FACTS ABOUT ALL SCRAP CAMPAIGNS of War...•VICTORY• September29,1942 Inthisissue RATIONING...

OFFICIAL WEEKLY BULLETIN OF THE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION

WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 39

THE FACTSABOUT ALLTHE SCRAPCAMPAIGNS

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 cam-

paigns, past, present and future, and as-

sembled the facts to present a coherent

picture.

Pages 16 and 17

Half of every tank, gvn

ond ship is made from

scrap iron and steel

V-UIL

4S5502°—42

U. S. asks civilians to cut meat-eating

to IV2 pounds a week; deliveries

limited, probably to 79 percentThrough Its chairman. Secretary of

Agriculture Claude R. Wlckard, the foods

reqiUrements committee of the War Pro-

duction Board announced September 24

two steps implementing the wartime

meat program established earlier this

month.

To make certain of suflBcient meat for

Army, Navy, and Lend-Lease uses, the

committee set up a policy of limiting

total packer deliveries of meat Into civil-

ian consumption, and placed the limit

for such deliveries during the final quar-

ter 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 meatsupply, the committee asked civilians

voluntarily to hold consumption at 2^2

pounds per person per week.

Limitation orders effectuating the

policy on restricted civilian meat de-

liveries by packers will be drafted andIssued by the Office of Price Administra-

tion.

Secretary Wickard pointed out that,

statistically, the limitation figures for the

last 3 months of 1942 indicate an over-

all reduction of 21 percent below the

amount of beef, veal, pork, lamb, andmutton 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 whennecessary to allow for changes during the

past year in the pattern of distribution,

and the wartime food requirements of

different areas.

U, S. SUPERINTENOBIT Of RflCUW^MTS

PCT 1 1942

Wickard commented that the allow-

ance to which civilians are asked to limit

themselves In the interest of fair dis-

tribution is entirely adequate for goodnutrition.

Explaining the two new steps taken

in the wartime meat program, Secretary

Wickard Issued the following statement:

During the coming year Americanfarms wiU 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

(Continued on page 10)

GASOLINE RATIONING, 35-MILE

SPEED TO BLANKET NATION

On the recommendation of Rubber Ad-ministrator William M. Jeffers, the

Government late Saturday took the

following actions:

The Office of Defense Trans-

portation ordered a 35-mile-an-hour

speed limit for all vehicles except

scheduled trucks and busses, effec-

tive October 1. Governors of the

States were to be asked to put the

limit into operation.

The OflBce of Price Administration

announced Nation-wide gasoline

rationing would go into effect about

November 22.

Earlier story on pa(e 5

• VICTORY • September 29, 1942

In this issue

RATIONING

V. S. asks civilians to hold meat-eating to

2^2 pounds a week 1

OPA to test use of banks to handle rationing

paper 4

Rubber chief asks Nation-wide gas ration-

ing, 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 WFB officers will grant priorities in

field 12

Nelson drafts Eberstadt from Army-Navy

board to integrate schedules 13

AAA ratings in emergencies to prevent stop-

page of production 13

Steel production directives are reported

successful 13

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 chil-

dren in wartime 30

MANPOWER

Government moves to meet local shortages

of doctors 32

WAR-WINTERS ARE COLD!- PlAI* YOI//t HCATIMS STRATEGY NOW!

Dfswr} for OW/

Business and professional women to help

enlist aid in salvage campaignThe conservation division of WPB an-

nounced September 23 that it was hold-

ing conferences with a group of well-

known business and professional womento discuss ways and means of achieving

fuller participation in the National Sal-

vage Campaign by women in all parts of

the country.

The group which has been meeting

with ofiBcials of the Conservation Divi-

sion includes:

Miss Alice Haley, New York City; MissHelen Robertson, Cleveland, Ohio; MissSally Woodward, Minneapolis, Minn.; MissEssie Elliott, San Francisco, Calif,; MisaJean MacDougall, Chicago, 111.; Miss RuthAtwater, Washington, D. C; Miss EdwinaNolan, Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Vivian Shir-ley Nasou, Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss MabelFlanley, New York City; Miss Grace Hartley,Atlanta, Ga.

Will help plan programs

Following the conference in Washing-ton, 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 oflBcials in charge.

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September 29, 1942 • VICTORY •

On the Home Front

With our fighting fronts at great dis-

tances from our homes the surface ap-

pearance of our country at war is at first

deceptive. There are, of course, manymore men in uniform. Correspondingly,

we miss young men behind drugstore

counters, filling station attendants, ship-

ping 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, pro-

found changes are taking place. Warenergy is seething and its ferment is man-ifest 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, for 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 sur-

plus buying power.

When War Production Board Chairman

Donald Nelson said that "two things are

chiefly demanded of us—unity and en-

durance," 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 restric-

tive orders, with penalties for those whoviolate them. But the success of these

measures will be only partial without

voluntary cooperation on the part of

ev»ry last one of us. Said War ManpowerCommission Chairman Paul McNutt:

"The people of this Nation have com-mitted 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

has been rationed. The plan sets quotas

on the basis of average temperatures in

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 suc-

cess finally depends on the individual,

on his real desire to make "short rations"

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 ration-

ing 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 lumberannually, wood has become a critical ma-terial. Great quantities of lumber havebeen used to build cantonments. Ship

construction, special kinds of wood neededIn the aircraft industry, gunstocks, andthe like have drawn heavily on supply.

Most of our lumber has been placed un-der some form of control, and now there

are to be further controls on the furni-

ture industry. This Industry probably

will adopt the plan recently put into ef-

fect in the manufacture of bicycles—

a

few plants, known as "nucleus plants,"

will continue to operate, concentrating

all essential civilian furniture manufac-ture In a limited number of factories.

The plan for "concentration of Indus-

try," a plan designed to save materials

as well as to free machines and man-power for war work. In time will be ex-

tended 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 transporta-

tion, finding substitutes for scarce ma-terials, using those on hand to better

advantage. In a single month 115 of the

Nation's major raih-oads boosted aver-

age loads per freight car by more than

a thousand pounds. Freight congestion

and delay to cars at terminals have been

relieved by the cooperative action of ship-

pers and carriers. New rail routes have

been opened to shunt heavy coal move-

ments from the fields of West Virginia

and eastern Kentucky to New England.

Tank car shipments of oil to the east

coast have shown record-breaking in-

creases.

The Goverrunent's laboratories are ex-

perimenting with methods of cutting the

tin content of tin plate for fish canning

by Vs to V2 the present amount. Recla-

mation engineers in the West have de-

veloped 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 produc-

tion, desperately needed to supplementthe fuel oil rations and to provide fuel

needed by war Industry. War Savings

Bonds will be awarded by the U. S. Marl-

time Commission to shipyard workers

who contribute the most practical ideas

for speeding output and cutting waste.

Retailers are meeting with Governmentagencies at Washington to discuss a "re-

tail assistance" program designed to cut

deliveries and end "frill" services for

the duration. Less sugar will go to mak-ing 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 pub-

lishing will be salvaged for scrap, in-

cluding zinc photoengravings and elec-

trotypes. 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.


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 con-

sumer has been devised for Nation-wide

use by the OPA and will be tested first for

a six-week period in the Albany-Schenec-

tady-Troy, N. Y., area beginning within a

month.

In making the announcement. Price

Administrator Henderson said the plan

contemplates use of all the State andnational bank and clearing house facili-

ties 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 Cur-

rency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance

Corp., and bears the approval of the Su-

perintendent of Banking of New YorkState.

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 andclearing the hundreds of millions of ra-

tioning stamps now coming into their

hands each month under sugar ration-

ing, and gasoline rationing in the East,

and will facilitate the operation of all fu-

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

ofiBces to turn in their coupons.

The ration-banking plan provides for

the deposit of ration coupons just as cur-

rency is deposited in the bank by business

men, with subsequent transactions han-

dled by checks. The consumer's use of

the coupons is in no way affected, the

control starting, in the case of sugar cou-

pons, 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 ac-

count at a bank, where he would deposit

all ration credits received from consum-

ers or other traders. These credits would

then be transferred against the move-

ment 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 mak-er's account."

Entire civilian supply of specified canned

fruits, juices brought under WPB control

The WPB September 26 imposed con-

trols 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 equi-

tably among wholesale and retail dis-

tributors 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 in-

fants and invalids.

The order (M-237) places quotas oncanners' deliveries of specified canned

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 prod-

ucts and the total supply of all of the

other specified commodities are con-

trolled by Order M-237.The fixed percentages of the products

ordered set aside by Order M-86-a for

military and Lend-Lease purposes repre-

sent about one-third of the total 1942

pack of canned fruits and vegetables.

Restrictions placed on sugar

used in bulk condensed milk

New rules for use of sugar in makingcondensed milk, designed to conserve

sugar by encouraging the processing of

the milk into other essential foods notrequiring use of this rationed commodity,were announced September 21 by OPA.The milk processors, under the new

plan, will be allotted sugar for the con-densing of milk only if the milk so proc-essed cannot be preserved by manufac-ture 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 con-tainers 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 makean applicant ineligible to receive sugar

for bulk condensed milk under the newarrangement.

The amendment. No. 14 to Ration

Order No. 3, becomes effective November

1, 1942.

* » *

Essential workers assured

needed gasoline

Migratory workers, including farm la-

borers 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 na-

tional gasoline rationing, William M.Jeffers, WPB rubber director, announcedSeptember 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 ef-

fort. They therefore are entitled to sup-

plementary gasoline rations to moveabout as their work requires.

Those now away from home who de-

cide 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 back to their

home towns when their work has been

completed.


Nation-wide gasoline rationing ordered:

Jeffers asks speed cut to 35 miles

to save rubber and win the war

HERE'S A CASE where slow and steady wins

the war. This FOTOFACT is availabie for news-

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size. Requests for mats and glossy proofs should

be addressed to Distribution Section, Office of

War Information, Washington, D. C. Please refer

to V-133.

Nation-wide gasoline rationing on the

same basis as the gasoline rationing pro-

gram now existing In the 17 Eastern

States was ordered September 25 by Rub-

ber Director Wiiliam M. Jeffers. Healso called for a speed limit of 35 miles an

hour and asked voluntary control by mo-torists until the program can be got under

way.

The rationing program will be carried

out by the OfBce of Price Administration.

ODT to review program

Mr. Jefiers' directive:

1. The Office of Price Administra-

tion is hereby directed and author-

ized to institute Nation-wide gasoline

rationing on the same basis as the

gasoline rationing program now ex-

isting in the Eastern States.

2. It will be understood that after

the installation of a Nation-wide

gasoline rationing, the Office of De-

fense Transportation will review the

program from the standpoint of its

effects upon the transportation serv-

ice of the Nation.

3. The existing arrangements be-

tween the Office of Defense Trans-

portation and the Office of Price

Administration relative to rations

for commercial vehicles in accord-

ance 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 withthree principal duties:

First, to provide the rubber for military

needs.Second, to provide tires for essential civilian

driving and rubber for essential manufactur-ing needs.

Third, to accomplLsh these two require-

ments 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 .ubber for essential civilian needs mustalso be provided.The third duty, that of keeping our eco-

nomic 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

rubier war—and I believe all will be volun-

teers.

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 donemost fairly by fixing a maximum speed limit

TIRESA tire which will go10,000 milesat 50 miles per hourwill go18,000 miles

-at 35 miles per hour

of not to exceed 35 miles per hour and byNation-wide rationing of gasoline.

Most of all I want to avoid the necessity for

any additional curtailment of either the speedlimit or the gasoline rationing programs thatnow are proposed. I want to avoid any en-forced regimentation. I ask you to be yourown policeman. I ask—and I am sure we will

have—the wholehearted support and coop-

eration 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 re-

duce his own speed in the interim. We cansave 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 volun-tary program.

Drawn for OK I

Concrete tires

Conaete is the latest substitute for

rubber in irrigation and power plant con-

struction work by reclamation engineers

in the West.

Commissioner John C. Page of the Bu-

reau of Reclamation reported Septem-

ber 23 to Secretary of the Interior Ickes

that an engineer on the Parker Dampower project near Phoenix, Aiiz., had

cast reinforced concrete tires on the rims

of a four-wheeled portable welding ma-chine.


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 con-

comitant of war—a shortage of fuel.

The program of fuel oil rationing,

which begins October 15 throughout the

Eastern Seaboard States and the Mid-

west, has this in common with all other

forms of rationing: it is intended to irake

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 short-

age 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 war-

ships and our merchant vessels, pulling

freight or our railroads, heating our fac-

tories. Fuel oil was converted into power

in our power plants and used in metal

furnaces. Last year the East alone con-

sumed 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 dwell-

ing units in the country which reported

their heating fuel to the Bureau of Cen-

sus 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 themwere in East Coast States.

Sub changes situation

It's plain that in our peacetime econ-

omy 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 petrolemn

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 im-

practical overnight. Oil consigned to

New Jersey refineries instead made a

blazing inferno of the waters about sink-

ing tankers. Tanker losses increased

steadily, tankers yet afloat were with-

drawn from the coastwise service to re-

place vessels lost on transoceanic transit

routes, the time soon came when tanker

service became a negligible factor in sup-

ply and then ceased altogether.

We didn't take it lying down. Theproblem was to bring overland the oil

which formerly moved by sea and the

story of the effort to do this is a fascinat-

ing story of applied Yankee ingenuity.

We built new pipe lines, we reversed the

flow of others, we built more barges, andwe 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 pe-

troleum industry, their efforts directed

and coordinated by the Office of the Pe-

troleum Coordinator for War and the

Office of Defense Transportation, per-

formed something of a miracle.

Middle West affected

Before Pearl Harbor, 44,000 tank cars

were serving the Middle West. The Mid-

dle West produces approximately 1,100,-

000 barrels of petroleum a day and con-

sumes 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 o( 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 adminis-

trator in charge of rationing.

"The Government has carefully cleared the

way for conversions and arrangements hav*

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, indns-

trial, 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 oat,

will have the benefit of advice from heatinf

experts in determining if such establishmenti

should be denied rations.

In no event, whether it be a private bom*or a large manufacturing plant, will any estab-

lishment 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 gas-oline delivery has been forbidden alto-

gether. These tank cars became partsof great 60-car trains which moved eastfrom the oil fields on limited schedules.

An inevitable result of all this was tocreate distribution problems throughoutthe 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 provedso often before—that in war, that whichaffects a part of the people will even-

tually affect them all. In the East, onthe Atlantic Seaboard, are 65 percent of

all the United States homes heated byfuel oil and the Middle West, by accept-

ing 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 weknow why it happened and we knowwhat 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 incon-

venience, perhaps for discomfort, but

there is much which can be done to alle-

viate discomfort. The outlook is not

black because fuel oil, despite the fact

that we grew increasingly dependent


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 prac-

tical diflaculty. Every householder whocan 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; an-

other is by making the most efBcient use

possible of oH burners and by keeping

the heat in the house. Under normalconditions the average house equipped

with an oil burner uses 1,800 to 2,000 gal-

lons of fuel oil a year—44 to 50 barrels.

Ninety percent of that amount is con-

sumed 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 main-

tain daytime temperatures of 65 degrees

under average weather conditions.

This temperature—65 degrees—is the

temperature used as a base in determin-

ing heat saving formulas. The numberof "degree days" for a year in a given

locality is determined by totaling daily

deficiency in the mean temperature rela-

tive 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 de-

gree days, Minneapolis with 7,898; Wash-ington, 4,582; New York, 5,270; and NewOrleans—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 eflBciently. It

then becomes his duty to make sure that

his home is properly "heat tight" so that

heat is not drained away. Rooms v/hich

aren't used during the day should be shut

off; the heat from the kitchen shduld

not be wasted; windows and doors should

be weather stripped.

There are other tricks which cost lit-

tle or nothing and which will bring about

substantial savings in fuel. One of themis to get used to lower temperatures.

WHAT HAPPENS TO HEAT

Through Ceiling and Roof

^ Loss Through Air Leakage

Loss Through Windows and Doors

Loss Through Side Walls

INSULATION WILL RETARD HEAT LOSSES

A room temperature of 65° is warmenough for normal adults if they're prop-

erly 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 themdown 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 Eng-

land in turn is the area to which the oil

rationing presents the greatest problems.

Dratvn for OW

I

More than 35 percent of New Englandfamilies burn petroleum products for

heating as to only 0.5 percent for the

Southeast Central States. Rhode Is-

land 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 ra-

tioning area, fuel oil rationing is bound

to bring hardship to many.

But the chilly householder can take

comfort in the fact that our airplanes

wUl 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.

• * •

WHAT TROUBLES YOU ABOUT

CONVERTING TO COAL?

Your questions are answered on page 9.

• VICTORY • September 23, 1C42

Anthracite mmers 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 WPBSeptember 21 announced a series of four

big Army-Navy war production rallies in

the anthracite fields to carry to the min-ers an appeal for more coal.

Rallies will be held in Scranton,

Wilkes-Barre, Hazelton, and Pottsville,

Pa., on September 28, 29, 30, and Octo-

ber 1.

They will be designed to take directly

to the Pennsylvania hard coal miner the

story of America's urgent need for moreanthracite to supply Army, Navy, indus-

trial, and domestic users in the UnitedStates and Canada.At the rallies. Army and Navy men,

some of them fresh from the battle fronts.

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 produc-

tion directly to the anthracite miner.

The rallies will be the biggest displays

of their kind ever held in the Pennsyl-

vania 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 andredouble 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."

Zones adjust 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 drawnafter a close study of U. S. Weather Bu-reau statistics showing the variation of

"degree days" in the normal winter for

different sections of the country. WhileZones A, B, C, and D reflect these varia-

tions generally, OPA emphasized that

subzones are being set up within the

zones to allow for local differences in

• normal temperatures.

The zones are made up as follows:

ZONE A

Maine; New Hampshire: Vermont; 15 coun-ties of northern New York, Including Clinton,Essex, Warren, Washington. Saratoga, Fi'ank-lin, Hamilton, Fulton, Montgomery, St. Law-rence, Herkimer, Otsego, Jefferson, Lewis,Oneida; Michigan; Wisconsin: Minnesota;North Dakota; South Dakota; 19 counties otnorthern Iowa including Allamakee, Winne-shiek. 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 inzone A); New Jersey; Pennsylvania; northernOhio, south to and including counties ofBelmont, Noble, Morgan, Hocking, Pickaway,Fayette, Clinton, Greene. Montgomery, andPreble; northern Indiana, south to and in-cluding counties of Union, Fayette, Rush,Hancock, Marion, Hendricks, Putnam, Parke,and Vermillion; northern Illinois, south toand including counties of Edgar, Coles, Shelby,Christian, Sangamon, Morgan, Scott, Pike;

Iowa, except counties listed in zone A; north-ern Missouri, south to and Including countiesof Pike, Ralls, Monroe, Randolph. Chariton,Livingston, Caldwell, Clinton, and Buchanan;Nebraska; northern Kansas, south to and in-cluding counties of Atchison, Jackson, Shaw-nee. Pottawatomie. Riley, Clay, Cloud,Mitchell, Osborne, Ellis, Trego, Lane, Scott,Wichita,' and Greeley.

ZONE C

Delaware: Maryland; District of Columbia;Virginia: West Virginia; Kentucky; thoseparts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, andKansas not included in zone B.

ZONE DNorth Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia;

Florida, east of the Appalachicola River.

• • •

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 sup-

ply unless they convert their furnaces to

coal, Paul M. O'Leary, OPA deputy ad-

ministrator 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 Va

percent of normal consumption. Wefound that the 25-percent cut, originally

planned, would not be suflHcient to pro-

vide an adequate margin of safety andstill 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 hous-

ing accommodations other than hotels

and rooming houses provides that a land-

lord 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 emergencydemands that tliis important conversion

step be taken whenever possible is OPApermitting this one exception to its maxi-mum rent regulation which specifically

prohibits any agreement between tenant

and landlord to a rent higher than the

maximum legal rent.

Under the amendment, issued Septem-ber 25, a landlord and tenant may enter

Into an agreement immediately to share

the cost of changing a furnace fromfuel 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 agree-

ment if it is not disapproved by the RentDirector 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 andtenants to share the cost of such a con-

version, I want to point out that no ten-

ant is obhgated by the amendment to

enter into any such agreement."

Rent adjustments

Cooperating with the fuel rationing

division's appeal that all houses that can-

not be converted to coal, be at least in-

sulated for economical heating, the rent

division announced certain rent adjust-

ments that may be made."If the landlord installs insulaWcn of

a substantial nature (including storm

windows, weather stripping, etc.) de-

signed to conserve heat, he may be en-

titled to an increase in the rent uponfiling a petition with the Area Rent Of-

fice," the Rent Division pointed out in a

statement. "Where, however, only minoralterations are necessary to change the

heating unit or to improve the insula-

tion no adjustment of rent will be

allowed."


Answers to your questions

about converting to coal

The following explanations, in ques-

tion and answer form, were issued Sep-

tember 23 by the plumbing and heating

branch of WPB to clarify some of the

problems which have arisen in connec-

tion with the conversion of fuel oil

burners to coal:

HOME-OWNER QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS

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 in-

efficient. 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. P\irthermore,

in many States, a WPB order, L-56, pro-

hibits 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 mybuilding 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 be-

ing 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 can-

not get them unless I file papers and get

a priority rating. Do I need a priority

rating?

A. No priority rating is needed to se-

cure grates. A distributor, jobber, or

wholesaler may purchase grates, stoker

bars, fii'e doors, etc., for conversion with-

out a priority rating. In turn, these maybe 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 oflfices of OPASeptember 21 were authorized to increase

maximum prices of cordwood in their

areas wherever necessary to assure anadequate 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 Gover-

nors of the six States that the threatened

shortage is grave and unless combatedwill add severe hardships to those already

imposed by the fuel oil shortage.

May raise prices

The State ofiBces are empowered to

make the upward price adjustments

either upon application or upon their

own motion. No actual limits on the

increases were set but an OPA spokes-

man 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 cord-

wood, sawdust, mill ends, shavings andslabwood wherever necessary to meet a

shortage in those areas.

to plumbing or oil dealers without anyrating.

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 youcan get coal. We have been assured that

coal will be available.

Q. Can I convert my oil burner to gas?

A. No. The sale of gas burning equip-

ment 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 rat-

ing. 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 nowcan apply to a local bank and arrange

to finance the cost of the conversion.

DEALER AND WHOLESALER QUES-TIONS AND ANS'WERS

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?

A. The sale of grates is not restricted,

and no rating is necessary. If you w|ll

let us have the name of your jobber, wewill be glad to call him up and explain

this to him.

Q. I am a wholesaler. If I sell mygrate 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 con-

version sales.

Can get some stokers without ratings

Q. I want to put a stoker on a job to

convert f-om 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-IA)

.

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.

Wiat can I do about this?

A. Pile a special application <PD-1A),

giving complete information relating to

the planned conversion and send It to

Operations Section, Pliunbing and Heat-

ting Branch, War Production Board.

10 • VICTORY • September 29, 194Z

AGRICULTURE ...

U. S. asks civilians to cut meat-eating

to 2V2 pounds a week; deliveries

limited; probably to 79 percent

(.Continued from page 1)

pounds. This has now gone to 6y2 billion

pounds. Civilian consumers would take

more than 21 billion pounds if it were

available. The total supply is 24 billion

pounds. The total demand is 27 y2 bil-

lion pounds. There must be sharing of

the supply.

The wartime problem of managing our

meat supply is twofold: (1) to share the

total output so that the minimum needs

of our fighting men will be filled; (2) to

share the supply available to civilians

so that everyone has an equal chance to

get his fair portion.

The foods requirements committee

spent weeks gathering the facts and

seeking solutions to the problems. Wecame to these conclusions:

1. We should arrange to share the

meat supply with our fighting menand our allies through limitation

orders that will make available for

military and Lend-Lease use 6V2

billion pounds, and will hold to 17^2

billion pounds the amount of meatthat can go to civilians during the

year starting October 1.

2. We should arrange to share the

17 '/z 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 volun-

tarily 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 2V^

pounds per person per week. We deter-

mined this allowance by the following

calculation:

During the coming year there will be

available to civilians, 171/2 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 cal-

culate 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 21/2

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 sec-

tions may prefer some such device as a

meatless day. We plan to consult with

the trade groups of people managingpublic eating places and help them workout methods of enabling their patrons to

stay within the sharing limits.

Don't buy ration for baby

The individual household may use anymethod the family prefers to hold con-

sumption within the 2 '/2 pounds per per-

son 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 V2 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 por-

tions. 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 allow-

ance. It is a normal amount of meat. In

addition, the Nation has abundant sup-

plies of foods which are alternate sources

of the nutritive values supplied by meat.

We have asked nutritionists in Govern-

ment 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 21/2 pounds per person per

week will be advised how they may get

them from other sources such as eggs,

milk, cheese, poultry, beans, and manycereal foods, vegetables, and fruits, which

can be combined with the requested meat

allowance to make a completely satisfac-

tory 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 democ-

racy have the will and intelligence to

operate a wartime economy fairly and

sensibly.

• • •

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 whole-

salers and retailers shall be the indi-

vidual seller's maximum prices per dozen

for each type or style of pack and con-

tainer size of canned shrimp which pre-

vailed prior to the new amendment, plus

an amount which will cover the added

cost to them of canned shrimp.

September 29, 1942 • VICTORY • 11

SPEED ON LIBERTY SHIPS

FREES WAYS FOR TANKERS

The rapidly increasing production of Lib-

erty Ships, together with the expanded pro-

gram for turbine production, has made it

possible to divert some of the existing ship-

building facilities from the construction of

Liberty Ships to tankers, the Maritime Com-

mission announced September 25. In this

connection, the Commission announced the

award of a contract to the W. A. Bechtel

Company, Sausalito, Calif., for the construc-

tion of 22 large tankers.

• • •

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 farm-

ers to obtain these materials for soil

treatment, insecticides and fungicides

without filing PD-600 forms.

Under the revised provisions, the in-

dividual 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 ag-

ricultural 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.

• • •

Ickes cuts recommended

petroleum production rate

October's daily recommended petro-

leum production rates are 4,066,000 bar-

rels; 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 Septem-

ber 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.

• * •

Apple storage rates adjusted

Warehouses handling and storing ap-

ples in five eastern States will be per-

mitted Increases in their present maxi-

mum 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 ODTcalling for the setting up of priority reg-

ulations to govern the shipment of ma-

terials and commodities by tank car.

The new schedule gives the ODT a

specific mandate to distribute the Na-

tion's 143,000 tank cars on a basis of

first needs first, ODT officials com-

mented 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 chem-

icals and vegetable fats and oils has be-

come critical. Recognizing this situa-.

tion, WPB has ordered the ODT to give

these latter items preferential treatment

in the allocation of cars.

The WPB order directs ODT to sched-

ule priorities for the use of tank cars

in the following order:

—

"A" rating—for the transportaUon of anymaterial for the Army, Navy, Maritime Com-mission, 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 pe-

troleum and petroleum products into Dis-

trict 1 (as defined by the Office of PetroleumCoordinator 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, sub-

ject 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 auto-

motive 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 vege-

table 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 distri-

bution of all commodities vital to the war

program which can only be transported

by tank car.

ODT has been directed to make all di-

versions, as far as practicable, at the ex-

pense of the transportation of automotive

gasoline into or within Districts 2, 3, 4,

and 5 and to secure the maximum coor-

dination of tank cars with the use of

pipe Hnes, 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 petro-

leum hauling, the OPC has been author-

ized by WPB to order petroleum produc-

ers, refiners, and distributors to makepurchases, sales, exchanges, or loans of

petroleum and petroleum products. OPCis likewise authorized to arrange for the

common use of terminals and distribution

facilities.

• • •

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 con-

trol the movement of virtually all com-

mercial craft operating on the Lakes,

ODT Director Eastman said, September

25.

In defining preferential classes of com-

modities, 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 Trans-

portation."

• * *

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 part of the traffic from

the coal fields of West Virginia and east-

ern Kentucky to New England destina-

tions, ODT Director Eastman, said Sep-

tember 23.

Tlie new routes, established at the re-

quest of Mr. Eastman after negotiation

between the ODT and railroads involved,

will shunt part of the heavy coal move-

ment from such gateways as Hagerstown,

Md., and the Potomac Yard to Columbus

and Marion, Ohio. From these points

the diverted traffic will move east on

northern lines.

12 • VICTORY • September 29, 1942

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 Govern-

ment orders were outlined September 16

in an announcement of Priorities Direc-

tive No. 2 by the director general for

operations.

This directive establishes procedures

to carry out the recently announced pol-

icy 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 as-

signed. Authority to issue ratings in the

field was formerly delegated to Army,

Navy and other Government procure-

ment officers. •'

Procurement officers to recommend

Recommendations for ratings will con-

tinue to be initiated by Government pro-

curement officers. The directive provides

interim methods for approval of ratings

assigned to individual contracts on FormPD-3A, to construction projects on forms

In the P-19-h series, and of re-rating

directions on Form PD-4X, pending es-

tablishment of a complete system of re-

view 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 ap-

propriate service officer, WPB will check

ratings assigned to see that they are in

compliance with military priorities direc-

tives and instructions of the Army and

Navy Munitions Board and with WPBregulations, administrative orders andinstructions. In case of disagreement

as to interpretation, the question will be

reviewed as the director general for op-

erations may direct. In disputed cases,

the decision of the deputy director gen-

eral for priorities control will be final.

Exceptions

Excepted from the above are ratings

assigned in the following circumstances:

(a) When the total value of the delivery

or deliveries rated by the instrument does notexceed $500. Purchases shall not be dividedfor the purpose of making this exceptionavailable.

(b) When the countersigning by an Armyor Navy officer takes place outside of the 48States and the District of Columbia.

(c) When the rating Is assigned directly

to a purchase made by a Post Exchange or

Ship's Service Store.

(d) A purchase made pursuant to approvalgiven by a commanding officer, commandant,or the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts of

/the Navy, or by a commanding officer of adefense command o^ the Army, In an emer-gency where the degree of urgency is suchthat advance approval by a War Produc-tion Board official cannot be obtained, pro-

vided that in each such case a copy of therating document Is mailed to the DirectorGeneral for Operations within 24 hours after

issuance.(e) In such other cases as may be ex-

cepted, either Individually or by classes, or' by or under written authority of the Di-

rector General for Operations.

Military construction, defined as the

construction of facilities which will be

owned and operated by the Army, Navyor Maritime Commission, and airport

and other aircraft facilities tj 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-i9-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 ap-

proved in writing by an authorized offi-

cial of WPB before issuance. All con-

struction other than military construc-

tion will be rated only by WPB.

Exemptions

Excepted from the above is "commandconstruction," 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 fac-lities

for the repair or 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.

• • •

Lighter tinplate studied

Experiments to determine the adapt-

ability of tinplate for fish canning, hav-

ing Vs to Va 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 mate-

rials redistribution branch, was an-

nounced September 23 by A. I. Hender-

son, deputy director general for industry

operations.

The new branch will take over the

functions and personnel of the inventory

and requisitioning branch, which has

beejj 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,

* • •

Cement storage order

clarified by amendment

An amendment clarifying the provi-

sions in Order I/-179 covering methods

of storing and testing Portland cement

was issued September 24 by WPB.

• • •

Advisory board named for WPBsmaller war plants division

Lou E. Holland, head of the WPBsmaller war plants division, announced

September 21 the composition of a board

of consultants who will serve in an advi-

sory 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 Engineer-ing Laboratories, Detroit; Stanley A. Carlson,

Howe Machinery Co., Pasaic, N. J.; W. B.

Connell, West Side Machine Works, KansasCity; Ivan L. Johnson, Pacific Steel CastingCo., Berkeley, Calif.

"In the composition of this group of

advisors," Mr. Holland said, "I have en-

deavored to combine high engineering

talent and practical experience with the

problems of small business."


WBP drafts Eberstadt

from Army-Navy board

to integrate production

and materials schedules

WPB Chairman Nelson announced

September 20 the appointment of Ferdi-

nand Eberstadt as vice chairman of the

War Production Board. Mr. Eberstadt

Is leaving his post as chairman of the

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 manu-facturers 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 sapply

WPB Vice Chairman James S. Knowl-son, who is Mr. Nelson's deputy on the

Combined Production and ResourcesBoard, will devote his attention exclu-

sively to that board and to the general

task of integregating the American andBritish production and supply programs.

In order that responsibility for the

control of materials may be properly

centralized, both in respect to the pro-

gram determination and the execution of

allocations and allotments of materials

In accordance with such program, ErnestKanzler, recently appointed the WPBdirector general for operations, will re-

port to the chairman through Mr.Eberstadt.

Under the new set-up, Mr. Nelson ex-

plained, responsibility for seeing to it

that proper programs and schedules are

drawn up and the responsibility for mak-ing 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 ChairmanCharles E. Wilson.

¥ * »•

Manufacture of armored

cable halted to save steel

Manufacture of armored cable after

30 days from September 19 has beenprohibited 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 productiondirectives. 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 strengtheningcontrols over output, Hlland G. Batchel-ler, chief of the branch, said Septem-ber 24.

A committee of the branch, knownas the production directive committee,meets with representatives of each steel

producer to plan monthly output byproducts. The committee investigates

all pertinent facts, such as the com-pany's producing facilities, imfilled or-

ders, relative priority ratings, etc., andthen formulates a production directive

Indicating the product distribution for

the company on a monthly basis.

This directive reflects the basic deter-

minations of the WPB RequirementsCommittee. For Instance, If the Re-quirements Committee has determinedthat 1,100,000 net tons of plates shouldbe made in a particular month (this is

the present figure), the total of all di-

rectives issued will equal this figure.

The part of the total tonnage to be madeby each producer is determined by the

production directive committee.

Within the limits of each productiondirective, 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 bookswhich have the highest priority ratings,

and which are to be delivered in the spec-ified month.

For those who convert steel

In respect to nonintegrated steel com-panies (those who purchase steel for

further conversion) the production di-

rectives are issued on a slightly different

basis. The committee schedules the rate

of operations of the producer on a basis

comparable to integrated steel com-panies manufacturing the same product.

The directive is then supported by anallocation of the necessary steel fromspecified integrated companies to thenonintegrated producer.

The committee has issued 84 produc-

tion directives, 46 to integrated produc-

ers and 38 to nonintegrated producers.

Practically all of the integrated pro-

ducers have been covered but a large

number of the nonintegrated companiesare yet to be directed. Full coverage of

the Industry in 30 to 60 days is expected.

AAA rating to small emiounts 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 ma-terials 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

amoimt of steel is needed for a critical

part. If it is Impossible to obtain the

steel in any other way, the WPB field offi-

cer may assign whatever emergency rat-

ing is necessary to assure Its immediate

delivery. With the way clear for thepart to be made, the ship can be delivered

without delay.

The quantities of materials against

which such preference ratings in the ag-

gregate may be assigned each month are

not to exceed a small specified percent-

age of the available supply of each ma-terial.

The regional emergency allotment planwas put into operation September 22 andduring 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 (assortedstructural), steel (other except plate), zinc.

Other materials to be included later In

the plan are:

Cadmium, ferrochrome. cobalt, cork, for-maldehyde, molybdenum, rubber (crude),rubber (synthetic), tantulum ore, titanliunores, tin, tungsten, vanadium.


WPB limits use of fats and oils,

so as to build up reserve supply

Limitations on uses of fats and oils, to

psrmit building of a reserve supply of

these vital war materials, were ordered

September 22 by the dipector 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, andsome others.

. Finished products granted 90% base

Fats and oils used in the manufactureof edible finished products, such as short-

ening, mayonnaise, salad dressing, andthe like, are limited to 90 percent of the

amount used, by quarters, of the average

of the corresponding quarters of 1940 and1941. Special exception is made for mar-garine, which is given a quota of 110

percent.

Soap, excluding that made from do-

mestic vegetable oil "foot," Is given aquota of 90 percent. Vegetable oil foots

may be used up to 119 percent of the

base period consumption.

ProtectiTe coverings granted 80% quota

Paints, varnish, lacquer and other pro-

tective coatings are granted an 80 per-

cent quota. Linoleum, oilcloth, oil or

oleo resinous coated fabrics and pyroxolin

coated fabrics get a 70 percent quota, andthe quota for printing Inks is 90 percent.

The order places no restriction on theuse of fats and oils In a finished foodproduct 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 neces-

sary, but not the principal. Ingredient.

To round out the restriction program,wholesale sellers of linseed oil are re-

stricted in total deliveries to 80 percent of

the amount delivered in the correspond-

ing base period.

Retroactive to September 1

The order is made retroactive to Sep-tember 1 of this year in that the first

period is from September 1 to E>ecember

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 prod-ucts heretofore in effect are continued.

There are no restrictions on inventories

of raw materials.

Tool firm penalized on

charge of priority violation

Reliable Tool and Wire Products Cor-poration, New York, N. Y., and Louis

Rubin, the corporation's president, havebeen denied all priority assistance andallocations of scarce materials for a pe-riod of 2 months, on a charge of violating

WPB regulations, it was announced Sep-ternber 21 by the director general for

operations.

Suspension Order S-102 charges that

Rubin, acting upon advice which he hadgood reason to believe was erroneous,

applied the A-10 rating provided for re-

pair, maintenance and operating supplies

by Preference Rating Order P-100, to

purchase orders for approximately 12,000

pounds of steel wire. This wire was or-

dered for the manufacture of hooks usedin the assembling of dolls.

* * *

IT TAKES 50,000 man-hours of workto build a medium bomber as against only200 for an auto.

Distributors may purchase

material for home radios

Priority assistance in the purchase of

repair-shop material for the maintenanceof home radios may be applied for onForm PI>-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 anyrequirements upon the consumer or the

repair-shop operator, but by making It

easier for the large distributor to obtainparts it maintains established links be-

tween producer and home set owner.

* • •

Telephone service order defined

An interpretation of Limitation OrderL-50, as amended September 7, makingit clear that private telephone services

are covered by the restrictions containedin 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 pointedout September 19 that lacquer is not in-

cluded among the paint products for

which the use of steel drums will be pro-hibited by Limitation Order L-197.

Paints covered are dry powder paints

and water type paste paints.

Oil and varnish type paints may bepacked in new or used drums in the handsof the packer on the date of issuance of

the order, September 14, 1942.

• • •

Use of iron, steel in caskets^

burial vaults further curtailed

Use of iron and steel in caskets, ship-

ping cases, and burial vaults is further

curtailed by an amendment to GeneralLimitation Order L-64, issued September24 by the Director General for Opera-tions.

For a period of 90 days (September 24 toDecember 23), the amount of iron and steelthat may be used in Joining hardware maynot exceed 6 pounds per casket. If the cas-ket contains any handle hardware assemblieswhich were completely fabricated prior toMarch 28, 1942, the amount of iron or steelmay not exceed 4 pounds per casket.Beginning December 23, the weight of

joining hardware may not exceed four poundsper casket, whether or not the casket con-tains handle hardware assemblies.

Effective Immediately, the use of iron andsteel in handle hardware for caskets Is pro-hibited. However, manufacturers may usesuch hardware consisting of assemblies ofbars, ears, arms, and tips which were In theirInventory in completely fabricated form priorto September 24, 1942.The September 24 order restricts the

amount of iron and steel or galvanized steelIn each liner to 50 pounds, not exceeding 26standard gage thickness. However, manu-facturers who possessed any iron and steel,galvanized steel, terne sheet, or copper bear-ing steel exceeding 26 standard gage thicknessIn Inventory prior to March 28 may use suchmetal to produce liners exceeding 50 poundsin weight.No metal liners may be used except to

comply with State hermetic sealing regula-tions for the transportation of humancorpses, or by the Array and Navy.This new order will permit a total of 6

pounds of Iron or steel in a casket and burialvault for an individual burial, after Decem-ber 23. However, when a body is to be

.

transported by common carrier an additional3% pounds is permitted in order to providefor necessary shipping case handles.

94% reduction in iron and steel used

It is estimated that the amendmentwill reduce the total amount of iron or

steel in caskets, burial vaults, and ship-

ping cases during 1943 to about 4,200

tons, from 36,000 tons expected to be

used under restrictions in 1942, and ap-

proximately 72,000 tons used annually

prior to issuance of L-64. This repre-

sents a reduction of about 88 percent and94 percent, respectively.


LABOR . .

.

for women; refuses to force closed shop

Board orders "equal pay for equal work*'

In 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 pro-

duction. The board also rejected a ma-

jority 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 pro-

duction, 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 incjude 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, pro-

duce work of the same quantity and qual-

ity as that performed by men." Thecompany, which employs 7,600 workers,

was also directed to standardize andsimplify its wage schedules, and to accept

a revised and strengthened maintenance

of membership clause because of the

harmful effects of a bulletin board state-

ment indicating the company's "recalci-

trant 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 be-

tween employees of equal ability em-ployed on similar work where produc-

tion is substantially the same."

Principle used in World War I

Dr. Taylor pointed out that this prin-

ciple was adopted in 1918 by the WarLabor Board in World War I and hadbeen used by both the National Defense

Mediation Board and the present board.

He said:

The present case requires an even morecomplete statement of the manner in whichthe principle ol "equal pay for equal work"is to be effectuated. Such a statement Is ol

cogent Importance at this time. Our coun-try will depend more and more upon Its

women to produce the materials with whichIts men will fight. In calling upon Americanwomen to assume a vital role on the Industrialfront, the country has an obligation to pro-vide the utmost assurance that they will notbe subject to discriminatory treatment Intheir compensation. They have a right toeconomic equality.In treating this question In the present

case, the panel has recommended, in part,that "Bates o£ pay for female employees willbe based upon the established rates for thework performed. Where such work is iden-tical with, or substantially the same as, thatperformed by men on the same or comparableoperations, the base rates and hourly rateswill be the same." The wording of the above-quoted section Indicates the impropriety ofusing slight or inconsequential changes Injob content or in method of operation as asole reason for setting up a wage differen-tial against women employees . . . Theboard approves the above-quoted wording asrecommended by the panel with the proviso,however, that it cannot be interpreted solelyin relation to the physical characteristics ofthe operation performed. It must also berelated to the quality and quantity of pro-duction turned out. Female employees as-signed to the same operation which has beenor which is performed by men should receivethe same pay when they produce the samequantity and quality of output . . .

Methods of computing wage

In its recommended clause, the panel takesspecific cognizance of the fact that It is oftenImpossible or Inadvisable for female employeesto undertake heavy physical labor which hasbeen established as a part of certain Jobswhen they are peilormed by men. In suchcases, the employment of women workers mayentail extra supervision, extra set-up menor additional carry-off men. The panel sug-gests that such "extra labor costs will becomputed and will be given pro rata weightIn establishing an equable rate of pay forfemale workers" . . . It is pointed outthat such a division of tasks has often beenused on Jobs manned entirely by male em-ployees as a means of reducing unit costswhile maintaining hourly rates. There aresound reasons, therefore, for guarding againstthe use of the procedure to cut women's rateswhen the "extra" labor for heavy work doesnot 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 andToy Workers' International Union, CIO,

representing 1,200 employees of Wilson-

Jones Co.'s plants in Chicago and Eliza-

beth, 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 companyhas been following an open-shop policy.

The majority of the panel recommendedthe union shop in order to restore the

condition which existed before the strike.

JOE. He knows he can keep 'em rolling only

if he stays fit. This is one of a series o(

9%" by 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 main-

tenance 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 pre-

vailed 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 Pro-

duction Board, the Maritime Commis-sion, 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 approxi-

mately 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 in-

volved dropped from 80,722 to 79,414.


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 search-

ing for a type of material vitally needed

by our war industries—scrap. Thesearch 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 farm-

ers 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, andmany 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 andour men supplied with weapons andequipment. Scores of articles, whichhitherto 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 criti-

cal materials has become a source of

worry, not to say alarm, to those directing

the war effort. Because of the vast ac-

celeration of our industrial machine since

the launching of the War Production

Drive, and because territories in the ParEast from which we formerly obtained

much of our raw materials have been oc-

cupied by the Japanese, our war indus-

tries early this year found themselves

facing acute shortages of raw materials.

These shortages threatened to hamperproduction and slow down the war effort

unless they could be overcome at once.

Recognizing that there Vvas a vast

storehouse of scrap material in the coun-

try, if it could be gathered up—enoughto meet the present needs of industry

—

the conservation division of WPB swunginto action and launched the National

Scrap Collection Program, which is nowgoing at full force.

Chairman Donald M. Nelson of WPBpointed 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 thatthere was an especial need for iron andsteel and rubber.

The steel industry, Mr. Nelson said, hasbeen rapidly stepping up its production

—

from 67,000,000 tons in 1940 to a record-

breaking 83,000,000 tons in 1941. Pro-duction 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 outputof all the rest of the world. This volumeof production could not be maintained,

Mr. Nelson warned, unless at least.6,000,-

000 tons of scrap material could be ob-

tained quickly.

The steel industry operates on a basis

of half-and-half—about 50 percent pig

iron and 50 percent scrap material. Dueto the shortages of scrap, the ratio is

now 541/2 percent pig iron and 45 '/2 per-

cent 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 ona day by day, hand to mouth basis andmay be forced to close down this winter

unless scrap can be obtained.

It has been determined that if our pro-

duction schedule is to be maintained,

TRUCKS CARRYING SCRAP

GET PLENTY OF GAS

Trucks Tolunteered (or the purpose of col-

lecting scrap during tlie intensified salvage

campaign will not suffer because of wartime

gasoline and transportation regulations, it was

announced September 21 by tbe WPB con-

servation 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 ODTlast 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.

"What's it good for?"

"Guns, tanks, and maybepart of a plane"

This illustration has been used in the scrap

campaigns to encourage farmers in collection.

Mats or glossy proofs for publication arc

available on request to the Distribution Sec-

tion, Office of War Information, Washington,

D. C.

17,000,000 tons of iron and steel scrapmust be secured during the later half of

1942 to give the steel furnaces sufficient

inventories to prevent shut-downs whenthe cold weather sets in and to provide astockpile 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, thehomes, farms, business houses, autograveyards, and junk yards of the Nation.

Who will supply this scrap?

Each and every person in America.To get a clearer picture of the situa-

tion, let's stop talking of production fig-

ures for a moment and look at some con-crete cases.

We have more than 4,000,000 men underarms and more are being called Into

service each day. We must keep these

men fully equipped to meet the enemyon an equal basis at all times. We mustsupply them with all the arms and am-munition they need, and we must haveships to transport this equipment—as

well as food—to them, over submarine-infested seas. We must build ships andplanes and tanks, not by the dozens, butby the hundreds and thousands.

Now let's see what this scrap collec-

tion means in relation to supplying these

men with needed arms and equipment.

September 29, l£-:2 • VICTORY • 17

It has been estimated that there Is

enough iron and steel on the farms alone,

if used with other materials, to maketwice as many battleships as there are

in the world today; or enough 2,000-

pound bombs to drop three per minute

from big boinbers incessantly for more

than three years.

And this refers to the farms alone.

Think of how much there is in the indus-

trial 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.

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 anequivalent amount of pig iron, will makemore than 16 17-mm. guns, 27 20-mm.guns, 30 .50-cal. machine guns, or 11/2 16-

inch Navy shells, or 3 2,000-pound aerial

bombs.

The list could be extended indefinitely.

Every item of scrap is valuable for somepurpose.

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 "mineabove the ground."

The big job for the American people

is to get this scrap from the places whereit 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 launchedthe National Salvage Program, a deter-

mined attempt to mobilize the entire

population of the United States in a con-

certed 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 sal-

vage section, (b) the general salvage sec-

tion, (c) the special projects salvage sec-

tion, and (d) the automobile graveyard

salvage section. Each has a special

function to perform.

The industrial salvage section

This section is charged with the re-

sponsibility of educating industry to sal-

vage all critical waste materials, to speed

List tells housewives what to give

A CHECK list naming more than 100 household and farm items containing mate-rial essential for war production has been compiled by the American IndustriesSalvage Committee.

ARTICLES CONTAINING MATERIALS WANTED FOR WARrubber 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 heels, rubber raincoats, rubber

combs, rubber bands, pencil erasers, old garden

hose, hot water bottles, rubber balls, rubber swim

suits, rubber bathing caps, rubber mattresses, rub-

ber sheets, old tennis shoes, rubber bath mats, old

jar rings.

FABRICS

Old vegetable sacks, cotton underwear, wool

underwear, old sheets, old pillowcases, old bed-

spreads, old towels, old washcloths, old handker-

chiefs, 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

burlap bags.

METAL

Metal beds—springs, old irons, old wood or coal

stove, skid chains, old bathtubs, lawnmower, old

metal refrigerator, old radiator, old washing ma-

chine, 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 equip-

ment, old screens, old clocks, old batteries, old

lighting fixtures, old furnace grates, lamp bulbs,

old fireplace equipment, old metal golf clubs, metal

plant stands, old washboards, old 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 8oor mats,

n 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, andoutbuildings, 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 anAmerican 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 in-

dustry use the established channels of

disposal.

The present objective of this section is

to urge and assist the executive manage-ment of every industrial establishment

to move into production channels all

dormant and production scrap in their

possession as speedily as possible. Pro-

duction 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

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 dormantscrap 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 aug-

mented, during this period, by 2,500 sales-

men and sales executives, drawn from

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Facts about the scrap campaign(.Continued from page 17)

the sales staffs of all the major steel com-panies, who have been certified to serve

as temporary field men of the section.

The general salvage section

This section is charged with establish-

ing salvage programs in local communityareas, appointing local committees anddirecting their activities. The activities

of this section extend into every house-hold and to every business firm, including

smaller industrial organizations in rural

areas, and to every farm.

The general salvage section is repre-

sented by 48 State committees and nearly

13,000 county and local committees witha membership of approximately 140,000.

One of the first projects of this section,

launched early this year, was a Nation-wide newspaper collection to meet athreatened newspaper shortage. The re-

sponse of the American people in this

campaign provided a smplus of stock be-

yond the immediate consumption needs,

and the collection was halted for the timebeing. The response demonstrated thewilhngness of the American people to get

In salvage materials when called upon to

do so. '

On October 5, the general salvage sec-

tion will enlist 30,000,000 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 sal-

vage depots, where the public can bringthe scrap and dump it. Each school yardwill be an official salvage depot.

The general salvage section, aided byfarm implement manufacturers, is nowconducting a "scrap harvest" to garnerall the scrap on the farms of the Nation.The program now being conducted by

this section is touching every home andcommunity in the country. Oil, rubber,

automotive, and steel industries and their

dealers, as well as numerous public andprivate agencies, are aiding in carryingout the program, which is being con-ducted through approximately 13,000

State and local salvage committees.The newspapers of the country have

assumed the responsibility of aiousingand maintaining public interest in theprogram through widespread publicizing

of its activities. The campaign is beingheld during different three-week periodsin different States.

Special projects salvage section

The objective of this section is to ex-pedite the salvage of large aggregations

of iron and steel and other secondary

materials that are Impeded by legal, fi-

nancial, or political obstacles which in-

volve extensive negotiations. Such proj-

ects include abandoned railroads, aban-doned streetcar lines, abandoned bridges,

mines, buildings, factories, oil wells, andothers. , Up to the present time the

sources for financial assistance for proj-

ects where the cost of demolition ex-

ceeded the ceiling prices have been the

WPA and the Metals Reserve Company.In addition to expediting the move-

ment of iron and steel scrap, and occa-

sionally 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, nowworking through 254 field representatives,

has the responsibility to see that 20,000

auto yards in the country are function-

ing as producing units. A great amountof the scrap that goes into the manufac-ture of war materials comes through the

automobile graveyards. Some people are

inclined to ask why these automobile

graveyards are allowed to exist whenthere is a shortage of scrap, and the an-

swer 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 WPBhas emphasized that operators of auto-

mobile 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 cart be requi-

sitioned at any time.

They keep their stock moving. Therewere 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 movedIn 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 manyof these cars will never run again. Mostof these should be sold as junk.

Government agencies dealing withtransportation look upon an automobileeither as a means of transportation or as

junk. A car that carmot be used for

transportation purposes is considered

junk. The price that can be paid for anunusable car when sold as junk rangesbetween $6 to $10.

One of the problems the automobilegraveyard section has to solve from a pub-lic point of view is the function of the

THREE STATES GETTING IN

MOST SCRAP WILL WIN

PUQUES FROM NELSON

Awards in a Nation-wide scrap collec-

tion contest will be made by the WPBIn connection with the current NewspaperScrap Drive. The three States collecting

the largest amount of scrap per capitawill receive honorary plaques from WPBChairman Nelson and any county produc-ing 100 pounds or more of scrap per cap-ita during the contest will be awarded theSalvage Victory Pennant to fly from its

courthouse flagstaff.

In announcing the rules of the contest.

It was emphasized by the conservationdivision that only scrap metal and rub-ber which have been weighed and deliv-

ered to Victory Stock Piles, Official Sal-

vage Depots, or scrap dealers' yards will

be used in the compilation of the com-petition totals.

Only that scrap collected during the

Newspaper Scrap Drive, of three weeksduration, in any State, will be includedin the final tabulation of the contest.

The drives take place during different

three-week periods; many already havebeen started.

scrap' dealer. The scrap dealer's func-

tion is to prepare iron and steel scrapand 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 asmall bundle for use in a charging box.

The frames, axles, springs, and wheelsare cut up according to specifications also

for use in consuming mills' chargingboxes. The motor is cleaned of babbit

and sent to a foundry.

A simUiar process goes on in salvaging

other types of scrap, which illustrates

why the scrap dealer's function is so im-portant.

In view of the fact that anywhere from1,000,000 to 2,500,000 cars annually comeoff 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 numberof scrap drives that have been put on this

year and wonder which is the REAL scrapdrive.

All these separate drives are part of onecontinuing program which was launchedby WPB and will be carried on indefi-

nitely.

Some wonder why scrap must be sold to


dealers instead of going direct to the

factories.

The answer is, scrap must be "proc-

essed"—graded, sorted, prepared, andpacked—before it can be shipped. ThatIs the job of the scrap deajer.

Someone who has collected somescrap—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 oflQcial salvage de-

pots, or get in touch with their local

salvage committees. There are approxi-

mately 13,000 State and local committees

throughout the Nation.

The Government does not ask for con-

tributions 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. Theanswer is—everyone. The more the bet-

ter. To avoid confusion, however, the

public should work through local salvage

committees. It's a big enough job for all.

• • •

WPB ASKS CITIZENS TO ACT

AS "SALVAGE SCOUTS"

Citizens throughout the country were asked

September 25 by the WPB conservation divi-

sion 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 alt parts of the Nation,"

said Lessing J. Rosenwald, director of the

conservation division. "It is in many differ-

ent forms—abandoned bridges, mines, build-

ings, 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 con-

cerning the nature, location, and, if possible,

the ownership of such equipment to the Special

Projects Salvage Section, War Production

Board, Washington, D. C.

* * *

TRY THIS on the judge: A Milwaukeelaundry truck driver, arrested for driving

the v.Tong way on a one-way street, ex-

plained he was cutting his mileage 25 per-

cent to save rubber. Sentence sus-

pended.

New Industry Advisory CommitteesThe Division of Industry Advisory

committees, WPB, has announced the

formation of the following new com-mittees:

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 & Manu-facturing Co.. Chicago, 111.; 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, treasurerand general manager, Washington Mills Abra-sive Co., North Grafton, Mass.; J. Kuzmick,Abrasive Wheel Department, Manhattan Rub-ber Manufacturing Division of RaybestosManhattan, Inc., Passaic, N. J.; S. B. Leish-man, president, Gardner Machine Co., Beloit,Wis.; T. J. Mclntyre, vice president. MacklinCo., Jackson, Mich.: W. L, McKnight, presi-dent, Minnesota Mining & ManufacturingCo., 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, mica-graphite branch.

Members:

Ralph B. Derr, Aluminum Company ofAmerica. Pittsburgh, Pa.; W. N. Smith, Ma-honing Mining Co., Platteville, Wis.; K. A.Johnston, U. S. Coal & Coke Co., Mexico,Ky.; J. M. Blayney, Rosiclare Lead & Fluor-spar Mining Co., St. Louis, Mo.; R. H. Dick-son, General Chemical Co., New York, N. Y.;

E. D. Timberlake, Peerless- Oil & Gas Co.,

Indiana, Pa.; F. G. Fabian, Hillside FluorSpar Mines, Chicago, 111.; Robert N. Frazer,Kentucky Fluor Spar Co., Marion, Ky.: MilesHaman, Crystal Fluorspar Co., Elizabethtown,111.; L. F. Hearne. Eagle Fluor Spar Co.. Salem,Ky.; B. E. Clement, Davenport Mine, Marlon,Ky.; Dr. J. L. Gillson, I. E. du Point deNemours & Co., Wilmington, Del.

CHASSIS PARTS SUBCOMMITTEE, AUTO-MOTIVE REPLACEMENT PARTSINDUSTRY

Government presiding officer—J. J.

Donovan, chief, replacement parts sec-

tion, automotive branch.

Members

:

E. A. Clark, vice president. Budd WheelCo., Detroit, Mich.; Wm. H. Courtright, Wil-liam & Harvey Rowland, Inc., Philadelphia,Pa.; P. 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. RaybestosManhattan Corporation, Manheim, Pa.

PLUMBING AND HEATING WATER HEATERINDUSTRY

Government presiding officer—W. W.Timmis, chief, plumbing and heating

branch.

Members:

J. J. Chevlron, president, Lochlnvar & Mich-igan Tank & Furnace Corporation, Detroit,Mich.; M. H. Feldman, vice president, JohnWood Manufacturing Co.. Inc., Conshohocken,Pa.; Earl Gossett, president, Bell and GossettCo., Morton Grove, 111.; George L. Harberger,Eastern Foundry Co., Boyerstown, Pa.; R. E.James, general manager, Rheem Manufactur-ing 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 SanitaryCorporation, Pittsburgh. Pa.; Thomas Starke,president, Richmond Engineering Co., Rich-mond, Va.; A. H. Sutton, president. MissionWater Heater Co., Los Angeles, Calif.

VINYL RESINS PRODUCERS INDUSTRY

Government presiding officer—PrankH. 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 ChemicalCo., 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 & AlmyChemical Co., Inc., Cambridge, Mass.; W. C.Goggln, The Dow Chemical Co., Midland.Mich.; Henry B. Townsend, General Latex andChemical Corporation, Cambridge, Mass.

GENERAL LINE CONFECTIONERYINDUSTRY

Government presiding officer—J. M.Whittaker, chief, confectionery section,

food supply branch.

Members

:

William H. Vogler, New England Confec-tionery Co,, Cambridge, Mass.; William P.Heide, Henry Heide, Inc.. New York, N. Y.;

W. E. Brock, Jr., Brock Candy Co.. Chatta-nooga, Tenn.; B. H. Goodman, Nutrine CandyCo., Chicago, 111.; Z. E. Vose, National CandyCo., Inc.. St. Louis. Mo.; Otto J. Glaser, DairyMaid Confectionery Co., Philadelphia. Pa.;

W. W. Reid, Jr.. The Charms Co.. Bloomfleld,N. J.: L. R. Tilton. Bishop and Co., Inc.,

Los Angeles, Calif.: Charles Haug, Mason AuMagenhclmer, Brooklyn, N. Y.

POULTRY AND EGGS PROCESSORSINDUSTRY

Government presiding officer—Clyde E.

Beardslee, chief, dairy section of the food

branch.

Members:

N. R. Clark, Swift and Co., Chicago, III,;

J. B. Collier, Jr., Ft. Worth Poultry & EggCo., Ft. Worth, Tex.; J. L. Perry, SeymourPacking 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 Mar-keting Coop., Broadway, Va.; W. B. Loucks,Wadley & Co., New York, N. Y.; Robert F.Thurrel, N. E. Poultry Producers Assn.. EastWolteboro, N. H.; Harry J. Beernick, Wash-ington Coop. Egg and Poultry Assn., Seattle,

Wash.; Willis W. Dayton, Fairmont CreameryCo., Omaha. Nebr.; Frank A. Prlebe, Prleba& Soas, Inc., Chicago, 111.; W. F. Leimert,Trauin Egg Products Co., Kansas City, Mo.


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 va-

rious grades—although not increasing

smokers' costs thereby—was announcedSeptember 22 by OPA.

This program is effected through issu-

ance of a permanent price regulation onflue-cured tobacco, which is used almost"

entirely in the manufacture of cigarettes.

The permanent order succeeds a tempo-rary 60-day price ceiling, which has been

In effect on the southern-grown com-modity 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 manu-facturers, dealers, and exporters thanwould have been the case under the tem-

porary regulation. The features are as

follows:

1. Private Buyers of flue-cured tobacco nowmay average their purcliases for the entireseason from August 31, 1942, to February 28,

1943, so that they shall not exceed the averageprice paid by each purchaser dtiring the Au-gust 24-28, 1942, base period. In the originaltemporary order, buyers were required to

average out In two 30-day periods. Underthe new and longer time provision, buyersmay purchase top grades at higher than theircelling levels and round out to the ceiling byaveraging down when lower grades come tomarket iater in the season. This averagingcould not be done to satisfactory advantageIn many cases, it was felt, during a shortmonthly period.

2. The permanent order contains a provi-sion similar to that in the previous temporaryregulation, namely that if any person hadnot purchased during the base period, hecould use the 34.86-cent-per-pound marketaverage for that August 24^28 time, as deter-mined by the Department of Agriculture.However, the new regulation also broadensthis provision tj alleviate certain hardshipcases.

3. Purchases of flue-cured tobacco for ex-port are exempt from price control under thenew permanent regulation. This has beendone largely for administrative reasons. It

is estimated that not more than 4,000.000pounds or about one-half of 1 percent of thetotal crop—will be moved under this provi-sion. Furthermore, not more than 2,000,000pounds of such tobacco will be of the bettergrades.

"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. Thisrecognizes an established feature of theauction markets and preserves it.

• • •

57 rice warehouses allowed

to raise storage rates

Because current charges reflect condi-

tions prevailing more than a year ago

—

during which time expenses incurred bywarehouses have risen—the OPA Sep-tember 21 authorized 57 Louisiana ware-houses storing rough rice—the commod-ity in the pre-milled state—to Increase

their storage rates.

Upward adjustments—which vary for

the individual warehouse—will rangefrom 3 cents to 5 cents per 162-poundbarrel 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 con-sumer probably will not be affected. Thegrower 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 ap-proximately $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 WarehouseCommission.

• * •

Fruit cocktail canners may add

increased costs to ceilings

The OPA September 22 ruled that can-

ners of fruit cocktail and fruit for salad

may add the increased cost of pineapple

and maraschino cherries in computingtheir ceiling prices, as well as the in-

creased costs of other ingredients per-

mitted by Maximum Price Regulation

No. 185.

Fruit- packers may increase

service charges temporarily,

pending final adjustment

Packers and warehousemen of applesand pears will be permitted conditionally

to increase current charges for their re-

spective services, OPA ruled September22, pending further and more searchingInvestigations of widespread claims that

these charges are abnormally low.

Refund provided for

The conditional adjustment authorizedby Amendpient No. 29 to SupplementaryRegulation No. 14 to the general maxi-mum price regulation, effective Septem-ber 22, provides that the additional

charge paid shall be refunded to theperson against whom it is assessed notlater than December 31, 1942, unless theAdministrator provides otherwise prior

to that time. Such funds either mustbe placed in escrow by the warehouse-man until that time or a surety bondguaranteeing refund posted with theOPA State ofBce in the State where theservice is performed.

Each storage company must report

monthly to such OPA State office thenames and addresses of all persons fromwhom it collects the additional chargesand must show in the report the addi-

tional amount collected from each suchperson.

• • *

Formula announced for

pricing fruit products

Complete details of the formula for

determining packers' maximum prices

for the 1942 pack of fruit preserves, jamsand jellies, were announced September21 by the OPA. Necessary adjustmentsat wholesale and retail will be author-ized in a distributors' regulation soon to

be issued.

The new formula and pricing methodsare contained in Maximum Price Regu-lation No. 226, effective September 26,

1942, for most fruit preserves, jams andjellies and effective October 1, 1942 for

apple, boiled cider, crabapple, grape andquince flavors.

* * •

THE GUN CARRIAGE of a 155 mm.gun calls for 1,000 separate drawings,

plus 500 more for the recoil mechanism.


OPA announces details of price

regulation on dried fruits

sold by packers

Complete details of the official regu-

lation 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 regu-

lation are apricots, peaches, pears,

prunes, figs and raisins.

Although no action at wholesale andretail is taken In the new MaximumPrice Regulation No. 227 (Dried Pi-uits),

effective September 26, OPA quarters

reaffirmed the fact that in a separate

forthcoming regulation, wholesale andretail distributors of dried fruits will be

permitted to adjust their celling prices.

"Support prices"

The specific packer ceiling prices ondried fruits and raisins set by OPA are

predicated on the use of the Departmentof Agriculture's "support prices" as a

base. These prices are sufficiently high

to meet the 110 percent of parity re-

quirements 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 ad-

Justed fruit cost. The estimated 1942

packing and general selling costs were

added to this amount. In computingmaximum prices for sales to the Govern-ment, 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 ceilingswere set for both Government and privatetrade sales on various grades and sizes. Onother grades, varieties, sizes and containersizes not named, OPA Indicated that maxi-mums shall be set from those listed by add-ing or subtracting—as the case may be—thesame differential In dollars and cents whichexisted in the packer's price lists or schedulesof differentials during the 1941^2 sellingseason for the 1941 crop. However, If suchdifferential did not remain constant duringsuch period, the differential in effect for thegreatest length of time during such periodmust be used.

* • *

Goodale named to bakery unit

William P. Goodale, Jr., vice president

of the Berwick Cake Co. of Boston anda 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 an-

nounced September 22 that a "retailer

assistance" program is being formulated

so that retailers may reduce deliveries

and eliminate "frills" from their opera-

tions 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 Wash-ington with OPA's retail trade and serv-

ices division and industry council Sep-

tember 29 and 30, to assist in develop-

ment 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 busi-

ness frills and furbelows," Mr. Hendersonsaid in announcing the meeting. His

statement follows:

The years preceding 1939 were years Inwhich customers were hard to get and vari-

ous business-attractive services came into be-ing in many retail stores. Such things assame day delivery service, liberal credit term-s,

goods on approval, COD service on small pur-chases, pick-up of returns, became common

practice In both large and small stores toInduce more public buying.Today the picture has changed. We are at

war. Time and many materials are short.Retailers are experiencing numerous difficul-

ties and are operating under price ceilings

that make control of costs a real, live problem.

"Superficial" services not required

The general maximum price regulation re-quires retailers to continue to offer the sameservices that they did In March—the basemonth for ceiling prices. The reason for thisprovision is obvious—It is Intended to preventhidden price increases that result when cus-tomers are compelled to pay extra for thingsformerly given free. This basic reason stlUholds. OPA does not Intend to relieve retail-ers from continuing to supply essentialservices if they have done so In the past.However, there are many services given by

stores which are not essential: in fact, are noteven desirable under wartime conditions. ItIs these superficial services—holdovers frompre-war days—that can and should be elim-inated. The buying public does not expecttheir continuance; the Government does notwant It.

Won't curb advertising

OPA has been working on this problem forsome time. Private discussions have takenplace with small groups In the merchandisingfield and sufficient basic information has beenaccumulated to permit work to begin on adefinite "retailer assistance" program.To forestall inquiries that Inevitably arise

when retail curtailment plans are discussed,I may say that OPA has no Intention of Issu-ing any regulations limiting advertising.

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 ofl6-

cials 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 ef-

fective August 31, 1942, raised the maxi-

mum price for imported silver bullion

from 35.375 cents to 45 cents per troy

ounce in accordance with an understand-

ing reached between the United States

and Mexico.

The September 22 adjustment, con-

tained in Amendment No. 27 to Supple-

mentary Regulation No. 14 of the general

maximum price regulation, corrects this

situation.

Imported silver bullion price

raised to 45 cents an ounce

OPA September 22 increased maxl-

mimi 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 March1942.

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 bul-

lion and for metal domestically refined

from foreign ores and concentrates, wasIncreased from 35% cents an ounce to

45 cents.


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 im-

mediately, John B. Blandford, Jr.,

National Housing Administrator, an-

nounced 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 im-

mediately, 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 newtownsite 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.

• • •

Lumber from imported

mahogany exempt from GMPRIn order to insure as far as possible

adequate supplies of mahogany for use

in war contracts, OPA September 23 ex-

empted mahogany lumber, fiitches, andveneer, manufactured in the United

States from imported mahogany, from

the provisionG of the general maximumprice regulation.

The exemption, which applies only to

sales after October 1, 1942, to the United

States, its agencies or "Lend-Lease" gov-

ernments or to persons who will use such

commodities to fulfill a contract or sub-

contract with any such government or

agency, was contained in AmendmentNo. 10 to Revised Supplementary Regu-lation No. 4 to the general maximumprice regulation, effective September 22,

1942.

HOUSING CRITICAL AREAS

The WPB has added 10 areas to the

Defense Housing Critical Area List. Theyare:

Camden, Ark.; Marianna, Fla.; Port Huron,Mich.; Courtland, Ala.; Newport, Ark.; Baln-brldge, Ga.; Gulfport, Miss.; Altvis, Okla.;

Frederick, Okla.; Tampa, Ma.

• • •

OPA amends housing

regulations

Landlords putting housing accommo-dations 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 maxi-

mum rent regulations for housing ac-

commodations other than hotels and

rooming houses, also does away with the

same requirement for housing accom-

modations which have been changed, re-

sulting 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 de-

creased if it is out of line with rents

charged in the area for comparable ac-

commodations.

This change is authorized under Sup-

plementary Amendment No. 4 to all

maximum rent regulations for housing

accommodations other than hotels and

rooming houses.

• • •

Key West rents pushed back

another 5 months

Rents for all living quarters in the KeyWest, 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. Addi-

tional 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.

THE ARMY is saving great quantities

of copper for other war purposes by sub-

stituting steel for brass in shell cases.

Northern hardwood, softwood

lumber producers to roll back

prices to October 1941 levels

Northern hardwood and softwood lum-ber producers—one of the few remainingbranches of the lumber industry not pre-

viously under specific price regulation

—

were ordered September 19 by Price Ad-ministrator Henderson to roll back prices

for shipments wliich originate at the

mill to approximately the levels prevail-

ing in October 1941.

This action was effected by the issuance

of two price regulations. Maximum Price

Regulation No. 223, Northern HardwoodLumber, and Maximum Price Regula-

tion No. 222, Northern Softwood Lumber,which contain specific dollars and cents

prices for practically all standard andnear standard grades and items of North-

ern 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 meas-ures apply only where shipments orig-

inate at the mill, with sales from distri-

bution 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 fromCanada. Prices for almost all standard

and near standard grades of softwood

and hardwood lumber and for the morecommon special grades of hardwood lum-

ber are set out in dollars and cents terms.

In the case of special grades and items

of softwood lumber and the less commonspecial grades and items of hardwood

lumber, the regulations provide a for-

mula 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 ap-

proved by OPA for the producing mill,

• * •

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 Pi-ice

Regulation No. 146 (Appalachian Hard-

wood Lumber), effective September 30,

1942. ,


Auto repair shops to file price

statements with local boards

Machine shops supplying automotive

repair, maintenance, and rebuilding serv-

ices 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 regula-

tion, 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 opera-

tions in connection with automotive

vehicles as

—

Crank shaft regrinding; cylinder reboring;repairing and rebuilding automotive genera-tors and starters; reconditioning and rebuild-

ing motors; clutch refacing; brake-shoe relin-

Ing; overhauling and reconditioning carbu-retors; rebabbitting connecting-rods; alignboring 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 pro-

viding they contain an appropriate de-

scription of each service listed.

• • •

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 Supple-

mentary 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 underthe terms of Directive No. 1. The ex-

emptions apply to the Army, Navy, cer-

tain other Government agencies, andexporters.

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 conver-

sions are unwise.

Henderson opposes rise in passenger

coach fares by railroads in South

Application asking the Interstate

Commerce Commission to suspend a pro-

posed 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 trans-

portation and public utilities division.

Would affect war workers

The application asserted that the bur-

den of the higher fare would be borne

largely by war workers, commercial trav-

elers, army camp visitors, and others nowdependent on railroad travel because of

gasoline and tire rationing. It asked the

Commission to order a hearing requiring

the southern railroads to justify the in-

crease, which would become effective on

October 1, should the Commission finally

grant the higher rate sought by the rail-

roads.

Exhibits attached to the application

show that southern carriers enjoyed an

85 percent Increase in passenger rev-

enues, 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 to license all dealers

in used machine tools

Automatic licensing of all dealers sell-

ing used machine tools or extras, or sec-

ond-hand machines or parts, was an-

nounced September 21 by the OPA.Supplementary Order No. 20, effective

September 26, 1942, also requires every

second-hand machine tool or second-

hand machinery dealer to register with

the OPA, Washington, D. C, on or be-

fore November 2, 1942, by filling out

OPA Form No. SO20:3. This form is

obtainable at the Washington office of

OPA or at any OPA regional State or

district office.

Dealer may lose license

A dealer's license may be suspended

if he violates any provision of Supple-

mentary Order No. 20 or any price sched-

ule or regulation covering such machine

tools and machinery. The dealer there-

upon loses his privilege to do business.

Supplementary Order No. 20 does not

apply to retail sales of second-hand

machine tools or extras, or second-hand

machines or parts.

• * *

Ceiling set on "Bubblfil"

The OPA September 23 authorized a

ceiling price of $1.25 a pound for "Bubbl-

fil," a rayon yarn newly developed by

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 for

sale in March 1942, base date under the

general maximum price regulation.

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, OPAsaid.

The new provisions will permit move-

ment 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 amend-

ment 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.

* • •

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 Marchlevels constitute a violation of prescribed

ceilings.

Z4 • VICTORY • September 29, 1942

OPA announces method for

adjusting ceiling prices of

woolen and worsted fabrics

Means by which jobbers of woolen andworsted apparel fabrics, who also origi-

nate their own designs, may seek adjust-

ments of ceiling prices were announcedSeptember 25 by the OPA.Under Maximum Price Regulation No.

163—Woolen and Worsted Civilian Ap-parel Fabrics—markups are set forth

which jobbers may apply to costs in de-

termining maximum prices on their sales

of fabrics. These markups, in the formof "division factors," take into considera-

tion only ordinary selling expenses of

jobbers.

The Amendment No. 6 establishes a

method of granting adjustments whenthese regular jobber markups are not suf-

ficient to provide for additional costs in-

curred by jobbers in connection with the

manufacture, styling or designing of ex-

clusive fabrics which they have origi-

nated. In some respects, such operators

may be regarded as performing the func-

tions of mills rather than the services

of ordinary jobbers.

Jobbers may appeal

Jobbers who suffer substantial hard-

ships by reason of such additional ex-

penses are authorized to file petitions for

adjustment In accordance with Pro-cedural Regulation No. 1.

• • •

Kincaid named chief of

WPB hosiery unit

Appointment of Carl S. Kincaid as

chief of the hosiery unit was announcedSeptember 22 by Prank L. Walton, dep-uty 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. Kincaidsucceeds James D. Maver, who recently

resigned to return to private business.

• • •

Clothing manufacturers'

deadline postponed

A further postponement until OctoDer25, 1942, of the deadline for filing reports

under Maximum Price Regulation No.177 required of manufacturers and whole-salers of men's and boys' tailored cloth-

ing was announced September 21 by theOPA.

Changes made in WPBclothing branch

Two changes in the personnel of the

textile, clothing, and leather branch of

WPB were announced September 21 byFrank L. Walton, deputy chief of the

branch.

E. H. Scull, who has been chief of theclothing section since June, has been ap-pointed 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. Scullas chief of the clothing section. Mr. Mac-Donald has been chief of the women's andchildren's clothing section since July. HeIs on leave from the Higbe Co., of Cleve-land, where he is a merchandise manager.

• * •

Cloth for food processing and

agricultural use assured

An adequate supply of sheetings, flan-

nels, print cloth yarn fabrics, osnaburgcloth, and tobacco cloth is assured for

specified food and agricultural uses

through an order issued September 18 bythe WPB.

Essential uses include: packaging of

cheese; production of milk strainers andfilters; covering of tobacco seed beds andshade-grown tobacco; and manufactureof cotton picking sacks.

The order, M-218, assigns an A-2 rat-

ing to orders placed by dairy supply

manufacturers, textile converters, or

cloth merchants.

The order affects approximately 30

cotton mills, 20 dairy supply manufac-turers and 50 distributors of cloth for ag-

ricultural and food processing use. About112,000,000 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 Governmentagencies. Orders placed by the Army,Navy, and the Government agencies maybe 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 sup-

ply of sheetings, flannels, or print cloth

yarn fabrics.

Effective immediately, a cloth mer-chant may carry an Inventory suflBcient

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 reducied

to protect consumers

Reductions in manufacturers' ceiling

prices for carded cotton sales yarns, base

material for all of the more commongrades 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 thatprices provided by the carded yarn price

schedule—No. 33—are too high in rela-

tion to the prices established for combedyarns and for other cotton goods, maxi-mum prices for carded yarn numbers of

20s and coarser have been cut from l"/40

to lyî per pound for singles and lVi0to 4fi for plied yarns. Schedule No. 33has been completely rewritten and is nowreissued as Maximum Price RegulationNo. 33—Carded Cotton Yarns and theProcessing Thereof. It took effect Sep-tember 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 con-formance" with the Section 3 agricul-

tural provisions of the Emergency Price

Control Act of 1942 guaranteeing farmersa 110 percent of parity return of other

specified levels before price ceilings maybe imposed.

• * •

Ceiling prices set for woolen

products from South America

In furtherance of the "Good NeighborPolicy," Price Administrator Henderson,

September 21, set a ceiling on certain

South American manufactured woolenblankets 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 mark-up over actual cost "sufBcient to provide

for its selling operations."

THANKS TO the Russians, the crack

Nazi Hermann Goering Brigade nowmust advertise for recruits.

September 29, 1942 • VICTORY • 2S

WPB amends order governing

ratings on officers' uniforms

Certain additions and clarifications to

Order P-131 which sets up priority as-

sistance to manufacturers of oflBcers

uniforms, including those for the Armyand Navy, were made September 2J in

an amended order issued by the WPB.The amended order included the follow-

ing Important changes and clarifica-

tions:

1. The rating assigned under the ordermay be used to secure cotton, wool, syntheticfabrics, thread, buttons, including detach-able buttons if sold with the uniform, andother material actually a part of the uni-form.

2. Definitions of officers uniforms are madespecific.

3. Only custom or merchant tailors will

be granted ratings for purchase of woolcloth over thirteen ounces in weight peryard in the fifty-six inch width. This ap-plies to Army and Navy uniforms and also

to tropical worsted for Army uniforms.4. The order revokes ratings for all un-

filled orders where delivery would be con-trary to restrictions of the amended regu-lation.

5. Distributors are affected by theamended order as follows:

They are no longer limited in their pur-chases to producers with whom they hadpreviously done business. They can pur-chase from any producer if they had beendistributors prior to June 8.

After December 31. authorization certifi-

cates from the Army Exchange Service are

required for shipment of ready-to-wear uni-forms in the thirteen-ounce wool cloth orover. The same provision applies to ready-to-wear Navy ofScers uniforms.

6. Tlie applications and appeal clause ofthe order has been revised. The Army andNavy must now pass on all applications for

,

materials and also on appeals from provisionsof the order.

7. Material graded as seconds or rejects byany Government agency cannot be used tomanufacture officers uniforms except by acustom or merchant tailor.

• • •

WPB defines insurance rates

for wool and wool tops

War risk insurance rates used in ad-

justing maximum prices for wool andwool tops must not exceed the low rates

offered by the War Shipping Administra-

tion, the OPA ruled September 24 as ameans of passing on to consu .lers the full

benefits in saving on-war risk insurance.

Tlie new Amendment No. 8 to RevisedPrice Schedule 53 (Wool and Wool Tops andYarns) recognizes that Insurance coverage bythe War Shipping Administration available toall importers under open policies is at rateswhich are below the rates of commercial com-panies. With certain exceptions, the adjust-ments to the official rates are applicable onlyto shipments of wool which are evidenced byocean bills of lading or similar documentsdated on or later than September 30, 1942,the effective date of this amendment.

WPA to patch tank driver^s pantsWPA will patch the pants of the man

In the driver's seat of the tank.

The military importance of this is in-

dicated by statistics which show that in

a single day in a tank the sturdiest trou-ser-seats the Army has been able to

procure take a terrific beating. Onlysomewhat less heavy are casualties in

trouser-seats of men in the jeeps.

WPA will meet this situation by under-taking the reclamation of Army clothing

and equipage on a Nation-wide basis in

each of the nine Service Command Areasthroughout the country, it was an-nounced September 18 by Brig. Gen.

Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Ad-ministrator and Acting Commissioner of

Work Projects.

General Fleming pointed out that in

addition to the direct service to the Armyand the important savings, the WPAclothing projects will enable thousandsof women WPA workers, barred by ageor other handicaps from war industries,

to help materially in the war effort.

In addition to reclaiming Army cloth-

ing, the WPA projects will reclaim otheritems, such as barrack and field bags,

blankets, comforters, haversacks andmattress covers.

Ceiling formula for cotton bale WPB approves hemp

bagging sales established production program

Cotton oil mills may establish maxi-mum prices for sales of cotton bale bag-ging to cotton ginners by adding to spe-

cific replacement costs and freight

charges the customary markup of 5

cents per pattern complete with ties andof 4 cents per pattern without ties, the

OPA announced September 23.

Will not affect cotton farmer

The new action is taken throughAmendment No. 32 to SupplementaryRegulation 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 March1942, the base period of the general maxi-mum price regulation. Moreover, nocomparable commodity is sold by cotton

oil mills and they were, therefore, gen-erally unable to determine maximumprices 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 fur-

nished in connection with ginning. TheSeptember 23 amendment, therefore, will

have no effect upon prices paid by the

cotton farmer. Neither does the amend-ment apply to resales of cotton ties alone,

such sales being regulated by Revised

Price Schedule No. 49 (Resale of Iron

and Steel Products)

.

ONE REASON we need lead: The gunsof a pursuit plane vomit bullets at the

rate of 300 pounds per minute.

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 man-ufacture of rope and twine. This step

further carries out a program for pro-

duction of domestic hemp started almost

a year ago.

Commodity credit to have full authority

The amendment provides that all pur-chasers of hemp seed must now place

their orders directly with the CommodityCredit Corporation. Each order must be

accompanied by a statement from a De-partment 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 thatpersons holding two or more bushels of

the seed on September 22 must file byOctober 2 a report of their inventory withthe OflBce for Agricultural War Rela-

tions, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, D. C.

One mill for each 4,000 acres

The 71 mills to be built under a Gov-ernment financed program will be placed

adjacent to planting areas to assure im-mediate 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.


Davis orders 523 Federal publications

discontinued or curtailed for duration

to clear cheuinels for war information

Moving to clear channels for war in-

formation, Elmer Davis, director of the

OfiBce of War Information, issued Sep-

tember 25 the first of a series of orders

cutting down Government publications

and mailing lists.

The order, wliich becomes OWI Regu-

lation Number Three, affects 523 Fed-

eral publications and series of publica-

tions; it makes mandatory for the dura-

tion of the war the recent elimination

of 239 items and the curtailment of 284.

The regulation provides machinery to

make further cuts.

Committee to study further cuts

The regulation is divided into four

parts.

The first makes binding for the dura-

tion of the war all discontinuance and

curtailment of publications and other

Informational materials made by any

Federal department or agency between

July 1, 1941, and September 25, 1942.

The second cart establishes an Inter-

Agency Publications Committee to rec-

ommend by November 1 further discon-

tinuances, 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." Depart-

ments and agencies are called upon to

notify persons of this action. Agencies

are permitted to form selective lists based

on requests for specific publications.

The fourth part prohibits the sending

of Government releases by telegraph to

newspapers, radio stations, or any other

news media without permission of the

OWI except at the request and expense of

the receiver.

Agencies made reductions up to 40%For some time the OWI, with the co-

operation of other Federal agencies, has

been studying the flow of governmental

releases. During this study, many agen-

cies voluntarily abolished many publica-

tions not bearing directly upon the war.

Cuts 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 from34 to 17; Journal of Agriculttiral Research,pages cut from 192 to 96; Yearbook of Agri-

culture, discontinued; Farm Handbooks, dis-

continued; Farmers' Bulletins Lists, distri-

bution cut one-third.

Farm Security Administration.—Annual Re-port of Administrator, discontinued in printedform.

Rural Electrification Administration.—Rural Electrification News, pages cut from32 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, discon-tinued; Planning for Farm Plumbing, dis-

continued.

Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and En-gineering.—^Monthly News Letter, discontin-

ued; Naval Stores Report, distribution cutfrom 5,000 to 2.000; Annual Report of Chiefof Bureau, number of pages cut one-half.

Extension Service.—Extension MarketingNews, discontinued; Extension Pathologist,

discontinued; Extension Entomologist, dis-

continued; Extension Forester, discontinued;Visual Aids Tip Sheet, pages cut from 8 to 2;

Extension Poultry Husbandman, discontin-ued; Extension Animal Husbandman, discon-tinued; Recreational News Letter, discontin-

ued; List of References on Home-EconomicsLiterature, discontinued; Letter to 4-H ClubLeaders, discontinued; Extension Service Re-view, 4 pages of cover cut—distribution cutby 500.

Bureau of Animal Industry.—Index-Cata-logues of Medical and Veterinary Zoology,

discontinued; State Sanitary RequirementsGoverning Admission of Livestock (Misc. 14),

revision postponed; Three Technical Bulle-

tins, distribution cut from 9,000 to 8,500;

Journal of Agricultural Research Separates,

distribution cut from 2,900 to 2,475; Reportof Chief of the BAI, number of pages cut in

half—distribution cut from 3,500 to 3,250.

Bureau of Dairy Industry.—DHIA Letter,

pages cut from 26 to 9; List of Sires Proved in

Dairy Herd Improvement Associations, pagesreduced from 158 to 140; Report of Chief of

BDI, pages cut from 52 to 26.

Agricultural Adjustment Agency.—Briefly

Speaking, discontinued; AAA InformationDigest, discontinued; Statement of Expendi-tures, discontinued; East Central Flashes,

discontinued; Northeast Facts for Commit-teemen, discontinued; Farm Defense News,discontinued; Annual Report, The Land,number of pages cut in half; Four Separates

to Annual Report, discontinued.

Bitreau of Entomology and Plant Quaran-tine.—B of E and P Q News Letter dis-

continued; Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, dis-

continued; Entomology Current Literature,

discontinued.

Bureau of Plant Industry.—Cereal Courier,

discontinued; Cotton Division News, discon-

tinued; Weekly Station Report of Division of

Dry Land Agriculture, discontinued; ForageCrop Gazette, discontinued; iSoil Survey NewsNotes, discontinued; News Letter of Division

of Irrigation Agriculture, discontinued; NewsLetter of Division of Fruits and Vegetables,

discontinued; Annual Report of Chief of

BPI, pages cut one-half; Six Technical Bulle-

tins, postponed; Three Popular Bulletins,

postponed.

Bureau of Home Economics.—Ânnual Re-port, pages cut In ball.

VICTORY unaffected

by Davis* order

VICTORY is not aflfecled by OWI Direc-

tor Davis' order of September 25, wbicb

makes mandatorr for the duration the

elimination or curtailment of 523 Govern-

ment 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 activi-

ties relating to the war.

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.—FCIC News Letter discontinued; Cotton NewsLetter, discontinued.

Agricultural Marketing Administration.—AMA News, discontinued; AMA BulletinBoard, discontinued; AMA Staff Reporter, dis-

continued; Supplements to Directory of FieldOfBce. discontinued; Directory of Market NewsBroadcasts, discontinued; Consumers' Guide,issuance cut from 20 to 12 times a year; dis-

tribution cut from 150,000 to 147,000; Con-sumer Notes, discontinued; Consumer's Mar-ket, discontinued; Distribution of Foods un-der the Domestic Distribution Program, dis-

continued; Grain Inspector's Letter, discon-tinued; Trade-in Wool Top Futures, discon-tinued; Trade-in Cotton Futures, discontin-ued; Dockets on Cases under Packers andStockyards Act, discontinued.

Forest Service.—Fire Control Notes, discon-tinued; Forest Service Bulletin, discontinued;Planting Quarterly, discontinued; Construc-tion Hints, discontinued; State and PrivateForestry Review, discontinued; CommunityForests, discontinued; Annual Report of Chiefof Forest Service, pages cut; Bi-Monthly Re-search Report, discontinued; Research Re-ports, Statistical, distribution cut from 5,000

to 3,500; Research Reports, Semi-Technical,distribution cut from 7,000 to 3,500; Na-tional Forest Resources, with Emphasis onRecreational Use and Fire Prevention, dis-

tribution 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 from32 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; Agricul-

ture In the Americas, distribution cut from10,000 to 7,500; Foreign Crops and Markets,changed from weekly to monthly—distribu-

tion cut from 2,825 to 2,475; Foreign Cropsand Markets (weekly) , distribution cut from2,825 to 185.

Bureau of Agricultural Ecmiomics,—Înside

BAE, discontinued; Farm Population andRural Life Activities, discontinued; Agricul-

tural Situation in Relation to Banking, dis-

continued; The Wool Situation, discontin-

ued; The Livestock Situation, combined In

The Livestock and Wool Situation; Agricul-

tural Economics Literature, discontinued;

Farm Retail Price Spreads, discontinued;

Dairy Production, discontinued; Poultry andEgg Production, discontinued; Annual Live-

stock Prices, discontinued; Prospective SeedSales, discontinued: Soy Bean Price andMovement, discontinued: Cow Pea Pi-ice andMovement, discontinued; Disposition of

Seeds, discontinued; Grain Storage Capacity,

(Jisoontinued; Agrlcultm'al Finance Review,

changed from semiannual to annual; TheFruit Situation, changed from monthly to

quarterly; The Wheat Situation, changed to

bimonthly except during planting and har-

vesting—^pages cut from 20 to 14—distribu-

tion cut by 700; The Vegetable Situation,

changed to quarterly from monthly—pages

cut from 28 to 26—distribution cut by 700;


Tbe Fats and Oils Situation, distribution cut

by 365; The Dairy Situation, distrtbutlbn

cut by 1,350; The Demand and Price Situa-

tion, pages cut from 24 to 18—distribution

cut by 1,500; The Poultry and Egg Situation,

pages cut from 20 to 16—distribution cut by1,400; The Farm Income Situation, distribu-

tion out by 750; The Peed Situation, pagescut from 20 to 18—distribution cut by 670.

Also I The Cotton Situation, pages cut from21 to 13—distribution cut by 600; TheTobacco Situation, pages cut from 38 to 28

—

distribution cut by 950; Land Policy Review,changed to quarterly from monthly—dis-

tribution cut from 11,000 to 6,000; Crops andMarkets, changed from monthly to quarterly;

Agricultural Situation (printed) distribution

cut by 1,600; Agricultural Situation (Sepa-rate), distribution cut by 26.000; AgriculturalPrices, pages cut from 36 to 24—distributioncut by 1,800; General Crop Report, pages cutfrom 34 to 20—distribution cut by 2.300; Cot-ton Report, distribution cut by 550; AnnualSummary, General, pages cut from 96 to 60

—

distribution cut by 2,850; Annual Summary,Cotton, pages cut from 10 to 6—distributioncut by 550; Annual Summary, Truck, pagescut from 82 to 50—distribution cut by 350;Annual Summary, Price, pages cut from 42 to24; Honey Production, pages reduced from 4to 2—distribution cut by 700; Farm Disposi-tion of Crops, pages cut from 100 to 58—dis-

tribution cut by 500; Livestock on Farms,pages cut from 24 to 16—distribution cut by100; Livestock by Classes, pages cut from 30to 6—dlstrlbtuion 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 cutby 100; Liquid and Dried Egg Production,distribution cut by 200; Cattle on Feed, dis-tribution cut by 750; Sheep and Lambs onFeed, distribution cut by 750; Pig Crop Re-port, pages cut from 6 to 4—distribution cutby 1,200; Lamb Crop Report, pages reducedfrom 4 to 2—distribution cut by 1,200; TurkeyPi'oduction, pages cut from 4 to 2—distribu-tion cut by 1,850; Wool Production, distribu-tion cut by 750; Wheat Stocks in Mills andElevators, distribution cut by 1,000; PeanutStocks and Processing, pages cut from 2 to 1;

Fluid Milk, distribution cut by 150; Dry MilkProduction, discontinued; Evaporated andCondensed Milk Production Combined withDry Milk Production, combined pages cut to2—^Distribution cut 1,800; Fresh MarketCrops, pages cut from 16 to 8—distribtuioncut by 300.

Also: Condition Market Crops, pages cut, from 3 to 2—distribution cut by 1,100; Proc-essing Crops, pages cut from 8 to 7; TruckCrop News, pages cut from 10 to 9—distribu-tion cut by 1.500; Potato Stocks, pages cutfrom 6 to 4—distribution cut by 6,400; FruitProspects, pages cut from 11 to 8—distributioncut by 800; Farm Disposition and Income

—

Milk, pages cut from 102 to 14—distributioncut to 1,000 from 3,300; Farm Disposition andIncome—Chickens, pages reduced from 23to 2—distribution cut by 500; Farm Dispo-sition and Income—Turkeys, pages cut from16 to 2—distribution cut by 500; Farm Dispo-sition and Income—Meat Animals, pages cutfrom 28 to 20—distribution cut by 900; FarmProduction and Value of Livestock Products,pages cut from 14 to 8; Farm Labor Report,pages cut from 13 to 10—distribution'cut by1,300; Seed Prices, Movements, Shipments andForecasts, distribution cut by 1,100; MonthlyCreamery Butter and American Cheese, pagescut from 6 to 4; Weekly Cheese Receipts andStocks, distribution cut by 200; Weekly CheeseProduction, distribution cut by 300; WeeklyButter Production, distribution cut by 500;Land Economics, 17 reports postponed; Stateand County Planning, discontinued; Market-ing and Transportation Research, 3 publica-tions postponed; Division Annual Reports,discontinued.

Agricultiiral Research Administration Office

of Experiment Stations.—Report on the Agri-

cultural Experiment Stations, pages cut from

Drawn for OSUt of Waf Information

KID SALVAGEi^-/rs

KID SALVAGE, a character drawn by Steig espe-

cially for OWl, appears in VICTORY each week.

Mats, in two-column size, are available (or

publication. Requests to be pat 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.

272 to 164—distribution cut by 200; Reportof the Puerto Rico Experiment Station, pagescut from 103 to 52—distribution cut by 750;

Report of the Puerto Rico Experiment Sta-tion (Spanish editibn), pages cut from 136to 68—distribution cut by 250; Report of

Chief of Office of Experiment Stations, pagescut from 26 to 13; Experiment Station Record,distribution cut by 200.

U. S. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

Annual Report, discontinued; News, dis-

continued; American Legion Bulletin, discon-tinued.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Division of Current Information.—News re-

leases pertaining to' foreign trade of UnitedStates averaging about 15 a month, distribu-

tion cut from 4.500 to 100; News releases per-

taining to domestic economy of United States,

averaging about twelve were issued each week,discontinued; World Economic Notes, re-

duced number of issues from six each weekto three each week; Fillers, changed from i.

weekly to a monthly Issue.

Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce.—Department Store Collections & Accounts Re-ceivable, discontinued; Jewelry Store Credit,

discontinued; General Merchandise Sales.

Rtiral, discontinued; General MerchandiseSales, By Regions, discontinued; Monthly In-

dustry Survey, distribution cut from 3.800 to

1,600; Chain Men's Wear Stores—Sales andInventories, discontinued; Total Retail Sales,

distribution cut from 350 to 100; InstallmentLoaps to Consumers—Personal Finance Com-panies, discontinued; Installment Loans to

Consumers—Industrial Banking Cos., discon-

tinued; Installment Loans to Consumers

—

Credit Unions, discontinued; New AutomobileFinancing, discontinued; Furniture StoreCredit, discontinued; Household ApplianceStore Credit, discontinued; Variety Store Salesand Inventories, discontinued; Chain ShoeStores Sales and Inventories, discontinued;Chain Grocery Stores Sales and Inventories,discontinued;Chain Drug Stores Sales and In-ventories, discontinued; Inventories In thehands of Manufacturers, discontinued; Indexof Shipments of Construction Materials, dis-

continued; 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. Food-stuffs, distribution cut from 1,254 to 100;

Part 4. Forest Products, distribution cut from919 to 50; Part 5. Leather and Its Products,

distribution cut from 757 to 50; Part 6. Ma-chinery and Equipment, distribution cutfrom 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 Productsand Equipment, distribution cut from 670 to

50; Part 10. Rubber and Its Products, distri-

bution cut from 892 to 100; Part 11. Stone,

Clay, and Glass Products, distribution cut

from 626 to 50; Part 12. Textiles and RelatedProducts, distribution cut from 815 to 50;

Part 13. Tobacco and Its Products, distribu-

tion 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 Refer-

ence Service, distribution cut from 1,200 to

200.

National Bureau of Standards.—Bulletin

on Current Hydraulic Laboratory Research,discontinued.

V. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.—U. S.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Bulletin, discon-

tinued.

weather Bureau.—Annual Publication of

Dally River Stages, changed from yearly to

biennial; Bulletin W—Climatology, discon-

tinued; Dally Weather Map, Washington.D. C, cinrtailed from issue of 1,500 daily to

1,000 dally; Daily Weather Map (Field sta-

tions) ,discontinued; Pilot Training Map, dis-

tribution cut from 1,600 to 1,100; United

States Meteorological Yearbook, discontin-

ued; Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin,

Washington, D. C. distribution cut from5,500 to 4.950.

Civil Aeronautics Administration.—Civil

Aeronautics Journal, publication cut fromtwice a month to monthly; Weekly Notice to

Airmen, distribution cut from 12,500 to

12,200; Air Navigation Radio Aids, distribu-

tion cut from 16.120 to 10,900; Manual of

Operations, distribution cut from 2,500 to

2,300; Press Releases, distribution cut from648 to 250; Speeches (Reprint), discontinued;

Airway Mileage Chart, distribution cut from3,000 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 Airworth-

iness, 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, distri-

bution 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 from6,750 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, dis-

tribution cut from 1.523 to 674; Quarterly

Wool Report, discontinued; Cotton, Leather

and Allied Garments, distribution cut from1,690 to 1,393; Boots, Shoes, and Slippers,

(Contintied cm page 28)


List of publications cut or discontinued

(.Continued from page 17)

other than Rubber, distribution cut from2,193 to 764; Domestic Pumps, Water Systemsand Windmills, distribution cut from 663 to534; Red-cedar Shingles, distribution cut from1,703 to 960; Warm Air Furnaces, Winter AirConditioning Units, and Accessory Equip-ment, distribution cut from 719 to 584; Elec-trical Goods, distribution cut from 864 to 749;Lumt>er, Lath, and Shingles, discontinued;Cotton Spinning—Number and Activity ofSpindles, distribution cut from 575 to 475;Consumption of Cotton by Classes of ProductsManufactured, discontinued; Imports and Ex-ports of Cottonseed Products, discontinued.

Also: Linseed Oil—^Production and Stocks,discontinued; Cotton—Supply and Distribu-tion of Domestic and Foreign Cotton In theU. S., distribution cut from 600 to 475; Cot-ton—Ginning and Production by Counties,discontinued; Cottonseed Products—Mill run,1st cut and 2nd cut linters, discontinued;Fats and OUs—Animal and Vegetable Factoryconsumption of primary fats, oils by classesor products in which used, discontinued;Weekly Mortality Index, distribution cut from4,293 to 2,334; Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths,distribution but from 3,358 to 2,134; MonthlyVital Statistics Bulletin, distribution cut from2,638 to 764: Summary of Motor Vehicle Ac-cident Deaths, distribution cut from 2,545to 300; Cities over 25,000, distribution cutfrom 3,248 to 1,904; Counties over 50,000, dis-

tribution cut from 2.398 to 1,578; FinancialStatistics of States—Summary Bulletin, dis-continued; Financial Statistics of Cities-Summary Bulletin, discontinued.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

Annual Report, distribution cut 1,300; FCCReports, distribution cut from 200 to 150;Statistics of the Communications Industry,distribution cut from 555 to 171; PermanentCalendar, distribution cut from 825 to 335;Orders on decisions, distribution cut from575 to 25; Proposed Findings, distribution cutfrom 575 to 25; Orders instituting investiga-tions and inquiries, dlstribtulon cut from 575to 25; ABC of the FCC, discontinued; Radio, APublic Primer, discontinued; Salary Report ofTelephone and Telegraph Carriers, distribu-tion cut from 450 to 125; From the Mail Bag,discontinued; Broadcast Actions, distributioncut from 1,855 to 1,805; Telephone and Tele-graph Actions, distribution cut from 1,275 to1,200; Actions Taken in Motions Hearing, dis-tribution cut from 535 to 450; Announce-ments in Docket Cases, distribution cut from1,075 to 250; Weekly Analysis, discontinued.

List of standard radio broadcast stationsby: 1. Alphabetically, distribution cut from3,550 to 500; 2. Frequency, distribution cutfrom 1,025 to 500: 3. State and City, distribu-tion cut from 1,625 to 500.Report of applications received for broad-

cast services, distribution cut from 1,610 to1,535.

Lists of broadcast stations: Relay, distribu-tion cut from 800 to 50; FM, discontinued;High Frequency, discontinued; Television(Commercial), discontinued (Experimental),discontinued; Developmental, discontinued;Facsimile, discontinued; International, dis-continued; Class II Experimental, discon-tinued; Non-commercial Educational, dis-continued; ST, discontinued.Radio Service Bulletin: 1. Confidential, dis-

tribution cut from 650 to 325.

List of stations other than broadcast: 1.

Call letter, 2. Frequency, 3. Service, distribu-tion cut from 2,200 to 1,000; Report of tele-phone and telegraph applications received,discontinued public distribution; Action onRules and Regulations, distribution cut from1,235 to 1,135.

FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

Social Security Board.—Old-Age & SurvivorsInsurance Revievf of Operations, discontin-

ued; Employer's Estimates of Labor Needs InSelected Defense Industries, discontinued;Labor Supply Available at Public Employ-ment OfBces in Selected Defense Occupations,discontinued; Research and Statistics Ex-change Bulletin—Employment Security, dis-

continued; Farm Labor Market Conditions,discontinued; Volume and Disposition of Newand Reopened Claims for UnemploymentCompensation, discontinued; Advance Tables—Public Assistance, distribution cut from1,090 to 520—pages cut from 8 to 6; Applica-tions and Cases—Public, distribution cutfrom 300 to 250—pages cut from 8 to 6;

Source of Funds Expended for Public Assist-ance, distribution cut from 700 to 500—pagescut from 8 to 6; Comparative AdministrativeCosts of Public Assistance in 14 large cities,

distribution cut from 300 to 250—pages cutfrom 8 to 6; Social Security Bulletin, distribu-tion cut from 3,000 to 2,700—^pages cut from95 to 88; Social Security Yearbook, distribu-tion cut from 3,000 to 2,500—pages cut from370 to 290; Technical Publications Digest, dis-tribution cut from 1,650 to 1,400—pages cutfrom 7 to 4; Daily Press Digest, distributioncut from 1,350 to 900—pages cut from 8 to 5;

Press Digest, Weekly Summary, dlstribtition

cut from 1,350 to 500—pages cut from 4 to 2;

Vocational Ti'aining Activities of Public Em-ployment Offices, discontinued; Duration ofBenefit Pa3rments—Unemployment Compen-sation, discontinued; Experience Rating—Un-employment Compensation, discontinued;Reprints from Social Security Yearbook Em-ployment Security Section Old-Age & Sur-vivors Ins., discontinued.

Also: Number of Subject Employers andDelinquency of A''age Contribution Reportsand Payments, changed from quarterly toannual; Volume and Disposition of Ap-pealed Unemployment Compensation Cases,changed from quarterly to annual; TimeLapse in Payment of Unemployment Com-pensation Benefits, changed from quarterlyto semiannual; Summary o£ Employment Se-curity Activities, discontinued; Public Assist-ance Research Memorandum #4, discontin-ued; Annual Report of the Social SecurityBoard, 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 Cus-

todian, announced September 24 the sei-

zure by his office of the American copy-

rights covering Hitler's Mein Kampf and

of royalty contracts and license agree-

ments governing American publication of

the volume.

Reynal and Hitchcock, American pub-

lishers of Mein Kampf, estimated re-

cently 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 pay-

ment, made on September 1, 1939. These

royalties, together with those from fu-

ture sales, will accrue to the credit of the

Alien Property Custodian.

of Covered Workers State UnemploymentCompensation Systems, discontinued; Em-ployment and Wages of Covered Workers Old-Age and Survivors Ins., discontinued; Certifi-cation of Disability In Social Insurance, dis-continued; Unemployment CompensationRights of Workers Employed In more thanOne State—Bureau Memo #11, discontinued;

'

Yearbook Announcement, discontinued; Pre-print of Public Assistance Section of SocialSecurity Yearbook, distribution cut from6,000 to 2,800.

V. S. Public Health Service.—^Negro HealthNews, pages cut from 60 to 44; Hospital News,pages cut from 24 to 13; Annual Report ofthe Surgeon General, discontinued.

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Monthly Summary of Work, distributioncut from 6,400 to 5,400; Library Bulletin, dis-continued; Duties and Procedure of FederalTrade Commission, discontinued; Press Re-leases of Commission, distribution cut from2,500 to 800; Annual Report, distribution cutfrom 5,000 to 3,500; Rules, Policy, and Acts,distribution cut from 5,000 to 3,000; Corpora-tion Reports on 76 Industries and one Sum-mary, distribution cut from 1,000 to 26.

FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY

Defense Housing Construction Bulletin, dis-continued; Annual Report of Federal WorksAdministrator, number of pages and distri-

bution cut; WPA Statistical Bulletin, distri-

bution cut from 300 to 225; Report on Prog-ress of the WPA Program, distribution cutfrom 15,000 to 8,000; The defense bulletin is-

sued by the WPA Division of Information,discontinued; Public Roads, changed frommonthly to quarterly; PBA Work Bulletin, dis-

continued; Defense Housing 1941, discon-tinued; FWA Builds for Victory, discontin-ued; Guide to FWA Housing Projects in theDistrict of Columbia, discontinued; Guide to

FWA Housing Projects in and near Pittsburgh,discontinued; Social Problems Series, discon-tinued; Special Reports Series, discontinued;The State Information Offices of WPA in 35States (press releases, radio script, exhibits),

discontinued; The Periodicals Section, 200copies of 30 stories (to trade and engineeringpress), reduced to about 50 copies of 15

stories; Federal Work and Construction, dis-

continued; Federal Work Programs and Pub-lic Assistance, discontinued; Monthly Reportof Unemployment, discontinued; ResearchMonographs, discontinued; Defense HousingSurvey Reports, series discontinued; DefenseMigration Reports, series discontinued.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

Division of Information.—Current Conser-vation, discontinued.

Division of Personnel Supervision andManagement.—Personnel Bulletin, distribu-

tion cut from 3,340 to 1,765—changed frombimonthly to quarterly.Bureau of Reclamation.—Reclamation Era,

discontinued; Project information booklets(Boise, Riverton), discontinued; PopularIllustrated 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 BituminousCoal Act of 1937, as amended, distribution cutfrom 4,696,578 to 3,332,899; Tidewater Load-ing, discontinued; Tidewater Loadings byPorts and Destinations, discontinued; WeeklyCoal Report, distribution cut from 2,372 to

1,659; Distribution of Coal Shipments, dis-

tribution cut from 969 -to 687; PreliminaryEstimates of Production of Bituminous Coal(PCT), distribution cut from 332 to 235;

Bituminous Coal Tables, discontinued;Chapter on Bituminous Coal for MineralsYearbook, discontinued.

Division of Territories and Island Posses-sions.—Înformation relative to the Disposal

•nd Leasing of Public Lands in Alaska, dis-


tribution cut from 2,000 to 1,000; The Prob-lem 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 from2,000 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; Interna-

tional Coal Trade, distribution cut from 1,100

to 100; International Petroleum Trade, dis-

tribution cut from 1,250 to 100; Crude Re-finery Report, distribution cut from 4,035 to

100; Manganese Report, discontinued; Mer-cury Report, discontinued; Slab Zinc Report,discontinued; Copper Report, discontinued;

Zinc Report, discontinued; Molybdenum Re-port, discontinued; Lead Report, discontin-

ued; Foreign Minerals Quarterly, discontin-

ued; Motor-gasoline Survey, discontinued;Petroleum refineries including crockingplants in U. S., discontinued.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

Statistical Analysis of Carriers (rail)

Monthly Hours of Service Reports, distribu-

tion cut from 700 to 550^size of page reducedby one-half; Tabulation of Block Signal Sta-

tistics, distribution cut from 600 to 100

—

pages cut from 35 to several in summary;Annual Report of Director of Bureau of Lo-comotive Inspection, distribution cut from7,500 to 3,750—pages cut from 65 to 40; Acci-

dent Bulletin (rail), distribution cut from800 to 600; Graphic Supplement to MonthlyReports, discontinued; Reports and Ordersunder Part I of Act, number of reports re-

duced from 460 to 406—distribution cut from115,000 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—dis-

tribution cut from 2.400 to 680; Reports andOrders under Part II of Act—A., distribution

cut from 218,000 to 130.000; B.. number of

reports cut from 578 to 223—distribution cutfrom 179,180 to 69,130; Reports and Ordersunder Part III of Act, number of orders cutfrom 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, distribu-

tion cut from 171,600 to 135,700.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Uniform Crime Reports, reduced from quar-terly to semiannual; Annual Report of theAttorney General, discontinued in printedform; Justice Library Review, discontinued;Decisions of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,distributed every 3 weeks Instead of everyweek; Federal Offenders, distribution cut from3,000 to 1,600; Q & A on Alien Enemy ControlProgram, discontinued; Regulations Control-ling Travel of Alien Enemies, discontinued;Rules and Regulations, Foreign Agents Regis-tration Act, discontinued; Dept. of JusticeRegister, discontinued; U. S. vs. Harry Bridges,discontinued.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Monthly Labor Review, pages cut from 272to 225; The Woman Worker, discontinued;Labor Standards, discontinued; Labor Infor-mation Bulletin, merged with Labor Stand-ards and the Woman Worker—combined pagescut from 56 to 16; The Child, distributioncut from 8,675 to 7,425—pages cut from 28to 16; Chart Series, Labor Statistics, distribu-tion cut from 3,000 to 1,200; Employment andPayrolls, discontinued; Earnings and Hours(Monthly, printed), discontinued; Earningsand Hours (Annual), discontinued; RetailPrices (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 WPBChairman Donald M. Nelson fromRichard W. Slocum, chairman of the

newspapers scrap drive committee,

last week.

Favorable replies to Mr. Nelson's

appeal to the American press hadbeen received early in the week frommore than 1,400 daihes including the

largest in the country, and morewere coming in each day.

At a meeting in Washington, D. C,September 4, called by Mr. Nelson,

American's newspaper publishers ac-

cepted leadership in a concentrated

drive in their communities to bring

in additional tons of badly needed

scrap.

tail Prices (Monthly, mimeographed), distri-

bution cut from 115,800 to 70,000; WholesalePrices (Weekly, mimeo.) , distribution cutfrom 49,700 to 27,700; Wholesale Prices(Monthly, printed) , discontinued; Cost of Liv-ing (Monthly, mimeo.), distribution cut from121,000 to 69,000; Cost of Living (Monthly,printed), discontinued; Building Construc-tion, discontinued; Special Bulletins, distri-

bution cut from 78,000 to 20,500; Comparisonof Employment in Identical Establishments,discontinued; Trend of Employment, PeriodicPayroll, discontinued; Field Operations Bul-letin, changed from weekly to semimonthly;National Labor Conference, discontinued; Ad-ministrative and Technical Reports, pages cutfrom 120 to 32—distribution cut from 4,500to 3,500.

Also: Causes of Stillbirth, postponed; ChildLabor Regulation, No. 1. postponed; ChildWelfare Legislation in 1939 and 1940, post-poned; Child Welfare Services for Negro Chil-dren, postponed; Children born out of Wed-lock, Baltimore, postponed; CommunityWelfare Picture as Reflected in Health andWelfare Statistics in 34 Urban Areas, 1940,postponed; Employment of Out-of-SchoolMinors in 3 Cities, postponed; Factors Influ-encing the Birth Weight of Children. Balti-more, postponed; Pelves of Adolescent Chil-dren, New Haven, postponed; State Super-vision of Organizations and Homes Caringfor Children, postponed; An Urban Experi-ment in Child Welfare, postponed; SocialStatistics, September issue omitted—pub-lished in two 16-page supplements in 1942instead of four 20-page supplements; SocialStatistics Tables, monthly, changed to an-nual; Childhood Mortality, postponed;Hazards to Minors in Occupations InvolvingExposure to Benzol and Other IndustrialPoisons, postponed; New York Hospital Studyof Feeding of Premature Infants, postponed;Puerperal Fatality, postponed; Osseous De-velopment of Newborn White and NegroInfants, postponed.

U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION ANDWAR SHIPPING ADMINISTRATION

American Flag Services in Foreign Tradeand with United States Possessions, discon-tinued; Report on the Employment of Amer-ican 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; Member-ship, Drainage Basin Committee, reducedfrom semiannual to annual; Roster DrainageBasin Committee, discontinued; Minutes ofMeetings, Drainage Basin Committees, dis-continued; Defense Area Reports, discon-tinued; Report of meeting of Ohio DrainageBasin Committee "A" and other basins, dis-continued; Water Planning Reports, discon-tinued.

OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION

Consumer Prices, discontinued.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Diplomatic List, distribution cut from 2,000to 1.800; Department of State Bulletin, dis-tribution cut from 1,600 to 1,350; AmericanForeign Service, distribution cut from 12,500to 10.000; American Delegations to Interna-tional Conferences, etc., distribution cut from1,200 to 800; Treaties Submitted to the Sen-ate, distribution cut from 1,500 to 500;Treaties and Other International Acts of theUnited States of America, distribution cutfrom 2,000 to 1,000; Treaty Series, distributioncut from 1,900 to 1,000; Executive AgreementSeries, distribution cut from 1,400 to 1,000.

TARIFF COMMISSION

Annual Reports, discontinued: Economicsurveys of various commodities, discontinued.

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Bulletin of the Treasury Department, dis-tribution cut from 2.075 to 1,613; 26 pageseliminated; Prices and Yields of Public Mar-ketable Securities Issued by the United StatesGovernment and by Federal Agencies, distribu-tion cut from 1,000 to 400; Internal .RevenueNews Letter, discontinued: Statistics on Do-mestic Alcohol, discontinued: Doing BusinessWith the Procurement Division, discontin-ued; Schedule, discontinued; Special Bulletin,discontinued.

VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION

Text of addresses of Administrator, dis-tribution cut to 75 from 230; Press Resumeof Annual Report to Congress, distributioncut from 680 to 230.

WAR PRODUCTION BOARD

Priorities in Force, discontinued; Prioritiesin Force (supplement), discontinued.

WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY

Information Round-up, cut from daily to3-a-week.

• • •

OWI to broadcast to

troops in Alaska

In an effort to provide Americantroops in remote stations with the kindof contact they want with home, the

OWI announced September 23 that it

would purchase a minimum of 8 hours'

radio time daily beginning about Octo-

ber 1 to pipe news and special programsto service men in Alaska.

Commercial shows taken from the

three major radio networks also will be

transmitted.


HEALTH AND WELFARE . . .

Children's Bureau urges States to develop

programs for safety of children in wartimeKatharine P. Lenroot, chief of the

Children's Bureau of the U. S. Depart-

ment of Labor, September 24 called upon

every State to take prompt steps to de-

velop a program of safeguards for chil-

dren in wartime.

"The Federal Government stands ready

to participate in State and local plans

for the safety and well-being of chil-

dren," 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 devel-

oped by the Children's Bureau Commis-sion on Children in Wartime in consul-

tation with the Office of Civilian Defense

and the Office of Defense Health and Wel-fare 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 guardchildren from injury in danger zones; to

protect children from neglect, exploita-

tion, 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 DefenseCouncils copies of the program developed

by the Commission on Children in War-time and has suggested that this programserve as a guide to the committees of

State and local defense councils con-

cerned with children.

Miss Lenroot summarized the objec-

tives of the State program as

:

(1) Health service and medical and dentalcare for mothers and children, including boysand girls in the age groups which may soonbe called upon for war production or militaryservice, with special provision as needed forwives and children of service men:

(2) Adequate nourishing food for all chil-dren during the period of rising costs of liv-

ing and rationing of food supplies, throughsuch means as nutrition education, schoollunches and low-cost milk;

(3) Protection of children In danger zones.Including provision for their safety in theevent of enemy attack, measures for emer-gency care following attack, and preparationthrough ofBcially established evacuation au-thorities for evacuation and reception care if

necessary;

(4) Day care for children of mothers whoseemployment is essential to the war program;

(5) Special assistance as required to meetwartime needs of children in their own homes,and adjustment of public-assistance meas-ures to meet problems due to rise in cost ofliving, migration, and separation of families.

(6) Community child-welfare and othersocial services which will conserve home life

for children and safeguard them from neglectand Juvenile delinquency resulting from war-time conditions and provide appropriate carefor unmarried mothers and their children.

(7) Adequate provision for the care ofchildren who because of war conditions mustbe separated from their families.

(8) Opportunities for recreation and otherexperiences in home and community life

which will help children overcome wartimestrain and insecurity, and provision for men-tal-health services to help children andparents make the adjustments required bywar conditions.

(9) Full school attendance and school op-portunity for every child, with particular em-phasis on overcoming or compensating forshortages of schools and teachers, where theyexist, and with adjustments as necessary toconform with child labor and youth employ-ment policies.

(10) Meeting the manpower needs of theNation for participation of young people inwar production, having due regard for theconservation of health and educational op-portunity for youth and in accordance withthe following principles: no child under 14years of age a part of the hu-ed labor force;

none under 16 employed In manufacturingand mining occupations; none between 14 and16 employed in other occupations that involverelease from school or readjustment of schoolprograms unless it has been determined thatlabor shortages cannot be met otherwise, andguidance of youth 16 to 18 years of age whosework is essential to the war effort into occupa-tions stilted to their age and capacity Inwhich they can make the greatest contribu-tion with the least hazard to their health andsafety.

• * •

OWI pamphlet explains

absentee voting laws

Absentee voting and registration laws

of all States are summarized in a pam-phlet released September 18 by the OWI.With thousands of war workers absent

from their homes and several million menin the armed services, absentee voting

takes on gi'eatly increased importance

during wartimes, the OWI announced.

Federal legislation on absentee voting

recently passed by the Congress was ap-

proved by the President Wednesday, Sep-tember 16. This legislation applies only

to service men and only with regard to

candidates for Federal offices. The act

does not limit or restrict the right of a

service man to vote in accordance with

the laws of the State of his residence.

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 Ambassa-

dor Grew's statement and the reports of

Americans returned from Japan, the

Tokyo radio September 22 annoimced

an expanded propaganda program to

counter the American revelations.

Japanese-language broadcast re-

corded by the Federal Communications

Commission said that Vice-Chief Oku-

mura 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 Americansexchanged for Japanese nationals, the

Federal Communications Commissionmonitors noticed a pronounced shift in

the Tokyo broadcasts beamed to this

country.

Obviously intended both as an excuse

for the treatment of Am.erican 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 humanitarian-

ism ..."

While the Japanese propaganda ma-chine was trying to disclaim the atroci-

ties meted out to American prisoners.

Radio Tokyo broadcast a threatening

editorial from the Shanghai Times, stat-

ing, "The Anglo-American nationals in

Japan and occupied China should be

herded together and driven into interior

regions where there are no modernfacilities."

• • •

THESE CARTOONSdrawn by famous artists to help the war effort,

are available to cewspapers in two-column

mats. Write Distribution Section, Office of

War Information, Washington, D. C, specify-

ing whether you want individual panels or all

fonr each week.


" They met on the assembly line. It was love at first

bomb sight."

Drawn for O^ct of /Far Information

"Quit hanging around, will you, you make me nervous."

y-lti-Vtr

" Whattaya MEAN one little rubber golf tall wasn't

worth fighting about !"

Drawn for Office of War Information

Drawn for Ofict of War InformatioB, if-m- vu Drawn for Office of War Information

32 • ViaORY • September 29, 1942

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 commit-

tees 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 oS, and

only half this amount is now on hand.

For the last 5 months scrap stock piles

have been steadily rising, after manyprevious months of continuous decline,

and it has been estimated that the neces-

sary quota can be met if there is immedi-

ate 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 re-

ceipts, indicating the corollary of an in-

crease in actual collection of scrap, has

been accomplished during a period whennormal soui-ces of scrap have been lost

or greatly diminished.

* • •

SAVE TIME AND TROUBLE-

GET INFORMATION IN FIELD

The WPB September 22 again mgedbusinessmen that whenever they wish to

obtain information from WPB they

should go to their regional or field ofBces

before coming to Washington.

"We have 12 regional and 127 field

ofBces scattered throughout the coun-

try," the announcement said. "Theywere established in order to save busi-

nessmen the trouble of coming to Wash-ington, 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 madenow by the U. S. Public Health Service

and the procurement and assignment

service of the War Manpower Commis-sion, Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the

commission, announced September 22.

He added that the two services are co-

operating closely in the planning of this

emergency action.

300 areas affected

Mr. McNutt explained that in manyareas 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 short-

age 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. Mar-tin Company); Valpariso, Fla.; Huntsville,

Ala.; Childersburg, Ala.; LaPorte, Ind.;

Charleston. Ind.; Fort Knox, Ky.; Rantoul,111.; Texarkana area; Bremerton, Wash.;Pryor-Choteau, Okla; Vallejo, Calif.; Velasoo,Tex.; WaynesvlUe, Mo.; Wichita Palls, Tex.;Norfolk, Va.

Mr. McNutt also announced his ap-

proval of a statement of policy adopted

by the directing board of the procui-e-

ment 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 de-

veloped in cooperation with the Federal

officials concerned, and have the ap-

proval of the Surgeon General of the

U. S. Public Health Service. The state-

ment has been approved by the Boards

of Trustees of the American Medical

Association, the J^merican Dental Asso-

ciation and the war service committees

of the two associations, and the Execu-

tive Committee representing the State

and territorial Health Officers Asso-

ciation.

Principles outlined

Following are the principles recom-mended by the Directing Board of the

procurement and assignment service for

meeting the emergency needs:

1. That It is a responsibility of the pro-curement and assignment service to ascertainthe needs of the civilian population—non-military—^for medical service.

2. That it is the responsibility of theprocurement and assignment service to aidin providing the medical personnel to meetthese needs.

3. That as presently constituted, the pro-curement and assignment service is not ina position to deal with the financial andadministrative problems involved in the pro-vision of medical care.

4. That so far as possible these problemsshould be met at the State level in view ofthe many different types of problepis andneeds and the relation of these and theirsolution to local situations.

5. That a survey of these needs shouldbe made by the existing committees of theprocurement and assignment service withthe aid of such technical assistance ^s maybe necessary. It is especially desirable thatin determining these needs the State pro-curement and assignment committee seekthe cooperation of the State Health Depart-ment, of the State Medical Society, and ofthe State Dental Society, of industry, oforganized labor, and of other agencies, suchas the State Defense Council, which shouldbe able to make significant contributions tothe solution of this problem.

6. That whenever possible the civilian

needs as determined by these committeesshould be met through local arrangements,resources, and agencies. In case assistanceis needed for the organization, administra-tion or financing of necessary medical ordental services in these areas, the responsi-bility should devolve upon an agency whichshould include representatives of the StateHealth Department, the State Medical So-ciety, and the State Dental Society, with thecooperation and support—financial and tech-nical—of the appropriate Federal agencies;the administration of funds being delegatedto the appropriate State agency.

7. That since these problems have beenoccasioned by the war. and in many instancestranscend State lines, the Federal Govern-ment has a definite responsibility to cooper-ate with the States in meeting these needsby the provision, v;hen necessary, of finan-cial and technical assistance.

8. That the needs for medical Mre In cer-tain' areas are so acute and the pressure fromvarious sources so great that it is imperativeto have prompt action for implementationof this program. It appears to the directingboard that the responsibility tor the initia-

tion of such action rests with the WarManpower Commission.

• • •

NINE OP TEN iron hitching posts in

the Grand Island, Neb., courthouse

square have been enlisted in the scrap

drive—they'll help do a job on three

horses' necks named Hitler, Hirohito andMussolini.

D. i. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICEi lS4a

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