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PAGE THREE THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON. OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941 army Secretary of War Stimson said IT IS FOR THE LITTLE GIRL WHO production of vital items has been in PLAYS THE PIANO SHE LIKES ... . creased with the cooperation of American industry during the past “100 crucial cays” as follows: light y tanks, 475 per cent; medium tanks, 467 per cent; smokeless powder, 127 per cent; machine guns, 93 per cent; TNT, 92 per cent; training planes, 55.7 per cent; bombers, 17.8 per cent. The War Department said Army expansion has progressed faster in the past year than the manufacture of moden weapons, but since it is : more important to know how to em ploy a weapon tactically rather than > i sages I to know how to fire it, “little train- I ing value is lost by the substitution of a stove pipe for a mortar or an oak bough for a machine gun." If a I company has fewer guns than men, the guns are rotated so each man has a chance to learn how to handle them. The War Deparment said it is Maybe it's the smaller size that appeals to her fancy . .. giving four types of tests to discover maybe it doesn’t look as difficult to learn on a Gulbransen a trainee’s ability and to help find Consol* Piano. But os tiny fingers scampar over the sim his “right” place in the Army. Se plest passages you still have all the rich, fine musical lective Service Headquarters an quality of "big" piano tone. Teachers recommend Gul- nounced that 7 52,572 twenty-one- bransen pianos for their amazingly responsive touch. year-olds registered on duly 1. Come in and see our display of Gulbransen pianos priced HIGHWAYS for budget-bound purses. Congress passed a $320,000,000 Liberal Allowanct for your OU Piano. Eaty Tarmi | defense highway fill for construction | of roads and experimental airplane For free catalogue and information just send a post landing strips, and to pay states for card to damages from Army and Navy ma neuvers. AID TO BRITAIN Federal Loan Administrator Jones announced the RFC has authorised a loan of $425,000,000 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to pay for war sup sential materials such as tin and rub WEEKLY RESSUME ber . . necessary for . . our defense plies Great Britain ordered before program. . .” He said the safety of the Lend-Lease Act was passed. Mr. OF WORLD NEWS other areas, including the Philippine Jones said Great Britain has put up DEFENSE WORK collateral which includes securities Islands, also is endangered. The President issued a statement of U. S. Corporation, capital stock The item below on “This Week in I that the United States has been let of 41 British owned U. S. insurance Defense” is a resume in brief form of | ting oil go to Japan “with the hope companies worth $500,000,000, and world news concerning war condi —and it has worked for two years— the earnings of U. S. branches of 41 tions both abroad and in the United | of keeping the war out of the South British insurance companies which States. This news will be published | Pacific for our own good for the de have net assets of $200,000,000. The from time to time in order that those | fense of Great Britain and the free- | The loan matures in 15 years and bears interest at 3 per cent per who do not take daily papers may dom of the seas. . .” keep up with world happenings. Mr. Roosevelt told his press con- | year. POWER “This Week in Defense” ference events in the Far East are OPM Director General Knudsen Acting Secretary of State Welles bringing to the American public a said present Japanese activities di greater awareness of the danger of named J. A. Krug, OPM Power Con rected toward Indo-China endanger the whole world situation. But as yet, sultant, head of a special power unit “peaceful use by peaceful nations of he said, the public is not sufficiently to assure an uninterrupted supply of the Pacific . . . jeopardize the pro cognizant of the perils of the situa electrical energy by reducing con curement by the United States of es tion, any more than it realizes the sumption in non-defense industries, ly 1 —— The Pendleton Music House GULBRANSEN CONSOLE PIANOS Yes We Have and, if necessary, by rationing power I bor priority” plan. Mr. Hillman said dangers of war in the West, an estimated 1,000,000 workers will where shortages are threatened. be needed by the aircraft industry by Mr. Krug said vast “power pools” July, 1942, as compared with the will be created to insure adequate supply of electricity for aluminum 200,000 employed today. He said and magnesium plants now under 555.600 will be needed by next July construction. He said one has already in the shipbuilding industry where been formed for aluminum plants in 375,000 are now employed. NAVY Tennessee and others are being con Navy Secretary Knox presented a sidered for Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, the southern sec special Naval ordnance flag to 14 tions of Kansas and Missouri, and for companies who are ahead of produc the Northeastern section, including, tion schedules of Navy contracts. He the New England States, New York, said firms who are “all out” for de eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer fense will be permitted to fly the flag and their employees will be al- | sey. lowed to wear in their lapels an “E,” OIL Defense Petroleum Coordinator the traditional Navy mark of excel Ickes requested a voluntary cut of lence. The Maritime Commission said thirty-three and one third per cent in the entire shipbuilding program is motor fuel consumption in the At nearly sixty days ahead of schedule. PRICES lantic Coast States to avoid ration Price Administrator Henderson ing. Congress passed a bill authoriz ing federal aid to private firms in asked the baking industry to reduce constructing interstate pipelines, and operating expenses instead of rais Mr. Ickes recommended that the pe ing bread prices. He said ingredient troleum industry construct a $70,. costs have risen half a Cent a loaf. 000,000 pipeline from east Texas to Bituminous Coal Counsel Harr rec the Atlantic coast with a daily capac ommended maximum prices at 10 per ity of 250,000 barrels. He also asked the industry to construct 4 0 to 50 large, high-speed oil tankers in ad dition to 139 now on order. CIVILIAN SUPPLY Price Administrator Henderson announced a tentativet program to cut production in the automotive, do mestic mechanical refrigerator and mechanical household laundry equip ment industries to make more mater ials available for defense. He said the cut will be offset by defense work these industries would undertake. OPM Director General Knudsen said the proposed shift should coincide with increased defense orders to the industry to avoid unemployment. LABOR President Roosevelt established a. committee on fair employment prac- i tice in the Office of Production Man- | agement to prevent discrimination against defense workers or Govern ment employees because of race, creed or national origin. The six members represent the CIO, AFL, the news- | papers and radio, and include two ne groes. OPM Associate Director General Hillman announced that 800,000 AFL building trade union members have reached a stabilization agreement with the Government calling for no strikes on defense projects for the duration of the emergency and no stoppage of work because of jurisdic tional disputes “or any other cause.” LABOR SUPPLY Mr. Hillman told railroad offic- ials and labor executives in Chicago that the 100,000 unemployed, skilled N. Sx i? -: 1 * railroad workers could be shifted to defense work under a “voluntary la- | cent above the present minimum. AGRICULTURE OPM Associate Director Genera! Hillman said agriculture will be rep resented in all of the recently cre ated OPM Commodity Sections con cerned with “commodities produced by agriculture or necessary to the production of agriculture.” ALUMINUM COLLECTION OCD Director LaGuardia announc ed that on July 30 local aluminum collection committees sent materials collected in the voluntary program to concentration points in the large ci ties of the 48 states. SMART MONEY Hf.'OWS WHERE TO GO AFTER \ READING THE ADS IhJ THIS "N newspaper . 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