Show WASHINGTO N N S a 1 6 4 FROM OUR W K GRANGER joint join senate house committee Commil tee to adjust differences in tax mea measure sure I 1 the tax measure which started early in april must now be studied by a joint senate house commit tee which will adjust differences between the bills approved by the house and the senate the senate I 1 increased the measure over the j house bill by the conference group must adjust these senate changes increase in the corporation surtax rate from 5 to 6 per cent on net income up to and from 6 to 7 per cent on income income over that elimination Klimi Mimi nation ot 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 oil electrical appliances I 1 in n plant training WP A announced the in plant training program has passed the experimental stage and stated nine I 1 out of ten workers trained by in austry are now put on the payroll on the average in three weeks time although the program is stul still expanding industrial plants ar are teaching workers to become regular employees the plants located in lj 18 states manufacture diesel engines tools instruments st dies firearms parachutes chutes aircraft and foundry and brass products all workers assigned to in plant training are interviewed ter viewed and chosen by the corn panics own personnel departments cah the ithe unde understanding banding tan ding that the training period shall not exceed hours four weeks at the end of that time a worker either goes goe s on the company payroll or leaves I 1 the plant but the average worker is hired after three weeks training ng the agency said with with this rapid turnover officials of f expect thousands of workers to get jobs j 0 bs as the t h e training t r a i ning increases small S m aia business B u s in e s s the war department announced its newly intensified policies of giving the little fellow a chance and spreading army contracts will result in savings in orders for ane t ie army the department cited as an example its limiting orders to 50 to each manufacturer in ordering woolen coats this th s widespread competition in ord tin rint brought prices down to io 10 per ceni cem lower than a few mont montis is ao mints minis working evernie Ov Over ernie Fmc with demands for coin and reidy ready currency greater than at any other time in the history a 0 the 0 cited stats every mint is W wiring 24 hours a day and seven da dra 3 a week the finest air force a 1 aho io arll assistant secretary of war for air robert A lovett stat ad that with the beginning of second and third army maneuvers on sedof september rn the participating air con coin amanders manders will have in actual opar lation aaion from the point of view ol of I 1 quality of aircraft the finest air force in the world in point of quantity we still 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 every other day this rate should increase in the coming months mr lovett said his statements with respect to quality of american aircraft were based on the best information available from abroad and on the results of tests our own pilots have made with foreign equip ment NAVY the navy department has discharged persons for reasons of national security from approximately a dozen doz enof of its large shipyards and other industrial establishments during the last six months |