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Show WASHINGTON NEWS By Congressman W. K. Granger CIVILIAN DEFENSE REORGANIZATION OCD Director Landis announced announc-ed he is studying plans for a complete reorganization of the OCD. Mr. Landis also said Assistant As-sistant OCW Director Roosevelt is conducing a thorough-going reorganization re-organization of the Civilian Participation Par-ticipation Division which . he heads. Director Landis explained he views OCD functions as revolving re-volving primarily around the task of "preparing this country mer students returning to college col-lege af.er the war is over may receive gifts of not more than $200. The aid funds would be built up by voluntary contributions contribu-tions of ten cents a week by every student who remains on the campus. REPORT ON HAWAIIAN DEFENSE Guy J. Swope, director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, in a report to Interior In-terior Secretary Ickes, said wom- against the danger of physical attacks Now we have faced the fall of Singapore, which moves the battlefront nearer this countrypossibly coun-trypossibly 3,000 miles and will mean longer war. This office of-fice has got to be built and geared for action. During the last few weeks I have had the task of overhauling the functions . . . I have two principles in mind. (1) Each person must have a clear and definite function. (2) Every person must be qualified to perform that function." He said rercruiting has been progressing rapidly but that training in some sections, while fairly rapid, must move raster. "We need more schools," he said. "We need to organize our forces and then hold practice tests to see whether they can function. All local defense de-fense units must be kept fully organized and fit," he said. RATIONING OF RETREAD TIRES Price Administrtator Henderson Hender-son said nation-wide rationing of rpf.rAarlpirJ and rpnanrrfd tires en and children are being urged to evacuate the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. Swope said gas masks are being distributed to the entire population. Emergency hospitals have been set up in a public school and a convent, providing nearly 1,000 reserve beds. Returning Return-ing from a 15-day visit to Hawaii he said, "A good number of doctors doc-tors are there; there is no hysteria; hys-teria; no hasty thinking and no panic," and there is no food or clothing supply problem, except a few isolated cases in the outer islands. He said bomb shelters, both private and community, are being rushed to completion, and civilians are aiding wherever possible on defense projects. Most of the $15,000,000 allocated from President Roosevelt's emergency fund for civilian defense in Hawaii has already been assigned to specific projects he said. PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS The Division of Industry Operations Oper-ations gave priority assistance for will begin February 19. He said it is quite probable there will be no crude rubber available for retreading retread-ing except for the small number of vehicles already eligible to obtain ob-tain new tires and tubes. Mr. Henderson said a certain amount of camelback will be made available avail-able each month to permit retreading re-treading or recapping of truck tires. "None will be available this month for passenger car tires and perhaps none for the month of March," he said. Rationing of re-r treads and all grades and types of camelback will be carried out through the same machinery now ! employed to ration new tires and tubes. SELECTIVE SERVICE The Selective Service System announced the World War 1 policy pol-icy of granting blanket deferments to men working in essential war industries has not been and will not be followed ' this time. Each registrant will be judged individually. indi-vidually. A WORLD-ENCIRCLIXG WAR cultural Machinery in the hands of American farmers. A farmer who repairs his machines himself or the repair man who does it for him, may now use an A-10 rating on his orders for necessary materials. The rating may not be used to obtain or replace items of capital equipment, nor is there any guarantee that the A-10 rating will be sufficient to secure delivery of all types of repair supplies containing scarce materials. MATERIALS COLLECTION CAMPAIGN . The Bureau of Mines asked the American mining industry to organize or-ganize a salvage and equipment rehabilitation campaign, similar to one recently started by the petroleum industry, in order to meet the growing demands in the U. S. for scrap iron and steel needed in the manufacture of steel for guns, tanks, ships and other implements of war. Operators Oper-ators of coal and metal mines and those engaged in the associated associ-ated non-metallic mineral industries indus-tries were asked to undertake individually or set up committees commit-tees to initiate a constructive program pro-gram for collection of a potentially poten-tially large volme of scrap iron and steel. The Bureau said im-I im-I mediate . action is necessary to collect and bring the scrap to commercial channels so it will be available for war purposes immediately. The collection will range from gathering loose scrap to dismantling obsolete hoists, mining machines and pumps, pulling pull-ing up old rails and digging up useless pipes. COAL PRODUCTION UP Acting Solid Fuels Coordinator Gray reported the nation's bituminous bitum-inous coal mines produced ap- proximately 4,4,70,000 more tons of coal in January, 1942 than during dur-ing the first month of 1941. The January 1842 production was estimated esti-mated at 48,540,000 tons, an increase in-crease of more than 10 per cent over the 44,070,000 tons produced during January 1941, Mr. Gray said. NAVY ASKS FOR BINOCULARS The Navy asked Americans for the loan of all binoculars meeting meet-ing service requirements and said they would be" returned after af-ter the war is over as was done after the first World war The Navy said the Federal law bans their acceptance as gifts or free loans, and the Navy will pay the owners $1 for the privilege of using them. Two standard sizes of binoculars 0x30 and 7x50 meet Navy requirements and only thosn instruments will be accepted During Dur-ing World War 1 a similar Request Re-quest yielded 31,000 useable binoculars bin-oculars out of 51,217 offered. President Roosevelt told his press conference that whether or not this country likes it, the American people are faced with a world-encircling war. He said the first of the American and U. S- objectives obviously is to prevent a breakthrough and at the same time cause as much damage to enemy resources as possible while we build up .overwhelming .over-whelming superiority necessary to ultimate victory. He said he thought the nation is becoming increasingly realistic about the existing situation. CrVTLLVN DEFENSE The OCD Division of Youth Activities indorsed a financial assistance as-sistance plan, originating at the University of Iowa, where for- |
