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Show WASHINGTON NEiWS i FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER War Production and Small Busi-ne.ss Busi-ne.ss The Board of Directors of the Smaller War Plants Corporation said the primary objective of the Corporation in making loans to small manufacturers from its $150,000,000 fund will be to hasten winning the war. "If a small manufacturer can show that the money he wants to borrow bor-row will help kill a Jap or a German, Ger-man, or in other ways shorten the war, there is a good chance that the loan will be granted. The Corporation is not going to ask for gilt-edge security," the announcement said. Priorities And Allocations To avoid substantial loss which would be suffered by manufacturers manufact-urers if they had to abandon nearly finished products in unsalable un-salable condition, the War Production Pro-duction Board permits FOREIGN SILVER to be processed until November No-vember 15 if it had been put into ' process before October 1 the I uatc ot the order to halt process-l process-l ing of such silver except on or-; or-; tiers with A-3 rating or higher. T .Labor Supply Director Anderson of the Wo- I men's Bureau said in a report, t "Women's Employment in A-rtillery A-rtillery Ammunition Plants, 1942,, I that the ammunition industry is , already the largest woman em ployer of the major war industries indus-tries and it is expected that employment em-ployment of women to additional types of jobs will be extended. Officials in ten of the plants surveyed sur-veyed reported women will constitute con-stitute about two-thirds or more r.f thnir lnhnr force. Miss Ander son said. A much larger expansion ex-pansion of women workers is al-son al-son said to be feasible on lines loading shells, particularly on the small sizes. In all bag-load- ,g plants .omen sewed, trim-.acd, trim-.acd, counted and inspected pow-:ier pow-:ier bags. j e;tive Service War Manpower Commission Chairman McNutt issued a directive direc-tive to all Federal Departments and agencies stating that requests re-quests for occupational deferments defer-ments of Federal workers after October 6 will be determined by the nature of the work they already al-ready are doing. Requests to local Selective Service Boards for deferment of induction into the Armv will be permitted only if it is shown that the employee is serving in a key position in essential es-sential war work, or that there are equally compelling reasons ior his retention. Essentially the same rule will govern in such cases where the employee applies ap-plies for release in order to volunteer vol-unteer for service with the Army or to accept a commission. Army The mailing of approximately 2 i'O 000 checks totaling $19,500,-000' $19,500,-000' in family allowance payments pay-ments to some 405,000 relatives and dependents of soldiers will oeein October 1 and will be completed com-pleted October 10, the War Department De-partment announced. Of the to-al to-al 135,363 checks are first payments pay-ments on family allowances which have been authorized for payment in October while the emainder consists of the October .ayment of allowances which 'were authorized and on which .ayments were made during "Member. The number being '..wiled is approximately twice aat of September, and the No-Ve- payments aie expected 1 " Le as many as in Oc-1 Oc-1 :,. e - Persons entitled to the i "'... oi.niH rpnn.ot anv - . o. address to the Allow-a Allow-a ul Allotment Branch, 20th I ' " " Mort'ieast, Wash- D. C. I ;. ian Affairs Commissioner Collins of the Indian Affairs said more than 125 saddle horses are being used by Indian Service Extension employees em-ployees on at least 14 Indian Reservations in order to save gas and rubber. In addition, many Indians in the cattle country are using horses in the place of cars wherever possible. Merchant Marine Casualties Between September 27, 1941, when the U. S. merchantman I. C White was torpedoed and sunK in the south Atlantic, and August Aug-ust 1 1942, the U. S. merchant marine lost 2301 men-410 known dead and 1,891 missing the Navy Department announced. U. S Coast Guard Headquarters prepares pre-pares merchant marine casualty lists and notifies next in kin. The list includes persons from 42 States, the greatest number from New York 492 and the second greatest from Texas, 264. During this period there were no asulties reporoted from NEVADA, NEVA-DA, North Dakota, South Dakota, UTAH, Vermont, and WYOMING. Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairman Chair-man of the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Admimsteator stated- "The first casulty list ot mp American Merchant Marine "issued bv the Navy gives the l-'rv--i:-n:i .ruMie i's finst oppor-. oppor-. 'o understand just how - - id vital a cor.tnbutior - -Vio l's mon of the sea arc i ----fr 'o t'-e war effort ... Res , ' V rdom o' the sea: I neooles of the world is the monu ment we shall build to the mem ory of these heroes of the mer-' -a. ii marine." j Aid To Russia Secretary of the Treasury Mor- : genthau announced that an oil lelming plant will be sent to Russia under Lend-Lease for the processing of high octine gasoline. gas-oline. Treasury Procurement Director Mack said two gasoline refineries in Texas were being studied with a view to using them as part of the plant to be sent to Russia. Some other e-quipment e-quipment would be used in conjunction con-junction with the Texas refineries refiner-ies even if they proved usable, -Mr. Mack said. Post-War Plans The Federal Works Administration Adminis-tration announced engineering work has begun on a post-war building program to cost nearly 500,000,000. Construction of the joint Federal-State program will not be started until after the war, and will help to "take up the slack of post-war readjustment, the announcement said. 1c:l Cross Activities The Red Cross has announced the 1942 World Series baseball games will be broadcast by short wave to U. S. servicemen in Australia and the southwest Pacific Pa-cific Islands. These will be the first American baseball games ever broadcast there. 45-minute accounts of the games will be condensed to be shortwaved a-cross a-cross the Pacific by station KWID, San Francisco. The transcription of the games will be made in Sydney and sped to 12 stations of the Australian Broadcasting Commission for broadcast to A-merican A-merican military stations and hospitals and camps, as well as to men in the isolated regions of Australia and the southwest Pacific. Pa-cific. For men who cannot hear the broadcasts, the Red Cross will make phonograph records of the i games to be played in Red Cross clubs, hospitals, and camps. Censorship Byron Price, Director of Censorship, Censor-ship, speaking to Southern Newspaper News-paper Publishers Association at Hot Springs, said that American newspapers have done a good job of "striking a balance" in ... ; but have not fully in- I 'ormed the public why some in-t, in-t, malion lias to be withheld. ,ir Price said "patient explana-ion" explana-ion" of the reasons for withhold-ng withhold-ng news would foster confidence in newspapers and convince a greater number of readers that Qiey should guard their tongues more carefully. He said the basis ba-sis andtmly consideration behind censorship of news is that "none of us shall provide the enemy, by design or inadvertance with information which will help him to kill Americans ... I know of no good reason why, ln a matter of life and death, we should give , the nemy the benefit of the doubt." |