[Information Digest. No. 516]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

BUREAU OE PUBLIC INQUIRIES OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION WASHINGTON, D. C,
JULY 27, 1942
NO. 516
INFORMATION DIGEST
War Production Idrirg the First Six Months of ig42
Munitions production in June (planes, ships, tanks, guns, ammunition and all campaign equipment) was almost three times as large as in November — the month before Pearl Harbor, WPB Chairman Nelson announced in a special War Production Report designed to tell the American people how they are getting on with the job of outproducing the Axis. "Naturally our production increases each month. It is hard to report progress without appearing optimistic. But I want to emphasize again and again that the picture is in no sense...a basis for undue optimism," he stated. He said using November 19UI as the base month and rating it 100, the index for overall munitions output in June was 286. The index series begins with 23 for July 19^*0. ®y December 19^0, production as measured by the index had advanced to 50, more than double July volume, and it took another.11 months for output to advance to 100 in November ig41.
He said: Production of aircraft in the first six months of 1942 exceeded production during all of last year. Merchant ship tonnage delivered in • the first six months of 19U2 was 133 percent greater than during all of 1941. While total deliveries for the first six months were not up to expectations, deliveries in May and June were ahead of those months’ schedules; future deliveries will depend upon availability of steel plates, propulsion machinery and ways. The number of antiaircraft guns produced in the first six months of 1942 was about 3? times as large as all of 1941. Output, however, must still be increased greatly to overcome earlier lagging. Many more tanks were built in the first six months of 19^2 than during all of 1941» Production of machine tools, presses and other metal-working machinery for the first six months of 194? wets valued at $649,800,300, an advance of 98 percent over the like period of 1941, or 77 percent of all 19^1 production. Serious difficulties can be expected in the supply of a number of raw materials, and a great expansion in salvage operations must be effected with the cooperation of the American public to offset shortages in materials.for munitions.
As of the end of June, the authorized U. S. financed program for war spending reached approxiunately $170,000,000,000 — just about double national income in 1929. On June 30, bills pending in Congress, or passed and unsigned by the President, brought the total financial program to about $223,000,000,030. Contracts and other commitments for about $118,000,000,000 had been made between June 1940 and the end of May 1942, and as of the end op June, $35,000,000,000 had been paid out for goods delivered and services rendered. In June, the rate of expenditure was $158,600/300 a day paid cut by the Treasury and RFC, compared with $67,000,000 a day in November 1941. In 1939, 2 percent of the national income went into military channels; in 1940, 4 percent; in ■ 1941, 14 percent; and in the first half of this year, 36 percent. Military expenditures have forced a steady rising national income — $70,800,000,000 in 1939, $77,300,000,000 in 19^0, $94,700,000,000 in 1941, and this year it will exceed $110,300,000,000, Mr. Nelson said.
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Controlling the Cost of Living
Stabilization of Farm Prices
Price Administrator Henderson said prices of foods not subject to OPA control — LAMB, ROASTING CHICKENS, APPLES, ETC. — "are showing a definite inflationary tendency," which is mainly responsible for a fractional increase in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ cost of living index between May 15 and June 15. OPA’s Consumer Division advised Americans to make up the lack of proteins in their diets, due to the temporary meat shortage, by substituting items from abundant supplies of poultry, fish and other foods, such as cheese, dried beans, and peas and lentils.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported its daily index of snot market prices of 28 basic commodities dropped 0.5 percent during the week of July 17-24 to the lowest level since mid-June. The index is now 166.4 percent of the August 1939 average and about 11 percent higher than at this time last year. Average prices for domestic agricultural commodities are 3-6 percent below the mid-May peak. The Bureau said average prices for the 19 CPA-controlled series are approximately 62 percent higher than in August 1939» while the 9 uncontrolled a,re 72 percent above the level.
All CLEANED and RAW SHELLED PEANUTS — except the small, remaining portion of the 1941 crop — and sal ps or deliveries of SALTED PEANUTS and PEANUT BUTTER are exempt from the General Maximum Price Regulation, effective July 29, OPA ruled. "Prices of salted peanuts and peanut butter, as fixed under the General Regulation, were not sufficiently high to reflect 110 percent of parity (in this instance, the highest of the four farm section standards of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942) to peanut producers," the Office said.
The Agriculture Department outlined the details of its program, announced May 19, under which the Agricultural Marketing Administration will support prices of the following CANNED VEGETABLES, for which maximum prices to canners were set by GPA in Maximum Price Reflation No. 152: canned asparagus, lima beans, snap beans, beets, sweet corn, carrots, peas, spinach, tomatoes and tomato juice. Purpose of the program is to insure an outlet for the 1942 packs of these vegetable crops. AMA will buy the canned vegetables at 92 percent of the canners’ individual maximum prices as determined by CPA regulations, subject to certain limitations on the basis of area average maximum prices. Offers will be accepted only from canners who process the commodities being offered, and from growers or growers associations. Canners may offer to sell the vegetables at any time prior to the following dates in 19^3 s February 28 for canned spinach; March 31 Tor canned asparagus; May 31 Tor canned peas; and June 30 for the remainder. The Department said pumpkin and squash also will be supported under the program providing CPA sets ceilings to canners in ‘ line with the provisions of Regulation No. 152.
The Commodity Credit Corporation, BEW, WPB and CPA announced the t provisions under which the Corporation will assume insurance and surcharge costs in connection with certain imports of COCOA BEANS. They are, in part: "On cocoa beans to be acquired by importers under unshipped contracts in force at 12:01 a.m., July 2, 1942, and cocoa beans which were acquired by importers under purchase contracts made on or after June 19, 1942, and which were in
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transit to a point within the continental United States "before 12:01 a.m., July 2, 19^-2, the Commodity Credit Corporation will assume marine insurance (plus surcharges) and war risk insurance, and in addition increased costs since December 6, 19^1» for surcharges on ocean frei^t; provided that importers enter into contracts with Commodity Credit Corporation regarding these cocoa beans.”
Prices and Rents
Beginning July 31» the buying public will have the legal right to bring civil suits against merchants for a minimum of *50 (or treble the amount of the overcharge, whichever is greater), plus attorneys’ fees and costs, for charges above OPA price ceilings, Price Administrator Henderson said. Tenants in defense rental areas may file similar suits against landlords who charge rents above the OPA maximums. ”The honest storekeepers — and they are legion — and the buying public must be protected against deliberate chiseling and penny profiteering,11 Mr. Henderson said. "Effective weapons are at hand and will be used.”
The General Maximum Price Regulation was amended, effective July 30» to provide the "maximum price of each commodity offered for sale shall be plainly visible to the purchaser at the place in the business establishment where the commodity is offered for sale, and shall not be obscured by the posted prices of other commodities, whether by use of price hooks or catalogues or layers of price lists or otherwise, or in any other manner.” The Office saic the following guiding principle set forth in Bulletin No. 2 — "What Every Retailer Shuul d Know About the General Maximum Price Regulation" — thus becomes a part of the regulation: "It is not acceptable to have several layers of price lists posted, near the point of sale so that the consumer must thumb through the pages, The guiding rule is: The consumer should be able to see the ceiling price marker clearly when standing at the point of purchase without having to ask or look for it and without having to thumb through the pages."
Mr. Henderson said the General Maximum Price Regulation has also been amended to, define ORES and ORE CONCEN“?RATES, sales of which are exempted from the regulation, as follows: "For the purposes of the regulation, ores are any mineral substance used chiefly as a commercial source of metal contained therein. Ore concentrates are any ore, a? defined in the amendment, after the removal of the gpngue, or a part of the nonmetallic elements, either by a physical or chemical process." Purpose of the amendment is to remove any uncertainty as to the meaning of "domestic ores and ore concentrates" as used in the regulation.
OPA adjusted "to conform to customary trade margins" allowable markups for jobbers and secondary jobbers of DOMESTIC WOOLEN and WORSTED CIVILIAN APPAREL FABRICS. ■
Rationing
OPA Fuel Ration Division Chief Dean stated: "What we (the East) are short of is not gasoline but fuel, mainly. We are desperately short of fuel. We may have to shut down our war plants; we may have the people freezing to dee th this winter if we don’t get the fuel. Therefore, every gallon of
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gasoline brought in by tank car displaces a gallon, of fuel oil. The two are intimately connected.” If traveling salesmen, who are restricted to 470 miles of driving a month in the east cos st rationing area, were given enough, gasoline for nominal requirements, it would mean depriving homes of fuel oil, . closing down war plants, or taking' oXher essential drivers off the roads, ne said. In answer to cue st ions why the driving of the salesmen had been reduced, while pleasure driving had not been eliminated, Mr. Dean said CPA has done its best ”to cut pleasure driving to the bone,1’ To do away with all pleasure driving would save only 1 percent of the East’s fuel consumption ano. would amount to confiscating millions of automobiles, he said.
"Gasoline counon counterfeiters must be prosecuted as vigorously as any saboteurs attacking our war program," price Administrator Henderson stated, following reports that fake ration books are being peddled to motorists in the rationing area. CPA, he said, is investigating these reports and will take prompt action agp.inst counterfeiters, their accomplices, or those persons who. knowingly use or attempt to use such books or coupons, all of whom are liable to prosecution and punishment under the U. S, criminal statutes. All persons found to be in possession of counterfeit books or coupons must snow cause , oe-fore GPA or the local War Price and Rationing .Boards why their regularly ^•s” sued gasoline ration books or any other GPA ration books should not be revoked, or withheld, he said.
GPA announced 00,000 bicycles will be available for rationing in August for the 43 States and the District of Columbia, compared with the '.+5,000 July quote. The figure, however, does not include State reserves totaling 30,000 or the national reserve.
To prevent hardship among food .and beverage manufacturers, umer con-» tract to Federal Government agencies, CPA amended its sugar regulations to permit these manufacturers to obtain eu^r purchase certificates in advance of deliveries to the following agencies: Army, Wavy, Maritime Commission, Panama Canal, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Coast Guard, GAA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and Office of Scientific Research and Development.
Stabi1ization of Wages-	•
The Senate passed and sent to the White House legislation increasing the salaries of 86,000 Government workers in the lower wage brackets. Dk bill provides: (1) a $1,200 minimum for all full-time adult workers in the subprofessional class and in the custodial service, instead of the present minimums of $1,020 and $1,080, respectively; (2) hourly rates of 5V for cart time charwomen and 60^ for head charwomen, in place of the present 50^ ^d 55^• re-soectively; (3) a $1,500 minimum for building guards instead of $1,200; and (U) a $1,860 minimum for Journeymen-mechanics in lieu of the present $1,080.
Dr. John R. Steelman, U. S. Conciliation Service Director,. said Washington milk drivers and dairy operators accepted ms recommendation that drivers be given a $2.50 raise in salary per week. He said after lull consideration of all facts and complete analysis of classifications, rates commissions, overtime earnings, etc., and "in accordance with the necessity for wage stabilization on a practical pattern," he made the recommendation, "Operators and employees are to be congratulated for their willingness to compro-
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mise personal desires and “beliefs as to a fair settlement in the greater interest of the public they both serve,” he said.
Pure’ me of War Bonds
Nearly 7.000 American business concerns, ranging from a New Jersey 'na.r plant with 26,000 employees to an Alaskan packing company with a four-man staff, have employees who have pledged 10 percent of their pay to War Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan, the Treasury Department said. The joint management-labor War Bond plan for the hosiery industry throughout the nation has as a goal for the industry’s drive $5.000,000 in War Bonds within a year, 100 percent participation in payroll savings by some 40,000 workers at hosiery machines in mills from New Jersey to California, and 10 percent of the payroll invested in War Bonds. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau described the plan as ’’setting a pattern which may well be followed in many other American industries, ”
. Die' Treasury said the motion picture industry in all its branches will unite with the War Savings Staff to take leadership in a billion dollar War Bond and Stamp drive in September. Some 300 Bond rallies in as many cities, with Hollywood motion picture stars appearing in person, are planned and each city must pledge at least $1,000,000 in, Bond sales on the day of the stars* visit, A total of $300,000,000 is the goal. During June, 15,000 motion picture theaters sold over $13,000,000 in Bonds and Stamps, the Treasury-announced.
The Defense Savings Staff said a total of $6,782,475 worth of War Savings Bonds was purchased by the officers and men of the U. S. Navy during June. Over 1,000,000 persons on the War Department payroll — soldiers and civilians — have voluntarily set aside part of their pay to purchase War Savings Bonds, the War Department said.
The. National Publishers’ Association presented the 500 July magazine covers featuring the American flag to the Treasury, the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress. The covers stimulated sale of Bonds through the Retail Stores Division of the War Savings Staff, and are now a part of the permanent warn records, the Treasury said.
Materials	-	.	.
The WPB established a goal of 17,000,000 tons of scrap iron and s^eel to be collected during the six months ending December 31» under its national salvage program. Individual goals were set by State and region. Hie WPB Conservation Division said this is "the minimum amount of scrap necessary to charge furnaces to capacity and to provide sufficient stockpiles to insure • full.time operations throughout the winter months." The industry now has approximately 3,000,000 tons of scrap on hand, or one month's’ supply at current production rates. Total consumption during the first six months- of 19^2 was 13,700,000 tohs of scrap, the Board said.
. Commerce Secretary Jones, who recently announced that Defensé Supplies Corporation would assist in financing transportation and distribution of petroleum products; said the arrangement is to become effective on shipments
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made on or after August 1, 1942, and to continue until canceled by nrutual agreement or by 30 days’ notice from the Corporation. The ^PB announced seizure of nearly 800 tons of airplane engine forgings, prepared for shipment to France before war outbreak made delivery impossible.
Bituminous and anthracite coal production showed a slight increase during the week ended July 18, but continued far below the estimated output necessary to build up stocks, to provide a safe reserve to meet the ration’s wartime coal requirements next winter, Acting Solid Fuels Coordinator Gray, said. He said shipments of bituminous and anthracite coal into the New England area by the all-rail route made e, substantial recovery of 170 cars per for the week ending July 18 from the week ending July 11, tut remained oelow earlier weeks this year and below the abilities of the railroads serving the area to transport coal. Shipments for week ended July 18 totaled 6,606 cars or approximately 363»33O tons as compared to cars or approximately 297»770 tons in the previous week.
The WPB ordered a pipeline interconnection designed "to avert a gas shortage next winter” in central Ohio, permitting delivery from the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co., to the Ohio Fuel Gas Co,, through a junction at the Ohio-Indiana. State line between Muncie and Dayton.
Transpor tat i on
During the first four months of 19U2, the 121 major rail rtiMs hauled 188,000,000,000 revenue ton-miles, a 25 percent increase over the 1929 peak of 141.000,000,000, ODT Director Eastman said. In the first third of 19^2, 17.S93 freight engines took care of the new record haul.
Director Eastman said the number of serviceable freight locomotives now available is about 18,000 and^material allocations from WPB will make.it possible to turn out only about 265 new steam locomotives during the remainder of I9U2. Mr. Eastman said he did not know whether this fleet of freight engines would be large enough to meet the heaviest long-haul tonnage demands in history. No motive power shortage has developed because of the utility of motor transport for short-haul freight, reduction in the number of local freight trains moving over short districts, fixing of minimum weight limits for less-than-carload traffic, and increased efficiency of locomotive servicing, he said.
The nation’s 115 major railroads last May establisheda loading record of nearly 9 tons per car of less-than-carload freight, Mr. Eastman reported. He added that the ODT has under taken an investigation- of 2U railroads which, failed to meet the 6-ton-per-car minimum weight requirement which became effective May 1.
The War Department announced that a special agreement with the nation’s railroads is enabling the Army to begin immediate shipment of 10,500,000 cases of canned foods — the largest shipment of its type in the country’s history — from the Pacific coast to other sections of the nation. The agreement permits storage at intermediate points of goods until they can be distributed. The shipments involve the handling of some 525.000,000 pounds of canned goods destined for Amy posts arid camps, the Department said.
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Power
The Federal Potver Commission said electric energy produced for public use in June l^+S totaled »553.,000 kilowatt-hours, an increase of 11.2 percent over production in June 1941. Average daily production for public use in June was 531,692,000 kilowatt-hours, an increase of 3*1 percent from average daily production daring the previous month. Production by water power in June amounted to 5»329»692,OOO kilowatt-hours, or i5.7 percent ot the total output for public use. For the 12 months ended June 30, 19^2, total production for public use was 175»152,612,000 kilowatt-hours, an increase of 15.0 percent over the 152,2^,337,000 kilowatt-hours produced in the 12 months ended June JO, 19U1. The Commission said, the capacity of generating plants in service in the U. S. on June 30'« 19’^2, totaled ^5,330,793 kilowatts, a net increase of 147,609 kilowatts over generating capacity reported in service on May 31. 15^2.
Inter-American Highway to be Completed
The State Department said arrangements have been concluded with Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Pica and Panama, for the immediate linking by a pioneer road of the already constructed segments of the Inter-American Highway between the Mexican-Guatemalan border and Panama City. The plans call for the construction of approximately 625 miles of new allweather pioneer road to link about 1,000 miles of road already constructed in Central America and Panama, the-Department said.
Shipping
Maritime Commission Chairman Land, at the presentation of the Commission’s ”M” pennant and its victory flag to the Bethlehem—i? airfield Shipyard for outstanding production of Liberty ships, sa.id the United Nations still face their ’’supreme test” in the war against the Axis. He said while ^hip-yards now are setting world records in shin construction, they must build, two ships tomorrow where they build one today.
The War Shinping Administration announced a. new schedule representing substantial increases .in war risk insurance rates covering exports from the U. S., but excluding experts to the territories and U. S. insular possessions. After consultation with the CPA, the ^A temporarily froze war risk insurance rates on cargoes at levels which had hitherto been named by.the »*JSA, on imports to the U. S., and on exports to the territories and U. S. insular possessions.
Shortage of Merchant Marine Personnel
The WSA asked the WMC to give first priority to assignment of men to the merchant marine in anticipation of a critical shortage of merchant marine personnel this fall. WSA Recruiting Director Dimock forecast the needs, of the merchant marine, before October,, "would become the most urgent since the start of the war,” requiring about 90,000 seamen.
The War Front
Navy Communique No. 100 on July 25 said U. S. submarines in Far * «-
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Eastern waters have sunk one Japanese destroyer, one medium-si zed tanker, three cargo ships, and possibly a fourth cargo ship. The Navy’s Photographic Section Chief Long said £11 the Navy’s large submarines are being fitted with cameras designed to fit/over the eye piece of the periscope to record results of submarine attacks on the enemy.
Gen. MacArthur’s Australian headquarters reported Allied patrols clashed with the Japanese 30 miles from the new enemy invasion base on the north New Guinea coast. Allied air units maintained a continuous attack which cut the base off from its mother fleet and threatened to smash it entirely, the communique continued. Allied patrols killed about 60 Japanese who attacked their positions at Muno, about 15 miles south of the enemy base at Salamaua in the second ground action, Gen, MacArthur said. Intensive aerial activity in the Australian zone throughout the week-end resulted in one Japanese fighter being shot down, others receiving gun bursts and bomb hits on building installations, anti-aircraft and nachine gun batteries, food and amunition dumps. Two Allied planes are missing, the communique said.
Navy
U. S. Marine Corps Public Relations Chief Denig said the Corps has completed training of an initial contingent of enlisted reporter-fighters who will ’’cover” the war on every front. Composed of former newspapermen, photographers and newsreel cameramen, these combat correspondents have completed the usual Marine Training Course at Parris Island, S. C., and now are studying military regulations, military security, communications and similar subjects at Washington. Each man will be promoted to sergeant when assigned to the field, Gen. Denig reported.
Navy Secretary Knox said the Navy has relaxed physical requirements for yachtsmen and small boat operators willing to contribute both their craft and their own services, to the Navy’s anti-submarine campaign. All available boats meeting' specified requirements are rtneeded right now — not only for Captain of the Fort and harbor patrol duties but for actual offensive opera*; tions,” Mr. Knox said. Details may be obtained from the nearest Coast Guard Office.
The Navy reported the aircraft carrier Essex will be launched July 31 at Newport News, and the U. S. cruiser Baltimore will be launched July 28 at the Fore River Shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
The Navy said H. Liggett Gray, Riverside, Conn., has offered a memorial plaoue honoring the officers and men who lost their lives when the submarine chaser USS S. C. 209 was sunk during World War I to be awarded as a trophy to the first vessel of the 110-foot oatrol chaser class which distinguishes itself by outstanding action against the enemy in World War II.
President Roosevelt signed a bill giving the Secretary of Navy jurisdiction over Passage Island, some 182 acres in area, in Isle Royale National Park in Michigan, because of its use for lighthouse and boathouse -purposes. The area, has been under the Secretary of the Treasury.
Priorities
The WPB announced criminal charges of priority violations have been
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filed against Mayor Waldo V. Tiscornia. of St. Joseph, Mich., for allegedly violating priority regulations which require that any person obtaining delivery of material under a preference rating must use it for the purpose specified in connection with issuance of that rating. The Mayor allegediv instructed the Auto Specialties Manufacturing Co., of which he is Vice President and Manager, to order in its own name approximately $200 worth of cast iron radiators and other heating equipment and to ask for an A-10 rating provided for maintenance and repair material. The Board charges that the material was intended fjr installation in Tiscornia*s new residence which was then under construction. The charges were filed by the Department of Justice in behalf of WPB in the first action of its kind under the Second War Powers Act, and Mr. Tiscornia faces a maximum of one year in jail, a $10,000 fine, or both.
The WPB prohibited the use, sale or transfer of all existing sup- . plies of BALATA to make it available for use in self-sealing gas tanks used in airplanes and other military vehicles.
To aid in meeting the increased food reauirements of the armed forces and-Lend-Lease, the WB Reauirements Committee approved the recommendation of the Food Requirements Committee, headed by Agriculture Secretary Wickard, to assign an-AA-3 priority rating to the delivery of a large amount of material and equipment to be used during the last half of 19^2 to expand DEHYDRATION PRODUCTION FACILITIES. The move will permit the following amounts of critical materials to be used for dehydration equipment: 5»229 tons of iron and steel; 271 tons of copper; 28 tons of sine; 10.8 tons of lead; 8.8 tons of nickel; 7.4 tons of tin; and 3.5 tons of aluminum.
$1,858,000,000 Supplemental Appropriation Signed
President Roosevelt signed the $1,858,000,000 First Supplemental . Appropriation of the 19^3 fiscal year, viiich carries funds for 19 war agencies, including $120,000,000 for CPA. The bill provides $1,100,000,000 for operating of the nation’s war shipping during the fiscal year.
Alien Property Seized
Alien Property Custodian Crowley said he had taken over more than l;500 German-owned patents in the field of radio, television, chemicals and aircraft propellers. Mr. Crowley also announced his office had seized the following properties of foreign nationals: all common stock of UFA. Films, Inc., American distributing agent for German made UFA Films; capital stock of Pacific Hog Co., and L. & N. Feeding Co., both Japanese-controlled concerns in California; all assets of the New York Branch of Hara & Co., Japanese trading concern; the 2U5 German-owned. shares of stock in American Fei sol Co., Ohio corporation distributing pharamaceutic.nl nroducts (the remaining shares, of stock, renre seating 51 percent of the total were American owned); all capital stock of Joh. Barth $ Sohn, Inc.,. Ifew York; German-owned shares of the capital stock of Arushee Co., a Dew Jersey corporation; Japanese-owned shares of Gosho Concentration & Compress Co., Galveston, Tex.; all capital stock of Ataka & Co., Inc., .New York; Japanese-owned shares of Southern Cotton Co., Ltd., and.of South Texas Compress Co., both textile trading and cotton warehousing firms operating in Texas.
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Treatment of Prisoners of War
Secretary of State Hull told a press conference the Government is giving close attention to accounts of Japanese mistreatment of Americans and ■the State Department is seeking to keep itself informed on all phases of the situation and is assembling facts as they develop.
Nazi Saboteurs
EBI. Director Hoover .issued wanted circulars revealing identities of three expert German saboteurs, Walter Kappe, Joseph -Schmidt and Rheinhold Rudolf Barth, who may come to the U. S. for purposes of committing sabotage; The three were associated with the eight German saboteurs who are presently being tries before a military commission in Washington, Mr. Hoover said.
Maj. Gen. Frank McCoy, President of the military commission trying the eight Nazi saboteurs, said today’s session was devoted to examination of the last of the defendants and a number of additional defense witnesses. He said the defense completed presentation of its evidence and rested its case and the prosecution also rested its case. Tae commission will recess until 10 a.m, Thursday when it is expected the final arguments will, begin, he sold.
Civilian Defense
OCD Director Landis said there was immediate need for expansion and development of the Fire Watchers Service into an effective first line of defense against fire bombs.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard asked all citizens to aid the Wartime Forest Fire Prevention campaign, by looking out for efforts to set fire in the woods and by being extremely careful with matches, smoking materials and fire in any form. The campaign's slogan is ’’Careless Matches Aid the Axis.” Mr. Wickard stated: ’’Protecting our forests from fire means helping to win the war, and helping to win the peace afterward.”
CAA to Train Airplane Mechanics	/
President Roosevelt signed a bill to permit the GAA to train airplane mechanics in its Civilian Pilot Training Centers. The bill was designed to enable CAA to train men for the Army, which has asked for pl» COO mechanics.
Labor Disputes
Secretary of Labor Perkins certified to the War Labor Board the dispute of the Mead Corp., Lynchburg, Va.
The U. S. Conciliation Service reported settlement of the dispute of General Body & Hoist Co., Everett, Mass.
(All information herein is from official sources.)