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Show WASHINGTON a conference report on a bill to Post Office employees $84 at the end of 10 years service and an additional ad-ditional $60 at the end of 15 years service. FEDERAL OPERATION OF RAILROAD In the first such action ac-tion since the outburst of war, President Roosevelt recently ordered order-ed Federal seizure and opertaion of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad because of failure of its president to accede to the National Nation-al War Labor Board's order of arbitration. NEiWS 811 FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER SELECTIVE SERVICE Selective Service Director Hershey said as the war progresses, draft deferments defer-ments will depend more on whether whe-ther a man's civil operation is essential to the war effort than on his dependents. He said the nation must discipline itself to allow most effective distribution of its men. He has also said that the importance of maintaining the production of certain agricultural products necessary to the national defense program must 'be given serious consideration by the State and County draft board. CAA PILOT TRAINING The Civil Aeronautics Administration announced its standardization center cen-ter in Houston, Texas, will gradual grad-ual XI3A3 soojid jo ssrjp b aqvn days from the Army Ferrying Command. Students at the school have either completed the CAA's advance flight training course or have had a minumum of 450 solo hours. Federal Manager Barrier 01 tne railroad announced members of two railroad brotherhoods and men hired to fill their places during dur-ing the 84-day strike have applied ap-plied for reemployment, and both will be considered on the basis of seniority. AMERICANS IN BRITISH ARMED FORCES The Senate approved ap-proved and sent to the House legislation leg-islation which will enable approximately approxi-mately 20,000 Americans in Canadian Canad-ian and British forces to regain their citizenry and be transferred to the .U. 8. Army without the usual us-ual naturalization proceedings. FOOD PRODUCTION Agriculture Agricul-ture Secretary Wickard said there is evidence that farmers plan great increases in needed crops and that they are carrying out in a single year shifts in operations which would ordinarily require several years. Egg, meat and milk production produc-tion has already Increased substantially, sub-stantially, he said, and given normal nor-mal weather, war-time enals for BOOKS FOR THE ARMY The Army Library Service has increased increas-ed the number of its libraries from 147 to almost 600 and the number of its volumes from 569,000 to 2,000,000 in the last 18 months, the War Department announced. The Service now has libraries at almost all Army posts, camps and stations, and has a service making paper-bound books of pocket size available for men In the field, on transports or at outlying posts. Army librarians reported new fiction fic-tion and texts on mathematics and radio head the last of best readers, read-ers, and books on the war, with the exception of "Berlin Diary" and Churchill's 'Rinod. Rand and several agricultural products will probably be exceeded. 'The War Department announced a new price policy to expand this year's production of pack-canned tomatoes and peas for military use. Canners have been reauested to increase their output and the plan provides those agreeing to guarantee fixed minimum prices to the grower will Ibe paid highfer prices for their pack. To be eligible eligi-ble for the higher price, each can-nr can-nr must be certified by his Department De-partment of Agriculture State War Board as having agreed by contracts con-tracts with growers to pay them at least the minimum prices to be paid local growers and prices at which it will buy. PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS ALLOCA-TIONS The War Production bard restricted use of Honey In manufactured manu-factured products to amounts consumed con-sumed by such products during corresponding periods in 1941. Some manufacturers who formerly used only small amounts or none at all have become heavy purchasers pur-chasers of honey as a sugar substitute. sub-stitute. A shutdown of the manufacture of automatic phonographs ("Juke Boxes") weighing and amusement machines on May 1 was ordered March 17 by the War Production Board. This order makes these figures interesting: A single one of the larger juke boxes contains enough brass to make 750 cartridge cases, the aluminum in 125 of the bigger juke boxes would make one fighter fight-er plane, the steel in one large juke box total 130 pounds, which would make five light machine guns, and Into such a a juke box would go 42 pounds of plastics which might better be 42 pounds of ' Installation peices control panels pan-els and so forth on Army or Navy planes. Tears," are now popular. OFF SAMPLING PUBLIC OPINION The Office of Facts and Figures said its Intelligence Bureau, organized shortly after December 7, has been sampling the opinions of the American people in a fashion similar to that used by commercial analysts. The office said that sound policy on war information in-formation can only be made on a base of fact, and that the Government Gov-ernment must know: "How true a picture of the war effort does the public have? What has it been told, by whom and through what channels? How have the various elements of the public reacted to what they have been told, to events, to Government and enemy action? What forces are at work which may disrupt public confidence confi-dence and how can they be counteracted?" coun-teracted?" ARMY SPECIALIST CORPS No appointments can be made to the Army Specialist Corps until regulations have been approved and funds apropriated for its operation, op-eration, and then only as personnel person-nel is needed by the various arms, of the . Army, the War Department Depart-ment announced. Approximately 40.000 civilians have filed applications applica-tions for service in the Corps and applications continue to be received receiv-ed at a rate of more than 1,500 a day, the department reports. POSTAL EMPLOYEES PAY INCREASES IN-CREASES APPROVED The House passed and sent to the President |