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Show nages, after the Navy, 'Maritime Commission, owners, and next of kin have been notified. Because radio signals may he of aid to the enemy, most actions at sea must be reported after the vessels involved in-volved have returned to port. News of sinking or probable destruction of enemy submarines will ordinarily ordinar-ily be withheld for three reasons: the difficulty of verifying such sinkings; withholding news of submarine sinkings has an "adverse "ad-verse psychological effect on the enemy"; and if the "enemy knows that a submarine has been sunk, he will be able to send another tag 1,311 cameras and 44 camera, lenses; maps and photograplis Including In-cluding charts of the Panama Canal, San Francisco Bay, and. New York Harbor; Japanese, German Ger-man and Italian army and navy uniforms; dynamite caps and fuses, gunpowder and sulphuric acid; 820 swords, dirks, daggers, machet--j MATERIAliS 1 The Agriculture : Department said savings of up to 50 percent of the burlap normally normal-ly required are possible by baling-wool baling-wool in cotton gin presses. The-Department The-Department estimated there would not ' be sufficient burlap to sacfc WASHINGTON NElWS the -1943 wool clip, although the stock is adequate for the 1942 clip. Baling reduces shipping space by almost half and shipping costs by as much as 25 cents per 100 pounds, the Department said. ARMY TRAINING PROGRAM War Secretary Stimson announced announc-ed the War Department plans to train approximately 100,000 men and women during the next year for civilian jobs, including overhaul over-haul and repair mechanics, "production "produc-tion workers, inspectors at Government Govern-ment factories, depots, and arsenals. arsen-als. The training program will be offered in Government and State-owned State-owned schools and in rented facilities fa-cilities of private technical schools. Men eligible must be over 45 or between 17 and 20 or otherwise outside the limits for Selective Service. Ser-vice. Students will be paid in training at rates of from $900 to $1440 a year. Training courses 1 vary from 15 weeks to four j months. Applications for training along without, but not many that may be made to any local ofice of the Civil Service Commission. submarine promptly to replace it." , News of air actions will list Am- j erican planes lost in the air, but planes lost on the ground will not be reported immediately, because enemy air' men have difficulty in verifying damage done to grounded ground-ed planes. Where possible, information infor-mation will include enemy casualties, casual-ties, enemy forces engaged and positions won or lost, but will not ordinarily Include strength and distribution of our forces. Topics j on which news positively will be j withheld are movements of ships I and troops and prospective action. ENEMY ALIENS AND CONTRABAND CON-TRABAND MATERIALS F. B. I. Director Hoover reported since January 8 the F.B.I, has searched the premises of more than 8,000 German, Italian, and Japanese nationals na-tionals and has apprehended ap-roximately ap-roximately 2,400 for possession of contraband materials. Penalty for willful failure to surrender prohibited pro-hibited articles is forfeiture of articles ar-ticles and arrest of the alien enemy possessing them. Among the articles seized by the F.B.I, in making "spot checks" of alien enemy residences were: 1,500 guns; 156,770 rounds of ammunition; 1,200 radio sets; large quantities of photographic equipment includ- War Information, issued a comprehensive compre-hensive statement of policy on war information, including the following follow-ing announcements: The W P B will publish at frequent intervals a Production Communique "which will enable the public to judge whether the production program is progressing satisfactorily or not". The Maritime Commission will furnish fur-nish information concerning the shipbuilding program. Both types of announcements will take the place of all other production news. Publication of contract awards, location lo-cation of war industries, supplies of strategic materials and production produc-tion schedules will be withheld. The Chief of Staff of the Army and the Commander in Chief of the TJ. 3. Fleet will, from time to time, publish joint bulletins in which will be furnished "an authoritative auth-oritative general review of the military situation in various theatres thea-tres of war." The Government's policy is to make public a maximum maxi-mum of information on all matters pertaining to the war which can be 1 revealed without "giving aid to the enemy." Where there is conflict con-flict between considerations of public information and of military security, every attempt is made to provide such form of publication FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER - WPA PROJECTS APPROVED FOR UTAH The following projects pro-jects have been approved for Utah: Emery County, in the amount of $55,162, to install sanitary sewerage sew-erage system. The work includes excavating, laying pipe, sackfilling, construction of manholes and performing per-forming appurtenant and incidental inciden-tal work. Publicly owned property in the city of Orangeville. Washington County, in the amount of $10,615, to construct swimming and wading pools and develop play areas. The work includes in-cludes construction of bathhouse with toilets and showers; installing filter system, water circulation and fountain aerator; constructing septic sep-tic tanks, and performing appurtenant appur-tenant and incidental work; in the city of St. George. LABOR DISPUTES Speaker Rayburn told a press conference that on March 17 there was between be-tween 7!00,000 and 7,500,000 men in the U. S. at work in war industries indus-tries and fewer than 100 persons on strike. He said, however, "Indignation" "In-dignation" meetings have been held and are being scheduled throughout through-out tke nation which usually result re-sult in mass criticism of the efforts ef-forts of management, labor, and Government in the war crisis. Instead In-stead of these indignation meet-i ings which grab the headlines in Berlin and Tokyo, it would be better bet-ter for the nation's security if they were turned into "unity parades" par-ades" and the effort and wrath expended at these meetings "would be better applied to the work necessary to win this war," Mr. Rayburn said. STATEMENT ON WAR INFORMATION INFOR-MATION The U. S. Government, through the O.F.F. Ctommittee on as will inform the public while reducing the military risk to a minimum. Under no circumstances does the Government publish information in-formation which is known to be untrue, nor does the government withhold news on the ground that it is bad for depressing. Lists of members of the armed forces killed in action will be made public. The press and radio shall not publish nationwide summaries sum-maries of casualties, but shall confine con-fine themselves to the publication of casualties from their own localities. lo-calities. In cases of action at sea, news of the destruction of American Ameri-can combat vessels will be published publish-ed only when it is of no value to the enemy, and in any case will be delayed 48 hours from the time the Navy Department has started to notify next pf kin. Damage to American combat vessels will be reported only when damage occurs in sight of the enemy, but extent of damage ordinarily will not be released until repairs have been made. Merchant ship losses will be released without names and ton- |
