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Show will, at the same time, keep a control con-trol ovr prices. It may permit prices to rise somewhat but will keep them from going high enough to amount to real inflation. The largest amounts of food will be shipped to Great Britain, but we may eventually be called upon to feed conquered nations throughout Europe. A test shipment ship-ment of grain is being made, for the purpose of feeding the free French. If this food is used only for that purpose it may lead to large shipments later, but if it gets Into the hands of the Germans, Ger-mans, such shipments will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be stopped. Wt0 IN Washington FARMER AI DEFEXSR There Is more and more talk here about the importance of the farmer and his family to the defense de-fense and aid-Britain program. In the first place, the war is expected to become a food war and the American farmer will be called call-ed upon to supply the food needs to all democracies. In the second place, army leaders lead-ers are showing a decided preference prefer-ence for healthy farm boys as soldiers sol-diers and are pushing enlistment in the farm regions. One method which is proving successful is the trailer recruiting offices which cover the rural regions. In the third place, defense industries, in-dustries, running short of skilled labor and mechanics, have found that young farmers, experienced In operating and repairing motorized motor-ized farm equipment, have a fundamental fun-damental knowledge of machines ' which can be very useful. Thus the farmers are being asked to supply the food, provide a large part of the army and help out on the industrial in-dustrial end of the war program. Although there has been a big drop in export sales of farm products, pro-ducts, that drop is just temporary. Insteud of being replaced by direct export sales;, however, it will be replaced by huge purchases by the government for export purposes. pur-poses. The government wants to control where food is sent and www PLAN' 20,000 PLANES As a result of the ?7, 000, 000, 000 bill to finance production which includes two billions for planes, plans are now being worked out to supply Great Britain with 2 0,-' 0,-' 000 planes within the next 18 months. This includes planes) which already have been ordered by England as well as those we will provide. The schedule calls for production of over 1,000 planes a month for this purpose alone. Because of the fear of loss of planes in export, if they are sent across the Atlantic on boats, there is talk here of establishing a safe route for flying th-em over. This involves difficulties, such as the unwillingness of Ireland to permit per-mit England to establish bases there, but it is understood that a large number of bombers already have been flown to England without with-out casualties. Plans are being made to spend another half-billion of that seven billion dollars to build about 4 00 freight boats for the British. A spokesman for the maritime commission, com-mission, which is behind this program, pro-gram, said that by November the commission expects to have" constructed con-structed a million tons of ships. In addition to the new ships being be-ing built, it is understood that the government is now in the process of transferring fifty American freighters to the British. One reason rea-son for quick action in transferring transfer-ring ships is to make it possible to carry goods to England on British Bri-tish ships rather than oh our own. On the heels of the seven billion dollar defense bill, the senate must now vote on four billions for financing our enlarged army and navy. This bill, already approved by the house, is known as the fifth supplemental defense appropriation appropria-tion bill. Because of the increasing increas-ing trend toward unity of action in congress, this measure is not expected to receive much opposition. opposi-tion. STRIKES Strikes in defense industries continue to cause Increasing worry wor-ry here and plans for stopping them are breaking out like smallpox. small-pox. The president has set up a national defense mediation board but it is feared that the board, without being provided with a big club, will not be able to cope with the situation. Representative Vinson, chairman chair-man of the house naval affairs committee, has announced that his committee will consider a bill to confer statutory authority on the president's executive order creating creat-ing the mediation board. He points out that the president cannot Include In-clude enforcement provisions In an executive order, and that the board should be set up by statute in order to make enforcement provisions pro-visions possible. Representative Vinson's bill would provide a $5,-000 $5,-000 fine and a year's imprisonment imprison-ment for interfering with the duties du-ties of the board. |