A Week of
The War
Chairman Nelson announced a
"continuing national drive" to in
crease production immediately wi'l
entail 168 hours work per week for
every machine in war plant-*.
The Prevalent m a radio addr< -
Mid w Am1 Scans have been com
pelled : eld ground, but we will
1 n - n. Gei many. Italy, and
Japan art? \ > iose to their maxi
mum output of planes, guns .tanks
and ii ? I . Unii d Nations are
no ? ? Jl> the United States of
Ann nca He a>ked Americans not to
*;? ^ ?rk a single day ? imtil
MBBUtt laByofr** not to demand
pi ? any one coup. ana to
give u; r . ? tih sice. cheerfully when
m my.
ID! I l(i.\ IlKLATIONS
Undt i ot dt'tary of State Welles
announced two agreement?- signed
with Brazil to .strengthen hemispher
ic solidarity and to provide lend-lease
aid to Brazil. Lend -Lease Adminis
trator titet ' inius reported lend-lease
aid for January reached $462,000,000.
ami u ill shipments have now ex
ceeded two billion dollars. Allocations
for land -lease purposes totaled more
than twelve billion dollars as of Feb.
19.
The U. S. and Britain Sigurd a pact
postponing indefinitely final settle
ment of lend-lease costs. The pact
commits both nations to virtually
free trade. It also provides finil
terms of the settlement "shall be
such as not to burden commerce be
tween the two countries." Mr. Welles
announced the Vichy French Gov
ernment has given the U. S. assuran- j
ces it will not aid the Axis beyond j
Verms of the Armistice agreements.
RATIONING
Price Administrator Henderson
stated National Registration for su
sugar rationing books will be held
over a four-day period. probably
during the last week in March. Ap
proximately 1.400,000 school teachers
-will serve as registrars, and 245.003
nchools wil' be used. One adult may
ireglster for each "family unit."
The WFB announced a rationing
program March 9 for 186,000 new
truck an d truck trailers which will
be available for rationing during the
next 23 months. State quotas pro
ride 120,000 new 1942 pasenger auto
mobiles for eligible buyers during
March. April an dMay. Total number
?f cars ear-marked for civilian pur
rfiase during the next twelve months
la 340.000
No passenger car retreaded tires will
?e avaiable in March, he said.
T1IE WAR FRONT
The Navy reported U. S. Naval !
forces sunk 53 enemy ships between
December 10. 1941, and February 24,
1942, probably sank seven more and
damaged three additional.
The Army announced from Dec. 7
to February 27, it probably sank at
least 19 Japanese ships, seriously |
damaged 31 others, and shot down
345 enemy pianos ? not including 165
Japanese planes shot down by the 1
American Volunteer Oroup serving
In the Chinese Army.
The Navy said In the flrat two
montlu of this year 116 ships of
United Nations registry were attack
ed in the Western half of the Atlan
tic .and 56 attacks were made by the
Navy on enemy submarines.
Three U-boats are believe*! sunk
and damaged.
ARMY
Tlu- House passed Legislation in
?n.i sinc from one month to one yea
the payment to dependents of the
.ilar ; of members of tin- armed
foi - cap. tired by the enemy. Tne
I i :is]ation would also increase the
pay of offices and men serving out
ntinental U !S. by from 10 iO
JO percent.
The President established the
Army specialists Corps, a unit of unl
m. d civilian employees who may
be appointed to War Department
urns regard!)-- of Civil Service
.atus.
'iino ti i w policy
by which men with dependents may
enlist for the sole pu.pose of qualii
fylng as officers, and if they fail to
make liu grade may o< transferred
to tlie enlisted reserves. Tliey would
not be called for active service until '
their previous classifications in the
draft were called
Age limits are 18 to 45. All candi- |
dates must serve four months in Rt - i
placement Centers or Field Units be- I
. fore being eligible for officers cand!- i
dates' schools. Tlie New policy is de
signed to meet Army needs this year'
of 75,000 new officers selected from !
95,000 candidates.
AGRICULTURE
Tlie Agriculture Department an
nounced farmers 1941 cash income
reaced almost $12 billion? highest
since 1920, and 29 percent greater
than 1940.
I TheWPA said its employment
| schedules for March will be reduced |
62,000, with an equal or greater re
duction tentatively set for April.
Agriculture Secretary Wickar'd
asked State and County Department
of Agriculture War Boards to aid
local draft boards in determing oc
cupational deferments of farmers.
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On The Home Front
Rugged, independent, but free,
Mac Arthur's men stand on Bataan,
a daily living sacrifice to democracy.
There, on the wild mountains battle
fornt with the impregnable rock of
Corregidor at their backs, in what
military experts almost unanimously
regard as a hopeless situation, these
indomintable Americans and Filipi
nos refuse to recognize defeat.
MacArthu's men fight on. Filipino
and American alike, because they are
willing to sacrifice their lives ? not
just face a little discomfort ? to re
main as free and rugged in their
thoughts as the rocky-grown penin
sula where they make their stand.
And because they are freemen,
born of American democracy, it is
not in them to accept their situation
as hopeless. Not when they can lash
out against the treacherous over
whelmingly powerful foe as they did
last week and with a few tiny planes
blast ta the bottom of the sea 30,000
tons o J .shipping and hundreds of
Japs.
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TOCSIN SOI'NDED
President Roosevelt sounded the
tocsin (or all-out work. He said:
Now," he said .in this "crucial.
"Our plants must hum 24 hours
a da;', seven days a week, producing
tiie materials an dmachines being so
rapidly absorbed in the war effort.
In line with Nelson's directive for
njunr ioroH CCHtTSCtS. J . Vwnwl
son, director of the Division of In
dustry Operations, blocked the sale
at auction of machinery valuable to
wa rproduction so that it might not
be dispersed. On top of this. George
C. Brainard. chief of the WPB'x
Tools Branch, called upon owners of
idle machine tools to offer them for
sale lo be placed in plants engaged
in wa rproduction.
NEKD OF SACRIFICE
For a long while shortages, except
in tires an dautomobtles. were Just
somethin gto talk about. Output
might be curtailed, but at the fac
tory, but there was still plenty of
stock .and also on the retailer's
shelves. Now these shortages are
working their way down.
Men's clothing, for instance. After
March 30 trousers will be cuffless,
suit-coats will be about an inch
shorter, there'll be no patch pockets,
pleats, tucks, bellows, gussets. And
no vests for dougle-breasted suits. It
means a saving of some 40.000.000
pound* of wool.
The copper mining industry has
offered full cooperation, to increase
output. The mines have gone on a
continuous-operation, seven day
week, operating under labor-man
agement production committees.
PROTECTS SPORTSMEN
"Sporating goods are needed for
civilization recreation and are im
portant in th maintenance of civilian
morale." said Price Administrator
Henderson in calling upon manufac
turers o fall sporting goods and fish
ing equipment to prevent prices
jumping above those in effect on
January 10, last. And he made it
plain that, while his letter was di
rected to manufacturers alone, he
meant to control retail prices as
well.
This "request" followed close upon
the heels of an order freezing the
supply of shotguns, pistols and other
firearms at the manufacturer's door.
Many of these weapons may find
their way into the hands of the mili
tary an dlaw enfrocement agencies.
CEILING ON RENTS
Landlords in the Hampton, Roads.
Va.. and Washington, N. C., have
been ordered to reduce rents to the
level of April 1. 1941. This is only a
beginning. Price Administrator Hen
derson says he intends to move
swiftly and o strike hard to correct
the rent situation in more than 100
additional defense areas.
Among the developments last week
which affect most of us, in one way
or another:
OPA's action in placing temporary
price ceiling over eleven canned
fruits. 15 canned vegetables . . .
OPA placed bedding equipment
under temporary control . . .
The Office of Defense Health and
Welfare Services has begun a drive
to see that we eat proper food, adopt
ed the slogan : "V S. Need* Ds
Strong . . "
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Several Greek coastal ateaaaers.
which escaped the Mail Invasion
forces, are now operatise with the
Russian fleet In the Slack Sea.
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mx ram axxm
WASHINGTON
SNAPSHOTS
At Hip rate at which Congress has \
been appropriating funds for mill- j
lary purposes, this war will have to I
be every man's war . . . because '
in terms of dollars *nri the '
cost is terrific.
Since Congress met oil January ,
5tli. a bill has been enacted to pro- |
vide $12 525,000,000. primarily for I
airplanes and the expansion of air- (
craft production: another has been!
enacted authorizig t26.495.000.000 1
for the Navy: and a third has been j
acted upon by the House to appro
1 priate $32,000,000,000 for arms,
lease-lend aid and ship construction.
This brings the total for the three
major bills to $70,000,000,000. or 70
per cent of the estimated national
income for 1942.
Net result, according to statisti
cians, is that since Pearl Harbor.
Congress has appropriated or au
thorized appropriations for the war
effortat the rate of $369 for every
' one of the 130,000,00 persons in the
country. This does not include some
additional $200 per capita which the
Senate is considering
Letters to Congressmen from the
folks back at home indicate thi>t
' they are willing to pay whatever the
; war costs ? there is no question of
1 stinting ? but. they ask. what about
' the Administration's getting down to
business?
Fury and frills in the Office of
Civilian Defense, Congressional pen
sions. the proportions of the aver
age American woman. iShe turned
out to be dumpy. So what?) un
earthed by the Department of Agri
i
culture, and projects of similar Ilk
turns out to be more than a tempest
in a teapot.
In the House the other day a Rep.
resentative described the reaction of
the people by relating a story. A
newspaper in a medium-sized Mid
Western city was selling defen.v
stamps through its carriers who de
livered papers to the customer's
home. Sales fell off. Upon instruc
tion from tho newspaper, the news
boys asked why and found out thai
was a manifestation o fpublic re
ll was a manifestation of public re.
It was 111; employment by the OCD
people deemed unqualified ..n<2
Congress' voting itself pensions thn:
time.
S?m< of this i.s on its way to b -
lng straightened on.. Dean Land.,
director of the OCD. seems to have
thai agency well in hand. In the
opinion of man? observers here the
OCD l- setting (iuv. 11 lo the
business of air raid shelters, war
den- i:.is masks and first aid. Con
gress. too. has seen the errors of its
i ways and is repenting 011 the pen
1 sions. . IS
Privately, commentators here ars
sayinp that there's nothing wrong
with the morale of the people that
better moralr in Administration cir
cles can't remedy.
Which brings to mind a story
worth repeating. A candidate for
Oovernor of one of our North Cen
tral states (this was some time ago>
discovered an item on a travel ex
pense account of a fellow politician,
it was 80 cents for a baked potato.
This candidate took up the question
of the potato and made a campaigm
issue out of it. He acquired a repu
tation as watchdog of the state
treasury and was three times elected
Oovernor of the state.
Some of the economists here have
been clamoring for a watchdog of the
federal treasury for a long time, be
cause. they point out, there aremur
80 cent items being paid for which
the country could do without.
Favorable comment has been elic
ited not only here, but also in th*
press throughout the country, at the
"conversion," step by step, of th#
federal government to war work:
The almost unanimous reactiom
hails this as a necessary economy
measure and as a conservation ot
energies for the more important task
of winning the war.
Some of teh measures, already ac
complished .which are being talked
about are the President's direction
to the heads of non-military agen
cies to determine hom many worker*
they can release for war work, the
lengthening of the federal work
week to 44 hours, and the pointing
up of the work of older agencies 1*
the direction ot the defense effort.
This does not mean, however, that
anyone feels that all which can be
done along these lines has been
done. It means only that the signs
are encouraging.
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