Large enough that
its covered working area alone approxi-
mates 1,600,000 square feet. Large
enough, too, that modernizing of its
lighting system required 8000 of the
new mercury vapor lamps !
So vast has Santa Monica plant be-
come that it recently was necessary to
mark it off into streets and avenues ,
with appropriate signs at intersections.
To safeguard the factory, its em-
ployes and its products there is a plant
protection department with personnel
larger than the police forces of such
California cities as Sacramento, Berke-
ley, Santa Monica and Pasadena . Head-
ing the 300 Douglas police officers are
a chief, three captains, seven lieuten-
ants and 15 sergeants. Protecting the
plants against the hazard of fire is a
volunteer force of over 325 Douglas
employes, as many men as normally
comprise the fire department of a city
of 250,000 inhabitants.
Nerve-center of the huge and complex
Douglas factory is its own telephone and
telegraph office. As the master link in a
plant-wide chain of 1000 dial telephone
stations, that office ties together a great
industrial organization .
In modern, spacious quarters on the
second floor of the factory the pleasant
voices and flying fingers of the tele-
phone operators are ever on the job.
Twenty-six operators comprise the staff,
with five always on duty during the
busiest hours. Through 70 trunk lines,
incoming and outgoing calls pour into
the buzzing switchboard at a rate now
approaching 100,000 a week.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 statistics are plentiful and astonishing. pany's educational department.
Altogether, nearly 100 cases of empty "Our Town" has its own library sys-
Coca Cola bottles are hauled away tem, too. One of America's most com-
every 24 hours . The strolling venders, plete aeronautic libraries, it includes a
who tour the plant during a total of main office in Santa Monica engineering,
four hours every day, sell in that time and branches at the other plants.
better than 14,000 ice cream and candy With 173 teams, of which 109 are
bars ! sanctioned by the American Bowling
Not without its philanthropic organi- Congress, Douglas has the largest bowl-
zation is Douglas, for the Welfare de- ing league in the United States . Indus-
partment makes money only to give it trially speaking, the organization's rec-
away. Every cent of its profits goes reational facilities are likewise second
back to the employe in various philan- to none. For, included in the Douglas
thropic forms. Athletic club's program for employes,
Havens of healing for thousands of are swimming, basketball, bowling,
Douglas men and women are the plant's winter sports, dramatics, softball, fish-
medical dispensaries. Recently remodel- ing, soccer, golf, photography, boxing,
NERVE center of Douglas "communi- wrestling, tennis, outings and dances.
ed and expanded, the Santa Monica dis-
ty" is telephone switchboard handling
nearly 100,000 outside calls weekly. pensaries present a picture in sparkling Several times a year each plant holds
white and chromium that admits few a dance at a country club to the music
rivals in all of American industry. of a "big name" band. Attendance must
Radio, the newest means of voice com-
Chalked to the credit of the medical be limited, because no dance hall in
munication , is also represented at
department is another very important California, though it may be the land
Douglas. In the engineering department
service, the medical plan which makes where everything grows to superlative
is the company's own radio station with
available to employes an insurance size, could possibly hold all those who
licensed operators and private call let- program covering non-industrial illness- would like to go.
ters. In the airport control tower, high
es. Subscribing employes are provided Came the latest community attribute
atop the final assembly hangar, is two-
with complete medical care for low when Douglas acquired is own movie.
way equipment for communication with
monthly fees. "theatres" with a three-day lunch-hour
airplanes in flight.
Even a "bank" is part of the Douglasshowing of "London Can Take It" in
With its own blueprinting, litho organization, for the Douglas Aircraft Santa Monica's final assembly hangar .
graphing and printing equipment, Federated Credit Union has its own of- Organized thus on a community basis.
Douglas is one of the largest users of fices near the center clockhouse, and the thousands of men and women in
materials for such purposes in the through its tellers' windows accepts in-
Douglas' "City of Wings" are combining
United States. Last year the engineer- terest-bearing deposits, and makes loanswork and recreation in a way that has
ing department required 9,800,000 to employes for useful purposes . increased both health and efficiency.
square feet of blueprint paper, or Thousands of Douglas employes to- What the inhabitants of this production
enough to pave a strip one foot wide day are going to school , increasing their
city are accomplishing today, and will
reaching from Santa Monica, Calif., to skill and technical understanding
achieve tomorrow, promises aerial se-
Chicago, Ill.! through classes sponsored by the com- curity for a nation.
Communications between depart-
ments and with the "outside" are col-
lected and distributed half-a- dozen
times a day by a well-organized mail
system. Through the plant's central
mail room pass some 15,000 depart-
mental communications every 24 hours.
What has been provided in behalf of
the welfare, health and convenience of
employes in many respects parallels an
actual city. Every day Douglasites
throng the newly remodeled and mod-
ernized cafeteria and fountain at Cape
Cod cottage. Additional thousands at
the noon-time lunch hour hie them-
selves to the Punch Bowl , the Douglas
"public square." To bring hot lunches
to those who prefer to remain in the
plant, the Welfare department recently
put into service several traveling cafe-
teria carts.
In addition, eight stands are operated
in and around the plant. How much TRAINS RUN on streets of "Douglas City," hauling parts and materials through-
food and drink are consumed ? The out plant. Plans have been made for establishment of a "Union terminal" for them.

SPECIAL B- 19 EDITION PAGE TWENTY- ONE

CHECK AND DOUBLE
NO AIRPLANE was ever subjected to
more rigid inspection than the B-19.
It has been checked and double-
checked from the time when this super-
bomber was little more than a gleam
in the eyes of Douglas engineers .
Long before construction actually be-
gan, the Douglas and Army inspections
corps was hard at work going over blue-
prints and drawings with a fine -toothed
comb to see that they conformed to
company and government standards,
highest in the world.
In addition to the crack Douglas in-
spectors assigned to the job, the Army
Materiel Division Field Inspection unit
of 35 men stationed at the plant has
been continually available. Specialists
in such fields as engineering, precision,
tool, die, sheet metal, fabrication , elec-
trical , radio, engine and final assem-
bly work, staff members are sufficient-
ly versatile to qualify as expert on any
phase of construction.
As the ship began to take form.
every bolt, nut, rivet, part and accessory
ran the gauntlet of eagle eyes, not
merely once but many times. Some of
the more delicate installations went up
time and again against magnetic test-
ing devices and even the X-ray.
Following these inspections all items
of importance when not in operation
were kept safetied and sealed, in some
cases even padlocked. Included in this
group were valves, pumps, carburetors,
plugs, fuel and oil tanks, et cetera .
Every known method was used to as-
sure safety of the ship from an inspec-
tion standpoint .
After Douglas inspectors passed the
plane for its flight okey, the Air Corps
group took over for the final approval.
To facilitate this last inspection it was
necessary to remove every inspection
The Men
and the Job
• Concluded from Page Nineteen.
'Obed Wright, Markland McKenzie and
Al Doherty.
Wing and empennage construction
work was handled by Howard Mickel-
son, Hugh McLaughlin, John Engstrom ,
Paul Henderson, Fay Patterson , Gordon
Burton, Frank King, Lou Hinkley,
Frank Marty, Bill Sindorf.
PAGE TWENTY-TWO
CHECK ……
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door and cover plate, both internal and
external.
Some idea of the job's magnitude is
indicated by the fact that there are 89
internal, 135 external removable covers
on the B- 19 . Their mere location was a
task and would have been a complete
guessing contest without the detailed
identification charts and illustrations
contained in one of the five handbooks
prepared as ship manuals.
But even this was not the absolute
last word in B- 19 inspection , for after
the final engine run just prior to takeoff
the indefatigable Air Corps group once
more must swarm over the ship for the
pre-flight final safety check.
Then, and then only would E. F.
WATCHFUL eye of Lt. Col. Charles E.
Harbison, the Army's final inspection
Branshaw, Air Corps district supervisor,
arbiter, sing out to the cockpit : left, was on ship during construction.
"Take her aloft, Major Umstead !" With him, Nels Baird, project engineer.
INSPECTORS who gave o.k. to every part of B-19. Back row, Ted Shaw, Jack
Knouse, E. F. Harbison, Air Corps inspector who gave final seal of approval,
George Wallace and R. J. Julian. Front row, M. J. Elliott, Eddie Arndt, N. A. Vail.
Working on the fuselage were Roy the engineering department.
Russell, Tex Brummel and Al Ferber. Inspection was handled by Fred Far-
Installation work was handled by rell, Cliff Parks, George Wallace, E. C.
Supervisors Harold Johnson , Ray En- Cook, John Rakonca and Larry Wright.
gel and Joe Pack, by Hal Stover, Al Field and service crews included
Oland, Roy Slaughter, George New Jack Grant, flight engineer , and Super-
brand, Tyler Purdy, Rus Lengwell, visor Joe Pack, assisted by Ray Maher.
Jack Wall and Bob Downing. Raoul Escallier, Bud Wagner, Melvin
Al Jung, assisted by Harry Boston , Miller, Edward Ayres, Merle Steele .
handled the mockup preliminary to Mike Hanrahan, Roy Born , Frank
actual construction, under the direc Grenier, George Farran, Hal Stover, L.
tion of Kleinhans, Baird and others of Kovalik and C. Strom .
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the Government and Civil Aviation, Douglas acquired the experience and vast

facilities to make so great an airplane possible. Thus from the cradle of the air-

liners comes the world's largest bomber to help make America supreme in the air.

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JULY, 1941 Circulation -40,000 Volume VIII Number 7

Published by the CONTENTS

Departments of Industrial and
FLYING FORTRESSES BY DOUGLAS 4
Public Relations
Douglas Aircraft Company NEW LEGAL BUREAU PROTECTS WORKERS 6
A. M. ROCHLEN BILL KNUDSEN THINKS WE'RE DOING FINE · 7
Director
"KEEP IT UP," URGES BRITISH ENVOY AND WENDELL WILLKIE 8
JACK G. ANDERSON
Assistant WITH US THIS MONTH · · 10
FREDERIC C. COONRADT 300 MPH PLUS-PLENTY PLUS · 11
Managing Editor
WINGS OVER PARADISE · 12
Associates
AL A. ADAMS BOB THOMPSON SEMINOLE . 14
Contributors to This Issue WITH DOUGLAS AROUND THE WORLD · 16
DON BLACK PATRICIA KELLY
ENID KIEBURTZ HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE 17
NED CRAWFORD
ROGER DEVLIN CLYDE KINTZ THE GUARDIAN OF A HEMISPHERE TAKES TO THE AIR - 18
GEORGE DOUGHERTY JACK LESTER
BRAVEN DYER BERT D. LYNN BOWLINE BITES · 28
PATRICIA ECKHARDT DARRELL D. MARKS
SHOP SUGGESTION AWARDS 29
DEVON FRANCIS FRANK OPDYKE
HERMAN STIGLMEIER COMING OUT PARTY HELD BY LONG BEACH MEN 30
COVER: Ground testing the B- 19 , PRODUCTION CONTROL LEADS IN SOFTBALL 31
"Guardian of a Hemisphere." So huge is
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the Army's new airplane that the tech-
nician on the field must communicate DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB ACTIVITIES 33
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THERE AND BACK WITHOUT A MOTOR 38

WAGE INCREASES

THERE are several things I want all Douglas employes
to know about the plan to equalize wages paid aircraft
factory workers in Southern California.
Much has been written and much has been said to you
-not always by those who know or tell all the facts. It's a
big job, too big and too important to you, to the government
and to the nation , to permit needless confusion or contro-
versy
In the past few weeks I have kept you informed about
our aims and progress. As the result of our requests, gov-
ernment experts are now here , on the ground, working up
figures and details on job classifications and wage rates.
This, also , is a tremendous task. The proposed regional
wage increases, applied to our present backlog, amount to
more than $40,000,000 . Spread over the industry the sum
runs into hundreds of millions. No company, alone, can
bear such a burden . Both management and the employes
need the cooperation of the government.
By approving and making possible the regional wage
increases, the government hopes to stabilize conditions in
the industry and to assure unhindered production for na-
tional defense. To you this means increased pay and greater
job security. In this we all have a common interest and a
common goal .
While necessary approval and information are being
obtained and compiled you may rest assured on these points :
All wage increases granted you will be retroactive to
July 3.
Douglas employes will be given the same consideration
granted by the government to employes of all other plants
in this community.
DampwDangles
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Flying fortresses, the Air Corps' B-17, will soon be rolling offthe production line at the Long Beach plant.

FLYING FORTRESSES BY DOUGLAS

WHEN the great four engine " flying
fortresses," so greatly needed today
for the defense of the democracies of
the world, begin rolling off the pro-
duction lines of the Douglas Long
Beach plant, behind them will lie a
story of cooperative production un-
precedented in modern history.
ernment, scores of engineers, tooling
experts, production men and purchas-
ing agents from the three companies
have been working at top speed for
two months making detailed produc-
tion plans necessary before the actual
manufacturing can be thrown into high
gear.
assembled in cooperation with Consoli-
dated Aircraft company and the Ford
Motor company.
Already functioning for many
months is the first cooperative airplane
production plan in this country where-
by the Boeing Aircraft company is
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Although actual orders for the heavy bomber production will also be
enormous number of huge airplanes participated in by the Douglas Tulsa
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now turning out Douglas DB- 7B light
attack bombers for Great Britain.

Plans for the new heavy bomber co-

operative are being launched at Se-
attle by a committee representing the
three companies and the Army Air
Corps. The committee consists of Major
Orval R. Cook, Air Corps, assistant
chief of the production engineering sec-
tion of the materiel division ; W. E.
Beall, Boeing chief engineer ; Fred Her-
man, Douglas chief engineer, and Mac
Short, vice president in charge of en-
gineering, of Vega.
Under the master committee are
three subcommittees on tooling, tech-
nical information and procurement .
Thus, with nearly 100 top flight men
from the three companies at work on BDV COMMITTEE was name given flying fortress committee. Shown at work in
the project, the three important pre- Seattle are Wellwood E. Beall, chief engineer, Boeing; Fred Herman, chief en-
production functions of engineering, gineer, Douglas ; Maj. Orval R. Cook of materiel division of the Air Corps.
purchasing and tooling are all being
rushed concurrently to enable Douglas Management. proof fuel tanks. The wing span is 103
and Vega to get into production as The B- 17 flying fortress weighs near- feet and the fuselage is 67 feet long.
quickly as possible. Boeing is already ly 40,000 pounds, and is the largest Provisions are made for a crew of from
furnishing blueprints and master tem- Air Corps bomber currently in produc- seven to nine men, including a com-
plates and supplying Douglas and tion. It was selected by the Air Corps manding officer, pilot, copilot, navigat-
Vega with complete tooling lists and for the cooperative production because or, bombardier, radio operator and
detail drawings of jigs and tools used of the emphasis now being placed on gunners.
in the Seattle factory. Tooling methods, heavy bombers as America's prime de- A quantity of flying fortresses have
however, are not expected to be dupli- fense weapon. The B- 17 has been in recently been put into combat service
cated entirely by the three companies. use with the Air Corps for several in Europe by the British and, accord-
Douglas, for instance, expects to mod- years and is in an advanced stage of ing to press association dispatches,
ify the flying fortress tooling to fit into development. Therefore it is possible have given an excellent account of
the highly mechanized production line to undertake widespread manufacture themselves .
methods for which the new Long Beach with a minimum of delay.
They are definitely better, the re-
plant was designed .
The model to be produced simultan- ports said, than anything of compar-
Tools and fixtures for A- 20B attack eously by the three companies will be able size being built by the British .
bomber production, originally sched- the fourth improved model of the fly. They are fast enough, the reports con-
uled for the Long Beach plant, are al- ing fortress series. It will be equipped tinued, to escape anything but the
ready being moved from there to the with cowl flaps, armor plate and leak speediest of German interceptors.
Santa Monica plant of the Douglas
company to clear the decks for the
fortresses. Plans are also being made
for expansion of the Long Beach plant,
now nearly completed and already one
of the largest, most thoroughly
equipped airplane plants in the world.
Tooling and material procurement
for the Douglas portion of the bomber
cooperative is already well under way.
Many orders for parts and raw mate-
rial have been placed and tooling or-
ders cleared.

Under the program devised by the

committee in Seattle, materials and
purchased parts will be ordered indi-
vidually by each company but their
purchase lists are first presented to the
joint committee for consolidation .
These purchases under the heavy bomb-
OTHERS on fortress committee include Harry L. Webster, administrative assist-
er program will be given number one
ant to Major Cook, Air Corps ; Mac Short, vice president, engineering, Vega; D.
priority by the Office of Production W. DeGuichard, Vega. Committee will coordinate flying fortress production.

JULY ... 1941 PAGE FIVE

NEW LEGAL
Welfare Department Ends Employe Victimization
By Loan Sharks and Collection Agencies
EXTENSIVE benefits are deriving from
the bureau recently established by
the company to aid Douglas employes
and protect them from loan sharks or
unscrupulous collection agencies, it was
disclosed this month .
According to Welfare Director J. L.
Stevenson, the new legal office has al-
ready assisted more than 1000 em-
ployes in such cases, in most instances
succeeded in working out satisfactory
settlements for all concerned, and avoid-
ing court actions.
Acting on personal instructions from
Donald W. Douglas, president, the com-
pany's welfare and personnel depart
ments several months ago cooperated
in setting up an office to help employes
resist by legal means all improper
claims and court actions instituted by
collection agencies and unethical in-
stallment houses.
At the same time Stevenson and As-
sistant Welfare Director Newt Collins
appeared before the California Senate
Judiciary committee to support a bill
protecting from attachment the sal-
aries of employes to an extent neces-
sary for reasonable living expenses.
Further support was lent by John
Thompson, welfare director for El Se-
gundo plant.
Following the bill's recent passage,
its sponsor, Senator Robert W. Kenny,
in a letter which is reproduced on this
page, thanked the Douglas organiza-
tion for its aid in protecting the de-
fense industry employes and other
workers of the region.
"Douglas Aircraft company will co-
operate with legitimate business men
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BUREAU PROTECTS WORKERS
sored by Senator Kenny and Senator
Oliver Carter of Redding, provides
drastic restrictions against the attach-
ment of salaries by creditors. The bill
and will give no help or encourage- provides that no attachment may be
ment to deadbeats or persons who seek obtained without written authority for
to evade just debts," Stevenson and the attachment from the wage earner 1
Collins had told the senators in Sacra- himself and further provides that no
mento . "On the other hand," they de salary attachment shall be so large as
clared, "the company will give every to deprive a worker of income needed
possible protection to its employes to provide the necessities of life.
from high- pressure salesmen and un- The bill was primarily aimed at the
scrupulous collection agencies who elimination of the abuses of high pres-
specialize in aircraft workers." sure installment salesmen who in the
Since establishment of the new legal past have loaded workers with more
office its experience has been that the easy- payment merchandise than they
vast majority of business houses and could rightly afford . Such practices
collection agencies will go as far as were possible before passage of the
possible in cooperating to work out bill because the creditor could obtain
settlements that will avoid harrassing a legal assignment of wages to force
the workers of defense industries. payment of the debt often with great
The new wage assignment act, spon- hardship to the wage earner.
Satanemo Addres
CAT RUILDING SENATE CHAMBER
ANGEL29 SACRAMENTO
California State Senate
ROBERT W. KENNY
Senator for Los Angeles County
July 11 , 1911
2. 6. K. Sochlen
Director of Public Relations
Donelas 4rereft Company , Inc.
Santa Monica , California
Dear Mr , hochlen :
Now that my Senate Bill 822 has been signed
by the Governor I want to thank you and the Welfare
Department of the Douglas Aircroft Corcoration for
your cooperation in obtaining passage of the bill .
This measure for the first time in Califomis
will give wage carners protection against the
Importunities of installment sellers in the matter
of obtaining unfair assignments of their wages .
The fact that a longe employing Interest
such 99 cours came to the front in supporting the
bill was in a large messure responsible for its
favorable consideration , end I hope that this will
S mark a new trend for all employers to work for
A legislation protecting the rights of their employers .
Allow me eget to commend the Douglas
Alcraft Corporation and its Welfare Department for
this valuable act of oublie service .
Sincerely yours ,
ཡོད་ ཚེས་ མིག་ ཐོན་འདེག་པ་ཞིག་ དྲན་
ROBERT W. KENNY
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DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
BILL KNUDSEN THINKS WE'RE DOING FINE

Director General of OPM Visits Douglas

To Talk Turkey and Cut Red Tape

By DON BLACK

THIS is a story about Knudsen's lat-
est visit to the Douglas plants , but
it begins in a little country town in
Texas along about 1910.
"No man," said my grandpap, " is
worth more'n one dollar a day for his
time. You might give i. to him but he
wouldn't earn it."
There was a crazy movement on foot
in our town to raise wages to $ 1.50 a
day. Although one who stood to profit
by the increase, my grandpap was
"agin' it. He said it wasn't "economic",
a new word coming into use about
that time.
I wish my grandpap could have
walked around with Knudsen the other
day. After seeing him in action as I
did he would have understood why
General Motors paid Big Bill half a
million dollars a year and would have
been first to concede that the one-time
Norwegian immigran . boy was under-
paid at that.
You know, with all the things you
read in the papers, you get to wonder-
ing, sometimes. Are things really mov-
ing along in our defense effort, you
ask yourself, or are they making a
big hash out of the program back in
Washington ? Are we really getting
places or, as a nation, falling down on
the biggest job we ever had ? The loose
way folks spout these days it's pretty
hard to get a real low-down on the
facts.
Well, take this from me- a guy who
isn't a politician or he wouldn't be
writing this piece. As long as Big Bill
Knudsen is running OPM ( Office of
Production Management ) , I'm not go
ing to worry.
Here are a few incidents that oc-
curred during Knudsen's El Segundo
visit that may give you a slight idea of
the confidence he's given me.
The plant tour was over. Knudsen
had seen the 300th dive bomber and
plenty of other things you'd never sus-
pect. When he stalked into the office of
Eric Springer, I'm willing to wager
he knew more essential facts about our
factory than anybody but the plant
manager himself.
While General Brett, chief of he
Air Corps, other Army bigwigs, OPM
and Douglas aides, including yours
truly, sank thankfully into the softest
chairs we could find, Knudsen peeled
off his coat, rolled up sleeves and
sat down at a desk.
My dogs were killing me. I said so
out loud.
"I've tried every last and shoe they
make," said tough General Brett, whose
feet get an infantryman's workou
every day even if he is in the Air Corps,
"and no one of them is any better than
the rest."
But Knudsen's feet didn't hurt him .
I'm certain of it. And mister, when
you're past the 60-year mark and can
walk as straight and spry as this man,
AT SANTA MONICA William Knud-
I'll take my hat off o you, too. It
sen looked over the plant with Donald
was the tag end of a long day, but this Douglas and Ted Conant, then went
into a lengthy production conference.
• Concluded on Page Forty-two
300th
DIVE BOMBER
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DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT
CO.
MANUFACTURED AT THE
ELSEGUNDO PLANT
AT EL SEGUNDO the OPM director general saw the 300th dive bomber built
there. He is shown with Eric Springer, El Segundo manager, and Maj. Gen.
George Brett. "I'm here for only one purpose, to cut any and all red tape that
might hamper you in delivering 100 per cent production," Knudsen said.

PAGE SEVEN
JULY ... 1941
 The Punch Bowl was jampacked to hear Lord Halifax, British ambassador, say American aid would whip Nazi Germany.

" Keep It Up , " Urge British

Envoy and Wendell Willkie

"KEEP IT UP ! " From the lips of the
British ambassador, from a leading ex-
ponent of national unity, Douglas em-
ployes this month heard praise and
thanks for their vital contribution to
the defense of democracy.
Lord Halifax, England's envoy to
the United States, visited Santa Mon-
ica plant July 22 to see ten newly com-
pleted DB- 7B attack bombers take off
and roar eastward enroute to the R.
A.F. Lord Halifax spoke over a na-
tional radio network during cere-
monies attending the takeoff, after he
had earlier voiced his and Britain's
thanks to thousands of Douglas work-
ers assembled in the Punch Bowl.
The following day Wendell L. Will-
kie, ex- presidential candidate, now
touring the nation to observe defense
production and urge still greater unity
in America, inspected the factory's
humming assembly lines and spoke to
employes during the noon hour.
Asserting his complete confidence in
the outcome of the war, Lord Halifax
declared to Douglas workers that this
nation's tremendous industrial re-
sources when fully brought into play
would prove irresistible. "The ma-
chines you are building here at Doug-
las are doing a grand job ; all we want
is more and still more of them," he
said.
Later, as newsreel cameras ground
and CBS announcers aired a descrip-

LORD HALIFAX toured Santa Monica plant, studied production methods.

Below he is shown with Mrs. Christina St. Clair and Gertrude Nestor of covering.

DOUGLAS airplanes in England are

"doing a grand job; we want still
more," said Lord Halifax to workers.

PAGE EIGHT
 BRITISH officials accompanying Lord Halifax, left, in- UNITY LEADER Wendell Willkie responded to cheers with a
cluded Eric Cleugh, British consul, shown with Carl Cover. wave of his hand and a smile. With him, Donald W. Douglas.

tion over a national hookup, the new
"Boston" DB- 7Bs took wing to join
hundreds of other Douglas "Bostons"
and "Havocs" in services as R.A.F.
bombers and night fighters.
In introducing Lord Halifax to the
radio audience, President Donald W.
Douglas said the aviation industry of
Southern California is keeping stride
in supplying Great Britain and our own
country with much needed weapons of
aerial defense. "The progress we have
made is only a beginning. In the
months to come we will build and de-
liver modern combat airplanes in
numbers never before approached in
this country.
"Here at Santa Monica and in El
Segundo and Long Beach plants of
Douglas the loyal support of our
32,000 employes has made it possible
to send hundreds of swift and sturdy.
fighting airplanes to Great Britain. We
are still sending those planes and will
continue to send them in ever-increas-
ing quantities as long as we have the
cooperation and goodwill of the nation
and of our army of workers. The Amer-
ican people are not in the habit of
letting their friends down, and we here
at Douglas believe in and will fight for
the democratic way of life. It means a
lot to us, so we're sticking with the
job until it is done."
Said Lord Halifax, "As I look at
these fighting ships drawn up before
me ready to take off and join the many
already on the other side of the At-
lantic, my first thought is what perfect
examples they are of the work of head
and hand, the thought and skill of the
thousands of men and women working
in ordered harmony in this great fac-
tory.
"These ships are fine examples of WILLKIE toured Santa Monica plant,
• Continued on Page Forty. stopped to talk to many workers.

With the roar in background of ten DB-7Bs taking off for England, Lord Halifax spoke to world by radio from Clover field.

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WITH US THIS MONTH . . . .

Airline Presidents
A tour of production lines and study
of their products was made this month
at the Douglas Santa Monica plant by
four prominent men of aviation.
Left to right beside the B- 19 at
March field later are Carl A. Cover,
executive vice president ; Croil Hunter,
president of Northwest Airlines ; C. E.
Faulk, president of Delta Air Lines :
Gordon Brown, domestic sales ; W. E.
Boeing, founder of Boeing Aircraft
company; T. E. Braniff, president of
Braniff Airways, and Nelson Baird,
project engineer on the B- 19.

Defense Surveyor
Senator M. C. Wallgren of Wash-
ington, member of the special Truman
Senate committee investigating the
progress of America's defense effort,
looked into Douglas production this
month, already having completed an
aluminum survey. Senator Wallgren is
also a member of the strategic Senate
Millitary Affairs committee.

Army Production Experts →

Carrying production charts and fore-
casts with them, three Air Corps pro-
duction experts flew to Santa Monica
this month to confer with Douglas
company executives. The men were,
left to right, Col. K. B. Wolfe, chief of
the production engineering section ;
Brig. Gen. George C. Kenney, assistant
chief of materiel, and Major T. A.
Simms. All are stationed at Wright
field. Dayton.

Air Safety
A Congressional committee investi-
gating air safety gathered engineering
data at Douglas this month. Later they
inspected the B- 19 at March field,
lunched with officials. Left to right,
Capt. W. C. Evans, Ralph Carter, Rus-
sell Rummel, Robert Groves, Lt. L. W.
Harris, Capt. R. B. Stith, Charles
Greaves, Walter Hamilton, Col. W. D.
Butler, Arthur Raymond, Nelson Baird,
Schuyler Kleinhans, G. E. Nichols,
Gordon Brown, Congressman Carl Hin-
shaw, Maj . Gen. J. E. Fickel, Con-
gressman Jack Nichols, Congressman
Richard Kleburg, Col. B. G. Weir,
Mayor W. C. Davison of Riverside.

PAGE TEN DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

300 MPH
PLENTY
"I Knew We Had Been Some
Place, But Just Where I Wasn't
Sure ," Says Famed
Writer After a Trip in a Speedy
Douglas ' Havoc' Attack Bomber.
By DEVON FRANCIS
Aviation Editor, Associated Press
JIM HAIZLIP , engineering test pilot
and for years one of aviation's speed
merchants, shaded his eyes against the
sun, spat meditatively and nodded to-
ward a parachute on the ground.
"Better get into that harness now,"
he said. "We'll be able to get a quick
okay from the control tower, and we
want to be ready for it."
I was to take a flight in a light bomb-
er designated by the Douglas Aircraft
company, the manufacturer, as the
DB-7 type.
In the service of the Army Air Force
it is known as the A-20, and in that of
Britain's Royal Air Force as the Bos-
ton or Havoc. Overseas it is the Boston
for lightning day bombing raids and
the Havoc when equipped as a night
fighter.
Its top speed has been described as
well in excess of 300 miles an hour and
Maj . Gen. George H. Brett, Air Corps
chief, has said of it, "for its mission-
(EDITOR'S NOTE : Devon Francis, avi-
ation editor of Associated Press and
president of the Aviation Writers asso-
ciation, was the first non-governmental
civilian ever permitted to ride in one
of the Douglas company's latest at-
tack bombers. He has been an out-
standing reporter of aviation for many
years and has done much to promote
civil and military flying in America.
Francis' account of his flight is
reprinted by permission of Associated
Press).
JULY ... 1941
PLUS
PLUS
Aviation
READY TO GO, Pilot Jim Haizlip gives last minute in-
structions to Reporter Devon Francis before they take a
flight in the world's fastest heavy airplane, the DB-7.
low altitude bombing, troop strafing
and as support for ground forces-this
is the best plane in the world."
My pilot was meticulousness in the
flesh .
Mrs. Haizlip says he refuses to fry
anything but a certified egg, and even
then he insists on scouring an already
spotless frying pan beforehand.
While I struggled with the snaps on
my 'chute, he went over the plane with
a fine-tooth comb.
Only careful pilots die of old age.
Jim Haizlip received his indoctrin-
ation in flying in France in 1917 and
then began instructing Americans to
fly at the famous training center of
Issoudun. In the Bendix Trophy race
in 1932, for years a feature of the Na-
tional Air races, he set a new Los
Angeles-New York record of ten hours,
19 minutes, at the controls of a We-
dell -Williams plane made in Patter-
son, La.
He is the only American pilot to
have won the British Wakefield cup for
precision flying, in 1936 at Lympe,
England . He has only now returned
from a year in the Philippines survey-
ing the possibilities of aviation de-
velopment.
Our mount, fresh from the factory
and still the property of the Douglas
company for shakedown flights, was
fitted with two 1700-horsepower en-
gines. Together, they produce only 600
less horsepower than the locomotive of
the Santa Fe railroad's streamliner,
the Superchief .
Haizlip climbed aboard, settled him-
self in the cockpit and started the en-
gines.
I was to ride aft on the turtleback ,
in the rear gunner's position. To get
there I had to scramble up through a
belly hatch, duck under some protect-
ive, bullet- proof steelwork and wrestle
my 'chute into a seat so arranged that
the press of a button would let it re-
volve freely.
A mechanic showed me how to open
the hatch to bail out in an emergency.
It was an uncomfortably long way
from my post to the cockpit . Haizlip
could signal me only through a long,
tunnel - like opening. I preferred him
.
closer. He grinned back at me when he
had finished revving up the engines.
Mechanics removed the steel chocks
in front of the wheels and we taxied to
the end of the runway .
This plane was fitted with tricycle
landing gear, like Junior's velocipede .
That is, it sat level on the ground, the
wing in takeoff attitude . In more con-
ventional planes the pilot first brings
up the tail, as he gains flying speed,
before lifting off the runway.
The throttles were opened . Very
gradually, it seemed, we gathered
speed. I waited for the usual long run
before the plane became air-borne .
But all of a sudden we were up .
With equal suddenness, the nose
reached for altitude, the tail dropped
down and we were boring aloft at what,
to a novice, was incredible speed.
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PAGE ELEVEN

Waving palms, blue skies and sea and gentle trade winds make Hawaii vacation land.
WINGS OVER
SONG and story tell of lush green
isles . . . slowly-stirring palms
sparkling azure seas tumbling on sandy
white beaches. But mid- summer 1941
brings another note to the "Paradise
of the Pacific"-the rush of wings and
the roar of engines.
Known throughout the world as a
tourists' mecca and famed for its agri-
cultural products, the Hawaiian Is
lands today assume a new and special
significance, for in America's far-flung
drama of defense-its plans for secur-
ity on land and sea and in the air-
this island group plays a leading role.
Romantic still, but far from tranquil ,
are the Hawaiian Islands, now hum-
ming with activity on new or expand-
ed air fields, military posts and forti-
fications and naval bases.
To augment and accelerate aerial
transportation and communications ov-
er the islands for strategic defense
reasons, and to accommodate a swiftly.
growing commercial traffic, Hawaiian
Airlines soon will place in service a
fleet of new Douglas DC-3s . Delivery
of the transport planes to the airline.
was approved by the commercial air-
craft priorities board, and constitutes
another contribution to the second line
of air defense-scheduled air transpor-
tation.
PAGE TWELVE
PARADISE
Although the name "Hawaiian Air-
lines" is a newly- adopted one, and ap-
pears on the new DC-3s for the first
time, this line is no newcomer, for it
ranked among the pioneers and earned
an honored place in commercial avi-
ation as the Inter-Island Airways, Ltd.
There has been no change in ownership ,
management, or corporate title, "Ha-
waiian Airlines" having been adopted
OPERATIONS manager of Inter-Is-
land Airways in 1929 was Carl Cover,
now Douglas executive vice president.
Hawaiian Airlines operated
by Inter-Island Airways
soon is to begin DC-3 serv-
ice in the "Paradise of the
Pacific."
as a name for popular use which would
be in keeping with the line's expanded
routes and schedules.
When the line's three new DC- 3s are
flight-delivered from Santa Monica,
Calif., 2400 miles away, they will aug.
ment amphibian planes currently in
use on routes connecting the major is-
lands of the Territory of Hawaii . In
serving the islands of Oahu, Maui,
Kauai, Lanai, Molokai and Hawaii , on
routes 90 per cent over water, the DC-3
land transports will together carry sev
eral thousand passengers a month and
annually fly a total of more than half
a million miles.
The history of Inter-Island Airways
is a tale of foresight and courage re-
warded by progress and achieve-
ment. It is a history that wrote new
chapters in the colorful saga of Ha-
waiian transportation . Here transpor-
tation offers distinctive and difficult
problems, for it must include both
land and sea, with many of the ob-
stacles both can offer thrown in for
good measure !
When Inter- Island began operations
in 1929 it brought to the Hawaiian
group the fourth in a long series of
travel modes. In ages past it was the
Polynesian canoe, carved laboriously
from the koa tree, plying precariously
through the choppy straits. Then, the
PRESIDENT and founder of Hawaii's
only airline is Stanley C. Kennedy who
will receive delivery of three DC-3s.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
tramp schooner and the steamer, and
finally the airplane.
Swift and safe communications and
transportation had long been wanted in
the Hawaiian Islands. Channels separ-
ating the islands are rough and narrow
and steamship traffic, although efficient,
was slow.
Almost 12 years ago Stanley C. Ken-
nedy, president of the long established
Inter-Island Steam Navigation com-
pany, concluded that the islands ' uni-
formly excellent flying conditions
would make aeronautics a splendid
adjunct to surface travel . He was right.
Commercial aviation in the Hawaiian
group at that time could not boast of
a very promising background. Charter
flights were being offered by several
small concerns, but what was needed RUGGED CLIFFS, palm lined beaches and towering mountains are traversed
daily by Hawaiian Airlines planes. Above, an S-43 along the coast of Maui island.
was organization, planning, courage
and a lot of hard work.
Perhaps it is symbolic that in 1941
Inter-Island should turn to Douglas
equipment, for a present key figure in
the Douglas organization was among
those whom Mr. Kennedy called upon
to help get the airline started.
In 1929 Kennedy went to the man he
knew could establish operations pro-
cedure for the embryo skyway-a man
whose everyday business it was to fly
quickly and safely over those tricky
routes. That man was Major Carl A.
Cover, then stationed at Luke field,
Honolulu, and now executive vice pres-
ident of Douglas Aircraft company. In
the fall of 1929 Major Cover was
about to leave Army life for industry.
But firsthe took a leave of absence to
become Inter-Island's operations man-
ager, and help the new line formulate PRIMITIVE native dugouts in the early days cooperated with airplanes in giving
Hawaii transportation. Above, Capt. Charles I. Elliott, now chief pilot and
flight plans, construct airports and
operations manager, delivers newspapers at Napoopoo, Island of Hawaii.
plot itineraries. He remained six
months until operations were well un-
der way.
"Landing fields," Mr. Cover recalls,
"were the toughest problems. We had
resolved to operate out of land bases,
just as the Army did. But flat country
on the islands that would be satisfac-
tory for airport use was usually satis-
factory, too, for agricultural purposes,
and was worth fabulous prices."
Finally, however, suitable areas
were found. Inter-Island built narrow,
two-way landing strips, small hangars
and prepared for its initial 229 mile
hop from Honolulu to Hilo. Its fleet
consisted of two 10-seater Sikorsky S-
38 amphibians and a six-place Bellan-
ca highwing monoplane. What amaze-
ment the natives may have felt when
first they saw an S-38 soar through the NEW DOUGLAS DC-3s are now going through the shop for Hawaiian Airlines,
• Concluded on Page Thirty-nine above. They are scheduled to be flown to the islands, put into service next month.

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government and continue to live under
their own tribal laws remnants of
by Al A. Adams built of palmetto leaves and of the the great Seminole nation.
e
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skins of wild animals. The flooro is It was in 1870 that Henry M. Flag.
n
m made of i split logs elevated about two ler began operations on what was to
e
S feet from the ground. In the available eventually be the Florida East Coast
—
area of the mound, the Indians plant railway then the Flagler railway.
sugar cane, corn and sweet potatces. The original thought being to develop
Driven to these Florida jungles after Florida to future tourist travel and
a seven years bloody war ending in also to link commercial trade more.
"The same sun, moon and stars 1842, the Seminole has been thrown closely between the eastern seaboard,
above our heads shine on the heads absolutely upon his own resources. He Key West and thence by steamer to
of hunting estraying Indians." has accepted little or no aid and in a the tropical islands of the Carribean .
manner has prospered . Here, sur- Originally a narrow guage line, the
IN THE Southern portion of the Flo- rounded by the gloom and weirdness move was made in 1886 to modernize
rida peninsula is a vast, desolate of the Everglades, miles from the the system and make it a standard
marsh, an aquatic jungle full of fallen white man's habitation, the baying of guage track.
trees, brush, matted vines and tangled the alligator, the
undergrowth, all darkened by the dense hooting of the SEMINOLE GIRL fishes in swamp waters of Everglades,
shadows of the tall cypress trees. Ex- great horned owl wears varicolored dress, helps with camp chores at early age.
cept for hill - like mounds, the surface and the croaking
ground is covered with water, which of the heron are
from appearances may be any depth, the only sounds to
from six inches to six feet ; this al- be heard. Truly,
most impenetrable quagmire infested the picture is one
with alligators and water moccasins is of meloncholy and
known as the Everglades the home of dreariness. But
the Seminole Indians . here we find the
So difficult to penetrate and so dang. Seminoles con -
erous to traverse is the 3,000,000 acre tented as the only
swamp that some portions have never unconquered tribe
been explored. because they are
Today the Seminoles of Florida are out of the white
only a frail remnant of that powerful man's power .
tribe of Creeks of Georgia from whom Here, today, they
they separated . The name Seminole still follow the
means wanderers or runaways. same customs of
the old turbaned
Very little is known of the private
life of these Indians. A characteristic tribe of nearly
of the Seminole is to make his camp 200 years ago . Re-
in some secreted spot where the white fusing to surrend-
man would least expect to find his habi er, they retreated
tation. In these dismal swamps, a wat into these wilds.
ery prairie, the Indian lives on small where the soldiers
platforms above the water or on the could not find
here-and-there high points known as fer- them . They have
tile hummocks. On these hummocks at never formal-
clearing is made. The wigwam is then ly submitted to the

PAGE FOURTEEN

BRIGHTLY COLORED trinkets made by Indians depicting the Seminole life
are exchanged in modern shops of Miami. Note the numerous strings of beads.
Approximately 133 miles of this
track was laid through the Everglades
and one can readily imagine the ter-
rific difficulties to be encountered in the
laying of a railroad track through this
swampland.
Through the years just prior to and
after 1915 Charles S. Callahan was
employed as construction engineer for
the railway assigned to this Everglade
section. Callahan had with him his
wife, and while overseeing the work in
the remote sections, a son was born on
the Okala reservation among the Sem-
inole Indians. The son, Charles S. Cal-
lahan, now chief clerk of Dept. 653,
machinery design, at the Douglas San-
ta Monica plant, grew up with the
Seminole children and came to know
the Everglades as the Indians knew it.
In dugout canoes, hewn from cypress
logs, Callahan paddled and poled with
the Indians into the far reaches of this
section to hunt, fish and explore. His
boyhood companion was Cahawafooche,
an agile, well -built boy of his own age.
The boys had many experiences to-
gether.
The Seminoles called young Calla-
han "Estochee," meaning "the young
one." By his close association , Calla-
han has come to know the ways of the
Indians and the private life of these
people about which so little is known.
Deer , alligators, turtles, raccoons,
oppossums, turkeys, ducks, curlews,
whooping cranes and other game
JULY ... 1941
abound, and in their dugouts the In-
dians would pole and paddle into the
deeper waters of the Everglades, sel-
dom failing to return without meat.
On a trip with Cahawafooche, Calla-
han was hunting ringtail bobcat. They
drew their canoe onto a mound for
the night and made camp . After a din-
ner of duck roasted over their campfire,
the boys rolled into their blankets be-
neath a dark, star-filled sky. Weird
noises from the swamp broke the si-
lence . Owls hooted and far away a
wildcat screamed, as intermittently
large bodies splashed in the water
close by. Soon a fog stealthily crept in
through the entangled growth and eas-
ed about the sleeping boys. The night
became chilled. Callahan felt a move-
ment at his feet which roused him.
Quietly he reached for his flashlight to
shine the wedge of light on a pulse-
quickening intruder.
Two gleaming beads reflected the
light and became the eyes of a six-foot
long snake, the dreaded water mocca-
sin. This snake had evidently sought
the warmth provided by the blanket.
curled around Callahan's legs and ex-
tending its forked tongue at him, the
snake seemed to be anticipating its
next move. Before the move could be
made on the snake's part, however,
Callahan had kicked out with all his
strength and sent the snake hurtling
20 feet into the night. He then turned
over and went back to sleep without dis-
turbing Cahawafooche.
Callahan has appreciated the unusual
situation he was fortunate to experi-
ence during his youth. Information re-
garding the little-known Seminole
therefore comes reliably. He found
camps scattered through the Ever-
glades and especially interesting in this
respect was Big Cypress swamp, the
western half of the Everglades. Al-
though they are considered permanent
camps, they were not used all the
time, being occupied only a part of
the year. Essentially nomadic, they
put up camps where hunting is good.
Interesting is the fact that today,
showing modern trends the Indian
leaves his camp and poles or paddles
his cypress canoe right up into Miami,
where he walks its streets, makes his
purchases in its ultra-modern stores,
yet he retreats back into the swamp to
live in the same primitive fashion as
before the coming of the white man.
The Seminole wife is as stalwart as
the husband . She is usually the mother
of a large family. She does all the
camp work, assisted by the girls old
enough to do so, cooking, sewing and
the dressing of animals brought in
from the hunt are their chores. The
children are reared simply, but are well
trained, being gentle, respectful and
withal fun-loving. The tribe is essen-
tially suspicious of everyone until they
have reason to trust the newcomer.
When an Indian man and woman de-
sire to live together, they must first
find out if the parents are satisfied.
Then the consent of the tribal council is
obtained, and if there are no objections
• Concluded on Page Thirty-nine
OKALA Indian reservation was birth-
place of Callahan, chief clerk in 653.
PAGE FIFTEEN
With Douglas
Tulsa Building Rushed
On 24-Hour Schedule
THE $22,000,000 Douglas Aircraft
company assembly plant at Tulsa,
Okla., vital part of the nation's pro-
gram for production of mighty four.
engine bombers thundered forward
this month on a day and night con-
struction schedule which indicates even
this early that it might clip 20 to 30
days from its scheduled January com.
pletion date.
In the last 60 days the Manhattan-
Long Construction company, general
contractors for the plant has:
Moved 1,200,000 cubic yards of
earth to level the huge plant site.
Dug nearly all of the 450 founda-
tions and footing emplacements, each
as big as a small room, and poured
concrete in more than half of them.
Installed two miles of spur railroad
track, now freighting in building sup-
plies, but which later will bring in
airplane sub-assemblies.
Received first shipments of structur-
al steel which will form the sides and
roof supports for one of the 4000 by
320 foot hangars .
"We are very well pleased with
progress," said Harry O. Williams,
Douglas' manager of the Tulsa plant on
his most recent visit to the site.
"We're keeping ahead of schedule,"
said Maj . H. T. Miller, executive offi-
cer of the U. S. Army engineers in
Tulsa.
So far, all activity has centered on
the site of the plant itself, lying ap-
proximately seven miles northeast of
the city. At mid-July, however, the city
of Tulsa turned over to the govern-
ment leases covering 752 acres which
will be needed for the plant's own air-
port facilities, thus paving the way for
installation of 7000 foot long concrete
runways connecting with the 480 acre
Municipal airport.
Leases covering the 343-acre plant
site were given the government early in
June, thus making the entire defense
project cover more than 1500 acres.
Several Douglas officials, in addition
to Williams have inspected the work
and conferred with Army, civic and
business representatives in recent weeks.
Frank E. Carson, Tulsa personnel
director, Ralph Hunt, company comp-
troller, and R. C. Berghell, who will
be comptroller of the Tulsa plant, were
PAGE SIXTEEN
Around
in Tulsa early in July. Carson com-
pleted arrangements for a downtown
Douglas employment office which will
be used until the plant offices are avail-
able.
Royal Air Force Pilot
Praises Douglas ' Havoc'
DIRECTLY from the lips of Flying
Officer Ensor of the British Royal
Air Force, Douglas employes at all
plants this month heard of the splen-
did performances being turned in by
Douglas DB-7s in the European war.
"If they (the DB-7s) are a fair
sample of the tools America is send-
ing us, we ought to be able to make a
fair job of this war when we get a
complete set," Officer Ensor said.
The flyer's comments and his des-
cription of an encounter at night with
a German Heinkel III were made on a
broadcast over the British Broadcast-
ing company several weeks ago. A
phonograph record taken of the broad-
cast, sent to Douglas by the British Air
Commission in Washington, was
played at all Douglas plants during
lunch hours of all shifts .
"The night before last," Officer En-
sor said, "I was cruising around in an
American Douglas Boston, we call it
a Havoc over here, in the neighborhood
of Brussels, watching a Nazi bomber
we had just shot down, blazing like a
bonfire in the woods to the north of
the city. And I am not the first to have
done so in a Havoc.
"The bomber was a Heinkel III
which was just returning from a raid on
England and, although the Heinkel is
a pretty good airplane, it is no match
LEVELING the site of the new Tulsa plant required the moving of 1,200,000
cubic yards of earth. Construction is speeding ahead on a 24 hours a day schedule.
the World
for the Havoc. My squadron is now
fully equipped with them and we like
them immensely. They are nice to
handle, easy to land at night, and their
performance is well up to anything the
Huns are putting over at night ; and
we have implicit faith in their Wasp en-
gines."
The flyer's reference to a Wasp en-
gine would indicate he had been flying
a DB-7, first of the line of attack bomb-
ers built by Douglas. The DB-7A, DB-
7B and the A-20 airplanes are consid-
erably faster, more powerful and more
heavily armed .
"As one of my ground crew put it
the other day," the pilot continued, "if
they are a fair sample of the tools
America is sending us, we ought to be
able to make a fair job of this war
when we get the complete set . Certain-
ly, on behalf of my squadron, I would
like to take this opportunity to thank
Americans for sending us such first
rate aircraft and engines.
"The night before last is a sample of
the good work we are doing with them.
Our objective was a Nazi airdrome
near Brussels and soon after we had
identified it, the flarepot and obstruc-
tion lights were switched on and we
saw an enemy bomber come in to land
with the navigation lights on. I don't
know whether the the reception the
pilot had had by the English defenses
had shaken his nerves, but he certain-
ly made a mess of his approach ; over-
shot badly and had to open up to go
around again. We thought we might
help him down, so I closed in on him
and our first burst of gunfire set one
of his engines on fire. As he was going
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
Here, There and Everywhere

in to land, he wouldn't have wanted it
anyway. The flames lit up the whole
machine and enabled us to identify it
as a Heinkel III . We then came around
again and my rear gunner got in three
good bursts which settled the job.
"I think the pilot must have intend-
ed climbing so that his crew could bail
out, because we lost sight of him for a
few moments, and when next we saw
him it was as a glow of fire moving
across the sky above us, then quite
suddenly the blazing plane went
screeching down and crashed into the
wood with a terrific explosion. The fire
it started was seen by another pilot,
and was still burning a half hour
later.
"I don't know what damage that
particular Heinkel had done during its
attack on England that night, but that
Havoc helped to square the account,
and my crew will be very disappointed
if it does not allow us to square a
good many more ."
E. K. Merritt Commissioned
Major in Air Corps
E. K. MERRITT, head investigator of
air plant protection on the staff of
Lieut. Col. Charles E. Branshaw, the
Air Corps' western district supervisor,
this month was commissioned a major
in the reserves and will soon take up
active duty.
Major Merritt is expected to be as-
signed to active duty as district plant
protection officer on Col. Branshaw's in Baltimore and Inglewood, Chance-
staff . Vought in Hartford, Connecticut, and
Major Merritt was an Army pilot the Douglas plant at El Segundo.
during World war I and subsequently Butler will work directly under Com-
was a commercial flyer. In 1934 he mander Leland D. Webb, inspector of
joined the Federal Bureau of Investi- Naval aircraft, and is authorized to
gation and received citations for cour- sign all drawings, drawing changes, re-
ageous conduct in the apprehension of ports and other material as directed by
kidnapers. the inspector of Naval aircraft.
He came to Douglas in 1937 as a
plant protection officer and left the
company in 1939 to organize a plant.
protection unit for the materiel division CALIFORNIA
of the Air Corps.
DOUGLAS
Douglas Company Featured
In Radio Broadcasts
THREE times within one month the
Douglas Aircraft company was featur-
ed in transcontinental radio programs,
heard by millions of listeners.
The takeoff of the B- 19 on June 27
was the subject of a half-hour broad-
cast direct from the field over Mutual
Broadcasting System.
When Lord Halifax, British ambas-
sador to the United States, watched ten
DB- 7B planes take off in rapid suc-
cession the Columbia Broadcasting DOU SH
PHOTO S
System sent the program to the entire
country. Donald W. Douglas was heard REGIS TH
on this program as well as the takeoff WAI PT.
of the B-19. PLEASE DO HANDLE
Columbia's 'Proudly We Hail" se-
ries, featuring defense workers, made
the Douglas organization the subject
of a late July program. More than a
NEW leaders of United States Junior
score of employes were prominently
Chamber of Commerce are President
mentioned and the close of the show
Walter W. Finke, left, and Vice Pres-
dramatized the maiden flight of the ident T. C. Browne of Santa Monica.
B- 19.

William L. Butler Joins Election of Santa Monica Man

ED MERRITT, Air Corps plant pro-
tection, received major's commission.
JULY ... 1941
Navy Staff at Douglas
WILLIAM L. BUTLER this month took
up his new duties at the Douglas
Santa Monica plant as associate aero-
nautical engineer for the inspector of
Naval aircraft.
Butler is replacing C. D. Tripolitis,
recently appointed general inspector of
Naval aircraft, western district.
Butler has been an aeronautical en-
gineer since 1917, when he was asso-
ciated with the Army Air Corps' en-
gineering staff . In 1925 he joined the
Boeing Aircraft company and in 1929
he became senior inspector for the in-
spector of Naval aircraft at that plant
and also at North American Aviation
Aided By Douglas Company
THE Douglas Aircraft company last
month helped to elect T. C. "Mazda"
Browne of Santa Monica to the vice
presidency of the United States Ju-
nior Chamber of Commerce .
Representing the Douglas company
at the Minneapolis convention were five
large display boards bearing exhibits
of the various Douglas planes includ-
ing the B- 19 - world's largest bomber.
In conjunction with the Santa Mon-
ica display booth, President Donald
Douglas further provided that 3000
specially printed Douglas Airviews be
sent to this convention.
PAGE SEVENTEEN
 THE B-19, pride of a nation, did not
"let America down."
Although there never was a doubt
in the minds of Douglas and Army
engineers and flyers that the great
Army bomber would take off with ease
and perform up to expectations, the
American public remained unconvinced
to the last. Its size, its huge wheels, its
weight and amazing statistics and the
three delays in the first flight date-
postponements for brake adjustments
and rework- made the B- 19's ability
to fly controversial and the public
skeptical .
But it did fly. It flew perfectly, ma-
jestically, like a thing alive, proud of
its power and too big to care about
men of little faith.
The B- 19 "flew like a kite," said
Major Stanley Umstead, pilot.
The great "Guardian of a Hemi-
sphere" pulled itself into the air as
lightly as a training plane after a
nine-second run of less than 1500 feet
down the new concrete runway of Clov-
er field.
So well did the largest airplane in
the world perform and handle on its
first flights that already engineers are
suggesting that their ultra-conservative
THE GUARDIAN
She's up! The "Guardian of a Hemisphere" roars down the runway at Clover field and into the air. Only 1500 feet, nine seconds, w
performance figures for the great air-
plane will have to be revised up-
wards. Its four Wright Duplex Cyclone
engines turning up more than 8000
horsepower, the giant ship hit 170
miles an hour when it leveled off after
leaving the ground. Throttled away
down she lazed along at 150 on the
55 minute first flight to March field
with the 5400 pound landing gear un-
retracted, dragging along through the
air.
The question of the ultimate per-
formance of the B- 19, its load carry-
ing ability and its range, as well as
every other question engineers, flyers
and Army tacticians would like an-
swered about the airplane are current-
ly being settled in an extensive series
of test flights beginning at March field
under Douglas direction and to con-
tinue later at Wright field under the Air
Corps.
When the B- 19 roared down the run-
way at 12:02 p.m. on Friday, June 27,
it carried in its giant belly and slender
wings more test equipment and instru-
ments than have been installed in any
two previous airplanes. The equipment
weighed nearly two tons and cost thou- the air
sands of dollars. To link the multitude And away! The B-19 soars majestically thro
OF A HEMISPHERE TAKES TH
required
he air on her maiden flight from Clover field, Santa Monica, to March field, Riverside, where she is now being tested.

of pick-up points, instruments and au-
tomatic recorders , nearly ten miles of
wires and tubes were required .
THE AIR
After landing at March field and
equired for the takeoff. after a subsequent check flight a few
days later when the landing gear was
retracted during flight and thoroughly
proven in actual operation, more test
equipment was installed and the great
ship's heavy armament including tur-
rets and all other installations were put
in place. Then began the Douglas
company's testing program-30 flying
hours of tests which may extend over
a total working time of weeks or
months.
The flight testing of the B- 19 is not
merely the simple task of discovering
until its formal delivery to the Air
Corps.
Heading the Douglas crews are
Schuyler Kleinhans, assistant chief en
gineer of the Santa Monica plant and
general coordinator of flight testing ;
Nelson Baird, B- 19 project engineer,
assistant coordinator and head of en-
gineering testing ; Warren Dickinson ,
in charge of flight testing, and Jack
Grant, in charge of operation and
maintenance.
Several truckloads of special tools
and equipment designed for particular
jobs in connection with the servicing
of the B- 19 have been shipped to
March field from Santa Monica. Also
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LANDING at March field at end of her
first flight, the B-19 needed less than
half of runway. Above photo taken
from Douglas B-23 which escorted B- 19.
available will be the complete Air
Corps shops at the field.
At the controls during the flight
tests of the B- 19 will be Major Um-
stead, who flew the ship on its first.
takeoff . Flight engineer, handling the
multitude of controls for the four 2000
horsepower engines and two auxiliary
engines, will be Jack Grant.
Major Umstead, who is chief of the
flying branch of the Air Corps ' mate-
riel division at Wright field, probably
is the best qualified man in the United
States air service to fly the big air-
plane. He has had many years of ex-
perience flying the largest of the Air
PAGE TWENTY
Corps' four engine bombers, includ- for the development and for the test-
ing the B- 15 and B- 17 "flying fort ing of airplane ideas of the future .
resses" and the recent B-24 . He has This Bombing Behemoth-this B- 19-
more than 10,000 flying hours in his is one of the Air Corps' dreams come
log. true."
Major Umstead broke all interna- This dream, which began in the
tional speed records in 1939 when he minds of Army engineers and on their
flew a B- 17 from Los Angeles to New drafting boards as early as 1930 and
York in nine hours, 1412 minutes. came to the drafting boards of Doug-
Grant's long record of flight engin las in 1935, reached its first great cli-
eering experience includes the hand- max when the B- 19 roared over the roof-
ling of the DC-4, largest land-plane tops of Santa Monica and out to sea
previously built in the United States. on its historic first flight.
During the early flight tests, engines, Less than 18 minutes elapsed from
propellers, controls, landing gear. the time the four Wright Duplex Cy-
brakes and auxiliary power plants will clone engines coughed into life with
be given every manner of rigorous test . spurts of blue smoke at the west end
These are the tests that will prove the of Clover field and the wheels left the
functioning of the airplane and each ground. For more than a month the
of its parts. ship had been groomed, tested and
Next will come the performance tests, checked and when the great mo-
tests to prove the airplane's ability . ment came all was in readiness . There
These will include tests for instrument were no taxi tests, no prolonged en-
calibration, speed at various altitudes, gine warmups, no final adjustments .
landing and takeoff distances, range un- Its engines only a subdued purr, the
der different load conditions and climb B- 19 taxied slowly up to the east end.
at varying power and engine combin-
ations.
During each of these phases tests will
constantly be under way on the func-
tioning of engine and oil cooling sys-
tems, the ship's stability and control-
ability and the heating and ventilating
system.
Elaborate equipment, most of which
had to be designed and built especially
for the job by Douglas research and
test department, will be used to meas-
ure and record test data. At literally
thousands of pickup points delicate de-
vices will measure stress and strain,
pressure, temperature changes
gather other data. Through nearly ten
miles of wires and tubes, informa-
tion gathered at the pickup points will
be transmitted to dials and gauges where
it is automatically recorded on special
charts, or by means of continuously and
automatically operating still or motion.
picture cameras .
These tests, and the Air Corps' own
tests to follow at Wright field, will
teach the Army and Douglas all there
is to know about large, long range,
heavily loaded airplanes. Data col-
lected on these flights will be the start-
ing point in the future for the design
of airplanes which will carry even
greater loads even greater distances,
spanning oceans and continents as a
matter of routine.
"We of the Air Corps," said Maj.
Gen. George H. Brett, chief of the Air MOVIES of the flight of the B-19
Corps, "think of the B-19 as a 'Wright were taken under the direction of
field on wings' , as a flying laboratory Major John H. Fite of the Air Corps.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 droned an escort of trim pursuit ships,
like gnats in the wake of an eagle,
ready to pounce upon and warn away
any airplane that dared to come too
close and endanger the pride and joy
of the Air Corps and the Douglas
company during its first tense, dramatic
1

trial.
The flight of the colossus, by far the
largest airplane ever built, marked a
crowning achievement of American
genius.
"There are forces in the minds of
men- -in the minds of many men-that
permit them to triumph over mere mat-
ter," said General Brett.
"Such a triumph is exemplified in
the B- 19, the dream that has come true.
I wish that I might claim exclusive
THE CREW of the B- 19's first flight. Left to right, Lt. Col. James G. Taylor, credit for having dreamed this dream.
Major Stanley Umstead, Major Howard Bunker, Jack Grant, Mark Koogler, Raoul But I cannot claim the credit, because
Escallier and Merle Steele. They reported the flight perfect in all respects. the dream was not mine alone. Nor was
it the sole and single vision of any one
Part of the huge, 212 foot wing swept year's greatest aviation story around man.
over the heads of vast crowds which the world. "It was, in fact, the dream of many
lined the field. The crowd waved and When the huge ship swept into the men, and that it comes true gives credit
cheered to the crew and the crew waved air the bellow of its engines was all to as many men, and to hundreds, yes,
back. but lost in the cheers which rolled thousands more, who translated that
wave on wave from Douglas workers dream into the B-19."
At the head of the runway, the new,
and executives and the thousands of Over the ocean the B- 19 turned in a
never-before-used concrete runway built
spectators who jammed the streets, wide circle and flew over the city of
by the WPA as a national defense proj-
rooftops and backyards of the resi- Santa Monica and the Douglas plant at
ect, the ship paused for a moment .
dential section west of the field. 1500 feet. Gaining more altitude it
Then the engines roared a full - throated
crescendo . Over the ocean Major Umstead put cruised over the El Segundo plant and
the ship into a gentle bank. Overhead then headed directly for March field.
The ship began to move, painfully
slowly at first, it seemed to the as-
sembled throng, for the ship's great size
makes its speed deceptive. Suddenly,
almost before the onlookers could re-
alize it was happening, the wheels left
the ground and the ship went into a
climb a climb too steep for the cau-
tious Major Umstead who quickly
brought the nose down. The ship
bobbled for a split second while 20,-
000 hearts leaped into as many throats.
"I guess I overcontrolled a little," AIR
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Major Umstead explained later.
Leveled out, the ship sped straight
and true. Over the edge of the field it 391297 SU.S.MATY
had gained 100 feet in altitude. Straight
toward the ocean the multimillion doll-
ar craft sped, climbing slowly in the
bright noon sunshine.
The cameras from every newspaper
and photo syndicate clicked . The news-
reel cameras ground. Breathless radio
announcers shouted into microphones
which carried their on-the- spot broad-
casts throughout the nation. Reporters
dictated their stories from telephones
AIR MAIL letters, thousands of them, were carried aboard the B- 19 on its first
on the field directly to teletype ma- flight. Above, the mail being loaded under supervision of Flight Engineer Grant,
chines which instantaneously flashed the left, and Pilot Umstead, far right. Special cachets were printed for historic flight.

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 As it winged its way to March field the crew of the B- 19
relaxed. Aboard were Major Umstead, Grant, Colonel Tay-
lor, Major Howard Bunker, co-pilot ; Mark Koogler, crew
chief who has made all first flights with Major Umstead ;
Merle Steele, Douglas hydraulics expert, and Raoul Escallier,
electrical expert. Also in the ship were thousands of special
air mail letters commemorating the historic flight.
Overhead, below, in front and behind the B- 19, but keep-
ing their distance, sped the watchful pursuit ships. Also
nearby constantly hovered a Douglas B-23 containing the
Army's official camera crew recording in color and black
and white, motion pictures and stills, every minute of the
historic flight.
In charge of the camera crew was Major John H. Fite,
then chief of the technical data section at Wright field. With
him were L. Hagemeyer, civilian chief of the motion picture
unit who has been taking official motion pictures for the
Army for more than 20 years, Hagemeyer's assistant, E.
Andres, and Capt. J. N. Van Cleve, still photographer, and
Larry Kronquist, Douglas company artist-photographer.
Also in the air on the way to March field at the same
time were four DC-3s, three lent by United Air Lines, Ameri-
can Airlines and Transcontinental and Western Air, one
provided by the Douglas company, carrying newspapermen,
radio men, Army observers, special guests and Douglas
officials. The DC-3s, however, kept at a great distance and
those aboard got only a distant glimpse of the B- 19.
Also aboard were three shop men representing the three
plants and chosen by clock number. The clock number of
each was 19 in his respective department. The three men were
Chester Nagel of Santa Monica, R. W. Hogan of El Segundo
and George A. Poppe of Long Beach.
There was nothing to do, the crew said, once the B- 19
was well on its way except to talk, look at the dials and
peek out of the windows. Everything functioned perfectly
-the miles of wires and hydraulic lines, the full feathering,
constant speed propellers, the controls, the flaps, the aux-
iliary engines- everything.
AT REST in its new home at March field, the B- 19, above,
Major Umstead put the ship through gentle turns and
stands on the ramp while a sentry keeps evening vigil.
banks, feeling out its controllability and stability, getting the

All other airplanes are dwarfed beside the huge "Guardian of a Hemisphere" pictured at March field with a Curtiss P-40 pursuit.

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Can she do it?

She flies!

We knew it all the time .

TID

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 only a portion of the runway.
Colonel Taylor was the first man to
climb down the ladder from the belly of
the ship to the ground.
"It was swell , swell, couldn't have
been better!" he exclaimed.
Major Umstead was immediately cor-
nered by a flock of newspaper report-
ers demanding to know all about the
ship's reactions.
He told them that the airplane per-
formed perfectly and never did a
thing to cause any anxiety.
"Any nervousness was not because
of the way she performed, but because
of the general situation," he said.
The whole nation, like the crowds at
Clover and March fields, cheered when
the news was flashed of the first flight
of the "Guardian of a Hemisphere." It
EMPLOYES OF all Douglas plants were represented at March field when the B-19 was a front page newspaper story from
landed. Representatives included Henry Guerin, Santa Monica factory manager ; R. coast to coast. Several newspapers gave
W. Hogan, El Segundo 13-19; George A. Poppe, Long Beach 1-19; Chester Nagel, three or more complete pages to the
Santa Monica 201-19 ; Ted Conant, vice president in charge of manufacturing; Eric story.
Springer, El Segundo manager, and Howard Houghton, Long Beach manager.
The night after the flight telegraph
"feel" of it. Various members of the wires to Santa Monica hummed with
stead began to glide in.
crew also took turns at the controls to When he lowered the flaps the huge messages of congratulation for the
get the sensation . Douglas company, Major Umstead and
ship slowed down and rose in the air-
"ballooned," the pilots call it. The bal- the flight crew. The crew was beseiged
Immediately after the take-off one
by autograph seekers.
member of the crew shouted jubilant looning was caused by the lightness of
the ship, only about 100,000 pounds The next day and for two weeks after
congratulations to Major Umstead.
in contrast to the maximum loaded the first flight letters poured into the
"But we haven't landed yet," replied
company congraulating it for the suc-
the pilot. weight of 164,000 pounds .
cess of the most amazing aeronautical
However, the landing, too, came off There were two slight bounces as the achievement in the world.
without a hitch. B-19's enormous wheels hit the run-
From the White House President
At March field the B- 19 swung in a way. A puff of smoke rose from the Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a note to
huge lazy circle once around the field. tires. Then the ship settled on the President Donald W. Douglas.
Then, without further ado, Major Um- earth and rolled to a gentle stop using
"The flight of the B- 19," President
Roosevelt wrote, "is indeed an out-
standing achievement and the part you
played in this great undertaking is
sincerely appreciated in these days of
extreme peril."
"We have followed the progress of
the B- 19 for many months and I would
like to offer my congratulations for a
job well done, " wrote William S.
Knudsen, director general of the Office
of Production Management.
Major General Henry H. Arnold.
deputy chief of staff for air, was most
enthusiastic.
"The news of the successful flight of
the B- 19 was expected ; very welcome.
but nevertheless quite thrilling," wrote
General Arnold. "After watching a
project for several years one gets into
the mood of taking it more or less as a
matter of routine. In this case, how-
ever, the B- 19 was such a revolutionary
GROUND CREW from Douglas will continue to handle the B- 19 at March field. development that our interest has al-
They are, left to right, James C. Peterson, Luther Conroe, Raoul Escallier, Joe
ways been intense .
Blinkiron, Merle Steele, Joe Pack, Elmer Hein, Hal Stover, Lewis Kovalik, Elmer
Knouse and Roy Carlborn. All are members of Dept. 202, experimental installations. "That plane will open many lines of

PAGE TWENTY- SIX DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

 company and all personnel connected
with the development and production
of the B- 19," he said. "Your engineer-
ing achievement is outstanding in the
history of aviation . The Air Corps is
very proud of the results."
Thus was unfolded the first thrill-
ing act of the saga of the world's great-
est airplane- its successful design, con-
struction and flight.
Now the second act is on- the prov-
ing of the ship . During the coming
months the B- 19 will demonstrate its
ability to lift its 82 ton maximum gross
weight into the air with ease, its ability
to carry 18 tons of bombs and to fly
7750 miles without stopping.
For the future remains the conclusion
-the eventual construction of great
fleets of Douglas superbombers and
supertransports-the lessons for whose
THE PRESS and radio gave complete coverage of B-19 take-off. Newspapermen
and photographers were stationed on platforms shown at far left with direct lines to design, construction and operation will
their papers. On stands in rear were radio announcers from three radio chains. have been learned on the B- 19.

thought and advancement in the avi- hone Santa Monice 65971

ation field."
General Brett commented by direct
teletype from his Washington office to Douglas Athletic Club, Inc.
A. Non Profit Organization for the Promotion of Recreation and Diversion.
the Douglas company.
congratulations 3000 OCEAN PARK BOULEVARD
"Sincere to your SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA
July 1, 1941
Mr. Donald Douglas , Pres .
Douglas Aircraft Company
THREE WHISTLES Santa Monica, California
Three long blasts of the factory Dear Mr. Douglas :
whistle established a record for
On behalf of your thousands of employees and members of
rapid evacuation of the great various organizations , the undersigned would like to take
Douglas Santa Monica plant on this opportunity to formally thank you for the thoughtful-
ness and courtesy of the management in providing an oppor-
June 27, 1941 . tunity for the men who helped build the B- 19 to see the
dramatic take- off of that magnificent airplane .
Shortly before noon they came,
signals to the employes that the We join with millions of Americans everywhere in sharing
with the company and the United States Army Air Corps the
B- 19 was about to take off. In pride of accomplishment and of a job well done .
every building and every depart- Gratefully yours ,
ment of the vast factory men and
DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB , INC .
women dropped tools and pencils
and swarmed onto Clover field ,
for every employe had been told DonaldS.Watt Ed Sharing
Don Watt , President Ed Skaring , Charman
by an executive bulletin that three Rifle and Pistol Club
blasts on the whistle meant the
George VanChan Herman Weller
B- 19 was ready to fly. George VanCleve , Chairman Herman Weller
On the field the management Rod and Gun Club Chairman of Softball
and the plant protection depart- Jarl Preston Bohn Featherstime
Kerl Preston Bohn Featherstone
ment provided room for all be- Chairman of Bowling Chairman of Ters
hind guard ropes stretched the Bud Mailler
Bud Moeller Heddgell
full length of the runways. One Clint Ridgely
Chairman of Basketball Chairman of DramatigClub
small section was reserved to of-
ficials, newspapermen , radio com- Augie DiMilks Arnold Schumak
Aur DiMille Arnold Schunck
mentators and newsreel photog- Chairman of Boxing Chairman of Glee Club
raphers. The rest of the field, for
Mar vin Powersers Norm & Hanson
those few memorable, dramatic Marvin Fwers Bow Norm C. Hanson
Chairman of Wrestling Chairman of Swimming Club
moments, belonged to the work-
ers, for it was their airplane and NickBalashoff Shan Palmer
Nick Balashoff Stan Palmer
their triumph . Chairman of Winter Sports Chairman of Golf

JULY ... 1941 PAGE TWENTY- SEVEN

BOWLINE BITES ...
by Al A. Adams

"A ship is but a portion apart from

the earth-apart means freedom."
THE spray season hit a new salty
high this past month in the Douglas
plied waters of Southern California
and the emerald waters of Hawaii . US29
Indications are that the men and
women of the Douglas plants are tak
ing to sailing with a zest unequalled.
There is a man at Douglas who ,
though he did not make a departure
on July 4 in the traditional trans- Pa-
cific race to Honolulu , was responsible,
in a measure, for a boat's having won
this year's race. Nick Potter, general
supervisor of the loft, designed that
boat, the Escapade, which was skipper-
ed by Walter Elliott. This 46-foot
sloop, sister ship to Don Douglas ' Alta-
mar, with a rating in the low thirties
is popularly known as the California.
LANAI, six meter sloop, owned by Bill Slater of the Loft, winner of the Royal Navy
trophy, rounds the weather mark in recent Gold cup race off Los Angeles harbor.

tablishes Nick Potter's design as a well- A rivalry of five years standing came
balanced ocean going boat. to a successful climax on Fourth of
Stella Maris II, Dr. A. A. Steele's July week end, when the El Segundo
wishbone ketch, broke her spinnaker plant's schedules engineer, Ed Grant,
pole, but was successful in arriving at skippered his big sloop, Flyaway II,
the Diamond Head finish line first, just across the finish line, 100 seconds
19 minutes ahead of Brooks Gifford's ahead of Felix Mills' Burrapeg. The
Jorie. Escapade and Dave Griffith's occasion was the fifth sailing of the
Pajara with the aforementioned boats Palisades trophy race, an annual yacht-
finished within a three-hour period-a ing classic, which had been won twice
very close finish. previously by the orchestra leader,
Felix Mills , and twice by Grant. This
race terminated five years of close
DELTA dinghys get away to close start competition when Grant won for the
in summer series off Santa Monica. third time to receive permanent pos-
session of the trophy presented by the
32, being 32 feet long at the waterline. Los Angeles Yacht club. The course
This is a one-design class somewhat sailed was from the Isthmus, Catalina
similar to the well known Eastern 32, Island, to Santa Monica . The start was
being faster, longer and generally larg- made in a flat calm, but later a breeze
er. Five of this design were built. found them out in the channel . Grant
Nick Potter is a very proficient de- designed and built his 48-foot sloop
signer of considerable experience, hav- and has sailed since the early age of six
ing such boats as Mr. Douglas' Endy- years. His skill as a designer was
mion, William Bartholomae's 8- meter proved, not only by his victory, but by
Yucca; Marin, another 8-meter, Angel- the Venturess, his design, a smaller ver-
ita, the eight which represented the
United States in the Olympics when
owned by Owen Churchill, Caprice.
one of the most beautiful six-meter
boats ever built ; Tantalus and Jascha
Heifetz's beautiful craft the Serenade,
to add to his very creditable record. WINNER of Palisades trophy was Ed
Grant's Flyaway II, above, his own de- 200
The win by Escapade on corrected
sign. At right, Vinden, Gunnar Ander-
time adds another name to the roster son's Flattie leads race in gusty weath-
of famous trans-Pacific boats and es- er off Cabrillo beach in San Pedro.

PAGE TWENTY- EIGHT

sion of the Flyaway II which sailed
third in this same race. Two members
of Ed's crew were Charles Eyres of
El Segundo engineering and Dick Fos-
ter of the schedules office.
On July 12, the thirtieth annual race
for the famous Times trophy was sail-
ed at San Pedro to be won by Bill Hor-
ton sailing Lulu. This six meter classic
was a gruelling battle in a lusty 18-
mile-an-hour wind . Bill Slater of Dept.
443, loft, sailing Lanai, was barely
beaten, a matter of 56 seconds, but the
results might have read a bit different-
ly had Bill's crew Bill Cowle re-
mained on board instead of overboard.
Cowle hung onto a spinnaker sheet a
bit too long while in the act of gybing
the spinnaker and was tossed into the
drink when the sail suddenly filled .
Slater recently annexed the Royal
Navy trophy presented by D. R. Over-
all Hatswell. The Lanai took three
firsts and two seconds in the Gold cup
series to win this trophy.
The 1940 world champions, James
Cowie of the Dept. 656 liaison tooling
group and brother Gordon of jig de-
sign, sailed their star boat Rambunc-
tious II. in the famous Lipton cup race
at Santa Barbara on July 4 to win the
hoary old trophy for the third time.
On July 13 was begun the Los Ange-
les Harbor Star fleet eliminations to
see who will represent this fleet during
the mid-August world championship
contests. In both encounters George
Fleitz was successful in winning the
two-out- of-three series. Unfortunately,
the Cowie brothers will be out of the
world championship series this year.
Ed Douglas of tool design, Art Ro-
mero, Joe Stanford of engineering and
Eino Nurmi of the El Segundo plant
have star boats from the project that
will soon be launched. Nurmi has had
under charter for the eliminations the
old Pacific coast champion All- Star.
Bill Lewis of Dept. 50 and brother
Dick sailed the Lulu to place well in the
Lipton cup series and were entered in
the star eliminations. They now are
eligible to compete in the Star Inter-
nationals, having won the three race.
series of the Santa Monica fleet.
Paul Chalmers of public relations is
preparing to launch his new 20-foot
Block Islander, this month at Laguna
Beach, while Hilda Dullam of sched-
ules has launched her new snipe Hee-
Dee, at Redondo. Hilda is the new
threat to the Redondo snipe fleet. Oli-
ver Roney, leader of the new liaison
group in the planning department, now
owns the snipe Bobbie II, formerly
JULY ... 1941
SHOP SUGGESTION AWARDS
"WHAT is the use of this new in- Wrench Hydromatic, Propeller Dome ;
vention ?" someone asked Benjamin W. L. McClintock, 511-184, Pulley
Guard Pin.
Franklin . "What is the use of a new-
"C" awards of $5 each : William
born child?" was his reply, a reply as
potent in content and thought as any Warnecke, 502-19, Hydropress Fixture ;
man could give. J. B. Marcoux, 225-44, Adjustable
Dust Guard ; B. K. Crouse, L.B. 152-10
Hurley L. Dennis of Dept. 6, tubing,
commands the shop suggestion spot- Rethreading Jig ; Victor W. Ferris, 13-
light for this month with his rotation 57, Aileron Cradle ; F. Leroy Johnson,
guage, the official title for shop and 5-540, Spring Steel Clamp ; Tom E.
blueprint reference being the Indexing Burroughs, 113-9, Rubber and Steel
Fixture-Tube Bending machine. Spring Clamp .
This very practical device does
away with the use of the protractor thus
saving one-third the time previously
used. The indexing fixture is not
complicated in construction and is
simple to operate. Assuming that a
length of tubing must be formed to
several angles in order to fit a given
place on the ship, a wire rod is bent
to fit that section . The rod is then used
as a templet for the forming of many
parts on production .
The angle is taken from the templet
by the angle plate and arm and the
tubing is then bent to that angle. The
angle is more accurate and is estab-
lished much more quickly.
Dennis was born in Soper, Okla-
homa, in the Indian territory, and has
a fine record as a shop man. His early
apprenticeship was spent as a black-
smith-from horseshoes to airplanes.
For this suggestion Dennis will re-
ceive the "A" award of $ 15 from the
Shop Suggestion office headed by A. M.
(Fred) Meyer.
Class "B" awards of $ 10 each are :
WINNER of shop award was Hurley
Chester H. Blanken, 5-512, Profile Cut- L. Dennis, shown with his tube bend-
ter; William Dudley Burk, 115-108, ing machine, another new time saver.
owned by Don Hand of that depart- Arthur Wallbridge of engineering,
ment. Roney was certainly the fly in the with Victor King, supervisor of the
ointment for that monkey-wrencher Joe planning department, made their an-
Stawicki of this department. It wasn't nual trek to Newport harbor to sail
enough that it has taken Joe nearly a Wallbridge's boat to the home anch-
year to get the ribs together only to orage at the Los Angeles Yacht club.
have them split on this 16-foot stink- pot, These two gentlemen still keep an eye
but now Roney goes over to help find to the weather though not often do they
the job in Stawicki's garage under all get the opportunity to sail.
the shavings and in cleaning up the The snappy Douglas Delta dinghy
place burned up the plans. Stawicki still group now has a total of 54 boats from
clings to the idea that he must have the project . Forty- five are completed
that boat and has convinced Ernie Boles with Fermin Porter launching right
of the factory manager's office that he away while Bert Clauser of El Segun-
should also have a sister stink-pot . They do sales launched boat No. 44 recently.
have ordered new plans. Ernie will in- He has been challenging all comers.
stall a Ford Model B with a Gregory Hamilton Wright, Jenks, and Al Kum-
head. • Concluded on Page Forty
PAGE TWENTY- NINE
FOOD was served buffet style at Long Beach get-together
attended by supervisors and executives. On the bread line
above are Vic Cubarkin, Dennie Scott and "Tex" Burnett.
PURPOSE of Long Beach party was to acquaint supervisors with each other.
Above are J. L. Williamson, N. Praigg, R. E. Kennedy, E. M. Neff and C. C. Pearson.
Coming Out Party Held
By Long Beach Men
FROM various departments of the
Douglas plants at Santa Monica and
El Segundo have come the men who
are nucleus of the new and rapidly
growing Long Beach organization , its
executives and supervisors. Many,
though veteran in Douglas service,
were not acquainted with all their fel-
low supervisors, and this month did
something about it.
One Friday evening several score of
the Long Beach plant's key men gath-
ered at the Pacific Coast club for din-
ner and an evening of swimming, cards
and pool.
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HELPING themselves, left to right, James Moore, H. Batchel-
or, George Tulloch, J. A. Wood, H. E. Remillard, Archie Rob-
ertson, Don Bosio, J. A. Burnett, who apparently got seconds.
it was claimed, slipped past the guards !
Those present included George Tul-
loch, Long Beach assistant manager,
C. C. Pearson, head of Santa Monica
estimating division, D. J. Bosio, Santa
Monica chief draftsman, and other
Long Beach personnel, D. S. Scott,
schedule manager, E. J. Page, execu-
tive office manager, Vic Cubarkin, R. E.
Kennedy, superintendent of plant lay-
out, E. M. Neff, executive superintend-
ent, H. E. Remillard, process engineer,
J. A. Burnett, supervisor master plan-
ning, C. Clarke, general supervisor,
Jack Franks, planning, Dan Gilmore,
project engineer, K. Gump, blueprint
control , R. Hall, planning, C. Martin,
sales orders, Don Messenger, materiel
liaison, E. D. Nichols, master planning,
Vic Pastushin, production control, N.
P. Raigg, production control, R. Schulz,
production control , R. Stoner, assistant
project engineer, J. Williamson, mate-
riel control.
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was Archie Robertson, master planning,
who proved it by running Jack Wood,
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party" for Long Beach, the affair drew
executives from the other plants, who,
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
PRODUCTION CONTROL LEADS IN SOFTBALL

who also happens to be on the 27B

Dept. 27 Teams Win First Half Season
Victories in A and B Leagues
WITH the second half of the twenti- still undefeated in league play.
eth season for the Douglas softball Champions at the end of the first
league well under way, a quick check-
half of the season were, besides Dept.
up shows only one team, Dept. 27A,
27A in the "A" league, the strong
Dept. 27B team which had things well
in hand in the "B" league. Strangely
enough, popular Mike Welsh, carrot-
top spark and captain of the "B"
champs, is also captain of the unde-
feated production control outfit in the
"A" division. Champion in the "C"
league is the slugging Welfare depart
ment club under the leadership of Lou
Best. Occupying the top spot in the
"D" league is Dept. 53. Orville Myrick
is the captain.
One of the outstanding performers
for the season so far is Red Salo , 27B's
ace pitcher. He recently turned in a
brilliant no hit, no run game against
Frank Machado's strong Dept. 201
squad. Salo was discovered earlier in
the season when he pitched the sen-
sational Ray Roberts to a standstill in
a hotly contested playoff between the
two production control clubs.
SLUGGER of the season has been Chic
Sales who belts them out of the lot. Another strong individual performer,
squad, is heavy hitting Chic Sales.
Sales in a game against Dept. 47,
helped his team emerge victorious by
a score of 10 to 4 by clouting out two
singles, a double and a triple. He also
scored three runs.
Besides these and many other stars,
the list of big names in the Douglas
softball league, the largest industrial
softball league in the country, is
steadily growing. Besides Dudley Lee,
former Chicago Cub's star, the league
now boasts players like Frank Reiber,
formerly with Boston, and Bud Teach-
out, who once starred with the St.
Louis Cardinals.
To date, only ten teams have dropped
from competition . They are the teams
of Depts. 86D, 55, 221A, 142, 81 , 12,
5, 6, 76 and 161N.
Plans for an all-star post season
game are already under consideration
by Don Watt, Douglas Athletic club
president ; Don Kirkham, director of
athletics, and Herman Weller, chair-
man of the softball league. Time and
place for this all-star contest will be
announced at some future date, accord-
ing to Chairman Weller.

The standings in the various leagues

at the end of the third week of the
second half of the season are as follows :

A LEAGUE
Team Won Lost Team Won Lost
Dept. 27A ..2 0 Dept. 47.1 1
27 Dept. 58 .2 0 Dept. 47.... 1 1
Dept. 27B ..2 0 Dept. 24 ...1 1
123

Dept. 201 .1 1 Dept. 351.1

27
Dept. 522.1 1 Dept. 152.0 3

B LEAGUE
Team Won Lost Team Won Lost
Dept. 401 .3 0 Dept. 444 .0 2
Dept. 19 .3 0 Dept. 221A 0 2
Dept. 59 2 0 Dept. 53 .0 3
Dept. 42 .2 1 Dept. 55 .0 3
Dept. 13 2 1

C LEAGUE
Team Won Lost Team Won Lost
Dept. 85N 3 0 Dept. 635.1 1
Dept. 633 2 0 Dept. 141 ..0 1
Dept. 65 1 0 Dept. 25.0 1
CHAMPIONS of the B league, first half, was 27B team. Front, left to right, Thomp- Dept. 64 .1 0 Dept. 221B 0 2
son, Sales, Nore, Di Paolo; rear, Blanchard, Welch, Johnson, Salo, Nichols, Niell. Dept. 521..1 0 Dept. 86D 0 2

JULY ... 1941 PAGE THIRTY - ONE

Douglas Athletic
SPORTS
Douglas Tennis Team
Ties North American
Offsetting their opponents ' superior
strength in singles with three doubles
victories, the Douglas Santa Monica
tennis team battled the undefeated
North American Aircrafters to a 6-6
deadlock at Douglas park Sunday,
July 20.
The all-important doubles triumphs
were achieved by Ed Walker and Tony
Prodan, Harry Sirotnik and Ralph Ma-
bie, and Harold Cook and Bohn Feather-
stone.
Others to contribute needed wins for
the Douglas netters were Leonard Platt,
Monty Mathews and Bob Betty.
A possible victory for the Santa
Monicans was frustrated by Earl Foote,
singles ace for the North American
team, who beat Bill Cate, 6-1, 3-6 and
6-1 in the final match of the day.
DOUBLES WINNERS against S. M.
Tennis club were Gross and Walker.
Sunday, July 13, despite a sensation-
al upset triumph, turned in by Al Gross
and Ed Walker, the Douglas tennis
team dropped a hard fought 7-5 match
to the Santa Monica Tennis club at
Lincoln park .
Gross and Walker, who recently re-
tained their plant doubles title, bested
the highly favored Tony Pirard-Frank
Stewart combination in two sparkling
7-5 sets.
Six of the 12 encounters were decided
only after overtime sets in the season's
most colorful and bitterly contested
team battle.
Other triumphs achieved by the un-
derdog aircrafters were those by Bob
Betty, Ben Brightman, Larry Davis and
Ralph Mabie.
PAGE THIRTY-TWO
Club ...
Bill Cate, Douglas singles champion,
produced his best shots and played bril-
liantly only to succumb to Bernie Cough-
lin, former nationally ranked star, by
scores of 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.
Sunday, July 27, the Douglas team
plays an important match with the
powerful Lockheed tennis squad.
The results of the July 13 match
were as follows :
Singles Coughlin (TC ) def. Cate
(Douglas ) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 ; Druliner ( TC )
def. Clegg ( D ) 6-4, 6-4; Roberts (TC)
def. Mathews (D) 6-3, 6-2 ; Betty ( D )
def. Mays (TC ) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 ; Brightman
(D ) def. Stanley (TC ) 6-4, 7-9, 6-4;
Davis (D ) def. Abell (TC ) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4;
Shapiro ( TC ) def. DeGeorge ( D ) 6-3,
6-3; Mabie ( D ) def. Lang (TC ) 4-6, 6-3,
9-7;
Doubles Gross-Walker ( D ) def. Pir-
ard-Stewart 7-5, 7-5; Hampton-Ashforth
(TC) def. Andrews-McFall (D ) 6-2, 6-3;
Elliott-Meyers (TC) def. Sirotnik-Halit-
sky ( D ) 6-0, 8-6 ; Kenyon- Priday ( TC )
def. Cook-Featherstone ( D ) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.
The results of the July 20 match
were:
Singles E. Foote ( NA ) def. B. Cate
(D) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 ; G. Druliner ( NA) def.
C. Cleggs ( D ) 6-0, 6-1 ; L. Platt (D )
def. Copple (NA ) 6-4, 6-4; B. Betty (D)
def. Foster (NA) 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 ; M.
Mathews (D) def. Schull ( NA ) 2-6, 6-1,
7-5; Moore (NA ) def. L. Davis ( D) 6-4,
6-2; Marshall ( NA) def. W. DeGeorge
(D ) 6-1, 7-5; Brewster ( NA ) def. E.
Halitsky (D ) 1-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles E. Walker-T. Prodan ( D )
def. Schmidt-O. Druliner ( NA ) 5-7, 6-3,
6-3 ; H. Sirotnik-R . Mabie (D ) def.
Craig-Phillips ( NA ) 6-4, 6-3; Grazier-
Beldard (NA ) def. K. D. McFall-J.
Smith ( D) 6-3, 6-2 ; H. Cook-B. Feath-
erstone ( D ) def. Cox-Young (NA ) 7-5
and 6-2.
Douglas Sharpshooters
Down Lockheed Team
The Douglas Pistol team emerged
victorious over the Lockheed club in a
closely contested match at Pasadena
last July 15. The match was highlighted
by a perfect slow fire score by Chief
Davis.
This was the first time the team had
shot at night, and many of the men ex-
perienced difficulty in sighting. Another
encounter with the Lockheed team is
expected to be held sometime after the
International matches at San Diego.
The scores were as follows ( police
course ) :
Douglas Lockheed
Ken Irwin 284 Carl Hirdler.... 288
Chief Davis 282 Herb McGown 281
Earl Roberts 280 J. B. Crawf'd 281
Clark Scott 280 Dick Mosher.... 276
Bill Roach 271 Harry House.. 269
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by Jack Lester
Welfare To Sponsor
Physical Culture Shows
The Welfare department will very
soon begin sponsoring a series of phys-
ical culture demonstrations to be held
at lunch time several days each week
in the famous Punch Bowl . These dem-
onstrations will be in the interest of
furthering health and strength among
Douglas employes. In charge of the
proceedings will be Barney Fry who,
besides being the champion bag-punch-
er, is also one of the strongest men in
the world.
Fry has been the world's speed bag
champ since 1911 , and is ready to take
on all comers at any time. He has train-
ed many of the finest athletes, women
and men, on the west coast. One of his
proteges is little Patte O'Keefe. Patte is
ten years old and weighs a bare 67
pounds, yet, a marvel of human endur-
ance, she is able to lift two men weigh-
ing a total of 400 pounds.
Under Fry's direction a series of
competitive events can be held among
the men of the plant to discover the
best in various sports. Fry, through the
facilities of the Welfare department,
will furnish devices for rope climbing,
tug of war and wrist-bending. These de-
vices will be supplied for practice in
preparation for these contests. There
will also be chinning and weight-lifting
contests.
At the present time Fry holds the
Douglas record for a one-hand lift of
480 pounds.
Hennessy Decisions Barrett
To Cop Middleweight Crown
Johnny "Pat" Barrett lost the Doug-
las middleweight boxing championship
to young Jack Hennessy this month in
a rugged toe-to-toe battle that went the
limit.
This was Barrett's first defense of
his title since acquiring it from popular
Kenny Scarce some time ago.
George Van Cleve, vice president of
the Douglas Athletic club, handled the
bout.
The new Douglas middleweight cham-
pion, of the old school of Irish battlers,
waded into Barrett at the opening bell
and never let up until the job was done.
He spotted the champion several inches
in reach and several pounds in weight,
but these little matters didn't seem to
bother him at all. He forced the fight-
ing throughout, with very few excep-
tions and twice in the last round had
Barrett swinging wildly.
We don't mean to imply, however,
that the former champ didn't put up a
good fight. He invariably does. On the
other hand it is our opinion that Bar-
rett has done better. Whether he was
at a handicap, fighting a man Hennes-
sy's size or not, we don't know. Regard-
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DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
ACTIVITIES
Night Employes Form
Still Camera Club
What with all this California scenery
and all day to see it in, it is only natural
that night employes of Douglas have
gotten the yen for a camera club. Al-
ready in existence and going strong is a
Cinema club for movie camera fans,
and it seems that now portraits, land-
scapes and camera studies of all types
will come into their own with this still
camera club's formation.
Men and women alike who are cam-
era enthusiasts are invited to become
members, and be your camera a two-
bit Brownie or a four hundred dollar
wonder, bring it along.
Artists have admitted for the past
ummffy years that it is not the camera
but the man behind the camera which
makes the picture, and here's your
chance to have this truism illustrated .
Have you ever noticed with what
shameless abandonment of modesty
camera owners display the incompre-
hensiveness of these machines ? Now
take Mary Masheter for instance . Sev-
eral weeks ago she planked out close to
two hundred berries for a two-way, six
cylinder job. It's breath-taking in its
wondrous complications . On the other
hand , there's Bill Horton , who gloats
(absolutely ! ) over his pictures taken
with a 98 cent number. Henry Gledhill
also has a picture gallery but he's smart
enough to keep the secret of just what
lens, exposure , etc., he uses in strictest
confidence . Sometimes we wonder . .
does he really take those pictures him-
self . . . . is Mary stooging for him . . .
or what ? Of course R. A. Webster is
the original camera man around these
parts . He even budgets his home work
to include so many minutes on a spe-
cial color camera he's building. Golly,
is there no end to this business ?
Well anyway, members of this Cam-
era club will be able to hobnob with
other camera enthusiasts . . . they will
be able to purchase camera supplies ,
films, projectors and all the parapher-
nalia for lesser prices. They will hear
what the experts have to say on all
phases of camera work.
Those interested kindly contact Don
Kirkham (phone 680 ) or G. L. Morgan
(Dept. 635 ).
Riding Club
Holds First Meeting
Newest addition to the ever-growing
roster of D.A.C. activities is a riding
club, first meetings of which took the
form of a moonlight ride from the
Pickwick stables on Riverside drive
through beautiful Griffith park, up over
the hills and back again.
Approximately 75 persons turned out
for this ride, ranging in ability from
beginners to experts like George Cav-
anah who is a master of understate-
JULY ... 1941
ment said, "I'm not terrific, but I can
stay on a horse."
Those who requested a horse, meek
and mild, were sent to the ring where
they were given valuable pointers en-
abling them to go out with the gang
next time with confidence and ability
to join on the trip through the bridle
path.
It is the purpose of this club to give
Douglas employes all the fun an organ-
ization of this type has to offer. In ad-
dition to actual rides on all trails
throughout the Los Angeles area, there
will also be barbecues and other out-
door festivities. By visiting various sta-
bles in this vicinity, members of the
club will become familiar with availa-
bility of horses, instruction , trails and
bridle paths hereabouts.
Ground work for the formation of
this group has been carried on by George
Cavanah, S.M. 201 , third shift who, al-
though born in Paris, has spent a large
portion of his years on a California
ranch. He knows horses and has big
plans for the Douglas Riding club.
In the immediate future officers will
be elected, club policies will be set and
a program for the summer outlined. In-
terested persons may contact Don Kirk
ham (phone 680) or George Cavanah.
Dramatics Club
Accepts New Members
The Douglas Dramatics club, at a
meeting this month, accepted 27 new
members. This club is getting under
way for a busy fall season and has
many plans for the coming months.
The purpose of the Dramatics club is
to allow free expression to all interested
in the art of acting itself or any of the
activities allied with dramatics such as
applying makeup for the stage, study-
ing speech for radio work, and the
like.
Last week, members put on a one-act
play, "The Village Blacksmith,' as it
was written during three different
stages of dramatic history. The first was
an old-timer, then came the more mod-
ern, and finally the stream-lined inter-
pretation as we know it today. Good
for a lot of laughs, this type of enter-
tainment is one of the reasons the
Dramatics club is expected to remain
the successful group it is.
Clinton Ridgell, president, asks that
all persons interested in becoming act-
ive in this club contact either Made-
line Boles (phone 680) or call him.
Other officers are Norma Whitten, vice
president, and Emmett O'Shea, director.
Office of recording secretary is held by
Marjorie Morley.
Meetings will, until further notice, be
held the first and third Thursday of
each month at the Cape Cod cottage,
at 7:30 p.m.
by Enid Kieburtz
"Farmer" Wheelon
Stages Rural Festivities
"Walk Out to Wheelon's Farm" was
the sign, complete with arrow, which
greeted one as he disembarked from
carriage and sighted down both index
fingers and driveway toward the es-
tablishment of one Bud Wheelon.
It was Friday. It was Bud's birthday
and it was a celebration of the engage-
ment of one merry couple, to-wit, i.e.,
Jan McIntyre and "Hank" North.
Only snag in the affair was one was
forced to sign in through the "Person-
nel department" ably run by Bill Arra-
smith in the Wheelon garage who ,
through the goodness of his heart, hand-
ed out blueprinted badges approximat-
ing the size of a manhole cover and
carrying the insignia "Bud's Flying Ma-
chine Woiks-Foist to Goidle de Globe
-(name of guest ) -at Stinky Moniker,
Calf." This stigma one wore throughout
the evening .
The fact that there were no camera-
men in the crowd would sadden the
heart of any reporter as this motley
crew carried on its own version of "Cro-
chet" which was done with mallet and
ball, true, but there were certain des-
ignated irregularities which went with
the game. It was different, anyway.
As was fitting to the greatness of the
man Bud Wheelon, a cake . a "micro-
scopic thing" we might say ... com-
plete with candle atop was presented
by Doug Cochran with all the pomp
inherent in the creature known as a
Douglas man. However, as Bud pre-
pared for the customary wish-making
and blowing out of the candle, he drew
in a mighty breath which, by its very
magnitude, snuffed the light before he
could puff out again.
Birthday gift turned out to be a
dingbat with the "Wheelon- First Out
the Door" on the back.
Jan and " Hank", who will be Mr. and
Mrs. North when this copy greets the
public eye, were presented their wed-
ding gift, but in accordance with the
cry of the day, "Spare no one," they
had to work for it.
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 Athletic
Douglas Athletic
SPORTS
Douglas Tennis Team
Ties North American
Offsetting their opponents ' superior
strength in singles with three doubles
victories, the Douglas Santa Monica
tennis team battled the undefeated
North American Aircrafters to a 6-6
deadlock at Douglas park Sunday,
July 20.
The all- important doubles triumphs
were achieved by Ed Walker and Tony
Prodan, Harry Sirotnik and Ralph Ma-
bie, and Harold Cook and Bohn Feather-
stone.
Others to contribute needed wins for
the Douglas netters were Leonard Platt ,
Monty Mathews and Bob Betty.
A possible victory for the Santa
Monicans was frustrated by Earl Foote ,
singles ace for the North American
team , who beat Bill Cate, 6-1, 3-6 and
6-1 in the final match of the day.
DOUBLES WINNERS against S. M.
Tennis club were Gross and Walker.
Sunday, July 13, despite a sensation-
al upset triumph, turned in by Al Gross
and Ed Walker, the Douglas tennis
team dropped a hard fought 7-5 match
to the Santa Monica Tennis club at
Lincoln park.
Gross and Walker, who recently re-
tained their plant doubles title, bested
the highly favored Tony Pirard-Frank
Stewart combination in two sparkling
7-5 sets.
Six of the 12 encounters were decided
only after overtime sets in the season's
most colorful and bitterly contested
team battle.
Other triumphs achieved by the un-
derdog aircrafters were those by Bob
Betty, Ben Brightman, Larry Davis and
Ralph Mabie.
PAGE THIRTY-TWO
Club .
...
by Jack Lester
Bill Cate , Douglas singles champion,
Welfare To Sponsor
produced his best shots and played bril-
liantly only to succumb to Bernie Cough- Physical Culture Shows
lin, former nationally ranked star, by
The Welfare department will very
scores of 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.
soon begin sponsoring a series of phys-
Sunday, July 27, the Douglas team ical culture demonstrations to be held
plays an important match with the at lunch time several days each week
powerful Lockheed tennis squad. in the famous Punch Bowl. These dem-
The results of the July 13 match onstrations will be in the interest of
were as follows : furthering health and strength among
Singles Coughlin ( TC ) def. Cate Douglas employes. In charge of the
(Douglas ) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 ; Druliner (TC ) proceedings will be Barney Fry who,
def. Clegg ( D ) 6-4, 6-4; Roberts (TC ) besides being the champion bag- punch-
def. Mathews ( D) 6-3, 6-2 ; Betty ( D ) er, is also one of the strongest men in
the world.
def. Mays (TC ) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 ; Brightman
(D ) def. Stanley ( TC ) 6-4, 7-9, 6-4; Fry has been the world's speed bag
Davis (D) def. Abell ( TC ) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; champ since 1911 , and is ready to take
Shapiro ( TC) def. DeGeorge ( D ) 6-3, on all comers at any time. He has train-
ed many of the finest athletes, women
6-3 ; Mabie ( D ) def. Lang ( TC ) 4-6, 6-3,
9-7; and men, on the west coast. One of his
Doubles-Gross-Walker ( D) def. Pir- proteges is little Patte O'Keefe. Patte is
ten years old and weighs a bare 67
ard- Stewart 7-5, 7-5 ; Hampton- Ashforth
(TC) def. Andrews-McFall ( D ) 6-2, 6-3; pounds, yet, a marvel of human endur-
Elliott- Meyers ( TC ) def. Sirotnik- Halit- ance, she is able to lift two men weigh-
sky (D ) 6-0, 8-6 ; Kenyon- Priday ( TC ) ing a total of 400 pounds .
def. Cook- Featherstone ( D) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. Under Fry's direction a series of
competitive events can be held among
The results of the July 20 match the men of the plant to discover the
were :
best in various sports. Fry, through the
Singles E. Foote ( NA ) def. B. Cate facilities of the Welfare department ,
(D) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 ; G. Druliner (NA ) def. will furnish devices for rope climbing,
C. Cleggs ( D) 6-0, 6-1 ; L. Platt ( D ) tug of war and wrist-bending. These de-
def. Copple ( NA) 6-4, 6-4; B. Betty ( D ) vices will be supplied for practice in
def. Foster ( NA ) 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 ; M. preparation for these contests. There
Mathews ( D ) def. Schull (NA) 2-6, 6-1, will also be chinning and weight - lifting
7-5 ; Moore (NA ) def. L. Davis ( D ) 6-4, contests .
6-2 ; Marshall ( NA ) def. W. DeGeorge At the present time Fry holds the
(D) 6-1, 7-5 ; Brewster (NA ) def. E. Douglas record for a one-hand lift of
Halitsky (D ) 1-6, 6-4, 7-5. 480 pounds .
Doubles E. Walker- T. Prodan ( D )
def. Schmidt -O. Druliner ( NA ) 5-7, 6-3, Hennessy Decisions Barrett
6-3 ; H. Sirotnik- R . Mabie (D ) def.
Craig- Phillips ( NA ) 6-4, 6-3 ; Grazier- To Cop Middleweight Crown
Beldard ( NA) def. K. D. McFall- J. Johnny "Pat" Barrett lost the Doug-
Smith ( D) 6-3, 6-2 ; H. Cook - B. Feath- las middleweight boxing championship
erstone ( D ) def. Cox- Young (NA) 7-5 to young Jack Hennessy this month in
and 6-2. a rugged toe-to-toe battle that went the
limit.
Douglas Sharpshooters This was Barrett's first defense of
his title since acquiring it from popular
Down Lockheed Team Kenny Scarce some time ago .
The Douglas Pistol team emerged George Van Cleve, vice president of
victorious over the Lockheed club in a the Douglas Athletic club, handled the
bout.
closely contested match at Pasadena
last July 15. The match was highlighted The new Douglas middleweight cham-
pion , of the old school of Irish battlers,
by a perfect slow fire score by Chief
Davis. waded into Barrett at the opening bell
and never let up until the job was done.
This was the first time the team had
shot at night, and many of the men ex- He spotted the champion several inches
in reach and several pounds in weight,
perienced difficulty in sighting. Another but these little matters didn't seem to
encounter with the Lockheed team is
bother him at all . He forced the fight-
expected to be held sometime after the
International matches at San Diego. ing throughout , with very few excep-
tions and twice in the last round had
The scores were as follows ( police Barrett swinging wildly .
course) :
We don't mean to imply, however,
Douglas Lockheed that the former champ didn't put up a
Ken Irwin 284 Carl Hirdler.... 288 good fight. He invariably does. On the
Chief Davis 282 Herb McGown 281 other hand it is our opinion that Bar-
Earl Roberts 280 J. B. Crawf'd 281 rett has done better. Whether he was
Clark Scott 280 Dick Mosher.... 276
at a handicap, fighting a man Hennes-
Bill Roach 271 Harry House .. 269 sy's size or not , we don't know. Regard-
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DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
ACTIVITIES
Night Employes Form
Still Camera Club
What with all this California scenery
and all day to see it in, it is only natural
that night employes of Douglas have
gotten the yen for a camera club. Al-
ready in existence and going strong is a
Cinema club for movie camera fans,
and it seems that now portraits, land-
scapes and camera studies of all types
will come into their own with this still
camera club's formation.
Men and women alike who are cam-
era enthusiasts are invited to become
members, and be your camera a two-
bit Brownie or a four hundred dollar
wonder, bring it along.
Artists have admitted for the past
ummffy years that it is not the camera
but the man behind the camera which
makes the picture, and here's your
chance to have this truism illustrated .
Have you ever noticed with what
shameless abandonment of modesty
camera owners display the incompre-
hensiveness of these machines ? Now
take Mary Masheter for instance. Sev-
eral weeks ago she planked out close to
two hundred berries for a two-way, six
cylinder job. It's breath-taking in its
wondrous complications. On the other
hand, there's Bill Horton, who gloats
(absolutely! ) over his pictures taken
with a 98 cent number. Henry Gledhill
also has a picture gallery but he's smart
enough to keep the secret of just what
lens, exposure, etc. , he uses in strictest
confidence. Sometimes we wonder
does he really take those pictures him-
self . . . . is Mary stooging for him . . .
or what ? Of course R. A. Webster is
the original camera man around these
parts. He even budgets his home work
to include so many minutes on a spe-
cial color camera he's building. Golly,
is there no end to this business ?
Well anyway, members of this Cam-
era club will be able to hobnob with
other camera enthusiasts . . . they will
be able to purchase camera supplies,
films, projectors and all the parapher-
nalia for lesser prices. They will hear
what the experts have to say on all
phases of camera work.
Those interested kindly contact Don
Kirkham (phone 680) or G. L. Morgan
(Dept. 635 ) .
Riding Club
Holds First Meeting
Newest addition to the ever-growing
roster of D.A.C. activities is a riding
club, first meetings of which took the
form of a moonlight ride from the
Pickwick stables on Riverside drive
through beautiful Griffith park, up over
the hills and back again .
Approximately 75 persons turned out
for this ride, ranging in ability from
beginners to experts like George Cav-
anah who is a master of understate-
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ment said, "I'm not terrific, but I can
stay on a horse."
Those who requested a horse, meek
and mild, were sent to the ring where
they were given valuable pointers en-
abling them to go out with the gang
next time with confidence and ability
to join on the trip through the bridle
path.
It is the purpose of this club to give
Douglas employes all the fun an organ-
ization of this type has to offer. In ad-
dition to actual rides on all trails
throughout the Los Angeles area, there
will also be barbecues and other out-
door festivities. By visiting various sta-
bles in this vicinity, members of the
club will become familiar with availa-
bility of horses, instruction, trails and
bridle paths hereabouts.
Ground work for the formation of
this group has been carried on by George
Cavanah, S.M. 201 , third shift who, al-
though born in Paris, has spent a large
portion of his years on a California
ranch. He knows horses and has big
plans for the Douglas Riding club.
In the immediate future officers will
be elected, club policies will be set and
a program for the summer outlined. In-
terested persons may contact Don Kirk
ham (phone 680) or George Cavanah.
Dramatics Club
Accepts New Members
The Douglas Dramatics club, at a
meeting this month, accepted 27 new
members. This club is getting under
way for a busy fall season and has
many plans for the coming months.
The purpose of the Dramatics club is
to allow free expression to all interested
in the art of acting itself or any of the
activities allied with dramatics such as
applying makeup for the stage, study-
ing speech for radio work, and the
like.
Last week, members put on a one-act
play, "The Village Blacksmith, ' as it
was written during three different
stages of dramatic history. The first was
an old-timer, then came the more mod-
ern, and finally the stream-lined inter-
pretation as we know it today. Good
for a lot of laughs, this type of enter-
tainment is one of the reasons the
Dramatics club is expected to remain
the successful group it is.
Clinton Ridgell, president, asks that
all persons interested in becoming act-
ive in this club contact either Made-
line Boles ( phone 680 ) or call him.
Other officers are Norma Whitten, vice
president, and Emmett O'Shea, director.
Office of recording secretary is held by
Marjorie Morley.
Meetings will, until further notice, be
held the first and third Thursday of
each month at the Cape Cod cottage,
at 7:30 p.m.
by Enid Kieburtz
"Farmer" Wheelon
Stages Rural Festivities
"Walk Out to Wheelon's Farm" was
the sign, complete with arrow, which
greeted one as he disembarked from
carriage and sighted down both index
fingers and driveway toward the es-
tablishment of one Bud Wheelon.
It was Friday. It was Bud's birthday
and it was a celebration of the engage-
ment of one merry couple, to-wit, i.e. ,
Jan McIntyre and "Hank" North.
Only snag in the affair was one was
forced to sign in through the "Person-
nel department" ably run by Bill Arra-
smith in the Wheelon garage who ,
through the goodness of his heart, hand-
ed out blueprinted badges approximat-
ing the size of a manhole cover and
carrying the insignia "Bud's Flying Ma-
chine Woiks- Foist to Goidle de Globe
- (name of guest ) -at Stinky Moniker,
Calf." This stigma one wore throughout
the evening.
The fact that there were no camera-
men in the crowd would sadden the
heart of any reporter as this motley
crew carried on its own version of "Cro-
chet" which was done with mallet and
ball, true, but there were certain des-
ignated irregularities which went with
the game. It was different, anyway.
As was fitting to the greatness of the
man Bud Wheelon, a cake . .. a "micro-
scopic thing" we might say · com-
plete with candle atop was presented
by Doug Cochran with all the pomp
inherent in the creature known as a
Douglas man. However, as Bud pre-
pared for the customary wish-making
and blowing out of the candle, he drew
in a mighty breath which, by its very
magnitude, snuffed the light before he
could puff out again.
Birthday gift turned out to be a
dingbat with the "Wheelon- First Out
the Door" on the back.
Jan and "Hank" , who will be Mr. and
Mrs. North when this copy greets the
public eye, were presented their wed-
ding gift, but in accordance with the
cry of the day, "Spare no one," they
had to work for it.
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Sports ...
FISHING
Gene Vedder, the engineering fisher-
man, and Poet Laureate of the Fuse-
lage group, turned in the following bit
of rhyme written in pink chalk on the
side of an old tuna fish, just as it came
to him in the midst of a recent reeling
bee off San Diego. Apparently he feels
rather strongly about those citizens
who don't get up at 2 a.m. of a Sunday
and who like sardines only in cans, so
we copied off his poem and made a
quick mental note to rent a stuffed
tarpon next time Gene comes to visit.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to his friends has said
"You should have seen the one that
got away!"
Whose heart has ne'er within him
yearned
As home his footsteps has turned
To just stay out and fish another day ?
Is there a man who, stuck at home,
Does not in thought afar off roam
To where the trout lies in the moun-
tain stream ?
Is there a man who, when at work
That never once his task did shirk
And of the bass that lurk in marshes
dream ?
Show me the man who does not wish
When telling me of that lost fish,
That just for once his arms were long
enough
To show his length from nose to tail
Then give me strength to hear him wail
Of how he fought and all that sort of
stuff !
If such a man there is on earth
He'll rue the day that saw his birth;
For his health's sake let him keep
out of sight,
For if I catch him bending o'er
He'll never sit with ease no more;
I'll boot him on the stern with all my
might.
I'll haunt his place all night and day,
His kids won't grow, his hens won't lay,
And all his sleep will full of night-
mares be.
I'll make his days all full of strife
And when he leaves his troubled life
Consign his soul to h- eternity.
Vedder is not the only rabid angler
in the plant. Sometimes one wonders
why there are still any fish left any-
where, the way the boys talk. On the
latest San Diego trip Les Smith of
Dept. 25 landed the second tuna caught
out of that port this season, a fine 20-
pounder which won the jackpot. Re-
markable was the fact that Smith used
an 18-pound line and four ounce rod.
Lucky Les also snagged four yellowtail.
Other of the same fish were caught by
Win Kitinner, Joe Bensinger, Charley
Sheckles, Jim Raynor and "Dee" D'-
Amico. Twenty lads from the plant
made up the party. Slightly queasy
from the ground swells were Al Leip-
PAGE THIRTY-FOUR
El
El Segundo Plant
man work on the hot corner. Earl Jack-
by Frank Opdyke
son and Stan Underwood look nimble
at short, Harold Cambell makes a deft
sig and Bob Holden. The rest behaved understudy at second, and Bill Halli-
like veteran fo'cs'le hands.
burton is a ball of fire on the initial
cushion. When the boys are clicking
BOWLING
enemy batsmen might as well try to
Scoring four resounding wins, in swat the ball through a cyclone fence.
which they came from behind each time,
Pitching to date has been handled by
over the Northrop No. 2 squad, Doug-
Warren Cobine and Russ Teel, both of
las No. 1 bowling team clinched the
whom have kept the enemy well in
championship of the Inter-Aircraft En-
hand. Cobine's benders and Teels wind-
gineering league. They won by five full
mill speedball are extremely fancy.
games over the runnerup Lockheed No.
Quite a parcel of the opposing bats-
2 club, the latter having the misfor-
men couldn't touch their offerings with
tune to get a shellacking from its own
brethren, Lockheed No. 1, on the final a carpet beater.
night. Lockheed No. 2 had whipped Relief hurling is being handled by
Douglas in three out of four heats the Bill Halliburton, Jack Hammil and
Basil Gleason. The latter has been slow
previous week to draw within one game
of the top. They were, incidentally, the to round into form, but his feats in
only squad of the 11 others in the the past have been legendary.
league to hold a season edge over our Behind the plate Herb Hoffman and
winning five. Rue Pollok are sharing the chores. Hoff-
man, a converted outfielder, is already
Douglas No. 2, our other entry which
held the league lead for the first half an able performer at the new post.
of the season, rallied to wind up fourth The outfield is paced by Jack Ham-
mil, a slender lad with an arm like a
after a disastrous slump.
catapult. John Bloom roams around out
A handsome silver trophy in the
shape of a bowling pin is due to enter there too, in a utility role, and the
the El Segundo trophy case, thanks to rest of the gardeners are a bunch of
the new champs. Smaller pins go to guys named Ed ; specifically, Thrall,
Bentley, Thrall, Lockett, Barfoot and Atkinson, Lobherr and Strate. With
Opdyke, as individual trophies. The vic- so many Eds a Texas leaguer creates
tory was a shade hollow due to Santa • Concluded on Page Forty-one
Monica's failure to enter teams in the
competition. This makes it difficult for
El Segundo to claim full title to the
engineering bowling championship of
Southern California aircraft, since we
concede that there are fine bowlers at
our sister plant. The league proved so
popular there is talk of resuming play
in the fall, so there will be a chance for
Santa Monica to prove its mettle at
that time.
SOFTBALL
The plant softball team is something
of a problem child these days. It seems
to be undergoing a slight case of jit-
ters involving changes in management
and players. Morale has suffered, judg-
ing by the score of the last game. In-
formation on the subject is harder to
find than the radio programs in a
Sunday paper , so we will shelve the
whole thing for a month.
The Douglas Engineers have broken
all precedent for a departmental team
by entering the Los Angeles Municip-
al Softball league . Pre-season dopesters
claimed the cause to be hopeless, but
with ten games remaining on the sched-
ule the boys are playing .500 ball and
have an even chance to finish in the
money. The addition of Bob Hager and
Russ Teel to the lineup rounded the
squad into a well balanced, smooth
working outfit, much to the satisfac-
tion of manager Rue Pollok. Hagers
experience and excellent play at the ROY RUSSING, engine installation in-
keystone sack has built a fire under the spector, is one of the nation's best and
whole infield. Howie Jong is doing yeo- most famous auto race drivers.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

Rambling Reporter
Plant Protection
(Contributed by
OFFICER GEORGE DOUGHERTY)
As if we didn't get into trouble easily
as it is, we're going to stick out both
of our chins. Tom Curley who is to El
Segundo plant what Grover Whalen
is to New York City is grinning more
broadly than ever. He recently blossom-
ed forth in one of those Klassy Kut
suits. Such compliments he gets and do
the girls look twice ! Seriously, Tom
does a noble job at the lobby desk and
to outsiders he is probably one of the
best known men at El Segundo. If you
should ever be a guest of his you will
find him a rare host and a raconteur
second to none. Have him tell the story
about "Chief N-Hurt," the Yakima In-
dian. We nearly dropped a short beer
when he slipped it to us.
Frank Battaglia is back on the job
after being shelved for a spell by a
spider's bite. Frank, as many of you
know, was a prominent middleweight
several years back and fought Ben Jeby
for the title in Madison Square Garden
Feb. 13, 1933. Jeby won in the thir-
teenth when Arthur Donovan stopped
the fight because of a ruptured artery
near Frankie's eye. Two months previ-
ously Frank had stopped Jeby cold in
the first heat of a non-title go.
"Spike" Jordan, a former Dept. 55
man, is turning in a neat job of umpir-
ing in the Coast league. At the present,
plans are in the making for a delega-
tion of 55 men to attend a game
and present "Spike" with some token of
their esteem. Well, it will be the first
time an umpire got something besides
the well known bird.
Ronnie Hiner, the pride of Venice
pier, went into hock for a new buggy
and it's plumb disgusting to hear him
extol its speed , etc.
Clarence (Snuffy) Smith never for-
gets a tip on a horse. He has ' em writ-
ten on his shirt. Ask him how Best
Beau and Lawyer's Light ran a couple
weeks ago. Better still, ask him where
he got them and then run, don't walk,
to the nearest bombshelter.
Lloyd Harris, Dept. 29, and Vida
Blundin of Bloomfield, N.J., were mar-
ried at St. Thomas church in Holly-
wood on June 28. After a honeymoon
trip to Yosemite the newlyweds are
receiving their friends and congratula-
tions in their Inglewood home. The
lovely Betty Monteverde of Engineer-
ing and Walt McGarvin of Dept. 42 re-
cently announced their engagement.
They plan to wed in November and
Betty is wearing a ring with a stone
this big.
Mike Plony of purchasing came back
from a vacation in Syracuse . The sar-
torial Mike who makes the guys in Es-
quire look like ill-clad hoboes, flew both
JULY ... 1941
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by Clyde Kintz
ways and he said he enjoyed every
minute of it. Bill Blaufuss of inspection
is building a new home but where it is
youll never know. Bill claims he can't
find the place himself but after a get-
together the other night with Bill going
over the piano once lightly, we suspect
he is being forced into the hills by an
outraged citizenry. The parking situa-
tion here is considerably improved and
it saved us from being wafted away to
the laughing academy. To Tommy
Stockbridge of engineering and Charlie
Jackson of 55 we wish to extend our
sincere thanks for the no little effort
they put forth in helping to make the
traffic and parking job easier. We are
indebted.
Marguerite Atcheley has long been
the sole representative for the ladies
in 55 but a few days ago she was joined
by a newcomer in the person of Marie
Ware.. It's getting so a man has no
place to himself any more.
Johnnie Allen of Dept. 27 is going to
join the ranks of the married men in
the near future and he promised to
give us all details later on. We hear
there will be rice and everything. Frank
Enkosky, the photographer man, is off
on vacation but he wouldn't say where.
You can bet when he comes back that
he'll show it to you in pictures. Remem-
ber what the horsethief said to the
posse, "Lemme down easy, boys."
Wedding Bells
"Bob" Gifford, Dept. 33, was married
to Jane D'Olive on June 7 at the Little
Church of the Flowers. Quincy Scott, of
precision inspection, was married June
20 to Ilo Albough, at the Wee Kirk o'
FIRST ANNIVERSARY of El Segundo's cafeteria was celebrated with birthday
cake presented by John Thompson, welfare director, left, and L. G. Sprague,
cafeteria manager. Five waitresses have been on the job since cafeteria opened.
Segundo Plant
the Heather. They spent their honey-
moon at Sequoia National park. J. B.
Dickerson, Rockwell inspection, was
married July 4 to Dorothy Rothermund.
They honeymooned at Boulder Dam.
Earl "Red" Williams, Dept. 22 stock-
room, was married June 29 to Jean
Satran at the Bethlehem Danish church.
They honeymooned in Northern Cali-
fornia. William E. Gates, Dept. 25, and
Virginia K. Mills were married June 19
in El Monte. Will's parents and sister
arrived from the east to celebrate the
occasion. They honeymooned at Big
Bear.
Vacationers
Production control celebrated the
three day vacation from mountain tops
to ocean shores. Those seen at vacation
spots were : Bill Steele, enjoying his va-
cation at Big Bear, but not alone, Oh-
No. June Tupper of planning was-
there. Anita Grindle and Mary Jane
Decker were seen at Santa Catalina Is-
land, really enjoying themselves. Who
is the doctor, Anita ? Ben Hallquist
was also at Big Bear, but spent a very,
very quiet week end. Maybe it was the
soda pop, Bennie. Ruth Schreiner en-
joyed a nice picnic at San Gabriel Can-
yon. Bill Gilbert, the man about town,
visited the night clubs of Southern
California. He must be the home loving
type. Charles Havens got his all to
Forest Home, by eating, sleeping and
drinking — mountain water. Johnnie
Woods celebrated the Fourth of July by
entertaining his new 7 lb. boy, which
was presented to him by Mrs. Woods on
July 1. Both mother and son are doing
fine. Congratulations, Johnnie. Walter
Hunt is really a nature lover, for on
his vacation he communed with nature
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Rambling Reporter
After listening to all the marvelous
places to spend a vacation, I think I
will stay in Santa Monica, look at the
mountains and sit on the beach and
have all the comforts of home. I can-
not appreciate the thrill of "packing in"
to find a stream in the High Sierras
with a steady diet of mountain trout
and ice cold bathing. I guess I'm a
sissy, but I never cease to be amazed
when people drive two days to some
Godforsaken place just to commune
with nature. The funny part of it is
the pioneers called it " hardship."
The Douglas Seattle office force is
not missing us as much as we have
missed them. J. E. Baynham, of the El
Segundo plant engineering department
and temporarily at the Boeing plant,
was married July 3 in Seattle. The
bride, Juanita Lunsford, of Nashville,
Tennessee.
At a party July 8, attended by a
number of the Douglas Seattle em-
ployes, the engagement of Gloria Mc-
Elroy of Hermosa Beach to John M.
Robinson, Jr., was announced. Robin-
son, a Long Beach engineer, is work-
ing temporarily at the Boeing plant.
Those attending the party were Miss
McElroy, Frances Hewitt, Betty Van
West, H. O. McCluer, Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Robinson, Sr., G. D. Brown,
Dan Aslanian, Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Clark,
Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Sneed , Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Baynham, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Long,, Barbara Long, Sue Robinson,
Dodson Robinson, Ches Robinson and
John M Robinson, Jr.
W. G. "Bob" Doran of the purchasing
department had a very hectic and ex-
BOB DORAN had a baby-a baby
horse-hence the decorations on his
desk in the purchasing department.
PAGE THIRTY- SIX
... Santa
By PATRICIA KELLY
citing day June 20. He launched the
career of horse raising in the very early
hours of the morning. A 50- pound baby
colt's debut into this world was only
the beginning. A congratulatory bou-
quet from the Airsupply company ac-
companied by the following poem. By
the end of the day Doran was not sure
whether he should have mentioned it
or not:
"TO PAPPY"
Let us say in our funny way
Without a bray but a big hooray
That this is Father's day, hey hay!
We may be dolts for peddling bolts
But what a jolt to have a colt!
Here's ribbons blue and wishes true
To the little new and here's to you!
-Black Beauty and Airsupply.
Bill Thayer of the hydraulics group
spent many long hours planning a three
weeks vacation. His itinerary was com-
plete, even to the hour and place for
lunch. However, Bill made one mistake ;
he forgot to check the oil in his con-
vertible coupe after the installation of
a rebuilt V-8 engine. He spent four
days between Needles, California, and
Flagstaff, Arizona. In despair he bought
the only car available and arrived back
home "on schedule.'
Pilot Officer Robert L. Mannix of the
American Eagle squadron believes the
Douglas Havoc the best flying air-
plane in the present war. Paul J. Man-
nix of the engineering department re-
ceived this news from his brother a
few days ago. Next to the Havoc the
American Eagle squadron prefers the
Hawker Hurricane.
The first all-out ride of the newly or-
ganized Equestrian club took place on
July 15 at the Pickwick stables in
Burbank. Approximately 60 riders par-
ticipated. George Cavanaugh of Dept.
201 is responsible for the organization
of this group. It has been in the em-
bryonic stage for the past two months.
Officers of the club have not as yet
been elected.
The Kittens bowling team is begin-
ning practice early this year. Losing
the league trophy by a small margin
last year they are determined to win it
this season. Jeannette Fourage initiated
the early practice by serving all the Kit-
tens an excellent spaghetti dinner .
Dotty Corson and Geri Argyle attend-
ed the dinner and practice. Dotty is un-
decided as to whether she will let the
Kittens call her their chaperone or
merely give her moral support. Geri
Argyle was the first member of the
Kitten team and, though not taking an
active part this year, she will be on the
sidelines. So to Jeannette Fourage, Ma-
rion Luebke, Dorothy Lane , Helen Weg-
ener and Eleanor Whitesides, the best of
luck and the trophy.
Monica Plant
I have often heard rumblings from
the old La Monica ballroom, but it was
not until this week that I found the
cause. For the past three months Mel
Huber, Bruce Goetz, Bill Mentzer, Dar-
rell Rose, Bob Anderson, Ken Latzer,
Helen Mack, Marion Luebke, Jeannette
Fourage and Louie Whittier have been
playing badminton every Monday night
at the La Monica badminton courts. So
far Bruce Goetz is the star player.
New members are welcome.
Margaret Arnold who has been a
member of the engineering department
for the past five years decided her
business career interfered with her am-
bition to be a homemaker. We all felt
rather blue when Margaret came
around Friday, July 11 , to say "good-
bye.'
With the successful takeoff of the
B-19 now of historic value, I simply
cannot let this chance go by without
mentioning Bill Henrys nickname of
the B-19. In a special feature article for
the Los Angeles Times Bill Henry chris-
tened the B-19 "Aluminum Alec."
The Long Beach office groups moved
en masse to their new administrative
building July 12. The girls are hoping
one of the cosmetic firms will make a
rouge and lipstick that will not look so
ghostly purple under the fluorescent
lights installed in all the buildings.
Girls cannot be glamorous under these
conditions and if for no other reason
that decorative experiments one of our
better known cosmetic companies will
find a definite demand for this type of
make-up.
The organization of a new branch of
the office manager's office is the insti-
tution of the central stenographic group .
This group is composed of Jane Powell,
Betty Knudson and Blanche Davis, very
competent and able stenographers and
each one of them a cooperative and
pleasing person .
Karen Louise Blondefield arrived in
the world June 5 at 2:35 p.m. at the
Santa Monica hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Golstein are the
proud parents of a daughter, Lynn,
born June 27 at the Santa Monica hos-
pital.
Yvonne Gey, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dick Kellner, arrived at the Santa
Monica hospital July 14 at 8:45 p.m.
Yvonne weighed 8 lbs. and 10 ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Schneider of
Dept. 654 announced the birth of their
son, Dennis Joseph, June 2.
Samuel Bonnifield Trumbull, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. Trumbull, was born
July 10. Samuel weighed 10 lbs.
Keither Painter of Dept. 657 has just
returned from a vacation to Alaska, a
three week cruise out of San Francisco.
The girls' Pistol club has renewed its
activities after a two-month lull. Made-
lyn Boles of the Douglas Athletic club
office is the sharpshooter of the group.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 RUNNING LIGHTS
YOUR ORDER ... OUR ORDER ...
EVERYBODY'S ORDER
Keep your temper, gentle sir,
Writes the manufacturer.
Though your goods are overdue
P For a month or maybe two,
We can't help it, please don't swear
Labor's scarce and metal's rare,
Can't get steel, can't get dies,
These are facts-we tell no lies.
Harry's drafted, so is Bill,
All our work is now uphill,
So your order, we're afraid,
May be still a bit delayed.
Still you'll get it, don't be vexed,
Maybe this month, maybe next ;
Keep on hoping, don't say die,
We'll fill your order bye and bye.
We hope !
The subject matter of this little dit-
ty has become somewhat trite, but the
manner in which the night crew in
Dept. 69 has presented it may change
censure to pity. It is given here in
the hope that it will bring about a
greater understanding between those
who kick and those kicked.
The "spotlight" is on Norman A.
Ross, known as 270-401 to payroll, as
supervisor in charge of production con-
trol second shift, to employes working
in all corners of the factory, while in
will close
Barat 1130am
DEPT. 27 men on the second shift got
together last month at Santa Monica
Municipal stadium for an outing.
SABERS are a specialty of Herb Sauke,
left, who gave some pointers to Bill
Shumate at Dept. 27 get-together.
JULY ... 1941
ON
ОП THE
By DARRELL D. MARKS
personnel he is known as "that dis-
tinguished gentleman of good will"
(with the pipe) .
Ross has been in the Douglas plant
since 1929 and earned his present po-
sition over the well known road of ex-
perience. His work takes him into all
departments of the plant , where he
made the observation that cooperation,
or lack of it, often depends on knowl-
edge or lack of knowledge of the re-
lationship of one job to another.
Due to the stress of the times and
the need for good leadership , it was
evident that many good supervisors
were available who know their own
particular job or department, but who
need training as to the relationship
their particular job had with the whole
scheme of things. It is much easier to
cooperate with the other fellow when
you understand the other fellow's prob-
lem. Ross contended that the supervis-
ors assumed considerable responsibility,
the adequate discharge of which de-
pended on the extent of general knowl-
edge of departmental functions and
procedures and that it is a sign of
good management to make this knowl-
edge available through a training pro-
gram .
The education department has been
aware of the value of such training,
and during the last year and a half has
made rapid strides in the development
of a training program for new and old
employes in the latest production
methods.
A series of conference meetings is
being held each Wednesday evening
from 7 to 8 o'clock. The average attend-
ance is 35, from supervisory personnel .
Ross was appointed as instructor and
conference leader. Each conference is
designed to cover some particular im-
portant phase of aircraft production and
the most experienced key men are as-
signed to handle the various topics,
which include procedure and function
of engineering, material procurement
and control, scheduling, estimating,
planning, personnel, tooling, etc., and
the part production control has in act-
ing as a liaison agent in tying these
various activities together in a unified
effort to roll planes off the producton
line.
In addition to supervisors ' confer-
ences, Ross teaches two classes in air-
craft production management at Royce
hall, University of California ( U.C.L.A. )
in line with the Engineering Defense
Training program .
A party of Conger's cohorts (a
phrase from the tongue of John Conger
himself) in the materiel division hied
themselves to Chinatown the night of
Sunday, July 13, where, ensconced in
the Golden Pagoda, they consumed a
variety of highly satisfactory victuals.
"Nobody knew just what he was eat-
NIGHT SHIFT
ing," said Ray Kaufman, "but it cer-
tainly was good!" After a short tussle
with a penny arcade in the vicinity,
they hove to at the Pirate's Den to com-
plete the evening.
One of the nicest get-togethers we
have ever attended was Planning's, held
Sunday, June 29, at El Rancho Topan-
go. The second shift planned and, with
their guests, enjoyed a very pleasant
12 hours up there in the mountains, the
warm sunlight and ocean breezes creat-
ing a perfect day. From ten o'clock to
ten beer flowing freely the while ) ,
everybody was Occupied with doing
pleasant things, viz.: lounging, playing
tennis, badminton, ping pong, volleyball,
baseball, riding horseback, swimming in
the pool, arching (as with bow and ar-
row) , pitching horseshoes. And eating.
And dancing in the evening. Much fun,
all right. Most of this was planned with
teams and schedules in mind, but ex-
cept in a few instances, these were
forgotten while folks just simply en-
joyed themselves. Ping pong winners
were Helen Cowley and Vent Wilcox ;
tennis winners were Juanita Kessler
and Don Britton. There were exhibi-
tions of fencing with foil and saber by
Herb Sauke, who recently won third
place in the Pacific Coast champion-
ships with these two weapons; and of
archery by Morton Mendels, who holds
every distance record in the United
States in this sport. Messrs. Headland
and Leaman harbor a lot of talent up
in their department. We snapped a
beautiful picture of Donna ("Legs")
Burns while she was being pushed vig-
orously in a swing, but we're forbidden
to use it. A very good lunch was ob-
tained through the simple expedient of
standing in line and picking it up; this
was done with right good will, but in a
gentlemanly fashion, and no one was
trampled. The only ones who probably
didn't enjoy themselves were the horses,
and they really got a workout.
Henry E. Hanson, Dept. 223, celebrat-
ed his silver wedding anniversary June
29 in Los Angeles among his close
friends and relations Thomas C.
Corbett, Dept. 12, was 15 minutes late
for work the evening of June 30. He
had legally become lord and master of
Miss Elaine Briggs that very day in
Las Vegas .. A similar event, oh-so-
long-awaited, united Paul Linker, Dept.
511, and Miss Jean Alexander, of per-
sonnel. For several months, plans were
made and broken; after much scurry-
ing around, with a worry here and a
worry there, a house was finally found
and furniture finally bought. They were
married July 12, spent a week end hon-
eymoon at Arrowhead, and relaxed . The
thing was done.
The morning of Sunday, July 29,
found the three shifts of production
control talking it over at the Santa
Monica Municipal stadium. It was an-
other of those helpful get-togethers ; the
• Concluded on Page Forty-two
PAGE THIRTY- SEVEN
THERE AND BACK WITHOUT
Eighty Miles Over a Predetermined Course
Flew Douglas Sailplane Pilot
By HERMAN STIGLMEIER
[Most difficult of all soaring assign- Arvin port, 2500 feet high in the Te-
ments is the goal -flight-and-return. For hachapis east of Bakersfield, at ex-
the thermal updraft on which motor- actly 1 p.m. and immediately headed
less flight depends - like gold — is out over the San Joaquin valley on an
where you find it. Add the further announced goal- and- return flight to
handicap of flat terrain plus a 15-mile Maricopa, 41 miles distant.
headwind and the odds against reach. Despite unfavorable indications,
ing a pre-determined destination and however, I found a strong thermal of
getting back to starting point become ten feet per second lift almost within
long indeed. Nevertheless, this feat re- seconds of release and easily spiralled
cently was accomplished by Herman up to the cloud base at 8400 feet. This
Stiglmeier, Douglas El Segundo em- was 5900 feet above take-off and took
ploye and veteran glider enthusiast, in only 20 minutes.
a Grunau "Baby" assembled with his The updraft area was general over
own hands. As a notable contribution a radius of about half a mile and my
to success of the annual Western Soar- ship circled easily in the thermal . By
ing meet at Arvin, California, he flew now I was almost two miles east of
to Maricopa, 41 miles away, and back the take- off point at Arvin. So I
in record time. With this absorbing headed for Maricopa and the first
account of the flight, Pilot Stiglmeier thunder cloud west of me, flying at a
tells how it was done. -THE EDITOR. ] speed of 50 m.p.h. and with a sink of
about 12 feet per second. This cloud
SOARING conditions on the day was about seven miles away. Upon ar-
elected were not good. The sky was rival under it my altitude had dropped
overcast and a 15-mile wind blew stead- to 7000 feet, and I was a good thou-
sand feet below the cloud. However,
ily from the west. I took off from the
the updraft was strong and with only
five or six turns I found myself up to
the cloud base. This thermal hit a
velocity of 30 feet per second and it
was necessary to open the spoilers and
dive at 50 m.p.h to keep from being
sucked into the cloud, even though I
purposely kept away from the center
of it. As it was I was edged into the
base for a few moments before diving.
Leaving the cloud I flew three miles
west to another small cloud almost di-
rectly over Arvin but found very little
lift and continued past this one and
three other successive clouds on my
course. Each gave me weak lift and I
circled only once or twice. Heading
south in search of stronger cloud cur-
rents I arrived over Wheeler Ridge,
half way to Maricopa, with an alti-
tude of 1500 feet above the valley
floor. By now it was 2:15 p.m. The
sky continued generally overcast at
6000 feet and I was obliged to fight
for every foot of altitude. This was
very discouraging but I continued to
head for Maricopa, gradually encoun-
READY for a record, Herman Stigl-
meier climbs into Grunau sailplane. tering stronger updrafts until finally
PAGE THIRTY - EIGHT
A MOTOR
hitting one of ten feet per second that
spiralled me up to 5000 feet above
take-off. At this point I headed straight
for Maricopa with a sink of only four-
fifths foot per second, but the air had
grown steadily rougher and the heavy
overcast made vision difficult.
Thunder squalls now appeared to
the north and south of Maricopa as I
approached from the southeast. Turn-
ing on the radio receiver produced
heavy static, indicating the presence of
lightning. About two miles from Mari-
copa I ran into heavy rain and hail.
The air was very rough. Since contest
rules required me to take a picture of
my goal to prove I had reached it, I
struggled closer and tried to get a clear
view of the town . After skirting one
rain squall in an effort to get directly
over town I found myself in such
rough air that it was impossible to keep
the glider under control and I almost
lost the camera several times. Finally I
snapped a picture from one mile away
and an altitude of 1800 feet, then
headed for home at once on a straight
compass course.
Flying down wind made progress
rapid but thermals were few and far
between. After five miles I was down
to 1500 feet. Those thermals that I did
find were too small to spiral in . It also
was very cold and I was about ready
to give up . But just as I would prepare
to land another small thermal would
tantalize me a little and I hung on.
About seven miles east of Maricopa
conditions suddenly began to improve
and I gained 500 feet. Then I headed
straight east again and for about 20
miles in a straight line I continued
gaining until the plane was up to 4200
feet altitude. At that point I overtook
the storm front, with the lift averag-
ing nine or ten feet per second. It was
now 4:40 p.m., and quite dark under
the overcast. In my numbed haste to
get home I made the great mistake of
running on past the front. Had I
stayed in it the return flight might
have been slower but more certain . For
I soon ran into such weak conditions
that in spite of desperate struggling I
continued to lose altitude. I gave up
just four miles short of my take- off
point, landing at the foot of the hill
on our emergency landing field at ex-
actly 5 p.m. , just four hours after the
take- off.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

300 MPH Plus ...
• Concluded from Page Eleven
When we leveled off, I could only
guess at our aitltude, but it looked like
a mile at least. How fast we got there
must remain confidential because the
plane's performance characteristics are
on the restricted list, but it was aston-
ishing.
Now I had time to look about me.
Forward of my posiion, on either
side, the main landing wheels had been
tucked up. So had the nose wheel . The
wings were stubby. That, coupled with
streamlining and power, accounted for
the ship's speed .
My quarters were strictly utilitarian .
There was no soundproofing, as in big
transport planes. Gadgets surrounded
by perch. Slanting over my head was
a plastic canopy which could be opened
for operation of a machine gun. For-
ward, through the tunnel, I could see
one of Haizlip's shoulders.
As in all airplanes, once they leave
the runway, any sensation of speed was
absent, but by watching the ground just
at the trailing edge of he wing I could
tell we were flying very fast.
The noise from the engines rose in
volume. Haizlip looked back, extend-
ing three fingers and then making a
plus mark. Our speed was in excess of
300 miles an hour. The sensation was
somewhat disappointing.
Then we were on a wingtip , in a
turn , and the speed asserted itself. Cen-
trifugal force pressed me down into
the seat . For a moment I was slightly
dizzy . Sky and ground seemed to fuse .
We whipped out of that turn into an-
other, in the opposite direction . I was
determined to see what was going on,
and shook my head to clear it. By the
time we straightened out, I knew I
had been some place, but just where I
wasn't sure .
It seemed good to draw a deep
breath.
Haizlip was throttling back. We were
in a glide approaching the airport. He
looked around, nodding reassuringly.
As the air pressure changed in the des-
cent, my ears cracked . I tightened my
safety belt.
The ship swept across the boundary
of the airport. The main wheels touched,
like feather cushions. The nose re-
mained high. Presently the ship settled
on its nose wheel.
"How fast?" I asked my pilot as we
stopped on the parking line and
climbed out.
"Three hundred plus," he replied ,
JULY ... 1941
"and plenty plus."
"How about the turns?"
"Those were made at above 300."
Ben O. Howard, in charge of engin
eering test flights, greeted us.
"Did you give him the works ?" he
asked Haizlip .
"No," replied my pilot. "It was just
a sissy flight."
Yeah?
Wings Over Paradise
Concluded from Page Thirteen
sky, with its double finned tail look-
ing like the outriggers of a flying war
canoe, has not been recorded. But
before long the regular arrivals and
departures of the amphibians had be-
come as commonplace as the sight of
a surf-rider.
By 1934 so much progress had been
made that congress was urged to grant
airmail routes to this up and coming
line. Inter-Island got the grant, and
became "America's most westerly do-
mestic U.S. airmail line."
Not content to rest on its laurels,
Inter- Island continued to move ahead.
In 1934 it reported a total of 1,254,760
air miles logged in 13,153 flying hours,
and some 48,000 passengers carried
"without incident. " Soon four new S.
43 amphibians of 16-passenger capaci-
ty had been added.
At Honolulu's John Rodgers airport
LEONARD FRY, superintendent of
maintenance for Hawaiian, came to
Santa Monica to study construction
and operation of Douglas airplanes.
Inter-Island or Hawaiian Airlines has
its headquarters, maintains three hang.
ars, has its own overhaul base and
parts warehouse. Routes totaling some
400 miles touch at airports on all six
major islands of the group. These fields
are now being built to mainland Civil
Aeronautics Board regulations, with
most of the line's route being radio
equipped.
Traffic is heavy, all year ' round, with
tourists a particularly important fac-
tor in both winter and summer. In
addition to its scheduled routes, the
line operates sightseeing tours and
charter flights, for there are few sights
more breathtaking than the Hawaiian
Islands from the air.
With its new DC-3s Hawaiian Air-
lines is planning to inaugurate either
stewardess or steward service. In addi-
tion to its whites and Hawaiians, the is
land population includes Chinese, Ja-
panese, Filipinos, Portuguese and Span-
iards. For its stewardesses, therefore,
the line has selected and trained "Hapa
Hoale" girls, half white and half Ha-
waiian, who know the islands from
childhood, and speak fluently English,
the native Hawaiian Polynesian and
other island tongues .
To observe first-hand the construc-
tion of their new planes, President
Kennedy, Leonard Fry, superintendent
of maintenance, and other officials, re-
cently visited the Douglas Santa Mon-
ica plant and studied DC-3 construc-
tion, operation and maintenance in
great detail.
Within a few weeks Hawaiian Air-
lines DC-3 transports will have been
delivered and placed in service, join-
ing with the Navys patrol planes and
the Armys bombers and fighters in
spreading protective wings over the is
lands paradise that is America's sen-
tinel in the Pacific.
Seminole ...
• Continued from Page Fifteen
the rest is simple, provided they are of
different clans. The man, with proper
permissions granted, then kills a deer
and places it at the door of the Indian
girl's wigwam- a token of his affec-
tion. If the present is received the
Indian is happy. If it remains untouch-
ed, he may do as his white brother does,
go hang himself, or, as is usual, go
seek a more-willing fair one-assum-
ing, of course, that the woods are full
of them .
• Concluded on Page Forty-two
PAGE THIRTY- NINE

"Keep It Up"..
• Continued from Page Nine
the coordination of effort being made
today by the English-speaking peoples
the world over to protect that form of
civilization which we have built up
stone by stone through the centuries to
safeguard the personal liberties of the
individual . When these airplanes ar-
rive in England they will be yet a
further confirmation to the people of
England that the men and women of
the United States are behind them."
While touring Douglas production
lines and viewing their products, the
ambassador talked with W. F. Zach-
arias, Dept. 633, who, during World
war I was decorated by Britain for his
services in making munitions steel at
Tata Iron & Steel company in India.
Lord Halifax, then Viceroy of India,
had personally commended Zacharias .
Wendell Willkie during his visit dis-
played keen interest in what Douglas
was doing for the nation's security,
and told employes gathered in the
Punch Bowl, "The only way we can
keep this thing away from us is to
build up our defenses. . . But unity is
vital , far even more important than
keeping America out of war is keeping
war out of America. "
Bowline Bites ...
• Concluded from Page Twenty- nine
bula are now building boats 53 , 54 and
55. Kipp Cooper of planning will
launch Maybe maybe right away. Paul
Swan of El Segundo and Joe Hill of
hydraulics are ready to launch their
Delta preparatory, perhaps, to another
South Pole expedition.
This fleet has just finished its
summer series with Hugh McLachlan of
experimental planning first with Aero,
Fred Allardt of tool design second with
Cool Head, and Toby Peterson third.
One of the three jigs used on this
Delta project has been knocked down
and was sent to Peru to be used by
the boys of Pan-American Airways to
build a fleet there.
Gunnar Anderson , a member of
Dept. 25, El Segundo plant, has been
competing very strongly in the very
popular fleet of Flatties. This 18-foot
sloop Vinden (Swedish for windward )
was designed by Ted Geary . This class
boasts the largest number of boats of
any fleet on the Pacific coast extend-
ing from San Diego to Vancouver, B.C.
Ed Olin, the international Flattie cham-
PAGE FORTY
pion, is at Douglas in Dept. 443, nights.
Fred Kirby of Dept. 633 has built a
catboat which is now in the water. This
is his first boat. The next will be larger.
Sailing at Douglas is an established
recreative sport and is becoming high-
ly competitive.
"Happy Landings!"
Sports..S.M.
• Concluded from Page Thirty- two
less of that it was a terrific battle from
start to finish ; a fight that had plenty of
color and action all the way through.
Both boys put up a good clean fight and,
although Hennessy battered the cham-
pion's face somewhat and won the de-
cision, he didn't miss out on a sound
thrashing himself.
The curtain raiser on this card was
put on by Bobby Sommers and Harold
McDermott. This also was an excellent
bout. It might even be described as a
fighters fight, in that it was an entirely
different one than the championship af-
fair. Sommers and McDermott were
fast, clean boys ; very hard hitters and
both knew their business . This bout,
coupled with the championship main
event, made for an excellent card . Score
one more for Matchmaker Augie Di
Mille who consistently seems to come
through with the very finest in ring
entertainment.
Referee Van Cleve awarded the deci-
sion to Sommers after three very fast
rounds. Sommers and McDermott were
lightweights.
The feature of these Douglas Athlet-
ic club bouts, promoted by Augie Di
Mille, is the light heavyweight tourna-
ment which is now going on. Tech-
nically this is a novice tournament as
entrants may have had no more than
five amateur fights. The weight range
in the tournament is 160 to 175 pounds.
According to Promoter Di Mille , a
handsome trophy will be awarded the
winner of the tournament. The trophy
has been donated by fight judges , Fred
Meyers, Ross Elkins and V. M. Ogan.
Ogan lately accepted the post as
Douglas Athletic club arbiter, vacated
by H. E. McCann who, for many years
was a familiar figure at D.A.C. affairs.
In the first round of the light heavy-
weight tournament, held some weeks
ago, Harvey Bauler, Dept. 113, knocked
out Lod Capps, Dept. 521 , in the open-
ing heat of their scheduled three round
bout. It was a short fight, but a sweet
one while it lasted . Evidently this Baul-
er boy packs plenty of sleeping powder
in that right hand.
The main event of the day brought
together Pitt Williams of Dept. 61 , and
Dan Read, Dept. 27. Pitt took the nod
in that one after three fairly good
rounds. Williams is the lad who fought
Kenny Scarce to a standstill when the
latter was middleweight champ. He has
just lately moved up into the light
heavyweight class .
Promoter Di Mille says fight fans
will see more very good boys in action
as the tournament progresses. Some of
these promising youngsters are Buddy
Lynch, Bart Jacobson, Al Johnnessen,
Roy Dequasie, Johnny Manke and D. B.
Miller. All of these fighters are out of
Dept. 511 , which seems to grow ' em
husky and ambitious. From Dept. 402
comes Irish Johnny McIlvain, with Carl
Weiss, Gus Brown and George Benick
hailing from Depts. 18, 84 and 47, in
that order.
Golfers in Sessions
At Rancho Country Club
Sherwood Clavelot, in the absence of
Stan Palmer, Douglas Athletic Club
golf chairman, has lately staged sev-
eral very successful golf tournaments,
two of which were held in past weeks
at the Rancho Country club. Accord-
ing to Clavelot , over 70 divot diggers
turned out for the play Sunday, July
20. Many fine scores were turned in and
prizes will be awarded, as usual, for low
gross and low net scores in each of the
four handicap divisions after conclusion
of the matches July 27.
Randalls and O'Dowdy Split
Riotous Wrestling Matches
Intending to build up Norm Randalls,
popular D.A.C. mat star, Promotor
Marvin Powers this month called in a
rank outsider, one Pat O'Dowdy. The
Irish grappler, instead of being a push-
over, turned out to be one of the tough-
est tomatoes Randalls, or anybody else
for that matter, ever met. To get to
the point, O'Dowdy pinned both the ref-
eree, Gege Gravente, as well as his for-
mal opponent, the very capable Ran-
dalls . Details are forthcoming .
As soon as it began, the bout turned
into one of those every-man-for-himself
affairs, with O'Dowdy putting up one
of the roughest battles Punch Bowl fans
have witnessed in a long time. O'Dowdy
who must have learned his wrestling
on the other side of the tracks, is fast
and strong, and he has mayhem on his
mind continually. At one time during
the hostilities, the florid faced Irish-
man knocked Referee Gravente on his
ear and then turned to Randalls and
went to work. Norm went down after
being nearly blinded by O'Dowdy's
gouging tactics .And while Gravente
himself was still rolling around on the
floor, O'Dowdy pinned the Douglas
favorite.
Gravente , still in a dazed condition,
finally made his way up with the help
of the ropes and awarded the decision
to O'Dowdy. It seemed to be the only
thing to do as the Irishman was the
only one on his feet. The crowd, how-
ever, heartily disapproved the outcome
of the bout. The fact that O'Dowdy had
beaten the Douglas champ wasn't so
bad. It was the way he did it that hurt.
Matchmaker Powers learned one
thing from the match, however, which
he confided to this writer. He claims
that, if he lives to be a thousand, he
will never again pick on an Irishman
when he needs a setup.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

Sports ... E.S .
Concluded from Page Thirty-four
quite a sensation when the coaches
yell, "Take it, Ed!' They make an in-
teresting thud when they all collide at
once.
The team thus far lacks some bat-
ting punch, though Bill Halliburton is
clipping at a terrific .625 mark includ-
ing two home runs. Earl Jackson is
around .600, followed by Hager with
.500 . This all sounds like murderers'
row, but the rest of the lineup has
shown a questionable ability to bat its
way out of a show window.
League games are played each Mon-
day evening either at Centinela park or
at Harvard playground .
SPORTS PERSONALITIES
It is high time our own gazette gave
more than passing mention to one of
the plants leading sports figures, al-
though his genial grin has long been a
familiar adornment to the pages of
leading dailies in these parts. The grin
is usually surrounded by a helmet and
goggles, and surmounted by a headline
reading, "Russing Headed for Another
Championship, which evidence serves to
identify the gentleman both as Roy
Russing, motor installation inspector at
El Segundo plant, and the leading mid-
get auto racing driver on the Pacific
coast.
Our failure to touch upon Roy's ca-
reer long ere this, was due to the be-
lief that the newspapers and maga-
zines had already done a complete job
of it. However, Russing followers
around the plant don't seem to think so,
so here is an attempt to give Roy the
Airview recognition he certainly de-
serves.
His early career as race driver took
Russing around practically every major
track in the United States, and gave
him an established reputation by the
time he came to work for Douglas,
four years ago. Then began a rapid
climb toward fame on Pacific Coast
speedways, a climb which nearly ended
in oblivion during a main event at Gil-
more stadium in 1938, when a tire blew
out and sent Roy through the south
rail, and into a six weeks camping par-
ty under an oxygen tent. Doctors stood
around a bed on which they had piled
the motley assortment of shattered ribs,
broken shoulder, lacerated face and
other subassemblies, and shook their
heads the wrong way, just like in the
movies, but Russing wouldn't pull into
the pits just because the old man with
the scythe had lapped him. He won the
fight and two years later was back
smelling oil, on his way to the 1940
West Coast midget championship .
At this stage of the 1941 race, Roy is
again enjoying a comfortable lead in
his quest for a second consecutive
crown. He holds every record estab-
lished at the Ascot speedway and a
majority of those at Gilmore. Most
spectacular of his feats in 1941 has
been the winning of nine straight races
at Ascot, in six of which he was handi-
JULY ... 1941
capped to last in a field of 12 cars un-
der the inverted start system.
The famed Kelly Petillo, 1935 winner
of the Indianapolis classic, engaged our
boy to pilot an entry in the Memorial
day event this spring, but his luck ran
out in the qualifying run, when an oil
slick spun his car through a guard rail.
It broke so many parts Roy wouldn't
attempt to describe the damage to us,
but it is enough to say the machine
was quite definitely out of the classic.
Even then they rolled a brand new
car out for Roy to pilot, so confident
were they of his ability, but when the
Russing luck goes bad, it doesn't fool. A
fire of unknown origin swept the garage
just before race time and incinerated
the machine. So, for this year at least,
the goal of all race drivers stayed out
of Roy's reach.
He's back in harness now in Dept.
85, inspecting motors during working
hours, and winning races at Gilmore
oval in between. He owns his own home
in Hawthorne, where his pretty wife
and young son welcome him after each
new success on the track. Whether you
know him as Roy Russing, inspector, or
Roaring Roy Russing, speed king, you
can't help wishing him the best of luck
at both.
Rambling Reporter - E.S.
• Concluded from Page Thirty-five
by cutting weeds at his home. We are
wondering if Oscar Alspaugh will come
back from his vacation in Old Mexico
with a Spanish accent or a Spanish
senorita. All in all, everyone of produc-
tion control really enjoyed his vacation.
Tom and Grace Francis and Frank
and Betty Blades took in the wonders of
Lake Tahoe and Reno. Dexter and Bar-
bara Wood, Ted and Fredda Lotridge,
Dayton Plank, Mark Miller, Ralph and
Winnie Tetslaf, Bob and Bee Windell
and Gordon Buchan spent the week
end in the Mammoth lake area skiing
and fishing. They report not many fish
caught due to the high water and snow.
However, the skiing was wonderful on
Panorama Dome, where they had the
Santa Monica Ski club ski tow installed
for the three days. Yosemite, as usual
drew many of the localites for the three
days. Among those there were Hilda
Ives, Ruth Gaskell, Ella Mae Moody,
Jane McFarland, Ruth Schreiner, Jean
Burch, Betty Chase, Ethel McGowan,
George Stoye.
Round About
Seen at the Aquaplane press dinner
were Mirriam Williams , Dept. 35, and
Bud Stillens, Dept. 81. Hollywood stars
were in full bloom at the dinner-there
were among others, Carol Landis , Bert
Wheeler, Jimmy Starr, Hogie Carmich-
ael and others.
Mike Boll, Dept. 65, has a queer look-
ing gadget which he calls "my inven-
tion." He optimistically calls it a per-
spective drafting machine. Dick (Rube
Goldberg) Beaveh, Dept. 65, gadget de-
signer extraordinary, has now been re-
named Dick "Beaverberg," and all gad-
gets from now on will be stamped
"Beaverbergs." H. B. Stecker, supervis-
or, Dept. 15, bought a new home in
West Los Angeles, and expects to move
in sometime before the sheriff does.
Jack Horton, Dept. 15, and family va-
cationed in Yosemite National forest.
With three guns he whirled away the
hours annoying the jackrabbits. Tommy
Davies, Dept. 65, has bought a new
home up north-Burbank- (He says "in
the valley" ) . Someone yelled at Ed-
ward Jackson, Dept. 15, "Say, when
are you going to get your inheritance"
-A pal snapped "yeah ! He's getting
paid again Friday. " Officer Charles P.
Petney is having a platform erected in
the middle of the highway at the ent-
rance to the west gate , so he can di-
rect traffic in safety when he yells "Get
your blank-blank badges out in plain
sight or I'll—”
Parties
Surprise shower for Jean Lane was
given June 5 at Nancy Lee tea room at
Leimert Park. A lovely setof crystal and
kitchen utensils were presented to the
charming Jean. A personal shower fol-
lowing the elopement of Mrs. Helen
Knox Dandro of Dept. 35, was given by
the lovelies of personnel department at
the home of the veddy, veddy charming
Ann Wilson on June 17. A buffet din-
ner was served. The guest of honor was
presented with many charming gifts.
Betty Barker of Dept. 69, was the re-
cipient of many beautiful gifts at a
surprise shower given at the home of
Anne Schabarum, June 18, in honor of
her approaching marriage on July 3.
Second Shift News
Submitted by
ED SULLIVAN, Dept. 27
Robin Linda Zuetell, weighing eight
pounds and three ounces, clocked in at
6:19 on the morning of May 14 at the
Torrance Memorial hospital. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Zue-
tell. Wally is production control head in
Dept. 12 and now a very proud father
of two. "Tex" Shuffle Bankston, Dept.
27, was definitely on the lucky side
when his girl friend submitted a slo-
gan in a Los Angeles clothing firm's
contest, winning him a new suit. Be-
hind the stellar slugging of Wally Zue-
tell and Bud Treanor, the Dept. 27 sec-
ond shift softball team, captained by
Johnny Wallis, is on the top of the
night shift league with six wins and no
losses. In their latest game four suc-
cessive homeruns in the sixth, when
they were behind, by Bob Cahan, Don
Tartwell, Jack Wilson and Johnny Wal-
lis sustained their unstained record.
George Thomas, transferred from the
third shift, is now the Dept. 27 booth
head in Dept. 5 on the second shift. Tom
Smiley, Dept. 27, is on the job in the
booth of Dept. 5 in spite of the incon-
venience occasioned by a fractured
wrist received in a motorcycle accident.
Rommie Lovil, Dept. 27, has informed
his friends quite confidentially, that the
time is July 12 , the place St. Clements
in Oceanside and the favorite girl, Vir-
ginia Wolfe.
PAGE FORTY-ONE

Bill Knudsen ...
• Concluded from Page Seven
man wasn't tired . I'd swear it.
He asked for a sheet of paper- "a
letterhead of this concern and plant."
To inquiring looks exchanged among
the Douglas folk present, Knudsen ex-
plained : "Later when I try to unscram-
ble my notes back in Washington, at
least I'll know that my figures apply to
the right factory . It's an old practice
begun in the days when I used to visit
hundreds of auto dealers and kept
mixing up my notes."
A practical man, Big Bill.
For five minutes he wrote furiously
with a pencil then wheeled and began
firing rapid questions at Springer.
He wanted production figures, num-
ber of employes, contract data, statis-
tics on materiel , man-hours, morale,
priorities, new and stop-gap orders to
bridge slack periods that might occur
in future change-overs from one mod-
el to ano.her.
"Mr. Springer," he said, after all
the answers had gone down on the
letterhead, "I'm here for only one pur-
pose to cut any and all red tape tha
might hamper you in delivering 100
per cent production at this plant. If
you need men, materiel, orders or any
other help that the United States gov-
ernment can give you, now is the time
to speak up ."
That's Knudsen. He talks turkey, this
number one man in the nation's indus-
trial defense, and he gets results . What
Springer told him in equally terse,
down to earth facts is off the record so
far as this piece is concerned. So was
the rock-bottom conference of Big Bill
with Donald W. Douglas, Carl Cover
and other top executives at the Santa
Monica plant later the same afternoon .
And at scores of other factories and
industrial units which Knudsen visited
on that and other days.
But the sum total to which it all adds
up is that the man with the biggest job
in the United States today outside the
presidency is very much on that job
and nothing tha : is humanly possible
to be done is being overlooked . This
writer sleeps better at night since
Knudsen's visit and in this halting
fashion has tried to pass on to the
readers of Airview a similar reassur-
ance.
As he arose to leave the El Segundo
plant, Knudsen said : "Mr. Springer, I
am pleased with your plant, its order-
liness, efficiency, production and mo-
PAGE FORTY-TWO
rale . Keep up the good work ! "
Remarked General Brett, aside :
"That's only the third time on this
trip he has expressed complete satis-
faction with any plant. I'd say that
was something of which to be just a
little bit proud."
Running Lights ...
• Concluded from Page Thirty- seven
only fault that we could find with this
one is that it did not last long enough,
but that could not be helped. Having
received an official invitation from Bud
Rogers, we arose at practically the
crack of dawn- about 11 o'clock- in
spite of a goodly amount of activity
the previous night ; and found, upon
arriving at the stadium, that the base-
ball game was terminated, the hot dogs
depleted, and the impromptu bar about
to be closed. In fact, the premises
themselves were about to be vacated.
But a good old-fashioned gab-fest was
still in session, and it was obvious that
the boys were going away happy.
With so many people out of town for
the holiday week end, it caused Bob
Stock no end of wonderment where all
the noise came from on the Fourth of
July. The tooling division spread far
and wide for its celebrations Lake
Arrowhead called Tom Mitchell, and
Tahoe sheltered Sam Wasem, Dennis
Stecher, Jim Morris and Bill Aldridge
for three days of swimming and other
Tahoe amusements . . . Bill Newman
reports a good catch of mountain trout
at June Lake , in the High Sierras, and
he swears it isn't a fish story. But you
should see the one that got away
Joe Dodd went to Reno, not to get
unhitched. It seems there is a very ex-
cellent dude ranch up there , and Joe
and the Mrs. reveled in luxury for the
entire vacation . He says Reno is still
what it is cracked up to be . . . Dean
Ludden took the night life of San Fran-
cisco, and states that crossing those
bridges kept him broke . . . Wes Cam-
eron was at Forest Home for the week
end ... Buddy McCarron and Dorothy
Dixon were married June 29, with the
good wishes of Dept. 651 . . .
Seminole ...
• Concluded from Page Thirty- nine
When the squaw finds it necessary
to make new clothes for her husband ,
she takes pieces of cloth of various
bright solid colors . These she tears
into strips from a quarter of an inch
to three inches in width. She then sews
them together horizontally, no two
strips of the same color being together .
The result is a marvelous shirt of many
colors. With this shirt, he wears a pair
of cheap cotton trousers . Her costume
consists of a skirt , a chemise with
sleeves and a cape. The skirt sweeps
the ground. The cape covers the elbows
and meets the waistband of the skirt.
A very modest outfit, although she
never wears shoes or stockings or even
hats. Around her neck, she drapes
string after string of beads, until a
solid pyramid extends from shoulder
blades to chin . Sometimes they weigh
as much as 25 pounds. She takes most
of these off at night, but would not ap
pear in camp without them.
The green corn dances held each
year in June are the annual business
meetings. As a legislative device, the
men and all women over 18 years of
age have a voice in the council . Ju-
dicial functions are in the hands of a
council, which decrees penalties for
infractions of their code , and in years
past undoubtedly has inflicted the death
penalty. It also takes cognizance of
marriage and divorce.
The Seminole man has a curious
custom upon the death of a loved one.
In his dugout canoe, with nothing but
his gun for company, he turns his back
upon his desolated camp not to re-
turn and paddles himself deep into
the swamp without looking back.
There he stays for several days before
coming back to take his place in the
sun and to establish a new camp .
Callahan feels that the old myths
and customs of this tribe are being
displaced by new ones, and we can see
that the red man's inheritance is near-
ing the horizon of destiny. So it seems
that when the "last Seminole" goes, he
will in every sense be the last. He will
leave no history, nor will he leave a
monument. His race has had their
joys, their triumphs and their defeats ,
and now it would seem that they are
being swept into oblivion .
Photos By ..
All photographs by Douglas Aircraft com-
pany unless otherwise noted.
Chief Photographers
ROY L. JOHNSON, Santa Monica
HAROLD G. JACKSON, El Segundo
JACK FREEMAN, Long Beach
Staff Photographers
RAY HOSKINS FRANK ENKOSKY
R. C. BERTHOLF WALTER TUFTS
ROYAL WRIGHT PAUL KING
HARRY MERRICK
Pages 4 and 5, BOEING AIRCRAFT COMPANY.
Pages 12 and 13, except lower right, HA-
WAIIAN AIRLINES.
Page 18, HARRY MERRICK.
Page 19, LARRY KRONQUIST.
Page 25, top and bottom, Los ANGELES
EXAMINER; Center, Los ANGELES TIMES.
Page 28, left, HAROLD ADAMS ; lower right,
DESORIA.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 Thoughts of a Defense Worker

By
PATRICIA ECKHARDT
Dept. 293-7

I am a defense worker. There are thousands just like me through our great nation . To me, it is
the most wonderful experience of my life-because the nature of the work is so far reaching .

Sometimes-when energy is low, the task seems heavy and wearisome, and I find my mind
wondering to thoughts of fishing , golf , swimming , boating , or perhaps just resting on the beach.
My mind seeks such thoughts as-" if I only had " -when in reality I have more wealth of life and
opportunity at hand than comes to most people in a normal span of life.

I feel a great deal of pride when I realize that I have proven trustworthy enough to be em-
ployed in the great task our country has under taken . I know that everything I do, however trivial
it may seem on the surface , is one of the basic millions of steps which tend to make a picture com-
plete. For instance , I know every job has a meaning and to this end-what I am doing not only
helps us to help our friends over there, but enables us to protect ourselves .

It is like a gigantic puzzle in effect-due to the fact that the digit which I have just posted is
simply a numeral . But looking beyond the page upon which it is written, I vision those I love, peace,
health , happiness , the American way of living with its appetite for freedom ; to exercise one's mind
and life; to live as God intended it to be lived ; to enjoy the beauty of nature to feel the warmth of
the sun upon one ; to gaze enraptured upon the glories of the heavens on a clear starlit night ; to see
the flowers, bedecked smilingly in their brilliant hues as Mother Nature dressed them for the spring ;
science, art, literature , medicine-and on and on to the things which touch upon the life of everyone.

These things envision. Then follows a thought of charred ruins, of terror running rampant, of
tragedy, starvation , disease , slavery to a hated cause , of a living hell on earth. When these visions
have passed , and my eyes alight upon the work at hand , I see it as opportunity-as the tool which
has been given to me to help me protest in my modest way, these others throughout the land that
are going about tasks other than defense work- and those dear to me.

And so , I shan't mind what my country asks of me through those who employ me , because I
know we all have a common task, a common duty and a common destiny in the land we love. And
come what may, deep down in my heart I shall know that I have endeavored to do, to the best of
my ability, whatever I could for my fellowmen , my country, and myself.

( EDITOR'S NOTE : The above quoted thoughts

of a Douglas woman employe were un-
solicited and are reproduced as they were re-
ceived, uncut and unedited. Airview pub-
lishes them in the belief that they represent
a cross section of the thoughts and beliefs of
America's loyal army of defense workers in
the present national emergency) .
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AUGUST, 1941 Circulation-40,000 Volume VIII Number 8

Published by the CONTENTS

Departments of Industrial and
Public Relations HAVENS OF HEALING TO GUARD OUR HEALTH 4
Douglas Aircraft Company MORE PAY 7
A. M. ROCHLEN SPEED 8
Director
WEATHER CONTROL · 9
JACK G. ANDERSON
Assistant THE AIR CORPS' OWN AIRLINE 10
FREDERIC C. COONRADT WHITE DEATH - 12
Managing Editor
COLOR PRESENTATION 14
Associates
AL A. ADAMS BOB THOMPSON HAVOC · - 15
WITH DOUGLAS AROUND THE WORLD · 16
Contributors to This Issue
MARGARET BALL PATRICIA KELLY HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE · · 17

2222
E. W. BEATTIE, JR. CLYDE KINTZ MECHANIZED PRODUCTION · 18
DON BLACK JACK LESTER
NED CRAWFORD BERT D. LYNN WITH US THIS MONTH 20
BRAVEN DYER DARRELL D. MARKS
ENID KIEBURTZ FRANK OPDYKE BOWLINE BITES
GOLF - 23
COVER : A dramatic flight photograph
in kodachrome by Harold Jackson , El DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB SPORTS 24
Segundo chief photographer, of the 25
DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB ACTIVITIES
Air Corps' newest dive bomber, the
Douglas A-24, in a vertical bank. Sim- SPORTS ... EL SEGUNDO PLANT · 26
ilar versions of this airplane are now in
service with the Army, Navy and Ma- RAMBLING REPORTER • • EL SEGUNDO PLANT 27
rine Corps .
RAMBLING REPORTER ...
.. SANTA MONICA PLANT 28

Published monthly by Douglas Aircraft Com- RUNNING LIGHTS ON THE NIGHT SHIFT 29
pany, Inc., Santa Monica, California. Cable ad-
dress : Douglasair. Address all communications RAMBLING REPORTER ... LONG BEACH PLANT 30
to Douglas Airview, Santa Monica, Calif. Copy-
right 1941 by Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc. SHOP SUGGESTION AWARDS 31

BONDS OF DEFENSE

FROM the very beginning of the present emergency,
Douglas management and Douglas personnel have been "all
out" for defense in the production drive to keep America
safe in the air.
This determination to put our shoulders to the wheel
and keep them there so long as our democratic ideals are
endangered is resulting in more airplanes than we have
ever built before, airplanes that are faster and more formid-
able than ever before .
But the coordination of skilled hand and trained mind,
the partnership of craftsman and engineer, is still not all
we can bring to bear. When the history of these critical
days is written , America's place in its pages may be de-
termined by her success in marshalling for defense not only
her men and machines but her dollars .
To make America secure and united, the government has
issued Defense Savings Bonds -tangible tokens of our na-
tional unity and of the faith of Americans in America .
These bonds, issued for ten -year periods, and redeem-
able with interest at any time, have behind them the faith
and credit of the United States government- the best in-
vestment in the world.
I know all of you, as loyal Americans interested in pre-
serving our way of life, will want to purchase these bonds
to an extent to which you are able.
To make this more convenient for you , the government
has asked me to establish a Voluntary Payroll Allotment
Plan by which you may ask the company to set aside from
your pay checks each week a specific sum for purchasing
in your name and for your use these United States Savings
Bonds. Features and more details of this plan will be an-
nounced soon.
I have assured the government we of Douglas, 33,000
strong and growing every day, will do everything in our
power to make these Bonds of Defense a common denomina-
tor of our democracy and our faith in the country and in-
stitutions we love.
tampa
. Barlas
.

AUGUST ... 1941 PAGE THREE


Havens of Healing
TO GUARD OUR HEALTH
THE largest, best equipped, most
thorough industrial medical system on
11e Pacific coast !
A system complete with laboratories,
perating rooms and X-ray, physiother-
spy and other costly equipment enab-
ling it to carry out nearly any medical
function from bandaging a stubbed toe
to performing major surgery!
Such are the opinions expressed by
visiting physicians and surgeons who
have recently inspected the greatly en-
larged medical departments of the
three plants of the Douglas Aircraft
company.
Proof of the value and efficiency of
the Douglas medical service can be
found in the rates paid by the company
for industrial insurance which is car-
ried for all employes, protecting them
against loss because of injuries and
illnesses resulting from their work.
PAGE FOUR
Largely because of the thoroughness of
treatment available for injuries and
sickness, the Douglas company is able
to insure its employes itself with a sav
ing of more than $ 100,000 over rates
that would be required if insurance were
carried with an outside insurance com-
pany whose rates are based upon av-
erage injury and illness rates of all
industry.
This means far more than a mere
saving in dollars and cents in insur-
ance. This figure reflects only the re-
duction in loss of earnings of em-
ployes directly resulting from illness
and injury contracted within the plant .
Not reflected is the reduction of pain
and suffering and the resultant increase
in health and well-being which can be
measured only in non-statistical terms
of human happiness .
Since its inception in 1930 when the
TREATMENT of minor injuries and
illnesses is handled in the main
dressing room at Santa Monica's main
dispensary. Head nurse is Eva Wilke.
medical department consisted of a three
room bungalow on the airport staffed
by Nurse "Susy" Dawson and part time
by Dr. C. E. Rooney, now medical di
rector, the Douglas medical depart-
ment's expansion has been far more
rapid and revolutionary than even the
expansion of the aircraft industry.
With the completion this month of
the latest addition to the executive of-
fices, the facilities and equipment of
the medical department have reached a
new high. The newly enlarged main
dispensary at Santa Monica boasts the
addition of several new rooms and
quantities of new equipment. In addi-
tion, two new dispensaries have recent-
ly been added within the plant itself,
one at the far west in the personnel
and tooling building, the other at the
far east, beyond the big hangar.
No effort and no expense has been
spared to provide the utmost in staff
and equipment to help keep the health
and well-being of Douglas employes
at par. Spotlessly clean, completely air-
conditioned, and gleaming with chromi-
um fixtures, the dispensaries are open
24 hours a day, staffed by registered
nurses with doctors present or on call.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 X-RAY MACHINE, left, is one of newest
pieces of equipment of medical department.
Above, Dr. York, X-ray expert, is shown in
special darkroom used for developing negatives.

In the central dressing room of the

main dispensary facilities are provided
sufficient to enable six nurses to handle
treatments simultaneously. Two other
small treatment rooms are located in
the main dispensary. In addition Santa
Monica plant has four small dispen-
saries located in the plant. El Segundo
has a large and complete dispensary
and the still growing Long Beach plant
will eventually have ten dispen-
saries plus a central industrial unit as
complete as the present unit at Santa
Monica.
Adjoining the main dressing room at
Santa Monica are special treatment
rooms of a type seldom seen outside
great hospitals.
Newest equipment installed at Santa
Monica is X-ray. This equipment, which
is used under the direction of Dr. M.
York, is the most modern available and
enables the doctors to make immediate MEDICAL DIRECTOR, Dr. C. E. Rooney, right, examines with Dr. York some
and complete examination of broken X-ray plates in special view-box. Below, the main dispensary's physiotherapy room
bones and internal injuries. A dark- where injured muscles are helped with deep heat and light ray treatments.
room for developing X-ray negatives
and equipment for viewing and study-
ing the negatives is also provided.
Also unique, new and of great value
is the physiotherapy equipment . This
equipment includes infra- red lamps,
quartz lights and diathermy and caut
ery units. It is used principally for
wounds and for the treatment of muscu-
lar strains and other injuries. The dia-

AUGUST ... 1941

 thermy equipment produces "deep
heat" within the tissues of the body
which is very valuable in the treat-
ment of injured muscles.
While major surgery is seldom at-
tempted in the dispensaries of any of
the plants because such operations in-
volve hospitalization , the equipment is
there and available in case of emerg-
ency. The surgery room's facilities in-
clude operating table, instrument
stands and instruments, sterilizers, wash
basins and all other necessary equip-
ment. Its air is filtered and an abund-
ance of light is provided by fluores-
cent lamps and through ultra-modern
SURGERY at Santa Monica is equipped glass brick windows.
for major operations. Shown operating Also unusual in industrial medicine
on patient is Dr. H. O. Stocker. is Santa Monica's medical laboratory.
With its microscopes, chemicals, dyes
and test tubes, nearly all variety of
EYE room handles tests and treatment laboratory tests of blood and other
of eyes, ears, noses and throats. bodily fluids can be made to aid in
both diagnosis and treatment of ill-
nesses.
This laboratory and X-ray equip
ment now enables the medical depart-
ment to make comprehensive preem-
ployment medical examination of all
applicants for employment at Doug-
las . No longer are preemployment ex-
aminations merely routine. The exam-
inations now include chest X- rays, blood
tests and urinalysis .
This equipment is also used for pe-
riodic examinations of employes en-
gaged in potentially dangerous work
in the plants. Men who operate paint
SUPERVISOR of nurses at all spray guns, although every possible
Douglas plants is "Campie" protection is given them while work-
Campiglia, right. Susy Daw- ing, are given regular blood tests to
son has over 11-year record. guard against paint poisoning. Men
who use sand blasting equipment have
BLOOD tests, other examina- their lungs X- rayed frequently to de-
tions made in laboratory. tect irritations of the lungs which
might develop from their work.
Vast quantities of other specialized
FOUR dispensaries, such as those equipment is owned and used by the
above and below, are located in the medical department. It includes a new
factory. "autoclave" sterilizer, a special refrig
erator for biological serums, a foot-
bath and the latest type of " pulmotor"
or resuscitator- inhalator.
This pulmotor makes artificial res
piration a thing of the past. Used in
cases where breathing is impeded, such
as severe shock, it administers a mix-
ture of oxygen and carbon dioxide at
normal breathing rate. The equipment
is portable and can be rushed imme.
diately to the scene of any possible
accident .
The staff of the medical department
• Concluded on Page Thirty-four

DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
www
 MORE PAY
Douglas Company Gives Half Million
Dollars to 21,511 Employes in Wage
Increases Retroactive to July 3. Other
Pay Rises Scheduled for Near Future.
IT was a grand Labor day week end holiday for Douglas
employes in more ways than one.
The extra time off was naturally appreciated by all who
have been working at top speed in the interests of national
defense.
But the main thrill came when wage increase checks in
lump sums, retroactive to July 3 and affecting around 70
LOTS OF WORK is involved in figuring $536,897.32 ret-
per cent of the 33,000 workers were distributed on August
roactive pay for 21,511 Douglas employes. It was the task of
29 at the Santa Monica, El Segundo and Long Beach Paymaster G. B. Barlow shown with secretary Ruth Hough.
plants and for the Tulsa project.
Paymaster G. B. Barlow reported manufacturers and authorized by the
that $536,997.32 was divided among
federal government as a step towards
21,511 employes out of the total per-
regional wage stabilization in the air
sonnel . These special checks were in craft industry with the hope of un-
addition to regular weekly pay checks hindered production for national de-
distributed on the same day, making fense .
the payroll for the week ending Au- This marked the fourth time in five
gust 27 $ 1,688,106.92. months that upward wage adjustments
President Donald W. Douglas said had been made by the management to
these special checks were presented to the benefit of Douglas workers. In
employes as a result of the wage stab. March the company put through blank-
ilization program initiated by aircraft et wage increases of 212 and 5 cents
an hour, this increase affecting all but
executive and administrative employes
in the personnel of 25,000 employes
on the payroll at that time.
In July the company distributed ap-
proximately $ 750,000 in special vaca-
tion checks. On August 7 the minimum
starting wage was increased to 60 cents
an hour, plus 5 cents an hour for every ants had to check the records for each
four weeks of service, until the wage
shall have reached 75 cents an hour.
This increase applied equally to pro-
ductive and non-productive employes
and the special checks, distributed Au-
gust 29 and figured from the above.
scale, were made retroactive to July
3, as Mr. Douglas had promised on
July 2 when he informed employes that
wage stabilization conferences were
scheduled to be held in Washington .
These conferences are still in pro-
gress and wage increases for employes
not affected by the new minimum start-
ing wage are beig studied by the Doug.
las company and by government ex-
EIGHTY machine hours on four of perts. These wage increases also will
these tabulators turning out retroact- be retroactive to July 3 , 1941 .
ive pay checks. Watching checks come
Two weeks before the new minimum
out are J. J. Sobject, assistant pay-
master, Paymaster Barlow, Lois Cagle starting wage was approved in Wash-
and Supervisor Dave Maxwell. ington, the Douglas company had start-
AUGUST . . . 1941
ed the machinery rolling to get the
retroactive pay checks to employes as
quickly as possible. Paymaster Barlow
and a staff of several hundred assist-
ants worked in relays from July 23
through August 28, computing amounts
due each employe .
The task of merely running 21,511
additional checks through the machine
which carries the signature of H. P.
Grube, company treasurer, required
more than ten hours. Prior to this each
check went through the tabulating ma-
chine which carries the employe's name,
date, amount to be received, etc. This
process, with four big tabulating ma-
chines in operation, consumed 80 man
hours .
But before either of these operations
could be started Barlow and his assist-
employe, this task involving the trans-
cription of millions of figures. This in-
volved the use of 3279 work sheets,
which averaged seven names to each
18 column sheet.
The average amount of each pay
check for all plants was $24.76 and it
took approximately five weeks to com-
plete the job of making the proper com-
putations. In order to accomplish this,
employes of the payroll and tabulat-
ing departments in each shift worked
practically around the clock each day.
There were approximately 125 em-
ployes involved in this tremendous
task.
It is noteworthy that all this extra
work was accomplished in addition to
regular weekly routine duties in the
payroll department in connection with
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 WEATHER
Air Conditioning Equipment at New Long Beach
Cooling Equivalent to 34,000 Average
ARTIFICIAL weather will speed the
production of America's wings of de-
fense in Douglas Aircraft company's
huge new "blackout" plant at Long
Beach.
Largest air-conditioning system on
the west coast was installed at a cost
of more than one million dollars in the
factory's 11 units, spread over an area
of 200 acres and including approxim
ately 1,400,000 square feet of covered
working space. So huge is the system
that its duct work alone required nearly
2,000,000 pounds of sheetmetal , while
the refrigerating machinery has so large
a capacity it can produce every 24
hours an amount of cooling equal to
hours an amount of cooling equivalent
to that of 166,000 cubic feet of ice.
While the air-conditioning system is
unique because of its size, its design
and operation as well are expected by
experts to blaze new trails in the heat-
ing and ventilating field.
Instead of installing a central heat-
ing and cooling plant which could be
damaged or crippled, a system of many
individual units was designed . To speed
the manufacture and installation of the
necessary equipment and facilitate the
start of early production, two air-con-
ditioning manufacturers participated.
Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co ..
and York Ice Machinery Corp. They
cooperated closely with Douglas tech-
nicians, the plant's architect -engineers,
Taylor & Taylor, Los Angeles, and
builder, P. J. Walker company, Los
Angeles, in planning the unique sys-
tem.
INSULATED DUCTS hidden in the ceilings carry fresh conditioned air to the Long
Beach offices. Two million pounds of sheet metal was used for the entire system.
CONTROL
Plant Produces
Household Refrigerators.
The huge air-conditioning plant is
designed to make the weather inside
the factory resemble a warm spring day
whether there is a blustery February
night or a September heat wave out-
side. Manufacturing units will automat-
ically be kept at 80 degrees Fahren-
heit, and 48 per cent relative humidity,
offices at 78 degrees and 50 per cent.
To enable the machinery to accomplish
this purpose, thousands of factors had
to be considered, from the fact that the
dull, black exterior of the buildings
readily absorbs the heat of the sun to
the fact that machines and lights give
off heat.
In all there are 70 individual re-
frigerating units, each to condition the
air of a definite zone, and each hav-
ing its own condensing unit, compress-
or, cooling coils, steam heating coils,
fan, filters and duct system. All build-
ings are provided with from 2 to 15
refrigerating and fan units, with excep-
tion of a raw stock and storage struc-
ture which required only ventilating.
Two or more independent boiler plants
are provided to heat each building.
The air- conditioning equipment is all
installed overhead so that its operation
and servicing will never interfere with
manufacturing. Fan stations are install-
ed on platforms in the production
buildings just under the roofs . Fresh
air is drawn in from the roof, cleaned,
cooled ( or heated ) and blown into the
buildings through ducts near the ceil-
ing. Adjustable grills in these ducts
make it possible to direct the flow of
fresh air to any desired spot . Stale air
‫سالب‬
FRESH AIR for factory and offices
comes from the roof. Installation
shown above on Administration Bldg.
is exhausted through return ducts in-
stalled at working levels, about six feet
from the floor.
In the administration and other non-
manufacturing buildings, conditioning
units are installed above the ceilings ,
with air expelled through outlets in the
ceiling.
Also of decentralized type is the
heating system,
system , with 22 individual
steam boiler rooms.
Every 24 hours the supply, exhaust,
and recirculating fans of the air- condi-
tioning system handle more than 3,-
470.000.000 cubic feet of air. To drive
the ventilating and cooling equipment,
approximately 5700 horsepower of
electricity is utilized, or enough to ope-
rate 34,000 average size household re-
frigerators .
To operate and maintain the air- con-
ditioning equipment a new department,
No. 96, was formed at the plant, with
• Concluded on Page Thirty-three
SEVENTY compressors such as this
make the weather cool at Long Beach.
THE AIR CORPS'
Army's 50th Transport Wing Carries More Cargo
Than All United States Airlines Combined
THE biggest, busiest and most rapid-
ly growing air freight service in the
world, 100 per cent Douglas equipped,
daily wings its way from one corner of
the United States to the other and
across the Caribbean sea to America's
island outposts and the Panama ca-
nal, unpublicized but not unhonored.
This great air transport line, which
hauls at least half again as much
freight and express as all 19 major
United States commercial airlines to-
gether, is run by the United States
Army Air Corps. Its official name is
the 50th Transport Wing, Field Service
Section of the materiel division, a unit
of the Maintenance Command, Wright
field, Dayton, Ohio. The Maintenance
Command is under the direction of
Brigadier-General Henry J. F. Miller.
Always a highly important function
of the Air Corps, the cargo system in
the last few months has assumed an
even more vital role in helping to
maintain a constant flow of government
furnished equipment to humming as-
sembly lines of aircraft factories from
coast to coast. And from the aircraft
factories to farflung bases where they
are needed the Air Corps' own airline
speeds spare parts and equipment to
keep combat groups functioning at top
efficiency .
In wartime the Air Corps' cargo sys-
tem and other transport and troop
carrying units would become the
virtual life-line of not only the Air
Corps but of other outlying units and
bases of America's hemispheric ring of
SITG
BUSY DAY at Douglas for U. S. Army transports. One big job of Air Corps cargo system is speeding parts to and from airplane
factories. The six Douglas cargo ships on Clover field, above, are unloading needed parts and re-loading with other equipment.
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defense. For the sturdy, capacious and
fast cargo ships that the Air Corps
uses, several types of Douglas military
transports, can carry almost anything
that can be loaded through the cargo
doors of the airplanes. And the doors
are big on the ships now in service,
C-33s and C- 39s, and will be even larg.
er on the C-47s to be built in
quantity at the Douglas company's new
Long Beach plant. The cargo ships
now largely carry engines, fuel tanks
and airplane subassemblies. But they
could be carrying light artillery, am-
munition and other supplies or even
blitz buggies and motorcycles to troops
in the field . More than 7000 pounds of
freight can be hauled by each airplane.
Today, however, the 50th Transport
Wing is in almost every sense of the
word an Army airline flying regular
routes on regular schedules. It uses
about 60 transport planes in its service
which includes scheduled flights link-
ing the Army's four air depots, regu.
lar trips from San Antonio, Texas, to
the Panama Canal zone and also spe-
cial unscheduled flights as needed be-
tween Air Corps stations and from
factory to factory.
Precise traffic figures showing the
volume of freight shipments currently
being handled by the 50th Transport
Wing are military secrets of the War
department. But such facts as have been
officially released prove beyond doubt
that the Air Corps handles more air
shipments of cargo than the express
shipments of United States commercial
AIRLINE
airlines combined . With defense pro-
duction going higher and higher every
day throughout America and with
more and more speed in deliveries be-
ing demanded, the Army's cargo ship-
ments are increasing proportionately.
The last official figures released by
the War department were for the first
six months of 1940 when the Air Corps
moved a total of 3,395,000 pounds of
freight. American Aviation, authorita-
tive trade magazine, estimates that the
Army's air freight has increased at
least 100 per cent this year over last
year. This increase would make the
total freight volume for the Air Corps
for the first half of this year at nearly
6,800,000 pounds.
During the first six months of 1941
all 19 of the United States ' commer-
cial airlines carried only 4,500,000
pounds of express and cargo, two-
thirds of the amount estimated to have
been carried by the Army.
The airplanes used by the Air Corps'
cargo system are basically identical to
the famous Douglas airliners that have
become standard equipment on the
major airlines of the world, the DC-3s.
The principal difference between the
two types is the cargo ship's huge load-
ing hatch and its lack of soundproofing,
deeply upholstered seats and interior
decorations which have made air travel
in Douglas commercial airliners the top
in luxury transportation.
The Douglas cargo ship's interior is
bare and utilitarian. The floor and the
sides of the cabin are sturdily rein-
forced with heavy sheet metal to sup-
port the heaviest loads. Special fittings
make it possible to bolt and lash down
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HATCHES on cargo planes, the "flying boxcars", are wide enough to take bulky
packages. Each airplane carries its own equipment for loading and unloading.
cargo . Each airplane is equipped with
its own portable crane and hoist so
that loading and unloading can be done
by the airplane's crew members if ne-
cessary without any special ground
equipment.
Headquarters of the 50th Transport
Wing is at Wright field, Dayton .
Since its basic function is to service the
Air Corps Maintenance command and
transport supplies and equipment re-
quired for Air Corps activities, regu-
lar schedules are maintained by the
cargo service between the four main
air depots now functioning in the
United States.
The four air depots in the United
States are at Patterson field, Fairfield,
Ohio ; Olmstead field, Middletown ,
Pa.; Duncan field, San Antonio, Tex..
and McClellan field, Sacramento ,
Calif. Regular scheduled trips are ope-
rated weekly from Fairfield to San An-
tonio, Los Angeles and return ; from
Middletown to Fairfield and San An-
tonio and back ; San Antonio to Fair-
field and Middletown and return, and
a fourth schedule runs from Sacra-
mento through Los Angeles and San
Antonio to Fairfield and back.
For more than a year there has been
a regular weekly schedule from San
Antonio and air depots in the Canal
zone. When more depots are construct-
ed it is expected that the service to the
Canal zone will be greatly augmented .
When more equipment is received, in-
cluding some of the hundreds and hun-
dreds of new Douglas C-47s, freight
AUGUST ... 1941
the 50th Transport Wing.
Even though it is probably the larg
est such system in the world, the Air
Corps' freight system today is by no
means big enough to carry all the
loads it is being called upon to tote. So
great is the demand today for speed in
transport as in everything else associat-
ed with national defense that a pri-
ority system has had to be set up for
all cargoes .
This priority system is handled by
the operations office at Wright field
which assigns to all goods ratings of
extra priority, priority or normal. A
portion of the cargo capacity on the
scheduled runs is always unassigned to
allow for emergency and change orders
which might arise. Thus parts and
equipment most urgently needed at any
base or any aircraft factory are sped to
their destination without delay. The
whole system of loads and priorities is
integrated through the Wright field
headquarters by radio from outlying
flights will probably be scheduled to depots which supply up to the minute
other outlying bases in Alaska and information on the location , destination
elsewhere. and payload of every airplane in use.
A vast depot construction program A year ago the great fleet of Army
for the Air Corps is already in prog- cargo ships were shiny silver in the best
ress. Under construction and expected "spit and polish" tradition of a proud
soon to be ready for use are two de- but peaceful army far from the scenes
pots at Ogden, Utah, and Mobile, Ala. of conflict. Today that is all changed.
Sites for three others at Oklahoma Dull, olive drab and fog-grey paint
City, Macon, Ga ., and Rome, N.Y., has subdued the glitter of the flying
have been selected . Next year the Air freight cars. For the 50th Transport
Corps plans to have 11 large supply Wing is ready for anything that might
and repair depots in continental Unit- come in the present emergency- when-
ed States each of which will be serv- ever, wherever or under whatever cir-
iced by regular freight schedules of cumstances.
PRIORITY
INTERIORS of cargo ships are bare and utilitarian. Note the corrugated metal rein-
forcements on sides, also rings to which crated cargo is being lashed down tightly.
PAGE ELEVEN

"One thing a fisherman sees far
more than do his fellow men, and that
is the coming of the dawn and the
breaking of the light, and the bursting
of the sun into its supremacy."
THIS matter of Australian sharks is
astounding!
A statement by an eminent New York
scientist to the effect that there was no
such thing as a man-eating shark and
further that there are no waters in the
world which he (the scientist ) would
not swim, rang a challenge to the heart.
of the late Zane Grey. For a good
many years Grey had gradually yielded
to an impression that Australian waters,
especially on the Indian ocean side,
would develop some of the greatest big
game fishing in the world.
Grey corresponded with scientists,
market fishermen, anglers, even mis-
sionaries from all of whom he gather-
ed data which added to his convictions
and finally sent him and his party down
to the underside of the world to see
and prove, if possible, that Grey's in-
stinct and imagination were true guides.
He further intended that motion pic-
tures should be of great value in his
venture.
Throughout 12 years of his exten-
WHITE
Australian waters lure big game fisher-
men on world's greatest fishing trip.
by Al A. Adams
WHITE DEATH thing he was doing to revel in the
shark, 10362
beauty of a sunset, a cloud effect, a
pounds, is world's
record man eater graceful bird, a broad band of clear
caught in Austral- sky turning gradually gold, or the
ian waters by Gus transfiguration of the sea as the sun
Bagnard. and moon exchanged watches in their
ethereal sky-ship . Grey knew how to
live and when and why he was liv-
sive travel to the ing. He experienced no embarrass-
far reaches of the ment in the expressions he gave forth in
Pacific ocean his reveries. He knew there are few
Zane Grey had things in life more grand than nature,
with him as head yet people stint their words in its full
of his camera de- appreciation.
partment a man Grey and Bagnard walked up a
close to his heart gradual ascent from their camp — a
-Gus Bagnard wooded slope leading to a jutting prom-
(pronounced Ban- ontory opening out above the insatiate
yard) , now an em- crawling sea. Standing on the bold and
ploye of the San-
precipitous bluff, they watched the
ta Monica tooling division. waves breaking with thundering crash-
Bagnard, aside from being a cam-
es and echoing roars and saw the
eraman of exceptional ability, came swells dash to a flustered frenzied ruin
to love the whir of a reel and the upon the rocks . Intently they listened to
dip of a rod through his long associ the lapping, purling sounds of the wa-
ation with Grey. With the words of the ter receding through the pebbles.
New York scientist to the effect that
Away to the north they beheld stand-
men like Grey were a bit off the beam ing bleak and bare, Montague island,
to think there were such creatures as
with its gray, unmoving sentry- Mon-
man-eating sharks, Grey, Bagnard and tague lighthouse. As far as fish were
their party were off for the bottom of
the world- Australia, and the Great
Barrier reefs, 1300 miles of rugged
coast, to disprove a few contentions .
With Grey, no trip was too far, nor too
expensive as long as the thought re-
mained in his mind that more and still
larger fish were to be caught. They also
wanted to prove to that great following,
the disciples of Izaac Walton, that the
big ones don't always get away!
The party arrived in Australia in
time to welcome the New Year, 1936 .
From Sydney they motored down the
coast some 275 miles to the little vil-
lage of Bermagui, where camp was
established.
Zane Grey was a true nature lover, a
man who would stop short with any-
TOOL designer Gus Bagnard, right
holds world's records for shark catches.
 mellows up. With the second quart he
gets wonderfully strong, and then any-
DEATH thing can happen-and it often does !
Speaking of that persistence neces-
concerned, they had only to look out
sary to fishermen, no better example
over that dark blue ocean, the Tas-
could be brought to mind than Grey's
man sea, notorious for its currents and
storms, and its schools of whales and fishing 83 days in the South Seas with-
out seeing a fin or a ripple. Then on
fish, to know that they would find new
the eighty-fourth day he caught the
and boundless sport. They were sud-
world's record marlin which weighed
denly sure that here would be found
the grandest fish of all. 1040 pounds .
Fishing is a science there is no
Dr. David Stead, of Sydney, a sci-
such thing as fisherman's luck and
entist of international reputation, had
stated he was certain there were white should one catch 1000 big game fish
he would readily admit that no two
death sharks up to 80 feet in length . If were taken in a like manner. Flukes
there aren't, thought he and Grey,
are performed but luck is out.
where do the white shark teeth five
To catch big fish the great thing to
inches across the base which have been
learn is to find them. Run the wheels
dredged from the ocean bed come from .
off your boat, and that takes patience.
With fish abounding, why not some
endurance and eyesight. After you find
unknown species huge and terrible?
them if they do strike, you cannot
With two small power boats and a
hook all that do find and you cannot
sailboat at their disposal the Grey par-
catch all that are hooked. It is an un-
ty began one of the grandest fishing
parties ever staged . Within four months' certainty-this fishing.
time, half of which was lost to fishing Another oddity brought on by this
game of fishing is the fact that the
due to rough, high seas and high winds,
most mild-mannered people can be
they caught 67 big fish weighing more
than 21,000 pounds, an average of over roused by mere conversation on pis-
313 pounds per fish and all taken on catorial subjects to become arm- waving
regulation tackle. extroverts . Collect a room full of 100
anglers , one makes a statement which
Grey caught the first yellowfin tuna
ever reported and since that catch a he sincerely believes and could back up
$2,000,000 tuna industry has been de- • Concluded on Page Thirty-one
veloped. He also took the Australian
TOP TO BOTTOM , Bagnard
record black marlin at 480 pounds and beside his large Gray nurse
the Australian record striped marlin at man eater. The recordby Gus,
324 pounds . length 12 feet 10½ inches.
It takes imagination to be a good Lyle's tiger shark , 1382
fisherman- a vivid and fertile imagin- pounds, largest fish ever
taken on rod and reel. Gus'
ation, and every fisherman goes be- Hammerhead, a world's
cause he imagines there is surely that record, 552 pounds .
big one waiting for his hook. Two diabolic Gray
nurse man eaters.
Grey placed all fishermen in one of Hammerhead shark's
two brackets, some fishermen probably head, mouth
share both types. First are those who propped open.
fish for the love of it-the wonderful Note eyes on out-
opportunity this sport provides them er ends. Zane
to commune with nature. They fish Grey with rare
fighting fish.
hard but they are completely happy
without fish, however the peak of exist-
ence for them is reached if a fish is
caught. The other type is known as the
whiskey fisherman. His ulterior motive
is to catch fish. He is an exhibitionist
of the first water, usually, but he
hasn't the physical wherewithal nor
the mental stick-to-itiveness to see him
through. Cold sober the job looks too.
immense, especially the thought of a
two or three hour struggle with a mar-
lin (or, perhaps, a three pound bass)
so he hits that quart of scotch until he

AUGUST ... 1941

Sar
Veterans of Foreign Wars

Present Colors to Douglas

ABOVE the still-expanding Douglas The flag, a gift of the veterans to

Aircraft plant at Santa Monica a
proud new American flag this month
fluttered in the sea breeze to signal
completion of a $ 100,000 addition to
executive offices.
The occasion was utilized to stage an
impressive flag- raising ceremony par
ticipated in by President Donald W.
Douglas, members of the company's
own Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
3802 and a large portion of 12,000
employes on the day shift.
The new company "front," 225 feet
long and two stories in height, has been
under construction some months. Air-
conditioned, replete with modern
lighting and furnishings, the new of-
fices already had been occupied by Mr.
Douglas and other top executives, thus
releasing badly needed space for other
expansions.
Another feature of the new portion
is an elaborate main entrance and
lobby with modern paneling, bronze
decorations, soft-light fixtures and
comfortable appointments.
Douglas Aircraft, was presented by the
V.F.W. commander, Col. H. W. Steph-
enson, personnel office manager, to-
gether with renewed expressions of
employe loyalty to the company and a
massed pledge of allegiance to the flag.
"It is indeed fitting and generous of
you, a body of proven loyal Ameri-
cans, to present to me this flag of our
beloved country," responded Mr. Doug.
las . I accept it for all the fine and
loyal Americans who are working here
side by side to strengthen the defense
of our republic.
"By such patriotic acts as this you
give all of our fine upstanding Ameri-
can workers an inspiration never to fail
in even the smallest way to further
and preserve the interests of the United
States of America above all personal
interests .
"As we raise this symbol of our
united Democracy may we remember
that our proudest salute to these colors
will be the zeal with which we fire
our united labors for defense."

THE FLAG goes up. Officer Henry Walsh releases flag while Lieut. Ward Galbreath
hauls on halliards carrying it aloft after Col. H. W. Stephenson, left, officially
presented it to Donald Douglas. At the left, thousands of Douglas employes stood
at attention, veterans saluting, while band played Star Spangled Banner.

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A Night-fighting DB-7s Follow Nazis To
Their Lair and Blast Them from Skies
H only way to escape was to tail closely
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE, Jr.
United Press Staff Correspondent
Somewhere in England.
THE squadron of American made tion of disrupting the methodical Ger-
Havocs based here bears the name In man timetable, forcing the planes to
truders a name great in the World een off from the home airdrome and
waroo, but a ypical piece of British go somewhere else for a healthier land-
derstatement ing.
Intrusion is far too mild a word to And they usually have a few bombs
describe the activity of the young men on hand to take care of airdrome build-
over the air field of northern France, ings and other targets.
Belium and Holland, where the big This squadron has been in existence
Dorners, Heinker and Junkers II's for six months as a night fighter unit.
are badhooting them down in It has counted 14 certain victims and
their own backyards. 6 probables and damaged 12 other
The Havoc is the night fighter ver- German planes.
sion of the Douglas DB- 7, by no Its own losses so far are nil in all
means an ordinary plane. operational flights in all sorts of wea-
The machines scattered over the ther.
field are thick bodied, solid, coal black When you ride a Havoc in the day.
specimens with a queer sort of tilt time you get some idea of what 300
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their tails.
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undercarriages as if the wayout ent with Jock, who looks pret-
to take to the air of the own ty young for a squadron leader.
Nor do they fight ke Jack is tall thinly built. He is quiet
planes. around the officers mess, but he throws
The Beaufighters, Hures, De- Havoc around the sky as if he
fiants and Spitfires which does were stunting a light sports plane in
the night fighting over England go upstead of a big two motored machine
like day fighters for scheduled patrols. which ought to fit better into a more
The Intruders are over enemy occu- dignified role.
pied territory almost every night as The speed at the takeoff pressed me
soon as darkness falls. back into the seat. Then the ship was
They carry the defense to the ene- in the air.
my's country, but they don't seek him Jock pointed its nose up to the sky
out. They let him come to them. at a shocking angle and took his ship
They like to attack just after a bomb- "upstairs" like a rocket.
er has taken to the air or as it comes Then he flattened out and swung in a
in and switches on landing lights after wide arc out over the channel . Some-
unloading bombs somewhere in Eng- where beyond the mists were the Ger-
land. man dromes.
That means getting close to the Jock put the ship through tight ver-
German ground defenses in order to tical banks, peeled off and dived
creep up on the unsuspecting bombers sharply at one of England's most
and get in a short range burst from beautiful castles.
armament sufficiently potent to shat- An old tilting ground of medieval
ter a plane to bits in a few seconds. tourneys rushed up at us.
Even if they don't get in their shots, Then we flashed over the Saxon
the Havocs at least have the satisfac- Keep and hedge hopped over the roll-
AUGUST ... 1941
ing country with a noise which sent
half a dozen percherons lumbering
madly across a field and even seemed
to disturb the ruminations of grazing
cows.
drink. As I left the plane I noticed it
had a V painted on its nose.
Jock has had his share of thrills
over France.
Once he got involved in a hail of
anti-aircraft fire so intense that the
a Messerschmitt 110 which providential-
ly happened along.
As the Messerschmitt prepared to
land, Jock shot it down and roared off
in the darkness.
The officers mess is housed in a for-
mer girls' school dormitory.
There was a little notice reading:
"If you need a mistress during the
night please ring this bell."
The men comprise a small scale
league of nations.
The station commander is an ace of
World war days and former member
of a big Wall street firm.
A night fighter from way back, he
once was a member of an anti- Zeppe-
lin squadron guarding London in the
World war.
Then there is the Canadian who
probably is the best blackjack player
in southern England.
And an Australian from a little town
of 1000 souls somewhere off in the
interior.
And two complete crews of Poles
who, like the famous first Polish day
fighter squadrons, rate with the best
there are.
One of them is a bushy blond whom
everybody calls Rosy.
He started the war with a Polish
squadron over the Corridor in a hope-
less battle against the Luftwaffe's
thousands.
When Poland was overrun he man-
aged somehow to get to France and
then to England.
At first he flew a Hurricane before
he was transferred to the night fighter
arm.
This is much better now, flying
the Havocs." he explained diffidently
in broken English. But they need big
ger gas tanks
The station commander told why
"this is better" and why Rosy wants
bigger tanks
"That fellow wants to be up there
all night every night. He would be
over there seven nights a week if
would let him.
PACE FIFTEEN
With Douglas
United Marks 15th Year
Of Pacific Coast Service
UNITED AIR LINES this month started
celebration of the fifteenth anniversary.
of the nation's oldest north- south air-
line the Pacific coast route from San
Diego to Vancouver, British Columbia.
During the 15 years of operation the
Pacific coast airway has flown a total
of 39,180,000 miles and carried 780, -
000 passengers, 10,026,000 pounds of
airmail and 4,137,000 pounds of ex-
press.
In the summer of 1926 the govern-
ment asked for bids for flying the mail
between Los Angeles, San Francisco
and the Pacific Northwest. Verne Gorst,
operator of an Oregon stage line was
successful bidder for the contract and
with S. V. Hall, now vice president of
western operations for United Airlines,
and some wartime pilots, inaugurated
Pacific Air Transport.
N and by using airplanes was able to
842CM
STUDY in air progress is United's
airplanes. Top to bottom, a Ryan, Boe-
ing, Ford and Boeing. Right is their
present Mainliner, Douglas DC-3.
PAGE SIXTEEN
Around
The pioneer operations of the line
were primitive by present day stand-
ards. The airplanes used were single
engine, high wing monoplanes with
top speeds of less than 100 miles per
hour. There were no concrete runways
on flying fields, little in the way of
weather information, no radio and no
night flying aids such as beacons and
blind landing equipment .
The first flights of the line in each
direction were made the same day. The
airplane from Los Angeles left just
after midnight piloted by George Al-
len . He made a night landing, with
the aid of flares, at Bakersfield and
continued to San Francisco , arriving
at dawn. Arthur Starbuck carried on
from there.
R. B. Patterson started the south-
bound flight from Vancouver, Wash. ,
and flew to San Francisco . Vance
Breese continued from there to Los
Angeles. Fifteen hours each way was
the scheduled time.
Passengers in the early days were
welcomed but flew with little more
comfort than that provided for the
mail sacks. Flying was an adventure,
not a convenience.
Pilots recall that Ed "Strangler"
Lewis, the wrestler, was the pioneer
line's best customer. A giant heavy-
weight, Lewis had to purchase two
seats for his enormous frame. He had
to fill numerous wrestling engagements
fill many one night stands that would
have been impossible by train .
In 1928 the airline was acquired by
the Boeing interests but continued to
operate under its own name until
United Air Lines was formed in 1931 ,
Mainli
ngr
the World
stretching from coast to coast and
border to border. The same year multi-
engine equipment was used for the
first time, Ford trimotored transports.
In 1933 a fleet of Boeing 247s , low
wing, twin engine monoplanes , were
put into service to mark the beginning
of the high speed, dependable air trans-
portation known today.
Today Douglas DC-3 Mainliners, the
world standard in speed and comfort.
are flown on the route and schedules
present an interesting contrast to first
flights 15 years ago. The flight from
Los Angeles to Seattle, which took 15
hours in 1926, now requires only 7
hours and 27 minutes, less than half
the time. The pioneering air traveler
required 5 hours for the San Francisco
to Los Angeles trip which today is
made in 2 hours.
Stanley Umstead Promoted
To Lieutenant Colonel
IT'S Lt. Col. Stanley M. Umstead
now!
Although the appointment was effec-
tive July 1 or three days after Um-
stead' epochal take-off of the Doug-
las Army B- 19 bomber, the new rank
came at regular promotion time and
had no connection with that flight .
Umstead was sworn in mid -Aug-
ust when, as he put it : "I found the
appointment kicking around at Day-
ton."
A flying cadet in 1917, Umstead has
been in the Air Corps 23 years , the
last 13 of which has found him con-
centrating on big bombers.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
Here , There
Production in 1941 Rises,
Reports Donald W. Douglas
THE Douglas Aircraft company's de-
liveries of airplanes during the first
six months of the 1941 fiscal year
showed an increase of 70 per cent
over the same period a year ago, Pres-
ident Donald W. Douglas reported this
month.
While production soared to
heights and brought the gross billings
of the company for airplanes delivered
to $53,322,657 between December 1 ,
1940, and May 31 , 1941 , the ratio of
net profit to sales dropped from 13.4
per cent in the first half of 1940 to 7.9
per cent in 1941 , the company's six
months profit and loss. statement
showed.
Other statistics in the president's re-
port to stockholders included :
Income tax reserves for the six
months period rose from $810,118 in
1940 to $2,019,774 in 1941. The bill-
ings of $53,322,657 included $42,987,-
768 in sales under fixed price agree-
ments and $ 10,334,889 under cost-plus
fixed-fee contracts. Net profits were $4.
199,792 or 7.9 per cent of sales as com-
pared with profits of $3,388,866 from
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EVERYBODY in America ought to be able to recognize the Douglas A-24, Army
dive bomber built at El Segundo. Above are a few of the more than 1500 news-
paper clippings featuring A-24 which were published during the past month.
AUGUST ... 1941
and Everywhere
sales of $25,288,525 in 1940, a ratio
of 13.4 per cent.
"The outlook for the rest of the year
is for steadily expanding production ,"
President Douglas said, "but wage in-
creases (see page 7) granted and
planned for all employes will play an
important part in the final results of
operations for the year." When applied
to the company's then backlog of $452,-
new 260,433, these increases will amount to
approximately $40,000,000, according
to estimates of Comptroller Ralph V.
Hunt.
DC-3s Set New Record
In Honolulu Hop
A NEW landplane distance record
was set August 26 in a history- making
flight of three Douglas DC- 3s from
Oakland to Honolulu.
The 2450 mile delivery flight, long-
est formation over-water commercial
landplane flight ever recorded, was
made in 13 hours and 55 minutes.
The three Pratt & Whitney powered
ships were being delivered by Douglas
pilots to Hawaiian Airlines which plans
immediately to put the ships in service
on its over-water routes in the Ha-
waiian islands, augmenting its present
NATIONWIDE audience heard Howard
Houghton speak on broadcast dedi-
cating new defense housing project.
fleet of amphibians.
Douglas flight crews aboard the
"Haleakala," the "Waialeale," and
the "Maunaloa," were Pilots W. O.
Sargent, R. F. Bollinger, B. A. Foulds,
L. E. Bishop , J. F. Martin and J. L.
Harper and Radio Operators T. M.
Blackmon, K. T. Rosene and C. R.
Stirewalt.
Much of the credit for the success of
the flight, according to Walter A. Ham-
ilton, sales manager, was due to the
cooperation of Pan American Airways.
which lent the use of its radio facili-
ties and weather observations.
Radio reports from the airplanes en
route received both on the mainland
and in Honolulu said the flight was
"uneventful and on schedule."
Long Beach Manager
In Radio Broadcast
HOWARD HOUGHTON, manager of
Long Beach plant, this month joined
civic leaders and government officials
in groundbreaking ceremonies for a
community housing project in Lake-
side Village near the new Douglas
factory.
In a network broadcast over CBS
dedicated to national defense housing,
Houghton pointed out the Douglas
company's interest in its employes does.
• Concluded on Page Thirty-four
PAGE SEVENTEEN
 IM.ECHANIZED assembly sys.
tems are accelerating to new peaks
Douglas Aircraft company's output of
attack bombers and night fighters—vit-
al part of America's " all-out" produc-
tion for defense.
Inaugurated last year, the company's
streamlined production system has
made and broken one record after
another. During the past year, it has
been disclosed, while working area of
the Santa Monica plant expanded 30
per cent and employment 70 per cent,
production nearly tripled as the result
of increased efficiency.
Mechanized track- assembly lines for
attack-bombers and night fighters alone
now extend nearly one mile in all at
the Santa Monica plant. Efficiency of
the Douglas system of track- production
has been demonstrated by reductions of
as much as 50 per cent in man-hours
required for certain assembly units.
Along a 500-foot elevated track move
inner wing sections. With the sound of
SELF-SEALING fuel tanks and fuel lines being installed in attack bomber a bell at regular intervals a power
wings. Note how entire assembly is readily accessible to workers on jig track line.
winch sends every assembly down the
line to the next working position . At
each working position or station are
bins containing fuel and oil lines,
Mechanized Production-- valves, electrical conduit, and every
other part necessary for each install.
ation even to correct numbers of
screws and rivets.
Installed in the inner wing-engine na-
Douglas ' Design for Defense celles as they move down the track are
the latest types of self-sealing fuel
tanks and fuel lines.

PROGRESS CHARTS on inner wing assemblies, such as shown below, are kept up to the minute by leadmen on the line.
Upon completion of each wing operation the square on the chart representing it is filled in with colored pencil denoting shift.

INNERWING 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69
#12 HEAT

#11 HYDRAULIC

#10 CABLES

#9 FUEL

#8 CONDUIT

#7 OIL

DAY SHIFT
#6 EQUIPMENT NIGHT SHIFT
THIRDSHIFT

PAGE EIGHTEEN DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

 Refinements and details of Douglas
mechanized production lines have al-
ready been made available to the en-
tire industry. Scores of production en-
gineers and technical experts from
both the automobile and aircraft in-
dustries, and the Office of Production
Management, have come to the Santa
Monica plant of Douglas to observe and
study first-hand the amazing mechani-
zation of aircraft production which is
turning out record numbers of power-
ful military airplanes for the United
States and Great Britain.
Murray Body, whose plant at Detroit,
Mich., is now in production of attack-
bomber inner wings for assembly into
complete airplanes at the Long Beach
plant, followed closely the Douglas
technique in setting up its production
line . Other subcontractors in eastern
automotive centers who are to supply
the Long Beach factory have similarly
benefitted from Douglas developments .
Latest innovation in mechanized
methods to go into effect at Santa Mon-
ica is a new mobile fuselage assembly
line, which combines the production ad-
vantages of " half shell " fuselage con-
struction with the speed of moving,
straight-line assembly. In specially de-
signed steel rails, tubular steel jigs
move along, each carrying half an
attack-bomber fuselage.
With four of these great tracks in
parallel operation, two pairs of fuse-
lage halves are simultaneously in each
working position.
ROLLING ALONG to new production records are the attack bomber inner wings
Such assemblies need not be tedi- on the jig track above. Straight line production methods such as these, inaugur-
ously set up and then removed from ated many months ago have helped to triple production of Douglas airplanes.
various jigs, for now the jigs them-
selves, containing the growing subas- sembly of the fuselage on the half- After leaving the jig track and con-
semblies, move down the line. shell in a single jig greatly reduces tinuing on floor tracks, the half fuse-
handling, enables a greater number of lages move along in pairs to receive
Through eight working positions the
workers to contribute to that assembly installations of interior equipment .
jigs in each line travel, their respective
with each doing a specialized job. To then to be quickly and simply joined
half fuselages progressively receiving
this end, the eight positions each are into a whole fuselage. Tail groups
framing, skin, rivets and inspection .
subdivided into six working areas, each
Upon reaching position No. 9, the with its own crew to perform the and other major sections are attached,
subassembly is lifted from its jig and the fuselages meanwhile moving stead-
same task on every assembly. It is pos-
placed on carriers which continue it sible thus to save the time spent in ily along. Finally, they roll through a
along floor tracks. At the same time, the huge, steel air conditioned paint shop,
procuring, connecting and then return-
jig itself is swung around and slid into ing tools, for drills and rivet guns are built right over the assembly line. Here
a return track which takes it back to "men from Mars" masked with respirat
suspended from overhead power and
No. 1 position for repetition of the pneumatic lines, remaining there for ors and armed with spray guns camou
circuit. In moving along the return the use of all shifts. flage each as it goes by.
track each individual jig passes through
Development of the new track is Every fuselage which rolls off that
a master jig where all working points proving of further benefit in facilitat- mechanized line, ' ready for the wings.
are checked for the necessary precision ing the training and absorption of new and engines that will lift it skyward, is
that ensures interchangeability . a significant symbol. For the Ameri-
employes, for the breaking in period
Advantages of this new type of mech- of a comparatively unskilled worker can skill and ingenuity responsible for
anized assembly are numerous , all re- is greatly reduced when it is necessary mechanizing airplane production is the
sulting in greater speed and efficiency, for him to perform but a single task on skill and ingenuity that will make
consequently increased production . As- a mechanized assembly line. America secure .

AUGUST ... 1941 PAGE NINETEEN

WITH US THIS MONTH ...
. . . .

← Navy's Manufacturer
Capt. E. M. Pace of the United
U. States Navy, second from the left, is an
SN experienced aircraft manufacturer. He
A
is manager of the Naval Aircraft fac-
tory at Philadelphia which manufac-
tures Naval training planes.
Captain Pace visited the El Segundo
plant this month and complimented
the plant's executives for the orderly
and systematic way it was doing busi-
ness . He was particularly interested in
the use of photographs in the shop for
identification of parts and assemblies.
Captain Pace was accompanied by
members of his staff at the Naval Air-
craft factory.

Coast to Coast
The well-known John B. Hughes, news
commentator for the Mutual Broadcast-
ing System, covers the news of the na- 48
tion by seeing it made.
This month Hughes covered the news-
making aircraft industry, visiting west
coast manufacturing plants, gathering
information and making observations.
Climaxing his reporting of the aircraft.
industry was a broadcast from the final
assembly line at the Douglas Santa
Monica plant.
Hughes' broadcast was sent coast- to-
coast in the United States and sent by
shortwave radio to listeners throughout
the world.

↑ "You're Doing a Great Job →

Three United States senators visit-
ed Douglas Santa Monica and Long
Beach plants in late August. What they
saw must have pleased them, for at a
public hearing three days later in Los
Angeles they dismissed Witness Donald
W. Douglas with this comment :
MUTUAL "We think you are doing a great job.
BROADCASTING sir !"
SYSTEM
Members of a eommittee investigat-
ing all phases of national defense, the
senators were : Harry S. Truman of
Missouri, chairman , shown at right
with Carl A. Cover, executive vice pres-
ident ; Mon C. Wallgren. Washington :
James M. Mead. New York.
With them on the plant tour were
Hugh Fulton , counsel for the commit-
tee, Lt. Col. Arthur Wilson and Major
R. S. Pickens, of Washington . Also in-
cluded in the party were Lt. Col.
Charles E. Branshaw, western district
supervisor, and Lt. Col. John D. Cor-
kille, Air Corps' plant representative.

PAGE TWENTY DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

 ← Champion Builder
"America's Builder No. 1 , " Henry J.
Kaiser, is aiding the aircraft industry
through erection of a magnesium plant
near San Francisco which went into
production this month. Kaiser, left, is
shown during a recent visit to Doug-
las with Santa Monica Factory Man-
ager Henry Guerin and F. W. Conant,
vice president, manufacturing.

Judging a Wing →
With a jurist's thoroughness, the Hon .
Justin Miller is shown at the right ex-
amining an attack bomber wing as-
sembly. He is an associate justice of
the United States appellate court in
Washington, D.C. , and visited the San-
ta Monica plant during a tour of the
west coast.

← Defense Training
All educational departments of gov-
ernment, local schools , state universities
and federal agencies are working over.
time these days to help provide the
training needed for new workers in
America's defense industries .
The Civilian Conservation Corps,
famed for the work of its youthful
members in forests and mountains, to-
day is actively engaged in this vast ed
ucation project.
Visitors at Douglas this month in
connection with the CCC training pro-
gram were, left to right, Lieut. Ernest
Smith, CCC district adjutant ; Dr. How-
ard Osley, national director of educa-
tion ; Maj . Floyd A. Rutherford, dis-
trict inspector, and John E. Waller,
district educational supervisor.

← Magazine Editors →
Two lengthy and serious surveys of
the American aircraft industry are in
the works in the editorial offices of two
national magazines - Fortune and
Newsweek.
Charles V. Murphy of Fortune, left,
came to Douglas gathering data on the
nation's big bomber production pro-
gram. He is shown interviewing Fred
Herman, in charge of Douglas Long
Beach engineering department and
member of Boeing- Douglas - Vega com-
mittee.
Shown at the right are Rex Smith,
left, managing editor of Newsweek, and
Nick Londigen, Newsweek's west coast
representative. Smith visited Douglas
during a nationwide tour of defense in-
dustries.

AUGUST ... 1941 PAGE TWENTY-ONE

BOWLINE BITES ... X by Al A. Adams

"-keep us from both trouble and starter and finds the " starter is stuck. " traptions, sometimes referred to as
folly in pleasantry." The guests register those ghastly ques- toilets .
"HE who will go to sea for pleasure tion marks while the skipper uncon- In the first place, by all means,
will go to hell for pastime." That old cernedly burns. He whips up the floor every boat should carry a male sea-
maxim of the sea is packed full of that boards then for 30 minutes he stands going chambermaid who has had spe-
which skippers live by-sweet sorrow. on his head in the bilge, taking the cial training in the manipulating, or
It seems to me that this sailing busi- starter apart to free the bendix. The shall we say the Swedish movement
ness is such a pleasant experience apart guests are poking their heads down the necessary to properly handle the vari-
from every other mode of living that hatches, plugging the companionway ous valves, levers and gadgets in syn-
if one dabbles in its pleasures he has and offering advice and too numerous chronized mathematical sequence when
to take a form of consequence for hav- ideas on what is wrong. The pessi emptying one of these vessels. Having
ing done so . One seems to intrude into mistic gal with the dog just knows it brought this subject to light and know-
a realm where pleasure is at a premi- was too good to be true that they were ing that President Roosevelt is a man
um- if you enjoy it, you pay for it. going to Catalina on a boat. interested in the ways of the sea, there
Let's assume the skipper has invited The purple-faced skipper by now has is no doubt but what congress will be
a guest for a weekend cruise ( it's that the starter fixed. His clothes are in bad advised to pass legislative acts to force
weekend he hoped would spell much shape. He has grease to his elbows and all yachts of 15 feet water line and
needed relaxation, but a guest was in- is gawd-awful hot and perspiring. He over to carry three union men to work
vited in a weak moment . ) He told the cleans up a bit and while doing so eight hour shifts. It will be their duty
guest to bring a few friends. The guest notes out the porthole two of his party to see that old socks, banana skins and
called to say he had several. are out in the dinghy looking in the other irrelevant materials are not
The time for their arrival has been portholes of the neighbor's boat. The thrown into the place that was original-
set for eight in the morning. All are owner has poked his head out to regis- ly ordained as a receiving set for the
there but one. He just phoned the an- ter marked abhorrence. by-products of human metabolism .
chorage to say he overslept. The skip- The "helpful Herman who was on It has been discovered that earth
per is inwardly tearing his hair as he a boat once four years ago and has a worms can be trained by butting their
thinks of that 55 minutes he, too , could white yachting cap with bright brass noses against electric contacts to avoid
have slept. He now has eight people to buttons and an airplane club insignia certain alleys, and eventually learn to
keep track of until the sleepy one ar- on the front of it has already bent the crawl the straight and narrow. No one,
rives. One of the gals has brought her jib on the wrong stay and upside to my knowledge, has yet been able to
little dog . down. There is the jib hauled to the inculcate into the soul of woman the
You would imagine from the suit- masthead and flying free. dark secrets involved in the tidy evacu-
cases, bedding and, believe it or not, a Everything is brought under control ation of the contents of a toilet bowl
fortnighter ( a young steamer trunk ) for casting off when a splash is heard into old Mother Ocean.
and there is a set of golf clubs, dumped up forward . The skipper peers over the Well, here is a lady guest busier
all over the boat, that this group was rail to see a white yachting cap float- than a cat on a tin roof opening and
going somewhere. The skipper had only ing at the scene of the swash. Herman closing and pumping and panting and
one thought for the weekend, to an- is dragged aboard by the inwardly in her anguish was muttering "Don't
chor in a quiet cove near the isthmus. chuckling skipper and is bitten by the come up any higher." The skipper had
He suddenly gathers from the cross- excited, barking dog. The first aid kit installed a handy life ring so that he
conversation that "Oh, won't this be is brought out but the patient was or she would not get hysterical and
fun. I've never been to Avalon before found to be only nipped. He insists get into deep water before the cham-
and who do you think is playing at the on a bandage. bermaid arrives. The latter has stand-
Casino I think it is Allen Dale and Out of the anchorage goes the motley ing orders to intervene as soon as he
his Hi- Hatters or somebody. Won't group. The sails are hauled up to a sees sea water coming out from under
this be fun?" freshening southerly breeze. The motor the lavatory door into the main cabin
While waiting, the skipper replenis stopped and sails are filled away. Mutual embarrassment now exists as
ishes the water supply in the boat's The boat rounds the lighthouse and the skipper hasn't been properly intro-
tanks, checks the oil in the auxiliary points as high as possible for the new duced to this lady guest. He explains
motor, airs out the boat and makes destination they all want to go to, Ava- and then mops the floor.
numerous checkups besides removing lon. Back on deck he finds Herman is on
the sail covers. His friends have already A few miles out and a call for help the other tack and hove to in the path
fired at him more land lubber questions comes from below. The skipper tells of a steamer. Two guests are heaving
than Fadiman could think to ask Kier Herman to steer 160° until he returns. over the rail . This goes on for the dur
an, Adams and Levant, but he goes into Now, as yet, toilet facilities on the ation of the weekend. By the time the
each with a marked degree of patience, small, modern yacht have not been boat is back at the home anchorage the
The late individual is due to arrive completely emancipated from medi- skipper is in a state of collapse the
so the skipper decides to start the aux eval drudgery and I call attention to guests depart without even offering a
iliary in view of powering out of the some of the attendant dangers beset casual thanks or goodbye.
anchorage. He turns the key tries the ting the use of these sea - going "Happy Landings!"

PAGE TWENTY- TWO DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

 GOLF

New Plant Champions Turn

Up in Huge Links Tourney.

ORGANIZED golf at Douglas dates

back to the days when such players as
George Strompl and Harry Ives began
to get enthusiastic about the game. The
first tournament organized by these
men had eight entries. Cai Leigh, now
at Long Beach plant, was one of the
winners .
Today Douglas golfers enter the
Santa Monica plant tournament by the
scores and dozens, so many that one
week end isn't enough to complete the
tournament .
Later tournaments brought up as
MORE THAN 100 Douglas golfers took part in the plant tournament at the
winners such links stars as Harry Wil-
Rancho course. Above, Al Storm , material control, takes a few practice swings.
liams and Paul Rooney. Both Strompl
and Leigh repeated their wins on vari-
in the same class was taken by R.
ous occasions.
Beebe with a score of 143 .
In 1937, with the growth and ex-
pansion of the Douglas Athletic club, In class " B", J. C. Tomlinson walked
golf was included among its activities. off with low gross honors by annexing
Several more tournaments were staged a 160 for the two rounds. Tomlinson
under the direction of Ralph Evans, is in production control . P. B. Ewing
Southern California links champ . of Dept. 55 and E. Ainge of Dept. 87
Golf has profited greatly since being tied for the low net honors in class "B"
included in the roster of the athletic by turning in 142 strokes each .
club activities as have each of the E. Dempsey of Dept. 656 turned in
sports that the club has taken over. 171 strokes in class "C" to cinch low
Present day golf tournaments, like those gross honors. The engineering depart-
staged recently at the Rancho course , ment came to the fore, being represent-
bring out upward of 100 players. ed by C. Stanley, who walked off with
Low gross and low net scores were low net honors in this class with 140.
tallied in each of the four classes and
several trick and comic exhibitions Howard Cleveland, also of planning,
were held. played through a host of competitors in
P. Bogler of the planning depart- class "D" to take low gross honors
ment took first place in class "A" with with a 194 total . C. Hilker of produc-
a low gross of 148. His individual tion control, captured the low net title TRICK SHOTS were demonstrated at
round scores were 75 and 73. Low net in this class with a 146. tournament by Harry(Slugger) Adams.

DENNY GORDON, Dept. 50, having sand trap trouble blasts SHERWOOD CLAVELOT, center, was head man at the plant
ball out while the rest of foursome watches his difficulties. golf tournament, signed up players, kept scores, handicaps.
AUGUST .. 1941 PAGE TWENTY - THREE
Douglas Athletic
SPORTS
Tennis Team Wins
Aircraft Championship
Climaxing a successful season with a
7-5 triumph over North American, the
undefeated Douglas Santa Monica ten-
nis team lately laid claim to the aircraft
championship of Southern California.
It was Doug Woodbury's brilliant
three set win over Jack Knemeyer that
sparked the local netters to their vic-
tory over the Inglewood squad this
month at Douglas park.
Cool and confident, even after he al-
lowed Knemeyer's volleys to prevail in
the first set, Woodbury unleashed leth-
al placements to crush the North Amer-
ican ace, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1.
The feature doubles encounter like-
wise went to the locals when Ed Walk-
er and Al Gross beat Schmidt and O.
Druliner by scores of 9-7 and 6-3. Off to
a ragged start, the winners soon hit
their stride to win handily and compete
their season without having dropped a
set.
As was the case a month or more
ago when they fought the visitors to a
6-6 deadlock, the Douglas racqueteers
cashed in on their balance of power in
the doubles department. Three out of
four doubles encounters went to the
Santa Monicans.
Besides the Walker-Gross victory,
points were also tallied by the Harry
Sirotnik-Ralph Mabie and Harold Cook-
Bohn Featherstone combinations in sec-
ond and third doubles, respectively.
Other wins chalked up by the new
champions were by Tony Prodan, Bob
Betty and Larry Davis. Betty's triumph
enabled him to wind up the year with-
out defeat in team play.
Setting the stage for their champion-
CHAMPIONS of Southern California aircraft industry is Santa Monica tennis
team , presented trophies by Ed Burton, chief engineer. Shown with Burton, second
from left, are some members of team, Featherstone, Cate, Walker and Gross.
PAGE TWENTY- FOUR
Club ...
ship battle with North American, the
powerful Santa Monica Douglas team
defeated Lockheed, 8-4, the previous
week at Douglas park.
Superior all-around strength told the
story this time also as the winners
chalked up their second triumph in
three starts. Only the 6-6 deadlock with
North American marred the Douglas
record up to this match. The rematch,
already mentioned, in which the Doug-
las squad defeated the Inglewood club
and gave the local boys the aircraft
championship ended the season in a
blaze of glory .
Feature match in the Douglas-Lock-
heed clash went to Al Gross and Ed
Walker when they outstroked Hanson
and Nelson, Lockheed's top doubles com-
bination, by scores of 12-10 and 6-4.
The "Battle of the Southpaws" re-
sulted in the longest struggle of the
day, and saw Leon Fisher outlast Leon-
ard Platt of Douglas, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4. The
contest lasted more than two hours.
Victories turned in by Douglas play-
ers included those by Bill Cate, Colin
Clegg, Tony Prodan, Bob Betty, Mc-
Fall and Andrews.
Softball Leaders
Beaten By Dept. 58
League play in the Douglas Athletic
club softball picture was highlighted
this month by the defeat of the crack
Dept. 27-A outfit by Don Watt's power-
house club from Dept. 58.
Watt is president of the Douglas
Athletic club.
The score of this game, one of the
most hotly contested of the entire sea-
son, was 1-0.
Ray Roberts, ace hurler for the pro-
by Jack Lester
duction control squad, pitched a perfect
game of ball ; perfect but for the one
hit, the only hit he allowed in the en-
tire game. Two errors on the same
play won the ball game for the Watt
club.
Douglas softball fans are looking for-
ward to the playoff for the champion-
ship of the "A" league which will take
place between these two teams in the
near future.
Undefeated thus far in the second
half in the "B" league is the strong
Dept. 19 club led by the brilliant pitch-
ing of "Hi" Higbee. Recently the Dept.
19 club, sparked by the pitching of
Higbee beat Dept. 59. This win cinched
their lead in the "B" league. Higbee
struck out 16 batters, walked one.
Another of the leaders thus far is
the Dept. 225 outfit. Outstanding men
in 225 are Parker, Carter and Bendette.
According to softball chairman Her-
man Weller, the playoff in the "C"
league will very probably be between
the fast clubs of Depts. 65 and 635.
Captain of the 635 outfit is Lyn Hale.
The Dept. 65 crew is sparked by Matt
Christman, captain. To date Dept. 65 is
undefeated.
Davis and Lehrer Share
Honors in Pistol Match
The Douglas Rifle and Pistol club has
made rapid strides toward the develop-
ment of a first-rate pistol team . Credit
for this progress is largely due to the
efforts of Chief James E. Davis to build
up a pistol team that will be able to
take its stand among the national rank-
ing teams of the country. Chief Davis is
out to develop a team that will be able
to set a new civilian national record.
During the past few weeks the Doug-
las Pistol team, consisting of Chief
Davis, team captain Ed Skaring, Dan-
ny Lehrer, "Curley" Collins, K. Irwin
and Ed Price, has competed in the re-
gional championship and the Southwest
International pistol matches. Although
the team shot very well, breaking the
national civilian record for a four- man
.22 calibre team, it placed only seventh
in the match, indicating the keen com-
petition.
Medal awards were won by several
team members. In the .22 calibre timed
fire class, Chief Davis took third place,
sharpshooter. Third and fourth places
were won by K. Irwin in the .38 cali-
bre expert class in timed and slow fire
in that order.
Lehrer had a veritable field day by
annexing a host of places. He took third
place, expert, in the .22 calibre slow
fire ; second place, expert, in the .22
calibre national course ; third place, ex-
pert, in the .22 calibre rapid fire ; first
place, expert, in the .38 calibre timed
fire ; third place, sharpshooter, in the
• Concluded on Page Thirty- two
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
ACTIVITIES
Aeronaders Win Acclaim
In Recent Performance
The two most recent performances to
be presented by the Aeronaders were
done by invitation before the Santa
Monica community sing in the Munici-
pal auditorium at Ocean Park, and as a
unit of the annual Santa Monica police
show which was given in the Greek
theater of the Santa Monica high school.
To put it at a conservative figure, the
Aeronaders have appeared before ap-
proximately 16,000 persons in their brief
career and it is with a great deal of
pride that the Douglas Athletic club
claims sponsorship of this ace singing
group .
Under the guidance of Paul Taylor,
nationally famed conducter, these peo-
ple have built an enviable repertoire and
have won unanimous acclaim wherever
they have gone. By way of celebration
they are planning a dinner-dance for
the near future. Mildred Dunham, Dor-
othy Conway, Alice Schofield, Arnold P.
Schunck, Norm Hanson, Eddie Curran,
George Irving, Paula Richards, Norma
Whitten, Peggy Lee, Olive Clayton,
Mary Lou Keyes, Hugh Bouleware, Wal-
ter Armstrong, Oscar Clark, Bill Len-
non, Lloyd Washburn, Robert Proett,
Frank Belanger and all the others will
be there in full regalia.
New members are still being admitted
and for full particulars on just how to
gain membership, please contact Arnold
P. Schunck or Norm Hanson.
Griffith Park Paths
Chosen For Horseback Ride
The fast growing Riding club can
now lay claim to legality and stuff in-
asmuch as officers have been elected ,
regular meetings have been arranged,
and all those other things which go to
make up a regularly functioning organ-
ization are a reality.
George Cavanah was a natural for
president of the club inasmuch as he
has organized the whole thing, and in
Time : 6:45 a.m. A Sunday dawn recently found the Riding club off at a trot through the hills of Griffith park.
AUGUST ... 1941
addition, knows horses almost as well as
the Lone Ranger. Lois Beutenmiller of
personnel is vice president and Homer
Watkins of Dept. 76 has been elected
secretary- treasurer.
Riding ability ranges from amateur-
ish to professional and all persons in-
terested in learning to ride or in im-
proving what they now know, are in-
vited to join this club. To date, John
Miller of Dept. 76 and A. J. Rains of
Dept. 2 have stolen honors for their
expert horsemanship.
George Irving, who helped the pho-
tographer photog at the recent ride in
Griffith park says they had a "glam-
orous time" which cinched the deal for
at least ten new members because any-
thing which is glamorous at that hour
in the morning (6:45) must have some-
thing, and that's putting it mildly.
World's Champ Fancy Diver
To Perform For Swimming Club
When Norm Hanson, president of the
Swimming club, plans something you
can bet your bottom nickel that it will
be good. Review for instance the
swimming banquet, picnic and other ac-
tivities of this group.
To take top honors will be the buffet-
swim at the Woodland Hills Country
club September 7. Dancing, tennis,
swimming, eating all that.
Star attraction will be beautiful Mar-
jorie Gestring, 19-year-old world's
champion fancy diver, who will present
an exhibition of the skilled dives which
have brought her to the top in her
line. Miss Gestring, now a sophomore
at Stanford university, won her first
national title in 1936. The same year, at
the age of 13, she won the Olympic
championship, thus becoming the young-
est person ever to hold the world's
title. This record still stands. She
again won the world's title in 1940.
For members and guests there will
be plenty of competition in the pool,
with medals and trophies for winners
in the different contests. Tickets are
by Enid Kieburtz
available from Don Kirkham's office,
Elizabeth White, Frank Warner, Wally
Acker, I. Victor, Edgar Phillips, Phil
Mount, Norm Hanson, Bob Anis and
down at Long Beach there's Phyllis
Darusmont.
Don Watt Reelected
D.A.C. President
Don Watt, Douglas Athletic club vet-
eran, this month was reelected presi-
dent of the organization by vote of the
board of directors. Watt became presi-
dent a year ago to succeed Archie Rob-
ertson. Watt's nearest rival for the pres-
idency was Stan Palmer, golf chairman.
Though he was defeated for the presi-
dency, Palmer's backing was strong
enough to bring about his nomination
and subsequent election to the office of
vice president. Palmer succeeded, in the
vice presidency, George Van Cleve, for-
mer boxer and now representative of
the Rod and Gun club.
Don Kirkham will retain the office of
secretary-treasurer of the club.
Cinema Club
Picnics in Pasadena
All members of the Cinema club jour-
neyed, armed to the teeth with yards of
film and all kinds of cameras, to Brook-
side park in Pasadena on a recent Sun-
day. Movies, movies, movies. Each per-
son had his fling as director, actor and
script writer, and what's more, each
movie made at the picnic will have a
preview of its own at a future meeting.
J. H. Seeley has been elected assist-
ant director of the club and as such will
aid and abet capable Elmer B. Atkin-
son who has filled the place left vacant
by Mark Russek, former club director.
Under the guidance of these two, this
club has compiled a large film library.
This club is open to all Douglas em-
ployes and their families who have as
their hobby the filming and developing
of movies. Contact Elmer B. Atkinson
or Don Kirkham for full details.
PAGE TWENTY- FIVE
Sports ...
SOFTBALL
Sam Catalano, breathing hard and
obviously making a brave effort to con-
trol himself, collared us the other day.
Waving the collar ( and a good one it
was, too ) in our face, he started in on
what appears to be a legitimate beef.
It is (he said ) high time the great
reading public was reminded that the
engineering softball squad is not the
only team from Douglas El Segundo
plant to be entered in the Los Angeles
Municipal leagues this season. Dept. 5
(he snorted ) also has been fielding a
team, composed entirely of sheet metal
men, and managed by the fiery Cata-
lano himself. (He laid himself open to
some sort of crack about nine tin wood-
men, but we saw it was not time for
levity) .
The Dept. 5 outfit battles it out every
Monday night with some of the classiest
squads in the city, and to this date the
boys have done a noble job of mopping
up on other contenders for the league
cup.
High atop the pitcher's mound stands
Jack Blackburn, as capable a chucker
as may be found in the league. His de-
ceptive slants are stopped behind the
plate by "Li'l Abner" Smith who, in ad-
dition to doing the catching chores is
the big siege gun who slugs out those
circuit clouts from the cleanup spot.
Both components of the battery have
topnotch batting averages, their ter-
rific and timely cannonading having
proved to be the deciding factor in more
than a few contests this summer.
The infield is safeguarded by four
fielding demons who, in civilian attire
may be identified as Gene Kelly, Merle
Wadley, Willie "Superman" Stotler and
Manager Catalano. Although at times
erratic, the combination of Kelly on the
first sack. Wadley at the number two
hassock, Catalano picketing third cush-
ion and Stotler stoupping up short usu-
ally has fewer chinks than the Japan-
ese secret service.
Stotler, the gloveless wonder, earned
that "Superman" handle by his amaz-
ing play both afield and at the plate.
The story is oft told that once he
scooped up a grass cutter in deep short,
rifled the hide to first only to realize
too late that that sack had been left
uncovered, and beat the runner to the
bag to take his own throw. There are
no witnesses, but if true this feat ties a
record long ago established by Halley's
comet.
Creating a weird din with their in-
cessant chatter, several stalwart youths
lurk menacingly in the lush vegetation
of the outfield, springing with catlike
agility from the tall grasses at every
crack of enemy's bats to spear liners
or trim incipient triples down to safer
sizes. A recent safari through the bush
revealed Vernon Wadley, Don Bowman,
Ralph Sears, Marlin Starner and Jake
PAGE TWENTY- SIX
El Segundo Plant
taller boy's kidneys. There was some
by Frank Opdyke good infighting, but in general things
moved too slowly for us, the uneducat-
ed, to burst into any frenzied cheering.
Gleason, the last named a second cousin Another heat brought together Kenny
of the engineers' immortal Basil Glea-
LaSalle and Eddie McGeaver. Kenny
son. was announced as a one time victor
With such a rapidly improving and over Fritzi Zivic (obviously back at a
peppy squad, Dept. 5 should wind up time when Kenny and Fritzi were still
the season in very successful fashion. in rompers ) . LaSalle fanned Eddie with
The team is pointing toward its civil a spinning series of windmill punches
but the breeze so created did not re-
war fracas with the engineers, sched-
uled for 9 p.m. September 8 at Harvard fresh McGeaver sufficiently to net him
the decision. A feature of the bout was
playground. Both managers , Catalano
and Rue Pollok of the boys upstairs the clever way in which Eddie consist-
have expressed hopes for a good turn- ently overlooked setups, a practice
which caused the crowd to entreat him
out of the faithful. Whether this is for
purposes of watching the game or back- to swing just once. Come to think of
ing up the players has not been made it, maybe he did swing once.
clear.
Fired with enthusiasm after a terrific AT RANDOM
winning streak of two consecutive Too many of us are forced to pass up
games, the engineers have apparently worthwhile opportunities for recreation
hit full stride at last. Although hamp- because of the heavy inroads they make
ered by the temporary loss of Herb on our supplies of folding money. Now,
Hoffman and Howie Jong the pennant thanks to Bob Holden, Walt Hammer
is still within shooting distance, and a and Bob Kendall, all of Dept. 25, a
very determined bunch of slide rule
party of El Segundians is to voyage to
pushers is fighting furiously to bring Catalina on a Sunday outing at rock
it down.
bottom rates. The boys and girls will
Α tremendously improved hurling leave San Pedro by water taxi in the
staff, numbering Warren Cobine and early morning, cavort around the island
Russ Teel, with the backing of spectac- until sundown, and head for the main-
ular and superlative fielding has led to land soon after. The kopecks consumed
the annihilation of a fair sized batch of in the whole enterprise will not be miss-
hostile aggregations. True, there have ed by even the thriftiest souls .
been a few drubbings hung on our boys, So many fellows have hit vacation
but even the Yankees blow one now and trails toward the fishing grounds it is
then. Howie Jong leads the slugging impossible to recount the adventures of
parade with a .642 average for nine all . Bob Holden and Bob Schrank made
games. Bob Hagar, Ed Atkinson and
Teel all top the .500 mark. Honors for • Concluded on Page Thirty-three
the month's most improved player are
a shoo-in for Stan Underwood whose
timely hits and reliable fly snaring
would make Frank Merriwell look like
a green hand.
With Hoffman out of the lineup tak-
ing care of a brand new son, the
catching chores fall into the hands of
either Manager Pollok or the stalwart
Ed Lobherr, and while Howie Jong
honeymoons with his bride, Russ Teel
will be an adequate understudy at the
hot corner. The rest of the lineup re-
mains intact. Bill Hallburton looks out
for first base, Bob Hager chaperons
second, and Earl Jackson or Stan Un-
derwood rides herd on shortstop . The
gents in the outer pastures are still Ed
Atkinson, Ed Thrall, Jack Hammil, Ed
Strate Harold Campbell and John
Bloom.
BOXING
George Hansford, 140 lbs. former Cal-
ifornia champ, defeated Bobbie Bonitz,
145 lbs. , at a recent session in the Are-
na. His unspectacular but effective tech-
nique consisted in negotiating a series TUNA landed by Les Smith, Dept. 25,
of clinches and then massaging the was the second caught this season.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
Rambling Reporter
The Crib
This is the productive month of
months for engineering-and our con-
gratulations and best wishes to the
following "poppers and mommers"-as
they received heaven's blessed event :
When George Richard, weighing 8
lbs. 14 oz. greeted Otto Wendt, Dept. 25 ,
and wife, Helen, on July 19, at 12:47
a.m. ( Otto says baby gained a pound
in less than a month ) .
When Preston G. Smith, Jr., weigh-
ing 7 lbs. 8 oz. greeted Preston G.
Smith, Sr., Dept. 25, and wife, Artene,
on August 4 at 3:24 p.m.
When Jimmy Charles, weighing lbs.
9 oz. greeted Eugene H. Ablin and wife,
Ruthelyn, on July 6 at 4:15 p.m.
When Roy Sharp, weighing 6 lbs. 15
oz. greeted Robert Cundiff, Dept. 25
and wife, Wilma, on July 27 at 3:21 a.m.
When TWINS Kent Allen and Karl
Lee weighing 6 lbs. 8 oz. and 5 lbs . 10
oz. greeted consecutively their parents,
Bob Parrick, Dept. 25, and wife, Rilla,
on July 27 at 2 p.m.
When Wynne, weighing 8 lbs. 2 oz.
greeted Herb Hoffman, Dept. 25, and
wife, Marion, on August 4.
When Judy, weighing 7 lbs. 6 oz.
greeted Morrie Harper, Dept. 25, and
wife, Eleanor, on May 26.
When Michael, weighing 5 lbs. 15 oz.
greeted Jay Reintz, Dept. 25, and wife,
Maribib, on May 4.
Here and There
By Officer George Dougherty
The girls come up with some dandies
when they forget a badge or identifica-
tion card. Charlie Nunn caught the
prize once recently when a demure miss
told him she put her card in the mail-
box. Not to be outdone Charlie asked
her if she put a stamp on it, which
confused her no end. Anyway, the mail-
man did find it and it has restored Char-
lie's faith in the veracity of his fellow-
men to the extent that he even believes
the engineers. Personally we figure that
is drawing it a little fine.
"Snuffy" Smith took the wrong lunch
bucket home which was okay until his
wife found "Carolyn" scratched on the
side. He gets into more trouble, last
time it was wrong horses.
Peggy Gallison of purchasing and Len
Quick of Dept. 25 announced their en-
gagement and Peggy is wearing the
niftiest of nifty sparklers on that cer-
tain finger.
The lads from 55 went down to see
"Spike" Jordan work a game between
Hollywood and Oakland. Jordan is a
former member of Dept. 55 and he
came in for a good natured, but grade
A heckling.
Tom Curley spent his vacation at the
fiesta in Santa Barbara and came back
with his usual picturesque account of
what happened.
Tommy Stockbridge of Dept. 25 is
AUGUST ... 1941
. .
... El
El
back again after a siege of illness , the
second one within a month. But his
grin is as expansive as ever.
Two of the tallest tales we ever heard
are told by Sgt. Jim Simpson, especially
the one about the fastest man in Texas
and what happened to the disgusted
jackrabbits. Ronnie Hines wishes to
inform us that he isn't the Pride of
Venice as stated here last month. It
seems that Ocean Park lays claim to
that honor and so we hasten to rectify
the matter... Lou Marigot of Dept. 25
is moving to Manhattan Beach and that
will be bad news to the beachcombers
on any beach... Bill Blaufuss and Glen
Pickett of inspection were transferred
to Long Beach and the hangar isn't the
same since they left... Joe Pigg said
goodbye and went into business. Joe
bought a tourist camp up the line
somewhere and he offers special rates
to all his friends in Dept. 55. Jackie
Shipley spent her vacation at Long
Beach on a boat swimming and fishing.
But the fish were elusive and Jackie
had to stop at the market on the way
back.. Chief McGhee went fishing in
the mountains and everyone is waiting
with bated breath to hear about the
one that got away. Two will get you
ten that it was anyway as big as the
wingspread of the B- 19. . . Frank Mu-
fich of purchasing spent his vacation in
Colorado near Gunnison and Crested
Butte. Frank says the fishing left no-
thing to be desired. . . Frank Bruce of
purchasing has been transferred to the
Tulsa plant and will be purchasing ag-
ent there. Frank leaves a host of
friends here who wish him a hearty
"good luck" in his new job.
Third Shift
H. D. Bruce, assistant chief inspector
in charge of third shift, took his vaca-
tion in Indio, Salton sea and Palm
Springs. He tells us that his costume
for the trip consisted of a pair of blue
shorts, pair of sneakers and a tropical
cork hat. "Felt like I was in Africa,"
heat 116°, etc. He spent part of his
time collecting different rock forma-
tions, for beautiful specimens abound
in the locale of his trip. He has been
following this hobby for some time.
Bruce brought back a wonderful tan
with him and apparently had a very re-
laxing vacation.
One of the celebrities of Dept. 59 is
Slim VanBlom, who has his picture in
a recent issue of Click magazine danc-
ing a hula with a girl on the beach at
San Onofre, where Slim spends a great
deal of his time surfing. Slim did ra-
ther well in recent races held there is
a surfer of no mean ability.
Bill Moroney, Dept. 27 , left the third
shift to go into Dept. 59A control booth
Segundo Plant
on second shift. The third shift is soryr
to see him go for Bill was an exception-
ally likeable fellow. Good luck, Bill.
Chuck Wilkinson, assistant in charge
of Dept. 47, and Axel Boortz, senior
leadman in charge of Dept. 81 have
sent a challenge to SM that they will
take on all comers in weight lifting
with their boy "Elmer" Perryman of
Dept. 81. Elmer recently placed third
in Pacific coast weight lifting compe-
tition. Chuck and Axel feel sure that
Elmer can beat anybody that SM can
get.
Alan Hilliard of Dept. 81 is showing
his mother around California in his
new Plymouth. . . Don Tata of Dept. 81
broke in his new Buick by taking a two
weeks vacation back east... Bill Nick-
lin, Dept. 81 , recently returned from a
one weeks leave with the measles. •
The boys in Dept. 27 are warning Don
Schuerman not to get down around
Central avenue with those beautiful
new two-tone red and silver shoes of
his... Richard Rose of Dept. 27 is en-
thusiastic about flying. . . We are glad
to see Bob Apt, Dept. 27, back to work
again after a short illness. . . Dick Van
Austin, hangar stockroom, recently pil-
oted his motorboat to Catalina for a
fishing trip. Incidentally, Van, you stroll
in the Casino ballroom, not troll-or do
you ?
Steve Halmo, Dept. 48 , has been se-
cretly asking where he could buy a lot.
Love ? . . Glenn Ely, Dept. 4, has a
proud gleam in his eyes these days be-
cause of a new baby daughter. Bonnie
Jean weighed in July 20 at 7 lb. 3½ oz.
at the Centinela hospital . . . Dept. 27
welcomed Bill Ramsdell back to the
third shift after six weeks stay in R.O.
T.C. camp at Fort Ord. From the looks
of his hair Bill must have dug in un-
derneath a lawnmower on maneuvers.
Hangar News
Allen Spurr, our genial SBD lead-
man, has a particularly bright smile
these days- the reason being that the
Spurrs expect a little bundle of joy long
about next October. If it's a boy we al-
ready have him named "Bomber"
Spurr.
Several of the boys of this shift seem
to have a real hankering for knowledge
as the following are now attending a
class in perspiration for the very covet-
ed A and E license (Aeroplanes and En-
gines ) : William Stryker, Frank Mc-
Gowan, Steve Holmo, Allen Spurr, Len
Brightman, Chuck Feemster, Harold
Miller, Yancy, Steward and Earl "Chief"
McConnle. Here's hoping you make the
grade, fellows.
Don Scanlon, head hangar inspector
on third shift, has been transferred to
the Long Beach plant on day shift. We
are glad for Don but we have lost a
fine fellow and a good inspector. . . Earl
• Concluded on Page Thirty-three
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Rambling Repor ter
Reporter
"Infantry drill for coordination and
discipline ?" Undoubtedly, the question
"floors" you just as much as it did me.
Particularly, when it applies to a group
of women going through a series of
squad formations. However, Captain
Adams and Lieutenant White of the
Santa Monica Women's Ambulance and
Defense Corps of America actually
prove this statement.
When Mary Potter of tabulating takes
over and with a few commands puts
the complete unit through a synchron-
ized series of maneuvers, you begin to
realize the intensive training given 126
women of Santa Monica. Many Doug-
las girls have enrolled in the various
units, Virginia Gill of the medical group
and Mary Potter have the distinction of
being among the very first to join the
classes. Mrs. Mae Ream, wife of George
Ream of the Civil Aeronautics Admin-
istration, is in charge of first aid class-
es, organized to meet and aid in any
type of disaster. It is particularly sig-
nificant that the average American
woman is planning for her own indi-
vidual job in the national defense pro-
gram.
The problem confronting the girls of
the Long Beach plant has been solved.
I have received word there is a makeup
which does not turn purple under fluor-
escent lights and you look just as well
under these lights as you do outdoors.
Dan Russell of the general supervis-
or's office and I both realize few people
of the Douglas company ever attain
the record held by Arthur F. Thomp-
son of Dept. 87. Thompson has just re-
ceived his five-year pin, and during this
time he has never been absent, never
The men at March field with the B- 19 report the weather is warm and dry.
PAGE TWENTY- EIGHT
... Santa
...
by Patricia Kelly
been late, never failed to punch his
time card in or out.
Aileen Badger, Eleanore Whitesides,
Marion Luebke, Jeannette Fourage, Kay
Hile, Lee Long, Loret Terry, Helen
Mack, Gwen Parker, Regina Atwood,
Jere Argyle of the "Dee-Dee" club are
still talking about the show "Hellza-
poppin." It appears that when the treas-
ury shows a good debit the girls splurge
on dinner and a show. After such an ac-
cumulation of funds, August 7, 1941,
the "Dee-Dee" club attended the Bilt-
more en masse.
Congratulations to Nelson Baird on
his new job as assistant chief drafts-
man. "Nels" for the last four years has
been project engineer of the B-19.
Vacations : Cecil Weihe drove back to
Detroit and took delivery on a new
Packard . Al Swanson spent several
weeks fishing up at Mono lake . Elean-
ore Whitesides of the Long Beach plant
and Marion Luebke of Santa Monica,
were vacationing two weeks at Lake
Tahoe. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Strang
drove to Seattle and took the boat up
to Vancouver. Charley arrived during
the visit of the Duke of Kent, and was
very much impressed with the color-
ful display, particularly of the Scot-
tish regiments .
The entire dance committee of the
Douglas B-19 dance extend a vote of
thanks to Jack Anderson of Public Re-
lations. Jack made all the necessary ar-
rangements for presenting Major Um-
stead (now Lt. Colonel) and Major
Bunker as guests of honor at the
DOUGLAS
AIRCRAFT
SAHARA
DIVISION
Monica Plant
ENGINEER J. R. Goldstein surprised
with 30 cakes and candles on birthday.
dance. Mickey Glad, Margaret LoRange,
Mary Potter, Jean Holen and Norma
Whitten certainly are among the most
gracious and lovely girls I have ever
met.
The marriage of Helen Hamilton and
Gene Mires, which took place at Las
Vegas has recently been announced.
Gene is a member of the production
control department .
Guy Cooper of engineering has al-
ways contended he would remain a
bachelor. However, August 9, his mar-
riage to Elizabeth May Scott at Las
Vegas was witnessed by Jack Ogilvie.
Guy then skipped off on a two weeks
honeymoon .
Susie Pace and Madelyn Hale are get-
ting the jitters. Susie will be married
September 21 to Art Griep. Madelyn
will be married about the first of Sep-
tember to Pete Westburg.
The marriage of Beulah Bishop to
Arnold Leibscher took place August 16.
Beulah formerly was a member of the
material control group. They are honey-
mooning in New York.
Two Douglas men chose the Wedding
Manor as the place to have the knot
tied this month. They were C. L. Black-
burn, who married Josephine Oliver, and
Robert L. Wilson, whose bride was Mary
Madelyn Ketron.
P. W. Gaffney of Dept. 651 tells me
that when Maury Downs of 654 answers
the phone these days, he says, "Maury
Downs, senior, speaking." The reason
is that Maurice Michael Downs arrived
in this world June 10 at the Queen of
Angels hospital.
A blue- eyed girl , Sandra, was born
July 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Stan Sholar.
Sandra arrived weighing 6 lbs. and 12
ounces.
Harry Hjorth of engineering is ter-
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DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
RUNNING LIGHTS
Do you want to improve your tech-
nique ? The Second Shift Camera club
is definitely getting into its stride. They
have rented a little place near the Ven-
ice high school at 12906 Venice boule-
vard, where two darkrooms have been
created to develop and print the mem-
bers' pictures. They will concentrate on
stills. Meetings are held each Wednes-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock ; lectures and
contests are planned.
If you have the troubles we do, you
would be wise to sign up. We fell heir
to a Leica a couple of months ago, and
have used up several rolls of film. De-
veloping and printing is not as easy as
we had thought. Now we want addi-
tional telescopic and wide-angle object-
ives, more filters, tripod, screen and
projecter for color work, and literally
hundreds of other expensive items. Cro-
esus himself would shudder at the total
price of a list such as we make up.
Just give us the slightest encourage-
ment and we whip off a magnificent
string of implements, tools, gadgets and
materials photographic that reads like
a camera supply store catalog. We've
got it bad. But it's lots of fun. And we
NEW PILOT Clarence Strom, right,
was taught to fly by Carl Krause.
AERIAL photography was great exper-
iment for M. McKenzie and D. Marks.
AUGUST ... 1941
ON
ОП THE
by Darrell D. Marks
don't want to brag or anything-but our
work is pretty good. At least, we've seen
worse.
We're not saying we can't improve,
you understand ; but anyway, when you
look at one of our pictures, you can
say, "Aha! That's a horse!" And chan-
ces are it will be a horse. The operation
of a Leica is rather complicated ; you
turn a little knob in front, and set a
little dial on top. Then you push the
little lever way around while squinting
through the little hole. Then you move
over and squint through the other little
hole, and pretty soon you push the little
button, Oh, we forgot- before you do all
this you turn the little ring out in front
to what you hope is the right setting;
we're always forgetting this necessary
maneuver, which may account for the
very interesting effects obtained in some
of our pictures. You should see us mak-
ing a fast action shot. We're terrific .
You camera fiends who have been
looking for just such a chance may at-
tend a meeting of the Camera club and
get acquainted, or Don Kirkham will be
very happy to tell you how you, too,
may get a chance to learn to make
good pictures. You can also contact Phil
Dowds in personnel.
Our door bell rang one recent Sun-
day morning, and on opening the portal
whom should we behold but M. Mc-
Kenzie, then second shift assistant in
charge of Dept. 201. He has since been
promoted to coordinating supervisor of
Dept. 143.
"Would you like to make a flight to-
day ?" he asked, as if he didn't know.
Within 60 seconds I had slung my
camera about my neck and was wheel-
ing off to the port in Mac's beautiful
new car.
In the plane, we found that in our
rush to be off we had forgotten two
very helpful little items which we were
to miss sadly before the flight was
over: a pair of glasses and a filter for
the camera. A red filter would have been
of immeasurable aid in getting the pic-
tures we wanted, for the day was very
hazy .
If you have never used a camera in
an airplane, you do not know the joys
of aerial photography. In our collection
of prints we have some beautiful shots
of a wing, which invariably got in the
way; some very nice ones of an object
running diagonally through the pic-
ture the strut, we afterwards learned
-against a more or less indistinguish-
able background, and one, of which we
are very proud, is a shot of something
or other entirely blotted out by the
pilot tube. A beautiful thing. Then back
to the field, still shooting, where we en-
countered Carl Krause, until recently
assistant in charge of Dept. 13. He is
now in the education department, teach-
ing at Long Beach. He was about to
NIGHT SHIFT
take off in the low wing Kinner Sports-
ter owned by Clarence Strom, third
shift leadman in Dept. 201, who had
bought the plane before getting his li-
cense. Strom had just soloed Saturday,
the previous day, and we congratulated
him. Krause had been his instructor,
and we congratulated him, too- and
snapped a few more pictures.
F. R. Stuber, (your second shift boss,
remember? ) recently has gone in for
pictures, too ; he has taken up colored
movies. This is something of a triumph,
for it is reported that his plan met a
certain amount of opposition. Now,
however, it is understood that Frank
does the hard work of taking the pic-
tures, while Mrs. Stuber has all the fun
of editing and titling. Together they are
turning out some beautiful pictures,
says Mr. Stuber. Of course, he is a
fisherman with a fisherman's natural in-
clination to exaggerate ; we'll wait until
we see his shots before making further
comment. He did tell one fish story the
second week in August and backed it
up with proof in a very nice gesture.
The first time he went fishing this sea-
son he caught another beautiful marlin.
He made arrangements to have it cut
up, and each of the assistants in charge
under his jurisdiction received a steak
weighing about two pounds.
Still on the subject of movies and
fish, another protagonist is G. W. Sim-
onds, third shift superintendent. Vaca-
tion time each year finds him at his
favorite vacation spot, Lake Almanor.
Located in Northern California some-
what off the beaten track, it is surpris-
ing that the fish should become as ex-
pert as they are in surely taking the
hook. That they do is evident from the
pictures which Jack displays when he
returns; these are of the type showing
Jack holding up a hefty rainbow to the
ogling eye of the camera, or Jack non-
chalantly carrying a string of trout, or
Jack peering out from behind a stack
of fish. In addition, he always takes a
few reels of colored movies for future
edification. This year the Simonds went
alone ; popular daughter Doris was oc-
cupied with Douglas duties.
Speaking of fish, we are reminded that
Walter Fisher, assistant chief red tag
dispenser (and he will not like that !! )
has apologized for hounding us because
of certain so-called scurrilous remarks
we printed about him in this column
more than a year ago. We reported that
the rumor that Fisher had been study-
ing to enter a monastery was false,
whereas the truth of the matter, as
heard from his own lips, was that he
was seriously considering a convent. For
some inexplicable reason Walt took ex-
ception to this statement, and has re-
peatedly vowed vengeance-ripe , juicy
vengeance. Recently, however, he re-
iterated that if he could find a
convent that would have him, he
would shape his course to that end. We
• Concluded on Page Thirty three
PAGE TWENTY- NINE
 Reporter
Rambling Reporter
"We're in the Army now!" Three
thousand six hundred and seventy-nine
of us here at Long Beach, counted Aug-
ust 6. This reporter hopes to bring to
all of our old friends at Santa Monica
and El Segundo, as well as to our own
personnel, latest news concerning our
activities.
The first thing we want to tell you is
that Uncle Sam and the Douglas Air-
craft company have really combined to
give us a grand setting in which to
work. If defense depends on us-what
with these surroundings-look out, Mr.
Hitler!
The plant to date consists of seven
buildings . All are air-conditioned and
the lighting (as you have probably
heard) is fluorescent. None of the build-
ings have windows but that is for a
purpose. It makes for perfect function-
ing of the air-conditioning, eliminates
shadows and causes the light to spread
evenly over all the working space. The
buildings are also sound-proof. This is
certainly a great advantage. In the
production and stores buildings the
sound-proofing is so good that the noise
of a full- sized train coming into the
place sounds like a kiddy car. We're
not pulling a Ripley on you, either-
full-sized trains DO pull into building
No. 5 to unload material. Speaking of
building No. 5- practically all of the
clerical staff was stationed there until
the Administration building was finsh-
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card and clock number by the whimsic-
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. Long
by Margaret Ball
ed. Well, we did look rather queer, we'll
admit, but we wish to discount some
of the wild tales about how ghastly the
girls looked under the mercury vapor
lights . After a couple of weeks we all
felt too "pink-and-whitish. " It was an
advantage in another way, too- in the
building a dress or man's shirt assum-
ed one color and in the light someone
was sure to remark: "Oh, a new dress
(or shirt ) -I never saw you wear that
one before!!" (Very uplifting to the
ego. )
Guess this is enough about the plant
for this month- next month we hope
the new cafeteria will be completely fin-
ished and we will tell you how beauti-
ful the lighting effects are, who runs it
and all other interesting facts.
News Notes
Here's the news : Weddings and ba-
bies seem to predominate-we'll report
the weddings first- (that seems to be
the natural course of events) .
Kay Bailey of receiving took off for
her home town of Corvallis, Montana,
last week to become the bride of Dr.
"Bud" Huntley of Los Angeles on Aug-
ust 15. She was accompanied by her
maid-of-honor Grace Williams of mate-
riel liaison. Montana's gain was our loss
but only for two weeks for the girls
will return (bringing the groom, of
course) and still beautify their respect-
ive departments. The best from all of
us, Kay !!
Hands across the sea — bonds of
friendship strengthened-one big happy
family-and all that. Which is just a
prelude to the news that Jerry Frank
of time and material distribution be-
came the bride of D. L. Trader, Santa
Monica plant in July. Happy landings,
kids ! We would like to suggest that a
new town be incorporated called " Moni-
ca Beach" and have it just half way
between Santa Monica and Long Beach
so time and distance will be equally di-
vided. We imagine there will be more
S.M.-L.B. weddings and want them all
to have clear skies and smooth sailing.
The newest benedict of planning de-
partment is Ted Kinney who was mar-
ried August 9 to Miss Dorothy Morri-
son of Santa Ana. He is still wandering
around in a fog, but we've seen her pic-
ture so we don't blame him. They are
living in Fullerton and we hope they
never have a ceiling zero.
James Watkins of follow-up and Miss
Alice Hall of Long Beach were married
July 3. Their many friends in the de-
partment presented them with a lamp
which we hope helps light the way to
everlasting happiness.
A marriage of great interest to their
many friends both at Santa Monica and
Beach Plant
Long Beach was that of Bea Olsen for-
merly of personnel and now of produc-
tion control and Bud Camfield, badge
control, on July 18. This was really a
Douglas romance right from the start
as they met when Bea received her
badge the day she was hired. Quite ro-
mantically they had the wedding a year
from that date at the Lakewood chapel.
Many of the Long Beach personnel of-
fice saw and heard them say their "I
do's" and later gave them an electric
clock. After seeing them together here
at the plant we feel that the old adage
about "Time will Tell" will never apply
to them. They will no doubt look at the
clock on their 50th anniversary and say
"Remember when?"
New Defense Atoms
The stork came in for a perfect land-
ing August 7, bringing with him the
"first baby" for shipping department.
The proud papa, F. G. Andrews, was in
a flat spin for a few days but finally
settled down enough to name him Gor-
don Raymond and tell the staff he
weighed in at 8 lbs. 10½ ounces.
Much commotion was caused by the
arrival of Tanya Jane Moffat on July
31 at Magnolia hospital, Long Beach.
The commotion was caused by daddy
Manley Moffat of production control who
beamingly declared, "It's wonderful!"
Baby Tanya weighed 8 lbs. 3 oz. and
we suspect daddy will have a busy time
about 1960 sweeping boy friends off the
front step-she's a red-head !
The newest applicant for medical
plan, life insurance, car and accident
and all other forms of protection should
be Cynthia Lou Maurer who arrived in
Pasadena August 9, if papa George R.
Maurer can settle down long enough to
write it. When he arrived in the insur-
ance department after the big event he
was greeted by a clothesline across his
desk adorned with various types of
panties and such like. It didn't perturb
him he was so proud of the little 6 lb.
13 oz. miss that he just sat there all
day under it and never batted an eye.
(We suspect he didn't even see it ) .
Arthur Moss of inspection was anoth-
er proud father of a girl, Julie Ann.
She was born in Santa Monica hospital
August 5.
Around and About
After much sleuthing around Ye
Scribe has found out that practically all
the vacations so far have been in the
High Sierras. It seems that the Mam-
moth Lakes region is the mecca for
Douglas fishermen and their families-
among them being Al Everett of power
plan project; Lee Benedict, production
control; Grady Ball, power plant as-
sembly and installation ; "Stu" Wilcox-
en, production control, and J. A. How-
ard, time standards. Ray Schulz, C-47
• Concluded on Page Thirty-three
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 SHOP SUGGESTION
JOHN CURLETT, 56-32, former stu-
dent of both the California Institute of
Technology and University of Southern
California, is now in charge of hy-
draulic test equipment in Dept. 56.
Curlett realized the test stand em-
ployed in Dept. 6 was inadequate for
the volume of tubing which it was
necessary to test.
There was a need for an automatic
large-volume stand, capable of pres-
sures of 2600 to 6000 pounds. Cur-
lett's testing stand, the "A" award
shop suggestion for this month incor-
porates a booster with valve guage.
With cone seats against the tube flare
end, the operation of screwing the tube
to the tester is eliminated. Thus, there
is no chance for injury to the nuts or
flare ends of the tubes.
This practically full automatic test-
ing stand saves three-quarters the pre-
vious time used in the testing of tub-
ing. The tool department is now per-
White Death
Continued from Page Thirty
with his life still the other 99 would
disbelieve and blaze forth with pro-
test.
As for Gus Bagnard, he believes that
anybody could tell him anything about
the sea or what lives in it and he
would have no reason to doubt it. He
has seen too many strange things of
the sea to be dubious .
It was during the meet of the In-
ternational Congress of Big Game Ang-
lers held under the auspices of the
Anglers of Australia in 1939 that
Grey's party took nine out of eleven
awards. Grey established his award on
his striped marlin catch at 409 pounds.
Bagnard's brother, Lyle, took five
awards, the first being his 1382 pound
tiger shark, a world's record ; a 1150
pound whaler shark, a 111 pound mar-
lin on 6-strand line, 6-inch tip and 6-
ounce rod; a 358 Mako shark and a
986 pound tiger shark on 24-strand line.
Gus established two world's records
and one Sydney record . He caught the
largest hammerhead shark ever taken
at 552 pounds and the Sydney record
black marlin at 324 pounds. Gus holds
the world's record for his white death
shark at 1036 pounds- one of the
most ferocious big fish ever caught.
Gus took this huge man-eater on regu-
AUGUST ... 1941
AWARDS
fecting and developing this 3'x10'
panel .
Other suggestion awards for the
month were :
"B" AWARDS
Robert H. Reep, 5-503, Lower Break
Die Print ; E. W. Oxman, 852-7, LB
Combination Wedge Block for Carbu-
retor Airscoop; George Kirilla, 24-85 ,
Electrical Installation Notebook ; Wer-
ner A. Carlsen, 6-35, Silver Soldering
Jig; Leo L. King, 95-19, Roller Bear-
ing Design.
"C" AWARDS
C. Elliott Davis, 441-9, Trammel
Scrib Knife ; Dave M. Jenks, 401-240 ,
Improvement on Cheek Plate Ham-
mers ; Jack M. Bowser, 201-141 , Mill-
ing Fixture ; E. W. Oxman, 852-7, LB
Tail Pipe Fixture ; Myron C. Johnson,
6-232, Adapter and Holder Fixture ;
R. M. Westbrook, 294-4, Safety on
Protruding Girders.
WINNER of suggested award for test
stand was John Curlett of Dept. 56.
lation 39-strand line. This was one of
the largest fish ever taken on rod and wear away the undeveloped or smaller
reel. Lyle's world's record tiger shark teeth rotate outward to take the place
is the largest fish ever taken on rod and of the original set. They have no bones.
reel . These official weights were made nor back bones, being practically in-
by the Metropolitan museum which is vertebrates. The skin itself from study
sued official certificates . When Lyle's by dissection appears to be nothing
huge man-eater was hauled up for the • Concluded on Page Thirty-two
weigh-in a full grown Airdale dog was
expelled from the stomach. GAME FISHING CLUB OF S.A.
Bagnard states that he has seen these
white death sharks swim close to rocks
upon which seals were basking, lash
out with their tails and flip seals into
the water. The sharks would then de- Boby
vour the seals before they could get
Capture and Weight Recording Certifica
away. Date 3.4 39 .
As proof to their contentions that This isto certify that M. 4 Guo Fagnard_
there is such a thing as a man- eater Address. Betadina. California, America .
Captured a (class of fish) while Pointer Shark.
the party gathered data on 300 cases
of shark fatalities from the civilized at (locality) Little English Island.. on (date) 10 Boul
gross weight 10362 weight of sling used
whites. A lady friend of Bagnard's wife nettweight 10.362 to.. onscalesapproved by the Club.
was destroyed by a gray nurse shark Length overall skect to'smiches. length crotchoftail to lowerjaw toget tom
while the party was in Australia. Bag- girth bust $5 mches.
nard also witnessed the horrible des- Lineused thread. Length double line -- 25
5feet,
length oftrace 25 feet. number and type of hooks & meh
truction of a boy who was in waist-
I hereby certify that I was present when Mr Suo Fagnard
deep water. A huge shark swallowed captured the of
above
ofthe GFC SAfish,
andand
on the
the same
tacklewas capturedin by
described thishim unaided andin accordance with the fishing
certificate.
the lower half of the boy's torso and Signed Arnold Mittler
(The Boatman or FishingCompas on,
carried the screaming, bleeding boy out.
(Full Address)
through the surf. He was seen no more.
I hereby certify that I have weighed and measured the said fihich is in accordance with d
submitted
The white death shark is very white
in appearance and has a vicious, dia- Signed Hank&Bears
(Official Worder,
bolic mouth, containing triple rows of of
I acceptthe above particulars as being correct. (Locality)
wickedly sharp teeth. The jaw is of
Jus M.Bagnard (Angler ignate
gristle and as the teeth break off or
PAGE THIRTY- ONE

White Death
• Concluded from Page Thirty- one
more than undeveloped teeth .
The white death shark is one of the
only big fish that inhabits all the seven
seas, being both north and south of the
equator.
It was a deep and powerful emotion
that these men of Grey's party felt
when they killed a shark-a justifiica-
tion that each shark taken would never
kill a human being.
These gray nurse sharks hunt in
packs and have been known to leave
the salt water of the sea to traverse
as far as 90 miles up fresh water
rivers where they would attack people.
A gray nurse shark which Gus caught
was about to give birth to its young
and when taken aboard the boat Bag-
nard found himself acting as midwife
to 38 young sharks. The shark from
the time it is born until death seems
never to stop moving and never sleeps.
Their only instinct is to eat.
While filming a picture Bagnard, in
a reckless mood, volunteered to double
for one of the Australian actors by
fighting a 12-foot long Tiger shark. The
shark was enticed into an enclosure
with a piece of bait. Gus armed him-
self with a small hunting knife and
his friends stood by with high powered
rifles as he dove in with the shark. A
shark's tough skin is far more rough
than sandpaper and Gus immediately
found himself being rasped and torn as
they came together under water .
Bagnard finally concluded it was a
mistake to be down there with the
beast, but since he was he'd bet-
ter work fast. The shark charged him
and Gus quickly stuck his hand into
the shark's gill and hung on . In this
position he felt he could defend him-
self and would be able to keep track
of those snapping jaws. He was then
able to get his legs around the shark's
body in a scissor-hold as the water
was lashed to foam. In this position
Gus was able to sink the knife to the
hilt in the tough body until the red-
dened water quieted down and Gus
was dragged out of the tank exhausted,
his body rasped and bleeding. Gus
proved to himself that there are waters
in the world in which he would not
swim.
There were times when the party
made catches of beautiful specie of fish
and immediately the packs of hungry,
snapping sharks would make for the
catch. It would be necessary to force
PAGE THIRTY-TWO
the boat to full speed of ten knots and
then swing boat hooks, meat cleavers
and gaffs down on the pack besides fir-
ing at them with guns. Even then the
catch would be devoured or perhaps
only fish heads would remain on the
hooks.
Zane Grey and Bagnard were the
best of friends throughout their 12
years of association until Grey's death
in October of 1939 ended their com-
panionship just after their return from
their last trip to Australia .
Gus remembers Grey as his finest
friend and as a jokester. An incident
at Santa Catalina island was typical
of Grey's humor. He had caught a
beautiful specimen of broadbill sword-
fish, the king of the sea . This fish is
the most canny, the smartest, toughest
and, indeed, the most difficult of all
fish to catch. This fish when hooked
will usually fight to the death and be
brought to the boat belly-up . The
swordfish will many times go to the
bottom when hooked and die there . It
is then practically impossible to pull
the dead weight up with light tackle.
Grey had spent considerable of a for-
tune and much of 15 years' time to ac-
quire the skill and education necessary
to consistently catch this greatest of
game fish. Fishermen consider it the
acme of sport to spot one, hook it and
then land it.
Grey's fine broadbill was weighed in
and exhibited at the end of the Avalon
pier. A conformable Iowa farmer and
his wife were on their first visit to the
island and were grossly occupied with
the fish. The farmer's wife said to hus-
band Elmer, "Why don't you catch one
of those fish ?" Before he could stutter
an answer the impulsive wife stepped
up to Grey and asked, "Mr., could El.
mer catch a fish like that ?"
"Why, yes, madam, he could. "
"Well, how would Elmer go about
it?" asked Mrs. Farmer.
Grey patiently started, "First, mad-
am, he could charter a boat which has
all the tackle and equipment furnished ,
or he could buy the tackle. Then he
would go out and run all over the sea
until he located one."
"Well, Mr.," the farmer's wife said.
"how much did it cost for you to catch
that there fish ?"
Grey raised his head and looked far
out to sea as though looking far into
the past years and he shruggingly re-
plied. "Oh, about $ 750,000 ! " ?? !! -
the farmer pair quickly retired from
him in seeming disorder, almost sure
they had met a mental case.
Since Bagnard's return to Southern
California a son has been born. Presi-
dent John Davis of the National Ang-
ler's club, has presented a gold marlin
lapel pin to the baby, significant of
honorary lifetime membership. Bag.
nard's son is now the youngest mem-
ber in this noted anglers' organization .
And so it was that Grey, Lyle and
Gus sought the joy of anticipation- of
trolling sunny, strange waters, of pur-
ple coral reefs and ribbon beaches of
white sand, and the shore haunts of
the aboriginies. They strove always
for the unattainable, whether is was a
great fish or the ultimate in beauty.
Sports - S.M.
• Concluded from Page Twenty-four
.45 calibre timed fire ; fourth place , ex-
pert in the all around aggregate and
first place, expert, in the regional
championship.
Lehrer also made headline news for
the Douglas club by winning the expert
first place regional championship, which
includes a trip to the Small Arms Train-
ing school and the National matches at
Camp Perry, Ohio.
It is the aim of Chief Davis to be able
to have a pistol team of sufficient
strength to merit a trip to the Inter-
national matches in Mexico City next
year.
Boxer K.O.'s Wrestler
In Punch Bowl Show
Pat O'Dowdy, the one man riot, re-
turned to the Douglas Athletic club ring
wars last month to do battle with
Gege Gravente in a mixed match which
featured the regular D.A.C. sport show.
The match, billed as a mixed affair
between a wrestler and a boxer, found
Gravente, sensational Olympic headlin-
er of a few years ago, wearing the
gloves, while O'Dowdy upheld the hon-
or of the wrestling fraternity.
Norm Randalls, the scheduled referee,
was called out of the ring at the request
of O'Dowdy and replaced by matchmak-
er Marvin Powers.
These mixed bouts usually end one
way, with the wrestler's hand in the
air. Naturally, once he is in the wrest-
ler's clutches, the boxer, with his gloved
hands, is practically helpless. However.
in the case of Gravente and O'Dowdy
it was very much an even affair with
the advantage on neither side. The
crafty Gravente, although known chief-
ly as a boxer, also wrestles professional-
ly, and at least knows the art from
cover to cover. He kept his distance
from the Irish grappler and only step-
ped in range when he was certain of a
shot at his opponents button.
O'Dowdy went down under Gravente's
right time after time , but it must be
said to his credit that he managed to
get up again after each time and deal
out some of his own brand of punish-
ment.
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Weather Control
Concluded from Page Nine
a skilled personnel of 60 under the di-
rection of an air-conditioning expert,
F. G. Holloway. Entrusted to their
care are the 70 conditioning units, 22
boilers, several hundred drinking
fountains, cooling systems for air com-
pressors and heat treating equipment,
exhaust fans and blowers, water heaters
and numerous other units .
In its operation and the elaborate
air-conditioning system of the Douglas
Long Beach plant has already shown
extensive and significant results -en-
hanced employe morale, fewer indus-
trial accidents, and less non- industrial
illness all bearing directly on the
speed and success of the national de-
fense production drive for aerial se-
curity.
Sports -- E.S.
• Concluded from Page Twenty- six
it up to Crater lake and Castle lake
over the Redwood highway, catching
the limit of trout on several days. At
Castle lake, a beautiful spot on the
flank of Mt. Shasta, the boys met Bob
Cowdrey (what a convention of Bobs ! )
and his wife . The Cowdrey hobby of
outboard motor boating was somewhat
hampered by a snapped crankshaft and
a trailer damaged by atrocious moun-
tain roads, but repairs were effected in
time to afford a good bit of cruising.
Ray Grill put in a lot of fishing in
Oregon, though not with his usual suc-
cess. Dayton Plank and Ed Bentley of
Dept. 44 pulled in 50 trout over a
scorching hot week end near Palm
Springs. Bill Lockett had fair fishing
around Huntington lake . Rue Pollok
and companions traversed the Kern
river to its upper reaches and were
foiled of fish by a cloudburst. So it goes
with the plant population, and it is a
sad thing there is not the space to
devote to all of those who deserve
mention .
TENNIS
The stress group's tennis tournament
is history. It was a battle all the way
until the last week of play, when Jack
Hammil and Fred Allen met for the
title , Allen taking two tournament
points by capturing the first set 6-2 and
running the second out to 7-9. Tourna-
ment points were awarded on the basis
of one point for each set, and one for
the player winning most games in the
two set matches .
Running Lights
• Concluded from Page Twenty-nine
were greatly gratified upon receiving
his apology .
Jack Whitaker, "C" group planner,
and Miss Dorothy Williams were mar-
AUGUST ... 1941
ried July 26 in a formal wedding.
Douglas bowlers of Dept. 61 will hold
their annual picnic on September 14,
then will hold a bowling tournament.
An air-minded drop hammer operat-
or, Edwin O'Hearn, soloed last month,
now has ten hours to his credit. His
ambition is to become a member of the
R.A.F. Note on paper sack delivered to
Johnny Conger : "SPECIAL SOUVEN-
IR. This sack contains air from the tire
of the famous B-19." ... Harry Spring
of Dept. 12, won some money on a Sun-
day radio quizz program not long ago
H. Headland, Dept. 24, bought a
trailer to lounge in during his vacation,
went off with wife and kids to some
lake for fishing purposes . . . leaving C.
Leaman in charge of planning still
muttering about a recent baseball
game which his team lost by a score of
4 to 0, due to the fact that an alleged
tipsy umpire could not see the ball. "We
was robbed!" claims Leaman.
Bob Stock tells us that one gentle-
man in tooling who is anticipating the
blanket raise with more than the usual
interest is Don Follansbee, of Dept. 651,
who is pricing star sapphires. Her
name is Virginia Gibson, of Dallas,
Texas.. .Bill Collins of Dept. 651, now
owns, in addition to that dream Mer-
cury, an 18-foot speedboat . On a re-
cent trip to Catalina Bill rode in the
speedboat once and was so impressed
with it he went to every length to
buy it. Quote statistics on it : it has a
160-horsepower V- 12 Lycoming airplane
engine, carries seven passengers, has a
reported speed of 60 knots, and is nam-
ed a beautiful old Hawaiian name, the
Kamaniwanaleia. . . Cupid is work-
ing overtime in tooling along with
everyone else. Latest on the list of fatal
steptakers are H. Pitzen and Lloyd
Snook, of Dept. 631. . . L. B. Miller,
second shift supervisor of Dept. 653 , re-
ports a percentage of 98 in his photo-
graphic pursuits during his Oregon va-
cation trip. Of 96 snapshots , 93 were
perfect, and of five rolls of moving pic-
ture film, four and a half were very
good... At last the truth is out. Dennis
Stecher, quiet and hard-working chief
typist of Dept. 651 , was once manager
of the Follies Moderne Burlesque thea-
ter. He is now known on the second
shift as "Minsky" Stecher.
Rambling Reporter, E.S.
• Concluded from Page Twenty- seven
McConnel has taken Scanlon's place as
head inspector. He has been here a long
time and we are all glad to see him
take over for Scanlan and just a tip for
everybody concerned-Mac can smile
pleasantly and still tell you he won't
buy it unless it's okay.
Dorr Mark, inspector and former lead
man, is back at the hangar again after
a short stay in the plant.
Have you noticed the proud gleam on
Vincent Womack's face lately ? His lit-
tle deferment can sit up all by herself.
.. Tucker, newly married sparktrician ,
insists that "batching" cannot compare
with married life. "Modern design
makes the difference". Len Briteman
says that the fish and game commission
should do something about the lockjaw
plague that apparently has descended
upon the "poor itto fissies" at Lake
Henshaw. Ech tch. . . It is rumored that
Bob Christenson is going on a hunt
this fall, looking for a house for two.
. . We extend our heartiest congratula-
tions to Hugh Hoefeldt, Dept. 50, and to
Peter Wright of Dept. 45 who recently
received their five-year service pins.
Joe Wozat took a week's vacation the
week of July 18. He went to Salt Lake,
Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco and
Santa Rosa. He also gave a little girl
in Santa Rosa a diamond ring.
Rambling Reporter S.M.
• Concluded from Page Twenty-eight
ribly excited over the birth of his first
son, Tommy.
A son, Laurence Edwin Owings, was
born on July 29 at 4:55 p.m. to Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Owings, Dept. 651.
The Douglas Aeronaders were such
a success at the Santa Monica Police
show that the police force decided to
contribute $ 15 to the dinner-dance the
Aeronaders held at the Aviation Beach
club Saturday, August 23.
Helen Hammond, former engineering
receptionist, has resigned and plans to
devote all her time to her new home
in San Diego.
Rambling Reporter, L.B.
• Concluded from Page Thirty
project, took his family fishing at Gla-
cier Lodge-just to be different, but he
was still up where they catch the "big
ones." After spending 15 years up in
the Sierras every season we hear that
Ray can catch them, too.
A very amusing experience had Marie
Winston, our sparkling hazel-eyed chief
operator (she of the pretty brown hair) .
It seems that over the Fourth of July
Marie went into a local drug store to
cash her check and produced her ID as
evidence that she was entitled to the
check. Mr. Druggist looked at her en-
dorsement and then at the ID and tim-
idly but none the less firmly told her
she was not the same person as shown
by the ID. Marie looked at the side of
the card towards her and assured him
that she was but he took the card from
her hand and pointed out that her name
-staring him right in the face-was
"Hazel Brown." When she could stop
laughing Marie showed him the other
side of the card and all was clear. He
had been reading her description where
it says "Hair, Brown ; Eyes, Hazel ."
This seems to wind up the news for
this month . As the newest "cub" on the
Airview staff, Ye Scribe hopes that the
above has proved of interest and will
surely "ramble" around energetically
and try and get more items for Sep-
tember. Also hope to get some news of
our night shift, too . So long, you'll be
hearing from us.
PAGE THIRTY- THREE

Here and There
• Concluded from Page Seventeen
not stop with providing the best pos-
sible working conditions, and express-
ed his pleasure at the start of another
project to provide modern housing for
the employes of rapidly-growing de-
fense industries .
"The president and the nation have
given the aircraft industry a job to do
-a job whose swift and efficient ful-
fillment is a vital part of our plan and
determination to prepare America and
preserve democracy," he said.
"Judging from the cooperation we are
receiving from government authorities,
the assistance other industries are ren-
dering in supplying us with materials
and equipment, and the splendid loyal-
ty of our own workers-I think we're
going to do the job ahead of schedule ."
Nothing Can Stand Up
Against 'Havoc' Firepower
"No German airplane, no matter how
heavily armored, can stand up for a
moment against the firing power of
this flying arsenal ."
Such was the report on the Douglas
Havoc from England this month by
Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent
for Collier's magazine, the opinion was
result of comments he received from
Royal Air Force flyers at night fighter
bases in England . Reynolds reported he
found nothing but praise for the vari-
ous types of American warplanes in
service in Europe.
One of the marvels of America's
shipment of fighting planes to England,
Reynolds quoted an assembly base fore-
man as saying, is the expert job of
packing done. In the year that he has
been assembling American airplanes, he
said, there has never been a case of
damage due to faulty packing.
Douglas Havoc Pins
Sent R. A. F. Flyers
THE pilots, gunners and bombard-
iers at a Royal Air Force station in
Kent will soon be sporting in their
lapels miniature gold models of the
Douglas airplanes they are flying.
President Donald W. Douglas sent
50 of the pins to the station i . answer
to a request from Sgt. J. M. Hallett
who saw one of the pins on the lapel
of a Douglas service man visiting the
station and wrote to Santa Monica to
get some for himself and other airmen .
"Having been on operational flying
PAGE THIRTY - FOUR
with Havocs ( our R.A.F. name since
they were converted to night fighters ) ,"
wrote Sergeant Hallett, "I wish to tell
you what a grand job of work they
have done and are still doing.
"As a night fighter squadron with
the Havocs, we have had our share of
success, with other squadrons, in shoot-
ing Jerry up on his bombing raids. It
is the general opinion of the boys that
they are splendid to fly and also have
comfort. "
More Pay
• Concluded from Page Seven
computing the weekly payrolls .
Prior to the recent wage increase
granted on August 7, the Douglas pay-
roll was approximately $52,000,000
per year. By mid- 1942, when Douglas
plants at Long Beach and Tulsa, Okla .,
will be completed, the operating pay.
roll is expected to exceed $ 100,000,-
000 annually.
According to Comptroller R. V.
Hunt, the wage increases now in effect
or under consideration in all classifi-
cations, when applied over the period
of the existing backlog of the com-
pany, will amount to more than $40,-
000,000.
"Distribution of this additional com-
pensation was made possible by ac-
celeration of production for national
defense," said Mr. Douglas. "Both the
government and this company confi
dently anticipate the continued loyalty
and cooperation of Douglas employes
in our ' all out' effort to preserve the
democratic way of life."
Havens of Healing
• Concluded from Page Six
is large and ever-growing. At Santa
Monica now are 27 registered nurses,
at El Segundo seven, and at Long
Beach more than a dozen.
There are nine doctors and medical
examiners . These include at Santa Mon-
ica and El Segundo, Dr. Rooney, his
son and assistant medical director, Dr.
John C. Rooney, Dr. H. O. Stocker, Dr.
York, Dr. O. J. Blosmo , all of whom
are engaged at the dispensaries, and
as examiners working in conjunction
with the personnel department, Ralph
Evans and Dr. George Belden . At Long
Beach are Drs. Loomis, Pearson and
Matlock.
What the dispensaries mean to the
welfare of everyone in the Douglas
plants is obviously demonstrated in the
use to which employes put them. Near-
ly 5000 calls a week are made by em-
ployees to the dispensaries in the
Santa Monica plant alone.
To further aid ill or injured em-
ployes, each plant maintains a visiting
nurse. Each of the visiting nurses con-
stantly visits employes absent because
of illness or injury and sees to it that
they receive adequate medical care.
Thus it is, with untiring vigilance on
every possible front, the Douglas med-
ical department guards the welfare of
all employes with skill, equipment and
organization second to none.
Night and Day-
Save Material
THE first of a new series of posters
appears this month, designed and pro-
duced by Howard Wookey, a new
member of the Douglas company.
Working under the direction of
George Tharratt, head of produc-
tion illustration, Wookey has turn-
ed out a poster which symbolizes
the never ending, around-the- clock at-
tempt being made within our plant to
curb any material wastes which may
arise to hinder our all out effort for
defense .
Proof that the thought of material
conservation is present at all hours of
the daily 24 can readily be seen in the
poster and conservation suggestions
which are being received from mem-
bers of all three shifts. Sincere thanks
are extended to those who have sent in
suggestions and the wish that more
would come in goes to those who have
not, as yet, made a contribution .
Extension of the Material Conserva-
tion program to the Long Beach plant
took place this month and is under the
supervision of Lloyd Dunham, general
supervisor, with Curt Straub acting
as director. Both men saw the origin of
material conservation in the Santa
Monica plant before going to Long
Beach.
Photos by ...
All photographs by Douglas Aircraft com-
pany unless otherwise noted.
Chief Photographers
ROY L. JOHNSON, Santa Monica
HAROLD G. JACKSON, El Segundo
JACK FREEMAN, Long Beach
Staff Photographers
RAY HOSKINS FRANK ENKOSKY
R. C. BETRHOLF PAUL KING
HARRY MERRICK LARRY KRONQUIST
Pages 12 and 13.. ..GUS BAGNARD
Page 16.. UNITED AIR LINES
Page 18. Chart by FRANK GLISSEN
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PROTECT OUR ISLAND PARADISE serve the islands of Oahu, Maui , Kauai, Lanai , Molokai
AND SPEED ITS COMMUNICATIONS and Hawaii. Thus Douglas commercial planes speed
communications and join Douglas military aircraft in
spreading protective wings over our island paradise.
With the Hawaiian Islands standing as our sentinals
Douglas Aircraft Co Inc. , Santa Monica , California .
in the Pacific, it is significant that new Douglas DC-3
airplanes now augment the service of Hawaiian Air-
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this activity, Delta Air Lines is doing a strategic
job in speeding men , materials and mail over the
Trans - Southern Route. As with all major airlines,
Delta depends on Douglas wings which are meeting
transportation emergencies throughout the nation.
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SEPTEMBER, 1941 Circulation -40,000 Volume VIII Number 9

Published by the CONTENTS

Departments of Industrial and
Public Relations PRODUCTION ARMIES MOBILIZE FOR DEFENSE - 4
Douglas Aircraft Company U. S. DEFENSE BONDS OFFERED DOUGLAS WORKERS 6
A. M. ROCHLEN BOSTONS BY BOEING COME OFF THE LINE 7
Director
THEY REALLY CAN TAKE IT · 8
JACK G. ANDERSON
Assistant UNITED WE GIVE · 10
FREDERIC C. COONRADT FIRST DOUGLAS AIRPLANE 11
Managing Editor
MIRAGE · · 12

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Associates
AL A. ADAMS BOB THOMPSON WITH DOUGLAS AROUND THE WORLD 14
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE - 15
Contributors to This Issue
COLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT · 16
MARGARET BALL ENID KIEBURTZ
DON BLACK CLYDE KINTZ WITH US THIS MONTH . 18
NED CRAWFORD JACK LESTER
BRAVEN DYER BERT D. LYNN DOUGLAS ALL-AMERICANS 20
BRADLEY JONES DARRELL D. MARKS
BOWLINE BITES ·
PATRICIA KELLY FRANK OPDYKE
SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP 23
COVER : Flight test engineer Peter DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB SPORTS · 24
Gordon Booth, laden with oxygen mask,
DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB ACTIVITIES · 25
parachute, instruments, record pads
and a heavy flying suit, climbs into a SPORTS EL SEGUNDO PLANT - - - 26
supercharged A- 20 for a flight into the RAMBLING REPORTER • · EL SEGUNDO PLANT 27
troposphere. Kodachrome photograph
by Larry Kronquist. RAMBLING REPORTER · SANTA MONICA PLANT 28
RUNNING LIGHTS ON THE NIGHT SHIFT - 29
Published monthly by Douglas Aircraft Com- . . . LONG BEACH PLANT ·
RAMBLING REPORTER ... 30
pany, Inc.. Santa Monica, California. Cable ad-
Iress : Douglasair. Address all communications SHOP SUGGESTION AWARDS - 31
to Douglas Airview, Santa Monica, Calif. Copy-
right 1941 by Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc. WATCH OUT FOR WASHINGTON 31

KEY MEN AND DEFENSE

AS THE national emergency continues and defense pro-
duction passes from phrase to fact, the worker in the shop
assumes great importance. The man behind the machine
takes his place on equal footing with the man behind the
gun.
Today every employe is a key man because every man
is needed in the tremendous task of supplying the " arsenals
of democracy" with their most effective weapons- modern
aircraft. Craftsman and engineer, laborer and executive,
supervisor and beginner-each has a duty and a responsi
bility, and all are important wheels and cogs in a machine
whose output may determine the destiny of a nation.
A machine without a skilled worker to run it, power to
drive it or materials to feed it, is just so much metal . Men,
like machines, need supervision , enthusiasm and coordination
to be efficient .
Here at Douglas we have a big job all cut out for us.
To do our share, we must operate key plants, made up of
key men forming key units in a key industry. This is the
Douglas Design for Defense. Working together we can
carry it out, only if each and every one of us cooperates
with the next man and works toward a common goal.
We can do the job and do it well when every employe
looks to his supervisor for help and guidance, and every
supervisor, in turn, seeks and accepts, with confidence and
appreciation, suggestions and ideas from his men.
Dampn
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EARNING while learning are these students being taught the intricacies of wood
pattern making by Al Foulerton, Dept. 67, skilled pattern maker in the mockup
department. After Santa Monica schooling men will work at Long Beach plant.
Production Armies
MOBILIZE FOR
A VAST industrial mobilization for
national defense is underway at the
Douglas company's Long Beach plant
a mobilization which will eventually
create an army of 30,000 production
workers.
With present buildings completed
and in production on airplane parts
and assemblies, and additional struc-
tures still to come, the current Long
Beach personnel of nearly 6000 will be
steadily augmented by hundreds each
week.
How this vital defense force is being
marshalled is a new and significant
chapter in the history of American in-
dustrial training, for however modern
the factory and efficient the machines,
only skilled men can build airplanes.
To provide adequate numbers of
skilled workers for the new plant, there
is now in full swing an extensive train-
ing program which was launched last
fall before ground had even been
broken at Long Beach. Most spectacu
lar factor in this program was the air-
craft training center established by the
Long Beach school system, which cur-
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DEFENSE
rently is graduating each month nearly
1000 men well-trained in airplane man-
ufacturing methods and materials.
But even as the factory's structural
steel rose in the air, and neophyte as-
sembly workers at the pre-employment
training center practiced the use of air-
plane rivet guns, the Douglas plants
at Santa Monica and El Segundo were
quietly and efficiently lending a hand
to their younger though giant brother.
For to these older members of the
Douglas family fell the responsibility
of supplying the men who were not to
be found elsewhere. In addition to pro-
viding the supervisory, technical and
other key personnel, who must have
years of background and experience,
these plants undertook to train present
employes and new men for special
work, training which required special
equipment not available elsewhere .
"In-plant" training programs were
established at both Santa Monica and
El Segundo to teach specialized skills
needed at Long Beach, or to prepare
men for promotion to jobs of leader-
ship at that factory. In addition , these
Douglas "In Plant" Training
Program-Learning on the
Job-Provides New Leaders
and Skilled Craftsmen for
Growing Long Beach Plant.
classes were to provide for replacing
men transferred to Long Beach.
Part of the in-plant training is being
carried out by assigning the selected
men to attend classes, lectures, and
conferences for an hour or so daily.
Where the new training was of such
nature that it required full-time study,
men were transferred into a training
department, and all of their time oc-
cupied with this activity, meanwhile
continuing to draw full pay. Upon
completion of the prescribed instruc
tion they are transferred again to
proper production departments.
While thousands of employes have
already received some form of in-plant
training, more than 700 have completed
full -time courses, approximately two-
thirds of these being assigned from
various production departments .
With the Education department re-
maining in close touch with the pro-
gram and progress of each employe,
the training period is varied accord-
ing to the type of work and the back-
ground and ability of the individual .
Specialized classes were set up in wood
pattern making, plaster patternmaking ,
and on-the-job training has been given
in various machine operations, metal-fit-
ting, metal fabrication , spot welding,
production control, production plan-
ning, payroll and accounting . A train-
ing course to provide several hundred
tool designers and tool planners for
Long Beach is now being conducted in
the Santa Monica tooling division.
In those instances where Long
Beach has installed types of equipment
not yet in use at the other factories, in-
plant training classes were inaugurated
at Long Beach itself just as soon as
the equipment was available. Such a
class was that for the operation of new
air hammers.
hammers . All personnel in this
class were from Santa Monica, half of
them being new trainees entirely un-
versed in the use of such equipment,
while the remainder were previously
operators of drop hammers. In this class
even trainees could learn to skillfully
handle a fast, efficient and ultra-safe
air hammer for the production of sheet-
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
metal airplane parts within a maximum
of three weeks.
Since trained leadership is vital
under an expansion program, both
Santa Monica and El Segundo have
made leadman training courses an im-
portant part of their in-plant schedule.
Courses were inaugurated in which
qualified employes were taught the de-
tails of administration and leadership
which would permit them to assume
the responsibilities of leadmen . Ap-
proximately 250 men have already been
so trained since inception of the pro-
gram .
This new salient of the Douglas
company's training drive followed
closely the extensive and highly-suc-
cessful educational conferences for
leadmen which were held recently at
both plants . Under direction of the
Education department, coordinating
supervisors and supervisors of the
Santa Monica shop departments met
at regular intervals in informal con-
ferences with their leadmen. At these
sessions the problems raised by high-
speed production and rapid plant ex-
pansion were analyzed and solutions
arrived at through group discussion.
Held at El Segundo plant was a
special series of conferences in which
over a period of six weeks, sixteen dif-
ferent groups of leadmen met in two-
hour sessions of lecture discussion. A
PLASTER pattern making was learned
on the job by trainees at Long Beach.
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
NEW to Douglas
plants are these
air hammers which
are replacing drop
hammers to form
sheet metal parts.
For three weeks
men who were to
operate the ham-
mers practiced on
them before pro-
duction started.
total of 450 leadmen participated in sheetmetal parts, and major assembly
this program. Many of the leadmen of wing sections and fuselages.
whose training and leadership were in-
With approximately 3000 students
creased as a result of these conferences now enrolled in its short and intensive
have since been assigned to supervisory
courses, the training center in Long
positions at Long Beach plant.
Beach is completely provided with
The great importance of this type modern tools and equipment, has in
of in-plant training in America's stu- use more than a quarter-million dol-
pendous defense effort is stressed by lars' worth of purchased or borrowed
the Office of Production Management. machinery and other production equip
The Douglas company's director of ment, devoted to instruction and prac-
education, C. T. Reid, has taken an tice.
active part in the OPM's "Training With training activities for Douglas
Within Industry" program and Doug-
Aircraft Company's " blackout" plant
las innovations in the industrial train-
at Long Beach proceeding on every
ing field have been adopted by the front, there grows swiftly and surely
national program .
a new and skilled army of production
An important role in the training of workers to inan the machines that pro-
thousands of production workers for duce democracy's aerial defenses.
the new factory is being played by the
Olive Street Training Center of the
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cialized assembly work, such as engine,
instrument and electrical installation,
bench assembly of control systems and
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 America's great defense effort.
E Money received from sale of De-
R
Y A fense Savings Bonds (more than $ 1 ,-
U H N 000,000,000 worth have been sold since
B A S A
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May) will buy weapons of war for the
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8-inch railway gun $ 195,000. These
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weapons and thousands of others will
be the " security" backing up the loans
made by the people to their govern-
ment.
The Voluntary Payroll Allotment
Plan will enable employes to authorize
the Douglas Aircraft company's payroll
department to make periodic deduc-
tions from their earnings for the pur-
chase of bonds in specified denomina-
tions. The amounts so deducted will be
retained by the company until the total
accumulated in the account of the in-
dividual is sufficient to purchase a bond
of the denomination specified by the
employe. When the required amount
D S has accumulated, the company will
E E
T T purchase a bond in the name of the
I E A employe and the Treasury Department
N T S
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U N S N
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F S V
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D D SA M The minimum monthly deduction
N A will be $2, at which rate a $25 bond
O D T
B AN S (cost $ 18.75 ) can be purchased in nine
and a fraction months. Larger deduc-
tions will be in multiples of $ 1 except
in cases in which the employe wishes
to have the exact purchase price of a
bond deducted each month. Prices of
bonds with maturity values of $25 , $50
* and $100 are respectively $ 18.75,
* $37.50 and $75.
Defense Savings Bonds may be
turned into cash at any time after 60
U. S. Defense Bonds days from the date of issue at prices
fixed by the United States Treasury
Department.
Funds accumulated to an employe's
Offered Douglas Workers
account by the company for purchase
THE United States Treasury, through These bonds, in denominations of of bonds will be refunded, payroll de-
the payroll department of the Douglas from $25 to $ 1000, are the safest in- duction for bond purchases stopped
Aircraft company within a few weeks, vestments in the world . The integrity whenever the employe wishes. Em-
will launch a program enabling Doug of the entire nation stands behind them. ployes who cancel their authorizations,
las employes to purchase in install- Held until maturity, United States De- however, may not rejoin the plan for
ments United States Defense Savings fense Savings bonds pay 2.9 per cent a period of three months from date
Bonds. compound interest. of cancellation . Also, amount to be de-
The plan, final details of which are The interest which the United States ducted may be increased or decreased
being worked out, will provide em- government pays purchasers of these by the employe at any time.
ployes with an opportunity to set aside bonds is much higher than the interest A descriptive booklet of the plan
regularly a part of their earnings for paid on government bonds sold in large for Douglas employes and the neces
the purchase of these interest bearing amounts to banks and insurance com- sary forms authorizing payroll deduc-
obligations of the United States gov- panies. The interest rate is higher as tions and bond purchases are now
ernment through voluntary payroll de- an added inducement to Americans of being prepared and will soon be
ductions. moderate means to "buy a share" in distributed to all employes.

PAGE SIX DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

Bostons By Boeing

Come Off the Line

Now Boeing is building them. Swift Douglas- designed

Bostons that batter the invasion coast by day and slug the
Nazi Luftwaffe by night are coming out of the Boeing Air-
craft plant in Seattle in quantity.
This is the first cooperative airplane production plan in
this country to deliver the goods, climaxing many months of
joint effort by Douglas and Boeing experts.
Daily, around the clock, the DB- 7Bs roll off the assembly
line, tune up at the end of the runway, leap off the mark
and rocket over Puget sound. This has become routine in
Seattle as it has in Santa Monica.

Under special agreement with Douglas, millions of dol-

lars worth of bombers for the RAF are taking shape in the
home of the "Flying Fortress" after exhaustive preparation
on the part of tooling, production and planning men of both BOSTON LINE at the Boeing plant in Seattle where deliveries
companies. Into full production goes this Douglas design of Douglas bombers for Britain got under way this month.
Below, first Douglas airplanes built by Boeing ready to fly.
which is largely credited with driving the German night
raiders from English skies.
Test flights have been completed and deliveries to the
British are beginning to flow from Seattle, destined to carry
"Bundles for Berlin."

Similiar to this agreement under which Boeing is build-

ing DB-7s, another " patriotic cooperative" is in force at
Long Beach, where flying fortresses will soon be roaring
from the apron of the " blackout factory."
With Ford and Consolidated as partners, a third Douglas
cooperative will go into action at the Tulsa plant upon its
completion .

Douglas DB- 7Bs, Boeing B- 17Es and Consolidated B- 24s

in Washington, California and Oklahoma keep Douglas en-
gineers and top executives on the airlines almost as con-
stantly as they are on the assembly lines.

Quantity production of attack bombers has been undertaken by Boeing. Below, the final assembly department in Seattle plant.
 Japanese bombs tore the right wing off China National DC-3. But it flew again with a DC-2 wing, eluded invaders' bombers.
THEY REALLY
THE durability of Douglas airplanes
is acknowledged and unsurpassed the
world over. Last spring, for instance,
"Old 301 ," the first DC-2 built for air-
line service, was sold by TWA to the
British government as a military trans-
port. This was a remarkable guarantee
of aircraft perfection because "Old
301" was almost ten years old and had
flown nearly 2,000,000 miles for TWA.
But "Old 301 " lived a relatively
easy life flying leisurely from one side
of the United States to the other, fol-
lowing lighted airways and landing
on paved airports. Its record seems
dull indeed along side those being
turned in daily in China since the
Japanese invasion occurred .
China National Aviation Corp.
Middle Kingdom Space Machine Fam-
ily, the Chinese call it flies the
world's most dangerous route and has
the world's most unusual operations
policy.
"If the weather is sufficiently bad,
we fly in the daytime. If the weather
is good, we fly at night without lights."
The reason is simple. The pilots
have to avoid Japanese bombers and
fighters whose crews always relish a
little target practice for 200 miles of
CNAC's 700 mile Hong Kong to
Chungking route lies over Japanese
occupied territory and virtually all the
route is patroled by Japanese airplanes.
But not always are the pilots able
PAGE EIGHT
CAN " TAKE
to escape bombers and fighters, even
under their unique policy, and thereby
hangs a tale
tale-aa tale which this
this month
amazed the aviation world.
On a regularly scheduled passenger
trip from Hong Kong to Chungking.
one of the six Douglas airliners oper-
ated by CNAC was forced to land at
Suifu because of an air raid in prog-
ress at Chungking.
Enroute home from their bombing
expedition, five Japanese bombers
spotted the DC-3 on the ground at
Suifu . Passengers and crew had retired
to the comparative safety of a near-by
shelter while the Japs dropped more
than 200 bombs on the airport.
When the raiders had departed.
CNAC's Capt. H. L. Woods emerged
from the shelter to take stock of the
damage done. He discovered that one
bomb had passed through the right
wing. The explosion tore off the wing
just outside the point where it joined
the center section. There were more
than 50 holes in the fuselage, caused
by flying shrapnel. The concussions
had caused the plane to jump sideways.
six feet, but the gas tanks did not ex-
plode and there was no other serious
damage .
The DC-3 needed a new wing. None
was to be found in Hong Kong. Suifu
is about 900 miles in the interior of
China and the only surface means of
transportation from Hong Kong is
IT "
over the Burma Road, which meant a
wait of several months. The enforced
idleness of one plane for this length
of time was a bitter blow to the Chi-
nese and there was always the risk
that the DC-3 might be completely
destroyed by further raids.
Capt. Woods and several hundred
coolies dragged the battered plane off
the field and hid it three miles down
a road in a clump of bamboo. The
Jap bombers returned, just as had been
feared, but during three days of flights
by 57 bombers the DC- 3 escaped
further damage because the bamboo
hideout completely fooled the at-
tackers.
In answer to a wire Hong Kong
radioed Capt . Woods : " Sending DC-2
spare wing. Try it."
The job of flying the DC-2 wing to
Suifu was a major aviation task in it-
self. Finally it was decided to bolt
the wing to the belly of another DC-2.
The best weight distribution was
achieved with the butt end forward
and the tip to the rear.
By removing two inspection covers
of the center section and building
special fittings the butt was made se-
cure. The tip was then fastened by
another fitting coming through the
floor of the rear compartment . The
wing was guyed by cables both fore
and aft and sideways. Plywood fairings
were added on the butt and tip so as to
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
streamline the wing as much as pos-
sible.
Capt. Harold A. Sweet of Salt Lake
City volunteered to fly the three-winged
DC- 2 from Hong Kong to Suifu, a dis-
tance of about 860 miles. Nobody knew
for sure that the strange contraption
would fly, but Capt. Sweet was willing
to take the chance. While his colleagues
held their breath, he raced the DC- 2
almost to the last yard of runway be-
fore the wheels left the ground. Slowly
he climbed, flying in wide circles to
keep out of the range of Jap gunners,
and little by little the plane gained
altitude . One final circle of the field
and then Capt. Sweet was off for
Suifu .
The flight was uneventful , as they
say in the war communiques, and after
reaching his destination Capt . Sweet
reported that the DC- 2 flew normally
except for a slight longitudinal instab-
bility and buffeting. His speed was
112 miles per hour and gas consump
tion 78 gallons per hour at 55 per
cent horsepower.
Then came the task of installing the
spare DC-2 wing on the DC-3. To
appreciate the technical difficulties en-
countered the DC-2 and DC- 3 , while
of the same type, are very different
airplanes. The DC-2 is a 14 passenger
plane with a maximum weight of 18,-
600 pounds, and a wing span of 85
feet. The DC-3 is a 21 passenger plane
with a maximum weight of 24,400
pounds and a wing span of 95 feet.
It is true that the base or butt of
the two wings and the fittings are
identical, but there the similarity ends.
The DC- 2 wing was designed to carry
about 75 percent of the gross weight
of the DC-3. Supposedly, then, it was
impossible to fly the DC-3 with one
DC-3 wing and one DC-2 wing-the
shape, area and taper of the two wings
being entirely different. But the whole
story of aviation's progress is one of
conquest over insurmountable ob-
stacles and so Capt. Sweet climbed
into the "DC- 21½".
Sure it flew and "with surprisingly
little trouble" Capt. Sweet reported
after landing safely at Hong Kong. He
said that the "DC-21/2 " had a tendency
to roll toward the DC-2 wing. But al-
lowance was made for this with an
aileron tab setting of 12 degrees, and
with a slight difference in propeller
r.p.m. the plane flew straight and level.
And this with one wing five feet longer
than the other!
But this was not the first time that
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
Douglas airliners flew on through war.
twisted and torn and riddled with holes
but functioning smoothly.
The stories told about the DC-2s in
service with the Spanish republic dur-
ing the Spanish civil war even top the
stories from China. As a regular thing
the hard-pressed Loyalists loaded these
14 passenger airplanes with 30 or more
passengers and then outran the night
fighters of the Germans and Italians.
These stories were best told in a
letter to Donald W. Douglas written
by F. Batet, flight mechanic on one of
the airplanes.
"I want to begin by saying that
throughout the thirty-two months of
the war, our four Douglas DC-2 air-
planes were never out of service and
during all this time they were never
housed in any hanger and always oper-
ated from provisional fields either by
the seashore or among the mountains .
Furthermore, we used them at night
as well as in the daytime and all dur-
ing the Spanish war we subjected them
to trials which no other airplane would
have withstood. They gave us courage
never to fail on any occasion.
"One occasion, a crew was pursued
by a squadron of Fiat fighters on the
Extremadura front and was able to out-
run them , thanks to the greater speed
of the Douglas.
"When we were transferred to
Valencia, we accomplished , with the
Douglases, 182 liaison flights between
Valencia and Santander in a straight
line which presumably crossed 500
kms. (311 mi . ) of enemy territory . We
did this without protection and with-
out armament, and always much over-
loaded. During these operations we
were pursued eight times and the Fiats.
never succeeded in overtaking us or
even annoying us seriously.
"During the month of May, 1937 ,
we effected a transfer of troops from
Valencia to Tarragona. With gasoline
DOUGLAS DC-22 , a DC-3 with a DC-2 right wing. Even lopsided the airplane
flew 860 miles to escape Japanese who had aimed more than 200 bombs at it.
CNAC
司公空航 國 中
for one hour and a half ( 500 Its .- 132
gal . ) we carried thirty-five men with
rifles in each plane each trip . On one
of these flights the pilot of one of the
planes did not realize that the field at
Tarragona had recently been bombed.
After he was already on the ground,
he found out too late that the plane
was heading straight for a hole made.
by a 100 kg. bomb. The left wheel
dropped into the hole and the wing on
that side was slammed down against
the ground. After removing the air-
plane an inspection was made to ascer-
tain the extent of the damage . It was
found that the wing was bent upward
at a point about four meters from its
connection with the fuselage . While
this condition was being examined,
there arrived news of enemy airplanes
approaching the field. In this condition
the airplane took off and arrived at
Valencia without incident . It was later
ascertained that the upper surface of
the left wing formed an angle of 17 de-
grees !
"On another occasion a box of am-
munition exploded beside one of the
DC- 2s. It killed three men and de-
stroyed the half of the fuselage be-
tween the entrance door and the tail.
Repairs were made at one of the pro-
visional fields right out in the open
air. When the plane was tested it was
found that it had not lost any of its
excellent qualities .
"We began the war with four Doug-
las DC- 2 airplanes and with each one
flown more than 2000 hours during
the conflict, they have now been sur-
rendered to Franco, old and with many
scars, but covered with glory and in
good condition."
Airline operators have always
known it. The wars have proved it.
DC- 2s and DC-3s really can "take it"
even though they were never built to
"dish it out" too.
CN..
C
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UNITED WE GIVE-COMMUNITY
Welfare Program of Eleven Welfare Agencies
Depend on Voluntary Contributions
by T. C. MCMAHON
Community Chest Campaign Chairman
THE AMERICAN way of helping
others is the Community Chest's
method of extending assistance to the
needy. It makes no distinction of race
or creed and it is my belief that not
one of our Douglas defense workers
would refuse the Chest's appeal for
funds if he could hear the stories of
men, women and children who have
been helped or need help by the Chest.
The Community Chest believes that
the needs of any family living under
the Stars and Stripes is its concern .
Appeals for money seem so cold and
impersonal, but I ask that you men
and women look further than the out-
stretched hand and see the warm ex-
pressions your contributions will bring.
President Roosevelt has stated, "To
assure the maximum strength of the
entire nation, adequate support of the
regular welfare and charitable services
through Community Chests, is even
more important in time of national
emergency than in normal times."
With the annual fund raising cam-
paign of the Santa Monica Community
NEEDY children such as these at the Santa Monica Day Nursery are helped
by means of the Community Chest. The Chest campaign begins this week.
PAGE TEN
Chest starting next week, I trust that
the Douglas employes will respond
with greater generosity than ever before.
The care of dependent children ,
health services , youth training activi
ties, vocational guidance and family
welfare services remain chiefly the re-
sponsibility of agencies voluntarily
supported through the Chest . None of
the work being done by these agencies
is duplicated by government programs.
None of it can be eliminated without
exacting a cruel toll in human suffer-
ing and disability which will later
prove very costly to every member of
society .
The Chest, through its annual ap-
peal supplies the funds for the opera-
tion of eleven member social welfare
agencies serving this community . The
Chest is not a relief or social agency,
but it raises the funds for its member
organizations. It carries on through
the year a detailed check on finances,
receiving monthly reports of all ex-
penditures and services rendered by
each agency. All accounts, both of the
CHEST APPEAL
Chest and the agencies, are audited
regularly by a certified public account-
ant.
Obviously, we know it is going to
take a great many contributions before
all eleven agencies such as the Santa
Monica Welfare, Inc., the Salvation
Army, Boy and Girl Scouts, the Young
Men's and Women's Christian Asso-
ciations, Parent Teacher Association,
Catholic and Jewish Welfares, and
others realize much help.
Each of these agencies is an inde
pendent organization which carries on
a definite year round program. They
were organized to meet the specific
needs of residents of this community
by generous, unselfish men and wo-
men who were convinced that by the
operation of such agencies this city
might be made "A better place in
which to live."
When as individuals we think in a
personal light of just what our con-
tribution is helping to do we cannot
help but feel both sympathetic to the
cause and proud to help.
Our contributions to the Chest agen-
cies help them in their work of caring
for orphans, boys and girls from
broken homes who need kindly care
and guidance to give them a chance to
become good citizens. The Day Nursery
aids working parents in caring for
their small children while they are at
work. The money further helps to care
for the aged, the homeless, transients
and families in distress. It makes pos-
sible the carrying on of year round
preventive programs by the supplying
of proper food and diet to small chil-
dren, preventing breakdown of health .
Nervous troubles and even mental dis-
orders of children are given study and
helpful attention, corrections often
being effected. By this medical care
the general health of the entire city
of Santa Monica is safe-guarded .
I suggest that employes take advant-
age of the payday payment plan. It
enables you to give as much as you
like and in installments so spaced as
to not be burdensome and in turn suit
your budget.
By your generosity in this campaign
from October 6 to 17, I feel assured
that we of Douglas will help the Com-
munity Chest to reach its goal for
1941-42 in its American way of ex-
tending aid to those in need.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

THE CLOUDSTER, first Douglas airplane, ended its career in the surf at Ensen-
ada. First flown in 1921 it was one of the first long range airplanes built in U. S.
First Douglas Airplane
-- ' Buried in the Sea'
JUST a few months more than 20
years ago the first Douglas airplane,
designed in the back room of a barber
shop and built in an abandoned shed,
took to the air in Los Angeles to begin
a long line of famous airplanes now
known the world over.
This first Douglas airplane, the
Cloudster, was one of the first air
planes in the world able to carry a
useful load equal to its own empty
weight even today an unusual feat
except for airplanes especially de-
signed for weight carrying ability . The
Cloudster was designed for that abil
ity to carry enough gasoline to cross
the United States non - stop .
The attempt to be the first to make
the transcontinental hop without land-
ing, by Eric Springer, now El Segundo
plant manager, and David R. Davis ,
Donald Douglas' first partner now
famed as the designer of the Davis
wing used on the B- 24, failed because
of engine trouble over El Paso . Before
another attempt could be made the
Army made the flight and the record.
Soon after, the Cloudster was sold
by Davis and turned into a sightseeing
plane. Then it dropped from sight as
SEPTEMBER ... 1911
far as the Douglas company knew, the
only report being that it had ended
its days somewhere in Mexico.
This month from Daniel B. Burnett
Jr., night superintendent of the Ryan
Aeronautical company in San Diego,
came at last the story of the final days
of the first Douglas airplane. Its last
job was to carry beer from Ensenada
to Tijuana in Baja California. Its
last flight ended in the surf at Ensen-
ada on a dark night.
The Cloudster was acquired by the
Ryan company, which was operating
an airline between Los Angeles and
San Diego, in the fall of 1925.
"My job at that time was rebuilding
ships from open jobs into cabin jobs."
says Burnett who has been with the
Ryan company since 1922. "Naturally
we were thrilled to take the three
cockpit open Cloudster and rebuild it
into one of the finest cabin ships of
that time. In fact, it turned out sur-
prisingly similar to the general cabin
arrangement of modern airliners."
The Cloudster's passenger cabin was
complete with dome lights, ashtrays,
soft upholstered seats and plush car-
pets . It carried 12 passengers, six seats
on each side of the center aisle, a pilot
and copilot.
"We used the Cloudster on our run
to Los Angeles," Burnett recalls. "On
one occasion we even carried some
steamer trunks. On Navy Day in 1926
we landed at North island (Navy field) ,
taxied up to the line, opened the hatch
and let down our ladder. Then all 14
of us climbed down before a surprised
group of Navy personnel .
"The last assignment for the Cloud-
ster was carrying beer in Lower Cali-
fornia. The roads had been washed
out and the only way to get beer from
the brewery was to fly it up to Tijuana.
"The end came to the good ship
Cloudster one evening when the pilot,
J. J. ( Red ) Harrigan and the copilot,
John Van Der Linde, were flying a
load of passengers from Tijuana to
Ensenada. They were to arrive at En-
senada after dark and had been told.
that the tide would be out and they
could land on a stretch of beach.
"Well, when they got there they
picked out a likely looking spot on
what they thought was beach-despite
the darkness. They proceeded to make
a slightly stalled landing and, just as
they figured they were about to land,
up rolled a big breaker and wrapped
the ship in a ball.
"Red and John came up spitting
gallons of salt water and yelling to
see if everyone was all right . They
managed to pull out all their passen-
gers and walk ashore. None of them
was injured except for the dousing.
"John secured a length of rope from
some Mexicans and they tied it to the
landing gear and staked it ashore, ex-
pecting to be able to keep the Cloud-
ster from being washed to sea. Next
morning when they came down to
take a good look there was nothing
left but the Liberty motor and the
landing gear. The breakers had com-
pletely torn the ship apart in the night
before."
Thus ungloried and unsung, work-
ing as a "flying beer truck," ended on
the sands of the Mexican coast the
first of a long line of Douglas airplanes
which have made aviation history. A
remarkable airplane in its day, it was
the direct forerunner of the Douglas
airplanes which were the first to fly
around the world. And from it have
developed the airplanes which today.
fly farther ( the B- 19 ) than any in the
world, faster (the A- 20 ) than anything
of their type in the world and carry
more passengers (the DC- 2 and DC-3 )
than any other airplanes.
PAGE ELEVEN

M
i
e cell and in Havana, danced the rhumba,
"The fantasies of youth were a
sweet mirage which lured them like a
siren's voice."
A STRONG unquenchable desire for
travel and for adventure first found
expression during the high school days
of three young boys who formed an
alliance which they dignified with the
appellation "The Great Triumvirate."
This union of young Marco Polos dedi-
cated itself to the discovery and attain-
ment of those things in life which its
members considered the most worth-
PAGE TWELVE
r
a
Travel dreams are
realized by per-
servering youths.
by Al A. Adams
while and adventurous .
These friends were Doug Pringle,
Hugh Weston, and Jack King who is
now with the Long Beach production
control department. The boys were at
that time just seventeen-a ripe age
in many respects.
They decided to hit the open road
when school was out in the summer of
1935. From Missouri they went to New
Orleans by modes of travel such as
hitchhiking and riding on freight
trains there and back on $5.00.
The next summer they made their
way to Cuba, had their first brush with
death, were captured by yard police
and thrown into a cockroach infested
1
g
e
ate pineapples and sought adventure in
the narrow dark streets.
The boys journeyed to the interior
of Cuba to Matanzas Province where,
in the mountain fastness, they came
upon a revolutionist whose stone hut
resembled an arsenal within. After
they assured him they were thumbs-
down on the government then in power
he insisted on treating them to meals
and a place to sleep for as long as
they cared to stay.
"The Great Triumvirate" came to a
temporary parting when back in the
states, Weston enrolled in Chicago
University, and Pringle with Jack King
registered at Northwestern University.
Despite this, the alliance still held and
plans were soon underway for travel
on a large scale.
The first definite plan was made at
a reunion of the boys in Newport,
Rhode Island, during September of
1938. They decided to enlist the co-
operation of a few more fellows and
all were to religiously save their
money. With this money pooled they
hoped to have sufficient to purchase a
sailboat and sail around the world.
They figured to maintain the boat and
defray expenses by working in ports,
writing newspaper accounts and per-
haps carry a bit of cargo.
The boys all were graduated from
their respective universities and Pringle
moved to Washington, D. C., to work
and locate the yacht suitable for their
purpose.
Parental opposition reached great
heights and the adventure- syndicate
lost Weston. Fifteen new fellows were
contacted and taken into the plans but
they lacked perseverance and dropped
out in the end. It was a crushing blow
to the boys' faith in people and their
word.
The boys had never sailed a boat.
They knew absolutely nothing of the
problems to be considered in cruising
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
and knew nothing of what type of boat
to purchase.
In June, 1940, Pringle located ex-
actly the boat he thought they needed.
Through a series of odd circumstances
they could have the boat for $ 1800,
a considerable loss to the owner. The
boat was a Larchmont O Class racing
sloop, 60 feet in overall length, 12
foot beam, 8 foot draft and an 80 foot
mast, definitely not an open-sea cruis
ing boat. The terms were half down,
the balance on delivery.
At this crucial period all their pros-
pective partners dropped out but one.
He was named Ream. The three fel-
lows, Pringle, Ream and King decided
rather than lose the boat they would
pool all they owned, $300 apiece, and
obtain the yacht . They thought they
could find some means of getting the
other $900 within the three month
limit.
Other fellows, Hill and Jeselson,
came in on the deal, but three months
later the syndicate was still $300 short.
By various means, and rather than de-
fault on the contract , Jack was able at
the final minute to negotiate a loan.
The last of September, 1940, Pringle
and Jack quit their jobs and went to
Philadelphia to help the former owner
deliver their new yacht, Mirage, to
Annapolis, Maryland. The voyage via
the inland waterway with the help of
the former owner was their first taste
of sailing of any kind and proved more
fascinating than they had imagined it
would be.
Now penniless, with their last cent
invested in a yacht, they attempted to
get jobs in Washington . They kept alive
during the winter by eating on Ream's
credit at a cafe and by sleeping in the
back seats of cars in used car lots .
Many times they went hungry but they
felt that no sacrifice was too great for
the realization of their great dream
a world cruise in their yacht Mirage.
At length they acquired jobs but
they wanted to live on the boat and
Annapolis was too far away. So one
weekend Pringle, Ream and King de-
cided to sail the Mirage to Washing
ton, a distance by water of about 160
miles. They hoped to get back to
Washington by Sunday night.
It was around the fore part of No-
vember when the three fellows cast off
the lines and sailed out of Annapolis
harbor. They were feeling higher than
three kites and plenty elated at being
away on their own yacht. They felt that
sailing this fine racing sloop was going
to be child's play.
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
As evening approached a sudden
change became evident. The sky was
sullen and overcast. From the north
ominous black clouds rolled toward
them. A violent wind struck- -a cold
penetrating wind with the chill of
winter. Down Chesapeake Bay the
Mirage boiled faster and faster under
full sail with three wild-eyed skippers
W ge vy
and no crew. Night fell upon them and BO ra ips into a heiana
of Mi idn h l
the storm broke in all its fury to drive f p e m a u t o
sea of Ca Ro , So Car .
the fast sloop to her maximum . She
tossed spray and buckets of solid water
over the boys who suddenly became
all crew with no skipper-all wonder-
ing what to do.
The boat heeled over further and
further until the lee rail, deck and
occasionally the trunk cabin went un-
der. They didn't think to reduce can-
vas by reefing or better to drop the
mainsail as they sped through the
night. Visibility even with their search-
light was practically zero.
In the fury of a squall the mainsail
blew out. The slides then became stuck
and they were unable to get the huge a
sail down which was 75 feet on the in
M a nd or
L y f rn rb
hoist. The sail cracked in the wind like CArida da w of Feious h ha fall ,
d
21 young cannons tearing itself into Flo ; cre is anx wit lan .
a thousand shreds. To further add
despair to les miserables the jib fol-
lowed suit by pulling out at the clew.
As it also flapped and cracked in the
violent gusty stuff. A swirling fog of
snow and driving sleet blinded them
and froze everything but their souls .
Below, everything in the cabin was
in the wildest disorder and havoc. They
didn't know where they were, what they
should do, or what would become of
them . The only sail set was the stay-
sail forward of the mast. They didn't
know where the storm trysail was,
what it looked like, nor where to put
it. All they could do was to put on life
e
jackets and hang on. CK ING art wnerionf irag
JA K g , cph o uct o M rol
w n a d t
Suddenly they heard dead ahead of no Lo Be pro econ
them a moaning as of a lost soul . They r k l ow e s c ayn y
e
cl . Be , sa f in Bi Ba ,
almost passed out with fear as a gigan- r m g e
e e or ra y t
tic lighthouse loomed up above them. aft th st -Mi dr ou .
in the driven sleet and snow. Jack
threw the helm hard over and missed
it far too closely for the good of the
boat's outside coat of paint. It proved
to be Point No Point lighthouse. The
keeper would probably have thought
he was seeing a mirage had he looked
out to see a beautiful racing sloop go
scudding through the rough water and
snow, its sails of tattered cracking rags
shaking the rig as a cat shakes a rat.
Ream was deathly sick at this point
• Concluded on Page Thirty-four
With Douglas
Douglas A-24s and A-20As
In Army Maneuvers
THE Army Air Force's Douglas dive
bombers and attack bombers received
their first large scale combat tests this
month in the extensive war games of
the Army in the swamps and forests
of Louisiana.
These airplanes, plus other fighter
and medium and heavy bomber types
constitute "from the point of view of
quality of aircraft the finest air force
in the world," said Robert A. Lovett,
assistant secretary of war for air.
Two squadrons of A-24s, El Segundo
built dive bombers, participated in the
games, acting against moving targets
such as motor and mechanized con-
voys and hostile troops to clear ob-
stacles from the path of ground troops .
This dive bomber is the finest in exist-
ance, Lovett said.
The A- 20A also proved "superior
to anything in its class," an Army re-
port on the maneuvers said.
Tulsa Building Program
Ahead of Schedule
NEARLY half the 27,000 tons of
structural steel which will comprise
the Douglas company's new assembly
plant at Tulsa, Okla., has been erected .
construction men reported this month.
Despite rainy weather during Sep-
STEEL now stands where the camera stood when this picture was taken at Tulsa.
This picture shows start of steel erection at the new Douglas plant early this month.
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Around
tember which cost construction crews
several days, building is proceeding at
so rapid a clip that present indications
are that the plant will be ready for
production well ahead of schedule.
The Tulsa plant will be one of the
world's largest single unit aircraft as-
sembly plants. The main building will
be 320 feet wide and 4000 feet long.
It will be used to build long range
four engine B-24 bombers under the
American 500 a month heavy bomber
program . Cooperating in the B- 24 pro-
duction program are Douglas, Con-
solidated Aircraft and the Ford Motor
company.
Eagle Squadron Member
Describes R.A.F. Battles
"YOUR Douglas Havoc is wonderful .
We're blasting hell out of Hitler's bad
boys. Send us many more."
Such was the word received from
England last month from Robert Man-
nix, 25-year-old brother of Paul Man-
nix, Santa Monica engineer. A year
ago Robert Mannix first learned to fly.
volunteered for service with the Royal
Air Force and today is seeing action
over England, the channel and the in-
vasion coast as a member of the
American Eagle squadron, first Amer-
ican flying unit to be organized in
England.
The flyers' days begin at 3:30 a.m..
Mannix wrote. when they are roused
the World
OTL
FIGHTER pilot Robert Mannix,
brother of Paul Mannix, S.M. engineer.
out of bed, given a cup of tea and
prepared for a "scramble"-quick
takeoff. When the alarm rings, he
said, it takes them no more than two
minutes to get into the air where they
wait for orders by radio.
"When the enemy is sighted, " he
said, "we prepare for action, getting
guns, etc., all set, and then we sail
into them. There's not much time to be
scared, although I admit the first
time I saw all those Germans coming
at me I jumped 200 feet.
"Hitler's bad boys never seem to
attack unless they outnumber us 20
to 1. But that's fair enough, because
there's more to shoot at.
"When the fight is over, we come
back, refuel and reload and wait for
the next one. At meals, half of us
eat while the other half stay out in
readiness. This goes on ' till dark.
which believe me, comes about 11 p.m."
Mannix has to his credit at least one
Nazi bomber which he sent down in
flames with one burst of the guns on
his fighter plane.
According to Mannix, the members
of the Eagle squadron are a cross sec-
tion of America, including all types
and races. Predominant are men from
the western states. Many of them have
joined the R.A.F. through the Clayton-
Knight committee in this country.
This committee, handled in Los An-
geles by Capt. Ernest L. Benway whose
headquarters are in the Hollywood
Roosevelt hotel. sees to it that men
who want to go to Canada and join
the service are properly qualified and
equipped with necessary documents
and information before leaving.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
Here, There
Defense Business Hurry
Booms Air Travel
* MORE than two thirds of all passen-
gers on United States domestic air-
lines are traveling for business rea-
sons. Nearly 30,000 persons a month,
20,000 of whom would be traveling
for business purposes probably con-
nected with the defense program, are
refused seats because of lack of
equipment.
These were the highlights this
month of the report of an air travel
survey made by the 16 airline mem-
bers of the Air Transport Association
during the first week in August. The
survey was made by the airlines to
justify their place in the defense pro-
gram and to prevent further requisi-
tioning of their airplanes for service
with the Army and the Royal Air Force.
Recent reports from Washington in-
dicate the chances of requisitioning is
lessening and that there is a possibility
that the Office of Production Manage
ment will release new equipment next
year for service on the airlines .
Of passengers carried during the
week of the survey, 67.5 per cent
traveled on business and 32.5 per cent
for personal reasons, although 50 per
cent of the latter said they used air
travel regularly for business reasons
on other trips . On the most heavily
traveled routes between industrial and
financial centers the business ratio ran
as high as 81 per cent, the ATA said.
A further survey of 100 companies
involved in the defense program
showed that air travel of executives,
technicians and workers was up 62
per cent in June over the same month
a year ago.
British Aviation Magazine
Lauds Douglas Havoc
"... the speed of a Hurricane .
99
inspiring and reassuring. . .
These were the comments printed
last month in one of the foremost avia-
tion magazines in the world about
Douglas Havocs and Bostons. The
magazine is Flight, British technical
magazine, the world's oldest aeronautic-
al weekly.
The comments were made by the
magazine in an account of a visit to a
Ministery of Aircraft Production sta-
tion in England where all types of
American airplanes are reassembled
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
and Everywhere
and check flown before being put into to a squadron. The Boston and Havoc
front line service . are placed in the ' four plus' class with
"The high spot of the visit, " the the Lockheed Hudson for A.T.A. pur-
article said, "was to see the latest poses. This means that they are re-
Havocs and Bostons. These are not yet garded as the most difficult to fly of
being flown over but arrive most effi- the twin-engined types, which are all
ciently packed in very well -designed 'class four' , and only less difficult than
cases. In fact, the cases are so elabor- the four-engined bombers which make
ately made that it almost seems worth up 'class five' .
while to send them back again for "It was indeed both inspiring and
'refilling . But this is not being done, reassuring to walk through the hangars
no doubt partly due to the high value of the station and see chalked on a
of shipping space. fuselage, Havoc II Polish, and on an-
"The much-photographed Boston is other Boston III . The Douglas DB-7
familiar to readers, and this version design in its various forms, with the
of the Douglas DB-7 is a versatile type British night fighters, should do much
which is as much at home on light to help us through the prevailing
bombing work as in long- range fight- trouble."
ing and ground strafing. In this form
it has a crew of three and has four New British Inspector
fixed guns in the nose and two free
Appointed at Douglas
guns in the rear gun position. Its
original power was two Pratt and * C. V. J. CHILES this month replaced
original
Whitney Twin Wasps of 1050 h.p. , but A. R. Mayhill as inspector- in- charge
with the more for the British Air Commission in their
it is now available with
powerful Wright Double-Row Cyclones new office at the Santa Monica plant.
of 1600 h.p., having been modified to For 17 years, Chiles has been con-
the two later versions, the DB- 7A and nected with the British Air Ministry
the DB -7B . as director of technical development
"But the appearance of the Havoc and aeronautical inspection. He ar-
is not familiar as no photographs of rived in the United States in November
this night fighter are permitted. Some of 1940, at which time he was British
of its features can be described, how- Air Commission representative at
Northrop .
ever, without giving the enemy inform-
ation of value. Soot-black all over, this
Chiles is a member of the Institu-
hawk of the night would certainly ap- tion of Mechanical Engineers, British
pear like an aeroplane of death to the technical organization, of Storey's
German night bombers- if any of Gate Westminister.
them see it, which they probably do
not before its avenging fire sends
them down to destruction or capture.
"The internal lay-out is different and
the nose has not the usual transparent
panels, this part of the aeroplane being
taken up by the very heavy armament,
details of which are secret. There are
also other devices which are secret.
"The Havoc is a very suitable air-
craft for night fighting as it has the
speed of a Hurricane coupled with an
endurance very much greater, allow-
ing it to stay aloft for long periods for
searching out the enemy with the help
of radiolocation and perhaps a little
moonlight. And its nosewheel under-
carriage should make it easier to land
at night than the orthodox type. One
flew away from the station during the
visit, giving an impression of ease and
power in the takeoff. It was in the
BRITISH inspector-in-charge at Doug-
charge of an A.T.A. pilot for delivery las, air veteran C. V. J. Chiles.
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 212
200
15
130
59
30
SEVENTY BELOW is the temperature beyond the four-pane, hermetically sealed
window through which observer keeps his eye on men performing tests in cold
room. There is always instant telephone communication to the men inside.
Cold Is
* UNTIL recently even the toughest
pilot, nursing away at his oxygen tube,
was apt to go a bit woozy if he lingered
overlong at 35,000 feet. His hands and
feet belonged to someone else, his head
lolled on its axis and the instrument
panel began to blur. To pull a gun
trigger required stupendous effort and
the controls dragged like a sea anchor.
Much of this sort of thing and a
man no longer cared whether school
kept or not.
High in the isothermal ranges, out
100of sight and sound from the ground, his
ship, too, shares this strange lassitude.
Motors that breathed rythmically at
lower levels gasp and wheeze for the
compressed air fed to its carburetor
lungs by powerful superchargers ,
Outside it is colder than the hinges
of hell. Wing thermocouples indicate
something like 67 degrees below zero,
which is plenty minus by any mathe
matics. Under this frigid slipstream
the bomber's metal skin actually tends
to shrink away from its paint coat of
camouflage which, thus loosened some-
times sheds like dandruff on return to
earth.
Since all the metals, alloys and
PAGE SIXTEEN
Where You
plastics used on controls have widely
varying coefficients or degrees of ex-
pansion, the contraction of intense cold
tends to bind the system here, loosen
it there.
Lubricating oil guaranteed by manu-
facturers to function smoothly on con-
trols of temperatures above minus 40
degrees rapidly congeal below that
figure and add a full 100 per cent
friction to the manipulative pull .
With the upper hand in aerial war-
fare now automatically awarded to
the man-higher-up and nothing but
blue sky for a height limit, it begins
to look like those 500-monthly bombers
will have to operate well into the
tropospheric twilight, a realm of which
science wots little whatsoever.
To repair this situation and prepare
men, motors and machines for more
efficient performances in the zodiac, as
well as get the drop on Hitler in one
fell swoop, Douglas Aircraft company
has developed at its Santa Monica
plant one of the most complete and
unusual research laboratories in either
hemisphere.
Just as vitamins are now synthesized
in the
the test-tube, so is it possible to
to
Strange Things Happen in the
Troposphere-20,000 fo 35,-
000 Feet- Douglas Engineers
Are Finding Out in Their
Amazing New Laboratories
by Don Black
Find It!
bring a sizeable chunk of the high
heavens down to earth for aeronautical
analysis and experiment.
The trick is not done with mirrors
but by a combination of chemistry's
CO2 -dry ice to you-and methyl al-
cohol. That, suhs, will turn out for
you a refrigerated highball what really
am! Agitated together and pump- cir-
culated through what the engineers call
a heat-exchange unit, this potent bar
mixture will deflate the most self-satis-
fied thermometer from a cordial plus
80 degrees to rock-bottom, -104 in
two hours flat.
This bit of Siberia in alien Southern
California is corralled in a space some
14 by 16 by 8 feet of clear ceiling
whose confines, through some mon-
strous understatement, are called around
the plant the "cold room. " Actually,
that six-square cubicle is so bleakly
glacial it gives you chilblains just to
look inside through four panes of
plateglass hermetically sealed. Inci-
dentally, vision is kept clear of rime
with an ordinary $2 auto defroster fan
played constantly on the sheets. In
case you want to know, the room is
insulated with 12 inches of fire and
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 milk into this aeronautical cold stor-
age. Unable to defrost it in time for
lunch, the poor guy had to slice up
the milk with a hacksaw. One of our
thirstier employes facetiously suggests
that by impalling an Old Fashioned
cocktail with a swivel stick and giving
it a quick-freeze you'd have a quite
original popsicle and if you think that
alcohol won't quick-freeze, you've got
some more thinks coming.
Far from frivolous, howe: er,
the experiments that have been under
way constantly in this polar chamber
since it began to function July 20,
1941 , with others booked for months
ahead.
"Function of the cold room," ex-
plains engineering, "is to simulate low
temperature effects on the various com-
ponents of an airplane. Thus our test
Tom Floyd, cold
room designer,
above, helps op-
erator from
chamber after
lengthy tests.
Right, the pho-
tographer works
amid artificial
snow and sleet.
Below, operators
test the operation
of DC-4 controls
under extremely
low temperatures.
program includes a study under polar
conditions of fuel, oil and hydraulic
systems, controls, structural parts, in-
sulation, heating, winshield de-icing
devices, bearings, lubrication, toler-
ances, metal fatigue and countless
other subjects ."
Astonishing things have been learned
about intense cold already. For in-
stance when you take them down into
the minus numbers many rubber hose
connections go completely haywire.
They first stiffen, then get brittle, crack
wide open longitudinally or snap in
two with but little stress or vibration.
This applies to hoses of the heaviest
fabric-ply as well as those not so re-
inforced. Manufacturers are now study.
ing the problem and as a result punc-
tureproof connections for high altitude
craft already are coming through.
Cold room research frequently dis-
closes data which can be applied to
general manufacturing as well as high
altitude techniques. Staff researchers
here are now agreed that it may be
more practical and efficient to freeze
bearings into position than to use pres-
sure methods now employed.
One great advantage of the Douglas
cold room is that its size, largest in
the industry, permits workmen to con-
duct experiments on the spot, rather
than through glass windows and re-
motely actuated dial readings outside.
Despite extremely low temperatures
men are able to work in the room
without too great discomfort. They
wear sheep-skins that a polar bear
might envy and wrap themselves into
• Concluded on Page Thirty-four

corrosion-proof spun glass in fibrous

form assaying some 31½ pounds per
cubic foot.
But getting back to the big chill.
take my word for it that even Admiral
Byrd would feel right at home there.
and if you still don't get how cold it
really is, maybe this incident will help
some.
One of the fellows in that depart-
ment took an orange in with him for
only 15 minutes, then accidentally
dropped it on the concrete floor. It
shattered into exactly one million
pieces, not one of which was larger
than a grain of rice.
Just for a gag, another researcher
slipped his buddy's noon carton of
PAGE SEVENTEEN
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
 WITH US THIS MONTH ....
. . . .

Looking for Assistance

Last month President Roosevelt de-
clared America would offer all indus-
trial assistance possible to Soviet Rus-
sia, as well as to China and Britain, in
their war against aggressors .
Immediately Russian emissaries
started toward the United States, one
party dramatically flying across the
Arctic ocean to Alaska on their way
to America. On their arrival they were
all taken in tow by U. S. Army officers
acting under orders from Washington .
This month a party of Russian army
officers and technicians visited Douglas
with Capt. Harold B. Smith of the Air
Corps. The Russian party included,
left to right, Maj . C. I. Ovchinnikov,
A. A. Anisinov, Col. R. J. Berezin,
Gen. A. K. Repin and V. I. Bazykin.

Navy Experts
El Segundo plant's planned high
performance dive bomber to follow
the famed SBD this month received
the praise of Navy experts sent to
study it. The experts, members of the
Bureau of Aeronautics Mockup Board.
were, left to right, Lieutenant Com-
mander Harris, Commander Boone.
Commander Bolster, Lieutenant Com-
mander Murphy, Lieutenant Carver.
Commander Stevens, Commander Jen-
nings, Rust, Lieutenant Richardson,
Frisbie, Lieutenant Christian, Lieuten-
ant Commander Young.

R.A.F. Test Pilot

Wing Commander J. H. Little, test
pilot for the British Air Commission.
came to El Segundo plant this month .
to try out the newest of the DB- 7 series
coming off the line. He then proceeded
to Seattle to repeat the tests on the
Bostons being made there by Boeing.
Commander Little was high in his
praise of the airplane and passed along
the compliments of the British pilots
who are flying the Bostons and Havocs.
T

Bond Booster
Devising plans for the sale of de-
fense bonds to Douglas workers (see
page 8 ) brought experts from all over
the country to Santa Monica and El
Segundo. Among them was Harold
Graves. assistant secretary of the
treasury in charge of defense bond
sale.

PAGE EIGHTEEN DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

 Labor Board Visitors
Labor studies in the aircraft industry
this month brought to Douglas plants
William Walsh, National Labor Rela-
tions Board director, center, and Ken-
neth Cameron, examiner and aide to
Walsh, right. They are shown with
Henry Guerin, Santa Monica factory
manager.

Washington Publisher
Scores of newspapermen and writers
visit Douglas every month to learn the
story of America's progress in the
air. Most prominent of these this
month was Eugene Meyer, publisher of
the Washington Post, left, shown with
Nick Ball, assistant to the president.

Military Affairs
The House of Representatives' Mili-
tary Affairs committee members are
the key congressmen in America's re-
armament effort. For their approval
and study must come all matters per-
taining to the Army.
This month the committee toured
the nation to find out first hand how
the plans they had approved were
progressing. Shown during their visit
to Douglas are President Donald W.
Douglas, Committee Chairman Dow W.
Harter, Nick Ball, assistant to the
president, and Congressman Charles R.
Clason.

← Teachers and Pupils

4 More than four years ago the Doug-
las Aircraft company inaugurated a
service unique in the history of air-
plane manufacture-it began to teach
the Army, Navy and Marines how to
operate and service Douglas airplanes.
So successful did these classes prove
that they have been continued on all
models of Douglas airplanes, even the
B-19. and other companies have
adopted the practice. Most recent of
these schools was one covering the
A- 20.
Shown, left to right are teachers and
star pupils, N. H. Anderson , education
department ; Lieut . E. L. Larner ; J.
Sillasen, education department ; Lieut.
L. H. Johnson ; W. H. H. Hower, edu-
cation department .

PAGE NINETEEN
SEPTEMBER ... 1941

The "Chief" , Victor Irving Crutchfield, Dept. 632, hails from Klamath tribe.
DOUGLAS ALL- AMERICANS
JUST as it takes all kinds of people
to make a world, so you'll find the
builders of aircraft a pretty representa-
tive group .
Numbered among 32-odd thousand
Douglas craftsmen are U. S. citizens of
every race and color, from white to rosy
red, brown, yellow, black and all the
pastel intermediates . Working side by
side in harmony and effective team-
work are folks whose family trees root
back to France, England, Holland,
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany,
Slovakia, Italy, India, China, the
Philippines and many other lands.
These widely divergent origins are re-
corded on the rolls at Douglas in just
about the same cross-section in which
they streak across the population index.
PAGE TWENTY
of Southern California.
This story, however, is about one
particular group . About some early
settlers whose citizenship papers ante-
date Christopher Columbus himself.
whose forebears were waiting on Ply.
mouth Rock to wigwag a welcome high-
sign to our very best people arriving
on the Mayflower and who are entitled
to turn up their noses even at snooty
Daughters of the American Revolution .
Yes, Indians. Indians who have broken
out of the reservation and are now on
the warpath, like the rest of us.
Not the cigar store brand, covered
wagon variety, kiyipping movie type,
nor the fictional painted savage doing
a green corn dance by the light of the
moon. We're talking about the modern
redskin who prefers the gridiron to
burning folks at the stake, who can
down 15 cokes on an eight-hour shift
without turning a hair, who goes home
to a little vine- covered wigwam when
the whistle blows and has to push a
lawn mower before he gets his dinner
--even as you and I.
There's Thomas Jefferson Harjo, for
instance, a true all - American on any-
body's team. Number 422 in Depart-
ment 61 , he makes mean medicine in
the metal fabrication backfield but
the boys have whittled down that re-
sounding appellation to plain "Jo", as
easier to handle.
An Oklahoma Seminole, Jo inherited
the "Thomas Jefferson" from an uncle
on his mother's side who probably
owned an oil well or two . Parents,
red or white, seldom overlook a bet
like flattering a rich relative . At any
rate the two names had been in the
family quite a while, having been
handed down from forefathers who
borrowed them from the nation's third
president and just never got around to
return them .
Harjo is a common name among the
Indians of this tribe, something like
Smith or Jones with us foreigners. In
fact we had another in the plant-
Andrew Edmond Harjo, in Department
47-until last month when he got
homesick for the lodges of his people.
Jo lives in Eagle Rock with his wife
and 9-year-old son. The kid, his main
hobby in life, likes salt water and so
the Harjos spend most of their recrea-
tional hours at the beach, particularly
when the thermometer is acting up.
Born at Sasakwa, Oklahoma , Jo did a
hitch with the National Guard of that
sovereign state in a doughboy outfit.
There is also another Indian in De-
partment 61. His name is Clifton
Ignacio Martinez but he goes by "Wa-
hoo' for short and sometimes "Little
Indian" because, no heavyweight , he is
only five feet six and the scale needle
stops at 135.
Cliff's tribe is the Comanche, who
once roamed the great plains from the
Rio Grande to North Platt. One of the
first to obtain horses from the
Spaniards, they were noted equestrians.
Led by the fierce and uncompromising
Quanah Parker, whose mother was a
white woman captured as a child, the
Comanche kept the entire U. S. Army
running around in circles until the
Medicine Lodge treaty of 1867. Al-
though they settled peacefully on the
reservation assigned to them in 1875
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 and have since respected that treaty, a pretty wife and two black- eyed anything more teeth chattering than
the Comanche have never relinquished papooses. the white man's shower, Vic finds the
their claim to the state of Texas and icy Klamath waters a bit too shivery
Just returned from his latest trip
still stoutly maintain legal title to this north, "Chief" Crutchfield presented for an empty stomach before break-
great area. his supervisor and buddies of Depart fast. However, for a change of scene
Anything but warlike in appearance, ment 832 with some husky 35- pound and store-bought diet it was good to
Cliff is a mild-mannered, goodlooking salmon he snaked with a gill - net out visit the home folks, lap up a bowl
young chap who follows the pigskin of the swirling Klamath . For anybody of good old acorn soup and clamp an
almost atrophied jaw on toothsome
in season , put his money on the Yanks that would be an illegal
but an Indian that illegal
over the Dodgers and fondles an elec- act but it might interest you to learn dried jerkie, says Vic.
trical welding machine during work that salmon-netting is an exclusive Before coming to Douglas, where he
hours. His supervisors rate him "above perogative of the red man . The Great holds a leadman job, Vic was a U. S.
average, highly intelligent, coopera- White Father in Washington- on- the- Forest Patrol scout, professional truck
tive." Make note of that, gals, because Potomac generously accorded him this driver and trainee at Sherman Institute .
Clifton is unmarried. Previous exclusive right in 1855 as compensa- Another top leadman at the Santa
training before Douglas included a tion in large part for a quit-claim deed Monica plant is Wallace Edward Leeds,
year and four months at the famous to most of these 48 United States. in charge of dimpling and riveting
Sherman Institute for Indians at machines for several related depart-
Among the Klamaths, Vic reports,
Riverside. Cliff has applied for trans- the phrase "go jump in the river" is ments such as 521 and 501 , inner wing
fer to Tulsa, to be nearer his tribal no meaningless colloqualism but an assembly.
stamping grounds . ages-old matutinal habit of brave, Wally was one of the first four In-
Then there's Ferris Paisano , 21 , red squaw and papoose alike, come hell dians to be employed. He joined the
and also unmarried. A full-blooded or high water. Long away from the company in 1937 after high school,
Pueblo, Paisano was born at Paguate, reservation and no longer inured to Concluded on Page Thirty- two
New Mexico, with an even temperament
and sense of humor. CHICKASAW blood flows through the veins of pretty Juanita Dorothy Strickland,
For example : "Just how do you go secretary in the personnel department. She is also, however, partly English.
about scalping a white man, Paisano, "
inquired a kidding buddy in his De-
partment 89.
"I wouldn't know, " replied Ferris
adding with a sly twinkle, however,
"but I'll find out from my grandpap
for you."
Paisano isn't the athletic type, he
wrote on his company record. Off the
record, however, his supervisor reports
that Paisano's one and only hobby is
building airplanes. This idiocyncracy
seems to pay rather fancy dividends,
if you can believe his classification
card and I quote : "This man is very
dependable in his work, turning it out
very rapidly and very accurately."
Paisano put in four years at Sher-
man Institute and does met-fab on the
third shift.
Another Indian who rates double
A- 1 with his superiors is Victor Irving
Crutchfield, under whose copper-toned
epidermis flows red blood of the
Klamath tribe. They've sprinkled his
classification sheets liberally with such
enviable adjectives as "energetic , skill-
ful , productive and experienced ."
It's Vic's ambition to salt away
enough wampum to one day farm that
200-acre tribal patch now presided over
by a youthful grandmother on whose
still unbowed head the sun of 92 In-
dian summers has beat down . He has a
great grandmother, however, a bit older
-108 . Meanwhile, Vic spends his
every vacation there, accompanied by A
R
F
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
BOWLINE BITES
"Glorious victory is saccharized by
risk."
FLYING the burgee of the Big Bear
Yacht Club this month, Walter Hamil-
ton, Douglas sales manager, established
a new world's record with his trim
speed boat, Hells Bells III. The event
was the first annual 100- mile water
ski race at Big Bear lake . Riding
water skiis at the end of a 50-ft. tow
line from the stern of the Hells Bells
III in this gruelling event was Price
Sloan of Pasadena .
Against a field of 16 other starters
of which number 14 finished, Hamilton
towed Sloan to victory to add this first
great water-ski classic to the national
sports calendar.
By this close victory, so close that
the first six boats to finish were but
18 minutes apart, Hamilton and Sloan
annexed individual trophies, gold lov-
ing cups standing four and one-half
feet in height.
Hamilton drove an excellent and con-
sistent race with all regard to his rider,
rounding the five-mile course at an
average of nine minutes and 15 seconds
each lap. Once during the arduous
event the Hells Bells stopped for gas
and oil checkups and while these were
made, Sloan was given a quick rub-
down to loosen up his cramped, cold
muscles. Spray, a cold wind and a
course chopped up by the speeding
craft caused much concern for the
riders many of whom collapsed or
were temporarily out of the fracas
from tired aching arms, backs and
legs.
Each rider was required to wear a
life jacket during the entire period of
the race and was not allowed to com-
plete as much as one lap without wear-
ing the jacket. The riders were re-
quested to submit to a physical exami-
nation or deliver to the inspection com-
mittee a certificate of physical fitness
signed by a competent physician.
The boats, because of the many and
varied dangers prevailing, were re-
quired to carry fire extinguishers,
boarding ladders, life cushions and an
assistant aboard besides the helmsman .
Upon approaching another contest
ant from the stern during the race, the
overtaking boats were not allowed to
come closer than two hundred feet
PAGE TWENTY-TWO
...
from the rider of the boat ahead.
In passing another contestant, the
overtaking boats were not to go
closer than 50 feet from the
other boat or rider. Any and all pass-
ing throughout the race was done to
the right of the overtaken rider. The
riders could spill and be picked up
without being disqualified . Each driver
was furnished with an orange flag
which he was required to wave when
his rider was spilled , also when a boat
was stopped on the course, or at those
times when either the boat or its rider
chose to turn right to leave the course.
PRICE SLOAN, left, Walter Hamil-
ton's rider, receives trophy for water
ski race from yacht club commodore.
The approaching boats when observ-
ing the orange flag were obliged to
drive with care and at a time when a
patrol boat displayed a red flag the
contestants were required to stop. It
was an interesting race to watch and
with a stop watch the observer could
have no end of diversion checking the
speed of the contestants around the
course or keeping count of laps.
One hundred miles on water skiis
in the elapsed time of three hours, 15
minutes, 30 seconds ; and at an aver-
age of 30.77 miles per hour is just
about as hazardous and exhausting a
pleasure as one could undertake.
Speeds of up to 60 miles per hour
were necessary with all the slowups,
occasional stops and the time wasted
by Al A. Adams
picking up spilled riders in order to
average around 31 miles per hour as
did the Hells Bells III.
Warren Hamilton of the Santa
Monica plant's tooling division had
his Barbara L at the pole in this race
with Don Berry of the Long Beach
tooling division on the water skiis. The
mechanic aboard the Barbara L was
Ed Borgolte of the Long Beach pur-
chasing department . This team drew
the first start position which was to
their advantage, at least for a lap of
less rough water before the chop was
kicked up by the other contestants.
Don Berry rode for 871½ miles of the
100 before he had to give up under
the strain, which was most unfortunate.
Due to the dangers involved in 17 boats
and water ski riders starting together.
the race committee started the boats
at one minute intervals .
The Big Bear Yacht Club did a
most commendable job on the safety
details and as a result had no casual-
ties.
Stew Trumbull of engineering won
his own trophy in a start recently
made during the race for all classes
16 feet and under. The Delta dinghies
started at the same time as the other
sailboats in a race sponsored by the
Evening Outlook. The Outlook's per-
petual trophy went to Bill Lewis and
brother in their scow Lulu . Rex Stever
of the trucking department sailing
Rowdy got off to a bad start which
placed him well in the rear, but he
worked into the fleet for a sixth at the
finish . Duncan was second in Flying
Scot and Austin Peeples was third in
Mist II.
The Deltas finishing second and
third after Trumbull in Teewinot were
Ernie Meiser in Twig and John Carier
in Joann.
Bill Slater has annexed the Pacific
coast championship this past month
at Santa Barbara and has taken the
beautiful Wrigley trophy, possibly the
most sought trophy raced for by the
six-meter class
highly competitive
sloops.
Jim Cowie took second in the Blue
Star two-day series at Lake Arrowhead
amidst very flukey wind conditions.
Happy Landings!
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 DUGLAS This play-off game, which was wit-
DEPT 21 nessed by more than five hundred soft-
ball fans at the Sawtelle diamond, was
played between two of the strongest
teams ever to compete in Douglas Ath-
letic club softball leagues. Both the
night and day champions had to battle
their way through top-flight competi-
tion before winning in their respective
divisions and gaining the right to a
shot at the plant championship .
The Dept. 161 team, composed of
Sweetnam, Mandaville, Smith, Kelly,
Massey, Saoes, Patterson, Kett, Hug-
gins, Cota and Pater, won the first half
of the "A" league championship with
ten consecutive victories. Later, they
were nosed out by Dept. 64, but beat
Dept. 64 in the final eliminations along
with the leaders of the "B" and " C"
league champs in the night division .
THE WINNERS, Dept. 58's champion softball team, standing, left to right, D.
Purcell, Bill Robb, Art Austin, Hal Stockman, Bama Roberts, Don Watt. Kneeling, The crack Dept. 58 team, sparked
Charles Randolph, Jim Guymon, Ernie Gaspari, Joe Lescoulie and Bill Watt. by the sensational pitching of Art Aus-
tin and the heavy hitting of men like
Guymon, Hal Stockman and Del Pur-
cell, fought successfully through a host
Dept. 58 Wins Santa Monica
of competition and finally knocked
over the vaunted Production Control
Softball Championship squad by a 1-0 score to annex the
championship of the day league.
IT's all over now. hits out of three trips to the plate. Members of the winning Dept. 58
The largest industrial softball league Catcher Hal Isaacs starred for the club were : Don Watt, Bill Robb, Hal
in the United States finished the sea- losers by clouting out a home run. Stockman, Jim Guymon, Bill Watt, Del
son Sunday, Sept. 14, at the Soldiers' Purcell, Joe Lescoulie, Charlie Ran-
The game started out to be a one-
Home field, when the powerhouse
sided affair when the heavy hitters dolph, Art Austin, Gene Eldridge and
Dept. 58 ball club led by Don Watt, from Dept. 58 opened up early in the Bama Roberts.
Douglas Athletic club president, ham- second inning and put their team out According to Herman Weller, chair-
mered out a 5-3 victory over Dept. 161 , in front by a score of 2-0. The strong man of the D. A. C. softball league,
champions of the night league. night league champions then went out the name of each player on the win-
This game, in which they defeated to make a game of it and brought in ning Dept. 58 team will be engraved
the night league leaders, gave the Watt two runs in the third to tie the score. on the Harry Williams Perpetual
aggregation the championship of the Dept. 58 scored again in the fourth Trophy.
entire Santa Monica plant. frame and later in the sixth for a total Various other trophies were also
Art Austin, pitching sensation for of five runs. The paint shop crew also presented to both teams by Donald
the winning club, supplied one of the scored in the sixth and the game ended Douglas in ceremonies at the Punch
top performances of the day by strik- 5-3 with Dept. 58 the new softball Bowl. Each team member received an
ing out eight men and gleaning three champions of the Douglas plant. individual trophy.
F
TROPHIES were presented to Captain NIGHT WINNERS and championship runners up was Dept. 16. Standing, left to
Watt and his team mates by Donald W. right, Bill Massey, Hal Isaacs, Ken Kett, H. L. Patterson, V. A. Patterson, Dick
Douglas at Punch Bowl ceremonies. Kelly. Kneeling, Frank Cota, Dan Mandaville, Bill Smith, Bill Pater, Merle Huggins.

16 18 16 16
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Douglas Athletic
SPORTS
Lehrer Takes Second
At Camp Perry
Dan Lehrer, member of the Douglas
Athletic club pistol team, recently won
second place in the .22 calibre rapid
fire, expert class , at the national
matches in Camp Perry, Ohio.
Lehrer was shooting in competition
with about 600 of the pick of the coun-
try's sharpshooters. He did not drop
below his class at any time during the
matches, whereas, many of the finest
shots in the country were forced to
drop out entirely due to the adverse
weather conditions.
DAN LEHER won second place in pistol
matches against nation's best shorts.
Lehrer won the right to attend the
matches at Camp Perry by virtue of
his outstanding performance at the
regional matches at Glendale some time
ago. By making the highest aggregate
score in the expert classification there,
Lehrer won the National Rifle Asso-
ciation award of traveling expenses to
and from the matches at Camp Perry
and the right to compete therein.
He also attended the small arms fir-
ing school there.
Douglas Bowlers
Limber Up
Carl Preston, Douglas Athletic club
bowling chairman , announced lately
that Douglas keglers will have the use,
this season, of four of Southern Cali-
fornia's finest bowling centers, the
Santa Monica bowl, the Llo-da-Mar, the
Westwood alleys and the Pico palace.
Bowling has been in progress the
past few weeks at these various spots
to establish averages and determine the
relative strength of the teams already
entered.
Rated as the largest American Bowl-
ing Congress sanctioned league in op-
eration last year, the Douglas league
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Club ...
bids fair to maintain that distinction
this season as new teams continue to
sign up for competition. At this writing
it is still possible for teams to register
by contacting Don Kirkham in the Ath-
letic club offices, phone 680.
Chairman Preston also announced
that various competitive events similar
to those of last season are being out-
lined by the present bowling committee,
composed of Preston himself, Herb
Lang, Bill Hoffer, Herb Rusk, Walt
Blutarch and "Eckie" Eckhardt.
Boxers Begin
Semi-Finals
The Douglas Athletic club light-
heavyweight tournament, under the
promotion of matchmaker Augie Di
Mille, will soon go into its semi-final
round.
As soon as the light-heavy champ is
crowned, Di Mille will embark on a
series of regular bouts prior to begin-
ning eliminations in the other weight
classes. Di Mille's goal is a champion
in every division.
Last month's bouts brought together
some more very promising boys. It was
another field day for Dept. 511 , how-
ever, with the majority of the ring
hopefuls hailing from that spot.
Leo Gordon lost a close decision to
Ray Dequasie in one bout, while Clyde
Olds outpointed Pete Hammerquist in
another. Hammerquist was one of the
few entries representing a department
other than 511. Hammerquist is em-
ployed in 86.
Charlie Randolph , veteran referee,
handled both bouts.
One of the outstanding night shows
featured Eddie and Al Lewin and Pete
and Eddie Haley, who fought each
other in that order.
Judging by the way the boys mixed
it up, the ancient feud between the
Cohens and the Kellys will be con-
tinued in this generation by the Lewins
and the Haleys .
The first fight between Eddie Lewin
and Pete Haley, put the Haleys out
in front. Pete won the nod in a very
close decision from referee George Van
Cleve and judges George Strompl, Chief
Davis and Don Watt.
The second fight in this "Battle of
Brothers" ended in a draw after both
Al Lewin and Eddie Haley had been
floored.
Fry in Bag Punching
Exhibit at Bowl
One of the highlights of this month's
Punch Bowl shows was a speed-bag
exhibition by Barney Fry, physical cul-
turist and world's champion speed bag
artist.
Fry is now conducting a series of
by Jack Lester
weekly shows and exhibitions for Doug-
las employes .
His recent demonstration in the
Douglas sports center proved beyond
all question of a doubt that Fry is still
one of the fastest and trickiest speed
bag artists in the world. He has been
the punching bag champ since 1914 and
is ready at any time to take on all
comers.
Fry's skill is amazing. He demon-
strated that floors, walls, clotheslines,
fence posts and even ceilings can be
used for punching the bag. He also
resurrected several tricks of bag punch-
ing on a slack wire, many of which
have never been duplicated by another
living man. The ease with which Fry
performs these tricks, requiring perfect
skill, balance and agility, is amazing.
Sharing the spotlight with Fry on
these physical culture shows, being
conducted weekly during the noon
hour, is Jerry Miller the big potato man
of Dept. 444. Acting on Fry's sugges-
tion, Miller went on a special diet of
potatoes and milk with the result that
he was able to take on three of the
best men in Dept. 444 in a bar tossing
contest.
Using a 60 pound bar, Miller wore
out his opponents with a total of 335
tosses. Then, for good measure, he
heaved the T-bar 80 times. Jerry, who
weighs a good 205 pounds still chal-
lenges any man in the Douglas plant
for money, chalk or marbles.
Other muscle men rapidly reaching
perfection under Fry's expert tutelage
are Bud Guerig, Dept. 444, George
Menard of Dept. 251 and Ed Levin.
Guerig is the single-man tug-of-war
expert. He is being primed to meet all
comers. Menard has the one hand bar
bell record. He has been able, to date,
to heave the bar over head 10 times,
but he seems quite confident that he
can better even this record. Ed Levin
also a great weight man, excelling with
both the 100 pound and 150 pound bars,
is likewise a fine rope climber.
Douglas Flyers Meet
R. A. F. Soccer Team
The Douglas Athletic club soccer
team opened the season Sunday, Sept.
28 at Loyola Stadium in a contest billed
as "a game between the boys that fly
'em and the boys that make 'em,"
against a team composed of Royal Air
Force trainees. This game was won by
the Douglas boys 4 to 2, and saw
many of last year's stars in action as
well as a great many very promising
newcomers. The occasion featured, be-
sides the game between the Flyers and
the R. A. F. , the appearance of several
stars of stage, screen and radio, mili-
tary bands and drill teams.
Dave Maxwell, energetic new presi-
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DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
ACTIVITIES by Enid Kieburtz

Woodland Hills in this competition were Wally Acker,

Scene of Swim Meet
The recent swimming club buffet-
swim at Woodland Hills Country club
furnished a big day to all, but was of
special importance to Elizabeth White
and Vic Sturdevant as these versatile
athletes carried away top diving and
swimming honors, and won for each a
striking black and gold trophy.
Norm Hanson, president of the
swimming club, performed triple duty
of host, announcer and all-around man-
ager of the affair. Assisting him was
Jean Ivins who recorded all entrants
together with winners in all events.
Wally Acker fired the starting gun
in each swim while Harry Moody and
I. Victor acted as timers. Clint Ridgell,
Walter Keene and Bruce Orcutt were
finish judges while the doubly difficult
position of judging the many dives
executed by the dozen or so entrants
Art Tower and Tom Dunnion.
Events and winners were as listed
below :
Women-
25-yard back stroke- 1st Elizabeth
White, 2nd Enid Kieburtz.
25-yard free style-1st Elizabeth
White, 2nd Margaret Keith .
50-foot free style- 1st Elizabeth
White, 2nd Dorothy Victor, 3rd Enid
Keiburtz.
Fancy diving- 1st Elizabeth White.
Men-
50-yard free style- 1st Vic Sturde-
vant, 2nd C. R. Sturdevant, 3rd Irwin
Lind.
50-yard breast stroke- 1st John
Hatch, 2nd Irwin Lind, 3rd Jack Cun-
ningham.
50-yard back stroke- 1st Vic Sturde-
vant, 2nd C. R. Sturdevant, 3rd Don MEMBERSHIP in Douglas Riding
H. Hilde. club given Roy Rogers, cowboy actor,
100-foot balloon race--1st Harry La by George Cavanah, president of club.
Marr, 2nd Edgar Phillips , 3rd Tom
Buckman.
prospective movie to be filmed by the
100-yard free style- 1st Irwin Lind, Cinema club. A short story contest is
2nd Jack Sunningham, 3rd John Hatch . now being promoted by the Dramatics
Fancy diving- 1st Jack W. Ross, 2nd club in an effort to obtain a suitable
John Hatch, 3rd Edgar Phillips.
vehicle for this movie. A presentation of
Guests were beautiful Marjorie Ges- ideas rather than of a written story is
tring, 19-year-old world's champion requested inasmuch as entrants are re-
fancy diver and Al Patnik who holds quired to prepare their scripts in synop-
the same title for men. These two per- sis form. An award of $10 will be made
formed diving which can't be surpassed to the winner.
in any land for beauty, grace and per- All entries must be left with Don
fection.
Kirkham before 4 p.m. on October 31.

Dramatics Club Busy

TOP HONORS in diving and swim-
ming won trophy for Elizabeth White,
presented to her by diver Al Patnik.
TROPHY for winning men's events at
swimming meet given Vic Sturdevant
by Marjorie Gestring, famed diver.
on Film, Play, Radio Show
Casting a two-act play, the writing
of radio programs and the filming of
life at Douglas. These are the three ac-
tivities now before the Dramatics club
according to W. L. Farquhar, publicity
director. Each job is expected to be
completed within the next several
months.
The play, "Mame," now being cast,
will be presented early in November,
and is open to anyone at Douglas who
has aspirations to the stage. Authored
by William A. Jeffries, Hollywood
writer, "Mame" has been played many
times with tremendous success .
Hugh Root, capable dramatics coach ,
will act as supervising director. Hugh
has been engaged in work of this type
for a half dozen years, and through
his work in little theatre groups, stock
companies and Columbia studios, has
accumulated an extensive knowledge of
directing and acting.
Training for radio work has been
taken in hand by L. O. Daniel who
says that although it is still in the
embryonic stage, this part of the Dra-
matics club will soon be going strong.
Possibly of deepest interest to the
majority of Douglas people will be the
Horse Opera Star
Joins Riding Club
George Cavanah, president of the
Douglas Riding club, this month pre-
sented to Roy Rogers , prominent star
of western movies, an honorary riding
club membership. Three years in the
movies have seen Rogers go from a
bit part to top billing in "westerners"
as well as many character parts in
movies of all types and kinds . The
radio programs together with dozens
of personal appearances throughout the
United States and Canada have won
for this young man many thousands of
followers.
Cinema Club Branches
To Second Shift
Because of the enthusiasm of night
movie cameramen, a cinema club for
second shifters has been organized by
L. B. Miller and T. W. Landon, both of
Dept. 635.
Arrangements have been made
whereby club members can use facili-
ties of the second shift still camera
club, and meetings for both will be
held in the same studio ( 12906 Venice
Blvd. ) on Tuesday afternoons at 2:30.

SEPTEMBER ... 1941

PAGE TWENTY- FIVE
Sports ...
SOFTBALL
Manager Rue Pollok of the Engineer's
club is as good a press agent as he is
a softball mentor. The following com-
munique from his pen deals with the
highly creditable showing made by his
team and a rival squad from Dept. 5
in the season now drawing to a close.
While the Dodgers and the Cards
staged their breath-taking duel for the
National League pennant and the right
to become Yankee opposition in this
year's series, El Segundo's two ball
clubs rolled into their season finale as
the Los Angeles city softball cham-
pionships got under way.
Both Dept. 5 and the Engineers have
qualified as league representatives to
slug it out with the other leading teams
of the city, and although neither man-
ager felt quite as confident as New
York's Joe McCarthy, each of them
will tell you that his team will be the
1941 city Class "A" champ.
The dark horse Engineering squad,
featuring Smilin' Russ Teel in the twirl-
ing role, smashed Dept. 5 by a 10-6
score in the Sept. 8 meeting of the
two teams. The fielding play of the
Engineers was rather lackadaisical, re-
sulting in four unearned runs being
chalked up against them. But this was
offset by the one-man slugfest enacted
by Eddie Atkinson, who socked out
four bingles in five trips to the plate.
Jack Blackburn of Dept. 5 was blasted
from the box in the sixth frame, and
Manager Sam Catalano, who replaced
him, was welcomed by a barrage of
safeties which produced four more tal-
lies. Russ Teel, however, was credited
DARK HORSE in L. A. softball race is El Segundo engineering team. Standing,
left to right, Rue Pollok, Herb Hoffman, Russ Teel, Jack Hammil, Warren Cobine,
Bill Halliburton, Gene Vedder. Kneeling, Bob Hager, Howie Jong, Earl Jackson,
Stan Underwood, Ed Atkinson and Ted Thrall. They beat Dept. 5 by 10 to 6.
PAGE TWENTY- SIX
El Segundo Plant
by Frank Opdyke
with seven strike- outs .
The finals of the city championship
were slated for early October at the
Los Angeles Softball park, and El Se-
gundo Douglas will be right in there
jumpin' with these two fine clubs rep-
resenting the plant.
Another trophy would look mighty
sharp in that display case over at Wel-
fare!
BOWLING
By the time this appears in print,
most of El Segundo's herd of bowlers
will already have unlimbered arms
grown creaky from a summer of inac-
tivity. In September, alley addicts be-
gin to feel the same sort of driving
urge that makes a swallow sidle back
to Capistrano, or guides a famished
termite to a floor joist.
HUNTER and prey. Chet Beach, Dept.
First league to start rolling - half a
25, excells at the art of spear fishing.
dozen are being organized- is the good
old Wednesday night Shop Loop at
remains a closely held secret. Mr.
Morningside recreation. A 14 team
Springer's talents with a mineralite
roster includes 12 of last year's fives.
Dept. 55 is gunning for its second have not been widely exploited.
Another traditional circuit is the
straight title with "Tiny" Hellman
priming those cops for a quick getaway. Dept. 25 gang, with its headquarters
in Inglewood Sports Center. It will be
Louis Stagnaro of Dept. 95 is secre- a bigger and better league this year,
tary and treasurer, and Mike Lipton,
two teams having been added to the
chief timekeeper and demon bowler,
10 that figured in the 1940-41 season.
presides over the league. We have it
Secretary Ed Lobherr has gone to a
straight from Mike that Eric Springer
deal of trouble to match up all the
plans to be on hand opening night to applicants into evenly balanced quin-
fling the initial strike. Whether this
tets. Pat O'Brien heads an entry from
will be a symbolic gesture or a good the check group, and Bert Mead, Jack
solid hook into the one-three pocket
Hammil , and Ed Bentley lead strong
crews. It promises to be a lively race.
SPEAR FISHING
This odd and hazardous sport has
already been touched upon in Airview
columns emanating from Santa Monica ,
but local pride compels mention of El
Segundo's own submarine angler, Chet
Beach of Dept. 25. An excellent swim-
mer, Beach, aided by equipment of his
own design, has been pluming the
depths of Southern California shores
for some time.
In company with Win Kinner, an-
other power plant specialist and an ac-
complished outdoor sportsman in his
own right, Chet made a five day spear
fishing trip to Catalina isthmus a short
time ago.
The boys had shipped a small can-
vas dingy across the channel and used
it to row themselves to a secluded cove
some distance from the popular beaches.
Here they made a camp after having
convinced themselves by use of a "look
box" ( a glass bottomed gadget sub-
merged beneath the surface of the
water) that there were plenty of fish
nearby.
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Rambling Reporter
Here and There
Hilda Ives, Tulsa plant, wants to be
remembered to all of her friends at all
plants. She says there isn't an Indian
on the horizon. Peggy Gallison, form-
erly of outside production, became the
bride of Leonard Quick, engineering de-
partment, September 6, at a colorful
and impressive church ceremony. They
are spending a week at Lake Tahoe.
Fred Skinner, formerly of Dept. 23,
took off recently for the Tulsa reserva-
tion. Bruce McHarg, production control ,
also joined the Tulsa staff. Lucia Mc-
Connell, sales , became Mrs. George
Wade in Reno on August 31. They are
residing in Santa Monica. Zelia Boyd,
Dept. 65, will be married October 16,
at Westwood. Alyma Goldie and Bar-
bara Cary, formerly of Dept. 65 , left
California, August 23, for Nashville,
Tenn., where they are now Mrs. Ralph
Dodge and Mrs. L. Donner, respectively.
Bill and Ruth Hough moved into their
new home, a few weeks ago, in the
Pacific Palisades. A few friends who
dropped in over the Labor Day week-
end to wish them luck were : Don and
Lora Corrigan, John and Alice Weaver,
Ted and Fredda Lotridge, Bert and
Helen Lindberg, Happy and Billy Holt,
Harry and Dorothy Holt, Reginald
Cayce, John and Joyce Seips, and Jack
and Evelyn Lee.
Accounting department held their pic-
nic at Lake Enchanto, the great event
of the day being a baseball game be-
tween timekeepers and job chasers .
Timekeepers captained by Mike Lipton
won by a score of 100 to 90. A formal
presentation by Hap Holt, of a loving
cup to the winners in the form of a
baby cup decorated with dolphins and
pink elephants climaxed the game. Bill
Osborne, personnel manager and Hap
Holt, accounting supervisor , ducked
everybody who unwarily approached the
swimming pool , much to everyone's
hilarity . Curt Highly, coordinating
supervisor of Dept. 59, performing
gracefully on an aquaplane board towed
by Gill Pearson's boat. We all miss
Harry Greer, who left for Tulsa .
Round About
Henri Cazenavette, 10 year man from
the Santa plant, has been work-
ing with the management and super-
visors at El Segundo helping to re-
classify all our jobs . J. B. Cramer,
general supervisor, building a new house
and thereby reducing his waist line
mixing cement. Norman Heath, assist-
ant supervisor, Dept. 71 , moved into
his new home over the Labor Day. Ed
Crandall, formerly of Dept. 13 , pro-
moted to supervisor of the new Dept.
11. Les Mull, supervisor of payrolls , has
a pet moth he calls "Stuka" . It has
dots and dashes under its wings which
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
I
... El
by Clyde Kintz
is supposed to fool the enemy. If the
ingenious engineer who attached a
silken string to a nickel and accident-
ally lost it in one of the slot machines,
will identify it at Welfare, he can have
it back. Some fun, eh! While guarding
airplane ship loadings recently, a fire
hose got away and drenched some of
our local plant protection. Little Drip-
pies, eh! At a corn feed held recently
Officer Farquhar ate 17 ears, Tom Far-
rel, 15, and Charles Sturdevant, 12,
while an unidentified officer from back
yonder just lost count and kept right
on eating. Howard Batchelor and his
charming wife recently celebrated their
10th wedding anniversary, when some
20 couples, old friends from Douglas,
assembled for Auld Lang Syne. Bob
Ringle and his bride of a few months,
held a house warming at their new
home for their Douglas friends. Rose-
mary Cannon of engineering boarded a
plane for Seattle, Wash. , on the 12th
to become the bride of an Army man
(conscriptee to you ) . Joan Stacey an-
nounced her engagement to Bob
Schrank by displaying a lovely ring on
"that there finger." New arrivals in the
cradle include future project engineer,
Eric Gray, newly born son of Bob An-
derson; a lovely baby girl to the Foss
Evans' home ; and a southern belle,
Susan Lee to Pete Shaw, Inc.
Third Shift News
Wedding bells for Les Chapman who
is marrying a charming little lady from
Down Yonder. Straight and narrow
from now on. A worried look on the
face of ' Old Man Riley' (sheet metal
inspector ) brought about a query as to
the reason. Carol Sue, his young daugh-
ter, is " recouping" slowly from a tonsil-
ectomy. Don't worry Riley, she will
be o.k.
Special event- The third shift finally
got around to having its much awaited
picnic, at Lake Enchanto. We should
say it was a Dept. 14 picnic as the en-
tire department was there. Thanks go
to Ken Gardner, who practically father-
ed the affair from beginning to end.
Activities included swimming, boating,
horseback riding and a variety of games
and contests . All persons participat-
ing in any of these were given prizes
of some kind. Ice cream and prizes
were furnished by John Thompson of
the welfare department. Success of the
picnic was due to the fine cooperation
of the supervisors and their leadmen.
Thanks go to Garrity of Dept. 14 for
furnishing the public address system .
One of the highlights of the affair was
the spectacular performance given by
"Whitie" Rogers in passing a football.
Segundo Plant
"Whitie" threw bullet-like passes with
accuracy for distances of 75 to 85 yards.
We feel sure that he'd make an All-
American on any team.
We've all been waiting to hear the
results of "Buck" Buchanan's fishing
outing. "Buck" managed to rope in 16
of the boys from around the plant and
off they went to Balboa, where fish,
among other things, are supposedly
plentiful. Apparently, the gang did all
right, because they returned with
plenty of fish and not too much story.
Tommy O'Donnell, our congenial liaison
engineer, enjoyed his first attempt at
snagging the monsters of the deep, to
capture the "booby" prize for the day.
"Buck" returned from the expedition
a little disgusted , as he lost the jack-
pot to Robbins, Dept. 1, by one ounce.
Those comprising the party were
Buchanan, Martin, Kraltine, Wozab,
Kane, Long , Conrad, Tefft, Hogan,
Gardner, Rockwell, South, Lehman,
Myers and Robbins.
Supervisors and their leadmen got
together this month for a ham and
egg breakfast at El Segundo park. Pur-
pose of this was to make everyone
better acquainted . The group was high-
ly honored by the attendance of Eric
Springer, general manager of the El
Segundo plant, L. Brizzolara, H. Snook,
N. Rubner and J. Cramer, of the super-
intendent's office . Appreciation was ex-
pressed by these men for the fine co-
operation and workmanship which was
being shown by all the men and de-
partments on the third shift in carry-
ing out the plant's production schedules .
Milt Stokes , general leadman, Dept.
65, makes perfect scale models of air-
planes and has a six foot job on the
DB-7. Joe Stasnack, Dept. 65, has a
two place sail plane. Dick Beaver, Dept.
65, builds incinerators which are guar-
anteed to smoke out the neighbors . Jim
Fox, Dept. 65, is building his own plane.
Eoline Berry, Dept. 30 , enjoys the re-
laxation of the deep sea fishing. Recent-
ly a big one pulled her overboard . She
said as she came up to the surface she
saw a barracuda and it looked like a
shark-oh, me! Louis Nabor hunts deer
every year and to prove he "got one"
pulls a few hairs out of his coat pocket
proudly claiming- "from the one I got. "
(Of course , one can't carry a full grown
deer in one's pocket ; the deer may not
like it- )
Vic Wilder, Dept. 55, is going to be
married in a few weeks and in the
meantime is receiving the usual kidding
that every prospective bridegroom
must take.
The pistol team shot two matches ,
losing to El Segundo and tying Doug-
las Santa Monica police . "Snuffy Smith"
came through with a 289 out of a
possible 300 which is better than a
country try.
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Rambling Reporter
The Douglas Santa Monica plant pro-
tection department commandeered the
Woodlawn Country club Sunday, Sept.
14th . Chief McGee of the El Segundo
plant led the cheering and kibitzing
section. Lou Manss, chairman of the
refreshment committee, will not for-
get the "tug of war." Lou was picked
as anchor man on Chief Davis' team
which was opposing George Strompl's
team in the contest. Lou decided to tie
the rope around his middle, which
measures a little over 40 inches, how-
ever Lou does not wear suspenders and
when the other team began heaving
Lou took a deep breath and Chief
Davis' team lost the "tug of war." Mrs.
Manss consoled Lou's embarrassment
with this good wifely advice : "I'm so
glad you had clean shorts on."
Lt. Galbraith was general chairman
of the picnic, Cecil Mullineaux was in
charge of athletics and Jack McCall
really was responsible for all those sec-
ond and third helpings of food. It was
one of the most successful picnics a
department of the Douglas company
has ever enjoyed. Chief Davis was
master of ceremonies and George
Strompl presented the prizes won in
the various contests.
The Southern California Soaring As-
sociation membership has more than
doubled this last year. Douglas em-
ployes are well represented in that Dr.
W. B. Klemperer of engineering is chair-
man of the scientific committee assisted
by Fred Walters, Darrell Rose and
Herman Stiglmeier. Hugh Brewster,
flight inspector of the Civil Aeronautics
వ
Production control department dance was attended by members of all three shifts.
PAGE TWENTY- EIGHT
... Santa
by Patricia Kelly
Authority, gave a very interesting talk
to the association Friday evening, Sept.
12. Brewster stressed particularly the
need of a glider school so that instruc-
tion for glider pilots may be started in
this district. With the present defense
program, gliding and soaring is becom-
ing a fact in the industrial world.
Private clubs and associations are re-
sponsible for the progress of gliding in
this country for the last 10 years. Henry
Stiglemeier of El Segundo plant holds
the unofficial altitude record which was
established at the Arvin glider meet
last July.
The girls' bowling league opened
Wednesday evening, Sept. 17, at the
Santa Monica bowl. There are 20 teams
in the league. Helen Wegener of Dept.
25 is president of the league and Mary
Shamel of Dept. 69 is the secretary . So
far as I have been able to ascertain
this is the largest company bowling
league for women in Southern Cali-
fornia.
The Enterprise bowling league
(formerly Burton bowling league)
under President Gus Poulsen had the
most spectacular opening of their four-
year-old league at the Santa Monica
Bowl September 11. The teams this
year are the Wildcat No. 1 , Wildcat
No. 2, Pratt & Whitney Ducks, Gar-
ret Gorrillas, Bendix Bloodhounds,
California Cyclones, Hamilton Hams,
El Segundo Bombers, Airesearch Apes,
Monica Plant
Pirates, Terrible Turbos and the Kit-
tens.
Ed Brown of Dept. 623 is one of the
proudest fathers of the Douglas com-
pany. A Douglas employe for the past
19 years Ed's first daughter was born
Sept. 3, 1941. The entire department
took part in the decorating of Ed's
desk.
The Douglas Badminton club is plan-
ning a tournament at the La Monica
ballroom according to Bruce Goetz. The
tournament will start October 13, in-
cluding women's and men's doubles,
mixed doubles and men's singles. Bruce
expects quite an enthusiastic audience.
Mickey Glad, 1941 Queen of Sweet-
hearts and Nadine Foutts, 1940 Queen
of Sweethearts, have decided to resign
their present positions with the Douglas
company and spend all their time as
homemakers. The absence of Mickey
and Nadine from the Santa Monica
plant will be regretted, however, we do
wish them all the success in the world
in their new jobs.
Marking the first in a series of social
activities planned for their department,
men of Dept. 266 , shipping, were hosts
at an informal dinner party in the
aquatic room of the Santa Monica
Miramar hotel Saturday, August 23.
The announcement of the engagement
of Ellen Froebel to Paul Sonksen is of
interest to Dept.27. Ellen and Paul are
both members of the department.
Marriages
Bill Menefee of Dept. 27 to Virginia
Johnson, Sept. 23.
Hugh Lee Cain of Dept. 163 to Ethel
Goltra, August 31.
Eugene Dennis of sheet metal to
Lauramae Harris, August 24. They are
spending their honeymoon in Kansas
City.
Troy C. Wray of Dept. 141 to Sarah
Rerriman, August 30.
Pete Westburg and Madelyn Hail of
Dept. 25, August 29. Pete and Madelyn
were married in Las Vegas.
Douglas Debettes
Georgia Rae Crosthwaite arrived
Sept. 1. Her father George Crosthwaite
is lead inspector of Dept. 4, (third shift) .
Virginia Ann Temple arrived August
31 at 4:44 p.m. , weighing 8 pounds and
14 ounces. She is the new daughter of
Charles A. Temple of Dept. 84.
Renee Dolores Stasch arrived Sept.
15 at the Santa Monica hospital. She
weighed 7 pounds and 2 ounces. Her
dad is Arthur A. Stasch of Dept. 654.
Ellen Marie Buckwalter arrived
Sept. 5 , weighing 7 pounds and 4
ounces . Ellen's father, John Buckwalter
is a member of the engineering depart-
ment.
James Rock arrived Sept. 10 at Cul-
ver City hospital. He is the first born
of Mont Rock, Dept. 141.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
RUNNING LIGHTS
I'm feudin'. Though generally the
very soul of kindness, my ready wit
and cheery smile endearing me to my
many friends , I have incurred the
amiable enmity of two blots on the
Douglas scene, simply because in col-
umns long since past I chanced to
make a few cutting remarks about
Walter Fisher and his convent, and
John Conger and his goldfish . These
two have been unrelenting in the foul
cracks they make, and the fires of
wrath blow ever higher.
Yet I want to be fair about this
thing. They are very nice fellows. To
borrow a couple of classic remarks, I'm
perfectly willing to admit that Walter
is every other inch a gentleman, and
that there is nothing wrong with John
that a miracle can't cure.
Now Johnny, Tex Smith of Dept. 48,
and Nick Henderson of Dept. 48, third
shift, have been spending considerable
time lately on Nick's fast sailboat.
Though not wishing them any bad luck
or anything, I have envisioned rather
wistfully from time to time the picture
of the ship capsizing. I have absolutely
nothing against Nick and Tex, you un-
derstand , but news of a somewhat
waterlogged Conger certainly would
add spice to this paragraph, wouldn't
it ?
Well , Dept. 151 has established a
new technique in fishing. The method,
as followed by Messrs. Stan Palmer,
Les Bleeker, Jerry Eckland and Jack
Keith, is very pleasant, but as far as
the fish themselves go, rather unpro-
ductive. According to their rules, you
stay up all night in order not to over-
sleep and so miss the first boat out.
Then, on the end of the pier, you find
a nice soft, narrow bench to relax on
while waiting for said boat. Ye vessel
arrives on schedule and leaves on
schedule. But you're not on it ; you are
unintentionally catching up on that lost
sleep. When the boat is a few miles
offshore, some kind person will awaken
you to tell you that you've missed her;
that's when you drown your sorrows
in coffee and go back to sleep .
FISHERMEN lead an arduous life as the above picture shows. The anglers are
Jerry Eckland, Stan Palmer and Les Bleeker, Dept. 151. They didn't catch a thing.
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
ON
ОП THE
by Darrell D. Marks
So we get the lowdown on Dept. 141
second shift. . . "Last month we were
to have had a story in, but we didn't.
It was to have been our first, SO
naturally the Super., Mr. G. I. North,
wasn't very pleased . Cochran and Yates
assure you this won't happen again." ..
Plans were made last month to have
a department picnic, but the date set
was too soon for the majority, so it
was called off. But the event will yet
occur; the inmates of the department
are advised to watch the bulletin board
(a recent acquisition, by the way) for
information as to date and place. • .
Charley Ebert walked around the de-
partment for several days like the
hunchback of you-know-what. He says
(and I quote, ) "I slipped on an air hose
while passing under a ship." This is
not the most complete explanation, but
a good imagination can supply the
missing details ; just think of his dis-
may when, upon reaching his ultimate
goal, he realized that in indulging in
this dangerous practice he might have
broken his neck or something. Shocking,
wasn't it ? . . . R. V. Fuller didn't show
up for work for two days the latter
part of last month. We now know why.
R. V. was sitting on Juanita Delores
Webb's front porch in Compton when
they suddenly decided that their love
was permanent. The knot was tangled
at Las Vegas.
Ye olde tyme general supervisors
have offspring from time to time. Roy
E. Russell became an oh-so-proud pappy
on August 26 when young Charles
Andrew weighed in at six pounds, 13
ounces. Roy went happily about the
plant, plying his friends with smokes
and gum. . . Chuck Russell spotted
Andrew Richard Moore some weight.
Andy weighed in August 19 at seven
pounds, 11 ounces, keeping his father,
Glen S. Moore, of Dept. 50, in some
suspense. . Mrs. Loren French pre-
sented Loren French, of Dept. 511 , with
a baby girl on Labor Day; the young
lady is yclept Barbara Jean. Mother
NIGHT SHIFT
and child, and father too, are reported
to be doing very well.
News of Depts. 401 and 402 : Jack
Weaver was taken from work Sept. 10
for a surprise visit to the hospital,
where he underwent an appendectomy.
. . J. F. Rice made the down payment
on a car with his back pay which he
received from the retroactive increase.
A. B. Lange, while driving home
from a visit to his girl friend, had
quite a tussle with a 12-ton truck. His
car demolished, Lange managed to es-
cape injury and reported to work on
time. . . K. Wilson quit last week to
take a job surveying for a naval air-
base on Johnston island, about a
thousand miles southwest of Honolulu .
Joe Trojan, leadman, had a sad story
to tell ; his wife just went back to
mother. (For a visit, says Joe. ) ...
James Fain had quite a vacation
crowded into two weeks. He went to
Rainier National Park via Seattle and
Vancouver. From there he went on to
Omaha, Chicago and Dayton. To top
that off, he stopped over in Kansas
City and married Miss Beatrice Jones.
• Bruce Raymond just came back
from Las Vegas-just a short hop, as
a rule. But this time it was a long leap ;
he is now a married man. . . A. H.
Pearson will have received his solo
license by the time this is printed. . .
Gary Chestnut, six and a half pounds,
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Chestnut on Labor Day. Howard is a
leadman. . . Mr. and Mrs. Paul Petree
named their son Ronald Eugene ; the
young man arrived August 26. . . F. E.
Biggs has a baby boy weighing eight
pounds, 14 ounces who shall be known
as Jerry . . . and according to our in-
former, A. M. Samuelson has been hav-
ing a swell time the last two weeks ;
reason : his wife went to Utah on a
visit. Tch ! Tch!
Shop Project man L. S. Nagy, a
member of the Douglas Rod and Gun
club, has returned from his vacation ;
he has been back for some time now.
The major topic of his conversation is
still the unusual deer "one in a
hundred!" says he-which he took in
Lake County near Clear Lake. The
animal weighed 128 pounds dressed, had
three points on the right side and two
on the left, making a 20-inch spread.
He is very proud of this deer-and
after seeing its picture, I can under-
stand why he should be.
By the time this goes to press, the
curtain will have gone down on another
season of softball at Douglas. Softball
-a sport that strikes terror to a
nurse's heart on thinking of charley
horses, bruises, contusions, and so on-
is now a thing of the past for another
year. Casualties were very light this
season due to a vote taken by team
captains at the start of the season
to prohibit all types of spikes. The wis-
• Concluded on Page Thirty-three
PAGE TWENTY- NINE
Rambling Repor
Rep ort er
ter
This new Long Beach Douglas plant
is news and big news to the world at
large, and distinguished visitors who
have seen it under authorization of the
Air Corps are greatly impressed, not
only with the vast organization for
defense production but with the many
modern improvements for the health
and benefit of the employes. Among
these is the new cafeteria, which we
promised to tell you about this month.
The cafeteria is under the direction
of H. S. Anderson company, industrial
caterers who have been serving meals
to industry for a long time. When the
huge Boulder dam project was on it
was the Anderson company who fed
the many thousands of workmen. Uncle
Sam must have been pleased with the
job for they are now caterers to the
Army at Anchorage, Alaska.
Their setting at L. B. is a long hall
not unlike any commercial cafeteria
except that the walls are done in two
shades of soft rose color and the lights
are also rose and white . The lights
form a pleasing motif and it is a re-
laxation from the office atmosphere to
eat lunch there. At present only light
lunches are served due to the lack of
equipment. The manager, Peter Laur-
sen, asks, through this column, that
the employes bear with him under the
present set-up, and he promises that
when the equipment is installed, they
will serve not only hot meals but will
make the cafeteria at Long Beach the
model cafeteria of all industrial plants.
Wedding bells rang for Kay Crockett,
personnel, and Wayne Andreasen, pro-
duction control on Sept. 6. They drove
to Las Vegas to take their vows and
Ye Scribe is still trying to pry out the
reason why Fred Rettberg, the best
man, and his girl friend (name un-
known) didn't accompany Wayne and
Kay as was originally planned. Little
whispers have it that Fred was afraid
he might become enthused with the
beauty of the occasion and come back
no longer a free man.
New Editions
Wallace Heaps, engineering, is the
papa of a baby boy born Sept. 4. His
fellow engineers say that they heard
his name and weight so many times
from proud papa that they could chant
it in unison-"Clifton W. Heaps , 62
lbs." Nevertheless, they smoked the
cigars and slapped him on the back
and were secretly just as pleased as
W. H.
What with the payroll department
going around wild-eyed and muttering
"retroactive checks" and glaring at
anyone who even looked like a question
mark it was very difficult to even glean
the information that a baby had ar-
rived to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Miettunen.
PAGE THIRTY
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.... Long
by Margaret Ball
Heard it is a girl and she weighed 6
lbs. but didn't get her name. Congratu-
lations, Leo, and someday when you are
out from under the huge ( but swell )
job payroll has been doing lately, drop
by and tell us all about her.
Sick Bay
A worthy critic of ours suggested
that more space be devoted to the men
this month so since we want to please,
the most news this month is about the
stronger sex. Or are they ??? It has
been brought to our attention that
Harrold Sheffield of engineering is in
S. M. hospital recovering from an ap-
pendectomy. Chum, you have our sym-
pathy, we don't like hospitals, either.
Charles Cilley, personnel counselor, is
recovering from pneumonia and will be
out for another month or so. D. L.
Meggers, Dept. 191 , broke his ankle a
few weeks ago but was up and about
in four days. Medical science is surely
wonderful- he is walking, thanks to
a metal device which straps on much
like a skate. Then all he needed was a
cane.
Talking abount ankles-Mel Lacy,
Dept. 228, went golfing with Carlile
Brooks, Dept. 37. Either Carlile doesn't
CUZ POOLE, plant police, has or-
ganized "Cousin Poole's Cuzzins" club
for sole purpose of throwing parties.
Beach Plant
know what "fore" means or else Mel
thinks golf is a form of hockey, but
anyway, Carlile came back with a very
badly bruised ankle and has walked on
crutches ever since. Better remember
Mel's name, gals, for if a Sunday date
is suggested insist on some nice peace-
ful sport such as ping-pong.
We Hear That
Venna Handy, Dept. 221, went to Salt
Lake City to surprise her best girl
friend by being present at her wedding.
Arch Shoup and Lary Tonic, mail de-
partment, went to Reno over Labor
Day. They took their wives and what's
more brought them back. Well, I'll con-
fess it really was a fishing trip and
Reno just happened to be a stop-over.
Since they returned the argument has
waxed long and loud as to who caught
four fish versus one fish and how big.
My, my, these Isaac Waltons.
Alice Wallgren, Dept. 264, is a slip
of a miss but she wields a wicked bowl-
ing ball- bowled 212 one Sunday lately
at the Premier Bowling alley. ' S truth,
so help me- Ye Scribe was a witness.
R. E. Kennedy has a new hacienda in
Anaheim of which he is very proud. It
is in an orange grove and the neighbors
are all Douglas folks. Quite homey, and
they all speak the other guy's language.
We'll come out and see them if we
can pick an orange.
Ah ha-an embryo wedding- Dorothy
Beauchamp and Paul Randall of per-
sonnel are engaged. Which probably ac-
counts for all the electric sparks flying
around the personnel office these days.
Speaking of sparks, it looks like Don
Bidwell, materiel liaison, has surround-
ed himself with a bevy of brunettes in
the central files and can be seen any
day beatifically beaming at them. We
knew he knew how to handle horses
but the women-that's a proposition
upon which experts have been known
to be thrown.
Which reminds us-ahem- to call to
the attention of Dale Paull, police de-
partment that one more growl at a
certain dazzling brunette from Dept.
37 about not being able to see her
badge may result in his ending up in
the items above marked "Sick Bay."
She positively boils over, but confident-
ially Dale, is that badge just an ex-
cuse ?
Glen Goebles of inspection has been
promoted to general inspector of the
A-20B assembly at El Segundo, but
working for Long Beach.
Goings-on
Dorothy Scanlon, schedules , organ-
ized a group of girls for the night of
August 27. They had dinner at the
Town House and then went to see
"Helzapoppin" at the Long Beach Mu-
nicipal auditorium. Being tied up else-
• Concluded on Page Thirty-three
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 SHOP SUGGESTION
THE Douglas management, upon
the thoughtful proposal of A. M.
"Fred" Meyer, the Shop Suggestion
Investigator, has scored again in favor
of all the employes . Meyer has con-
ceived the accepted idea of placing
upon the employes ' record cards, which
are being kept by the personnel de-
partment, a complete memorandum of
shop suggestions made. This will be
of value to the employe aside from the
cash awards now being extended .
There has been made a joint "A"
award this month to the credit of C. W.
Snyder, 95-215, his third accepted
suggestion, and K. B. Maines 91-228.
These men will share the $ 15 award
for having suggested the addition of
a magnetic solenoid coil to the ap-
proximately 100-10,000-pound rivet
squeezing machines now in use in the
plant.
Maines and Snyder, both electrical
maintenance men , were impressed by
the fact that on an average of five of
these rivet squeezers broke down each
eight-hour shift. They conscientiously
went to work on the problem.
These machines are pnuematically
powered through a Ross Valve
mounted on the rear of the machine.
The valve is actuated by a system of
"Watch Out for Washington,"
Says Former S. C. Football Captain
IF YOU'RE looking for hot tips on
the big football games this fall you
might drop in and see Ed Dempsey,
651-69, of the tool planning depart-
ment. Ed may modestly decline any
superior knowledge on matters per-
taining to the gridiron but the fact re-
mains that this time last year he was
captain of the Southern California
Trojan eleven . He's been a Douglas
employe since early June and the boys.
in tool planning say he's displaying
the same capacity for work that he
showed while leading the Trojans to
victories on the gridiron .
Dempsey doesn't expect Stanford,
the Rose Bowl champions, to go through
the 1941 season without defeat.
"They seem to be top-heavy fav
orites," said Ed the other day, "but
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
AWARDS
control cables to a foot pedal on the
front base of the machine. The cables
stretch or frequently break if op-
erators tramp on the pedal too hard.
Snyder and Maines devised a method
.
of valve control on these machines by
use of the solenoid coil operating the
valve through a mechanical connect-
ing link. This setup is controlled by a
foot switch. It saves many hours of
delay and the initial cost of the elec-
trical arrangement would be more than
paid for by the end of the first month.
In addition , the electric type of con-
CONTROL system for rivet squeezing
trol is more positive, easier to operate machines won award for C. W. Snyler,
and mechanical trouble is rare. left, and K. B. Maines, this month.
"B" AWARDS
Stiffener Guard to Protect Parts in
W. N. Kelley , 656-21 , Safety Sug- Fuselage during Assembly .
gestion : Had window put in wall a The month's awards at El Segundo
foot of stairs ; R. LeRossignol , 271-407, were as follows :
Special racks for transporting ring ; A Award: Samual S. Shanks, 36-
W. A. Richards, ES, 48-7 , Hydraulic
231, insulating covering for flex con-
By- pass Valve suggested while in Dept. duit.
2. SM .
B Award: W. B. Estel, 5-29, lead
"C" AWARDS plate for router table.
J. T. Krygowski, 151-744, Hand C Awards: R. W. Fincher, 71-53 ,
Drill Motor Cord Holder ; Ralph Q. stringer splice tool ; H. V. Troutman ,
Stalmaker, 152-710, Special Vice for 5-249, profiling shear for stainless
Snake Drills ; E. L. Beeson, 6-211 , steel ; F. M. Combs, 5-16, improvement
Special Device for Bullet Machine used on roll machine .
on Tubing ; E. F. Howard, 115-206 .
I think they're in for some surprises .
Albert and Kmetovic are mighty fine
backs and I know from experience that
Lindskog is a strong center, but the
way I look at it Stanford was rather
lucky in several games last fall and
that luck might not hold out."
Asked what team he thought might ED DEMPSEY, captain of 1940 U.S.C.
football team, makes some predictions .
finish higher than Stanford Dempsey
said:
the former Bruin halfback, is the best
"Watch out for Washington . That
all-around back he ever ran into . The
was the best team we met all last sea-
greatest team Ed ever faced was the
son. And Stanford has to play the 1938 Notre Dame club which had won
Huskies in Seattle where they are
nine straight games, only to be beaten
plain dynamite . Washington has a
by the Trojans, 13 to 0. In his estima-
guard named Ray Frankowski who is tion neither Duke nor Tennessee , which
just about the best lineman I ever
fell before Dempsey and his mates in
played against." Rose Bowl games , were as strong as
Dempsey thinks Kenny Washington, that Notre Dame team.
PAGE THIRTY-ONE

INDIANS at work. Left to right, Comanche Clifton Martinez, spot welder;
Navajo Ferris Paisano, metal fabricator ; Seminole Thomas Jefferson Harjo,
metal fabricator ; Kiowa-Wichita John Bates, who works on major jigs.
Douglas All-Americans
• Concluded from Page Twenty-one
some Sherman Institute training and
a thoroughgoing preparation at Santa
Monica Tech evening extension classes
where he studied blueprint reading,
template layout and aircraft sheet
metal . Beginning as a riveter, his " out-
standing ability and diligence " quickly
marked him for advancement to the
responsible post he now holds.
He has a wife, two youngsters and
lives in Venice.
Latest Indian recruit to join up is
John Bates, a lanky six-foot half-and-
half Kiowa-Wichita from Anadarco,
Oklahoma. This is his first trip west
and an eye-opener to John, his wife
and three-month-old baby. What hits
John between the eyes about Southern
THREE GENERATIONS
That the modern Indian , such
as you read about in this article,
has come a long way from the
hunting grounds of his fathers is
amusingly illustrated in the fol-
lowing story.
It seems that an aged Indian
recently was introducing himself
and members of the family to
unexpected visitors.
"Me," said the dignified red
man , " me Chief Wolf-that-Howls-
in-the- Night.
"This ," he continued , indicating
a middle-aged warrior, " this my
son, Johnny Two Horses.
"And what's the little toddler's
name?" inquired the helpful guest.
"Papoose, he Dive Bomber ,"
the old man replied.
PAGE THIRTY- TWO
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FIINRGUI
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California is not its movie stars, night
spots and metropolitan glamour, but
its far more dramatic-to him- -moun-
tains, forests, deserts, ocean, beaches
and vegetables .
"Yeah man !" he says, and please
pardon his southern accent, "this heah
is sho a powahful passel of country
and all we been doin' since we got
heah is drivin' ' round gettin' ' quainted
with places."
John works in major jigs, Depart-
ment 632, is a first-class mechanic ,
foreman and former owner of his own
shop . He plays the clarinet, knows
baseball inside and out and can tell
you stories about old-timers like John
McGraw, Tinker- Evers-Chance and
three-fingered Mordecai Brown . His
hobby is building airplane models .
And that brings us down to Juanita
Dorothy Strickland, who has warm
brown eyes, white teeth and a tinkling WALLACE LEEDS, left, is leadman in
charge of dimpling machine men.
laugh reminding you of sky-blue
waters. If you're a susceptible man-
as who isn't ? -don't hang too long are glad. Juanita is glad. And just to
around her desk in Personnel . No shy make it unanimous, so am I.
little prairie maid she, but poised and
efficient at her important job of She and a girl-friend live together
handling "merits." in Hermosa, spend most off-duty hours
Juanita's name comes from an Eng- in the surf. Linda Darnell and Stirling
lishman father. Her eyes, olive skin Hayden are her favorites on the screen,
and the raven tresses that frame her she's got a terrible yen for chocolate
face in a strictly 1941 hairdo were in- cake, wears a 62 quad pump, is now
herited from her mother, a full-blooded reading Pearl Buck's "Other Gods" but
Chickasaw . likes murder mysteries for steady fare,
On a vacation from her Kress -Wool- collects match covers in her few spare
moments.
worth jobs in Tulsa, this "million-
dollar · baby . in · the five and At this point, your vice-president-in-
ten-cent store" came west last spring to charge of writing-a-feature story-on
visit a boy friend in air corps training Indians- at - Douglas wishes to state that
school here. When he failed to qualify the entire foregoing is intended to be
and went to work for Douglas, Juanita merely prelude to the meat-thought that
put in her application, too. Col. H. W. when it comes to all-out defense of our
Stephenson, her boss, says he's glad America we are all brothers under
she did. The girls in that department redskin or white.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

L. B. Rambling Reporter
Concluded from Page Thirty
where this reporter missed a swell time,
but wants to know if you gels got any
pointers from the show.
Lt. L. L. Poole, more popularly known
as "Red" or " Cuz " of the police force
has organized a club among the boys
which is known as "Cousin Poole's
Cuzzins". Their objects is to keep a
treasury fund on hand at all times so
when the urge for a dinner party, the-
ater party or most any social event
strikes them they will be able to do
it up in style without loss of too large
a sum of cash to any one all at once.
We think it is a swell idea, and if we
put in our two cents worth, can we
come to the party, too, can we, huh ?
While yours truly is sitting here
pounding out this epic there's agoins-
on on the high seas. A last minute flash
has it that a large gang of the boys
are in Catalina waters angling for the
wily tuna and broadbill. Among them
is reported to be Jerry Adams, "Rocky'
Rochlen, H. H. Bedell ( better known as
Buttercup ) Jim Van Aken, Johnny
Fair and many others whose names we
didn't catch.
Running Lights
Concluded from Page Twenty- nine
dom of this decision was apparent when,
with over 500 men playing softball on
night teams , there was only one injury
of more than a minor nature.
News of the Experimental Section :
J. W. Allport, second shift boss in Dept.
201 , is going into the outboard racing
game on his own. He has started to de-
sign and build a boat which he intends
to pilot himself. This is real sport. . .
Bob Hostetler, of Dept. 203 experiment-
al planning , took first place in the Class
"C" Hydroplane races at Lake Elsinor
on Labor Day. Must be contagious . . .
Janice Johnson, of Dept. 28, and George
Rose, of Dept. 116, have announced
their engagement and plan to be mar-
ried late this fall.. . . Lindale Mitchell
was married Sept. 7 in the Santa Bar-
bara mission, the affair followed by a
reception.
Bob Stock sends us news of the tool-
ing division : The annual picnic of the
tooling departments found a large
crowd of tooling men, their wives and
sweethearts enjoying the attractions of
the Woodland Hills country club for
swimming, riding, tennis, badminton,
dancing, and free beer ; to say nothing
of the contests , during which Otto
Steuer was observed drinking a coke
from a bottle with a nipple on it ( Otto
didn't win! ) while Clarence Figearo,
Ellsworth Marowski , Paul Plummer,
Bob Reed, and Gordon Williams were
messing up the landscape with broken
eggs during the egg-throwing contest .
As master of ceremonies , Tommy Hil-
terman displayed a hitherto hidden tal-
ent for quips at the audience .
"No excellent soul is exempt from a
mixture of madness," said old sage
SEPTEMBER ... 1941
Aristotle, and from the madness I ob-
serve on the streets just after the
whistle blows, I conclude that Douglas
certainly employs a wonderful collec-
tion of excellent souls . With a roar of
engines and a screaming of tires, the
night crew starts on its way home, and
the wonder of it is that so many actu-
ally get there. But remember that
often too often-some of you don't.
The statistics on this subject are very
interesting. F'heavens' sake drive
carefully !
E. S. Sports
Concluded from Page Twenty-six
Equipment used for their hunt in-
cluded a mask, fins, breathing tube, and
spear. The mask covers eyes and nose,
with a glass window that makes ma-
rine wonders plain as those in any
aquarium. The fins, which like the
mask, were purchased items , add
greatly to the efficiency of the swim-
mer's flutter kick, resulting in phenom-
enal speeds , both awash and submerged.
A breathing tube extends upward
some ten inches above the swimmer's
head to permit breathing without
emerging, thereby enabling him to make
more prolonged and deeper dives.
The spear employs a removable point,
either attached to the shaft by a four
foot cord or secured by a buoy by 30
feet of line. These devices are Beach's
own design, and after two years of use,
have never had to be reworked in any
way. To the best of his knowledge the
breathing tube is the first ever used for
spear fishing in Southern California
waters.
Dinner the first night was featured
by steaks from a four pound rock bass
which Chet speared with little difficulty.
Kinner's three pound perch was thrown
back in the sea by mutual agreement .
Beach and Kinner were beachcombers
from then on, living in the water for
hours, never washing behind their ears,
letting beards grow helter skelter, and
doing up the dishes with quick hand-
fuls of sand. Hair grew lighter and
skins darker.
And they caught fish, piles of fish. A
dozen perch averaging three pounds,
half as many five and six pound bass ,
two Moray eels, a small shovel-nose
shark, a small octopus, a seven pound
sheepshead that broke a seven strand
steel leader and took one of their points
with him. ( There's always that big one
that gets away, but Beach is a very re-
liable raconteur. )
The highlight of the expedition oc-
cured when a huge rat- tailed sting ray
was sighted lunching off a bit of jetsam
on the bottom some 20 feet down. Chet
slipped over the side with his equip-
ment, using the long line and an inner-
tube float. He approached from a dis-
tance so as not to alarm the wary
beast. He dived and succeeded in swim-
ming along the bottom to within
range. His spear thrust went clear
through the monster, which took off
with such violence that he bent the 18-
inch steel shaft at right angles, and
snatched the line and float away at a
fast clip. Beach surfaced, and barely
succeeded in reaching the receding
float.
It was a hard battle to haul in the
desperate ray close enough for a kill.
But after Kinner had overhauled his
Imate in the boat, and helped him
aboard, the two of them managed to
pull it alongside. Measuring 5½ feet
long with a four foot wingspread, the
"thing" weighed 47 pounds. It had
towed Beach over a hundred yards dur-
ing his ride with the float.
When they left for home and the
world of toil , six rolls of movie film
went along to prove their story. They
were still unwashed behind the ears,
their beards were way past the stubble
stage, but that was as it should be.
Beach and Kinner will spend the next
11 months planning to do the same
thing all over again.
And that, too, is the way it should
be with spear fishermen.
S. M. Sports
• Concluded from Page Twenty-four
dent of the Douglas club, expects the
greatest season in the history of soc-
cer at the Santa Monica plant. Often
a championship team in the past , and
always a threat, the Flyers have been
strengthened this year by the addition
of several new players.
According to Maxwell, the Douglas
outfit now boasts three of the fastest
men in local soccer circles . They are
Al Cecchini and Ralph Ptolemy, half-
backs and Don Wallace, center-forward.
These boys are not only among the
fastest but also the flashiest soccer
players on the Pacific Coast.
Other team members who will see
plenty of action this season are Carl
Wolter, veteran goalie, Tony McEwen,
halfback, Axel Thomsen, halfback and
the sensational Gordon brothers ,, Al and
Denny.
The popular Sam Neale will manage
the Flyers during the coming season.
Glen Moore will hold down the difficult
role of trainer.
Photos by ...
All photographs by Douglas Aircraft com-
pany unless otherwise noted.
Chief Photographers
Roy L. Johnson, Santa Monica
Harold G. Jackson, El Segundo
Jack Freeman, Long Beach
Staff Photographers
Ray Hoskins Harry Merrick
Royal Wright Frank Enkosky
Ernest Ludwick Paul King
Paul Chalmers
Page 6 Jaro Fabry
Page 7 Boeing Aircraft
Pages 8 and 9 Pan American Airways
Page 12 Morris Rosenfeld
Page 13 Jack King
Pages 16, 17, 20, 21 Larry Kronquist
Page 22 Bruce Bailey
Page 24 Ed Skaring
PAGE THIRTY-THREE

Cold Is Where You Find It
• Concluded from Page Seventeen
airtight, leather suits surmounted by
Flash Gordon helmets equipped with
earphones and a telephone mouth-
piece. These Arctic habiliments are
made of horse-hide thickly quilted with
the finest merino wool . Especially de-
signed and tailored to order, the suits
are laced together with zippers from
tip to toe and supported from the
shoulders with an ingenious suspender
system.
The helmet, greatly resembling a
diving bell, is made of spun aluminum
-not dural- and welded to padded
shoulder pieces of the same material .
It has a fixed vizor of laminated plexi-
glas separated by air chambers and
hermetically sealed after all moisture
has been removed . This effectively pre-
vents fogging. It is lined inside with
orthopedic felt and soft chamois skin.
Since a principal danger to work-
men in the cold room is the possibility
of pneumonia, the suits are cleverly
valved So its wearer breathes air
warmed by his own body. The intake
is near the floor, exhaust located in
the helmet dome.
One man never goes into this polar
icebox alone. Always by twos. Workers
inside also are under the observation of
another colleague watching them at all
times through the window.
The cold room is operated by E. C.
Burkhardt's Dept. 76-R, under General
Supervisor W. L. Horton, which built.
the apparatus, furnishes the equipment
and men. Tests are conducted by en-
gineering development. in charge of
J. R. Goldstein. Associated with him
in this work are E. P. Wheaton, Dr.
W. B. Klemperer and T. N. Floyd, the
young man who designed the cold room
and coordinates its experiments .
Immediately adjacent to the cold
room and of comparable importance is
the Douglas altitude laboratory which
can test men as well as materials . Here
are two vacuum-tight compression
chamber: both cylindrical and with
hatches that make them greatly re-
semble a submarine.
One of them, soon to be hooked up
to this frigidaero, will subject parts.
and equipment to firmamental cold as
well as the effects of high altitude.
In the other, which goes up to 55.-
000 feet without leaving the ground,
the interior is elaborately outfitted as
an airplane cabin and cockpit . This
PAGE THIRTY- FOUR
has the advantage of putting an airman
immediately at ease in otherwise
strange quarters , a psychological effect
which medical examiners hold of great
benefit in the tests.
From such tank experiments both
here and elsewhere in the industry has
come the new type of perfect fitting
oxygen mask that forces the airman
to properly inhale the stuff whether he
is too busy or not . As a result, he can
now remain indefinitely at any altitude
in complete physical comfort and with
full possession of his faculties .
Rules are that the pilot under test
begins using oxygen at 13,000 feet, as
shown by the altimeter on his instru-
ment panel . It is mandatory to keep
the mask on at all times above the
15,000-feet mark.
Also in telephonic communication
with the outside, the pilot further is
under the constant observation of an
attendant peering in through glass. In
any emergency, the mere touch of one
finger on a safety valve within easy
reach instantly would increase the
pressure inside .
Not only in this chamber used for
pilot training but for exhaustive study
.
of cabin supercharging , a subject that
will continue to grow in importance
as commercial planes, as well as mili .
tary, continue to climb upstairs .
Mirage ..
• Concluded from Page Thirteen
and throughout the remainder of the
adventure remained below either sense-
less or rolling in agony. He became
delirious and shouted things completely
unintelligible. As they reached Point
Lookout light on the northern point
of the entrance to the Potomac River.
Pringle became too weak and nauseated
to remain on deck. It was necessary for
Jack to remain on watch for six hours
throughout the most dreadful night
he has ever experienced
experienced,, stamping his
frozen feet in the water-filled cockpit
and swinging his arms against his body
to keep warm. Not knowing any better,
Jack tried to tack up the Potomac
against the gale and with only the stay.
sail set. The cold blasts were sweeping
down the Potomac as if to blow them
away from their destination up the
river. The unbalanced rig, the rough
water, the blustery wind and Jack's
inexperience made the tack impossible.
He soon saw that they would be thrown
upon the rocky lee shore of the
southern bank of the Potomac.
King decided rather than lose the
yacht he would put in at Reedville.
Virginia , a good harbor several miles
south of Smith point. After passing
the point Jack tacked across Chesa-
peake Bay almost to Tangier island .
As they approached Reedville harbor,
the wind hauled so that the Mirage
could not possibly make the harbor.
The only other accessible harbor was
70 miles south at Norfolk and it was
doubtful whether the Mirage could
make it there rigged as she was.
The Mirage was hopelessly lost by
Sunday afternoon and with the wind
subsiding a bit, the seas dropped only
to have the yacht run hard aground.
"The Great Triumverate " was sick
with despair but they had a firm re
spect for the sea. Ream was unable to
move from his bunk so Pringle and
Jack put the dinghy overside and rowed
two miles, shot the surf and went
ashore. A hike of three miles to a
farmhouse was most unpleasant to the
hungry, tired fellows. A phone call to
the coast guard at Norfolk brought
help by the following morning.
After the storm the boat was hauled
off the bottom and was towed by sev
eral different boats eventually arriving
in Washington , D. C.
With winter upon them they had to
go south or put the Mirage in dry
dock. They chose to go south.
The 1400 miles south to Miami.
Florida would ordinarily cost $300.
The "Triumvirate " made it on $8.00.
The story of that trip to Miami and
return back up the Atlantic coast was
a saga of misfortune as one might well
imagine -but they did it.
Fate has sent the fellows on diverse
paths .. Eldredge is now working in
Rio de Janerio, Weston is studying
under a scholarship at the University
of San Marcos, Lima, Peru . Hill is
studying law at Harvard, Jeselson is a
life guard in Seattle, Washington , and
Pringle has been conscripted and is a
cavalryman at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Jack King is employed in the Long
Beach Douglas plant .
It wont be too surprising to me to
someday hear that "The Great Trium-
virate" has sailed the yacht through
the Panama Canal and up the Pacific
coast. Like a mirage it may someday
appear on the horizon off Santa
Monica. I'm going to watch for it.
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OCTOBER, 1941 Circulation -40,000 Volume VIII Number 10

Published by the CONTENTS

Departments of Industrial and
DEDICATED TO DEFENSE - - 4
Public Relations

∞ 02
Douglas Aircraft Company TO THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY . 8

A. M. ROCHLEN FULL SPEED AHEAD - 10

Director 12
PREVIEW FOR THE FOLKS
JACK G. ANDERSON
Assistant LET THERE BE LIGHT 14
PRECISION PLUS 15
FREDERIC C. COONRADT
Managing Editor HULA HOP · 16
Associates AFRICA · 18
AL A. ADAMS BOB THOMPSON
PRIDE OF THE NATION PERFORMS · 21
WITH DOUGLAS AROUND THE WORLD 24
Contributors to This Issue
VETERANS - 25
MARGARET BALL CLYDE KINTZ
DON BLACK JACK LESTER WITH US THIS MONTH 26

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NED CRAWFORD BERT D. LYNN
BRAVEN DYER DARRELL D. MARKS BOWLINE BITES 28
L. L. FORD ROBERT W. MINTON
CHAMPIONSHIP BOUND
BRADLEY JONES FRANK OPDYKE
PATRICIA KELLY WIN SARGENT OUR PICNIC ALBUM - 30
ENID KIEBURTZ HOWARD WOOKEY EATING THEIR WORDS 31
DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB SPORTS 32
COVER: The airplane encircled globe, DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB ACTIVITIES 33
trade mark of the Douglas Aircraft
company looms above the entrance to SPORTS ... EL SEGUNDO PLANT - · 34
the newly completed Long Beach plant. RAMBLING REPORTER · .. EL SEGUNDO PLANT · 35
From a kodachrome by Larry Kronquist.
RAMBLING REPORTER .. • SANTA MONICA PLANT - 36
RUNNING LIGHTS ON THE NIGHT SHIFT .· · · 37
Published monthly by Douglas Aircraft Com-
pany, Inc., Santa Monica, California. Cable ad- RAMBLING REPORTER ... LONG BEACH PLANT - 38
dress : Douglasair. Address all communications
to Douglas Airview, Santa Monica, Calif. Copy- OFFICERS TURN SCHOOLBOYS · 39
right 1941 by Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.
SHOP SUGGESTION AWARDS · 39

YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW

* A FEW days ago, at Long Beach, California, there was
dedicated to the security of this land, and to the Arsenal of
Democracy, America's newest and mightiest airplane manu-
facturing plant .
That dedication was important to us. It was our plant.
To us had been assigned the job of building in its huge,
sprawling structures, a great swarm of swift, powerful
bombers and troop carriers for the defense of this nation
and of freedom everywhere . To help us mark the occasion,
and to remind us of the task, city, state and federal govern-
ments, and the other forty-seven states, sent their representa-
tives and good wishes.
In every word, in every act, they said : "Men and women
of Douglas, we, Americans, have faith in you . Go to it ! "
It was a grand, colorful gathering, but now it belongs
to yesterday. The gay banners and bunting, the grandstands
and cheers, are gone. The job remains.
It remains for today and tomorrow. It will be ours for
months to come. Our dedications are just beginning. To do
the job, to justify the faith of our home communities, our
state and our nation, you and I, and everyone of us in the
great production army of Douglas workers, must re- dedicate
ourselves at the end of each day to the unfinished job ahead,
just as America's other defenders dedicate themselves every
day to the duties and dangers of land, sea and sky.
More than a year ago, speaking for each and everyone
of you, I said "We can do it ! " Today, with pardonable pride
and confidence, I can add, "We are doing it."
DampW.
Banglas

OCTOBER ... 1941 PAGE THREE


PA
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GO AHEAD SIGNAL for full production and start of expansion at Long Beach
was given when R. C. Whitchurch of Minneapolis threw switch. Others, left to
right, Gen. Yount, Gen. Ryan, Nick Ball, Mrs. Whitchurch and Donald W. Douglas.
DEDICATED
AMERICA'S newest and mightiest de-
fense plant joined the Arsenal of
Democracy on October 17,
To Long Beach, California, that day
brought an occasion of civic pride and
the opportunity for vital service in the
hour of national emergency .
To Douglas and its great and grow-
ing army of defense workers it brought
a new milestone in production progress
and a new chapter in its history of
achievements in aeronautics.
And to the country at large October
17 was a colorful and dramatic symbol
of national unity, significant and re-
assuring testimony of the swift march
to security in the sky and another con-
quest in the battle of production and
preparedness.
America's determination to win this
battle was affirmed and reaffirmed by
the speakers and guests at the dedica-
tion ceremonies . (See page 8 ) . But
none of the speakers or guests could
PAGE FOUR
L were chosen by the Federation of State
TO DEFENSE
voice this determination so well as the
grim, windowless walls of the factory
structures around them where today
7000 men and women are building
7000
weapons for America, and where soon
there will be 30,000 . (See page 10 ) .
Nor could they speak so eloquently
of American daring science and ingenu-
ity as the giant Douglas B- 19, the Army
Air Forces "Guardian of a Hemi-
sphere," which skimmed the rooftops
of the new factory as a climax to the
celebration. ( See page 21 ) .
In effect, the ceremonies belonged
Donald W. Douglas said in his dedi-
cation address, "The job which lies
ahead cannot be done by one individu-
al, one company, one city or one state.
It is a job for all of us."
That the new factory is a factory
for the whole United States was sym-
bolized at the ceremonies by the pres-
ence on the speakers ' stand of repre-
sentatives of every state in the Union-
48 couples.
The "All American " delegation sat
in two long rows beneath a streamer
carrying the names of the 48 states.
Back of each couple was its own state
flag, and above all stretched the OPM
"Defense Plant" banner, 40 by 100
feet, the largest in America and especi
ally made for the Long Beach dedica-
tion . Two American flags, 20 by 38
feet made the rest of the background.
The representatives of the 48 states
Societies of Long Beach.
It was to a pair of these representa-
tives of the nation at large that fell
the privilege of throwing the huge elec
tri switch which sounded full speed
ahead for production in the completed
plant, and signaled construction workers.
to start pouring concrete for a factory
addition which will double the plant's
working area. The couple, chosen by
lot from the states' representatives.
were Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Whitchurch
of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
When Whitchurch, a retired railroad
engineer, threw the switch, the blast of
a siren rent the air and the new plant
was declared officially at work. Nearby
a cement mixer clanked across the
field spewing forth concrete into the
foundations of the new production
buildings.
The significance of the dedication of
the great new plant was described later
in the day by Brig. Gen. William O.
Ryan. Fourth Air Force.
"From the blackout walls of this
great factory," he said, "there will rise
a stream of metal machines, guided by
the youth and zeal of nations to form
a protective canopy of the lives and
homes of the little and the helpless of
the world.
"Construction of the huge Douglas
factory is no guarded military secret.
Its potential production of airplanes is
EXPANSION begins. Concrete mixer
pours foundations for new buildings.
known in all the capitols of the world.
Behind the iron front of the aggressor
nations the hard-faced men compute
the number of planes to come from
this Douglas arsenal, and from the
other plants now in production or
swiftly moving to the point where they
will add their numbers to the stream.
Do you doubt that the fingers of these
men tremble as they read these totals?"
The significance was also pointed to
Maj . Gen. Barton K. Yount, principal
speaker at the dedication ceremonies.
"Let those who threaten our nation
ponder well," he declared, "for this
is just the beginning of our efforts."
Major General Yount spoke from a
new factory in the shadows of two
great platforms on the flight ramp of
the completed final assembly buildings.
The day's colorful program marked
completion of the $ 12,000,000 plant
which will build fast, agile attack
bombers and military transports in vast
quantities, and the start of the $ 13 ,-
000,000 addition from which will roll
heavy, four engine "flying fortress"
bombers.
From the rostrum at the south end
of the plant, Camden R. Horrell, past
president of the Long Beach Chamber
of Commerce, introduced speakers of
the day and kept the program moving
on split second schedule.
Comm. John P. Forsander, Chaplain
Corps, United States Navy, delivered
the invocation . Others on the program
were Francis H. Gentry, mayor of Long
Beach, who welcomed the Douglas com-
pany to Long Beach ; Donald W. Doug.
las, Douglas company founder and
president ; and General Yount.
While swarms of speedy attack
bombers of the type now being built
in the new plant roared in circles over-
head, Chaplain Forsander declared :
"We dedicate this structure to the cause
of justice and righteousness."
Mr. Douglas termed the plant a
"new symbol of democracy."
The enormous job of arming the
democracies which lies ahead for the
United States cannot be done by one
individual, one company or one state,
Mr. Douglas said. He expressed the
confidence that the nation will respond
to the demand as it has in the past
"This is the way in which America
has always solved her problems," he
said. "This, I promise you, is the way
we, in our own organization, will at-
tempt to solve ours . This is the Amer-
ican way."
Mr. Douglas' address is reproduced
in full at the end of this article.
OCTOBER ... 1941
Banner and Flags
One of the largest such banners
ever made was the huge defense
banner which served as a backdrop
at the dedication of the Long
Beach plant.
Measuring 100 by 40 feet, the
banner weighed 600 pounds. Fifty
gallons of paint , weighing 125
pounds, was used in the lettering
and designs. It was supported by
625 feet of steel cable and pulled
by 2100 feet of rope.
The two flags which flanked
the banner, contrary to the belief
of many persons who wrote let-
ters to the Douglas company and
to newspapers , was correctly
hung according to National Flag
Association regulation , Hung in
the middle of a factory street
with both sides visible, the blue
field faced the east.
Each of the flags was 20 by 38
feet and weighed 50 pounds.
At the conclusion of Mr. Douglas'
address, a distant roar could be heard
to the north. Suddenly, only 100 feet
above the factory roof, the B- 19 roared
over the huge defense plant banner
which served as a backdrop to the cere-
monies and over the heads of the
crowd. Cheers rose from the lips of
30,000 spectators. The ship climbed,
banked and turned and sped low over
the heads of the crowd a second time.
KGER
GOD BLESS AMERICA, sung by Douglas worker Arnold Schunck concluded the
colorful ceremonies at the dedication of the new "blackout" plant at Long Beach.
The afternoon's program continued,
but the rest was anticlimax. There
could be no stirring words, music or
ceremonies to match the spectacle of
the world's largest airplane flashing by
a few hundred feet off the ground.
The program, which had begun with
the singing of the Star Spangled Ban-
ner by James McGarrigle, Long Beach
baritone, closed with God Bless Amer-
ica, sung by Arnold P. Schunck, Doug-
las employe and president of the Doug.
las Aeronaders, choral group. They
were accompanied by the Long Beach
Municipal band, led by Dr. Herbert L.
Clarke.
Friday evening a civic banquet, at-
tended by Governor Culbert L. Olson,
Long Beach leaders and other state of-
ficials, scores of Army and Navy offi-
cers and Douglas company executives,
was held at the Pacific Coast club.
Col. Rupert Hughes, author, histor-
ian, master of ceremonies at the func-
tion, set the keynote of the affair by
referring to the new plant as a "divine
miracle" and to the airplanes it will
produce as " engines devoted to the
destruction of tyranny."
An international flavor to the banquet
was added by the appearance of Squad-
ron Leader J. P. Graham of the Royal
Air Force, guest of Major Frank Mil-
ler, who declared in crisp, clip-
ped accents, "We are largely depend-
ent upon your help . It is important
that we get your aircraft quickly. Any-
thing you can do to speed these planes
will be not only welcomed by us but,
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Louisiana
I think, helpful to you . . . Today I
have caught the enthusiasm felt by all
those watching the dedication."
Speaker of the evening was Gover-
nor Olson (see page 8 ) who pointed
out that already fighting airplanes from
California are reaching the battlefront
in England, China and Russia and that
America's production has just begun.
Mr. Douglas responded to the trib-
utes of civic, industrial and govern-
mental leaders to the Douglas Aircraft
company with the reminder that the
job to be done is not for any company
or group but for all.
"The confidence and goodwill mani-
fested toward us this afternoon and to-
night," he said, "is a generous living
token of partnership for production by
the Douglas Aircraft company, the city
of Long Beach, the state of California
and the government of the United
States."
Richard Loynes, president of the
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce,
was toastmaster of the evening and in-
troduced a long list of notables who
attended. They included Lieut. Col.
Charles E. Branshaw, western district
PAGE SIX
CIVIC BANQUET. Random shots
taken at Pacific Coast club dinner.
olo and strong in our ears was the echo of
a proclamation by our President that a
state of national emergency had come
to our shores and that our freedom
and our way of life were in danger.
"Much has happened since the first
tractor bit into the soil beneath us. The
grim war clouds across the wide oceans
we always considered our impregnable
ramparts, had grown larger and darker.
Governments of free people have
crumbled under the impact of ruthless,
unprovoked aggression, and across the
face of the globe democratic govern-
ments began to disappear in the wake
FORTY-EIGHT states were represented
of death and destruction.
at dedication. Typical of the represent-
atives were Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Bates "As each tragic eventful month
of Denver, above ; Mr. and Mrs. briught new peril to civilization, the
Arthur Cockrum of Grants Pass, above
task we undertook here grew larger
left; and Mr. and Mrs. Mallory Minor
of Shreveport, at the left below. and more important. The factories we
planned for the defense of our own
supervisor of the Army Air Corps ; homeland became a part of a great
Major Carl Cover, executive vice presi- arsenal of democracy, and as these
dent of the Douglas company ; Ellis E. walls of steel and concrete rose up-
Patterson, lieutenant governor ; Howard ward, our task magnified in scope and
D. Houghton, manager of the Long consequence.
Beach plant ; City Manager Carl R. "From the leaders of our govern-
Erickson ; Mayor Gentry ; C. N. " Jim- ment in Washington, and from the lips
mie" James, vice president of West- and hearts of free Americans and lib-
ern Air Lines ; Capt. Richard B. Coff- erty- loving people everywhere came
man, assistant commandant, Eleventh the call for speed and more speed in
Naval District ; Major Wiley Wright, our rearmament program .
Air Corps representative at Long Beach "As the battle lines of freedom
plant and many others. curved across continents, and the
• Concluded on Page Forty-two
Dedication Address by
DEFENSE is a job on which all Amer-
Donald W. Douglas
ica must cooperate, said Mr. Douglas.
"Less than a year ago many of us
present here today gathered on these
acres to break ground for this mag-
nificent plant. With little clamor and
less ceremony, but with great faith in
America's resources and strength, we
turned the first few shovels of earth
and expressed the hope that from this
factory in months to come, would roll
a mighty array of airplanes to help .
make America's skies and America's
homes safe for Americans.
"In front of us on that not- so-dis-
tant occasion sprawled a vast expanse
of unbroken ground, flanked by a few
tractors and a small group of men and
women, united by a common bond of
confidence and love of their country
and its institutions .
"Behind us lay a chain of swift and
terrible events, of sudden war, of
conquered nations, of burning towns
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Brig . Gen. William O. Ryan

Fourth Interceptor Command
"This is a great day for long
Beach ... K
"But it is also a great day in
the lives of little people who live
180 degrees longitude from Long
Beach- little people whose names
we do not know and may never
learn ...
"Still, you are aware of these
helpless people. You have looked
at them in your newspapers, mag-
azines and newsreels, their hope-
less eyes staring at a charred and Maj. Gen. Barton K. Yount
smoking pile which had been West Coast Training Center
home...
"Two years ago we would have
"Construction of the huge fac-
thought it impossible to accom-
tory is no guarded military secret.
plish what you see illustrated
Its potential production of air-
here today, and this is but one of
planes is known in all the capitols
of the world. Behind the iron many similar projects already
completed, or being brought to
front of the aggressor nations the
completion, throughout the length
hard faced men compute the
and breadth of this country. . .
number of planes to come from
"The manufacturers entered in-
this Douglas arsenal, and from
to the expansion program with
the other plants now in produc-
enthusiasm and practically pooled
tion or swiftly moving to the
point where they will add their their resources and knowledge.
They were asked to undertake Maj. Gen. F. Q. C. Gardner
numbers to the stream. Do you Fort Haan
doubt that the fingers of these vast expansion and to expend
huge sums of money. This they "I can assure you that Secre-
men tremble as they reach these
totals ? did unselfishly, and today there tary Stimson, in behalf of the
"The motto of this institution is well on its way the world's United States Army and the Am-
greatest aircraft industry. . . erican people, congratulates you
calls for the ' production of the
largest possible number of the "Let those who threaten the upon completion of this great
liberty of this nation ponder well plant...
finest possible airplanes in the
shortest possible time' . From what for this is just the beginning of "He welcomes it with satisfac-
I have seen, the Douglas staff our capabilities if we are driven tion and with pride as another
proposes to translate that motto to it... vitally important unit in the vast
into achievement . . . "We are a going and growing arsenal of democracy upon which
"Insofar as I can judge, nothing concern and we are now in the may depend not only the life and
seems left undone to attain that process of turning out the finest liberty of this nation but the fu-
objective... air force in the world. . . ture of democracy itself. . ."
OF DEMOCRACY
DEFENSE
PLANT
A made a deep impression upon
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Mayor Francis H. Gentry
Long Beach
"We are sure that when this
emergency is over this plant will
continue to build airplanes for
the commercial needs of our peo-
ple...
"Mr. Douglas, Long Beach bids.
to you and your circle of work-
ers a hearty welcome..."
Camden R. Horrell
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce
"We dedicate this plant to the
hope that only American pilots in
American aircraft will fly over
American cities and towns. . .
"We are grateful to you, Don-
ald Douglas, for recognizing our
city as the suitable place for this
mighty citadel of national de-
fense. . .
"Coming of the huge new plant
of the Douglas Aircraft company
to Long Beach marks a new era
in the development of a city that
has already had many spectacu-
lar successes in many lines. . .
"Little did we realize that the
plant originally planned would
begin immediately in doubling its
size and bringing the total in-
vestment to more than $25,000,-
000. Location of a plant of the
magnitude is something that
would make any city in the world
proud. . .
"It should help all lines of
business. . ."
Governor Culbert L. Olson
California
"This personable, unassuming
man, Donald Douglas, whose en-
gineering genius and courage have
contributed so much to Cali-
fornia's leadership in the prog-
ress of the airplane industry has
me...
"I found this man to be one
with scientific achievement for
the industrial and economic prog-
ress of his country-the further
conquering by man and putting
to man's beneficial use of the ele-
ments and resources of nature. . .
"Mr. Douglas said to me that
he deplored the necessity of con-
verting the energies of this civil-
ized industry into the production
of instrumentalities for human
destruction ; that this is contrary
to his ideals and ambitions with
respect to the growth of that in-
dustry, but since national security
and the cause of civilization re-
quire it, the aircraft industry will
produce all that the cause of na-
tional security and freedom de-
mands. . .
"Our goal is a world peace in
accordance with the principles
and objectives set forth in his-
toric declaration by President
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
at their meeting on the Atlantic. ."
 Over 242 acres spreads the vast new Long Beach plant of the Douglas Aircraft company, part of the Arsenal of Democracy.
FORTRESS like walls would shelter
workers inside from bomb fragments.
FULL SPEED
THE Douglas Long Beach plant, with
its formal dedication , was given further
momentum in its airplane production
program well under way as a great
part in the nation's defense plan.
Production in this great "Arsenal of
Democracy" which was designed and
built under the national defense pro-
gram is now into the great race against
time for the establishment of national
preparedness and the longevity of de-
mocracy.
Those fortress- like walls of steel and
concrete house the workmen, the en-
gineers, the planners and the adminis-
trators of America's newest and most
modern aircraft defense project.
The plants' original cost is estimated
at $ 12,000,000 and provides 1,400,000
square feet of covered working space.
Both of these figures seem tremendous
but most astounding is the thought that
they will be doubled with the new
building project now under way.
Including parking space, this 242-
acre Douglas plant at Long Beach is an
industrial creation unlike any ever seen
on this continent. The design and un-
usual construction were milestones in
American ingenuity and skill . Records
have been broken in many phases of its
construction, for according to steel
construction authorities, a feat unpre-
cedented was the raising and riveting
into place of 3763 tons of structural
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steel in 32 days of working time, an
average of 120 tons daily.
Long before its construction had
reached its final stage and long be-
fore its formal dedication, major de-
partments were set up and in operation,
each marking another lap in the race
against time. With walls and roofs to
provide shelter, equipment and ma-
chinery was installed in buildings still
under construction.
As the plant stands today with 7000
defense workers on its payroll and in-
dications that this figure will soon be
and ultimately quadrupled, we find a
plant which incorporates construction
techniques, defensive arrangements and
production systems never before em-
ployed in the aircraft industry.
To a casual glance the exteriors of
the buildings give no indications of
the humming beehive within for there
is to be found hundreds of skilled em-
ployes and scores of government repre-
sentatives working in modern sound-
proofed offices. These structures are
windowless and with light traps on the
doors, thus making for complete in-
visibility at night. This is but a part
of its unique "blackout" design . There
are thousands of glareless fluorescent
and mercury vapor lights which are
never turned off. The buildings are
fully air-conditioned making artificial
weather at an installation cost of
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
$1,000,000 which adds greatly to the
comfort of the workers within . This is
the largest air-conditioning system on
the west coast. All lighting and air-
conditioning carry duplicated utility
services.
All of the structures are of reinforced
concrete or steel construction, an added
safety factor for personnel in event of
air attack.
The administration building is one
of the largest windowless office build-
ings in the United States, and the first
to be erected west of the Mississippi
river. It is more than 500 feet long and
is 75 feet wide , four stories high
throughout the center portion and two
stories overall, and practically bomb-
proof as well as fireproof.
There are two fabricating buildings,
two final assembly units, a raw stock
storage structure, shipping and re-
ceiving, paint storage and a large
garage. One story in height, these build-
ings are built of structural steel cover-
ed with a specially designed and in-
sulated iron. Provision has been made
for the eventual addition of mezzanines
in all the units, enabling emergency
expansion of working area.
All vital production materials are
stored in special vaults, utlities are all
underground, while all entrances can
be bomb- proofed.
To speed the flow of materials into
the factory, Union Pacific railroad
SCORES OF JIGS such as these today hold rapidly growing airplane part assem-
blies. Taking form above is part of a fuselage of a military transport airplane.
OCTOBER ... 1941
constructed a special track, a spur
which extends right into the receiving
buildings through double light- proof
doorways .
The adjoining Long Beach municipal
airport has been greatly improved to
accommodate the large numbers of new
high-speed military airplanes which
will be rolling off Douglas production
lines. Along the south side of the plant
extends a huge paved apron for fueling
and servicing planes. In conjunction
with this apron is a mile long runway
designed as an instrument runway for
"blind" landing and takeoff tests. The
expanded airport now boasts five long
runways providing for take-offs in any
direction according to wind conditions.
There is adequate room to accom-
modate the field's Army, Navy, com-
mercial and Douglas air traffic.
Original plans called for production
of attack bombers and military trans-
ports of Douglas design, however, ar-
rangements have been made for a rec-
ord output of four-engine, long- range
bombers. Under the cooperative big
bomber program undertaken by the
Douglas, Vega and Boeing companies,
"Flying Fortress" type heavy bombers.
will be built by Douglas from Boeing
designs . Organized at the request of the
War department to speed output of
heavy bombers, the cooperative prod- SPECIALLY designed for the new plant
uction program is directed by a joint is much machinery and equipment.
Above, a six-sided hydraulic press.
• Concluded on Page Forty-two
SMALLER airplane sections grow in
smaller jigs, this for a tail cone.
PAGE ELEVEN
 PREVIEW FOR

MOTHER and dad, the wife and

junior, Aunt Susie and Uncle John-
the whole family were given first peek
at the new Douglas Long Beach plant.
In co-operation with the United
States Army Air Forces employes of
all Douglas plants were personally in-
vited by the company to inspect the
huge "blackout " factory, at a " preview"
Sunday, October 12.
And they responded to the invitation
in force. More than 90,000 men, wo-
men and children journeyed to the
plant to look around. An enterprising
plant protection officer started keeping
track of the throng at 9 a.m. when the
doors opened. In the first hour and a
half he had clicked off 10,000 on his
mechanical counter. By noon he had
recorded 30,000 and his thumb was
getting tired. At 2:30 the figure hit
60,000, the incoming crowds came
faster, and the officer gave up trying
to count every person. The gates were
left open until 4:30 p.m.
Because of the confidential nature of
work in progress in some parts of the
plant, not all of the eleven huge build-
THRONGS of employes and their families jammed aisles along C-47 assembly line ings now completed and in use could
where fuselages of cargo carriers and troop transports are being completed. be thrown open to the families of the

AIR HAMMERS, complete with dies and material, catch CITIZENS ONLY were admitted to the Long Beach plant.
the interest of visitors in one of the fabricating buildings. Officers guarded plant, directed visitors about factory.

CAMERAS PROHIBITED
IN
DEFENSE PLANTS
Admission
BY ORDER OF ONLYTO CITIZ
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was shown, and was personally ex-
plained by supervisors, who were in
their departments all day. Route of
the tour was more than a mile long.
Rows upon rows of powerful engines,
ready to be installed in attack bombers
and transports stood near the huge door
of one final assembly building. The
route led through one assembly build-
ing where scores of fuselages for C-47
cargo and troop transports stood in
jigs in various stages of completion.
Also shown and explained were huge
air hammers, hydropresses and other
machines. AIRCRAFT ENGINES, were on display in final assembly building. People lined up
six deep to see and hear about them from department supervisor.
The new plant's machine shop, de-
00 clared to be one of the most complete
in the world, was also thrown open as
was a section of the storage buildings,
the paint shop and other departments.
The day was only for employes. Out-
siders, even to the press, were excluded.
The public's turn came the following
Friday at the formal dedication but the
public and the dignitaries who officiated.
in the ceremonies were not permitted
to inspect the plant's interior, restricted
by government regulation to those who
have some business there, those who are
building the airplanes .
STREETS of the Long Beach plant
were filled with people all day long.

PARTS made by giant new hydropresses were laid out near presses and a plant
expert explained how they were made. Below, one of several spray booths in the
plant. On display were part of fuselage and wing center section of cargo ship.
Let There Be

LIGHT

No Gleam of Light Can Show

Outside Long Beach Plant at
Night; Inside, Modern Fixtures WEIRD PATTERNS are traced on the ceilings of office buildings by fluorescent
lights, scientifically placed so that light is provided where and how needed.
Make It As Bright As Day.

THERE shall be light, decreed the
builders of the blackout plant . Because
they were designing the most modern
airplane factory in the world these
engineers demanded that the lighting
be as last-minute as everything else at
Douglas' amazing Long Beach factory.
And there was light ...
Fourteen thousand fixtures and not
a bulb in the place!
Mercury and fluorescent lamps have
taken the place of the old incandescents
which Edison invented and which you
regularly snatch from the kitchen so
that you can read your evening paper.
Inside the great factory these lights
in long tubes gleam 24 hours a day
units, capable of bearing the total light-
ing load of 5700 kilowatts, are buried
deep underground in steel vaults.
The comfort and health of everyone
working at the plant was the first con-
sideration in designing the types and
placement of all lighting. Fluorescents
and vapor lamps were chosen because
they provide far better illumination
and place far less strain on the air-
conditioning equipment than the hot
glare of old-fashioned lights which use
up more electricity producing heat than
they do producing light.
Nine thousand high- intensity mer-
cury vapor lamps illuminate the pro-
duction units. In the two final assembly
Maintenance of the overhead lighting
system in the shops is simplified by a
network of three-foot catwalks installed
in the steel rafters of the buildings.
Fixures may be safely pulled over to
these catwalks for servicing without K
interrupting production on the floor.
Design and installation of lighting
equipment at the blackout plant was
directed by F. W. Conant, vice president
in charge of manufacturing ; L. N.
Davis, director of plant engineering;
Taylor and Taylor, architects and
engineers ; Walker Construction com-
pany, builders ; and C. T. Gibbs, con-
sulting electrical engineer.

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blackout plans. Not a glimmer leaks the lamps are lower, encased in glas-
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from the windowless buildings . Out-
door floodlights can be instantly
instantly
doused by a single switch and replaced
by dim blue lamps which provide
enought glow for yard traffic but can-
not be seen from the air.
Also in line with the general blue-
print of defense from night bombing
are the elaborate lighting systems and
reserve generators. Like the regular
transformers, these extra power supply
.
steel difussers and clustered close
together, while in storage departments
they are more widely spaced.
Offices in the administration and
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personnel - welfare buildings are equip- P N
ped with daylight fluorescents. For ' I
the cafeteria a three tube ornamental E Y
design of fixtures hangs from the ceil- ML
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ing. Added to two daylight tubes is
a pink one to assure a pleasant color
combination.

BRIGHT AS DAY is the engineering department in the "blackout" plant. Men who work under the fluorescent lights say they
are better in many ways than daylight. The lights are so placed that there are no shadows ever cast upon desks or drawing boards. 2

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DRESSED in white, like surgeons in an operating room, machinists in Douglas' jig
boring chamber guard against dust which might upset infinite precision of work.
PRECISION
5 machines . No angle is too difficult for
In Sound Proofed , Air Conditioned Room
Machinists Work to 0.0001 Inch Tolerances
by ROBERT W. MINTON
THERE are three thermostats in the
room which read 70 degrees. Men in
white coats move quietly among spot
less, gleaming machines. The room is
almost as bright and clean as a hos-
pital.
No, this is not a description of a
hotel kitchen, it is merely a genera !
impression of the most up-to- date sec-
tion of the tooling building, Dept.
635's jig boring chamber. In appear-
ance, it more nearly resembles a re-
search laboratory than a tool fab-
ricating center. Here is a comparative
study in contrast, beginning with the
constant temperature of 69-70 degrees
as compared with the varying heat of
the rest of the plant, and ending with
the small flag which is scarcely larger
than one of the stars on the big
hangar's red, white and blue.
There is no sense of urgency in the
jig boring room, yet 95 per cent of
the machine tool jigs and all master
gages must be bored here, and work
must be done to schedule as in any
other phase of production . Because the
room is cut off from the noise of the
shop, and because its air conditioned
atmosphere is so conducive to efficient
labor, the men conduct their operations
with a minimum of waste motion .
OCTOBER... 1941
as
PLUS
But the " ten degrees cooler inside"
feature is not designed only to im-
prove working conditions. The function
of constant temperature is to permit
accuracy of measurement, accuracy to
a tolerance of plus or minus .0001 of
an inch. Such precision can be attained
only by the most sensitive machines
which lose their accuracy when subject
to temperature changes. Furthermore,
the tools to be bored must not expand
or contract while being worked in this
room. Thus it is possible to work a
job over a period of time when the
atmospheric temperature outside might
vary 10 to 20 degrees . The machinist
is certain that the measurements he took
in the morning will still be obtained
at night. As a final precaution, the
boring chamber has its own inspection
alcove. The result is that when a tool
leaves this room it is completely pre-
cise in its dimensions ninety-nine per
cent of the time.
Two years ago precision boring was
a hit and miss proposition, for various
reasons . At that time there was no na-
tional emergency calling for a step-up
in production . Moreover, costly tooling
was not economical when orders were
so small. Finally, the Santa Monica
plant was the sole production unit, so
the need for standardization was not
great. Now, with four plants in produc-
tion or in prospect and collaboration
with other companies already under
way, tools must be precise. The defense
effort cannot afford to lose valuable
time reworking inaccurate tools.
That is why the Douglas company
has installed the finest boring equip
ment in Southern California. There are
now in operation a universal , hori-
zontal boring mill, three Pratt &
Whitney jig borers, two small auto-
metric jig borers and a die sinker. A
fine supply of precision instruments
has also been purchased . Overhead,
freshly painted chain blocks run on
tracks. Though this machinery repre-
sents a large investment, the eventual
saving will more than compensate for
the original cost. In the first six months
of this year, 2050 hours were saved !
Under skilled and keen supervision.
12 men, all experienced machinists
trained at Douglas, operate their new
instance, inspection gages on medium
bomber wings call for holes bored at
an angle of 5 degrees 44 minutes 13
seconds. By means of tilting tables and
universal heads such problems are
easily solved . Layout is an old-fash-
ioned process to these men, whose ma-
chines are equipped with micrometers
that locate holes simply by a twist of
the wrist.
It is the dream of many machinists
to work in the jig boring room be-
cause of its air-conditioning. "Think
of it," they say, "a complete change
of air every six minutes, and it never
goes over 70 degrees."
But let them remember when they
begin working to a ten thousandth that
it's hard to keep from perspiring a
little-even in this room !
MICROSCOPIC accuracy is the rule in
building airplane jigs and fixtures.

HULA
Recordbreaking Trans- Pacific
"Easiest Ever," Says a Pilot in Telling the Story.
WELCOME to Douglas flyers was done
in traditional Hawaiian style. Hula
girls with leis provided tropical touch. by WIN SARGENT
IF A Hollywood scenario writer
were penning this story I suppose he
would say something about the intrepid
airmen who took off in the gray, chilly
dawn, winged their way through the
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clammy clouds, and finally completed
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their hazardous 2400- mile flight over
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a vast expanse of treacherous water
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uncharted difficulties .
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Well, I'm a pilot and not a scenario
writer and anyway it wasn't that way
at all.
You can take it from me and the
others who made the hop that the rec-
ent delivery flight of three Douglas
DC-3 airplanes to Hawaiian Airlines
in Honolulu was one of the easiest jobs
we ever did.
And I hope I am not robbing the
flying game of any drama when I say
that as soon as we had climbed into
our planes at Oakland we knew we
were practically in Honolulu.
Every precaution known to the avia-
tion industry had been taken to insure
a safe and speedy flight. The planes
had been thoroughly inspected . Our
fuel consumption had been checked
time and time again. Advance and
authentic reports presaged good
weather. We knew where we were going
and there was practically nothing to
do but sit back and wait until we got
there.
Honestly, it was that simple, but back
of our highly successful and record
breaking flight were countless hours
of painstaking work by hundreds of
Douglas technicians . We got the credit
and were royally received in Honolulu,
IN FORMATION all the way flew three
DC-3s from Oakland to Honolulu.
HOP
Flight Was
but right here we men who flew the
planes wish to pass along a major share
to all those fellows who made it pos-
sible for us to do something that had
never been done before.
Briefly, for those who came in late.
let me tell you what we accomplished
before I plunge into the story of our
flight.
On August 26, three Douglas DC- 3
24- passenger planes took off at 5:15
a.m. from Oakland, bound for Hono-
lulu . The planes had been purchased
by Inter- Island Airways, of which
Stanley C. Kennedy is president . We
arrived at Rodgers field, Honolulu , at
4:20 p.m. the same day. (There is a
time differential of 212 hours . )
The flight consumed 13 hours and
55 minutes and was the longest over-
water delivery of Douglas transports
ever made.
And now, as to the flight itself. The
Mauna Loa, commanded by Jim Harper
and myself, was the first plane to take
off. After a run of approximately 1600
feet we were in the air at 5:14 a.m.
Next came the Haleakala, with Capts.
Bert Foulds and Ronnie Bollinger. This
plane went into the air at 5:16. The
Waialeale, with Capts. Lee Bishop and
Johnny Martin, took off at 5:18 . Each
of our planes carried a radio man and
a navigator, making a total of 12 men
in the three planes .
Although the normal gross weight
of a Douglas DC-3 transport is 24,000
pounds, each of our planes weighed
29,000 pounds. Most of the extra load
was due to the fact that our fuel supply
was increased.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 After leaving the Oakland airport
we set our course for Hilo on the island
of Hawaii, this destination being some
250 miles nearer that Honolulu .
This seemed rather important to
most of us at the time because none
of us had ever flown more than 1200
miles non-stop and this was a flight of
double that distance.
After reaching an altitude of 7000
feet we flew in a "V" formation and
not once during the flight did we lose
sight of each other. Most of the time
we flew at 9000 feet, above the clouds.
At 11 a.m. we passed over the Mat-
son liner Mariposa, which was headed
for San Francisco from Honolulu.
Shortly after this we had lunch. It
wasn't much, just a box lunch, along
with milk and coffee.
The only other object we saw on the
entire flight was a freighter, sighted
far below about 1 p.m.
When we reached the halfway mark
we discovered that we were making
even faster time than we had expected.
As I have said, our original course
called for landing at Hilo, with Hono-
lulu approximately 250 miles beyond.
Checking our speed, the time of day
and our fuel consumption we decided
we could easily make Honolulu before
dark, so our course was changed ac-
cordingly. When we were about 600
miles from Diamond head we tuned in
on KGMB, Honolulu's radio station .
We were mighty pleased to dis-
cover by checking with the automatic
direction finder that we were headed
straight for Honolulu .
Our first glimpse of land came when
we were about 300 miles out. The
overcast broke off a bit and to the south
we saw Mauna Loa, the peak on the
island of Hawaii . Incidentally, all of
our planes were named after Hawaiian
peaks.
At this point we started our descent
from the 9000 foot altitude and the
other islands came into sight . After
Hawaii we first saw Maui, then Molo-
kai and finally Oahu, on which is lo-
cated Honolulu .
As we approached picturesque Dia-
mond head in formation we turned on
a little extra speed, swooped down
over Waikiki beach, flew over the city
and came down at Rodgers field .
There must have been about 1000
people gathered at the airport to watch
.
us land. When we climbed out of our
planes we were met by officials of the
Inter- Island Airways and several Ha-
waiian Hula girls who gave us the
OCTOBER ... 1941
customary gift of a lei. As far as I'm
concerned this was the most exciting
part of our long trip . There is some-
thing about arriving or leaving Hono-
lulu that gets you , whether you come
by boat or plane.
The people over there made quite a
bit of our successful flight and after
we'd gone for a swim at Waikiki beach
(it was only 4:20 p.m. Honolulu time
when we landed ) they gave us a big
luau . This is a traditional Hawaiian
feast and believe me they sure give you
plenty of food. And we were hungry
by this time.
Our average speed during the 2400-
mile flight was 177 miles per hour. We
used 75 gallons of fuel and two quarts
of oil per hour. At the end of the trip
we still had 600 gallons of gasoline
left, or enough to fly about 1400 miles
further. EXTRA gasoline for over-water hop
During the flight we were continu- was carried in tanks lashed in cabin.
ously in radio communication with Pan
American Airways, checking our prog are flying daily schedules all over the
ress and receiving weather reports. We world and are in operation with the
had some fun with them because they U. S. Army Air Forces as cargo car-
couldn't believe that we were making riers and troop transports .
the speed we reported each hour. Those who made the record-breaking
I guess after reading this account flight were :
you'll agree with me that it was an Haleakala- Capts. B. A. Foulds and
easy trip. At no time did we encounter R. F. Bollinger, and Radio Operator
difficulty. Too much praise cannot be K. T. Rosene.
given our navigators, who have had Waialeale Capts. L. E. Bishop and
years of practical aerial navigation ex- Johnny Martin, and Radio Operator
perience and who directed our flight on C. R. Stirewalt.
the straightest course possible. Mauna Loa- Capts. Win Sargent and
And mind you we were using exactly J. L. Harper, Radio Operator T. M.
the same type of Douglas airplanes that Blackmon.
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INTER- ISLAND
IN HONOLULU, left to right, President Stanley C. Kennedy of Hawaiian Airlines,
crew members Bert Foulds, Win Sargent, Johnny Martin, Lee Bishop, N. A. Com-
mons, C. L. Pearson, F. Funke, Ronny Bollinger, kneeling, T. M. Blackmon, C. R.
Stirewalt, K. T. Rosene, Johnny Harper, Capt. Sam Elliott, chief pilot for Hawaiian.
PAGE SEVENTEEN

Douglas Man Led First Expedition
to Cross Savage Africa.
"Almost any act of devotion in
which life or reputation or possessions
are risked for some greater object than
gain or self-advancement might be
called an adventure."
FRICA, the oldest known, yet the
A least known continent, has been
called "the cradle of the human race ."
It nourished the spark of life when man
was amphibious, if amphibious he was.
and sprawled, dumb and blind, through
the slimy ooze on the edge of a Pale-
ozoic lake . There are those schools of
thought which tell us that eons came
and fled before man stood erect to tread
on the bosom of Mother Africa . Later
he inscribed in crude picture language
his triumphs and defeats. More eons
passed before glorious Egypt arose
along the River Nile, to live her brief
day in the infinite cycle of time re-
cording her history in hieroglyphics
for those who might follow.
Southward across the velvety carpet
of golden sands, there are today regions
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20.
by Al A. Adams
historic elephant and rhinoceros
ambled through the torrid heat, the
strange disk-lipped women passed in
parade, the little people of the great
forest pranced to the rhythm of their
drums, the lion stalked its prey, and
the ebony warriors with spear and
practically unknown, and many places shield met the king of beasts in hand-
now marked on the map as explored to-claw combat.
remain as primitive to this very hour
As Africa had always intrigued
as they were centuries ago . There live
Hoefler more than any other place, it
tribes who burrow beneath the ground,
was natural that he should strive to
arboreal people who share their tree
prepare for his heart's desire ; so he
huts with monkeys, and clans who exist.
in caves. Beyond the equator and the studied Africa for many years , its ani-
boundless forest lie snow-capped moun- mal and bird life ; its people and his-
tory, believing that some time an op-
tains and reeking jungles side by side,
and present flourishing commonwealths portunity would come to him to visit
where sturdy settlers have hewed a this land of mystery.
path through the wilderness, building
towns around which virgin country is BLACK RHINOCEROS, one of largest
yielding up its richness. taken, was dropped charging by
Into this enchanting country, Paul Hoefler nine feet from gun.
L. Hoefler, now special motion picture
cameraman for the Douglas company's
public relations department, carried a
motion picture camera and typewriter,
as leader of the Colorado African Ex-
pedition, to picture and record some
of the fascination and thrill of this al-
luring but perilous continent. Before
his eyes, the gentle antelope came to
drink, immense herds of game pounded
over the plains, millions of flamingoes
winged over a remote lake , the pre-
 It was July of 1925 that Paul Hoefler
left on his first African expedition.
During that eventful journey he dis-
covered that Africa is more fascinating,
more colorful, more romantic than he
had ever dreamed it could be. It was
on this journey that Hoefler's party dis
covered a race of bushmen-the most
primitive people in the world, not only
of the present time but of all time, who
were believed to have become extinct.
Hoeffler brought back 50,000 feet of
film showing the life and habits of
these dimunitive Kalahari bushmen. A
few months after his homecoming
found him planning for his second
African journey, during which he was
successful in accomplishing the first
crossing of Central Equatorial Africa
by motor truck from Mombasa on the
Indian Ocean to Lagos on the Atlantic
side .
Investigation proved that there was
no record of a successful crossing from
one ocean to the other. There had been
two attempts in very light cars during
the most favorable season of the year
but no one had ever accomplished the
hazardous journey from Mombasa
westward to the Atlantic.
The expedition landed at the port of
Mombasa on September 7, 1928, and
from then until the 26th was busy col-
lecting equipment and supplies for the
many months of hard work ahead.
At Mombasa, Hoefler drove his two
cross-country trucks to the water's edge
where he dipped their rear wheels in
the waters of the Indian Ocean with
his hopes high that these two trucks
would survive the hardships ahead and
one day dip their front wheels in the
lapping surf of the Atlantic .
One of those trucks remained enough
intact to have Hoefler's dream become
a reality. However the only thing left
to identify the original trucks was their
name plates. There were so many diffi-
LION kills to live, but is not a wanton
killer. Hoefler filmed these beasts by
hiding very close by in thorn thickets.
culties and accidents throughout the
journey of 13,282 miles of veldt (open
country in South Africa ) , swamp,
jungle, mountain and desert regions
that spare parts taken along and made
during the journey left little of the
original trucks which began the trip.
One of these trucks became so broken
and fatigued that the expedition found
it necessary to leave it in a mahogany
forest near the end of the journey.
There the remains of a famous truck
are probably still leaning against a
mahogany tree. The successful truck
which reached the Atlantic was given to
a Nigerian chief that he might sit PAUL HOEFLER, led Colorado Afri-
majestically in the driver's seat and can Expedition, was author-producer
of "Africa Speaks," now at Douglas.
rule his tribe.
From Mombasa, at the start, Hoefler's
Colorado African Expedition made its
way to Moshi, which lies in the shadow
of Africa's majestic mountain, the
mighty Kilimanjaro, that towers 19,819
feet into the ever blue heavens of Tan-
ganyika .
On the first day they climbed from
sea level up to the high plateau, leav-
ing behind the damp heat of the trop-
ical coastal region and entered into a
vast plain where still roam immense
herds of game. Here they found a
landscape of flat-topped mimosa thorn UBANGI WOMEN, pierced lips and
trees and huge ant hills, with distant stretched them over wooden discs in
effort to discourage slave trading.
mountains just visible through the heat
haze.
Many giraffes raced with them along
the road, or stood at what they thought
was a safe distance and gazed in pop-
eyed wonder as the party passed. Herds
of wildebeeste, kongoni, zebras and
tommies kicked dust into their faces or
stood at attention to see them by, while
thousands of small animals and game
birds were continually scattering away
from the roaring trucks.
In the mountains that rimmed the
horizon lived herds of elephants, while
• Concluded on Page Forty
PYGMIES of Ituri forest. Fully grown ANTHILLS reach thirty feet in height,
couple stands beneath Hoefler's arms. made by large termites. Below, ele-
Pygmy wife is only 50 inches high. phants still roam Africa's veldts.
 Under full power the B-19, "Guardian of a Hemisphere," roars over the edge of the crowd at Long Beach dedication.

PRIDE OF THE NATION PERFORMS

FOR sheer drama, it would be hard
to imagine a more stirring perform-
ance than that of the B- 19 at dedication
of the Douglas Long Beach plant, when .
like a blazing comet it simply burst out
of a blank sky into the gaze of 30,000
gasping spectators .
Invisible to the crowd until the last
split-second before it thundered over
at 200 feet from behind the colossal
defense banner hiding its approach ,
the impact of the monster's passage
was so stunning that knees of even the
most blasé continued to tremble for
minutes .
Lt. Col. Stanley M. Umstead, with
Vice President Carl Cover at his side,
then swung the mighty bomber east in
a climbing turn and headed back on
a course at right angles to its original
swoop .
As he nosed the leviathan down to
pass in review of the grandstand, Um-
stead for the first time on any test flight
called on his engineer for full power
and "dragged" the field at less than
100 feet in an exhibition of unbeliev-
able speed .
The ease with which Col. Umstead
handled the world's largest airplane
brought cheers to the lips of the crowd .
Straight as an arrow he soared over the
exact middle of the reviewing stand
on his first trip. At the end of his
second run he pointed the airplane's
nose to the sky and it climbed like a
pursuit ship .
Back at March field that eventful
evening, the B- 19 "folded" its hemis-
pheric wings for a one-week period
during which three of the four 2,000-
horsepower motors were removed for
extensive alterations to cowlings, new
carburetor air scoops and other changes.
Previous experiments with the fourth
motor solved all cooling problems,
added 200 horsepower to the output of
the powerplant.
Fifty Douglas experts, engineers and
shop inen, have been constantly with
the airplane since it went to March
field inmediately after its first flight.
They have operated the multitude of
test equipment within the ship during
flights, recorded and correlated test
data.
To date the B- 19 has logged some 25
of its 30-hour acceptance flight tests.
If all goes well, the ship should fin-
ish its proving work within two weeks
after it again takes to the air.
Upon delivery, Col. Umstead expects
to fly the B- 19 to Dayton, Ohio, its
future home port when the great bom-
ber begins an active career in the Army
Air Corps.

← TESTS . Laden with test equipment the B- 19 soars
gracefully above the clouds at 6000 feet over the
Malibu coast. Flight time on the airplane now
totals 25 hours.
DEDICATION . Thirty thousand men and women
gasped in amazement as the B- 19 skimmed the
rooftops of the Long Beach plant during dedica-
tion program . Turn the page.

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EFENSE

PLANT

PART OF THE

ARSENAL OF

EMOCRACY
ANF BEACH
WITH US
US THIS MONTH . . .

British Mission
"It's too bad we didn't think to bring
Rudolph Hess along with us. It would
have been worth his expense and cable-
gram costs to Berlin just to give the
Nazis this eyeopener . . .
Such was the reaction last month of
three members of a British joint man-
agement- labor mission who visited the
Douglas Santa Monica and Long Beach
plants while on a tour of United States
defense industries. Members who visited
Douglas were Percy Lister, United
Kingdom corporation ; George A.
Isaacs, member of Parliament and
printers' union official ; John S. Turner,
British coal executive.
Shown in a C-47 en route to Long
Beach are Paul Porter, Office of Emerg.
ency Management ; Lister ; and Fred-
erick Segrist , British consular repre-
sentative in Beverly Hills.

Army Planner
To help rush to completion the Long
Beach expansion program, Col. Philip
Schneeberger, chief of the industrial
planning section of the Materiel Di-
vision of the Air Corps at Wright field
flew to California this month. He is
pictured on arrival at Clover field.
Machinery Experts →
Machine tool deliveries to the new
Long Beach plant this month brought
experts of the machine tool section of
the OPM to Douglas. Included were
B. H. Bickel, Griffith Taafe, William
Smith, Forrest Ellis and Major C. S.
Irvine, shown at right with Plant Man-
ager Howard D. Hougton and Major
Wiley R. Wright, Air Corps factory
representative .

Curtiss-Wright Head
Nearly every aspect of the produc-
tion of airplanes comes into the sphere
of activity of Guy Vaughan, president
of Curtiss-Wright corporation, manu-
facturers of airplanes, engines and pro-
pellers. He visited Douglas this month
to discuss production problems .

Governor , Mayor, Supervisor

Three of the ranking Republican
leaders in city, county and state affairs
in Long Beach visited Long Beach's
biggest industrial unit. the Douglas
plant. The men are, left to right, Frank
F. Merriam, former governor of Cali-
fornia, Mayor Francis H. Gentry of
Long Beach. and County Supervisor
Roger Jessup .

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 Canadian Leaders →

Two of the top men in charge of

Canada's war effort came to the United
States on an extended tour of American
defense industries last month to gather
data and information to help speed
vital production in both Canada and
the United States.
The two men, C. D. Howe, minister
of munitions and M. W. Ralston, min-
ister of finance, spent several days in
Southern California, one afternoon in
the Douglas Santa Monica plant. Both
men were highly complimentary about
American industry in general and
Douglas in particular.
At the right Ralston and Howe dis-
cuss cowling installation with Vernon
Langsdorf and Jack Kugler, both of
Dept. 41 .
Below, left to right, are Hollis
Thompson, vice president of American
Airlines, Finance Minister Ralston and
Munition's Minister Howe.

University President →
As have other educational institu-
tions from coast to coast, the Univers-
ity of California has launched an ex-
tensive program of classes to train
technicians needed in defense industries.
One of the most important of the
university's defense courses is tool en-
gineering. To better coordinate the pro-
gram with defense needs, Robert Gordon
Sproul, president of the university and
Thomas Watson, tooling instructor, con-
ferred with Douglas officials this
month. President Sproul, right, is pic-
tured during tour of Santa Monica.
plant with C. T. Reid, director of edu-
cation.

Good Neighbors
The good neighborliness of Pan Am-
erican unity extends both north and
south, it was demonstrated this month.
No less a personage than the vice presi-
dent of Peru returned the calls of
United States dignitaries upon his
country .
Vice President Rafael Largo Herrera
spent several weeks in the United
States, visited from coast to coast.
Shown during the visit of the vice
president at the Douglas company's
Santa Monica plant are Walter Hamil-
ton, sales manager ; Comm. A. J. Bol-
ton, Donald Douglas, Sr. Largo Her-
rera, Max de la Fuente and Capt. A. P.
Ebright.

OCTOBER ... 1941 PAGE TWENTY- FIVE

With Douglas
Group Insurance Plan
Makes Big Savings
A 25 per cent increase in benefit
payments and the omission of two
monthly contributions to the Group
Life Insurance plan for employes were
announced last month.
Both the raising of the benefits and
the lowering of premiums paid for
insurance were made possible by the
low sickness and accident rate of in-
sured Douglas employes during the
last policy, a record far better than
the average of United States industry.
In the six months since the inaugura-
tion of the sickness and accident insur-
ance program last April benefits total-
ing $27,292.80 representing 1039
claims have been paid through the
Industrial Compensation department .
On an average $ 1137 has been paid
to policyholders weekly since the pro-
gram went into effect.
Recent pay adjustments and job re-
classifications have made many em-
ployes eligible for increased amounts
of insurance which may be arranged
through supervisors of the various
departments. Those not insured under
the plan also may sign up through
their supervisors .
New Openings Available
In Samotech Classes
GRADUATION has left many openings
in the classes in airplane construction
now offered to the Douglas employes
by the Santa Monica Technical school .
Courses are taught by practical experts
from the Douglas plant and have often .
led to rapid promotions and higher
pay for men who have enrolled.
Sponsored by the Education depart-
ment these free classes have proved
so popular among Douglas workers
that it has become necessary to estab
lish waiting lists. However, students are
admitted as rapidly as openings
occur. Because of the constant turn-
over an applicant seldom waits long
before he is called in for enrollment.
Subjects now given at Santa Monica
Tech include template making, air-
craft lofting, tool grinding, airplane
and engine mechanics, inspection, blue-
print reading, mechanical drawing, and
hand forming .
For information about enrollment,
courses and schedules call the Educa-
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tion Department, station 9103 , or con-
tact Santa Monica Technical school,
2200 Virginia street, Santa Monica,
phone S. M. 43201 .
American Airplane Deliveries
Exceed R. A. F. Losses
AMERICAN airplane manufacturers
delivered to the British during the
first seven months of 1941 twice as
many airplanes as the Royal Air Force
lost in all of 1940's terrific battle of
Britain.
Such was the announcement this
month of Col. John H. Jouett, presi-
dent of the Aeronautical Chamber of
Commerce, who reported that more
than $284,000,000 worth of airplanes .
engines and equipment were delivered
to the British air forces from January
through July.
"While actual figures on numbers
of planes and categories cannot be
given," he said, "for every trainer sent
to the British this year three combat
planes have been delivered."
A- 20As Receive Praise
At Army Maneuvers
DOUGLAS fighting airplanes with the
United States Army Air Forces received
their baptism of "fire" last month in
the Army's most extensive peacetime
HEDGE-HOPPING Douglas A-204 attack bombers disrupt "enemy" troop move-
ments during recent Army maneuvers in Louisiana. Army men praised ships highly.
the World
maneuvers in history and emerged with
colors flying.
The Douglas A- 20A was particularly
singled out for praise from flyers and
observers.
"Be sure to take note of its perform-
ance from now on," said David Garro-
way, observer in an A- 20A during
battle. "It is one of the fastest planes
in the air, in level flight being able
to soon out-distance all other planes."
Garroway told over the radio of an
attack upon a company of "enemy"
soldiers moving up to the front during
the battle . The umpires ruled that
the bombing and strafing had complete-
ly "destroyed the enemy."
After the maneuvers Army Air Force
pilots gave a demonstration of bomb-
ing accuracy using A- 20As as level
bombers attacking a concentration of
tanks . Within a few minutes the entire
tank battalion was smashed to bits.
newest
During the maneuvers the
Douglas airplanes, the A-20A and the
A- 24 dive bomber were used extensive-
ly against "enemy" troop concentra-
tions and tanks as well as against front
line troops in "battle. " Douglas B- 18s.
B- 18As and B-23s, reconaissance bom-
bers, were also used during the maneu-
vers as were scores of other types of
Army airplanes.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
DOUGLAS VETERANS

Eight Old-timers, at Douglas for 15 Years,

Given Service Pin Awards by Company;

Five and Ten Year Men Also Honored .

AT LEAST fifteen years ago there crating department . He transferred

were added to the already rapidly ad- later and become coordinating super-
vancing nucleous of the Douglas Air- visor of Dept. 451 plant cleaners.
craft company eight men who have Ralph D. Curtis came to the company
remained through the years now to be- on August 24, 1926 as an engineer.
come eligible to accept 15 year service Today, Curtis is Project engineer for
pins. FIFTEEN years at Douglas is record of
the DC-4, C- 54 and the C-54A, the Dr. C. E. Rooney, medical director.
It was 1926 when these men joined world's largest landplane transports.
the company and that year saw the
inception of commercial airline service. Herbert N. Johnson joined the or-
Douglas was then building the M- 1 and ganization July 19, 1926 as a punch
press operator and is today leadman
M-2 transport, which planes, powered
by Liberty motors, were placed in of the punch press operators in the
service by Western Air Express now Long Beach plant.
Western Air Lines. William R. Davis came to the com-
At the time these 15 year men began pany in 1926 to begin his employment
serving the company, only 464 em- as machinist . He is continuing his
ployes were on the payroll . Com- trade as a lathe operator .
pared with the 33,000 now employed It was October 19, 1925 , that E. L.
here in the great defense program,
these men have seen miraculous Reynolds, then 21 , began as a helper
in the metal fittings department. To-
changes. Little remains today that they
day, Reynolds has risen to become
can readily recognize as still the same.
One hundred and twenty airplanes Superintendent of building No. 2-
were completed that year of 1926 while assembly, at the Long Beach plant.
the figure for this past year's output The Douglas Aircraft company pre-
will number in the thousands . Fifteen sents these gentlemen with their service
years ago airplanes were flimsy con- pins, tokens of appreciation for long
traptions of wood, wire and fabric in and honorable service . SERVICE award for 15 year record
pinned on lapel of Frank Angel.
contrast to today's metal giants.
Great numbers of awards for service
of five and ten years are also being
made each month . These attractive pins
are gold hemispheres fashioned after
the Douglas company's emblem. Each
pin is set with one diamond for each
five years of service.
Frank Angel joined the company
March 1 , 1926 as a journeyman welder
in Dept. 18 and today has risen to
coordinating supervisor of that depart-
ment.
Harmon F. "Bish" Atwood began on
August 11 , 1926 as welder in Dept. 58
and is now senior leadman in charge of
aluminum welding.
Dr. C. E. Rooney began in 1926 as
the Douglas company doctor and today
is serving as Director of the medical
organization, one of the largest indus-
trial medical units in the United States.
SEVENTY-FIVE years of service represented above. James Wallis, 15 years;
James W. Wallis came to the com- Alfred Berghell, 10 years; Donald Douglas, 20 years ; Harmon F. Atwood, 15
pany July 17, 1926 to start in the years; and William R. Davis, 15 years. Mr. Douglas gave service pins to all.

OCTOBER ... 1941 PAGE TWENTY- SEVEN

 BOWLINE BITES ...
"The doltish bird that gorges ' til he
is sick must quietly fast ' til he is well."
DID you ever make an eagle sore?
What was meant to be a kindly ges-
ture on the part of Harold Ayres of
planning department, while on a rec-
ent cruise, definitely resulted in a
temporary hardship being extended a
great Southern Bald Eagle- wingspread
six feet.
This cruise began as many trips do
by Harold's first consulting the tape-
worm department. Those flat ribbon-
like worms which are parasitic in the
intestines of man must be catered to
with great thought and care for the
assurance that the individuals who tote
them around will have fun and peace
of mind while cruising.
HAROLD AYRES attempts to aid the great Southern bald eagle as it dries its feathers. Center, the disgruntled bird climbs
out of the water. Right, closeup of the vexed eagle shows his ill-humor and dangerous beak as he scrutinizes photographer.
Among the food selections were nine
pounds of Kansas City New York cut
steak, well aged and mellowed. Herein
lies the substance about which this yarn
is meted out.
At the anchorage previous to casting
off, the boat was made ready and ice
was placed in the boat's ice container
to keep fresh the meat, butter, eggs,
etc.
The cruise went along beautifully
until Ayres hooked into an eight pound
Bonita while trolling off the north
shore of Catalina . With fresh fish in
the galley Ayres and the tapeworm
couldn't resist baked Bonita. Those
luscious steaks could wait.
The first night of the trip Ayres
dropped anchor in Little Harbor. That
PAGE TWENTY- EIGHT
X
WHITE headed sea eagle falls in sea.
Too much food weights the bird down.
evening's repast was baked Bonita a la
fit for a king.
Unfortunately, the ice-box door was
not securely fastened that evening. By
dinner time the following afternoon
the ice was completely melted and as
a result the much drooled over and
anticipated steaks went just
just a bit high
high
in the nose. The tapeworm was really
up in arms when the sad news reached
this rapacious creature and Ayres was
fit to be lashed to the mast . It was
horrible.
In Catalina Harbor that afternoon
the can opener cut into a can of beans
with a vengeance, while Harold won-
dered about the fate of those steaks.
Would he use them for bait in a lob-
by Al A. Adams
ster trap, for fish bait, or perhaps
and suddenly he noticed on the cliff
above a large Southern bald eagle
which is known as the white-headed
sea eagle.
Into the dinghy went Harold and the
steaks. On the rocky beach he deposited
the steaks and rowed back to the boat.
In about an hour the scent got high
enough to reach the eagle. Down he
swooped to begin gormandizing in a
gulpfest that caused no end of peris
taltic action in the tapeworm's alimen.
tary canal.
The hungry bird was indeed a stuffed
eagle when he could no longer force
a New York cut into his bulging craw.
It was a gusty windy day. The eagle
was well over his placarded gross
weight. As he attempted to fly, a sud-
den blast of wind, together with his
load of steak to burden his flight, made
his rise difficult. He was unable to gain
altitude with the down blast of wind
and he landed in the water with his
cargo of steaks.
By use of his powerful wings he
flapped and beat the water until he
made the shore to stand dripping, dis-
gruntled and mad as an old wet hen.
Dismayed, he looked himself over
checking his controls and elevators.
Harold felt responsible for the un-
lucky outcome of his kindly efforts.
The down-draught of wind however
was likewise unfortunate. Immediately
his mind went into a whirl of possibili-
• Continued on Page Forty
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

EATING THEIR
* FIVE HUNDRED members of the Doug
las Rod and Gun club gathered this
month for their second annual fish and
game dinner at the Aviation beach
club . The " Hangar of Hospitality" al-
ready swaying to Hawaiian music and
the rhythmic dancing of hula girls
shuddered as the evening grew older
at the fabulous tales of hunters and
fishermen who not only talked about
what they had shot and caught but pro-
ceeded to eat their words.
Venison, wild boar, mountain sheep
and five kinds of fish were served at
the banquet to the assembled Waltons,
Nimrods, kibitzers and their wives . In
between courses and throughout the
evening George Strompl batted out
gags as master of ceremonies, finishing
with an average worthy of Ted Wil
liams .
High point of the affair came when
Newt Collins, president of the club, was
handed his appointment as deputy
game warden by top officials of the
California Fish and Game commission,
an honor previously conferred upon
only 20 other prominent sportsmen of
this state .
Acting as reception committee for
the many guests were the wives, dubbed
"Fish Biddies" for the occasion, of
Fred Leaman, James E. Davis, L. H.
Bartholomew, Newt Collins, R. W.
OCTOBER ... 1941
un Club
WORDS
Cornwell , W. S. Rhodes and Joe Kug-
lin.
At a kangaroo court Chief Davis
and George Strompl, principal speakers
of the evening, were sentenced to saw
firewood for the roaring beach bonfire.
W. T. Galbreath was fined $ 11.00 for
gambling on a fishing trip. His fine
for this rare crime was paid to Mrs.
Galbreath .
Recent expeditions of club members
supplied the meat and fish. Among the FINE of $11 for "gambling" was paid
multitude of succulent contributions
by Lt. Galbreath to his wife by order
collected by Jack Keith's menu com- of George Strompl. Right, Newt Collins.
mittee and prepared by Alphonse,
"King of Chefs" were a swordfish
caught by Donald Douglas and a deer
bagged by W. C. Daniels.
Mrs. George Schellemberry carried
off a gold-plated shell dish while W. T.
Downey won an all-wave portable radio
as winners of the door prizes.
Largely responsible for the success
of the dinner were entertainment chair-
men Fred Leaman, Stan Palmer and
Bart Batholomew who picked the
setting ; Jack Keith and L. E. Bleecker
who planned the bill of fare ; publicity
director W. G. Daniels : decorations de-
signer W. C. Craig who created a con-
vincing Waikiki ; Bill Rhodes coordi-
nator of chairmen ; and Herb Hoag. RADIO SET awarded W. T. Downey by
ticket sales and seating. Fish and Game Commissioner Carty.
PAGE TWENTY- NINE
 KY

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punishment for Sam Janney, Dept.
89. Leo Chase acted as the barber,

"RggABBI" A. M. ( Fred) Meyer, shop

HUNGRY throng at Dept. 89 pienie su estions,
fill their plates at food table. There the big finishpr
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Our Picnic Album

* LAST month was picnic month at Douglas.
Scores of departments in all three plants
hied themselves to the beaches, woods and
lakes for every variety of outdoor shenani-
gans from simple weinie roasts to egg throw.
ing contests.
Results of the picnics were a lot of fun, a
few sunburned faces and stiff muscles and
two bushel baskets full of snapshots sub-
mitted to Airview. Reproduced on this page
are five shots from three of the largest pic-
nics held by Dept. 89. Dept. 47. and the
finishing divisions, each of which was at-
tended by 500 or more persons .
Three of these pictures won prizes in the
Dept. 89 picnic picture contest. First prize
was above, center, by Rodney Absher, second.
above left, by Ben Wise, and third, below
left. by Clarence Tuinstra. The picture at
the lower right was taken by Way Watts.

HURDLE RACE at Dept. 89 picnic . Supervisors beat senior lead- PIE EATING contest at Dept. 47 picnic was won by Gil Clements .
men. Above, Rod Absher goes over a hurdle helped by Les Anderson Runner up was Vivian Starner. Other contests included races,
while Karl Theaker trots down the runway loaded down by cigar. watermelon eating, swimming and diving and tug of war.
 AL GORDON, left, dribbles down field while three R.A.F. DENNY GORDON, left, and an R.A.F. man race for the
men close in on him. Douglas Flyers beat Cadets 2 to 1. ball. In background is Axel Thomsen. Game was at Loyola.

CHAMPIONSHIP BOUND

THE Douglas Athletic club soccer played in the Los Angeles Coliseum President of the 1942 Flyers is ener-
team that has blasted with spectacular against the Corinthians of England. getic Dave Maxwell, tabulating super-
finesse-the hopes of every team sent The Corinthians were then con- visor, and for many years a soccer au-
against it this season is a far cry from sidered the finest soccer team in the
thority and enthusiast. Sam Neale again
the team first organized by Frank Mills world. And the record of holding this
holds down the difficult managerial
in the early months of 1930. great team to a scoreless tie and com-
post.
That first team was little more than pletely outplaying it in the last quarter
is one of which the Douglas Flyers can Personnel of the team includes such
an unorganized and inexperienced band
of men who kicked an old scuffed and well be proud . speedy and high-scoring stars as Axel
battle-scarred soccer ball up and down The present squad recently won the Thomsen, Al and Denny Gordon, Ralph
the field for exercise. But from that Vimy Ridge cup by defeating another Ptolemy, Al Cecchini, Don Wallace,
humble beginning has grown one of English team, the R.A.F. Cadets, 4-2. Walt and Johnny Dekema, Billy and
the greatest soccer organizations in The Douglas lads followed up this
Joe Zomar, Gene Walsh, Carl Wolters ,
Southern California. victory with wins over the Viking and Kurt Ossman, Jackie Wright, Art Wey-
The first game of the 1930 aggre- Victoria clubs. Both of these games ersberg, Jim Jaggard, custodian, Jack
gation was played against the crew of saw 2-1 scores, with the Flyers on the Gilbert, alternate league delegate and
a visiting British Naval Destroyer . The long end. Glen Moore, trainer.
score was tragic .
From that time on the team develop-
ed by leaps and bounds until, a short
year later, the team entered the Los
Angeles City League. Once among the
finest competitive teams in local soccer
circles, the Flyers chalked up an amaz-
ing string of victories and walked off
with the City League cup.
The following season the team not
only won the City League cup again,
but went on to capture the California
state championship .
The Flyers are the only soccer teami
in Southern California ever to attain
this honor .
Since that time the crack Douglas
team has won practically every cham-
pionship within its scope. In 1938 in
consideration of its consistent power
THE FLYERS, Douglas soccer team. Standing, left to right, Al Gordon, Denny
and scoring ability, the Douglas club
Gordon, Art Weyersberg, Ralph Ptolemy, Don Wallace, Joe Zomar, Johnny
was selected to represent the United Dekema, Walt Dekema. Kneeling, Axel Thomsen, Jack Wright, Tony McEwen, Al
States in an international game to be Cecchini, Julio Avila. Other team personnel not available when picture was taken.

OCTOBER ... 1941 PAGE THIRTY - ONE

 Douglas Athletic
SPORTS
Clyde Olds Wins
Light-heavy Championship
The Douglas Athletic Club light-
heavyweight tournament came to a
close this month, and Clyde Olds was
crowned champion of the new division
after crowding out a decision over the
tournament favorite , Harvey "Red"
Baller.
Olds, who is able to reverse his stance
at will, was not conceded to have an
outside chance of annexing the title
when the eliminations began several
months ago. In spite of the pessimistic
attitude of the local wags, Olds fought
his way through a host of very keen
competition and earned the right to
meet Baller, the man whom everyone
CLYDE OLDS slips hard right to the
body under "Red" Baller's guard at
championship fight in Punch Bowl.
thought would be the new light heavy-
weight champion.
The decision was well earned by Clyde
Olds , and when referee Charlie Ran-
dolph gave him the nod , not a dissenting
vote was heard.
The new champion, though not a
dangerous puncher, is extremely ag-
gressive and has unlimited stamina.
These qualities supplied the margin he
has needed to win all of his fights since
the tournament began.
Immediately after the fight, Olds was
awarded a trophy donated by the Doug-
las Athletic club judges, Ross Elkins,
Fred Meyer and Verne Ogan.
Big Season Looms
For Basketball
Once again basketball season has
rolled around and Douglas Athletic club
casaba tossers have turned out en masse
PAGE THIRTY -TWO
Club ..
to whip themselves into shape for the
coming year with three weeks of con-
ditioning and practice.
Carol Cook, basketball chairman, ex-
pects the biggest season in the history
of basketball at Douglas. A special
committee, composed of Cook, Paul Mc-
Clure, Tom Chamberlain , Wes Long,
Andy Mahoney and Bud Moeller, last
year's chairman, is now at work ar-
ranging the schedule of games for the
coming season.
The original plan was to divide the
teams into two leagues. However, since
the total turnout to date has exceeded
350 players, an additional league or
leagues may have to be established to
take care of the overflow.
Practice is now taking place three
nights a week, Mondays , Wednesdays
and Thursdays at the Santa Monica
Athletic club. When the season officially
starts on November 3, these nights will
be set aside for league games.
La Mont In Draw
With Ex-Champ O'Mahoney
Sonny La Mont, Douglas Athletic
club wrestler, battled Danno O'Mahoney,
former champion of the world, to a
draw this month in a splendid exhibi-
tion of skill and strength at the Punch
Bowl.
The bout, bringing together the ex-
champion and celebrated exponent of
the deadly "Irish whip," and the acro-
batic Douglas star, was very fast, clean
and intensely interesting, highlighted
by the grotesque, shuffling style of the
Gaelic ace and the bouncing aggressive-
ness of La Mont.
Referee George Van Cleve called the
bout a draw after it went the time
limit.
In another of the recent big-time
bouts promoted by Norm Randalls, My-
ron Cox, the old man of the mat wars,
went to work on Pat "The Pitiless"
O'Dowdy in the Punch Bowl and
emerged with an unquestioned victory
after soundly drubbing the wild Irish-
man before a capacity crowd of Doug-
las workers seeking noon hour divertis-
ment.
Cox, who is a captain of the Venice
Life Guards in private life, as well as
a grapple and groan ace, proved that
age and experience are superior to
youth, muscles and temperament. He
was equal to any and all of O'Dowdy's
tricks and was more than a match for
the erratic Irishman in the strength de-
partment.
Ice Skating Opens
Winter Sports Season
More than two hundred winter sports
enthusiasts journeyed to Iceland, at
Hynds this month for a bang-up ice
skating session which lasted until the
by Jack Lester
wee small hours of one Saturday morn-
ing.
The session officially opened the sea-
son for the winter sports group of the
Douglas Athletic club.
New officers of the group include
"Spike" Leigh, chairman ; Ray Thomp-
son, vice-chairman, and Bobbie White,
secretary-treasurer.
The organizers of this month's affair
were Freddie Wadle and Cal Leigh, both
of Long Beach . More of these and simi-
lar affairs are in the offing, Leigh re-
ports, and a complete list of the planned
activities of the coming season will be
announced soon.
The activity committee of the winter
sports club includes Bill Anglemeyer,
A. E. Willer, Ed Wolford, Doris Junso
and N. H. Anderson. These people have
made arrangements to have Bob Gloe,
international ski star, accompany the
club on all its trips to the snows for
ski instructions.
Badminton Tournament
Soon To Begin
A series of badminton tournaments
for Santa Monica shuttlecock fans to be
held throughout the winter months was
announced recently by Bruce Goetz,
badminton chairman.
Goetz, one of the original organizers
of the Douglas Athletic club, has ap-
pointed a committee to look after ar-
rangement details and expects the
largest tournaments in the history of
the sport at Douglas.
Featured will be singles and doubles
and mixed doubles play, as well as sev-
eral exhibition matches by men like Al
Edmundson, former bay district cham-
pion.
All players, following Douglas Ath-
letic club rulings, will be seeded accord-
ing to their respective ability and ex-
perience.
Regular sessions are being held each
Monday night beginning at 7:30 on the
16 courts at the La Monica ballroom.
Luke Hogan Joins
PAA in Africa
Luke "Iron Man" Hogan, famous
boxer of the Douglas Athletic club
stable, left for Africa lately to take up
a position there with Pan-American
Airways.
Hogan is a veteran of more than 100
fights under the D.A.C. colors.
Appropriately dubbed "Iron Man" by
his mates because of his ruggedness and
stamina, Hogan stepped a bit out of his
weight class some time ago for a bout
with Turkey Thompson, heavyweight
contender. The former Douglas Athletic
club boxer won the decision after having
Turkey on the floor in one of the early
rounds.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
ACTIVITIES
by Enid Kieburtz

Drama Club Production article. The play will be presented at informal basis.
the Santa Monica High School, on Irving Floyd was chosen as chair-
Set for November 22 November 22. Curtain goes up at 8:15 man, an office for which there will be
Although it was almost a year ago, it p.m. an election every six months.
seems but a few months since the At the re- election of officers which Exhibitions of the work of members
Dramatics club wowed several thousand was held October 23, D. Y. Cole, will be held as the Club progresses .
Douglas employes with its smash hit Emmett O'Shea and Ruth Neff were This work will be shown in the name of
Minstrel Show. It is with a great chosen as president, vice-president and the artists by the club.
deal of anticipation and enthusiasm that recording secretary respectively. The All artists are invited to contact
this club plans another appearance election was unanimous. Floyd in Dept. 162 .
before Douglas employes.
"Mame", a two-act comedy, is the Art Club Beckons Aeronaders Celebrate
bill this time. This play, chosen for its
humor and fast moving situations, is a To Douglas Aesthetes With Party and Dance
cinch . Action starts the very first Artists one and all, be your medium
moment when the $ 100 Ma Maloney has charcoal, water color, pastels, oils, or It's safe to say you've read and heard
what have you, here's your chance to
more about the Douglas Aeronaders
been hiding in her mending basket is
accidentally discovered by other mem- join up with others of your ilk , as during the past year than about any
other Douglas club. And now this
bers of the family. there is now at Douglas an Art Club.
This group met for the first time active bunch has at hand a first anni-
Politically minded Pa Maloney has
several weeks ago at the home of Eddie versary to celebrate which it plans to
his own ideas for spending the money
as has his son Jimmy. But when Clasen where plans for future activities do in ye olde typical Aeronader fashion
daughter Mame, a dizzy American were considered and decided upon, and with food, wine, women and song.
blonde, gets ideas, things really start from the looks of things these people And it's a certainty that they'll spin
to happen. seem enthusiastic and ambitious and many a yarn about the things they
Pete , the vile , villainous real estate great things are expected of them. have done in the past twelve months
agent does himself a bad turn by sell- All possible mediums and crafts for including the Minstrel Show of last
ing the family some property which self expression may be divulged in and year, election of officers which include
he thought worthless but instead finds to start things off the old reliable basic Arnold P. Schunck, Alice Schofield,
is quite valuable. His efforts to sell art school standbys such as figure Mary Lou Keyes, Lloyd Washburn and
the lot were strenuous enough, but he drawing, quick sketching , memory Norm Hanson. They will boast (and
didn't know what the word "salesman- sketching, and still life are being given. rightfully! ) about their nationally
ship" meant until he tried to get the Later, week-end trips for landscape known coach, Paul Taylor. They might
property back without letting the painting will be included as well as all mention the Santa Monica Police Show
family know what the real score was. new developments suggested by the for which they sang, or the Santa
And that, folks, will give you a bird's many artists themselves. Monica Community Sing for whom they
eye view of just why this play was Since the main idea for this club acted as great stars.
selected and why the Naval Training is the participation in creative painting And of course they'll remind each
Station in San Diego already has its and sketching, the business end of the other of the great amount of enthus-
bid in for a performance . deal will be kept at an absolute mini- iasm with which Santa Monica and El
Popular Julia Johnson, Ruth Prophet, mum and the club will be run on an • Concluded on Page Forty-one
Bobbie White, L. Daniel, Bill Farquahar,
Don Frost and Jack Lewis, who make
up the cast, are scheduled to present
an outstanding performance . Hugh
Root is director.
The Dramatics club has been fortun-
ate in obtaining the talents of Dick
Van Esselstyn as set designer. Van
Esselstyn hails from the Montclair
(New Jersey ) Theatre Guild, with
which he has gained much valuable ex-
perience in the design and construction
of stage settings.
As in the past, proceeds for the
Dramatics Club productions will be
donated to a worthy cause, this year to
the Community Chest.
A press organization consisting of
all writers , journalists, publicity agents
and embryonic authors who are inter-
ested in meeting for a monthly press
luncheon for mutual inspiration, stim-
ulation and fun is also being fostered
by the Dramatics Club. If you're inter-
ested in a luncheon of this type, con-
tact Don Kirkham (phone 680 ) , Ruth
Neff (phone 9372 ) or Dorothy Chandler
(phone 444 ).
Tickets for "Mame" are priced at
40 cents, plus tax, and may be pur- CAST of "Mame," two-act comedy to be produced by Douglas Dramatics club in-
chased from Don Kirkham, Pat Kelley, cludes, front row, left to right, L. O. Daniel, Bobbie White, Hugh Root, Ruth Prophet,
and from all persons named in this Julia Johnson; rear, Harry Prophet, Don Frost, F. W. Nystul, Bill Farquahar.

OCTOBER ... 1941 PAGE THIRTY-THREE

Sports ...
Bowling
The startling strike ball which Man-
ager Eric Springer shovelled into the
one-three pocket on a night in mid-
September provided an auspicious send-
off for the winter bowling season.
The occasion was the opening of the
traditional Wednesday night bowling
bee at Morningside Recreation, where a
determined body of 70 men from all
parts of El Segundo plant will carry
on logging operations from now until
the rains have come and gone.
Mr. Springer's strike was something
of a personal triumph. Blinded by the
FIRST BALL of El Segundo bowling
season was sent down the alley by Plant
Manager Eric Springer. He missed.
Captains of the fourteen El Segundo bowling teams line up for a picture.
PACE THIRTY - FOUR
El Segundo
glare of flashlight bulbs, and not too
familiar with the technique of maple
mauling, his first heave had by-passed
all ten sticks via the gutter route. It
must have taken poise to rally after
that one and mow them all down on the
next roll. There is as yet insufficient
evidence to justify dubbing him "Eagle-
eye Eric" , but the gentleman bears
watching .
It looked like last year the way the
boys started out. The Police five fin-
ished on top just ahead of Paint Shop
in the previous season, and both clubs
began this one by white-washing their
opponents for four points. Sandy of
the Painters chucked a fine 225 game
to take high for the night ahead of
DeHart of Maintenance who collected
224 , high game in a good 576 series,
which contributed in no small measure
to the fact that the Maintenance outfit
also emerged unscratched from the first
night's rolling.
Purchasing has an entry this year, its
roster including Olie Sleppy of golfing
fame, and his understudy of the fair-
ways, Frank Mufich. Ollie seems to
care little whether the ball he uses is
small and white, or large and black,
for he sports a 158 average after four
weeks of bowling, a figure considerably
above that against the name of Mufich .
Also back on the lanes is Henry
Upton, who did a lot of twirling in
the Engineering league a couple of
seasons ago, but who was forced to
the sidelines last year by the pressure of
other duties.
At this writing the loop is in its
fifth week, and the Cops and the
Painters still run the game with the
latter ahead by one point at 13 wins
and three losses. Mike Lipton is high
average king, 183 for 12 games,
although Adams of Maintenance posts
a 185 for six heats. In the cellar are
Plant
the lads of the Superintendents office-
Brizzolarra , Englebert, Cramer and
company seeming unable to get up
steam as yet.
Probably as astonishing an item as
could be mentioned about anybody is
the matter of Joe Soldan's 172 average
for six games. This is the same Joe
Soldan who scored Morningside's first
300 game, who always averages 190 and
up, and who could write his own ticket
in any league in the state. In fact,
we seem to remember seeing Joe's
name up there for about 195 at one of
the town's better bowling emporiums
recently. Either he isn't trying as hard
as he might, or else somebody is going
to take a terrific slugging from the
Wing team when Joe does at last get
hot.
All of the other loops got under way
at the same time at the Wednesday
circuit . The Thursday gang at Morn-
ingside is led by Department 4 with
Holmes setting a 171 pace for his
team . Douglas, Sherman, and Farm-
ham of Department 3, all 160 to 165
average men, are holding their club in
second spot. Misko of Dept. 13, has a
slick 181 for league high average. Other
noteworthy trundlers are Stillman,
West, VanWestern, Linquist, and
Rivard.
The Sunrise League, after six weeks,
is strung out behind Dept. 5's crew
composed of Coffman, Taulu, Harden,
Perazzo, and Sheppard. The last named
gentleman is setting the pace with a
176 average. Reilly of Dept. 4 , which
stands second two games behind, is
nudging the pins for 176 as well, with
a 237 game in the ledger. This is
nothing alongside of Dept. 42's
Williams, however. He pasted up a 254
line for the high to date.
And speaking of amazing games,
there should be a few huzzahs delivered
for the 258 affair hung up by Elder
of Dept. 48, rolling in the Nite Owls
league at Morningside . Dept. 2A's
Moody and Rice are pacing their quintet
to a three game bulge over the other
eleven platoons . Both have 170 aver-
ages, a mark reached by only one other
man in the crowd, Oslin of 44.
Upstairs the Engineers have launch-
ed the biggest and best league of their
bowling history, rolling as usual at
Inglewood Sports Center. Twelve clubs
are now in their fifth week, and old
timers around the alleys say they have-
n't heard so much noise in the place
since the carpenters finished it. Such
enthusiasm is refreshing. All teams
have trick shirts of their own design,
and all sorts of wierd devices are adopt-
ed to confound the opposition, even
down to bribing the pin boys.
The top rung is being teetered upon
by a motley crew from the Hydraulics
Group, the "High Pressure Club" by
• Concluded on Page Forty-one
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 Rambling Reporter
From all the glowing remarks by El
Segundoites, the Douglas company's and
Army Air Forces' invitation to bring
the family for a special preview and
inspection of the new Douglas "black-
out" plant at Long Beach on Sunday,
October 12, was well attended and
gratefully appreciated. In all our be-
half your columnist wants to thank
those who made the visit possible.
Remember When
The trip to Long Beach started us on
a backward glance and we dug up some
old Airviews. Here's a few notes from
a November 15, 1934, issue : "Aerial
Critics widely praise Douglas Plane-
Bankers and noted Aviatrix enjoy race
flight." This article tells of W. A. Scott
and Campbell Black winning second
place in the London to Melbourne air
race with a Douglas DC- 2 ."
"Watch for the special Xmas issue
of the Douglas Airview. Due to the
many special features, stories, a twelve
page edition will be printed."
"New contracts enter shop on shop
order 430 calling for 22 planes for Chi-
nese government."
"Twin motor bomber makes appear-
ance. Work is now being rushed as
much as possible in order that this ship
t.
may be completed and ready for demon-
stration tests by March 1 , 1935."
"Noted visitors view plant. European
Royalty deeply impressed with DC- 2
H swallowed his fork, as the husband,
and the plant."
"Douglas Hiking club made two in-
teresting trips : one up the Big Santa
Anita canyon and the other up the Big
Tujunga canyon," and the announce-
ment of the biography of Henry Guerin,
which stated, among other things, that
Henry Guerin, Eric Springer and George
Strompl flew a Martin bomber in 1918 ,
to Dayton, Ohio, for tests.
Here and There
Otto Wendt, group leader of engineer-
ing checking group, is a natural born
sharpshooter. A few weeks ago H. V.
Almen, checker of Dept. 25, introduced
the game to Otto by loaning him a
Colts target special. Right off Otto does
81 out of a possible 100, and later did
96 out of the same possible 100 at the
El Segundo police range. Charles Lamb,
formerly of El Segundo engineering, and
wife Constance, blessed evented when
a son, weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces ar-
rived on September 11. James Dennis
Cara, Dept. 25, and wife , Gertrude
( Trudie ), were on the receiving line
for a bundle from heaven when Ronald
Dennis weighing 7 pounds 5 ounces ( 21
inches long too) yodeled "Hiya Pop" to
his beaming father. Keith Donalson,
married Jane Moe on September 12, at
the Little Church of the Flowers. Con-
grats folks !
Martha Virginia Reid, one of the at-
tractive inspectors, will be married to
John R. Story, Jr. ( North American) -
heh, how come boys you sure missed
OCTOBER ... 1941
. . . El
by Clyde Kintz
a lovely that time-on October 17, in
Los Angeles. Asked the girls in the in-
spection booth how they felt when they
first started to work in a big factory-
and they said, "We were frightened, but
happy." Mrs. Fern Scott, Mrs. Kather-
ine Kapp, Mrs. Helen McClarty, and
Mrs. Treva Strait, and here's a tip,
fellas- Miss Zelda Young, and is she a
stunner.
Welfare News
Ken Kirk, selling TEA during one of
the lunch periods. And now we know
the millenium is hyah! John V. (Victory)
El Segundo's genial and well liked wel-
fare director, entertained our band at
the cafeteria with a delicious, soul satis-
fying steak dinner, and presented each
member with a beautiful multifold
leather pocket book. The occasion for
all this was the celebration of the
band's second anniversary. And right
here we want to express appreciation
for everyone at El Segundo to each
member of the band and to Maestro
Tommy Stockbridge, for their splendid
work. At the dinner some lovely wife
murmured to her husband, "Why how
delicious these steaks are. Do they
serve meals like this every day?" and
our John V. (so ' tis rumored ) nearly
looking at John purred, "Of course,
dear." And for those grand shows you
have been getting for lunch hours, Ken
Kirk, here's a toast for you!
Round About
Ruth Gaskell, secretary of Dept. 24,
and Ella May Moody, secretary for
Dept. 69, are adventuring to New York
and various points of the compass by
the American Airlines.
ANNIVERSARY dinner for El Segundo band was held this month. Those attend-
ing were: Dale Curtis and wife ; Mrs. Davies and Tom Davies; Robert Broadlick;
D. L. Stevens; Howard Keefe ; Jerry Ford; Cecil Strang; Tommy Stockbridge and
wife; Maurice Macurda, mother and father ; Al Brodecky; Que Jamison and wife.
Segundo Plant
Dept. 7 is planning another roller
skating party-anyone wanting to join
in the fun see genial Milt Hughes.
Hughes is another man to prove our
point that all kinds of high class talent
work at El Segundo. Milt is a former
top radio broadcaster.
John Roda, assistant superintendent,
has his ear cocked for the call of "Ye
Farme Life." Frances E. Farley, Dept.
36, and Merrilee Jacob were married in
the Chapel of the Dawn, September 19,
and honeymooned in the High Sierras.
James Phipps and Frank Goodwill, both
of Dept. 81 , recently gave their blood
for a transfusion for a friend. Wm .
(Bill) Plummer had his tonsils removed .
Short Story
Senior Officer Charles P. Pitney, alert
and up and at ' em as usual, signed in a
man recently on some plant construction
by the name of Oscar Rainwater.
Charles noticing the unusual name
queried "What nationality are you ?"
The man answered" I am three-eights
Cherokee".
Later a truck driver, delivering some
material for the same job, signed in as
Frank Rainwater. This was too much,
an epidemic of Rainwater as it were.
So Charlie said, "Your brother just
signed in a while ago." The driver
looking puzzled replied, "I have no.
brother".
To make a short story long the up-
shot of the affair reunited two families
that hadn't seen each other for 40 years.
Charles, when questioned how he felt
about it, said "Oh, being an officer you
get used to all kinds of situations".
On October 20th, great consternation
and worry arose at the El Segundo
plant when two of our supervisors, Gil
Pearson, assistant in charge of Dept.
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PAGE THIRTY -FIVE
Rambling Reporter
The Douglas Pistol Teams literally
brought home the bacon from the fifth
annual Yuma peace officers pistol shoot
October 19. Two teams composed of the
top 15 marksmen from all three plants
were : Dan Lehrer, team captain, Kenny
Irwin, Clark Scott, John Evans, " Showy"
Showalter, Bob Jowe, Dick Stayner,
Tinette and Jack McPhee. Transporta-
tion in the company station wagon was
a little crowded on the way home.
Lehrer, Evans and McPhee led the group
in prizes. Scott won the bacon.
It is quite natural to be disappointed
and then ill, however, to be ill and then
disappointed is adding insult to injury.
If you have any doubts ask Bill Hel-
mick. Newel Kimball, pitcher for the
Brooklyn Dodgers and Bill's son-in- law,
sent tickets covering all expenses to the
World Series. Bill's doctor would not
approve the trip and as a result Bill
had to be content with the radio re-
ports. Incidentally, Newel Kimball was
an employe of the Douglas company
about five years ago.
On Sunday, October 6, Bradley Jones
of production control and Betty Ridge-
man of the sales office were scheduled
to appear on Professor Puzzlewits' quiz
program over KFI, representing the
Douglas company in competition with
teams from North American and Vultee.
At the last minute, they were unable
to make it, and Bill Buckland of en-
gineering and Janet Schwartz of export
sales had to pinch-hit for them. Janet
and Bill tied for second place.
The production illustration groups
gave a farewell dinner for George Thar-
ratt, who recently left the engineering
department. Approximately 75 persons
attended the dinner October 15. George
was responsible for the development of
the production illustration group and
WEDDING of Col. H. W. Stephenson
of personnel caused considerable
gaiety among personnel office staff.
PAGE THIRTY- SIX
... Santa Monica Plant
by Patricia Kelly
its adaptation for production purposes
throughout the aviation industry.
A Homecoming party was given at
the home of Carleen Andrews, October
24 in honor of Barbara Dunham who
has recently returned from the East.
Barbara has been office manager of the
Detroit office for the past ten months.
Those attending the party were Mr. and
Mrs. C. M. MacClelland, Kurt Osman,
Pete Westburg, Guy Cooper, Alex Bell,
Richard Cox, Bernard Steinbacher,
Frank Rogan, Harold Nelk, Woodrow
Staman, Charles Webster, Russel Adam-
son, Paul Kunz, Bill Ponder, and Al
Kratochvil. Ralph Brady, Gene Kaliher,
Buster Mahan, Art McCann, Earl
Schenck, Norman Nelson, Theodore
Karcher, Charles Nink, George Healy,
Richard Spencer, "Mac" MacMurray,
Lloyd Dunham, James Moore, Danny
Brehm , Robert Owens , "Tweedy"
Flowers, Paul Metz, Kenneth Leverenz
and Spike Lee. Regina Atwood, Dorothy
Lane, Jeannette Fourage, Marion
Luebke, Louise Sephton, Doris Mc-
Laughlin, Elaine Neidermeier, LaFrance
Anderson, Virginia Ahern, Helen Mack
and Kay Losey. FORTY-FIFTH wedding anniversary of
Treasurer H. P. Grube and his wife
A 'get-to-gether' by the girls of the was celebrated during September.
engineering department was proposed
at the Ivar House October 7. The plan nounced. Frank is a member of the
is to make it an annual event. Ethel
production illustration group .
Barron, Eleanor Whitesides, Kay Hile,
Fred Litton of engineering just re-
Jere Argyle, Doris Ledford, Billie Led-
ford (Boeing office ) Claire Thomas. turned from his honeymoon. The bride
is Genevieve Earnest of Shirley Planta-
Helen Monroe, Jeannette Fourage
Elaine Bollman, Gwen Parker, Helen tion, Louisiana.
The marriage of Howard Huttman of
Mack, Evelyn Kratchvil and Marion
Dept. 633 to Vivian Hollman September
Luebke originated the idea.
28 was performed at the Wedding
Undoubtedly, the 70 girls who heard Manor in Los Angeles.
Eleanor King at the Los Angeles Ath- J. W. Horton, O. S. Johnson and G. I.
letic club October 21 will put into prac- MacIntyre of source inspection have one
tice the 'Lesson in Charm' Miss King thing in common, they are all bride-
SO entertainingly presented. Lucille
grooms.
Mason and Vivian Englebrecht made
Mary L. Browne of the inspection
all arrangements.
office is now Mrs. W. D. Hedderly. Her
The production control department marriage took place in Las Vegas Sep-
Halloween dance at the Deauville club tember 27.
October 25 was very successful. Art .
Whiting's band, confetti and colorful Douglas Debettes
costumes gave it a fiesta air. Gale Sandra Jean Hawley arrived October
Moyer, Jack Mahood and Chuck Elburts 4 weighing 9 pounds and 14 ounces. Her
were the committee in charge. father, Bruce Hawley of Dept. 253.
L. W. Austin, supervisor of source Linda Sue Brown arrived August 31 ,
inspection, has just returned from a weight 7 pounds and 8 ounces. Her dad,
two weeks vacation which was spent Sydney Brown of parts sales.
in the Sierras back of Lone Pine. Loretta Leone Haniuk arrived Sep-
tember 26 at the Santa Monica hospital
C. N. Fast, assistant supervisor in weighing 5 pounds and 12 ounces. Nick
charge of final assembly inspection, is Haniuk, her father, is in Dept. 651 .
now designing and building a midget
Sons
racing car.
Colonel H. W. Stephenson, office man- J. G. Edmundson Jr. arrived Septem-
ager of the personnel department, re- ber 26. His dad is John G. Edmundson
turned from his honeymoon to find his of the executive offices.
office had been completely redecorated. Michael Gene Shield arrived Septem-
The marriage of Frank Glisson to ber 24, weight 9 pounds, son of T. E.
Jane Davidson October 5 has been an- Shield of the material release group.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
RUNNING LIGHTS
Along about the first of October, I
took Bomber she's the girl friend-
out to see the sights, and whom should
we see but N. A. Ross , second shift boss
in production control, and A. Jensen,
first shift ditto in Dept. 12 , getting
their money's worth at Ciro's. Her ?
Oh, I call her Bomber because she'll
B-19 soon.
There is a certain old cat around
here ( and I'm not being disrespectful )
who, in spite of attempts to discourage
her, still makes her home in and around
Dept. 38. Her name is Kate. A very
small percentage of our employes have
ever seen the critter during the five or
six years she has been with us as,
silently as a shadow, she steps along
about her business . Yet she has her
champions. Do not, for instance , make
my mistake of referring to her as grey;
you will be corrected forthwith. She
is white, pure white. But it is whispered
in some quarters that, like Mehitabel,
her morals are not quite good . On this
occasion, she gave birth to two kittens ,
which is considerably under par. Asked
casually for a total, my informant esti-
mated offhand that an even one hundred
children have been hers since she be-
came a fixture in the plant.
Dept. 401 has a handy arrangement
whereby a timekeeper occasionally saves
considerable trouble and time. Once
in a while the riveters drop a bucking
bar inside a certain assembly which is
closed on all sides. The opening is a
lightening hole two and a quarter
inches in diameter. George Savage, of
timekeeping division 5, has come to the
rescue several times. He not only can
put his hand through the lightening
hole, but he can draw it out with the
bucking bar in it, and that, my friends,
calls for a small hand !
Ernie Roethler, Dept. 201 , has a new
25 foot boat. Some of the boys are
getting in a lot of good fishing
Ray Tarpley, senior leadman of experi-
mental planning, is painting his house
and doing a swell job of it. If you want
any pointers, ask Ray about it.
Little Dan Cupid caught up with
Wayne Townsend , Dept. 17's number
one glamour boy. He and his bride have
left on their honeymoon for parts un-
known ; as to who is his wife , he has
kept that a secret also . . . The Army
proposed to another of the boys in Dept.
17, and he just couldn't say no. Francis
Schoffield will be pickin' ' em up and
layin' ' em down for some time to come.
He says he doesn't mind the Army
pays good wages : twenty-one dollars a
day one day a month, which is some-
what trite but oh, so true.
Donna Burns, of planning, furnishes a
couple of interesting items from that
department. . . Gordon Strube has a
new home at Arrowhead, and he spends
most of his weekends there. . . A sur-
prise birthday dinner consisting mainly
of fried rabbit was given a couple of
weeks ago to celebrate the birthdays
OCTOBER ... 1941
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ON
ON THE
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by Darrell D. Marks
of Virginia Ahern and Joe Seward.
Present were La France Urac and Walt
Taylor ... Ray Slaney flew to the Stan-
ford vs. U.C.L.A. game ; others attend-
ing were Joe Seward and Fred Hauter.
Danny Ellin's brother-in-law, a form-
er Douglas employe , Harry "Peanut"
Lowery, will start with the Chicago
Cubs February next. He won the Helms
Foundation award and was considered
one of the most valuable members of
the Los Angeles ball club.
What's this about the senior leadman
of Dept. 401 losing his poise and dig-
nity ? It seems he borrowed someone's
motorcycle to go for a ride and ended
up crashing through a board fence and
running into a neighbor's house.
Depts. 221 and 227 second shift, put
on a buffet dinner dance at the Wood-
land Hills country club Sunday, Oct. 12 .
The affair started with the finals in the
golf tournament being played at 1 p.m.
By 6 o'clock all the party had arrived
and everything was perking along mer-
rily, what with dancing and stuff, and
at 8 o'clock the buffet dinner was
served and was, Togically enough, en-
joyed immensely. Generally speaking, I
could starve to death by 8 o'clock. When
the trophies for the golf tournament
were awarded, Jimmy Feitshans , Dept.
227, received first prize ; Pete Mowry,
Dept. 221 , second ; Bud Gentry, Dept.
221 , was given the consolation prize ;
and Ronny Hanson was awarded a
special prize of a box of "Wheaties ."
The door prizes were won by Fred
Russell, coordinating supervisor of the
two departments (whereupon every-
body yelled, "Frame-up-") Ed Jones,
Dept. 221 ; Tex Fowler, Dept. 227 ; and
Eleanor Hardin, a guest of Jerry Bowen,
Dept. 227. Roger Walton, Dept. 221 third
shift, won the portable Philco radio and
very graciously presented it to his part-
ner, Janice White, of purchasing. After
that, dancing was resumed until the
wee small hours.
More news from Dept. 401 : It is
rumored around that Richard Vevia is
planning on getting married some time
soon... Leroy Brown is making plans
to go to Ottumwa, Iowa, to visit his
folks. . . Don Downs also plans to get
married in the near future. . . Don and
William Will spent a recent weekend
with friends in San Francisco , where
they saw the Santa Clara- California
football game. . . B. G. Dowell left for
Kansas City October 9 ; he will be gone
15 days and it looks like a honeymoon.
L. R. McWilliams has returned to
work after spending four weeks in the
hospital as the result of an auto acci-
dent. He suffered a fractured skull , a
foot broken in six places, and bad cuts.
Taken as a whole , it sounds as though
he had done a darn good job... Jim
Horton and A. L. Jones went trout fish-
ing not long ago. They say they had
NIGHT SHIFT
a good time, but give no report on the
number of fish caught. . . Paul Mullis
returned October 13 from a two week's
business and pleasure trip to Union ,
Nebr. Nice to see the old home town
again, says he... Joe Trojan is begin-
ning to wonder what the score is. In
the last issue I mentioned that Joe's
wife had gone home to mother. Joe said
it was for a two week's vacation. Now
Joe is beginning to worry. At the time
of this writing , she has not yet re-
turned. . . A. B. Carpenter is entertain-
ing his parents, who came all the way
from Memphis, Tenn., to see him.
J. W. Eveland bought himself an air-
plane. It's a Porterfield two-place cabin
plane.
About the most unusual gathering to
come to my attention in a long time
fell to the lot of Dept. 653 recently,
when Paul Plummer brought in from
his Tarzana ranch a load of water-
melons and invited the night crew of
653 to a watermelon feast after work.
The orgy occurred, of all places, in the
Douglas parking lot. Paul states that
his ranch supplies him also with wal-
nuts and other assorted nuts, figs ; and
he plans to put in citrus in the near
future. Amazing sight : Cecil Mc-
Clure astounding the 651 second shift
natives with his version of the Missouri
Charleston. . . I don't quite get the
connection, but when Jeff Wilcoxson, of
Dept. 651 , celebrated his twenty-first
birthday recently, he began cultivating
his first moustache. . . Louie B. Miller,
of Dept. 653, went deer hunting not
long ago, but failed to get anything
but a few frozen toes. . . Brief visitors
in Dept. 651 were Jimmy Fergus and
Ed Colwell, now of the Tulsa Project .
They flew in from San Diego
and gave out the information that they
were leaving next morning for Detroit
to be stationed at the Ford factory in
connection with the bomber work to be
done at the Douglas Tulsa plant.
Have you ever been aroused from a
perfectly good sleep by a blast from
Johnny's horn when he drives up and
wants Maudie right now ? Most discon-
certin', isn't it ? Well, give a thought
to a letter we received from an unhappy
homeowner, from which we quote : "Will
you remind those men who ride to
work with another driver that the rider
should be ready and watching for his
friend ? . . Each morning at 7 a.m. and
each midnight our neighborhood is a
series of horn-blasts. Even one toot from
each arriving car would be enough to
awaken all those who are yet asleep ,
but just one toot is not enough; there
must be a group of toots, given twice
or even three times from each car, ac-
cording to the impatience of the driver.
They are definitely a nuisance, these
noise-making horn-blowers !" This is not
good, my friends. Restrain that im-
pulse !
When foolish drivers start their tooting ,
Would-be sleepers think of shooting.
PAGE THIRTY- SEVEN
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orter
Report
Rambling Rep
Open House and Dedication Day have
come and gone, with so much written
about them by the press and in this Air-
view that we are sure you have all
read about it by now. So the only sig-
nificant point this reporter wants to
bring you is that among all the crowds
who saw and admired our new "arsenal
of democracy," not a mishap occurred.
Perhaps a few people fainted but we
want to say that they were smart. They
were taken to the new dispensary and
that is really something.
We didnt faint, but managed to get
into the dispensary and obtained the
following facts : The doctor in charge
is Dr. M. L. Loomis and from his fine
record it seems that Dr. C. E. Rooney,
head of Douglas medical staff has
chosen a very able man. Also showing
good judgment — Mrs. C. "Campi"
Campiglia, coordinating head of nurses,
chose Mrs. K. L. Hargrove to head the
nursing staff at Long Beach. It was
she who proudly displayed the well
equipped operating room capable of
taking care of any emergency opera-
tion- two receiving rooms with three
beds for men, three for women; the
physiotherapy department ; sterilizing
room ; medical and clinical laboratory
and the examination room for eye, ear,
nose and throat work. It is here that
the would-be inspectors get their eyes
examined and they certainly have to
have good eyes- no bland remarks
about "what chart ?" when asked to,
"read the bottom line, please." The
equipment is so scientific that an in-
MEDAL for heroism was awarded Bob
Thomas for rescue at sea. Plant Man-
ager Howard Houghton congratulates.
PAGE THIRTY- EIGHT
... Long
by Margaret Ball
spector really knows his eyes are good
when he is released with an O.K.
This modern small hospital also has
a complete X-ray room. This is per-
haps the most expensive part of the
equipment.
We all want to stay healthy- but if a
cough hangs on, or if a small accident
occurs which may seem trivial to you
-don't delay, see the nurse in your
nearest dispensary. Douglas wants its
personnel in as near perfect condition
as possible and it surely seems that the
company has done its part in providing
such a splendid staff with up-to-the-
minute equipment .
News of the Month
Since the bards of old sang the
praises of such heros as Horatius to the
present time when thousands of words
are being written about the RAF, per-
sons who have done something outside of
their own line of duty have been news.
We only wish we knew the right words
to express how very proud we are of
Bob Thomas, production control depart-
ment, who on August 10 risked his life
to save the life of three-year-old Leon
Polley, alone in a driverless speedboat.
Bob and friends were at Anaheim land-
ing sunning themselves on the beach
when a speedboat jumped a wave,
throwing the two men operating it out
into the water. Bob's quick eyes saw
the tiny head of little Leon bob up for
a second and although the boat was
racing in circles, completely out of
control, he dived into the surf and
swam for the boat. His first try for
the boat failed and in the meantime the
father of the little boy tried also and
was cut by the propeller. Bob jumped
again and caught the boat- he is so
modest we can't get him to tell any
more details but he did climb aboard
and shut off the motor.
He said the baby was screaming at
the top of his lungs, but when the boat
stopped, he stopped too and baby smiles
broke through the tears. To us, and we
imagine to our hero too, that was re-
ward enough, but the Wellman Valor
committee of San Francisco thought
otherwise. On September 14 Bob was
awarded the Wellman Valor Gold Medal
and a special broadcast was held in
his honor. Can we say more ? Except
that we feel great pride that he is one
of us.
Wedding Bells
Betty Smith, of the Air Corps office
was married on September 5 to "Chuck"
Eldridge of North American at the
Figueroa Chapel in Los Angeles . They
Beach Plant
went to Big Bear for their honeymoon.
Seems these girls can't resist aircraft
men-if they don't marry a Douglas
man they bring ' em back alive from
some other plant-well, more power to
you, Betty, we think aircraft men the
"tops" too.
At last! the second shift breaks into
print. Ye Scribe spent a whole evening
trotting around the north forty round-
ing up news and was sorry to hear so
many night-forcers had sent in news to
various and sundry places but not the
right ones. Anyway, better late than
never- it brought to light the marriage
of Cody Morrow, Dept. 811 , to Miss
Florine Peterson in Yuma, Ariz. on
August 23. They are living in Santa
Ana, and they have our blessing.
Dept. 811 come these-
Also from the second shift and also
Dept. 811 comes these-
New Stork Items
Three proud papas are Keith Kavan-
augh and Phil Anderson with baby boys
and Earnest Lopp with a baby girl. How
one department bore up under three
babies at once-all born around the
last of July and first of August- is more
than we can understand. Now the
daddys are comparing their pride-and
joy's weights which all seem to be
about 13 pounds. We'll bet the boys
exchange recipes and formulas.
And, speaking of babies, this Dept.
811 still stays in the news. This time
it is a very different kind of baby
though. On October 8 at the ranch of
A. E. Davey was born Piniwino, a sorrel
colt out of Princess ; sired by Sir Barney
who is owned by C. Reyes, Dept. 634.
The mother is part Arabian and the
father one of the Morgan breed of fa-
mous western range horses . We hope
to hear about this Piniwino some day
winning the Santa Anita handicap .
Back to the day shift, and Jean Delp,
Dept. 265 sends in this contribution. A.
Miller Smith, assistant purchasing
agent, became the father of a 7 pound
14 ounce son on October 1 at the Santa
Monica hospital. The addition has been
named Miller Bryan Smith- and to look
at the new father one would think no
one had ever had a son before. He has
been telling everyone all along that he
wanted a girl- but definitely. However,
upon being asked whether it was a boy
or girl said. "Why, a son, of course,
what did you expect ?" Also Brian Kent
Crawford, 9 pounds 1 ounce, was born
October 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Craw-
ford, Dept. 634.
Sports
The inspection department's bowling
league had a gala premier Oct. 1 at the
Downey Bowling alleys. W. L. "Pat"
Hagerty, as general manager had ten
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DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 SHOP SUGGESTION
THE Suggestion department has
voted the A award of $ 15.00 for this
month to G. A. (Gerry ) Gray of
department 36. The award was made.
for the very practical and usable idea
of combining wire cable spikes and
pliers. This eliminates the picking up
and laying dawn of an extra tool , thus
increasing by four the number of splices
a splicer may complete in a day. The
suggestion was well received by Gray's
fellow workmen for every splicer in the
department now uses the combination
splicer's tool.
Gray has received three awards,
which according to Fred Meyer, head
of the Shop Suggestion department will
be added to his personnel file record.
Gerry Gray stated, "I am very glad
to know that the company has given me
the recognition both in my personnel
record and in the monetary awards but
to me the greatest satisfaction is in
being able to increase not only my
own, but my department's output.
Donald Douglas Tells Officers First
Job Is to Help Every Worker
THE big job of the plant protection
officers of the Douglas Aircraft com-
pany is to help every worker in the
plant and their task of guarding the
plant against damage is secondary.
This was the first lesson learned this
month in a new series of classes begun
by the Education department for plant
protection officers. The first lesson con-
sisted of a lecture to the entire force
delivered by President Donald W.
Douglas.
"Plant protection is one of the most
important of our departments," Mr.
Douglas told them. "Without a plant
to operate in we are out of business.
You fellows have the responsibility to
see that we do not lose our plant due
to the usual reasons such as fire and
riot.
"But you can be more valuable to us
while doing all this if you always re-
member that you are more than Police
-in fact I hope you never think of
yourselves as police. You are really the
representatives of the management. You
are guarding and protecting the prop
OCTOBER ... 1941
AWARDS
These suggestions have also made our
days work lighter,"
It is commendable to note the names
which appear regularly and often more
than once in each month's award list.
The following is a list of employes
who have received recognition for
Shop Suggestions submitted during the
month of August, 1941 :
A AWARD
G. A. Gray, 36-9 cable splicing pliers
with special spike.
B AWARD
E. A. Boles, 28-905, special stamp for
extrusion stock.
C AWARDS
Victor M. Ferris, 13-57, Wing dolly
for DB-7 and A- 20 ; Victor M. Ferris,
13-57, assemby chart board ; John Cur-
lett, 56-32, protector valve for hylraulic
test system, John Curlett, 56-32 Nose GERRY GRAY wins $15 for his de-
snubber and test velopment of cable splicing pliers.
wheel bleeding
machine ; A. E. Nelson, 95-62, valve for
routers and radial arm drills ; A. E. 5-79, tool for flanging joggles ; J. G.
Nelson, 95-62, New bolt thread cleaning Steinle, 5-34, radic cutter and burring
machine ; Frank E. Moore, 24-108, tool ; Herbert Hall, 5-263 , universal
essential condensation of aircraft fin- flared hole sizes ; B. N. Tompkins, 38-
ishes ; Austin Jones, 5-63, Hydraulic 764, attachment to Sta-kon machine for
press form block ; V. H. Basmussen, stripping wire insulations.
have tackled for the defense of this
country and all the democracie.
"And while doing all these things
calmly, loyally and effectively , you
will find you can be of still further
erty the management has been intrust- value to the Government , the company,
ed with by the Government and by its the fine American workers here, and
stockholders. You are guarding and yourselves, if you will remember that
protecting the lives and well being of you are on the job, not so much to
the vast army of workers which the catch some troublemaker at his trade,
Government and the management have as to help every worker in the plant.
asked to do the tremendous job we • Concluded on Page Forty
C
Donald Douglas was first lecturer at new plant protection classes
PAGE THIRTY- NINE

Africa
• Concluded from Page Nineteen
in the thorn thickets at the mountain
bases the black rhinos browsed on the
tender leaves or stood dozing in the
shade . At night when the first stars
appeared Hoefler noted that a strange
hush came over the veldt, then an un-
easy stirring, and when the gentle
breezes had brushed away the lingering
waves of heat, then the lords of the
night came forth from their cool lairs
in the dongas to hunt and kill.
Eyes that come and go in the camp-
fire's glare, the smell of coffee , of fry-
ing buck liver and bacon, the deep-
throated roar of the lion , the coughing
of leopards, the yapping of jackals and
the mournful laughing cry of the
hyena, these are the things that spell
the romance of an African night.
Hoefler's main objective throughout
his long trek in Central Africa was to
film the wild animal life, to do justice
to them and the natives in their African
haunts. With this in mind Hoefler in-
vaded the jungles with sound cameras
and merged with a film of epic propor-
tions. He produced the great and most
unusual film "Africa Speaks" and
later, upon his return, wrote the best
seller book by the same name .
Picture shots of lions were taken at
amazingly close range. This film
"Africa Speaks" was without doubt the
greatest motion picture of jungle ex-
ploit and adventure ever taken.
Hoefler entered the Ituri forest of the
Belgian congo and located the Ifi pig-
mies. One hundred of these little peo-
ple were located. They clustered about
Hoefler as he worked at the typewriter,
they stood there by the hour without
a single sound. Like children they stood
and gazed, marvelling at the wonderous
thing that made a clicking sound and
strange odd looking marks one after
another over a blank white surface .
The tallest of these pygmies mea-
sured by Hoefler was fifty- seven inches
and the shortest fifty inches. They
rarely weigh more than seventy-five
pounds. They were not very fastidious
about their food, for Paul found such
tidbits as snakes, lizards, beetles and
grubs all being boiled together.
The pygmies have practiced com-
panionate marriage for centuries- long
before Judge Lindsay was ever heard
of. If a marriage doesn't take after a
year's tryout, they start all over again
with a new wife. No pygmy is allowed
more than one wife at a time, except
PAGE FORTY
the King . He gets two for safety's sake
-to insure a son and future King.
Far into the interior the party made
side trips to the Sara river region
where Hoefler located the giants of the
Wasari tribe, great towering blackmen
of the jungle, few being less than six
feet in height.
In a remote section of this region
they found the strange village of Kiya
Be. It is here that disc-lipped Ubangi
women live . The custom of inserting
wooden discs in the lips was com-
menced as part of a plan to save their
tribe from extermination . Without this
disfigurement they are the finest look-
black women
women in their part of
ing black
Africa . Behind this fact lies the reason
for all the woes of the clan . In the
days of slave raiding, when Arab bands
swept out of the desert in their quest of
black ivory, they never failed to call
upon this tribe. Because of their ex-
ceptional beauty these women brought
the highest prices on the slave markets.
Baby girls were taken and the men were
killed until the tribe was nearly wiped
out. The discs were used in the pierced
lips of the young girls to discourage
the stealing of them. The stretching of
the pierced lip begins when the girl is
a baby and continues year after year
until the wooden hoops reach as much
as 10 inches in diameter.
The expedition endured many hard-
ships after leaving this strange village
of Kiya Be, before they eventually
reached their destination at Lagos,
Nigeria, where on July 30, 1929, they
crept slowly over the ancient bridge
to complete the first trans- African
journey.
Bowline Bites
• Concluded from Page Twenty-eight
ties for the benefit of the eagle's plight.
He first considered the medicine chest
for an antidote but to get near enough
to his talon-ted friend to administer
aid he might find himself clawed and
torn . Next he decided to take the eagle
for a sail and perhaps get him seasick
for relief to the over- loaded craw . To
get his fine feathered chum aboard was
going to be difficult.
Suddenly Harold struck upon the
solution . He rowed ashore and ap-
proached the grounded flyer. He told
the bird he would see to it that there
the draft board . The eagle was SO
the draught-board. The eagle was SO
elated that he took off with great ease
as soon as his feathers were dry.
Plant Protection
• Concluded from Page Thirty-nine
It takes good-will between men work-
ing on a common task to get the best
results, and in this troubled world to-
day we must have only the best re-
sults. The plant protection service has
probably the best opportunity of any
group here to help instill and main-
tain good-will among all our men. You
are contacting our workers every day.
I wish I could have your opportunities
to do this. Since I cannot , I ask you
to regard yourselves as my personal
representatives in this regard, and
make it one of your first considerations
always to see that your contacts with
the men you meet and mix with here,
are pleasant contacts. Be courteous and
helpful to everyone here, from the
plant manager down to the lowest
grease monkey. By your actions and
words with the workers , let it always
be plain to them that you are their
friends and not their keepers. Let them
know you are protecting them, their
jobs, their well being, their safety ;
that you are helping them protect your
country when you guard against any
danger. Let it be your word to our
men that it is mainly to protect them
and us from outside dangers that you
are always vigilant.
"When and if you run into the ex-
ceptional case of apprehending an em-
ploye in some infraction of good con-
duct, be sure you conduct yourselves
with dignity, as I know you will, with
firmness, to the end that others in your
vicinity are impressed with your fine
actions rather than to be given the idea
that you are gleefully " putting the bee"
on some rascal.
"Take no part in any discussions for
or against labor organizations while
either on or off duty.
"I will never ask you to be a so-
called labor spy, so be careful by your
attitude that men do not believe you to
be one. Your uniform is one to be
proud of. It is to distinguish you from
the hordes of ununiformed men in order
that you may be found quickly when
needed. It is a mark of respect for
law and order. Your fine actions can
add to the pride of your calling ; your
respect for the feelings of others will
gain you respect, and your loyalty and
efficiency will bring you the satisfac
tion of doing a big part well, in the
big job we all have here."
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

D.A.C. Activities
Concluded from Page Thirty-three
Segundo employees on all shifts received
them .
With an eye to the future they'll
lay plans for the prospective second
Minstrel Show. It'll be a celebration
-yes, that we know!
The chorus is now open to Douglas
employes from all divisions . Rehearsals
are held each Monday night, 7:30, at
the Miles playhouse located on Eighth
and Wilshire in Santa Monica, so if
you're a singer, visit them then and
there.
Vacationers Bring Back
Many Fine Movies
Vacations are all over now, but the
memories will still be fresh all through
the winter for members of the Douglas
Cinema club who came back from all
parts of the country with many movies
of all types in both black and white
and color.
J. H. Seeley returned from Tulsa with
pictures of the construction of the new
Tulsa plant and nearby Pensacola Dam.
Fred A. Kemp, not satisfied with a
single trip, has taken many and from
them has compiled a travelogue which
would give to any man the itching foot.
Sports . . E.S.
Concluded from Page Thirty-four
name. Four newcomers to bowling ,
Pollok, Bremer, Cobine, and Robinson
are coming along strong. The boys have
been lucky to meet strong teams on off
nights , and are not at all hopeful of
maintaining their present clip of 15
wins and one setback. Foster Evans is off
in second place. His 170 average shows
much improvement over last year.
Walter Wilson, Ed Bentley, Bill Long,
Joe Barfoot, Ed Thrall, and Jack Ham-
mil are other old standbys of the Engi-
neers who are again up there with good
averages. Several familiar faces around
El Segundo are taking up the sports of
bowling with encouraging results. Gene
Vedder, Hank Hummel, Nate Carhart,
and Otto Wendt are among those
getting limbered up.
Wrestling
Ben Sherman, the globe trotting mat
wizard from Dept. 63 ran into a pack
of trouble recently when Myron Cox ,
the Venice lifeguard, met him in the
Arena.
As usual Sherman was going along
in command of the situation when he
elected to pick up Mr. Cox on his
shoulders and pack him to some destina-
tion doubtless intended to be unpleas-
ant. He might have done all right,
too, except that he forgot to remember
how very large Mr. Cox is in all of
his dimensions .
This caused Mr. Ben Sherman to fall
as a column, whereupon the lifeguard
siezed the remains and flung them into
OCTOBER ... 1941
the first row of chairs . Ben clambered
gamely back, but he was severely dam-
aged about one leg by the impact, and
could not help being putty in the hands
of the fresher party, Mr. Cox, who won
the affair handily thereafter.
Two weeks later both lunch hour
crowds were treated to a showing of
Dan O'Mahony, former world's heavy-
weight champ, who is familiar to any
patron of the Ocean Park cards. This
huge mass of power and agility made
short work of two adversaries, Myron
Cox and Hank Metheny of Santa
Monica. He got falls on each with his
famous "Irish Whip", and then toyed
with them until the final bell . The
crowd greatly enjoyed seeing Hank
Methany being seated against his will
on the mat, and later being shaken
down in the opposite direction by skill-
ful application of a head scissors .
This page has at times made light of
some of the boxing shows carded in our
Arena, but that is understandable in
view of the difficulty of obtaining good
glove talent. It is different in wrest-
ling, and Ken Kirk deserves an assort-
ment of plaudits for the calibre of
matches he has been staging.
Softball
Both El Segundo entries in the Los
Angeles Softball Tournament had their
hopes dashed in the first round of play.
It was a successful season despite these
tournament setbacks, especially since
both teams had been newly organized
only last spring.
Rambling Reporter .. L.B.
• Concluded from Page Thirty- eight
teams lined up on the stroke of nine to
start some very keen competition.
George Tulloch (even in that sporty
atmosphere still the best-dressed man
in the plant ) rolled the first ball and
the game was on. Now the boys have
settled down to some serious bowling
so better watch out, S. M. and E. S.
They may take you on.
Michael Welsh, production control
supervisor, Bldg. No. 1 as manager and
captain of the Earl Charlston's softball
team takes the limelight this month too .
His team won the Santa Monica bay
district championship and the team is
composed of all Douglas men. The team
was presented with a bronze plaque and
each member of the team with a stream-
lined lighter all engraved and stuff. It
didn't take a lighter though for Mike's
face to light-up when talking about his
"boys" he is sure proud of them. And
rightly too!
Here's that inspection department
again! They really get around- this
time on a fishing trip. Thirty of the
boys chartered a boat out of Newport
in September to fish below San Clemente
for barracuda and white sea bass .
Some of the fellows had some right
good luck J. K. Walker won the pot
with a 36 pound bass. None of them
came home empty handed and if you
want to hear about the " big ones that
got away" see any of the following :
Dale Mills, Ray Henion, R. R. Ebersold,
Dick Jenssen, Art Southstone, Eddie
Duck or A. M. Taylor.
Parties
When Irene Landry of planning an-
nounced that she was leaving the plant
after spending nearly ten years with
Douglas the girls got together and gave
her a dinner at the Britony Kitchen in
Long Beach. Gertie Majors, Dept. 622,
gathered together a really representa-
tive, group of Irene's friends . The din-
her was a complete surprise as were the
gifts put on her plate along with the
dessert. The comical thing was, Irene
had turned around to talk to someone
and didn't see the gifts, so turned back
to eat and nearly spooned a box. Every-
one was sorry to see her go- she will
long be remembered.
Production control department had a
party at the Army and Navy club on
Oct. 18 honoring Bill Vorderkunz and
his bride of a week. She was formerly
Miss June Eaton of South Pasadena and
he couldn't have chosen a lovlier girl.
The entire group at the party was
captivated by her charm and the party
was a great success.
Round and About
Virginia Wilson, Dept. 24 , left the
plant on September 26 to marry one of
the Douglas Santa Monica boys. We
didn't get his name but we did get to
see the beautiful presents given them
by the department. The boys got to-
gether and presented them with a pair
of lamps with very modernistic bases
made of wood and the girls , being more
practical, gave them a wool blanket.
V. W. Cazel, Dept. 27, gave a talk be-
fore the American Association of In-
dustrial Engineers at the Long Beach
Junior College on Oct. 1. His subject
was a review of the Taylor Society up
to the present use of industrial en-
gineering in aircraft defense programs .
He stressed the importance of leader-
ship in industry but urged the college
men of today not to leave school due
to the demand for workers but rather
to finish their education in order to
meet the demand of the future.
Photos by ...
All photographs by Douglas Aircraft com-
pany unless otherwise noted.
Chief Photographers
Roy L. Johnson, Santa Monica
Harold G. Jackson , El Segund
Jack Freeman, Long Beach
Staff Photographers
Ray Hoskins Harry Merrick
Royal Wright Frank Enkosky
Ernest Ludwick Paul King
Paul Chalmers
Page 8 (upper left ) Long Beach Press-Tele-
gram
Page 8, 9 (background) Dick Whittington
Page 16 (lower) Hawaiian Airlines
Page 17 · (lower) Hawaiian Airlines
Page 18, 19 Paul Hoefler
Page 20, 21 , 22 Larry Kronquist
Page 26 Acme
Page 28 Al Adams
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Dedication
• Concluded from Page Six
shadows over distant lands grew longer objectives and progress are being re-
and more ominous, the goals of yester-
day were changed and enlarged to the
needs of the hous, and thus it trans-
pired that as we stand here.today, un- operating the great air fleets now being
der the new symbol of democracy's
arsenal, to dedicate one great new pro-
duction unit, we are also setting in moThe story they will tell is, indeed,
tion the machinery for building an-
other of equal size and importance.
"To me it seems that this, more than
anything I or any of us could say,
typifies the courage and determination
of this country to face the dangers and
the duties of tomorrow in the spirit in
which the men and women who made
America what it is, faced and con-
quered the dangers and obstacles in
their march to national unity and
greatness.
"The job which lies ahead cannot be
done by one individual, one company,
one city or one state. It is a job for all
of us. The craftsman and the engineer,
the executive and the laborer, tech-
nician and accountant, all must work
in cooperation with each other, as one
unit. Each unit, in turn , becomes a cog
in the giant national wheel of produc-
tion so graphically symbolized in the
Arsenal of Democracy banner above
our heads.
"Into these new defense structures
will come a constant stream of parts
and materials from every corner of
the land. Just as on this platform to-
day are gathered loyal American citi-
zens from every state in the union, so
will there come to us from the states
they represent an endless rain of wings
and engines, propellers and landing
gears, parts, metals and supplies.
"Alabama, Arizona and Arkansas
will send us aluminum, copper and
cotton. Colorado and Connecticut will
send us lead and machine tools. Illi-
nois, Indiana and Iowa will contribute
steel, magnesium and zinc, and so on
down the line of the entire list. While
from every state in the union men and
women have come and will come, to
join the great army of Douglas work-
ers whose skill, devotion , and determi-
nation will assemble and fashion these
parts and products into wings of de-
fense superior to any in the world.
"This is the way in which America
has always solved her problems. This,
I promise you, is the way we, in our
PAGE FORTY -TWO
own organization, will attempt to solve
ours. This is the American way.
"Others on this platform are better
qualified to tell you how our national
corded from coast to coast. To them
has been entrusted the tremendous task
of organizing, training, directing and
assembled by American workers and
American industry.
an inspiring one. To us it gives ample
promise that the job we have under-
taken here and in our plants at Santa
Monica and El Segundo, California,
and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, can and will
be done .
"I know I speak for every man and
woman in the army of 35,000 Douglas
employes, an army soon to reach the
total of 75,000-when I pledge to you,
our honored guests, and to you , men
and women of America, the full meas-
ure of our energies, abilities and de-
votion. In return we ask that Ameri-
cans everywhere continue to give us
their support and confidence. We will
not halt or falter. We will not pause
to quibble or question . That is not the
American way. Difficulties will be en-
countered, disappointments and dis-
comforts may be our lot, but we will
carry on, for to us a job has been
given ; by us, with your help, the job
will be done.
"There is no other way. There is no
turning back. Individually we may
disagree-as a nation we cannot be
divided. One hundred and thirty mil-
lion Americans in this land, and count-
less millions elsewhere, depend on us.
We must not fail.
"America aroused is America united,
and America united is America in-
vincible."
F ull Speed Ahead
Full
• Concluded from Page Eleven
administrative committee comprised of
representatives of Boeing, Vega, the
United States Army Air Corps, and
Douglas.
Much of the equipment used through
out the plant has been built to special
design . Two six- sided hydraulic presses,
each of 2500 tons pressure capacity,
have been installed. On each of their
six sides is an electrically-operated
loading table, enabling these presses to
operate smoothly and swiftly as the
press stamps and forms more sheet
metal airplane parts than any presses
of their size ever built.
All potentially hazardous conditions
have been eliminated for the safety of
the employes . Every possible protective
device has been installed on equipment
and guards against unsafe practices are
continually being studied by the plant's
safety engineer.
By the timely construction of this
vast new Douglas Long Beach plant
another great chapter is unfolded in
the Douglas company's 20-year- old
story of enterprise and determination
to build the world's best in aircraft.
Rambling Reporter E.S.
• Concluded from Page Thirty-five
59 and Norm Heath, assistant in charge
of Dept. 40, did not show up for work.
Also missing were a couple of young
ladies from the personnel department .
A telephone call from Heath in the early
morning explained the mystery, much
to the relief of all concerned . It seems
that their 19 foot speedboat was not
adequate to cope with the heavy sea in
the Catalina channel when they were
attempting to cross back to the main-
land , so they were forced to return to
the Isthmus. All is well again, though,
as they showed up for work bright and
early Tuesday morning.
On the Back Cover
Preserve Your Liberty
Conserve Material
PRESERVATION and conservation are
two words closely united in thought
and meaning, especially in these tur-
bulent days of world unrest. America
has been founded on liberty and it is
up to every American to do his utmost
to guarantee these ideals for future
Americans .
At this point the question probably
arises, "Where does the conserve ma-
terial come in ?"
The answer to this question is just
this : planes, tanks, ships, guns, and
other equipment are needed . This being
the case, it is up to us as individuals
to produce these necessary items in as
large quantities as possible . To insure
quantity output we must be supplied
the necessary material and, of course, it
follows that conservation of this ma
terial is necessary when suppliers are
hard put to meet demands. Shortages
and waste are to be constantly guarded
against if the battle of production is
to be successful .
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Published by the CONTENTS

Department of Industrial and
Public Relations TWO GOOD ARMIES GET TOGETHER 4
Douglas Aircraft Company
YOU FLY 'EM WE'LL BUILD ' EM - 8

A. M. ROCHLEN TULSA PROGRESS · 10

Director
PARTNERSHIP PRODUCTION 12
JACK G. ANDERSON
Assistant LINES OF DEFENSE · · 14

FREDERIC C. COONRADT PRESS PREVIEW · 16

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WITH DOUGLAS AROUND THE WORLD
Associates
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Contributors to This Issue BOWLINE BITES ·
MARGARET BALL ENID KIEBURTZ
DON BLACK CLYDE KINTZ DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB SPORTS · 24
NED CRAWFO RD JACK LESTER
ROGER DEVLIN BERT D. LYNN
H. BRADLEY JONES DARRELL D. MARKS DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB ACTIVITIES 25
PATRICIA KELLY FRANK OPDYKE
SPORTS .. EL SEGUNDO PLANT · 26
COVER: Part of America's armies
of defense-men and women of the RAMBLING REPORTER ... EL SEGUNDO PLANT - 27
Douglas company Santa Monica plant
at a program put on by United States RAMBLING REPORTER • SANTA MONICA PLANT · 28
Army officers (see page 4 ) . From a
kodachrome by Don Black.
RUNNING LIGHTS ON THE NIGHT SHIFT · 29

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pany, Inc., Santa Monica, California. Cable ad .
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to Douglas Airview, Santa Monica, Calif. Copy-
right 1941 by Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc. SHOP SUGGESTION AWARDS 31

NOW IS THE TIME

"Now is the time to do that job, " was the message brought and honestly, with confidence and gratitude in our hearts
to the great Douglas army of production workers a few days that fear, hate and oppression have no place in America.
ago by officers of the War Department at Washington. Now is the time, as the holiday season approaches, to
"You can build planes better and faster than the workers be thankful for our country, our freedom and institutions,
of any other nation in the world," . . . they said to us . “ In
to pledge ourselves anew to their defense, each in his job
a competition between production by slaves and production and to the best of his ability, come what may.
by free men, free men will win."
The fine record of airplanes built and delivered by you
and
your fellow workers in our plants is our answer to this
stirring plea. I am counting on you to make that answer
ring clearer and louder as the months go by.
Now, indeed, is the time to do the job, -to do it gladly

NOVEMBER ... 1941 PAGE THREE

TWO GOOD ARMIES
GET TOGETHER
From beneath defense plant banner U. S. Army officers spoke words of encouragement and praise to Santa Monica workers.
WO great American armies met
TWO
face to face this month at Santa
Monica and El Segundo plants of the
Douglas Aircraft company.
There were smiles of welcome, not
battle scowls, on the faces of the two
armies, however, for the meeting was
a social and educational affair, a friend-
ly meeting between the production
army of Douglas workmen and the
fighting men of the United States
Army.
The fighting men , including a gener-
al, a colonel, several majors and cap-
tains, a couple of dozen lieutenants
Twelve thousand men and women, the entire day shift, assembled outside the big hangar to hear Army speakers.
DEFENSE
PLANT
PARTOF THE
ARSENAL
CRACY
and some noncommissioned officers,
came to the Douglas plants to get ac-
quainted with the men and women who
work here and with the production of
the airplanes being built here.
That a great deal of the first part of
the objective of the visitors was ob
tained is
is amply demonstrated by the the
candid camera photographs on pages
8 and 9. Success of the second objec-
tive was attested to by Brig. Gen. Wil-
liam Ord Ryan, commander of the
party.
"This group of Army visitors," said
General Ryan, "is probably gaining
far more knowledge as to what con-
stitutes an airplane than they could
possibly have learned in months and
years of actually flying these planes.
Consequently, we all feel particularly
fortunate to be here."
The visit of the officers and men was
part of a series of such tours through
aircraft and defense plants throughout
the nation to help weld into one in-
vincible unit two of America's defense
forces.
This necessary unity between the
two forces was stressed by Lt. Col.
A. Robert Ginsburgh, aide to the Un-
More than 3000 El Segundo workers from day and second shifts heard the Army men at airplane storage yard at the plant.

der Secretary of War, at talks he gave
before the assembled workmen at the
two plants. A transcription of his ad-
dress and that of General Ryan was
played later for shifts not on duty dur-
ing the program.
"When I opened my remarks," said
Colonel Ginsburgh, "I addressed you
as 'fellow soldiers of national de-
fense' . That is exactly what you are,
all of you, men and women both . We
in the Army are the soldiers on the
firing line ; you in this Douglas plant
are the soldiers of the production line.
We are the military force ; you are
the industrial force. Together we make
up a team, a team in which we are en-
tirely dependent on each other. If you
fail us we become an army without
arms. If we fail you, you become toil-
ers without freedom. If we in the Army
and you in the factories work together
loyally and wholeheartedly, America
will remain free and unconquerable.
"I came here from Washington to
tell you, in the name of the Under-
Secretary of War, Robert P. Patter-
son, that we in the Army cannot get
along without you in the factories,
without every one of you, no matter
what your particular job may be.
"The Army and Navy need the planes
you make here, we need more and more,
we need them as fast as we can get
them. We need them because America
today is in grave danger. Our security
is threatened . The Nazis' scheme to
conquer the world includes our own
United States. Hitler has begun to
move in on us. Our merchant ships
flying the American flag , have been
sunk; our warships have been attack-
ed ; American lives have been lost.
There should be no doubt in anyone's
mind of our grave danger today. We

"Fellow soldiers," was the greeting used by Lt.-Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh in addressing assembled Douglas workers.
 WELCOME to the Army on its visit to Santa Monica was
given by Donald W. Douglas at program at the big hangar.
must prepare at once, and yours is the
first job. Before we can begin to make
sure of our safety we must have planes,
and the kind of planes that you are
making here in the Douglas plant.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you are Am-
erican workmen . You are, therefore,
the most skilled, the best trained and
the greatest producing workers in the
world. In the long pull nobody can
equal you. Under American production
methods you can build planes better
and faster than the workers of any
other nation in the world. And now
is the time to do that job.
"Those fighting the Nazis need aid,
and they need it desperately. It is up
to us to give it to them. While they
fight, the Axis powers are kept busy.
and so long as they are busy they can-
not move in on the western hemisphere.
"Now we must give aid to England
and Russia and China because these
people are fighting our fight. Of course
we admire their guts . But we help
them not merely because we admire
them. We help them because while
they continue to fight we have time to
Thirty-six flyers, technicians and Army experts were in visitors' party accompanied by officers from Santa Monica, El Segundo.
PAGE SIX
TWO ARMIES, military and industrial, will keep America
free and unconquerable, said Lt.-Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh.
prepare. We need time to get ready
and England, Russia and China are
giving us the time we so badly need ...
"When Germany started out against
Russia in June she had nine million
men in her army. Think of that ! -Nine
million men. We have a million and a
half men and not the full equipment
for them. If Germany beats Russia,
and England too, then she has the po-
tential capacity of production for
twenty million men.
"That, ladies and gentlemen, is what
America is now up against. Russia and
England cannot produce enough ma-
terial to defeat Germany. That is why
the picture is so dark today. But Rus-
sia and England and America-we can
outproduce Germany. And there is a
brighter side to the picture. In a com-
petition between production by slaves
and production by free men, free men
will win.
"Ladies and gentlemen , this is a war
of production . It will not be won on
battlefields . It will be won in machine
shops. It will be won in airplane fac-
tories. It will be won in plants like
this one here. It will be won through
the efforts of our American workers. In
England and Russia the workers lead
the attack against the Nazis .
"Workmen everywhere know that
they are among the first of Hitler's vic-
tims. Hitler knows that he cannot af
ford to have free labor in his country.
He knows the voice of workers is the
voice of tolerance. That is why he al-
ways degrades workers into slaves. Am-
erican workers know that if the Nazis
come, our standards of living will fall,
our right to say what we please and
do what we please will disappear for-
ever. Workmen will have to work long
hours just to live.
"Now, there are some people who
think that this Nazi force will never be
turned against America. Let them read
Hitler's Mein Kampf. That will change
their minds. Let them listen to the
marching song of the Nazi soldiers as
they now strut on the streets of Paris,
Brussels, or Warsaw. When they
marched on Vienna in 1938 this is what
they sang : Today we own Germany,
tomorrow we own Europe.' That was
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 YOHE
ATED

OLD FRIENDS meet. W. A. Vowman, right, was once in Army GENERAL AND FRIENDS. General Ryan learned about
with Sgt. Zimmerman. M. W. Harris went to school with him. foundry sand from John Fuson and J. F. Cox in Dept. 634.

their war
cry in 1938. They have liams, bureau of public relations ; and
changed it and as they march in 1941 Paul Porter and Andrew Biemiller,
this is what they sing : 'Today we own both of OPM .
Europe , tomorrow we own the world .'
Others of the party were distinguish-
"Hitler himself has said that this is
ed as flyers, technicians or Army ex-
a war between two worlds , his kind of
perts . There were 36 men altogether.
world and our kind of world, and that They includ
e : Major MacIntosh ; Cap-
one of us is bound to go down . Let us
tains W. C. Evans, R. F. Fallows ; Lieu-
tell Hitler now that we are not going
tenants Williams , Brenner, Lawhead ,
down. We are determined to live, we
Young, Goddard , Kieth, Fulmer, Lee,
are determined to win, and with the Spivey, Decher, Dixon, Mourne, Davis,
help of you workers we will win."
Cloke, Kingen and Hamilton ; and
There were 12,000 men and women
Sergeants Goldzien and Collins .
from the day shift at Santa Monica
assembled at noon outside the big "These men and others like them are
hangar to hear Colonel Ginsburgh and flying and will fly the planes that you
General Ryan. At El Segundo the pro- are building." the General said. "They
gram was at 4 p.m. at the airplane put their trust and their lives in your
hands, because without your produc-
storage yard. More than 3000 attended .
General Ryan introduced a number tion of a perfect airplane their flying
of the members of the party to the careers would end only too abruptly.
Douglas men and women at both As you do your stuff, so can they. You YOUNG MEN talk it over-J. Kirkelie,
plants. Among them were Lt. Armand build them and we'll fly them.” Dept. 142 and Army lieutenants.
Peterson , "the man who has probably
made the longest belly landing of any
man alive. " Others were Lt. P. M.
Hardy who recently had made a re-
markable forced landing in a hot pur-
suit ship without injury to himself or
the plane ; Lt. C. W. Dunning, ma-
teriel officer of the Fifty- first Pursuit
Squadron at March field ; Sgt. R. J.
Zimmerman and Corp. R. R. Joslyn ,
maintenance men ; and Capt . R. T.
Swensen and Lt. H. T. Hastings, pilot
and copilot of the B- 17 flying fortress.
Washington officials in the party in-
cluded Col. Ginsburgh, General Staff
Corps. representing the Under Secre-
tary of War ; Lt. Col. Joseph F. Battley,
office of the Under Secretary of War ;
Maj . Charles W. Kerwood , office of the
chief of the Army Air Forces ; Lt. Don-
ald B. Robinson , office of the Under INTRODUCTIONS were made by General Ryan, right. Others above are, left to
Secretary of War ; Lt. Harry D. Wil- right, Corp. R. R. Joslyn, Sgt. R. J. Zimmerman, Lt. C. W. Dunning, Lt. P. M.
b "Andy" Hardy and Lt. Armand Peterson being presented at El Segundo plant.
NOVEMBER ... 1941
T PAGE SEVEN
 YOU FLY 'EM

LARGE group of distinguished

flyers and administrative officers from
the War Department and United States
Air Forces at March field, Albuquerque
and Santa Monica visited the Douglas
plants at El Segundo and Santa Monica
this month to see and hear for them-
selves the progress being made by their
"brother and sister army" on the pro-
duction side of defense.

Pictures on this page show the Army

men mingling with the workers of the
El Segundo plant, watching the work
and asking many questions, thus serv-
ing to link the two great forces more
closely in the "battle of preparedness."
Many old acquaintances of school
days and home town friendships were
E'LL BUILD ' EM

renewed as these men were brought

together in the Douglas plants, for
these pilots came from all over the 2
country.
At the Santa Monica division the
friendly, helpful contacts continued as
the Army men gathered a great deal
of information not previously known
to them. On this page are pictures
which depict the keen interest shown
by the Army in the Douglas Santa
Monica plant.

This contact gave the vast Douglas

Army of defense workers a chance to
meet and hear these United States Army
representatives and to discuss topics
of great mutual knowledge and inter-
est-namely their jobs.

2
2
4

BOMBPROOF walls of new Tulsa plant being built of prefabricated sections,
shown stacked in foreground. Scaffolding travels along plant on wheels and rails.
TULSA PROGRESS
THE Douglas Aircraft company's
$25,000,000 bomber assembly plant in
Tulsa surged slowly but irresistibly
closer toward completion as the
Christmas season approached with
more than 3500 men working night
and day raising steel, erecting side-
walls, pouring concrete and perform
ing the thousand and one other jobs
necessary before the 4000-foot long de-
fense plant can open early in the new
year.
Despite freakish weather- Tulsa had
more than 25 inches of rain in one
30- day period recently-workmen al-
ready have erected nearly two-thirds
of the huge plant's structural steel, a
third of the walls and roofs, and have
poured thousands of square feet of
concrete flooring.
Work has been started on the 1000-
acre airport which will serve the plant,
and lines already have been cleared
for 7000 - foot long runways .
At the same time, the Douglas com-
pany has been building up its Tulsa
staff . Harry O. Williams, general man-
ager, and W. G. Jerrems, assistant,
have moved to Tulsa from the west
coast "for the duration ." Aiding them
already are more than 70 department
heads and other trained men, the
majority from the Los Angeles area.
PAGE TEN
Frank Carson, Tulsa personnel man-
ager, reports he has more than 10,000
job applications on file. "We're ready
to begin hiring the best of them as
soon as we can begin work," he says.
A broad educational program in the
Tulsa public schools, under the remote
control of Tom Reid, Douglas director
of education , is readying hundreds of
men for employment on the assembly
line.
The assembly plant itself, which
dwarfs almost anything else in the
midwest , is establishing records right
and left. The statistically-minded can
mull over these facts :
The plant will use more glass in its
construction - 203 car loads than the
largest daylight plant ever built , yet
there will not be a window in it. The
glass is used for insulation.
Power used to keep the plant at an
even temperature during Tulsa's hot
summers would be equal to that used
in a quarter million large household
refrigerators .
There will be 17,000 lighting fix
tures in the plant alone, plus others
in the auxiliary buildings, but not a
single light " bulb. " They'll all be new
type fluorescent units.
3500 Construction Workers
on Three Shifts Speed New
Oklahoma Bomber Plant.
Bricks in the bomb-defying side
walls, if laid end to end, would make
a line 568 miles long.
Approximately 50,000 gallons of
light gray paint will be used to cover
structural steel with a single coat.
The plant will be longer than the
combined length of the world's four
greatest ocean liners-the Queen Eliza-
beth, the Queen Mary, the Normandie
and the Bremen-and large enough to
accomodate 33 super-theaters, with
stages and a seating capacity of more
than 213,000 persons on one floor.
These facts, and other features de-
signed to insure high production effi-
ciency, economical operation and year-
round working comfort in the huge
plant, where 15,000 men will be as
sembling bombers in a few months,
were disclosed recently by the Austin
Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, the designers
of the building.
It is being built for the War depart-
ment, and under the direction of the
U. S. Engineering Corps, but the Doug-
las company was called upon to handle
the difficult job of operation and pro-
duction.
For three months after the ground
was broken for the plant by F. W.
Conant, vice president of manufactur-
ing for Douglas, the plant site was a
beehive of ground activity, with the
Manhattan-Long Construction Co., con-
tractors, using more than $ 1,000,000
worth of equipment to move 1,200,000
cubic yards of earth..
Then steel began to rise on concrete
foundations . At first only bare skele-
tons reared themselves against the
Oklahoma fall sky.
Today, the picture is far different.
The plant is beginning to look like a
plant-sprawling its 4000 feet of
length across one whole mile- square
section of land and into another. Walls
now cover much of the steel skeleton.
Roofing is being hoisted into place.
Most unusual feature of the entire
construction are those walls, 65 feet
high. At the base of each wall a 13-
inch curtain of face brick and acoustic
block rises for 12 feet. It is specially
reinforced with trussed rods to make
it shatter- proof, in the remote con-
tingency that bombs might fall in the
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
middle west. A special insulated metal
wall extends from it to the roof.
Tremendous construction efficiency
was obtained by having those metal
walls prefabricated . They are lifted,
in huge sections, into place, and are
erected in one-fifth the time that would
be necessary for other types of con-
struction.
The interior walls are blanketed with
white fibreglas, a spun glass almost
as soft as cotton and with great in-
sulation and sound-absorbing qualities.
Engineers estimate that the fibreglas
will absorb between 60 and 75 per
cent of all factory noises, as well as
providing a light-reflecting surface
which will maintain brightness at a
WINDOWLESS walls of Oklahoma plant are made of steel and glass. Glass is fibre-
high level. glas, fluffy cotton-like material which is excellent insulation against heat or cold.
The assembly building will have
17.000 two-tube, 200- watt fluorescent
units, providing at least 35 foot candles
of illumination at working levels . The
floor will be painted white to enhance
the general light efficiency and to re-
flect light up on the underside of parts
and planes in the assembly line.
The plant really consists of two ex-
tremely long buildings welded together.
One is the 200-foot wide assembly line,
running the full length . The other is a
120-foot wide auxiliary building,
which is designed to provide two mez-
zanine levels along the assembly line.
The mezzanines are suspended from
the trusses spanning the secondary
aisle, and are supported on one side
by the center columns, where the
buildings can be considered joined.
It was necessary to provide some
passage for monorails from aisle to SIX HUNDRED FEET from the end of building where work started concrete floor
was being poured when above photo was taken. In foreground is 200-foot wide
aisle along the assembly line, so the
assembly bay, rear is 120-foot auxiliary bay with two suspended mezzanines.
mezzanines were limited in length to
450 feet. This gives seven 50-foot
transfer aisles available for monorail
connections in the 4000 foot plant.
Rotary lift hydraulic elevators, large
enough to handle all but the heaviest
and bulkiest parts and sub-assemblies,
will service the mezzanine levels .

Food wagons, first aid stations, tool

cribs, washrooms and toilets all will
be located directly below the mezza-
nines or upon them, so that nothing
will obstruct the inter-connecting sys-
tem of monorails.

The bombing planes will arrive, in

parts and sub- assemblies, from auto-
motive factories, engine manufacturers
and other plants participating in the
bomber building program. They will
be unloaded on railroad tracks sunk
GOAL of builders of Tulsa plant is in right foreground, where foundations are all
• Concluded on Page Thirty-two in. Other end of factory is four-fifths of a mile away. Note car, on left, for size.

NOVEMBER ... 1941 PAGE ELEVEN

 n
A
AUTO MAKERS become plane makers.
Left, A-20B inner wings at Murray
Corp., right, outer wings at Briggs Mfg.
Partnership Production
KEEPS ' EM
THE " partnership of production for
preparedness" between the California
plants of Douglas Aircraft company
and eastern automotive concerns today
is in high gear, functioning swiftly and
smoothly for national defense.
There was no mistaking the efficiency
of that partnership when this month
subassemblies began flowing into the
company's huge new blackout plant at
Long Beach. First to arrive were inner
and outer wing sections for attack-
bombers from
Murray Body and
Briggs Mfg. Co. , followed in several
days by a shipment of military trans-
port outer wings from Pullman -Stand-
ard Car Mfg. Co.
In specially-designed railroad cars
the airplane sections sped across the
continent from the Briggs and Murray
plants at Detroit, Mich., and the Pull-
man-Standard plant near Chicago .
Arrival of the first subassemblies
was closely timed with the start of full
production at the Long Beach plant,
officially signalled during its recent
dedication.
Milestones of the Douglas subcon-
tracting program were passed this
month in rapid succession , for as the
first assemblies moved into the Long
Beach receiving building , announce-
ment came of the signing of large addi-
tional subcontracts, for the production
of B- 17F "flying fortress" subassem-
PAGE TWELVE
FLYIN'
blies, to be assembled into complete
airplanes at Long Beach.
Including all types of parts and as-
semblies , from landing gear to fuel
tanks to wings, the initial "flying fort-
subcontracts have been spread
among a dozen companies, each receiv
ing orders running into the millions
of dollars. These will eventually bring
the total of Douglas subcontracts to
nearly $ 200,000,000 .
First of the new contracts were
placed with Fisher Body division of
General Motors, Murray Corporation of
America, Bell Aircraft, Fleetwings Inc.,
Briggs Mfg. Co., Vega Airplane Co. ,
Aircraft Mechanics Inc., A. O. Smith
Corp., Hayes Industries Inc., Goodyear
Tire Co., and Firestone Tire & Rubber
Co.
Before the present emergency crys
tallized , Douglas launched its own
spectacular expansion program , and
simultaneously mapped additional
resources and personnel of the auto-
motive and manufacturing industries
on an unprecedented scale.
Months before signing large con-
tracts with the United States govern-
ment, Douglas was negotiating with
eastern subcontractors, and when early
this year it placed large orders with
these firms, it had become the nation's
first major airplane manufacturer to
put to use the automobile industry's
production capacity in building sub-
assemblies for military aircraft.
Already in full production of wing
sections, tail groups, engine nacelles
and other major units for Douglas
bombers and military transports are
such firms as Murray, Briggs, Pull-
man-Standard, McDonnell Aircraft
Corp., and Fleetwings Inc. Largest of
the individual orders exceeds $30,000 ,-
000.
How these firms bridged the gap
between automobile and airplane man-
ufacture, gave their personnel a short
and intensive transition training, and
adapted and expanded their facilities,
is a new and significant chapter in the
history of industrial technique.
Co-operating closely with the sub-
contractors, the Douglas organization
lent all possible engineering and tech-
nical assistance in setting up assembly
lines and solving production problems.
Refinements and details of Douglas
production systems were made avail-
able to scores of visiting engineers and
technical experts who came to the com-
pany's California plants to study first-
hand their amazing mechanization of
aircraft production .
Combining their own experience and
background with the benefits derived
from Douglas developments, subcon-
tractors have established efficient as-
sembly lines and started them rolling
with a minimum of delay.
Signing contracts with Douglas and
other aircraft builders, Briggs Mfg.
Co. set up an airplane parts division
and assigned for its use a plant in De-
troit. The original floor space of this
plant has since been expanded approx-
imately 900 per cent. Production is
DOUGLAS AT VIEW
well underway on attack-bomber outer
wing sections for Douglas.
Briggs is one of the largest inde-
pendent automobile body builders in
the country and has adapted many of
its special techniques to the fabrica-
ROAD OF
tion and assembly of aluminum alloy
aircraft parts. Some 3000 Briggs em-
treamliners
ployes now are turning out aircraft
parts while a special school established
recently will train within the next 20
months an additional 9000 automobile
workers in airplane production
methods. This was started by sending UNION PACIF
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42 foremen from the body plant OU
through a defense training school in
Detroit, then using them as a nucleus
for training many men. Later, a train-
ing school was organized, staffed by
shop men and graduate engineers . Four FIRST SHIPMENT from auto makers to Douglas Long Beach plant was set of
hundred Briggs employes are now en- wings for A-20B from Briggs and Murray. Assistant Manager George Tulloch,
rolled in this school , and being trained left foreground, congratulates Bill Harling, Murray Corporation representative.
in aircraft manufacturing methods and
materials by 60 instructors on a two- In the production of attack- bomber A plant at Pullman, Illinois, com-
shift basis. inner wing sections for Douglas at its prising approximately 575,000 square
Detroit plant, the Murray Corporation feet of manufacturing floor space, was
Recruits are trained in specific job of America followed closely the Doug- allotted by the company to its produc-
elements in 60 days and then are moved las technique in setting up its assembly
into the plant and upgraded to more tion of outer wing assemblies for Doug-
line. This firm subcontracted approxi- las military transports. For supervisory
detaile
detailedd work
work as
as rapidl
rapidlyy asas practic al . .
practical mately 22 per cent of its total order. and key positions in this plant, Pull-
Several of the large mechanical
Long experience in the fabrication man secured a number of aircraft pro-
presses formerly operated by the
duction experts. Shop workers were
Briggs pressed steel division on auto- of aluminum alloys for railroad car
supplied by training selected Pullman
body work have been transferred to construction was brought to its produc-
employes and new personnel in special
the aircraft parts plant for working tion of airplane subassemblies by
aluminum. These are being supple- Pullman- Standard Car Manufacturing aircraft sheetmetal and riveting courses
mented with batteries of hydraulic Co. During its many years of passenger at local technical schools and high
schools.
presses. train building, Pullman has cut, shaped
With this firm, as with several of and assembled nearly 12,000,000 Down the No. 1 bay of the Pullman
the other large subcontractors , a por- pounds of aluminum alloys. Much of plant runs a quarter-mile assembly
tion of the Douglas order has in turn this involved highly-skilled precision line for military transport wings. These
been subcontracted to whatever extent work in building modern interior are built in a number of subassemblies
was efficient and practical . All machine finishes of aluminum sheet, and gave and parts, such as leading edge inter-
work necessary on forgings, extrusions the firm unusual background and ex- mediate sections, training edge, aileron,
and castings which were required for perience in handling the light metal, a wing tip and flaps, which come off in-
the sheetmetal wing assembly it had background which made it dividual assembly lines and proceed
contracted to build is subcontracted by quickly train personnel and adapt a to main jigs for final assembly.
portion of its plant for aircraft work. • Concluded on Page Thirty-two
Briggs to machine tool concerns .

TRAIN MAKER, Pullman- Standard

Car, is turning out Douglas C-47 outer
wings, left, and C-47 ailerons, right.

LINES OF
Speed and Efficiency of America's Airlines Help the
Nation to Keep Defense Production in High Gear.
by H. Bradley Jones
NO LONGER a luxury, but a necessity
-the airlines of America have come
into their own.
It took the defense emergency to do
it, but the airlines have at last proven
for all time the essential role they
play in the transportation system of
America. The government is convinced,
the Army and Navy are convinced and
American industry is convinced.
So well have the airlines fulfilled
their missions that defense leaders have
found it possible to utilize some of the
aircraft factory space, men and ma-
terials for the production of badly
needed passenger and cargo ships for
the nation's airlines.
This month the War Department
and the OPM have granted provisional
priorities for 228 commercial transport
planes to be built during the 18- month
period beginning January 1. Douglas
will contribute 156 DC- 3s and 20 DC-
4s to this vast program of expansion
for all the major air transport systems.
For sometime all new transports have
been taken over by the Army as they
rolled off the assembly line. DC-2s and
FERRY PILOTS of the Army Air Forces fly fighting ships from factory, fly back
via airlines for more. Eleven pilots from 20th and 35th pursuit squadrons, Ham-
ilton field, are leaving San Francisco by Douglas- TWA for Dayton to pick up ships.
PAGE FOURTEEN
DEFENSE
DC- 3s have been called from private
service, refitted and sent to fly supplies
and men in many parts of the world.
Approval of the orders for new
planes is proof that the airlines are
doing a good job. Operating with the
equipment at hand, they have cooper-
ated with the national defense effort
wherever possible.
A man flew into Burbank one Saturday
morning on a regularly scheduled Am-
erican Flagship . When asked if the
plane was crowded , he replied that
12 of its 21 seats were empty. "We
were carrying a ton of shipbuilding
machinery instead ..."
A power shovel working on the im-
portant defense base at Wake Island
in mid- Pacific split its crankshaft . The
nearest replacement was 6826 miles
away in Harvey, Illinois . Ordered by
cable a new shaft was shipped within
two hours, speeded by motor truck to
Chicago airport then by United Air
Lines Mainliner to San Francisco.
Rushed aboard a Pan American Clip-
per, it was flown to the site of the
stalled project . Total elasped time
... four days.
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LEND-LEASE bill for aid to Britain
was sped on its way by airline. Postal
inspector Louis J. White flew bill in
Douglas DC-3 of Eastern Air Lines to
President Roosevelt for his signature.
The inventor of a new light tank in
Detroit was suddenly called upon by
Army investigators to demonstrate the
machine in Philadelphia on two days'
notice. American Airlines got the blitz
buggy there, sliced up into air express
packages, in time to be reassembled and
put through its paces.
Production atLockheed's Burbank
a serious
plant was threatened with
stoppage by non-arrival of an alumi-
num shipment. An SOS sent to the
New Kensington, Pa. headquarters of
the Aluminum Company of America
soon had 10 boxes weighing 1207
pounds aboard a Douglas-TWA on
scheduled flight for Los Angeles.
Defense shipments of heavy freight
over long hauls have added up to an
increase of more than a third over last
year's air express records, with sub-
stantially the same number of air-
planes employed.
Vital to the Arsenal of Democracy
is its personnel . They must be maneu-
vered swiftly and safely from front to
front in the battle of production . Rec-
ently the Air Transport Association re-
ported that 67 per cent of all airline
passengers were travelling on the busi-
ness of national defense.
Tropical lighting wrecked a power
plant in Manila, important to industry
and defense of the city. Sole engineer
capable of putting it together again
was on a repair job in Georgia. Sum-
moned, the 76-year- old expert boarded
Eastern Air Lines stopped off in Mil-
waukee to pick up 32 pounds of tools.
and in 30 hours was in San Francisco
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
ready to take off for the Phillipines.
The power plant was back in service
only eight days after its breakdown .
Almost two months would have been
lost if the airlines had not been on the
job.
Personnel of the Army's ferrying
service which flies the bombers for
Britain to Atlantic ports fly back to
California each day on the airlines.
Northwest Airlines has had to to use
larger planes to carry the increasing
Travel
number of ferry pilots which it brings
back from Winnepeg, Canada. Last
month American Airlines flew 23 " char.
TED AIR
ter" flights in addition to its five daily
VES
transcontinental sections to return these
TED IR
pilots to their take-off points. UNI A AIR BASE construction was saved
E S month's loss when new power shovel
Recently the federal government UN crankshaft, left, was flown from Chi-
called upon Eastern Air Lines to ex- cago to Wake Is. Above, United con-
pedite the $7,000,000,000 Lend- Lease verts passenger seats in Mainliner to
bill. When the measure passed both cargo bins so that defense materials
houses of Congress it was turned over may be flown quickly to destinations.

AMED
to the Post Office department . An in-
spector boarded a " Silverliner", hop-
ped to Miami and placed the bill in AIRL
INE
President Roosevelt's hands for signa- E
MOIN M
ture. A
Key men and imperatively needed.
materials have been rushed between
widely separated points in increasing
numbers since the outset of the nation-
al emergency. With this heavy new de-
mand upon its resources, the airlines
are planning to expand greatly their
equipment for war and peace.
Blueprints for a new destroyer, auto-
mobile parts, rubber goods, hardware,
oil industry machinery, Naval officers
bound for the Far East or the North
Atlantic, mechanics and generals and
self- sealing gas tanks are riding the DEFENSE production has boosted air
airlines. express shipments, above, many times
New dies and fifty connectors were over. Below, Lord Halifax, British am-
bassador, and wife are air travelers. CIVILIAN Defense Administrator La-
flown to a large construction job halted
Guardia practically commutes from
by a breakdown in Honolulu . When a New York to Washington. Belov ,
huge motor generator broke down in crate on its way to Navy yard by air.
a factory in California, armature
windings weighing 2657 pounds were
rushed west by air from Pittsburgh,
averting a loss of $ 1000 a day.
Not all shipments are of an emerg- AM
ency nature, however. Many manufac- CA
turers under the high tempo of present
production , ship their products at the
end of each business day by plane .
Bendix, in South Bend, Indiana, dis-
patches radio equipment to Newfound-
land for American planes poised for SCA
WES N
the trans-Atlantic hop and sends 100
carburetors a day to United Aircraft in
East Hartford, Conn., for warplane
motors.
• Concluded on Page Thirty-three

NOVEMBER .... 1941

 PRESS PREVIEW

News Photographers and Newsreel Cameramen

Ride in B-19 and Tell the World About It.

It's not much of a trick to get your picture in the papers

if you're not scrupulous about murder, arson and other high
crimes . It follows as automatically as stomachache after
Thanksgiving dinner.
Where pictures have no connection with sudden death .
catastrophes, mayhem or scandal, a different technique is
involved. In that case, hardboiled editors demand that
photographs must have spot-news, feature or scientific and
human interest value.
Once in a blue moon there's a picture-story that com-
bines all these qualifications. Like, for instance, the B- 19.
The result as you may have noticed recently, are whole
pages of pictures not merely in the local sheets but all over
the nation and even abroad.
However, even with all the breaks in your favor such
newspaper displays don't just happen . They have to be
planned that way with a program of careful preparation and
forethought, detailed arrangements and considerable gray
matter.
The Douglas public relations department thought that
you might be interested in some of the behind-the-scenes back-
BOMBARDIER'S eye view of the land and sea looks like
this from the B-19. In this case the view is of the ground that went into this journalistic scoop reprinted in the
precipitous shore of Santa Cruz island off Santa Barbara. accompanying pages.

WORLD'S RECORD airplane load is being brought home by B- 19 in landing below. Gross weight of the airplane on this flight
was 140,000 pounds. Takeoff run on record flight used only 3500 feet, half of main runway length at March field.

PAGE SIXTEEN DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

 P

INSIDE WING of B-19 Michael C. Hanrahan of Douglas TAIL SECTION of fuselage of B-19 is large enough for a
inspects engine wiring and controls. At right, by the tele- man to stand erect. Pictured is Lt. L. J. Doyle talking over
phone, is opening to engine which can be adjusted in flight. ship's telephone. Opening at rear leads to gun turret.

FLIGHT DECK of B-19 is large as bungalow living room. Shown during flight are Mark Koogler, Army crew chief; Lt.
Col. Stanley Umstead, pilot; Warren Dickinson, flight engineer; Maj. Howard Bunker, copilot ; Duncan Hall, radioman.

PELUARE

NOVEMBER ... 1941 PAGE SEVENTEEN

 It began with a War Department
telegram authorizing the press to fly in
and photograph the B- 19 inside as well
as out, for the first time. The message
was to Lt. Col. Benjamin C. Weir,
commandant at that time of March
field, the bomber's home port.
Since the B- 19 was still company
property, not having finished its accept-
ance tests, Colonel Weir sent Lieutenant
Mitchell, an aide, to the Douglas public
relations department to work out
arrangements . To obtain impartial and
nationwide coverage, space was pro-
vided for Associated Press, Acme, In-
ternational and Wide World photo
syndicates and the five newsreels . Only
three photographers could ride in the
B- 19 and a similar number plus a
INSIDE FUSELAGE of B-19 is maze of control cables, electrical wiring. Lt. Douglas cameraman in a photographic
L. J. Doyle shown at ladder leading to escape hatch just forward of tail surfaces. ship because to have taken more
would have required rearrangement of
the delicate test equipment.

Cooperating splendidly, the syndi-

cates and reel people agreed to pool
all pictures taken and footage exposed.
Two of the syndicate photographers
were to ride in the B- 19 and one news-
reel cameraman . Another reel man
and two other syndicate photogs rode
in the camera ship, a C-53 furnished by
Douglas and piloted by the veteran
trans- Pacific flyer Lee Bishop.
Lieutenant Mitchell agreed for the
Army to furnish two Curtiss P-40 pur-
suit ships to fly in formation with the
B- 19 for size comparison .

The next day Don Black of public

relations went to March field to draw up
with the Army a shooting script and
correlate all phases of the program
ENGINE CONTROLS, instruments are on panels, center, in front of Flight En-
gineer Jack Grant. Left, Radioman Duncan Hall, right, Vernon Peterson of Wright. with the March field public relations
officer, Lieutenant Doyle.
On the appointed day, November 8,
news cameramen assembled at the
Douglas plant early in the morning,
were flown to March field. The reels
went down by land with their sound
trucks and equipment. The previous
afternoon Black and Ned Crawford
repaired to March field, spending the
night there in last minute conferences
with the Army folk, Lt.- Col . Stanley M.
Umstead and Major Howard G. Bunker,
Douglas technicians, Jack Grant, War-
ren Dickinson and crew members.
At the last minute, because of a
special Saturday morning inspection,
the two P-40 pilots were unable to take
off with the B- 19 and camera ship
which got into the air at 10 a.m. This
threw a serious monkey wrench into
MAIN CABIN during tests was packed with test instruments. Shown operating the program but after a lot of scurry.
instruments are Al Kaufman, Lindy Jordan and Martin Simon, Douglas test experts. ing around the P-40s got away an hour

PAGE EIGHTEEN DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

late and rendezvoused with the big
bomber over the channel islands .

Then an entirely unanticipated diffi-

culty arose when the C-53 was unable
to keep up with the B- 19 on its power
runs. Of course the B- 19, which was on
a regular test flight of importance,
could not adapt its schedule to the
camera ship. Disappointed and under-
standably disgruntled at their non- suc-
cess the photographers put back to
March field. So did the P-40s.
A radio call from the March control
tower to the B- 19, now ten miles at
sea off Santa Monica, put the problem
up to Colonel Umstead.
"Get your camera ship back in the PRESS AND NEWSREEL photographers flew to March field to take B- 19 flight
shots. On the trip were Frank Prist, Acme; Don Brinn, Wide World; Charles
air and meet us over Corona," directed
E. Lehmann, Fox Movietone ; George Spelvin ; Frank Filan, Associated Press ;
the Colonel . "With our tests complete, Larry Miller, International (on floor) ; an Army private; Pat Corbett and Paul
we'll slow down and maneuver for Hoefler, Douglas public relations ; and Jerry Pearson, member of flight crew.
benefit of men aboard the C- 53."
Ensued a wild scramble to round
up the cameramen, now scattered to the
post canteen, Lee Bishop and the P-40
pilots. Despite confusion and unfore-
seen difficulties, the camera ship event-
ually took off, the P-40s following ten
minutes later for a successful rendez-
vous of all four ships at the designated
spot to crown the expedition with com-
plete success.
The pictures appeared in morning
papers of November 17 and it was on
this day that, for the first time, the
great American public was given a
close-up interior view of the "guardian
of a hemisphere."
That, in a nutshell, is the story be-
hind the news pictures in the accom-
panying pages. Needless to say, editors STRAIN gauge panel, operated by POTENTIOMETER in cabin records
from coast to coast hailed them as un- Ralph Ostrega, measures stresses in automatically varying temperatures of
various parts of ship being tested. engines. Operator is Martin Simon.
usual and outstanding, displaying them
accordingly, as you saw.
The Associated Press had Camera-
man Frank Filan turn reporter and
write up this notable flight. Filan's
story appeared widely.
Similarly, News of the Day's Sam
Greenwald wrote a special article about
it for the International Photographer.
All five newsreels gave the story
unprecedented coverage not only in
newreels and first-run theaters but at
neighborhood show houses all over the
nation.
They did this because they knew that
the public had an avid interest in this
great Douglas plane, the world's largest
bomber, and that in this huge "flying
laboratory" and the epochal tests it
has for months been undergoing may PHOTOGRAPHER Harry Merrick sets TELEPHONE, being used by Vic De
lie the clue to American aeronautical camera which automatically and simul- Crescenzo, connects all parts of B-19
supremacy of the immediate future. taneously records numerous readings. from nose to tail and engines in wings.

NOVEMBER ... 1941 PAGE NINETEEN

 With Douglas
U. S. , British Aircraft Production
Tops Nazi's, Says Expert
" I AM ... of the opinion that, with-
out counting Russia, the rate of pro-
duction of England , augmented by one-
half of the U. S. production , is now
greater than the output of Germany
and Italy plus the production of con-
quered countries ; and that the total
air power of the Allies will be greater
than that of the Axis early in 1942."
No wide-eyed optimist, T. P. Wright,
assistant chief of the Aircraft branch
of the OPM and former production ex-
pert for Curtiss -Wright, bases his
opinions on facts. His predictions of
production figures made in the Janu-
ary, 1941 , issue of Aviation magazine
and covering the next 18 months have
almost precisely agreed with the num-
ber of airplanes actually produced.
Wright arrives at his conclusions by
using a "parameter" or yardstick based
on floor area, labor man-hours, tool
supply, management, labor training and
on judgments of what the country as
RATE OF
AIRCRAFT
00 PRODUCTION
5
$ industry's ability to surpass war pro-
'
gas fiff
if f
FOR
1941
100
00
00
00
00
UNITED STATES
OENGLAND
GERMANY
PAGE TWENTY
Around
a whole can do . Using the same
method he has estimated the produc-
tion of England and Germany. "In
the case of England, from numerous
unofficial conversations I have had with
Englishmen . . . I can say that the
forecast for English production ap-
pears good." A frequent pre-war
visitor to the Reich, Wright believes
that his parameter also accurately
measures Nazi building capacity.
Writing in the current number of
Aviation he states that "the rate of pro-
duction increase for aircraft in the
United States is greater than for any
other country in the world at any
period." By the first of next year U. S.
output will pass 2400 per month (see
chart ) . With the heavy bomber pro-
gram under way, he emphasizes that,
although the number of aircraft may
be doubled in the next year, the
weight and total horsepower of air-
craft produced will multiply three or
four times .
Since no more warplane production
figures will be made public by the
U. S. government after October's
statement the parameter predictions of
T. P. Wright may be the best baro-
meter of aircraft production available
for months to come .
Confident of the American aviation
duction of all other nations, T. P.
Wright makes a further hopeful pre-
diction.
"I feel that the supremacy in the
air which is being gained by the Allies,
with our help, will bring them ulti-
mate victory, possibly in 1943."
A-20A Is "Sweetest in Service"
Says Air Corps General
"THE Douglas A- 20A is one of the
sweetest flying planes ever put into
service," in the opinion of Brig. Gen.
George C. Kenney.
General Kenney's high opinion of
the Douglas attack bomber was given
in an article by him and Douglas J.
Ingells entitled Our Warplanes Are
Best in the December issue of Flying
and Popular Aviation . General Kenney
is assistant chief of the Army Air
Corps materiel division at Wright field
and recently returned from duty as a
war observer in Europe .
"One pilot," the article said, "after
a mission with a Douglas A- 20A landed
the World
at Wright field and told your pursuit
pilot : 'You give me two minutes start
and I'll run your plane out of gas be-
fore you catch up with this ship'."
Good flying characteristics and the
dependable tricycle landing gear on
the attack bombers make them much
easier to operate from small fields.
despite high landing speeds, than older.
slower airplanes of conventional type ,
the general said.
As many as 12 guns are installed
in the nose of the Douglas airplane
by the British when they are used as
night fighters, he reported .
Deliveries to British
Reach $330,000,000!
AID to Britain, in the form of de-
livery of warplanes and aeronautical
equipment from American aircraft
factories, reached a record high of
$330,000,000 during the first eight
months of 1941.
Reporting this development this
month, the Aviation News Committee
stressed that production of military
aircraft for Great Britain and her far-
flung outposts is still largely in its
original phase, with vast majority of
United States manufacturers rushing
work on contracts awarded prior to
inception of the Lend-Lease law.
In other words, the output of air-
planes, engines, propellers and other
equipment for the British is proceed-
ing at a pace of more than $40,000, -
000 monthly, though the Lend- Lease
phase of aerial aid to Britain is just
getting under way.
Statistics and estimates show :
Original British orders placed with
American aircraft manufacturers prior
to Lend-Lease inception totaled ap-
proximately $ 2,000,000,000 .
Total aeronautical deliveries to the
British from Jan. 1 to Sept. 1 amounted
to $330,000,000 .
During the first six months' opera-
tion of the Lend-Lease law- March 1
to Sept. 1 - approximately $ 1,300,000 , -
000 worth of aircraft and equipment
was contracted for under Lend - Lease
authority.
Total aeronautical exports to the
British under Lend-Lease authority
(March 1 to Sept. 1) amounted to
$6,016,045 .
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
Here , There and Everywhere

Eagle Squadron Member

Tells of Battles Defense Dividend

A " defense dividend" bonus

FIGHTER pilot Robert Mannix, 25 ,
member of the Royal Air Force's Eagle
Squadron and brother to Paul Mannix,
Santa Monica plant engineer, came to
Douglas this month direct from Eng-
land on the first official furlough
granted by the force.
His extensive and recent flights in
actual combat have given him prac-
tical ideas which may add to the effec-
tiveness of Douglas planes. He passed
along his suggestions at conferences
with President Donald Douglas, Carl
Cover, executive vice president, and
E. F. Burton, chief engineer, and 20
other engineers in a round table dis-
cussion.
The highlight of his extensive
visit to the plant was to see the
latest Havocs and Bostons in con-
struction as well as in flight from
Clover field.
Mannix reported, "The morale of
the English as well as the Russians is
high despite the heavy losses due to
the offensive fighting. Most of our
squadron's fights have been over enemy
territory. It's a rarity now to catch a
Nazi pilot for a fight over the British
Isles."
In England his first four weeks were
spent in flight and gunnery practice
using the famed Spitfires. With that
preliminary training at the scene of
battle, he was then placed in shuttle
service delivering ships to the various
squadrons.
Mannix joined the Eagle Squadron
of the R.A.F. and became one of its
first 15 members. This famous squad-
ron has set the record of 83 German
ships shot down during October.
Two of the leading aces of the Eagle
Squadron, Mannix said, are Pilot Of-
ficer Gregory Augustus ( Gus ) Day-
mond, who went into the service at
the age of 19, and Pilot Officer Carroll
W. McColpin, 27, both of Los Angeles .
Daymond and McColpin both have
been awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross by the British government. Mc-
Colpin has six war victories, Daymond
five. Bob has to his credit to date two
Nazi planes .
Team fighting of two ships in form-
ation, one above the other, the upper
ship's pilot being the leader, is the
amounting to a week's wages will
be in the December 12 pay en-
velopes of each of the 35,000
Douglas employes except execu-
tives. The extra pay will amount
to more than $ 1,000,000 for the
plants at Santa Monica , El
Segundo, Long Beach and Tulsa.
Together with special vacation
pay granted employes last July,
and paychecks for retroactive pay
increases in the amount of
$ 1,338,729 distributed several
weeks ago, Douglas employes will
have received during 1941 con-
siderably in excess of $3,000,000
over and above their regular
weekly pay.
"This added compensation , "
said President Donald W. Douglas
in a personal message to all em-
ployes, " represents the company's
recognition of your loyal and
efficient service in helping us
meet and increase our quota of
the national defense program . "
Output of Douglas workers dur-
ing the first nine months of 1941 ,
company financial statement dis-
closed , was nearly double that for
the entire year of 1940 with
greater increases being recorded
during the final quarter of this
year.
Total payroll of the four
Douglas plants for the year end-
ing November 30 will approxi-
mate $ 53,000,000 . For the
annual average employment of
28,000 workers , this indicates
average annual earning of $ 1905
per employe, an increase of 18
per cent over 1940. Current
average pay rates are 22 per
cent higher than they were in
January, 1941 .
most effective procedure to date, Man-
nix reports.
"The two ships in formation, one
above the other, soar along at a fairly
high altitude during which time the
pilot of the lower ship continually
watches the belly of the upper ship ,"
he said. "Should the leader suddenly
climb toward an enemy plane that
R.A.F. PILOT Robert Mannix inspects
DB-7 cockpit at Santa Monica plant.
might be sighted, the lower ship would
immediately follow suit. Then as the
enemy ship comes into the sights of
the leader's machine gun, he radios
the other pilot of their dual formation
to begin firing. At that moment both
ships have found the enemy in their
gun sights. This fighting tactic of flight.
formation is held until either they
meet with overwhelming odds, or un-
forseen circumstances force them to
part. "
His favorite ships by usage Mannix
reported, are the Hurricanes, Spitfires
and Douglas DB- 7s . Upon his return ,
he will possibly transfer to the night
fighter school to train on Douglas
Havocs.
Mannix enlisted with the R.A.F. just
one year ago through the Clayton-
Knight Committee. After 90 hours
flight training at the Polaris training
school at the Grand Central air term-
inal, Glendale, Mannix departed for
England by way of Canada, where he
was commissioned last March .
C. J. Hertel Wins
Welding Society Award
THE American Welding society at
the opening session of its annual meet-
ing in Philadelphia this past month
awarded the third prize of $50 to C. J.
Hertel , Douglas design engineer, for
• Continued on Page Thirty-four

NOVEMBER ... 1941 PAGE TWENTY - ONE

WITH US THIS MONTH . . . .

Aero Digest Editor

George M. McLaughlin, right, editor
of Aero Digest, aviation trade maga-
zine, toured the west coast last month
to keep himself abreast of industry de-
velopments. He was accompanied on
his trip by Russel C. Johns, center, ad-
vertising and sales manager and James
Galloway, the magazine's Los Angeles
representative.

Aviation, Radio, Baseball →

Powel Crosley Jr. is a big name in
radio, an aviation enthusiast and di-
rector of TWA and the owner of the
Cincinnati Reds baseball team . His in-
terest in aviation this month brought
him to Douglas where he inspected the
factory in the company of Carl A.
Cover, executive vice president .
Assistant Secretary of War
The absorbing interest shown in the
huge B- 19 by the press, newsreels and
public at large ( see page 16 ) is sur-
passed only by the United States War
Department. Latest War Department
official to inspect the ship at March
field was John L. McCloy, center, as-
sistant secretary of war. Left is Maj.-
Gen. Jacob E. Fickel of March field,
right, Jack Grant, the B- 19's flight en-
gineer.

Illinois Senator
George M. Maypole of Chicago has
represented his district in the Illinois.
Senate for nearly 30 years and is an
important figure in state government.
This month, on an annual trip to
Southern California, the Senator visited
the Douglas company, went through
the Santa Monica plant with Victor E.
Bertrandias, vice president in charge
of materiel.

+ Inspect Handiwork
Two national and one state official
of the Works Progress Administration
came to Clover field this month to in-
spect the recently completed, WPA-
built airport runway.
While at Santa Monica the three
men also engaged in discussions con-
cerning the possibility of further ex-
pansion of Clover field, Santa Monica's
municipal airport.
The three men, shown boarding an
Army transport, are L. W. Feader.
state information officer ; Earl Minder-
man, national director, division of in-
formation and Leigh Ore, national di-
rector of radio.

PAGE TWENTY-TWO DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

BOWLIN BITES …..
E
"Out of the elements she takes her
wind and as she gathers way she ac-
quires mystery."
ANOTHER fine boat is added to the
roster of those owned by the men and
women of Douglas. The latest is the
six metre sloop Mystery, designed by
Anker in 1927 at Oslo, Norway, now
owned by Thayer Crispin, of the Santa
Monica tooling division .
In 1928 Mystery won the famous
International Scandinavian Gold Cup
series representing Norway. Mystery
beat out the United States' "Six"
Saleema to retain the cup on that side
of the Atlantic.
Only one six metre sloop from each
country is allowed to enter this series.
These races for the Scandinavian Gold
Cup are considered paramount in in-
ternational six metre competition and
keen racing is always assured in this
class.
Lulu, a United States " Six" won for
this country in 1937 and in 1938 Goose
defended the cup in Scandinavian
waters. Both these "Sixes" are now
here on the Pacific coast. Due to the
war conditions there were no Inter-
national races in 1940 and 1941 .
After Mystery's victory in the Scan-
dinavian series she was brought to the
Pacific coast by William A. Bartholo-
mae, Jr. Under his skippering she won
most of the important trophies and
major events on the coast. In 1936
Bartholomae won the right with Mys-
tery to represent the United States in
the 1936 Olympic games. She was
shipped to Germany where she took
second place in the games series held
in the Keil Canal . She then was raced
in the Mediterranean and various
waters of the continent to take many
of the major events .
Mystery was again brought to the
West Coast and continued her brilliant
career under the fine handling of the
following skippers : Willis Hunt, Em-
erson Spear, new owner of the Goose,
William Horton, owner of Lulu, and
Joseph Horton.
Another famous six metre on the
employe roster is the Lanai, designed
by Clinton H. Crane, and owned by
Bill Slater of the loft. This was the
first American six to try for the Scan-
dinavian Gold Cup back in 1926. The
series was held in Norway between
NOVEMBER ... 1941
by Al A. Adams
sloops from
Sweden, France,
Holland, Norway
and Denmark . The
rules were that
the cup went to
the "Six" which
first won three
races. Lanai sailed
one race in a
Idead heat with the
Holland repre- US
sentative, was dis-
qualified in an-
other ; actually
crossing the finish
line first in five
races, well earn-
ing the cup .
Some of the
other "Sixes" now
active on the
coast, either as
open or cruising
sixes who have
raced for the In-
ternational Cup
are Saleema, Rip-
ples, Maybe, Bob- MYSTERY, six metre sloop, former International champion,
kat II, Lulu, Rebel from Sweden, now owned by Thayer Crispin of Tooling.
and Goose.
Another famous six is the Gallant Boat building on these projects as
last reported to be in Pearl Harbor, well as those boats being constructed
Territory of Hawaii. This sloop had a individually as backyard jobs are be-
fine career skippered by Donald Doug- ing completed due to materials having
las, Ted Conant and later was owned been purchased prior to the conserva-
by Bob Hilts and Ted Coulter of Doug. tion program. The construction of
las. boats will now necessarily drop off due
Crispin has moved the Mystery from to material shortages .
her former home at the San Pedro Bill Adamson of engineering has
harbor down to Newport. On Thanks- recently launched his new Delta and
giving day, the Mystery was again re- Al Kumbula, Bob Jenks and Van Dyke
turned to Los Angeles Yacht Club an- of Douglas are the most recent build-
chorage in preparation for the Thanks- ers and soon will prepare for launch-
giving races held November 22 and 23. ing. Van Dyke's Delta brings the total
★ of Douglas made Deltas to 57.
The Douglas Delta dinghy cham-
pionships have just been sailed with The Star boat fleet is also growing
Stew Trumbull winner of the series. rapidly with the launching of Loring
Hugh McLachlan came in second in Jackson's Bubbles. Other Stars under
this series. These races were sailed off construction and soon to be launched
Santa Monica in very spotty weather are being built by Joe Stanford of
which made it most anyone's Santa Monica engineering, Ed Douglas
Seventeen boats started . of El Segundo engineering, Ernie
This fast growing little fleet of Miser of Long Beach purchasing and
dinghys is now preparing for the Sun- Bill Severence . These Star boats have
kist series which possibly will start in nearly reached completion and each
December. • Concluded on Page Thirty-four
PAGE TWENTY-THREE
Douglas Athletic Club ...

SPORTS
by Jack Lester

Bob Johnson Wins Phil Ewing Wins

Badminton Crown Golf Championship

Bob Johnson, of El Segundo, flashed Phil Ewing, of plant protection, turned

his way to the badminton champion-
ship of the Douglas company this
month at the Santa Monica Sports-
torium by beating Dave Strauss in two
straight games, 15-4, and 15-5.
Johnson displayed his supremacy and
skill by playing through the recent
Douglas Athletic club badminton cham-
pionship tournament without a single
defeat being chalked up against him.
The tournament, according to D.A.C.
chairman Bruce Goetz, brought out a
host of Douglas shuttle-cock enthusi-
asts, many of whom are among the
finest in the southland.
Johnson, with Mrs. Johnson, scored
another win in the mixed doubles play
by defeating the team of Jane Black-
well and Al Edmundson, 15-8 and 15-5.
Edmundson is the former bay district
champion.
Chairman Goetz announces regular
sessions for both men and women every
Monday night at the La Monica recrea-
tion center in Santa Monica , in prepar-
ation for another tournament soon.
Among those who also played were
many Douglas badminton fans, several
of whom have followed the sport ever
since it was introduced as a Douglas
Athletic club activity nearly five years
ago. They were Henry Pike and Ed
Deardorff, both of whom were finalists
in the consolation singles events, Frank
Machado, Don Watt, D.A.C. president,
L. Whittier, L. Schaeffer, J. Heinzel-
man, B. Lewis and Jim Lipp.
in a brilliant 69 at Baldwin Hills coun-
try club this month, to win the beauti-
ful George Strompl golf trophy and be-
come the new Douglas Athletic club
links champion. The defending cham-
pion, Clarence Hoberg, was unable to
appear.
The occasion was a special D.A.C.
golf tournament under the direction of
Sherman "Curley" Clavelot.
Nearly 100 of the pick of Doug-
las golfers turned out for the
championship play and, in spite of
weather conditions, some of the finest
scores on record were chalked up.
Ewing took low gross honors in the
"A" flight with his sparking 69, of
course, while low net honors in the
same class went to Fred Gordon with
a 72 and a 5 handicap for a 67 total.
Low gross in the "B" flight was cap-
tured by H. Walsh, of Dept. 55, with an
80 total. Low net went to Jack Sim-
monds with a 67. Simmonds shot an 84
with a 17 handicap. SENT SPINNING by Ben Sherman,
One of the surprises of the tourna- Norm Randalls lands on his ear while
ment was the showing made by Miss Gege Gravante, referee, looks on.
Mary Gordon, who brought back low
gross honors in "C" flight with an 87. First of all, he tied the referee se-
Low net in this flight went to D. Mor- curely up in the ropes, to avoid any
iarty with a 90 and a 25 handicap for interference. Then he went after Meth-
a total of 65. eny with headlocks, airplane spins, body
"D" flight low gross honors went to slams, flying tackles and drop kicks,
R. Corridin with a 90, while B. Gates and had his worthy opponent saying
took low net in the same flight with a "uncle" in every language but algebra.
55. Take a deep breath and then read Finally, Gravante regained his com-
on. Gates shot a 90 and was given a posure and the use of his neck and
35 handicap which accounts for the limbs and stopped the match. He dis-
phenominal score. qualified La Mont for interfering with
the referee, and gave the decision to
"Hammer-Head Hank" who will hence-
La Mont Disqualified forth be known as "Mumbling" Metheny
In Mat Brawl the Muddled Missourian.

The La Mont-Metheny wrestling

WINNER of badminton tourney singles
and mixed doubles was Bob Johnson.
match, which took place last month,
was certainly one for the books.
Sonny La Mont, the Douglas India-
rubber wrestler, lost the decision, but
got his revenge. Gege Gravante, the
referee, got his neck tangled up with
the ring ropes, and Hank Metheny, the
villianous St. Louis grappler, got a
taste of his own medicine and many
heaping tablespoonfuls of boos and cat-
calls from the crowd.
It all happened when Metheny in-
sisted on employing a few Missouri
wrestling tactics that just wont jell
in this beautiful California sunshine ,
and the referee insisted on being as
blind as a bat throughout the entire
proceedings. La Mont, the Douglas
favorite , soon tired of the Missouri
mauler's idea of catch- as-catch-can- a-
la-Break-Neck , and went to work
Rocky Mountain style.
Office Bowlers
Break League Record
George Strompl's Office Bowling team
lately turned in the highest individual
game ever bowled in the Douglas Lea-
gue by amassing a total of 1100 points
in competition with other Douglas Ath-
letic club teams at the Santa Monica
Llo-Da-Mar. While rolling the high
game, the Office Bowlers also tallied a
series of 3049.
Other members of the team, besides
Captain Strompl, are Les Nagy, Jack
Simmonds, Verne Ford and Bohn
Featherstone. These men, in rolling the
highest individual game on record for
Douglas Athletic club bowlers, beat the
highly touted Purchasing team by three W
points. "
The bowling season is now well under
way for Douglas keglers and many
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PAGE TWENTY- FOUR DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

ACTIVITIES
First Anniversary
Celebrated by Aeronaders
Another party. this time the cele-
bration of a first anniversary, was the
talk of the Aeronaders last month when
this group of songsters gathered at the
Aviation Beach club for dinner and
entertainment.
Highlights of the evening came when
Eddie Curran, popular tenor, hushed
the room with "Wonderful One," and
on the other hand, Arnold P. Schunck,
club president, blasted the house down
with "The Sow Song." Master of cere-
monies was Norm Hanson.
In addition to a birthday party for
the club itself, this was a celebration
for Schunck and Harold Padgett, each
of whom was also one year older.
Among those present were : Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Don
Watt, Mr. and Mrs. Don Kirkham, Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold P. Schunck, Alice
Schofield ( vice president of the chorus)
with her mother Mrs. C. L. Schofield
and Leon Benzenhoefer, Alice Petersen,
and Jean Ivins.
Mary Lou Keys and Ed Carns Bar-
bara and Bill White, Imogene Ajax and
George Irving, Dorothy and George
Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hagen,
J. Adrian Aiken, Lorene Morgan and
Bill Hershberger.
Vernon and Evelyn Nickels, Dorothy
Conway and Harold Padgett, Betty
Beebe and Harold Beard Hazel Bruno
and Marshall Holt, Elaine Bruno and
Jerry Elson, Olive Clayton and Francis
X. Cremer, Kathryn Teston and Oscar
Clark, and Larry Brolsma.
Much credit goes to Oscar Clark, and
Larry Brolsma and George Irving for
the work and preparation which they
devoted to make this party a success.
During the one year of its existence ,
over 150 persons have been associated
with the Douglas Aeronaders . There are
at present over 60 active members who
rehearse each Monday evening at the
Miles Playhouse in Santa Monica.
Girls' Bowling League
Ranks With Country's Best
Girls' bowling, good last year, seems
twice as good now. Dinner parties for
league members are springing up all
over the plant, latest of which was
given by members of the process engi-
neering department in honor of their
bowling stars. Present at the dinner
and in the rooting section were : Valerie
Logan, Florine McVey, Fran Garber,
Rosemary Rosemond Ruth Stafford,
Jerry Bryson, Evelyn Mulholland Mary
Masheter, Katherine Bolton and Betty
Jane Yates. And the "public" seemed
to be a good idea as the "Process Pin
NOVEMBER ... 1941
by Enid Kieburtz
Dusters" dusted off three victories that Some artists have expressed an in-
evening. terest in doing poster work and are
Fern Gallagher, team member, and getting their ideas together for some
one of the league's top bowlers, showed sketching along this line.
of what stuff she is made by bowling Meetings are held each Wednesday
two 200 plus games, one right after
night. For the place , hour and other
another. vital statistics, call Irving Floyd,
Twenty teams make up the girls' lea-
phone 845.
gue with five bowlers per team. Twelve
teams bowl at the Santa Monica Bowl
on Wednesdays while eight more teams Equestrian Club
roll ' em down the alleys at the Llo-Da-
Mar on Thursdays. Enjoys Full Schedule
Among the top women bowlers this
year are Sally Baer, G. Lauer Fern Even though George Cavanah, presi-
dent of the Riding club, is right in its
Gallagher, Val Logan, Doris Thomas, stride with a schedule that looks some-
Farney, Claire Wilmon, Jerry Reeder, thing like this:
A. Lee, F. Funk, R. Schaefer, Irene
Ledbetter and J. Olson all of whom First Sunday of the month, Club Ride,
Griffith Park, 6:45 a.m.
bowl above 137 average. Highest as of
the seventh week were Sally Baer, G. • Concluded on Page Thirty-one
Lauer and Fern Gallagher each with a
154 average.
Douglas Artists
Show Talent
The Art club, although only in its
second month of existence has proved
one thing and that is that there are
some accomplished artists in the plant.
Right off-hand we'd say that Bill Galla-
more holds honors in the cartoon line
while A. M. (Fred) Meyers and Eddie
Clasen lean toward the pastels. Meyers
is more of a landscape artist while Ed-
die goes in for portraits.
The old stand-by, charcoal, is handled
by Irving Floyd, Bob Torvett and others
in the group .
Since the club is SO new, subject
matter has been more or less restricted
to plaster casts, still life and flower
displays , but from the interest and
ORIGINAL members of Aeronaders
calibre of the painters turning out, it
looks as though figure drawing is near still in group, Don Kirkham , George
at hand as well as field trips to differ- Irving, Imogene Ajax, Oscar Clark,
ent sections of Southern California. Norm Hanson at club's anniversary.
Anniversary party of Douglas Aeronaders was held at Aviation Beach club.
PAGE TWENTY- FIVE
Sports ...
Basketball
Captain Al Blythe's call for volunteers
for the 1941 plant team brought forth
an enthusiastic turnout at El Segundo
High school gym. Shoop at forward
and Phipps and Blythe at guards are
back from last year's potent club,
Blythe being well remembered as an
all AUU guard selection on the 1940
star five .
Most promising of the new candi-
dates at this writing are a pair of boys
from Iowa State college, in the land
where you must be able to husk corn
with one hand and loop in shots from
mid floor with the other by the time
you're nine years old, or face ostracism
from society. Bud Sims is pointed for
the forward spot beside Shoop, and Ed
Thescger will be first choice for center.
The AAU league this year is to be
bigger, and very likely faster than the
last loop. New teams from Goodyear
and North American are to augment
the perennial quints representing Lock-
heed, Twentieth Century, and Bank of
America. At least two rounds are sche-
duled to be played, with the jumpoff
some time in December.
It is never wise to put out rave
notices about one's team when it is
still barely past the on-paper stage,
but El Segundo has always turned out
first line cage teams and this one, of
course barring the well known unfore-
seen circumstances , will be nobody's
doormat in the city competition.
Bowling
In a sport so crowded with men that
news of their leagues frequently crowds
other news off this page , one must never
lose sight of the fact that not a few of
the other sex have a flair for upsetting
the wood. True, the girls don't often
hang up sizzling six hundreds, or hefty
two-fiftys, but considering their size and
weight and muscle and all, a lot of
them are right handy with that 14 or
16 pound plastic globule.
Take for instance our Martha Witt
of Dept. 33, who sports a 148 average
on behalf of her "Holy Bowler" crew
in the Douglas Girls' League at Santa
Monica Bowl. The outfit is in second
place behind the DC-5 team from Santa
Monica, and is followed in third by
another El Segundo bevy, the SBDettes .
Other crafty twirlers around the plant
who trundle in the same loop are Mary
Rodefer, Dorothy Londre, Genevieve
Brizzolara, Joan Schrank and Thelma
Loos. Thelma is another fair country
kegler, having started weakly at the
outset only to begin racking up totals
in the 160s in recent sessions.
Skiing
The list of citizens who feel moved
to slide downhill on a couple of pieces
PAGE TWENTY-SIX
El
El Segundo
by Clyde Kintz
of scantling grows longer ever year.
Judging by the healthy complexions and
the snapshots they bring back from the
high country, those of us who sit quiet-
ly at home and appreciate our ankles
as they are should be ashamed. To hear
them tell it- But let's do just that,
singling out the eager, sunburned vis-
age of Dept. 25's Win Kinner for the
spokesman :
"Last weekend after work a party
of six of us, all Douglas men, respond-
ed to the call of the early Sierra snows
by taking off for Bishop. H. B. ( Spanky)
Simpkins, E. B. ( Bucket) Taylor, R. O.
(Obee) Overbeck, O. B. (Billboard)
Paulsen and W. B. (Myself) Kinner of
El Segundo power plant group and Bill
(Tex) Whiteside of Santa Monica were
in the gang. Later at Bishop we were
joined by Cliff and Esther Starr of
Santa Monica and Len and Helen Cur-
tis, Ted Hert and Al Stockton of Long
Beach.
"We spent the first night at Rock
Creek inn, a short hop north of Bishop,
and enjoyable it was until the time
came to climb out of the warm blankets
into the near wintry morning air. After
breakfast we looked over the earth-
quake fault and then headed for the
snow field at Mineral Summit where a
portable ski lift was in operation. It
was still too early in the season for
first class skiing, but in spite of that,
or perhaps because of it, we all had
thrills, chills and spills.
"Casualties were not serious, but
neither were they infrequent . Taylor
twisted a knee , though not enough to
halt his downhill running, but Simpkins
barged into a hidden log and went on
the shelf for the duration with a twist
in his already bum knee. Paulsen and
I, both beginners, were always getting
up out of tangled heaps . Obee Over-
beck, the cautious one, spent most of
Plant
his time near the bottom of the hill
where it wasn't so far down.
"A roaring fireplace and chairs to
relax in were our rewards at Magee
Creek after a long hike down. The late
retirers that night were victims of a
few time honored dormitory pranks,
especially dusted off for the occasion.
On Sunday morning we wrote an "A"
change into our plans and detoured to
the 13,000 foot high White Mountains
near the Nevada line, where we follow-
ed the loop past June, Gull, Silver,
Mono and other lakes before starting
the 300 mile drive home."
According to Kinner, this outing was
only the forerunner of many more to
come. After seeing his pictures of snow-
clad peaks and lofty log cabins we feel
like chucking it all and getting our-
selves snowed in somewhere up above
9000 feet.
Football
Engineers are foolish creatures,
They attempt to spoil their features,
By cavorting on the gridiron now and
then
They play football every Sunday
And they feel like (that ) on Monday,
All week they wish that they were
young again.
Engineers, please take a warning,
Stay in bed next Sunday morning,
Let the kids in college have this recrea-
tion.
You should spend your idle day
With parcheesi or croquet
So you'll live to get your old age com-
pensation.
-Edgar Allen Pollok
As the game of football is generally
played, it provides clean fun and healthy
exercise through the invigorating vir-
tues of bodily contact. As the engineers
play it, it has all the worst features
displayed by a pack of saber-toothed
tigers trapped in a forest fire. They
call it "touch" football, but if it is,
then a torpedo touches a battleship.
The season opened with a terrific up-
set as Basil Gleason, the phantom super-
man of Dept. 25, returned unheralded
from exile to lead Pete Shaw's Stress
Group Goliaths to a 19 to 0 pasting of
Howie Jong's Low Pressure aggrega-
tion from the hydraulics group. Gleason
snagged two touchdown passes from
the enchanted digits of Jack Hammil in
the opening minutes of play, and in
the third period he fell on a blocked
punt in the end zone. The man's true
identity has long been questioned, but
your correspondent noted a marked re-
semblance between Basil and Pete Shaw.
If the two aren't close relatives then
one of them is hiring himself a stand-
in.
Ed Thrall, Jack Hammil and this
Gleason kept the Low Pressures thor-
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DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
Rambling Reporter
Before the December issue is released
Christmas will probably be over, so your
reporter wants to take this opportunity
to wish all of the Douglas El Segundo
folks everywhere a Merry, Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year ful-
filling all your hopes and desires. He
would like also to express his thanks
to all those good people who have
helped in writing this column.
Top this one for marriage announce-
ments. It seems Walter Barden, service,
engineer, gave what seemed to be a
house warming at his apartment in
Hollywood, to a host of friends, includ-
ing Lou Whittier, Bill Burroughs, Mr.
Luquette, Jim Houghton, Jim McDowell,
and Mrs. Bob Fields, Al Hill, Frank
"Wink" Crow, Grover Purdy, Bob Lee,
Ray Foster, Vivian Southwood, Rita
Bente, Violet Crow, Carol Tabor, Eddie
Van West and Margaret Smith. Every
few moments a Western Union messen-
ger brought in a package. One was so
large he had to ask someone to help
him in with it. Everyone was filled
with wonder at its contents until they
read the card attached which said "one
bride for Walter Barden, married at
the Hitching Post in Las Vegas" and
inside was the lovely bride, Pearl
Senate !
Materiel Masquerade
When Charles Post and Tom Mone
decide to stage a party you know its
"gotta be good" and it was for when
the gang from El Segundo's materiel
division met in masquerade for their
second annual party at the Ship cafe in
Venice they had the grandest time of
their life. Costume prizes were won by
the following : Jewell Adams of pur-
chasing attired in a harem gown ( tell
us more) and George Simon, Dept. 33,
with a combination of what a properly
dressed man aint. Sue Post dressed as
a pirate , Charlie Post as a Chinese,
"Pansy" Rose as a Mexican peasant ,
Frances Kenney as a spook, George
Storye and Jean Burke as East Indians,
Sybil Aqgar as a farmerette, Glatha
Jockermsen as a little girl, Eddie May
Crogan as dancing girl, Harriet Ander-
son, Pat O'Brien, as peasant girls ,
Howard Batchelor as a Russian cossack,
Mrs. Howard Batchelor as a sailor
with Mrs. Benfield as a little girl. Bob
Thompson as an apache dancer and Jo
Lodge as a French maid , Mimi de Mico
as a dude in 1916 style , Tome Mone as
a hula dancer, Don Bidwell as an eques-
trian, Bob Miller as a rube, Milt Hughes
as a greeter chief, Evan Webb as a
country squire , Willie Veatch as an 1890
style playboy and scores of others whom
your writer could not recognize. There
were many door prizes for lucky stiffs-
the conversation next Monday echoed
NOVEMBER ... 1941
. . . El
by Frank Opdyke
a popular song "Why don't we do this
more often."
Vacationers
Ruth Gaskell and Ella Mae Moody
flew east on their vacation, stopping
among other places at Tulsa to visit
Hilda Ives and Ethale Brocket formerly
of this plant. Because the girls were
all having such a grand time and
couldn't say goodbye , Hilda and Ethale
boarded the plane to Texas with them.
In Chicago the girls had to transfer
from the plane to the train and en
route to Tulsa went through a flooded
territory and saw houses floating by on
the swollen rivers. In New York they
did the town- took in scores of night
clubs, toured the town, boat tripped
around the islands, and are ready to go
back most any time.
Belles
Bernie Coane and Catherine La Bash
now at Long Beach plant announced
their marriage as a surprise. Betty
Monteverde and Walter McGarvin whis-
pered "I do . " Walter, you remem-
ber, used to be our sports editor. Jean
Sharcotti married to Mike Bushnell at
a colorful wedding, Joan Stacey and
Bob Schrank speaking magic words and
spending a glorious honeymoon, Rue
Pollok and Mozelle Sullivan will say
those two little words on November 27
at Bakersfield. Bernard Alias married
in Las Vegas Saturday, November 8.
Babies
Ellis and Zelma Owen announced the
arrival on October 18 at 9 a.m. of a 5
pound 14 ounce Margaret Ruth. Sid
Cohn and wife presented with a blessed
event when their baby daughter greeted
the old folks, and Joe E. Brown, an-
nounced happily that he is now a grand-
father when a son was born to his son,
Miller Brown in Chile. Earl W. Nicks
is the proud father of a 7 pound 8
ounce boy.
Here and There
Emmet Tufts , supervisor Dept. 65,
used to be a cowboy and herded wild
cattle on the Missouri plains . Charles
Dudley got through the month without
breaking any more of his bones-and
that's a record for Dudley. First he
broke his ankle playing badminton,
then he rebroke it by falling downstairs
on his crutches just as it was about
healed. I'll bet very few know of a
big new building going up back of the
woodshop. Wayne Helmick, chief bar-
tender at his own Halloween party
which he learned about "daze" later.
Johnny Stott leaving for Wayne's party
fog and returning in the same way.
Tommy Davies moved into new home
Segundo Plant
and comes to work with bowed back
from mixing concrete in building drive-
ways, barbecues, etc. Earl McIllvain,
Mike Boll and Bob Bowman, all moved
separately into their new homes . Talk
about pride of ownership "now my
house." John Brueckner, Ed Lobherr,
Pete Shaw and John May creaked to
work one Monday with flaming muscles
after a hard Sunday playing touch foot-
ball . Doug Hugill, and Milt Stokes both
out sick one Monday, and they deny
any coincidence between that and each
building a boat. Carl Wisberg, super-
visor shaping up Dept. 31, with one of
the more efficient departments and he
says "because we have the best gang
in the plant."
Leisure Time
Dick Foster and Frank Halstead
bagged their first deer in Owen's
river gorge. They say it topped 140
pounds and was a "3 and" whatever
that is. Johnny Cunningham explaining
to the chief of police about an "un-
avoidable accident' on the afternoon
of the Stanford-Trojan game. Tsk ! Tsk-
Kenny Kenyon bags plenty of ducks ,
say's he gets at least eight every time.
Ralph Rossi sets a new something by
bowling four nights a week in the vain
hope of cracking that perfect score.
Why doesn't someone tell Ralph. Elmer
Morris has been voted as the perfect
coincidence. Bart (Belch ) Gunther looks
too, too cute in his patent leather tie.
Clyde Bailey is a former musician,
slaughter house technician, and com-
poser of humdrum syncopation. E. W.
Lyttle enjoys landscaping his back-
yard, raising "goofy" flowers, and goes
in for "deep sea fishing in a big way,
my boy" such as snatching abalone off
slimy rocks. Jean Teeling, proud owner
of a "brand new home" surprising her
good friend Zelia Shields with a shower
wherein Zelia was presented with gifts
to complete her crystal set. Newell Mc-
Cabe enjoys flying, being a part owner
in his own flying club-boys here is a
chance to learn flying with little cost.
Ed Williams has his own wood shop and
makes knick-knacks (what are those
things ) for his own and his friends'
amusement . Bud Holeman likes his new
De Soto first and surf fishing next . Al
Foss is an enthusiastic surf boarder and
deep sea goggle fisherman. Mary Frie-
dell losing one of her minds over a sick
St. Bernard (hound ) -so the boys say.
Fred Wilkenning is an enthusiastic deep
sea diver, building his own equipment,
he has explored the depths of the coast
line as deep as 90 feet. He says it is
like exploring a new world of wonder.
Al Foulger's hobby is fetching rare
stones and polishing them, besides that
he is president of the San Fernando
Valley Mineral society, and besides that
won a prize for home beautification
which was presented by the Van Nuys
Chamber of Commerce last year.
PAGE TWENTY - SEVEN
 Reporter
Rambling Reporter
"Football Weather" is definitely an
American term of brisk, chilly weather
and we usually associate this weather
with Thanksgiving day. Most of us real-
ize the multitudinous things we have
as American workers and for which
we can be thankful every day of our
lives.
Years ago America meant opportun-
ity to oppressed classes of the Old
World ; today, it symbolizes the epitome
of a standard of living achieved by no
other nation on earth. It is the con-
servation of this standard of living
which we intend to pass on to future
generations.
It seems that we, as Americans, are
the only large group in the world which
have real basic reasons for being thank-
ful and though the major items are self
evident, all of us have minor and in-
dividual gratitudes. I, for one, am
thankful that Terry found Pat Ryan
and Big Stoop ( if you do not read Terry
and the Pirates of the funny papers
you won't feel the same way) . Also,
that Captain Midnight is now back on
the radio at an hour when I can hear
him and that the Lone Ranger is grad-
ually wiping out the Black Arrow Gang.
That I enjoy heated arguments on
euphemistic subjects such as "Why I
like being a bachelor or being a spins-
ter." And though I don't quite under-
stand a 6-2-2-1 nor a double wing back
formation, I still enjoy California "Foot-
ball Weather."
Beauty Parade
There may be a difference of opinion
about the most beautiful and charming
girl of the Douglas company but once
a year every one is given an oppor-
tunity of expressing this opinion in the
HALLOWEEN party last month saw
swarms of children in Punch Bowl.
PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT
. . . Santa Monica Plant
by Patricia Kelly
selection of the girl chosen at the
"Queen of Sweethearts dance ." Selec-
tion of the dance committee is in the
formative stage.
Fern Gallagher holds the high in-
dividual game of the Douglas Girls
Bowling league. Valerie Logan and Jane
Olson are only a few pins behind Fern's
high game of 217. High team game and
team series is held by the Pinquins.
Every Wednesday and Thursday eve-
ning the girls take over the Santa
Monica and Llo-Da-Mar bowls.
One of the most interesting and edu-
cational breakfast meetings of the year
was the "Nurses Breakfast" Sunday
morning, November 9 at the Cape Cod
Cottage. A motion picture of brain
surgery was the highlight of the meet-
ing. These meetings are held once a
month and were originated about a
year ago by "Campi" so that the Doug-
las nurses could have open discussions
on ways and means of taking care of
the various problems arising every day RALPH CURTIS, project engineer on
in the medical department. "Campi" DC-4 and C-54 transports, receives
has a wonderfully refreshing down-to- fifteen-year service pin award from
earth philosophy of living which she Donald Douglas.
applies to her job of taking care of
the plant headaches. morning at the West Los Angeles Police
range on Sepulveda Boulevard .
Production Control
Here and There
The production control department
"Hard Times Dance" October 25 at the
The recent Douglas badminton tourn-
Deauville club was attended by ap- ament was lots of fun. The most sur-
proximately 300 couples. Jack Lester prising feature was the ease with which
was master of ceremonies and there perfectly good entrants would dis-
was not a lull in the evening insofar appear. Before the tournament got un-
as entertainment was concerned. C. G.
der way Ted Elliot of Dept. 1 tangled
Moyer and J. W. Mahood are respon- with a mill cutter and received a minor
sible for these production control dances finger cut. Ted was entered in the
and they are held three or four times
singles and doubles. Eddie Walker, the
a year. The entire department looks blond flash from Dept. 5 couldn't get
forward to each one. Chuck Elbert is away from his bowling team . Lou
chairman of the dance committee and Whittier of the El Segundo engineering
present plans are a dance at the Beverly department was a tournament casualty.
Hills hotel December 6. This will com-
Lou had just returned from the Louisi-
bine the departmental Christmas party ana war games and evidently the mud
with a dance. played havoc with Lou's stamina. He
Announcement of the engagement of holds the distinction of being the first
Hamilton Black to Eleanor Templeton person to climb the El Segundo engi-
of engineering was made at the Hal- neering stairs backwards. Bob Johnson
loween party Friday night, October 31 , of El Segundo production control really
given by the handbook and parts lists hit the jackpot. He not only won two
groups of the engineering department. trophies but also received a new
Hazel Bruno was in charge of the affair sweater his wife knitted while waiting
and we are informed that the Mar Vista for him to play his matches. There
Women's club is one of the nicest were 21 singles entries , 10 doubles
places for small dinner dances. teams and four mixed doubles.
Members of the Douglas Rifle and The Delta Dinghy association dinner
Pistol club attended the meeting held
November 7 at the Aviation Beach club. will be held December 6. Hugh Mc-
This is the first meeting at which the Lachlan is captain of the fleet and
women's auxiliary of the Rifle and Joe Horst is the secretary-treasurer.
Pistol club were well represented. "Doc" Firmin Porter won the Captain's Cup
Brown, well known pistol expert, dis- for this season. The fleet comprises 56
cussed the principal features of shoot- dinghies. Evidently the captains have
ing. The girls division has many new a guilty conscience insofar as their
members and meets every Sunday • Concluded on Page Thirty-two
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
RUNNING LIGHTS
The whine of a racing outboard motor
and the sight of bucking hydroplanes
invariably get me all het up and rarin'
to go. It seems obvious that other Doug-
las men feel the same about it, for
several of our men have gone into the
sport of racing these tricky little craft.
Bob Hostetler, of Dept. 203 , won first
place for class "B" outboard hydro-
planes at Lake Los Angeles Sunday,
November 9. Wally Allport, assistant
supervisor in charge of Dept. 201 is
building his own boat, which he intends
to pilot in the races which are followed
avidly by the fans , and others of our
boys find this a fine method of relaxing
after a good week's work. It does seem
a rather strenuous way of relaxing, but
it's fun!
H. A. Owsley, of Dept. 223, has writ-
ten a few paragraphs on the import-
ance of individual effort which seem
to hit the nail on the head. The paper
was given to me by his supervisor , E.
C. Garrett, with the notation, "If all
America has this spirit , Hitler and all
Hell could not beat us."
Owsley's paper is being entered in
the contest announced elsewhere in this
issue.
Cupid Capers
You guys and gals in the experi-
mental hangar are not the only ones
who have been working overtime up
there ; a little fellow named "Cupid"
has certainly been doing his share, es-
pecially around the central typing
booth . He informs me that he has had
three victims in the past three weeks ,
the first being Janice Johnson, who was
married October 25, followed a week
later by Wilma Legg, and last but not
least by Patricia Maley. So all you guys
that have a lot of time and typing
might take a little hint from Dan
Cupid, and the next time you pass the
booth, well- just pass it.
And someday, reads a little note
before me, the second shift in Dept. 832
is going to find out just when Robert
Davis' son was born. It seems that all
he remembers is that he passed out
the cigars. Oh happy daze ! The poor
fellow must really have been suffering.
A. G. Seeger of Dept. 12 , will step
to the tune of Miss Delphine Auner, as
trip to Las Vegas plus wedding on
Sunday, November 23 means "Mr. and
Mrs." They'll live in Compton.
o
The bug has also bitten Al Lehman, N
assistant supervisor in charge of Dept.
146. Along towards the last of October,
he hied himself off with the girl of his
dreams to that popular spot, Las Vegas.
There, in accordance with such goings
on, they saw the little man with the
book, and the first thing they knew
they were hitched!
Leo R. Gee, of Dept. 17 , thought he
had seen a ghost last October 31. Imag-
ine his surprise when he found that it
was the stork, who left him a 5 pound ,
NOVEMBER ... 1941
ОП
ON THE
by Darrell D. Marks
14 ounce daughter , whom they labeled
Evelyn Gayle Gee. Mother and daugh-
ter are doing very nicely, but papa is
having trouble keeping buttons on his
shirt.
R. P. Fuller, of Dept. 653, was mar-
ried to Beth Still on October 10, while
Cupid got in another punch in the
same department when R. C. Sherrick
announced his engagement to Florence
Thorne on the same date.
K. V. Broman, Dept. 654, senior lead-
man, passed out the cigars again on
October 18 upon the arrival of Rita
Marie, weight 6 pounds, 8 ounces.
Travelers
Dean Ludden is back from a vacation
trip to Wyoming, where he bagged a
250 pound 6 point deer. Dean reports
that he was really in the wilds of Wyo-
ming, and it wouldn't have taken much
to induce him to spend the rest of the
winter there.
A. J. Johnson, Dept. 654 tool designer,
has left for Hawaii to work on the con-
struction of Pacific air bases for the
government.
It was thought that Bob Garrett, of
Dept. 17, was training for a six day
bike race or a cross-country run when
he was seen pedaling along the high-
way out on the desert 20 miles beyond
Lancaster. However, closer observation
brought out the fact that his car was
parked nearby; and in said vehicle, lis-
tening to the radio, were two delightful
daughters of the desert. This situation
so surprised our informant that he has
THEN
w YA MEAN TO SAY THIS CRATE
ONLY HAS THREE CANNON AND
TEN MACHINE GUNS ON IT
NIGHT SHIFT
not yet fully recovered . "You can ride
a bike any time," says he.
Nice work if you can get it note :
Val Perkins , Wilburn Shepherd and
Ray McCurdy, all jig builders par ex-
cellence of Dept. 632, were viewed
with envy recently helping nine Alpha
Xi Delta U.C.L.A. sorority sisters build
a float to show in the homecoming
parade.
Wes Cameron, of Dept. 651 , is happy
as the proverbial lark with his new
Mercury.
Keep ' Em Flying
And we'll wind ' er up with a little
poem submitted by Robert E. Douthit,
of Dept. 141 :
We who build these ships that fly
Feel we do our share
In helping this great land of ours
And others "over there,"
Know our planes will stand the test
And do their duty well.
From their drone may freedom ring
Through every hill and dell.
There are those who count on them
To help to prove what's right.
The lives who guide them on their
course
Have this great thought in sight.
May every skill that we can use
Go into ships we make
For every sacrifice we give
We give for freedom's sake.
We do not drill nor do we march
To serve this land we love,
But we stand with tools in hand
And send these ships above.
OH ! BOY!!
TWO MACHINE
GUNS
E.BRAMAN
PAGE TWENTY-NINE
Rambling Reporter
Repor ter
To the many employes at Long
Beach who have been transferred from
Santa Monica and El Segundo plants,
Airview is not new- but to the hun-
dreds of new employes who are now
one of the Douglas family it is, and
this is written especially to them. If
you like our magazine , if there is some
suggestion you would like to make , a
criticism or a comment, a word of
praise , or if you would just like to
write a letter -write and tell us what
you think of Airview . Send them to
this reporter in Long Beach or to the
public relations department . They will
not be answered individually but they
will be commented on in a later issue.
Come on, let's hear from you!
ENTHUSIASTIC bowler is Eleanor
Whitesides of plant manager's office.
BOWLING team captains at Long Beach are Pat Haggerty, C. Anderson, R. Mc-
Garvey, R. Henion, J. Meath, C. C. Harrison, D. Brusse, J. McDermott, W. K.
White and J. Boscon. Department 64 team took an early lead in the league play.
PAGE THIRTY
. . . . Long
by Margaret Ball
About People ' n Things
A letter has been sent up by J. A.
Hendricks , general supervisor of build-
ing 6 to let us know that in Dept. 634,
second shift, is a sculptor of world fame
-Nishan Toor. Toor is a native of Ar-
menia but came to the United States
and California at an early age. He
studied in San Francisco, enlisted in
the World War, served in France in
the camouflage division , and his ex-
periences at that time were the inspir-
ation for his famous War Memorial in
Paris. Toor works in wood, stone ,
marble , bronze and silver. His most
famous work is the bust of Beethoven
which is owned by Jascha Heifetz.
Many of his works have been placed
permanently in museums throughout
the United States. Dept. 634 is to be
congratulated on having in their midst
an artist whose work is of such promi-
nence.
It seems that one celebrity calls for
two. Dept. 221, second shift, has
among them Lew Holston, who is the
author of a recently published book
"Other Gods." The locale of the story
is Mexico where Holston has spent a
great deal of time. Very favorable
comments were given this young author
by critics of the press.
Popular Paul Bumb, who was in
charge of second shift receiving depart-
ment, was given two very grand pres-
ents when he left Long Beach to return
to Santa Monica plant . The receiving
gang gave him a silver service for eight
and the Dept. 55, gave him a silver
carving set. Margaret Diebel who sent
in this news thinks that was a pretty
good hint for a dinner invitation.
The newest Douglas athlete to win
fame in Southern California is Dorothy
Beach Plant
Marie Kielty, Dept. 113, second shift.
Dorothy was given quite a writeup in
a Los Angeles newspaper recently for
her splendid game of golf. She shoots
such games as 81 and 78. Good luck
in the winter tournaments, Dot !
En Guarde ! or is it Touche!? Any-
way, that is the preliminary to the
news that a fencing club has been or-
ganized recently by H. Zutto, of the
production illustration group . A cele-
brated fencing master, John McKee,
has been engaged as instructor. The
classes are now being held in the Long
Beach Y.M.C.A. from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00
p.m. and anyone interested in this form
of defense, please contact Zutto.
Orange Blossoms
June has been backed off the calen-
dar. Weddings have been so thick that
cigars are as plentiful as chewing gum
and the girls are all worrying about
putting on pounds (or even ounces )
from the candy that has been passed
around.
A very beautiful wedding was that of
Nova Lou Parker and Tom Gabbert
both from Dept. 295 at St. Augustines
in Santa Monica on November 11. Jean
Tulloch was maid of honor and Hugh
Behny the best man. They took a
week's honeymoon and Tom was back
this week blushingly passing out the
aforesaid cigars and candy.
Beverly Wheeler and Tex Elder of
Dept. 221 were married in Las Vegas
on November 8. Seems these depart-
mental romances just can't help ending
up in church now-a-days whether its
California or Nevada.
Aha, we just thought these Seattle
trips that various members of our per-
sonnel have been making would end in
something or other. Charles Hench-
barger, supervisor of B- 17F tooling went
to Seattle a single man but came back
with ideas about not being a single
man much longer. Shortly afterwards
a very lovely young lady, Vera Brown,
came to work in plant layout. It seems
she hailed from Seattle. (The plot
thickens. ) On November 14- it must
have been arranged J. L. Ferguson,
supervisor of Dept. 134 gave the bride
away at the Wee Kirk of the Heather
in Glendale, and they were married.
They are now on a honeymoon in
Northern California and will return to
reside in Long Beach. Seattle probably
has no more charms for Charles.
Now that November 14 has been laid
to rest up comes November 15 and with
it the wedding of Gilbert Shawnee, Dept.
27, to Miss Virginia Ragan of the
Walker Construction company . They
were married in the Trinity Lutheran
Church in Long Beach and a more
radiant bride could not have walked
down the aisle than Virginia in her suit
of soft green, hat and gloves of brown,
• Concluded on Page Thirty-three
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 SHOP SUGGESTION
A WHEAT farmer from the plains of
Kansas is this month's winner of the
$ 15 Shop Suggestion "A" award. Born
in Pratt, Kansas, Homer C. Heaton,
Dept. 86, once owned and operated a
9600 acre wheat farm.
After leaving the farm he did sales
and service work for the Caterpillar
Tractor company and since June 10
has been with the router department
operating a milling machine.
His suggestion, record of which will
be added to his personnel file, is a
unique clamp for pulling dural stock
through a milling machine. This handy
device clamps on the end of the stock
to be milled, thus saving a drilling
operation and the sawing off of that
end section which previously contained
the drilled hole. Before this clamp
was used a shackle and pin were used
with a cable to draw the stock through
the mill.
· ·
Sports E. S.
concluded from Page Twenty-six
oughly deflated throughout, getting
classy blocking from their mates. The
short enders completed many passes,
but to the wrong team, and their run-
ning attack blew a fuse at the line of
scrimmage. Ed Atkinson and Howie
(Mah) Jong led the plumbers ' offensive
efforts which were not too bad. In fact
they were hardly offensive at all .
Though the Goliaths won, they will
remember one talent displayed by the
losers, namely, blocking . Johnny Zau-
meyer and Rue Pollok were all over
the place, throwing blocks like spoiled
children, and they were playing for
keeps. Ed ( Gargantua) Lobherr of the
Stressmen weighs 230 pounds , but he
spent most of the morning scooping
gravel with his chin and hearing bells .
There are two other outfits in the
league. Bert Mead's Wings team and
Lee Hardy's Controllers. Wings tangled
with Stress in the second game of the
series just as we went to press and was
polished off 14 to 0. The passing of
Hammil and Thrall and the running of
Shelly Pfeiffer was too much for the
Wingmen. Hammil passed to Lobherr
for the first touchdown and "Fleetfoot"
Pfeiffer dashed to the promised land
with the final tally. Wings threatened
but once late in the game when Bob
Allen put on an exhibition of a kind of
running not seen since the pony express
was on the move.
NOVEMBER .... 1941
AWARDS
This clamp saves two hours a shift,
for one quarter of the time was pre-
viously spent drilling holes and saw-
ing off the section containing the hole.
The following is a list of other em-
ployes who have received recognition
this month for shop suggestions.
"B" Award
G. A. Holstadt, 95-38, movable
clamp- on bars to hold sheet stock on
merry-go-round for painting in Dept.
42.
"C" Awards
A. B. Long, 511-153, bulb angle drill
gauge ; Harlan G. Bosler, 511-668,
wing link fixture ; Henry R. Wills, 521-
226, fixture for drilling stringer gus-
sets ; B. M. Rowe, 59-704, rod adjust-
ing wrench ; Alexander Thomson, 53.
210, hinge pin spinner ; J. B. Marcoux,
1-578, time saving device with spring
attachment for punching holes in die
castings ; G. C. Gray, 39-9, special cones
Outdoors
Deer season in Utah attracted a lot
of the boys . Ed Arthur and Bob Mathe-
son, accompanied by a party including
Sam Mallen, Army inspector at Santa
Monica, invaded the Fish Lake district
in the mountains northeast of Beaver,
Utah. Each bagged the limit. Arthur's
two dressing down to a good 150
pounds weight, Bob's around 200. The
trip was featured by snow and down-
right freezing temperatures.
Ole Garrett tried out his new Win-
chester in the Utah mountains
near St. George while on a hunting
party with his father. Both brought in
two good sized specimens.
Jay Tower took a long vacation on
the Oregon coast. His best feat was
the catch of a 28 pound salmon. Hunt-
ing was also profitable, with good bags
of pheasant and duck.
D. A. C. Activities
• Concluded from Page Twenty-five
Second Sunday of the month, Class
Ride, Skinners' , 6:45 a.m.
Second Tuesday of the month, Club
Ride, Griffith, 7:30 p.m.
Third Tuesday of the month, Club
Ride, El Rancho Martos, 7:30 p.m.
Every Thursday, Class Ride, Skinners'
7:30 p.m.
So, you see, all you need is an alarm
clock on Sundays and a willingness to
have one ' swellelegant' time the rest
of the days.
WINNER of shop suggestion "A"
award was Homer C. Heaton, Dept. 86.
for heavy cable reels ; Victor W. Fer-
ris, 13-57 , $ 10, aileron throw check
jig ; Victor W. Ferris 13-57, aileron
safety stop ; A. B. Hinkley, 56-20, $ 10,
precision hone for wing flap ; A. B.
Hinkley, 56-20, valves and cylinders ;
lap charger holes can be lapped to
better than .0001 inch accuracy .
Pinch hitting for George in his ab-
sence is Mel Straight, former rodeo
star. Dorothy Chandler has replaced
Homer Watkins as secretary-treasurer
Homer resigned the post. He says that
anyone who writes the clever stuff Dor-
othy does "should indeed" have the job
and since it was unanimous with every-
one else in the club she couldn't do a
thing but accept.
New tickets are now being printed
for 'hoss' back riders in the Douglas
vicinity and the latest wrinkle here is
the fact that identification of the bearer
will be burnished by a photo of same
beside his horse on the ticket itself.
Barbecue rides and just plain and
fancy parties are in the offing.
Writers' Club
Being Formed
Latest person to pop up with a new
idea is Ruth Neff whose suggestion it is
that a Writers' club be formed for all
would-be authors, and there are many
of them among our 30,000 employes,
some good, some bad, some indifferent . .
but within each the yen to "put some-
thing on paper for the other guy to
read." And it was for this purpose that
she, Dorothy Chandler and this "writer"
met last month to outline the what and
wherefore of such an organization. Ruth
Neff is at present acting as club chair-
man and so all persons who are inter-
ested in joining please call her on
phone 790. At a recent dinner the next
meeting was announced for January 7.
PAGE THIRTY - ONE

Tulsa Progress
• Concluded from Page Eleven
several feet below floor level at one
end, so as to facilitate handling.
Flowing into preliminary assembly
lines in the 120 - foot bay, the parts
eventually will swing into the 200- foot
bay for final assembly. The plane will
move parallel conveyors extending
nearly 2000 feet through the assembly
aisle.
The Tulsa plant will be served with
electricity by a private power company,
but a state- owned hydroelectric project
has extended its lines to within less
than half a mile of the plant, and
would be available for emergency use.
The plant will have a connected power
load of over 15,000 KVA and an aver-
age demand of 10,000 KVA, of which
3000 KVA alone will represent light-
ing for the general assembly building.
Engineers have provided for three
combination gas and oil fired boilers
furnishing a total of 300,000 pounds
of steam per hour at 225 pounds pres-
sure ; three air compressors each with
a capacity of 1500 cubic feet per min.
ute ; three fire pumps capable of de-
livering a total of 4500 gallons per
minute to the plant sprinkler systems
and to fire stations on various parts
of the site.
Meanwhile, the stimulation of the
Douglas plant already is being felt in
Tulsa, a city of more than 150,000. A
"defense area" has been declared by
the federal government, and low- cost
housing is underway to shelter the po-
tential 15,000 employes.
The city, the county and state are
projecting a network of highways and
arterial roads to the bomber plant
district to handle the heavy traffic .
Sewage facilities, water, gas and elec-
tric lines are being expanded rapidly,
and a bond issue providing further
expansion for utilities of all sorts
comes before the voters on Decem-
ber 2.
Partnership Production
Concluded from Page Thirteen
Indicative of the benefit subcon-
tractors have derived from Douglas
production innovations is Pullman's
use of the Guerin process which enables
the fast efficient and economical form-
ing ofof sheetmetal airplane parts
through the use of a male die of metal
and a rubber pad which serves as a
universal female die .
PAGE THIRTY-TWO
Airplane assemblies produced by the
subcontractors are shipped to the Doug-
las Long Beach plant on transconti
nental "shuttle" trains. Several hun-
dred cars specially-equipped to carry
such materials will be sped on passen-
ger train schedules over the Union Pa-
cific, Southern Pacific, and Santa Fe
roads, and their connecting systems.
Under supervision of Douglas ex-
perts, government inspectors, and rail-
road engineers, test runs were made
long in advance with such cars through
western mountain passes. Cars used
were of the largest type, equipped with
steel floor and extra-wide doors, and
roofs raised to accommodate large sub-
assemblies . Special racks are provided
to which wing sections can be bolted
quickly and solidly, without the neces
sity for crating.
To supervise the vast flow of equip
ment, parts and subassemblies from
eastern industrial centers to the com-
pany's plants in California, head-
quarters have been established in De-
troit for a contingent of Douglas ma-
teriel experts, engineers and inspectors .
As the new subcontractors join some
2000 other suppliers who already are
pouring materials into humming Doug.
las production lines, the company's
output of powerful military airplanes
assumes an ever more important role in
America's drama of defense.
Rambling Reporter S.M.
• Concluded from Page Twenty- eight
families are concerned because they
plan a family cruise as the finale for
this year's activities.
Don Garner of the shipping depart-
ment has been appointed chairman of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
aviation committee.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage of Lorraine Ferguson to
Lauren Simpson of Dept. 12.
Wilma "Linda" Legg of Dept. 28 has
changed her name to Mrs. Hal Wendt.
The marriage took place October 31.
Sons
Darrow Mead and Douglas Morton
Bishop, twin sons, of Fred Bishop of
Dept. 25 were born October 25.
Dean Lawrence Thompson arrived
Tuesday, November 4, weighing
pounds and 3 ounces at the Santa
Monica hospital . His father is "Pete"
Thompson of the parts lists group.
Loren Salter Jr. arrived October 23,
weighing 6 pounds and 10 ounces. Loren
Jr. has inherited his dad's pink hair.
His father is a member of the planning
department.
Dennis L. Bowls arrived October 12
weighing 8 pounds 7 ounces. His dad
is Wayne O. Bowls of Dept. 443.
Richard Allen Stevens arrived Oc-
tober 21 weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces .
His dad is Lloyd A. Stevens, group
supervisor of Dept. 443C.
Lawrence Douglas Crain arrived
September 30 weighing 9 pounds 1
ounce. His dad is John L. Crain of
Dept. 266.
Sports - - S, M,
Concluded from Page Twenty-four
competitive matches are planned and
will be held soon under the direction
of bowling chairman Karl Preston and
the regular bowling committee.
The Douglas league is the largest
American Bowling Congress sanctioned
league in the United States.
Boxing Champ Scarce
Retires From Ring
The Kid retires!
He's hanging up the old gloves for
good!
It's hard to believe, but the boys in
the back room say it's true, and, you
can also chalk up another victory for
Kid Cupid, whose punch is just as
lethal as it ever was. For the story be-
hind the story here is that the new
Mrs. Kenny Scarce has put thumbs
down on the grand old game, as far as
her husband's further participation is
concerned, and The Kid, with the ardor
of a brand new bridegroom, has taken
the decision like the true sportsman
and gent he is.
Douglas ring fans are sure to miss
the fast action and clever boxing that
have made Scarce a great drawing card.
His series of bouts with his ring-rival
Johnny Barrett have been the high
lights of more than one Douglas Ath-
letic club boxing show.
Scarce's excellent showings in local
rings as a splendid athlete and sports-
man have been a credit to himself and
matchmaker Augie Di Mille, who dis-
covered the rangy middleweight and
guided him to top form.
Former College Stars
Fill Casaba League
The Douglas Athletic club Basketball
league, besides being able to boast of
being the largest industrial basketball
league in the United States can also
boast of several score former stars of
various universities scattered through-
out the country.
One of these basketball greats of
yesteryear, is Chick Eivins, well known
mid-west casaba ace now the coach
and captain of the production control
team .
The Douglas league began play offi-
cially Monday, November 10, in both
the Santa Monica Athletic club gym
and the gym at Santa Monica Junior
college. The facilities of the local
Junior College have been provided by
Carol Cook, basketball chairman, be-
cause of the tremendous growth of this
season's league.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

Lines of Defense
• Concluded from Page Thirty
One hundred tons of heavy air ship.
ments ride the skies each month. On
June 3 the U. S. Army revoked a long
standing policy of allowing only serums
to be shipped by commercial air ex-
press. Today replacement parts, tools ,
motors, blueprints, patterns and mach-
inery "can be so transported in cases
where need of such material creates a
bottleneck in defense production."
Since the first shipment of five bolts
of silk from Dayton to Columbus,
Ohio in 1910 air express has come far.
Oil wells in Venezuela and radium
mines in arctic Canada were developed
through air freight services established
by private enterprise. In time of dis-
aster, notably the New England hurri-
cane of 1939, the airlines have brought
sufferers medicine and food under con-
ditions where all other means of trans-
portation were disrupted.
With the present emergency, how-
ever, has come the airlines ' greatest
volume of air express and freight busi-
ness. Companies are planning all -ex-
press airplane schedules similar to
those of the railroads. Some predict
that within 10 years air express will
become one of the largest freight haul-
ers in transportation history.
Engineers visualize a huge cargo
fleet shuttling between industrial points
in flying box-cars the size of the B- 19
weighing over 80 tons with a full load
and drawing after them strings of
trailers or gliders. A Douglas DC- 3
could be slowed to about 100 or 125
miles an hour and pull eight loaded
gliders of the same size. Such huge
gliders are already in experimental
production in America.
Tentative routes east and west across
America tapping the farming and in-
dustrial regions along the way have
already been plotted. Air Cargo, Inc.,
owned by the four largest airlines is
already engaged in research on the sub-
ject.
For the present the airlines of the
nation are serving national defense as
an integral part of our transportation
system. At a time when planes are as
valuable to the Army and Navy as
teeth to a shark, priorities for new
commercial transports have been
granted.
The airlines, as well as the rest of
the aviation industry, according to C.
R. Smith, president of American air-
lines, realize their present position and
NOVEMBER ... 1941
their future possibilities.
"The airplane is dominating the
military effort of today ; it will domi
nate the economic effort of tomorrow.
It is largely to aviation that we must
now look for our security and our
leadership FROM NOW ON."
Rambling Reporter L. B.
• Concluded from Page Fifteen
and a corsage of orchids. Gil says that
the only thing he remembers is that
his voice "kinda " failed him-many of
the guests still doubt if he said "I do."
Whats this ?? two weddings edge in
here that took place in October-and
this is labeled November. Well, we'll
be big hearted and let them in-what's
a week or two when you are newly
married ?
Lois Rude, Dept. 221, second shift and
Clarence Davis, Dept. 223, were married
October 18 in Las Vegas and honey-
mooned at Boulder dam. Upon their
return a miscellaneous shower was
given them at the home of Jean Pyle
with Mrs. Ed Schaper as cohostess . The
guests included all the girls of Dept.
221. The highlight of the evening was
a cake decorated in fresh gardenias
which were given to the guests after
the bride cut the cake .
Very shy, quiet Ted Meyers of Dept.
27 was married October 28 in St. Cle-
ments Church in Santa Monica to Mary
Louise Wishard of Ottumwa, Iowa, and
after he came back from the honey-
moon he was a changed man. He posi-
tively sparkled. She must be quite a
girl for Ted no longer seems shy or
quite so quiet. Congratulations, Mary
Lou, you've done a good job.
Congratulations are also in order to
Randolph Nickerson, Dept. 265 , and
Joyce Hayes, Dept. 224, who were mar-
ried in Yuma recently. Also to Robert
Corbett, Dept. 224, who married Miss
Nathalie Clary in Las Vegas a few
weeks ago.
Many pre-nuptial affairs are being
given for Dorothy Scanlon , schedules,
and Jerry Adams , production control,
who will take the fatal leap December
5. They will honeymoon in Sun Valley.
Blessed Events
The stork came zooming in early on
the morning of October 26 ( 5 a.m. ex-
actly) to bring Daniel Lee Stewart,
weight 7 pounds 61/2 ounces to Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas R. Stewart of Dept. 852.
Tom said he wasn't upset a bit, but we
wonder how it was that the next day
--Monday-he weighed himself and had
lost 5 pounds !
William Bennett, production control,
is the father of William Anthony Ben-
nett, born October 30 in Long Beach.
Bill says that he wanted a girl, but
upon receiving a very substantial offer
to buy him by no one less than Ye
Scribe he hastily said he wouldn't sell,
swap, or give him away.
Johnny Butler, Dept. 623 , has the
staff on needles and pins by jumping
wildly for the phone whenever he is
called for it seems that old Mr. Stork
should be bringing in one of those little
bundles any minute now.
Here and There
The personnel department gave a
dance on November 8 at the Lakewood
Country club. Only members of the
personnel department were invited but
a truly large group they were. Mel
Ward, as master of ceremonies, made a
big hit and his management was muchly
praised. Mrs. Bill Mohler, wife of Bill
Mohler, won the prize in the drawing.
A pre-holiday dance will be staged
at the Lakewood Country club the night
of December 5 with the proceeds going
to the USO. Jimmy McDermott, in-
spection, with the help of the LB RR
(you figure it out ) is in charge and a
grand time is promised all who attend.
A small but peppy orchestra will give
forth croonin' and jive-we hope to see
you there.
Tillie Henion, flight office, was in one
of the cars which figured in a five car
accident on Lakewood Boulevard one
recent foggy morning. It seems some-
one stopped suddenly and the five cars
piled up. She was slightly injured as
were others but luckily no one was bad-
ly hurt. Some of the cars were pretty
badly damaged though. We're glad it
was the cars, Tillie.
Ed Axman, Dept. 852 entertained
members of his department recently at
a housewarming for his new home in
Hynes.
Photos by ...
All photographs by Douglas Aircraft com-
pany unless otherwise noted.
Chief Photographers
ROY L. JOHNSON, Santa Monica
HAROLD G. JACKSON, El Segundo
JACK FREEMAN, Long Beach
Staff Photographers
RAY HOSKINS PAUL KING
ROYAL WRIGHT PAUL CHALMERS
ERNEST LUDWICK DAVID LORI
HARRY MERRICK MEL WARD
FRANK ENKOSKY PAT CORBETT
Page 10, 11.. William D. Wyatt
Page 12........ (left ) Murray Corporation
(right ) Briggs Mfg.
Page 13 (bottom ) Pullman - Standard Car
Page 14 ............ (top ) Eastern Air Lines
(bottom ) TWA
Page 15 (left to right, top to bottom)
United Air Lines (3 ) , American Airlines,
Pennsylvania - Central Airlines, American
Airlines.
Page 16... (top ) Larry Kronquist
(bottom ) Pat Corbett
Page 17.. (top ) Acme (2)
(bottom ) Larry Kronquist
Page 18.. (top ) Acme (2 )
(bottom ) Larry Kronquist
Page 19 . (top ) Larry Kronquist
(bottom ) Harry Merrick (4 )
Page 20.. Aviation
Page 23. Stan Orfila
Page 24.. (top ) Barney Fry
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Bowline Bites
• Concluded from Page Twenty- three
has been taken to the owner's own
backyard.
Ed Grant, scheduling and planning
engineer of the El Segundo plant has
recently designed a unique V-bottom
dinghy which, due to the V for Vic-
tory symbol and its V-bottom, he has
decided to call it the V class dinghy.
This dinghy is actually a combina-
tion of two boats, or in other words a
combination of a punt and a skiff which
together measure 14 feet in length .
When divided the boats are very read-
ily stored aboard a larger cruising
boat and may be quickly launched for
shore boat use. Grant states that when
the boats are placed together making
one boat, or the V class dinghy, it
may be rigged for sailing or it may
be rowed at eight knots by one oars-
man.
The boat is constructed of very light
weight veneer. Many sailing people
are waiting to see the outcome of this
nautical experiment .
★ Rebel, sailed by Wes Smith, first, hav-
Walt Bechley of Santa Monica in-
spection division fishes for marlin
through the summer season from his
small power cruiser Patsy Lee, but
with the season getting late for that
type, he now spends his Sundays in
the Catalina channel fishing for
sharks. This is an interesting sport on
light tackle.
★ ⭑
In the Star boat Thanksgiving
Invitational races of November 22 and
23, the series standings were Quiet II
first ; Sea Witch, second; Wench, third ;
Sioux, fourth ; Rambunctious , fifth
with Jim Cowie of Douglas tooling
division at the tiller and Stew Trum-
bull of engineering as crew.
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Find Your Picture
Does your picture appear
among the sea of faces on the
front cover of Airview?
If so, you can get a colored
photograph of yourself (along
with the rest of the crowd) at the
Airview office.
Several hundred copies of the
photograph used on the cover of
this issue were printed especially
for distribution . The pictures are
9 by 12 inches, printed on heavy
paper and do not have any other
printing on them as the magazine
cover does.
If you want one, come to the
Airview office, off the main fac-
tory aisle just east of the center
clockhouse, identify yourself on
the cover and the picture is yours.
cost the Rambunctious in these two
races.
The open six metre class in their
series for the Thanksgiving cup found
ing won both races. Fun and Lulu
tied for second for the series, Fun
being sailed by John Swigert and Lulu
In third
skippered by Joe Horton .
place was Bill Slater of the loft, Santa
Monica division, in Lanai. Goose
sailed by Emerson Spear was fourth,
and Mystery, sailed by Thayer Crispin
of Santa Monica tooling division was.
fifth with Stan Orfila of Santa Monica
production control and Harold Ayres
of Santa Monica planning crewing.
In the converted Six metre class
(formerly open racing sixes but now
cabin boats ) the Bob Kat II was first
with Jack Taylor skippering and Bud
Verplank of Santa Monica planning
was crew . Second in this race was
Bad starts
Saleema, Synove was third and Don
fourth.
Happy Landings!
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his paper titled Mass Production
Through Flash Welding.
Hertel's paper was descriptive of
the place tubular flash welding now
holds in aviation's changeover to mass
production methods and accelerated
production rates. His paper dealt with
the new Douglas flash welded motor
mount which has been successfully de-
signed for mass production under
Hertel's supervision .
The new flash welded-forged ring
engine mount, as Hertel's paper ex-
plained, is commended highly for its
advantages in ease of parts manufac
ture and assembly, serviceability, high
strength and fatigue resistance and
economy.
Pacific Aeronautical Library
Opened in Hollywood
THE Institute of the Aeronautical
Sciences this month opened the Pacific
Aeronautical Library in Hollywood
through a $ 10,000 grant from the $50,-
000 Paul Kollsman Fund which was
set up in 1940.
Establishment of the new library, at
6715 Hollywood Boulevard, will pro-
vide, in a central location convenient
to the qualified public, one of the larg
est collections on the west coast of
books , reports and periodicals on
aeronautics.
Douglas Aircraft company is a mem-
ber of the group of aircraft companies
which helps to share the costs of oper-
ation and maintenance of this new
lending library. Over 1000 volumes
will be available immediately. In ad-
dition, the library will be able to se-
cure any aeronautical book on loan
from the 5000 books in the Paul Kolls-
man Library and may draw from the
180,000 engineering books in the En-
gineering Society's library in New
York.
Members of the Western Aeronautic-
al libraries committee, of which
Patricia Kelly, Douglas librarian , is a
member, were instrumental in obtain
ing the library through the coopera-
tion of Maj . Lester D. Gardner, execu-
tive vice president of the Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences .
Mistake! Mistake!
Two unfortunate errors occur
on pages 26 and 27 of this issue
-mistakes that were not caught
until the two pages had come off
the presses.
The byline of Clyde Kintz, on
page 26, should be on page 27.
The byline of Frank Opdyke , on
page 27 , should be on page 26.
It was a case of transposition.
We offer apologies to Rambl-
ing Reporter Kintz of Dept. 35
and Sportswriter Opdyke of
Dept. 25, both of El Segundo.
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Volume VIII DECEMBER, 1941 Number 12

It's up to you -

The torch of liberty is still held

high and burns fiercely over Amer-
ica. Gift of a people prostrated by
the aggressor, our Statue of Lib-
erty now, more than ever, stands
forth as a beacon of hope in a
world of fear. To each and every
one of us is given the privilege
and the duty of keeping freedom's
light aflame.

On land , sea and in the Air, Amer-

ican guardians of liberty and fight-
ers for freedom everywhere are
joined in the common cause. We
of Douglas , 40,000 strong , are
doing our share in providing the
tools to finish the job. In forges,
foundries and shops throughout
the nation other Americans are
doing their share.

But men and women behind ma-

chines and men behind the guns
of ships , tanks and airplanes can-
not complete the task alone. They
need your help, support and con-
fidence; so do your servants of
government. America's aircraft in-
dustry has tackled history's big-
gest job. It can be done; it will
be done. It's up to you how soon
and how well we succeed .

Damp W. Banglas
PRESIDENT, DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT CO.
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DECEMBER, 1941 Circulation -43,000 Volume VIII Number 12

Published by the
CONTENTS
Department of Industrial and
Public Relations WHAT TO DO IN CASE- BLACKOUT · 4
Douglas Aircraft Company 5
UNTIL VICTORY IS OURS

A. M. ROCHLEN OUT OF THE ASHCAN 6

Director ALOFT WITH THE U. S. NAVY - - 9

JACK G. ANDERSON NEW WEAPONS FOR THE BATTLE OF PRODUCTION - 10

Assistant
EL SEGUNDO'S LATEST- VERTICAL PRODUCTION LINE · · 12
FREDERIC C. COONRADT .
ISLAND KINGDOM 14
Managing Editor
HAVOC OVER FRANCE 16
Associates
AL A. ADAMS BOB THOMPSON WITH US THIS MONTH 20

WITH DOUGLAS AROUND THE WORLD 22

Contributors to This Issue
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE 23
MARGARET BALL PAT KELLY
DON BLACK ENID KIEBURTZ DOUGLAS BEAUTIES-ONE A QUEEN 24
JACK BUCHTEL CLYDE KINTZ
NED CRAWFORD JACK LESTER BOWLINE BITES . 26
ROGER DEVLIN BERT D. LYNN · 27
BASKETBALL
JAMES FARRA DARRELL D. MARKS
H. BRADLEY JONES CARL OLSSON DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB SPORTS - 28
FRANK OPDYKE
DOUGLAS ATHLETIC CLUB ACTIVITIES 29
COVER: The Season's Greetings from SPORTS ... EL SEGUNDO PLANT .. 30
Douglas Airview, our wish for a
Cheerful Christmas and a Victorious RAMBLING REPORTER • • EL SEGUNDO PLANT - - 31
New Year. From a kodachrome photo- 32
RAMBLING REPORTER • SANTA MONICA PLANT
graph by Larry Kronquist.
RUNNING LIGHTS ON THE NIGHT SHIFT · · 33
Published monthly by Douglas Aircraft Com-
pany, Inc., Santa Monica, California. Cable ad- RAMBLING REPORTER ... LONG BEACH PLANT - 34
dress : Douglasair. Address all communications
to Douglas Airview, Santa Monica, Calif. Copy. SHOP SUGGESTION AWARDS 35
right 1941 by Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.

To the first American victims of treacherous and savage

aggression who gave their lives to the defense of our Pacific out-

posts , and to the pledge that these lives and the honor of the

United States of America will be avenged , we of Douglas Air-

craft dedicate our labors with reverence and determination .

DECEMBER ... 1941 PAGE THREE

WHAT TO
(Not Because of Any Imminent Danger, But in the Interests of Pre-
paredness and Efficiency, and with the Approval of the War Depart-
ment, the Following is Published for the Information of All
Employes. Memorize Important Details. Read Carefully. Do not
Discuss with Strangers and "Remember Pearl Harbor.")
ELABORATE precautions have been
taken in the plants of the Douglas Air-
craft company to protect all employes,
equipment and products from the
danger of aerial bombardment, pos-
sible sabotage and the threat of acci-
dental fire.
All these precautions depend for
their effectiveness upon the determined
cooperation of every employe. Every
person in every department has a job
to do in case of emergency. Whatever
the job may be it is important. Read
the instructions you have received-
learn them and follow them exactly.
Your life, your plant, your job and
your country may depend upon them .
In Case of Blackout
Unless and until different and uni-
form signals are adopted for use
throughout the state of California, the
following signals and instructions will
remain in force at all Douglas plants.
ONE LONG BLAST of the siren is
the ALERT signal. Put away tools. Shut
off machinery. Clear aisles. Stand by
for further instructions and signals .
THREE SHORT BLASTS is the signal
for PLANT BLACKOUT. Close all out-
side doors and windows. Stay where
you are until you receive other in-
structions. Do not smoke.
TWO LONG BLASTS mean EVACU-
ATION. Leave the factory immediately
Waste no time . Walk, do not run,
quickly and quietly to your emergency
exit. The evacuation order DOES NOT
APPLY to special volunteer firemen
and other volunteers who have been
assigned special blackout duties.
Each department has been issued
special charts of suggested routes to
take in case of evacuation. These routes
have been laid out to help avoid con-
gestion at the exits. Follow them. If
you are not in your own department
when the evacuation order comes, fol-
low the employes nearest you at the
time.
REMEMBER. There will be no practice
blackouts or evacuations. If it comes ,
it's the real thing. Act accordingly.
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DO IN
If your exit at the Santa Monica
plant takes you onto the airport east
of the new final assembly hangar,
leave the field by the nearest gate at
the east end of the factory. If your exit
takes you onto the airport west of the
new final assembly hangar, leave
Blackout !
When its island outposts in the
Pacific were swept without warn-
ing by the holocaust of bomb
and bullet, America knew that the
war it had not sought, but would
not shirk, had come at last.
Taking every precaution against
possible enemy air raids, many
strategic areas of the United
States blacked - out immediately.
To the vast new Douglas plant at
Long Beach came the first test
of its blackout construction . His-
tory will record it as the first
blackout plant in America to be
so tested by a complete exterior
blackout while on the inside pro-
duction continued uninterrupted.
The careful planning and fore-
sight of Douglas and government
engineers was not in vain, with
every blackout provision entirely
effective. That initial blackout
was a complete success, but it
was spectacular without brilliance ,
it made a picture that could only
be drawn with invisible ink on the
pages of night.
the field by the nearest gate at
the west end. AFTER EVACUATION ,
remain within the area bounded by
Thirty-fourth street, Pearl street,
Twenty-third street, and Ocean Park
boulevard.
FOUR SHORT BLASTS is the ALL
CLEAR signal . Return immediately to
work. Clock in regardless of how brief
exacuation period may be.
FIVE SHORT BLASTS is the signal to
GO HOME. Report for work again at
CASE -
the beginning of your next regular
shift.
Special Volunteers
The most important rule to remem-
ber in case of emergencies is : Let the
experts handle the situation . Keep cool
and follow their instructions.
No person will be called upon or
ordered against his will to perform
any dangerous emergency tasks. Such
services are purely voluntary. Volun-
tary fire and blackout brigades have
already been formed in all sections of
the plants and have received detailed
instructions covering all types of
emergencies. Most of these volunteers
have come from the ranks of the al-
ready-trained volunteer guards, fire-
men and safetymen.
Any other persons with special
skills or knowledge useful in case of
emergencies are invited to offer their
services . Needed to meet potential
crises are persons qualified for police
work, firefighting, rescue and first aid,
telephone operation and repair, radio
operation and repair, utilities servic-
ing ( gas, water and electricity ) and
drivers of ambulances , trucks and
motorcycles.
The necessary forms and question-
aires for volunteers may be obtained
from department supervisors or from
the plant protection offices.
Handling Bombs
The possibility of a bombing assault
upon continental United States is re-
mote, but for complete preparadness
and defense against bombs of all types
these rules must be known and under-
stood.
All persons in the vicinity of an area
being bombed should take cover. Lie
flat on the ground. Curbings and
mounds of earth offer considerable pro-
tection.
In case an unexploded or delayed
action bomb is discovered :
Clear the danger area of all persons.
Do not disturb the bomb.
Establish a guard at least 150 feet
from the bomb and permit no unau-
thorized person to approach it.
If it is inside a building, open all
doors and windows to allow any blast
to disperse.
• Concluded on Page Thirty-six
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
UNTIL
WAR has come.
Since I last talked with you in these columns, Amer-
ica, outpost of freedom and peace in a world overrun
by hatred and aggression , has been attacked . Conceived
in treachery and nourished by sly
deceit, a vicious blow was planned
and delivered by our foes in a des-
perate attempt to cripple and de-
stroy a nation which dared to hold
high the torch of liberty as a beacon
of hope for mankind .
The die is cast. Germany and
Italy, Japan's partners in perfidy, al-
so have taken up arms against us,
and at last the sinister forces seek-
ing to destroy and enslave free na-
tions everywhere, are
open, in all their ugliness and in-
famy.
The roads of destiny, stretching
swiftly and tragically
oceans, continents and skyways of
the earth, have brought the Ameri-
can people face to face with a con-
flict from which there can be no
retreat and with which there can
be no compromise.
At us , a nation
peace and good will, is flung a dire
challenge. Stripped of its pretense
and propaganda, laid bare in the
light of events for what it really is,
the menace to our way of life has
taken shape and substance. It claws
have left their marks at Honolulu ,
Guam, Manila, but the struggle has
only begun.
Americans have always known
how to meet and answer a chal-
lenge. Americans will know
to answer this one. Aroused and
united, America will not hesitate.
Here, at Douglas,
serving in the ranks of battalions
of production, also will know how to answer. Our re-
ply will not lag. Through the din and clatter of assem-
bly lines, through the hum
DECEMBER ... 1941
VICTORY IS OURS
rooms and offices, through the pounding of drop presses,
the screeching of drills and the rat-a-tat of rivet guns,
this answer already is rising in ever growing volume.
It is echoing around the world over far-flung battle
lines. It will grow clearer and
"Faster and Faster" louder as time goes on. It will spread
"The enemy has struck a savage , over desert and mountain, valley
treacherous blow. We are at war, and ocean and it will make itself
all of us. There is not time now felt wherever men of courage and
for disputes or delay of any kind.
skill go up into the sky to meet the
"We must have ships and more
ships , guns and more guns , men enemy.
and more men-faster and faster. Whatever else may come, there
There is no time to lose. The Navy will be no blackout of effort here,
must lead the way.
where the men and women of
"Speed up- it is your Navy and
your nation." Douglas serve their country. This I
FRANK KNOX know from the hundreds of per-
Secretary of the Navy sonal letters from you and your
out in the
fellow-workers, from the hundreds
SI 19 GOVT 2 EXTRA PNB of offers of departments to perform
SAN DIEGO CALIF 1037A free extra services, from the thou-
DEC 17 1941
sands of chins held high and from
across the DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT CO INC
SANTA MONICA CALIF the rising production figures in our
THE NAVY AT HAWAII IS UN- plants.
DAUNTED THE MARINES STILL
HOLD AT WAKE WILL YOU If there be anyone who doubts
MEET THEIR CHALLENGE that our answer to the forces of
FRANK KNOX SECRETARY OF aggression will be heard around the
NAVY WASHINGTON DC world, let him listen to the echoes
dedicated to SANTA MONICA CALIF in the shops or in the homes of
DEC 17 1941 our defense workers . I know the
FRANK KNOX
type of Americans you are and I
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
know America can depend on you.
WASHINGTON DC
REURTEL . THE MEN AND I also know that when the story
WOMEN OF DOUGLAS PRO- of these momentous days is written
DUCTION ARMIES IN SANTA
by the historian of the future there
MONICA EL SEGUNDO LONG
BEACH AND TULSA PLANTS will be a place of honor and high
SALUTE HAWAII AND THE rank reserved for the men and
MARINES ON WAKE ISLAND women who held their ground and
AND WANT THEM TO KNOW
defended their posts in the trenches
THEY ARE MEETING THE
CHALLENGE EVERY DAY WITH and battle-fields of industry, like
INCREASED PRODUCTION good soldiers and true.
how
AND UNLIMITED SUPPORT
Our task is clear. Our job is be-
OF A NATION UNITED FOR
WAR AND VICTORY fore us. Let us stand fast, punch
DONALD W DOUGLAS hard and carry on until victory is
Americans
ours.
and bustle of drafting
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MILLIONS of dollars and hundreds
of combat airplanes annually now are
being swept from floors of Douglas
plants in California and sent into the
skies.
Out of mountainous scrapheaps has
come in 1941 alone sufficient reclaimed
dural to furnish the entire aluminum
content for a thundering air fleet of
Douglas attack- bombers!
Until the fateful morning of Decem-
ber 7, we were prepared to document
the above paragraph with unemotional
facts and some impressible cold figures
now, unhappily, interned "for the
duration."
This much can be told, however.
That, although Douglas scrap pound-
age, like military production , more
than doubled this year, the percentage
of scrap to raw material handled de-
creased 12 per cent and plunked an
even more resounding 40 per cent over
1939.
Of utmost importance to national de-
fense was Douglas' material conserva-
tion policy. Working on the theory
that an ounce of prevention in design
and method is worth a pound of scrap
in the bin, Douglas engineers attacked
the problem with vigor and vision , and
in a few months saved great piles of
strategic materials and many valuable
man hours.
The story of this effort is, in itself,
an epic of industrial achievement and
a credit to the company and the men
who conceived and carried it out.
Having now established that the
stuff you kick around underfoot in the
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Raw Material Is Precious These Days . Nothing
Can Be Thrown Away, Everything Is Salvaged .
by DON BLACK
shop makes a tall pile, literally, fi-
nancially or any way you look at it,
let's proceed to a brief inventory of
these "worthless" items.
They include rivets, screws, machine
tailings, sheet scrap , foundry dross, ob-
solete fittings, imperfect and otherwise
rejected parts, worn-out accessories,
wiring and much miscellaneous litter.
All told, I can assure you, it makes a
right respectable accumulation for
anybody's piggy-bank when converted
into coin of the realm .
Surprisingly enough, this department
of Cash Sales and its now far-reaching
salvage program originated less from
business foresight than from the neces-
sity to curb petty plant "disappear
ances" which at one time reached epi-
demic proportions. As a solution it
was suggested that nuts, bolts, screws,
springs and other what-nots a fellow
might absent-mindedly walk away with
in his pocket be made available to all
workmen at next-to-nothing cost.
This idea turned out to be sound as
the proverbial Coolidge dollar. Sales
boomed right from the start. Today
purchases of such trivia and other floor
gleanings average $6000 a month in
cold cash. Gradually the department's
functions were extended until now,
under the Materiel Division , headed by
Maj . V. E. Bertrandias, vice president.
in charge of materiel, they encompass
our far-reaching and important salvage
program. Immediately in charge is As-
sistant Supervisor H. W. Lampshire.
You may be interested in what other
manufacturers are doing along this
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line. Westinghouse Electric, for in-
stance, is reclaiming aluminum at the
rate of 120,000 pounds a month or
close to an annual total of one and
one-half million pounds. That is more
aluminum than all the patriotic house-
wives of populous New York state.
were able to contribute in cooking pots
and pans. It is less than one-half the
Douglas salvage, however.
That same company salvages an ad-
ditional 1,180,000 pounds of other non-
ferrous metals per month. It took 3000
freight cars to haul it all away at
year's end and the train, if hooked to
one engine and caboose, would have
been 25 miles long. It wasn't, if you
worry about such things.
No wonder "waste" materials now
are regarded by alert manufacturers
like money on deposit. Last year the
Buick scrapheap climbed to an Hima-
layan 244,000,000 pounds. Buick is so
stingy with the leavings that they even
recapture exhaust steam, use and re-
use it, finally convert it back into
water just for the hell of it.
You've heard the old gag about meat
packing houses using everything but
the pig's squeal. Well, Ford goes them
one better. He even saves the whistle
echo, they say, catching it on a phon-
ograph plate.
When it comes to that sort of thing,
we're not far behind here at Douglas
Aircraft. We collect the shavings from
dictaphone records . That's not so silly,
mister, when you learn that manufac-
ture of the wax cylinders requires sev-
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eral rare chemicals no longer imported in the big hurdle to save metallic frag. factories. Our presses keep pretty busy
because of the war. ments. at this task. Re- processing costs run
General Electric has made a hobby Their systems of collection and re- about ten per cent of recovered value
of collecting nickel dust now almost clamation involve hundreds of tractors, and we take payment in new sheet
more precious than the gold variety. trailers, trucks, conveyor belts, special metal, thank you, instead of cash, a
They used to sweep it under the rug, sorting machines, other equipment for less precious commodity. This gives us
so to speak. Now it is collected with reducing scrap to handling size and to a rainy-day surplus beyond pro-rata
vacuum cleaners because a resourceful shares of the vital material allotted to
the necessary alloy specifications.
this company by SPAB. For those of
company chemist worked out a pro- They have giant magnetic separators
cess for recovering the nickel . The you who conscientiously object to al-
which in rather less than no-time pick phabetical contractions , on general
amount reclaimed panned out a full out and lift all ferrous ( ie. , containing principles if for no other reason,
20 per cent of requirements for one
iron ) metal from a mixed heap . That SPAB is short for Supply Priorities
of GE's biggest plants.
sort of sorter wouldn't help us because and Allocations Board, in case you
The beautiful thing about most there is less than one per cent iron in haven't heard.
metallurgical reclamation is that the duralumin and only there by accident Although collecting "rubbish" at
recovery is practically 100 per cent. as an impurity not practical to re- Douglas is a considerable assignment,
Say 99 and 44/100th per cent, if move.
the real chore is to segregate into prop-
you're a stickler for exactness . That er categories such sundry items as sheet
Most of our scrap, naturally, is sheet
goes for aluminum, lead, tin, zinc,
metal. Carefully segregated into seven scrap, metal clips, electric furnace
copper, antimony and nickel . It all is classifications according to alloy con- dross, culled pistons, piston and other
turned back into useful channels of
tent, it is shipped in bales to source borings, forge flashings, short ends of
industry.
A
As an irrelevant but interesting aside JUST SCRAP, but more valuable than gold to airplane production when every ounce
touching on the Federal government's of aluminum is needed. These lathe shavings will be smelted and refabricated.
"substitutions" phase of our national
salvage program, the Swedes have
turned up a neat trick which our peo-
ple have not been slow to adopt for
our own repertoire of magic. They
have found out how to make construc-
tion steel without nickel, a bit of in-
dustrial legerdemain comparable to
bread minus its yeasty leaven. Instead,
they use manganese, chromium and, in
some cases, molybdenum. The result
is a completely satisfactory steel , in
no way inferior to the more orthodox
product. You can readily perceive
what a shot-in-the-arm that may turn
out to be for our wartime economy.
But getting back to our theme of
"waste not, want not," it must be ac-
knowledged that the auto people of
necessity and because their operations.
are of different type are several jumps
ahead of the aviation manufacturers

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SHEET SCRAP is pressed tightly into bales after sorting. Material conservation
program has cut sheet scrap production more than 40 per cent in last two years.
TO SMELTER goes all waste metal. Company does not sell this scrap but turns it
over in trade for new metal, worth far more to production than the money involved.
rods, tubes, extrusions, stampings and
similar materials.
Take rivets, for example. Accidental-
ly or through costly carelessness some
23,000 pounds of them dropped to the
floor last year. So what ?, you may
ask. Let the janitors sweep ' em up.
Just another something for them to
do quite right. But something that
costs the Douglas company about $ 15 ,-
000 a year and which, my unthinking
friend, eventually comes out of your
individual pocket in the form of added
. was brought about through coopera-
taxes. For the business of re-sorting
them on special machines and pains
takingly inspecting them for re-use
PAGE EIGHT
portant group of conservation experts.
After sheet metal and rivets, the
next largest scrap items at Douglas
are lucite and plexiglas. These are
thermal plastics of the phenol group,
as you know, and readily reclaimed.
Larger pieces are widely in demand
by local novelty manufacturers who
turn them into swank cigaret boxes,
decorative gadgets of all kinds, orna-
ments for table and house.
There is even a premium, these war
days, for the sawdust of our mill and
woodworking departments. Here are
some of its current utilities : as a bond
for new types of adobe bricks ; chem-
ically saturated for sweeping com-
pounds ; pressed into briquets for fuel ;
back to the floor again as an absorbent
for many a butcher's shop.
In other words, everything is grist
that comes to our industrial- waste mill.
Even so , we have only scratched the
surface so far in the nation's mother-
lode of metallurgical scrap . Ingenious
as our conservationists have already
proved themselves, we'll be doing
things yet undreamed before the fires
of this war are banked beneath peace
settlements.
We'll be doing this not merely to
save an enormous quantity of basic
materials in the present emergency but
because no up-and-coming, on its toes
business can afford to be unmindful of
the era of peace and commerce that
will follow.
And perhaps, in the final analysis,
we'll be doing these things not so much
for financial profit as for the Yankee
thrift-drill of plucking full -fledged
of plucking
bombers, transports and other aircraft
out of the ashcan.
CASH SALES store sells to public
many items which are still usable
but not up to aircraft standards.
adds exactly 50 per cent, in this par-
ticular instance, to the original pur-
chase price.
Just for the record, this especial re-
clamation comes under the Douglas
Material Conservation section of which
Laverne L. Ford is coordinator for all
plants.
High as that 23,000 total is, it repre-
sents a notable decrease of 60 per cent
in droppings over the previous 12
months, Ford says. This improvement
tion of workmen, I am happy to re-
port, through poster and other educa-
tional programs instituted by this im-
 "Most powerful dive bomber in service," say experts, of the Douglas Dauntless.

ALOFT WITH THE U.S. NAVY

Two speedy, hard-hitting Douglas
bombers, built for the U. S. Navy, are
serving in large numbers in the grim
battle of the Pacific.
Both carrier-based and land-based
with strong units of the American fleet
and shore defenses, Douglas Devastators
(TBD ) and Dauntlesses ( SBD ) are
scouring the seas for Japanese war-
ships to avenge the treacherous dawn
assault on Pearl Harbor which touched
off hostilities between the United
States and Nippon .
The deadly, tropedo-carrying De-
vastator is the Navy's largest ship
board fighter. A three-place, low wing
monoplane, built at Santa Monica, it
has tremendous striking power, and is
designed to give maximum effective-
ness to two important weapons-the
torpedo and the large armor-piercing
bomb. The Devastator attacks at alti-
tudes of a hundred feet or less through
a smoke screen laid by companion
planes, aims its 2000- pound torpedo
by flying head on at its target and
dropping the torpedo in the water close
by. To escape, it must turn in the
shortest possible radius. The torpedo-
plane is regarded as one of modern
naval warfare's most powerful weapons.
The Dauntless is hailed by experts
as the world's toughest dive bomber-
far superior to any single motored ship
used by a foreign power. The Daunt-
less is a two-place, low-wing mono-
plane. The third improved version of
this airplane is now in production at
El Segundo.

Largest carrier-based airplane in the Navy is Devastator, Douglas torpedo bomber.


Long Beach machine shop is one of world's finest, say production authorities.
New Weapons for
BATTLE OF
by Bert D. Lynn
MEN and machines are the factors
of that crucial equation whose answer
spells final victory for America and for
democracy .
As the nation marshals its defenses
on land and sea and in the air, a
vast legion of craftsmen and a multi-
tude of production machines have mo-
bilized on the assembly line to build
those weapons of defense in ever-
greater numbers .
First-line troops in the army of pro-
duction are the thousands of men and
women of the Douglas organization ,
busy night and day on the new and
powerful wings that fight freedom's
battles.
At the company's Long Beach plant
is a key division of this production
army, a spectacular example of the
alliance of man and machine for
national defense. In one of the plant's
huge camouflaged buildings is its
machine shop a panorama of glisten-
ing tools, row after row of them, mann-
ed by newly-trained but highly- skilled
operators.
Machinery experts declare this to be
the finest machine shop of its kind in
the nation. How the shop was planned,
its equipment built and installed, and
put in operation on unique processes,
PAGE TEN
the
PRODUCTION
has written new chapters in the history
of airplane production technique.
Long before ground had even been
broken for the new plant, R. A. Stein-
bauer, superintendent of machinery and
parts production, and his assistants,
were drawing up layouts and ordering
machinery. Theirs was no small task,
for phenomenal production was the
goal . Orders totaling millions of dol-
lars were placed for modern, high-
speed precision machines, many of
them to special Douglas specifications .
Under the top priorities assigned by
Washington to these orders, hard- press-
ed machinery firms pushed the equip-
ment to completion, and rushed
it across the continent from eastern
factories, to be installed in the new
Douglas production line arising in
Southern California.
These machines were placed accord-
ing to the detailed layout plans pre-
pared in advance. In a huge air- condi-
tioned building, illuminated by effi-
cient mercury vapor lamps, the ma-
chines were arranged in neat rows so
calculated that materials would flow
steadily in one direction , from tool to
tool in proper sequence without back-
tracking or cross-hauling and with a
minimum of handling.
There is one long line of milling
machines of several types, another of
lathes. All of the hundreds of
various types of machines are arranged
in staggered rows so as to leave wide
aisles, and enable the operators to
work in space adjoining but not im-
peding the aisles. Each machine went
in an area specifically allotted to it.
and was connected to permanent power
outlets safely and conveniently sus-
pended overhead.
A wide variety of work is done here
for both tooling and production , in-
volving steel and aluminum alloys,
brass and magnesium, in forms such
as bar stock, castings and forgings.
Nevertheless, production has been
scheduled in quantities so large that for
the first time in the aircraft industry
it was possible to employ and enjoy
the advantages of considerable special-
ized equipment designed and built to
perform but a single task. Heretofore.
limited production made it necessary
to use only general - purpose machines
with wide adaptability.
Among these special single- purpose
machines in use at Long Beach are
Keller die-sinkers, designed to cut as
many as three metal dies or fittings
simultaneously, tracing their contours
from wood or plaster models. Multiple-
spindle drill presses are employed for
gang drilling. In motor mount drilling
machines, motor mounts can be placed
in fixture and drills set at various
angles will automatically bore neces-
sary holes. Automatic screw machines
have been installed at the plant to
make large quantities of bolts and fit-
tings from bar stock. Only large-scale
production enables the use of such
equipment .
MACHINERY at Long Beach plant is
supervised by expert R. 4. Steinbauer.
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HYDROPRESSES at new blackout plaint have great daily capacity for sheetmetal
parts of many sizes and shapes. Each weighs approximately 375,000 pounds.
As aircraft production soars to new
peaks, still more specialized equipment
will be designed and set in operation to
meet new needs and potentialities.
Eventually, it is believed, it will be
possible to build each machine around
the specific task it is to perform.
Present innovations in production
machinery at the Douglas Long Beach
plant are not, however, restricted to
the machine shop . New and unique
equipment is found in every building
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and every department.
Most significant and spectacular
machines unquestionably are the
plant's two giant six-sided hydraulic
presses, for these are mechanical
marvels unlike any ever seen in the
aircraft industry . Developed to supply
the plant's streamlined assembly lines
with unheard of quantities of bomber
and transport parts, the two new presses
are striking testimonials to the skill
and ingenuity of American engineers
in meeting and solving national defense
production problems.
Giant hydropresses were needed at
Long Beach-presses which could cut
and form sheetmetal airplane parts
at vastly increased speeds, and still
retain the operating benefits of the
Guerin process. The answer was ready
-and it was one never before heard
in the aircraft industry-two six- sided
Guerin-process hydropresses which to-
gether could produce at capacity an
avalanche of parts of all sizes and
shapes every 24 hours!
Built for Douglas at the Brooklyn,
N.Y., plant of E. W. Bliss company,
the presses each have a pressure capac-
ity of 2500 tons . They tower 25 feet in
the air and weigh approximately 375.-
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TION CONTROL
GANG DRILLING is done on multiple
spindle drill press in operation above.
000 pounds apiece. Each occupies an
area about 32 feet in diameter.
Developed at Douglas and now in
use under license throughout the air-
craft industry, the Guerin process em-
ploys a rubber pad which under great
pressure becomes as hard as steel, and
serves in the upper platen of the hydro-
press as a universal female die, flowing
over and around the many male dies DEFIANCE
of metal placed on the loading table
below.
Record speed in operating the ADVANCED type horizontal boring
presses is attained through the use of
mill, above. Below, Keller die-sinker
six electrically-powered loading tables can cut three metal dies simultaneous-
which radiate around the machine and ly from wood or plaster model.
slide into it at the touch of a button.
Four men at each table can load and
unload it for one complete cycle swiftly
and efficiently, but without hurrying,
in unbelievably short time . For their
complete protection every possible
safety device is provided . Signal lights
indicate which slide is in the press
and which has been selected to enter
next. Safety gates are arranged so
that if one is raised the press cannot
descend, or if it should have already
started , the press slide stops . The
gates raise automatically as a slide
enters or leaves, but prevent an opera-
tor from reaching into the machine.
while it is closing. STRETCHING machine quickly forms
sheet-metal parts over heavy metal die.
Assembly and erection of the presses
in the plant was alone a tremendous
engineering feat. Dozens of huge cast-
ings, ranging in weight from 10 to
35 tons, arrived on flat cars. The
castings had to be lifted from the
cars by cranes, placed carefully on
dollies and moved into a department
• Concluded on Page Thirty- five
 "Vertical Assembly Line" is name given to new El Segundo technique for assembling attack bomber nose sections.
El Segundo's
VERTICAL'
' ASSEMBLY
MECHANIZED assembly lines for big
airplane components-wings and fuse-
lages are routine affairs on the hum-
ming and ever-growing production lines
of Douglas Aircraft company these
days. But the end of mechanization is
not in sight.
Today these mechanical fingers
which hold and carry airplanes and
airplane subassemblies past work sta-
tions where skilled men add parts and
equipment to the growing structures
are reaching out farther and farther
to carry smaller and smaller subassem-
blies.
Latest of these production innova-
tions at Douglas is the new "vertical"
assembly line at El Segundo plant to
produce nose sections for A- 20Bs for
Long Beach final assembly.
That plant's assignment to build
attack-bomber nose section's is part of
the vast plan for distribution of fabri-
cation and subassembly which is being
participated in by not only the Douglas
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Latest-
LINE
plants but eastern automobile
panies, railroad car companies and
other airplane manufacturers . From
each of them are demanded feats of
production speed never before attained
in aircraft manufacture.
To meet the high output of attack-
bombers by the Douglas organization
necessitated the development of an as-
sembly line at El Segundo capable of
producing the nose units well in ad-
vance of Long Beach requirements.
These nose units represent on a
small scale nearly every type of fab-
rication and assembly contained in a
completed airplane. Weighing 300
pounds, the nose section has as its com-
ponents the frame structure, armament,
instruments, glass, plumbing, electrical
equipment, hydraulic installations and
seats, all integrated into a complex
pattern . It requires the utilization of
all types of equipment, tools and
skilled labor available at El Segundo
plant comparable to the requirements
of a completed airplane.
To facilitate the assembly of the
units in the various stages of produc-
tion, it was apparent that they would
move down the assembly line in a posi
tion comparable to that which they
assume when actually installed on the
airplanes . It became necessary, there-
fore, to develop what may be literally
called a "vertical " assembly line which
would have the general characteristics
of the horizontal track assembly line
and at the same time would be acces-
sible from all sides, as well as top and
bottom.
To create such an assembly line, a
series of H beams were set in concrete
foundations in the floor of the plant,
to which were attached rails. Heavy
reinforced face plates are mounted on
these rails by means of flanged rollers
which permit easy movement down the
assembly line. The plates are tied to
each other by means of a six foot tie
bar and the entire line moves in uni-
son.
Both sides of the line are utilized
for assembly work. For complete as-
sembly, the nose is required to make
one complete circuit of the line.
An ingenious turntable device on
each end of the line makes it possible
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
to bring a nose assembly from one
side to the other without removing it
from the plate. As the nose nears the
last station of the line, it is removed
from the moving face plate and at-
tached to a hinged face plate equipped
with counter-balances which swings it
into an upright position for the neces-
sary routing and trimming operations.
It is then removed and placed in a M
saddle for painting and camouflage
work prior to shipment to the Long
Beach plant.
The use of this so-called "vertical"
type assembly line has a number of
distinct advantages for the assembly of
a unit of this kind.
1. It permits the unit to remain in
a position which it normally assumes
when attached to the airplane.

2. The unit upon which the assem-

bly is being accomplished is complete- BOMBER NOSE looks like this when it starts down the jig-track assembly line.
ly unobstructed by rails, tracks, etc. , The major structural members of the assembly are put together as first step.
and is accessible from all directions

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except the rear, which is normally

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famous dive bombers which represent
closed off by structure .

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the factory floor for access by a man
sembly were attempted which could
of an average height.
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Another innovation on this assembly guinea pig in the exploitation of new L

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line is the fact that the use of elaborate ideas in high speed production which F
fixtures and jigs on the production line ultimately may be utilized in the man-
itself has been eliminated . All sub- ufacture of dive bombers for the U. S.
assembly work is accomplished immedi- Army and Navy.
ately adjacent to the line and the large
sub-units are built up in the stationary
tooling before reaching the line . All
holes are coordinated and drilled to
full size, therefore reducing "drilling
on assembly" to a minimum. XX
The major subassembly units are
held in place on the assembly line by
means of a simple tubular support
mounted from the face plate to an at-
taching point well forward in the nose
section. By this simple jig the entire
structure is held in a rigid position,
torsionally and otherwise, while the
initial riveting operations are carried
out. This permits, therefore, easy ac-
cess to all parts of the unit even during
the initial stages of assembly.
The development of this new
assembly line at the El Segundo plant.
offered an opportunity to the personnel
of the plant to become fully versed in
the problems of high speed production
toward the eventuality of adapting the COMPLETED and ready for final assembly, bomber noses come off line. Note how
same methods to the production of the jigs hold assembly in convenient accessible working position at all times.

DECEMBER ... 1941 PAGE THIRTEEN


ISLA INGDOM
ND KIN
"The capricious wind joins the
lapping sea and together they endeavor
to claim the majestic isle."
MEN conjure with the strange names
of faraway places and dream of those
fascinating islands and shores- to most
unreachable yet equally alluring are
romantic places within a few hours of
our own Pacific shore.
Close offshore is the island of San
Miguel, an island of wonderment and
unimagined occurances. The island
was perhaps first visited many years
ago by the Chinese in their junks,
either voluntarily or as a result of
having been blown from their shore.
in severe storms only to arrive on this
side of the Pacific half dead with
starvation and their junks in a bad
state of repair.
It was in 1542 that Juan Rodriguez
Cabrillo landed, putting in at Cuyler's
Harbor of San Miguel Island . Cabrillo,
the famous Portuguese navigator and
patron saint of discovery on our Pacific
shore found Indians on the island.
During his brief stay there, Cabrillo
slipped and fell breaking his arm near
the shoulder. On January 3, of 1543
he died and was buried on the island
by his crew.
Cabrillo's grave has never been
found and even today, as far as history
records, the grave is there unmarked .
Recently the Portuguese Society of
America sailed over to the island and
erected a granite cross in memory of
the discoverer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo .
The more than three centuries that
have passed have witnessed immeasur-
able change in the geography of this
island which was evidently then well
populated . There is evidence that at
one time this barren , mysterious and
desolately beautiful island was well
wooded with a type of iron wood. It
PAGE FOURTEEN
Lonely San Miguel Island Situated in
Most Dangerous Waters in This Part
Pacific Is Home for Little Family.
by Al A. Adams
has become extremely barren by reason Lester was pleased with the island
of drifting sand. and the life it offered. He wrote to
White sugar sand has filled and his lady in New York and expressed his
great feeling toward this island . She
leveled the island until today the sand
came to the coast and Lester crossed
is many feet deep and surely the secret
the channel on a fishboat to meet her.
of Cabrillo's grave will continue to be
preserved. In Yuma the couple were married.
Some years ago during a severe They then quickly departed to begin
storm a lumber boat ran aground on a honeymoon on lonely San Miguel
in the long house built years before .
the weather shore of San Miguel. The
Herbert Lester, the king of San
lumber was cast onto the rugged shore.
An old sea captain who was on the Miguel, had taken a queen and her
name was Elizabeth . They loved their
island at that time gathered up this
home and this isolation for here they
lumber, which he found to be finished
were truly alone . A romance far
tongue and groove wood, and carried
different from the usual was born-
it to a spot on a high promontory
it continues even today.
where he began building his home.
As long as he could get this wood From the breed of sheep secured
he continued to build his house. Today at Rambouillet Seine-et-Oise, France,
that house, 125 feet in length and they took the name for their home, the
50 feet wide, stands on this lonely, romantic Rancho Rambouillet . Twelve
From the hundred of that breed of hardy French
bleak and barren island.
Merino stock now graze over the small
wrecked ship he took portholes to be
used as windows. island. These sheep have few folds
Doors, window-
sashes and windows were later secured of skin about the neck. They have a
through provision boats from the coast. thick body and thighs and are bred
on the island for mutton and wool.
The great house has a huge fence
about it and also inclosed are other
smaller constructions . This makes it
appear as a stockade. All throughout
this great yard inside the stockade are
life boats, Indian metates and other
relics, ship's blocks, masts, booms,
tackle, gear, an old-time locomotive bell
taken from an old wrecked ship, ships'
casks, cleats, belaying pins, old wooden
canons and all sorts of unexpected
things. The constructions have never
been painted and great patches of moss
cover the bare wood.
It was years ago that Herbert
Lester came to the Pacific Coast. He
sought a place to live freely, indepen-
dently and genuinely. He loved the
sea and the true outdoor life and
MODERN Swiss Family Robinson with
proved that he did. He went to San old wooden canon found on island
Miguel and became a sheepherder. probably left by Portuguese explorers.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

A year of pleasant hardship went
by and then Elizabeth was taken to
the mainland by a purse seiner, a fish-
boat which had stopped in at Cuyler's
Harbor. On the mainland a baby
daughter, Maryanne Miguel, was born.
When the baby was two months old
Mrs. Lester returned to the lonely
island to present Herbert, the king of
San Miguel, with his daughter.
Two years went by as provision boats.
kept the little family supplied with
food. Bad storms and terrific winds
often made it impossible for boats to
approach, as Cuyler's is a vicious
shallow harbor when high winds and
seas lash into it.
Again Elizabeth returned when con-
ditions would allow and bore another
baby daughter for Herbert. This little
girl was named Elizabeth Edith.
And SO the little modern Swiss
Family Robinson grew and thrived un-
til today Maryanne is 1012 years old
and Betsy is 7. Fine little girls they are,
for as they grow up, from all appear-
SMALLEST in world is island school-
house. Mrs. Lester, teacher-mother,
rings school bell for only two pupils.
DECEMBER ... 1941
ances and fine mannerisms, they seem
to have gained rather than lost by
this life of isolation. They have
escaped all the contagious children's
diseases, their teeth are exceptionally
good, and the only ill thus far exper-
RELICS given up by the sea from
wrecked ships make fascinating home
museum of Rancho Rambouillet.
ienced was a common cold brought,
they think, by a fisherman who came
ashore there.
Inside the stockade that breaks the
wind's blasts which have been recorded
at 80 miles an hour, Lester built a
tiny schoolhouse, the smallest used and
equipped schoolhouse in the world.
There regular classes have been held
these past years under the tutorship
of Mrs. Lester with the use of equip.
ment and standard curricula supplied
by the Santa Barbara Board of Educa
tion. Mrs. Lester was schooled at the
Montreux Le Ecole Superior of Scot-
land and has qualified herself and the
children by examinations. Each week-
UNCROWNED princesses of Rancho
Rambouillet castle, extreme left, King
of San Miguel in doorway of Killer
Whale Bar of "empties" washed
ashore. Below, mail and provisions
are flown to the island voluntarily by
wealthy friend George F. Hammond.
CHELSE
ELA VORED
day, regularly, the great old locomotive
bell clangs out breaking the silence of
San Miguel to call the two little girls
into the little schoolhouse.
Sunday school is attended by this
little family and no repast is taken
without grace .
The children are exceptionally nor-
mal . Maryanne, the eldest, plays with
her dolls and each week with her
drawing book and crayons publishes
the Rambouillet magazine which is
based on the humor, sorrows and daily
occurences of the little family. This
novel little publication affords many
laughs as it brings out the fallacies of
occurences in simple cartoons.
Lester has a most interesting collec-
tion of guns which he gathers as a
hobby. He has acquired, from passing
ships, wreckage, and friends, guns
ranging in size from canons on down
to extremely old relic buccaneer pow-
der and ball pistols. Thirty odd rifles
he has, among which is an 8 bore
Stephen Grant and Sons double bar-
relled elephant gun, a 450 bore W. W.
Greener double hammerless express
elephant rifle and a 425 Wesley
Richards magnum express elephant
rifle. Of exceptional interest was his
8 bore breech loading whale gun made
in 1886 by Frank E. Brow of New
Bedford, Massachusetts. The gun was
designed to shoot the Pierce bomb
Lance and was given to Lester by his
old friend Capt. Alvin Heider who
• Concluded on Page Thirty-eight
PAGE FIFTEEN
HAVOC
OVER
FRANCE
by an
R. A. F. Squadron Leader, D. F. C:,
as told to
CARL OLSSON
WE OF the "Havocs " have the
strangest job in all this weird busi-
ness of night fighting . We are fighters
and bombers too . But we don't do our
fighting over Britain . When the raids.
start we leave . Our job is to get the
enemy raiders both coming and going
-but over his territory . If we are un-
able to intercept him in flight then we
prowl about in the darkness near his
aerodrome waiting for a chance to
catch him landing or taking off.
We bomb his hangars and aerodrome
buildings, "prang" his airfields so that
he keeps his flare path out, and a hom-
ing raider, damaged perhaps during
his raid over England, will probably
crash and burn up on landing.
The idea is to make the German air
crews fight every inch of the journey
out and home, to turn all the air be-
tween their bases and their British
targets into "hostile territory, " so to
arrange matters that they never know
when they will get a packet-right up
to the last moment when they start to
land after a long and arduous raid.
Our aircraft are converted Douglas
Boston bombers and we carry a crew
of three. They were originally pur-
PAGE SIXTEEN
chased by the French in America.
When France collapsed we took the
orders over.
Certain alterations had to be made,
so that the first models were rather
cold and draughty in front, especially
in the pilot's "office" -a bit like travel-
ling about at something over 300
m.p.h. in a blitzed conservatory.
But aside from the cold-which we
could keep out with electrically-heated
flying suits even the first models
THE AUTHOR
The narrator of this article, reprinted
from The People, London Sunday news-
paper, is a Royal Air Force squadron
leader with the Distinguished Flying
Cross. He is 26 years old and is mar-
ried to an American girl. He returned
to England from Panama to join the
R.A.F. in August, 1939, and took part
in the Battle of France. Later he joined
the medium bombers and was posted
to night fighters. He is now a member
of the first squadron to be equipped
with Douglas Havocs. Carl Olsson, to
whom the pilot told the story, is a well
known British feature writer.
were very comfortable and pleasant to
fly, an important matter when you have
to spend five or six hours in darkness
over enemy country.
We have our successes, quite a lot
of them, but for certain reasons they
do not always figure in the totals of
enemy raiders destroyed on any given
night.
For the most part our job is very
much like hunting for a needle in a
haystack. But occasionally we get lots
of luck- as I did on one night.
It was during the last heavy attack
on Birmingham and the "Midlands
area." I got my orders about midnight,
just as it became clear that the enemy
raid was mounting force.
My orders were to patrol certain
aerodromes they use in Northern
France, visiting them in turn and pay-
ing special attention to one aerodrome
from which heavy bombers were known
to be operating.
The moon was setting as I took off
and the weather reports indicated much
low cloud over France. . . . Not a
promising night for a hunt.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 "Four searchlights came up. One waved right across my
machine lighting up everything in my office' in a glare as
bright as daylight. . . I saw the wreck of the first bomber 1
had hit ablaze at the edge of a wood."

DECEMBER ... 1941 PAGE SEVENTEEN

 As I gained height before crossing
the coast I saw, far off on my left,
the glare of fires in a south-east town
where one section of the raiding force
had let go with H.E. (high explosives )
and incendiaries earlier in the evening.
I changed course towards it on the
off- chance that more bombers might
be coming in towards the fire . And
just then my observer, crouched and
peering out through the windows of
his "greenhouse," reported something
else.
I called the Controller : " Searchlight
intersection to port. Shall I investi-
gate ?" After a moment or two the re-
ply came back, somewhat dubiously:
"Yes- but investigate with caution. "
I was immediately sorry I had ask-
ed. Because that reply meant that the
ground was not absolutely certain
whether the aircraft for which the
searchlights were probing was hostile
or friendly. That can happen, of
course. Good as our "plotting" sys-
tems are and they are very, very
good-it is not always possible, with
perhaps more than a hundred aero-
planes about in a given area , flying at
different heights at over 300 m.p.h., to
be right about every one of them a
hundred times out of a hundred.
But in the night fighters we don't
like that phrase "Investigate with cau-
tion." Because under the best of con-
ditions night vision is limited to a few
hundred feet at most. And the phrase
means that we must hold our fire until
we get really close enough to make
certain that the faint smudgy shadow
we contact is not one of ours.
That may take only a second or two,
of course. But in that time a lot of
things can happen. For the rear gun-
ner of the enemy bomber- if it is an
enemy bomber-has the advantage .
Anything he sees over enemy terri-
tory is assumed to be hostile . And if
he only has a split-second edge on
opening up with his guns, that can be
enough, especially at close range.
Nerves are taut enough in this grim
blind man's buff game, but I must ad
mit mine were a little tighter still as
I swung over towards that searchlight
criss-cross in the sky.
I warned my observer and gunner,
and keeping one hand on my identifi-
cation switches began to cut across the
course the searchlights were taking.
I was going full out, climbing slight
ly towards the peak of the light cone.
Suddenly the beams wavered for a mo-
PAGE EIGHTEEN
ment and then flicked out one by one.
All was darkness again .
And relief. At the same moment
came the Controller's voice on the
phones announcing that the suspect was
"one of ours," and that we could pro-
ceed on our assigned patrol .
"Phew," said my observer into the
intercom . "Phew," said the gunner. And
then I swung round again and headed
for the coast.
The moon had gone now, and in the
pitch blackness below the coastline was
invisible. But there came a moment
when the vast drone of my motors rose
to a higher, keener note, and I knew
we were over the Channel. Aircraft
motors always sound different over
water.
It began to get colder, and in the
starlight long streamers of cloud be-
gan to flow under my machine, fore-
runners of the cloud banks which the
"Met ." people had told me lay over
Northern France.
But I hoped it would not be too bad
and that there might be breaks over my
objectives. I switched on the suit heater.
and turned up the oxygen a bit . Oxy-
gen seems to warm one up. Medically.
that may be an illusion , perhaps , but
some of us find it so.
As we drew nearer the French coast
long fingers of searchlights began to
probe about the sky. Towards Boulogne
and Calais they were particularly thick.
and I saw some "flak" ( anti -aircraft
fire ) and the greenish glow of "flaming.
onions" wavering lazily about above
the clouds.
Someone else getting it, I expect. I
altered course towards a quieter patch
of sky .
Just on the coastline two groups of
lights shot up to port and starboard
and groped uncertainly about. They lit
the cloud banks beneath me so that
we seemed to be sliding over a billow-
ing floor of pure silver, and sparkling
and glinting as if it had been dusted
with that tinsel stuff that goes on
Christmas trees.
But I climbed at once, not to avoid
the searchlights on the ground, which
could not see me anyway, but to get
away from the glare.
I glimpsed the beauty of the cloud
ceiling only once, then shut my eyes
and opened them again to my dimly
glowing instruments, pointing the nose
of my Havoc to the upper darkness
and the stars .
Because, and just because, we must
keep our eyes adjusted to the dark.
We left the lights behind and my
observer gave me a course to the first
enemy 'drome. We went on for some
time switchbacking on that course
through a depth range of several
thousand feet in case we might get a
momentary "visual" of some enemy
raider coming or going.
That steady concentration into seeing
is the hardest thing about night fight-
ing. Try looking at an object for even
two minutes at a time.
And then think of scanning empty
darkness for many minutes, for an
hour or more throughout all your
range of vision without relaxing atten-
tion for a second.
After a time ridiculous things
bothered me. There were some oil spots
on the outside of my window- you can-
not have wind-screen wipers in front
of a 350 m.p.h. aircraft-and I would
fasten my gaze for long tense moments
on those dark blobs before I remem-
bered again that they were oil spots .
More time went by, and then I
started to edge down below the cloud
base to give my observers a landmark.
As the mist closed over my window
it was almost a relief to look at some-
thing near at hand like the instruments
panel. Watching the altimeter needle
and the glowing, pumping pointers on
the other dials we continued down .
Under the cloud base we picked up
familiar landmarks, rivers and rail-
ways and woods of certain known
shapes, and went on .
It was now nearly 2 a.m. And at that
time France is darker than England.
Not so much traffic on the roads and
most people in bed.
The observer was " pin-pointing" now
towards the hidden aerodrome and
giving me frequent changes of course.
Going down to about 1000 feet I
was able to identify certain landmarks
myself because I had been here be
fore, and so I was prepared even be-
fore my observer casually called, "Here
we are, skipper. This is it."
I began to circle. Almost immedi-
ately there was a reddish, staccato
flickering from the darkness below, and
the next moment tracers began to curve
past my windows.
I let go some flares as I made for
the far side of the ' drome to turn and
run up . Four searchlights came up.
One waved right across my machine,
lighting up everything in my "office"
in a glare as bright as daylight.
Then I lost it. But I was on the turn
now. In the light of my descending
flares I saw quivering shadow shapes
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 "The moon was setting as I took off
and the weather reports indicated
much low cloud over France. • 99
below which were hangars and aero-
drome buildings .
And we were on a straight run up.
Putting the nose down I laid a stick
of bombs right across them.
I was miles away by the time I had
pulled out of the dive and got height
again, but turning I saw a whole set
of leaping fires with the black shapes
of the buildings silhouetted in their
midst.
And in the very centre of it all , bang
above the middle of the ' drome, the
ground defences were filling the whole
empty sky with "flak."
I circled well on the outside watching
the uproar for a while. But with every-
thing well alight and no other aircraft
visible, there was no reason to waste
more bombs and time.
So we changed course to the aero-
drome which was the main objective.
But my bombs must have livened things
up a bit. Because all the way there
we had searchlights and "flak" cur-
tains at intervals throughout the jour-
ney.
We were being "plotted" along very
competently, and using cloud cover
and other tactics, I did my best to
shake those invisible ground pursuers
off my intended course. But to tell you
the truth I did not care very much.
Those bomb hits had cheered me up
a bit. It was now nearly 3 a.m., and
some of the bombers raiding England
would be homing. I had a hunch that
there was going to be something better
yet. And there was.
Skirting the outside, we came up to
DECEMBER ... 1941
the aerodrome, picking it up easily
enough from our known landmarks.
And while I was still some miles away
I saw coloured signals going down
from aircraft at about 1500 feet.
The astonishing thing was that there
were eight or nine of them all clustered
together over that ' drome and sending
down their agitated signals.
Probably some of our men had been
busy over other ' dromes and they had
been diverted here, or for once Jerry's
excellent staff work had come unstuck.
But I had not time to ponder much
about it. This was jam, unbelievable
jam, and I went in. Picking out one
which I glimpsed for a moment, I let
him have a burst.
I saw my tracers go slap into his
motors, and the next second they threw
out a great shower of sparks . Closing
now to pointblank range I let him have
another.
And suddenly the bomber blew up
with an enormous orange flash, and
before it dispersed in fragments, I the ground defences, but bursting far
recognised the bomber as an He.111 .
Fighting the stick and rudder, I got
my aircraft under control again. And
in that very second I saw a shadow
pass above me.
It was another bomber and he was
firing at me from his lower rear gun.
His tracers seemed to be coming
straight at my face. but then dropped
languidly over my windows and were
gone. I got one burst into him but
could not see the effect before I was
in cloud again .
Turning sharply and coming out in
a steep dive, I saw the flare path lit
up. They must have been desperate to
get some bomber in, fighter aloft or
not. I kept on with the dive, the lit
flare path banking up in front of my
nose like night-time Piccadilly in peace-
time.
A sitter. I dropped eighteen bombs
neatly along its length and zoomed up
again into the clouds. Emerging again
in a shallow dive, I saw the wreck of
the first bomber I had hit ablaze at
the edge of a wood near the aerodrome.
It had already set a lot of trees alight.
In the glare of the flames I could
clearly see vehicles moving and men
running. Apart from seeing one of
their own bombers destroyed at the
moment of landing, those bombs on
the flare path must have shaken them
up a lot.
So I came down and gave them some
more with all the guns we could bring
to bear.
"Flak" was coming up now from
above me and very wide. Perhaps the
gunners were rattled . I cruised around
that ' drome once more, but there was
no sign of the other bombers, and the
ground staff was still pumping up
"flak." It was quite a party.
Turning for home with bombs and
ammunition nearly gone, I saw the fire
started by the destroyed bomber
had
spread to buildings hidden in the
wood. From many miles away it was
visible and still growing. I'll bet it
burned as long as most fires in Birm-
ingham that night.
PAGE NINETEEN
WITH US THIS
THIS MONTH
MONTH . . . .

Radio Commentator
H. V. Kaltenborn, noted radio com-
mentator and news analyst, made his
second tour of inspection of the Doug. ASSIGNED
OPERATOR
las plants last month in preparing his ONLY
report on the nation's defense to the
American people.
This trip was confined to the brand
new Long Beach plant, zooming into
full production. In a subsequent radio
broadcast Kaltenborn described the
blackout plant at great length, re-
marking particularly upon the rows
upon rows of gleaming, spotless ma-

DD
chines busily turning out parts for
military transports, attack bombers
and flying fortresses .
Kaltenborn is shown at the right
watching the operation of a huge hy-
dropress with Operator Donald Dearth .

Netherlands Air Chief ↑

The Netherlands' Indies Air Force,
small but efficient, has already given a
splendid account of itself in the first
two weeks of the war in the Pacific.
The man responsible for the organi
zation and operation of this fighting
unit against the invading Japanese
visited Douglas last month while in
America conferring with United States
industrial and military leaders. He is
Maj . Gen. L. H. Van Oyen, chief of
the Dutch East Indies Air Force who
is pictured above with president Don-
ald W. Douglas.
General Van Oyen reported in an
article written for Flying and Popular
Aviation recently that the Dutch Air
Force was fully prepared for war in
the Pacific many months ago.
R. A. F. Pilots
Two groups of Royal Air Force men
were at Douglas this month- one to
learn all about Douglas airplanes, the
other to get acquainted with Douglas
2339 men and tell them about air warfare.
Above, Bob Askew, export sales, in-
troduces the R. A. F. flyers at the
Santa Monica Punch Bowl during a
noon time program. The men are Wing
Commander J. M. Whitworth, Group
Captain J. W. Boothman and Wing
Commander H. S. Edwards.
The others, shown at the left, spent
eight weeks at Douglas attending a
service school for DB-7 series air-
planes. Pictured are G. White, British
Air Commission representative, Sgts.
W. H. Bond and J. H. Evans, the stu-
dents, C. V. J. Chiles, B.A.C. repre-
sentative, and N. H. Anderson and
W. H. H. Hower of education.

PAGE TWENTY DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

 Navy Publicists
Due to increased activity in this 43
area, the Navy department last month
set up in Los Angeles a complete or-
ganization to coordinate the release of
all naval information in that area.
In connection with their coordination.
activities the Navy officers in charge
of the office visited defense plants and
establishments in the area and con-
ferred with public relations chiefs.
Pictured during their visit to Doug-
las are, left to right, Lt. (jg) J. G.
Millings ; Lt. Comm. Martin Dickinson ;
Lt. Comm. C G. A. Smith, resident in-
spector of Naval aircraft ; Lt. Comm.
Eugene J. Zukor ; and Benjamin Grot-
sky, chief boatswain's mate .

Newscasters
Reporting on America's defense ef-
forts has become the day and night
occupation of radio newscasters, com-
mentators and on-the-spot broadcasters.
An example of the latter was the
broadcast last month by Jimmy Vandi-
veer from inside the Douglas cold
room, the coldest spot in the world,
where high altitude tests are conducted.
Other radio reporters who recently
visited Douglas are pictured at the left.
They are Al Bautzer, KHJ newscaster ;
J. G. Turner, Mutual producer ; Fred
Henry, chief announcer of KMPC ; and
John Wald, NBC's Richfield reporter.
Vandiveer's broadcast was aired locally
by KFI.

Long Range Planner

Economic, as well as military and
political, collaboration of the Allied
powers, is the concern of Inversan
Macadan of London, secretary of the
Committee on International Affairs . He
is pictured during his visit at Doug-
las this month with Arthur E. Ray-
mond, left, vice president in charge of
engineering, and F. W. Conant, right,
vice president, manufacturing .
Old Friend
Lt. Col. Jack Griffith, formerly in the
Army office at Douglas, now similarly
engaged at Boeing in Seattle , came
back briefly to renew old Santa Monica
and El Segundo acquaintances this
month. He is shown chatting with
President Donald W. Douglas.

DECEMBER ... 1941 PAGE TWENTY- ONE

With Douglas
Model Plane Builders Vie
For Douglas Trophy
* ON SUNDAY, December 7, while Jap-
anese airmen were blasting the Ameri-
can base at Pearl Harbor with high
explosive bombs and machine gun fire,
350 model airplane enthusiasts com-
peted for the Donald Douglas perpetu-
al trophy in a quite different display
of air might at the Western avenue-
Rosecrans model airplane field in Los
Angeles.
There were entries of original and
conventional models ranging from one
fifth to one half horsepower and from
36 inch to 96 inch wingspread . Each
model was fitted with a special timer
which shut off the miniature engine
15 seconds after the takeoff. Winner of
WINNER of gas model contest, Wil-
liam Lain Jr. receives Douglas triple
win trophy from Ralph Burholt, sales.
GAS MODEL airplanes of all designs, conventional and radical, competed in con-
test sponsored by the Southern California Gas Model Airplane association.
PAGE TWENTY - TWO
Around
the event (the plane which remained
in the air longest ) was aloft 24 min-
utes.
The Douglas trophy, grand award
of this eleventh semiannual meeting
of Southern California Gas Model Air-
plane association, was won by William
Lain, Jr., representing the Gas Model
Airplane Association of Southern Cali
fornia. Ralph Burholt of the El Se-
gundo sales department made the
trophy presentation .
Intended as a means of encouraging
interest in aviation among America's
youth, the Douglas trophy will become
the permanent possession of the model
club which wins it three times.
C. E. Branshaw Promoted
To Full Colonel
LT. COL. CHARLES E. BRANSHAW,
former Air Corps representative at the
Douglas Santa Monica plant, has been
promoted to full colonel by the War
department .
With his new rank, effective Novem-
ber 2525,, Col. Branshaw continued
his present job as supervisor of the
western procurement district of the
U. S. Army Air Corps in charge of
the eleven western states . His head-
quarters are at Santa Monica.
Col. Branshaw has been a member
of Uncle Sam's armed forces for 25
years, 24 years of which he has spent
in the air forces. In 1916 he enlisted
as a private in the Colorado National
Guard and saw service with that out-
fit at the Mexican border. Following
year he transferred to the Signal Corps
from which grew the present-day Air
Forces. He served overseas in World
the World
War I as a cadet and after the war
commanded Air Corps depots at Hon-
olulu, T. H., and Sacramento, Calif.
Former Douglas Worker
Heads Eagle Squadron
A FORMER Douglas employe, Chesley <
Gordon Peterson , zoomed into the in-
ternational limelight this month when
he was appointed squadron leader of
the celebrated American Eagle squad-
ron of the R.A.F.
Squadron Leader Peterson is a vet-
teran of 18 months combat service with
the British. He has shot down five
Nazi planes and participated in more
than 50 sweeps across the channel . In
recognition of "Initiative and daring"
in leading his flight, he was recently
decorated with Britain's Distinguished
Flying Cross.
Lanky, blond, 23-year-old "Pete"
Peterson first came to work at Douglas
in February of 1940 after being hon-
orably discharged from the U. S. Air
Corps for "flying deficiency." He
worked as a clerk in tool storage, Dept.
64 of the Santa Monica plant for three
weeks, then headed for Canada to join
the R.A.F.
Because of neutrality act restrictions
which prevailed at the time, Canadian
officials turned Peterson down and
ordered him back across the border.
So, for the second time in two months
he was balked in his attempt to be-
come a flyer. Disgruntled, he returned
to Douglas and went to work as a clerk
in production control . This time he
stayed a little longer.
Twelve weeks later the flying bug
again sunk its teeth into Peterson, and
this time it was for keeps. He sailed
for England, was hustled into combat
training and quickly graduated into
actual flying service with the R.A.F.'s
Eagle squadron.
In his year and a half of flying with
the R.A.F. Peterson has shown no sign
of the " deficiency" which washed him
out of the U. S. Air Corps. Conjecture
is that it was a little white lie about
his age and not a lack of flying ability
that was responsible for his release.
The famed Eagle squadron which
Peterson leads is composed of Ameri-
can pilots who are fighting with
Britain's Royal Air Force.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
Here , There and Everywhere

With the structural steel work com-

Steel Work Completed
FREE COLD KILLERS pleted, crews are rushing construction
At Tulsa Plant
Attention, fellow soldiers of of sides and roofs on the plant . Inside
THEY turned on the heat, both liter-
the industrial front! the structure are strung hundreds of
ally and figuratively, in Tulsa this
Your health no longer is merely electric lights to enable men to work
month .
a personal concern . Like your at night as well as during the day.
Steel work on Tulsa's 4000-foot long
stamina, courage and will-to- win , Special heaters keep the air warm
Douglas Aircraft assembly plant, it is now a national asset. over the spreading concrete floors, en-
spurred on by the realization that war
That insidious fifth columnist abling them to dry more quickly.
is a matter of the present and not the the common COLD is the most Construction of the huge airport
future, roared to completion on De- serious threat we face on our which will serve the plant is proceed-
cember 15, a month and five days ing rapidly. Hundreds of thousands of
vital production front.
ahead of schedule. Therefore Douglas Aircraft cubic yards of earth have been moved
At the same time, U. S. Army en- Company is spending $ 25,000 to make runways level, and pouring of
gineers and officials of the construction to provide for you the most ef- concrete is expected to start with good
company tightened the guard about the fective weapon science has de- weather.
plant and issued new regulations for vised against this universal enemy.
its protection. Shortly after January the Employes Receive $ 1,000,000
Nevertheless, Lt. Col. H. A. Mont- company will make available un- Douglas " Defense Dividend "
gomery, chief of the Army engineers der supervision of Dr. C. E. Two weeks ahead of the calendar,
supervising the plant's construction, Rooney, medical director, FREE
Christmas came to Douglas Aircraft
told a mass meeting of 3500 workers to all employes allotments of a company December 12 when "defense
a few days after war was declared new-type cold-preventative tablet
dividend" checks totaling more than
that "one hundred per cent effort is which tests indicate are highly ef- $ 1,000,000 were handed to 36.000 em-
not enough ; we need 101 per cent fective.
ployes in addition to regular pay.
now. Details of distribution and in- Dividend checks were based on an
"We were ahead of schedule until structions for use will be an-
extra week's pay, not exceeding $ 50 ,
the Sunday when Japan attacked us," nounced soon.
for every person in Douglas employ
he told the cheering workmen . "Now You owe it to yourself and to except executives on the president's
we'll never quite catch up again until our nation to give them a trial . payroll.
we show Japan, Germany and Italy Ask for your tablets the moment Company statisticians estimated that
what America can do at work." they are available.
32,000 employes or 88 percent, who
The meeting, called between shifts Continued on Page Thirty- seven
on the huge plant, was held around an
improvised platform in the center of
the main assembly bay where in a few
months four-engined bombers will be
rolling down production lines.
Colonel Montgomery called for the
workmen to keep alert for possible
sabotage and urged redoubled efforts
on construction.
"Keep your eyes and ears open,"
he warned. "Watch, listen and see if
you can detect any signs of subversive
feelings on the part of other workmen .
If you do, tell your foreman.
"We look to you each and every
one-not merely to get the plant built.
but to help us protect it from damage."
S. F. Ditmars , vice president of the
Manhattan Construction Co. , and R. W.
Long, of the Long Construction Co. ,
told reporters that there was a notice-
able increase in spirit and work tempo.
since the Japanese raid on Pearl Har-
bor.
"We've always had good work from
the men, but the foremen report that
their crews are really in high gear
"101 PER CENT effort" is what America needs, Lt. Col. H. A. Montgomery, Army
since the Jap attack," said Ditmars. engineer, told cheering construction workers at Tulsa. Plant is ahead of schedule.

DECEMBER ... 1941 PAGE TWENTY-THREE

 Pauline Teston, Dept. 354 Kay Kaufman, Dept. 221 Dorothy Yahns, Dept. 203 Juanita Herbert, Dept. 297

Rosemary Rosamond, Dept. 371 Nancy Lewis, Dept. 264 Nancy Savage, Dept. 270 Lorraine Casey, Dept. 153

Douglas Beauties ...

One A Queen

A QUEEN will reign at the Douglas Santa Monica plant on

St. Valentine's day, next February 14 .
She will be, by popular acclaim, the most beautiful and
charming of the hundreds and hundreds of feminine workers
at Santa Monica. She will be " Queen of Sweethearts. "
Candidates for the title of "Queen of Sweethearts" in
this third annual contest are pictured on this and the next
page. Each was chosen as an entrant by the other women
in her department. Beginning Friday, January 2, and con-
tinuing every Friday until St. Valentine's day, elimination
contests will be held in the Punch Bowl .

5 The Queen herself will be chosen from the finalists by

ballot at the annual "Queen of Sweethearts Dance" at
Riviera Country club Saturday, February 14.
The committee in charge of the dance consists of Don
Kirkham , Fred Leaman, Eddie Clasen, Ed Coulter, Bob
Queen of Sweethearts for 1941, Mickey Glad
Johnson, Ted Cooke, Marcella Richards, Dorothy Morrison
Corish and Pat Kelly.

T
Maureen Childs, Dept. 266 Helen Trandum, Dept. 351 Irene Johnson, Dept. 295 Pauline Daudistel, Dept. 298
 Mary Parker, Dept. 623 Olive Cilker, Dept. 270 Marie Boulware, Dept. 17 Esther Barker, Dept. 227

Mary Dana, Dept. 24 Florence Andersen, Dept. 75 Hazel Bruno, Dept. 258 Reina Hansen, Dept. 354

Helen Johnson, Dept. 265 Patricia Inez Cassidy, Dept. 490 Betty Haag, Dept. 24 Geraldine Reeder, Dept. 266

Mary Oliva, Dept. 151 Fern Jeter, Dept. 223 Vivian Daniels, Dept. 266 Mary Ballard, Dept. 223

Jeanne Delaney, Dept. 221 Wilma Chandler, Dept. 55 Margie Starr, Dept. 203 Lorraine Trandum , Dept. 265
 BOWLINE BITES ...
"It is now that we must wholeheart-
edly place our sea wall against an
ocean of troubles."
IN THAT black day that marked
Britain's ebb tide of war, her sailors
and fishermen wrought a miracle in the
horror of Dunkerque. Just as the the
yachtsmen of Dover, Ramsgate and
Sheerness rallied to help in the evacua-
tion of the Allied forces from the
north of France in their own small
boats, so it is that our "little navy"
is ready and willing to effect any
assistance which is possible along our
coast.
The yachtsmen have already begun
the assistance move by offering their
craft and their experience to the service.
Converted yachts have been turned to
patrol duty and are functioning with
trained crews on the inshore patrol .
Men with both sail and power ex-
perience are eligible for this branch
of Naval Reserve service and the re-
quirements have been most liberal with
advancement in rating a possibility.
Great responsibility for the protec
tion of our country rests with these
vessels and their personnel . Our
praise and encouragement is with our
fighting fleet and the United States.
merchant marine.
Charles Adams, of Tooling has
patriotically offered his 30 foot yawl
to the inshore patrol . Official accept-
ance has not been received from the
Coast Guard to date.
This is a commendable offer and
brings home more closely the spirit
of our "Little Navy."
★ presented this year to Bill Shepherd
Under the rules and regulations for
the control of vessels in the territorial
waters of the United States it is now
necessary that boat owners and opera-
tors apply at the office of the Treasury
Department, United States Coast Guard,
128 West 8th Street, San Pedro, Cal-
ifornia, to apply for their license to
operate. This license serves as proper
identification and permission to oper-
ate in the harbors and territorial waters
or to go to the boat at its berth if in
a restricted area . Form 2686 applica-
tion blank and form, together with the
United States citizen's birth certificate ,
is necessary for qualification for this
license which is granted by the captain
of the port.
PAGE TWENTY- SIX
At this writing, only commercial
fishing boats are permitted outside har-
bors in this local area. The pleasure
craft will remain close in no way com-
plicating the functioning of protective
vessels and forces.
There is a fine spirit which has pre-
vailed and always will prevail among
this group of people who make up our
"little navy." At this time that help-
ful spirit will come forward still more .
It is with no thought of pessimism
when I say that the famous trophies
pictured on this page may never be
brought together again. It is through
the thoughtfulness of Ellis Wing Tay-
VETERAN yachtsman, navigator is
Ellis Wing Taylor of Taylor and Tay-
lor, designers of Douglas hangar and
new plants.
lor, the man who designed our "big
hangar", the Long Beach blackout
plant and was consulting engineer
on the Tulsa plant, among many other
accomplishments, that this picture was
made. These are perhaps the most
sought perpetual trophies on the Paci-
fic coast, and this is one of the few
times when all have been together. The
oldest of these famous cups is the
Times trophy pictured in the center,
which dates back to 1903 when first
it was presented to the sloop Venus of
the Southern California Yachting Asso-
ciation. Its inscription reads, "To the
gallant yachtsmen of the Pacific Coast."
The cup has been held by Donald Doug
las with Gallant in 1933 and by Bill
Slater of the loft with Lanai in 1931 ,
'34 and 38. It was this month pre-
by Al A. Adams
COVETED perpetual trophies raced
for by Southern California yachtsmen.
sented to Bill Horton, Los Angeles at-
torney, sailing his six metre Lulu.
The trophy to the left is the Stewart
perpetual for the annual Catalina
Island race won in 1940 by Donald
Douglas' Endymion and was this month
presented to Richard Stewart, cousin to
the donor.
The beautiful Philip K. Wrigley
trophy at the extreme right was pre-
sented to Bill Slater of the loft and
was held in 1934 by Mr. Douglas.
The ship's clock at the left rear is
the Avian trophy which this year again
goes to Lanai and in 1940 was held
by Johnny Swigert with Fun . Swigert
is with the engineering department of
Walker Construction company, builders
of the Douglas Long Beach plant.
To the right is the Nordlinger clock.
4
This trophy has been raced for since
1907 and many famous yachting names
are inscribed upon it. The trophy was
with Naiad.
Taylor's association with yachting
began early, for he is number 10 on
the priority list of old timers who years
ago merged with the old Los Angeles
Motorboat club to form the South
Coast Yacht club which is now the Los
Angeles Yacht club.
Sailing the 50 foot yawl "Trojan".
the boat he owned from 1912 to 1918,
Taylor won the first, and we believe the
only official race from Los Angeles to
San Francisco . The Pan-Pacific silver
trophy was presented under the
auspices of the San Francisco World's
Exposition . The elapsed time for this
race was seven days.
• Concluded on Page Thirty- eight
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11
9 upset victory over the highly favored
Hot and heavy grows the Douglas basketball season. More than 375 men compete.
Thirty Teams Battle
For Basketball Crown
JUST finishing the first half of the
current season, the Douglas Athletic
club basketball league finds itself
bigger and better than ever.
A recent check revealed a grand
total of 30 teams engaged in play, with
ten teams allotted to each of the three
separate leagues, A, B, and C, thus
bringing the number of individual
players to more than 375 men .
Play continues three nights a week
at the Santa Monica Athletic club and
PRACTICE session for Final Assembly team. Jack Conners
tries to evade close guarding of teammate Andy Pakes.
two nights a week at the local junior
college gym .
Incidentally, this season is the golden
anniversary of basketball. The game
was started by Dr. James Nainsmith in
Springfield, Mass ., in the winter of
1891 with a soccerball for a basketball
and peach baskets for hoops. Today
more Americans are said to play
basketball than any other sport.
The governing board of the D.A.C.
league consists of Carol Cook, chair.
TWO POINTS for Tooling. Forward Gene Posa, Dept. 635,
loops a shot over the head of John Kelly of engineering.
3
man, Tom Chamberlain, Andy Ma-
honey, Bud Moeller, Asa Cook, Paul
McClure, and Wes Long. These men
see to the thousand and one details at-
tendant upon the after hours recreation
of almost 400 cagers who make up the
largest industrial basketball league in
the entire United States.
In one of the more recent games,
blond Lee Karstens, former Minnesota
basketball star, led his Material Con-
trol teammates to a smashing 17-11
Planning department club in one of
the feature games of the league calen-
dar.
Karstens crippled the Planners' at-
tack from the opening minutes of the
game by completely bottling up How-
ard Cleveland of the Planning five.
Other games saw Andy Pakes ' de-
partment 13 quintet outclass Tooling
by a 34-27 score. Itchey Wilson and
Tex Conners starred for Dept. 13.
The timber topping Production
Control squad went wild against Per-
sonnel and swamped that outfit 40-0 ,
and in a breeze at that. Personnel at
no time during the evening was able
to penetrate the airtight defense of the
Production Control lads, all of whom
scale well over 6 feet 2 inches. Slim
Case and Dan Reed of the winners
were especially hot.
In the " B" league, Nack Rowe's
Cowling Crew defeated Dept. 61 by a
48-15 score for another one-sided tally.
Russell scored 12 points for the losing
club.
According to Douglas Athletic club
President Don Watt, much credit is.
due to the two fine referees handling
the games this season, Clarence Savage
and Mike Crowl . Both men have had
extensive officiating experience and are
highly popular with players of all
leagues for their impartiality and fair
adherence to the rules of play.
Douglas Athletic
SPORTS
Douglas Bowlers
Plan Huge Matches
The Douglas Athletic club bowling
committee, headed by chairman Karl
Preston, is currently planning an all-
Douglas bowling tournament to take
place in the very near future.
Committeemen Bill Hoffer, Herb
Lang, Eckie Eckhardt, Herb Rasp, Walt
Blutarch and Ray Hoskins, announce
that the winners in this tournament
will be declared champions of all three
Douglas plants.
Prepping for this and various other
interdepartmental and interplant meets,
one of the D. A. C. teams, the "Kiwis" ,
rolled up a total of 1056 points, one of
the highest team games reported so far
this season.
The "Kiwis" perform at the Santa
Monica bowl on Tuesdays. Captain of
the team is popular Sonny Van Skaik.
Team members are Art Eccelstone, Ted
Price, Dick Weaver and Jerry Andrews.
Among the leaders at the Llo -Da-
Mar on Monday nights are George Sher-
mand and Floyd Dempsey. Both boys
have stellar 190 high averages and high
games of 234 and 247 respectively.
Tuesday's Llo-Da-Mar competition
finds Frank Rising with 185 and Bob
Winsett with 170 averages among the
top men.
Other leaders and high scorers at the
various bowling centers at which Doug-
las Athletic club keglers hold sway are
G. Maxwell, 173 ; A. Sweet, 172 ; B. Ely,
175 ; J. Holgate, 168 ; and Flash Gordon
of the Rockwell engineers with a 225
high game and a 173 average.
Sommers KO's Ronda
In Second Round
Bobby Sommers, lightweight cham-
pion of the Douglas Athletic club, gain-
GOOD HUNTING was found by these men up in Siskiyou county where W. G.
Chandler used to be sheriff. Hunters were C. H. Nichols, Chandler, J. L. Stevenson
who turned some birds over to Gus Purpur, Cape Cod manager and Chef Geisbauer.
PAGE TWENTY- EIGHT
Club ...
ed more recognition for himself as a
dangerous puncher last month by scor-
ing a clean second round knockout over
the veteran "Indian Jimmy" Ronda on
one of the regular Wednesday night
boxing shows handled by D. A. C.
matchmaker Augie Di Mille.
In finishing off the flashy veteran,
Sommers chalked up his second knock-
out victory of the month.
On one of the Tuesday day shows,
Sommers stopped De Mar Cordon early
in the second round with a slashing
right to the head.
The new lightweight champion, dis-
covered and groomed by Matchmaker
Di Mille, is one of the finest prospects
to be developed in the D. A. C. stable
in several months. He is young and fast,
hits with paralyzing force with either
hand and, considering that he has had
very few fights, displays an amazing
amount of natural ring craft.
Another of the regular day sessions
saw Red Baller lift the lightheavy title
from off the battered brow of Clyde
Olds in unimpressive fashion.
Baller will no doubt make a fine
champion and certainly deserved to win
the bout, but he was handicapped by
the awkward style of the former light-
heavy king and so looked like anything
but the sharpshooter he is.
One of the features of the night ring
activities was the draw between Johnny
Pat Barrett and Young Joe Louis. The
boys battled each other to a stand-still
in a real thriller.
La Mont Centers Mat
Controversy
The burning question among Doug-
las wrestling fans at this writing is
whether it takes longer to count to
three by fractions or by tens.
CH
by Jack Lester
Evidently Gege Gravante, who
refereed the much publicized rematch
between Sonny La Mont and Hank
Metheny in the Douglas Punch Bowl
last month, knows the answer. But the
rest of us who saw the bout, and who
have been poring industriously through
our dusty old arithmetic books ever
since, still can't seem to figure it out.
None of these mathematic explora-
tions would have been necessary had
La Mont's hand been raised in token
of victory the first time the pair met
and La Mont was the recipient of a
fluke decision. And, although he didn't
get one, the local lad also deserved a
good decision in the second bout.
He put up a good, clean match and
only resorted to gouging, punching or
kicks to the whiskers when the actions
of his opponent warranted such treat-
ment, or he honestly felt his profes-
sional reputation was at stake.
La Mont didn't even hobble the
referee, as has been his wont on various
other occasions. He in no way molested
the third man's sacred person, nor did
he make insulting and naughty ges-
tures, or fierce faces, in that worthy's
direction, nor did he, by word or deed,
sully his reputation in any way, shape
or form.
So what happens. So the minute La
Mont has his back turned for as long
as it would take you to say "boo" ,
referee Gravante gives the decision to
Hammer-Head Hank.
That's gratitude for you.
But this is what hurt. La Mont had
the Missourian practically out on his
feet and was leading on points , although
every time Metheny was flat on the
mat and ready for the referee's count,
Gravante would give an imitation of
Roscoe Ates trying to pronounce
pithecanthropuserectus .
Then, when Sonny let his shoulder
rest on the mat long enough to take
a deep breath, Gravante dropped to
the floor of the ring beside him and
said quickly, one-two-three, without
even stopping to properly enunciate the
vowels. Then he raised Mumbling
Metheny's hand as a sign that a fall
had been declared and the Muddled
One had won the match.
Metheny wanted to know why his
hand was being held up in the air. It
didn't even look like rain. But it was
explained that he had just won a wrest-
ling match, so Hank turned to the fans
and bowed and the fans turned to Hank
and booed. And, as you know, booing
is a sign of opprobrium in this part
of the country.
After overcoming his surprise, La
Mont made formal protest to Douglas
Athletic Club matchmaker Norm Ran-
dalls, who explained that there was
nothing he could do to reverse the deci-.
sion of the referee but he would be
glad to let Sonny get his revenge some
other time.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
ACTIVITIES
Douglas Athletic Club
Holds Annual Party
An "informal bull session" is the self-
given description of the D.A.C. annual
get-together in which members of the
Douglas Athletic club participated on
December 12 at the Hotel Carmel in
Santa Monica.
Entertainment was limited to music
during the dinner hour plus much con-
versation on just about everything.
Those present included Don Watt, pres-
ident of the Douglas Athletic club; Stan
Palmer, vice-president ; Don Kirkham,
athletic coordinator ; Sherwood Clavelot,
Augie DiMille, Gege Gavante, Stanley
Willardson, Fred Gilmore, Norm Ran-
dalls , Ben Sherman, Herman Weller,
Milton Horn, Frank Machado, Jack Les-
ter, Carol Cook, Andy Mahoney, Tom
Chamberlain, Huebert Moeller, Paul Mc-
Clure, Clarence Savage, Frank Warner,
Wally Acker, Ray Hoskins, Fred Coon-
radt, Archie Robertson, Norm Hanson,
Arnold Schunck,
George VanCleve,
Newt Collins, Lester Bleeker, Bohn
Featherstone, Dave Maxwell, Denny
Gordon, S. Neale, Karl Preston, Herb
Rasp, John Leigh, Roy Thompson,
Bruce Goetz, D. Y. Cole, Ray Cross,
and Emmett O'Shea.
This stag dinner is held each year
by the D.A.C. Its "good fellowship"
spirit is carried over into employe
activities and goes a long way toward
building the successful employe recrea-
tional program at Douglas. Each man
carries the responsibility of one or more
sports or activities on his shoulders.
It's to them that we owe thanks for the
D.A.C.-a club for the benefit of each
of us.
Minstrel Show Cast
Now Being Chosen
It's getting around to that time of
year again when we talk of Minstrel
Shows. And here at Douglas, we talk
rather loudly inasmuch as our first one,
presented last January, was just about
the biggest success along that line of
any show ever done hereabouts .
With that in mind, we look forward
to our new one, scheduled for the latter
part of January next year, with great
anticipation, and expect it to be an-
other tremendous success. We expect
another sellout crowd and another hil-
arious time for both cast and customers.
Plans for this show are even bigger
than last. An all-star cast will once
again gather ' round D. Y. Cole, dir-
ector-deluxe, and we're betting on en-
tertainment of the very highest quality.
As before a big feature of the show
will be the Douglas Aeronaders under
the direction of Paul Taylor.
You all know D. Y. Cole for an old-
timer in pictures and the show business
in general and under his guiding hand
DECEMBER ... 1941
"MAME", two act comedy presented by Dramatics club was big hit last month. Full
house at Santa Monica High school brought the cast back to take many bows.
the Douglas talent is expected to be
molded into great shakes.
Anyone who would like to be part of
this great Minstrel Show is invited to
contact Cole (phone 9208 ) , Don Kirk-
ham (phone 680) , or any of the mem-
bers of the Dramatics club.
New Writers Club
Holds First Meeting
The Writers' club, formed by Ruth
Neff, drew ten interested persons to
its first meeting held November 26 at
Carl's-By-The- Sea, where cocktails,
dinner and a lot of good discussion fur-
nished the evening's entertainment .
Chairman Ruth Neff, Fred Coonradt,
Patsy Kelly, Barney Melekian, Ned
Crawford, Norm Hanson, Don Black,
Dorothy and George Chandler, and Enid
Kieburtz were present.
This first meeting, held more or less
in the spirit of "trying the idea out"
proved to be so much fun that a vote
to continue the club was unanimous.
Originally club members thought that
to meet every once in a while to "shoot
the breeze" was reason enough for this
organization's existence and an effort
was made to maintain just that. How-
ever, you can't keep a group of Douglas
people on that basis. Constructive ideas
kept popping up for "self-improvement",
suggestions for the Airview and the
like , and the evening's ending found all
promising to bring some ideas for an
Airview woman's page next time.
Every Douglas lady must have some
mighty good thoughts in her clever
little head for just such a page and
we'd like to know what your idea might
be. Just what would you like ? Send
your suggestions either to the Airview
office or to this writer in Dept. 372.
Anyone interested in writing, or per-
sons on the staff of any newspaper or
magazine, are invited to call Ruth Neff
by Enid Kieburtz
(phone 650 ) for place of next meeting,
which is scheduled for January 7. At
that time Geoffrey Morgan, famous lec-
turer and author, will be present.
Dramatics Club
Scores Hit with "Mame"
The Dramatics club proved itself once
again, using "Mame", a two-act comedy
as its medium . This play, written by
William Jeffries, and directed by Hugh
Root, delighted scores of Douglas em-
ployes on November 22 when it was
presented for the first time to local
audiences at the Santa Monica high
school auditorium .
Members of the cast included diminu-
tive Bobbie White who played the lead,
Willoughby Farquhar, Julia Johnson,
Hal Pollock, Phyllis Day, Danny Daniel,
Don Frost, Ruth Prophet, George Spel-
vin, and of course capable Hugh Root.
Rather than honors to individuals
in this excellent play, they go to the
entire cast which put on an excellent
performance as a unit.
As an added attraction, the Aero-
naders under the direction of Paul Tay-
lor, presented several of their latest
choral arrangements.
Round of Parties Planned
For Army Enlisted Men
Enlisted men in the Army groups
stationed in Santa Monica will be given
a dancing party at the Mar Vista
Women's club December 29. In charge
of the affair are G. G. Bassett, assist-
ant chief draftsman. Lina Bybee, Boots
Cox, Pauline Bastlo, Carleen Andrews
and Regina Atwood.
Other groups at the other plants are
also planning Christmas entertain-
ments for the men.
PAGE TWENTY- NINE
Sports ...
Bowling
The season-long bowling feud between
Paint Shop and Police continues to pro-
vide the fireworks in our No. 1 League
at Morningside Recreation. Only three
games separate the two outfits, with
the Painters boasting a mighty im-
pressive total of 38 wins against a
scant 10 setbacks. This is a massive
record for a handicap league.
Williams is the key man in the
Painter's lineup . His 165 leads a well
balanced assembly of averages which
has Titus and Sandy slapping 161's
Van Buskirk and Cameron tied at 159
and Nerpel pitching 148 .
Plant Protection , remembered
by our more faithful readers as the
champions for 1940-41 , are not rely-
ing on their uniforms alone in the torrid
race. Nunn's 168, Simpson's 165, and
Ellerbrook's 171 are good indications
B credit for their efforts : DeHart, Len
PISTOL meet winners, right to left,
Officers Newman, Smith and Holland
presented medals by Chief McGhee.
BEAN DINNER, staged by Assistant Welfare Director John Thompson, honored
winning pistol sharpshooters. Chief McGhee, plaid shirt, is telling a tall story.
PAGE THIRTY
El Segundo
by Frank W. Opdyke
that these gentlemen have not greatly
impaired their eyesight by looking at
badges and peering into lunchboxes for
their daily chores. McFadden sports
151, and Jackson and Weiske bring
up the rear of this majestic procession
of gendarmes with 149 apiece... As
if six entries were not enough, there
is also none other than Captain Mc-
Ghee, a tough man in any match, and
we speak from first hand experience.
A regular on last year's champs, he has
hit 161 over 12 games for the current
squad.
Jig Dept. is in No. 3 position in the
14 team league, due to the amazing
even work of Reel, Stagnero and
Spondello, all of whom hit 159 for 36
games. Maintenance is fourth, headed
by Adam's 178 average. Mike Lipton,
another old hand at the sport, is hold-
ing Accounting in fifth spot with a 179
mark, which even at that is not quite
up to what Mike can do when he gets
in the groove. The same remarks could
be made about Joe Soldan, who has
Wings pushing Accounting by dint of
his 184, but who still needs six more pins
to be anywhere near his average. Per-
haps the wise boys who call Morning-
sides polished lanes the toughest test
of a bowler are not just a'foolin'.
Other men in the loop deserve much
Stagnaro, Floyd, Smartt, Kendall,
Thomsen, Sleppy, Farnham, and Pfost
are all mauling the maples for scores in
the 160 to 170 bracket. It's getting to
be a fast league, this Wednesday ses-
sion, and bids fair to produce some
classy talent as the seasons go by.
Over at Inglewood Sports Center it
looked like a pushover for the High
Pressure club of the Engineering
Plant
league until one week early in Decem-
ber when the Country Cousins, a bunch
of stress fanatics, scuttled the lads from
hydraulics in a 4 point massacre. This
cut their lead from eight games to five
over the Pickups who have been coming
strongly from out of nowhere.
Pollok, Bremer, Cobine and Broad-
lick are the men who have kept the
High Pressures sizzling. All four were
green hands when the season started,
but have been improving with each
passing week. Even the drubbing at
the hands of the inspired Cousins, in
which Lobherr, Hammil, Steele, Brueck-
ner and Henderson rose to great
heights, was hotly contested all the
way.
Bert Mead's Laminar Flows are in
third place behind the Pickups. Tom
Jordan heads the latter five with a 155
average. In the van of the high aver-
age men around the league are Bentley,
Richart, Wilson, Henderson and Floyd.
The Thursday League at Morning-
side is dominated by Dept. 4, which
has three stalwarts in Holmes, Perry
and Walsh. Best trundler in the cir-
cuit is Thompson of the Clippers with
a sparkling 184 average. He is second-
ed by Misko of Dept. 13 at 180.
Sheppard is Dept. 5's sharpster in
the Sunrise loop, his 179 leading the
boys to first place in a tie with Dept.
84, which has Meyers for its ace . San-
ders and Reilly are other good men with
the sphere in this league.
Football
The urge to collect scars on a grid-
iron seems to have run clear through
the drafting room. Since we told the
story of how a Stress touch eleven
steamrolled Hydraulics , teams from
Controls, Power Plant, and Fuselage
have taken the field.
At this writing the Stress Goliaths
are still doing all the steamrolling.
Fuselage is the latest victim. The boys
who lay out the frames and diaphragms
somehow got the idea they could whip
Stress, and they made much talk to
that effect, but when the dust settled
on a certain bright Sunday morning
at Inglewood high school field, they
discovered that it was their own frames
which had been laid out and their own
diaphragms which had been tied into
hard knots by futile chasing after the
meteoric Shelley Pfieffer.
The story of the game is the story
of an angular little guy who looks as
though he'd be hard put to close a
sliderule, but who runs like a singed
centipede. All Shelley Pfieffer needs is
a ball and a place to take it. He scored
the second of five Stress touchdowns
on a 25 yard sweep around left end,
and was useful all through the game
as he flickered through the baffled
enemy line .
Concluded on Page Thirty-two
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
Rambling Reporter
Hello folks, how goes it by you ? We
understand that the genial old fellow
so full of merry making and Christmas
ties will have to make his rounds
escorted by the Army, since the WAR
is now in our laps. At long last we
discovered that you do read this drivel
(literature to us ) for so many people
congratulated us on how much we had
improved since we took to writing the
sports column! And in case you hadn't
read last month's issue we again ex-
tend our sincere wishes to you for a
very Merry Christmas and a New Year
chock full of the things you desire.
When Duty Calls
Reid Watts, tool designer, Dept. 65,
displayed great courage and resource-
fulness recently when he endeavored to
rescue two pilots from a wrecked air-
plane before it burned . Reid risked his
own life that another's might be saved.
And Officer Charles Nunn, when off
regular duty, and driving along the
street saw a drunk hit and run driver
hit a 12-year-old girl while she was
crossing a street in a restricted cross
walk. Officer Nunn stopped his car
quickly and picked up the girl and car-
ried her out of the onrushing traffic
at the risk of his own life, and then
with his own 4-year-old girl in his car
he gave chase and caught the scoundrel,
who, when he found he was about to be
apprehended, jumped out of his car and
started to run. So to these men go all
the warmth of our respect and admira-
tion.
News Merry-Go-Round
Officer Charles H. Jackson , well
known and popular newspaper column-
ist, besides being commander-in-chief of
Jackson's Hole Navy will play Santa
Claus for the big Welfare party being
given for the children of all Douglas
El Segundo. Dave Cochran, assistant
supervisor of Dept. 63 is a former
champion wrestler in the Navy. Our
very good friends, Officers Tiny Hell-
man, Barham , and "Casey Jones"
Greene transferred to the Long Beach
plant recently. Jack Langford, Dept. 27,
walks more miles per day than he likes
to remember at night as he soaks the
hot dogs. Leo "Kitzel" Geertsen busy
lofting lines as the shapelies go by.
Marvin Risdon, Dept. 65, has solved the
street car problem by buying a jallopy
of a car, which any day now he may
persuade to run. T. D. MacGregor will
have moved into his new home on
San Vicente boulevard in Santa Monica
before Santa Claus and the payments
come around. Carl Pearson, Dept. 65 ,
limped to work the other day after a
Sunday spent playing a friendly ( ? )
game of interdepartmental football.
You should hear Al Foss, Dept. 65,
describe surf boarding at the beach
when the breakers are 40 feet high.
DECEMBER ... 1941
... El
by Clyde Kintz
By December 20, Dept. 65, will have
celebrated the end of the year in plain
and foamy style. Bill Stansiford, Dept.
15 won $6.50 on the question as to
whether Lou Nova had ever fought Joe
Louis before this most recent one. Ed
Lobherr, stress engineer, Dept. 65, drop-
ped so many iron slugs to the California
boys in the Stanford- California game
that he hasn't smiled since. Bob Bow-
man, Dept. 65, installed his new bride
in a new home. Nice how the women
make the boys feel they did it with their
own little hansies. Sergeant Jim Simp-
son falling into innocuous desuetude
helping Santa Monica on a special as-
signment. Officer Jack Livingston, and
Lt. Murphy each blossomed out in a
new suit (race track variety tis rumor-
ed) and along with each came a new set
of dishes, silverware for eight, a set
of tires, an ice box, a radio, and a free
trip to Catalina for nine days (you
don't have to believe all of this ) and
then when a heavy dew appeared one
night the stripes disappeared and the
coat collar tried to curl up and get
chummy with the pants cuffs. As a
result two old suits are being reworn
and the children have new clothes for
their dolls .
The wife of Tommy Thompson , Dept.
25, flew east to New York to be with
her family for the holidays, with Tom-
my to follow the day before Christmas.
The only difficulty Mrs. Tommy experi-
enced was the opening up of the cod
liver oil bottle by the high altitude
and ruining of some of baby's clothes.
And that's a tragedy for any mother.
Dorothy Gilbert, Dept. 29 beauty, melt-
ing a recent romance which should
cause the also rans' hearts to throb
EDWIN T BROWN POST
THE AMERICAS
DEDICATED NOV to
LEGION POST'S new home at Douglas was dedicated last month. Participants
above, John Thompson, Tracy Hicks, J. R. Quinn, Charles McGonigle, J. L. Duncan.
Segundo Plant
with new hope. Milt Stokes entertained
some Navy officer friends recently and
when they saw the boat he is building
they were enthusiastic about its possi-
bilities as a torpedo chaser. (Just what
is a torpedo chaser-sounds like a one
time catch to me. ) Clydeen and Jo Ann
Kintz, your columnist's two little girls
want me to be sure and say that they
send Christmas greetings to all the
members of the old Douglas Skyliner's
club.
For Whom the Boys Toil
Kent Patton, Dept. 25 pulled the sur-
prise of surprises on all his friends when
he quietly disappeared for a few days
and returned with a blushing bride.
Kent and Dora Virginia Drake of Den-
ver, Colo., were married at the home
of the bride on December 2. Your col-
umnist missed him at the usual lunch
spot and calling up found he was
"away for a few days." So said Will
Eisner, assistant project engineer.
No one ever descanted on the non-
virtues of married life or expressed
such utter contempt for the poor dopes
who get married as one Ernest Mason,
but the love bug gets them all as every
married man knows, when the desidera-
tum is felt-so now Ernie is proudly
escorting the little lady of his dreams
around to show off the dazzling rock
he has put on that certain finger. Syd
Trowbridge, career man in Dept. 27
nights, married recently but we do not
have details. Virgil Stambaugh, Dept.
25, and June Bohannon said "I do" to
the high collared gentleman on Novem-
ber 23 and are now honeymooning at
Big Bear. Chester Beach, Dept. 25, and
Ruth Colburn were married at the
Chapman Park Oratorio in a colorful
• Concluded on Page Thirty-six
No.268-
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Rambling Reporter
"A Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year from the Philippines" is the
Christmas greeting of Lt. Fred Thomas
stationed at Camp John Hay in Baguio,
Philippine Islands. Many of you will re-
member Fred as a former Douglas em-
ploye of the engineering department.
Undoubtedly, a prayer of thanks for
each Douglas worker was uttered by
Fred as our airplanes went into action
over Luzon and the Tokio gangsters be-
gan to realize Americans can fight too.
Jimmy Vandevere's program on the
Douglas Cold Room and altitude cham-
ber Wednesday evening, December 3 was
very interesting and educational. The
part Tom Floyd as technician and Lieu-
tenants Belcher and Canady as the
pilots under simulated conditions of fly-
ing in the stratosphere at extreme
temperatures was excellent. Incidental-
ly, Tom Floyd was the research and
development engineer on this project.
It's a funny feeling to have a red
flag slapped across the runway in front
of you just as you start the takeoff run.
However, Sunday afternoon it happened
to me. All civilian flying activities
ceased. I was not quite as fortunate
as R. H. Grimes of engineering since
he had taken his cross country Satur-
day morning . The Civil Aeronautics
Authority pilot certificates will be re-
instated only after satisfactory evidence
of citizenship and loyalty accompanied
by positive identification. Before every-
one was grounded Emily Jordan of sales
and service department made her first
solo of 14 minutes. Congratulations,
Emily.
PAPA'S flying clothes look a little
large on "Corky" and Mitzi Boothe,
children of Engineer Harry W. Boothe.
PACE THIRTY-TWO
... Santa
by Pat Kelly
A housewarming party at the home
of Barbara and Earl McIlvain Friday
evening, December 5, was attended by
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Baird, Geri Argyle,
Lindsay Kilgore, Gene Kaliher, Betty
Anderson, Merle and Don Bosio, Ger-
trude and Cecil Weihe, Pauline and Bill
Ponder, Charley Nink, Carleen Andrews,
Theo Karcher, Louise Sephton, Mr. and
Mrs. Clayton LaVene, Kenny Brown
and Madeline Rose.
The estimating department Christmas
dance and party was held December 13
at the Brentwood Country club. Ap-
proximately 100 couples attended. Betty
Halsema, Augie Di Mille and Frank
Figearo were the committee in charge.
Personnel department cancelled their
Christmas party this year because of
the increased working schedule.
Bonuses and blackouts are contradic-
tory when it comes to Christmas shop-
ping. During the first blackout a lot
of people began to realize they would
have to start eating lots of carrots .
Carrots, according to medical authori-
ties, contain vitamins which are neces-
sary to good eyesight.
Chet Pearson, our most enthusiastic
radio amateur, had just cause to be per-
turbed when all amateur radio stations
were closed. Chet had just made con-
tact with Jack Gordon's son and ar-
ranged for a radio telephonic conver-
sation between Santa Monica and Chi-
cago.
Marilynn Peterson and David Shirler
surprised all of us when they announced
Sports -- E. S.
• Concluded from Page Thirty
Ed Thrall's name has to be posted up
there with that of Fleetfoot Pfieffer, if
indeed it should not be shoved a notch
higher. The first score came when rangy
Ed intercepted a Fuselage pass on the
20 and roared to pay dirt. Ed Staff
placekicked the point. That was in the
first quarter, and in the second, after
the great Pfieffer had made his score,
Thrall rifled a 17 yard touchdown pass
to Reynolds . Staff again converted. In
the final chukker Jack Hammil passed
to the same Thrall for six more, and in
the closing minutes our hero came
whizzing up the sidelines to spear Ole
Garrett's misguided pass on the 40 and
skim onto the promised land . That
made the score 32 to 0, which was the
payoff, though Thrall nearly broke away
again when he intercepted another des-
peration pass on the four and escorted
it to midfield as the game ended.
Bob Schrank looked good for Fuse-
lage, especially when he snared a fing-
Monica Plant
TULSA weather looks a little chilly.
Harry Ives, Harry Williams, Joe
Gosche and Ken Farrar photographed
at Tulsa vs. Drake football game.
their marriage Monday morning, No-
vember 17. They were married in Hol-
lywood, November 14. Marilynn is a
member of the material release group
in Dept. 25.
Terry Holmes and Dan Daniel eloped
to Las Vegas December 6.
Roberta Louise Mannix arrived De-
cember 1 at 7:35 a.m. weighing 5
pounds. She is named for her uncle
Robert Louis Mannix of the R.A.F.
Eagle Squadron. Her father, Paul J.
Mannix is a Douglas engineer.
Sharon Elizabeth Dixon arrived De-
cember 5 at 7:31 a.m. weighing 8
pounds 1 ounce. Her father is David
Dixon of Dept. 25.
ertip pass for his team's only long gain
of the game. Ed Lobherr stood out in
the line for Stress, though the whole
forward wall played well. Perhaps we
think first of Ed because his face stop-
ped a few and looked a bit more grue-
some than the rest on Monday.
Held with this game was another
between Power Plant and Controls,
with Lee Hardy's gang whipping the
Engine Installers, 13 to 0. The fields of
play were parallel, giving the writer
a neck that feels like a loose doorknob,
and a pair of eyes that run out on long
stems. We did see Hopkins set up the
first Controls scores with a long pass,
after which Hardy ran the ball over and
converted by passing to Wood. Later
Wood hove a 40 yard pass to Purdy
for the other touchdown.
The Big Game at Palo Alto was
strongly attended by El Segundo alumni
of both California and Stanford. Seen
either at the game or in San Francisco
during the traditional festivities follow-
ing it were Rue Pollok and his bride,
Bill Long and Fred Allen, Ed Lobherr,
Jack Hammil, Ole Garrett, Bill Mallett
and Ralph Brady, and John Fitzgerald .
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
RUNNING LIGHTS
If this column seems less brilliant
than usual, if there is a noticeable lack
of the usual sparkling wit, the reason,
quite frankly, is that my much-
maligned mentality is roaming another
sphere. I am experiencing my first
blackout.
My great admiration for the British
has increased considerably during the
last 20 minutes . It has taken me that
long to turn out the lights, walk into a
table, stumble over two chairs , and
cover the windows of this room with
some easily accessible canvas. More-
over, I have practically fractured my
nose in a futile attempt to walk through
a closed door. In some devilish manner,
furniture which I have used safely and
confidently for years had become en-
dowed with sharp corners and projec-
tions which deliberately leaped out and
stabbed me as I passed ; and long-famil-
iar objects unaccountably and simply
had moved themselves beyond my
reach .
I've just been outside. I never real-
ized a town could be so black. After a
day of rain, the skies have cleared
beautifully, with only here and there
a little patch of cloud ; there is no
moon, but the stars are brilliant, and
there are millions of them. Living
among the street lights , you forget how
bright a star can be. Yet the streets
of Santa Monica are so black that I
cannot see the cars that creep past
me, lights out, in the street. Voices,
too, can be heard, and footsteps ; but
the only moving things that I can see
are great searchlights stabbing into
the sky .
It's a strange experience . Those bril-
liant stars may illuminate the city from
the air ; a squadron of enemy planes
could be hidden by one of those patches
of cloud. A voice from my radio is tell-
ing that enemy planes are reported
over Los Angeles while I think, "It
can't be true. This can't happen here !"
Christmas Party
One of the most enjoyable of all the
season's parties was a semi-formal
Christmas dance presented by produc-
tion control and tool storage in the
Palm room of the Beverly Hills hotel
on Saturday evening, December 6.
Music furnished by Aaron Gonzales and
his orchestra made a perfect setting
for the 350 couples present. To Chuck
Elbert should go the credit for the suc-
cessful program. Through his efforts ,
a complete act was secured which in-
cluded Scottish dances, a magician , a
ventriloquist, and several excellent acro-
batic , tap and hula dancers . Climax of
the fun of the evening came with the
arrival of Elmer Risse and Bubbles
Hanson as Santas. Gifts were passed
out from the two huge boxes set under
the Christmas trees and were good for
a great deal of laughter. The band play-
ed a grand march while the lines of
DECEMBER ... 1941
ON THE
by Darrell D. Marks
girls and fellows were receiving their
presents. Those who handled the re-
sponsibilities of the reception commit-
tee were Milt Sommers, Don Murphy,
Chuck Elbert, Benny Adams, J. Can-
non, Jean Gilles, Mary Lazarus, Frank
Walsh, Mike Dineen and Ruth Neff. To
Bill Burns should go most of the credit
for the two beautifully decorated trees.
Following the featured entertainment
at the production control party, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Sonkson were presented
to the assembled company. Mrs. Sonk-
son, nee Ellen Froebel, is a bride of only
a few weeks . She is secretary to C. G.
Moyer and J. W. Mahood. Paul Sonkson
is control booth head in Dept. 56.
The experimental boys seem to be
going in for all kinds of sport. Jack
Allport, of Dept. 203, and Vance Zeller,
of engineering, spent a week end skiing
at Lake Manouth. Now that they have
the kinks out of their backs, they say
that they are going to try it again.
George Roth, of Dept. 8, has a shop
set up in his garage. He has several de-
fense orders for small precision tools,
and is so busy! Mrs. Roth is bluing
parts and running one of his two lathes.
A neighbor is also working part time,
using his own lathe.
Gossip Dept.
Walter Winchell stuff: Ed Merriman
and Glen Kennedy, of Dept. 8, are going
to have a blessed event sometime this
month-that is, the respective wives
are, which amounts to practically the
same thing because it's a big ordeal
for the papa, too. Ed believes he is
going to be presented with his offspring
first, and asked his sister-in-law to come
down from Vancouver to help out in the
new house he bought for the occasion,
and one doesn't get across the border
now without a good excuse.
I wonder if there is any romance
connected with the trip Ronald Ran-
yard, of Dept. 8, took to Mt. Wilson
recently. Since the trip he has that far-
away look.
Comes the announcement of a Chris-
mas party for all children of the pro-
duction control department, which was
held on Sunday morning, December 14,
at the Aero theater. A Mickey Mouse
comedy was the main entertainment,
with toys and candy for all.
The boys in the experimental section
miss popular Marie Harrison , of the
central typing booth, who has been
in the Santa Monica Hospital for about
two weeks. But they are all in a dither
because it is reported that she will be
back on the job soon.
When asked for news , J. Martin, time-
keeper, exclaimed that Friday Decem-
ber 5 , brought him a 9 pound, 3 ounce
news named Diana. He also gave us
NIGHT SHIFT
some interesting statistics . There were
nine babies born in the hospital that
Friday, eight boys and one girl- and
he drew the girl. The total for the
week was 180, which is a heck of a
lot of babies.
One of our fair charmers in material
control, Lina Day, has left to make a
much-planned visit to her home town,
Higginsville, Missouri. Don't laugh ;
the little lady is a home-town rooter
and will allow nary a chuckle concern-
ing what may someday be a thriving
metropolis. At any rate , a small
gathering was held for Lina and Made-
lon Huddleson (who has also left the
little group ) at Roger Walton's home.
The girls received some very lovely
gifts, and the party descended on the
Hawaiian Hut, where they resumed
festivities. It was an impromptu floor
show, so the M. C. persuaded Janice
White, Roger's partner, to sing a song.
She was terrific ; the gal really can sing.
Lina gave ' em a grand hula-definitely
on the humorous side ; according to all
reports, she missed her calling. The
party broke up about 2 a.m. , and every-
one trudged home in very high spirits—
or is it "with ?"
Baggage Trouble
I rather imagine Burt Carlson, of
Dept. 221 , has just about given up the
idea of ever getting his baggage. Said
baggage is resting quietly in San Fran-
cisco while Burt is wearing most any-
thing he can get hold of. He's been try-
ing for almost three months to get a
week end off to go and get his clothes ,
but a week end off in Dept. 221 now is
something of a novelty.
Our local talent is really amazing.
"Monty" Sappington, of Dept. 227, is a
very good jeweler. He specializes in
signet rings and does an excellent job
on them. . . "Marc" Choate, of 227, is
an artist, and a good one. Landscape
artist, to be exact.
Cupid has been at work again, this
time in Depts. 221 and 227. Bob "Casa-
nova" Casserly, of 227, and Pat Allen,
of the same spot, expect to trek down
the aisle soon.
A nice crowd turned out for Mr. and
Mrs. Van Buren's house-warming. They
really have something there in the way
of a home. Tex Triesch, of 227, brought
along his camera and finally got every-
one cornered for a group picture.
The lad with the bow made progress
in the tooling division, with Don Follans-
bee, of Dept. 651 , off to Texas by plane
to claim his bride in Dallas on Novem-
ber 29.
Quite a novel idea are the Sunday
breakfast rides which are held monthly
for the benefit of Douglas horse en-
thusiasts. Among the shivering group
which made up the last ride were Bob
• Concluded on Page Thirty-six
PAGE THIRTY- THREE

Rambling Reporter
Christmas! To many the happiest
day of the year, but with a great war
raging and America one of the princi-
pal participants, the happiness may
seem dimmed. I say that it shouldn't-
for Christmas stands for that which we
are fighting for "That all men shall be
free." Perhaps many are far from
home and loved ones- -the defense indus-
try has drawn thousands from hamlets
far and wide-but Christmas is in the
heart.
"Everywhere, everywhere , Christmas
Tonight." The feeling of unity with out
fellow man- the urge to give of our-
selves for others, the heart interest in
the less fortunate, the kindly word,
tears mingled in sympathy, and the firm
and unyielding conviction that a more
glorious day is coming for all.
That is Christmas ! Don't dim it by
doubt in your minds or on your tongues
-keep America's chin up and smiling-
keep her fighting spirit unbroken-
Christ wasn't born into a peaceful world
nor did He stand and let conflict flow
by He was in the thick of it. By
our every action we can prove to the
world that Christmas to us is a symbol
-a symbol of Peace on Earth, Good-
will to man.
Due partly to the deadline on news
being about ten days earlier this month
and the work being on such a rush
basis news is a trifle scarce. Weddings
weren't as plentiful as last month but
we wish to extend congratulations to
Frank Bouton, Dept. 401, who married
Miss La Verne Hunter in Yuma,
Ariz. on November 21. Frank was
surely timid- he didn't like to take the
step alone so his buddy from Northrup
took his fiance along and they made it
INDUSTRIAL methods of Anaconda
Copper company were studied last
month by large group of Long Beach
men and women on educational tour.
PAGE THIRTY- FOUR
... Long
. . .
by Margaret Ball
a double wedding. Also in line for
well wishes is Virgil Stambaugh, Dept.
25, who was married to Miss June
Bohanan in Pasadena on November 30.
Hank Ward of the same department
gave a stag party for Virgil the Friday
before the wedding and from all
accounts from fellow engineers- it was
some stag (or should I say "stagger" ?)
Virgil and June honeymooned at Big
Bear.
Little Bits
Old Pappy Stork is getting lazy
because only three babies seem to have
arrived lately . On Sunday November
16 a baby girl put in her appearance
at Bixby Knolls Hospital and claimed
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Nicholson (papa's on
the the night force in 401 ) as her
parents. She weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces.
John H. McCarthy, Dept. 115, believes
in having his family while young so
they can keep young together. For
the second time in twenty months he
is a proud father and this time it is a
little girl Sharon Jean, who was born
November 25. She certainly was a tiny
bit-only 5 pounds 4 ounces.
November 25 also brought a baby
boy to Cortland "Corkie" Davis, Dept.
490. He has been named John Wynn
Davis, weighed 7 lbs. 10 ozs. and being
1912 inches long he may turn out to be
another Primo Carnera ( 191/2 in. is ex-
ceedingly tall for a baby) . Daddy
hopes though that he will grow up
to be a baritone like his father, which
is really on the up-and-up for "Corkie"
has been singing for several years and
is considered a really fine baritone.
Newsettes
Blayne Arrington, Dept. 299, sends us
the news that his department had a
"bang-up" picnic on November 30 at
Irvine Park, woodland rendezvous in
Orange county. Frank Lynch, who is
going to Tulsa, was the guest of honor
and was presented with a desk set
as a parting gift. The girls enjoyed
boating and cycling while the boys of
the day shift trounced the night shift
in a thrilling baseball game. Score
25 to 2. After lots of food and good
coffee (made by Bill Packer) the picnic
broke up. It seems that parting game
was one of Pinochle (the ballgame pro-
bably wore them out ) and Ed Mungen
displayed great prowess ( ??? ) .
Planning, Dept. 24, and blueprint
files, Dept. 490, were to have had a
dance Sunday Dec. 21 at the Hollywood
Riviera Country Club with music by
the Delmar Orchestra and a floor show.
By the time this is in print you will
probably have heard about the dance
and perhaps seen some very sleepy
planners and blueprint filers who are
wishing plaintively that "Blue Mon-
Beach Plant
IMPERIAL county called these hunters
from Dept. 265. They are Riggins, An-
derson, Bergolte, Holnbach, Spaulding.
day" didn't fall after a Sunday dance.
Carnell "Bill" Munday, Dept. 27, vac-
ationed for a week in Las Vegas, Nev.
recently and came back feeling much
refreshed.
Herb O'Farrell, Dept. 24 is on vaca-
tion now for about two weeks but it
was not planned. One night coming
home in the fog with his wife Ruth
O'Farrell, who will be remembered by
her many friends in Santa Monica as
part of the planning staff there for two
years, Herb's car was side- swiped by
another car which had attempted to
pass him. Both cars stopped and Herb
got out to see how much damage had
been done. The other car contained
three fellows who assured him they
were to blame and would pay for any
damage. Then Herb bent over to look
at the damage to the fender and the
next thing he remembered was coming
to with a badly aching head. According
to Ruth, one of the fellows swung an
upper-cut to his jaw-Herb was knock-
ed down but not out and came back
swinging. After a short fight in which
Herb inflicted some damage on his
opponents the three occupants of the
other car jumped in and drove away.
Herb came to in a few minutes and
they drove to the police station and
reported the fracas. Police said the
description answered that of a car
which had used the same methods for
hold-ups , and assured Ruth and Herb
that they were lucky to have escaped
so easily. Herb has not found it so
"easy" though as an x-ray disclosed
that his jaw was broken in two places.
It was of necessity taped shut and he
has not been able to eat. After valiant-
trying to work and keep going on
liquids, he finally gave up and is staying
home on a vacation until he can eat.
We'll bake you a chocolate pie, pal, as
soon as the old jaw's opened up again-
(You may wish it weren't) .
• Concluded on Page Thirty-seven
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW
 SHOP SUGGESTION AWARDS

A PRUNE peddler from the stamping "B" Award- $ 10.00

grounds of Brigham Young up to
Provo, Utah, is this month's winner
of the $ 15.00 Shop Suggestion "A"
award. Vergene W. Ford, Dept. 5-285,
age 21 years, peddled fresh fruits as
his after school job before coming into
the Douglas Aircraft company's em-
ploy.
Ford's suggestion is most practical
and is of exceptional value to his de-
partment .
The joggle bend in parts made on
the hydraulic press is in most instances
an unfinished joggle. Previously
the bend was completed by the manual
use of a grooving instrument placed
on the metal and pounded by a mallet.
It was Ford's suggestion that the
company fit with standard joggle dies
the same compression squeezer now
being employed in the shop for squeez-
ing rivets . The metal stamping with the
unfinished joggle is then fitted between
the male and female joggle dies and
by the use of a foot pedal control com-
pressed air squeezes the dies hard to
the metal completing the joggle.
The time spent on this operation
has been cut one third ; many parts
can now go through in less time ; an
operational bottleneck is eliminated.
Other employes who have received
recognition for their shop suggestions
this month are :
J. Curlett, 72-6, hydraulic spring
testing device ; A. E. Nelson, 95-62, R.
I. Jarvis, 94-68, joint award $5.00
each, special wrench for spar cap mill-
ing machine motors .
"C" Award- $ 5.00
Dwight A. Halleck, 84-142, center
wing trailing edge fixture ; George W. WINNER of A award was Vergene
Dier, 87-693, hand router guide ; Ar- Ford who applied rivet squeezer to
nold L. Winter, 86-22, new type router joggle dies to help production in his
department.
blocks ; John Alan Bielefeldt, 146-268,
nut plate jig ; William Massey, 162-
204, all metal rudder holding fixture ;
C. R. Robbel, ES, 65-908, foot control
on crimping and joggling machine ; H.
N. Graham, 74-741 , chuck nut for
routers ; Charles M. Daly, 5-459, sav-
ing of dural stock ; Charles R. Van
Marter, 511-289, socket wrench for
locker fittings all sizes ; J. J. Winger,
444-209, hat section dolly with scrib-
ing attachment ; C. A. Blatzell, 202-
221 , clamping and holding pliers ; G.
Ross, 201-250, clamping and holding
pliers.
The following awards were made to
El Segundo employes for shop sug
gestions submitted prior to December 1 .
Class "A" Award-W. O. F. Bruem-
mer, 5-209,punch and forming die.
Class " B" Award-W. K. Staniford, 15-
904, nozzle-tube oiling. Class " C" DESIGN of draw and buck rivet set
Award-F. Heise , 47-35 , assembly and brought award to F. W. Castle, Dept.
drill jig. Honorable Mention-J. E. 59, El Segundo, being congratulated
Moore, 39-521 , form block ; R. W. by L. E. Brissolara, plant superin-
tendent.
Fincher, 40-39, special clamp.

Battle of Production
• Concluded from Page Eleven
which had allotted space and prepared
concrete foundations for the machines.
With jacks, rolls, tackle, blocks, and
a variety of other gear, the castings
were put together. First the base for
each press was set on its foundation ,
which reached into a special basement
below the floor. Then the slide was
blocked up and rolled into place.
Finally began the slow but dramatic
operation of placing the top of the
press over the tie rods that would
secure it. Inch by inch, the jacks
lifted the great mass, with supporting
timbers placed underneath as it rose.
When at last it was in place, the job
still was not done, for there remained
the installation of pipes for the hydrau
lic system, wiring for the electric
motors, the rubber pad and its rotating
system, the loading tables and their
slide mechanisms.
In all, the experts furnished by the
manufacturer spent more than a month
in assembling and testing each of the
giant presses. When the last test was
completed , they turned the machines
over to waiting Douglas crews, pro-
nouncing both units in perfect readi-
ness for the national defense produc-
tion job for which they were designed
and built.
New methods in industrial training
made possible the swift and efficient
schooling of hundreds of new operators
needed for the production machines
at Long Beach. These were the latest
types of high-speed tools, and none but
highly-skilled operators would do.
The only full-fledged " journeymen "
in the Long Beach machine shops are
leadmen and supervisors, men with
long experience who were furnished by
the other Douglas plants. The remain-
der of the personnel was trained either
at the plant on an apprentice basis,
or at the Olive Street Training Center
in Long Beach in extension courses. In
both cases, short and intensive periods
of training for two to three months was
found to provide well-equipped
machine operators.
Not alone at Long Beach, but at
Santa Monica and El Segundo , Cali-
fornia, and in Tulsa , Oklahoma the
Douglas army of production grows
daily in numbers and strength and
determination-for America has sound-
ed the battlecry of freedom and called
to the colors of liberty her men and
her machines.

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Rambling Reporter E. S.
• Concluded from Page Thirty-one
wedding on November 23 at 3:30 p.m.
They spent their honeymoon at Santa
Barbara Miramar. Nita Stevenson, Dept.
29, and friend husband celebrated their
second honeymoon at Palm Springs at
the Desert Inn. Nita says it is a tradi-
tion with them. Carmelita Shirley, Dept.
29, will speak the magic words with
Harry Kellogg of the Santa Monica
plant on January 1. Jimmy Jenal, Dept.
29, and Margaret Ryan will jell about
May. Jackie Shipley is wandering in a
daze as she displays the ring. Maybe
the man in the big round moon is re-
sponsible for all this.
Transition
George Bushnell, formerly in charge
of the mail department now is a senior
interviewer in the personnel division.
Fred Allen, stress engineer, promoted to
assistant chief of stress ; Joe Barfoot to
chief of stress, and C. H. Stevenson,
formerly chief of stress now consulting
design engineer. Fire Lieutenant Gerry
A. Betz promoted to the rank of captain
of the El Segundo Douglas fire depart-
ment and presented with a lugubrious
initiation cap by Chief McGhee. Best
wishes for a speedy recovery to Mary
Hamilton, telephone operator, Dept. 30,
who fell seriously ill recently. Les Mull,
assistant supervisor in charge of pay-
roll is kept busy looking for space for
his rapidly expanding department.
Leisure Time
Byron Holman enjoys mountain climb-
ing which friends say he is as natural
at as a goat. Al Beer "cleaning up" at
the Caliente horse races. F. K. Taylor,
Dept. 2, is Los Angeles county's No. 1
midget auto racing fan. Taylor has
been going since when and hasn't missed
a race in all these years. Vernon de
Hart enjoys his bowling (must be good ) ,
speed boat racing, and collecting such
as stamps , coins, etc. William Kee
builds miniature train models as do
Dick Beaver, Huston Hager, Frank
Opdyke, and others . H. B. Stecker learn-
ing how to bowl , which provides amuse-
ment for all. H. B. you couldn't have
done worse than we did. Huston Hager
dreams of the days when his fast super
speed boat will be skimming over the
white caps. Emil Olson plays the fiddle,
enjoys good literature, and raises rare
flowers. Emil has played in many of
the East's better symphonic orchestras.
Running Lights
Concluded from Page Thirty- three
Stock, of Dept. 651 , and Muriel Hay-
ward, of personnel. Meeting at 6:30
a.m., the group rode
over the Beverly
Glen bridle path for a two-hour jaunt
PAGE THIRTY- SIX
and at 10 a.m. adjourned to Armstrong-
Schroeder's for breakfast.
And speaking of horses, Bob tells
about his encounter with an unruly
beastie several weeks ago. Bill Aldridge,
Dennis Stecher, and Bob went into the
wilds of Roscoe for a bit of riding one
afternoon, and astride three of said
equine quadrupeds yclept Snuffy, Duke
and Freckles, the boys rode peacefully
along the hill trails of the San Fernando
valley-peacefully, that is, until they
arrived at a flat place and were on the
way back to the stables. Freckles, bear-
ing our hero, bolted and headed straight
for a wire fence, which he either did
not see or chose to ignore. There seems
to have been a slight divergence of
opinion, for, despite Bob's efforts to
swerve the horse, with a stubborn fixity
of purpose the animal went through-
not over--the fence. Whereupon, they
parted company. Said the doctor : "One
skinned elbow, one sprained hand, and
one bruised hip ; five dollars , please."
Despite the advice of Rex (don't-let-
this-happen-to-you ) Maus, Earl Bowers ,
of Dept. 651 , carries a wedding ring
around in his billfold in anticipation of
his forthcoming marriage.
If Jack Sutton, of Dept. 651, can re-
serve the church six months before he
is scheduled to use it, we can announce
his plans for its use equally early. Her
name is Gloria Jean Fromm, and the
date is May 23 , 1942 ; the place will be
the Wee Kirk o' the Heather.
When Wilbur Dickens, of Dept. 651,
came back from Thanksgiving Holidays,
his beaming smile meant only one thing
-he had taken unto himself a wife
during his absence.
Although perhaps a little premature,
it won't hurt to let you in on a little
secret, or rather, three little secrets :
expectant papas in Tooling are Ernest
Crowley, Jack Robinson and Gordon
Williams.
Add odd gifts : Dennis Stecher's aunt
brought him a frozen Nebraska goose
when she returned from an eastern
vacation recently.
And wishing you a Merry Christmas
may seem somewhat ironical now, but
it's up to you to make it the happiest
Christmas that you possibly can- and
I hope you do a good job of it! That
extra Douglas check should help out
quite a bit.
Rambling Reporte
Reporter r L. B.
• Concluded from Page Thirty- four
Bowlers Overs
The two leagues at Long Beach-
the Inspection League and Maintenance
League are about in the middle of their
games by now. Much interest is being
displayed and the competitive spirit is
high .
Proud indeed is J. J. Wright, Dept.
114, second shift over the fact that
his small son, Tommy, age 3, won first
place in a contest held by the Herald-
American in Compton. There were 150
children in the contest from which to
pick Compton's most popular baby.
Master Tommy received 3,710 votes.
After seeing his picture in the local
paper this reporter would cast a vote
for him too.
Leaving the plant for our country's
service since war began: Fred
Radtke, Dept, 98-to the Navy; Robert
Irwin, Dept. 359 to the Army Air
Corps at Kelly field ; and Henry Cook,
Dept. 211-to the Navy. Keep ' em
flying, Boys-we'll keep building ' em !
Blackout
• Concluded from Page Four
Remove inflammable material from
the area, shut off gas, electricity and
compressed air.
If possible the bomb should be sur-
rounded with sandbags to localize the
anticipated explosion.
Do not put any type of bomb in
water.
Incendiary bombs, made of thermite,
powdered aluminum and magnesium,
are spectacular and dangerous, but on-
ly dangerous if prompt and skillful fire
fighting methods are not used against
them . All Douglas plants now have
fully trained men and adequate equip
ment to render harmless any ordinary
incendiary bombs.
NEVER attempt to extinguish an in-
cendiary bomb with chemical fire ex-
tinguishers such as the one quart py-
rene extinguishers in the factory.
Chemical reaction is apt to produce
poisonous gasses .
NEVER attempt to put out an in-
cendiary bomb with a stream of water.
A sold stream of water, or a bucket
of water will cause the bomb to ex-
plode, scattering and increasing the
fire.
From 40 to 50 seconds after impact
incendiary bombs can be scooped up
and thrown out-of- doors or elsewhere
where they are harmless .
These bombs can be effectively
handled by directing a fine spray of
water from 21 gallon soda and acid
extinguishers or from an ordinary
hose. The spray can be produced by
placing one finger tightly over the
nozzle.
Most important, in case of emerg.
ency, keep cool. Know the instructions
you have been given and follow them .
When possible, let authorized guards,
firemen and safetymen take charge.
They have been trained. In the event of
an emergency they will know what to
do and how to do it for your safety.
DOUGLAS AIRVIEW

Here and There
• Concluded from Page Twenty-three
received 75 cents an hour or higher
rates of pay, were handed a dividend
of $30.00 or more. The bonus to 4000
new employes averaged only slightly
less than $30.00.
The enormous task of tabulating,
recording and writing these extra
checks was done under the direction of
Ralph V. Hunt, comptroller, Harry
Strangman, assistant comptroller, and
G. B. Barlow, paymaster.
Together with special vacation pay
granted last July and retroactive pay
increases of $ 1,338,729 distributed in
October, the defense dividend brought
to more than $3,000,000 the extra
money over and above regular pay and
overtime bonuses passed out in 1941 .
This figure exceeded by several hun-
dred thousand dollars the checks sent
to company stockholders in the form
of dividends.
In announcing the employe dividend
November 19, President Donald W.
Douglas added that he hoped each
recipient would find it possible to con-
vert at least a portion of the added
earnings into United States defense
savings bonds.
In line with this suggestion, P. T.
Hill, Santa Monica postmaster, had
postal officials on hand on payday to
convert any desired portion of dividend
checks into bonds.
Daring Rescues Made
By DC- 2s , DC-3s in China
* THROUGH a tornado of Japanese
bombs and shells raining upon be-
seiged Hong Kong, Chinese and Ameri-
can pilots of the China National Avia-
tion Corporation, flew five of their
seven DC- 2s and DC-3s to the safety
of Free China, said press reports from
Chungking on December 14.
Thwarting the Japanese invaders
again, fliers of this lusty offspring of
Pan American Airways saw eight
planes destroyed in the first day's at-
tack by the treacherous Nipponese, in-
cluding a clipper and all transports
save five in the airfield's hangars .
Crewmen wheeled the remaining
ships to the outskirts of the field, cam-
ouflaged them with reeds and mud and
sat tight through the day- long bomb-
ardment.
That night, after craters on the run-
way were hurriedly filled by eager
coolies, the five ships took off. All
DECEMBER ... 1941
QUARTER MILLION dollars of the $1,000,000 Douglas defense dividend went into
defense bonds. Santa Monica Postmaster P. T. Hill, window right, supervised sale.
told, on Monday and Tuesday nights
16 planeloads of passengers , spare
parts, and personnel were rescued. In
the darkness 275 persons escaped, in-
cluding most of the Chinese and all
of the American staff members of
CNAC and Pan American, except one
man who preferred to stay behind.
Others included the wife of China's
foremost financier, Mme. H. H. Kung
and Mme. Sun Yat Sen, widow of the
George Washington of Free China.
Part of the strategy which outwitted
the Japanese was the use of a pre-
arranged landing field 200 miles be-
hind the invader's lines, where the big
Douglas transports unloaded and then
headed back for Hong Kong.
According to United Press, "the
crown colony's anti-aircraft guns fired
on one pilot of the CNAC as he headed
in 'but I simply dropped to the roof-
tops and went on in,' he said.
"The proverbial luck of the China
National Aviation Corp.-another way
of saying the skill, audacity and grit
of the hardbitten men who fly its
planes did the impossible again, and
one of the most stirring chapters of
flying in the Far East was written."
American Production Best
Says Engine Company Head
CALLING attention to the fact that
the American aircraft industry has ac-
complished more in 18 months than
Germany accomplished in four or five
years, Eugene E. Wilson, president of
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the United Aircraft corporation, lauded
the American spirit which made pos-
sible this industrial miracle in a recent
address before members of the Asso-
ciated Industries of Massachusetts.
"And by industry, "Wilson said, " I
mean the whole body of men and wo-
men- from creative designer down to
hourly worker. These men and women
demonstrate the superiority of cooper-
ation over compulsion, the superiority
of the American way of life."
Wilson added that American- made
planes have proved to be far superior
to Nazi aircraft in the matter of per-
formance . He based this statement on
facts gleaned from the report of a
United Aircraft official who made a fly-
ing trip to London and Gibraltar to
interview first hand the R.A.F. combat
pilots who actually fly the American
bombers, pursuits and fighters against
the best that Hitler has to offer.
Naval Aviation Featured
In National Magazine
AS THE U. S. Navy air forces are
put to the greatest test of their history
in the vast struggle of the Pacific and
eyes of all Americans are turned
toward it, "the first authoritative state-
ment of the working mechanics of our
sea based airpower," appears this
month in Flying and Popular Aviation
magazine.
On the newsstands December 9, all
of its 264 pages are devoted to an
• Concluded on Page Thirty-eight
PAGE THIRTY- SEVEN

Island Kingdom
• Concluded from Page Fifteen
killed many whales with the gun off
San Clemente island years ago. Cap-
tain H. W. Rhodes, U.S.N. Ret., who
was supervisor of the lighthouse depart-
ment for the Pacific coast area for 40
years, presented Lester with a 280
calibre Ross Canadian army rifle .
It was during the time that Haile
Selassie was experiencing his great
trouble with the Italian forces that
Herbert suggested to Elizabeth in his
sympathy for them. "I think I shall
pack up my guns and send them to
Haile Selassie," he remarked .
Mrs. Lester told him she thought
the guns were too far out of date and
there would be difficulty in securing
ammunition for them, so perhaps it
would be better not to send the guns.
Several days passed during which time
Lester still continued to express his
desire to help.
One morning when the Lester family
arose a large package was found inside
the stockade addressed to Herbert
Lester from Abyssinia . Quickly he
opened the package to find sweaters
and coats suspiciously resembling those
he wore every day. On the shoulder
of each were epaulets similar to the
ornaments sometimes worn by military
men. These were rectangular pieces
of heavy weight, striped, wool cloth.
Also contained was a letter addressed
to Herbert Lester, the king of San
Miguel, from Haile Selassie. The
letter expressed gratitude for the kindly
thoughts extended the Abyssinians.
Further, the letter stated, "I hereby
accept you as an officer of my army
and desire that you wear these epaulets
as significance of your rank as captain ."
Of course this was entirely the work
of Mrs. Lester but Lester wears the
epaulets about the island nevertheless .
On the north side of Cuyler Harbor
there used to be a beautiful cove with
sheer cliffs which rose from its rocky
shore and white sand beaches. It
was here that the Lesters swam, fished
and pried abalones from the rocks-
a favorite haunt. One night a sharp
earthquake was felt on the island and
the next morning they looked out across
the harbor in astonishment for the
cove was no more. The entire cliff had
fallen in to fill the cove.
Beautiful, clean and broad beaches
of very white sand are in contrast to
dark brown , crumbling cliffs and emer-
ald seas with roaring surf. Out in the
PAGE THIRTY- EIGHT
harbor entrance is black and preci-
pitous Prince island, its elevation being
over three hundred feet-a marvelous
and inspiring monument to Cabrillo ;
perhaps a finer monument than man
could erect .
The present world conditions are
brought home to this family for Eliza-
beth was born in the British Isles.
Her interest is great. For amusement,
and to also have her family mindful
of the condition abroad, Elizabeth
one night took a piece of chalk and
on all the doors, the window
ledges, posts and the porch she drew
little Vs, symbols of Britain's eventual
victory. She told the family that the
little dwarfs had come in the night
to make the symbols. This was thrill-
ing to the little girls.
Not until this past year did the
children know that money is the
medium of exchange, for everything
they had ever received was given them.
George Fisk Hammond , a graduate
of Stanford, who helped on the design.
of the Spirit of St. Louis and owner of
a Beechcraft biplane, has taken the
family under his wing, so to speak.
He flys provisions and mail to the
family each month if possible. He
has taken a fine little setter pup named
Charlie to the girls. The mail
pouch is marked for the Kingdom of
San Miguel Island.
This thriving family has been on
the mainland but twice since the girls
arrived on the island and each time
they were so lonesome for the island
that their stay was cut short.
The United States Department of
Agriculture decided to place a weather
station on this island.
Twice each day the humidity, baro-
metric pressures, wind velocity and
wind direction, etc. are broadcast by
the Lesters, thus fulfilling an important
mission by their isolated life. This
helps in weather predictions for the
coastal area .
What the future holds for this
modern Swiss Family Robinson time
alone will tell ; but for now , Herbert
Lester says, "We are the happiest
family on earth."
Bowline Bites
• Concluded from Page Twenty-six
In 1928, as a syndicate owner of the
58 foot schooner "Aafje," he finished
third in the Trans-Pacific Race to
Honolulu .
Taylor was elected Rear Commodore
of the L.A.Y.C. in 1929 and in 1930,
aboard Morgan Adams' 136-foot
schooner Enchantress, he again com-
peted in the Trans- Pacific race as assist-
ant navigator. He was navigator on the
return cruise.
For many years with Milton Hessel-
berger, Taylor has shared the chair-
manship of this two man S.C.Y.A.
measuring committee . Their measure-
ments are used for the official handi-
capping of boats in racing events.
Taylor is one of those men in whom
the sailing picture and everything about
the craft, the water, the tradition and
surely the fellowship with other men
similarly affected, has created an
affection which never departs. The
picture lives in his mind throughout
the years.
Happy Landings!
Here and There
• Concluded from Page Thirty-seven
analysis of U. S. Naval Aviation writ-
ten by such experts as Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox and Admiral Har-
old R. "Dolly" Stark. Twenty-five
other top authorities of the Bureau of
Aeronautics and the Navy department
contribute to this report which is the
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most exhaustive now available to the
public on the current status of naval
air fighting power.
Hundreds of photographs, including
a 16-page color section and many
black and white shots suitable for
framing illustrate every phase of naval
air operations, equipment, training and
personnel.
Photos by ...
All photographs by Douglas Aircraft com-
pany unless otherwise noted.
Chief Photographers
LARRY KRONQUIST, Public Relations
ROY L. JOHNSON, Santa Monica
HAROLD G. JACKSON, El Segundo
JACK FREEMAN, Long Beach
Staff Photographers
PAUL CHALMERS DAVID LORI
PAT CORBETT ERNEST LUDWICK
FRANK ENKOSKY HARRY MERRICK
RAY HOSKINS MEL WARD
PAUL KING STANLEY WENZEL
ROYAL WRIGHT
Page 9.. (bottom ) U. S. Navy
Page 14 , 15.... Dr. Jack Taylor, Voight Wilkes
Page 16, 17, 19 .. Don Bestor
Page 23.. William D. Wyatt
Page 24, 25.. Roy L. Johnson
Page 32.. (top ) William D. Wyatt
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