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Show I BIG CHIEF WAHOO L, saunders WO&&ON I I ,-i f cmon. folks: m I HOPONUM ft 59 VJ BOND- ICL . . U.S.WAR BOND .. 1 10-4-1 Important Legislation Th-e Keiu e passed and returned return-ed to the Senate a bill creating a Small Business Corporations which would make loans to 'enable 'en-able small finmis to obtain war con xac.s. Under the House bill, Gov.rnmont procurement agencies ag-encies .would be requireli to sjAard contracts to small concerns con-cerns if they are certified as compe er.:, by WPB, and capi al-izatiarj al-izatiarj of the Corporation- would be $200,000,000 inete3d of the $100,000,000 as fixed by the Senate. Sen-ate. Army 'Jeeps' As Farm Power Units The Army's "jeep" or quarter-'ton quarter-'ton reconnaissance car Lias showed show-ed tup favorably in tests as a farm power unit and may ibe used ic-.ii faflrnii after to-3 war is over, the Agriouiture Depsr.-meni Depsr.-meni said. The itsists iw-ere first of 'several by agricultural e-rgd-neers to ifir.ii postHA'ar salvage tees for materials and miadhin-es. Jeeps are being made- in large numbers and there may- be a uipfus o the-m after the war, he Deipar.mer.'t naid. In, tests hi -y :i.id good work in plowing, harrowing, ar.d other farm operations oper-ations (row-crops excepted). President Reduces WPA Request I-n a special message to Congress, Con-gress, Presiii--r.it 'Roosevelt re- j duced It'.is WPA request for fiscal fis-cal 1943 frcl.n' $465,000,000 to $282,767,000. He :.aid toe war effort is drslA-ing w-crtoers from "every available source," thereby there-by reducing the' ir.eed for a work relief program. Tine WPA pro-I pro-I s.-raf.r.i, he said, -musi; be hieii "to one of wcrk relief for employable employ-able persons who, by reason of circums.ances, can.net oh tain- em-plci.ni em-plci.ni in, either in .war activities activi-ties or in other work." He estimated esti-mated i.lhat many of the 3,000,000 persons lu-me-mployed 1-vill Ibe i .-ired i-'iurirg toe oeiming year. He said "to meet labor ehorbages the recruitmienit olf workers froim every available source will be required and possibly even crga-niz crga-niz d migration in some instances." instanc-es." Conversion of CCC to War Basis OCC Director McBr.tee reported report-ed 85 per cent oif 'Jhe CCC program pro-gram is -now converted "to a complete war basis" and by June ' 25 :the conversion wall be com-' pleted. One hundred anidi fifty-one fifty-one oa-mpj are -now looated on or being moved to imilitary reearva-I reearva-I tione, 150 are on resources protection pro-tection pnoj'-'O.s, ar.d 49 iill be moved into imilitary areas Shortly, Short-ly, he said. The CCC, Mr. Mc-Entee Mc-Entee said, has provided basic meal In a-r.ii woiHk training to 735,000 men since May, 1940; has 'taught 18,636 meir.i to read and write; has provided vocational training lor more than 500,000'J has train:. d 36,000 in dpecial defence de-fence courses.' Agriculture The Bureau of Agricultural Economics repcrted: "The upward up-ward trend in cattle prices under way since last fall apparently hiss been! halted . . . Athouglh ea.tle prices this elprir.g are gemi-eiaily gemi-eiaily $2.00 Co $3.00 higher than a year earlier, the e'Staiblish-:rrje:nt e'Staiblish-:rrje:nt of maximum prices for beef may caui.le- hiardiships for so,me cattle producers, particularly particu-larly Jhosis .who recently have purchased feeder cattle at high prices oo the basis of an urnex-, urnex-, peeled iur.h'er advance in finished fin-ished cattle iprices." The Bu-r.iau Bu-r.iau also s.'ated the oui.look for hog prices this summer continues o t,.' the mo.t favorable in year; :the outlook for the 1942 jiamb crop is mostly favorable; wicol prices :are not expected to ehang'i' ixuch i.-.i the -next if.jjv mon-hs. First Treason Indiclment Asked Attorney General Biddle in-ilruc.ed in-ilruc.ed toe U. S. District Attorney Attor-ney four the Eastern District of Michtgan to seek a Grand Jury -nd-S' i.r.ie-r.it oi treaeoin against Max Sbephar.-, Detroit, who i;-charged i;-charged with harboring Peter Krug, Germair.i Air Force lieutenant lieu-tenant who e.cape'd. from a Ca-r.adin.-j prieor.i on- April 16. Penv-alt.-es for treason vary at the discretion of the. court from a $10,000 liine and five years' im-iriso.-.-me'n-t io the death penalty, "Jhe Attorney General said. 1 WPB Chairman Asks For Production Memorial Day WP:B Chairman Nelson asked war 'Workers lio give- imp 'the Memorial Day holiday and "honor "hon-or cur dead by making it a day of fullJtime production1." He said if a holiday has be-em scheduled sched-uled at any war plant, it should be cancelled. |