[Information Digest. No. 544]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

NEWS BUREAU	SEPTEMBER 3, 1942
OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION	NO. 544
WASHINGTON, D. C.
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President Roosevelt, in an address broadcast to an International Student Assembly in Washington and short-waved to other parts of the world, stated the war is "going to be long and hard and bitter." He said, however, "this time we shall know how to make full use of victory" to build a better world. The President said the "Nazis, the Fascists and the militarists of Japan have nothing to offer to youth — except death. " But the "cause of the United Nations is the cause of youth itself, " he said.
The President said "This Government has accepted the responsibility for seeing to it that, wherever possible, work has been provided for those who were willing and able, but who could not find work. That responsibility will continue after the war." He told U. S. fighting men on the world's battle fronts "When you come home we do not propose to involve you, as last time, in a domestic economic mess of our own making... We have profited by our past mistakes... This time the achievements of our fighting forces will not be throwi away by political cynicism and timidity and incompetence. . ." Mr. Roosevelt also said the Government will see to it that men' returning from the fronts can resume their interrupted careers and education. He said the United Nations are "deeply aware" of the hard fight ahead of them "and that there will still be an enormous job for us to do long after the last German, Japanese and Italian bombing planes have been shot to earth."
THE WAR FRONT
Navy Communique No. 117 late today announced U. S. submarines operating in Far
Eastern waters reported the following damage inflicted on the enemy: 1 Japanese light cruiser sunk, 2 small freighters sunk, 1 medi-nm-sized tanker sunk, 1 small steamer sunk, 2 large tankers damaged, 1 medium-sized cargo ship damaged and probably sunk. The above actions are not related to recent operations in the Solomon Islands and have not been announced previously, the communique said.
U. S. Army headquarters in Iceland reported American fighter pilots shot down a German four-motored Focke-wulf plane near Reykjavik in August.
A communique from Gen. MacArthur's headquarters in Australia announced Allied planes have made a heavy attack on the Japanese air base in Buka Island, at the northern end of the Solomons ■— about midway between the U. S. Marine positions in the southern Solomons and Milne Bay, where the Australians smashed a new enemy invasion attempt on New Guinea. In a night attack the bombers put five tons of bombs into the target area, dropping them on the airdrome runway and installations, and in addition, attacked an enemy destroyer in the harbor with unknown results. Allied medium bombers, in addition to the Buka raid, make a severe attack on the enemy airdrome and installations at .Lae, and again put all their tombs in the target area. They met no interception from Japanese fighters which have been inactive for several days, the communique said.
The Navy announced the torpedo-sinking of a medium-sized British merchant vessel in the Caribbean area about mid-August. Survivors have been landed at a Gulf coast port.
CONTROLLING THE COST OF LIVING
TAXATION AND PROFITS
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau recommended to Congress the addition to the 1942 tax bill of a two-point revenue program designed to draw $6,500,000,000 annually into the Treasury — $2,000,000,000 of it as a tax and the remainder as a "debt to the individuals from whom it is collected, to be repaid after the war." The proposals which would reach into $65,000,000,000 of income, he said, are (1) a tax on consumer spending, at 10 percent, which will "reach into the lowest income group above the level of bare subsistence income and will provide high penalty rates for luxury spending"; (2) a "further lowering of exemptions from the income tax applying to family income." In addition, the Treasury recommended a reduction in individual income tax exemptions to $500 for single persons, $1,000 for married couples and $250 for each dependent.
Treasury General Counsel Paul said the "refundable part of the spendings tax" — designed to bring $4,500,000,000 to the Treasury — would be imposed at a flat rate of 10 percent on the total spendings of individuals for consumer goods and services, would apply to all individuals with income subject to the individual income tax, and would be collected at the same time and in the same manner. It would be levied, he said,
on total spendings in excess of $500 for a single person, $1,000 for a married couple, and an additional $250 for each dependent, but wonld apply to total spendings, not merely those above these amounts. The proposed additional individual spendings surtax, imposed at progressive rates beginning at 10 percent on the first $1,000 of spendings and running to 75 percent on spendings over $10,000, would not be refunded after the war. This second surtax on spendings would be imposed on expenditures in excess of an exemption of $1,000 for single persons, $2,000 for married couples, and $500 for each dependent, and would be collected on a current basis requiring individuals to report the approximate amount of spending at short intervals, possibly quarterly, with a final adjustment at the end of the year.
Mr. Paul said the spendings surtax wonld be unduly harsh on large families, and therefore the proposal contained a feature putting the family's tax on a per capita basis. He asked that the new tax be effective as of September 1 because "unless the spendings tax is made effective as of the date on which it is announced, individuals would be given an opportunity to convert their bank deposits into currency, hoping thereby to set aside spendable funds upon which an adequate check could not be made. "
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TAXATION AND PROFITS (Continued)
The spending tax, Mr. Paul said, should not only raise very substantial amounts of revenue needed to finance the war, but would more importantly help as an anti-inflation measure in two ways: (1) "by withdrawing consumer purchasing power and thus reducing the demand for goods"; and (2) "by creating an obstacle to spending, thus checking spending and encouraging saving. Because it will apply only to individual spendings and not to business spendings, it will not interfere with price ceilings... (but) will greatly facilitate the exercise of direct price controls, rationing, and other methods of combating inflation." He suggested the flat rate spending tax be made refundable without interest after the war.
INCOME PAYMENTS
July income payments to individuals ,in the U. S. totaled $9,383 million, the Commerce Department reported, 21 percent higher than in July 1941 and 61 percent higher than in the same month of the pre-war year 1939. Income payments in July of the current year were slightly lower than in the preceding month, but the decline was due mainly to the usual drop in dividends and interest from the large quarterly disbursements made in June, the report said. After allowance for this and other seasonal influences, the Department's index of total income payments advanced from 166.8 in June (revised) to 169.2 in July (1936-39 as 100).
July's expanded flow of income payments when converted to an annual basis is equivalent to the record annual rate of $114 billion, higher by nearly $2 billion than in June and substantially above the annual peaks of $92.1 billion reached in 1941 and $83.6 billion in 1929, the Department said. Income payments during the first 7 months of this year, aggregating $61,613 million, were 64 percent greater than the $39,906 million paid out during the same period of 1939. Nearly four-fifths of this increase was concentrated in the large wage and salary component, which advanced from 66 to 69 percent of total income payments, the Department said.
MAXIMUM PRICES
Federal Judge Philip I. Sullivan temporarily enjoined 9 Chicago packing houses from alleged violations of price regulations, and set September 14 for a hearing on a permanent injunction. At the same time, OPA announced it would seek injunctions in Federal courts in 18 cities to compel more than 100 MEAT packers and distributors to comply with price regulations. The Office said most of the cases involved so-called "upgrading" of BEEF and VEAL, which consists of stamping and selling meat which is inferior at prices established for higher grades. Many of the cases, however, are concerned with "plain and simple over-charging," OPA said.
The OPA announced details of a forthcoming price regulation which will permit APPLE processors to increase their maximum prices for canned apples and applesauce a total of 181 percent; for apple juice and sweet cider, 8 percent in containers of 1 or more gallons and 10 percent in less-than-l-gallon containers; and for dried apples to set a fixed price of 19 cents per ponnd, U. S. Grade A and B and 171 cents per pound Grade C on the Pacific coast -- 2 cents higher on each grade in the Eastern States than prices set for the Pacific. The adjustments allowed
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are for the 1942 pack only, and are figured from the weighted average sales price during the first 60 days of the 1941 season.
Allowances will also be made for use of glass rather than tin in packing. The price raises are to compensate for costs of producing, harvesting and processing which have advanced since the 1941 season. The differential for dried apples in the East is to encourage drying of apples in that area so that unusual military demands may be met. 'The Department of Agriculture has indicated it will purchase dried apples if packed to meet the specified U. S. grades, OPA said. OPA said announcement will be made later with respect to maximum prices for distributors and retailers of these apple products.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that during the last week of August its index of prices of nearly 900 series in primary markets remained unchanged for the third consecutive week at its 16-year-record level, 98.9 percent of the 1926 average.
"Similar fabrics" sold by manufacturers of woolens and worsted goods for CIVILIAN APPAREL are to be priced by a new method, effective September 3, which provides: (1) Maximum prices for fabrics covered by the regulation — those similar in use, serviceability and appearance to a fabric previously sold by the manufacturer during a designated base selling period — are now based upon the maximum price of the fabric previously sold, adjusted to the extent of the difference between the raw materials and manufacturing costs of both fabrics. (2) Ceiling prices for manufacturers are placed on a "standard opening price" basis. (3) Minimum term discounts required of manufacturers are defined. (4) The definition of the term "comparable fabrics" has been clarified. (6) Where formulae of the regulation are not applicable, a method for determining prices is provided. (6) A premium is allowed for decorations added to fabrics for style purposes. (7) Manufacturers may calculate ceilings to the closest 24-cents-per—yard to preserve a recognized trade practice. (8) The definition of the term "woolen or worsted apparel fabrics" now excludes pile fabrics but includes necktie fabrics, shirting and meltons.
The OPA excluded from provisions of the General Regulation sales by printers and publishers of ELECTROTYPE PLATES classified as obsolete by the WPB and also sales of BACKING METAL obtained by "sweating" the lead-tin antimony alloy backing from the plate's copper shells. The Office established maximum prices for HIGH ALLOY CASTINGS at levels prevailing between October 1 and 16, 1941, effective September 7. The Office also placed HAND OPERATED TOOLS designed for manufacture, re-Îair or maintenance of aircraft, military ehicles and other military equipment under aximum price regulations. An amendment to he machinery and transportation equipment schedule placed all RADIO PARTS AND APPARATUS under ceilings at the highest price charged on March 31. Postponement of the effective date of maximum price regulations substantially reducing ceilings for NORMAL BUTYL ALCOHOL and ACETONE, produced by both fermentation and synthesis, from September 3 to October 3 was ordered by OPA.
STABILIZATION OF FARM PRICES
The Agriculture Department announced the average price of all flue-cured tobacco sold on auction markets during the period from August 24 to 28, inclusive, was $34.86
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STABILIZATION OF FARM PRICES (Continued)
per 100 pounds. The average, determined by the AMA, was published in connection with a recent OPA regulation which provides any person purchasing flue-cured tobacco during the periods from August 31 through September 29 and from September 30 through October 29 shall not pay more than the weighted average price per pound paid by the same person during the period August 24 through 28, 1942.
Secretary Wickard named an Agricultural Wage Board, with Ralph Y. De Wolfe, head of the
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USDA War Board in New York, as Chairman, to open public hearings in western New York to determine the prevailing wage for workers in the vegetable and fruit crops in that area. The Board is composed of one representative each of the WMC and the U.S. Employment Service and two representatives of the Agriculture Department. Mr. Wickard said designation of the board is a preliminary step taken by the Government in the program to transport agricultural workers to areas where labor is needed to produce and harvest vitally needed war crops.
LEND-LEASE AID
Reciprocal Lend-Lease aid to the U. S. already covers a range as wide as the requirements and geography of a global war, and is being provided to this country on the same basis as we are providing Lend-Lease help to other countries, in order to pool all the resources of the United Nations for most effective use against the enemy, the OWI announced. Such aid is being provided without dollar payment under the terms of master agreements with countries receiving U. S. Lend-Lease help, and is supplemented by an exchange of notes signed today at the State Department with Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and in London with the Fighting French. The agreements define the types of aid rendered us under reciprocal Lend-Lease, the methods by which it is furnished, and provide for the keeping of appropriate records, OWI said. Master Lend-Lease agreements with Russia, China and other countries receiving aid from the U. S. also provide for reciprocal aid as the need arises and where war conditions make it possible for them to furnish us such supplies and services.
"For American forces abroad it ranges from squadrons of Spitfires to new fan belts for Army trucks — from building airdromes and naval bases to • D’ ration chocolate bars and bananas at the soldiers’ mess -- from convoy protection for U. S. troopships arriving in British waters to filling the gas tanks of U. S. ferry planes at airports newly laid out in jungles or deserts" the OWI said, "American fighting men are getting these and many other kinds of supplies and services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Africa and Egypt, in the hot countries of the Middle East, in India, Australia, New Zealand and islands of the Pacific. Australian and New Zealand Lend-Lease help already provided to U. S. forces in that area compares in volume to our Lend-Lease help to Australia and Newr Zealand." The Office said British barrage balloons and antiaircraft guns are strengthening U. S. home defense and British corvettes are doing anti-submarine duty in U. S. waters, while specifications of newly-invented British devices for both attack and defense are available to U. S. war production.
Britain’s merchant fleet, much larger than the United States’, is helping move American troops to fighting fronts, and one huge depot in Britain has been Lend-Leased to the U. S. air forces along with its operating personnel of 6,000. Another RAF depot which used to assemble American planes Lendl-Leased to Britain is being used by the U. S:., and two big repair depots being built by the British for U. S. requirements are near com
pletion. Many RAF airdromes have been turned over to American forces, and the British provide repair and maintenance for British equipment used by Americans.
Reciprocal aid covers primarily military items, production assistance and supplies for the U. S. armed forces, but raw materials essential to war production are also being provided from British Empire sources in return for dollar payments which enable the British to pay in cash for non-Lend-Lease supplies in this country. Total British cash purchases in the ü. S. since September 1939 are about $7,000,000,000, a great deal more than total U. S. Lend-Lease deliveries to the British so far, OWI said.
ARMY EXPANSION
Secretary of War Stimson at a press conference announced organization of the 12th Army Corps at Columbia, S. C. , with Maj. Gen. William H. Simpson commanding; the 3rd Armored Corps at Camp Polk, La., with Maj. Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger commanding; the 11th Armored Division at Camp Polk, with Maj. Gen. Edward H. Brooks commanding; and the 12th Armored Division at Camp Campbell, Ky., with Maj. Gen. Carlos Brewer commanding. Mr. Stimson said the 13th Armored Division will be organized at Camp Beale, Calif., with Brig. Gen. John B. Wogan commanding, and the 14th Armored Division will be organized at Camp Chaffee, Ark., with Brig. Gen. Vernon E. Prichard commanding.
At the same time, Mr. Stimson stated troop movements by rail during the first 9 months of the present war have been more than 3 times the number during the comparable period of World War I — 6,500,000 since December 7, 1941, as compared with 1,916,417. In June of 1942, the Transportation Corps, SOS, moved almost 1,000,000 soldiers by rail, as opposed to 308,000 in June 1917. He said close cooperation between the nation's railroads and the Transportation Corps made it possible to accomplish these movements without serious disruption of civilian traffic, although many of them took place in the peak of a holiday season, and were accompanied by enormous loads of military freight.
Secretary Stimson announced the War Department has adopted a policy of hiring women in preference to civilian men of military age. He said the Army’s employment of women will be extended as far as possible so that men may be free for service with the armed forces or other vital war production tasks for which women are unfitted. About 300,000 women are already employed in War Department activities, and as many more can be
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ARMY EXPANSION (Continued) absorbed, he said. Besides clerical jobs, they work in arsenals and other Army plants, running cranes, lathes, etc.
Army Air Forces Commander Arnold approved plans setting aside September 26 to November 6 for solicitation within the Air Forces of memberships in the Army Emergency Relief. Gen. Arnold said he believed each Air Corps officer and enlisted man would contribute, to the extent of his individual ability, to the fund, a percentage of which is allocated for use of the Air Forces.
ARMY AERONAUTICAL RATINGS
The War Department announced new Army regulations listing 12 aeronautical ratings open to officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States — Command Pilot, Senior Pilot, Pilot, Senior Balloon Pilot, Balloon Pilot, Senior Service Pilot, Service Pilot, Senior Aircraft Observer, Aircraft Observer, Technical Observer, Glider Pilot and Liaison Pilot — and at the same time placed command of tactical units of the Army Air Forces only in Air Corps officers qualified as pilots. Enlisted men are eligible for all the ratings listed except that of Technical Observer, which can be held only by an Air Corps officer and qualified pilot. Pilots of service types of aircraft, eligible to command under the new regulations, are designated as any officer, warrant officer, flight officer or enlisted man of the Army who on July 2, 1926, held any aeronautical rating as a pilot, or who has subsequently been or may hereafter be granted a'rating as Command Pilot, Senior Pilot, Pilot, Senior Balloon Pilot, Balloon Pilot, Senior Service Pilot, Service Pilot, Glider Pilot or Liaison Pilot. With three exceptions, only flying officers rated as pilots of service aircraft who are commissioned in the Air Corps, and qualified permanent generals of the line who hold pilot ratings for service types, may command tactical units of the Army Air Forces, posts, camps, stations, depots, schools, and other commands. The exceptions are in air transport units or where the unit is equipped solely with liaison aircraft or with gliders.
The regulation provides that for the duration of the war, plus six months, flight surgeons and commissioned officers or warrant officers undergoing flying training shall be considered as flying officers. A flying officer entitled to flight pay — 50 percent of base pay — is designated by the regulation as one who holds a pilot rating on service types of planes, or a rating as an aircraft observer, or as any other member of a combat crew, including bombardiers, navigators, photographers, radio operators and gunners.
NAVY
The Navy said the first groups of Negro recruits have completed their basic training at Camp Robert Smalls, Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill., and additional recruits have taken the places of those who are being assigned to duty or schools for further training. Of the first 222 to complete their basic training, 102 will receive advanced, specialized training at Hampton Institute or at Great Lakes. The first advanced classes begin September 15, and a new group will be trained at both places each month.
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Probationary officers, officer candidates, and midshipmen of the Women's Naval Reserve will be trained at Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., as well as at Smith College, the Navy announced. Although no dates for the training were announced, the Navy said schedules will be set so the same teaching staff may be used at both schools.
SHIPPING
Sixty-eight new vessels — 57 Liberty ships, 4 large tankers, 3 C-2 cargo ships, 2 cargo vessels for the British, 1 large combination passenger-cargo ship and 1 large Great Lakes ore carrier — were put into service during August, the Maritime Commission announced. Representing a total of 753,600 deadweight tons, 31 were produced on the Pacific coast, 24 on the Atlantic coast, 12 at Gulf coast yards, and 1 on the Great Lakes. Failure to meet or exceed July production of 71 ships was due to shortages of bar structural steel during May and June and the conversion of some Maritime Commission facilities for Naval construction, the Commission said, but there is "every indication" that the goal of 3 completed ships a day will be reached in September.
TRANSPORTATION
Establishment of a third Joint Information Office under the ODT's truck conservation program, located at 1424 Sixteenth Street, N. W. , Washington, D. C. , was announced by ODT. John Reed Scott was named Manager of the office which will assist truck operators serving the District of Columbia and surrounding communities in complying with ODT regulations. The office will make a charge of one dollar for each clearance statement issued to a truck operator utilizing services of the office.
After conferences with the ODT, the OPA authorized tank truck operators to charge rates above levels of last March, subject to OPA adjustment, in order to aid the ODT in obtaining the fullest utilization of all types of tank equipment. At the same time, as a protection to the general price level, OPA required operators in reporting new rates to include a statement from the person paying the transportation charge that the increase would not be the basis of a commodity price increase or petition to OPA to raise already set commodity ceiling prices.
Terminal delay by railroad carriers at interchange points, especially of war freight, can be greatly reduced by a joint mechanical inspection plan at gateways where a delivering road turns over freight to a connecting line, Frank Swanson, Mechanical Assistant of the ODT Railway Transport Division, told the Northwest Carmen's Association at St. Paul. He said with the shortage of manpower growing more critical joint inspection will undoubtedly have to be extended to all railroads.
W'R INSURANCE
Secretary of Commerce Jones reported premiums collected to August 31 for protection by War Damage Corporation against enemy attack aggregate $106,000,000, and that it is estimated approximately $80,000,000,000 of such protection is in force. More than 3,600,000 policies have been written, Mr. Jones said, the great majority of which are for less than $10,000. Many policies have been issued for
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more than $100,000,000, however, he said, and United States Steel Corp, and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. have each taken ont more than a billion and a quarter dollars insurance.
PROTECTION AGAINST SABOTAGE
FWA Administrator Fleming announced two parallel codes for protecting against air raid hazards and sabotage approximately 20,000 buildings and parts of buildings in Washington and throughout the nation used by the Federal Government. The codes were drafted by two Interdepartmental Committees, organized under direction of PBA Commissioner Reynolds. Several of the committee members had previously visited England and made an intensive study of protective measures in use there.
OIL AND COAL
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes told a press conference that "scarcity areas" may develop in the mid-West and Gulf Southwest because of the recent requisitioning of gasoline tank cars in 20 States. If these areas develop, he said, "we may have to do some rationing there," first by curtailment of deliveries to filling stations, and in case of severe conditions through coupon books. Mr. Ickes said there are now 68,000 tank cars in the Eastern service, which in the week ended August 29 brought 823,260 barrels of petroleum products daily into the East. He stated a new order will be filed soon to replace the present prohibition on fuel oil deliveries to Eastern consumers until September 16.
Acting Solid Fuels Director Gray reported anthracite coal mines will automatically go on a six-day week beginning November 1 and "perhaps in advance of that date."
SCRAP SALVAGE
The WPB authorized the bottling industry to collect the larger tin cans — No. 10 size — and retain a third of them for use in making bottle caps. After the crown caps are stamped ont, the remaining two-thirds of the cans will go into the scrap metals campaign.
The Army’s scrap campaign since July 1 has yielded 131,000,000 pounds — approximately 66,000 tons — of vitally needed scrap metal, as well as 2,224 tons of scrap rubber, the War Department announced. Further intensification of its salvage and conservation program until the Army, down to the lowest echelon, is effectively "salvage conscious" has been ordered, the Department said. PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS
To speed up delivery of SPECIAL CUTTING TOOLS used in new or rebuilt machine tools, the WPB adopted the following plan: Each producer of cutting tools, commencing with October production, must schedule his monthly output of each type for delivery according to instructions in the new order. Ten percent of this total should be scheduled for delivery against orders for special tools required for original tooling, provided the producer has this many orders on hand. The sequence of deliveries in the 10 percent pool should be determined by applicable priorities regulations. Preference in the remainder of the pool should be given to purchase orders for todls required by Army, Navy or Maritime contractors as a result of change in design
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The Board revoked the order permitting manufacture and use of TERNEPLATE CANS for packing lubricating oil until September 30 — except for sale to Government agencies as specified under Order M-81. No restriction is placed on the sale of terneplate cans which had been packed with oil prior to the revocation order on September 2. All manufacture of tinplate or terneplate cans and blackplate oil cans for civilian use is now barred. An order providing for allocation of armor-piercing and semi-armor-piercing shot steel was revoked, because all alloy steel, including shot steel, is under complete allocation under Order M-21-a.
The Board established manufacturing specifications for coil and tube assemblies for refrigeration condensers or coolers which will save an estimated 40 pounds of COPPER for each ton of refrigeration capacity.
WPB froze all NOBLE FIR LOGS and WESTERN HEMLOCK AIRCRAFT LOGS in the hands of their owners as of September 11 to conserve aircraft grades of logs. Processing after the freezing date is prohibited except with WPB authorization. Although restrictions apply to all stocks held orivately or by the Government in the U. S. and'Alaska, logs in transit September 11 may be delivered to their immediate destination.
The RAYON YARN allocation order was amended to: (1) add Cuprammonium rayon yarn to the kinds of which a producer must set aside a percentage for export to South America (this will add about 58,000 pounds a month to the amount available for export to South America; (2) change the procedure for obtaining export licenses to facilitate export of the reserved rayon yarn; and (3) establish control over the distribution of residual supplies of rayon yarn to asc&rtain that a customer who fills rated orders gets as much of the residual rayon yarn for civilian business as a customer who does not have rated orders. Residual yarn is that remaining with producers after domestic and export allocations and rated orders have been met.
The Board extended the limitation order on FLUORESCENT LIGHTING FIXTURES from September 1 to October 1. The order prohibits sale or manufacture of such fixtures using tubes rated at more than 30 watts, with certain listed exceptions. To eliminate much paper work, the Board amended restrictions on the sale and delivery of AMERICAN EXTRA STAPLE COTTON and IMPORTED EGYPTIAN COTTON to provide WPB authorization for sale or delivery of such cotton from one merchant to another is no longer required.
Frank Walton, Deputy Chief of the Textile, Clothing and Leather Branch, asked the WPB Compliance Branch to investigate violations of the men's and women's clothing simplification orders by manufacturers of so-called "zoot suits" for men and "juke" coats for women which feature use of large amounts of fabrics.
LABOR DISPUTES
Secretary of Labor Perkins certified to the War Labor Board the following disputes: Lacey Manufacturing Co., Los Angeles, Calif.; Oliver Farm Equipment Co., Charles City, Iowa;
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Post Cereal Products Co., Battle Creek, Mich.; and Franklin Steel Works, Franklin, Pa.
The U. S. Conciliation Service reported settlement al the following disputes: Simplex Wire & Cable Co., Boston, Mass.; Alexander Milburn Co., Baltimore, Md.; 14 machine shops, New Orlea: j, La.: Fruehauf Trailer Co., Los Angeles, Calif.; Tennessee—Schuylkill Co., Kingman, Aris.; 4 oil companies, East Chicago and Hammond, Ind.; and Mohawk Carpet Co., Amsterdam, N. Y.
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APPOINTMENTS
HERBERT C. HUNSAKER, Dean of Cleveland College, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, was appointed HEAD of the OWI Division of Adult Education to “direct the work of citizen discussion of war issues and of educational services to community and private groups,“ Lyman Bryson, Chief of the OWI Bureau of Education, announced.
(All information herein is from official sources.)
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