Show as washington D 0 MORE CANNED GOODS housewives who will get more canned goods this summer can thank the senates truman committee t no one announced tt it officially but it was due to their probing that the tha army recently released 30 mil llon lion cases of canned fruits and vegetables tor for civilian use the truman committee had revealed the fact that huge quantities of canned goods were a being hoarded or unwisely used by the army when fresh vegetables were easily available especially revealing was the cross examination of gen E Z B gregory the ardys quartermaster general by senator brewster of maine why does the arm army y feed ca canned ed grapefruit to its troops troop s in ciann miami asked brewster when grapefruit Is growing fresh all over florida because the men are too lazy to prepare fresh grapefruit was general gregorys gregoras Gre gorys frank reply he also admitted that green vegetables and fruits were readily available to army camps during a large part of the year but that army corn com emissaries mis saries purchased canned goods because it we was easier eimale to prepare than fresh vegetables the truman committee also found that as a result of this hoarding the packers and canners were in a quandary and expected to curtail production they knew the army had bad over purchased could never use its vast stores of canned goods so the canners figured the army would dump this back on the market birket thereby causing an oversupply just at the wrong time that was why 30 million cases were turned back to civilian use by the army now to ease the market while there is a civilian shortage WHITE COLLAR MINERS while the war labor board had john L lewis over a barrel for asking a 2 a day wage increase for organized coal miners another branch of the government the bureau of internal In terrial revenue okayed oklyed various salary increases for nonunion supervisory employees in coal mines the matter was kept hushed bushed up by secret boving internal revenue bureaucrats bu there are the facts A special internal revenue branch known as the salary S stabilization unit functions in the salary field like the war labor board la ia the wage field to keep personal earnings below inflationary levels the new unit must approve applications for all salary boosts affecting business executives and white collar workers while everything the war labor board does is open to public scrutiny internal revenues salary stabilization unit operates strictly behind the scenes and answer to anybody recently it leaked out however that bituminous coal mine op operators ra in a move to block union organization of mine sub bosses had requested government firmiss permission n to increase salaries of an all sup supervisory erv I 1 gory employees including mine superintendents ten dents managers foremen sub bosses etc that white collar increase amounted to an average of 2 a day just the increase the miners asked for GRAIN FROM CANADA food boss chester davis has spent days looking for a good transportation man to solve that problem of bringing in wheat from canada commodity credit corporation has bought 7 million bushels of canadian wheat but not a bushel has moved meantime dairy and poultry farmers in the no northeast are running low on teed feed grains great lakes steamers got moving a month late on account of the late thaw they are loaded down with ore for the steel mills have no space for grain rail movement is the only alternative grain stocks in the V U S have been the heaviest la in history but so Is consumption of grain record breaking aritia animal a 1 production is id eating into the stocks so fast that foreign imports must be moved this Is one time when farmers would welcome some of that much abused argentine argentina corn and wheat behind this excitement about grain supplies cup plies is one big question mark which few people outside the government realize namely the feeding of occupied territories it if and when invasion comes the civilians on the invasion front whether in france the low countries or the balkans will WAR have to be fed from the american bread basket quickest way to get food to starving people is in the form ot of grain MERR berrr GO ik L FOR has nd no love tor for the duke and duchess of windsor saw nothing of them when they conferred with churchill the only time churchill ever was booed bloed on the floor ot of commons was when he made his famous speech in the winter of 1930 defending edwards right to marry wally and remain king of england i only a handful of labor Is corn ing up from the bahamas to work in the U S A so BO this was justan just an excuse moisee to 7 see churchill he wants to get back to london |