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Show 30,000 pounds for vehicles having two axles and 40,000 pounds for vehicles having three . or . more axles. A. W. Fuchs, Senior Sanitary Engineer for the U. S. Public WASHINGTON Health Service, told the conference present dairy products inspection laws cause needless duplication of inspection procedures, and in some instances tend to limit distribution he said. He said a model milk ordinance OPublic Health Bulletin No. 229), designed to promote greater uniformity and a higher level of excellence of local milk control practices, is available to States and communities from the Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. HOW TO ADDRESS MAIL TO SOLDIERS Mail from home is the bright event of the day for the soldier and in the opinion of the War Department, supply of mail is second only to the supply of food as a morale agency. In keeping with its policy of striving for prompt and certain delivery of soldier mail, the War Department today reiterated instructions for proper addressing of mail for military mili-tary personnel. Mail addressed to Army personnel person-nel serving OUTSIDE the continental contin-ental limits of the U. S. should clearly show Grade, first name in full, middle initial, and last name of person addressed, followed by his Army serial number, if known; Letter or number of the company or other similar organization of which the addressee is a member; Designation of the regiment or separate battalion, if any, to which the company belongs; Army post office number in care of the appropriate ap-propriate Postmaster; The location of the overseas station should not be used; Names and address of the sender in the upper left corner. Mail addressed to Army personnel person-nel at posts, camps or stations within the continental limits of the U. S. should show the same information as prescribed for units outside continental U. S. except that the Post Office address of the post, camp, or station should be used, preceded in appropriate cases by the APO if aplicable; Mail addressed ad-dressed to Army personnel on maneuvers within the continental limits of U. S. should show the same information as prescribed above for outside continental U. S; Prior to beginning of maneuvers, maneuv-ers, the Post Office Department with the concurrence of the Army, will designate the postmasters in whose care mail for personnel involved in-volved will be addressed. est figure ever recorded, compared with $92,090 million for a year ago, and $82,587 million in 1929, the Department said. ARMY PROGRESS Under Secretary Sec-retary of War Patterson told a press conference the War Department Depart-ment cannot answer individual inquiries in-quiries as to the whereabouts of Army personnel or as to whether men are casualties or have been taken prisoners. Nearest of kin of casualties will be notified by official offi-cial telegram immediately upon receipt re-ceipt of information from the field, he said. Prisoner of War lists are received from the International Red Cross at Geneva, and when such lists are received the next of kin are also notified immediately. He said the great number of persons per-sons who have sent such inquiries to the Department should follow the precept, "No news is good news." He said "this is not merely an empty phrase, it is a logical point, rather than a psychological one." CONSUMER CREDIT The Federal Fed-eral Reserve Board ruled installment install-ment purchases must be liquidated in 12 months, and placed stringent limitations on charge accounts. The order, effective today, also requires that loans of $1,500 or less which are to be met in one payment have a maximum maturity period of not more than 90 days. Down payments pay-ments which hitherto were not required re-quired on some installment purchases pur-chases are mandatory on all products pro-ducts in the future. Down payments pay-ments may range from one-fifth to one-third of the price, according to the order. Previously, under Presidential authorization, the Board specified installment purchases pur-chases be liquidated within 18 months, and later reduced this to 15 months. The new order covers many commodities not brought under un-der earlier controls: automobile batteries and accessories, tires and tubes, bedding, draperies, binoculars, binocu-lars, household electric appliances not previously mentioned, used furniture, fur-niture, jewelry, luggage, athletic equipment, table and kitchenware. pottery, glassware, yard goods, and non-military clothing and furs, including in-cluding hats, shoes, and other items. Down payment requirements on all products listed is increased to 33 1-3 percent of the purchase FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER t SCRAP DEALERS LICENSED Price Administrator Henderson announced an-nounced all dealers seeking waste scrap or salvage material will be put under Federal ucense automatically automat-ically May 20. Mr. Henderson said that under the order "any dealer violating the price schedules or regulations covering such waste or scrap materials may have his license li-cense suspended as provided in the Price Control Act He thereby will lose his privilege to do business." This is the first application of OPA licensing authority to a specific Industry, although retailers and wholesalers generally will be licensed li-censed under the General Maximum Maxi-mum Price Regulation. PRODUCTION AND CONVERSION CONVER-SION WPB Production Director Harrison reported new machine tools, presses and other metal-working metal-working machinery shipped to war plants during March were valued at $10S.600.000. an increase of 73 percent over March, 1941. Machine tool shipments alone were 24,300 units, with a value of $98,400,000. The production rate for metal working machinery has reached about. $1,300,000,000 a year and is steadily increasing, Mr. Harrison said. NATIONAL INCOME HIGHEST IN HISTORY The Commerce Department De-partment reported payment of income in-come to individuals in the U. S. during March totaled $8,654 million, mil-lion, an increase of 21 percent over a year arc- and of 8 percent over February. AX;er allowance for ieasonal influences the Department's Depart-ment's index of income payments rose 0.9 percent from February to March. The increase during March raised the annual rate of income payment to 106 billions, the high- price. STATE AND LOCAL TRADE BARRIERS Public Roads Com- j missioner MacDonald said the following fol-lowing regulations, if put into ef-feet, ef-feet, will remove the more serious restrictions on interlState truck traffic: maximum width for trucks, 96 inches; height, 12 feet six inches; in-ches; length, 35 feet for single vehicles ve-hicles and 45 feet for combinations of vehicles; load for a single wheel, 9.000 pounds; load for a single axle, 18.000 pounds; gross weight, |