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Ily Ilyrefuscd ! ly consistently proceedingsto y refused refuscd to permit its procccdIngS proceedings taxpayerswho to be broadcast to the taxpayers who toot foot the bills bJlls one New York Yorkradio YorkradJo radJo radio station has now taken the bull ] bulby bullby by the horns will WJll dramatize con congress congross gress gross conCress to its listeners hsteners once a week wcek wcekStation weekStation weekStation decided Station WMCA New York has de decided cided to take the most interest mterest ng portions ngportions of each week weeks s debate On op onthe opthe the floor of the thc house and senate re rebroadcast broadcast them with WJtb actors portray portraytog portraymg portraybig mg big the legislators give the public a asample asample asample sample ofwhat of what sort of repre repro sentatlon senation representation representatlon reprosenation St it is getting in m the nation s scapItal scapital scapital scapitalThe capItal capItalThe The idea v . was as originally proposed proposedto to byWMCA Florida Flonda s Sen Claude Peeper Peuper Pepper by WMCA s new owner former Federal Housing FederalHousing Administrator Nathan NathanStraus Straus Pepper then Introduced a aresolutIOn aresolution aresolution resolutIOn in m the thet senate . " " ' ( urg urn ne - - that - ' -t t - - debates be he broadca broadea t but ha has beenable b-een b een beenable been beenable resolutlon resolution able to get no vhere with h s resolu resolution resolutionMeanwhile tlon tion tlonMeanwhIle tionMeanwhile Meanwhile Straus polled the ra dlO dio radio radlO industry mdustry on his plan found that thatmany thatmany thatmany many other stations want to do the thesame thesame thesame same thing and will WJll probably broad broadcast broadcast broadcast cast dramatizations Sim slm sum lar to that thatbemg thatbeing thatbeing bemg being worked up by WMCA Can Con Cangress Congress Congress gress can t stop stations from fromdramatlzmg fromdramatizing fromdramatizing dramatlzmg dramatizing its debates so will willprobably willprobably willprobably probably watch its speeches more morecarefully morecarefully morecarefully carefully . when v.hen vhen it learns what Is be beIng betog beng Ing tog done . . . MANPOWER IIIANPOWER SHORTAGEThe SHORTAGEThe SHORTAGE SHORTAGEThe The War Manpov Manpower . er commIssion commIssionlIS commissionis lIS is considering consldermg a drastic new plan planto planto planto to provide manpower tor for war plants plantswhich plantswhich , whIch are now havmg having d fflculty fficulty gethng gettrig get geting hng trig ing enough labor laborIn laborIn laborIn In the shortage areas according accordtog accord accordng ing tog ng toVMC to \ WMC \VMC VMC s new plan factones factories factoneswhich factorieswhich factorieswhich which have recently been put backon back backon backon on peacetime production after having haytog hav hay havng ing tog ng worked on war contracts will be bedosed beclosed beclosed dosed closed until the war plants have suf sufficlent sufficient sufficient ficlent ficient labor This should remedy remedythe remedythe remedythe the fact that workers are flocking flockmg to tothose tothose totho those e plants which have alreadv already alreadvbeen alreadybeen alreadybeen been reconverted figuring that the thelobs thejobs ' Jobs lobs there are more permanent . . . . . . PRICE OF BUTTER UP UPBecause UPBecause UPBecause Because OPA s dairy price chiefArnold chief chiefArnold i iArnold Arnold J Burke refuses to place placea a ce ceiling ng ! price on cream sold by byproducers byproducers i iproducers producers the price of butter may maysoon maysoon maysoon soon go up five cents per poundI poundThis poundThis pound poundThis I This is to permit butter makers makersto makersto to compete with ice cream and andcream andcream andcream cream cheese manufacturers in inbuying inbuying ' buymg buying cream The latter have been beengett.nlZ beengetting beengettjig gett.nlZ gettnlZ getting . better prices for their prod products products ; ucts so have been able to pay more morefor morefor moreor for cream than the butter factonesTo factoriesTo factories factones factoriesTo moreI I To solve this inequal rnequal ty the War WarFood WarFood WarFood Food administration admmlstratlon has proposed proposedto to OPA CPA that the price pnce of butter to tothe tothe tohe the public pUbhc be Increased flve five cents centsper centsper centsper per pound . . . Despite its attempt to tohold tohold tolold hold down prices OPA CPA may have haveto haveto I to go along This Increase V.IM VIM will \ . III not notsolve notsolve notsolve solve the problem though it WIll WIllmean willmean willmean mean slightly more butterEarly butterEarly butter butterEarly Early this month butterI the butter in industry industry industry I dustry advisory committeee commltteee urged urgedOPA urgedCPA urgedOPA OPA CPA to place a ceiling cellmg price on oncream oncream oncream cream at the producer level but butBurke butBurke butSurke onI I Burke v . would ould not consider ItNOTE itNOTE it itNOTE NOTE - Burke incidentally sub submJtted submatted submilled mJtted matted his resignation to OPA CPA somet some someme ' t me ago but his res gnat on was wasnever wasnever wasnever never acted upon It will be shortlyo shortlyto shortly to ; his Ius chagrin chagnn . . . REPORT O 0V ON CnII\ESr CnII ESr CHIhESE CHIhESECOMMUNISTS CHINESECOBniUMSTS CHINESECOBniUMSTSU \ : COIII'UU.IS'IS COIIIUU.ISIS COIIIUUISIS COMMUNISTS COIII'UU.IS'ISU COMMUNISTSU ' ! ' . ' U S concern regarding the longsmouldering long longsmouldering longsmouldering smouldering Ch nese nose situation IS IScoming iscoming iscoming coming to a head as a result of oftwo oftwo ofwo two ; developments 1 It became apparent that the theJaps theJaps theJapi Japs could not be licked hcked merely by byisland byisland byIsland island to island operations in m the thePacIfic thePacific thePacific PacIfic This ThJS type of warfare m ght ghtdestroy ghtdestroy ghtdestroy destroy even the Japanese main IS ISlands islands islands lands but because the Japs have havebeen havebeen havet been > een moving movmg their theJr war industries mdustrles to toChina toChina toShina China a major malor campaign on the theChinese theChinese theChinese Chinese mainland mamland is going gomg to benecessary be benecessary benecessary necessary 2 The United Umted States was able to tosend tosend tosend send an official mission to visit the theCh theCh theCh Ch nese nose Communists or Agranans Agrarians Agranansfor Agrariansfor Agrariansfor for the first time tJme In five years This Thiswas Thiswas Thiswas was arranged as a result of VIce VIcePresident VicePresident Vicepresident President Wallace s a trip The mls mrs mrsston mlssion misslons sion ston s a subsequent report recently recentlyreachmg recentlyreaching recentlyreaching reachmg reaching the president presidents s desk con convlnced convinced convinced vlnced vinced him that somehow or other otherthe otherthe otherthe the two divergent dJvergent faction factions * insIde insIdeChma InsideChina insideChina Chma China must be coordinated coordmated . . . HOW GUERRILLAS OPERATE OPERATEThe OPERATEThe OPERATEThe The American mission s a report to tothe tothe tothe the White House is 11 a very human humandocument humandocument humanioeument document It tells a vivid story of of1he ofthe othe ( 1he the length lengths * to which whlcb free people wIll wIllgo willgo willgo go to fight tight an aggressor With no noammUJlltlOn noammunition noammunition ammUJlltlOn ammunition to speak of - per perhaps perhaps pertaps haps averaging averagmg 20 rounds to a manChinese manChinese man manChinese -Chinese Chinese - - Chinese guerr guerrillas las will attack a * amuch amuch much stronger Jap force in ordeito order orderto orderto to take a away way their supplIesOne suppliesOne supplies suppliesOne One of their most etrectlve effective etrectlveweapons effectiveweapons effectiveweapons weapons Is home made dynamIte dynamItemanufactured dynamitemanufactured dynamitemanufactured manufactured from saltpetre and andsometimes andsometimes andsometime sometimes * mixed . with .ith ith odds and andends andends andend ends * of metal to make hand gre grenades grenades grenades nades Dynamite has been too pre precious precious preclous cious to use In blowing up ral1road5 railroads railroadsso ral1road5so so the guerrillas rip np up railroad tIes tIesand tiesand tiesand and rallt rails by hand To thwart them themthe themthe themthe the Japs now rivet their rails ralls together together to together gether getherSo So many telegraph poles have havebeen havebeen havbeen been sawed off by the Corrmunists Corrmunlsts Corrmuniststhat Corrmunlststhat Con-munlstthat Con munlstthat - ! that the Japs now have to go to tothe tothe Uthe the trouble of making concreti concret concrete concretepoles concretipoles poles . . , |