will be a meeting of the Municipal Council at 430 m. on (Wednesday, January 25.
LP. Price will speak over 760 ko Saturday 1830 pin. on the subject-
Detroit, Jan. 20.
Michigan's Immense motor car industry already is geared to manufacture aerial and general armament supplies in time of war with minimum effort, informed quarters revealed here today. Full details have not yet been worked out, but plans for the general mobilization of the industry's productive capacity already are in.the final stages, it was reported, One of the most important factors in preparations for industrial mobilization, it was learned, is the fact that all new motor car factories being built here have been designed in ce-operation with the War Department to permit conversion into war industry plants with minimum effort.
Most outstanding of this type is the new Dodge truck factory, one of the largest automobile plants in the country. It was designed for immediate conversion to a war-time basis. Executive of other companies ere studying the problem of converting their assembly lines into means for mass production of aeroplanes, but have declined to reveal details.
War Duties Apportioned A spokesman of the Hudson Motor Ca. said the company's plants in war would be easily converted within a few weeks for the stamping of parts was appointed to the Japanese in Manchoukuo. meeting on Thursday Road. The follow-to serve, on the {ee for the ensuing year: Mr.
lo Stromwall Chairman, Mr. J. de Vries, Vice-Chairman and Mr. LEINAB. Aall, Hon. Secretary and Errorts will be continued by Lt.- chief of the Special Service Bureau of the Japanese "Army, who returned to Peiping recently following a tour of Central China, to induce Marshal Wu Pel-fu, soldier-poet, to head ihe mew government in China, 4 Pao. kong message to the "Sin Sha, leader of the Mongolian chao League, arrived oviace, accompanied age of more than 30 19, en route for a message to the The. Mongolian rom the -salt-producing meeting the provincial con-"ie now shipped to the Kiangsi Hunan, and Anhwei under govern-says the "Wen. Wei a year, the report adds.
Mb, Vu Ting-chang, Chairman of the Kweichow Provincial Government, returned to Kweiyang the provincial capital from Yunnan on Janwary 17. Mr. Wü made a trip by air to Chungking on January 3, and left for Kunming in Yunnan on January 1$ to hold consultations on Southwest reconstruction problems, with General Lung Yunn, Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Government, says a Chinese report.
Tohichr the "Pearl Fishers" will be ted for the last time at the Luceum Theatre. The opera is by George Bizet and the production has brilliantly carried out by Mr. V.
n in collaboration with Mr.
Enfield. An excellent chorus, a Charming ballet and group settings on a grand scale, with the participation of Miss C. Sitnikova and Messrs, (P. Markov, C. Sayapin and V. Andreef make this presentation highly entertaining. The orchestra has been strengthened and is under the able baton of Maestro Sloutsky.
'Tue registration of all Chinese banks and their branches established in Yunnan province is made compulsory, according to a recent notification' issued by the Yunnan Provincial Government, says the "Shun Pao" The permission of the Bureau of Finance of the province should -frst be obtained, and only after the matter has been referred to the provincial government and finally approved. started, the report states. The order, can banking business be
however, does not apply to the Chinese Government banks and the Fu Tien Bank of Yunnan, "he report adds.
For the first time since he presented his credentials to Herr Hitler, the Chinese Ambassador, Mr.
Chieh, gave a brilliant official recepfion on Thursday afternoon in Berlin. Present for the occasion, in addition to the Diplomatic Corps and many foreign apt German personalities, were Mgr. Cesare Orsenigo, Papal Dr. Oscar Trautmann, Am-"to China: General von Falsen. head of the former German advisers to China, and some advisers to the Chinese Gov-ut, who manifested their sym-r China and General Chiang Tt was particularly red that the Soviet Ambassador in ath present There were 500 guests AWMfoNc the passengers for Shang-in me s, President Coolidge from America and Honolulu due to arrive here on Janüary 31 are—Mr. 1 end Mrs. C. D. Culbertson and two ren: Mrs. T. R. MeDonnell and Mrs, ©. C. Steen and Mrs. R. Talbot and and Mrs. Sterling for aeroplanes.
Informed circles indicated the majority of motor car body plants could be constructed into assembly lines for the manufacture of fuselages on mass production basis, Plants making Diesel engines, i? was learned, can be converted to start production of aeroplane motors with only minor alterations.
The new Dodge truck plant, it was said, could be quickly converted for the production of "any war material except armour plate and heavy antiaircraft guns."
"Meanwhile all plants have received instructions from the War Department regarding the duties of each company in the production of munitions, when and if the occasion arises.—United Press.
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