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OFFICIAL WEEKLY BULLETIN OF THE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
WASHINGTON, D. C.
SEPTEMBER 29, 1942
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 39
THE FACTS ABOUT ALL THE SCRAP CAMPAIGNS
Every American wants to do everything he can to win the war. Every American knows that winning the war depends on salvaging used materials. But each one must know what is being done and how he fits into it. Therefore, VICTORY has sifted all available information about campaigns, past, present and future, and assembled the facts to present a coherent picture.
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U. S. asks civilians to cut meat-eating to 2^2 pounds a week; deliveries limited, probably to 79 percent
Through its chairman. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, the foods requirements committee of the War Production Board announced September 24 two steps implementing the wartime meat program established earlier this month.
To make certain of sufficient meat for Army, Navy, and Lend-Lease uses, the committee set up a policy of limiting total packer deliveries of meat into civilian consumption, and placed the limit for such deliveries during the final quarter of 1942 at the following percentages of total packer deliveries during the final quarter of 1941: Beef and veal, 80 percent; lamb and mutton, 95 percent; pork, 75 percent.
To provide for fair sharing of this meat supply, the committee asked civilians voluntarily to hold consumption at 2^ pounds per person per week.
Limitation orders effectuating the policy on restricted civilian meat deliveries by packers will be drafted and issued by the Office of Price Administration.
Secretary Wickard pointed out that, statistically, the limitation figures for the last 3 months of 1942 indicate an overall reduction of 21 percent below the amount of beef, veal, pork, lamb, and mutton available in the last quarter of 1941. However, in actual operation, the order may not result in so great a cut, since adjustments will be made when necessary to allow for changes during the past year in the pattern of distribution, and the wartime food requirements of different areas.
Wickard commented that the allowance to which civilians are asked to limit themselves in the interest of fair distribution is entirely adequate for good nutrition.
Explaining the two new steps taken in the wartime meat program,'Secretary Wickard Issued the following statement:
During the coming year American farms will produce and packing plants will handle over 24 billion pounds—a -greater amount of meat than ever before in history.
But the demand for this meat will be even greater than the huge supply.
Three weeks ago we estimated Army, Navy, and Lend-Lease needs at 6 billion
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GASOLINE RATIONING, 35-MILE SPEED TO BLANKET NATION
On the recommendation of Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers, the Government late Saturday took the following actions:
The Office of Defense Transportation ordered a 35-mile-an-hour speed limit for all vehicles except scheduled trucks and busses, effective October 1. Governors of the States were to be asked to put the limit into operation.
The Office of Price Administration announced Nation-wide gasoline rationing would go into effect about November 22.
Earlier story on page 5
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RATIONING /
U. S. asks civilians to hold meat-eating to 2^ pounds a week_____________________ -1
OPA to test use of banks to handle rationing paper_______•_________________________ 4
Rubber chief asks Nation-wide gas rationing, 35-mile speed__________________	5
Why fuel oil is rationed and what we can do about it______________________________ 6
Questions and answers on converting oil burners to coal_______________________ 9
Ceiling on wood prices relaxed to increase New England supply____________________ 9
AGRICULTURE
WPB releases copper chemicals for farm insecticides_______—_________________ 11
TRANSPORTATION
Gasoline low on new priority list for use of tank cars____________________________ 11
WAR PRODUCTION
How WPB officers will grant priorities in field________________________________ 12
Nelson drafts Eberstadt from Army-Navy board to integrate schedules_________ 13
AAA ratings in emergencies to prevent stoppage of production___________________ 13
Steel production directives are reported successful___________________________ IS
Fats and oils limited to build up a reserve supply________________________'______ 14
CONSERVATION
The story of the campaigns to collect scrap materials__________________________ 16
PRICE ADMINISTRATION
Prices going up on fruit products—_____	20
OPA will help retailers cut costs without violating ceilings_________________ 21
Henderson opposes boost in rail rates for the South_________________________— 23
WAR INFORMATION
Davis stops or curtails 523 publications— 26
HEALTH AND WELFARE
U. S. recommends program to protect children in wartime____________________ 30
MANPOWER
Government moves to meet local shortages of doctors__-______a_______________ 32
WAR-WINTERS ARE COLD!
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Business and professional women to help enlist aid in salvage campaign
The conservation division of WPB announced September 23 that it was holding conferences with a group of well-known business and professional women to discuss ways and jneans of achieving fuller participation in the National Sal- t vage Campaign by women in all parts of the country.
The group which has been meeting with officials of the Conservation Division includes:
Miss Alice Haley, New York City; Miss Helen Robertson, Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Sally Woodward, Minneapolis, Minn.; Miss Essie Elliott, San Francisco, Calif.; Miss Jean MacDougall, Chicago, Ill.; Miss Ruth Atwater, Washington, D. C.; Miss Edwina Nolan, Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Vivian Shirley Nason, Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Mabel Flanley, New York City; Miss Grace Hartley, Atlanta, Ga.
Will help plan programs
Following the conference in Washington, the women will go to various parts of the country to work closely with local salvage officials in developing programs on a local basis.
Where active programs are already under way in which women are involved, the members of this group will work with are officials in charge.
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On the Home Front
With our fighting fronts at great dis--tances from our homes the surface appearance of our country at war is at first deceptive; There are, of course, many more men in uniform. Correspondingly, we miss young men behind drugstore counters, filling station attendants, shipping clerks, younger doctors, business-men, and many of our college boys. But store' shelves still hold a wide variety of goods; food is abundant, people are well dressed—on the average, perhaps somewhat better dressed than before the war—and if the cars on the road are fewer in number, they are not by any means as few as they will be.
War energy seethes beneath surface ■
Beneath the surface, however, profound changes are taking place. War energy is seething and its ferment is manifest in many places, in many ways—in teeming streets, jampacked busses and street cars, overcrowded dwellings in scores of war-boom towns and cities. In such surroundings a great deal of money is being spent, lor there is money to spend. But already war prosperity is mingled with physical discomfort. There will be more discomfort, and fewer things to buy, as the war program advances. This year war production was only 40 percent of total production. Next year we must step up that war proportion to 60 percent. And taxes will skim off surplus buying power.
When War Production Board Chairman Donald Nelson said that “two things are chiefly demanded of us—unity and endurance,” he was saying that total war calls for no half-way measures, that the price of survival for a free nation is bound to be high. The immense effort required to see that available stocks of goods are distributed where they will count most in carrying on the war leads to restrictive orders, with penalties for those who violate them. But the success of these measures will be only partial without voluntary cooperation on the part of every last one of us. Said War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul McNutt: “The people of this Nation have committed the lives of their young men to battle for our freedom beyond the seas. They will not permit those lives to be wasted so a few may do as they please.”
A test of self-control
The voluntary principle will be put to the test in the 30 States where fuel oil
as well as to free machines and manpower for war work, in time will be extended to other fields.
Freight cars carry more
Management, labor, engineering, and science constantly are working to devise better and quicker ways of handling war goods production, speeding transportation, finding substitutes for scarce materials, using those on hand to better advantage. In a single month 115 of the Nation’s major railroads boosted average loads per freight car by more than a thousand pounds. Fjeight congestion and delay to cars at terminals have been relieved by the cooperative action of shippers and carriers. New rail routes have been opened to shunt heavy coal movements from the fields of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky to New England. Tank c'ar shipments of oil to the east coast have shown record-breaking in- * creases.
The Government’s laboratories are experimenting with methods of cutting the tin content of tin plate for fish canning by % to % the present amount. Reclamation engineers in the West have developed metal-covered wooden wheels instead of rubber tires for portable cement mixers, and reinforced concrete tires for a portable welding machine. Carpet manufacturers have produced new floor coverings as substitutes for scarce wool carpet fabrics.
The search for materials.
Army-Navy War Production rallies are being held in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania to step up coal production, desperately needed to supplement the fuel oil rations and to provide fuel needed by war industry. War Savings Bonds will be awarded by the U. S. Maritime Commission to shipyard workers who contribute the most practical ideas for speeding output and cutting waste. Retailers are meeting with Government agencies at Washington to discuss a “retail assistance” program designed.to cut deliveries and end “frill” services for the duration. Less sugar will go to making condensed milk as milk processors turn more raw milk into butter, cheese, and milk powder, all vitally needed for war supplies. “Over-age” metal plates that accumulate in printing and publishing will be salvaged for scrap, including zinc photoengravings and electrotypes. But we are warned that unless the country’s scrap and salvage campaign goes into high gear this autumn, our blast furnaces will be forced to cut down production.
has been rationed. The plan sets quotas on the basis of average temperatures in E four climate zones, with subzones within । the main zones to allow for local differ- । ences in normal temperatures. It is a । fair plan, a democratic plan, but its sue- । cess finally depends on the individual, £ on his real desire to make “short rations” j go as far as possible, for the good of all. {
There are other and more indirect { forms of rationing. One of these is “cer-tificate rationing,” about to be applied to
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men’s rubber boots and rubber work shoes to insure supplies to men on war jobs. Dealers may not dispose of stocks except to purchasers who bring certificates from their local rationing board. Another kind of rationing, called “licensing control,” operates by means of licenses to sell issued by the War Production Board, which thus controls use and distribution of the things to be sold. This form of rationing has just been extended to cover sales of used machine tools or second-hand machines or parts.
Even wood becomes critical
In a country that has been producing around 25 billion board feet of lumber annually, wood has become a critical material. Great quantities of lumber have been used to build cantonments. Ship construction, special kinds of wood needed in the aircraft industry, gunstocks, and the like have drawn heavily on supply. Most of our lumber has been placed under some form of control, and now there are to be further controls on the furniture industry. This industry probably will adopt the plan recently put into effect in the manufacture of bicycles—a few plants, known as “nucleus plants,” will continue to operate, concentrating all essential civilian furniture manufacture in a limited number of factories. The plan for “concentration of industry,” a plan designed to save materials
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RATIONING...
OPA will test use of banks to handle ration paper and issue “checks” on it .
A ration-banking plan to facilitate and safeguard the handling of ration coupons in trade channels after use by the consumer has been devised for Nation-wide uSe by the OPA and will be tested first for a six-week period in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, N. Y., area beginning within a month.
In making the announcement, Price Administrator Henderson said the plan contemplates use of all the State and national bank and clearing house facilities of the Nation. It has been worked out by the OPA with the cooperation and * approval of leading bankers, the Federal Reserve Board, Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and bears the approval of the Superintendent of Banking of New York State.
Will simplify operations
Nation-Wide operation of the plan, Mr. Henderson said, will remove from the local War Price and Rationing Boards the tremendous burden of counting and clearing the hundreds of millions of rationing stamps now coming into their hands each month under sugar rationing, and'gasoline rationing in the East, and will facilitate the operation of all fu-
Entire civilian supply of specified canned fruits, juices brought under WPB control
The WPB September 26 imposed controls over distribution by canners of the entire civilian supply of a large number of canned fruits, vegetables, and fruit and vegetable juices. The purpose of the action is to spread the supply more equitably among wholesale and retail distributors and also to provide more even distribution to consumers in all parts of the country.
No restrictions are placed on jellies, jams, marmalades, preserves, pickles, relishes, soups, or packed foods for infants and Invalids.
The order (M-237) places quotas on canners’ deliveries of specified canned.
Restrictions placed on sugar used in bulk condensed milk
New rules for use of sugar in making condensed milk, designed to conserve sugar by encouraging the processing of the milk into other essential foods not requiring use of this rationed commodity, were announced September 21 by OPA.
The milk processors, under the new plan, will be allotted sugar for the condensing of milk only if the milk so processed cannot be preserved by manufacture into other essential food products such as butter, cheese and milk powder, all vitally needed for our military forces and Lend-Lease shipments.
Condensed milk manufactured for packaging in 1-gallon or smaller containers is not affected by the new rules, which apply only to so-called “bulk packaging.”
In view of the abundant supply of evaporated milk on hand, capacity for producing evaporated milk will not make an’applicant ineligible to receive sugar for bulk condensed milk under the new arrangement.
The amendment, No. 14 to Ration Order No. 3, becomes effective November 1, 1942.	„
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Essential workers assured needed gasoline
Migratory workers, including farm laborers who move with the harvest from one section of the country to another, / need have no fear of being stranded away from home by the advent of national gasoline rationing, William M. Jeffers, WPB rubber director, announced September 24.
Under present gasoline rationing in the East, and under plans being prepared for the entire Nation to conserve the country’s auto tires, workers engaged on farms and war construction projects rank as essential workers in the war effort. They therefore are entitled to supplementary gasoline rations to move about as their work requires.
Those now away from home who decide to stay in the areas where they are now working, will be entitled to gasoline rations necessary to enable them to carry on their work, and to get ba^k to their home towns when their work has been completed.
ture rationing programs requiring use of coupons. He said it will prove of great value to business men Who now frequently have to wait in line at their ration board offices to turn in their coupons.
The ration-banking plan provides for the deposit of ration coupons just as currency is deposited in the bank by business men, with subsequent transactions handled by checks. The consumer’s use of the coupons is in no way affected, the control starting, in the case of sugar coupons, with the retailer, and in the case of gasoline, with the wholesaler. Cost of the services rendered by the banks will be borne by the OPA.
“The plan visualizes that each sugar and gasoline merchant, except gasoline retailers, would open a ration banking account at a bank, where he would deposit all ration credits received from consumers or other traders. These credits Would then be transferred against the movement of rationed merchandise by the use of non-negotiable ‘transfer voucher’ drawn by the buyer to the account of the seller, who in turn would deposit it for credit in his own account. The voucher would then be cleared back to the bank on which it was drawn for debit to the maker’s account.”
fruits, vegetables, and juices which will be available to civilians after military and Lend-Lease requirements are met.
Supplementary Order M-86-a, which was issued on June 27, required canners to set aside fixed percentages of 24 kinds of canned fruits, vegetables, and juices for the armed forces and Lend-Lease. The remaining supply of these 24 products and the total supply of all of the other specified commodities are controlled by Order M-237.
The fixed percentages of the products ordered set aside by Order M-86-a for military and Lend-Lease purposes represent about one-third of the total 1942 pack of canned fruits and vegetables.
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Nation-wide gasoline rationing ordered: Jeffers asks-speed cut to 35 miles to save rubber and win the war
Nation-wide gasoline rationing on the same basis as the gasoline rationing program now existing in the 17 Eastern States was ordered September 25 by Rubber Director William M. Jeffers. He also called for a speed limit of 35 miles an hour and asked voluntary control by motorists until the program can be got under way.
The rationing program will be carried . out by the Office of Price Administration. ODT to review program
Mr.'Jeffers’ directive:
1.	The Office of Price Administration is hereby directed and authorized to institute Nation-wide gasoline rationing on the same basis as the gasoline rationing program now existing in the Eastern States.
2.	It will be understood that after the installation of a Nation-wide gasoline rationing, the Office of Defense Transportation will review the > program from the standpoint of Its effects upon the transportation service of the Nation.
3.	The existing arrangements between the Office' of Defense Transportation and the Office of Price Administration relative to rations for commercial vehicles in accordance with General Order ODT No. 21 will be continued and extended throughout the Nation.
With his directive, the first official action as the Nation’s Rubber Director, Mr. Jeffers issued this statement:
As Rubber Director I am charged with three principal duties:
First, to provide the rubber for military needs.
Second, to provide tires for essential civilian driving and rubber for essential manufacturing needs.
Third, to accomplish these two requirements with as little disturbance as possible to - the economic life of our citizens.
The rubber for our military needs—and to meet the commitments made to our allies— must and will be provided.
Wants to avoid regimentation
The rubber for essential civilian needs must also be provided.	z
The third duty, that of keeping our economic life from breaking down, is in the hands of each of the 27,000,000 civilian drivers in the Nation—each one is a soldier in this rubber war—and I believe all will be volunteers.
To accomplish this it is necessary for all of us to start on a common basis and to stick to it for the duration. I believe it can be done most fairly by fixing a maximum speed limit
of not to exceed 35 miles per hour and by Nation-wide rationing of gasoline.
Most of all I want to avoid the necessity for any additional curtailment of either the speed limit or the gasoline rationing programs that now are proposed. I want to avoid any enforced regimentation. I ask you to be your own policeman. I ask—and I am sure we will have—the wholehearted support and cooperation of all citizens. I know everybody is anxious to help his country win this war.
It will be impossible, of course, to get this program under way immediately in all its phases In every State. I urge, therefore, that every citizen ration his own driving and reduce his own speed in the interim. We can save a tremendous amount of rubber in a single day if every driver does his part. I ask each of you to take part in this voluntary program.
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Concrete tires
Concrete is the latest substitute for rubber in irrigation and power plant construction work by reclamation engineers in the West.
Commissioner John C. Page of the Bureau of Reclamation reported September 23 to Secretary of the Interior Ickes that an engineer on the Parker Dam power project near Phoenix, Ariz., had cast reinforced concrete tires on the rims Of a four-wheeled portable welding machine.
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Blame the Axis for this one too
Plenty of petroleum, not in right places, means fuel oil rationing for 30 States; want can be relieved by shift to coal
Today the population of 30 of the 48 States, an area containing 97,000,000 of the country’s 135,000,000 citizens,, is faced with that almost inevitable concomitant of war—a shortage of fuel.
The program of fuel oil rationing, which begins October 15 throughout the Eastern Seaboard States and the Midwest, has $iis in common with all other forms of rationing: it is intended to make a scarce product go as far as possible and to assure everyone his fair share of that product.
Problems of transportation
Shortage of fuel oil is no more due to a shortage of petroleum than was the shortage of gasoline which first brought gasoline rationing to the 17 Eastern States and the District of Columbia. The fuel-oil shortage is only another aspect of the problem which produced a shortage of gasoline throughout much of the United States. It is fundamentally a problem of transportation. This country produces almost twice as much crude petroleum as all the rest of the world put together and this production has risen tremendously in the decades since World War I.
Fuel oil, by 1941, was moving our warships and our merchant vessels, pulling freight or our railroads, heating our factories. Fuel oil was converted into power in our power plants and used in metal furnaces. Last year the East alone consumed 175,000,000 barrels of heavy fuel oil.
Increasing amounts of fuel oil, light and heavy, were used to heat hotels, apartments, and private homes. In 1940,10 percent of all the occupied dwelling units in the country which reported their heating fuel to the Bureau of Census were using fuel oil, kerosene (in that year we produced 69,000,000 barrels of kerosene for lighting and for domestic cooking), or gasoline, but the proportion varied greatly between different States in different sections. Of the 33,867,260 dwelling units which reported, 3,396,212 were oil heated—and 2,190,126 of them were in East Coast States.
Sub changes situation
It’s plain that in our peacetime economy America was altogether dependent
on the oil well—quite aside from the 590,-000,000 barrels of gasoline which in 1940 went into the tanks of our motor cars. What happened? Why can we no longer count on easy and equitable distribution of 62,105,274,000 gallons of petroleum products every year as we could in 1941?
The answer is the Axis. Just before the war approximately 95 percent of all oil products shipped East came by tanker from the Southwest, around the' long finger of Florida and up the east coast to refinery dockside. The advent of war, the arrival off our eastern seaboard of Axis submarines, made this system impractical overnight. Oil consigned to New Jersey refineries instead made a blazing inferno of the waters about sinking tankers. Tanker losses increased steadily, tankers yet afloat were withdrawn from the coastwise service to replace vessels lost on transoceanic transit routes, the time soon came when tanker service became a negligible factor in supply and then ceased altogether.
We didn’t take it lying down. The problem was to bring overland the oil which formerly moved by sea and the story of the effort to do this is a fascinating story of applied Yankee ingenuity. We built new pipe lines, we reversed the flow of others, we built more barges, and we made more efficient use of our over-the-road motor tankers. But with all that, our railroads assumed the greatest part of the burden as they have assumed so many of the burdens in this time of war. Together the railroads and the petroleum industry, their efforts directed . and coordinated by the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator for War and the Office of Defense Transportation, performed something of a miracle.
Middle West affected
Before Pearl Harbor, 44,000 tank cars were serving the Middle West. The Middle West produces approximately 1,100,-000 barrels of petroleum a day and consumes most of it. Normally the Middle West actually imports a small percentage of petroleum products from the East, a movement now reversed. The bulk of these 44,000 tank cars were placed on runs to the East, until less than 14,000 remained in operation in the Middle
Fuel oil to be denied if conversion is possible
Complete denial of rations of fuel oil for heating in apartment houses, and commercial, industrial, and institutional' establishments which possess the facilities to convert their furnaces to coal, was announced September 20, by Paul M, O’Leary, deputy OPA administrator in charge of rationing.
“The Government has carefully cleared the way for conversions and arrangements have been made for priorities on materials and the manufacture of lugs, shaker bars, grates, and ashpit doors. In fact, many of these things are now made, waiting to be used.”
Mr. O’Leary said that commercial, industrial, and institutional establishments will be required to report on the convertibility of their oil furnaces when they register for rations of fuel oil. Rationing boards, it was pointed out, will have the benefit of advice from heating experts in determining if such establishments should be denied rations.
In no event, whether* it be a private home or a large manufacturing plant, will any establishment be eligible for a fuel oil ration if a new oil burner or equipment converting the furnace from other fuels to fuel oil has been installed since June 1, 1942.
West, where the use of tank cars for gasoline delivery has been forbidden altogether. These tank cars became parts of great 60-car trains which moved east from the oil fields on limited schedules.
An inevitable result of all this was to create distribution problems throughout the Middle West which result in artificial shortages in some zones and make it necessary to include the Middle West in the fuel oil rationing area. The fuel oil crisis proves again what has been proved so often before—that in war, that which affects a part of the people will eventually affect them all. In the East, on _ the Atlantic Seaboard, are 65 percent of all the United States homes heated by fuel oil and the Middle West, by accepting fuel oil rationing, is making certain that thousands of fellow citizens in the Seaboard States get through the winter without freezing.
We know what happened and we know why it happened and we know what must be done about it because that is what we are doing—we are rationing fuel oil in 30 States. But the outlook is not black. The outlook is for inconvenience, perhaps for discomfort, but there is much which can be done to alleviate discomfort. The outlook is not black because fuel oil, despite the fact that we grew increasingly dependent
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upon it, is only one of the fuels available to us.
Most important, there is an abundance of coal. Probably at least 13 percent of all the oil burning furnaces in the fuel rationed areas—some 1,400,000 burners— can be converted to coal with little practical difficulty. Every householder who can convert should convert. By so doing he not only will be protecting himself and his family but he will be doing a service to his neighbors whose burner cannot be converted.
Necessity for conversion	«
Conversion, substituting coal grates for pipes, is one .way of saving fuel oil; another is by making the most efficient use possible of oil burners and by keeping the heat in the house. Under normal conditions the average house equipped with an oil burner uses 1,800 to 2,000 gallons of fuel oil a year—44 to 50 barrels. Ninety percent of that amount is consumed during the heating season, October through April. The amount of fuel used varies, of course, with the region and the sort of winter in the region. Under the unit rationing plan, consumption in the areas affected will be cut approximately 25 percent and the effort will be to maintain daytime temperatures of 65 degrees under average weather conditions.
This temperature—65 degrees—is the temperature used as a base in determining heat saving formulas. The number of “degree days” for a year in a given locality is determined by totaling daily deficiency in the mean temperature relative to 65 degrees. That figure is used as a base because it’s assumed that the average home is heated at 70 degrees by day and 60 degrees, by night to give an average of 65 degrees. On that basis, Boston comes up with a total of 5,853 degree days, Minneapolis with 7,898; Washington, 4,582; New York, 5,270; and New Orleans—far outside the rationed area— only 1,238.
How to conserve heat
The householder who has determined that he cannot convert his furnace to burn coal should first make sure that his oil burner is functioning efficiently. It then becomes his duty to make sure that his home is properly “heat tight” so that heat is not drained away. Rooms which aren’t used during the day should be shut off; the heat from the kitchen should not be wasted; windows and doors should be weather stripped.
There are other tricks which cost lit-" tie or nothing and which will bring about substantial savings in fuel. One of them is to get used to lower temperatures.
A room temperature of 65° is warm enough for normal adults if they’re properly dressed. The mere reduction of room temperature from 72 to 65 degrees may cut fuel consumption by 10 percent or more. If you insist on having your bedroom windows wide open, close the door tightly and place a rug or blanket before it. Close sunrooms tightly during cold weather and there’s no need to heat the garage if there is antifreeze in the radiator. Put the fireplace to work. Its heat alone may be sufficient for fall and spring or during mild days in winter. Lower the shades at night and keep them down during the day except when the sun is shining directly on the window panes or the light is needed. The insulation afforded between window and shade by the air pocket may save from 5 to 10 percent in fuel. It has been estimated that 500 gallons of heat oil escapes through the windows of the average home during a normal winter.
If the fuel oil crisis means more to the East Coast than to any other part of the rationed area, and it does, New England in turn is the area to which the oil rationing presents the greatest problems.
More than 35 percent of New England families burn petroleum products for heating as to only 0.5 percent for the Southeast Central States. Rhode Island is highest consumer of oil burning heat with 45.8 percent of all furnaces using fuel oil followed by Connecticut with 42 percent and Massachusetts with 36.9 percent. New York’s 18.6 percent accounts for the largest number of oil heated dwellings, 652,820 or almost 20 percent of the total. In New England, and elsewhere, too, throughout the rationing area, fuel oil rationing is bound to bring hardship to many.
But the chilly householder can take comfort in the fact that our airplanes will not lack for high-octane gasoline; that naval shore depots are well stocked with the oil which drives our warships toward the enemy; that war industries have the fuel they need to make weapons.
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Anthracite miners to hear battle front reports at four war production rallies
With the Nation on the threshold of cold weather and increased production of anthracite for war doubly important, Donald M. Nelson, chairman of WPB September 21 announced a series of four big Army-Navy war production rallies in the anthracite fields to carry to the miners an appeal for more coal.
Rallies will be held in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazelton, and Pottsville, Pa., on September 28, 29, 30, and October 1.
They will be designed to take directly to the Pennsylvania hard coal miner the story of America’s urgent need for more anthracite to supply Army, Navy, industrial, and domestic users in the United States and Canada.
At the rallies, Army and Navy men, some of them fresh from the battle fronts,
Zones adiust fuel oil ration to climate
The fuel oil rationed area is divided into the four thermal zones established by OPA to adjust rations of fuel oil to climate. Zone boundary lines were drawn , ’ after a close study of U. S. Weather Bureau statistics showing the variation of “degree days” in the normal winter for different sections of the country. While Zones A, B, C, and D reflect these variations generally, OPA emphasized that subzones are being set up within the zones to allow for 4ocal differences in normal temperatures.
The zones are made up as follows:
ZONE A
Maine; New Hampshire; Vermont; 15 counties of northern New York, including Clinton, Essex, Warren, Washington, Saratoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Fulton, Montgomery, St. Lawrence, Herkimer, Otsego, Jefferson, • Lewis, Oneida; Michigan; Wisconsin; Minnesota; North Dakota; South Dakota; 19 counties of northern Iowa including Allamakee, Winneshiek, Howard, Chickasaw, Mitchell, Floyd, Worth, Cerro Gordo, Winnebago, Hancock, Kossuth, Emmet, Palo Alto, Dickinson, Clay, Osceola, O’Brien.
ZONE B
Massachusetts'; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York (except 15 northern counties in zone A); New Jersey; Pennsylvania; northern Ohio, south to and including counties of Belmont, Noble, Morgan, Hocking, Pickaway, Fayette, Clinton, Greene, Montgomery, and Preble; northern Indiana, south to and including counties of Union, Fayette, Rush, Hancock, Marion, Hendricks, Putnam, Parke, and Vermillion; northern Illinois, south to and including counties of Edgar, Coles, Shelby, Christian, Sangamon, Morgan, Scott, Pike;
will make their war report directly to the miners.
Included on the program will be action displays of much battle equipment— quantities of it owing continued production directly to the anthracite miner.
The rallies will be the biggest displays of their kind ever held in the Pennsylvania coal regions. Mr. Nelson pointed out, and will be aimed to appeal to the pride and patriotism of every miner in every colliery in the fields to double and redouble his production for war.
“Winter is fast approaching us,” Mr. Nelson added. “In fact, in Canada cold weather already is here and the need for fuel is mounting.
“This country this fall and winter is depending upon the anthracite miner more than ever before.”
Iowa, except counties listed in zone A; northern Missouri, south to and including counties of Pike, Ralls, Monroe, Randolph, Chariton, Livingston, Caldwell, Clinton, and Buchanan; Nebraska; northern Kansas, south to and including counties of Atchison, Jackson, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Riley, Clay, Cloud, Mitchell, Osborne, Ellis, Trego, Lane, Scott, , Wichita, and Greeley.
ZONE C
Delaware; Maryland; District of Columbia; Virginia; West Virginia; Kentucky; those parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas not included in zone B.
ZONE D
North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia; Florida, east of the Appalachicola River.
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SUPPLY OF FUEL OIL REVISED DOWNWARD
Users of home heating oil will have to get along on the average, with about two-thirds of their normal fuel supply unless they convert their furnaces to coal, Paul M. O’Leary, OPA deputy administrator in charge of rationing, said September 25.
“The coupon rationing -plan,” Mr. O’Leary said, “is going to be geared to an estimated over-all average cut of 33 % percent of normal consumption. We found that the 25-percent cut, originally planned, would not be sufficient to provide an adequate margin of safety and still meet the fuel shortage.”
Landlord, tenant may share coal conversion costs, OPA rules
OPA cleared the way September 25 for full landlord-tenant cooperation in the conversion of oil-burning furnaces to coal.
Supplementary amendment (No. 5) to all Maximum Rent Regulations for housing accommodations other than hotels and rooming houses provides that a landlord and tenant may share the cost of such a conversion, or the installation of ♦coal-burning equipment, if the tenant agrees.
Single exception to rent regulation
Only because the fuel oil emergency demands that this important conversion step be taken whenever possible is OPA permitting this one exception to its maximum rent regulation which specifically' prohibits any agreement between tenant and landlord to a rent higher than the maximum legal rent.
Under the amendment, issued September 25, a landlord and tenant may enter into an agreement immediately to share the qost of changing a furnace from fuel oil to coal. When the arrangement is completed the landlord is required to submit terms of the agreement to the rent director who may approve it, or, within five days, register his disapproval. The landlord may enter into the agreement if it is not disapproved by the Rent Director within 5 days.
Commenting on the amendment, Paul A. Porter, deputy administrator in charge of the rent division said, “While this amendment does permit landlords and tenants to share the cost of such a conversion, I want to point out that no tenant is obligated by the amendment to enter into any such agreement.”
Rent adjustments
Cooperating with the fuel rationing division’s appeal that all houses that cannot be converted to coal, be at least insulated for economical heating, the rent division announced certain rent adjustments that may be made.
“If the landlord installs insulation of a substantial nature (including storm windows, weather stripping, etc.) designed to conserve heat, he may be entitled to an increase in the rent upon filing a petition with the Area Rent Office,” the Rent Division pointed out in a statement. “Where, however, only minor alterations are necessary to change the heating unit or to improve the insulation no adjustment of rent will be allowed.”
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Answers to your questions about converting to coal
The following explanations, in question and answer form, were Issued September 23 by the plumbing and heating branch of WPB to clarify some of the problems which have arisen in connection with the conversion of fuel oil burners to coal:
HOME-OWNER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. I have an oil burner type boiler which cannot be converted through the use of grates. Can I buy a new boiler that will burn coal, and have it installed?
A. No. A new boiler cannot be sold except to defense manufacturing plants and others having priority ratings (A-10 or better), persons who have boilers that can’t be converted should take steps to conserve fuel oil by insulation and other methods.
Q. My oil burner is old, and very inefficient. Can I buy a new oil burner, and thus save oil?
Sale of new burners restricted
A. No, the sale of new oil burners is restricted to rated orders. Furthermore, in many States, a WPB order, L-56, prohibits the sale of oil to new equipment.
Q. I have two heating boilers. One of these is fired with oil and the other, fired with coal, is used only in severe weather. Can I get oil and continue to heat my building as I have in the past?
A. In most States, delivery of fuel oil is prohibited to anyone who has standby equipment unless that equipment is being used to its maximum capacity. This would mean that you would have to re-' verse your old procedure and use the coal fired boiler for as much of the season as you possibly could. In that case, you would be entitled to receive some oil to supplement your coal fired boiler in severe weather.
How to get grates
Q. I have ordered a set of grates from my plumber, but he tells me that he cannot get them unless I file papers and get a priority rating. Do I need a priority rating?
A. No priority rating is needed to secure grates. A distributor, jobber, or wholesaler may purchase grates, stoker bars, fire doors, etc., for conversion without a priority rating. In turn, these may be sold to home and building owners, and
Oil rationing sidelight
Price boosting authorized to coax firewood on market as new demand hits 6 States
Six New England State offices of OPA September 21 were authorized to increase maximum prices of cordwood in their areas wherever necessary to assure an adequate supply to meet an anticipated acute shortage. The fuel oil shortage has increased demand for wood.
This action was taken immediately after the OPA was informed by Governors of the six States that the threatened shortage is grave and unless combated will add severe hardships'to those already imposed by the fuel oil shortage.
May raise prices
The State offices are empowered to make the upward price adjustments
to plumbing or oil dealers without any rating.
Coal available
Q. I want to convert my oil burner, but my oil dealer tells me that I won’t be able to get any coal either. Is this so?
A. We would advise you to get in touch with various coal dealers and see if you can get coal. We have been assured that coal will be available.
Q. Can I convert my oil burner to gas?
A. JNo. The sale of gas burning equipment is restricted by a WPB order (L-79, as amended) to rated orders.
Q. My heating man tells me that if I convert to coal, my boiler will not be large enough. Can I put in an extra section?
A. No, not without a preference rating. It should be realized, however, that the entire capacity of a boiler is used only during the most severe weather, and that most of the time the boiler will be large enough.
Banks can finance conversion
Q. How can a conversion job be financed?
A. Conversion jobs have been removed from the credit-time restrictions of the Federal Reserve Board. Owners now can apply to a local bank and arrange to finance the cost of the conversion.
DEALER AND WHOLESALER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. I am in the heating business and want to buy some grates, but my jobbing house will not sell them to me without a preference rating. What should I do?
either upon application or upon their own motion. No actual limits on the increases were set but an OPA spokesman said, “It is anticipated that in the case of cordwood no increases will be granted in excess of $3.00 per cord above the present ceiling price."
This action, taken in Amendment No. 26 to Supplementary Regulation 14 to the general maximum price regulation effective September 26 parallels that taken August 14 when State offices of Washington and Oregon were given authority to Increase the prices of cordwood, sawdust, mill ends, shavings and slabwood wherever necessary to meet a shortage in those areas.
A. The sale of grates is not restricted, and no rating is necessary. If you will let us have the name of your jobber, we will be glad to call him up and explain this to him.
Q. I am a wholesaler. If I sell my grate stock without ratings, how am I going to replace it?
A. You may file a special form (PD-IX) showing what ratings you have on grate stock for replacement and repair and showing the balance as grate oil conversion sales. >
Can get some stokers without ratings
Q. I want to put a stoker” on a job to convert from oil to coal. The stoker, manufacturer tells me that he needs a preference rating. I thought that stokers could be sold without preference ratings.
A. If a stoker has a capacity of less than sixty pounds per hour, a rating is not needed to get it. If over sixty pounds, the manufacturer" has to have the rating of defense plants or others with high priority ratings to assemble it, and you will have to get your customer to file an application for a rating on a special form (PD-1A).
Q. I have lots of jobs signed up to put in grates for conversion purposes. I can get the grates, but I need some bolts, rivets, nuts, and pins to install them. What can I do about this?
A. File a special application (PD-1A), giving complete information relating to the planned conversion and send it to Operations Section, Plumbing and Heat-ting Branch, War Production Board.
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AGRICULTURE...
U. S. asks, civilians to cut meat-eating to 2% pounds a week; deliveries limited, probably to 79 percent
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pounds. This has now gone to 6% billior pounds. Civilian consumers would tak< more than 21 billion pounds if it wen available. The total supply is 24 billior pounds. The total demand is 27% billion pounds. There must be sharing o: the supply.
The wartime problem of managing oui meat supply is twofold: (1) to share thi total output so that the minimum needs of our fighting men will be filled; (2) tc share the supply available to civilians so that everyone has an equal chance tc get his fair portion.
The foods requirements committee spent weeks gathering the facts anc seeking solutions to the problems. Wc came to these conclusions:
1.	We should arrange to share the meat supply with our fighting men and our allies through limitation orders that will make availably, for military and Lend-Lease use 6% billion pounds, and will hold to 17% billion pounds the amount of meat that can go to civilians during the year starting October 1.
2.	We should arrange to share the 17% billion pounds fairly among all civilians by rationing.
3.	In the period before rationing can become effective, we should ask civilians to share fairly by voluntarily limiting consumption.
Under the wartime meat program, civilians will have a supply that would usually be regarded as normal. But now the demand is abnormal because of high buying power, coupled with a decreasing supply of most things to buy. The result is a very high demand for meat. If each of us with middle or high incomes tries to get all the meat he wants, some of us who are in war work or for other reasons can’t get to the meat counters early in the day will have to go without. That is not fair.
How the ration was determined
We urge that in fairness to their fellow citizens Americans of normal meat-eat-
ing habits hold their consumption to 2% pounds per person per week. We determined this allowance by the following calculation:
During the coming year there will be available to civilians, 17% billion pounds of dressed meat carcasses. There is a shrinkage of 10 percent in converting dressed carcasses to retail cuts. Hence the supply of retail cuts will total 15% billion pounds. Dividing that by 52 gives us 303 million pounds a week.
This is to be shared among 128 million Americans not in the armed services. But babies and vegetarians eat no meat. Children, invalids, and old people eat less than adults and adolescents. So we calculate on some 14 million half rations of meat and 114 million full rations, or a total of 121 million full rations.
Control must apply to restaurants too
We then arrive at the allowance for each adolescent and adult of normal meat-eating habits by dividing the 121 million full rations into 303 million pounds. This gives us the figure of 2% pounds per person per week.
It is necessary that individuals hold their consumption at this figure whether they eat at home or in public eating places. Public eating places in some sections may prefer some such device as a meatless day. We plan to consult with the trade groups of people managing public eating places and help them work out methods of enabling their patrons to stay within the sharing limits.
Don’t buy ration for baby
The individual household may use any method the family prefers to hold consumption within the 2% pounds per person per week. If there are invalids, old people, young children, or vegetarians in the household, the housewife should not assume that the weekly allowance total for the household may be 2% pounds for each person. For instance, if a family of four includes two infants and two adults, the weekly allowance should be 5 pounds not 10. How the individual family chooses to manage the week’s meals is not important. Perhaps the family would prefer meatless days; perhaps gen-
eral reduction throughout the week by means of meatless meals or smaller portions. The important thing is that each household stay within the limits set.
This is a normal amount
American nutrition and health can be well maintained on the wartime allowance. It is a normal amount of meat. In addition, the Nation has abundant supplies of foods which are alternate sources of the nutritive values supplied by meat. We have asked nutritionists in Government and private employ to carry on educational programs which will inform homemakers on how to use alternate foods so as to get into family diets full amounts of the basic food values which meat supplies—protein, thiamine, niacin, and iron. Those families and individuals who have been accustomed to getting these food elements from a meat supply of more than 2% pounds per person per week will be advised how they may get them from other sources such as eggs, milk, cheese, poultry, beans, and many cereal foods, vegetables, and fruits, which can be combined with the requested meat allowance to make a completely satisfactory diet for health and strength.
Cooperation of all civilians in sharing the meat by keeping within the requested allowance will speed the war effort. It will prove that the people of our democracy have the will and intelligence to operate a wartime economy fairly and sensibly.
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Canned shrimp ceilings raised 17-27 percent
Ceiling' levels on canned shrimp in both wet and dry pack have been lifted by 17 to 27 per cent per can at the packer level, OPA announced September 24, in conformance with the increased drained weight in each container ordered by the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency under the Pure Food Act.
At the same time, OPA ruled in Amendment No. 28 to Supplementary Regulation No. 14, effective September 30, 1942, that the new ceilings for wholesalers and retailers shall be the individual seller’s maximum prices per dozen for each type or style of pack and container size of canned shrimp which prevailed prior to the new amendment, plus an amount which will cover the added cost to them of canned shrimp.
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SPEED ON LIBERTY SHIPS FREES WAYS FOR TANKERS
The rapidly increasing production of Liberty Ships, together with the expanded program for turbine production, has made it possible to divert some of the existing shipbuilding facilities from the construction of Liberty Ships to tankers, the Maritime Commission announced September 25. In this connection, the Commission announced the award of a contract to the W. A. Bechtel Company, Sausalito, Calif., for the construction of 22 large tankers.
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Copper chemicals order revised for farmers’ benefit
The copper chemicals order, M-227, was revised September 24 by the Director General for Operations to permit farmers to obtain these materials for soil r treatment, insecticides and fungicides without filing PD-600 forms.
Under the revised provisions, the individual buyer, at the time of placing his order, must certify in writing to his supplier that the amounts he obtains will be used solely for-the cultivation of agricultural crops. The same certification system will be used by a buyer seeking copper chemicals for resale to farmers.
Other provisions of the order are unchanged.
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Ickes cuts recommended petroleum production rate
October’s dally recommended petroleum production rates are 4,066,000 barrels, a drop of 6,900 barrels daily from the total certified for September and almost 200,000 barrels less than actual daily production a year ago. Petroleum Coordinator Ickes announced September 22.
The slight drop in certifications for October is due, to a certain extent, to an anticipated drop in gasoline demand as the rubber conservation drives goes, into high gear, Coordinator Ickes pointed out.
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Apple storage rates adjusted
Warehouses handling and storing apples in five eastern States will be permitted increases in their present maximum rates, OPA announced September 21.
WPB orders ODT to schedule priorities for use of tank cars
WPB Chairman Nelson has issued a Certification of Necessity to the ODT calling for the setting up of priority regulations to govern the shipment of materials and commodities by tank car.
The new schedule gives the ODT a specific mandate to distribute the Nation’s 143,000 tank cars on a basis of first needs first, ODT officials commented later. " -
With the bulk of the country’s tank cars transporting the petroleum which formerly moved in oil tankers, the need for cars to transport war-essential chemicals and vegetable fats and oils has become critical. Recognizing this situation, WPB has ordered the ODT to give these latter items preferential treatment in the allocation of cars.
The WPB order directs ODT to schedule priorities for the use of tank cars in the following order:—
“A” rating—for the transportation of any material for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, the War Shipping Administration, or for Lend-Lease shipment.
“B” rating-—for shipment of commodities included In a WPB list of approximately 390 chemicals, foods, edible and nonedible fats and oils, and other miscellaneous products.
“C” rating—for the transportation of petroleum and petroleum products into District 1 (as defined by the Office of Petroleum Coordinator for War) and into or within the States of Oregon and Washington. The size of such shipments will be determined by the Office of Petroleum Coordinator for War, subject to the review of the Director General for Operations of the WPB.
“D” rating—for shipment of petroleum and petroleum products, other than automotive gasoline, within District 1 and into or within Districts 2, 3, 4, and 5 (as defined by OPC), except the States of Oregon and Washington. The kind and size of these shipments will also be directed by the OPC, subject to review by the Director General for Operations of WPB.
“E” rating—for the transportation of automotive gasoline within District 1 and into or within Districts 2, 3, 4, and 5, subject to the same direction and review as the preceding ratings.
Oil shipments threaten vegetable oils
Heavy tank car petroleum shipments are threatening to impede the movement of seasonal and highly essential vegetable oils, fats, and other products. By granting a high priority rating to these products, it will be possible for ODT, at the direction of WPB, to divert tank cars from the carrying of petroleum products and to assure in advance the fair distribution of all commodities vital to the war program which can only be transported by tank car.
ODT has been directed to make all diversions, as far as practicable, at the expense of the transportation of automotive
gasoline into or within Districts 2, 3, 4, and 5 and to secure the maximum coordination of tank cars with the use of pipe lines, tank ships, barges, and tank ' trucks.
To step up efficiency
In order to make most efficient use of all facilities and to compensate for any future tank car diversions from petroleum hauling, the OPC has been authorized by WPB to order petroleum producers, refiners, and distributors to make purchases, sales, exchanges, or loans of petroleum and petroleum products. OPC is likewise authorized to arrange for the common use of terminals and distribution facilities.
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ODT permit system to be extended on Great Lakes
The existing permit system of the ODT, applying to certain types of Great Lakes vessels, will be extended shortly to control the movement of virtually all commercial craft operating on the Lakes, ODT Director Eastman said, September 25.
In defining preferential classes of commodities, the revised priorities schedule just transmitted by WPB recognizes that "the application of all ratings is subject to the practical exigencies of loading and scheduling operations, which are matters entirely for the Office of Defense Transportation.”
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Western routes to shunt coal from Eastern gateways
In order to ease the pressure of coal movements on eastern gateways, certain railroads have • opened new western routes to handle pare of the traffic from the coal fields of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky to New England destinations, ODT Director Eastman, said September 23.
The new routes, established at the request of Mr. Eastman after negotiation between the ODT and railroads involved, will shunt part of the heavy coal movement from such gateways as Hagerstown, Md., and the Potomac Yard to Columbus and Marion, Ohio. Prom these points the diverted traffic will move east on northern lines.
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WAR PRODUCTION . . .
Methods of assigning priorities in field under newly-initiated WPB control
Methods to be followed by WPB field officers in the assignment of preference ratings to military and other Government orders were outlined September 16 in an announcement of Priorities Directive No. 2 by the director general for operations.
This directive establishes, procedures to carry out the recently announced policy under which preference ratings will be issued by WPB officials only, in order to provide a closer check on the volume of materials for which ratings are assigned. Authority to issue ratings in the field was formerly delegated to Army, Navy and other Government procurement officers.
Procurement officers to recommend
Recommendations for ratings will continue to be initiated by Government procurement officers. The directive provides interim methods for approval of ratings assigned to individual contracts on Form PD-3A, to construction projects on forms in the P-19-h series, and of re-rating directions on Form PD-4X, pending establishment of a complete system of review by revision of administrative orders and instructions. Included among the ratings to be reviewed are those assigned to Lend-Lease orders placed by or for a foreign government.
Decisions of deputy general final
Following counter-signature by the appropriate service officer, WPB will check ratings assigned to see that they are in compliance with military priorities directives and instructions of the Army and Navy Munitions Board and with WPB regulations, administrative orders and instructions. In case of disagreement as to interpretation, the question will be reviewed as the director general for operations may direct. In disputed cases, the decision of the deputy director general for priorities control will be final.
Exceptions
Excepted from the above are ratings assigned in the following circumstances:
(a)	When the total value or the delivery or deliveries rated by the instrument does not exceed $500. Purchases shall not be divided for the purpose of making this exception available.
(b)	When the countersigning by an Army or Navy officer takes place outside of the 48 States and the District of Columbia.
(c)	When the rating is assigned directly to a purchase made by a Post fixchange or Ship’s Service Store.
(d)	A purchase made pursuant to approval given by a commanding officer, commandant, or the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts of the Navy, or by a commanding officer of a defense command o/ the Army, in an emergency where the degree of urgency is such that advance approval by a War Production Board official cannot be obtained, provided that in each such case a copy of the rating document is mailed to the Director General for Operations within 24 hours after Issuance.
(e)	In such other cases as may be excepted, either individually or by classes, or by or under written authority of the Director General for Operations. •
Military construction, defined as the construction of facilities which will be owned and operated by the Army, Navy or Maritime Commission, and airport and other aircraft facilities to be built or owned by the Civil Aeronautics Au-thority for the use of the Army or Navy, is to be rated by an order in the P-19-h series, following application on a form in the PD-200 series, The application will be countersigned by the Army and Navy Munitions Board and must be approved in writing by an authorized official of WPB before issuance. All construction other than military construction will be rated only by WPB.
Exemptions
Excepted from the above is “command construction,” ordered by the Chief of Staff, United States Army, or the Chief of Operations, United States Navy, to be built under contract let by the Corps of Engineers or the Bureau of Yards and Docks including construction of facilities for the repair of manufacture of finished items of munitions, having a value of less than $500,000, and emergency flood control projects costing less than $100,-000. Such construction will be rated by procurement officers on Form PD-3A and the ratings approved by WPB.
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Lighter tinplate studied
Experiments to determine the adaptability of tinplate for fish canning, having % to % the present tin content, are under way in the laboratories of the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior.
Ordnance colonel heads WPB’s materials redistribution branch replacing old requisition unit _
Appointment of Col. Charles R. Baxter, Ordnance Department, United States Army, to be chief of the new WPB materials redistribution branch, was announced September 23 by A. I. Henderson, deputy director general for industry operations.
The new branch will take over the functions and personnel of the Inventory and requisitioning branch, which has been responsible since last December for the movement to war industries of idle and excess stocks of strategic materials.
Colonel Baxter, a veteran of 30 years’ service in the Army, was recalled to ac- * tive duty in the Ordnance Department last January.
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Cement storage order clarified by amendment
An amendment clarifying the provisions in Order L-179 covering methods of storing and testing portland cement was issued September 24 by WPB.
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Advisory board named for WPB smaller war plants division
Lou E. Holland, head of the WPB smaller war plants division, announced September 21 the composition of a board of consultants who will serve in an advisory capacity to the division and to the smaller war plants corporation of which Mr. Holland is chairman of the board of directors. The consultants named are:
George Trundle, Trundle Engineering Co., Cleveland; William B. Stout, Stout Engineering Laboratories, Detroit; Stanley A. Carlson, Howe Machinery Co., Pasalc, N. J.; W. B. Connell, West Side Machine Works, Kansas City; Ivan L. Johnson, Pacific Steel Casting Co., Berkeley, Calif.
“In the composition of this group of advisors,” Mr. Holland said, “I have endeavored to combine high engineering talent and practical experience with the problems of small business.”
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WBP drafts Eberstadt from Army-Navy board to integrate production and materials schedules
WPB Chairman Nelson announced September 20 the appointment of Ferdinand Eberstadt as vice chairman of the War Production Board. Mr. Eberstadt is leaving his post as chairman of thè Army Navy Munitions Board in order -to accept this assignment.
In his new position, Mr. Eberstadt will be responsible for the determination of programs and schedules and will be in charge of the flow of materials to manufacturers and producers throughout the war effort.
To meet this responsibility he will be chairman of the WPB requirements committee.
Knowlson to work on U. S., British supply
WPB Vice Chairman James S. Knowlson, who is Mr. Nelson’s deputy on the Combined Production and* Resources Board, will devote his attention exclusively to that board and to the general task of integregating the American and British production and supply programs.
In order that responsibility for the control of materials may be properly centralized, both in respect to the program determination and the execution òf allocations and allotments of materials in accordance with such program, Ernest Kanzler, recently appointed the WPB director general for operations, will report to the chairman through Mr. Eberstadt.
Under the new set-up, Mr. Nelson explained, responsibility for seeing to it that proper programs and schedules are drawn up and the responsibility for making materials available to meet these programs and schedules are tied together by centering the responsibility in Mr. Eberstadt. Responsibility for following through on all production schedules to see that they are met is centered in WPB’s recently appointed Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson.
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Manufacture of armored cable halted to save steel
Manufacture of armored cable after 30 days from September 19 has been prohibited by WPB in order to aid in the conservation of steel.
Success reported in controlling steel output through production directives
The system of issuing steel production directives, inaugurated by the WPB iron and steel branch about two months ago, is proving very successful in directing the production of the most urgently needed steel products and strengthening controls over output, Hiland G. Batchel-ler, chief of the branch, said September 24.
A committee of the branch, known as the production directive committee, meets with representatives of each steel producer to plan monthly output by products. The committee investigates all pertinent facts, such as the company’s producing facilities, unfilled orders, relative priority ratings, etc., and then formulates a production directive indicating the product distribution for the company on a monthly basis.
This directive reflects the basic determinations of the WPB Requirements Committee. For instance, if the Requirements Committee has determined that 1,100,000 net tons of plates should be made in a particular month (this is the present figure), the total of all directives issued will equal this figure. The part of the total tonnage to be made by each producer is determined by the . production directive committee.
AAA rating to small amounts of materials will combat stoppages in war production
In a move to prevent stoppages or slow-downs in essential production that might arise from lack of small amounts of critical materials, WPB September 22 announced it has authorized its regional offices to assign high preference ratings for the use of earmarked materials in emergency situations.
Under this regional emergency materials plans, preference ratings up to AAA may be assigned to avoid positive losses of essential production and up to AA-2X for other emergency cases.
Suppose, for instance, completion of a ship is being held up because a small amount of steel is needed for a critical part. If it is impossible to obtain the steel in any other way, the WPB field officer may assign whatever emergency rating is necessary to assure its immediate
Within the limits of each production directive, companies must schedule their orders on a priority basis. That is, if a company is directed to produce 5,000 tons of bars per month, it then schedules the 5,000 tons of bar orders on its books which have the highest priority ratings, and which are to be delivered in the specified month.
For those who convert steel
In respect to nonintegrated steel companies (those who purchase steel for further conversion) the production directives are issued on a slightly different basis. The committee schedules the rate of operations of the producer on a basis comparable to integrated steel companies manufacturing the same product. The directive is then supported by an allocation of the necessary steel from specified integrate’d companies to the nonintegrated producer.
The committee has issued 84 production directives, 46 to integrated producers and 38 to nonintegrated producers. Practically all of the integrated producers have been covered but a large number of the nonintegrated companies are yet to be directed. Full coverage of the industry in 30 to 60 days is expected.
delivery. With the way clear for the part to be made, the ship can be delivered without delay.
The quantities of materials against which such preference ratings in the aggregate may be assigned each month are not to exceed a small specified percentage of the available supply of each material.
The regional emergency allotment plan was put into operation September 22 and during the first month only 10 of the specified materials may be authorized.
These are:
Aluminum, brass, copper (refined), lead, nickel, pig iron, steel (scrap) steel (assorted structural), steel (other except plate), zinc.
Other materials to be included later in the plan are:
Cadmium, ferrochrome, cobalt, cork, formaldehyde, molybdenum, rubber (crude), rubber (synthetic), tantulum ore, titanium ores, tin, tungsten, vanadium.
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WPB limits use of fats and oils, so as to build up reserve supply-
Limitations on uses of fats and oils, to permit building of a reserve supply of these vital war materials, were ordered September 22 by the director general for operations. '
The new action, which is a revision of Order M-71, establishes new controls over fats and oils, but does not include cocoa butter, butter, wool greases, essential oils, mineral oil, vitamin-bearing oils, and some others.
Finished products granted 90% base
Fats and oils used in the manufacture of edible finished products, such as shortening, mayonnaise, salad dressing, and the like, are limited to 90 percent of the amount used, by quarters, of the average of the corresponding quarters of 1940 and 1941. Special exception is made for margarine, which is given a quota of 110 percent.
Soap, excluding that made from domestic vegetable oil “foot,” is given a quota of 90 percent. Vegetable oil foots may be used up to 119 percent of the base period consumption.
Protective coverings granted 80% quota
Paints, varnish, lacquer and other protective coatings are granted an 80 percent quota. Linoleum, oilcloth, oil or
Tool firm penalized on charge of priority violation
Reliable Tool and Wire Products Corporation, New York, N. Y., arid Louis Rubin, the corporation’s president, have been denied all priority assistance and allocations of scarce materials for a period of 2 months, on a charge of violating WPB regulations, it was announced September 21 by the director general for operations.
Suspension Order S-102 charges that Rubin, acting upon advice which he had good reason to believe was erroneous, applied the A-10 rating provided for repair, maintenance arid operating supplies by Preference Rating Order P-100, to purchase orders for approximately 12,000 pounds of steel wire. This wire was ordered for the manufacture of hooks used in the assembling of dolls.
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IT TAKES 50,000 man-hours of work to build a medium bomber as against only 200 for an auto.'
oleo resinous coated fabrics and pyroxolin coated fabrics get a 70 percent quota, and the quota for printing inks is 90 percent.
The order places no restriction on the use of fats and oils in a finished food product where the oil is not the principal ingredient of the product. Thus there is no restriction on the baking industry, as an example, where shortening is a necessary, but not the principal, ingredient.
To round out the restriction program, wholesale sellers of linseed oil are restricted in total deliveries to 80 percent of the amount delivered in the corresponding base period.
Retroactive to September 1
The order is made retroactive to September 1 of this year in that the first period is from September 1 to December 31,1942. After December 31, the order is applicable to regular calendar quarters.
A blanket exemption is granted to all manufacturers using less than 6,000 pounds of fats and oils in a quarter.
None of the restrictions apply to Lend-Lease orders, nor to military purchases of edible products.
Inventory restrictions on finished products heretofore in effect are continued. - There are no restrictions on inventories of raw materials.
Distributors may purchase material for home radios
Priority assistance in the purchase of repair-shop material for the maintenance of home radios may be applied for on Form PD-1X by distributors and dealers who buy directly from manufacturers, it was explained September 21 by Linford C. White, chief of the WPB’s distributors’ branch. •
This procedure does not impose any requirements upon the consumer or the repair-shop operator, but by making it easier for the large distributor to obtain parts it maintains established links between producer and home set owner.
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Telephone service order defined
An interpretation of Limitation Order L-50, as amended September 7, making it clear that private telephone services are covered by the restrictions contained in the order, was issued September 19 by the director general for operations.
Steel drums may be used to pack lacquer, varnish paints
The containers branch of WPB pointed * out September 19 that lacquer is not included among the paint products for which the use of steel drums will be prohibited by Limitation Order L-197.
Paints covered are dry powder paints and water type paste paints.
Oil and varnish type paints may be packed in new or used drums in the hands of the packer on the date of issuance of the order, September 14, 1942.
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Use of iron, steel in caskets, burial vaults further curtailed
Use of iron and steel in caskets, shipping cases, and burial vaults is further curtailed by an amendment to General Limitation Order L-64, issued September 24 by the Director General for Operations.
z For a period of 90 days (September 24 to December 23), the amount of iron and steel that may be used in Joining hardware may not exceed 6 pounds per casket. If the casket contains any handle hardware assemblies which were completely fabricated prior to March 28, 1942, the amount of iron or steel may not exceed 4 pounds per casket.
Beginning December 23, the weight of joining hardware may not exceed four pounds per casket, whether or not the casket contains handle hardware assemblies.
Effective immediately, the use of iron and steel in handle hardware for caskets Is prohibited. However, manufacturers may use such hardware consisting of assemblies of bars, ears, arms, and tips which were in their inventory in completely fabricated form prior to September 24, 1942.
The September 24 order restricts the amount of iron and steel or galvanized steel in each liner to 50 pounds, not exceeding 26 standard gage thickness. However, manufacturers who possessed any iron and steel, galvanized steel, terne sheet, or copper bearing steel exceeding 26 standard gage thickness in inventory prior to March 28 may use such metal to produce liners exceeding 50 pounds in weight.
No metal liners may be used except to comply with State hermetic sealing regulations for the transportation of human corpses, or by the Army and Navy.
This new order will permit a total of 6 pounds of iron or steel in a casket and burial vault for an individual burial, after December 23. However, when a body is to be transported by common carrier an additional 3% pounds is permitted in order to provide for necessary shipping case handles.
94% reduction in iron and steel used
It is estimated that the amendment will reduce the total amount of iron or steel in caskets, burial vaults, and shipping cases during 1943 to about 4,200 tons, from 36,000 tons expected to be used under restrictions in 1942, and approximately 72,000 tons used annually prior to issuance of L-64. This represents a reduction of about 88 percent and 94 percent, respectively.
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LABOR...
for women; refuses to force closed shop Board orders “equal pay for equal work”
women to produce the materials with which its men will fight. In calling upon American women to assume a vital role on the industrial front, the country has an obligation to provide the utmost assurance that they will not be subject to discriminatory treatment in their compensation. They have a right to economic equality.
In treating this question in the present case, the panel has recommended, in part, that “Rates of pay for female employees will be based upon the established rates for the work performed. Where such work is identical with, or substantially the same as, that performed by men on the same or comparable operations, the base rates and hourly rates will be the same.” The wording of the abovequoted section indicates the impropriety of using slight or inconsequential changes in job content or in method of operation as a sole reason for setting up a wage differential against women employees . » . The board approves the above-quoted wording as-recommended by the panel with the proviso, however, that it cannot be interpreted solely in relation to the physical characteristics of the operation performed. It must also be related to the quality and quantity of production turned out. Female employees assigned to the same operation which has been or which is performed by men should receive the same pay when they produce the same quantity and quality of output . . .
Methods of computing wage
In its recommended clause, the panel takes specific cognizance of the fact that it is often impossible or inadvisable for female employees to undertake heavy physical labor which has been established as a part of certain jobs when they are performed by men. In such cases, the employment of women workers may entail extra supervision, extra set-up men or additional carry-off men. The panel suggests that such “extra labor costs will be computed and will be given pro rata weight in establishing an equable rate of pay for female workers” . . . It Is pointed out that such a division of tasks has often been used on jobs manned entirely by male employees as a means of reducing unit costs while maintaining hourly rates. There are sound reasons, therefore, for guarding against the use of the procedure to cut women’s rates when the “extra” labor for heavy work does not increase unit costs of production.
Union shop denied
The board refused to follow a panel recommendation that it grant a union shop to the United Paper, Novelty and Toy Workers’ International Union, CIO, representing 1,200 employees of Wilson-Jones Co.’s plants in Chicago and Elizabeth, N. J.
The company had signed a union shop contract with the union in 1940, but the contract had been terminated in the summer of 1941 when the union went on strike. Since that time the company has been following an open-shop policy. The majority of the panel recommended the union shop in order to restore the i condition which existed before the strike.
Tn recognition of woman’s role in the war, the National War Labor Board last week adopted the principle of “equal pay for equal work” for women in war production. The board also rejected a majority panel recommendation for a union shop at Wilson-Jones Company plants, and substituted Instead a voluntary maintenance of membership clause. Man-days lost from strikes in war production, the board announced, amounted in August to 9/100 of 1 per cent of total man-days worked.
“Equal pay” principle adopted
The board directed Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, Providence, R. I., to inelude in its agreement with the International Association of Machinists, AFL, a clause “which adopts the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ for female employees who, in comparable jobs, produce work of the same quantity and quality as that performed by men.” The company, which employs 7,600 workers, was also directed to standardize and simplify its wage schedules, and to accept a revised and strengthened maintenance of membership clause because of the harmful effects of a bulletin board statement indicating the company’s “recalcitrant attitude” toward both the union and the board’s decision.
“The National War Labor Board has accepted the general principle of paying wages to female employees on the basis of ‘equal pay for equal work,’” Dr.' George W. Taylor, vice chairman, said in writing the board’s opinion on this issue. “There should be no discrimination between employees of equal ability employed on similar work where production is substantially the same.”
Principle used in World War I
Dr. Taylor pointed out that this principle was adopted in 1918 by the War Labor Board in World War I and had been used by both the National Defense Mediation Board and the present board. He said:
The present case requires an even more complete statement of the manner in which the principle of “equal pay for equal work’’ is to be effectuated. Such a statement is of cogent importance at this time. Our country will depend more and more upon its
JOE. He knows he can keep ’em rolling only if he stays fit. This is one of a series of 9%" hy 12^" placards issued by the U. S. Public Health Service and the WPB. Two-column mats are available upon request to the Distribution Section, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.
“The board has in effect,” the panel majority reported, “frozen the open shop in plants which were open shop before the war. The board has not ordered a union shop in any case in which there was not one before the war. The maintenance of membership clause is a device for freezing the open shop during the emergency, so far as board orders are concerned, where the open shop prevailed before the emergency.
Strike figures announced
Man-days lost from war production by strikes in August were 9/100 of 1 percent of total man-days worked, according to statistics gathered by the War, Navy, and Labor Departments, the War Production Board, the Maritime Commission, and the WLB. The number of man-days lost rose from 233,614 in July to 266,353 in August, while the number of man-days worked fell from approximately 308 million in July to 300 million in August.“ The number of strikes in progress during the month rose from 222 to 229, but the number of men involved dropped from 80,722 to 79,414.
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Salvage develops into integrated program as WPB seeks to enlist every home, farm and plant for scrap collection
All America today is engaged in a great treasure hunt. The American people, of all types and ages, are searching for a type of material vitally needed by our war industries—scrap. The search is being carried on in the Nation’s industrial plants, which supply 75 percent of our scrap; in the homes and business houses; and on the farms, were the farmers are gathering a new kind of “harvest” this fall.
Fathers and mothers, school children, members of civic and religious groups, housewives, farmers and farm women, businessmen, Government officials, and many others—all are engaged in this scrap hunt, which has become something of a patriotic adventure.
And they are finding that the factories, the homes, and the farms are a veritable treasure trove of materials needed to keep our war industries operating and our men supplied with weapons and equipment. Scores of articles, which hitherto have been considered useless, have been found to possess a peculiar value because of the basic materials they contain. ,
Our need for scrap
The Nation’s growing shortage of critical materials has become a source of worry, not to say alarm, to those directing the war effort. Because of the vast acceleration of our industrial machine since the launching of the War Production Drive, and because territories in the Far East from which we formerly obtained much of our raw materials have been occupied by the Japanese, our war industries early this year found themselves facing acute shortages of raw materials. These shortages threatened to hamper production and slow down the war effort unless they could be overcome at once.
Recognizing that there was a vast storehouse of scrap material in the country, if it could be gathered up—enough to meet the present needs of industry— the conservation division of WPB swung into action and launched the National Scrap Collection Program, which is now going at full force.
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of WPB pointed to the increasing need of all kinds of scrap this summer and urged the American people to collect this material and to get it to the. factories at the earliest possible moment.
Mr. Nelson pointed out that there is an urgent need of all types of scrap— iron and steel and other metals, rubber, paper, manila rope, burlap, etc.—but that there was an especial need for iron and steel and rubber.
The steel industry, Mr. Nelson said, has been rapidly stepping up its production— from 67,000,000 tons in 1940 to a recordbreaking 83,000,000 tons in 1941. Production in 1942 already is ahead of 1941, but the need is to bring the industry’s production up to the full capacity of 90,-000,000 tons— a total equal to the output of all the rest of the world. This volume of production could not be maintained, Mr. Nelson warned, unless at least 6,000,-000 tons of scrap material could be obtained quickly.
The steel industry operates on a basis of half-and-half—about 50 percent pig iron and 50 percent scrap material. Due to the shortages of scrap, the ratio is now 54 y2 percent pig iron and 45^2 percent scrap. With pig iron production continuing to gain, the ratio is expected to reach 60-40 by the end of next year.
Although the steel mills are doing their best to keep our war production up to schedule, many of them are operating on a day by day, hand to mouth basis and may be forced to close down this winter unless scrap can be obtained.
It has been determined that if our production schedule is to be maintained,
TRUCKS CARRYING SCRAP GET PLENTY OF GAS
Trucks volunteered for the purpose of collecting scrap during the intensified salvage campaign will not suffer because of wartime gasoline and transportation regulations, it was announced September 21 by the WPB conservation division.
OPA fuel rationing division says that trucks collecting scrap will not be handicapped for lack of gasoline since the regular service rations are based on the actual mileage of each vehicle.
Under a general permit issued by the ODT last July 29, private and contract carriers engaged in the transportation of rubber or metal scrap are not required to reduce mileage or to offer empty trucks for rent or lease during an over-the-road operation, as provided by General Order 0. D. T. No. 17. The permit remains in effect until October 31.
This illustration has been used in the scrap campaigns to encourage farmers in collection. Mats or glossy proofs for publication are available on request to the Distribution Section, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.
17,000,000 tons of iron and steel scrap must be secured during the later half of 1942 to give the steel furnaces sufficient inventories to prevent shut-downs when the cold weather sets in and to provide a stockpile for winter months.
Getting down to cases
Where is this scrap coming from?
There can be but one answer—it must come from the industrial plants, the homes, farms, business houses, auto graveyards, and junk yards of the Nation.
Who will supply this scrap?
Each and every person in America.
To get a clearer picture of the situation, let’s stop talking of production figures for a moment and look at some concrete cases.
We have more than 4,000,000 men under arms and more are being called into service each day. We must keep these men fully equipped to meet the enemy on an equal basis at all times. We must supply them with all the arms and ammunition they need, and we must have ships to transport this equipment—as well as food—to them, over submarine-infested seas. We must build ships and planes and tanks, not by the dozens, but by the hundreds and thousands.
Now let’s see what this scrap collection means in relation to supplying these men with needed arms and equipment.
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It has been estimated that there is enough iron and steel on the farms alone, if used with other materials, to make twice as many battleships as there are , in the world today; or enough 2,000-pound bombs to drop three per minute from, big bombers incessantly for more than three years.
And this refers to the farms alone. Think of how much there is in the industrial plants, in the homes, in the business places. Scrap that ought to be put into the fight.
There is enough scrap in an old flatiron to make 2 steel helmets, or 30 hand gren-ades. t,
A lawn mower contains enough scrap to make 6 three-inch shells.
A discarded farm tractor contains enough to make 580 machine guns.
An automobile, containing an average of 1,500 pounds of steel, if used with an equivalent amount of pig iron, will make more than 16 17-mm. guns, 27 20-mm. guns, 30 .50-cal. machine guns, or 1% 16-___inch Navy shells, or 3 2,000-pound aerial bombs.
The list could be extended indefinitely. Every item of scrap is valuable for some purpose.
National salvage program
Our mills need scrap—must have scrap if they are to keep on turning out planes and ships and tanks.
The scrap exists here in this country in great quantities—a veritable “mine above the ground.”
The big job for the American people is to get this scrap from the places where it now exists—in useless form—to the factories, where it can be turned into weapons for our fighting men.
To accomplish this monumental task the salvage branch of the conservation Division of WPB early this year launched the National Salvage Program, a determined attempt to mobilize the entire population of the United States in a concerted drive to collect and deliver all the scrap material in the country that is available for war uses.
The WPB, through its salvage branch, approaches the problem through four major directions: (a) The industrial salvage section, (b) the general salvage section, (c) the special projects salvage section, and (d) the automobile graveyard salvage section. Each has a special function to perform.
( The industrial salvage section
This section is charged with the responsibility of educating industry to salvage all critical waste materials, to speed
List tells housewives what to give
A CHECK list naming more than 100 household and farm items containing material essential for war production has been compiled by the American Industries Salvage Committee.
ARTICLES CONTAINING MATERIALS WANTED FOR WAR
METAL
Metal beds—springs, old irons, old wood or coal stove, skid chains, old bathtubs, lawnmower, old metal refrigerator, old radiator, old washing machine, old kitchen sink, old ash cans, old sewing machines, old pails, old pipe, farm-garden-auto tools, old boiler, old furnace, old metal toys, skates, old metal fence, old wire, old pots and pans.
Old scissors and shears, old auto parts—tools, old electric motors, old electric fans, old washtubs, old metal cabinets, old jar tops, old farm equipment, ora screens, old clocks, old batteries, old lighting fixtures, old furnace grates, lamp bulbs, old fireplace equipment, old metal golf clubs, metal plant stands, bld washboards, bld metal hangers.
RUBBER
Girdles, shower caps, rubber gloves, old tires— tubes, old bicycle tires, old rubber boots, old galoshes and rubbers, rubber baby pants, rubber plug stoppers, rubber nipples, rubber floor mats,
THE LIST, sponsored jointly by the committee and the conservation division of the War Production Board, asks the housewife to place a check mark opposite every item available in the home and to make note of any other scrap which the list may bring to mind. Further instructions tell her how to make a systematic search for the scrap by starting in the attic and going through the house, garage, yard, and outbuildings, piling all scrap in one place for convenient disposal. If she lives on a farm there are further instructions to search the barn, fields, fence lines, ravines, and woods as well.
“THEN REMEMBER,” the instructions continue, “it is your responsibility as an American to see to it that your scrap gets into the fight, so take your scrap to the nearest salvage depot. If there isn’t a salvage depot nearby, don’t wait to be told what to do. Call your salvage committee to be sure that you throw your scrap into . the fight.” WPB announced that local salvage committees would distribute the lists and be responsible for getting at least one copy into every home.
up the return of these materials into the War Production stream, and to help industry use the established channels of disposal.
The present objective of this section is to urge and assist the executive management of every industrial establishment to move into production channels all dormant and prodùction scrap in their possession as speedily as possible. Production scrap is the type of scrap that accumulates during operation, left-over material which can be utilized in the manufacture of war materials.
Dormant scrap is defined as obsolete machinery, tools, equipment, dies, jigs, fixtures, etc., which are incapable of present or future use because they are broken, worn-out, dismantled, or in need
rubber sponges, rubber aprons, rubber garters, rubber toys, rubber shower curtains, old rubber washers, rubber corks, rubber covered wires, rub- ’ ber seat pads.
Rubber soles and beels, rubber raincoats, rubber combs, rubber bands, pencil erasers, old garden hose, hot water bottles, rubber balls, rubber swim suits, rubber bathing caps, rubber mattresses, rubber sheets, old tennis shoes, rubber bath mats, old jar rings.
FABRICS
Old vegetable sacks, cotton underwear, wool underwear, old sheets, old pillowcases, old bedspreads, old towels, old washcloths, old handkerchiefs, old tablecloths, old men’s shirts, old cotton dresses, old cotton curtains, old wool dresses, old suits, old coats, dust cloths, draperies.
HEMP
Old rope, old clothesline, old curtain cords, old light cords, old hemp rugs, old car-seat covers, old burlftp bags.	(
of unavailable parts necessary to reem-ployment.
The industrial salvage section will launch a Nation wide “dormant scrap drive,” beginning October 1, which will continue for 90 days. Seventy thousand top-ranking executives of industrial plants will be interviewed three times during this period. They will be asked to make an inventory of all dormant scrap materials which can be used as a schedule in making a complete disposal of all these materials through regularly organized scrap dealer channels.
The field force of the industrial salvage section, numbering. 140 men, will be augmented, during this period, by 2,500 salesmen and sales executives, drawn from (Continued on page 18)
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Facts about the scrap campaign
materials that are impeded by legal, financial, or political obstacles which involve extensive negotiations. Such projects include abandoned railroads, abandoned streetcar lines, abandoned bridges, mines, buildings, factories, oil wells, and others. Up to the present time the sources for financial assistance for projects where the cost of demolition exceeded the ceiling prices have been the WPA and the Metals Reserve Company.
In addition to expediting the movement of iron and steel scrap, and occasionally other scrap, the section has been engaged in getting relaying rail for military installations by the Army, Navy, and Maritime Commission.
The automobile graveyard section
The automobile graveyard section, now working through 254 field representatives, has the responsibility to see that 20,000 auto yards in the country are functioning as producing units. A great amount of the scrap that goes into the manufacture of war materials comes through the automobile graveyards. Some people are inclined to ask why these automobile graveyards are allowed to exist when there is a shortage of scrap, and the answer is: The Government desires to keep these graveyards operating in order to provide a channel through which to keep scrap flowing to the factories. The WPB has emphasized that operators of automobile graveyards do not hoard scrap. They could not if they wished. They are required to turn over their stock after 60 days, and their entire stock can be requisitioned at any lyme.
They keep their^tock moving. There were approximately 1,000,000 cars in the auto’graveyards on the first of March; today there are less than 500,000 cars. More than 1,000,000 cars have been moved 1 in the interim.
There are approximately 6,000,000 cars in the Nation today that are 10 years ’ old or older. With gasoline and rubber rationing, it is fairly obvious that many 1 of these cars will never run again. Most of these should be sold as junk.
Government agencies dealing with transportation look upon an automobile ’ either as a means of transportation or as junk. A car that cannot be used for transportation purposes is considered 1 junk. The price that can be paid for an unusable car when sold as junk ranges between $6 to $10.
One of the problems the automobile i graveyard section has to solve from a pub-r lie point of view is the function of the
(.Continued from page 17) the sales staffs of all the major steel companies, who have been certified to serve as temporary field men of the section. The general salvage section
This section is charged with establishing salvage programs in local community areas, appointing local committees and directing their activities. The activities of this section extend into every household and to every business firm, including smaller industrial organizations in rural areas, and to every farm.
The general salvage section is represented by 48 State committees and nearly 13,000 county and local committees with a membership of approximately 140,000.
One of the first projects of this section, launched early this year, was a Nationwide newspaper collection to meet a threatened newspaper shortage. The response of the American people in this campaign provided a surplus of stock beyond the immediate consumption needs, and the collection was halted for the time being. The response demonstrated the willingness of the American people to get in salvage materials when called upon to do so.
On October 5, the general salvage section will enlist 30,000,0.00 school children and nearly 1,000,000 teachers in a house-to-house, farm-to-farm scrap canvass. The Automotive Safety Foundation will establish for use over 200,000 official salvage depots, where the public can bring the scrap and dump it. Each school yard • will be an official salvage depot.
The general salvage section, aided by farm implement manufacturers, is now conducting a “scrap harvest” to garner all the scrap on the farms of the Nation.
The program now being conducted by this section is touching every home and community in the country. Oil, rubber, automotive, and steel industries and their dealers, as well as numerous public and private agencies, are aiding in carrying out the program, which is being conducted through approximately 13,000 State and local salvage committees.
The newspapers of the country have assumed the responsibility of arousing and maintaining public interest in the program through widespread publicizing of its activities. The campaign is being held during different three-week periods in different States. -
Special projects salvage section
The objective of this section is to expedite the salvage of large aggregations of iron and steel and other secondary
THREE STATES GETTING IN MOST- SCRAP WILL WIN PLAQUES FROM NELSON
Awards in a Nation-wide scrap collection contest will be made by the WPB in connection with the current Newspaper Scrap Drive. The three States collecting the largest amount of scrap per capita will receive honorary plaques from WPB Chairman Nelson and any county producing 100 pounds or more of scrap per capita during the contest will be awarded the Salvage Victory Pennant to fly from its courthouse flagstaff.
In announcing the rules of the contest, it was emphasized by the conservation division that only scrap metal and rubber which have been weighed and delivered to Victory Stock Piles, Official Salvage Depots, or scrap dealers’ yards will be used in the compilation of the competition totals.
Only that scrap collected during the Newspaper- Scrap Drive, of three weeks duration, in any State, will be included in the final tabulation of the contest. The drives take place during different three-week periods; many already have been started.
scrap dealer. The scrap dealer’s function is to prepare iron and steel scrap and nonferrous metals adequately for use by consumers. For example, the body of an automobile is knocked off the frame, dropped into a press and made into a small bundle for use in a charging box. The frames, axles, springs, and wheels are cut up according to specifications also for use in consuming mills’ charging boxes. The motor is cleaned of babbit and sent to a foundry.
A similiar process goes on in salvaging other types of scrap,- which illustrates why the scrap dealer’s function is so importanti
In view of the fact that anywhere from 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 cars annually come off the roads and enter graveyards, it is essential that these graveyards be kept in operation.
Some questions about scrap
Many may be confused by the number of scrap drives that have been put on this year and wonder which is the REAL scrap drive.
All these separate drives are part of one continuing program which was launched by WPB and will be carried on indefinitely.
Some wonder why scrap must be sold to
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dealers instead of going direct to the factories.
The answer is, scrap must be “processed”—graded, sorted, prepared, and packed—before it can be shipped. That is the job of the scrap dealer.
Someone who has collected some scrap—a housewife, business man, or farmer—wants to know what to do with the scrap.
Such persons are advised to take the scrap to their local scrap dealers, to the regularly established official salvage depots, or get in touch with their local salvage committees. There are approximately 13,000 State and local committees throughout the Nation.
The Government does not ask for contributions of scrap, but if one has scrap he wishes to donate, he should give it to some local charity or other agencies which will call for it, sell it and use the funds.
Ceiling prices at the mill have been set for all scrap. There is no danger of profiteering on the part of the dealers.
And finally, the question arises as to who is permitted to collect scrap. The answer is—everyone. The more the better. To avoid confusion, however, the public should work through local salvage committees. It’s a big enough job for all.
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WPB ASKS CITIZENS TO ACT AS “SALVAGE SCOUTS”
Citizens throughout the country were asked September 25 by the WPB conservation division to act as “salvage scouts” to search out , and report idle iron and steel structures and any large amounts of abandoned machinery or metal equipment, wherever they exist.
“There is a vast amount of useful metal, idle and unused, in all parts of the Nation,” said Lessing J. Rosenwald, director of the conservation division. “It is in many different forms—abandoned bridges, mines, buildings,railroad and street rails, saw mills, tanks, sunken ships, and in a great many other forms. Often we find a suggestion to the owner all that is necessary to start the metal moving to the mills.”
Any person who knows of idle metal in any form is requested to send information concerning the nature, location, and, if possible, the ownership of such equipment to the Special Projects Salvage Section, War Production Board, Washington, D. C.
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TRY THIS on the judge: A Milwaukee laundry truck driver, arrested for driving the wrong way on a one-way street, explained he was cutting his mileage 25 percent to save rubber. Sentence suspended.
New Industry Advisory Committees
The Division of Industry Advisory committees, WPBX has announced the formation of the following new committees:
ABRASIVE INDUSTRY
Members:
Arthur Batts, president, Carborundum Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y.; J. H. Byers, president. Abrasive Products Co., Lansdowne, Pa.; R. R. Cole, general manager, Phosphate Division, Monsanto Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.; A. T. Dalton, secretary, Chicago Wheel & Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Hl.; E. B. Gallaher, Clover Manufacturing Co., Norwalk, Conn.; W. A. Harty, president, Exolon Co., Blasdell, N. Y.; C. N. Jeppson, president, Norton Co., Worcester, Mass.; H. D. Williams, treasurer and general manager, Washington Mills Abrasive Co., North Grafton, Mass.; J. Kuzmick, Abrasive Wheel Department, Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Division of Raybestos Manhattan, Inc., Passaic, N. J.; S. B. Leishman, president, Gardner Machine Co., Beloit, Wis.; T. J. McIntyre, vice president, Macklin Co., Jackson, Mich.; W. L. McKnight, president, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., St. Paul, Minn.;-J. W. McLean, president, Abrasive Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; A. V. Parker, president, General Abrasive Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y.; P. R. Shuttleworth, vice president, Allison Co., Bridgeport, Conn.
FLUORSPAR MINING INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—M. H. Billings, mioa-graphite branch.
Members:
Ralph B. Derr, Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pa.; W. N. Smith, Mahoning Mining Co., Platteville, Wis.; K. A. Johnston, U. S. Coal & .Coke Co., Mexico, Ky.; J. M. Blayney, Rosiclare Lead & Fluorspar Mining Co., St. Louis, Mo.; R. H. Dickson, General Chemical Co., New York, N. Y.; E. D. Timberlake, Peerless Oil & Gas Co., Indiana, Pa.; F. G. Fabian, Hillside Fluor Spar Mines, Chicago, Ill.; Robert N. Frazer, Kentucky Fluor Spar Co., Marion, Ky.; Miles Haman, Crystal Fluorspar Co., Elizabethtown, Ill.; L. F. Hearne, Eagle Fluor Spar Co., Salem, Ky.; B. E. Clement, Davenport Mine, Marion, Ky.; Dr. J. L. Gillson, I. E. du Point de Nemours &-Co., Wilmington, Del.
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MOTIVE REPLACEMENT PARTS INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—J. J. Donovan, chief, replacement parts section, automotive branch.
Members:
E. A. Clark, vice president, Budd Wheel Co., Detroit, Mich.; Wm. H. Courtright, William & Harvey Rowland, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.; F. B. Willis, Bendix Product Division, South Bend, Ind.; J. D. Eby, vice president, Wagner Electric Corporation, St. Louis, Mo.; F. A. Miller, U. S. Asbestos Division, Raybestos Manhattan Corporation, Manheim, Pa.
PLUMBING AND HEATING WATER HEATER INDUSTRY .
Government presiding officer—W. W. Timmis, chief, plumbing and heating branch.
Members:
J. J. Cheviron, president, Lochinvar & Michigan Tank & Furnace Corporation, Detroit, Mich.; M. H. Feldman, vice president, John Wood Manufacturing Co., Inc., Conshohocken, Pa.; Earl Gossett, president, Bell and Gossett Co., Morton Grove, Ill.; George L. Harberger, Eastern Foundry Co., Boyerstown, Pa.; R. E. James, general manager, Rheem Manufacturing Co., Sparrows Point, Md.; C. C. Lanman, president, Novelty Steam Boiler Works Co., Baltimore, Md.; L. R. Mendelson, president, Hotstream Heater Co., Cleveland, Ohio; M. D. Rose, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Thomas Starke, president, Richmond Engineering Co., Richmond, Va.; A, H. Sutton, president, Mission Water Heater Co., Los Angeles, Calif.
VINYL RESINS PRODUCERS INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—Frank H. Carman, chief, plastics and synthetic rubber section, chemicals branch.
Members:
H. S. Bunn, Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corporation, New York^N. Y.; L. F. Loutrel, Shawinigan Products Corporation, New York, N. Y.; John C. Brooks, Monsanto Chemical Go., Springfield, Mass.; A. E. Pitcher, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del.; J. R. Hoover, The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio; Bradley Dewey, Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., Inc., Cambridge, Mass.; W. C. Goggin, The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich.; Henry B. Townsend, General Latex and Chemical Corporation,- Cambridge, Mass.
GENERAL LINE CONFECTIONERY INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—J. M. Whittaker, chief, confectionery section, food supply branch.
Members:
William H. Vogler, New England Confectionery Co., Cambridge, Mass.; William F. Heide, Henry Heide, Inc., New York, N. Y.; W. E. Brock, Jr., Brock Candy Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.; B. H. Goodman, Nutrine Candy Co., Chicago, Ill.; Z. E. Vose, National Candy Co., Inc., St. Louis, Mo.; Otto J. Glaser, Dairy Maid Confectionery Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; W. W. Reid, Jr., The Charms Co., Bloomfield, N. J.; L. R. Tilton, Bishop and Co., Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.; Charles Haug, Mason Au Magenheimer, Brooklyn, N. Y.
POULTRY AND EGGS PROCESSORS INDUSTRY
Government presiding officer—Clyde E. Beardslee, chief, dairy section of the food branch.
Members:
N. R. Clark, Swift and Co., Chicago, Ill.; J. B. Collier, Jr., Ft. Worth Poultry & Egg Co., Ft. Worth, Tex.; J. L. Perry, Seymour Packing Co., Topeka, Kans.; M. J. Goodrich, Strawberry Point, Iowa; Herbert Beyers, N. W. Turkey Growers Assn., Salt Lake City, Utah; Thomas W. Heitz, Rockingham Poultry Marketing Coop., Broadway, Va.; W. B. Loucks, Wadley & Co., New York, N. Y.; Robert F. Thurrel, N. E. Poultry Producers Assn., East Wolfeboro, N. H.; Harry J. Beernick, Washington Coop. Egg and Poultry Assn., Seattle, Wash.;- Willis W. Dayton, Fairmont Creamery Co., Omaha, Nebr.; Frank A. Priebe, Priebe & Sons, Inc., Chicago, Ill.; W. F, Leimert, Tranin Egg Products Co., Kansas City, Mo.
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PRICE ADMINISTRATION ...
Independent dealers permitted to pay slightly higher prices for cigarette tobacco without raising smokers’ costs
Action designed to permit independent dealers to pay slightly higher weighted average prices for flue-cured tobacco thus permitting stable prices for the various grades—although not increasing smokers’ costs thereby—was announced September 22 by OPA.
This program is effected through issuance of a permanent price regulation on flue-cured tobacco, which is used almost entirely in the manufacture of cigarettes. The permanent order succeeds a temporary 60-day price ceiling, which has been in effect on the southern-grown commodity Since August 31.
Maximum Price Regulation No. 228 (Flue-Cured Tobacco), became effective September 22. Through three salient features of the new order, growers— marketing the bulk of their better grades during the next seven weeks—may enjoy a broader buying support from manufacturers, dealers, and exporters than would have been the case under the temporary regulation. The features are as follows:
1.	Private buyers of flue-cured tobacco now may average their purchases for the entire season from August 31, 1942, to February 28, 1943, so that they shall not exceed the average price paid by each purchaser during the August 24-28, 1942, base period. In the original temporary order, buyers were required to average out in two 30-day periods. Under the new and longer time provision, buyers may purchase top grades at higher than their ceiling levels and round out to the ceiling by averaging down when lower grades come to market later in the season. This averaging could not be done to satisfactory advantage in many cases, it was felt, during a short monthly period.
2.	The permanent order contains a provision similar to that in the previous temporary regulation, namely that if any person had not purchased during the base period, he could use the 34.86-cent-per-pound market average for that August 24-28 time,,as determined by the Department of Agriculture. However, the new regulation also broadens this provision tj alleviate certain hardship cases.
3.	Purchases of flue-cured tobacco for export are exempt from price control under the new permanent regulation. This has been done largely for administrative reasons. It is estimated that not more than 4,000,000 pounds or about one-half of 1 percent of the total crop—will be moved under this provision. Furthermore, not more than 2,000,000 pounds of such tobacco will be of the better grades.
“Pin hookers”—individuals who buy a few baskets of tobacco in the auction markets and then resell them in the same
markets—also are exempt from price control under the new regulation. This recognizes an established feature of the auction markets and preserves it.
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57 rice warehouses allowed
4 to raise storage rates
Because current charges reflect conditions prevailing more than a year ago— during which time expenses incurred by warehouses have risen—the OPA September 21 authorized 57 Louisiana warehouses storing rough rice—the commodity in the pre-milled state—to increase their storage rates.
Upward adjustments—which vary for the individual warehouse—will range from 3 cents to 5 cents per 162-pound barrel of rice on an entire 12 months’ seasonal basis.
Retail price not affected
Despite these increases, which will range from 20 to 35 percent, the retail price of milled rice to the ultimate consumer probably will not be affected. The grower pays these storage costs, and the maximum increase of 5 cents per 162 pounds a year is insignificant as a cost item as compared with the price of approximately $7 received by the grower for the same quantity.
The new rates, permitted by OPA in order No. 49 under Section 1499.18 (c) of the general maximum price regulation,, effective September 21, also were ap-proved by the Louisiana State Warehouse Commission.
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Fruit cocktail canners may add increased costs to ceilings
The OPA September 22 ruled that canners of fruit cocktail and fruit for salad may add the increased cost of pineapple and maraschino cherries in computing their ceiling prices, as well as the increased costs of other ingredients permitted by Maximum Price Regulation No. 185.
Fruit packers may increase service charges temporarily, pending final adjustment
Packers and warehousemen of apples and pears will be permitted conditionally to increase current charges for their respective services, OPA ruled September 22, pending further and more searching investigations of widespread claims that these charges are abnormally low.
Refund provided for
The conditional adjustment authorized by Amendment No. 29 to Supplementary Regulation No. 14 to the general maximum price regulation, effective September 22, provides that the additional charge paid shall be refunded to the person against whom it is assessed not later than December 31, 1942, unless the Administrator provides otherwise prior to that time. Such funds either must . be placed in escrow by the warehouseman until that time or a surety bond guaranteeing refund posted with the OPA State office in the State where the service is performed.
Each storage company must report monthly to such OPA State office the names and addresses of all persons from whom it collects the additional charges and must show in the report the additional amount collected from each such person.
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Formula announced for pricing fruit products
Complete details of the formula for determining packers’ maximum prices for the 1942 pack of fruit preserves, jams and jellies, were announced September 21 by the OPA. Necessary adjustments at wholesale and retail will be authorized in a distributors’ regulation soon to be issued.
The new formula and pricing methods are contained in Maximum Price Regulation No. 226, effective September 26, 1942, for most fruit preserves, jams and jellies and effective October 1, 1942 for apple, boiled cider, crabapple, grape and quince flavors.
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THE GUN CARRIAGE of a 155 mm. gun calls for 1,000 separate drawings, plus 500 more for the recoil mechanism.
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OPA announces details of price regulation on dried fruits sold by packers
Complete details of the official regulation establishing price ceilings on six important dried fruits by setting specific “dollars and cents” prices at the packer level, were announced September 22 by the OPA.
Dried fruits covered in the new regulation are apricots, peaches, pears, prunes, figs and raisins.
Although no action at wholesale and retail is taken in the new Maximum Price Regulation No. 227 (Dried Fruits), effective September 26, OPA quarters reaffirmed the fact that in a separate forthcoming. regulation, wholesale and retail distributors of dried fruits will be permitted to adjust their ceiling prices.
“Support prices”	x
The specific packer ceiling prices on dried fruits and raisins set by OPA are predicated on the use of the Department of Agriculture’s “support prices” as a base. These prices are sufficiently high to meet the 110 percent of parity requirements of the Emergency Price Con-• trol Act of 1942. In each case, such price was adjusted for normal processing loss or gain. Estimated acquisition costs in 1942, including transportation to the packer’s plant, were added to the adjusted fruit cost.. The estimated 1942 packing and general selling costs were added to this amount. In computing maximum prices for sales to the Government, OPA set somewhat lower ceiling prices by deducting one-half the packer’s general selling cost.
“Dollars and cents” ceilings set
Specific “dollars and cents” price ceilings were set for both Government and private trade sales on various grades and sizes. On other grades, varieties, sizes and container sizes not named, OPA indicated that maximums shall be set from those listed by adding or subtracting—as the case may be—the same differential in dollars and cents which existed in the packer’s price lists or schedules of differentials during the 1941-42 selling season for the 1941 crop. However, if such differential did not remain constant during such period, the differential in effect for the greatest length of time during such period must be used.
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Goodale named to bakery unit
William F. Goodale, Jr., vice president of the Berwick Cake Co. of Boston and a specialist in cakes, cookies, and pies, has been named assistant to R. J. Conly, head of the OPA bakery unit.
OPA opens program to help retailers cut deliveries and frills, reduce costs without violating price ceilings
Price Administrator Henderson announced September 22 that a “retailer assistance” program Is being formulated so that retailers may reduce deliveries and eliminate “frills” from their operations as a means of lowering the cost of doing business under OPA ceilings.
Trade representatives meet
The Administrator disclosed he had designated a committee of retailers from all parts of the country to meet in Washington with OPA’s retail trade and services division and industry council September 29 and 30, to assist in development of the program. Representatives of the Department of Commerce and of the Office of Defense Transportation also were invited.
“A war economy has no room for business frills and furbelows,” Mr. Henderson said in announcing the meeting. His statement follows:
The years preceding 1939 were years In which customers were hard to get and various business-attractive services came into being in many retail stores. Such things as same day delivery service, liberal credit terms, goods on approval, COD service on small purchases, pick-up of returns, became common
Silver salt ceilings adjusted to increased silver prices
Adjustment of the maximum selling prices for silver salts to compensate for the recent increase in the price of silver was authorized September 22 by the OPA.
This revision is necessary, OPA officials stated, as maximum prices for silver salts were established by the general maximum price regulation on the basis of an imported silver bullion cost of 35.375 cents per troy ounce—the price prevailing in March 1942. However, Amendment No. 1 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 198, which became effective August 31, 1942, raised the maximum price for imported silver bullion from 35.375 cents to 45 cents per troy ounce in accordance with an understanding reached between the United States and Mexico.
The September 22 adjustment, contained in Amendment No. 27 to Supplementary Regulation No. 14 of the general maximum price regulation, corrects this situation.
practice in both large and small stores to induce more public buying.
Today the picture has changed. We are at war. Time and many materials are short. Retailers are experiencing numerous difficulties and are operating under price ceilings that make control of costs a real, live problem.
“Superficial” services not required
The general maximum price regulation requires retailers to continue to offer the same services that they did in March—the base month for ceiling prices. The reason for this provision is obvious—it is Intended to prevent hidden price Increases that result when customers are compelled to pay extra for things • formerly given free. This basic reason still holds. OPA does not Intend to relieve retailers from continuing to supply essential services if they have done so in the past.
However, there are many services given by stores which are not essential; in fact, are not even desirable under wartime conditions. It is these superficial services—holdover^ from pre-war days—that can and should be eliminated. The buying public does not expect their continuance; the Government does not want it.
Won’t curb advertising
OPA has been working on this problem for some time. Private discussions have taken place with small groups in the merchandising field and sufficient basic information has been accumulated to permit work to begin on a definite “retailer assistance” program.
To forestall inquiries that inevitably arise when retail curtailment plans are discussed, I may say that OPA has no intention of issuing any regulations limiting advertising.
Imported silver bullion price raised to 45 cents an ounce
OPA September 22 Increased maximum prices for silver bullion other than newly mined domestic silver by 9.625 cents per ounce, bringing the price to 45 cents an ounce.
A similar increase also was provided for semifabricated articles containing silver, and for silver scrap.
Previously, maximum prices for such silver were tied to the bullion price of 35% cents an ounce prevailing in March 1942.
Higher prices retroactive
The higher prices are retroactive to August 31 of this year, when, pursuant to an understanding between the United States and Mexican Governments, the maximum price for imports of silver bullion and for metal domestically refined from foreign ores and concentrates, was increased from 35% cents an ounce to 45 cents.
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Willow Run war housing project under construction Near bomber plant
Construction has begun on the first public war housing project in the vicinity of the Willow Run bomber plant and contracts have been awarded on two others with work scheduled to start immediately, John B. Blandford, Jr., National Housing Administrator, announced September 20.
Work is underway at Ypsilanti, Mich., on 3,000 dormitory units which will be made available for single workers at the bomber factory, biggest in the world.
Contracts have been let for 1,900 permanent family dwelling units which will be built in two groups, one of 900 and the other of 1,000 homes. These are to be built at Wayne and work will start immediately, Mr. Blandford said.
Additional projects
Other public housing projects on which preliminary work is being rushed include 500 permanent family dwelling units at Inkster, 100 dormitory units and 100 permanent family units at Ypsilanti, and 2,500 permanent homes at a new townsite near the plant. Construction of the projects is under the Federal Public ♦ Housing Authority, a unit of NHA.
In addition to the public war housing, 4,500 privately financed homes have been programmed for the Willow Run area and have been approved by WPB.
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Lumber from imported mahogany exempt from GMPR
In order to insure as far as possible adequate supplies of mahogany for use in war contracts, OPA September 23 exempted mahogany lumber, flitches, and veneer, manufactured in the United States from imported mahogany, from the provisions of the general maximum price regulation.
The exemption, which applies only to sales after October 1,1942, to the United States, its agencies or “Lend-Lease” governments or to persons who will use such commodities to fulfill a contract or subcontract with any such government or agency, was contained in Amendment No. 10 to Revised Supplementary Regulation No. 4 to the general maximum price regulation, effective September 22, 1942.
HOUSING CRITICAL AREAS
The WPB has added 10 areas to the Defense Housing Critical Area List. They are:
Camden, Ark.; Marianna, Fla.; Port Huron, Mich:; Courtland, Ala.; Newport, Ark.; Bainbridge, Ga.; Gulfport, Miss.; Altus, Okla.; Frederick, Okla.; Tampa, Fla.
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OPA amends housing regulations
Landlords putting housing accommodations on the rental market for the first time in defense-rental areas where rent control is in effect no longer need to have the first rent charged fixed by the area rent director before being able to rent the property, by an amendment to housing regulations issued September 22 by the OPA.
The amendment, issued to all maximum rent regulations for housing accommodations other than hotels and rooming houses, also does away with the same requirement for housing accommodations which have been changed, resulting in an increase or decrease in the number of rental units.
However, landlords must register such property within 30 days of renting, and the first rent charged may be ordered decreased if it is out of line with rents charged in the area for comparable accommodations.
This change is authorized under Supplementary Amendment No. 4 to all maximum rent regulations for housing accommodations other than hotels and rooming houses.
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Key West rents pushed back another 5 months
Rents for all living quarters in the Key West, .Fla., Defense-Rental Area are being pushed back an additional 5 months to October 1, 1941, through amendments issued September 21 by Price Administrator Henderson. Additional evidence showing an earlier start of war activities in the area, particularly on the part of the Navy, necessitated the change in the freeze date to bring about a more equitable rental situation.
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THE ARMY is saving great quantities of copper for other war purposes by substituting steel for brass in shell cases.
Northern hardwood, softwood lumber producers to roll back prices to October 1941 levels
Northern hardwood and softwood lumber producers—one of the few remaining branches of the lumber industry not previously under specific price regulation— were ordered September 19 by Price Administrator Henderson to roll back prices for shipments which originate at the mill to approximately the levels prevailing in October 1941.
This action was effected by the issuance of two price regulations, Maximum Price Regulation No. 223, Northern Hardwood Lumber, and Maximum Price Regulation No. 222, Northern Softwood Lumber, which contain specific dollars and cents prices for practically all standard and near standard grades and items of Northern lumber and a formula for pricing other Northern stock. The regulations were effective September 23, 1942.
As is the case with the great majority of lumber regulations which have been issued up to present, the two new measures apply only where shipments originate at the mill, with sales from distribution yard stocks remaining under the general maximum price regulation.
The ceiling prices established in the regulations are prices f. o. b. mill, except in the case of lumber imported from Canada. Prices for almost all standard and near standard grades of softwood and hardwood lumber and for the more common special grades of hardwood lumber are set out in dollars and cents terms. In the case of special grades and items of softwood lumber and the less common special grades and items of hardwood lumber, the regulations provide a formula for determining ceiling prices.
Wholesalers or commission salesmen are not required to file reports of sales of special grades and items. However, Wholesalers’’ and commission salesmen cannot charge a price for such grade or item which is higher than the price approved by OPA for the producing mill.
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Hardwood lumber prices established
Dollars and cents maximum prices for additional “recurring special” grades and items of Appalachian hardwood lumber for nine mills have been established by Amendment No. 6 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 146 (Appalachian Hardwood Lumber), effective September 30, 1942.
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Auto repair shops to file price statements with local boards
Machine shops supplying automotive repair, maintenance, and rebuilding services are subject to price controls of the Service Trades Price Regulation (No. 165) * and should file with their local War Price and Rationing Boards statements of March prices as required by this regulation, the OPA service trades branch said September 23. These statements should -not be sent to the Washington office, it emphasized.
List of services
Clearly covered under Regulation No. 165 are the services normally performed either for the retail or wholesale trade by concerns which specialize in such operations in connection with automotive vehicles as—
Crank shaft regrinding; cylinder reboring; repairing and rebuilding automotive generators and starters; reconditioning and rebuilding motors; clutch refacing; brake-shoe relining; overhauling and reconditioning carburetors; rebabbitting connecting-rods; align boring of main bearings; truing brake drums; brake lining installation; clutch rebuilding; cylinder head resurfacing; valve refacing.
Printed or mimeographed price lists such as are regularly distributed by such concerns to their customers may be used if the prices quoted are the highest prices actually charged in March 1942, and providing they contain an appropriate description of each service listed.
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OPA given added control over new cars
In addition to its authority to ration new passenger automobiles, OPA has been given the right to control the use or alteration of new cars.
The director general for. operations has issued Amendment No. 4 to Supplementary Directive No. 1-A, extending OPA’s control over the sale, transfer, or other disposition of new cars to the use or alteration of these cars by any person except those specifically exempted under the terms of Directive No. 1. The exemptions apply to the Army, Navy, certain other Government agencies, and exporters.
Extension of the control is designed to permit OPA to prevent conversion of new passenger cars now in the hands of dealers, if it decides that such conversions are unwise.
Henderson opposes rise in passenger coach Tares by railroads in South
Application asking the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend a proposed increase of from 1.65 cents a mile to 2.2 cents a mile in passenger coach fares throughout the South has been filed by Price Administrator Henderson through OPA’s recently organized transportation and public utilities division.
Would affect war workers
The application asserted that the burden of the higher fare would be borne largely by war workers, commercial travelers, army camp visitors, and others now dependent on railroad travel because of . gasoline and tire rationing. It asked the
OPA to license all dealers in used machine tools
Automatic licensing of all dealers sell ing used machine tools or extras, or second-hand machines or parts, was an nounced September 21 by the OPA.
Supplementary Order No. 20, effective September 26, 1942, also requires ever: second-hand machine tool or second hand machinery dealer to register witl the OPA, Washington, D. C., on or be fore November 2, 1942, by filling ou OPA Form No. SO20:3. This form i obtainable at the Washington office o OPA or at any OPA regional State oj district office.
Dealer may lose license
A dealer’s license may be suspendec if he violates any provision of Supplementary Order No. 20 or any price schedule or regulation covering such machint tools and machinery. The dealer thereupon loses his privilege to do business.
Supplementary Order No. 20 does noi apply to retail sales of second-hanc machine tools or extras, or second-hanc machines or parts.
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Ceiling set on “Bubblfil”
The OPA September 23 authorized a ceiling price of $1.25 a pound for “Bubblfil,” a rayon yarn newly developed bj E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Inc., of Wilmington, Del., as a possible substitute for sponge rubber and kapok This product was not sold or offered foi sale in March 1942, base date under the general maximum price regulation.
Commission to order a hearing requiring the southern railroads to justify the increase, which would become effective on October 1, should the Commission finally grant the higher rate sought by the railroads.
Exhibits attached to the application show that southern carriers enjoyed an 85 percent increase in passenger revenues during the first 7 months of 1942 and that net railway operating income rose 86.4 percent in the same period. Net income before Federal taxes increased by 145 percent In the first half of this year as compared with the same period in 1941.
OPA removes limit on gas to deliver motor vehicles
The five-gallon per month restriction on special rations of gasoline to deliver a motor vehicle after sale was removed September 21 by OPA. The previous allowance had proved inadequate, OPA said.
The new provisions will permit movement of a chassis, particularly that of a truck, to body installation plants. It will also permit the movement of a truck bearing mounted equipment for repair of that equipment. The new amendment is No. 9 to Rationing Order 5A.
The amendment does not remove the five-gallon per month ceiling on ¡special rations granted to demonstrate a vehicle, or to move a car or boat from one sales or storage place to another, unless that movement follows sale of the car or boat.
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Print roller engravers warned against upgrading of prices
Engravers of print rollers for textile printing were cautioned September 22 by the OPA that they may charge for their services no more than their highest charges for the same or a similar service rendered during March 1942.
Because of reports that some engravers of this type recently have revised their prices upward, OPA officials stressed that any increases in charges above March levels constitute a violation of prescribed ceilings.
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OPA announces method for adjusting ceiling prices of woolen and worsted fabrics
Means by which jobbers of woolen and worsted apparel fabrics, who also originate their own designs, may seek adjustments of ceiling prices were announced September 25 by the OPA.
Under Maximum Price Regulation No. 163—Woolen and Worsted Civilian Apparel Fabrics—markups are set forth which jobbers may apply to costs in determining maximum prices on their sales of fabrics. These markups, in the form of “division factors,” take into consideration only ordinary selling expenses of jobbers.
The Amendment No. 6 establishes a method of granting adjustments when . these regular jobber markups are not sufficient to provide for additional costs incurred by jobbers in connection with the manufacture, styling or designing of exclusive fabrics which they have originated. In some respects, such operators may be regarded as performing the functions of mills rather than the services of ordinary jobbers.
Jobbers may appeal
> Jobbers who suffer substantial hardships by reason of such additional expenses are authorized to file petitions for adjustment in accordance with Procedural Regulation No. 1.
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Kincaid named chief of
WPB hosiery unit
Appointment of Carl S. Kincaid as chief of the hosiery unit was announced September 22 by Frank L. Walton, deputy chief of the WPB textile, clothing, and leather branch. This unit is a part of the knit goods section, of which Mr. John Shireman is chief. Mr. Kincaid succeeds James D. Ma ver, who recently resigned to return to private business.
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Clothing manufacturers’ deadline postponed
A further postponement until October 25, 1942, of the deadline for filing reports under Maximum Price Regulation No. 177 required of manufacturers and wholesalers of men’s and boys’ tailored clothing was announced September 21 by the OPA.
Changes made in WPB clothing branch
Two changes in the personnel of the textile, clothing, and leather branch of WPB were announced September 21 by Frank L. Walton, deputy chief of the branch.
E. H. Scull, who has been chief of the clothing section since June, has been appointed special assistant to Mr. Walton. He is on leave from the presidency of E. H. Scull Co., Inc., of New York City.
G. R. MacDonald will succeed Mr. Scull as chief of the clothing section. Mr. MacDonald has been chief of the women’s and children’s clothing section since July. He is on leave from the Higbe Co., of Cleveland, where he is a merchandise manager.
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Cloth for food processing and agricultural use assured
An adequate supply of sheetings, flan-, nels, print cloth yarn fabrics, osnaburg cloth, and tobacco cloth is assured for specified food and agricultural uses through an order issued September 18 by -the WPB.
Essential uses include: packaging of cheese; production of milk strainers and filters; covering of tobacco seed beds and shade-grown tobacco; and manufacture of cotton picking sacks.
The order, M-218, assigns an A-2 rating to orders placed by dairy supply manufacturers, textile converters, or cloth merchants.
The order affects approximately 30 cotton mills, 20 dairy supply manufacturers and 50 distributors of cloth for agricultural and food processing use. About 112,000,000 yards of woven cotton textiles are covered.
Purposes specified
No person may use any of the cloth obtained on an A-2 rating under this order except for purposes specified in the order or to fill orders placed by the Army, Navy, and other specified Government agencies. Orders placed by the Army, Navy, and the Government agencies may be filled on a rating lower than A-2. However, the purchaser must specify that the cloth is to be used by such an agency.
Beginning October 19, the inventory of dairy supplies manufacturers and textile converters is restricted to a 60-day supply of sheetings, flannels, or print cloth yarn fabrics.
Effective immediately, a cloth merchant may carry an inventory sufficient only to satisfy the volume of business in his area, based on crop forecasts for the area served and his past experience.
Prices of base material for cotton fabrics reduced to protect consumers
Reductions in manufacturers’ ceiling prices for carded cotton sales yarns, base material for all of the more common grades of cotton fabrics, were announced September 25 by Price Administrator Henderson in a move designed to prevent increases in the prices which consumers must pay for cotton goods.
Because OPA cost studies reveal that prices provided by the carded yarn price schedule—No. 33—are too high in relation to the prices established for combed yarns and for other cotton goods, maximum prices for carded yarn numbers of 20s and coarser have been cut from 1540 to 2 54 0 per pound for singles and 154 0 to 40 for plied yarns. Schedule Ño. 33 has been completely rewritten and is now "reissued as Maximum Price Regulation No. 33—Carded Cotton Yarns and the Processing Thereof. It took effect September 28, 1942.
Followed parity rule
In reducing the maximum prices, Mr. Henderson stated that he had established ceiling levels which — based on cotton yarn mill cost surveys—are in “strict conformance” with the Section 3 agricultural provisions of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 guaranteeing farmer's a 110 percent of parity return of other specified levels before price ceilings may be imposed.
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Ceiling prices set for woolen products from South America
In furtherance of the “Good Neighbor Policy,” Price Administrator Henderson, September 21, set a ceiling on certain South American manufactured woolen blankets and piece goods, being imported into the United States for the first time, at a level designed to encourage Pan-American business transactions of this type.
The pricing formula allowed by the Price Administrator for one importer of these goods provides a percentage markup over actual cost “sufficient to provide for its selling operations.”
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WPB amends order governing ratings on officers’ uniforms
Certain additions and clarifications to Order P-131 which sets up priority assistance to manufacturers of officers uniforms, including those for the Army and Navy, were made September 23 in an amended order issued by the WPB. The amended order included the following important changes and clarifications:
1.	The rating assigned under the order may be used to secure cotton, wool, synthetic fabrics, thread, buttons, including detachable buttons if sold with the uniform, and other material actually a part of the uniform.
2.	Definitions of officers uniforms are made specific.
3.	Only custom or merchant tailors will be granted ratings for purchase of wool cloth over thirteen ounces in weight per yard in the fifty-six inch width. This applies to Army and Navy uniforms and also to tropical worsted for Army uniforms.
4.	The order revokes ratings for all unfilled orders where delivery would be contrary to restrictions of the amended regulation.
5.	Distributors are affected by the amended order as follows:
They are no longer limited in their purchases to producers with whom they had previously done business. They can purchase from any producer if they had been distributors prior to June 8.
After December 31, authorization certificates from the Army Exchange Service are required for shipment of ready-to-wear uniforms in the thirteen-ounce wool cloth or over. The same provision applies to ready-to-wear Navy officers uniforms.
6.	The applications and appeal clause of the order has been revised. The Army and Navy must now pass on all applications for materials and also on appeals from provisions of the order.
7.	Material graded as seconds or rejects by any Government agency cannot be used to manufacture officers uniforms except by a custom or merchant tailor.
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WPB defines insurance rates for wool and wool tops
War risk insurance rates used in adjusting maximum prices for wool and wool tops must not exceed the low rates offered by the War Shipping Administration, the OPA ruled September 24 as a means of passing on to consumers the full benefits in saving on war risk insurance.
The new Amendment No. 8 to Revised Price Schedule 53 (Wool and Wool Tops and Yarns) recognizes that insurance coverage by the War Shipping Administration available to all importers under open policies is at rates which are below the rates of commercial companies. With certain exceptions, the adjustments to the official rates are applicable only to shipments of wool which are evidenced by ocean bills of lading or similar documents dated on or later than September 30, 1942, the effective date of this amendment.
WPA to patch tank driver’s pants
WPA will patch the pants of the man in the driver’s seat of the tank.
The military importance of this is indicated by statistics which show that in a single day in a tank the sturdiest trouser-seats the Army has been able to procure take a terrific beating. Only somewhat le§s heavy are casualties in trouser-seats of men in the jeeps.
WPA will meet this situation by undertaking the reclamation of Army clothing and equipage on a Nation-wide basis in each of the nine Service Command Areas * throughout the country, it was announced September 18 by Brig. Gen.
Ceiling formula for cotton bale bagging sales established
Cotton oil mills may establish maximum prices for sales of cotton bale bagging to cotton ginners by adding to specific replacement costs and freight charges the customary markup of 5 cents per pattern complete with ties and of 4 cents per pattern without ties, the OPA announced September 23.
Will not affect cotton farmer *
The new action is taken through Amendment No. 32 to Supplementary Regulation 14, effective September 22. Inasmuch as resales of these materials are generally made by cotton oil mills during July, August and September, only isolated sales were made during March 1942, the base period of the general maximum price regulation. Moreover, no comparable commodity is sold by cotton oil mills and they were, therefore, generally unable to determine maximum . prices under the original provisions of ; the general regulation.
Ceiling prices on resales by oil mills to ginners supplement the provisions of Maximum Price Regulation No. 211 which sets levels ginners may charge cotton growers for bagging and ties furnished in connection with ginning. The September 23 amendment, therefore, will have no effect upon prices paid by the cotton farmer. Neither does the amendment apply to resales of cotton ties alone, such sales being regulated by Revised Price Schedule No. 49 (Resale of Iron and Steel Products).
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ONE REASON we need lead: The guns of a pursuit plane vomit bullets at the rate of 300 pounds per minute.
Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator and Acting Commissioner of Work Projects.
General Fleming pointed out that in addition to the direct service to the Army and the important savings, the WPA clothing projects will enable thousands of women WPA workers, barred by age or other handicaps from war industries, to help materially in the war effort.
In addition to reclaiming Army clothing, the WPA projects will reclaim other items, such as barrack and field bags, blankets, comforters, haversacks and mattress covers.
WPB approves hemp production program
The WPB September 23, approved a program for the planting of 300,000 acres of hemp for fiber and construction of 71 mills for processing of the hemp into line and tow fiber to be used in the manufacture of rope and twine. This step further carries out a program for production of domestic hemp started almost a year ago.
Commodity credit to have full authority
The amendment provides that all purchasers of hemp seed must now place their orders directly with the Commodity Credit Corporation. Each order must be accompanied by a statement from a Department of Agriculture representative on Form PD-L-521 certifying that the land and climatic conditions in the area in which the seed is . to be planted are suitable.
The amendment also requires that persons holding two or more bushels of the seed on September 22 must file by October 2 a report of their inventory with the Office for Agricultural War Relations, Department of Agriculture, ; Washington, D. C.
One mill for each 4,000 acres
The 71 mills to be built under a Government financed program will be placed adjacent to planting areas to assure immediate processing of the hemp once it is harvested. The requirements comit-tee of the WPB has already approved use of needed materials for construction of the mills in a ratio of one mill for each - 4,000 acres. At present. there are only about five hemp processing mills in operation.
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Davis orders 523 Federal publications discontinued or curtailed for duration to clear channels for war information
Moving to clear channels for war Information, Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, issued September 25 the first of a series of orden cutting down Government publications and mailing lists.
The order, which becomes OWI Regulation Number Three, affects 523 Federal publications and series of publications; it makes mandatory for the duration of the war the recent elimination of 239 items and the curtailment of 284 The regulation provides machinery tc make further cuts. -
Committee to study further cuts
The regulation is divided into fou] parts.
The first makes binding for the duration of the war all discontinuance anc curtailment of publications and othei Informational materials made by anj Federal department or agency between July 1, 1941, and September 25, 1942.
The second part establishes an Inter-Agency Publications Committee to recommend by November 1 further discontinuances, curtailment or modification In informational materials issued by the departments and agencies.
General mailing lists abolished
The third part abolishes all general mailing lists built up of requests for “all releases and/or publications.” Departments and agencies are called upon tc notify persons of this action. Agencies are permitted to form selective lists basec on requests for specific publications.
The fourth part prohibits the sending of Government releases by telegraph tc newspapers, radio stations, or any other news media without permission of the OWI except at the request and expense ol the receiver.
Agencies made reductions up to 40%
For some time the OWI, with the cooperation of other Federal agencies, has been studying the flow of governmental releases. During this study, many agencies voluntarily abolished many publications not bearing directly upon the war Guts were also made in mailing lists. Over-all curtailment of publications in some nonwar agencies ran as high as 40 percent.
Publications affected are as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of Information.—Annual Report of the Director of Information, pages cut from 84 to 17; Journal of Agricultural Research, pages cut from 192 to 96; Yearbook of Agriculture, discontinued; Farm Handbooks, discontinued; Farmers’ Bulletins Lists, distribution cut one-third.
Farm Security Administration.—Annual Report of Administrator, discontinued in printed form.
Rural Electrification Administration.— Rural Electrification News, pages cut from 82 to 24; Summary, discontinued; Lineman, pages cut from 8 to 4; Epistle, discontinued; We Have the Power, discontinued; How to Build a Sound Cooperative, discontinued; Opportunity for Young Engineers, discontinued; Planning for Farm Plumbing, discontinued.
Bureau of Agricultural CKemistry and Engineering.—Monthly News Letter, discontinued; Naval Stores Report, distribution cut from 5,000 to 2,000; Annual Report of Chief of Bureau, number of pages cut one-half.
Extension Service.—Extension Marketing News, discontinued; Extension Pathologist, discontinued; Extension Entomologist, discontinued; Extension Forester, discontinued; Visual Aids Tip Sheet, pages cut from 8 to 2; Extension Poultry Husbandman, discontinued; Extension Animal Husbandman, discontinued; Recreational News Letter, discontinued; List of References on Home-Economics Literature, discontinued; Letter to 4-H Club Leaders, discontinued; Extension Service Review, 4 pages of cover cut—distribution cut by 500.
Bureau of Animal Industry.—Index-Catalogues of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, discontinued; State Sanitary Requirements Governing Admission of Livestock (Mise. 14), revision postponed; Three Technical Bulletins, distribution cut from 9,000 to 8,500; Journal of Agricultural Research Separates, distribution cut from 2,900 to 2,475; Report of Chief of the BAI, number of pages cut in half—distribution cut from 8,500 to 3,250.,
Bureau of Dairy Industry.—DHIA Letter, pages cut from 26 to 9; List of Sires Proved in Dairy Herd Improvement Associations, pages reduced from 158 to 140; Report of Chief of BDI, pages cut from 52 to 26.
Agricultural Adjustment Agency.—Briefly Speaking, discontinued; AAA Information Digest, discontinued; Statement of Expenditures, discontinued; East Central Flashes, discontinued; Northeast Facts for Committeemen, discontinued; Farm Defense News, discontinued; Annual Report, The Land, number of pages cut in half; Four Separates to Annual Report, discontinued.
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.—B of E and P Q News Letter discontinued; Insect. Pest Survey Bulletin, discontinued; Entomology Current Literature, discontinued.
Bureau of Plant Industry.—Cereal Courier, discontinued; Cotton Division News, discontinued; Weekly Station Report of Division of Dry Land Agriculture, discontinued; Forage Crop Gazette, discontinued; Soil Survey News Notes, discontinued; News Letter of Division of Irrigation Agriculture, discontinued; News Letter of Division of Fruits and Vegetables, discontinued; Annual Report of Chief of BPI, pages cut one-half; Six Technical Bulletins, postponed; Three Popular Bulletins, postponed.
Bureau of Home Economics.—Annual Report, pages cut in half.
VICTORY unaffected by Davis’ order
VICTORY is not affected by OWI Director Davis’ order of September 25, which makes mandatory for the duration the elimination or curtailment of 523 Government publications. VICTORY will continue to publish the news released by the Office of War Information, edited to give a coher- -ent picture of the week’s governmental activities relating to' the war.
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.— FCIC News Letter discontinued; Cotton News Letter, discontinued.
Agricultural Marketing Administration.— AMA News, discontinued; AMA Bulletin Board, discontinued; AMA Staff Reporter, discontinued; Supplements to Directory of Field Office, discontinued; Directory of Market News Broadcasts, discontinued; Consumers’ Guide, issuance cut from 20 to 12 times a year; distribution cut from 150,000 to 147,000; Consumer Notes, discontinued; Consumer’s Market, discontinued; Distribution of Foods under the Domestic Distribution Program, discontinued; Grain Inspector’s Letter, discontinued; Trade-in Wool Top Futures, discontinued; Trade-in Cotton Futures, discontinued; Dockets oh Cases under Packers and Stockyards Act, discontinued.
Forest Service.—Fire Control Notes, discontinued; Forest Service Bulletin, discontinued; Planting Quarterly, discontinued; Construction Hints, discontinued; State and Private Forestry Review, discontinued; Community Forests, discontinued; Annual Report of Chief of Forest Service, pages cut; Bi-Monthly Research Report, discontinued; Research Reports, Statistical, distribution cut from 5,000 to 3,500; Research Reports, Semi-Technical, distribution cut from 7,000 to 3,500; National Forest Resources, with Emphasis on Recreational Use and Fire Prevention, distribution cut from 207,700 to 155,800.
Sou Conservation Service.—Service News, discontinued; SCS Literature, discontinued; Field Directory, made semiannual instead of quarterly; Soil Conservation, pages cut from 32 to 24—distribution cut from 6,700 to 5,000.
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations.— Foreign Agriculture, pages cut from 48 to 28— distribution cut from 2,400 to 1,900; Agriculture in the Americas, distribution cut from 10,000 to 7,500; Foreign Crops and Markets, changed from weekly to monthly—distribution cut from 2,825 to 2,475; Foreign Crops and Markets (weekly), distribution cut from 2,825 to 185.	»
Bureau of Agricultural Economics.—Inside BAE, discontinued; Farm Population and Rural Life Activities, discontinued; Agricultural Situation in Relation to Banking, discontinued; The Wool Situation, discontinued; The Livestock Situation, combined in The Livestock and Wool Situation; Agricultural Economics Literature, discontinued; Farm Retail Price Spreads, discontinued; Dairy Production, discontinued; Poultry and Egg Production, discontinued; Annual Livestock Prices, discontinued; Prospective Seed Sales, discontinued: Soy Bean Price and Movement, discontinued: Cow Pea Price and Movement, discontinued; Disposition of Seeds, discontinued; Grain Storage Capacity, discontinued; Agricultural Finance Review, changed from semiannual to annual; The Fruit Situation, changed from monthly to quarterly; The Wheat Situation, changed to bimonthly except during planting and harvesting—pages cut from 20 to 14—distribution cut by 700; The Vegetable Situation, changed to quarterly from monthly—pages cut from 28 to 26—distribution cut by 700?-
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The Fate and Oils Situation, distribution cut by 365; The Dairy Situation, distribution cut by 1,350; The Demand and Price Situation, pages cut from 24 to 18—distribution cut by 1,500; The Poultry and Egg Situation, pages cut from 20 to 16—distribution cut by 1,400; The Farm Income Situation, distribution cut by 750; The Feed Situation, pages cut from 20 to 18—distribution cut by 670.
Also: The Cotton Situation, pages cut from 21 to 13—distribution cut by 600; The Tobacco Situation, pages cut from 38 to 28— distribution cut by 950; Land Policy’ Review, changed to quarterly from monthly—distribution cut from 11,000 to 6,000; Crops and Markets, changed from monthly to quarterly; Agricultural Situation (printed) distribution cut by 1,600; Agricultural Situation (Separate), distribution cut by 26,000; Agricultural Prices, pages cut from 36 to 24—-distribution cut by 1,800; General Crop Report, pages cut from 34 to 20—distribution cut by 2,300; Cotton Report, distribution cut by 560; Annual Summary, General, pages cut from 96 to 60— distribution cut by 2,850; Annual Summary, Cotton, pages cut from 10 to 6—distribution cut by 550; Annual Summary, Truck, pages cut from 82 to 50—distribution cut by 350; Annual Summary, Price, pages cut from 42 to 24; Honey Production, pages reduced from 4 to 2—distribution cut by 700; Farm Disposition of Crops, pages cut from 100 to 58—distribution cut by 500; Livestock on Farms, pages cut from 24 to 16—distribution cut by 100; Livestock by Classes, pages cut from 30 to 6—distribtulon cut by 200; Wool Produc-. tion and Income, pages cut from 6 to 2— distribution cut by 200; Mohair Production & Income, distribution cut by 200; Hatchery, pages cut from 5 to 3 pages—distribution cut by 100; Liquid and Dried Egg Production, -distribution cut by 200; Cattle on Feed, distribution cut by 750; Sheep and Lambs on Feed, distribution cut by 750; Pig Crop Report, pages cut from 6 to 4—distribution cut by 1,200; Lamb Crop Report, pages reduced from 4 to 2—distribution cut by 1,200; Turkey Production, pages cut from 4 to 2—distribution cut by 1,850; Wool Production, distribution cut by 750; Wheat Stocks in Mills and Elevators, distribution cut by 1,000; Peanut Stocks and Processing, pages cut from 2 to 1; Fluid Milk, distribution cut by 150; Dry Milk Production, discontinued; Evaporated and Condensed Milk Production Combined with Dry Milk Production, combined pages cut to 2—Distribution cut 1,800; Fresh Market Crops, pages cut from 16 to 8—distribtulon cut by 300.
Also: Condition Market Crops, pages cut from 3 to 2—distribution cut by 1,100; Processing Crops, pages cut from 8 to 7; Truck Crop News, pages cut from 10 to 9—distribution cut by 1,500; Potato »Stocks, pages cut from 6 to 4—distribution cut by 6,400; Fruit Prospects, pages cut from 11 to 8—distribution cut by 800; Farm Disposition and Income— Milk; pages cut from 102 to 14—distribution cut to 1,000 from 3,300; Farm Disposition and Income—Chickens, pages reduced from 23 to 2—distribution cut by 500; Farm Disposition and Income—Turkeys, pages cut from 16 to 2—distribution cut by 500; Farm Dispo- ' sitlon and Income—Meat Animals, pages cut from 28 to 20—distribution cut by 500; Farm Production and Value of Livestock Products, pages cut from 14 to 8; Farm Labor Report, pages cut from 13 to 10—distribution cut by 1,300; Seed Prices, Movements, Shipments and Forecasts, distribution cut by 1,100; Monthly Creamery Butter and American Cheese, pages cut from 6 to 4; Weekly Cheese Receipts and Stocks, distribution cut by 200; Weekly Cheese Production, distribution cut by 300; Weekly Butter Production, distribution cut by 500; Land Economics, 17 reports postponed; State and County Planning, discontinued; Marketing and Transportation Research, 3 publications postponed; Division Annual Reports, discontinued.
Agricultural Research Administration Office of Experiment Stations.—Report on the Agricultural Experiment Stations, pages cut from
KID SALVAGE, a character drawn by Steig especially for 0WI, appears in VICTORY each week. Mats, in two-column size, are available for publication. Requests to be put on the mailing list should be addressed to Distribution Section, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. When requesting individual mats, please refer to V number. v
272 to 164—distribution cut by 200; Report of the Puerto Rico Experiment Station, pages cut from 103 to 52—distribution cut by 750; Report of the Puerto Rico Experiment Station (Spanish edition), pages cut from 136 to 68—distribution cut by 250; Report of Chief of Office of Experiment Stations, pages cut from 26 to 13; Experiment Station Record, distribution cut by 200.
U. S. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Annual Report, discontinued; News, discontinued; American Legion Bulletin, discontinued.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Division of Current Information.-^-News releases pertaining to foreign trade of United States averaging about 15 a month, distribution cut from 4,500 to 100; News releases pertaining to domestic economy of United States, averaging about twelve were Issued each week, discontinued; World Economic Notes, reduced number of issues from six each week to three each week; Fillers, changed from a weekly to a monthly issue.
Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce.— Department Store Collections & Accounts Receivable, discontinued; Jewelry Store Credit, discontinued; General Merchandise Sales, Rural, discontinued; General Merchandise Sales, By Regions, discontinued; Monthly Industry Survey, distribution cut from 3,800 to 1,600; Chain Men’s Wear Stores—Sales and Inventories, discontinued; Total Retail Sales, distribution cut from 350 to 100; Installment Loans to Consumers—Personal Finance Companies, discontinued; Installment Loans to Consumers—Industrial Banking Cos., discon-
tinued; Installment Loans to Consumers— Credit Unions, discontinued; New Automobile Financing, discontinued; Furniture Store Credit, discontinued; Household Appliance Store Credit, discontinued; Variety Store Sales and Inventories, discontinued; Chain Shoe Stores Sales and Inventories, discontinued; Chain Grocery Stores Sales and Inventories, discontinued; Chain Drug Stores Sales and Inventories, discontinued; Inventories in the hands of Manufacturers, discontinued; Index of Shipments of Construction Materials, discontinued; Retail Sales of New Automobiles, discontinued.
Also: Industrial Reference Service.—Part 1. Chemicals and Allied Products, distribution cut from 956 to 50; Part 2. Electrical Products, distribution cut from 696 to 50; Part 3. Foodstuffs, distribution cut from 1,254 to 100; Part 4. Forest Products, distribution cut from 919 to 50; Part 5. Leather and Its Products, distribution cut from 757 to 50; Part 6. Machinery and Equipment, distribution cut from 708 to 50; Part 7. Metals and Minerals, distribution cut from 846 to 50; Part 8. Motion Pictures and Equipment, distribution cut from 1,105 to 100; Part 9. Motive Products and Equipment, distribution cut from 679 to 50; Part 10. Rubber and Ite Products, distribution cut from 892 to 100; Part 11. Stone, Clay, and Glass Products, distribution cut from 626 to 50; Part 12. Textiles and Related Products, distribution cut from 815 to 50; Part 13. Tobacco and Its Products, distribution cut from 702 to 50; Part 14. Special Products, distribution cut from 663 to 100; Part 15. Business Series Reports, distribution cut from 569 to 150. International Reference Service, distribution cut from 1,200 to 200.
National Bureau of Standards.—Bulletin on Current Hydraulic Laboratory Research, discontinued.
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.—U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Bulletin, discontinued.
Weather Bureau.—Annual Publication of Daily River Stages, changed from yearly to biennial; Bulletin W—Climatology, discontinued; Daily Weather Map, Washington, D. C., curtailed from issue of 1,500 daily to 1,000 daily; Daily Weather Map (Field stations) , discontinued; Pilot Training Map, distribution cut from 1,600 to 1,100; United States Meteorological Yearbook, discontinued; Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin, Washington, D. C., distribution cut from 5,500 to 4,950.
Civil Aeronautics Administration.—Civil Aeronautics Journal, publication cut from twice a month to monthly; Weekly Notice to Airmen, distribution cut from 12,500 to 12,200; Air Navigation Radio Aids, distribution cut from 16,120 to 10,900; Manual of Operations, distribution cut from 2,500 to 2,300; Press Releases, distribution cut from 648 to 250; Speeches (Reprint), discontinued; Airway Mileage Chart, distribution cut from 3,000 to 1,000; Airport Design Information, distribution cut from 5,000 to 1,000; Airplane Airworthiness, distribution cut from 12,000 to 1,000; Propeller Airworthiness, distribution cut from 9,600 to 7,000; Equipment Airworthiness, distribution cut from 9,000 to 7,000; Maintenance & Repair of Certificated Aircraft, distribution cut from 11,000 to 1,000.
Census Bureau.—Sales Financing, distribution cut from 1,635 to 1,494; Retail Sales, Ind. Stores—Summary 34 States, distribution cut from 2,475 to 2,275; Wholesalers’ Sales, Inventories and Credits, distribution cut from 6,750 to 3,175; Confectionery and Competitive Chocolate Products, distribution cut from 795 to 735; Illuminating Glassware Manufacturers Sales and Credits, distribution cut from 170 to 135; Paint, Varnish, Lacquer and Fillers, distribution cut from 1,523 to 674; Quarterly Wool Report, discontinued; Cotton, Leather and Allied Garments, distribution cut from 1,690 to 1,393; Boots, Shoes, and Slippers, (.Continued on page 28)
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List of publications cut or discontinued
(Continued from page 17)
Other than Rubber, distribution cut from 2,193 to 764; Domestic Pumps, Water Systems and Windmills, distribution cut from 663 to 534; Red-cedar Shingles, distribution cut from 1,703 to 960; Wann Air Furnaces, Winter Air Conditioning Units, and Accessory Equipment, distribution cut from 719 to 584; Electrical Goods, distribution cut from 864 to 749; Lumber, Lath, and Shingles, discontinued; Cotton Spinning—Number and Activity cf Spindles, distribution cut from 575 to 475; Consumption of Cotton by Classes of Products Manufactured, discontinued; Imports and Exports of Cottonseed Products, discontinued.
Also: Linseed Oil—Production and Stocks, discontinued; Cotton—Supply and Distribution of Domestic and Foreign Cotton in the U. S., distribution cut from 600 to 475; Cotton—Ginning and Production by Counties, discontinued; Cottonseed Products—Mill run, 1st cut and 2nd cut linters, discontinued; Fats and Oils—Animal and Vegetable Factory consumption of primary fats, oils by classes or products in which used, discontinued; Weekly Mortality Index, distribution cut from 4,293 to 2,334; Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths, distribution but from 3,358 to 2,134; Monthly Vital Statistics Bulletin, distribution cut from 2,638 to 764; Summary of Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths, distribution cut from 2,545 to 300; Cities over 25,000, distribution cut from 3,248 to 1,904; Counties over 50,000, distribution cut from 2,398 to 1,578; Financial Statistics of States—Summary Bulletin, discontinued; Financial Statistics of Cities— Summary Bulletin, discontinued.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Annual Report, distribution cut 1,300; FCC Reports, distribution cut from 200 to 150; Statistics of the Communications Industry, distribution cut from 555 to 171; Permanent Calendar, distribution cut from 825 to 335; Orders on decisions, distribution cut from 575 to 25; Proposed Findings, distribution cut from 575 to 25; Orders instituting investigations and inquiries, dlstribtuion cut from 575 to 25; ABC of the FCC, discontinued; Radio, A Public Primer, discontinued; Salary Report of Telephone and Telegraph Carriers, distribution cut from 450 to 125; From the Mail Bag, discontinued; Broadcast Actions, distribution cut from 1,855 to 1,805; Telephone and Telegraph Actions, distribution cut from 1,275 to 1,200; Actions Taken in Motions Hearing, distribution cut from 535 to 450; Announcements in Docket Cases, distribution cut from 1,075 to 250; Weekly Analysis, discontinued.
List of standard radio broadcast stations by: 1. Alphabetically, distribution cut from 3,550 to 500; 2. Frequency, distribution cut from 1,025 to 500; 3. State and City, distribution cut from 1,625 to 500.
Report of applications-received for broadcast services, distribution cut from 1,610 to 1,535.
Lists of broadcast stations: Relay, distribution cut from 800 to 50; FM, discontinued; High Frequency, discontinued; Television (Commercial), discontinued (Experimental), discontinued; Developmental, discontinued; Facsimile, discontinued; International, discontinued; Class II Experimental, discontinued; Non-commercial Educational, discontinued; ST, discontinued.
Radio Service Bulletin: 1. Confidential, distribution cut from 650 to 325.
List of stations other than broadcast: 1. Call letter, 2. Frequency, 8. Service, distribution cut from 2,200 to 1,000; Report of telephone and telegraph applications received, discontinued public distribution; Action on Rules and Regulations, distribution cut from 1,235 to 1,135.
FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY
Social Security Board.—Old-Age & Survivors Insurance Review of Operations, discontin-
ued; Employer’s Estimates of Labor Needs in Selected Defense Industries, discontinued; Labor Supply Available at Public Employment Offices in Selected Defense Occupations, discontinued; Research and Statistics Exchange Bulletin—Employment Security, discontinued; Farm Labor Market Conditions, discontinued; Volume and Disposition of New and Reopened Claims for Unemployment Compensation, discontinued; Advance Tables —Public Assistance, distribution cut from 1,090 to 520—pages cut from 8 to 6; Applications and Cases—Public, distribution cut from 300 to 250—pages cut from 8 to 6; Source of Funds Expended for Public Assistance, distribution cut from 700 to 500—pages cut from 8 to 6; Comparative Administrative Costs, of Public Assistance in 14 large cities, distribution cut from 300 to 250—pages cut from 8 to 6; Social Security Bulletin, distribution cut from 3,000 to 2,700—pages cut from 95 to 88; Social Security Yearbook, distribution cut from 3,000 to 2,500—pages cut from 370 to 290; Technical Publications Digest, distribution cut from 1,650 to 1,400—pages cut from 7 to 4; Daily Press Digest, distribution cut from 1,350 to 900—pages cut from 8 to 5; Press Digest, Weekly Summary, distribution cut from 1,350 to 500—pages cut from 4 to 2; Vocational Training Activities of Public Employment Offices, discontinued; Duration of Benefit Payments—Unemployment Compensation, discontinued; Experience Rating—Unemployment Compensation, discontinued; Reprints from Social Security Yearbook Employment Security Section Old-Age & Survivors Ins., discontinued.
Also: Number of Subject Employers and Delinquency of Wage Contribution Reports and Payments, changed from quarterly to annual; Volume and Disposition of Appealed Unemployment Compensation Cases, changed from quarterly to annual; Time Lapse in Payment of Unemployment Compensation Benefits, changed from quarterly to semiannual; Summary of Employment Security Activities, discontinued; Public Assistance Research Memorandum #4, discontinued; Annual Report of the Social Security Board, discontinued; Employment and Wages
U. S. puts klampf on Mein Kampf
Takes over royalties from der Fuehrer’s best seller
Leo T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, announced September 24 the seizure by his office of the American copyrights covering Hitler’s Mein Kampf and of royalty contracts and license agreements governing American publication of the volume.
Reynal and Hitchcock, American publishers of Mein Kampf, estimated recently that about 283,000 copies of the American edition had been sold.
About $30,000 in royalty payments due the author and his German publishers have accumulated since the last payment, made oh September 1,1939. These royalties, together with those from future sales, will accrue to the credit of the Alien Property Custodian.
of Covered Workers State Unemployment Compensation Systems, discontinued; Employment and Wages of Covered Workers Old-Age and Survivors Ins., discontinued; Certification of Disability In Social Insurance, discontinued; Unemployment Compensation Rights of Workers Employed in more than One State—Bureau Memo #11, discontinued; Yearbook Announcement, discontinued; Preprint of Public Assistance Section of Social Security Yearbook, distribution cut from 6,000 to 2,800.
U. S. Public Health Service.—Negro Health News, pages cut from 60 to 44; Hospital News, pages cut from 24 to 13; Annual Report of the Surgeon General, discontinued.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Monthly Summary of Work, distribution cut from 6,400 to 5,400; Library Bulletin, discontinued; Duties and Procedure of Federal Trade Commission, discontinued; Press Releases of Commission, distribution cut from 2,500 to 800; Annual Report, distribution cut from 5,000 to 3,500; Rules, Policy, and Acts, distribution cut from 5,000 to 3,000;.Corporation Reports on 76 Industries and one Summary, distribution cut from 1,000 to 26.
FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY
Defense Housing Construction Bulletin, discontinued; Annual Report of Federal Works Administrator, number of pages and distribution cut; WPA Statistical Bulletin, distribution cut from 300 to 225; Report on Progress of the WPA Program, distribution cut from 15,000 to 8,000; The defense bulletin issued by the WPA Division of Information, discontinued; Public Roads, changed from monthly to quarterly; PBA Work Bulletin, discontinued; Defense Housing 1941, discontinued; FWA Builds for Victory, discontinued; . Guide to FWA Housing Projects in the District of Columbia, discontinued; Guide to FWA Housing Projects in and near Pittsburgh, discontinued; Social Problems Series, discontinued; Special Reports Series, discontinued; The State Information Offices of WPA In 35 States (press releases, radio script, exhibits), discontinued; The Periodicals Section, 200 copies of 30 stories (to trade and engineering press), reduced to about 50 copies of 15 stories; Federal Work and Construction, discontinued; Federal Work Programs and Public Assistance, discontinued; Monthly Report of Unemployment, discontinued; Research Monographs, discontinued; Defense Housing Survey Reports, series discontinued; Defense Migration Reports, series discontinued.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Division of Information.—Current Conservation, discontinued.
Division of Personnel Supervision and Management.—Personnel Bulletin, distribution cut from 3,340 to 1,765—changed from bimonthly to quarterly.
Bureau of Reclamation.—Reclamation Era, discontinued; Project information booklets (Boise, Riverton), discontinued; Popular illustrated booklets (story of Boulder Dam), discontinued; Popular illustrated folders (Boulder Dam, Central Valley), discontinued.
Geological Survey.—“Publications issued in (specified month)”, pages cut from 8 to 3— distribution cut from 8,500 to 5,000.
Bituminous Coal Division.—Notices, Orders, Rules and Regulations under the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, as amended, distribution cut from 4,696,578 to 3,332,899; Tidewater Loading, discontinued; Tidewater Loadings by Ports and Destinations, discontinued; Weekly Coal Report, distribution cut from 2,372 to 1,659; Distribution of Coal Shipments, distribution cut from 969 to 687; Preliminary Estimates of Production of Bituminous Coal (PCT), distribution cut from 332 to 235; Bituminous Coal Tables, discontinued; Chapter on Bituminous Coal for Minerals Yearbook, discontinued.
Division of Territories and Island Possessions.—Information relative to the Disposal end Leasing of Public Lands in Alaska, dis-
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tribution cut from 2,000 to 1,000; The Problem of Alaskan Development, distribution cut from 4,000 to 2,000.
General Information Pamphlets: Hawaii, discontinued; Virgin Islands, discontinued; Alaska, distribution cut from 5,000 to 2,000; Hawaii, distribution cut from 2,000 to 1,000; Puerto Rico, distribution cut from 3,000 to 1,000; Virgin Islands/ distribution cut from 2,000 to 1,000; Philippine Islands, distribution cut from 1,500 to 700.
Bureau of Mines.—Mineral Trade Notes, distribution cut from 2,350 to 150; International Coal Trade, distribution cut from 1,100 to 100; International Petroleum Trade, dis- ~ tribution cut from 1,250 to 100; Crude Refinery Report, distribution cut from 4,035 to 100; Manganese Report, discontinued; Mercury Report, discontinued; Slab Zinc Report, discontinued; Copper Report, discontinued; Zinc Report, discontinued; Molybdenum Report, discontinued; Lead Report, discontinued; Foreign Minerals Quarterly, discontinued; Motor-gasoline Survey, discontinued; Petroleum refineries including crocking plants in U. S., discontinued.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
Statistical Analysis of Carriers (rail) Monthly'Hours of Service Reports, distribution cut from 700 to 550—size of page reduced by one-half; Tabulation, of Block Signal Statistics, distribution cut from 600 to 100— pages cut from 35 to several in summary; Annual Report of Director of Bureau of Locomotive Inspection, distribution cut from 7,500 to 3,750—pages cut from 65 to 40; Accident Bulletin (rail), distribution cut from 800 to 600; Graphic Supplement to Monthly Reports, discontinued; Reports and Orders under Part I of Act, number of reports reduced from 460 to 406—distribution cut from 115,000 to 50,750; Rate Cases, number of reports reduced from 220 to 187—distribution cut from 228,800 to 194,480; Finance Cases, number of reports cut from 240 to 68—distribution cut from 2,400 to 680; Reports and Orders under Part II of Act—A., distribution cut from 218,000 to 130,000; B„ number of reports cut from 578 to 223—distribution cut from 179,180 to 69,130; Reports and Orders under Part III of Act, number of orders cut from 25 to 23—distribution cut from 100 to 92; Recommended Reports under Part II of Act, distribution cut from 168,000 to 88,830; Regulations, distribution cut from 16,500 to 10,050; Accident Reports—Safety, distribution cut from 171,600 to 135,700.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Uniform Crime Reports, reduced from quarterly to semiannual; Annual Report of the Attorney General, discontinued in printed form; Justice Library Review, discontinued; Decisions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, distributed every 3 weeks instead of every week; Federal Offenders, distribution cut from 3,000 to 1,600; Q & A on Alien Enemy Control Program, discontinued; Regulations Controlling Travel of Alien Enemies, discontinued; Rules and Regulations, Foreign Agents Registration Act, discontinued; Dept, of Justice Register, discontinued; U. S. vs. Harry Bridges, discontinued.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Monthly Labor Review, pages cut from 272 to 225; The Woman Worker, discontinued» Labor Standards, discontinued; Labor Information Bulletin, merged with Labor Standards and the Woman Worker—combined pages cut from 56 to 16; The Child, distribution cut from 8,675 to 7,425—pages cut from 28 to 16; Chart Series, Labor Statistics, distribution cut from 3,000 to 1,200; Employment and Payrolls, discontinued; Earnings and Hours (Monthly, printed), discontinued; Earnings and Hours (Annual), discontinued; Retail Prices (Monthly, printed), discontinued; Re-
OVER A THOUSAND DAILIES JOIN IN SCRAP DRIVE
More than 80 percent of the daily newspapers in the United States have already pledged participation in the current newspapers scrap drive, according to a report to WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson from Richard W. Slocum, chairman of the newspapers scrap drive committee, last week.
Favorable replies to Mr. Nelson’s appeal to the American press had been received early in the week from more than 1,400 dailies including the largest in the country, and more were coming in each day.
At a meeting in Washington, D. C.„ September 4, called by Mr. Nelson, American’s newspaper publishers accepted leadership in a concentrated drive in their communities to bring in additional tons of badly needed scrap.
tail Prices (Monthly, mimeographed), distribution cut from' 115,800 to 70,000; Wholesale Prices (Weekly, mimeo.), distribution cut from 49,700 to 27,700; Wholesale Prices (Monthly, printed), discontinued; Cost of Living (Monthly, mimeo.), distribution cut from 121,000 to 69,000; Cost of Living (Monthly, printed), discontinued/ Building Construction, discontinued; Special Bulletins, distribution cut from 78,000 to 20,500; Comparison of Employment in Identical Establishments, discontinued; Trend of Employment, Periodic Payroll, discontinued; Field Operations Bulletin, changed from weekly to semimonthly; National Labor Conference, discontinued; Administrative and Technical Reports, pages cut from 120 to 32—distribution cut from 4,500 to 3,500.
Also: Causes of Stillbirth, postponed; Child Labor Regulation, No. 1, postponed; Child Welfare Legislation in 1939 and 1940, postponed; Child Welfare Services for Negro Children, postponed; Children born out of Wedlock, Baltimore, postponed; Community Welfare Picture as Reflected in Health and Welfare Statistics in 34 Urban Areas, 1940, postponed; Employment of Out-of-School Minors in 3 Cities, postponed; Factors Influencing the Birth Weight of Children, Baltimore, postponed; Pelves of Adolescent Children, New Haven, postponed; State Supervision of Organizations and Homes Caring for Children, postponed; An Urban Experiment in Child Welfare, -postponed; Social Statistics, September issue omitted—published in two 16-page supplements in 1942 instead of four 20-page supplements; Social Statistics Tables, monthly, changed to annual; Childhood Mortality, postponed; Hazards to Minors in Occupations Involving Exposure to Benzol and Other Industrial Poisons, postponed; New York Hospital Study of Feeding of Premature Infants, postponed; Puerperal Fatality, postponed; Osseous Development of Newborn White and Negro Infants, postponed.
U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION AND WAR SHIPPING ADMINISTRATION
American Flag Services in Foreign Trade and with United States Possessions, discontinued; Report on the Employment of American Steam and Motor Merchant Vessels of
1,000 Gross Tons and Over, discontinued; Annual Report, discontinued in printed form.
NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD
Progress Report, discontinued; Membership, Drainage Basin Committee, reduced from semiannual to annual; Roster Drainage Basin Committee, discontinued; Minutes of Meetings, Drainage Basin Committees, dis-, continued; Defense Area Reports, discontinued; Report of meeting of Ohio Drainage Basin Committee “A” and other basins, discontinued; Water Planning Reports, discontinued.
OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION
Consumer Prices, discontinued.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Diplomatic List, distribution cut from 2,000 to 1,800; Department of State Bulletin, distribution cut from 1,600 to 1,350; American Foreign Service, distribution cut from 12,500 to 10,000; American Delegations to International Conferences, etc., distribution cut from 1,200 to 800; Treaties Submitted to the Senate, distribution cut from 1,500 CO 500; Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America, distribution cut from 2,000 to 1,000; Treaty Series, distribution cut from 1,900 to 1,000; Executive Agreement Series, distribution cut from 1,400 to 1,000.
TARIFF COMMISSION
Annual Reports, discontinued; Economic surveys of various commodities, discontinued.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Bulletin of the Treasury Department, distribution cut from 2,075 to 1,613; 26 pages eliminated; Prices and Yields of Public Marketable Securities Issued by the United States Government and by Federal Agencies, distribution cut from 1,000 to 400; Internal Revenue News Letter, discontinued; Statistics on Domestic Alcohol, discontinued; Doing Business With the Procurement Division, discontinued; Schedule, discontinued; Special Bulletin, discontinued.
• VETERANS’ ADMINISTRATION
Text of addresses of Administrator, distribution cut to 75 from 230; Press Resume of Annual Report to Congress, distribution cut from 680 to 230.
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
Priorities in Force, discontinued; Priorities in Force (supplement), discontinued.
WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY
Information Round-up, cut from daily to 3-a-week.
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0WI to broadcast to
troops in Alaska
In an effort to provide American troops in remote stations with the kind of contact they want with home, the OWI announced September 23 that it would purchase a minimum of 8 hours’ radio time daily beginning about October 1 to pipe news and special programs to service men in Alaska.
Commercial shows taken from the three major radio networks also will be transmitted.
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HEALTH AND WELFARE . . .
Children’s Bureau urges States to develop programs for safety of children in wartime
(4)	Day care for children of mothers whose employment is essential to the war program;
(5)	Special assistance as required to meet wartime needs of children in their own homes, and adjustment of public-assistance meas-ures to meet problems due to rise in cost of living, migration, and separation of families.
(6)	Community child-welfare and other social services which will conserve home life for children and safeguard them from neglect and juvenile delinquency resulting from wartime conditions and provide appropriate care _for unmarried mothers and their children.
(7)	Adequate provision for the care of children who because of war conditions must be separated from their families.
(8)	Opportunities for recreation and other experiences in home and community life which will help children overcome wartime strain and insecurity, and provision for mental-health services to help children and parents* make the adjustments required by war conditions.
(9)	Full school attendance and school op-portunity for every child, with particular emphasis on overcoming or compensating for shortages of schools and teachers, where they exist, and with adjustments as necessary to conform with child labor and youth employment'policies.
(10)	Meeting the manpower needs of the Nation for participation of young people in war production, having due regard for the conservation of health and educational op-: portunity for youth and in accordance with the following principles: no child under 14 years of age a part of the hired labor force;
1 none under 16 employed in manufacturing and mining occupations; none between 14 and 16 employed in other occupations that involve release from school or readjustment of school programs unless it has been determined that labor shortages cannot be met otherwise, and guidance of youth 16 to 18 years of age whose , work is essential to the war effort into occupations suited to their age and capacity in which they can make the greatest contribution with the least hazard to their health and safety.
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OWI pamphlet explains absentee voting laws
Absentee voting and registration laws of all States are summarized in a pamphlet released September 18 by the OWI.
With thousands of war workers absent i from their homes and several million men " * in the armed services, absentee voting J takes on greatly increased importance during wartimes, the OWI announced.
Federal legislation on absentee voting recently passed by the Congress was ap-1 proved by the President Wednesday, September 16. This legislation applies only . to service men and only with regard to ’ candidates for Federal offices. The act l does not limit or restrict the right of a ; service man to vote in accordance with the laws of the State of his residence.
Katharine F. Lenroot, chief of the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, September 24 called upon every State to take prompt steps to develop a program of safeguards for children in wartime.
“The Federal Government stands ready to participate in State and local plans for The safety and well-being of children,” Miss Lenroot declared. But she pointed out that emergency conditions affecting children vary widely from State to State and even from one locality to another.
Miss Lenroot made public a “Program of State Action” which has been developed by the Children’s Bureau Commission on Children in Wartime in consultation with the Office of Civilian Defense and the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services. The measures advocated in the plan for the States are based on the recently adopted Children’s Charter in Wartime, which calls upon all citizens as a wartime responsibility “to guard children from injury in danger zones; to protect children from neglect, exploitation, and undue strain in defense areas; to strengthen the home life of children whose parents are mobilized for war or war production; and to conserve, equip, and free children of every race and creed to take their part in democracy.”
The Director of the Office of Civilian Defense has forwarded to State Defense Councils copies of the program developed by the Commission on Children in Wartime and has suggested that this program serve as a guide to the committees of State and local defense councils concerned with children.
Miss Lenroot summarized the objectives of the State program as:
(1)	Health service and medical and dental care for mothers and children, including boys and girls in the age groups which may soon be called upon for war production or military service, with special provision as needed for wives and children of service men;
(2)	Adequate nourishing food for all children during the period of rising costs of living and rationing of food supplies, through such means as nutrition education, school lunches and low-cost milk;
(3)	Protection of children in danger zones, including provision for their safety in the event of enemy attack, measures for emergency care following attack, and preparation through officially established evacuation authorities for evacuation and reception care if necessary;
Grew’s report of mistreatment of U. S. prisoners irks Japs; will try counter-propaganda
The revelations of former United States Ambassador to Japan, Joseph C. Grew, about the treatment of prisoners in Japan, have struck home.
Admittedly stimulated by Ambassador Grew’s statement and the reports of
1	Americans returned from Japan, the Tokyo radio September 22 announced an expanded propaganda program to counter the American revelations.
Japanese-language broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commission said that Vice-Chief Okumura of the Board of Information told the “Vice Ministers” meeting that “by means of radio broadcasts used against America, appropriate steps are being taken.”
Shortly after the world was shocked by eye-witness accounts of Americans exchanged for Japanese nationals, the Federal Communications Commission monitors noticed a pronounced shift in the Tokyo broadcasts beamed to this country.
Obviously intended both as an excuse for the treatment of American prisoners in Japan and to counteract the effect of the testimony of returned Americans, the Tokyo radio began stating:
Claim Japs mistreated
“The treatment accorded Japanese nationals in the United States since Pearl Harbor will go down in history as a smear on the American claim to humanitarianism . . .”
While the Japanese propaganda machine was trying to disclaim the atrocities meted out to American prisoners. Radio Tokyo broadcast a threatening editorial from the Shanghai Times, stating, “The Anglo-American nationals in Japan and occupied China should be - herded together and driven into interior regions where there are no modern facilities.”
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drawn by famous artists to help the war effort, are available to newspapers in two-column mats. Write Distribution Section, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C., specifying whether you want individual panels or all four each week.
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Plants will slow down unless scrap drive succeeds, says Cabot
Paul C. Cabot, deputy director of the WPB conservation division, announced September 21 that unless the people under the leadership of the local press and in cooperation with local salvage committees and other community groups do an exceptional job in the collection of scrap iron and steel this autumn, America’s blast. furnaces will be forced’ to curtail production during the winter months. 7,000,000 tons needed
Approximately 7 million tons of scrap inventory must be made available to steel furnaces by the first of the year in order to carry them through the winter months when collections normally fall off, and only half this amount is now on hand. For the last 5 months scrap stock piles have been steadily rising, after many previous months of continuous decline, and it has been estimated that the necessary quota can be met if there is immediate intensification of scrap collection programs.	__
Rising stock piles
Encouraging feature of the scrap drive has been the rise in monthly receipts of scrap iron and steel by consumer plants which went from 1,869,000 tons received during the month of January to 2,400,000 tons of scrap for July. This rise in receipts, indicating the corollary of an increase in actual collection of scrap, has been accomplished during a period when normal sources of scrap have been lost or greatly diminished.
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SAVE TIME AND TROUBLE-GET INFORMATION IN FIELD
The WPB September 22 again urged businessmen that whenever they wish to obtain information from WPB they should go to their regional or field offices before coming to Washington.
*“We have 12 regional and 127 field offices scattered throughout the country,” the announcement said. “They were established in order to save businessmen the trouble of coming to Washington, and also to prevent an overload of work in Washington.”
Towns grow, doctors go to war
Government moves to meet shortage of medical care in 300 industrial areas
'Plans for meeting the need for medical care in communities where a shortage of physicians has developed are being made now by the U. S. Public Health Service and the procurement and assignment service of the War Manpower Commission, Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the commission, announced September 22. He added that the two services are cooperating closely in the planning of this emergency action.
300 areas affected
Mr. McNutt explained that in many areas an acute need for medical service has arisen as a result of extraordinary increases in population brought about by expansion of war industries or other war activities. In other areas there is shortage of medical service resulting from the entry of physicians into the armed forces.
Distributed throughout the industrial areas of the country are more than 300 communities in which the lack of medical care is being felt. The Chairman pointed out that among the most critical of these localities are:
Baltimore County, around Glenn L. Martin Company); Valpariso, Fla.; Huntsville, Ala.; Childersburg, Ala.; LaPorte, Ind.; Charleston, Ind.; Fort Knox, Ky.; Rantoul, Ill.; Texarkana area; Bremerton, Wash.; Pryor-Choteau, Okla; Vallejo, Calif.; Velasco, Tex.; Waynesville, Mo.; Wichita Falls, Tex.; Norfolk, Va..
Mr. McNutt also announced his ap-. provai of a statement of policy adopted by the directing board of the procurement and assignment service in which the procurement and assignment service accepts the responsibility of ascertaining the needs of the civilian population for medical service and providing the medical personnel to meet them.
The principles set forth in this policy statement, Mr. McNutt said, were developed in cooperation with the Federal officials concerned, and have the approval of the Surgeon General of the Ü. S. Public Health Service. The statement has been approved by the Boards of Trustees of the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association and the war service committees of the two associations, and the Executive Committee representing the State and territorial Health Officers Association.
Principles outlined
Following are the principles recommended by the Directing Board of the procurement and assignment service for meeting the emergency needs:
1.	That it is a responsibility of the procurement and assignment service to ascertain the needs of the civilian population—nonmilitary—for medical service.
2.	That it is the responsibility of the procurement and assignment service to aid in providing the medical personnel to meet these needs.
3.	That as presently constituted, the procurement and assignment service is not in a position to deal with the financial and administrative problems involved in the provision of medical care.
4.	That so far as possible these problems should be met at the State level in view of the many different types of problems and ~ needs and the relation of these and their solution to local situations. •
5.	That a survey of these needs should be made by the existing committees of the procurement and assignment service with the aid of such technical assistance as may be necessary. It is especially desirable that in determining these needs the State procurement and assignment committee seek the cooperation of the State Health Department, of the State Medical Society, and of the State Dental Society, of industry, of \ organized labor, and of other agencies, such as the State Defense Council, which should be able to make significant contributions to the solution of this problem.
6.	That whenever possible the -civilian needs as determined by these committees should be met through local arrangements, resources, and agencies. In case assistance is needed for the organization, administration or financing of necessary medical or dental services in these areas, the responsibility should devolve upon an agency which should include representatives of the State Health Department, the State Medical Society, and the State Dental Society, with the cooperation and support—financial and technical—of the appropriate Federal agencies; the administration of funds being delegated to the appropriate State agency.
7.	That since these problems have been occasioned by the war, and in many instances transcend State lines, the Federal Government has a definite responsibility to cooperate with the States in meeting these needs by the provision, when necessary, of financial and technical assistance.
8.	That the needs for medical care in cer-tain areas are so acute and the pressure from various sources so great that it is imperative to have prompt action for implementation 'of this program. It appears to the directing board that the responsibility for the initiation of such action rests with the War Manpower Commission.
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NINE OF TEN iron hitching posts in the Grand Island, Neb., courthouse square have been enlisted in the scrap jirive—they’ll help do a job on three horses’ necks named Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini.
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