Victory : Official Weekly Bulletin of the Office of War Information. V. 4, No. 1

[Victory : Official Weekly Bulletin of the Office of War Information. V. 4, No. 1]
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OFFICIAL WEEKLY BULLETIN OF THE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION

WASHINGTON, D. C. ",

JANUARY 6, 1943

VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1

Right Man for Right Job 1943 Slogan

Paul V » McNutt

Chairman War Manpower Commission
“Everybody in the right war job” is our slogan for 1943.
Everybody must be in his or her right war job if we are to win the war.
What your right war job is, depends in part on where you live.
If your home is in a war production center and if you are not yet in war work, go to your local office of the United States Employment Service and register for a war job or training.
And when you get a war job, stay in it—every working day.
Absenteeism, changing from job to job—these cut down production.
If your home is not in a war production center, do not rush to one in search of war work. The war production centers are overcrowded. There are housing shortages. Consult your local office of the United States Employment Service. Ask them whether there is a job and housing for you in a war production center or whether you will be of greater use to the war effort by working where you are.
During 1943 we expect that one out of every four housewives living near war factories will take a war job. We are urging them to do so. But women living outside areas of war industry, and women with young children under fourteen, should consult their local office of the United States Employment Service to see where their best usefulness lies.
The harvest gathered in 1942 was the

MANPOWER PRIMER

greatest in the history of’ the country. The crop goals for 1943, announced by the Department of Agriculture, are even higher than this record production. We are determined that agricultural production shall not be cut down for lack of labor. When you learn that farms near you need help, register for part- or full-time farm work.

Raise Age Limits

Discrimination must end. Our fighting men do not ask the race or creed or color of the men and women who make their guns. Age limits must be raised. Handicapped workers‘must be utilized.
Employers of workers in nonessential industries should remember the words of President Roosevelt, when their workers transfer to war jobs:
“Valuable re-employment and seniority rights are protected under the Selective Service Act. I think the same protection should be accorded to a worker

wherever possible who leaves his job to accept employment to help with the war effort, frequently away from home and at times under less favorable conditions. I feel that employers in civilian, industries will be willing to give the same assurances to their employees who leave for war work as they are giving to employees who are leaving to join the armed forces. By so doing they can perform a great service to the government at this time.”

Need No Service Act

Voluntary measures of gaining the best utilization of the Nation’s manpower are working out so well that there is no present need for a national service act, Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, told reporters at a press conference.
McNutt said neither war production nor agricultural crops have been curtailed because of any labor shortage.

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In This Issue

Page
Right Man for Right Job______________________ 1
Paul V. McNutt
Last Week With the President_________________ 2
1943 Round-up________________________________ 3
Predictions by Government Officials
,, On* the Home Front__________________________ 4
News for Consumers Drinking in Army________________________ 5
Investigates
^lcs for Soldiers__________________________ 5
CpUection Campaign
TasfiWeek in the War________________________ 7
* *$ilrfmary of Events on Fronts W5r Production________________________________ 8
₍«Munitions Score Gains
New Mine Records
Other News
Priorities___________________________________ 10
Wire and Phone Orders Simplified
War Conservation_____________z_____________ 11
Save Rubber!
Causes of Waste United Nations Could Have Prevented War______ 12
Other Americas in War____________.___________ 13
War Manpower__________________________________ 14
Where Labor Is Plentiful British Women War Workers
Priorities Orders of Week____________________ 16
War Facts (Statistics)________________________ 18
War Rationing_______________________________ 19
Point Rationing Explained
Fuel Oil Slashed
War Prices_________________________________- 21
Hardwood and Douglas Fir
Other Changes
Wages and Labor_______________________________ 26
Lost Man-Days Hit New Low
States Asked Not to Suspend Labor Laws
Civil Service______________________________ 27
Government Jobs Open
Appointments and Resignations______________- 28
Motion Pictures____________________________ 29
Releases for the Week_____________________ 30
Radio Programs______________________________ 32

THE PRESIDENT LAST WEEK . . .

PRESIDENT HELPS DEPEND-ENTS OF MISSING GOVT.
EMPLOYEES

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Tells Press of Coming Meetings With General De Gaulle and a Mission From General Giraud

DECEMBER 28
Issued the regulations which will govern overtime compensation for Federal employees who work more than 40 hours a week. The Executive Order empowers heads of departments and agencies to establish a regular minimum workweek with time and a half for overtime in excess of 40 hours. Employees earning more than $2,900 a year will be paid overtime on the basis of $2,900, but payment of overtime must not cause any employee’s aggregate pay to exceed $5,000 a year. The regulations are retroactive to December 1.
Approved amendments to the Missing Persons Act to allow the dependents of service personnel and Federal civilian employees who are missing in the war but believed alive to continue to receive their allotted pay. Many American civilians and servjcemen were presumed captured by the Japanese in the Philippines and many Navy men have been lost at sea under circumstances indicating they may still be alive, and the amendment will benefit the families of these men.
DECEMBER 29
Told a press conference that he expects to confer soon with Gen. Charles De Gaulle of the Fighting French, and that meanwhile he has arranged to confer with members of a mission from Gen. Henri Honoré Giraud, new High Commissioner for French North Africa. The conference will take up the question of supplies for French troops in North Africa. Mr. Roosevelt said the supply situation is going along well but inasmuch as the U. S. is trying to get supplies to all the «fighting forces of the United Nations the crux of the African supply problem is the question of shipping.
Pointed out that more than $1,000,-000,000 in nonwar expenditures had been cut in the past year from the Federal budget, and said he would leave to Con

gress the final responsibility for further reductions in nonwar expenditures. Began intensive work on the budget for the next fiscal year and on his State of the Union message which he expects to deliver in person to the new Congress on January 7.
Told railroad officials that he hoped they could take additional steps to speed up deliveries of gasoline to the eastern shortage area. After leaving the President’s office, the seven railroad executives held an oil delivery conference with OES Director Byrnes, Petroleum Administrator Ickes, ODT Director Eastman, and Price Administrator Henderson.

DECEMBER 31
Conferred with Lt. Gen. Hsiung Shih-Fei, head of a special Chinese military mission to the JJ. S. Gen. Hsiung’s appointment with the President was arranged at the request of Secretary Hull.

JANUARY 1
Issued a statement on the occasion of the first anniversary of the signing of the United Nations declaration. Twenty-six nations signed the declaration at Washington on January 1, 1942, thus creating “the mightiest coalition in history,” and three other nations have since joined. The President said the United Nations are passing from the defensive to the offensive, ever conscious, however, of planning what is to come after—of carrying forward into peace “the common effort which will have brought them victory in the war.”
The unity achieved on the battle line is being earnestly sought in the not less complex problems on a different front. In this as in no previous war men are conscious of the supreme necessity of planning what is to come after—and of carrying forward into peace the common effort which will have brought them victory of the war.

January 6, 1943

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WHAT 1943 HOLDS IN STORE FOR THE CIVILIAN POPULATION
Leading Government Officials Predict Eventual Triumph but More Sacrifices, Shorter Rations for Those at Home

Secretary of the Treasury:

“This new year should be more than an occasion for the exchange of good wishes. It should be a time for rededication to the cause of freedom and fair play with which the American' people have always been identified. In the Treasury we shall pledge ourselves to new efforts for the sale of War Savings Bonds to add to our achievement of the year just ended.
“It is deeply significant that 50 million individuals have become shareholders in their government, building up savings to buy the produces of American industry in the years after the war is won. Equally significant is the spiritual mobilization which these figures reflect. War Bonds have become in a real sense the common bond of the American people.”
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Secretary of the Navy:

“Our prospects are brighter; 1943 will be better than 1942. We have paved the roads to the battlefields all over the world. The great war machine of the United Nations is gathering strength and momentum. The offensive has passed into our hands, but each of us on the home front will have to tighten his belt, work harder, and get along with less and less, so that our men in the battle line will have what they must have to win.”
Frank Knox.

Secretary of War:

“Despite some initial defeats in the year just past, America has now firmly set its feet on the way to victory. It is a long, hard road, beset with many obstacles. We are fighting enemies who are strong, and who are determined to fight to the end.
“Fortunately, our army is more powerful with each passing day. Backed by the determination of the American people to support it with everything in their power, it will be a force against which in the

end no nation or combination of nations can prevail.”
* Henry L. Stimson.

Secretary of the Interior:

“New and greater problems of petroleum supply are in prospect for 1943.
“I see no prospect of any relaxation of ration restrictions in 1943. So long as there is a rubber problem, so long will there be rationing of gasoline. So long as we have a transportation problem on the Atlantic Seaboard, so long also will we have to continue to ration our supplies of fuel oil. It may well be that conditions will get much worse before they get better; that the cuts already made will have to be deepened.
“I make this appeal: Reduce to the absolute essential your use of gasoline^ Conserve your already limited supplies of heating oil.”

Harold L. Ickes.

Secretary of Agriculture:

“In 1942, food production in the United States broke all records. By hard work and careful planning farm families overcame shortages of manpower and materials. Food processors and distributors overcame similar handicaps to handle the increased farm production.
“In 1943, the demands upon our food supply will be even greater.
“Barring disastrous weather, we can continue to meet all essential food requirements. We can’t afford to waste a pound of food. By sharing available supplies fairly and substituting the more plentiful foods for the less plentiful ones, housewives can continue to give their families nourishing, well-balanced meals.”

Claude R. Wickard.

War Production Board:

“The coming year will test our ability as a people to make the best possible use

of the resources and energy which we possess.”
“In 1943 we shall be living in a full war economy. If that will try our endurance, it will also be a challenge to our intelligence and resourcefulness.
“It will be a hard year, but it will be fruitful. We are being tested as never before—but because we know what is at stake, I am sure we will shall meet the test.”
Donald M. Nelson.

War Manpower Commission:

“We on the home front in America face 1943 intensely aware of what is being suffered and endured and accomplished, for the sake of our very survival, by our fighting men overseas.
“We well know, here at home, that there is no future for our normal peacetime jobs unless the United Nations win this war. And until it is won, won decisively and completely—until the forces of evil opposing us are destroyed— not peacetime but wartime work is normal.”
Paul V. McNutt.

Office of War Information:

“We⁻shall need courage and determination to face the facts as we meet the full impact of the war in the coming year. There will be welcome news of bravery and victories. But we must be ready for bad news, too—the casualty lists, the news of lost battles, the hopes that have not been realized. When the bad news is worst we shall come closest to understanding what war means and what it takeis to win. We have what it takes, of course; in the New Year we shall have to use it if we are going, to win this war. And we are going to win.”
Elmer Davis.

Office of Civilian Supply:

“American civilians are going to get in 1943 whatever it takes to keep them alive, healthy and functioning effectively. Beyond that no assurance can be made, because a war economy requires that all of a nation’s energies be directed toward winning the war. That is our program. Just how much will be available for American civilians in 1943 depends to a large degree on the fortunes of war. The more troops we have abroad, the better equipment they have, the' more territory we reoccupy, the more we give to our Allies, the less will be available for ourselves.”
Joseph L. Weiner.

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January 6, 1943

ON THE HOME FRONT

From raw recruits have come seasoned troops of land, sea, and air; trained industrial workers. More planning needed to prevent future labor shortage and consumers must help by selfrestraint in buying

Occasionally, dispatches from battle fronts refer to “seasoned troops” or extol the performance of newly arrived contingents that behaved “like seasoned veterans.”
Seasoned fighting men are those who have experienced every form of combat condition, every frontline hardship. They may be counted on not only to perform the most difficult and dangerous assignments with coolness and dispatch, but also to use initiative and ingenuity in executing their missions. In many areas, especially in the Pacific, we now have seasoned veterans of land, sea, and air engagements. In other areas, such as North Africa, the process of gaining battle experience and making the toughening adjustment to front-line situations is still going on. Before any- major thrust into Europe is undertaken we shall need to have great numbers of battle-hardened troops available.

Industrial Training

On the production front, too, millions of raw recruits in war industries have been trained in the exacting discipline of the new war jobs. As in the military services, intensive training for particular operations is as vital as experience on the job, and it is essential, too, to have an adequate force of industrial “officers” to train our vast army of war workers. These have been provided in the more than 320,000 supervisors, foremen, and crew chiefs, who have been certified as job instructors in some 6,500 war plants where around 6 million men and women are at work. In about 1,900 of these plants labor-management committees are actively engaged in furthering the training and upgrading of workers.
In addition to the expansive program of training within industry, preemployment training outside of war plants is now given free to 160,000 persons throughout the country. But to reach our 1943 production goal of more than $90 billions for war, we’ll need from 320,000 to 500,000 more prospective war workers taking outside preliminary

training. These newcomers to war work will be a part of the additional labor force, estimated at up to 2,500,000 needed to raise our pay roll of war employees from 17,500,000 to about 20,000,000 by the end of next year. «These figures, moreover, take no account of several million war workers who will be gradually withdrawn from industry under the “manning tables” plan to enter the armed services.

Job Control

It is evident, by fairly simple calculation, that we are entering a phase of the war program on the home front which will require the most careful large-scale and detailed planning if we are to avoid a “manpower famine.” A condition of skilled-labor scarcity that would keep our production almost stationary while our military establishments expanded in every direction would produce a situation similar to the woeful maneuvers in the fall of 1940, when our fledgling army lacked its full complement of weapons, tanks, and planes. It is plain, therefore, that within a few months some plan of manpower control, more thoroughgoing than those already in effect, will be in operation in every major industrial community in the United States. Job control, or stabilization, is a new problem in a nation used to having plenty of workers, but it is already familiar to the people of Great Britain, Russia, and other nations engaged in the fighting. And it cannot be escaped in a war involving all the combined energies and labor resources of entire peoples.

Consumers Can Help

Although large numbers of Americans have been seasoned to fighting or to factory work, the Same cannot be said of us as a nation of consumers. True, we have experienced some discomforts, we have begun to lack some things once in common daily use, and have divided up the reduced supplies of others by rationing. But on the whole, the goods and services we miss are only a small proportion of those we still enjoy.

Now, beginning in February, a great many staple foods and food products will be rationed, including canned fruits and vegetables, canned juices and soups, dried, dehydrated fruits, and frozen fruits and vegetables. The step is necessary partly because vast quantities of processed foods must go to the armed forces at home and abroad, and smaller amounts to our Lend-Lease allies. The balance available to civilians will be distributed by means of War Ration Book Two according to the new “point” system.
Canned fruits and vegetables, and dried fruit are among the foods most needed by our fighting men and our allies. Next year half our production of dried fruit will go abroad to save shipping space. Nearly half our production of canned fruits and vegetables will go to our men in the service, mainly in this country. Our production of processed fruits and vegetables is larger than it ever has been, but after taking out large quantities for our armed forces, we have available for civilians just a little more than half of the amount they have been using in recent years.

Some Foods Plentiful

This doesn’t mean that we will be poorly fed. At present—assuming that we meet production goals and that military and Lend-Lease needs stay in line with present estimates—it looks as though we will have a civilian food supply about as big as we had in the last half of the 1930’s, and in some Categories, such as poultry, fresh citrus fruits and cereals, considerably more.
In general, then, we can be fairly well satisfied with the prospects for food supplies. But we must be deeply concerned about food distribution. The method we are going to use for distributing the scarcer foods and food products—the points system—is the best one for getting the job done and still giving the greatest range of choice to both consumers and grocers. As it applies to the greatest range of vegetables, housewives can use their coupons for the particular kinds of foods they like best.

Hoarding Won’t Help

Pending the time when the program goes into effect, Americans will be expected to have the common sense and patriotism not to hoard dried fruits and canned fruits and vegetables or any other food for that matter. Also? it will be a matter of self-interest not to hoard, for civilians will be required to declare all of the supplies of rationable goods they have on hand.

January 6, 1943

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BOOK DRIVE FOR ARMED
SERVICES STARTS JANUARY 5

Between January 5 and March 5 the people in all parts of the Nation are being asked to contribute books to thè Army camps. Naval stations. Coast Guard stations, Merchant Marine libraries and United Service Organization centers. Millions of books will be needed to supply the ever increasing demands of the men in our armed forces for “something to read.” The diversions offered in camps and stations are necessarily limited and. despite the fact that the men are being drilled and trained intensively, there are many free hours to be whiled away, and reading an exciting book is one way to get diversion and relaxation at the same time.
A campaign for collecting books was put on in Norwalk, Conn., a city of 46,000, which may well serve as a guide for other communities, large and small.
The Norwalk committee, composed of civilian defense and city officials, subdivided the city into districts laid out according to the defense map used by the air raid protection service, and plans were made for having book donations flow from home shelves to air raid sector posts and then to a central headquarters.

Method for Collecting

This plan was explained at a dinner at which representatives of all the city’s important organizations were present. Guests included leaders in the American Red Cross, Boy and Girl Scouts, American Legion and Legion Auxiliary, Women’s City Club, League of Women Voters, Council of Jewish Women, Council of Catholic Women, Y. M. C. A., D. A. R., Chamber of Commerce, Board of Education, Police, Fire and Postal Departments, Public Library system, religious leaders and representatives of the press.
These divergent groups started to work at once. A store on the main street was donated for headquarters; furniture and telephone service were donated. Through the newspapers, Norwalk residents were asked to stack and tie their book gifts and advised to fasten a white handkerchief around the outside door knob asa signal to collectors that books were ready. Air raid wardens canvassed their sèctors while Boy and Girl Scouts made door to door collections after school. The-motor corps of the Red Cross gathered the books from sector posts and took them to head

quarters. Schools placed collection containers in their halls and students conveyed these to headquarters.
As the books poured in to headquarters, volunteer workers from women’s organizations inspected, sorted and placed them in large cartons, first divested, of envelopes, pressed flowers or similar mementos. Unsuitable volumes, such as those in poor physical condition or inappropriate for their audience (such as children’s books, ladies’ novels of Victorian vintage and cookbooks) were put aside for diversion into other channels; but it was notable that due to the excellent publicity given by the newspapers emphasizing the kind of books desired less than 3 percent were discarded.

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT AID PLEDGED

Firemen Sign Pledge To Aid Campaign

More than 2,300 fire department drivers, mechanics, and chiefs in 118 cities have signed the ODT’s Truck Conservation Corps pledge to refrain from truck driving liable to result in accidental damage, excessive tire wear, or gasoline waste, and to practice the best maintenance so as to avoid premature mechanical failures.
Those who sign up are obligated to take the best possible care of their tires and trucks. They promise to help meet the critical shortage of rubber and equipment by adopting “preventive maintenance” practices in the upkeep of their equipment.

"Keep ’em Rolling”

To bring the story of preventive maintenance and the U. S. Truck Conservation Corps to the driver-firemen in the remaining 12,000 fire departments in the Nation, the official U. S. Truck Conservation Corps booklet, “America’s Trucks . . . Keep ’em Rolling,” is being sent to the chief of each of the fire departments with the request that the men be asked to join.
Complete details of the purpose of the Corps, as well as an outline of proper maintenance practices, are contained in the booklet.

LITTLE DRINKING
IN ARMY

Survey Shows Soldiers Are Best Behaved in History—Soft Drinks, Milk, and Coffee Favored on Posts
Drinking is not excessive among American troops, who have never been so orderly in all history, OWI has concluded on the basis of a coast-to-coast survey of drinking conditions in and around Army camps.
OWI observers visited most of the areas where there are large troop concentrations except Florida.
The survey was made possible by Army cooperation but was independent of Army supervision. For the most part, Army officials frankly discussed the problem, admitting some “sore spots” and discussed methods of control and policing with complete objectiveness. The observers used every possible means to obtain a true picture, including local police and civil officials, newspaper editors and courts-martial records. There was first-hand observation of conditions in so-called “hot spots” and “sin zones” by the touring investigators.
The conclusion reached is that this American army may or may not be the best in the history of armies but it is certainly the best behaved.
Here is a random example. Camp Crowder is a Signal Corps replacement training center near Joplin, Mo. About $1,000,000 was paid out to troops there on the October 31 pay day. That night only 16 soldiers were arrested for drunkenness in Joplin. The size of troop concentrations is a military secret, but this represented much less than one drunkenness arrest to every thousand soldiers at Crowder. Army pay night is rarely the Klondike brawl and blowout that rumor makes it.

Soft Drinks Favored

The best selling beverages around Army camps are coffee, milk, malted milk, and bottled soft drinks. At Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, Washington, 400,000 bottles of one popular soft drink are consumed in a month at post dances.
Experienced commanding officers all over the country agreed that cohsider-ably more than half of the troops under them drank nothing stronger than beer by choice. Chaplains, with only one exception, concurred in the opinion.

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January 6, 1943

GERMANY, JAPAN STILL
FORMIDABLE ENEMIES

Nazi Peak Production Passed May Force Defensive War. Japs Long on Material, Short on Ships

Germany will still be economically formidable in 1943, but production of war material there will have passed its peak and cannot be increased.
Japan will definitely be stronger in raw materials than when the attack against Pearl Harbor was launched,. except for a major weakness in shipping. Nevertheless, it will be within reach of a powerful and intrenched economic position.
Such are the conclusions of Milo Perkins, Executive Director of the BEW in a balance sheet of Axis weakness and strength which he has prepared. The Axis powers will have ample, ability to support defensive warfare during the year to come, he stated, but their economies will be strained and bombing damage and increased military activity in the case of Germany, plus ship sinkings In the case of Japan, will have immediate effects on war production in those two countries.
Germany in 1943 may be able to continue its present rate of war production, but will be unable to increase it. Without greatly increased bombing damage or developments which would force Germany to a higher rate of military activity, as in Russia, there is no reason to expect an economic crack-up in Germany this year. The German diet is superior to that of 1917-18 though meat is scarce and fats and oils available are less than half of requirements. The 1942 grain crop was better than average and the potato crop may have set a record, permitting a marked increase in the potato ration.

German Civilians
Lack Supplies

Other civilian supplies, while low, are well organized and efficiently distributed. Civilians, except some industrial workers who need them, are unable to obtain leather shoes, although there is enough leather for military needs. There is, of course, no automobile driving for pleasure and amusements have been very sharply curtailed. Household appliances are unobtainable. Housing shortages exist in the local areas that have been bombed. A shortage of window glass

complicates the housing and fuel problems in the bombed cities.
Because Germany holds much wider areas than in World War I, it is much less susceptible to blockade. Nevertheless, rigid enforcement of the economic imprisonment of Axis Europe must be continued. The blockade forces Germany to use wasteful and inferior substitutes for many raw materials, for clothing and for some foods.
Economically, Italy is not an esset to the Axis. Germany must strain rail transport facilities in order to ship huge quantities of coal and iron to its Southern partner. The Italian diet today is much worse than the German. The government is unable to control “black market” traffic in food. However, collapse of Italy in 1943 from economic causes cannot be expected.
As to the rest of German dominated Europe, there is widespread suffering and actual starvation in the cities of Occupied Russia, Greece, Belgium, Norway, and Poland and nutrition levels are dangerously low in Prance and the Balkans.

Japan’s Resources Are Much Larger

Unlike Germany, Japan has not reached peak production. It now possesses raw materials for a greatly expanded economy. Japan, however, faces difficulties in its production expansion program. It has neither the shipping nor the processing capacity to utilize fully the newly acquired raw materials and conquered manpower of Southeastern Asia.
United Nations operations in the Pacific have cut sharply into Japan’s merchant shipping tonnage, and imposed a greatly accelerated ^shipbuilding program on the Japanese. The present shortage of shipping constitutes a practical limitation on the amounts of raw materials the Japanese can carry away from the looted areas of Southeastern Asia and even restricts movements of materials Japan needs from Manchuria, Korea and North China. Ship launchings, however, are expected to increase rapidlv in the summer of 1943.

Japan, again unlike Germany, did not acquire processing capacities along with raw materials. The conquered areas were dependent on western industrial nations for manufactured products. Moreover, only twenty months ago Japan Itself was obtaining manufactured materials from many parts of the world whereas she is now confined to areas under military control.

Japs Can’t Fill Gaps

Japan’s industry must simultaneously continue rapid conversion to war production and fill the large gap in her economy caused by the stoppage of imports from the United States, Britain and Germany.
Japan’s present economic base is so small relative to that of other major powers that even a maximum expansion of the Japanese economy will still leave Japan much inferior to them in war production. For example, Japan produces less than one-tenth the quantity of steel produced in the United States.
While our enemies are still a long way from economic collapse, two observations can be made with some degree of hopefulness. Sharply increased air attacks during 1943 on Hitler’s industrial Europe can materially weaken Germany’s present economic position. Sharply increased attacks on Japanese merchant shipping, both by air and by sea, can materially weaken Japan’s chance in 1943 to make full use of the raw materials she has looted in her conquests.

AXIS PURGES

Drastic Means Used To Suppress Underground Leaders in Occupied Countries
Revolts in occupied countries in Europe are causing tremendous concern to the Nazis and their Italian stooges. The United Nations Information Office of OWI has received authentic reports’of drastic measures that are being taken by Himmler’s gestapo to remove the leaders of the underground movements in those countries and to put down the revolts.
Despite these measures, resistance continues. Patriots have again interrupted transport between Italy and Slovakia, by cutting the Zagreb-Susak railway line. This is the second time in a week that traffic along this line has been brought to a standstill by patriots. Greek patriots continue to operate despite reprisals taken by the Germans, Italians, and Bulgars.

January 6, 1943

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THE WAR LAST WEEK . ..
ALLIES SUCCESS CONTINUES
ON ALL WAR FRONTS

Air and Patfol Activities in North Africa Bring Results; Japs Hammered in South Pacific

North Africa .

Medjez-el-Bab is a crossroads of main and secondary highways which lead about 35 miles northeast to Tunis and about 50 miles north to Bizerte, often called the gateway to Tunis and Bizerte. It was an area of high ground six miles northeast of here that the Allies took from the Germans on Christmas Eve and lost on Tuesday December 29. Since that time, Allied artillery has shelled enemy positions in this area, and considerable air activity has taken place, with U. S. aircraft bombing and machine-gunning the roads leading to Tunis, patrolling the forward areas, attacking Sousse, Bizerte and Sfax, and bombing and strafing enemy objectives.
Allied air activity in North Africa has taken five main forms: RAF fighters and fighter bombers do most of the battle area attacking; USAAF bombers handle most of the daylight attacks on Axis ports, airdromes and railways; the RAF carries out the heavy night attacks, concentrating on the two major enemy ports of Tunis and Bizerte; RAF reconnaissance planes patrol the sea protecting Allied convoys and attacking U-boats; and USAAF transport planes bring men and supplies into the forward areas over long lines of communications.

277 Airplanes Downed

From the beginning of the North African operations to December 26,277 enemy airplanes - have been destroyed. Of these, 128 were brought down by the RAF, 102 by the USAAF, and 16 by antiaircraft fire. In the same period, the Allies have lost 114 planes—59 from the USAAF and 55 from the RAF.

In a ceremony at American Army headquarters in Morocco, the D. S. M. was awarded to Maj. Gen. Ernest H. Harmon and Brig. Gen. Lucien K. Truscott, for “meritorious service” in the American occupation of Morocco. Gen. Harmon, who had received the Silver Star the week before for conspicuous gallantry in directing under fire the un

loading of our ships on November 8, won the D. S. M. for his conduct at Safi. Gen. Truscott led the landing operations at Port Lyautey.

South Pacific

On New Guinea Island the Japanese have been compressed into a small, highly-fortified coil about a mile long and about 500 yards wide, centered just east of Buna Mission, and against this beachhead American and Australian units have been hammering. Allied forces now control both sides of the airstrip, with the Japanese clinging to strong defensive positions at the western end. The right arm of the Allied pincer movements is rolling the enemy back toward Gairopa Point, but at the same time the left arm is expanding its wedge and now has control of several hundred yards of the coastline. Severe fighting is still going on.
On December 31 (Thursday), American P-38 Lightnings, supported by attack planes and medium bombers, battered the Japanese base at Lae, on the coast of New Guinea north of the Buna area, destroying at least 20 enemy planes in one of the “heaviest and most crushing blows of the New Guinea campaign.” American Army bombers celebrated New Year’s Day by raiding Rabaul at dawn, planting 1,000-pound bombs on 3 big Japanese supply ships, machine-gunning a submarine on the northeast New Britain coast, bombing Japanese-airdromes at Gasmata and Buin, and bringing down 2 out of 5 Zeros which tried to intercept.

P-38’s Prove Costly

Here some comment is in order on the P-38 Lockheed Lightnings. These long-range, twin-motored fighters have distinguished themselves in far-flung theatres of war—in North Africa, in the Solomons, and now in New Guinea. In their initial try-out in New Guinea, 12 of them rushed into battle and shot down 13 Zeros and 2 dive-bombers. In their second major clash^ in a fierce, 25-

minute dogfight with a formation of

12 Zero fighters, Lockheed Lightnings knocked off 9 Zeros and damaged 2. And only 2 of the Lightnings in action were damaged.
In the Solomons, American aircraft have been busy attacking enemy ships, supplies, installations and airfields, and in three attacks on Vangunu Island sank seven Japanese vessels. Vangunu Island is in the central Solomons, about 120 nautical miles northwest of Guadalcanal. At the end of last week, the score for the year (1942) was set by Allied Air Forces at 1,286 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged, and Allied plane losses “small in comparison.”

Raid Wake Island

On the day before Christmas, the third and biggest announced American raid on Japanese-held Wake Island was made by a large force of Armÿ heavy bombers. The raid was carried out at low level and more than 75,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on designated targets. Not one bomber was damaged and not one member of the crews was injured. Admiral Nimitz, in presenting awards to participants in the raid, said this was “only a sample of things to come.”

The Aleutians

During the week, American bombers and fighters several times attacked Kiska Harbor, scoring five hits on enemy ships.¹
The sinking of seven United Nations merchant vessels was announced by the Navy this week. The sinkings took place in November in the Atlantic off the northern and eastern coasts of South America, and survivors were landed at U. S. ports.

Navy Not to Release
Men Over 38

The Navy will grant no requests for release from service which may be submitted by officers and men 38 years of age or over. Since all officers and men of the Navy volunteered for service before the President’s Executive Order halting enlistments on December 5,1942, they are considered individuals who have joined the Navy of their own free will and will be retained for the duration. No officers or men were taken into the Navy under compulsion.
As the Nation’s supply of manpower decreased, the Navy refused to accept for enlistment men who were in industries vital to the war effort. Thus, the Navy sees no need to release personnel 38 years of age or over.

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WAR PRODUCTION . . .
MUNITIONS SCORE GAIN
November Beats All Records, Controlled Materials Revised, Labor Management Committees Gain

"November Munitions Score
Biggest Gain Since 1940

The biggest monthly gain in munitions production since we began to rearm in the summer of 1940 was scored in November, WPB Chairman Nelson reported last week. The percentage increase in volume of planes, tanks, guns, ammunition, ships, and other munitions in November was 12 percent, compared with a rise of 4 percent in October. This breaks a 6-month series of declining percentages of gain that began in May.
Although a larger percentage of increase was scored in April over March output, the absolute gain was not as great as in November, because production now is in much greater volume. The advance last month pushed the WPB index of munitions production up 46 points to 431 from the October level of 385. This means that in November, at the end of the first full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, about four and one-third times more war materiel was produced in American plants than in the month before the Japanese assault. In the next year we expect to produce about double the munitions output of the last twelve months. Total war expenditures in 1943 should exceed $90,000,000,000, compared with more than $52,000,000,000 in 1942.
The box score by major objects of production:

November Production

Percent up over October
Airplanes_________________________ 18
Ordnance._________________________ 13
Army and Navy vessels.______________ 9
Merchant vessels____________________ 26
Other munitions______________________ 9

Many items that are needed most in the type of warfare now being waged in North Africa are among those rolling off assembly lines in greatly increased quantities.
Improvement also is being made in plant utilization, although there is considerable room for greater improvement. While a few factories are approaching maximum utilization, most have not yet scheduled their operations to more than half of the theoretical limit of 168 hours

per week. Productive man-hours would be increased by almost half, if utilization of all plants were brought up to the average of those showing the highest utilization, a recent survey disclosed.
For instance, in one industry three leaders showed an average plant utilization of 140.5 hours per week, as compared with an average of 107.8 hours per week for all plants in that industry. Among shipyards, three were operating at the equivalent of 122.8 hours per week, compared with an average of 77.7 hours per week for all of the plants studied. The survey covered 577 plants turning out-munitions, 133 of which were being operated at an average of less than 60 hours per week, or about the equivalent of one 7-day shift.

Controlled Materials Plan
Lists Are Revised

New lists of Controlled Materials B-l and B-2 have been prepared by Harold Boeschenstein of WPB and printed copies will be available in about two weeks.
The lists name some 500 groups of related items classified as B products and are regarded as definitive for the present, but may be altered slightly as experience dictates.
The lists are arranged by classes of products and alphabetically by items, so that any manufacturer can immediately identify himself as an A or B producer under CMP. Many consumers of controlled materials will find themselves in both categories, and in these cases the lists will serve to indicate which portion of a given plant’s production falls into each.
Any product containing “controlled materials” (aluminum, copper, and steel) which is not included in the B lists is, by definition, an A product. Under CMP, manufacturers of A products receive their allotments of material from the Claimant Agency or Agencies—Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, etc.—for which they are filling orders. B producers, on the other hand, receive their allotments from the appropriate industry divisions of WPB.

Metal Office Supplies
More Restricted

Production of desk pencil sharpeners, metallic file fasteners, and metal repair parts for office supplies has been prohibited, with the exception of parts for staplers and perforators (punches). Manufacture of complete staplers and perforators has been limited further, also.
Only assembly of already fabricated metal desk pencil sharpener parts is permitted, and that must stop January 15.
Only staplers using eight dunces or less of metal per unit can be produced, and the same metal limit applies to two-hole perforators. Three-hole perforators may include as much as 12 ounces of metal per unit.
Manufacturers no longer are permitted to exceed their quotas to fill preferred orders. This includes Army, Navy and Maritime Commission requisitions. Any manufacturer who already has “borrowed” from his next quarter’s raw materials quota for production of preferred orders in this current quarter must reduce his consumption of iron and steel in the next quarter by an equivalent amount.
About 2,300 tons of steel annually are expected to be saved through this amendment by reducing consumption of critical materials to 7,400 tons annually.

Old Radio Tubes
To Get New Is
Proposed

Owners of radio sets may be required to turn in their old tubes when they buy new ones. Such a rule is being worked out by WPB and will probably go into effect early in 1943. Interested persons who might object are invited to voice their complaints before the new rules become effective.
The requirement will control the number of components distributed, and will permit the salvaging of tube bases which, in some cases, can be refabricated.
Also, the number of tube types being produced for civilian use will be further curtailed. The original 700 types of tubes produced were reduced to 375, and soon there will be a further reduction to fewer than 120.
Types, the production of which will continue, were selected by virtue of their suitability to sets of widely varying designs. These, it was estimated, will satisfy 90 percent of existing requirements. The remaining 10 percent will be satisfied from existing stocks, according to surveys by the Radio Division.

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MINES SHOW

NEW RECORDS

More metals and minerals were produced in the United States in 1942 than in any previous year in its history. The value of all mineral products topped 7% million dollars which was 10 percent higher than in 1941 and 8 percent higher than the peak year of 1920 when prices were abnormally high. These figures were revealed by Secretary of the Interior last week on the basis of the yearend report of the Bureau of Mines.
“All branches of mineral production shared in this achievement which is an outstanding contribution to the Nation’s war program by the mineral industries,” Secretary Ickes said. “But despite this record our production is still insufficient for current demands and there is no . justification for complacency.”
A break-down of the figures shows the value of metallic products as $2,330,000,-000,* mineral fuels, $4,060,000,000; and other nonmetallic minerals, $1,135,000,-000. Larger values are anticipated in 1943. Nearly all of the mineral products which go into tanks, planes, guns, ships and other weapons were turned out at unprecedented rates. Output of aluminum, and magnesium—the light metals, so greatly in demand for warplanes, increased several fold over 1940. Iron ore and pig iron, the back bone of the vital steel industry, reached new levels and the production of ferro-alloys increased about 11 percent in quantity.

Copper Sets New Mark

Copper production also established new marks, while chromite, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, cadmium, barite^fluorspar, potash, phosphate rock and high-grade clays also achieved record outputs. Domestic manganese ore production was the largest on record since the last war.
Minerals used in construction were on the upgrade generally, with cement sales increasing 10 percent, sand and gravel up 7 percent, and stone, about 9 percent. The exceptions were lime and gypsum, which showed a decrease due chiefly to shrinkage in civilian construction. A slight decline in crude petroleum production was reported as the result of transportation difficulties which necessitated regional restraints on consumption.

Alaska Gold

Alaska mines yielded minerals to the value of $19,306,000 of which slightly

more than $17,000,000, represents the value of the gold recovered from lodes or placers in which that metal was the principal valuable constituent. The remainder, oi* nearly $2,300,000, represents the value of the platinum metals and of silver, lead, tungsten, mercury, chromium, antimony, copper, and tin, as well as the lignitic and bituminous coals mined during the year.

Airport Light Equipment

Standardization of lighting equipment for airports and seadromes, made necessary by rapid growth of military aviation, has been prescribed as a war measure. Limitation Order L-235 stops

MISSING COGS !

production of non-approved types of equipment, and centralized procurement under joint control of the Army Air Forces Matériel Center and the Navy Department, or as specifically authorized.

Bronze Powder Freed

An estimated half million pounds of bronze powder and bronze powder products have been released by WPB for uses wljich previously had been prohibited after December 31.
The material released is unsuitable for any war or essential civilian purpose, but can be used for printing, publishing and decorative purposes.
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PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS . . .

WIRE & PHONE ORDERS SIMPLIFIED

Method for Rush Orders Provided. Loggers Get Supply Rating. Light Oil Changes. Used Locomotives Controlled

Manufacturers and others who must place rush orders for scarce materials by telegraph or telephone are provided with simple methods for applying the appropriate preference ratings by an amendment to Priorities Regulation No. 3. Telegraphic orders call only for the following certification in the body of the telegram, “Ratings indicated are certified pursuant to Priorities Regulation No. 3.” The requirements of Priorities Regulation No. 7 for manual signature or authorization will be satisfied in such cases if the copy of the telegraphic order retained by the sender is signed or authorized in the manner set forth in that regulation.
In the case of a telephoned purchase order requiring shipment within seven days, the person placing the order, provided he is an official authorized to do so, may apply or extend a preference rating to which he is entitled by stating to his supplier that the rating is certified pursuant to the regulation. Written confirmation of the order bearing a certification of the preference rating applied orally must then be furnished the supplier within seven days. No rating received by telephone may be extended by a supplier until he has received this document.
In case of failure to receive written certification within the seven-day period provided by the regulation, a supplier may not accept any other order from his customer or deliver any additional material to him until the written certification is received. Suppliers are required to report to the WPB compliance division, on or before the fifteenth of each month, any telephone orders to which ratings were applied, which the person placing the order did not confirm with the written certification when due.

Independent Loggers Get New Supply Rating

A blanket rating, AA-2X, for obtaining supplies and materials for maintenance and repair has been applied by WPB to the logging industry in an effort to ease

the difficulty independent loggers and sawmills have experienced through use of Form PD-1A.
Permissible amounts of material to which the AA-2X rating may be applied are restricted to a fixed percentage of the expenditure made for the same purpose by a logger or producer during the most recent preceding calendar year of operation. The outlay in any calendar year hereafter may not exceed 110 percent of the cost of such material actually used in the previous period.
Material for which the AA-2X rating may be applied in any calendar quarter must not exceed 40 percent of the aggregate of such supplies and material for the full calendar year.
The order defines and restricts the extent to which materials may be acquired for replacement of supplies and parts withdrawn from inventory. Neither the AA-2X nor any other rating may be applied for the purpose of accumulating or replenishing inventory if receipt of such supplies by a logger or producer would add materials in excess of the minimum amounts necessary for maintenance or repair and for sustaining the maximum rate of production.
The material defined in the order, includes only that which is essential to minimum servioe standards and does not include materials for expansion, new construction, or additions.
The AA-2X rating may not be applied to replacement parts for motor vehicles; nor track laying tractors and auxiliary equipment.

New Curb Ordered on
Glass Containers

The amount and kind of health supplies, chemicals, household and industrial products, and beverages that may be packed for civilians, during 1943, in glass containers having closures made of critical materials are specified by Conservation Order M-104, as amended last week. Critical materials involved are tinplate, terneplate, blackplate, and rubber.
Small brewers and bottlers of carbon

ated beverages, during 1943, are permitted to use the same amount of crowns they used in 1941. The 1943 quota for large brewers and bottlers remains unchanged at approximately 70 percent of the amount used in 1941.
The permitted use of critical materials to cover glass containers for food will be announced later. Plans for closures for some food to be packed in glass containers have not yet been completed.
The amendment restricts the 1943 use of tinplate, blackplate, and rubber closures for glass containers to pack drugs, chemicals, and household and industrial products to the number of closures and cans used by the packer during 1942 for the specified items. Use of closures for some items is unlimited.
No crown manufacturer may purchase any prime steel for use in the manufacture of crowns for beer and carbonate«^ beverage bottles. However, he may use any prime steel already allocated for such purposes which was in the inventory of the crown manufacturer or bottler on or before December 11,1942. This means that in the future, a manufacturer may purchase only scrap or reject metal for use in crowns for beer and carbonated beverage bottles.
The amendment also prohibits the use of terneplate in all types of closures. Terneplate is sheet steel coated with a lead-tin alloy. In addition, the amendment brings metal and rubber for home canning under control for the first time.

Machine Tool Priorities
Have Been Changed

Preference ratings no longer affect delivery schedules for the 75 percent of machine tool production allotted to service purchasers. Delivery schedules are now determined by the urgency standing of the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, or their contractors or subcontractors. . Urgency standing is established by the confidential numerical master preference list.
Orders from service purchasers without urgency standings are to be scheduled according to the date of receipt of a copy of the purchaser’s preference rating certificate.
Delivery schedules for the 25 percent of machine tool production allotted to foreign and other nonservice purchasers continue to be governed by preference ratings. Where the preference ratings on two or more different orders are the same, the machine tool builder is directed to give preference to the order for which he first received a copy of the purchaser’s preference rating certificate.

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WAR CONSERVATION . . .

Easy Way Caused Great Waste

Ickes Says America’s Spree With Natural Resources Brought Painful Hangover From Which Public Is Now Suffering

For years the American public has deluded itself with the idea that this Nation is practically self-supporting and that its supplies were practically inexhaustible and its industrial processes were the best in the world. A painful hang-over has resulted from that spree and the war has brought home the facts that we have been skimming off the cream until the cream has run out» These things Secretary of the Interior Ickes told the President in a special report on Resources for War.
“While the enemy we despised had been making the most of their meager resources, and making them do the job, we had constructed our whole economy on our fat. We went merrily on our way, using only the best, and therefore the most unprofitable,” Secretary Ickes said. “Then we discovered that we did not have enough of the best to meet our needs. In short, we discovered that we had been doing everything the easy way.”
When the defense program was started in 1940, the Interior Department developed an intensive program for utilization of the natural resources, especially the low-grade resources on a more scientific basis, Secretary Ickes said.
Expansion of hydroelectric power in the west, the utilization of hitherto little-used ore deposits and the development of hew metallurgical processes for production of war materials highlighted the Department’s efforts during 1942. Installed capacity on the federally owned power projects under the Department of the Interior jumped 41 percent to a total of approximately 1,800,000 kilowatts. In the Pacific Northwest alone, Secretary Ickes reported, the Booneville Power Administration delivered almost 2 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric energy to war plants.

Activities in* Mines, Mills, and Eactories

Activities increased and production was hastened in mines, mills, factories and yards where metals are processed and fabricated into planes, tanks, and ships; in the forests, on irrigation proj

ects producing food and in the metallurgical laboratories. The program for discovery and exploration of new deposits of strategic and critical minerals was pushed vigorously with some encouraging results.
Concerning the Department’s work toward making amends for these areas of economy, Secretary Ickes said:
“A few facts show the extent to which we have provided additional resources or led the way in wielding those at hand against the enemy with greater effect. Generating capacity on hydroelectric projects increased by 41 percent. From Columbia River projects alone, nearly 2,000,000,000' kilowatt-hours of power poured into war plants. By a process developed in our laboratories, it appears that enough manganese can be extracted from low-grade domestic ores to make 87,000,000 tons of steel annually. More than a million tons of bauxite, the common source of aluminum, and other valuable ores have been found in our search for strategic metals.

Kid Salvage

Rubber Must
Be Saved

Since December 1, 1942, the United States has limited the distance any automobile anywhere in the country can be driven. This is called mileage rationing. The purpose is to save rubber because, as a nation, we are short of rubber. In many places we have plenty of gasoline,. but gasoline is rationed everywhere to limit mileage and save rubber.
Just after the middle of December, people on and near the East Coast had to do without any gasoline for two and a half days. This had no connection with national mileage rationing; it was not because of the rubber shortage. It was because of a sudden and acute local shortage of gasoline. Our troops in North Africa sent a hurry call for fuel to keep their tanks and planes fighting. This gasoline could be shipped more quickly from the East Coast and it was.
The East did without gasoline so our soldiers could have the gasoline they needed. But we must all continue to do with little gasoline—that is, limited mileage—so that we can save rubber. These are two entirely different matters.
If anybody has forgotten the urgency of rationing mileage to save rubber, he needs only go back to the Baruch report:
“We find the existing situation to be so dangerous that unless corrective measures are taken immediately this country will face both a military and civilian collapse.”
The rubber situation was so dangerous, in fact, that the Army had to change the designs of its weapons and cut its use of rubber almost in half. Tanks must now run on steel treads instead of rubber.
But the aim of the Baruch committee was to prevent civilian, as well as military, collapse. The same report which recommended mileage rationing also recommended use of rubber for new arid recapped civilian tires. Now people everywhere are beginning to get these. But the committee found, too, that replacements would be possible only through the strict limits on driving. We save rubber so we can have rubber. We still have to ration mileage everywhere, however plentiful gasoline may be.

Enemy Patents Listed

Eighteen thousand patents formerly enemy-owned will be listed by the Alien Property Custodian in a January issue of the Federal Register. Although the date of publication and the price have not yet been determined, prospective purchasers should write to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., to insure that enough copies are printed. The cost certainly will not be more than a dollar.

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January 6, 1943

NATIONS UNITED COULD HAVE PREVENTED WAR Nazis Counted on Disunity to Launch War; But Thirty Nations Now Solidly Against Axis

Had the United Nations been united on September 1, 1939, as they are today, Germany would hardly have dared begin the series of aggressions which have cost millions of lives and the subjugation and destruction of most of Europe. This fact is made graphically evident by figures published January 6 by the Office of War Information, comparing the war potential of all the Axis powers at the time of the attack on Poland with the combined might of the anti-Axis Alfies.
Trained man power in the armies and reserves of the United Nations was more than double that of the Axis: 34,918,350 men against 16,950,000.
The sea strength also was almost twice as great on the side of the anti-Axis powers as on the side of the Axis: 1,154 warships of the 5 principal categories, against 620. These figures include only the principal navies.
Germany, Italy, and Japan could muster only 9,800 first-line fighting planes, against 13,175 that might have been marshalled against them. The Axis powers were at a similar disadvantage in the matter of tanks.

German Strategy

If Germany, in the face of this, undertook to master the whole world, it was because German strategists counted on the disunity of the freedom-loving nations. Germany’s scheme, which came tragically near to success, was to overcome one nation at a time, while proffering assurances of immunity to other nations that were already marked down in the Nazi schedule to be slaughtered in their turn.
This summary, of course, does not take Into consideration such factors as. the quality of strength of the opposing forces, the effectiveness of their disposal, and general morale of the anti-Axis forces. However, had the United Nations been united then as they are today, their morale undoubtedly would have been higher, and Germany might have had to alter its “divide-and-conquer” policy.
Czechoslovakia, which had been Germany’s first victim after the forcible an

nexation of Austria, had been disposed of by treachery before the actual hostilities began. Poland was the next victim, for although both Britain and France declared war when Poland was attacked, they were unable for geographical reasons to bring any effective aid.
In the West, the Germans began by conquering Norway and Denmark, which were small countries without any considerable army. Geography again helped to prevent the arrival of sufficient help from their Allies.
In May 1940, seven months after the war began, the Nazis were ready for their boldest stroke, the frontal attack on the Western Powers. They thought they had, by the conquest of Poland, eliminated all danger of having to fight on

two fronts, and were able to concentrate the whole of their might against the now inferior forces of the Allies. Belgium and the Netherlands, trusting in Nazi promises that their neutrality would be respected, had not taken sufficient steps to coordinate their defenses with those of France and Great Britain. The consequence was that not only were they mowed down by the Nazi military machine, but the gallant efforts of the French and British to go to their assistance vitally weakened their own system of defense and made possible the Nazi break-through which led to Dunkirk and French capitulation.
The elimination of France was believed by Axis strategists to herald the victorious conclusion of the war in Europe. Mussolini was so persuaded of this that he threw Italy into the war, in order to be in at the kill and claim a share of the spoils. Britain stood doggedly by her guns, repulsed the formidable Luftwaffe assault of that autumn, and proclaimed her determination to fight the war to a victorious conclusion.
Unable to conquer the British Isles, the Nazis next turned toward the Near East. They attacked and overwhelmed Yugoslavia and Greece, and launched a

United Nations Force and Equipment

Active army,
Nation trained Tanks First line Warships
reserves, planes (all types)
air forces
Australia___________________________________________________ 40,050 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Belgium___________________________________________________ 800.-000 Negligible 250 Negligible
Brazil_____________________________________________________ 312,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Canada____________________________________________________ 55,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
China______________________________________________________ 3,000,000 Negligible 400 Negligible
Costa Rica_________________________________________________ 500 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Cuba______________________________________________________ 65,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Dominican Republic_____________________1_________________ 15,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
France ________ _____________________________ 6,150,000 3,500 1,800 181
Great Britain______________________________________________ 750,000 600 2,000 310
Greece____________.______/._________________________._____... 607,000 10 250 Negligible
Guatemala.._______________________________________________ 36,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Haiti.______ . ;______________________________________ 3,500 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Honduras_______ _______________________________________1 5,100 Negligible Negligible Negligible
India_______________________.___i.7_________________________ 300, 200 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Mexico.. ___ _______________________________________- 115,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Netherlands _ . ______________________________________* 250,000 Negligible 400 35
New Zealand_____________________________________________- 19,500 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Nicaragua__________________________________________________. 3,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Norway. - _______________________________________i 140,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Poland_________________________________________________---4 1,800,000 200 400 Negligible
Salvador _____________________________________---* 3,500 Negligible Negligible Negligible
South Africa ___________________-_________________.A 18,000 Negligible Negligible Negligible
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics___...______________... 18,000,000 3,800 4,500 274
United States of America __ ____________......___.A 530,000 1,000 2,000 354
Yugoslavia.______________________---___....__________....•I 1,900,000 50 175 Negligible

Total _________________________________________ 34,918, 350 * 9,160 13,175 1,154

Axis Nations Force and Equipment

Active army,
Nation trained Tanks First line Warships
reserves, planes (all types)
air forces
Germany _________..__.................. 4,250,000 4,500 5,000 134
Italy ___..._____.....___.'________....Ä.*...__..._______ 6,400,000 1,400 1,800 222
6,300,000 2,000 3,000 264

Total.. ............................................ 16,950,000 7,900 9,800 620
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drive toward Egypt. Practically all of Europe was now under Nazi domination.
This was the moment chosen for the assault on Russia, which the Nazis an-normced they would knock out of the war in a few weeks. This calculation was shared by many competent neutral observers. But the Russian armies electrified the world by their power of resistance. Driven back in six months almost to the gates of Moscow, they turned and repulsed the aggressors, forcing them to spend a bitter winter, for which they were ill prepared, on the icy steppes.

- It was obviously the Nazi idea that if Russia could be eliminated as a military factor, it would be easy for Germany to wear down Britain and eventually to neutralize the British Navy as they had done with the French. Then, it was reasoned, it would not be difficult for Germany, Italy, and Japan combined to wrest the mastery of the world’s oceans from the only remaining defender, the United States.
This peril was averted, despite Japan’s treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor, thanks to the amazing resiliency of the Russian armies, the stubborn doggedness of Britain, the phenomenal growth of

American industrial and military might and the unflagging zeal of the conquered peoples and their governments in exile.
Thirty nations are now solidly united against the Axis, pledged not to lay down their arms until the final triumph. The program of these nations, which by their disunity in 1939 failed to avert the war, is to impose a peace such that no aggressor shall again have the opportunity to divide them.
Complete figures, of course, are not available. But of those that are the following show the greater strength of the United States. «,»• •

WAR FRONTS IN OTHER AMERICAS

Rubber and Quinine Output Increased; So. America Builds Paper Mills; Students Assisted

A sharp upswing in Western Hemisphere rubber production in 1943 is the goal of extensive organization work carried out in recent months under the Inter-American development program.
This organization has proceeded on the cooperative pattern recommended by the Conference of American Foreign Ministers held at Rio de Janeiro in January 1942. Preparations for increased rubber production in the Amazon and other rubber-producing areas of the hemisphere include:
(1) Start of an overland movement of 50,000 additional workers into the Amazon rubber country from sections farther south in Brazil.
(2) Organization of many health and sanitation projects in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador for protection of rubber workers.
(3) Organization of air transport to move in supplies and men and to bring out rubber from the more inaccessible areas of the vast Amazon rubber country.
(4) Arrangements with Brazil for increased food growing in northern Brazil to supply the growing population in the rubber areas.
(5) Projects for large-scale cultivation of cryptostegia, a quick-growing rubber vine, in Haiti and possibly in Central America.
(6) United States cooperation in providing equipment, medicines, and other supplies required for the rubber expansion «work.
These preparations are aimed at at least doubling in 1943 the current hemisphere production pf natural rubber. Brazil, biggest producer of rubber in the hemisphere, is aiming for an annual production rate of approximately 50,000 tons of rubber by the end of 1943 or early in 1944.
This trek of rubber workers is one of the greatest shifts of population yet arising from Western Hemisphere plans for development of strategic resources for war needs.
Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and other rubber-producing countries of the

hemisphere are cooperating with United States agencies in the development work. They have⁴ contracted to sell to the United States their exportable rubber surplus.
In return, the United States has agreed to pay from 33 to 45 cents a pound for rubber until the end of 1946 at least. Moreover, the United States is providing many millions of dollars for health and sanitation, food supply, and improvement of transportation.
Expansion of production of cinchona bark, from which quinine is derived, in the Western Hemisphere has been undertaken by the American republics under a cooperative program similar to that in rubber.
The first of a series of quinine agreements with the other American republics has been signed between the United States and Peru.

Assists Students From
Other Americas

A special service to assist students from the other Americas who may meet difficult problems in United States schools and universities has been established by the Institute of International Education.
The service was established as the Counsel and Guidance Center, with arrangements to help students find employment, to advise them on governmental regulations applicable to them, to advise them about the types of schools they may prefer, and to help them get scholarships.
During the past academic year there were about 2,300 students from the other American republics in North American institutions, of higher learning.

LATIN-AMERICA f ' -GETS WAR AID : Inter-American Institute °’ 7* solves many problems
War has added new significance to the hundreds of health, food, and emergency aid projects being undertaken by the Institute of Inter-American Affairs—and has brought new problems. Long-range, peacetime programs, like roadbuilding in Honduras or the big health and sanitation project in the Amazon Basin, assume strategic importance.
Shortage of shipping compels increasing attention to food supplies in some areas. Loss of major exports in others creates urgent demands for more and more measures of relief. Loss of our rubber supply has caused the Institute to set aside funds for many projects intended to support development of rubber, fibers, and other war materials, and assign technicians to assist in their development.

Work of Institute

These problems are the particular province of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, which is an outgrowth of cooperative endeavors to promote the general welfare of the Americas begun before Pearl Harbor. It was organized last March by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. A corporation, legally separate from the Coordinator’s Office but run by the same officials, it facilitates the work of the Co-—, or dina tor’s Office outside the United*^ States and handles funds assigned for£ such work.
After negotiations with the State De-JR partment, agreements are carried out»* through the Institute. Some of the other American nations have likewise set up special government divisions to carry their end of the program.

★ VICTORY ★

January 6, 1943

WAR MANPOWER AND SELECTIVE SERVICE . . .
LABOR PLENTIFUL IN
85 INDUSTRIAL AREAS

WMC Urges New Plants and Contracts in Group Four To
Utilize Surplus

Eighty-five industrial areas were tentatively designated by the War Manpower Commission this week as plentiful labor areas, “areas in which all possible effoii'should be made to renew contracts, place new contracts, and locate new pro-dhCtibn facilities.”
f Tfrese areas were listed in Group IV of
Revised classification issued for guid-ahcXof WPB and Government procure-h?feht agencies in placing war contracts w^tli consideration for manpower factors.
Group IV is further defined as including “all areas in which available labor supply is not fully utilized on essential civilian or war production or in which a substantial surplus of workers exists.”
Production areas were formerly grouped in only three classifications: Group I, areas of labor shortage; Group H, areas of anticipated labor shortages; and Group III, areas of labor surplus.
Areas have now been reclassified into four groups: Group I, areas of current acute labor shortage; Group II, areas of current balance of labor supply and demand; Group III, areas of anticipated balance of labor supply and demand, in six months, with presently adequate labor supply; and Group IV, areas of labor surplus.
Each labor market area is listed under the name of one city. The area includes not only the city named, but also takes in nearby communities which should be grouped together as a natural area. For example, the listing of Moline, Ill., represents a group of four cities known as the “Quad Cities” area, which includes Moline and East Moline, Hl., Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Ill.
GROOT I
Alabama: Mobile.
California ;San Diego.
Connecticut: Bridgeport, Hartford, New Britain, Waterbury.
District of Columbia: Washington.
Florida: Panama City.
Georgia: Brunswick, Macon.
Kansas: Wichita.
Maryland: Baltimore, Elkton.
Massachusetts: Springfield.
Michigan: Detroit.
Mississippi: Pascagoula.
Nevada: Las Vegas.
New York: Buffalo.
North Carolina: Elizabeth City.
Ohio: Akron, Day ton.

Oregon: Portland.
Rhode Island: Newport.
South Carolina: Charleston.
Utah: Ogden.
Virginia: Hampton Roads.
Washington: Seattle.
Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Sturgeon Bay
Wyoming: Cheyenne. ,
GROOT n
Alabama: Huntsville, Talladega.
Arizona: Phoenix.
Arkansas: Pine Bluff.
California: San Bernardino, San Francisco, Stockton.
Colorado: Pueblo.
Connecticut: Meriden, New Haven, New London, Stamford.
Delaware: Wilmington.
Florida: Tampa.
Georgia: Savannah.
Idaho: Pocatello. >
Illinois: Joliet, Moline, Springfield, Sterling.
Indiana: Evansville, Gary, Michigan City, Terre Haute.
Iowa: Burlington.
Kansas: Parsons.
Kentucky: Louisville.
Maine: Bath, Portland.
Maryland: Hagerstown.
Massachusetts: Brockton, Greenfield, New Bedford, Pittsfield.
Michigan: Adrian, Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Flint, Jackson, Lansing, Muskegon, Pontiac, Saginaw.
New Hampshire: Claremont, Portsmouth.
New Jersey: Jersey City, Long Branch, Morristown, Newark, Paterson, Perth Amboy, Trenton.
New York: Albany, Elmira, Rochester, Utica.
Nebraska: Grand Island.
North Carolina: Wilmington.
Ohio: Canton, Cleveland, Columbus, Fremont, Hamilton, Lima, Lorain, Marion, Piqua, Sandusky, Warren.
Oklahoma: Chateau, McAlester.
Pennsylvania: Aliquippa, Allentown, Berwick, Erie, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, New Castle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Pottstown-Reading, Washington, Williamsport, York.
Tennessee: Bristol.
Texas: Beaumont, Dallas, Texarkana.
Utah: Provo, Salt Lake City.
Washington: Everett, Spokane.
West Virginia: Point Pleasant.
Wisconsin: Milwaukee.
GROUP III
Alabama: Florence.
California: Fresno, Los Angeles, San Jose.
Colorado: Denver.
Connecticut: Norwalk.
Florida: Jacksonville.
Georgia: Atlanta.
Illinois: Aurora, Chicago, Rockford.
Indiana: Bloomington, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Richmond, South Bend.
Iowa: Cedar Rapids, Des Moines.
Louisiana: New Orleans.
Maryland: Cumberland.
Massachusetts: Worcester.
Minnesota: Duluth, Twin Cities.
Mississippi: Aberdeen.
Missouri: Kansas City, St. Louis.
Nebraska: Omaha.

New Jersey: Atlantic City.
New York: Auburn, Batavia, Binghamton, Dunkirk, Jamestown, Kingston, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Sidney, Syracuse, Watertown.
North Carolina: Charlotte.
Ohio: Cincinnati, East Liverpool, Fostoria, Mansfield, Toledo, Youngstown.
Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, Tulsa.
Pennsylvania: Johnstown.
Rhode Island: Providence.
South Dakota: Sioux Falls.
Tennessee:* Memphis.
Texas: Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, Waco.
Wisconsin: Eau Claire, Madison, Racine.
GROOT IV
Alabama: Birmingham, Montgomery. — Arkansas: Fort Smith, Little Rock. Connecticut: Middletown, Torrington. Florida: Miami, St. Petersburg.
Georgia: Augusta, Columbus, Rome.
Illinois: Bloomington, Danville, Galesburg, Herrin, Peoria, Quincy.
Indiana: Muncie.
Iowa: Sioux City.
Kentucky: Lexington, Owensboro, Paducah.
Louisiana: Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Monroe, Shreveport.
Maine: Bangor, Lewiston.
Massachusetts: Boston, Fall River, Fitchburg, Haverhill, Lowell, Salem, Taunton.
Michigan: Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo.
Mississippi: Jackson, Vicksburg.
Missouri: Cape Girardeau, Joplin, St. Joseph, Springfield.
Montana: Billings.
Nebraska: Lincoln.
New Hampshire: Concord, Manchester, Nashua.
New Mexico: Albuquerque.
New York: Central Long Island, New York, Yonkers.
North Carolina: Asheville, Durham, Greensboro-Winston-Salem, Rocky Mount.
Ohio: Coshocton, Portsmouth, Steubenville, Zanesville.
Pennsylvania: Altoona, Scranton.
South Carolina: Columbia, Greenville.
Tennessee: Chattanooga, Knoxville, Nashville.
Texas: Abilene, El Paso, Laredo, Lubbock, San Angelo, Wichita Falls.
Vermont: Burlington.
Virginia: Richmond, Roanoke, Danville, Lynchburg.
West Virginia: Charleston, Huntington, Parkersburg, Wheeling.
Wisconsin: Oshkosh, La Crosse, Sheboygan.

No Farm Shortage

There has been no curtailment of war production or of agricultural crops because of any manpower shortages, Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, told reporters. Voluntary measures of gaining the best utilization of the Nation’s manpower are working so well that at the present time McNutt sees no need for a national service act.
He disclosed that there are now 59 million Americans employed or in the armed forces out of a total population of more than 130 million. The number of unemployed has fallen to 1.9 million, he added, and will probably decrease to about 1 million in 1943. This, McNutt said, is about as low as the figure can go. “The number of persons shifting from one locality to another, and therefore unemployed for the moment, would amount to almost a million,” McNutt said.

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BRITISH WOMEN
WAR WORKERS

Britain’s Picture Today Reflects America Tomorrow

More than 40 percent of all British war production workers are women, the Office of War Information said this week on the basis of British Supply Council reports which credit to the women of Great Britain much of the magnificent achievement of British industry during the war.
Today’s picture of British women at work is likely to reflect much of tomorrow’s picture of American women at work.
Of the 17,240,000 British women between the ages of 14 and 65, the Council stated, all but 5.5 million are actively engaged in industry, in the women’s uniformed services, or as full-time civilian defense workers.

Assemble Airplanes

Aircraft plants have large forces of women workers. In welding, in detail fitting, and in subassemblies the employees are 100 percent women. On viewing and inspection work, 82 percent of the workers are women. In one large aircraft factory 90 percent of the riveters are women. Thirty-seven percent of the employees of one firm making Spitfires are women.
Women workers in British shipyards are three times as numerous today as they were a year ago. One large firm producing marine steam turbines and condensers reports that in its gear fitting shop 21 percent of the workers are Women, in its blade and rolling mills 37 percent, and in its light machine shop 14 percent.
Out of approximately 639,000 employees on the railroads of Britain, 105,-000, or about 16 percent, are women. This compares with 65,000 women who were working for the railroads by the end of the last war.
In a tank factory somewhere in England one worker in every five is a woman. Here they grind and mill and shape the component parts for 28-ton Matilda tanks.

Facilities for Shopping

A woman must sometimes go shopping, and this is a factor responsible for absenteeism among married women who are otherwise satisfactory workers. One big airframe works found that ab

senteeism rose to 13 percent from the normal 4 percent when the percentage of its women employees had reached 70. The firm remedied the situatibn by providing the women with special shopping facilities and with a hairdressing establishment on the premises.
The special problem of looking after the children of women doing industrial work has been met by great expansion of the system of nurseries. By August 1942, 826 wartime nurseries had been established with space for 34,000 children. In addition, residential day nurseries, nursery centers and play centers are being extended to care for 88,000 children.
Light assembly has been found to be the most suitable type of employment for part-time women workers. Time units can be divided as small as two hours per shift. Evening work for four, hours a day by married women has been tried with success at a food factory in northern England.

Women Over 40 Best

Some months ago, works managers from all over England declared that women over 40 made the best workers. They were more thorough, more reliable, and more willing to learn, the managers said. Two women, one 70 and one 72, are taking their turns on the night shift in an engineering plant in England.

Nursing Schools to Speed Training Programs

The period for nurses’ training will be Shortened if recommendations to the 1,300 accredited schools of nursing by the Health and Medical Committee of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services, are heeded. A letter from Chairman McNutt to the School heads states that, “Such streamlining of nursing education is considered a war necessity and is in harmony with similar developments in other educational fields to adjust our educational efforts to specific war needs.”
“The unprecedented demand for nurses for the military forces and for expanding civilian services, makes it imperative that student nurses be prepared in the shortest time consistent with sound professional standards,” Mr. McNutt said.
Accompanying the letter are suggested adjustments in school curricula for an accelerated program, designed to supplement recommendations contained in the bulletin, “Nursing Education in War Time.”

WMAC ASKS COOPERATION WITH U. S. E. S.

A plan for the integration of all employment procurement agencies with the U. S. Employment Service is now being studied by the WMC Management-Labor Policy Committee, to serve as a stopgap until a permanent plan for war employment procurement can be worked out. The WMC wants union hiring halls, personnel offices of industries and other types of private employment agencies to work together and cooperate with the U. S. E. S. in accordance with WMC policy.
“From time to time, reports have become current in some localities that the U. S. Employment Service is to be made the exclusive channel for all hiring,” Mr. McNutt said. “Authority to make it an exclusive channel was granted by the President’s Executive Order No. 9279 of December 7. However, we are not contemplating such a step at this time.
“It is important to note that the President’s order also permits hiring, solicitation and recruitment to be conducted in accordance with such arrangements as the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission may approve.
“We intend to make use of all sound and proved facilities that will put the right workers in the right jobs at the right time. Union hiring halls and company personnel officers that are functioning on a sound basis should continue in operation. It is obviously essential, however, that their operation must serve total over-all manpower objectives, following the policies of the War Manpower Commission and contributing to the establishment of an orderly labor market.
“Wherever the requirements of sound manpower policy are violated, it may be necessary to limit hiring, solicitation and recruitment to the U. S. Employment Service. Such violations would include pirating workers, labor hoarding, discrimination in hiring, and similar practices which prevent using local labor supply for maximum effectiveness in war production. Ordinarily, however, we do not expect that it will be necessary to invoke exclusive hiring—and these few instances will be confined, to a relatively small number of labor shortage areas.”
The Commission staff is now working on a program for integrating the operation of various types of hiring agencies. This program will include the requirements which must be met by nongovernmental hiring agencies in order to obtain approval for continued operation.

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NEW WPB REGULATIONS
[Issued December 28, 1942 to January 4, 1943 inclusive. Will be indexed in Feburary issue of priorities]
PRIORITIES VICTORY FEDERAL REGISTER
All unexpired priorities orders, regulations and reporting forms of War Each week all new War Production Board orders and regulations will be The complete text of each War Production Board order or regulation ap-
Production Board are indexed in “Priorities” published monthly. The printed in “Victory", Hence this page may effectively be used to keep pears as issued in “Federal Register”, published daily except Sundays,
following will be included in the February issue. Rate: $2.00 per year. “Priorities” up to date. Rate: 76 cents per year. Mondays and days following legal holidays. Rates: $1.25 per month; $12.50
per year.
Subscriptions to Above Publications Should Be Sent to Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office
Order No. Modification Addition Title Abstract of priorities action Related PD Issued Effective Expires Division Administrator---Ext.
forms District Officer---Ext.
L-7-C Schedule II_______ Establishes production quotas for specified manu- 1-2-43 1-2-43 Consumers’ Dur- L. M. Morrison, 3364.
factures for period 1-1-43 to 3-31-43.
Prohibits use, with exceptions, in packaging of 27
Domestic in refrigerators.. specified types of articles.
Cellophane and similar 1. Director General can prohibit deliveries to consumer able Goods. W.C. Armstrong, 71495.
L-20 Amended transparent materials having standby facilities which consumer has not 1-4-43 1-4-43 Chemicals_______ R. G. Martin, 3664.
from cellulose. provided with fuel. L. V. Clemente, 5786.
L-31 Amended Natural eas 2. Deliveries may be prohibited to consumer with gas- 1-1-43 1-1-43 Power.__________ IC. Brockschmidt, 6750.
fired equipment which could have been converted \H. C. Porter. 71910.
L-42 Schedule XII_____ Plumbing fixtures.. to use less, critical fuel. v 727 12-30-42 12-30-42 Plumbin© and C. M. Wilcox, 72085.
Amended. Establishes sirhplification standards. Limits amount
Extension No. 1... of metal to be used in specified products. Heating. H. C. Porter, 71910.
L-46 Electric power Extends order until terminated . __________ 12-31-42 12-31-42 Power___________ N. K. Davis, 2087.
Establishes control over transfer, repair, or other dis- H. C. Porter, 71910.
L-97. Amended__ Railroad equipment_____-- position of used locomotives, in addition to restric- 747 1-1-43 1-1-43 Transportation C. H. Creasser, 73321.
tions on production and delivery of original order. Equipment. T. R. Cowherd, 3451.
L-98 Amended- Establishes quotas for repair parts, 1943______________ 500 -2-43 1-2-43 Consumers’Dur- L. M. Morrison, 3364.
Domestic sewing . ma- able Goods. W. C. Armstrong, 71495.
L 103 chines. Restricts use and establishes manufacturing specifica- 1-2-43 1-2-43 Containers_____. R. C. Mower, 71110.
Amended___ Glass containers for wines. tions. A. I. Topping, 3321.
L-158 Amended Automotive replacement Correct errors of order L-158, amended 12-12-42...... 12-31-42 12-31-42 Automotive_____ J. J. Donovan, 2755.
parts. Forbids shipment or sale except pursuant to prefer- I. C. White, 2705.
L-161 Amended Electric fuses. . ence rating of A-l-j or higher, or as replacement part ____________500 12- 31-42 12-31-42 W. J. Flynn, 5273.
as defined in L-158. Building Ma-
1. Director General can prohibit deliveries to con- terial. W. H. Lautz, 72066.
L-17< Amended sumer having standby facilities which consumer 1-1-43 1-1-43 Power__________ A. Macomber, 6434, H.
has not provided with fuel.
2. Deliveries may be prohibited to consumer with gas- O. Porter, 71910.
L-178 Amended Film fired equipment which could have been converted 763, 764........ 12-31-42 12-31-42 C onsumers’ H. Hopper, 3639. W. O.
to use less critical fuel. Durable Armstrong, 71495.
Completely revises L-178 with specific policies and Goods. F. L. Walton, 3227. H.
procedures controlling distribution of 35 MM film. Textile, Cloth-
L-215. Textile, fiber, clothing and Limits non-essential production___________-___.....___ 200, 744, 745, 12-26-42 12-26-42
leather machinery. 746. i n g and Murphy, 2730.
Consumers’ goods inven- Limits consumers’ goods receipts by merchants with 689, 690, 713---. Leather.
L-219 tories. specified net sales and inventories and provides for 12-29-42 12-29-42 Consumers’!
Printing and publishing inventory reports. Goods Bu-
machinery, parts, and Restricts acceptance of orders, auction sales, produc- reau.
L-226 supplies. tion, and sales. 200, 500, 556___ L-4-43 1-4-43 Printing and D. B. Fell, 72656. R. F.
Asphalt and tarred roofing States that order limits manufacture only of asphalt Publishing. Howard, 5911.
Lr-228 Interpretation No. products and asphalt and tarred products for application to exterior sur- 12-29-42 12-29-42 Building Mate- E. M. Lurie, 71329. W.
L shingles. faces of buildings for weather-proofing. rials. H. Lautz, 72066.
L-230 A men ded Military arms Permits sale of parts for military arms to scrap dealers.. -1-43 1-1-43 Governmental - . W. B. Blanchet, 3619.
L-235 Airport lighting equip- Controls manufacture and sale of airport and seadrome 12-26-42 12-26-42 Building Mate- A. A. Fox, 3406. W. H.
ment. lighting equipment. rial. Lautz, 72066.
L-240 Newspaper Restricts delivery and use of print paper___________i___ 12-31-42 1-1-43 Printing and W. G. Chandler, 2500.
Publishing. R. F. Howard, 5911.
L-244 Printing and publishing Limits use of paper for magazines_____________________ 12-31-42 12-31-42 Printing and W. G. Chandler, 2500.
(magazine paper). Publishing. R. F. Howard, 5911.
M-l-d Amended Aluminum scrap Extends order until revoked___________________________ 1-1-43 1-1-43 When re- Aluminum and C. H. Burton, 2950.
voked. Magnesium. D. D. Simpson, 72038.
M-l-g Amended Aluminum Extends order until revoked___________________________ 12-31-42 12-31-42 Chemicals._____ C. M. Luke, 2913.
L. V. Clemente, 5786.
M-2-b Amended Magnesium Establishes allocation control________._________________ 26M, 40M.114, 12-31-42 12-31-42 Aluminum and P. D. Heiser, 71157.
173,174, 603. Magnesium. D. D. Simpson, 72038.
M-O-c Amended Restricts manufacture, delivery acceptance of bronze 12-28-42 12-28-42 Copper._____.... M. Schwarz, 71072.
powder products, articles. M. H. McClement, 3786.
M-15-b Amended Amends general restrictions of order___________________ 12-28-42 12-28-42 Office of Rubber L. D. Tompkins, 6104.
Director. F. D. Howard, 5786.
M-15-b-l Amended Regulates use in 31 lists of specified products 12-28-42 1-1-43 Office of Rubber L. D. Tompkins, 6104.
Director. F. D. Howard, 5786.
M-15-b-l-- Amended... Correction No. 1.. Corrects typographical errors in List 29 permitting -1-43 1-1-43 RubberDirector
8-ply instead of 6-ply for 30 x 7-16 high pressure
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M-21....... Amended... Iron and Steel............. Amends restrictions on deliveries_______________________ 12-29-42 12-29-42 Clark King, 3817.
M-21-b_____ Amended___ Warehouses and dealers... Amends quarterly quota, delivery restrictions; changes 12-31-42 12-31-42 Steel.._______... E. B. Mason, 3217.
M-39....... Amended___ Cobalt____________________ Schedules A, B. 12-28-42 12-28-42 Steel____________ J. R. Stuart, 2378.
M-63-d_____ Imports of strategic mate- Amends use restrictions for driers and non-ferrous ...............- 12-28-42 12-28-42 ----------- Steel....._______ E. B. Mason, 3217.
rials. alloys. Stockpiling and S. C. Stimmel, 5872.
Revokes M-63-d______________________________________ Transporta- E, B. Mason, 3217.
tion. E. Browning, Jr., 71601.
Revocation_________ Chemicals_______ R. Firman, 4031.
M-71_______ Amended... Fats and oils______________ Requires filing of reports for 4th quarter, 1942; amends 1-1-43 1-1-43 Textile, Cloth- T. A. Barber, 3918.
M-80-f____ Amended^.. Sole leather_______________ use percentages in Schedule A. 12-31-42 12-31-42 ing and Leather. L. V. Clemente, 5786.
M-103______ Amended___ Dyestuffs J________________ Directs tanners to set aside 20% of January production 1-1-43 1-1-43 Textile, Cloth- F. L. Walton, 3227.
M-104______ Amended___ Closures for glass con- of manufacturer’s bends. 1-1-43 1-1-43 ing and H. Murphy, 2730.
M-114...... Amended___ tainers. Extends quotas and export restrictions to 3-31-43; 12-31-42 12-31-42 Leather. G. E. Piper, 73101.
M-117______ Amendment No. Goatskins, kidskins, ca- restricts use of annate. 1-4-43 1-1-43 When re- Containers______ H. Murphy, 2730.
1. brettas. Amends Schedule I uses_______________________________ voked. Textile, Cloth- R. C. Mower, 3982.
Egyptian and- American Modifies processing, sale restrictions; increases wet- i n g and W. H. Lautz, 72066.
extra staple cotton. tings to 220%(of base period. Leather. G. E. Piper, 73101.
Consolidates M-197, M-117; restricts sale, delivery, Textile, Cloth- H. Murphy, 2730.
use, grading; restricts. manufacture of stitching i n g and F. L. Walton, 3227.
thread. 597_________... Leather. H. Murphy, 2730.
M-155______ Amended... Combed cotton yarns_____ Postpones effective date to 3-1-43 for production set 1-4-43 1-4-43 ____________ Textile, Cloth- G. E. Piper, 73101.
aside for military uses. ing and H. Murphy 2730.
M-162______ -------------- Interpretation No. Platinum________._________ Redefines term ‘ ‘assemble”............................ 1-3-43 --- Leather. W. H. Peacock, 5332.
M-197______ 2. American extra staple Revokes M-197. 1-4-43 Miscellaneous H. F. Koether, 73460.
Revocation________ cotton. Minerals.
Textile, Cloth-
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M-221...... ........-..... Amendment No. Textile shipping bags_______. Terminates order 1-18-43______...__________..______... 12-31-42 12-31-42 ---......---- Leather.
1. Containers______
M-231______ Amended--- Amendment No. Chemical fertilizers_______ Revokes paragraph (f) (1)_L..._____...._____;_______... 1-1-43 1-1-43 Chemicals_______ T. E. Milliman, 73191.
M-265______ Amended. _ 1. Garment leather_________.. Extends order to 2-15-43: removes goatskins and kid- -............... 12-31-42 12-31-42 2-15-43 Textile, Cloth- L. V. Clemente, 5786.
skins from order. i n g and F. L. Walton, 3227.
Leather. H. Murphy, 2730.
-------------------- Production, transporta- ...........- Petroleum Ad-
tion, refining and mar- Assigns AA--2X ratings in addition to A-2 and A-l-a ministrator R. E. Allen,
P-98-b_____ Amended..? keting of petroleum. for operators. 12-31-42 12-31-42 for War. Ext. 4401. RE. 1820,
P-98-C-... .. Amended.... Production, transporta- Sets provisions for sales between operators; extends 12-31-42 12-31-42 Petroleum Ad- R. E. Allen, RE. 1820.
tion, refining and mar- order indefinitely. mfrnistrator Ext. 4401.
keting of petroleum. for War.

Order No- Addition Violator Cited under Violation Penalty Issued Expires
S-190_____ --- Standard Pressed Steel Co., Jenkintown, Penna. M-126_________ After 8-3-42, manufactured and delivered 6,700 steel shop Forbidden to manufacture, process deliver, or as- 12-30-42 4-2-43
stools for other than Army, Navy or Maritime Com- semble iron and steel for industrial work benches.
mission. bench legs or parts.
S-191..... National Wholesale Electric Co., Los Angeles, M-9-a, P-100 From 2-9-42 to 9-21-42 sold and delivered copper wire and Priority and allocation assistance withdrawn_____ 12-28-42 4-2-43
Calif. brass mill products on unrated orders; from 5-9-42 io
United Wire Novelty Co.. Philadelphia, Penna. 9-14-42, sold and delivered copper wire and other Wire
or brass mill products on orders rated less than A-l-k.
From 9-30-42 to 11-5-42 manufactured, iron and steel wire Priority and allocation assistance withdrawn; for-
S-192---... --- M-126_________ racks and baskets and narts. bidden to use iron or steel or products made there- 12-30-42 4-1-43
from, now in possession or acquired later, in manu-
From 5-23-42 to 9-25-42 sold and delivered new metal facture, assembly or fabrication of any articles.
S-193----- ---------------J Pioneer Supply Co., Seattle, Wash______________ L-79, P-84... plumbing and heating equipment on unrated orders: Forbidden to accept delivery of, receive, deliver, sell, 12-31-42 7-4-43
from 5-9-42 to 8-14-42, misapplied A-10 ratings under transfer; trade or deal in new metal plumbing and
P-84 to orders for materials. heating equipment except as authorized.
S-194_____ ------- --- - - Smile Beverage Co., Charleston, S. C___________ M-104... -L- --- During July, August and September, 1942, used 1,550 1-1-43 9-30-43
S-197..... Angeles Apparel Co., Los Angeles, Calif_________ L-118_________ closures in excess of permitted quota. Quota reduced from January to September, inclusive- 1-1-43
From 7-23-42 to 10-5-42, put into process 8,173 yards of Prohibited from selling such robes unless altered to
cloth to manufacture 2,187 women’s lounging robes hav- conform with L-118; forbidden to manufacture any
S-198..... Bouchard and Charvet .Dye & Finish Co., M-103_________ ing an excessive sweep measurement. feminine wear for three months. 12-31-42 3-31-43
S-199_____ Peterson, N. J. zM-9-a, P-100. During second and third quarters of 1942 accepted deliv- Forbidden to order or accept delivery of any anthra- 1-1-43 7-5-43
Arizona Wholesale Electric Co., Phoenix, Ariz_. ery of approximately 5,312 pounds of anthraquinone dyes quinone dyes, except as authorized.
in excess of permitted amounts. Priority and allocation assistance withdrawn_______...
From 2-7-42 to 7-14-42, accepted and filled wholesale orders
for copper wire on orders not sufficiently rated; improp-
erly and overextended A-10 rating under P-100 for de-
liveries of electrical supplies.
S-200_____ Superior Coach Corporation, Goshen, Ind_______ Pri. Reg. No. 1 On 1-21-42, authorized to use 90 tires and tubes to trans- Priority and allocation assistance withdrawn__________ 1-1-43 4-3-43
S-201..... Southern Stove Works, Inc., Richmond, Va ... M-126_________ port trailers to eligible purchasers but used only 82 for Priority and allocation assistance withdrawn from 1-1-43
this purpose, the remainder being installed on private 3-1-43 to 5-31-43.
automobiles of the president and secretary-treasurer of
the corporation.
From 9-1-42 to 10-8-42 put into process about 320,000
pounds of iron to make 4,520 portable iron fireplace grates
or parts, but was aware of the restriction of M-126.

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Indices of the American Industrial Effort and its Impact on the life of the Nation • • «

MISCELLANEOUS DATA

FINANCIAL PROGRAM AND COMMITMENTS

COMPARISON BY AGENCIES
October 31, 1942 October 31, 1941
¿dr* Program1 Commitments2 Program1 Commitments 2
(BiZZions of dollars)
War Department_____________------____ 126.7 90.2 24.6 20.6
Navy Department______________________ 63.9 40.0 17.6 14.7
Lend-Lease____________________________ 18.4 12.2 13.0 4.8
RFC and subsidiaries__________________ 15.3 15.3 4.1 4.1
Other U. S. war agencies_______________ 13. 6 10. 6 4. 9 2. 7
Total_________________________---- 237.9 168.3 64.2 46.9
1The program includes funds made available for war purposes by Congressional cash
appropriations, contract and tonnage authorizations, and by commitments by the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation and its subsidiaries.
2 Commitments include all transactions which legally reserve funds for expenditures.
à W LABOR DISPUTES Nov. 1942 Oct. 1942
Man-days lost on “strikes” affecting war production1-------- 91,925 167, 865
___ 3/100 of 1 % 5/100 of 1%
Man-days lost on “strikes” affecting all industries----------- 175,000 325,000
Percentage time lost to estimated time worked------------- ___ 3/100 Of 1 % 5/100 of 1%
Cumulative January-November 1942
Man-days lost on “strikes” affecting war production------ 1,975,722
Percentage time lost to estimated time worked---------- 7/100 of 1%
iThe war “strike” statistics are gathered by an interdepartmental committee consisting
of the War, Navy, and Labor Departments, War Production Board, Maritime Commission, and
the War Labor Board. The term “strike” includes both strikes and lockouts.
PRODUCTION DATA
INDEX NUMBERS OF PROGRAM PROGRESS, 1942
■ Munitions War Total war
production construction output
Month:
November 1941 -________ ________________________ 100 100 100
January 1942 _________ _________________________ 163 114 i 136
February ________________________ 173 112 143
TVT^rcb _ _______- _______________________ 201 139 171
April . ___________ 238 175 205
JVIfty ___________ ________________ 269 192 230
June __________________ 300 222 253
July---------------'------ __________________1______ 331 261 284
August ____________________ 357 278 302
September ____-- _______________ 370 272 311

October _________________________ T 385 P256 T 316
November ________ p 431 P 238 --- P 334
For additional information. see Victory, December 8 and November 24, page 13.
p Preliminary.
r Revised.

MERCHANT VESSELS DELIVERED

January-
December 1942 November 1942
Number of ships--------------------------- _______________ 80 619
Tonnage (deadweight tons)________________ ______________ 873,000 6,858,000

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WAR CONSTRUCTION

June 1940-Oct. 31, 1942: (Millions
Government-financed : of dollars)
Commitments for nonindustrial
construction______________ ____$14,626
Commitments for industrial fa-
cilities expansion_________ ____ 13, 551

WAR EXPENDITURES

November 1942 June 1941
(Millions of dollars)
Expenditures_____ ______ $6,112 $899
Number of days.. _______ 25 25
Daily rate_______ ______ 2.44 5 36. 0

LABOR TURNOVER

Rate per 100 workers
Oct. Oct.
1942 1941
Total accessions_____ __________8.69 4. 87
Total separations____ __________7.91 4.13
Voluntary_________ __________4.65 2.11
Discharges_________ __________ .45 .28
Lay-offs___________ __________ .78 1.41
Other_____________ __________2.03 .33

COST OF LIVING

COST OF GOODS PURCHASED IN LARGE CITIES

Percent Increase
, November 1942 From November 1941
Combined index____ ________________ 8.7
Selected Components:
Food________________ ________________15.9
Clothing_____________ ________________10.7
Rent_______________ ________________ 0.1

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WAR RATIONING . . .

POINT RATIONING EXPLAINED

Reasons and Methods
Explained in Questions and Answers

When will point rationing begin? How long will the first ration period last? Are soups made of meat and poultry stock included? These and other questions people are asking themselves and each other about the forthcoming program for point rationing of canned, bottled, and frozen fruits and vegetables; juices; dried fruits; and all soups. Some of these questions OPA answers below:
Q. When will actual rationing begin?
A. As early in February as possible.
Q. Why is it necessary to suspend retail selling at all?
A. All food stores must be given an opportunity to build up supplies, to train clerks, to receive and post the official OPA list of point values, and to familiarize themselves with those values. Secondly, the public must be registered for Book 2, be notified of the actual point values, and be given time to study them and budget their points for the first ration period.
Q. How will the housewife know when point values are changed?
A. The newspapers and radio will carry the announcements, and every food store will have an OPA poster showing the current point values of each particular product.
Q. Will the point values be the same in all stores, or will they vary between high-price and low-price stores?
A. The point values are the same in every store in the country, regardless of the price charged. For a No? 2 can of tomatoes, stamps for the same number of points must be surrendered regardless of whether the price is 12 cents or 15 cents, or whether the can is Grade A, B, or C, or any other grade designation.
Q. How long will the first ration period last?
A. That will depend very largely on the date when rationing begins. If it were possible to start on February 1, the first ration period very probably would take in the entire month. If, as now seems probable, rationing will begin later, the first period may be an “odd” one. Thereafter rationing periods likely will correspond to the Calendar months.
Q. What about chicken soup, canned beef broth, turtle soup, and other soups

made of meat or poultry stock containing few, if any, vegetables?
A. All canned soups are rationed, no matter what their content. But not dehydrated soups.
Q. What foods are included in the new rationing program?
A. Canned, bottled, and frozen fruits and vegetables, fruit and vegetable juices, dried fruits, and all canned soups. These are known as “processed” foods.
Q. Just what is a processed food?
A. One that has been preserved so that it will keep as long as it stays in its processed condition.
Q. Are jams, jellies, and marmalades included?
A. No.
Q. Why are foods that are not used extensively included in the rationing program?
A. To preserve for consumers as wide a choice of foods as possible in spending their ration points.
Q. Is evaporated milk included in the new rationing program?
A. No.
Q. What do the numbers on the ration stamps mean?
A. The numbers on the stamps (8, 5, 2, and 1) show how much the stamp is worth in “points.” A point is a ration value much as dollars and cents are

Rationing Dates

Important rationing dates for the month of January are:

Coffee

January 3—Last day for using coupon No. 27 in War Ration Book One for purchase of coffee. Coupon No. 28 becomes valid January 4. It will be good fori pound of coffee and valid until February 8.

Sugar

• January 5—Last day on which institutional and industrial sugar users may register at ration boards for January and February allotments.
January 31—Coupon No. 10 in War Ration Book One is good for 3 pounds of sugar through this date.

Mileage: Gasoline and Tires

January 21—Last day for using No. 3 coupon in “A” coupon books. No. 4 coupon becomes valid January 22.
January 31—Last day that Temporary “T” coupons will be issued directly by rationing boards. Beginning February 1, “T” rations will be issued on the basis of ODT Certificates of War Necessity.
January 31—Motorists must have auto tires inspected by this date. Official OPA inspectors at filling stations, garages, tire shops, and other places, will check all tires on your car and make report on your tire inspection record.

Fuel Oil

January 1—OPA made No. 3 coupons valid throughout the fuel oil rationed area the latter part of December. These will remain valid through January, and first part of February, the dates varying among the four zones.
Number 2 coupons remain valid until about January 25, the exact dates again depending upon the zones.

Typewriters

December 31—Last day on which holders of typewriter certificates may purchase machines.

War Ration Book One

January 15—Deadline for obtaining War Ration Book One. Persons who do not have this book should apply to local rationing boards.

mon^y values. Rationed foods have both point and money values.
Q. Why are the stamps of different colors?
A. The blue stamps will be used for rationing processed foods; the red stamps will be used later for meat rationing.

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January 6, 1943

FUEL OIL SLASHED IN
17 EASTERN STATES
Ten Percent Cut in Class 1 and 2 Coupons, No Oil for
Those Who Can Convert; Extra Gas for Salesmen Denied

Fuel oil coupons for Period 3 in 17 Eastern States and the District of Columbia were slashed 10 percent beginning January 4 at 12:01 a. m. This order was issued by Price Administrator Henderson after consultation with Petroleum Administrator Ickes and is the result of an extremely grave situation in this area caused by shortage of transportation facilities. Class 1 coupons, mainly used by home owners, are reduced from ten gallons to nine and Class 2 coupons, used by apartment houses, hotels and institutions will be good for ninety gallons instead of one hundred.
Meanwhile Mr. Henderson has instructed local rationing boards throughout the 38 State areas to refuse oil rations to commercial buildings which can convert to coal but have failed to make arrangements to do so. This order affects all structures except private dwellings, but includes apartment buildings, theaters, hotels, office and other commercial structures. The time limit set for making conversions or for showing conclusive proof that conversion is impossible was set for the end of January.
1. Written proof must be presented that arrangements have been made for conversion by a definite date within the current heating season.
2. The applicant must prove conclusively that conversion is impossible.
“Too many owners of commercial buildings have been gambling on the leniency of their Government,” Mr. Henderson said.
“I am instructing the local boards to turn down flatly any request for oil from commercial property owners whose efforts at conversion have been anything short of the maximum demanded by the oil situation. And this goes for the small consumer as well as the large.”
Householders who have refused to redeem “coupon credit notes” issued to their dealers for purchases of fuel oil in the 30-State rationed area were warned this week by OPA that they face suspension of their rations.
This warning coincided with announcement that OPA is authorizing local boards to honor unredeemed credit notes held by fuel oil dealers or suppliers who have been unable to obtain payment in ration coupons.

Salesmen Denied
Extra Gas

A third step taken to meet lhe petroleum products crisis was an order issued by Mr. Henderson rescinding the grant of additional gasoline to salesmen in the 17 eastern States and District of Columbia which had been authorized by Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers.
“Since plans to allow traveling salesmen additional mileage were announced,” Mr. Henderson said, “the gasoline situation in the East has grown steadily worse. Increased diversion of gasoline to our military fronts and the necessity for meeting winter demands for home and industrial heating oil have drained our gasoline reserves, and at present no more is available.”
As announced previously, however, additional mileage will be made available to certain salesmen in the remainder of the country where rubber conservation, rather than gasoline saving, is the reason for mileage rationing.
The increase in ration will allow salesmen outside the East engaged in the distribution of essential commodities up to 65 percent of their last year’s mileage, or 8,600 miles a year, whichever is less.

Jurors To Get More Gas On Judges’ Orders and Others Also Benefit

Jury members who need additional mileage while on court duty are eligible for special gasoline rations, OPA has announced, because their service is necessary to our judicial system and because in many parts of the country it is impossible for persons to accept this service unless they use their cars.
Special rations will be issued on the basis of a statement from the presiding judge or other responsible court official.
Supervisors engaged in maintaining the wholesale distribution of newspapers, certain private social workers, and certain persons engaged in administration of the Selective Service System are also eligible for preferred mileage. A special ration will be allowed for delivery of telephone directories, if present rations for vehicles used for this purpose are inadequate.

Coffee Dealers Must Burnish Inventories

Wholesalers and retailers of coffee have been instructed to furnish their local war price and rationing boards, not later than December 31, with information concerning their inventories and purchase warrants.
Forms on which nonroasters file this information, as well as complete instructions for filling out the forms, are now available at the local boards. Dealers who handle green coffee, as well as coffee roasters, may obtain their forms from State OPA office?. Nonroasters are instructed to use form 1202. Coffee roasters use form 1203.

Public Responded Well to Canned Food Appeal

America’s housewives and their grocers received high commendation last week from Price Administrator Henderson for the orderly manner in which they responded to the Government’s appeal to avoid buying and hoarding of canned fruits and vegetables in advance of rationing.

1942 Auto Plates
Reissued in 41 States

Since 41 States and the District of Columbia plan to revalidate 1942 license plates, most of the Nation’s 27,000,000 motorists can write their license numbers on all of their gas coupons as required by rationing regulations. -
However, holders of A, B, and C ration books in the seven States that will change plates and numbers should not write license numbers on more coupons than they will use before the new license numbers are issued. Dates for issuing new plates will vary with the States. According io OPA, these States include Colorado, Illinois, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wyoming. In West Virginia present plates are valid until July 1, 1943.

Asphalt Roofing
Restrictions

Restrictions applied to asphalt or tarred roofing products and asphalt shingles affect only those materials and do not limit the manufacture of building papers and other tarred materials and asphalt products, according to the first Interpretation of OPA Limitation Order L-228.
Special asphalt or tarred saturated or coated products are excluded from the provision? when manufactured for an industrial use.

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WAR PRICES . . .

NEW CEILING PRICES FOR
HARDWOOD AND DOUGLAS FIR

Flour, Used Farm Machines, Molasses, Lambskins, Fireplace Grates, Rubber Substitutes, and Other Things Get Ceiling Prices

Three OP A actions last week adjusted the prices of northern and southern hardwood and Douglas Fir lumber. The price ceiling on southern hardwood construction boards was lowered to conform to reduced costs of production and to the price for lumber from which such material is normally remanufactured.
Douglas Fir lumber produced as a byproduct by Douglas Fir plywood plants was placed under the ceiling of specific dollars and cents prices contained in the regulation controlling prices of Douglas Fir lumber.
Northern hardwood kiln-drying classifications were revised to increase allowances for producers meeting Army lumber specifications.
The action affecting southern hardwood lumber, taken to restore normal distribution and to avert a threatened artificial shortage of southern hardwood lumber used in production of military and industrial containers, reduces the previously established ceiling of $39 per thousand board feet for “No. 2 Construction Boards” to $33, and sets a maximum price of $39 for “No. 1 Construction Boards.”

Neu> Specifications ‘

OPA established a new kiln-drying classification for northern hardwood lumber kiln dried to a moisture content of more than 7 percent but not greater than 12 percent, a requirement usually imposed in Army orders. Generally, the specific dollars and centa charges ordered for the new classification are .85 percent of the charge allowed by the regulation for lumber which is kiln dried to moisture content of less than 7 percent.
Buyers and sellers of Douglas Fir lumber are permitted to agree to adjust prices not to exceed the ceiling prices in effect at the time of delivery, rather than those in effect on the date of the agreement.

Three Special Cases

No charge may be made for trucking Douglas Fir lumber from a mill located

away from rail facilities to a railhead in figuring delivered prices, except in these three special cases:
1. A mill which previously specialized in water-borne shipment and now, because of the shortage of shipping, has had to convert to land transportation;
2. A mill normally delivering its lumber by all-truck haul, but because of a desire to save tires and gasoline converts to a rail and truck haul; and
3. A mill located on a rail line but whose rail facilities have been abandoned.
With the exceptions of mills described in the three special cases all others will continue the-industry practice of regarding the f. o. b. price as being the f. o. b. rail loading point.

Sitka Spruce Lumber
Under Ceiling Prices

All lumber manufactured from Sitka spruce, except aircraft lumber, produced in the States of Washington and Oregon west of the crest of the Cascade mountains, was brought under specific dollars and cents ceiling prices by OPA. Canadian, but not Alaskan, imports of the lumber also are covered.
Hundreds of specific prices are listed in 16 grades and specification tables in Maximum Price Regulation No. 290 (Sitka Spruce Lumber), which generally reflects March 1942 price levels. The measure becomes effective January 5. The new prices will not affect general retail levels.

Lambskin Prices Reduced

A net reduction of 41 cents per dozen in the maximum prices for “spot sales” of New Zealand pickled lambskins and adjustments in the ocean freight rate and war risk insurance rates used in bringing both New Zealand lamb and sheep skins into the United States have been effected.
OPA found it necessary to reduce the prices of New Zealand lambskins by an amount sufficient to put them in line with the prices of domestic skins. This will equalize the cost of New Zealand and domestic skins to tanners, whose ceiling prices for sheepskin leather are

RENT CONTROL SPREAD CHECKS INFLATION

How the Nation’s eight-billion-dollar annual rent bill has been held in check Was revealed this week in an OPA report on three typical months of residential rent control.
The report, covering the period of August 1 to October 31, 1942, is the first detailed analysis of the operation of rent control and covers the 191 defense -rental areas for which maximum rent regulations were made effective. Since October, rent control has been spread to 356 areas, with a population in excess of 76 millions.
. Paul A. Porter, deputy administrator in charge of rents, stated: “For the year 1943, tenants in this country can be assured of stable rents and freedom from fear of eviction. At the same time, I want to point out that the operating position of landlords is at least as favorable under rent control as it was in the pre-war years, and in many cases it is more favorable.”

Registration Success

According to the report, registration of rental properties required of landlords has been highly successful. Only 8.2 percent of all property registered have a maximum rent other than the freeze date rent. This 8 percent is accounted for generally by improvements in the rental units between the maximum rent date and the date regulations were made effective. “By October 31,” the report stated, “6,632,732 registration statements were on file in the 133 area offices where the official registration period had ended.”
During October, 60,403 landlord petitions were processed by the area rent offices; 12,000 of these, or 20 percent of the total, were granted in whole or in part, and the remaining 48,403 were denied. The most common reason set forth by landlords in requesting an upward adjustment in rent was that a substantial increase had taken place in the services, furniture, furnishings or equipment since the maximum rent date.
The average dollar amount of the adjustments requested by landlords was a $6.94 increase in the monthly rent. The average amount granted by the area rent offices was $5.15.

based on prices for domestic skins. This change will not be reflected in the retail prices of leather products.

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January 6, 1943

OPA Helps Bed Makers Set Prices

New Ceilings on Cane Sugar, Pulp and Paper, and Canned Salmon

To aid furniture and bedding manufacturers to set prices on new merchandise, using spring substitutes in place of metal coil springs, OPA is sending five representatives to the furniture markets scheduled to open January 4 in Chicago and Grand Rapids authorized to approve properly computed prices on the spot.
This plan was formulated by OPA before ODT requested leading furniture marts to cancel their shows.
Manufacturers wishing to get in touch with the OPA representatives authorized to approve price applications on the spot should contact the local OPA offices in Chicago and Grand Rapids. The addresses are 226 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, and 506 Keeler Furniture Building, Fountain Street, Grand Rapids. Under the plan, OPA representatives were to be at these addresses from January 2, in advance of the scheduled market openings, and were to stay as long as needed.

Metal Spring Prices

Dollars and cents maximum prices for manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of eight new “war model” woodframed coil and flat bedsprings were announced December 29 by the OPA.
Four other “war models” using heavier coil springs were given dollars and cents ceilings by OPA September 7, 1942, this ready pricing list being provided for the most commonly sold types following a change-over in manufacturing caused by a War Production Board order forbidding the use of more than 30 pounds of steel wire in any bedspring.

OPA Cancels Plans
Por Furniture Mart

Conforming with the request by ODT that travel to the furniture markets in Chicago and Grand Rapids be held to a minimum, OPA has canceled its plans to send several representatives to these markets.
Manufacturers of upholstered furniture using spring substitutes in place of metal coil springs, who previously had been advised that OPA would undertake to process price applications on laboratory approved products at the markets, are urged to communicate with the local ^offices of OPA in Chicagp and Grand Rapids for price approval on such new products.

Ceiling Prices for
Rubber and Substitutes

A specific list of articles, including those made of rubber substitutes, was added by OPA last week to the regulation under which manufacturers determine maximum prices for new lines of rubber products.
The articles divided into categories are:
Apparel—Aprons, bathing supplies (including bags, belts, capes, coats, shoes, and bathing suits), brassieres, corsets, dress shields, garters and armbands, girdles and elastic girdle blanks, make-up capes, ponchos, raincoats and rainsuits, suspenders, and waterproof capes, cloaks, hate, jackets, leggings, overalls and sleeves.
Bicycle tires and tubes.
Cements and adhesives made in whole or in part of natural, synthetic, reclaimed, or balata rubber, but not substitute rubber.
Coated fabrics, including but not limited to artificial leather, automobile upholstery, awning cloth, backing cloth, gummed sign cloth, hospital sheeting, raincoat cloth, rubber welting, rubberized canvas, shoe fabrics, “suede” fabrics, tire covers, topping, and winter fronts.
Latex and latex covered products—Backing of carpets, jute bags, rugs, sacks and wallpaper, and baskets, buckets, dippers, frames, funnels/measures, racks, screens, sponge upholstery, and traps. .
Stationer’s goods-^-Chair cushions, desk angle protection strips, desk tops, erasers, pen sacks, pencil plugs, rubber bands, rubber stamps, telephone cord guards, telephone ear pieces, telephone stands, typewriter feetfand typewriter keys.
Tire repair materials.
Miscellaneous items—Air bags and curing tubes used in vulcanizing tires and repairing tubes, balloons for radio and weather observations, cable wrapping tape, diving suite, elastic webbing, mechanical rubber goods, made in whole or in part of balata, the rubber content of which is more than 50 percent balata; rubberized curled hair, shower-bath curtains, and tarpaulins.

Molasses Prices Frozen

In order to forestall unjustifiable price increases for molasses used for distillation to produce industrial alcohol vital to war production on the'West Coast, the OPA has issued a temporary maximum price regulation freezing molasses prices for ar period of sixty days at the level of December 29 to midnight February 27, 1943.
The sole supplier of molasses for distillation on the West Coast is the Pacific Molasses Co. of San Francisco, which imports molasses from Hawaii. The company recently announced an increase in price for distillers to $21 per ton, effective January 1,1943. This price is more than double the prices prevailing in 1939, 1940, and 1941.

Flour Sales by Millers Up 10 Percent

To eliminate price inequities between wheat and flour and allow for higher wheat prices without recourse to subsidy, OPA last week established specific dollars and cents price ceilings for sales by millers and blenders (secondary processors) of flour from wheat, semolina, and farina. The levels average 10 percent higher than the present temporary ceilings based on each individual seller’s September 28-October 2 peak sales.
Present retail bread prices need not be increased, because the higher flour costs, OPA estimated, will be completely offset by simultaneously introduced savings in the manufacture, packaging, and distribution costs of bakers effected under a program announced simultaneously by the Department of Agriculture. However, it will result in an increase of 40 cents to 75 cents per barrel in the cost of family flour sold to consumers.
The maximums for millers and blenders of flour from wheat reflect approximately 89 percent of parity to the farmer for all types of wheat except soft red winter wheat. On the latter type of wheat—produced largely in the central and eastern States and used primarily for cracker, cake and pastry flour—the new flour ceilings will reflect a maximum of about 95 percent of parity. The maximum flour prices are predicated upon the miller receiving no less than $1.50 per ton below present OPA ceiling prices for his millfeeds. Millfeeds are the byproducts of milling wheat for flour.
The wheat prices reflected by the flour ceilings, together with conservation and parity payments, averaging approximately 23.4 cents per bushel—or more than 11 percent of parity—reflect at least 100 percent of parity to the producer as well as a price as high or higher than the top prices received by producers during the period from January 1 to September 15, 1942. Thus, prices set by the new flour regulation are consistent with the Executive. Order providing for the stabilization of the national economy and the Second Price Control Act.

Fireplace Grates Get Ceiling Prices

Price ceilings for all fireplace grates made of steel lath, sheet steel, and similar materials which weigh less than five pounds have been set by OPA at $1.65 each, f. o. b. factory on sales by manufacturers; $2 each, f. o .b. seller’s point of shipment on sales by wholesalers; and $3 each for sales at retail.

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PULP AND PAPER

Tax Paid by Buyer

Because trade practices in the pulp and paper and paperboard industries cause uncertainty in regard to the 3 percent property transportation tax, OPA last week ruled that this tax must be considered as a freight rate increase rather than as a tax for which a charge may be made in addition to the maximum price of the product. As such it has to be absorbed by the seller on a “delivered price” basis and by the buyer on an “f. o. b. producers’ establishment” basis.
Standard newsprint, however, is exempted. Manufacturers may pass on this transportation tax to the purchaser.
Manufacturers of some grades of woodpulp must absorb the 3 percent tax until the freight bill including the tax is greater than the appropriate freight allowance. The excess over this amount may be passed on to the customer.

Salmon Top Prices

Dollars and cents maximum prices on canner sales of salmon have been established for the Columbia River District by OPA, replacing March 1942 ceilings for individual packers. The new prices reflect the average of packers’ peak sales during March. Generally there will be no change in canned salmon costs to the housewife, although broader distribution of this canned fish into retail channels may be possible.
The three main objectives of this new price Amendment No. 2 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 265 are to level off the irregular ceiling prices which existed between various canners along the Columbia River, and to set fair and equitable prices, based on 1942 costs, on half-pound fiat cans of five types of salmon canned in Alaska, which could not be marketed without loss under the prices originally set in Maximum Price Regulation 265.
The amendment will also provide canner ceilings on sales to civilians and Government buyers for salmon of the Co-lumbia River District which is the cradle of the salmon industry having nearly year-round runs and was excluded from coverage under the initial salmon regulation.

Cane Sugar Prices
Fixed at New Levels

Fixed dollars and cents price ceilings on sugarcane sirup at all levels of distribution prior to wholesale and retail have been announced by the OPA, supplanting individual March 1942 maximums.
Action taken raises the ceiling prices for Georgia (or country type) cane sirup approximately 18 cents per gallon to cover increased costs occurring in the 1942 season, as March 1942 packers’ ceilings on this product under the general maximum price regulation generally reflected 1941 costs.
At the same time, OPA also set similar specific dollars and cents price ceilings on Louisiana (or large mill type) cane sirup.

Citrus Ceiling Prices
Established in Four States

Maximum prices for grapefruit, lem* ons, oranges, tangerines and temple oranges grown in the four principal citrus producing States were established last week by OPA at all levels between the grower and the retailer-, in a move to promote orderly distribution of the fruit at fair prices.
The maximums at the packer level are in dollars and cents, based on grower minimums guaranteed under the Emergency Price Control Act. These ceilings vary as to area of production, season of the year, and type of packing. In general, the maximum prices will change seasonally on the various citrus fruits two or three times a year, following the customary price pattern.

Recap Delivery Costs Paid by Dealers

Dealers in retreaded and recapped tires who must have the work done by other recapping establishments may not pass on to their customers resulting transportation charges, OPA ruled last week.
Such charges are one of the dealer’s costs OPA said. No extra service is rendered, and therefore the customer is entitled to take delivery of the tires at dealer’s place of business without paying more than the ceiling price.
OPA pointed out, however, that if a customer wants his tires delivered to him from the dealer’s place of business, the dealer may make a charge for that service at his January 9, 1942, rate provided he made a special and separate charge for the same type of service on that date.

Used Farm Machine
Ceiling Prices

All sales of five critical used farm machines, whether made by dealers, auctioneers, or farmers themselves, were placed under price control January 5, by OPA. The action was designed to relieve farmers from paying excessive prices resulting from rapidly increasing demand.
The machines covered are used farm tractors (except crawler tractors) and the following important used harvesting machines: combines, corn pickers, corn binders, and motor or tractor operated hay balers. /
OPA placed under a specific control measure all retail sales of these items of used farm equipment, whether made by dealers, auctioneers or farmers themselves. Generally, the maximum prices are 70 percent and 95 percent of the list or base prices for the same new equipment, depending on the condition of the equipment when resold.

Customer Pays State Taxes on Cigars

New or increased Federal or State taxes on cigars may be passed along by the seller. If this tax adjustment results in a retail price which contains a fraction of one-half cent or more the price of a single cigar may be raised to the next higher full cent. This may be done only on condition that the retailer also offers the same brand or size of cigar in a quantity that will raise the amount of the increased tax to the next higher full cent.
A manufacturer or importer desiring • to sell a new brand or size is permitted to determine his maximum list price and the maximum retail price, subject to OPA approval. Within ten days after he has determined his price he must send to OPA, Tobacco Section, Washington, D. C., a statement setting forth the price and other specified information. Unless within twenty days after receipt of this statement OPA in a written notice objects to the price determination, such prices are to be established as the maximum prices for the new brand.

Dried Egg Prices

Only dried whole eggs sold to Government agencies and shell, liquid or frozen eggs sold to manufacturers for the sole purpose of later sale to Government agencies as dried whole eggs are exempt from price control during January and February, OPA warned last week. Sales of such eggs to anyone else are not exempt.

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January 6, 1943

PRODUCTION ...

AIRCRAFT TAILOR
SHOPS

The United States has established a chain of aircraft tailoring shops, “modification centers” where standard mass-produced fighting planes are swiftly altered to meet requirements of campaigns throughout the global war, the Office of War Information announced.
These centers are operated by airlines and aircraft factories under the supervision of the U. S. Army Air Forces Material Command’s Production Division, or directed by the Air Forces at air depots.
Defining broad objectives, an official Air Forces spokesman stated, “Suppose you make kitchen stoves. Your factory is tooled up for one model on a mass production .basis and you are turning out thousands of them. Then your salesmen tell you that you’ve got to add another gadget or your competitors are going to put you out of business. Which is easier—retooling your plant or adding another little shop where the gadget can be installed on the mass-production stoves before they meet the competition?
“That’s the basic function of all our modification centers. We add, subtract, and change to meet and beat our competition—the Axis. We can take production airplanes and fit them for Arctic or desert operation, increase their range or build up their bomb loads.”
General Jimmy Doolittle’s Tokyo raiders were equipped for their special mission at the centers, as were the American bombers that rained havoc on the Roumanian oil fields last spring. A majority of the aircraft now being used against the Axis in the Solomons, New Guinea, China, the Aleutians, and North Africa are modification jobs. The Japanese met disaster from modified fighters and bombers at Midway.

Import Air Cargoes
To Be Increased

A special air cargo priority certificate to fit into the existing world-wide air service for the import of strategic cargoes has been developed by WPB.
Loadings for the air service are controlled by the Air Transport Commands of the Army and Navy, and are arranged by- the Board of Economic Warfare through Government procurement agencies.
To the system of WPB priorities and quotas, in existence since April and

covering all strategic commodities suitable for air transport has now been added the special certificates covering emergency shipments. Prviate importers and Government agencies likely to require air transportation for their purchases abroad can make application to WPB for the certificates.
The system is designed to effect the maximum use of air facilities, to the end that the planes, while serving to transport combat units outbound, may complete their trips carrying strategic materials which otherwise would be difficult to import.

83 Bullets for
Every Axis Soldier

America is tinning out enough rifle and machine-gun ammunition each month to fire 83 rounds at every individual soldier in the Axis armies, the War Department has disclosed. In the first year of war, production of small-arms ammunition has increased more than 550 percent and is still rising rapidly.
As an example of the amount of ammunition the average American workman can produce, Under Secretary of War Patterson cited the record of one Army arsenal. Each employee of this arsenal in the twelve months ending New Year’s Eve made and assembled an average of more than 47,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition of calibers .30 and .50. In addition each workman turned out an average of 605 artillery cartridge cases in sizes ranging from 37 millimeter up to 4.7 inches. He made the parts and assembled 200 mechanical time fuses and 400 artillery shell bodies up to six inches in diameter. He produced, inspected, and checked 27 gages of all kinds and constructed two intricate fire-control instruments at an average cost of $254 each.

Engraved Cards Are Latest War Casualty

Copper-engraved business stationery, greeting cards, and calling cards are the latest casualties of war.
In order to conserve the scarce metal for important war uses, the WPB prohibited the use of copper for engraving plates for such purposes, effective December 31, in Copper Order M-9-c as amended by WPB. The order also applies to. used plates as well as new.
Users of copper-engraved material will be able to rely on “plateless engraving,” regular printing, and in some cases, on steel dies for stationery, cards, etc. No new steel has been available for dies for some time.

Mercantile Inventories
Held in Check by WPB

To assure a fair distribution of limited consumers’ goods, WPB has limited the size of mercantile inventories of large retailers, wholesalers, and stock-carrying branches of manufacturers. The new order, L-219, will have the effect of holding consumers’ goods inventories of the larger concerns at about the same level, in relation to their sales, as they maintained prior to Pearl Harbor and thus assure that larger quantities are available for distribution through the smaller outlets. Merchants who have excessive inventories when the order becomes effective will be brought into line through restriction of their purchases.
The order will apply to every merchant who on or after November 30,1942, had or has a total mercantile inventory of consumers’ goods having a cost value of $50,000 or more at the end of any quarter of his federal income tax year, and who also had during the 12 months preceding the end of the same quarter net sales of consumers’ goods of $200,000 or more.
While the order does not directly cover merchants with annual sales of less than $200,000, WPB Chairman Nelson said that this was an “experiment in self-government for the smaller stores” and that they should maintain pre-war stocksales ratios.

Storm Delays Oil
Delivery

Flood waters have washed out 600 feet of the 24-inch War Emergency Pipeline crossing of the Mississippi and will delay initial shipments through the Texas-Illinois leg, according to Petroleum Administrator for War Ickes.
In a telegraphic report, Burt E. Hull, vice president of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc., described the damage:
“Construction Mississippi River crossing was well advanced and completion expected December 30 but river began rising rapidly. Suspended work and all available steel cable and additional anchorage attached to pipe but river rose 15 feet and rapid current broke several cables and about 600 feet off free end of pipe. Apparently no damage to barges and other floating equipment. Assuming river will fall enough to resume work by January 10, believe we can install and complete new crossing by January 25.”

January 6, 1943

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PUBLISHERS TOLD
OF PAPER CUTS

Magazines were limited last week to 90 percent of the tonnage of paper used by each publisher during 1942. This reduction applies whether the publisher prints his own magazine or has it printed by a commercial printer.
Simultaneously, WPB restricted the consumption of print paper in newspapers. Other orders affecting consumption of paper in books, containers, commercial printing, and other uses, as well as an order governing production of paper, will be issued shortly.
Order L-244 provides that no magazine publisher may use print paper during any calendar quarter in excess of 22% percent of the amount used during 1942. A publisher may, however, in any calendar quarter, use up to 15 percent more than his quarterly quota; The excess must be deducted from the quota of the succeeding calendar quarter. He may also use additional print paper equivalent to the less-than-quota usage of any preceding calendar quarter. *
An exemption to the order excludes any publisher who shall use, on and after January 1, 1943, 25 tons or less of print print paper in any calendar quarter.

Light Oil Ration Practices Changed

Rationing light grades of fuel oiTused by utilities and other industries for purposes other than heating was simplified this week by OPA, eliminating the necessity of handling large numbers of coupons. Henceforth, industrial plants which use an average of 100,000 gallons or more of distillate oil per month may request their local war price and rationing board to issue their allotments on delivery receipts instead of coupons. Delivery receipts can be handled in less time by both the buyer and seller in the transfer of large quantities of oil. Originally, only consumers of residual oil were permitted to use delivery receipts.

Annato Restricted

Use of annato or annato extracts has -been restricted exclusively to coloring food products, by conservation Order M-103, as amended by the WPB. Such dyes sometimes are used to color textiles and leather, or to manufacture pigments. Annato and annato extracts are im-ported from Latin America. Current supplies are sufficient to meet only food requirements.

Butter Shortage Ups Margarine Production

Manufacturers of margarine previously allowed to use only 110 percent of their average quarterly use of fats and oils in the corresponding quarters of 1940 and 1941, or of 1941 alone, today were allowed to raise that figure to 180 percent through the issuance by the WPB. of General Preference Order No. M-71, as amended. This change is expected to result in the use of an additional 230 million pounds of oil.
The Order, however, restricts the use of fats and oils (other than “foots”) in the manufacture of soap for civilian consumption to 84 percent of the average amount used in the base period. The previous figure was 88 percent and it is estimated that the change will effect a saving of approximately 70 million pounds of oil.
The urgency in the need for increased margarine production arises from the pending butter shortage. This need has been accentuated by the freezing of 50 percent of the butter stocks in 35 United States cities.

More Butter Released

Approximately 2,000,000 pounds of storage butter which were frozen in the 35 principal markets of the United States November 21, were released last week for civilian consumption.
However, this butter is not expected to relieve the butter shortage, for it is only a small portion of normal weekly butter consumption.

Steel War ehouses Can
Exceed Quotas

A system of temporary supplementary quotas, designed to enable iron and steel warehouses to rebuild their stocks, announced last week, permitted a warehouse to exceed its quota for the first quarter of 1943, provided that it keeps within its total allotment for the period January 1,1943, through March 31,1943.
The purpose of this arrangement is to permit warehouses to “catch up” on tonnages they would have received had they been able to obtain their full quarterly quotas during 1942. Because preference ratings assigned to warehouses have lagged behind the general level of preference ratings, warehouses have not been able to obtain their full quotas from the mills.

HOME MARKET IS BOOMING

The year just ending saw many significant trends develop in home construction, home financing, and debt service, some of which will have important influences on housing in the post-war reconstruction period, Mr. Blandford declared.
“The people generally have used their increased income to advantage, those with mortgages on their homes keeping their accounts current and in many cases paying ahead of their loan obligations,” the NHA Administrator said. “This, in turn, has strengthened the position of home financing institutions. Foreclosures, which caused so much distress only a short time ago, have steadily declined. The booming market for existing homes in centers of war activity has enabled lending institutions to reduce materially their real estate holdings. For the second consecutive year, more than $500,-000,000 of overhanging real estate was taken off the market, purchased by individual private owners. Congress recognized private industry’s valuable contribution to the national housing problem by increasing the authorization of the Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages on war housing.

Shortages Made New Standards

“The shortages in conventional building materials have necessitated restrictions and modified standards of construction. This has meant a trend toward smaller homes and the development and use of many substitute materials. .
“The most important development during the year, was the overall drop of 34 percent from 1941 in new family units started. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that family units of public housing of various types started in 1942 represent an increase from 1941 of 80 percent but the private units reported placed under construction in 1942 was a reduction of 51 percent. These trends reflect the concentration on war housing built under the priority system and the increasing use of temporary construction.”
Since housing must be strictly rationed to meet the need only of essential immigrant war workers, the program for 1943 depends to a large extent on the size and complexion of the Nation’s war production schedules, Mr. Blandford said.

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January 6, 1943

WAGES AND LABOR ... .
LOST MAN-DAYS HITS
NEW LOW

WLB Condemns Detroit Strike, Permits Local Governments To Adjust Employee Wages

A new low figure on the percentage of man-days lost to days worked in war industries was reached in November, according to an announcement by the National War Labor Board. At the same time the Board condemned a strike of 9,000 Detroit tool and die workers and refused to order reinstatement of seven whose case was before the Board.
The WLB last week also issued a joint statement with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue .permitting State and municipal government officials to make wage and salary adjustments for their employees without Federal approval.

Urges Arbitration Machinery

Industry and labor should establish their own arbitration machinery for settlement of grievances in order to aid war production and strengthen collective bargaining in an era of necessary governmental restrictions on bargaining, Dr. George W. Taylor, vice chairman of the Board, said in a case involving the Atlas Powder Company’s plant in Giant, California. The Board “strongly urged” management and labor to retain full control over their own grievance machinery, with arbitration as a final step in their collective bargaining agreements.
The Board cannot permit accumulations of grievance disputes to impair morale and efficiency of war plants, but there is no need for labor and management to surrender any of their prerogatives in regard to such disputes, Dr. Taylor said.
“It is in the national interest that the parties themselves set up and operate their own grievance machinery in order to insure that local problems are finally settled by those on the scene who can, by and large, do a better job than can be done from afar,” the Board declared.

Decentralization Steps

The WLB and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in a joint statement, placed upon the heads of State, county,

and municipal governments final responsibility for conforming to the national stabilization policy in making adjustments in the wages and salaries of their employees.
The Board and the Commissioner released these governmental agencies from any requirement to file certificates explaining how such adjustments were in accord with the Executive Order of October 3. They said that since they had established this certification procedure, they have examined in detail the large number of certificates received from state and local agencies and found that “statutory budgetary controls are operating to keep salary and wage movements of state and local agencies within very narrow bounds.”

Stabilized Labor
in Auto Plants

War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt and War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson have moved to prevent unnecessary shifting of workers in the automobile and automobile parts industry by extending provisions of the Government’s automobile industry labor transfer policy.
Their action provides that transferred automobile workers who have developed higher skills will remain at their new jobs and continue to accumulate seniority rights with their original employers unless or until they are recalled to essential war jobs in which their new skills will be used. This policy is to remain effective throughout the automobile industry.
In telegrams to representatives of management and labor in the automobile and automobile parts industry, the two Government officials reaffirmed and extended until further notice the labor transfer policy. This policy was originally worked out in conferences between labor and management in the industry, and announced on September 17, 1941, by Associate Director General Sidney Hillman of the Office of Production Management.. It was then amended on June 18, 1942, by a joint statement of McNutt and Nelson.

ASK STATES NOT TO SUSPEND LABOR LAWS

The War, Navy, and Labor Departments, War Production Board, War Manpower Commission, Maritime Commission, and Office of Defense Transportation this week advised against blanket suspension of State labor laws.
Because of the effective use of power to grant variations to meet war emergencies, State labor standards on hours and working conditions have not interfered with war production since the War, Navy, and Labor Departments recommended on January 27, 194^, that State labor laws and regulations should be preserved unless there was a definite showing of emergency needs, according to the seven Federal agencies.

PUBLICATIONS

The following OWI publications may be obtained free upon request to the Distribution Section, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.:
How to Heat Your Home With Less Fuel.
The Japanese Are Tough.
Negroes and the War (not yet available) .
Providing for the Stabilizing of National Economy.
Design and Operation of U. S. Combat Aircraft.
National Fuel Conservation.
Tale of a City (not yet available).
Your War and Your Wages.
Inflation.
Safeguards Against Inflation.
War Jobs for Women (not yet available) .
Why Rationing?
The Thousand Million.
The Four Freedoms.
Divide and Conquer.
The Unconquered People.
The following posters will also be furnished upon request:
If You Talk Too Much, This Man May Die.
Strong in the Strength of the Lord.
Give It Your Best—Flag.
Americans! Share the Meat!
This Is Nazi Brutality.
President’s Report to the Press.
A Message to Our Tenants.
We Here Highly Resolve—Remember Dec. 7.
Avenge December 7th.
We French Workers.
Someone Talked.
United Nations.
Homemaker’s War Guide.
Become a Nurse.
A Careless Word.

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JOBS AND CIVIL SERVICE . GOVERNMENT POSITIONS NEEDED TO BE FILLED

Federal Workers in Armed Services Will Get Their Jobs Back
Former Federal employees, who enter the Army, Navy or other military service after being transferred to an essential private or public activity, were assured last week by Manpower Chairman McNutt, that they would be entitled to reemployment by the Government upon termination of their service.
The original directive, the Chairman explained,-did not provide for the reemployment in the Federal service of a person who enters military service after his transfer to war work. The amendment includes a “public” as well as a private enterprise. It is retroactive to September 27, and contains a provision to protect the newly conferred rights which may have lapsed because former Government employees failed to file timely applications for reemployment. Such persons are now given until February 1, 1943.
Listed positions are newly announced by the United States Civil Service Commission or urgently needed to be filled. For a complete list of over 100 positions, see Form 2279, “Opportunities in Federal Service,” posted in first- or second-class post offices.
Information and application blanks may be obtained from the Commission’s Local Secretaries at first- or second-class post offices, from Regional Offices, or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Applications must be filed with the Commission’s Washington office.
No written tests, no maximum age limit unless otherwise stated.
Applications are not desired from persons engaged on war work unless they may use higher skills in the positions sought. War Manpower Commission restrictions on Federal appointments are posted in first- or second-class post offices.

Newly Announced
Engineers, $2,600 to $8,000.
Needed: Persons with education and/or experience in almost all branches of engineering.
See: Announcement 282 (1943).
Junior Engineers, $2,000.

Needed: College women especially. Those without engineering courses may qualify by taking the tuition-free, government-sponsored, 10-week E. S. M. W. T. courses in many colleges.
See: Announcement 281 (1943).
Engineering Draftsmen, $1,440 to $2,600.
Needed: Men, women with drafting experience, or training gained with a high school, technical school, college, or war training course.
See: Announcement 283 (1943).
Radio Inspectors, $2,000 and $2,600, Federal Communications Commission.
See: Announcement 280 (1943).
Urgently Needed
Control Specialists, $2,000 to $6,500.
Needed: Persons with engineering or industrial production experience for administration and conduct of the Controlled Materials Plan.
See: Announcement 279 (1942).
Alphabetic Card - Punch Operator, $1,260.
See: Announcement 86 of 1941 and amendments.
Physiotherapy Aide, $1,620 and $1,800.
See: Announcement 260 (1942).
Radio-Mechanic-Technician, $1,440 to $2,600.
See: Announcement 134 of 1941 and amendments.
Dental Hygienist, $1,620.
See: Announcement 111 of 1941 and amendment.
Technical Assistants, $1,440 to $1,800.
Needed: Persons with 1 to- 3 years of appropriate college study.
Specialized fields: Engineering, Metallurgy, Physics.
See: Announcement 256 (1942).
Departmental Guards, $1,500.
(Written test required.)
See: Announcement 194 (1942) and amendment.
Air Safety Investigators, $3,800, Civil Aeronautics Board.
See: Announcement 208 (1942).
Medical Technicians, $1,440 to $2,000.
Needed: X-ray technicians; also surgical and general.
See: Announcement 248 (1942).
Library Assistants, $1,260 to $1,620.
(Written test required.)
See: Announcement 268 (1942).

CHILD CARE

Michigan, Georgia Get Funds for Care of Children
Paul V. McNutt, director of Defense Health and Welfare Services, announced the approval of plans for child care services for the children of working mothers, submitted by the Georgia Department of Public Welfare and the Michigan Department of Public Instruction, and authorized grants totaling $11,940 to help carry out the plans. Georgia will receive $6,840 and Michigan, $5,100.
These grants come from the emergency fund allotted to the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services by the President for the coordination and development of wartime child care services. Funds from this allotment are available to State departments of education or welfare for the employment of administrative personnel and consultants to aid communities where a large number of women with children are employed or are soon to be employed.
The WMC says that several critical labor market areas exist in Georgia and that there will be considerable increase in the employment of women in these areas within the next six months. It will be the task of the consultants to see that all possible resources are utilized to meet this need.
The funds advanced to Michigan will be used for the employment of two consultants to supervise extended school services.
In Michigan the Detroit area is generally recognized as one of the two or three most critical industrial centers of the Nation and will undoubtedly absorb the full time of one person.

Physical Fitness for High Schools Subject of New Pamphlet
Strength, endurance, stamina, and the development of physical skills of direct value to the war are the aims of the national wartime physical fitness program for high school boys and girls, which is outlined in a U. S. Office of Education pamphlet, “Physical Fitness through Physical Education for the Victory Corps.”
Competitive and mass athletics, road work, hikes, and week-end journeys for at least ten hours each week are recommended in the new program in addition to a minimum of five hours a week of physical education classes at school.

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January 6, 1943

Sayre Gets Job

Made Deputy Director of Foreign Relief
FRANCIS B. SAYRE, former High Commissioner to the Philippines, was appointed Deputy Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation operations. Mr. Sayre, who escaped from the Philippines after they were occupied by the Japanese, will serve as a special assistant to Secretary of State Hull as well as Deputy Director of Foreign Relief under former Governor Lehman of New York.
LAWRENCE A. APPLEY, vice president of the Vick Chemical Co., was appointed chief of the WMC Placement Bureau. He will direct the work of the U. S. Employment Service and will be responsible for filling the needs of industry, agriculture, the professions, and the Government.
JOHN W. BUCH, former assistant professor in the Department of Mining Engineering, Pennsylvania State College, was appointed chief of the Coal Economics Division of the Bureau of Mines.
WILLIAM FITZHUGH resigned his post as deputy director of the Container bivision of the WPB. ROSWELL C. MOWER, formerly assistant director, has been appointed as his successor.
M. H. HEDGES, Research Director of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, has accepted appointment on the WPB Planning Committee, WPB Chairman Nelson announced.
GEORGE KIRSTEIN resigned his position as executive secretary of the NWLB to accept a commission in the Navy. He has been ordered to report for duty January 1.
SAMUEL B. SHAPIRO was appointed head of the Research and Quota Section of the Automobile Rationing Branch of OPA. He was formerly general manager of the Chicago Automobile Trade Association, which granted him a leave of absence.
C. S. WILLIAMS, formerly director of the General Industrial Equipment Division of WPB, was oppointed director of the Controlled Materials Division of Civilian Supply.
RICHARD N. JOHNSON, formerly Publisher of the Boston Evening Transcript, was appointed director of the Consumer Goods Division of WPB Civilian Supply. He succeeds Roland S. Vaile, resigned.
DR. CHARLES G. WOODBURY was appointed special assistant and adviser to Agricultural Research Administrator Auchter. He has been director

Boxes for Prisoners

Red Cross Canteen Worker Mary Dougherty inspects a Red Cross food package going to an American prisoner of war. Packages like this are sent regularly from International Red Cross headquarters in Geneva to American prisoners of war and interned civilians held by Germany and Italy. One a week goes to each American prisoner of war whose capture and location have been reported, and one every two weeks to each interned civilian. The parcels have been carefully prepared by nutrition experts to counteract any vitamin deficiencies in the regular prison diet. A prisoner may receive also one supplementary parcel every sixty days from his family or friends as soon as they have been officially notified by the Provost Marshal General’s office of his whereabouts. Twenty thousand Red Cross packages were sent to the Far East on the neutral diplomatic exchange ship Gripsholm last June, together with one million cigarets and other supplies for American prisoners and internees.

of raw products research in the National Canners, Association.
FRANCIS T. McNAMARA, associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, was appointed deputy director of the Communications Equipment Division of WPB.
JOHN R. TURNEY has resigned as director of the ODT Division of Transport Conservation, and CHARLES L. DEARING, former consultant in the Division, has been appointed director of the new Division of Review and Special Studies which replaces the Division of Transport Conservation, HAROLD J. DRESCHER will be associate director.

WOMEN GIVE 70 TONS HOSE TO WAR

The Conservation Division of the WPB has announced that during the first month of the silk and nylon hosiery salvage program 85,000 pounds of discarded stockings and bills of lading covering 55,000 additional pounds en route have been received by the Defense Supplies Corporation.
Silk and nylon will be reclaimed from these stockings for the manufacture of war materials. Approximately 15 pairs of silk hose are needed to make one average-size powder bag. It is estimated that enough silk stockings have been garnered during the first month of the collection to make over 100,000 powder bags.
The total of 140,000 pounds of hosiery actually shipped consisted of about 2,800,000 pairs of silk and nylon stockings. If stretched, end to end, these stockings would approximately cross the country from New York to San Francisco.

More Kitchen Fats Needed

Collections of waste kitchen fats are increasing each month by approximately 25 percent over the preceding month, Leasing J. Rosenwald, Director of the Conservation Division declared. •
First available collection figures show 3,016,338 pounds of waste fats collected during August; 3,812,728 pounds during September; and 4,784,498 pounds during October.
“Although the trend of collections is encouraging,” Mr. Rosenwald stated, “we must recognize that we are falling far short of our goal of 16,667,000 pounds per month.
“In August we were 18.1 percent of our quota, in September we were 22.9 percent of quota and in October 28.7 percent. These figures indicate that more and more women are saving.”

Western Loggers Get Aid

Mills that have bought West Coast logs only to be ordered by WPB to resell them to aircraft companies and other essential users need no longer hesitate to purchase, because OPA has permitted them to add to their ceiling prices the direct costs of transportation from the logger to their mills, cost of repairing logs for resale, sorting, booming, rafting, scaling, and reloading. Overtime additions paid by the first buyer to a seller also may be added.

January 6, 1943

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MOTION PICTURES .. .

Exciting new films issued

“First Steps in First Aid,” a new sound movie produced in cooperation with a large industrial firm, has just been released by the Bureau of Mines as a contribution to the education in safety measures of people in civil and industrial life. Typical accidents, what should and what should not be done, controlling onlookers, directing assistants, and providing comfort to the injured are shown. The film instructs in the correct methods of locating injury, transportation of the injured, recognition of symptoms, treatment for shock, and determining the cause of death. The human circulatory system and ways to apply tourniquets and compresses are demonstrated.
Copies are available for exhibition by industrial and civil defense training classes, training courses conducted by or in behalf of the Army, Navy, and Maritime Service, and for showings by schools, churches, colleges, and other similar groups. Application for a free loan of the 16-millimeter film should be addressed to the Motion Picture Section, Bureau of Mines, Central Experiment Station, 4800 Forbes Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. The borrower should state specifically his equipment for showing the film.
Five new war information films for wartime uses in schools,- churches, factories, clubs, and community rallies have been released by the Bureau of Motion Pictures of the Office of War Information; The new films are:

CAMPUS ON THE MARCH (19 minutes). Wartime activities in American colleges and universities.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER (14 minutes). Hard-hitting presentation of Nazi methods in spreading hate and fear, distrust and confusion.
HENRY BROWNE, FARMER (11 minutes). Simple, down-to-earth story of a Negro family in wartime.
THE PRICE OF VICTORY (13 minutes). Vice-President Henry Wallace’s stirring challenge to the freedom-loving people of the world.
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRING LINE (3 minutes). Disney’s famous characters—Pluto and- Minnie—show why and how to save fats.

These 5 pictures and other OWI films for nontheatrical use can be obtained from 175 established 16-mm. film agencies throughout the country. Write the Bureau of Motion Pictures, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.

A V-Home has at least onq. person trained in First Aid, as part of its air raid precautions and to preserve the family's health. Other qualifications for the V-Home certificate awarded by the Office of Civilian Defense are salvage, refusal to spread Axis propaganda, and regular purchase of War Bonds and Stamps. The illustration was contributed by Gluyas Williams. Make yours a V-Home!

Other OWI films include:
THE ARM BEHIND THE ARMY (10 minutes). The stakes of American labor and industry in winning this war. An official War Department film.
BOMBER (10 minutes). Manufacture, speed, and power of the B-26 Army bomber. Commentary written by Carl Sandburg.
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION (11 minutes). Food and the farmer’s role in the war.
HOME ON THE RANGE (11 minutes). The Western range country and the men producing beef and mutton for our soldiers, civilians, and Allies.
LAKE CARRIER (9 minutes). Transporting iron ore over the Great Lakes to Midwest steel mills. Narrated by Fredric March.
LISTEN TO BRITAIN (20 minutes). A remarkable record of wartime Britain and a tribute to the everyday people of England.
MANPOWER (8 minutes). Methods now being used to recruit and train workers for war industries.
MEN AND THE SEA (10 minutes). Training the men who man our cargo ships carrying munitions, food, and supplies throughout the world.
RING OF STEEL (10 minutes). Tribute to the American soldier from 1776 to 1942. Narrated by Spencer Tracy.
SAFEGUARDING MILITARY INFORMATION (10 minutes). Dramatic exposition of the results of careless talk and the need for secrecy.
SALVAGE (7 minutes). Need for salvaging metals, rubber, and greases. Narrated by Donald Nelson.
TANKS (10 minutes). Manufacture and performance of the M3 Army tank. Narrated by Orson Welles.
TARGET FOR TONIGHT (48 minutes). Thrilling story of a bombing raid over Germany by the Royal Air Force.
U. S. NEWS REVIEW: ISSUE NO. 1 (21 minutes). Seven subjects—women at war, fuel saving, President’s wartime flag, Malta, coal production, war in Pacific, and wartime harvest.
WESTERN FRONT (21 minutes). China’s heroic fight as a member of the United Nations.

WINNING YOUR WINGS (18 minutes). Work of the U. S. Army Air Forces. Narrated by Lt. James Stewart.
ANCHORS AWEIGH (3 minutes). KEEP ’EM ROLLING (3 minutes). CAISSONS GO ROLLING ALONG (3 minutes). Song shorts sung “off screen” against backgrounds of appropriate action scenes.

MAIL FOR SEAMEN

American seamen will now be able to receive mail at foreign ports from relatives and friends at home for the first time since America entered the war.
The War Shipping Administration, in conjunction with the Post Office, Navy, and War Departments, has established a mail service for crew members of American merchant vessels, similar to that now in existence for the armed forces. This includes merchant vessels under the American Flag and foreign flag vessels under the control of the War Shipping Administration. The new procedure also will serve naval personnel assigned to merchant ships.
Mail addressed to a merchant seaman should indicate on the first line of the address the name of the seaman. The second line should carry the name of the ship, and the third line the words “c/o Post Master”; the fourth line either “New York,” “New Orleans,” or “San Francisco,” as the case may be. The return address should be indicated in the upper left-hand corner of the item of mail and in the lower left-hand corner the name only of the steamship line should be shown.

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January 6, 1943

RELEASES . . .

Copies of these press releases may "be obtained at the U. S. Information Center, 1400 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
Releases marked * will be found in more detail under department headings in this issue.
Macauley Denies Columnist’s Story. WSA. OWI-992.
Wickard, Davis Discuss Food Situation.
Department of Agriculture. OWI—1017.
Military Conservation Order Revised. WPB—2274.
Scrap Dealers Eligible for Merit Emblem. WPB-2280.
Loggers May Use Preference Rating AA-2X. WPB-2282.
85,000 Pounds Discarded Stockings Received. WPB-2283.*
Collection Waste Kitchen Fats Increasing. WPB-2284.*
Talbot Resigns From WPB Post. WPB— 2286.*
Ceilings Set for Fireplace Grates. OPA— 1353.
Textile Report Deadline Deferred. OPA-1362.
Tire Recapping Services Increased. OPA-1364.
OPA To Approve Furniture Prices. OPA-1368.
New Auto Quota for January Set. OPA-1369.*
Eighty-Five Thousand Bicycles in January Quota. OPA-1370.
Egg Price Regulation Amended. OPA-1371.
Fuel Oil Price Increased. OPA-1372.
No. 9 Coal Prices Established. OPA-T-433.
License Suspension Penalties Set. OPA-T-434.
Gasoline Operating Margin Set. OPA-T-436.
Salmon Maximums Established. OPA-T-449.*
Sale Textile Machinery Halted. WPB-T-1426.
Amended Vanadium Order Issued. WPB-T-1464.
Negroes Are Integral Part of Army. OWI-PM-4246.
Puerto Rican Vehicles Under Control.
ODT. PM—4250.
New Antiprostitution Drive Begins. Defense Health and Welfare Services. OWI-999.*
Raw Materials for North Africa Allocated. Combined Raw Materials Board. OWI-1010.
Axis Adopts New Espionage Plan. OWI-1011.*
Defense Board Wishes Addies Success. Inter-American Defense Board. OWI-1012.
Temporary T Rations Deadline Is Set. OPA-1355.
Job Instructor Program in 6500 War Plants. WMC. PM-4238.
Women To Work as Forest Fire Wardens.
United States Forest Service. OWI-971.
All-Rail Coal to East Drops in Week.
Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator. OWI-1015.
Victory Corps Physical Fitness Pamphlet
Out. FSA. OWI-1018.*
Two States Get Child Care Grants. Defense Health and Welfare Services. OWI-1019.*
Wickard Broadcasts on Food Supply. Department of Agriculture. OWI-1021.
Elmer Davis’ Radio Food Talk Released. OWI-1022.
Proposal To Pay Missing Service Men Okayed. War and Navy Departments. OWI-1024.
Weekly Petroleum Supply Bulletin 3. Petroleum Administration for War. OWI-1025.
One Million Home Ceramic Fireplace Grates Ready. WPB-2254.
Governors Agree To Postpone State Construction. WPB-2277.
One Hundred More Plant Committees Announced. WPB-2278.*

Glass Container Packaging Limits for 1943 Set. WPB-2287.*
Nelson Makes Sixth Monthly War Production Report. WPB-2289.*
Copper Banned in Stationery Engraving
Plates. WPB-2290.*
Controlled Materials Plan B-l, B-2, Lists Public. WPB-2291.*
Appeal for Twin, Triplet Baby Buggies Granted. WPB-2292.
Rule on Mandatory Radio Tube Turn-in Upcoming. WPB-2293.*
Communications Priority Regulation
Amended. WPB.2294.*
Coffee Rationing Authority Order Corrected. WPB-T—1365.
Distributors Division Senior Consultants Named. WPB-T-1390.
Two Rubber Control Orders Are Revised. WPB—T—1467.*
Many Metal Office Supplies Ordered Stopped. WPB-T-1468.*
Five Hundred Thousand Pounds of Bronze Powder Products Released. WPB-T-1469.*
Airport Lighting Equipment Is Standardized. WPB-T—1472.*
Amendment Permits Cobalt in Protective
Driers. WPB-T-1473.*
Construction Equipment Manufacturer Penalized. WPB-T-1474.
Oklahoma, Maryland Builders Suspended. WPB—T—1475.
End to East’s Gas Sales Ban Seen. OPA-1339.
Jurors To Get Nessary Gas Rations. OPA-1358.*
Typewriter Rental Order Corrected. OP A—1363.
Sugarcane Syrup Ceilings Announced. OPA-1373.
Locomotive Coal Prices Equalized. OPA-1374.
Processed-Food Rationing Plan Stated. OPA-1385.*
L-C-L Wool Grease Prices Continued. OPA—T—439.
Special Army Pack Tissue Maximums Set. OPA—T—445.
Three Frigidaire Maximums Rstarttshed. OPA—T—451.»
Navy’s Inland Shipments Exempted. ODT-PM—4251.
Three New York Area Firms Agree To End Discrimination. WMC-PM-4253.
Wickard Orders Processed Foods Rationed.
Department of Agriculture. PM-4254.
Joint Plan Cuts Coal Delivery Miles. ODT. PM—4255.*
Six Hundred Ninety-One Trucks, Etc., Released in Week. WPB-T-1471.
Seaman’s Widow Offers $2,000 To Aid War.
WSA. OWI-1016.*
All Housing Mobilized, Blandford Declares. NHA. OWI-1023.*
Shorter Training of Nurses Urged. Defense Health and Welfare Services. OWI-2026.*
Power Administration Reports on Year. Department of the Interior. OWI-1029.
District of Columbia Fuel Oil Supply More Flexible. Petroleum Administration for War. OWI-1031.
Federal Register To List All Alien Patents. Alien Property Custodian. OWI-1032.*
Consumers’ Goods Inventories Are Limited. WPB-2288.*
Order L-228 Affects Only Roofing Products. WPB-T-1470.
Common Packing Materials To Be Scarce. OWI-T-1476.
Los Angeles Electric Supply Firm Suspended. WPB-T-1477.
Coffee Sellers Must File Inventories. OPA-1357.*
Fertilizer Ceilings Up in Some Areas. OPA-1360.*
Citrus Fruit Ceilings To Be Announced. OPA-1378.*
Q. and A. on Heat Stove Rationing. OPA-1382.
West Coast Molasses Prices Frozen. OPA-1383.*

Tank Wagon Oil Price Rise Formalized. OPA-1384.
West Coast Ethyl Alcohol Ceilings Set. OPA-1385.
Housing Rent Regulations Amended. OPA-1388.*
West Coast Log Price Rules Amended.' OPA—T-437.*
Dry Gas Price Base Date Changed. OPA-T-438.
Canned Pears Sold to Govt. Exempted. OPA-T—442.
Eighty-seven Octane Aviation Gasoline Exempt. OPA-T-446.
New Machine Tool Price Rules Amended. OPA T-447.*
War Model Bedspring Maximums Announced. OPA-T-457.*
Steel Fireplace Grate Ceilings Set. OPA-T—458.*
Temporary Price Rise on Ducks Allowed. OPA—T-459.
Intercity Buses Must Load to Limit. ODT—PM—4256.
Federal Employees in Services Reassured. WMC-PM—4257.*
Tank Cars Frozen in Eastern Service. ODT-PM-4258.
Furniture Mart Travel Discouraged. ODT-PM—4259.
Manpower Demands on Factory Towns Noted. WMC-PM-4281.*
Axis Moves Against Underground Chiefs Told. OWI-1009.*
Survey of Army Camp Drinking Published. OWI-1020.*
Ickes Makes Annual Report for Interior. OWI—1028.*
Bakery Products Put Under Restrictions.
Department of Agriculture. OWI-1033.*
Gasoline Credit Cards Restricted. Petroleum Administration For War. OWÍ-1035.*
First Liberty Ship Launched in Florida Yard. Maritime Commission. OWI-1037.
M. H. Hedges Joins Planning Committee. WPB—2295.*
Simplification of Electric Motors Studied. WPB-T—1478.
Uses of Priority Material Expanded. WPB—T—1479.*
Delivery Schedules Determined by Urgency. WPB—T—1480.*
Construction of Theatre Prohibited. WPB—T—1482.
Copper Engraving Plate Re-Use Banned. WPB-T—1483
Fireplace Grates Under 30 Pounds Exempted. WPB-T-1485.
PAW Speeds Priority Applications. Petroleum Administration For War. WPB-T-1486.
Roswell C. Mower Succeeds William Fitzhugh. WPB—T—1487.*
Automobile Rationing Liberalized. OPA— 1377.
Recap Tire Price Rules Clarified. OPA-1386.*
Flour Ceilings Raised 10 Percent. OPA-1389.*
Rent Control Extended in Five States. OPA-1394.
New Passenger Car Stockpile 275,000. OPA-1395.
Trips to Furniture Markets Cancelled. OPA-1396.
Henderson Commends Buyers, Grocers. OPA-1398.*
Kraft Paper Price Table Is Issued. OPA-T-422.
Cigar Pricing Regulations Amended. OPA—T-441.*
New Zealand Lambskin Prices Reduced. OPA-T—448.*
Rubber Substitutes Now Under MPR 220. OPA—T-450.*
Rule Made For Pulp Industry Tax Use. OPA—T-455.*
Appley Named Placement Bureau Chief. WMC-PM-4243.*
Bus Tire Records Not Required. ODT-PM-4260.*
2,300 Firemen Sign Conservation Pledge. ODT—PM-4261.
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Amo Labor Shifting Limited. WMC-PM-4262.*
Pleas Curtail Holiday Traveling. ODT-PM-4263.
First-Aid Film Released by Mines Bureau.
Department of the Interior. OWI-1000.*
Seven Rubber Firms to Work U. S. Synthetic Plant. The Department of Commerce. OWI-1040.
New Merchant Sailors Mail Service Starts. WSA-OWI-1044.
Section Emergency Oil Pipe Washed Out.
Administration for War. OWI-1046.*
2,000,000 Pounds of Butter Released. WPB-2296.
News Print Quotas Fixed for 1943. WPB-2298.
Magazine Paper Rationed at 90 Percent. WPB-2299.*
Electric Fuse Restrictions Tightened. WPB-2300.
Preferences Continue for Refrigeration. WPB-T—1484.
Shoes Gain More Goat, Kid Leather. WPB—T—1489.
Western N. Y., Power Limits Extended. WPB—T—1490.
20 Percent of Sole Leather Set Aside for Repairs. WPB-T-1491.
Maximum Steel Loadings Save Cars. WPB-T—1492.
Aluminum Paints Ruling Extended. WPB-T—1493.
Repairs Ratings High for Metal Mills. WPB—T-1494.
Garment Leather Limitations Extended. WPB—T—1495.
Metal for Plumbing Curtailed Further.
WPB-T-1496. *
Warehouses Can Add to Steel Stocks. WPB-T-1497.*
PRP Issued New Supplementary Form. WPB—T-1498.*
WPB Penalizes Two Manufacturers.
•WPB-T—1500.
Magnesium Order Forms Simplified. WPB—T—1501.
WPB Corrects Steel Release. WPB-T-1503.
New Citrus Ceilings Established. OPA-1339.*
Coffee Stamp 27 Void Sunday Midnight. OPA-1397.*
41 States, D. C., Reuse ’42 Car Plates. OP A—1400.
S. B. Shapiro Heads Car Rationing Section. OPA-1401.*
Point Rationing Q. and A. Corrected. OPA-1402.
Small Car Sales Resumed January 1. OPA-1403.
Merchant Pipe Liaison Named. OPA-1405.
Sitka Spruce Under Specific Ceiling Price. OPA-T—440.*
Synthetic Rubber Price Exemption Defined. OPA-T-452.*
Reclaimed Rubber Under One Price Rule. OPA-T-453.*
Balata Rubber Free of Price Control. OPA-T-456.*
Copper Scrap Imports Exempted. OPA-T-454.
FewEr Anthracite Reports in 1943. OPA-T-460.
Ethyl Alcohol Order Postponed. OPA-T—467. .
Food Chains Reports Modified. OPA-T—468.
Clothiers’ PfeiCES Extended to February 1. OPA—T-469;
Only Eggs Sold to U. S. Free From Price Control. OPA-T-470.
Manpower Program Resume Presented.
WMC—PM-4252.*
Civilian Supply Names Two Division Heads. WPB-2301.
Fuel Stockpiles Required of Gas Users. WPB-2302.

Use of Motion-Picture Films Curtailed. WPB-2303.
Annato Restricted to Food Coloring. WPB-T-1499.*
Margarine Fats Allowances Raised. WPB-T-1504.*
Tobacco Fertiliser Requirement Rescinded. WPB—T—1505.
Straight-Side Wine Bottles Ordered. WPB-T-1506.
Weekly East Coast Petroleum Supply Bulletin. OWI-1047.
Grants for Children’s Services Approved. OWI-1048.*
Higher Preferences Assigned Petroleum. OWI-1049.
Army Field Rations Price-Free to April 1. OPA—T-472.*
Certain Snow Removal Services Exempt. OPA-1387.
Used Vacuum Cleaners Prices Lowered. OPA-1390.
Milk Price Increases Allowed. OPA-1415.*
Ickes Reports on Alaskan Mining in 1942. OWI-1036.*
Victory Book Campaign Preview Test Reported. OWI-1038.*
U. S. Officials Give Outlook for 1943. OWI-1039.*
Bureau of Mines Makes Annual Report.
Department of the Interior. OWI-1041.*
Axis’ Economic Balance Sheet Drawn Up. Board of Economic Warfare. OWI-1042.*
All TVA Facilities Turned to War in 1942. OWI-1043.
Boulder Dam Adds Twelfth Giant Generator. Department of the Interior. OWI-1050.
British Aircraft Engineering Mission Here. OWI-1052.
Mrs. Roosevelt to Open Seamen’s Canteen. WSA. OWI-1055.
July-October Steel Scrap Shipments Announced. WPB—2297.
Smaller War Plants Division Reports on Contracts. WPB-2304.*
Ice-Box Quota for First Quarter Set at 150,000. WPB—2305.*
Limitations on Lead Shipments Are Continued. WPB-T-1488.
Aluminum Scrap Limitations Are Extended. WPB-T-1502.
Oil Industry Supply Stocks Order Amended. T-1507.
Automotive Replacement Parts Order Reissued. WPB—T-1508.
Used Locomotives Now Under Regulatory
Control. WPB-T-1513.*
Sewing Machine Repair Parts Limits Extended. WPB-T—1514.
Hardwood Kiln Drying Classes Revised. OPA-1379.
Construction Boards Ceilings Lowered. OPA-1580.
Ceilings Set on Plywood Fir Byproducts. OPA-1592.*
Q. & A. on Processed Foods Rationing. OPA-1393.*
Manufacturers’ Sugar Rules Amplified. OPA-1399. ,
Text of New Flour Regulation Released. OPA 1404.*
Military Radio Capacitors Exempetd. OPA-1410.
Chief January Rationing Dates Noted. OPA-1411.*
Freight Car Material Control Extended. OPA—1412.
West Coast Molasses Release Corrected. OPA-1413.*
War Workers Got Half of Released Cars. OPA-1414.*
Period 3 Fuel Oil Coupons Cut 10 Percent. Office of Price Administration. OPA-1422.*
Turney Quits as Conservation Chief. ODT-1.
Truckers’ Clearing House Approved.
ODT-2.*

BUY WAR BONDS

RADIO PROGRAMS

Thursday, January 7—6:30-6:45 p. m., EWT—CBS—“100,000,000. Questions”— Program answers questions on rationing, price and rent Control, etc.
Saturday, January 9—12:15-12:30 p. m., EWT—NBC—“Consumer Time”—Department of Agriculture program on food news for consumers.
Saturday, January 9—6-6:30 p. m., EWT—Mutual—“I Hear America Singing”—Program sponsored by the Federal Security Administration, with information concerning the U. S. Employment Service, the Office of Defense Health and Welfare, etc.
Saturday, January 9—7-8 p. m., EWT— Blue—“Over Here”—Treasury program with all-star cast.
Sunday, January 10—11-11:30 a. m., EWT—Blue—“Soldiers of Production”— War Production program with news from the factories of America.
Sunday, January 10—12:15-12:30 p. m. EWT—CBS—“Womanpower”— Program on women’s participation in the war.
Sunday, January 10—2:30-3 p. m., EWT—Blue—“Show of Yesterday and Today”—War Manpower Commission program with news on manpower mobilization.
Sunday, January 10—3:30-4:30 p. m., EWT—NBC—“The Army Hour”—The Army, with pick-ups from at home and overseas.
Sunday, January 10—10:30-11 p. m.— Mutual—“This Is Our Enemy”—Stories which illustrate the nature of our enemy.
Tuesday, January-12—12-12:15 p. «n., EWT—Blue—“Children in Wartime”— Department of Labor program on the problems concerned with caring for children under the stress of wartime.
Tuesday, January 12—2:30-3 p. m., EWT—Blue—“Victory Hour”—War program devoted to the youth of high-school age and the contributions they can make to the war.
Tuesday, January 12—4-4:30 p. m., EWT—All networks—S p e c i a 1 Farm Mobilization Day broadcast with addresses by President Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Wickard and others, and pickups from England, North Africa, and the Pacific fighting front.
Tuesday, January 12—8:30-9 p. m., EWT—Mutual—Special United Nations broadcast with an all-star Hollywood cast. Program celebrates United Nations Week.
Wednesday, January 13—7-7:25 p. m., EWT—Blue—“What Is Your War job?”—A program of information for the War Manpower Commission and the U. S. Employment Service.

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