Show 14 t 0 1 6 4 0 uh no W am cje i washington IVashin glon D C congressional broadcasts although congress has consistently refused to permit its proceedings I 1 to be broadcast to the taxpayers who foot the bills one new york radio station has now taken the bull by the horns will dramatize congress to its listeners once a week station new york has decided to take the most interesting portions of each weeks debate on the floor of f the house and senate rebroadcast them with actors portraying the legislators give the public c a sample of what sort of representation sen tation it is getting in the nations capital the idea was originally proposed to Flo sen claude pepper by new owner former federal housing administrator nathan straus pepper then introduced a resolution in the senate urging that debates be broadcast but has been able to get nowhere with his resolution meanwhile straus polled the radio industry on his plan found that many other stations want to do the same thing and will probably broadcast dramatizations similar to that being worked up by congress cant stop stations from dramatizing its debat debates eq so will I 1 probably watch its speeches more carefully when it learns what is being done I 1 MANPOWER SHORTAGE the war manpower commission is considering a drastic new plan to provide manpower for war plants which are now having difficulty getting enough labor in the shortage areas according to new plan factories which have recently been put back on peacetime production after having worked on war contracts will be closed until the war plants have sufficient labor this should remedy the fact that workers are flocking to those plants which have already been re converted figuring that the jobs there are more permanent PRICE OF BUTTER UP because OPAs dairy price chief arnold J burke refuses to place a ceiling price on cream sold by producers the price of butter may soon go up five cents per pound this is to permit butter makers to compete with ice scream cream and cream cheese manufacturers in buying cream the latter haw have ten teen getting better prices for their products so have been able to pay more for cream than the butter factories to solve this inequality the war food administration has proposed to OPA that the price of butter to the public be increased five cents per pound despite its attempt to hold down prices OPA may have to go along this increase will not solve the problem though it ww will mean slightly more butter early this month the butter industry advisory committe committees ee urged OPA to place a ceiling price on cream at the producer level but burke would not consider it NOTE burke incidentally incident aUy submitted his resignation to OPA some time ago but his resignation was never acted upon it will be shortly to his chagrin REPORT ON CHINESE communists U S concern regarding the long shouldering ing chinese situation is coming to a head as a result ol of two developments 1 it became apparent that the japs could not be licked merely by island to island operations in the pacific this type of warfare might destroy even the japanese main islands but because the japs have been moving their war industries to china a major campaign on the chinese mainland is going to b by necessary 2 the united states was able to send an official mission to visit the chinese communists or agrarians arians for the first time in five years this was arranged as a result of vice president wallaces trip the missions subsequent report recently reaching the presidents desk convinced him that somehow or othel the two divergent factions inside china must be coordinated HOW guerrillas OPERATE the american missions report tc the white house is a very humar document it tells a vivid story oj oi the lengths to which chic h I 1 free ree people will go to fight an aggressor with nc ammunition to speak of perhaps averaging 20 rounds to a mar mac chinese guerrillas will attack a much stronger jap tores force in cordei to take away their supplies one of their most effect effective ivi weapons is homemade home made dynamite manufactured from saltpetre salt petre anc sometimes mixed ith odds ane anc ends of metal to make hand grenades dynamite has been too pre ore cious to use io in blowing up railroads so the guerrillas rip up railroad tie and rails by hand to thwart them the japs now rivet their rails to gether so many telegraph I 1 loles oles have hi been sawed off by the that the japs now have hava to go tc t the trouble of making con condret conc cret rett poles it |