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Show The ODT announced two additnj? al local boards set up under th Commercial Vehicle Rationing gram: District 5-Virginia, North Carolina, and ISouth Carolina wth headquarters at Charlotte, North Carolina and District 14 Montan Idaho and Utah with headquarter! at Salt Lake City. ARMY Brigadier General Harold r George, Chief of the Air Transport Command, said a vast expansion of the air transport system reach every war theater in th. world where American fighUn forces are involved" with be va-dertaken va-dertaken by U. S. commercial air! lines. He said the plan had fun" est endorsement and support oj i the airlines involved and the air- ! lines are expected to give fuj tails of their plans in about a week. The Agriculture Department an- j nounccd its Northern Regional Re- , search Laboratory, Peoria. Illin- j ois, has developed a short and i economical process for making Butylene glycol relatively rare j chemical with a number of indus- i trial chemical applications for war industries and used in the manufacture manu-facture of anti-freeze and commercial com-mercial solvents from plentiful farm crops such as corn and wheat. The laboratory is now producing pro-ducing butylene glycol on a pilot-plant pilot-plant or semi-commercial scale. The laboratory chemists also have succeeded in producing corn-made butylene blycol. The latter process pro-cess has not reached the pilot-plant pilot-plant scale, and the chemists "are not making any definite predictions until this has been done," the Department De-partment said. SCRAP SALVAGE President Roosevelt told his press conference that the recent collection drive brought in 450,155 tons of scrap rubber to be added to the Government's stockpile. Mr. Roosevelt said the Petroleum Industry In-dustry War Council has reported the drive brought in 6.87 pounds of rubber for each man, woman, and child in the United States. The tonnage figures represent on- WASHINGTON FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER TAXATION AND PROFITS Treasury Secretary MOrgenthau said a tax program of less than $8,700,000,000 of additional revenue woud be inadequate. He said, "It is only against the background of our war expenditures that we can tell whether the Revenue Bill . . . will fulfill its purpose. We are now spending $150,000,000 a day, or almost $5,000,000,000 a month. In the fiscal year just beginning we I expect to spend the almost inconceivable incon-ceivable sum of $77,000,000,000 to win this war for human freedom." In the present fiscal year "we shall be spending about half of our national na-tional income on the war," he stated. He said in the U. S. (including (in-cluding Federal, State and local I will put up in 1943 a total of 3,887,000,000 jars of food at home; 98 per cent of all farm families will can enough to average 243 jars per family; 93 per cent of rural families will put up enough to average 184 jars per family, even though they are' not farming families; city families will can enough to average 41 jars per family.. The Department said activity in future markets for livestock feed greatly increased due to war-time demand during the fiscal . year ended June 30, 1942, while trading in the fats and oil group dropped sharply under price ceiling influence. in-fluence. Volume of futures trading for 1941-42 were: Corn, 1,235,641,-000 1,235,641,-000 bushels (increase of 55 per cent over previous years) ; oats, 524,029,000 bushels (more than double 1941 figures); Rye, 790,011,-000 790,011,-000 bushels (about three times that of. 1941); Soybeans 681,656.000 bushels ! (declined since last winter win-ter influenced by ceiling price on soybean joil; Wheat 2,831,001,000 bushels (lowest volume since 1921) Butter and eggs comparable with 1941; Potatoes 10,539 carlots larger annual volume than at any time during the past ten years.) ly rubber actually moved to petroleum pet-roleum industry bulk station plants and weighed. The industry report said "scattered over the country there are still numerous small piles of rubber at service stations" as well as rubber still in procession of junk dealers and some local salvage agencies. PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS In order to save an estimated 400 to 500 tons of crude rubber a month, the WPB set forth more stringent RUBBER content specifications speci-fications for 16 additional classifications classi-fications of civilian products, including in-cluding rubber footwear, belting, milking machine equipment, and rubber protected industrial equipment. equip-ment. The Board restricted use of SOLE LEATHER of military weight and quality, set aside for defense orders by WPB Order M-80, M-80, to shoes or repair leather purchased pur-chased for specified military purposes. pur-poses. The WPB Automotive Branch reported re-ported that during the week ended July 18, 1,450 trucks, truck trailers, trail-ers, station wagons, ambulances, and hearses were released to civilians ci-vilians and holders of Government Exemption Permist, bringing the total of such vehicles up to 53,434. governments) only 37 per cent of all 1943 fiscal expenditures would be financed by taxation on basis of the bill, as compared to Britain's 44 percent shortly to be increased to 53 per cent, and Canada's Can-ada's 55 per cent. The new bill, he said, includes such a broad reduction re-duction of personal exemptions it would affect almost 7,000,000 individuals indi-viduals who never before paid direct di-rect taxes to . the Government, and some 31,000,000 income tax returns rwould be filed in 1943 as against only 7,700,000 in 1940." President Roosevelt told his press conference he plans an early message mes-sage to Congress on new steps to combat rising livings costs. The principal war-time domestic problem prob-lem in maintenance of a firm thumb on the cost of living, he said. AGRICULTURE Agriculture Secretary Wickard said results of a carmine questionnaire ques-tionnaire sent out by the Agriculture Agricul-ture department . show "pantry shelves this year will be half again as full of home-canned fruit, vegetables, veg-etables, and meat as they were in the peace-time years of 1935 and 1936." He said if home canners carry through their plans they - |