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This Week
In The War
War Production Director Nelson,
speaking in New York City, said
“America’s industrial plant is really
beginning to roll.” He said airplane
production schedules for the first
three months of this year have been
met or exceeded, and production of
tanks is ahead of schedule.
Mr. Nelson said production of
merchant ships is “rising rapidly”
and this year’s schedule should be
met. A Garand rifle is now avail-
able for “every one of our combat
soldiers who is supposed to have
one,” he said. Production scheduleg
for anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns
also are being met, However, “this
is no time for easy optimism,” he
stated, because the production of
war goods is so huge a job “we can
break every record we ever made
and gtill fall short of the need.”
The Senate passed and sent to
the House legislation to set-up a
$100 million Smaller War Plants
Corporation under the War Produc-
tion Board. The Corporation would
obtain contracts from Government
procurement agencies and re-award
them to small enterprises, breaking
the orders into subcontracts where
necessary.
Civilian Supply
The WPB ruled persons buying
toothpaste or shaving cream in
tubes must turn in to the retailers
some kind of tin or tin-coated tube
for each new one purchased. The
Board froze sales and deliveries of
all new bicycles for adults, includ-
ing those already ordered and paid
for. Red Cross local chapters began
collection of the extra cloth made
available by the elimination of cuffs
from approximately 50 million pairs
of trousers now on hand in stores.
The salvage clip will make about
300,000 new suits.
The Board ordered production of
cover caps of tinplate or terneplate,
used as closures for catsup, jelly,
etc., stopped immediately, and of
crown caps for bottled beer and soft
drinks stopped April 30. Production
of fluorescent lighting fixtures was
also ordered ended immediately; of
vacuum cleaners, April 30; and toys
and games made of metal, plastic
and other essential materials, June
30. The Board curtailed use of
crude rubber and latex in 50 ar-
ticles, including fire and mill hose,
storage batteries, etc.
Priority Order Compliance
The WPB reported investigations
of 14,000 firms for compliance with
priority orders have been undertak-
en since last June. Reports have
been completed on 3,500 firms, the
Board said, and of these 1,600 show-
ed no violations while approximate-~
ly the same number reported minor
violations through misunderstand-
ings. The reports resulted in 35
suspension orders, affecting 46 firms
and ons individual. Thirteen Federal
agencies and more than 3,500 in-
vestigators are co-operating with
the Board in the surveys.
Prices
The Office of Price Administration
froze manufacturers’, wholesale and
retail prices of plumbing fixtures
and of 44 common household elec-
trical appliances, all at March 30
levels. Ceilings were also set on
wholesale prices of bond, ledger,
book and plain and fancy cover pa-
per and bristols, and on producers’
quotations for Pennsylvania anthra-
cite coal. The Agriculture Depart-
ment said the retail cost of food is
now 15 per cent above the 1935-
39 average, but is still below the
1929 level.
Civilian Defense
Civilian Defense Director Landis
said Axis air raids on American war
industries this spring are “entirely
possible.” He said “It’s worth a doz-
en bombers to the Germans to
wreck vital industries, even in the
heart of the country.” Mr. Landis
said $20 billion of OCD funds have
been transferred to build facilities
for manufacture of civilian gas
masks. First shipments of helmets,
arm bands and other equipment for
air raid wardens and auxiliary fire-
men and police were sent to more
than 40 Atlantic and Pacific coast
cities.
The Armed Forces
The Senate passed and sent to
the House a bill granting pay in-
creases from $30 a month to $42
for privates and apprentice seamen,
and providing proportional increases
for other classes of enlisted men in
the armed forces. The Post Office
Department issued regulations for
grantimz of free first-class mailing
privileges for all ranks of the armed
forces. The Senate passed and sent
to the House a bill eliminating re-
striction on marriage of Army and
Navy officers during the war. The
President signed legislation to per-
mit the War Department to recruit
American technicians serving in
foreign armed forces and to pay
them more than $21 a month dur-
ing the first four months.
The Navy Department said meet-
ings have been arranged in 35
states between April 9 and 17 to
acquaint educators with the Navy
officer procurement program under
which 80,000 college freshmen and
sophomores will be recruited an-
nually. Th students will be enlisted
as Apprentice Seamen and allowed
to remain in school at least to the
end of the second year. About 35,-
000 will be selected each year for
further training leading to commis-
sions as ensigns in the Naval Re-
serve.
The House passed and sent to the
Senate an $18 billion War Appro-
priation Bill, providing almost $7
billion for military airplanes, The
Senate passed and sent to the
Houge a naval public works bill to
provide a billion dollars for expan-
sion in aircraft and storage facilities.
The War Department ruled officers
and enlisted men, except those of
the Regular Army, may campaign
for and hold political office, if such
activity does not interfere with mili-
tary duties. Selective Service Head-
quarters instructed local boards to
start classification of February 16
registrants, and to prepare to fill the
Army’s June call—and possibly the
May call—from these men and the
earlier registrants, SS Headquarters
also issued instructiong to all local
boards for registration of an esti-
mated 13,500,000 men between 45
and 64 on April 27.
The War Front
The Navy reported as of April 4
total Japanese losses inflicted by U.
S. naval forces included 21 warships
sunk, 13 possibly sunk and 22 dam-
aged; 48 non-combatant ships sunk,
14 possibly sunk and damaged. The
Army and Navy said Axis subma-
rines sunk or presumed sunk by
the Navy total 24, and those by the
Army number four. Assistant Secre-
tary of War for Air Lovett said U.
S. pilots in the Far East are shoot-
ing down five Japanese planes for
every plane lost.
The forces of Lt. Gen, Wainwright
in the Philippines repelled several
enemy attacks by land, sea and air
on Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor
Island with heavy Japanese losses.
Japanese bombers sank the U. S.
Aircraft tender Langley,
stroyer Peary and the Navy tanker
Pecos in the southwest Pacific, with
an estimated loss of 700 men. The
Navy reported the torpedoing of 15
more United Nations merchant ves-
sels in the Atlantic.
Shipping
The Maritime Commission re-
ported all contracts have been
awarded for the 23 million dead-
weight tons of merchant shipping—
nearly 2,300 cargo ships and tank-
ers—which the President has set as
the 1942-43 goal. The Senate passed
and returned to the House a bill
enlarging the war risk provisions
of the Merchant Marine Act to al-
low insurance of foreign as well as
domestic ships. ¢
Agriculture
The Department: of Agriculture
said it had purchased more than
$800 million worth of farm com-
modities, totaling more than 7,500
million pounds, during -the first
year of the Department's expanded
purchase program—March 15, 1941,
to March 15, 1942. More than half
of all purchases were for meat,
dairy and poultry products. Most
purchases were for Lend-Lease
shipment.
The Agriculture Department re-
ported prices of all farm products
combined were 99 per cent of parity
on March 15, 1942 and 46 per cent
above the 1909-14 average. The
Commodity Credit Corporation re-
ported it has contracted for the sale,
during the period ending April 30,
of about 5,500,000 bushels of corn
and about 240,000 bushels of wheat
to be processed into industrial alco-
hol.
Seek Flag
Members of the D. C. Roberts
Volunteer Fire Company, meeting
Tuesday night at the fire house in
Alderson, discussed the purchase of
a flag pole for the building and
named a committee to get bids for
the project. Assistant Fire Chief Ira
C. Stevenson presided.
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Greek Airforce Flies Again
A new Greek fighter squadron, formed since the fall of Greece and equipped with new Hurricane fighter
planes, has gone into action against the Germans and Italians in the Battle for Libya. These pictures, the first
to reach the United States, show (top) the squadron’s pilots lined up for inspection, (bottom, left) one of the
pilots, ready to take off for a fight against German planes, and (bottom, right) a squadron leader, equivalent of
a captain, with his sleek Hurricane, which bears the in-signia of the re-born Royal Hellenic (Greek) Air Force.
Communication with prisoners of
war and civilians internees will be
established shortly through two
war and civilian internees will be
co-operation of the Red Cross, the
Secretary of the Navy has an-
nounced.
Correspondence with and infor-
mation relative to more than two
thousand American prisoners taken
by the Japanese at Wake Island,
Here's How To Communicate
With Any Prisoners Of War
Guam, Peiping and Tientsin, China,
will be established through a bu-
reau located at Washington, D. C.
This would include Navy and Ma-
rine personnel, as well as civilians
listed as captured. Also the bureau
would escablish contact with pris-
oners who might be taken in the
future.
The two bureaus exchange infor-
mation with enemy countries
through the International Red Cross
Committee at Geneva. They are: a
Prisoners of War Information Bu-
reau and an Alien Enemy Informa-
tw: Bureau, both of whicn have
been established in the Office of
Tha Provest Marshal Geners. at the
War Department.
Requests for informatioa and cor-
respondence relative to United
States prisoners of war an: civilian
internees in the hands of the enemy
should be addressed to: Prisoners of
War Information Bureau, Office of
The Provost Marshal General, War
Department, Washington, D. C.
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