Show A WEEK OF THE WAR se secretary of war stimson to told id his press conference this nation is confronted with a situation in j which wo we canant buy our way out or produce our way out and the only way left is to fight our way out by intelligent offensive action every effort is being made to build powerful armed forces he said ant aej when conditions warrant they will seize every to strike at the enemy in the meantime the U S must be prepared to take sporadic attacks along its coasts mr stimson said because if we scatter our forces for the defensive it is the surest way to defeat president roosevelt told his press conference that under certain conditions enemy planes could bomb cities as far inland as detroit or enemy ships could shell new york city production and conversion the war production board announced war production of the big three automobile companies general motors chrysler and ford will be running at a rate of almost 11 billion when they reach pea peak production on present orders the companies will need to workers as compared with a peacetime peak of the board said war expenditures authorized by congress including pending bills and lend lease totaled billion on february 15 chairman nelson issued a set of regulations regarding the employment of dollar a year men by ane government the army ordnance department ordered ordnance chiefs in the 13 districts of the U S to provide va de engineering assistance to small manufacturers whose plants could be converted to arms production ARMY the I louse house passed and sent to the senate the new 32 billion war an bill which provides 23 billion for the army and more than 5 billion for lend lease the senate passed a bill to author authorize 1 i ze payment of allotments for one year to dependents of military personal captured or listed as missing voluntary enlistments in january totaled double the highest world war I 1 figures selective service headquarters announced new army physical stan dards for inductees will permit reclassification as class IA I 1 A of thousands of men now deferred due to teeth and eye defects NAVY navy secretary knox said the navy operating over three fourths of the globe under the heaviest burden in its history must now protect U S shores and coastal commerce strategic areas vital to our defense the american republics and the flow of supplies to great britain it must check japanese aggression gres sion until we can muster our forces and send it hurtling back whence it came the N avy announced launching of a battleship four destroyers and a submarine chaser rationing price administrator henderson announced three consumer forms for sugar rationing are expected to be printed and distributed by mar ath he said there will be two registrations for rationing cards 1 for housewives and another for small commercial users the froze all stocks of new mechanical refrigerators except the ones in the hands of retailers in preparation for conversion of th this is industry and its workers to war production all refrigerator friger ator production will end april 30 the board said it also assumed full control of the entire 1942 raw cane sugar supply curtailed use of critical materials in manufacturer of all musical instruments and restrict use of natural gas |