Show r Survey Shows Big Cut faces 1944 Newsprint WASHINGTON HINGTON Oct 11 UP An UP-An An official estimate that Tj d paper shortages in 1944 may become so see acute as to f an 52 per cen cent reduction on in n the use of f newsprint and wrap- wrap 4 r d a ap ner er was made Monday and the American Newspaper ll f 11 association ap- ap tariff act revisions t t for meet the situation sap subcommittee for the cial ial eDNS b 2 ed production and resources combined raw main ma- ma and in d the e inboard board submitted a report reduction uns un- un such a ca g ce of additional s force cutters can be found to toh tok P r Canadian and United k h the pd forests committee s said the 1 fAe supply of pulpwood Ste able rd for 1943 use will drop t f 1 cords next year on to of the present labor basis 0 to the report stressed there theres 1 T The Stage shortage of standing timIS timber tim- tim SoS s no mirage mill facilities for making IS ber u or taper paper 1 l riff Amendment coincided with a report The me by Linwood I L I. Noyes ement dent of the Publishers' Publishers asso- asso P amendment to the thea theof a act that of an 1930 would permit tariff materially to increase P publishers number dumber er of copies of newspapers the available to the public in the thea theof pOS pers diminishing supplies ofie of fact a of rho newsprint ie Statement His Bis statement was presented to house committee I newsPrint JI by Cranston t AN P PA A general mans manI man- man s I along with a memorandum apt congress in the interest in- in calling cite upon I economy to amend terest of war 1771 of the act to to permit the e importation free of duty of newsprint paper used in the printIng print- print Ing and publication cation of E t u uTha materials The Tha e resources and beards hards' ards' ards subcommittee report reiterated reit- reit the desirability of considering consider- consider I tar ing use of war prisoners for pulpwood pulp- pulp I wood nood cutting It said men meni were Jere needed in U. U S. S forests and andt 1 i in the Canadian woods f t The AN PA statement said saida a that the tariff act declared stand standard standi J I i ard aid newsprint paper paper to be duty i I f tree free but failed to define newsprint news- news f f print We call your atte attention tion to the flea fats which support our contention i t that thal it was the clearly expressed purpose of congress to admit free of d duty duly under the term standard I D imprint paper that kind of printing porting paper on which newspapers pers pen are printed the statement Bit nt i gun Restricted Notwithstanding that fact the I treasury department by a series of of definitions and limitations def deed defied de de- f fied ned ed standard newsprint paper ja la 1 such a manner that it has not permitted the importation of news news- newsprint newsprint newsprint print that varies from narrow and rigid standards In essence these restrictions mean t that at if newsprint fa is not made of certain components in certain weights in certain percentages percentages percentages per per- and in certain widths of printing rolls it cannot be ted fed duty free This has resulted in a practical closure to improvement in print- print i log Jug quality to the conservation t of ol materials and under present presente e conditions the ability of publishers to w supply apply newspapers to the many f thousands of citizens who are eager for lor information education and entertainment en en- Changes Practical I Noyes' Noyes es' es statement asserting that 1 J Ii 5 Per cent of newsprint used I toe here came from Canada said Canadian newsprint producers had hadI Wormed Informed publishers that newsprint I In lighter weight with material in increase in- in inin crease in the available printing area re would be entirely practical hut but T the we Publishers are debarred from 31 tt this service by the heavy imPort imPOrt imPort im- im Port duties and the conse consequent heavy bevy vy financial obligation which Wi faUs upon the buyer SuCh papers papers- he said sald al had bad eady al-eady eady been successfully used with with- I out serious deterioration in rant rint- 5 Ing qUalities and ushers lIshers enabled publIshers pub- pub Mn to print more news apers a ers win Stan U f 1 n a given orlo poundage Or 0 use I less lea s newsprint for or a given i num num- her of readers I nate Margins j II corf Large Ee and small Publishers could e l g the ve materially he said i if f Sro resent present Sent treasury restrictions r though importation ough regulations narrower Permitted the then tolls n of narrower printing and sheets which would thus rin eliminate wide and wasteful marrin mar- mar I Without eliminating any read read- bg content Further Considering newsprint I Join production a and its relation relation to the Power ower shortage the state state- BOlDe om said there ere appears to be tero Inconsistency in certain in in- as t to the essentiality newspapers papers ers and the essentiality of the manufacture of newsprint without which the newspapers could not publish Your committee has given considerable considerable considerable con con- attention to the importance importance tance of the essentiality of the manufacture of newsprint The war man power commission has classified the publishing of newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers as essential and the cutting cut cut- ting tang of pulpwood as essential yet this same commission has not given an essential status to the manufacture of newsprint |