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Show WASHINGTON NEWS -SOS'S OUR CONGRESSMAN j W. K. GRANGER only if it is shown that the em- ploye is serving in a key position posi-tion in essential war work, or that there are equally compelling reasons rea-sons for his retention. Essentially, the same rule will govern in j such cases where the employee ap- plies for release in order to volunteer vol-unteer for service with the Army or Navy or to accept a commission. Army The mailing of approximately 270,000 checks totaling $19,500,000 in family allowance payments to some 405,000 relatives and dependents depend-ents of soldiers will begin October 1 and will be completed October 10, the War Department announc-1 announc-1 ed'. Of the total, 135,363 checks ! are first payments on family allowances al-lowances which have been author-: author-: ized foi payment in October, while j the remainder consists of the Oc-i Oc-i tober payment of allowances which were authorized and on which pay-I pay-I ments wers made during Septem-! Septem-! ber. The number being mailed is approximately twice that of September, Sep-tember, and the November payments pay-ments are expected to be twice as many as in October. Persons entitled en-titled to the payments should report re-port any change of address to the Allowance and Allotment Branch, 20th and B Streets, Northeast, Washington, D. C. Indian Affairs Commissioner Collins of the Indian In-dian affairs said more than 125 i saddle horses are being used by i Indian Service Extension employees ! on at least 14 Indian reservations in order to save gas and rubber. In addition, many Indians in the cattle country are using horses in place of cars wherever possible. Mcrcant Marine Casualties Between September 27, 1941, when the U. S. merchantman I. C. White was torpedoed and sunk in the south Atlantic, and August 1, 1942, the U. S. merchant marine lost 2,301 men 410 known dead and 1,891 missing the Navy Department De-partment announced. U. S. Coast Guard Headquarters prepares merchant mer-chant marine casualty lists and notifies next of kin. The list includes in-cludes persons from 42 States, the greatest number from New York, 492, and the second greatest from Texas, 264. During this period there were no 'casualties reported from NEVADA, North Dakota, So. Dakota, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming. Wyo-ming. Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairman Chair-man of the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administrator, stated: "The first casualty list of War Production and Small Business The Board of Directors of the Smaller War Plants Corporation said the primary objective of the Corporation in making loans to small manufacturers from its $150, 000,000 fund will be to hasten winning win-ning the war. "If a small manufacturer manu-facturer can show that the money he wants to borrow will help kill a Jap or German, or in other ways shorten the war, there is a good chance that the loan will be granted. The Corporation is not going to ask for gilt-edge security," the announcement said. Priorities and Allocations To avoid substantial loss which would be suffered by manufacturers if they had to abandon nearly finished products in unsalable condition, con-dition, the War Production Board permits Foreign Silver to be processed pro-cessed until November 15 if it had been put into process before October Oc-tober 1 the date of the order to halt processing of such silver except ex-cept on orders with A-3 rating or higher. Labor Supply Director Anderson of the Women's Wo-men's Bureau said in a report, "Women's Employment in Artillery Artil-lery Ammuniation Plants, 1942" that the ammunition industry is already the largest woman employer of the major war industries and it is expected that employment of women wo-men to additional types of jobs will be extended. Officials in ten of the plants surveyed reported women will constitute about two-thirds two-thirds or more of their labor force, Miss Anderson said. A much larger expansion of women workers is also said to toe feasible on lines loading shells, particularly on the small sizes. In all bag-loading plants women sewed, trimmed, counted and inspected powder bags. Selective Service War Manpower Commission Chairman McNutt issued a directive direc-tive to all Federal Departments and agencies stating that requests for occupational deferments of Federal workers after October 6 will be determined by the ' nature of the work they already are doing. Requests to local Selective Service Boards for deferment of induction into the Army will be permitted |