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Show Tnvees The plants, locat-18 locat-18 states manufacture Diced Dic-ed m 18 states instruments, 561 ei;ms paracirutes, air-dlf; air-dlf; anTToundry and brass craft, ana WOrkers as- Prd: to tpbnt training are Siewed and chosen by the mieivi personnel de- compames own V dergtanding! SfS-AJ r period shall w7 exceed 160 hours (four weeks) At the end of that time I" worker either goes on he ; worker either goes on the company payroll or leaves the olant but the average WPA worker is hired after three weeks training, the agency sa WUh this rapid turnover WPA offl cials expect thousands of workers work-ers to get jobs as the training increases. SMALL BUSINESS The War department announced announc-ed its newly intensified policies of giving the "little fellow" a chance and spreading Army contracts con-tracts will result In savings in orders for the Army. The department depart-ment cited as an example its limiting orders to 50,000 to each manufacturer in ordering 1,250,-000 1,250,-000 woolen coats. This widespread wide-spread competition brought prices down to 10 percent lower than a few months ago. MINTS WORKING OVERTIME With demands for coin and ready currency greater than at any other time in the history of the United States, every mint is working' 24 hours - a day and seven days, a week. THE FINEST AIR FORCE IN THE WORLD Assistant Secretary of War for Air, Robert A. Lovett, stated that with the beginning of Se- cond and Third Army maneuvers September 15, the participating Air Commanders "will have in actual operation from the point, of view of quality of aircraft the finest air force in the world." "In point of quantity, we saill have a long way to go," Mr. Lovett said, "but production is now beginning to roll and our share of it from here on should enable us to equip combat units at the rate of about one squadron squad-ron every other day. This rate should increase in the coming months." Mr. Lovett said his statements with respect to quality qual-ity of American aircraft were based on the best information available from abroad, and on the results of tests our own proved by the House and the Senate. The Senate increased the measure over the House bill by $367,500,000. The conference giroup must adjust ad-just these Senate changes: Increase In-crease in the corporation surtax rate from 5 to 6 per cent on net income up to $25,000 and from 6 to 7 percent on income over that. Elimination of House approved taxes on soft drinks, radio time sales and billboards. Imposition of a 10 per cent tax on electric light bulbs. Inclusion of gas and oil appliances under the House levy of 10 per cent on electrical appliances. COAL MINE INSPECTIONS pilots have made with foreign equipment. NAVY The Navy department has discharged dis-charged 120 persons "for reasons rea-sons of national security" from approximately a dozen of its large shipyards and other industrial in-dustrial establishments during the last six months. The department said the fact that only 120 of an estimated 200,000 employees in the dozen plants had been removed re-moved was an indication "of the prevailing loyalty of the bulk of employees." WASHINGTON NEViS The Bureau of Mines and a joint Labor-Industry committee announced formulation of a policy pol-icy for inspection of coal mines under which an inspector who has checked a mine will post a summary of his findings at the mouth of the mine and forward a detailed, report to his district engineer, who Will review the report and send it to Washington Washing-ton for publication. Copies of each report will be sent to mine operators and national and local headquarters of mine labor unions, un-ions, the Bureau said. The Bureau Bu-reau said 107 inspectors will be-gin be-gin checking mines throughout he nation about October 1 L that eventually everv ine will be tospecLd at Te once a year ast WPA IN-PLANT TRAINING by induVare0 nZt WPA workers to become regu- FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER JOINT SENATE-HOUSH COMMITTEE To Adjust Differences in Tax Measure 1 The tax measure which started early in April must now be studied by a joint Senate-House committee which will adjust differences dif-ferences between the bills ap- and roofs of - corrugatea sheet ' metal. On the otner side of these railroad rail-road tracks axe great piles of lumber lum-ber and timbers, as well as of concrete pipe and tile pipe, ready for use in the construction work. From this yard, a short spur extends into a large concrete batching plant, which soon Is scheduled to start turning out about 2,000 cubic yards concrete per 24 hours. Other spurs are being be-ing built from the yard southward into the permanent building area where the .30-caliber, .50-caliber and administration structures are rapidly rising. A small diesel locomotive, brought from Denver by Broder-ick Broder-ick & Gordon, construction contractors, con-tractors, is in use to switch railroad rail-road cars on the military trackage. Road construction within the area is keeping pace with the buildings and railroads.' Several miles of roads have been graded nd graveled to the permanent buildings, and oil is now being roads will be used this fall and applied to these roads. The oiled winter by hundreds of trucks hauling construction materials into and about this area. This will firmly compact the roads, which in the spring will be permanently surfaced. Indicative of the numerous pieces of heavy construction equipment which are to be used on the big project, workmen are now building a four-stall frame shop for the repair of tractors. A gasoline filling fill-ing station is also nearing com- pletion inside the main entrance gate at Redwood road and 2100 . South. |
