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Show black opor; x re serious violaUon J 18 -a"d ure being Drn., 01 t Carrou y5 investigating other , ' ported tire bootleggi ' gion. t,!,m8 w ft, . SERVICE CEILINT MUST BE FILED Operators of ments, such as shoe garages, must flieA local war prlce W!H boards a statement of t-ing t-ing Prices f0r J perform. A coPy of t must be available at I of business forCe- mg is Sept. 10. fti : I'SED EQUIPMENT MUST BE REGISTERED AH owners of used ,,,,, equipment must tttSs-equipment tttSs-equipment with the War r- t tion Board so that at, J-essential J-essential to the ar Vro bo made, telle A, Miller & regional WlPB director n Owners of such eoulpiom " Rocky Mountain West must V tor it with the Denver !' WPB office before Sept M t" MUler said. ' k PROCEDURE IS AWoWm FOR JAP BEET LABOR Joseph H. Smart, t(&m , rector of the War Reioca, thonty, htis announced u cedure by which farmers rr.r'', lam beet harvest labor from V. projects at Cody, Wyo., and r-nada, r-nada, Colorado. Mr. Smart said farmers, make a definite offer of em," WASHINGTON ment tnrough the nearest olfa, the U. S. Employment &rr Forms may be obtained v USES offices throughout Color'" and Woming or from region, ; Denver. JUNK AUTOS PRODUCE 11,334 TONS OF METAL From the automobile grave;,,, of the five Rocky Mountain & during August came 11,334 tcB" , scrap metal and 1,174 pound. old rubber, E. J. Blankenfeld i trict chief of WPB's Auto Gnu yard Section, reports. NEWS FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER tin and 297,000 tons of steel scrap per year when the flow oi cans to present detaining plants reaches capacity levels, the WPB said. To help relieve the critical shortage of both metals, an expansion ex-pansion program now under way wUl increase detaining capacity to recover a total of 5,000,000 tons of tin and 495,000 tons of steel per year by the middle of 1943, if the nation's housewives furnish properly prepared used, tin cans for local collection agencies to segregate and deliver to detainers. detai-ners. Tin and- scrap steel, the board said, are both in the front ranks of critically needed war materials, and even with 1943's needs being cut to 48,000 tons and with dome'stie production of tin from Bolivian ores, the available avail-able supply is far short of essential es-sential needs. The 5,000 tons of tin recovered from cans will become be-come one of the principal sources, sourc-es, amounting to perhaps 15 per cent of the total supply. UNEMPLOMENT Unemployment reachead a wartime war-time low of , 2,000,000 persons in August with 8,900,000 in August, Au-gust, 1940, before the defense program was under way the Commerce department reported. CIGAR COUNTERS MUST POST CEILING PRICES Since tobacco is listed in the general maximum price regulation as a 'cost of living commodity' cigar and cigaret counters in hotels ho-tels are required to post their ceiling prices, regional OPA officials offi-cials have ruled. PRICE ADJUSTMENTS HANDLED BY STATE OPA Retailers in the Rocky Mountain area may now send their applications applica-tions for adjustment of price ceilings ceil-ings directly to their state OPA headquarters. The new simplified and expedited procedure for handling handl-ing such applications is in accord with OPA's policy of decentralization. decentraliza-tion. FIRST TIRE BOOTLEGGING CONVICTION OBTAINED In the first conviction on charges charg-es of tire bootlegging in the Rocky Mountain region, a Boise, Idaho, I tire dealer has been , sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,500. The case was cited by .John A. I Carroll, regional OPA attorney, as acquaint them with military flying fly-ing procedures. Requireents for candidates include: age limits 21 to 35, high school education, commercial com-mercial license with 200. h.p. rating, rat-ing, at least 500 hours logged flying time and cross country experience. ex-perience. NAVY Coast Guard aviators from December De-cember 1, 1941, to June 30, 1942, patrolled 17,842,231 square mlies and cruised over 2,000,000 miles alnog U. S. coasts the Navy department de-partment announced. Coast Guard aircraft have located. 502 survivors surviv-ors of torpedoed vessels and directed di-rected their rescue by surface craft, and have picked up 27 , badly injured men for transportation transpor-tation to hospitals ashore, ' the department said. NAVY The department said Navy surgeons, sur-geons, in treating victims of Japanese Ja-panese bombs at Pearl Harbor, have developed successful treatment treat-ment for bomb blast concussion of the lungs. The department also announced that fliers who are ineligible for combat duty by reason rea-son of minor physical defects, age or for other reasons, may apply to Naval Aviation Caded Selection boards for training leading lead-ing to positions as flight instructors. instruc-tors. Applciants who complete training will be given probationary probation-ary commissions as ensigns and junior grade lieutenants and will be assigned to the CAA as flight instructors. Application blanks for enlisted personnel for the Women's Naval Reserve will be sent September 11 to applicants requesting them by mail. Women wishing to enlist en-list should write to the Naval Officer Procurement Office at the nearest District Naval Head-j Head-j quarters and state their age, ed-I ed-I ucation, ' martial status, and if I married, occupation of the husband hus-band and ages of children. 1 WELFARE OF THE I ARMED FORCES The joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation Re-creation reported recreation facilities fa-cilities for the nation's soldiers, sailors, and Marines, now include 500 motion picture theaters, libraries li-braries containing over 3,000,000 books and editions of 300 camp newspapers . and hundreds of post exchanges doing a gross business of more than $500, 000,00 a. year. The: over-all program, which includes in-cludes sports, educational, religious re-ligious and other morale-buildin? programs, has been built on experiences ex-periences gained in World War 1, the report said. The report quotes Army Cief of Staff Marshall as saying, "Napoleon evaluated morale mo-rale over material as three to one. I believe that recent experiences exper-iences indicate ... the odds nearer near-er five to one, or possibly even ten to one." PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS The WPB prohibited manufacture manufac-ture of two-color shoes for spring and summer 1943 lines, and restricted res-tricted the color variety of shoe leather to six specified dyes Th board also banned use of metal nail heads for decoraUve purposes, purpos-es, limited manufacture of bows to leather unsuitable for - other parts of the shoe, limited use of double soles to shoes for industrial indus-trial and agricultural purposes and prohibited manufacture of leather boots, except Bleucher-cut laced boots and cowboy utility boots After September 10 manufacturers may use only the designs they used during the neriod September Septem-ber 1, 1940, through Sentmber 10, 1942, the board said, although excepiinos will be made where new designs are made to further conserve leather-STRATEGIC leather-STRATEGIC MATERHLS Old tin cans from U. S. kitchens kitch-ens wJl yield over 3.000 tons of WAR STRATEGY " W. Averell Harriman, special Lend-Lease Minister to London, speaking ' of Russian War Relief, incorporated, in New York City, said this nation must exert its utmost effort to give the Russians quick and increasing maerial aid. He said the Russians will never quit fighting , the Germans, and the recent conferences between be-tween Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin which he attended at-tended brought Churchill and Stalin closer in a "burning hatred" hat-red" of Adolf Hitler. The "Russians are determined to fight to the finish they ask and give no compromise com-promise it is either death to the invader or death to themselves. This unshaken confidence is based on two fundamental things confidence con-fidence in themselves confidence in their determination to fight on, in their resources of manpower to fight and to produce weapons, in the unconquerable vastness of their country, and, finally, their faith in their Allies, and particularly particu-larly in the United States." WAR PLANES t AND TANKS War Under Secretary Patterson told a convention of the United Electi-ical, Radio and Machine workers Union in Cleveland, Ohio, that U. S. plane production in August was greater than that of Germany, Italy and Japan combined com-bined and that tank production, which has already reached an impressive figure, will-be " twice as great in December. Flying Fortresses Fort-resses and Liberator Bombers are. by their performance records, the fastest high-altitude, long range bombers now flying and they have the heaviest fire pfwer. The Republic . P-47 Thnderbolt is by actual test the swiftetst plane in the air, while the much maligned Curtiss P-40's have prpved better in combat than the Japanese Zero, no matter what some critics may say, he said. s ARM The Army Air Forces Transport Command needs skilled radiomen and other specialists to keep its fleet of cargo planes at peak performnaee, the War department depart-ment announced. Successful applicants appli-cants to the Command will be enlisted as privates, but many of them will receive technical and non-commissioned officer ratings with top base pay at $138 a month free food, quarters, clothing, and medical care, plus 10 per cent for foreign duty and 50 per cent for flight duty. Applicants for enlistment en-listment may be made direct to any Air Transport Command station sta-tion or to the Chief of Personnel. Person-nel. Army Air Forces Air Transport Trans-port Command, Washington, D.C., the announcement said. War Secretary Stimson announced an-nounced the Air Transport Command Com-mand will establish an experimental experi-mental unit of women fliers, to be known as the Women's Auxiliary Aux-iliary Ferrying Squadron, to ferry 'mailer Army planes frcn factories fac-tories to airfiedls. Tentative slans call for an initial group : if about 50 wom-n. who will be i siven Civil Service status ard. -vho will rece-ive S3.M0 a year I ifier completion of a four to s'-x' weeks course of instruction to |