[Victory : Official Weekly Bulletin of the Office of War Information. V. 3, No. 48] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] VICTORY OFFICIAL WEEKLY BULLETIN OF THE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION WASHINGTON, D. C. NOVEMBER 24, 1942 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 47 ROUND-UP OF GASOLINE BOOTLEGGERS IN FULL SWING OPA served notices of hearing November 20 upon the first of 18 Washington gasoline dealers, requiring them to explain reported violations of rationing regulations as its drive against gasoline bootlegging gained momentum throughout the eastern ration area. Violations in 70 percent of stations checked These hearings were the first to be scheduled since the drive was launched. The initial notices will be followed quickly by others as soon as further investigations of a large number of reported violations are completed, OPA enforcement officials indicated. The round-up of gasoline bootleggers and other rationing violators is now in full swing throughout the East Coast with all available inspectors in the Boston, New York, and Atlanta regions concentrated in the effort. * Up to November 20 investigators had checked more than 500 dealers’ stations—most of them in the metropolitan areas including the District of Columbia—and reported finding violations in about 70 percent of these stations. Many of the cases reported apparently involve only minor infractions of the rationing regulations. Others point to flagrant violations that indicate serious black-market operations. Inspectors have been directed to be on the lookout, particularly for blackmarket dumping of the five-gallon S coupons. More rationing and new techniques forecast by Price Administrator for 1943 GASOLINE coupons of the A class went down to 3-gallon value (page 8) as black market operations which threaten the gasoline rationing program were investigated throughout the East (story on this page). COFFEE stayed on the store shelves this week as OPA froze it to prepare for rationing which begins on November 29. (Page 8.) HOTELS and restaurants will be keeping close check on what they feed you. (Page 2.) “It is safe to say that we can look for an extension of rationing in 1943,” Price Administrator Henderson said in a speech in Boston November 19, “I do not mean merely an extension of our present methods to an increasing num-of articles. I mean new rationing techniques. One new technique, of course, is a system of point rationing for related groups of commodities. That system as you know will be applied to meat rationing when it starts this winter. “Increased simplification and standardization will go hand in hand with price and rationing controls n 1943. . . . There are three basic reasons for standardizing and simplifying. First, these techniques allow our civilian population to get absolute maximum amount out of a limited and allocated supply of materials and labor.' Second, they reduce actual costs, and third, they aid in the determination, sim- plification and enforcement of wartime price and rationing controls . . . Subsidy cheapest in solving cost rise “And despite your efforts to reduce costs, they are going to rise in many instances, despite the fact that both materials and labor have been stabilized. In the first place there will be less labor available and in the long run it will be greener and less efficient. There will be increasing machinery obsolescence. In some cases even normal repairs cannot be made. “And who will absorb these costs? Wherever it is humanly possible they must be absorbed by industry. At the moment, industry is making sufficient profits to permit that absorption in a great many cases. In those cases, where the ‘squeeze’ of increased costs is so great as to hinder production of essential civilian goods, the government must do one of three things: “It can raise ceiling prices and allow those increased costs to spiral upward throughout our industrial structure; it can simply turn its back and allow the industry to go out of business for the duration; it can assist industry—as we are now doing—to hold down costs by standardization and simplification; or it can subsidize. Experience has proved over and over again that subsidy, carefully' administered and sparefully used, is the cheapest and best way to solve the problem of increased costs under a system of rigid controls.” 2 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 VICTORY I OFFICIAL BULLETIN of the Office of War Information. Published weekly by the Office of War Information. Printed at the United States Government Printing Office. Subscription rates by mall: 750 for 52 issues; 250 for 13 issues; single copies 50, payable in advance. Remit money order payable directly to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. ★‘ ★ ★ Restaurants, hotels, others asked to keep records of all food served in December Records of virtually all foods served in more than 300,000 boarding houses, restaurants, hotels, clubs, hospitals, and institutions in the month of December must be kept for later use by the OPA. Notification was given November 22 by the OPA in advance of registration of restaurants, hotels, and other “institutional users” for coffee rationing. Such establishments, at the time of registration, were to receive precise instructions as to records they must keep in December, in accordance with a general order that will be issued shortly by the OPA. Reports based on the facts recorded will be required of them after December 31. To get clearer picture of needs The advance notification was made because the majority of boarding houses, restaurants, and others do not keep records of the exact data that will be needed. The OPA explained that the facts are necessary so that it may have accurate information, as to the effect of current rationing programs on the service of meals, and on the use of other foods that are not rationed. Current programs on which particular light will be thrown are those for coffee and sugar. In explaining the announcement, Paul M. O’Leary, Deputy OPA Administrator in charge of rationing, said: Regardless of which food commodities are rationed or. not rationed, the OPA needs the fullest possible information on the use of available supplies. Boarding houses, restaurants, and hotels are among the largest users of all foods, and in many instances it is impossible to procure from them more than the most general kind of information. Therefore they are being requested during the month ovanf toootHcj +HoÍt use and sale of various foods, and also of the number of meals that they serve and the dollar revenue that they obtain from them. These statistics will be used in various ways in determining the effects of exising rationing programs, and will enable us to have a much clearer picture of the needs of public and private group eating places. Data required The exact information that such users are requested to keep during December includes: 1. The number of persons served during December, with everyone counted separately each time he eats a meal. 2. The gross dollar revenue from the service of food and nonalcoholic beverages. 3. The quantity of each of a number of specified foods used during December. 4. The quantity of each of the specified foods that is on hand at the close of business on December 31. Those who serve foods and beverages without charge will, of course, not be required to report their dollar revenue. Records in pounds and gallons Foods for which records are to be kept in total pounds used are: Sugar, coffee, butter, poultry, meats (including canned and edible parts such as liver, hearts, and kidneys). Meats are to be listed separately by pounds for: beef; pork; veal; lamb and mutton; sausage, scrapple, luncheon meats, etc.; and canned fish. The list continues with cheese (except cottage, pot and bakers’); margarine; lard and compound shortening, cooking and salad oil; canned soup; canned fruits and vegetables; dried or dehydrated fruits; dried peas and beans; canned evaporated and condensed milk. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 3 On the Home Front We’ve been hearing a great deal lately about morale—about the morale of troops in the field and the morale of civilians at home—and we’ll hear more as the scales of war tip further in the Allies’ favor. For morale, although not easy to define, is a primary war necessity—without it, armies and nations crumble in the end. In support of domestic morale the Axis radios are busy attempting to explain recent Allied successes, and minimize their importance. The enemy’s propaganda bureaus, which once launched attack after attack in the “psychological warfare” of the air waves, now have gone on the defensive. The United Nations begin to have the edge in the world-wide struggle for control of the air, as they begin to have the edge in physical combat, and this because we have something more than propaganda to offer. The truth is our weapon. Spirit unbroken in occupied countries Defeat, hunger and thirst, disease, and physical exhaustion might be expected to weaken or destroy morale, but they have not done this to the staunch peoples of the occupied countries of Europe and Asia. Nor has Axis destruction of free education in these lands broken the spirit of the people. Rather than accept the vicious doctrines of the invaders, students and teachers have gone to concentration camps and faced firing squads, while the enemies of civilization have closed or wrecked higher educational institutions, and laid hands on secondary and elementary schools.* But the secret press everywhere remains active; in Poland alone some 200 “underground” newspapers keep the fight for freedom before brave men and women. No place for self-indulgence Civilian morale may rise or fall with favorable or unfavorable news from the fighting fronts, but its real test comes in the ability to take the discomforts caused by a straitened war economy. On our own Home Front we find that a few who profess the utmost patriotism and cheer our military heroes, yet grumble over rationing and shortages, complain of crowded vehicles, refuse to share their cars when they could well do so. There are those who rush to stock up on coffee, tea, canned meats, and a lot of other products and articles, whether the goods actually are coming under rationing or not. Wholesalers and retailers report waves of buying, creating abnormal re- ductions of inventories. Wilful violations of necessary Government regulations are comparatively few, and yet numerous enough to cause concern, since they represent an attitude that should have no place in what is literally a war for the survival of all this country REPRINTING PERMISSIBLE Requests have been received for permission to reprint “On the Home Front” in whole or in part. This column, like all other material in VICTORY, may be reprinted without special permission. If excerpts are used, the editors ask only that they be taken in such a way that their orignal meaning is preserved. stands for. A succession o. Allied victories in itself would not cure the malady of self-interest represented by an indifferent or self-indulgent minority. Heavy burden on storekeepers More and more, the country’s wholesalers and retailers become a vital part of the war program of price control and commodity distribution under Government regulations. Their responsibilities are heavy and varied, both in fulfilling the spirit of restrictive measures and in avoiding the human tendency to favor “regular customers.” And as members of their community, they are called upon to cooperate in a great number of war drives and educational war programs. For example, the fundamentals of coffee rationing will be simply and graphically explained in words and pictures in hundreds of thousands of food stores throughout the country.' Storekeepers will be expected to see that their customers adhere to the rationing program, and count all coffee on hand November 28 as part of their rations. The national retail industry has pledged its promotion facilities to cooperation in a basic Government program of war campaigns, starting in January. This program will be linked with retail promotion and advertising, and will stress the importance of salvage, tire conservation, gas rationing, saving household equipment and cooking gas, other home aids, and War Bonds and stamps. All stores and distributors will have to cut their delivery mileage in order to save their tires, and with a few excep- tions must refuse more than one delivery or pick-up on the same day to a customer. Clerks and drivers are obliged to explain the reasons for these restrictions to such of the public as are still uninformed, and shoppers in turn are expected to cooperate. Transportation facilities strained On all employees of the country’s varied transportation system rests a heavy wartime responsibility, responsibility for maintaining service under generally adverse conditions. Drivers of buses and street cars must exercise forbearance as their vehicles are loaded far beyond normal capacity. Trainmen and operators of intercity buses, working on schedules that allow no extra sections, still must handle a vastly increased military and war-work traffic—which is why everyone has been asked to cut all travel to the minimum. Dealers in fuel oil, knowing the vital necessity to conserve every possible gallon and drum of this war-essential commodity, must make sure that Government regulations are strictly adhered to, not only with fuel oil furnaces but also with space heaters burning oil or kerosene. Operators of garages and service stations in areas now under mileage rationing and throughout the country after December 1 are obligated to aid in the rubber-saving program by faithfully carrying out the provisions of the conservation plan in every detail, no matter what complaints or special pleas are offered by customers. Thousands of approved tire inspectors, drawn largely from the ranks of service station and garage operators, will soon begin testing the Nation’s tires. Local butchers, faced with an additional 10 percent cut in the beef supply, must adjust their sales on an equitable basis, while they explain to their customers the reasons for the voluntary share-the-meat campaign. Public service not measured in dollars and cents If the public must undergo discomforts ■and inconveniences, in severity and extent unlike any we have experienced before, it must be remembered that a heavy share of the burden of national control of scarce commodities and limited facilities is borne by operators, retailers and wholesalers. By patience and courtesy, by firmness and fairmindedness, the dispensers of thè country’s goods and services contribute directly to the Nation’s wartime morale, and perform a public service that cannot be measured in dollars and cents. 4 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 TRANSPORTATION ... Around-the-clock schedule urged to raise carrying capacity of buses, cars Existing fleets of mass transportation vehicles must do useful work around the clock instead of just for one or two hours each morning and evening if the Nation’s transportation problem is to be solved, Edward A. Roberts, associate director of the ODT division of local transport, declared in an address in New York City November 20. Speaking before the Transportation Group of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Mr. Roberts said: “Traditionally two-thirds of the buses and street cars of the country have stood idle except for a brief couple of hours during the rush periods. These vehicles can perform just as useful service as new vehicles when a community adopts an Need more track workers, Eastman tells WMC Describing the maintenance-of-way manpower situation on certain Western railroads as critical, ODT Director Eastman has urged the War Manpower Commission to take “immediate steps” to obtain sufficient track workers for the safe maintenance of track and roadway on those railroads, he said November 20. Mr. Eastman has requested WMC to determine whether adequate track labor could be obtained for the Western roads from domestic sources. “If it is found,” he said, “that adequate supplies of domestic labor are not now available, the Office of Defense Transportation then requests that immediate steps be taken to arrange for the importation of labor from Mexico in sufficient numbers to meet the most pressing minimum needs ... until such time as domestic labor again becomes available.” The ODT director disclosed that representatives of railroads and mainte-nance-of-way employees, conferring with government officials, had failed to agree on arrangements for the recruitment of Mexican labor. “Whether track labor is recruited from sources within the United States or in Mexico, the railroads affected must guarantee either to Mexicans or to do- intelligent program of staggering hours so that school students, office workers and department store employees are not clogging up transportation systems at the same time that munitions workers must travel. “By spreading the demand for transportation around the clock, the carrying capacity of public transportation systems can be increased threefold to fivefold. The importance of staggering hours simply cannot be overemphasized. The merits of the idea are recognized throughout the country and the plan has been widely adopted. As an instance, flours of probably half the workers in the State of New Jersey are now established by edict of the Coordinator of Transportation.” Women recruited to relieve labor shortage in trucking The increasingly serious shortage of ’ manpower and the need for more inten-. sive conservation of tires and truck ' equipment in the for-hire trucking in-, dustry were discussed November 16 at the first of a series of monthly meetings between the labor-management commit-; tee of the for-hire motor transport in-j dustry and ODT officials. More than 1,100 jobs unfilled > The necessity for drawing men from 1 less essential forms of transportation, i and placing them in “war-essential,” over-the-road transportation, also was discussed. Men taken from the less 7 essential transportation work could, in r many cases, be replaced with women, the conferees suggested. There are at present more than 1,100 1 jobs unfilled in the for-hire trucking in-* dustry. Principal shortages are in drivers, mechanics, rate clerks and miscellaneous unskilled help. At present the . industry is meeting the problem by a gradually increased use of women, who represent only 8.5 percent of the employees. An effort is currently being made to bring more women into the industry as drivers of bakery, milk, department store, and other light delivery trucks, and as mechanics and even un-, skilled helpers. j ' ¥ ¥ ¥ J Tank car consultants named ODT Director Eastman announced the appointment of five representatives of 5 tank car lessor owners, shipper owners, and lessees to serve without compensa-’ tion as tank car consultants to the director. & Named by Mr. Eastman are L. H. S. Roblee, Chicago, president of the North American Car Co.; Robert Rogers, New 1 York City, president of the Shippers Car Line Corporation; H. E. Coyl, Chicago, 1 of the General American Transportation 1 Corporation; B. C. Graves, Chicago, vice president of the Union Tank Car Co.; i and Alfred D. Carleton, San Francisco, s x traffic manager of the Standard Oil Co. of California. . mestic workers certain minimum standards of hours, wages, working conditions, housing, commissary arrangements, medical care, etc.” Mr. Eastman declared. ★ ★ ★ ODT relaxes rules to speed joint action by carriers In a move to facilitate establishment of joint action plans by private, over-' the-road carriers, the ODT November 19 amended General Order ODT No. 17 to permit such carriers to put joint action plans into effect without first securing ODT approval. Motor carriers who have doubts as to the lawfulness of their plans under Federal antitrust laws, ma'y, if they desire, still submit plans to the ODT for approval and clearance by the Department of Justice. In order that the ODT be kept informed, carriers who put joint action plans into effect without prior submission must file a copy of their plan with the ODT motor transport division in Washington, D. C. This same procedure for joint action plans is currently in effect for carriers x engaged wholly in local delivery service. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 5 ODT lays down policy for school buses; schools must comply to get tires or gas Chart at right illustrates Government action to save tires and equipment on city buses run for the general public. (Mats or proofs available to editors on request to Distribution Section, 0W1.) Story below deals with conserving mileage of school buses, which according to ODT make up more than half the Nation’s passenger buses. Conservation measures which must be' applied to the operation of school buses were outlined November 22 by ODT Director Eastman. Mr. Eastman, in the statement addressed to “all authorities having regulatory powers over school transportation” and to “all school bus operators,” declared that gasoline, tires and spare parts will be certified for school buses, after February 1, 1943, only upon the submission of demonstrated proof that the conservation policies have been carried out. The policies affect approximately 90,-000 buses on which four million boys and girls ride. This is Mr. Eastman’s statement of policy: (1) Elimination of Unnecessary Mileage Bus routes shall be so arranged that the maximum number of pupils, can be transported with the minimum number of bus miles. Side trips off the main trunk route and mileage without pupils shall be eliminated wherever practicable. To reduce mileage, each bus should be stationed overnight near the point where the first pupil boards the bus in the morning and should be parked close to the school during school hours. (2) Reasonable Walking Distances Transportation shall be provided only for students, teachers, or other school employees who would have to walk more than two miles to school or more than a mile and a half to a school bus. trunk route. Exceptions may be made for those within two miles residing along roads over which buses must pass, if by serving them no extra miles are driven and no additional vehicles are used. Exception should be made for the physically handicapped or those who otherwise would be subjected to extreme danger or serious physical hardship. (3) Use of Common Carriers Pupils shall be required to use available common carriers where such use would permit a reduction in the number of school buses or bus miles. (4) Boundary Lines In planning and operating bus routes, the existing boundary lines of school administrative units, such as district, town, township and county, shall not be a controlling factor if the observance of such boundaries prevents a maximum reduction in the num- ber of buses and bus miles. In this connection, pupils who do not attend the nearest school having space and facilities in the appropriate grade level and school work should not be provided with transportation service. (5) Reduction in Number of Stops Unnecessary stops needlessly wear out bus equipment. School bus stops for receiving or discharging pupils shall be spaced so that there is at least one-eighth mile and preferably one-fourth mile adjacent stops. Exceptions should be made for physically handicapped children or where such spacing would locate a stop at a hazardous place. (6) Staggered School Hours School authorities shall cooperate in arranging staggered school hours where the effectiveness of existing transportation facilities can be increased thereby, or where the requirements of a specific transportation problem call for changes in school hours. (7) Adjustment of Existing Contracts Existing contracts shall be renegotiated when necessary to facilitate reorganization of school bus routes. Conservation of transportation equipment is of paramount importance and the requirement of an existing contract is not an adequate reason for failing to participate fully In this conservation program. (8) Restriction of Use of School Buses The use of school buses for school transportation during the emergency shall be limited to the transportation of students, teachers, and other school employees en route between their homes and places of regular dally instruction. School buses shall not be used for the transportation of any group to any special event except as otherwise provided in regulations of the Office of Defense Transportation, nor for the transportation of pupils to and from home for the noon lunch. School buses shall not be used for the personal transportation of the owner, operator, or other persons. (9) Use of School Buses for Worker Transportation School officials and bus operators shall cooperate in arrangements calling for the use of school buses in essential worker transportation. Such services should not be provided to the exclusion of essential school operations, but rather in addition thereto with any .necessary adjustments in school and plant hours. (10) Care and Maintenance of Equipment Every practicable means shall be taken to provide for and assure efficient maintenance of school transportation equipment. All officials having responsibility for school transportation shall establish an effective preventive maintenance program at least equivalent to that described in chapter II of the handbook School Transportation in Wartime, and in the ODT Bulletin, America’s Trucks-Keep ’Em Rolling. (11) School Bus Operation The school bus driver is an important factor in the conservation of school transportation equipment. Officials having responsibility for school transportation shall maintain high quality driving standards through careful selection and adequate training and supervision. (12) Comprehensive Studies and Preparation of School Bus Route Maps Each local school administrative unit shall, in cooperation with adjoining units and with State and Federal authorities, make a comprehensive study of school transportation. A route map shall be Jointly prepared for an area approximating the size of an average county. These studies and maps shall provide the basis for reorganizing transportation routes and reducing to a minimum the number of buses used and the total transportation mileage. , ★ ★ ★ LCL FREIGHT HITS NEW HIGH The Nation’s major railroads reached a new peak of efficiency in less-than-carload freight movement during September when the 116 reporting lines loaded an average of ten and a quarter tons per car, the ODT announced November 18. The September Class I record, as compared with May, when General Order ODT No. 1 first took effect, shows 580,-717,000 pounds more of merchandise handled in 26,800 less cars. The average load per car jumped from 17,858 pounds to the September high of 20,566. 6 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 Hire more women, improve training, railroads urged, to meet labor shortage Otto S. Beyer, director of the division of transport personnel of the ODT, November 15 called upon the railroads of the Nation to tackle their rapidly growing labor shortages through an increased use of women employees, centralization of personnel activities, and modernization of training programs Found slow in hiring women Announcing the results of a survey of 101 railroads, representing 97 percent of all class I railroad employment, Mr. Beyer asserted the railroads had been slow in hiring women and improving personnel and training programs. For example, he said, only 40,000 women— 34,000 of them in clerical jobs—now work for the railroads, as against 100,000 in the first World War. The carriers participating in the survey reported 60,000 vacancies as of September 15. This figure, Mr. Beyer explained, does not indicate that there were 60,000 vacancies which could not be filled, since all large railroads normally have many openings from time to time. Many of the reported vacancies, he said, were part of a normal turn-over. The ODT official asserted, however, that the figure is sufficiently large to reveal a real and critical shortage of railroad labor. Responses to the survey, moreover, specifically indicate that the carriers are encountering extreme difficulties in meeting many shortages. The survey disclosed the fact that the railroads are just beginning to resort to comprehensive training programs as a means of easing the critical manpower situation. Of the 101 railroads covered, 47 reported no organized training programs at all, and many of the others only very limited projects. Training inadequate Interpreting the survey, Mr. Beyer pointed to two obstacles to improved training programs. One, he said, is the accepted railroad practice of decentralizing personnel functions, which, he said, makes a systematic attack on training problems difficult. Mr. Beyer listed as the second barrier, the traditional railroad concept of training itself, according to which the new man starts at the bottom and picks up his occupational education through years of experience on the job. - “Whatever the merits of this practice in peacetime,” Mr. Beyer said, “it is clearly inadequate in time of war, when training must be accelerated to meet urgent manpower shortages.” Major causes of the labor dearth, the carriers indicated, are withdrawals of workers entering the services and intensified business activity which has swelled labor requirements and magnified interindustry competition for manpower. Approximately 40,000 of the employes of the reporting roads were women. This represents about 3 percent of their total labor forces. More than 34,000 of the women serve in clerical jobs. Other classifications which include women numbering from 300 to 1,200 are coach cleaners, shop and store workers, station agents, telegraphers, waiters, camp cooks, kitchen helpers, laundry workers, baggage and parcel room and station attendants. The survey showed 52 women working as section laborers and 74 women as crossing watchmen. One woman was reported working as a department foreman of skilled labor, and a few as truckers and as gang foremen of unskilled women. Despite these reports of women “manning” unusual jobs, Mr. Beyer declared, “it is apparent that the railroad industry has been slow to utilize women in many jobs which they can readily fill. The railroads which employed 100,000 women during the last war probably could employ a much greater number now.” ★ ★ ★ Abandonment of 35 railroad segments to be studied by ODT The ODT has received from the WPB requests for certification as to whether 35 railroad segments are essential in the war transportation effort, it was announced November 17.' Preliminary to WPB action The requests were made as a preliminary to WPB action in requisitioning nonessential rails to provide relay tracks for the armed services and track for other essential purposes. Before Mr. Eastman submits his certification to WPB, Ralph H. Jewell, special adviser on rail abandonments, will make a thorough study of each line or segment. “Don’t travel” drive launched to ease transport situation ODT Director Eastman fired the opening gun November 19 in a Nation-wide drive to keep the American public at “home. The “don’t travel” appeal is designed to focus attention on the gravity of the passenger transportation problem and to show what must be done to solve it. Appeals for cooperation The “don’t travel” drive launched by Mr. Eastman is being worked out by the ODT in close collaboration with the Association of American Railroads and the National Association of Motor Bus Operators and through them with the in-_ dividual rail and bus companies. “No more railroad passenger cars are being built,” Mr. Eastman said, “and the same is nearly true of new buses. “It is now estimated that the railroads are moving well over a million troops a month. This is war movement, and must come first. “It is my firm conviction that the people of the Nation, understanding this critical situation thoroughly, will unite with the Office of Defense Transportation to see that those who must travel are given first chance on our bus and passenger train facilities.” ? ★ ★ ★ Four railroads authorized to pool freight, alternate services The first merchandise freight pooling action under the terms provided in an order regulating the loading of less-than-carload freight has been authorized by the ODT through a supplementary order permitting four railroads operating' between Memphis, Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla., to pool traffic and alternate their service. To alternate daily The order (Supplementary Order ODT No. 1-1), effective at once, provides that the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway shall load and forward a merchandise car from Memphis to Jacksonville on 6 days of each week. The car must be routed to alternate daily between a route via the Frisco, Central of Georgia Railway, and Seaboard Airline Railway, and a route via the Frisco, Central of Georgia, arid At-' lantic Coast Line Railroad. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 7 MANPOWER... October crises licked, says McNutt How anticipated shortages of manpower in October were overcome was reviewed by Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, at his press conference on November 16. “The first serious labor shortages developed as expected in October. Yet there was no curtailment of war production. And virtually no crops were lost. In fact, our harvest of this year was the most productive in our history. These facts are a matter of record/’ Mr. McNutt said. In agriculture Here are some of the agricultural actions which were taken in order to help provide the farm labor that was needed to avoid crop loss as reviewed by Mr. McNutt: 1. The large-scale recruiting of part-time farm workers through the United States Employment Service, working with County War Boards and community organizations. 2. Recruitment and transportation of migratory labor to localities where they were most needed. 3. Negotiations with the Mexican government were started last May, anticipating that importation of some extra farm labor might be necessary. This was accomplished with such safeguards that domestic labor standards were not depressed. 4. During October, plans were made to meet an approaching crisis in livestock, poultry and dairy farming. On November 6, an Employment Stabilization program for essential workers in these activities was put into effect. 5. The 1942 goals established in the Food for Victory program have guided our policies and actions, and all goals to date have been met, with practically no exceptions. In industry Here are some of the industrial actions taken which have helped to avoid the serious curtailment of war production— a curtailment which would have inevitably occurred had nothing been done, according to Mr. McNutt: 1. Guidance was given the Employment Service so that available labor was channeled to the war industries most seriously in need of it. 2. Selective Service Boards and the Employment Service were instructed as Necessary farm workers, men over 45, and some high school students deferred under teen-age draft act Local selective service boards, under directives made public November 18, by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service director, are being instructed to carry out the “teen-age” draft act by the following actions: 1. Deferment of farm workers, of all ages 18 to 45, who are necessary to and regularly engaged in work in war-essential agriculture. 2. Distribution of questionnaires to 18-and 19-year-old registrants, who will begin to ' be inducted as their order numbers are' reached. 3. Deferment of high school students in the 18- and 19-year groups, if the students request it and if they are in the last half of the autumn-to-spring school year. 4. Deferment of all men who registered before age 45 who have passed their 45th birthday since, unless they file their written consent to induction into the armed forces. New draft classes for deferred fanners The farm deferment directive makes It plain that Department of Agriculture and County Agricultural War Board advice may be sought in the local boards’ determination as to what farms are essential to the war, and what jobs on them are “necessary.” But the actual deferment of any given man will still be up to the local selective service boards to decide. Deferred farm workers “frozen” The deferred farm workers are to be placed in two new classes, H-C and III-C. Those without dependent wives, children or other grounds for dependency deferment will go in II-C, those with dependency to III-C. The farm workers deferred do not lose their deferment if they change from one “necessary” farm job to another, or from one “necessary” farm to another of the same nature. But, under a new feature of the law, if the deferred farm worker seeks to move from his “necessary” farm to a job in industry or on a nonnecessary farm or elsewhere, he must first obtain the permission of his local board. Otherwise, the board under the law must immediately reclassify those who leave so as to make them available for necessary farm jobs or immediate military service. This applies to married men and men with dependents, as well as to single men. Selective service officials advise all farm workers to consult their local boards before transferring to any job outside of agriculture. to essential .jobs which should be safeguarded by deferment, to permit orderly withdrawal and training of replacements. 3. We stepped up and coordinated our training program. All agencies concerned with training are now under War Manpower. Four million trained By October 1, our Training Within Industry Service had served 5,750 plants, employing a total of 5,604,000 employees. 218,000 foremen, supervisors or lead-men had been ' certified as job Instructors in war production plants. These men in turn have trained additional millions. 4. By direct negotiations with employers and unions, we have greatly reduced discrimination against Negroes and other minority groups. 5. We have prevailed upon employers to use more women workers—more than doubling the number of women in war work since the first of this year. 6. We have worked with WPB to the end that contracts be let and plants constructed in loose labor areas, as far as is practical. 7. We have advised the Government agencies affected of future needs for housing and transportation. 8. Where migration of essential workers seriously threatened war production, we have put into effect an Employment Stabilization Program. This action in the twelve western States averted a complete breakdown of the nonferrous metals and lumbering industries—both of which are vital to our war production. Labor pirating cut 9. We have acted to effect more efficient use of the present labor force, by working through employers and unions to encourage upgrading and job breakdown. This has had widespread effect in getting employees used at higher skills. 10. We have materially reduced labor pirating. An examination of classified advertising will show that most war plants now publicly state that no workers employed in any other war plant will be considered (except after clearance with the U. S. Employment Service). 11. We have consistently attempted to channel hiring through the Employment Service. An ever increasing number of our war plants are hiring exclusively through the Employment Service. Through September, the Employment Service placed more than seven million people in 1942. 8 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 RATIONING... “A” coupon good for only 3 gallons in 16 of now-rationed Eastern States Value of the basic A gasoline ration coupon was reduced from 4 to 3 gallons in 16 of the now-rationed Eastern States by the OPA November 17. The order was effective November 22. The small rationed section of West Virginia was exempted from the cut. This action was taken to help relieve the critical petroleum shortage recently intensified by heavy military requirements for the offensive in Africa. But one of several steps The coupon value cut is but one of several steps to effect large scale curtailments of civilian consumption of petroleum in the eastern area, as directed by WPB Chairman Nelson on the advice of Petroleum Coordinator Ickes. Other measures to curtail fuel oil consumption in non-war industries, and for heating of certain types of buildings, are now being drafted and will be announced soon, OPA officials said. The shortage may require some further cuts in fuel oil rations for home heating. 4 gallons in rest of country The reduction in A coupon rations will be effective throughout the present gasoline-rationed area except West Virginia, and in remaining sections of those States-—including New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Florida—that are now only partially rationed. In the unrationed sections, however, gasoline coupons will not be required in gasoline transactions until Nation-wide mileage rationing goes into effect December 1. The value of the A coupons in the rest of country that comes under rationing December 1 will be 4 gallons, though they will be worth only 3 gallons if used in the eastern area. Cutting 1 gallon from the A coupon, now worth four gallons, will effect a net saving of about 20,000 barrels of gasoline a day, OPA Administrator Henderson estimated. Savings aggregating about 43,000 barrels per day will be effected through conversion of S rations to the new and more stringent T rations for trucks and other means. Some 9,000 barrels, daily will be saved through additional conversion of oil-heating plants to other fuels. This is all in addition to very large savings that are just now being made in renewal of C rations on a more stringent basis. To free transportation space “These steps,” Mr. Henderson said, “will free transportation space for these large additional quantities of petroleum for our Army and Navy and for our heating needs. “Since the value of the supplemental B and C coupons will remain at 4 gallons, many motorists using supplemental rations in connection with basic A books should, by increased care in the use of their cars, be able to get necessary mileage from their present rations, despite the cut in A coupons. “However, those motorists who are unable to drive essential mileage with reduced A coupons, may apply to local War Price and Rationing Board for supplemental rations.” “Don’t go to your ration board for more unless it is absolutely necessary,” Mr. Henderson said. ★ ★ ★ Fuel oil rations limited * for space heaters Stricter control over the issuance of fuel-oil rations -for use in stoves and other space heaters furnishing heat and hot water in private dwellings was established November 14 by the OPA. Floor space limited to 550 feet Most important of the new provisions is that which limits to 550 square feet the floor area on which the ration for a space heater will be calculated, unless the home owner can submit satisfactory proof that the equipment actually heats a larger area. In addition, a ceiling is placed on the amount of fuel oil which may be granted in those instances where the applicant cannot furnish a dealer or supplier certification of purchases during the past year. The amount of fuel oil which may be allotted to space heaters for supplying hot water is reduced to 10 gallons per month. Coffee rationing will cut institutions same as individuals or more than 40 percent * Coffee rationing will curtail consumption of the beverage in restaurants, hotels, and institutions by about the same percentage from normal as to the individual consumer, OPA said November 17. Officials pointed out that these places where coffee is used will be cut more than 40 percent from their normal use. They previously had estimated the consumer cut at about 38 percent. Institutions register this week Following their registration on November 23, 24, and 25, “institutional users” will receive from their local War Price and Rationing boards for use from November 22 to January 31, 1943, inclusive, allotments of the same amount of coffee that they served in September and October. During September and October, however, their use of coffee had been cut from normal through the WPB’s coffee conservation Order M-135. This order limited deliveries at the roaster and wholesale level to approximately 65 percent of the amount delivered in September and October 1941; although the percentage received by individual users varied. Further curtailment occurs because there are 71 days in the first allotment period for restaurants, hotels, and other such users, as compared with 61 days in September and October. This alone will reduce the average daily use by about 15 percent. The rest of the curtailment from normal use is found in the fact that ordinarily demand for coffee in December and January is much heavier than during September and October, but the OPA made no increase in the ration for restaurants and hotels, hospitals or other institutions, to take care of this increased demand. Stocks to be counted in ration When they register for their first ration period on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday of this week—when there is a “freeze” on consumer sales—the institutions must declare to the local boards the amounts of their inventories of coffee as of midnight November 21. These stocks will be part of their ration for the first allotment period. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 9 Lumbermen urge tire-saving program Adoption of a voluntary tire conservation program for the lumber industry was recommended unanimously in Washington on November 16 by lumbermen and WPB representatives meeting at a conference of the lumber industry transportation advisory committee. The suggested program would include education of drivers and servicemen in the care of tires through use of motion pictures and educational literature; better road maintenance by elimination of rocks, ruts, stumps, and other obstruc-tions from private logging roads, and greater use of railroad facilities and mechanical loaders. Howard C. Richardson, representing the Office of Price Administration, recommended that lumbermen make contact with the State tire rationing administrators through their local lumber associations to present their case for tire allotments. He said any trucker may No plans to ration used cars at present, OPA says The OPA is not planning to ration used cars, Paul M. O’Leary, deputy administrator in charge of rationing, said November 16 in a statement issued in response to numerous questions on the subject. Present stock adequate “The present stock of used cars in the country, around 300,000, apparently is adequate for our present needs,” Mr. O’Leary said. “If a supply continues to be available for essential workers at fair prices^ there should be no necessity for used car rationing. Since mileage rationing will reduce nonoccupational use of motorcars to a minimum, it probably will serve to channel used cars out of the hands of those who have less need for transportation into the hands of those who are most essential to the war effort. So, while it is impossible to make a flat long-range commitment, it can be said definitely that we do not intend to ration used cars at the present time.” * * * DIESEL OIL—Clarification and adjustment of dollar-and-cents ceilings for distillate and residual Diesel oils, ships’ bunkers, on the Texas-Louisiana Coast were made November 19 by the OPA. The orders are contained in Amendment No. 47 to Revised Price Schedule No. 88, effective November 25. request investigation of inequality of distribution by local boards. - Improvement in the railroad car situation, it was agreed, would follow strict adherence to the practice of shipping in carloads and with cars loaded to capacity. J. K. Pearce of the lumber production section, WPB, suggested investigation of the possibilities of eliminating truck hauls of logs and lumber over roads parallel to a rail line. H. E. Holman, chief of the lumber production section of WPB and chairman of the advisory committee, discussed the shortage of new road construction equipment and recommended that loggers first endeavor to obtain such equipment by lease or purchase of idle county and State equipment. Allocation of public timber to adjacent or nearby mills would eliminate some cross hauls of logs, the committee pointed out. Gas ration coupons must carry identifications Car owners and others holding gasoline books in the rationed East must have identifications written in ink on the back of their coupons for any gasoline purchases they make beginning November 21, the OPA ordered November 16. \ The order, similar to previously announced write-in provisions in the new Nation-wide mileage regulations, is carried in Amendment No. 16 to the present gas rationing plan. The identifications to be written in ink on the reverse side of the coupon shall consist of the license number and State of registration in the case of A, B, C, D, S-l, and S-2 coupons. Dealers and distributors of gasoline to whom inventory coupons are issued must write the name and address of their establishment on the back of each coupon. ★ ★ ★ Commercial drivers urged to stretch “S” coupons to Dec. 1 Owners of trucks, buses, taxis, and other vehicles operated on service rations in the East are expected to make their “S” coupons last until December 1, even though their ration books may be dated to expire before that date, the OPA announced November 18. Auto dealers must deliver vehicles in “new car” trim to collect storage charge Automobile dealers, distributors, and manufacturers cannot pass on to buyers the monthly increment permitted for storage and maintenance unless they maintain the vehicle in accordance with specified standards established in OPA regulations, the OPA announced November 17. Written statement required Buyers may refuse to accept new cars if the price includes this monthly increment unless the seller furnishes with the bill of sale a written statement that all the maintenance and storage operations “ specified by OPA have been performed on the vehicle to assure it will be delivered in “new car” trim. The provisions with regard to maintenance and storage are set forth in Amendment No. 4 to Revised Price Schedule No. 85 (New Passenger Automobiles) and amendments No. 19 and 51 to Supplementary Regulation No. 14 to the general maximum price regulation, which applies to new commercial motor vehicles. ★ ★ ★ Ceiling prices cut on boilers, radiators Maximum prices for cast-iron coalburning and oil-burning boilers and for radiators were fixed November 18 by the OPA at levels generally 5 percent below prevailing prices in the Case of boilers and 12 percent, below in the case of radiators. . , The rollback on boiler and radiation prices is based on prices prevailing from October 1 to October 15,1941, which were considered representative for the industry. The price reduction, taken through the issuance of Maximum Price Regulation No. 272, effective November 23, affects an industry which last year shipped 301,-000,000 pounds of boilers and 89,000,000 square feet of radiation. * * * OFF-THE-HIGHWAY MOTOR VEHICLES.—Time within which certain off-the-highway motor vehicles may be manufactured was extended November 17 by Amendment No. 3 to General Limitation Order L-l-e. The amendment extends the time for manufacture of 500 of these huge vehicles from July 1, 1942, to March 31, 1943. It does not increase the number authorized. 10 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 WAR PRODUCTION . . . Krug staffs controlled materials division Establishment of a new Controlled Materials Plan Division and top appointments to its staff were announced November 18 by J. A. Krug, deputy director general for distribution. To work with metal divisions Director of the CMP division and chairman of the controlled materials board is Harold Boeschenstein, president and general manager of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. Assistant director is W. C. Skuce, supervisor of materials procurement, priorities, and inventory control for the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. In distributing materials under the controlled materials plan, Mr. Boeschenstein and Mr. Skuce will work in close cooperation with Hiland G. Batcheller, Arthur H. Bunker, and Harry O. King, directors, respectively, of the three controlled materials divisions—steel, aluminum, and copper—and with the control officers of the claimant agencies. Services on board The controlled materials plan division, which will operate under Mr. Krug’s general direction, includes the offices of the director and assistant director, a controlled materials board and an engineering board of review. The controlled ma- Imports will be geared to wartime economy Data on which next year’s imports from all parts of the world will be based are now being gathered by the WPB stockpiling and transportation division and the various industry divisions. Priority cargoes have first choice The industry divisions are submitting to the stockpiling division estimates of the volume of imports which will be required to maintain the wartime economy of the Nation. Studies are now in process to evaluate these estimates in accordance with their relative importance of the war effort and the availability of shipping space. Final forecasts of shipping needs are referred on a quarterly basis to the WPB requirements committee. terials board will be composed of representatives of the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease Administration, Board of Economic Warfare, Office of Civilian Supply, the chiefs of the aluminum, copper, steel, program, and facilities divisions, a labor representative and a representative of the resources division, Also established within the new division are a scheduling methods branch, an instruction, inquiry and service branch and an operations branch. The controlled materials plan division will be the agency charged with development and administration of the operating policies to govern CMP. To educate public An extensive campaign of public education in the operating details of the controlled materials plan is being worked out jointly by the CMP division and the division of information of the War Production Board. The plan itself will not become operative until the second quarter of 1943, but it is essential that in the meantime those war producers who will be included under it become thoroughly familiar with its requirements, in order that they may draw their “bills of materials” for presentation to the several claimant agencies, such as the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, and Office of Civilian Supply. It is on the basis of the “bills” that allotments of controlled materials will be computed. Despite the fact that the Nation’s ship building program has been continually more effective, shipping space remains below the total needed to transport the volume of imports required for manufacture into essential war goods. It is necessary, therefore, to consider the relative value of imports and to assign shipping space on that basis. Effects felt all over world In order to regulate the imports of commodities, the WPB has established controls whose effects are felt thousands of miles away in shipping ports all over the world. The priority cargoes have first choice of the available space in all ships controlled by the United States. Truck trailer output stopped; time extended for heavy trucks Production of all sizes of truck trailers was stopped and the time within which a specified number of heavy trucks may be produced was extended November 19 by two amendments issued by the director general for operations. Amendment No. 2 to Supplementary Limitation Order L-l-g in effect prohibits the manufacture of truck trailers of all sizes. Amendment No. 1 to Supplementary Limitation Order L-l-h extends the time (originally August 1, 1942, to December 31, 1942) within which the 4,000 heavy trucks authorized under the order may be produced to the period August 1, 1942, to March 31, 1943. It does not increase the number of heavy trucks authorized for manufacture. ★ ★ ★ Experts sent to field offices to explain CMP An intensive program is now in effect for the purpose of thoroughly equipping field offices of the WPB for the task of handling questions on the Controlled Materials Plan, the Office of Field Operations announced November 16. Seventy priorities specialists and other , selected men have spent several days in Washington in a training school on CMP conducted by the inquiries, instruction, and service branch of the Controlled Materials Division. The majority of these men already have left Washington for the various regional and branch offices, taking with them comprehensive material on CMP. In each such office, one of these men will explain CMP to the personnel concerned. In addition, mass meetings will be conducted in 24 key cities where the Washington specialists will further explain CMP. ★ ★ ★ Higher ratings required for chrome steel deliveries An amendment of Order M-21-d to permit delivery of corrosion or heat resistant chrome steel only on a preference rating of AA-5 or higher, and use of such material only if acquired on a preference rating of AA-5 or higher, was announced November 18. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 11 $50,000,000 in scarce chemicals allocated for November use in all types of products Over $50,000,000 worth of scarce chemicals have been allocated to industry for use in November, it was announced November 17 by the chemicals division in releasing its monthly report on allocations of individual chemicals. The allocations reported for do not include direct military needs. On end-use basis The report, attached to news release WPB-2145, is the second in a new monthly series designed to acquaint the industry and the public with the supply picture in each of the chemical products under allocation control by WPB. The report lists each chemical and states the percentage of requests allowed for each use. Allocations are on ah end-use basis, and it must be noted that these percentages are of requests made for allocation, and not the percentage of requirements. Wherever limitation orders govern, requests for allocations are made in accordance with the percentage of each chemical permitted to be used. The report on allocation lists uses which were filled completely, those which were partially filled and those which were totally denied. This, report, the most comprehensive picture of the scarce chemicals industry ever released by WPB, enables users of critical chemicals fot all types of products to determine approximately the amount of each chemical they may expect to be allocated. Chemicals are allocated on the basis of end-use, rather than on preference ratings. The report reflects situations in which applications are denied to encourage industry to substitute less critical materials. ★ ★ ★ Drive launched to shift skilled peacetime workers to war plants Every city and crossroads town in the country will be combed for skilled men and women who are needed on war jobs, * Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, said November 20. Representatives of the U. S. Employment Service have been instructed to make every effort to persuade such work- 4s offensive changes picture Unified plane production board gets jobs of doubling output by this time in 1943 A new board to have complete respon- the Air Force. What we are attempting sibility for aircraft production is being to do is to put the responsibility directly formed, WPB Chairman Nelson revealed into one place.” Again, he declared that at his press conference November 19. the effect of the reorganization is to Under the leadership of Vice Chairman “pin the responsibility directly on one Charles Wilson, the board will be charged person so that anything that interferes with the task of doubling plane output in with production in aircraft can be 1943. straightened out, no matter what it is.” . That person, he said, is Mr. Wilson. No longer shooting with a shotgun Mr. Nelson believes we can accomplish At the same conference Mr. Nelson the double production next year, and forecast that combat in Africa will moreover, he told reporters, he expects change schedules and specifications for that we can double it in numbers, with war matériel, because “until you get on added weight making it more than an offensive, you are shooting with a double. Questioning developed that by shotgun at all parts of what you may doubling production he meant doubling need. The minute you get on the offen- the monthly rate by this time next year, sive you begin shooting with a rifle di- .. . , . rectly at the things that are definitely Expects standardization to help needed for the offensive.” Manpower and factory power will pre- Of aircraft production under the new sent problems, the WPB chairman board, Mr. Nelson said that the whole agreed, but we will not have to double picture will be “clarified in one simple labor force or facilities. For one thing, straight-line organization.” - he expects standardization to help. “We have had an aircraft division over Nevertheless he said that we may, con-here,” he said. “We have had one at trary to earlier expectations, have to Wright'Field. There has been one in build some large new plants. ers to shift from their peacetime jobs to work in war production plants. Acute shortages in many occupations This drive does not reflect a general 1 shortage of labor, Mr. McNutt explained, but it does mean that in many occupations serious scarcities have developed. He said that industry is now finding it almost Impossible to find certain types of skilled men such as tool designers, die makers, marine machinists, and lofts-men. Acute labor shortages have developed in 166 out of 528 selected skilled and semiskilled occupations, he added. This is reflected, Mr. McNutt said, in calls for workers made by employers of 50 persons or more in 17,500 selected business establishments engaged principally in war work or related activities. * * « CAST-IRON BOILERS.—-The cut-off date on production of low pressure cast iron boilers using exclusively gas or exclusively oil for fuel has been postponed to December 1 by the director general for operations, in Amendment No. 1 to Order L-187. SHIP PRODUCTION RECORDS DON’T COUNT UNLESS YOU DELIVER THE SHIP The Pacific Bridge Co., Alameda, Calif., which recently claimed a shipbuilding record by launching a small cargo ship 80 hours after keel-laying, is approximately 5 months behind schedule, the Maritime Commission has announced. Although the company has maintained its schedule in launching ships, it has yet to finish and deliver into service any of the nine vessels that have been launched. The company agreed to deliver one ship per month beginning in July, 1942. “The Commission is not satisfied with the performance of the Pacific Bridge Co.,” Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, vice Chairman of the Commission, said. “Launching of ships means little. It is the delivery of completed vessels that counts in this all-out war effort.” ♦ * * SILVER CONTENT.—Maximum prices of machines and parts containing silver may be increased 9.625 cents per fine, troy ounce of silver contained in the item, the OPA announced November 20. 12 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 Statistical staff named to simplify procedures Completion of the organization of the general statistical staff of the WPB was announced November 16 by Ernest Kanzler, director general for operations. While the WPB division of statistics under the direction of Dr. Stacy May will continue to function as the over-all statistical organization, compiling data for the total war production effort and addressing itself to general research and statistical problems, the general statistical staff will service the WPB industry divisions directly. Subject to exceptions set forth in general administrative orders and instructions, the responsibility of the general statistics staff will be to set up and operate uniform methods of internal statistical reporting for the various divisions, so that their work can be compared, and the operations of the industries which they serve may be reported on a comparable basis. Chief of the general statistics staff is Dr. Vergil D. Reed. Dr. Reed continues to serve also as chief of the industry facilities branch of the division of statistics. Dr. Reed is assisted by two deputy chiefs, Dr. C. W. Moore and Quincy Adams. Deputy Chief Moore has supervision over the statistical work of the industry branches, and is assisted by three assistant chiefs. James J. Hanks, Dr. Arthur L.. Rayhawk, and William C. Gordon, Jr. ♦ * * LEATHER—War Shipping Administration rates must be used by tanners in determining war risk insurance costs on hides and skins, the OPA announced November 19. This provision is contained in Amendment No. One to Revised Price Schedule No, 61—Leather—which also eliminates any conflict with the later maximum export price regulation by providing that maximum prices for export sales of leather shall be determined in accordance with the export regulation. * * * • MINERAL OIL POLYMERS. — Because supplies are decreasing in face of an increasing military demand, mineral oil polymers November 17 were placed under allocation by the director general for operations with the issuance of General Preference Order M-258. The order permits deliveries of 50 pounds without specific authorization and requires authorization for all other deliveries. EXPENDITURES for war purposes by United States Government agencies in October were up 4.8 percent to a total of $5,722,000,000. This was an increase of $264,-000,000 over the previous month, compared with a 5.8 percent increase amounting to $300,000,000 in September over August. THE AVERAGE daily rate of expenditure declined in October to $211,900,000 from $218,300,000 in September. The decline in part reflects the fact that there were 27 days in October on which Treasury checks were paid out, as compared with only 25 such days in September. CHANGES in the rate of expenditure during a given month do not necessarily relate to production in that month. Payments may be made in advance of delivery, on delivery, or some time after delivery. (.The figures cover expenditures both by the Treasury and by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its subsidiaries J Flourspar ceilings raised to stimulate production An increase in maximum prices for metallurgical fluorspar, designed to stimulate production, expand facilities, and encourage new producers to enter the fluorspar field, was announced November 18 by the OPA. The new base ceiling prices range from $25 to $28 per short ton, according to calcium fluoride and silica content, compared with $23 to $25 for top-grade fluorspar previously. They are subject to freight adjustments. At the same time, dollar-and-cents ceiling prices are established for acid grade fluorspar, except in the Illinois-Kentucky district. ' The new prices are established in Maximum Price Regulation No. 126, as amended (Fluorspar), effective November 23. Mines to get top materials ratings in emergency The United States mining industry November 16 received assurance of the highest priority assistance with the announcement by the WPB requirements committee that in cases of extreme urgency a rating of AA-1 will be assigned for purchase of mine maintenance and repair materials in the fourth quarter of 1942. New mining machinery may be assigned a rating of AA-2X, where this high rating is considered necessary by WPB to secure the delivery of essential equipment. The amount of material to which these high ratings may be applied in • no case may exceed the amount which has already been set aside for the mining industry for use in the fourth quar- * ter of 1942. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 13 Indices of U. S. industrial effort and of the impact on American life WÄR FAWSr PRODUC Index numbers of program progress, 1942 Muni- War Total tions con- war Month: produc- struc- out- tion > tion2 put8 November“ 1941 100 100 100 January 1942—. 163 105 134 February.— 173. 110 143 March 201 136 171 April , ; . 238 172 205 May 269 190 230 June _“ 300 219 253 July.—— 331 219 284 August 357 276 302 September 381P 269 315p 1 Munitions production represented by the index includes planes, ships, tanks, guns, ammunition and all campaign equipment produced during the month. Fixed dollar values are assigned to items to adjust.for the differences in sizes and costs. 2 Includes all Government-financed war construction. 8 Total war output represented by the index includes all current war production of goods and services for expenditure from Government funds. p Preliminary. NON-INDUSTRIAL WAR CONSTRUCTION Financed with Government, funds: Commitments, June 1940-Sept. 30, 1942___________$14,159,000,000 Value of completions as of Sept. 30, 1942________ $8, 359,000, 000 Financed with private funds: War housing scheduled, June 1940-Sept. 30, 1942________________________ $1,131,000,000 Value of completions as of Sept. 30, 1942________ $735,000,000 Non-industrial war construction Includes military construction such as camps, airfields, etc., war housing, and public works. MANPOWER Percent change October from October 1942: dumber 191)1 Labor force._______ 54,000,000 —0.2 Unemployed__________ 1,600,000 —59.0 Employed____________ 152, 400,000 4-4.4 Nonagricui-tural__________>41,900,000 ¡4-2.4 Male._____________> 29,200,000 —1.4 Female-.— 12,700,000 4-12.4 Agricultural.— >10,500,000 4-12.9 Male_______________- 8,900,000 + 7.2 Female™ 1,600,000 '4-60.0 Man-days of idleness on strikes affecting war production, January-September 1942______________1,715,932 Percentage time lost to estimated time worked ___________________%oo of 1% > New series starting Aue. 18. EXPANSION WAR INDUS FACILITIES Financed with Government funds: Commitments, June 1940- Sept. 30, 1942______—_____. $13,474,000,000 Value of completions as of-Sept. 30, 1942-_________ $7, 009, 000,000 Financed with private funds: Expansions as measured by 10,289 Certificates of Necessity, Approved June 1940-Sept. 30, 1942— $3,444,000,000 Includes construction,, machinery, and equipment. Expansions not included in Certificates of Necessity are estimated to cost between 1 and 2 billion dollars. Approximately three-quarters of the estimated cost of the certificates approved has been completed. FINANCE Authorized war program, July 1940-0 c t o b e r 19421_________________$240, 000, 000,000 Total disburse - ments, July 1940-Oc-tober 1942__________ 55, 701,000,000 October 1942________ 5,722, 000,000 Daily rate (27 days) _ 211,900, 000 September 1942__________ 5,458,000,000 Daily rate (25 days) _ 218, 300,000 Sales of war bonds: Cumulative May 1941- October 1942_____________ $9,945, 000, 000 October 1942_______________ 814,000,000 Quota Jor October_______ 775,000,000 ‘ September 1942____.___ 838,000,000 1 Preliminary. Includes funds made, available by Congressional legislation and by Government corporations. PLANT UTILIZATION JTILIZATION I WïîiE (Selected metal products industries—September preliminary report—Distribution of productive employees by shift) Hirst and Third Shift Shift Shift (per (per (per cent) cent) cent) Total____________________ 70 21 9 Nonferrous metal prod- ucts______________________ 77 17 6 Iron and steel products (except machinery) _______ 70 21 9 Automobiles and automobile equipment____________ 57 28 15 Electrical machinery______ 73 20 7 Machinery (except electri- cal) ______________________70 22 8 Transportation equipment (except automobiles)_______79 14 7 Miscellaneous Industries___82 14 4 Miscellaneous industries______uz » Excludes aircraft, shipbuilding, Government-owned ordnance plants and navy yards, primary smelting, refining, rolling, and drawing industries in the iron and steel and nonferrous groups. MERCHANT VESSEL DELIVERED Number of merchant ships deliv- ered: October 1942___________________ 80 January-October 1942________—_ 539 Tonnage delivered (deadweight tons): October 1942___________________ 883,000 January-October 1942___________ 5,985,000 COST OF LIVI Percent increase from like A ' month Indev last year Cost of living (1935-39 = 100): May 1942 116.0 12.7 September 1942 117.8 9.0 October 1942 119.0 8.9 14 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1342 Metal banned for many kitchen gadgets The varied and colorful array of metal kitchen gadgets, cooking utensils and housewares that in recent years have characterized the American home and kitchen on November 17 was reduced by the WPB to a Jew bare essentials for the duration. The order, L-30-d, affects kitchen tools (including items ranging from can openers to egg beaters), glass or ceramic flameware, cooking utensils, and storage utensils such as vegetable bins, canisters and the like. It covers all items not included in the previous three orders of the series—L-30-a (galvanized ware), L-30-b (enameled ware) and L-30-c (cast iron ware). Use of metal is completely prohibited by the order in, among other things, the following: rinsing pans, pot scourers and other sink accessories, dust pans, silent butlers, crumb sets, washboards, clothes wringers and concrete garbage receptacles containing more than five percent of metal by weight. The prohibition on production of these items became effective November 23. On items permitted by L-30-d, the picture shapes up like this: KITCHEN TOOLS After November 23, only eight metal items are permitted—wire strainers, can openers, egg beaters, food mills, food choppers and grinders, and commercial type cake turners and basting spoons. Consumption of iron and steel for production of each of these is restricted to 35 percent of the amount used in the 12 months ending June 30, 1941. Eliminated are such items as Jar openers, bottle openers, flour sifters, mashers, corkscrews, dippers, sieves, etc. Also permitted for military orders only are bread cutters, dippers, French fry cutters, nutmeg graters, skimmers, sugar and flour scoops' and vegetable graters. Types of kitchen tools otherwise prohibited may, however, be made for Navy and Maritime shipboard use. COOKING UTENSILS Except for utensils permitted by Orders L-30-b (enameled ware) and L-30-c (cast iron ware), no metal cooking utensils containing more than 20 percent of metal by weight were to be allowed after November 23 with the exception of black steel frying pans (with a bottom diameter of eight to twelve inches) and heavy duty black steel roast pans which, are used mostly in the Army and in commercial kitchens. Tinned utensils for Army and Navy use also are permitted. STORAGE EQUIPMENT All types of household storage articles such as vegetable bins, canisters, bread boxes, metal s cookie containers, cake boxes; metal jugs, ~ etc., were prohibited after November 23. The only exception is vacuum bottles with a capacity of 1 quart or less. Production of these bottles is cut to one-half of normal output. PAILS, BUCKETS, AND TUBS Production of these, except as provided in Orders L-30-a (galvanized ware) and L-30-b (enameled ware), is completely prohibited after November 23, with certain exceptions which are listed in the order. The order includes provisions for manufacture of repair parts for all of the permitted items which require them. With the November 17 action, Order L-30, which originally set up restrictions on production of kitchen and household articles, was revoked and all its provisions superseded by provisions in the four supplementary orders. Articles in which use of metal was specifically prohibited by L-30 are still banned by L-30-d. ★ ★ ★ More rigid control on cork discs for bottle caps To make certain that the limited allocations of cork for use in bottle caps is evenly distributed among bottlers, the WPB November 17 took action to control the deliveries of cork discs for bottle caps. Amendment No. 3 to General Preference Order M-8-a prohibits all bottlers who are not regularly engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling crowns with cork discs, from acquiring such discs if they already have a 30 days’ supply on hand. In. addition, bottlers must certify to the seller of the discs on PD-711 as to the botlers’ inventories and use of the discs. ★ ★ ★ Gold mine machinery frozen Machinery and equipment which had been used in gold mines whose operations are being ended by Limitation Order L-208 were frozen in the hands of their owners by an amendment to the order issued November 19 by the director general for operations. The amendment (No'. 1) prohibits the sale or disposal of any machinery or equipment of the types listed in Schedule A of Preference Rating Order P-56, from a non-essential mine as defined in L-208, without the specific permission of the director general. * * * SOFT COAL—The consumption of American bituminous coal already has reached the highest point in nearly two decades and the United Nations drive against the Axis is expected to increase it to a new all-time peak in 1943, Solid Fuels Coordinator for War Ickes said November 17. Ice box quotas for 1943 set to save critical materials; 300,000 production planned A program for production of over 300,-000 ice boxes next year, using the absolute minimum of iron and steel, was announced November 14 by the WPB. It contains no provisions for manufacturers of mechanical refrigerators. Necessitated by the complete curtailment of production of other types of household refrigerators and by require* ments of the armed forces and other essential uses, the program involves a new WPB principle in assigning quotas to producers for manufacture of consumers’ goods. This principle provides for determination of production quotas for each individual ice refrigerator manufacturer in proportion to his ability to cut down on use of critical materials. In addition to establishing a program for next year the order, L-7-c, lists production quotas in an appended schedule for each manufacturer covering the 2 months ending December 31 of this'year. The November 14 order supersedes Orders Ir-7, L-7-a and L-7-b, revoked on November 24. These three orders previously had controlled production of ice refrigerators, reducing the amount of steel to a maximum of 20 pounds per refrigerator. ★ ★ ★ Lamp trade-marks limited Manufacturers of incandescent, fluorescent, or glow discharge lamps are prohibited from etching a trade-mark or other identification on lamps for anyone but themselves or' other manufacturers, the director general for operations made clear November 16 in an interpretation (No. 1) to Order L-28-a. ★ ★ ★ Metal, plastics, cork banned for repairing fishing tackle Use of metal, plastics, or cork for repairing noncommercial fishing tackle or for production of repair parts for such tackle was prohibited November 18 by the . director general for operations with issuance of L-92 as amended. Replacement parts fully fabricated on November 18 are exempt from the restriction. Also exempt are repair parts using iron or steel which had been partly fabricated on November 18 to the point where they could be used for no other purpose. ’November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 15 Specialists named to WPB field offices The appointment of 44 automotive specialists to WPB regional and district offices throughout the country was announced November 18 by R. L. Vaniman, director of the automotive division. Duties outlined The immediate duties of the automotive specialists involve the following activities: 4. To make certain that proper conservation measures are put into effect by all holders of reserve vehicles now in storage for rationing. 2. To assist and advise dealers and service stations in conserving and reconditioning automotive parts: to examine inventories and arrange for transfer of excess stocks to points where needed. 3. To facilitate the acquisition of necessary repair equipment and tools by service stations. 4. To establish close contact with all producers of service station equipment, including those manufacturing such equipment for tanks and other combat vehicles and help them to secure critical materials. 5. To advise the industry on the preparation and filing of WPB Forms required under orders and regulations administered by the automotive division. ★ ★ ★ 6,360,974 pounds of scrap collected by dairy industry The National Dairy Industry Salvage Drive has furnished 6,360,974 pounds of scrap materials for the war effort, it was announced November 17 by the WPB conservation division. Materials included in the salvage drive were aluminum, brass, copper, iron and steel, zinc, lead, bronze, nickel, rubber, white metal alloys and miscellaneous nonferrous metals. Original goal of the dairy industry in the scrap drive was 1,000,000 pounds. Not only has the goal been far surpassed, but the drive is still in progress. * * * BRASS MILLS, copper wire mills, and copper foundries are cautioned by H. O. King, director of the WPB copper division that they must continue to use enduse classification symbols which were set up under Priorities Regulation No. 10. To avoid delays in delivery, all persons ordering copper and copper-base alloy products from mills and foundries are warned that they must provide as much end-use information as possible, including the ACS symbol number, so that their suppliers may obtain the necessary allocation of metal from WPB to fill their orders. Smith outlines procedure for spreading war contracts to smaller companies The procedure by which the smaller war plants division of WPB will seek to give effect to the directives issued by the Army Services of Supply, the Navy, and the Maritime Commission, and designed to spread war work to smaller plants, was outlined November 17 by Frank Smith, deputy director of the smaller war plants division. “The first step,” Mr. Smith said, “is for us to find out what the future requirements are as our men, under Mr. O. S. McPherson, chief of our agencies contact branch, working with the officers assigned to select items suitable for us, carefully check over specifications and together decide on the jobs we are to tackle. Committee decides items “These requirement items are then brought back to our own offices for examination by a committee, under the chairmanship of Robert Graham, composed of engineers from the facilities and plant services branches and one or more of our contact men. It meets every day and decides finally which items we shall work on and where we are most likely to find the best facilities . . . Plant service branch designates plant “The plant service branch then goes to work to break down the jobs and designate specific plants to do them . . . We have one of our field men discuss the job with the managers and production men in the plant ... we are then ready tp make our specific recommendation to the procurement officer who will place the order ..." “When the order is placed ... our engineers in the field follow up closely with engineering advice and assistance. . . .” Mr. Smith said a semimonthly report will be issued from now on giving the amount in dollar value of contracts placed, the number of contracts and the number of plants participating in each contract. * 30 small firms share four contracts Thirty-nine prime contracts, totalling 16 million dollars, had been awarded up to November 13th ... Three of these are of the “mother hen” type (a prime contractor with numerous designated subcontractors), and one is a pool (an association of small firms holding a prime contract). In these four contracts, thirty small firms are participating. To date 171 requirement items have been dealt with and facilities have been recommended, in respect to 121, to the procurement officers concerned. The discrepancy between 39 prime contracts awarded and 121 requirements processed is accounted for by the time lag between specific facilities recommendations to procurement officers and the actual placing of the orders with those facilities. Stay home, Smith urges Mr. Smith urged owners and managers seeking war work not to come'to Washington unless called there for conference. “Save your time and money,” he counselled, “and let the railroads carry the soldiers. See the Smaller War Plants Division man in your nearest War Production Board field office.” Following is the list of deputy regional directors for smaller war plants in the WPB regional offices: BOSTON, MASS., 17 Court Street, Clarence A. Woodruff; NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., 122 E. 42nd Street, Sydney E. Hogerton; PHILADELPHIA, PA., 1617 Pennsylvania Blvd., Audenreld Whittemore; ATLANTA, GA., 116 Chandler Building, (To be designated); CLEVELAND, OHIO, 13 Union Commerce Bldg., Daniel P. Ford; CHICAGO, ILL., 20 North Wacker Drive, Linwood A. Miller; KANSAS CITY, MO., Mutual Interstate Bldg., Roy W. Webb; DALLAS, TEX., 4th Floor, Fidelity Bldg., William G. Morrison; DENVER, COLO., Kittredge Bldg., Robert W. Gordon; SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., 1356 Market Street, Oscar L. Starr; DETROIT, MICH., 7310 Woodward Avenue, Hugo A. Weissbrodt; MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 326 Midland Bank Bldg, (to be designated). ★ ★ ★ CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY SIMPLIFIED BY NEW ORDER A basic order providing for the application of conservation and simplification measures to various types of construction machinery and equipment was announced November 17 by the director general for operations. The order, L-217, provides that the director general may from time to time issue schedules establishing conservation of materials and simplified practices, with respect to types, sizes, forms, specifications or other qualifications for construction and equipment or parts. 16 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 RAIL EQUIPMENT AUTHORIZED Railroad executives meeting November 19 with WPB transportation equipment officials learned how much new equipment and maintenance material for domestic service they will be permitted to order at this time for delivery early in 1943. No passenger cars permitted K Authorizations for 250 new steam locomotives and 36 new road diesels were made for the first 8 months of 1943. Deliveries in the first 6 months of 1943 were authorized for 100 switching diesels and 20,000 freight cars. No passenger cars were permitted to be ordered. Steel for maintenance of equipment and lines, to be delivered in the first quarter of 1943, was authorized in the following quantities: 330,000 tons for repairs to equipment, 480,000 tons for rails, and 288,000 tons for track accessories. ★ ★ ★ . New dates set in allocation order on construction machinery Due to the delay in issuance of Limitation Order L-192, placing all construction machinery and equipment under allocation control, dates set for various actions required by the order have been changed by an amendment (No. 1 to L-192), announced November 19 by WPB. Important changes Among other Important changes of date made by the amendment are the following: Date of supersedence of L-82-a by L-192 is changed from 15 days after date of Issuance of L-192 (November 7, 1942) to November 30. Date beyond which production of any equipment designed for or requiring rubber tires must cease unless authorized on Form PD-556, changed from November 15 to November 30. Date within which proposed production schedule of new equipment may be filed on Form PD-697, changed from November 15 to November 25. This date applies only to filing for the first month under L-192. Schedules for all months thereafter shall be filed on the fifteenth of each succeeding calendar month. Date prohibiting the processing or assembling of any material in the manufacture of any equipment listed in Schedule C of L-192, changed from November 15 to November 30, * Date for filing of finished unsold inventory on Form PD-697, changed from November 15 . to November 25. This date applies only to filing inventory reports for the first month under Order L-192. * * * THE IRON AND STEEL scrap order, as amended October 13, erroneously required filing of form PD-149A. It was not intended to require filing of this form. Amendment No. 1 to General Preference Order M-24, issued November 18 makes the necessary correction. Changes in Priority Regulation No. 11 A number of important changes in Priorities Regulation No. 11, as amended October 3, are made by Amendment No. 2 to that version, which was announced November 18 by WPB. The provision of most immediate interest to companies, operating under PRP relieves them from the obligation of cancelling or postponing any order specifying delivery of any listed material (as defined in the regulation) before November 21, if the supplier certifies in writing that (a) the material cannot be diverted to fill other orders, or (b) the material has been completed or that cancellation would cause substantially diminished production by disrupting schedules. With this exception, PRP units are required upon receipt of their certificates to cancel or defer orders which would exceed the amounts they are authorized to receive. Other changes are: The period of time within which a PRP unit must cancel or postpone its purchase orders, is extended to 7 days, including Sundays instead of 5 working days,' A, PRP unit may accept delivery of ma- Disposal of obsolete arms subject to WPB direction The WPB, with the assistance of the War Department and the Metals Reserve Co., has requisitioned a large amount of obsolete military arms and equipment held by more than a dozen dealers, WPB announced November 18. At the same time, WPB issued Limitation Order L-230, effective November 16, which prohibits the sale, transfer or delivery of all military arms, operating or nonoperating, except under certain conditions specifically permitted by the order. Rifles, pistols, and shotguns, however, are not covered by the order unless they are of a type that fires automatically. * ♦ * BEER manufacturers are the only persons who can determine their ceilings for domestic malt beverages in 32-ounce containers under the formula contained in the beer regulation, the OPA ruled November 19. Other minor errors in the beer regulation also were rectified by OPA in Amendment No. 1 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 259 (Domestic Malt Beverages), effective November 25. terial in excess of its authorization, If the materials were in transit when the supplier received notice of cancellation or postponement, provided such notice was received by the supplier not later than 10 days after receipt of ^he unit’s certificate; A PRP unit may accept delivery of materials other than, or in excess of, those authorized on its PRP certificate to the extent that it is entitled to extend AAA ratings; A PRP unit which filed an application for ratings for materials to be used during the second quarter of 1943 on Section H of the first quarter PD-25A application, may now employ the interim procedure with regard to such material, pending the return of its PD-25A for the first quarter; Any PRP unit which receives during, a quarter any listed material other than, or , in excess of, the quantities authorized by its PRP certificates, or by specific authorization of the WPB, must report promptly such receipts to WPB, together with a statement of the reasons why such receipts were necessary, and citing the provisions in Regulation 11 which permit such receipts; A revision of Paragraph (k) of Regulation 11 makes it clear that, although a PRP unit failed to file a PD-25A application on the date specified, it may, as soon as it has filed such application, apply ratings to its purchase orders. The amendment also revises the Metals List of Regulation 11 so as to include only tj^ose items appearing in Materials List No. 1, revised, of the PD-25A application form for the first quarter of 1943, and specifically excludes insect wire screen cloth from the forms of metal on the metals list. All sales of idle copper, steel to be reported Owners of idle stocks of copper and steel, and their alloys, who sell directly to authorized war producers, as permitted by Priorities Regulation No. 13, are now required to report such sales by an amendment to that regulation, it was announced November 17 by the director general for operations. Must send invoice copies When a sale is made of copper from inventories previously reported to WPB, care Copper Recovery Corporation, 200 Madison Avenue, New York City, the seller must now send a copy of the invoice to that address. Sellers of steel from reported inventories should address their invoice copies to WPB, care Steel Recovery Corporation, 5835 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Pa. * * * CHEMICALS.—Two allocation orders, M-169 covering methyl ethyl ketone, and M-159 covering butyl alcohol, were amended November 16 to provide for the use of the standard chemical allocations Forms PD-600 and PD-601. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 17 Pricing simplified on used machines, parts Changes in OPA regulations designed to simplify the calculation of maximum prices for used machines and parts were announced November 21 by the OPA. At the same time, OPA announced several modifications and extensions of Mail order price posting extended to ordinary retailers Regulations covering posting of ceiling prices on cost of living commodities by mail order houses were broadened by the OPA November 19 to include all sales made by mail, whether by a mail order house or an ordinary retailer. The action is taken in Amendment No. 35 to the general maximum price regulation, effective November 24. The amendment also modifies the text of a statement which a company doing mail order business may print on the cover of its catalogues or flyer in lieu of printing actual ceiling prices for the 200 cost of living commodities listed in the general regulation. Home production At the same time OPA issued Amendment No. 40 to Supplementary Regulation No. 1 under the general maximum price regulation, effective November 24, which exempts from price control all commodities made by the seller at his home entirely for his own account without the assistance of hired employees if the sales of the commodity do not exceed $75 in any calendar month. This is similar to the exemption covering sales by the farmer of commodities processed on his farm. -/< ★ ★ ★ Ceilings set on special ingots Maximum prices for special “trade name” brass and bronze alloy ingots which are produced by persons other than those considered in the trade as ingot makers and which customarily sell at higher prices than regular ingots were announced November 16 by the OPA. For such ingots, sellers may use as ceilings their maximum offering prices in carload lots in effect March 31, 1942, less 10 percent. provisions governing pricing of new machines, parts, and machinery services. The changes are incorporated in Amendment No. 54 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 136 (Machines and Parts and Machinery Services), as amended, and become effective November 25. New Government program helps retailers to help Government The efforts of the retail industry in helping the Government to promote war campaigns have been made easier by a new Government program. Instead of the flood of separate requests made upon them by different war agencies, there will now be one basic program for retailers to follow. “Your Home and the War” first theme The program was worked out with Government agencies and retailers by OWI in Washington November 14. It will be linked with retail promotion and advertising efforts. The theme for the first month, in January, “Your Home and The War,” will be addressed to women, and will stress the importance of salvage, tire conservation, gas rationing, conservation of household equipment and cooking gas, other home aids, and war bonds and stamps. ★ ★ ★ MORGAN TO HEAD CHEMICAL DIVISION The appointment of Dr. D, P. Morgan of New York City as, director of the chemicals division was announced November 18 by Ernest Kanzler, director general for operations. He will assume his duties immediately, releasing Dr. Reid, the former director, for his new appointment as director of the commodities bureau. Mr. J. W. Raynolds, Easton, Pa., who has served as assistant branch chief, has been appointed deputy director of the chemicals division. At the same time Dr. Reid announced the following appointments: W. Fletcher Twombly, Reading, Mass., as chief of the Aromatics and intermediates section. Hugh Hughes, Bloomfield, N. J., as assistant to the director of the commodities bureau. Read outlines tentative formula for determining merchants’ “normal” inventory In connection with two open meetings of members of the wholesale and retail inventory committee and representative merchants and merchant-manufacturers to discuss the forthcoming WPB inven-' tory limitation order, Dr. Eaton V. W. Read, chairman of the committee, November 16 outlined the tentative formula for determining “normal” inventory and indicated there is no need to liquidate stocks in any but the normal fashion in anticipation of stringent controls. “The order will reduce ‘inflated’ inventories rather than force the liquidation of ‘normal’ inventories,” Dr. Read pointed out. “The recommended formula for the determination of the ‘normal’ inventory is a reasonable one, based on the actual relationship of the individual merchant’s stock to sales over comparable months of the three preceding years. There is certainly no reason for hasty or disorderly reduction of inventory.” Merchants given time to adjust stocks Dr. Read also explained that time would be allowed retailers and wholesalers to get their inventories in line with WPB standards. The proposed order gives them until the beginning of the second quarter of 1943 to reduce their inventories to normal, as determined by the WPB formula. If merchants have failed to adjust their stocks by this time, they will be required to reduce purchases during the second quarter until a normal inventory is achieved. Although the order will not be issued until after the meetings, the formula procedure has been worked out on a tentative basis by Dr. Read’s committee. In line with the control system outlined in the committee’s report to WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson, as approved, on September 5, merchants will be required to maintain the same relationship of stock to sales as existed in comparable quarters of 1939-41. In this way, allowable inventories can continue to fluctuate in relation to sales in any given period. * * * MEXICAN CHICK PEAS.—Prices of Mexican chick peas, also known as Garbanzo beans—recently used in coffee blends—are subject to the general maximum price regulation, the OPA stated November 20 in an interpretation to the trade. 18 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 PRICE ADMINISTRATION . . . War, Navy to control prices of war goods now exempt from OPA regulations An arrangement regarding .control over prices of war goods along lines already in effect was announced November 15 by the War and Navy Departments and the Office of Price Administration. The agreement was worked out by Under Secretary of War Patterson, Under Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, and Administrator Henderson. OPA not to extend jurisdiction In general, OPA will refrain at this time from further extension of its controls over military materials and services. Accordingly, military items, their subassemblies and parts, which now are exempt from OPA regulations, will in general be left to control by the War and Navy Departments. Materials, subassemblies and parts of these items, and finished goods that have close civilian counterparts, which now are under OPA regulations, will in general remain there with special provisions for price adjustments under Procedural Regulation No. 6. The War Department and the Navy Department will use all their powers to control profits and prices on the items exempt from OPA control and left to their jurisdiction. They will exercise such controls by the use of procurement procedures based on experience gained since the war began and by full use of their broad powers to examine and audit production costs and renegotiate contracts. By joint agreement The OPA and the War and Navy De-z partments are agreed that adequate control over prices must be maintained in the munitions area. The armed services will furnish to OPA information on prices and procurement procedures for items under Army and Navy control. This will make it possible to appraise the results of this arrangement in terms of the entire price picture. The continuance of this arrangement is dependent, of course, upon its satisfactory practical effects. Firms selling military items should take care to determine whether their sales are subject to OPA regulations or are under price control of the War and Navy Departments. The exemptions from the OPA regulations are, of course, contained in those regulations. It is emphasized that no sales heretofore subject to OPA control have been exempted as a result of the new arrangement. The procedure for handling requests for adjustment of OPA ceiling prices on war items is provided by Procedural Regulation No. 6. Under it, decisions on the applications will be reached expeditiously. Living costs up 1 percent in 1 month The living cost of families of city workers rose 1.0 percent between September 15 and October 15, Secretary of Labor Perkins reported November 18. Most of the rise was due to the increase in food costs which occurred during the latter part of September and early October, prior to the action of the OPA, which brought an additional 30 “Spun” and “blended” nylon ceilings Ceiling prices for additional types of women’s nylon hosiery, other than the standard constructions for which dollar -and-cents prices were set in the recent nylon hosiery regulation, were announced November 17 by OPA. Maximum prices for these stockings are determined by the highest price Charged during March 1942 by the seller or—if he made no sale—the highest March price charged by his most closely competitive seller. However, in no event may the maximum price determined by this method of the general maximum price regulation exceed dollar-and-cents prices set forth in price tables covering retail, wholesale, and manufacturing levels. ' For retailers, the specific maximum selling price for stockings of 100 percent “spun” nylon (except that reinforcements and decorations may be of another material than nylon) is $1.85 per pair for all types of first quality, $1.15 for irregu- Penalties for price violators written into GMPR : Special notice of the license penalties to which retailers and wholesalers vio- -lating OPA price regulations are subject was written November 20 into the general maximum price regulation. The addition, contained in Amendment No. 37 to the general maximum price regulation, brings the licensing provisions of this regulation into conformity with OPA’s standard licensing regulations and orders. Similar action was taken by Amendment No. 2 to Supplementary Order No. 5, which applies to dealers selling waste scrap and salvage materials to industrial users. percent of the family food bill under price control as of October 5. There were further increases during the month in prices of some foods controlled by OPA, and in bituminous coal prices, for which the OPA had authorized an increase on October 1 to meet increased mine prices. Charges for medical and personal services also advanced quite generally. lars and 79 cents for seconds. Spun nylon is yarn made from short or “chopped up” lengths of nylon waste fiber. For “combination” and “blended” nylon hosiery of all types, the retail ceiling for first quality is $1.50 per pair, for “irregulars,” $1.00 and for seconds, 75 cents. A “combination” yarn is one made from continuous filament nylon yarn which has been combined or twisted with some other yarn, such as cotton, silk, rayon, or wool. A “blend” is a yarn made from a combination of short lengths of nylon waste fiber spun in combination with rayon, cotton, or other fiber. These additions to Maximum Price Regulation 95—Women’s Nylon Hosiery—are made through the issuance of Amendment No. 1, effective Nov. 19. The amendment also established specific prices for all types of “cut and sewn” lace nylon hosiery. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY * 19 Profits of copper, lead, zinc mines which increase wages safeguarded by new quotas Copper, lead, and zinc mines which pay Government-approved wage increases will be given new quotas allowing a larger share of their production to command premium prices “where such ad- " justments are necessary in order to permit operating margins which are reasonable and adequate for maximum mine production,” Donald H. Wallace, director of the industrial manufacturing price division in the OPA, said November 17 in an address to the American Mining Congress at Salt Lake City. ★ ★ ★ Imported metalliferous ores exempt from GMPR All imported metalliferous ores and concentrates were excluded November 18, from the provisions of the general maximum price regulation. Also excluded were domestic and imported blister copper and lead bullion. The exclusions were made at the request of the Metals Reserve Company, a Government procurement agency, to relieve it of the administrative detail involved in pricing the many varieties of ores and concentrates which it imports and resells. The November 18 exclusions were made through Amendment No. 36 to the general maximum price regulation; effective November 24. The new amendment leaves metalliferous ores and concentrates free from all price control unless they are covered by a specific individual price regulation, such as Maximum Price Regulation No. 113 (Iron Ore Produced in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan). * * * MICA—Maximum prices at which Metals Reserve Company, a Government, buying agency, may sell nonstrategic domestic mica were established November 18, by the OPA. Prices ~ range from 12 cents per pound for punch with a minimum usable area of one inch diameter, to 2 dollars per pound for sheet with a usable area of 6 by 8 'inches. Prices were established in Order No. 141 under Section 3 (b) of the general maximum price regulation, and became effective November 19. Employers must approach OPA before pay rise begins if- they expect to make it basis for pushing up prices Rules under which employers may seek price adjustments based on wage or salary increases requiring approval of the National War Labor Board were laid down November 19 by OPA. Request must precede raise At the same time OPA issued a statement of detailed information for employers-seeking the price adjustments, which emphasized that, in Jine with present adjustment policy, the price increases will be granted only when they are essential to prosecution of the war or “to a standard of living consistent with prosecution of the war.” The new procedure, set up in Supplementary Order No. 28 and effective November 18, covers the following principal points: 1. The request for price adjustment must be made before the proposed wage or salary increases go into effect or OPA will not, at a later date, grant price Increases based on these grounds alone. (However, the fact that the employer failed to file such a request with OPA will not preclude recognition of the increased labor cost resulting from the wage or salary increases in considering any later application for adjustment or petition for amendment based on later changes in circumstances.) -^ 2. The employer should file his request for price adjustment with OPA within 15 days after the wage or salary increase application is made to the War Labor Board. Tn case of a disputed proceeding before the Board, the employer’s request should be filed with OPA within 15 days after the employer receives notice that the War Labor Board has taken jurisdiction over the case. 3. The new procedure cuts across all price regulations and supplements those which already contain price-adjustment procedures. 4. The request for price increases must take one of two forms: Either an application for adjustment of individual prices or a petition for amendment of the applicable price regulation. The request must be filed in accordance with existing price and procedural regulations. Must file formal papers The new procedure implements the executive order issued by President Roosevelt on October 3, which provides that no wage increases requiring the approval of the National War Labor Board shall become effective without also being approved by Economic Stabilization Director Byrnes in any case in which Price Administrator Henderson “shall have reason to believe that the proposed wage increase will require a change in the price ceiling of the commodity or service involved.” An employer in a wage proceeding before the War Labor Board will be re- quired to state whether he will ask a price increase based on the proposed wage or salary increases. This information will be forwarded to OPA by the War Labor Board. But in order to enable OPA to determine whether the proposed wage increase will cause a price-ceiling change, it is also essential that the employer who intends to make the proposed wage increase the basis for a request for increases in ceiling prices, shall file a formal request for the price increase before the wage increase becomes effective. If the employer does not intend to make the proposed, wage increase, if granted, the basis for a request for higher prices or if the prices are not subject to OPA control, there is no occasion for him to file any request with OPA. The wage case will then be handled by the War Labor Board alone and the wage increase will not need the approval of Economic Stabilization Director Byrnes. The 15-day limit also holds for applications for salary or wage increases filed with the Wage Adjustment Board of the Building Construction Industry. Applications for adjustment are to be filed in accordance with Revised Procedural Regulation No. 1 except in cases of Government contracts or subcontracts for certain war commodities or services which come under Procedural Regulation No. 6. An application for adjustment will be granted only if the price regulation under which the employer’s maximum prices are set contains a specific provision’for the granting of an adjustment and if the employer is eligible for an adjustment under that provision. In the absence of such a provision for adjustment the employer’s only recourse is to file a petition for amendment. A petition for amendment also is to be filed under Revised Procédural Regulation No. 1 and it must propose a definite change of general applicability in the terms of the price regulation under which the employer’s ceilings are established. The order provides that if a wage increase is approved by the War Labor Board and an order denying an application for adjustment of prices in whole or in part is issued by OPA the employer may after the wage increase becomes effective, file a protest against the OPA order in accordance with Revised Procedural Regulation No. 1. 20 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 Industrial sugar users may draw on excess stocks Registered industrial and institutional users of sugar may draw on their excess stocks of sugar at the rate allowed under rationing regulations and need not obtain prior allotment from their War Price and Rationing Boards, the OPA announced November 14. This provision is contained in Amendment No. 24 to Rationing Order No. 3, effective November 19, and applies only to applications on OPA Form R-314. * * * SHORTENING, salad, and cooking 'oils.—Processors must continue to grant their normal differentials for each type of purchaser, the OPA announced November 17. When the maximum price which processors may charge for these commodities was reduced % cent per pound on September 30, 1942, the amendment to the Revised Price Schedule No. 53—Fats and Oils—did not specify that such differentials applied. This provision has now been written into the schedule in Amendment No. 19, effective November 23. ♦ ♦ ♦ __.. SALVAGED GREASE—The maximum price of grease collected under the WPB salvage campaign has been raised to 7 cents per pound from 5 cents on sales by independent collectors to renderers, the OPA announced. This increase was made by Amendment No. 62 to Supplementary Regulation 14 to the general maximum price regulation, effective November 23. No change, however, is made in the prevailing 4-cent ceiling price which the housewife may secure in her sales to a butcher or grocer, or independent collector or renderer, and no change is made in the prevailing 5-cent ceiling which the butcher or grocer may charge the renderer or independent collector. * * * PHENOLIC RESINS—An exception to the control over delivery and use of phenolic resins and phenolic resin molding compounds set up in Order M-246 was provided November 18 with issuance of Amendment No. 1 by WPB. The amendment permits delivery and use during December of phenolic resins and phenolic resin molding compounds which are produced from phenol delivered in accordance with November allocations under M-27, without special authorization under M-246. DIRECT RETAIL TURKEY PRICES SET Farmers and processors will use a separate method of determining their maximum prices on live and dressed turkeys which they sell at retail to consumers other than commercial, governmental or institutional users, OPA announced November 18. Highest price in nearest city On all such direct sales, the ceiling is the highest permitted retail selling price prevailing in the nearest city, town, or hamlet to the seller’s farm or plant. On mail order sales to consumers, the seller may add to this price the actual mailing, express, or shipping cost to the address of the buyer. This method is provided in Amendment No. 1 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 269 Poultry and Eggs—effective November 18, to cover retail sales by farmers, growers and processors. The permitted retail selling price is based on the specific cents-per-pound price for sales by shippers, as set forth in Maximum Price Regulation No. 269, plus wholesalers’ and jobbers’ margins established in the same regulation, and retailers’ margins established in Maximum Price Regulation No. 268 (Sales of Certain Perishable Foods at Retail). No method had previously been provided for setting ceilings on direct retail sales in either of these two regulations. Where a farmer or packer sells directly to a commercial, governmental, or institutional user, his maximum price continues to be governed by the wholesale provisions set in Maximum Price Regulation No. 269. ★ ★ ★ Spice trade told how to compute ceilings Methods by which the spice trade may arrive at proper deductions in war risk insurance rates in computing their ceiling prices on imported raw spices and spice seeds were explained November 21 by the OPA. If shipment from the country of origin was matte after October 7, the seller must deduct from the specific prices named in Maximum Price Regulation No. 231 (Raw Spices and Spice Seeds) the difference between the highest commercial rates for war risk insurance in effect on July 24, 1942, and the War Shipping Administration rate prevailing on the date of shipment from the country of origin. The result is the seller’s ceiling price. The same deduction also must be made on a shipment from the country of origin between August 1 and October 7, providing the importer carried a War Shipping Administration war risk insurance policy on the particular shipment. * * * UNFINISHED GRAPE WINE—when sold or delivered for further cellar treatment and finishing to any Federal bonded winery within the same State in which the unfinished Wine was produced—is exempted from price control, the OPA ruled November 19. Coffee rationing authority delegated to OPA Authority to ration coffee is formally delegated to the OPA by Directive 1-R, issued November 20 by the WPB. At the same time, WPB revoked Conservation Order M-135, effective midnight, November 21. Revocation also includes all amendments to the order, and all supplementary orders. x Directive 1-R gives OPA broad control over the sale and distribution of green or roasted coffee in any form. WPB reserves certain powers However, WPB reserves the following: 1. Power to issue suspension orders against persons who are found guilty of having violated M-135 prior to November 22. Such orders may impose special limitations on violators, or prohibit them from selling or delivering coffee for a specified period. 2. Control over imports and allocation of green coffee imports. 3. Right to determine, at its option, the amount of coffee available for rationing or other specified distribution. 4. Control over distribution of coffee to the armed forces and to Lend-Lease. ★ ★ ★ Posters to explain coffee ration Fundamentals of coffee rationing for the information of America’s housewives will be simply and graphically explained in words and pictures in hundreds of thousands of food stores throughout the country when consumer rationing starts on November 29, Paul M. O’Leary, OPA’s deputy administrator in charge of rationing, announced November Í6. Mr. O’Leary disclosed that within the next few days distribution will begin from 8 production centers of 1,000,000 copies of a combination bulletin-poster which explains the details of the coffee rationing program as it applies to retail stores and also furnishes the storekeeper with an attractive poster that tells his .customers “How to Use You» Sugar Book for Coffee Rationing.” While designed primarily for display in grocery stores, Mr. O’Leary pointed out that the coffee rationing poster can be used to good advantage in any place where women gather. He said that local defense councils, women’s clubs, Red Cross chapters, etc., can assist the coffee rationing program materially by obtaining and displaying the poster. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 21 Plans for collecting waste fats in remote areas announced ' Plans for facilitating the collection and shipment of millions of pounds of waste kitchen fats in thinly settled areas remote from rendering plants were announced November 19 by R. K. White, chief of the general salvage section of the WPB conservation division. The new regulations, designed for localities where renderers’ trucks and wagons do not collect waste fats, will enable all housewives, meat dealers, and frozen food locker plants to take part in the national effort to salvage waste fats for production of glycerine needed for explosives and other munitions. Alternative plans Two collection methods are available to these communities. Under one plan the local salvage committee may call a meeting of all meat dealers in its area, Take discarded silk and nylon stockings to collection centers, women urged Silk and nylon stockings have become an official item in the Nation’s expanding salvage program. All women are requested to take their worn and discarded hosiery to collection centers which were established as of November 16 in retail stores having women’s and misses’ hosiery departments. Needed for powder bags One of the most important military uses for silk is in the manufacture of powder bags. The reclaimed silk will be woven into silk bags, into which charges of powder are placed, for generating the power required to expel a shell from guns of major calibre. Silk alone burns completely, leaving no hot embers. The gun can thus be recharged with greater speed because cleaning is not necessary. Nylon also has important military uses. It was emphasized by the Conservation Division of the WPB that only women’s silk and nylon stockings are wanted. Important, also, is that the stockings be washed before they are donated to the Government. The collection plan, arranged with the cooperation of the Nation’s retail stores, provides for direct shipment by the re- request one dealer (or more if necessary) to act as a central collection point, and arrange pick-up and delivery to the central point by each dealer in turn, once or twice a month. Voluntary services of truckers will also be sought for this work. In this case collectors are asked to pack the salvaged fat in regular 110-pound lard pails or other suitable containers and ship by rail or commercial truck route to the renderer designated by the State Salvage Executive Secretary. Under the alternative plan, the local salvage committee is asked to get local hides, skins, or junk collectors to make the fat collections from meat dealers and locker operators and ship to the renderer by the most convenient route. In this instance the collector will be given the names and addresses of cooperating renderers, so that a mutually satisfactory price may be determined. tailers of minimum lots of 100 pounds to Defense Supplies Corporation, Green Island, N. Y. If a store cannot collect the minimum shipping requirement, local salvage committees will arrange for gathering the hosiery for ultimate shipment. Women are asked to donate their stockings as there will be no financial remuneration to any individual, store or group. On the contrary, the retailer will pay all costs of handling the hosiery until shipment is made collect to the Defense Supplies Corporation. Stockings desired are: AU silk; all nylon; mixture of silk and nylon; mixture of silk and rayon; mixture of nylon and rayon; mixture of silk and cotton; mixture of nylon and cotton. * $ * EDIBLE MOLASSES—No special price regulation will be issued by the OPA on edible molasses produced in Louisiana this season, it was announced November 18. Therefore, producers must continue to use their March 1942 ceilings under the general maximum price regulation. SALVAGE ACTIVITIES REORGANIZED Changes in the organization of the WPB conservation division whereby the salvage branch, consisting of the general salvage section, the industrial salvage section, the scrap processors section, and the special projects salvage section, has been discontinued with each of these sections now becoming branches, were announced November 20 by Director Rosenwald. The changes became, effective November 10. White in charge of general salvage The general salvage branch, with R. K. White as chief, is responsible for salvage activities in the home and on the farm. The industrial salvage branch, whose chief is Hamilton Wright, deals exclusively with the scrap-collection program in industry. The scrap processors branch, of which Merrill Stubbs is chief, supervises the work of scrap dealers and automobile graveyards and encourages rapid turnovers in scrap inventories. The special projects salvage branch, of which J. Widman Bertch is chief, expedites the movement of scrap materials where salvage is impeded by financial and other obstacles. 22 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 NHA explains: SOUND HOMES STILL POSSIBLE UNDER WAR HOUSING LIMITS Construction of a sound, comfortable family dwelling is still possible under the restrictions imposed by the new war housing standards announced recently by WPB, John B. Blandford, Jr., Administrator of the National Housing Agency, declared November 22 J Amends all previous orders “The regulations as to design and material consumption are comparable to public war housing standards already adopted by the NHA and to the trend in private housing. They amend all previous orders covering the same subjects,” Mr. Blandford said. Trend away from detached homes “The trend in private war housing will be away from the single-family, detached dwelling, a policy already in force for public war housing,” Mr. Blandford said. “But by careful selection of sites and design and by use of substitutes now generally available, private housing can be built within the new standards to meet the Federal Housing Administration’s requirements for mortgage insurance. Will apply to remaining 120,000 units “The 75,000 private units now under construction will not be affected by the new regulations. The design of another 75,000 units, for which preference rating orders have been issued but on which construction has not started, need not be changed if the builders do not ask for extension of time on their orders. . “The restrictions will apply to some 120,000 units remaining of the private housing quota on which priority assistance has not yet been granted. The Federal Public Housing Authority, constructing unit of the NHA, will be required by the new code to make only minor adjustments in some of its future projects.” * * * FUEL OIL DEALERS and suppliers who furnish customers with certifications of past purchases must retain for one year the records upon which the certifications are based, the Office of Price Administration announced November 19. The provision regarding the retaining of these records is contained in Amendment No. 9 to the fuel oil rationing regulations, effective November 25, 1942. Army and Navy taking over lands equal in area to five States The Army and Navy, operating through the Land Division of the Justice Department, have, since Pearl Harbor, purchased or are in the process of purchasing land tracts from private property holders equal in size to the combined areas of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, the District of Columbia, and four-fifths of New Jersey, the OWI announced November 18. At the rate at which requests for further sites are daily being sent to the Land Division, it is estimated that be- 200 demountable houses a day finished in one area Demountable dwellings for 13,700 war workers and their families in the Hampton Roads, Va., area are becoming available at the rate of more than 200 a day in one of the most spectacular public war housing undertakings of the Nation-wide program, Milton Fischer, acting regional representative of the National Housing Agency, announced November 16. To cost $50,000,000 The four projects of prefabricated houses will cost some $50,000,000 and constitute a sizeable community in themselves. They are located at Newport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth. .Work was not started until early summer but by February 1 it is expected that every unit will be completed and occupied. ★ ★ ★ Chemistry opens new wood uses The application of chemistry to forestry is rapidly developing new uses for wood that challenge the superiority of metals and other materials, Nathaniel Dyke, Jr., WPB technical consultant on lumber, said in an address last week. The increased use of wood as a source for cellulose, lignin, alcohol, and vannil-lin hog feed, in the manufacture of sugar, and in the masonite process, Mr. Dyke said, would practically insure that in a few years there will be no waste from wood. The whole tree will be used. fore the war is over 30,000,000 acres— the equivalent of the entire New England group of States—will be taken over by the Government. So far 64,368 tracts have already been acquired and 57,000 more are in process of condemnation. The 121,368 thus affected embrace 12,000,000 acres which, with improvements, are valued at $284,000,000. The land seized is used for Army camps, naval bases, air fields, housing areas, bombing ranges, artillery fields, shipyards, drydocks, and other necessary war sites. New plywood to be developed for temporary military housing Development of a special plywood to be used only for temporary military housing was recommended to WPB by the softwood plywood industry advisory committee, which met in Washington recently. Its sale would be restricted to the Procuring Agency of the Corps of Engineers or to persons designated by the agency. Anticipation of possible increase in use of fir prompted the recommendation for a new restricted grade of Douglas fir plywood, to be called Hutment grade. The special Hutment grade would be bonded with noncritical adhesives. ★ ★ ★ Ceilings on West Coast logs The method of setting maximum prices on West Coast logs when the logs are not delivered to the buyer’s manufacturing plant or the district waters named in the regulation was set forth more explicitly November 16 by the OPA. In such case, the seller must subtract the transportation costs, including booming and rafting charges, whjch would have been applicable had the shipment moved from the spar-tree to the waters of the seller’s district.* The spar-tree is the point in the forest from which the logs start to the buyer. To the- spar-tree price is added transportation to the destination specified by the purchaser, including any cost of loading on cars or dumping in a mill pond. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 23 First leases signed under NHA conversion program The first Government leases signed under the National Housing Agency’s program to convert private property into additional living quarters for war workers were announced November 19 by National Housing Administrator John B. Blandford, Jr. Through one lease, the NHA took over a residence in Alexandria, Va., to be remodeled into family dwelling units. Through another, it obtained the use of an office building in Mobile, Ala., to be converted into dormitory space for single workers. Many applications received The dwelling units will be rented by the HOLC to bona fide war workers, listed by the Alexandria War Housing Center at the same rents for comparable accommodations in the community. These will be in accordance with OPA rent ceilings. War Housing Centers already have been established in a majority of the 75 congested war production areas designated under the Homes Use program, according to NHA. A large volume of applications have been received from owners of homes and buildings and hundreds of projects already are being surveyed by the HOLC. ★ ★ ★ OUTDOOR TRAILER STORAGE Full trailers and semitrailers still in hands of producers, dealers, distributors, and other agencies may be stored outdoors under certain conditions specified November 19 by the director general for operations. The specifications for outdoor storage are set forth in Amendment No. 1 to Schedule No. 1 of Conservation Order M-216. They include the following: All chrome plated surfaces of trailers and semi-trailers stored in or out-of-doors must be washed, cleaned and protected with light oil, liquid wax or special preparations. _ Where stored outdoors, the tires must be removed, wheels left mounted on axle spindles and the weight of the trailer rested ,on the wheels. Tires must be stored in a dark, cool place, protected from direct sunlight, in a horizontal position, with separators. Latches, hinges, brake connections, vertical supporting mechanisms and fifth wheels must be lubricated and doors and windows should be closed. Similar requirements are contained in OPA’s Amendment No. 51 to Supplementary Regulation No. 14 to general maximum price regulation, issued November 6. Minerals transportation problems surveyed Cross-hauling must be eliminated voluntarily from the nonmetallic minerals industry if we are to avoid serious impairments of supply through inadequate transportation facilities, R. J. Lund, chief, miscellaneous minerals branch, told a meeting of the nonmetallic minerals transportation industry advisory committee in Washington. At this first meeting of the newly formed committee, industry members said that many opportunities existed for them to conserve transportation facilities, though certain problems would require considerable study. One such study recommended was a flow analysis New items added to strategic imports list, others shifted Several additions to and shifts in the lists of materials covered by the General Imports Order, M-63, were to become effective on November 23 under the terms of Amendment 8, announced November 20 by the WPB. Coir fiber, coir yarn, and coir manufactures have been added to List I. Castor oil, glycerine, and metallic mineral substances in crude form and not otherwise classified are moved from List I to List II of the order, which does not require special authorization to process or move the commodities. Pig and hog bristles are transferred from List II to List I to provide stricter control of the end-use. Certain cotton yarns and fabrics are added to List II of the order so as to control imports and to direct the fabrics to essential uses. Wools finer than 40’s are transferred from List HI to List II in order to provide for the importation of adequate amounts for blending with other wools. Commodities added to List HI are: muru muru nuts and kernels, tucum nuts and kernels, broomcorn, shoddy and wool extracts, mungo, and wool rags. * * * FUEL OIL.—Joint registration of dealers and suppliers of fuel oil who use common stationary storage facilities was provided for by Amendment No. 5 to the fuel oil rationing regulations issued November 17 by the OPA. At the same time, the date when primary suppliers must report transfers of fuel oil for the month of October is postponed from November 25 to December 10. to determine the amount of cross-hauling now done, and how to eliminate it. Truck transportation growing critical While conversion from open top to box cars would ease the present tightness in open cars somewhat, a very small percentage of these minerals are now shipped in open cars. Truck transportation, the only means of shipping available to many remote mines, is growing critical., Methods of improving access roads without the expenditure of large amounts of critical materials were discussed by the committee. Minor changes clarify wheat mill-feed regulation Six minor changes in the wheat millfeed regulation were announced Noyember 14 by the OPA. These changes, made in Amendment No. 1, make minor corrections and clarify possible ambiguities in Maximum Price Regulation No. 173 (Wheat Mill Feeds), effective November 20. Points covered include a change in the record-keeping requirements, a simplified definition of wheat mill feed, minor changes in maximum prices for California and Missouri, an adjustment of delivered prices for retail sales, setting of maximum prices in.buyer’s sacks, and a provision setting forth conditions under which Federal and State taxes, license and inspection fees may be added to maximum prices. ★ ★ ★ DOUGLAS-FIR PLYWOOD A revision of its Douglas-fir plywood specifications by the United States Bureau of Standards under the title, “Commercial Standard CS 45-42,” to establish uniformity with WPB Limitation Order L-150 in respect to grades and dimensions of marketable fir, has necessitated a correction in the order itself. An amendment (No. 1) issued November 14 by the director general for operations changes the order to read “Commercial Standard CS 45-42,” where it formerly read “Commercial Standard CS 45-40.” 24 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 Staff named to carry work to small plants The smaller war plants division of the WPB has completed its operating organization and, except for two appointments in the field, now has the staff necessary to carry out its work. Main function Lou E. Holland, head of the division, pointed out the distinction between the division and the Smaller War Plants Corporation, of which he is board chairman. The corporation, he said, is a financial institution created to help smaller plants with their money problems, either in * their efforts to get war orders or handle them after they have got them. The main business of the division is to get business for the smaller plants and help them with engineering assistance to produce the goods. Smith heads operating branches Working directly with Mr. Holland on matters of policy is the Advisory Committee, the Board of Consultants, and the Representatives of Organized Labor. Abbott Smith, one of the directors of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, has been designated as special assistant. Frank Smith is deputy director of the division and will have direct control of the six operating branches. Most important of these are: the agencies contact branch under O. S. McPherson, the facilities branch under B. T. Bonnott, and the plant service branch under Leo Rush. The agencies contact branch brings in the work from the procurement officers of the services, the facilities branch and plant service are responsible for the selection of the jobs to be placed, and after these job selections are made, they make the final determination of the plants which will be recommended to procurement officers.. Plant service under Leo Rush In the facilities branch are three sections: first, the facilities records section, which has a general knowledge of plant capacity across the country; second, the critical tools section, which keeps constantly up to date a record of open capacity of critical'tools; and, third, a tool and die service section. Plant service under Leo Rush is the branch where engineering service originates. The division receives thousands .of letters asking for help in getting war work. These letters usually describe the kind of plant, the kind of work it has been doing, and the plight it is in at present. The engineers in the plant service branch advise these people as to their proper course of action. When a plant is selected to do a specific job, the engineers in the plant service branch give whatever assistance is needed in connection with bidding on the job, the adaptation of machinery for the job, and help determine the best methods of production. Charles H. McArthur heads the field control branch. All of the deputy regional directors on Smaller War Plants in the twelve WPB field offices and their representatives in 123 district offices report to Mr. McArthur. ‘Tn the selection , of facilities to handle jobs,” Mr. Holland said, “we lean heavily on the recommendations of our representatives in the field. Our facilities and plant service branches may have reason to think that a given plant is the right one for a certain operation, but usually we ask our field men to check this up on the spot before we recommend the plant to the procurement agency. Prompt follow-through “The coordination branch under Robert Graham is responsible for the first screening of the requirements brought in by the agencies contact branch. Mr. Graham presides over a committee composed of engineers from the facilities and plant service branches and one or more of the men from the agencies contact branch. After we have chosen the jobs we want to handle, it is the responsibility of the coordination branch to • follow through and see that action is taken promptly leading up" to our specific recommendations to the procurement agencies concerned. “A good many manufacturers still come to Washington to consult with us and it is' Carl Bolte’s responsibility in the interview branch to see these people. We urge manufacturers not to come to Washington, but to see our men in the nearest WPB field office. But a good many do come here anyway (and sometimes there is reason for doing so) and we try to take care of them as best we can.” (.See also story on page 15.) * * * COPPER BUILDING MATERIALS.— Restrictions on the use of copper and copper base alloy building materials were clarified November 18 by Amendment No. 1 to Conservation Order M-9-C-4, issued by the director general for operations. The amendment is simply a revision of the definition of the phrase. “To install in or connect to a structure or system” to restore original intention of the order. Makers of compressed gases commended for saving cylinders Manufacturers and distributors of compressed gases were commended by WPB Chairman Nelson for their efforts to conserve steel cylinders for compressed gases and urged to still greater effort in a letter distributed to the WPB oxygen and acetylene industry advisory committee at a meeting on November 17 in Washington. “Compressed gases are a vital part of the war production program,” Mr. Nelson pointed out, “and the critical problem of cylinder availability bids fair to become more serious.” Used in war production The gases are used in steel production, in the building of ships, in the fabrication of tanks, guns, shells, planes, and other elements of modern warfare, including breathing oxygen for high altitude flying. The shortage of cylinders for compressed gases is so serious that it appears there will be no additional cylinders made available to the oxygen and acetylene industry during 1943, despite increasing demands, because of heavy demands of military forces outside the' country for all production. ★ ★ ★ Ceilings set on knitted underwear Additional types and an increased number of sellers of fall and winter knitted underwear were last week brought by the OPA under the provisions of two price regulations which set ceiling prices on these garments at all sales levels. Definitions broadened By broadening the definition of “Winterweight” and “heavy-weight” underwear, garments are now affected which previously were priced under the general maximum price regulations rather than the special regulations establishing ceiling prices for fall and winter knitted underwear. _. Amendment No. 1 to Maximum Price Regulation 221 covers manufacturers’ prices for fall and winter knitted underwear. Amendment No. 7 to Regulation No. 210 makes the same alterations for retail and wholesale prices for fall and winter seasonal commodities. Both amendments became effective November 23. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 25 Ores from old mines can be salvaged with new instruments developed by Mine Bureau Thousands of tons of zinc and lead ore, vitally needed for increased manufacture of war materials, will be brought into production with the aid of sensitive instruments developed by the Bureau of Mines, Dr. R: R. Sayers, Director of the Bureau, has advised Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. * Large quantities reclaimable These instruments, by amplifying and recording subaudible noises that indicate pressure zones in rock and warn of impending falls of ground in workings make it possible to recover with relative safety zinc and lead ore now tied up in old mine pillars that have been left standing to support the roof during earlier mining operations, Dr. Sayers stated. Within the past 2 months, Bureau engineers have tested their equipment in large zinc-lead mines of the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. These tests proved that many pillars can be removed, thus providing much-needed ore, while protecting miners’ lives and leaving surface buildings and terrain undamaged. Thé method can be applied to pillar robbing in other mines producing iron, copper or other ores where open-stope mining methods are employed. ★ ★ ★ Brazilian Chief of Staff commends hemispheric solidarity General Goes Monteiro, speaking in Rio de Janeiro recently, applauded today’s spirit of unity and solidarity between the Americas. He particularly stressed the cooperation between the United States and Brazil saying: “Ours is a true and real unity and not one in principle only, since our century-old course of collaboration with the United States has never wavered in spite of the efforts of those who wished to obscure it and, if we are now being brutally attacked, it is because of the loyalty, faithfulness, and solidarity we have always and continue to maintain, because of the inalterable course of action which Brazil has never failed to pursue . . .” ENSLAVED FRENCH PAY The Fighting French delegation in Washington said recently that every day of occupation by the Germans costs France enough: To pay a yearly salary to 20,000 unskilled workers in France; Or, to build 2,500 modern workmen’s homes; Or, to build 80 miles of railway line, complete with signals, bridges, and stations; Or, to buy 150 locomotives. The daily cost of occupation to France is 300,000,000 francs, or $7,500,000. The cost of every hour of occupation is enough to support 500 French families of three people for a whole year. - ★ ★ ★ Dallas florists find new way to conserve truck facilities A novel plan for the conservation of -trucking facilities by four wholesale florists in Dallas, Tex., is one of the additional joint action agreements cleared by the ODT and the U. S. Department of Justice. Under the Dallas plan, the entire area served by the four dealers will be divided into four delivery districts, and each dealer will be assigned to a single district on a given day. Each dealer then will make all deliveries, his own and those of the other three dealers, in the district to which he is assigned. Districts rotated The plan further provides that the districts be rotated so that each dealer will be assigned to a different district each day, thus equalizing the mileage traveled by the trucks of all four dealers. The four dealers, it was explained, are situated near each other, thus facilitating the pick-ups. * * * CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS—Prohibition on delivery of chemical fertilizers for use in 1943 was extended November 14 to December 1, by Amendment No. 2 to Conservation Order M-231, issued by the director general for operations. * * * IT TAKES about 75 pounds of cotton to equip and maintain a soldier for 1 year—two or three times that much if he’s on combat duty. Nation’s housewives can aid war effort by asking fewer delivery services, says Eastman The housewives of America can help materially in the war effort by demanding fewer services from the country’s delivery trucks, ODT Director Eastman said recently. “If the housewives space their purchases so that fewer trips are necessary, carry their own packages wherever possible, and finally let those upon whom they depend for necessary delivery services know that they are anxious to cooperate in the ODT conservation program, they will be doing their country a real service in this emergency,” Mr. Eastman said. “The ODT orders can set the pace, but they need public support to get the best results. If the operator of a local delivery service knows that the housewives in this community stand behind his efforts to reduce mileage, his task will be far easier. If he does not have their help, he will live in constant fear that his competitors will be more obliging and cut in on his business, and he will begin to slip. If too many slip, the danger is very real that before many months we shall not have the vehicles and the tires for all the delivery services that are essential.” ★ ★ ★ Technical data to be shipped on microfilm, BEW reports To conserve shipping space, the Office of Exports, Board of Economic Warfare, is making arrangements with exporters of technical data to ship their material on microfilm whenever desirable. Censorship offices at New York and Los Angeles are equipped to examine microfilm, as well as other film or photographic form, containing technical data. * * * A HIGH SCHOOL BOY in Rjukan, Norway, has been ordered to stay away from school because he showed hostility to Nazi schoolmates. THE COMMANDOS get their name from the Portuguese word for command. The Dutch in South Africa called their forays against the natives “commandos” and later applied the term to raiding guerillas in the Boer War. 26 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 Filipinos “not forgotten” PRESIDENT’S PLEDGE WILL BE FULFILLED, SAYRE PROMISES Commemorating the seventh anniversary of the proclamation by President Roosevelt of the independence of the Philippine Commonwealth, former High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre said November 15: “True democracy knows no geographical frontiers or continental barriers. It is as applicable to Asia as it is to Europe or America. “The Philippines form the outpost in Asia of these great ideals. Toward their •realization Americans and Filipinos have worked together shoulder to shoulder for more than 40 years. Out of this intimate comradeship has grown an understanding and a deep-rooted confidence that can never be lost. When in December 1941 hordes of Japanese barbarians came crashing down from the north, the deep loyalty of the Filipino people to the United States remained unshaken. “Through the present month of suffering the plight of the Filipino is heavy upon the hearts of all Americans. But one thing is sure. The Filipinos are not forgotten. . . . The American people will make good the words of President Roosevelt which we heard on the radio ringing through the tunnel on Corregidor on December 28: “ T give,’ he said, ‘to the people of the Philippines my solemn pledge that their freedom shall be retained and their independence established and protected.* ” “The tide of battle is already beginning to turn. On this seventh anniversary of the inauguration of the Commonwealth Government America sends to the Filipino people a message of hope and courage.” ★ ★ ★ Alabama gets grant for wartime child-care services Paul V. McNutt, Director of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services, November 14, announced the approval of a plan for services for the children of working mothers submitted by the Alabama Department of Public Welfare and authorized a grant of $7,000 to help in carrying out the plan. Lend-Lease shipments for October exceed $915,000,000, % more than previous record The President announced November 15 that figures on the results of Lend-Lease operations for October, just reported to him by E. R. Stettinius, Jr., Lend-Lease Administrator, showed that more than $915,000,000 worth pf goods and services had been furnished to our allies during the month. This tops the record of any previous month by more than a third. Two-thirds are military items The President pointed out, however, that there are always peaks and valleys in production and transfers. He cautioned against necessarily assuming that the same record can be maintained every month, although the steady increase in our production is likely to mean a growing increase in the aid supplied to our allies for the next year. These figures, the President said, show how wrong the Axis was in assuming that our aid to our allies would sharply decline once we had been brought into the war. During the past 4 months we have had the imposing task of arming, equipping and transporting our strong expeditionary force now in North Africa. Nevertheless, during these same 4 months, we were able to transfer $2,713,000,000 worth of goods and services to our allies. Two-thirds of the goods were military items, including large numbers of planes and tanks that helped to turn the tide in Egypt and to hold the lines in Russia. In September and October 1942—when our preparations for the African campaign were at their height—more than $918,000,000 worth of military items were transferred to our allies. This is to be contrasted with the $169,000,000 worth of military items transferred at the outset of the war in the months of December 1941 and January 1942. Figures don’t tell whole story Figures alone, the President said, do not begin to reflect the importance of the help the allies have given to each other. Figures do not show how the aircraft carrier Wasp carried two priceless loads of Spitfires to Malta, or how American engineers and soldiers are expanding the capacity of the railroads carrying supplies into Russia from the Persian Gulf. Nor do figures indicate the value of the assistance being furnished to our own troops abroad under the reciprocal aid agreements recently concluded with Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Fighting France. We have never intended and do not intend to diminish our Lend-Lease aid in the slightest, the President said. The record for the last 4 months shows that we are seeking to strike a careful balance between supplying bur own army and supplying the other armies fighting in the common cause. In this connection, the President announced that the Lend-Lease Adminis-istration has just completed discussions with representatives of the Lend-Lease countries regarding their requirements for 1943. ★ ★ ★ No duties on parcels for U. S. soldiers; Axis rumor “pure rot” A typical A^is rumor that American troops abroad are compelled to pay exorbitant customs duties on parcels sent to them from home, particularly when they are quartered in Britain or other parts of the British Empire, has been investigated and disproved. “Pure rot” is the answer of the United States Army Post Office, which has charge of the transportation and delivery of the great majority of the parcels to points all over the world. ★ ★ ★ Nazis complain over loss of North African food, supplies The Axis loss of food and supplies caused by the American occupation of North Africa brought bitter complaint November 13 from the Nazi-controlled Radio Toulouse in a broadcast monitored overseas by the Federal Communications Commission and reported by the Office of War Information. 50,000 head of sheep annually Among the foods and materials lost to the Axis by the American occupation of North Africa, Radio Toulouse said, are: 1 . Fifty thousand head of sheep a year, which had been shipped out of Algeria for meat use on the continent; 2. Thousands of barrels of wheat and flour; 3. Eighty million kilos of olive oil from 19,000,000 North African olive trees; 4. Two million tons of phosphate a year. Phosphate, used as fertilizer, is considered a vital loss, the Nazi radio said; 5. Two thousand tons of rubber a year. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 27 Announced casualties of U. S. armed forces total 48,956 since outbreak of war Announced casualties of the United States armed forces from the outbreak of war to-date total 48,956, the Office of War Information reported November 16. This total includes killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and the Philippine Scouts. It does not include casualties in the African campaign. Most classified as missing Most of the Army’s casualties are classified as missing and inasmuch as the majority of these were in the Philippines and in Java they are presumed to be prisoners of war. Information, however, is lacking due to the absence of prisoner lists from Japan. The Provost Marshal’s office of the War Department reports that as of November 11 the number of Army prisoners totaled 161, the Navy 460, and the Marine Corps 728. The War Department reported that as of November 12 the Army’s casualties totaled 32,429, of which 1,069 were killed, 1,531 wounded, 161 prisoners, and 29,668 missing. Of the missing, 17,500 were American troops, in the Philippines and 11,000 others were Philippine Scouts. An additional 500 troops are reported missing in Java. Of the 1,531 wounded, 552 have returned to duty. The Navy Department reported 16,527 casualties from December 7, 1941, to October 31, 1942. This total includes: Navy: Dead, 3,854; wounded, 1,190; missing 7,972. Marine Corps: Dead, 734; wounded, 703; missing, 1,900. Coast Guard: Dead, 37; wounded, 11; missing, 126. Some of the missing in the Navy Department’s lists are presumed to be prisoners. ★ ★ ★ Biddle speeds citizenship for alien soldiers stationed outside U. S. Attorney General Francis Biddle has announced that for the first time in history the naturalization of aliens outside the United States by administrative rather than judicial process will shortly be initiated with the granting of American citizenship to more than 200 soldiers now stationed in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean Defense Command. President pledges NO ONE WILL GO HUNGRY IN U. S-OCCUPIED AREAS Text of White House news release, November 13: The President has directed Mr. E. R. Stettinius, Jr., the Lend-Lease Administrator, to extend aid to the areas in Africa occupied by United States forces, in cooperation with General Eisenhower and the State Department. Food, clothing, and the other necessities of life will be made available’to the peoples of the occupied territory. Arms will also be supplied to the Army, Navy, air forces and citizens of these areas to carry on the fight against our common enemies. U. S., U. K., Canada agree on dried • fruit distribution An agreement has been reached among the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada regarding the movement of dried fruit from the United States during the 1942-43 marketing season, the Combined Food Board announced November 16. In addition, arrangements have been agreed upon for an equitable allocation to the various United Nations of the world supplies of all dried fruits, taking into consideration availability and shipping. In the interest of an orderly distribution of supplies, it was agreed that Canada’s supply of all dried fruit from the United States,.except figs, would be handled through the appropriate procurement agencies of the United States and Canadian Governments. ★ ★ ★ NUTRITIONISTS INVITED TO WASHINGTON To prepare a guide for wartime food demonstrations' as an aid in furthering the voluntary share-the-meat program, a small group of representative nutritionists and home economists are being called to Washington, Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, and Director of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services, announced November 17. President Roosevelt said: “No one will go hungry or without the other means of livelihood in any territory occupied by the United Nations, if it is humanly within our powers to make the necessary supplies available to them. Weapons will also be supplied to the peoples of these territories to hasten the, defeat of the Axis.” (Needs of the French North African territories were not immediately made known. However, unlike many countries still under Axis domination, these first liberated lands are known to have been growing and even exporting large quantities of foods.) Axis shut off from foods, metals if Allies consolidate victory in North Africa The American campaign in French North Africa will result in economic damage to the Nazis, in addition to its military effects, according to a statement issued by OWI on November 13. On the economic warfare front restoration of this area to United Nations control will: 1. Stop shipments to the Nazis of metals, minerals, fertilizers, food, and other supplies from North Africa that were important to Nazi war production and to maintenance of the home front. 2. Cut off one of the principal Axis supply lines for food and arms to Rommel. 3. Increase the effectiveness of United Nations blockade measures, and greatly complicate the general transportation situation of Axis Europe by restricting Axls use of the Mediterranean. • 4. If the campaign results in making the Mediterranean safe for Allied shipping, will drastically reduce the length of the United Nations’ supply lines to the Middle East and to Russia. Cuts Nazis’ Far East supply route Board of Economic Warfare reports show that Germany has been getting important supplies of crude rubber, tin, and tungsten from the Far East. Blockade runners from the Far East have unloaded at West African ports. The Nazi supplies have then gone by rail or truck to French Mediterranean ports—just a short run from Marseilles in France or Genoa in Italy. United Nations control of French North Africa will break up this overland link in one of the supply routes. 28 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 New industry advisory committees The Division of Industry Advisory Committees, WPB, has announced the formation of the following new committees. ARSENICAL INSECTICIDES Government presiding officer—Warren H. Moyer, of the chemicals branch. Members: Hallam Boyd, Commercial Chemical Co., Memphis, Tenn.; J. B. Cary, Niagara Sprayer & Chemical Co., Middleport, N. Y.; J. A. Cavanagh, Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., H. C. Davies, California Spray Chemical Corporation, Richmond, Calif.; J. M. Fountain, Cotton Poisons, Inc., Bryan, Tex.; J. J. Haprov, Los Angeles Chemical Co., Los Angeles, Calif.; T. H. Macormack, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del.; C. B. Melander, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; George E. Riches, American Agricultural Chemical Co., New York, N. Y.; M. L. Somerville, The Sherwin-Williams Co., Bound Brook, N. J.; William Steinschneider, Ansbacher Siegle Corporation, Brooklyn, N. Y.; B. P. Webster, Chipman Chemical Co., Inc., Bound Brook, N. J. DAIRY INDUSTRY New members: Edward Watson, Cedar Crest Farms, Independence, Mo.; Albert Forsythe, Locust Lane Farms, Moorestown, N. J. DENTAL INSTRUMENTS AND BURS Government presiding officer—Francis M. Shields, director, safety and technical equipment division. Members: R. H. Brieskorn, Jr* Blue Island Specialty Co., 13050 S. Western Avenue, Blue Island, • Ill.; J. W. Ivory, J. W. Ivory Co., 310 16th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; E. O. Korb, U. S. Dental Mfg. Co., 6703 Conrad Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio; P. H. Munn, Ransom & Randolph, 324 Chestnut Street, Toledo, Ohio; Daniel Rubin, Union Dental Instrument Mfg., Co., 3201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; Lynn A. Smith, Lee S. Smith & Son Mfg. Co., 7325 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Walter Smith, president, Cleveland Dental Mfg Co., 3307 Scranton Road, Cleveland, Ohio; Fred E. Steen, S. S. White Co., 211 S. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; Harvey Rosenbluth, Star Dental Mfg. Co., 1217 Spring Garden, Philadelphia, Pa. FERROSILICON PRODUCERS Government presiding officer—Andrew Leith, deputy chief, ferro-alloys branch. Members: Chad F. Calhoun, Permanente Metals Corporation, Washington, D. C.; Paul J. Kreusi, president, Southern Ferro Alloys Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.; George W. Starr, vice president, Ohio Ferro-Alloys Corporation, Canton, Ohio; J. H. Critchett, vice president, Electro Metallurgical Co., New York, N. Y.; Ward A. Miller, vice president, Vanadium Corporation of America, New York, N. Y.; G. L. Weissenburger, president, Keokuk Electro-Metals Co., Keokuk, Iowa. RESISTANCE WELDING ELECTRODES Government presiding officer—John D. Tebben, of the'general industrial equipment branch. Members: Peter Hall, Taylor-Hall Co., Worcester, Mass.; G. N. Sieger, S. M. S. Corporation, Detroit, Mich.; H. D. Weed, P. R. Mallory Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; W. Simmons, Welding Sales & Engineering Co., Detroit, Mich.; R. H. Taylor, Electroloy Co., Bridgeport, Conn. RESISTANCE WELDING MACHINES Government presiding officer—John D. Tebben, of the general industrial equipment branch. Members: John Gordon, Taylor-Winfield Corporation, Warren, Ohio; Peter Hall, Taylor-Hall Co., Worcester, Mass.; W. T. Ober, Thompson-Gibb Co., Lynn, Mass.; Maurice Sciaky, Sciaky Brothers, Chicago, Ill.; G. N. Sieger, S. M. S. Corporation, Detroit, Mich.; Ed. C. Smith, National Electric Welding Machine Co., Bay City, Mich. SAFETY & RELIEF VALVES Government presiding officer—William W. Snyder, chief, valve and fittings section, shipbuilding division. Members: Charles Burr age, Lunkenheimer Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Chester H. Butterfield, Manning, Maxwell & Moore Co., Bridgeport, Conn.; J. P. Cavanaugh, J. E. Lonergan Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; George F. Felker, Crosby . Steam Gauge and Valve Co., Boston, Mass.; C. F. Laird, Crane Co., Chicago, Ill.; Henry I. Morton, Star Brass Manufacturing Co., Boston, Mass.; H. B. Nickerson, The Ashton Valve Co., Cambridge, Mass.; Security Valve Co., Los Angeles, Calif. SILVERY IRON Government presiding officer—Andrew Leith, deputy chief, ferro-alloys branch. Members: Charles F. Colbert, president, Pittsburgh Metallurgical Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Edwin A. Jones, president, Globe Iron Co., Jackson, Ohio; G. L. Weissenburger, president, Keokuk Electro-Metals Co., Keokuk, Iowa; E. Kay Ford, vice president, The Hanna Furnace Corporation, Ecorse, Detroit, Mich.; J. W. Potter, sales manager, The Jackson Iron & Steel Co., Jackson, Ohio. STEEL PRODUCTS Government presiding officer—H. G. Batcheller, chief of the iron and steel branch. Members: Avery C. Adams, vice president, U. S. Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Russell M. Allen, vice president, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa.; N. J. Clarke, vice president, Republic Steel Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio; Isaac Harter, vice president, Babcock & Wilcox Tube Co., Beaver Falls, Pa.; J. A. Henry, vice president, Weirton Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Paul Mackall, vice president, Bethlehem Steel Co.,_ Bethlehem, Pa.; J. L. Neudoerfer, vice president, Wheeling Steel Corporation, Wheeling, W. Va.; J. H. Parker, vice president, Carpenter Steel Co., Reading, Pa.; L. M. Parsons, vice president, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa.; A. C. Roeth, vice president. Inland Steel Co., Chicago, HL; W. W. Sebald, vice president, American Rolling Mill Co., Middletown, Ohio; W. E. Watson, vice president, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Youngstown, Ohio. STOVE AND FURNACE SMOKE PIPES MANUFACTURERS Government presiding officer—Lewis Smith, plumbing and heating division. Members: P. T. Cheff, president, Holland Furnace Co., Holland, Mich.; Aaron Cohn, president, Acme Tin Plate & Roofing Supply Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; R. K. Follansbee, vice president, Sheet Metal Specialty Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ray G. Harrison, manager, Stove & Furnace Smoke Pipe Division, Reeves Steel & Manufacturing Co., Dover, Ohio; E. J. Hayman, general manager, Parkersburg Iron & Steel Co., Parkersburg, W. Va.; William L. Healy, president, Waverly Heating Supply Co., Boston, Mass.; F. R. Jackes, president, Jackes Evans Co., St. Louis, Mo.; W. H. Nesbitt, manager, Stove & Furnace Smoke Pipe Division, Wheeling Corrugating Company, Wheeling, W. Va.; George H. Schneider, manager, Heating & Ventilating Division, Milcor Steel Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; A. J. Young, manager, Stove & Furnace Smoke Pipe Division, Louisville Tin & Stove Co., Louisville, Ky. SULPHITE SPECIALTIES •Government presiding officer—Otis B. King, administrator of Limitation Order L-120. Members: P. M. Allen, Dunn Sulphite Paper Co., Port Huron, Mich.; J. B. Cowie, sales manager, Hollingsworth & Whitney Co., New York, N. Y.; Ralph Hayward, president, Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.; G. F. Henderson, sales manager, Brown Co., Berlin, N. H.; H. O. Nichols, division manager, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, New York, N. Y.; R, L. Sisson, Jr., vice president, The Racquette River Paper Co., Potsdam, N. Y.; Dwight L. Stocker, Michigan Paper Co., Plain-well, Mich. WASTE PAPER CONSUMERS Government presiding officer.—David Graham, chief of the pulp section, pulp and paper division. Members: Dexter D. Coffin, C. H. Dexter & Son, Inc., Windsor Locks, Conn.; G. K. Ferguson, Watervliet Paper Co., Watervliet, Mich.; Lloyd A. Fry, Volney Felt Mills, Chicago, HL; C. W. Gallup, New York & Penn Co., New York, N. Y.; N. F. Greenway, Robert Gair Co., New York, N. Y.; D. H. Patterson, Fibreboard Products, Inc., San Francisco, Calif.; E. C. Reid, American Writing Paper Corporation, Holyoke, Mass.; Robert R. Richardson, The Gardner Richardson Co., Middletown, Ohio; John P. Sanger, U. S. Gypsum Co., Chicago, Ill.; H. Schmidt, Schmidt & Ault Co., York, Pa.; J. C. Twinam, O. B. Andrews Paper Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. ZIRCON, RUTILE, METALLURGICAL ILMENITE Government presiding officer.—Dean F. Frasche, assistant chief of the ferroalloys branch, manganese-chrome section. Members: L. G. Bliss, Foote Mineral Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Bruce ‘A. Fleming, Orefraction, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Ward A. Miller, Vanadium Corporation of America, New York, N. Y.; J. H. Critchett, Electro-Metallurgical Co., New York, N. Y.; J. Murray Johnston, Titanium Alloy Manufacturing Co., New York, N. Y.; Ralph B. Williams, American Rutile Co., New York, N. Y. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 29 AGRICULTURE... Food goals for 1943 to be discussed at four regional meetings Secretary of Agriculture Wickard has announced that four regional meetings on the National food goals program for 1943 will be held for field personnel preparatory to taking the program to farmers. The meetings will be attended by Secretary Wickard, Assistant Secretary Grover B. Hill and other Department officials, regional representatives of Department agencies, and members of State USDA War Boards. The dates and places of the meetings, and the States to be represented at each are: Farms of 10 or more acres may install used gas pumps Permission to install used gasoline dispensing pumps and storage tanks on farms of 10 or more acres was granted November 17 by the WPB on recommendation of the Office of Petroleum Coordinator for War Ickes. Must be used in farm operations The authorization was given in Amendment 3 to Conservation Order M-68-c, as amendéd, under which the installation of petroleum marketing equipment is regulated. The amendment provides that the equipment to be installed must be second-hand and must have been completely fabricated on or before January 14, 1942. Also, the pumps and storage tanks must be installed exclusively for dispensing petroleum products to machinery and vehicles used directly in farm operations on the individual farm. Other provisions of the amendment, which are of general application, were summarized by Deputy Coordinator Davies as follows: Pumps that have been removed from a service station or other site for safekeeping may be reinstalled at the same location or replaced with used pumps of the same type and design. Records of such removals must be kept, along with the type and design of each pump'removed. Tank trucks or trailers cannot be equipped or used to dispense gasoline or oil direct to passenger vehicles. Fuel oil tanks and pumps used to dispense fuel oil may be installed hereafter only for the purpose of dispensing fuel oil into the tanks of stationary facilities. November 3Q, December 1 and 2, Denver Colo.—Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Kansas. December 3, 4, and 5, Chicago, III.—^Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. December 7, 8, and 9, Memphis, Tenn.— Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. December 14, 15, dnd 16, New York City— • Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and the six New England States. Tons of beets saved, to be bought by Agriculture For the double purpose of preventing food waste and acquiring supplies to meet Government requirements, the Department of Agriculture has announced a purchase program for canned beets in New York and Pennsylvania. The Department’s program, to be operated by the Agricultural Marketing Administration, is to provide an outlet for a quantity estimated at between 10,-000 and 20,000 tons of fresh beets that will go to waste unless they can be packed. ★ ★ ★ • “MIXED FEED” REDEFINED The term “mixed feed” as used in the general maximum price regulation was redefined November 16, to make*clear that prices of screenings and of mixtures resulting from blending or mixing of offals or byproducts from a single vegetable, plant or other agricultural product are governed by this regulation. At the same time, the OPA also redefined the term “flour” so as to exempt from the general maximum price regulation all blends of whole wheat flour and whole durum wheat flour with wheat flour or durum flour. Flour now is covered by Temporary Maximum Price Regulation No. 22. The changes are contained in Amendment No. 34 to the general maximum price regulation, effective November 21. Roller milk released for domestic use, spray for war The Agricultural Marketing Administration will sell up to 15 million pounds of its present stocks of roller process dry skim milk to manufacturers and handlers supplying spray process dry skim milk to designated Government agencies during November and December, the Department of Agriculture has announced. 90 percent of spray for Government use This action is being taken to aid the industry in supplying additional roller powder to take the place of spray powder for domestic use during the period of seasonally low production. A conservation order which requires manufacturers to set aside at least 90 percent of their total production of spray skim powder for Government use was issued last week. To the consumer the release of this large amount of roller means that skim milk will continue to be a major constituent of enriched bread and other food products. AMA is limiting the release of this special product to manufacturers and handlers who sell spray skim milk powder to Government agencies because under the conservation order they will have only 10 percent of their total production to sell to the domestic market. AMA holdings of roller powder are now in good supply but not in excess of requirements. Purchases of spray powder have been far below war requirements. The spray powder is preferable for drinking purposes and the urgent and large direct war requirements for this product made it necessary to issue the order restricting its use domestically. ★ ★ ★ Government to buy 300,000 acres of hemp Terms of Commodity Credit Corporation contracts offered to farmers in six States for the production of 300,000 acres of hemp in 1943 have been announced by the Department of Agriculture. Hemp straw will be bought by the Government at prices ranging from $30 to $50 per ton, according to grade. 30 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 Eastman lauds efforts of truck conservation committees The accomplishments of employers and workers of the motor transport industry who are cooperating in efforts to con-- serve vital equipment through organization of joint committees drew praise recently from ODT Director Eastman. Since his appeal in July for the formation of joint truck conservation committees to work out cooperative measures to save rubber and motive equipment, Mr. Eastman said, many joint organizations have been created by local unions and employers. “The reports on their activities,” Mr. Eastman said, “have shown that cooperative efforts of employers and employes in the motor transport industry can do a great deal to maintain this vital link in the transportation chain.” A committee-organized by a mechanics’ local in Ohio reported that it had arranged meetings for the discussion of maintenance of vehicle parts, such as carburetors, motors, chassis, drive gears and tires. The committee obtained maintenance authorities to speak on its programs and developed the program on a city-wide basis. The group also attacked the manpower problems relating to mechanics. In Iowa, Mr. Eastman reported, several trucking firms have joined with a local union of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to set up a city committee. Members of the group agreed on conservation rules and established enforcement procedure. A New York joint committee reported to the ODT that after a few meetings shop stewards were given the assignment of “selling carefulness” to the men. This group also has taken cooperative action to solve manpower problems. ★ ★ ★ NEW PLANTS TO PRODUCE INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL New plants will be constructed in order to obtain sufficient stocks of alcohol for industrial requirements in 1943, Dr. Waiter G. Whitman, assistant chief of the chemicals division of the WPB, told members of the industrial alcohol producers advisory industry committee at a meeting in Washington November 19. New plants aré required, he said, despite the success of the program of converting beverage distilleries. Patent transactions under Alien Property Custodian All transactions between private persons or companies involving United States patents and copyrights in which any foreign country or foreign national has an interest now are subject to control by Leo T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, it was announced November 19. All patent applications, assignments, licenses, and other agreements affecting foreign-owned patents are included in the controls. The Custodian has issued three general orders, Nos. 11, 12, and 13, and supplementary regulations setting up a complete regulatory system for transactions that are subject to his control. Malin succeeds Phelps in chemicals branch Patrick Murphy Malin, former associate director of OPA’s export-import price control office, has been appointed price executive of OPA’s chemicals and drugs price branch, the agency announced November 20. Mr. Malin succeeds R. Gorman Phelps, who has resigned to return to private industry. Appointed as Mr. Malin’s right-hand man was Joseph D. Coppock, until recently a special assistant to WPB vice chairman William Batt. * * * FATS AND OILS—Control over fats and oils was clarified November 18 by the issuance of official Interpretation No. 1 to General Preference Order M-71 by the director general for operations. November 24, 1942 ★ VICTORY ★ 31 32 ★ VICTORY ★ November 24, 1942 2 months’ ship production saved if Mediterranean route is opened The saving in shipping that will be effected if and when the Mediterranean is opened as a route to Egypt and Indian Ocean destinations will amount to 2 months’ output of merchant ships at the present United States production rate, the War Shipping Administration estimated November 18. 1,500,000 ton saving “The dry cargo shipping required to undertake the same direct voyages from the United States and the United Kingdom to the Middle East, Persian Gulf and India, and return, as were recently being undertaken, would be less by 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 deadweight tons, if the voyages could be undertaken via the Mediterranean,” WSA said. The WSA pointed out that this is not a calculation of so many ship-tons per month, or per year but is instead a calculation of the number of tons which would be continuously available for other tasks. ★ ★ ★ NEW WAR INFORMATION FILMS RELEASED BY OWI Four new war information films are being released this month by the Bureau of Motion Pictures of OWI for nontheatrical distribution to schools, parentteacher associations, labor unions, service clubs, and other community organizations. The new films are THE ARM BEHIND THE ARMY, an official War Department picture portraying dramatically the stakes of American labor and industry in this war; LISTEN TO BRITAIN, a remarkable factual record of wartime Britain and of the British people; MANPOWER, an explanation of what is being done to recruit and train workers; and U. S. NEWSREVIEW, the first of a series of official Government motion-picture reviews of war information. The pictures, all of them 16 mm. sound films, can be obtained from more than 150 established commercial and educational film distributors throughout the country. For a complete list of Government war information films and distributors, write the Bureau of Motion Pictures, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. News agency Havas to serve Free French for OWI, cuts Vichy ties The New York and Washington executives and personnel of Agence Havas, the French News Agency, have announced the severance of all ties with German-dominated France. They have pledged themselves to the service of the free and independent French in North Africa and elsewhere. The OWI, under a contractual arrangement just completed and in line with its policy of helping to disseminate news abroad through all existing channels, will assist the free and independent Havas Agency in providing news to the liberated French people in North Africa. ★ ★ ★ ZINC ALLOTMENT RAISED Newspapers and others using zinc plates for printing will be permitted an increased use of zinc for this purpose by Amendment No. I to General Conservation Order M-99, issued November 13 by the director general for operations. The amendment raises the amount of zinc which may be used for plates from 50 percent of the amount used in the corresponding months in 1941 to 75 percent for the 3-month period beginning November 15. After February 15, the permitted usage will again be reduced to 50 percent of the amount used in the base period. The amendment was issued to allow additional time for newspapers and other users of zinc plates to adjust their usage downward. Speed-up in training of war workers sought by integrating 4 groups Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, called upon the training division November 17 to speed up the program to fit for service in the war production ranks the millions of inexperienced men and women who will be needed from now on until the end of the war. Charters to supervise The job of training the labor recruits will be under the supervision of W. W. Charters of Columbus, Ohio, who, Mr. McNutt announced, has been named chief of the division. Mr. Charters, he said, will have the responsibility of integrating the activities of the four training groups, now part of the commission’s organization, and of enlisting the cooperation of those functioning under other agencies. "Under the direction of Mr. Charters the activities of all of these groups will be expanded and closely coordinated.” Mr. McNutt said. “He will be expected to see to it that training is provided for the older workers as well as the young men and women, regardless of race or national origin or physical handicaps.” Four training groups integrated The Apprentice-Training and Traln-ing-Within-Industry services are specially assigned to in-plant training for production. On-the-job training programs are provided for (a) supervisors and foremen, (b) production operators, (c) all-round skilled mechanics, and (d) engineers, technicians and office workers. The National Youth Administration’s part in the program for the training of young men and women is to provide preemployment training through work experience and diversified skills required for war production. This training is carried on in N. Y. A. shops located in various parts of the country. In State and local schools throughout the country, the Vocational Education system offers training courses of a varied character to both employed and unemployed persons, all keyed to the war production demand for workers. The service offered under this educational program provides training to prepare young men and women for war industry jobs. It also provides supplementary training which assists in upgrading employed individuals by adding or increasing operating skills and related technical knowledge. ■. *. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1942