a a a the 14 THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, SPRINGFIELD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1941 is. Restrictions Are Ordered On Credit-Buying for 24 Items, Effective Sept. 1 (Continued From First Page) and fans, cooking stoves, sewing furniture. speaking, Starting Sept. 1 it will, generally be illegal for any store or others engaged in the business of: giv.
ing credit on the affected articles to grant credit without a down payment or to permit the payment: of the balance to extend over more than 18 Restriction List The restrictions follow: and One third minimum down payment maximum of 18 months to pay balance--new and used automobiles, airplanes, power driven bonts, outboard motors, and motorcycles. Twenty per cent minimum down payment and 18 months to pay balmechanical refrigerators of less than 12 cubic feet capacity, household washington machines, ironers, suction cleaners, cooking stoves and ranges, Chief Executive (Continued From First l'age) month's production will climb to 340 and the figures for September and October will be even larger. On plane production, Byrd's figures were essentially correct, Roosevelt conceded. He added that the senator had asserted that production of inilitary planes had declined progressively in May, June and July and that this WaS not strictly true. training planes left the assembly lines, he said, and the nianufacture of combat planes remained steudy while designs were changed and new designs were tested.
the question of production," a reporter asked, "do you feel that overall production has been satisfactory?" It never has been satisfactory, the President replied. On some things it has lugged behind on others gone ahead tof estimates--assuming that original estimates were right. Possibly some of the estimates were too. low or too high, he said. But on the average, he declared, defense (production was up to Reporters told Roosevelt that Rep.
Fish had said, at an America First Rally in Philadelphia, that this country would lose markets if Germany lost the So he thinks we wouldn't lose if Germany won, the I'resident retorted sharply. After adding he did not think any comment that could be printed was necessary, he asserted that the late Senator Borah of Idaho hud information in many ways was superior to that of some people going arond the country now making speeches. Yet Borah declared at a White House conforence in July, 1939, Roosevelt said, that his information was better than Secretary Hull's and that there would be no war in Europe that year. War broke out a few weeks Chiswering inquiries, Roosevelt said the Government, if it could be helped, did not want to take over the plant of the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Kearny, N. where a strike of a C.
I. O. union has kept work on $193,000,000 of defense shipping at a standstill since Aug. 7. Asserting there was nothing to hide, Roosevelt interposed no objection to a proposed congressional investigution of the shortage of oil and gas in the East, so long as nothing on the waruse of tankers was allowed to hurt the cause of democracy.
Plastics Industry (Continued From First l'age) may be drastically cut and attention given only to development for defense needs. It has been estimated that plastics tips are substituted for metal tips on shoe laces there would be suving of some 500,000 pounds valuable metal. The motor car industry, given second preference, may have to find new substitutes for the plastics which have been used .80 widely for steering wheels, dashboards. and trim which has already replaced the chromium trim on. passenger cars.
Plastics such as vinylite and koriseal which might have helped the nylon industry are being used by the Navy in ship insulation work, due to their oil -resistant qualities. There will be many little nonessential articles no longer obtainable and it has been such articles that Were responsible for 35 per cent of the total plastics production. Germans Decree (Continued From First Page) ported in Vichy that he was a colonel of the German J'aris staff stabbed to death in the metro (suhway). On Same Day as Killing Von Schaumburg' retaliatory meas. ure, decreed the same of the killing, was not made public until today.
The text of the order said; of the German army was them victim "Notice: On Ang. 21 member of assassination at "In consequence, Pacerce: "41. From Aug. 23, all French held in state arrest by the German authorities in France or arrested for them will be held as hostages. In case of a new criminal act, a number of hostages corresponding to the gravity of the will be shot.
"(Signed Von Schaumburg, general commanding, German forces of occupation.) "Paris, Aug. 21, 1941." News of the assassination and of the German action followed word from reliable informants here last that the D'etain government had decided to impose the death penalty for Communist activity and was preparing a series of decrees to bring the unoccupied zone into line with German measures against the growing ferment. Roundup Still Under Way The decision was said to have been made by the council of ministers yesterday as a German roundup of persons opposed to Nazi occupation troops netted upward of 6000 arrests in Paris alone. Meager advices today from Occupied French capital said the roundup still was under way but on a reduced scale. The newspaper Cri du Peuple, mouthpiece of Jacques Doriot's Fascist-inclined French popular army, reported that the de Gaullist and Communist movements have become rec.
onciled and have co-ordinated activities, presumably in Occupied France. "That is what they call fighting together," the paper addled sarcastically. Greater interest was attached, how. ever, to the section of the publica. tion's editorial in capital letters in which Doriot group proclaimed: ties just taken against the ComMeasures which the German authori-lanese munists should -as.
we have long demanded -have been taken by French authorities." It said this also hold for Jews, Free Masons and de Gaullists. NEXT WEEK'S WEATHER As Forecast by Prof. SELBY MAXWELL, Noted Meteorologist HOW HOT AIR MASSES WAVES FORM, COLD COLD 8 WARM BIG WINDS. CHINOOK COOL HOT WAVES ARE COOL HERE 15 A SCALE. PROFILE Of A HOT WAVE that BLEW on AUGUST 4,1941.
PACIFIC 0. NEV. UTAM COLO. NEB. MO ILL.
IND PA. NY. ATLANTIC a WARM AIR, FROM the PACIFIC OCEAN BLEW UP-AND-OVER the CONTINENTAL AND CAME DOWN ON THE GREAT PLAINS HOT AS SIXTY AND AS DRY AS New York, Vermont, cool, cloudy, calm. 3 Massachusetts, New HampYork, cool, modwindy. Southfair, moderately cool, wet, mod- Saturday, Aug.
30-All Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jampshire, Southwestern Maine, moderately warm, fair, moderately windy, Eastern New York, cool, fair, windy. 1. HOTS 31 6 HAUG.29 6 Friday, Aug. Rhode Island, Vermont, shire, Eastern erately wet, moderately western Maine, cool, windy. Connecticut, erately windy.
AUG. 30 WARM Sunday, Aug. 31 All Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ithode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Southwestern Maine, cool, fair, moderately windy. Eastern New York, cool, partly cloudy, windy. WEATHER QUESTIONS Q.
Why" will lightning kill some people and merely knock down others? R. West VA. A. Lightning travels 186,000 miles per It you feel it knock you down you are all right, you will live, You never can feel the bolt that kills you, it 'hits too quickly, and you are dead even before you can 808: the lightning dash. Q.
I have received your fishing chart and would like to know how long it takes for the tide to rise to maximum height? J.10.C.-Minn. A. There are two tides each day, 12 hours apart. There is often Anly 10 Or. 15 minutes slack water, and the rest the time the tide is either flowing in (6 hrs.) or ebbing out (another six).
Q. I have received your barometer plans. I would like to know what should the: Inaximum comfortable humidity be? L.C.D. -Texas. A.
Forty per rent of humidity very comfortable. At 60 per cent you begin to sweat AS you work, and at 85 per cent you just about wilt. l'eople cannot stand 90 per cent very long. Q. When will Northwestern Indiana re.
ceive its natural rainfall again? C.1.J. A. Not until autumn Is well under way, Q. If the moon no longer turns 01 11. axis isn't there danger of it being pullel to earth.
by suction of tidal waves? T. M. W. -Pa. A.
No. The tidal pull of the earth is slowly forring the mOon AWAV from not toward the PArth. It is lengthening our day, 100, by about 1 second per century, Q. I am very much interested in acquiring a general knowledge of Could you give me information as to literature? A.i I have in my hand "The logical Glossary" by the British MeteoroToxical Office, published by the Chemical. Publishing N.
Y. It 13 11 unusually complete little book. POSTAGE STAMP HYGROMETER VA Every year At. about this APA Prof. Melby Maxwell offers his readera plans for.
making postage stamp hygrometer. This little gadget will really record the moisture 111 the air. An ordinary postage stamp is the working part. don't need Dc or 2 100 stamp, stamp is just AN good, A .4 it the combinatinn of paper and glue that makes this hygrometer work. Just address Your request for postage stamp hygrometer plans to Prof.
Solby Maxwell, care of this newspaper. en closing stamped (3c), self-addressed elope for jour reply. Mexico Orders (Continued From First l'age) Mexico protest against Washington's anti Axis blacklist. The decision of the German government to close Mexico's Paris office, 88 well aN honorary consulates In six other Nazi-controlled cities, by Sept. 1 caused "profound surprise" hore, the Foreign Office "statement sald.
The honorary consulates arc in Norway, Belgiun. Holland and occupied France. 'To Exceed Instructions has The Mexican government, therefore. 1 decided to go beyond the German instructions, the statement added, by closing Mexico's consulate in burg and all honorary consulates still open in Germany. The United States ordered all Ger.
man and Italian consuls out of the U. S. in June, declaring their continved activity "Inimical" to the national welfare. The two Axig countries retaliated immediately. In the last few days Cuba ordered German and Italian consuls to leave and Germany and Italy again retaliated.
The Foreign Office bulletin emphasized that Mexico "does not recognize, nor for any motive can recognize, the state of things created in Europe by violence." Neither the German minister. Rudt von Collenberg, nor any official of the German legation could be reached for comment. All German consulates presently functioning in Mexico enjoy only honorary status. A log cabin that wAS the first school of higher education. west of the Allegheny Mountains, 19 getting A face lifting at Canonsburg, Pa.
More: than 31000. has been colin a community campaign to rejuvenate the structure, which is on the campus of Canonsburg High School. 2,4 MORE JOBS, PAY ROLL INCREASES SHOWN IN STATE City Sixth on List of Average Wages Paid; Chicopee Seventh Special to The Springfield Union BOSTON, Aug. 22-Employment pay rolls in 2037 representative Massachusetts industries continued mount in July under the impetus defense production, the State Department of Labor and Industries announced today. Hit New High "The average weekly earnings wage earners employed in turing in July ($28.13) were much greater than at any time since, these surveys were first undertaken Sepu.
tember, 1922," the report disclosed. Industries paying the highest wages were newspaper printing and publish. ing with average wages of electrical inachinery, excluding radio, machine shop products, $39.27: machine. and small working tools. foundry products, textile machinery, heating appa ratus, $34.88.
and metal stampings, $31.66. Springfield industries, with average weekly wages of $34.57, and Chicopee, with an average of $31, were sixth and seventh in the state in average wages paid. Lynn workers received an AV. erage nay of $11.13: Beverly, $39.57: Pittsfeld, $37.83: Worcester, $37.48 and Quincy, $35.62. Total pay rolls In Springfield plants manufacturing machine and small working tools increased 17.5 per cent over June, while employment in the same plants increased only 2.6 per cent for the month.
Accounts for Increase Fuller production in Springfield radio plants was credited with a 10 per cent increase in employment in electric machinery plants between June and July and a 14 per cent increase in pay rolls. There were gains, many of them Important. in both employment and pay rolls in 26 of the 36 leading industries and in 23 of the 37 leading citics July as compared to June. Nor. mally, there is only a nominal seasonal improvement in July over the preceding month.
Employment has increased each month except one since June, 1040. 5 the 436.185 persons emploved in the 2037 factories in July, 76,130 or 17.5 per cent were reported employed wholly in defense production. The total weekly nay roll in the plants covProd was $12,413,791, or an average weekly wage of $28.33. For July. the index number of ployment for all manufacturing in.
dustries was 99.1 man compared with 37.6 for June and 77.7 for July, 1910. 6 Up Per Cent The extent of the defense boom now engulfing Massachusetts industries is shown by the announcement that "records further Indicate the number of wage earners employed in manufacturing establishments in Massachusetts in July, 1911. WAs greater by 27.6 per cent than the number employed in July. 1940. and that the amount paid in wages was greater by 55.4 per cent." Employment and pay rolls in mercantile establishments fell off seasonally in July as compared to June but last month's totals showed substantial gains over July, 1910.
Employment in wholesale trade rose less than 1 per cent for the year but retail employment jumped 8 per cent, with an increase of 13.6 per cent in wages paid. Fall of Leningrad (Continued From First Page)' to be considering "vigorous measures," offers several feasible though difficult routes by which vital munitions might be delivered to Russia. From the Persian Gulf, made secure by British sea power, A recently completed 700-mile railway now extends across Iran to the shores of 'the Caspian Sea. It may be used now. but London and Moscow naturally are unwilling to expose vital munitions to German technicians and Other routes also cut through Iran.
From Bagdad in neighboring Iran truck lines ponetrate desert and mountain passes en route to the ahores of the Caspian and Black Seas. other motor caravan roads push toward Russia's oil fields from rail heads in India. All this, be it noted, is in the immediate rear of a potential war front which promises soon to be a focus of world concern, as the Nazi legions battle to win control of the Black Sea, seize the Russian oil fields in the Caucasus and threaten those farther on in Iran and Iraq. The third route of aid, by way of Vladivostok, offers substantial advantages, despite the 4000-mile haul on the overtaxed trans-Siberian railway from the Pacific to Moscow. It involves only a single transshipment and the minimum likelihood of intereruption.
Japan is "gravely concerned" over use of Vladivostok, but it is doubtful she will dare interfere. Armory May (Continued From First l'age) time women have been employed at the Armory, they said, adding that during the last World War large group of women employes aided in the production of Springtield rifles. According to Armory officials the Civil Service Commission will be asked for eligible lists for hench women, shop inspectors, mechanic learners, operating machine miller, operating machine driller, operating machine profiler, operating machine punch press operator, shop forewoman and assistant shop forewoman. They said that the list would probably be posted at the Federal Build1ng within a week, and that all. candidates for such jobs should consult the Civil Service for information on qualifications and wage scales.
Because of the alarming shortage of male skilled workers, Armory officials decided to prepare themselves to accept women for machine shop work so that if the situation became any more alarming they would have ready reservoir of women machin. ists ready to go to work. labor market report of the vision of Unemployment Compensation yesterday revealed that many industries in Western Massachusetts are preparing to train Women for. machine shop work. The report stated plants in this city, Holyoke, North Adams, and other cities and towns in the area are nOw training or are already using.
women in light manufacturing operations such as instrument assemblies, coil winding and machine operations. Springfield and Holyoke manufarturers are in immediate need of male machine operators, with the demand far in excoss of the, supply the report stated. "These areas are even experiencing extreme difficulty in filling the needl for trainees to complete refresher courses. It has been necesFary. for the NYA 10 draw in young men from other areas to complete roster of varions work experience programs," the report stated.
Patriarca May Be Held As Coakley Trial Witness Man Whose Pardon Led Indirectly to Impeachment Case Is Due to Be Released Sept. 6 Special to The Springticld Union BOSTON, Aug. 22-Raymond L. S. Patriarca of Providence, whose pardon in December, 1938, precipitated the investigation into Massachusetts pardon and parole procedure and led indirectly to the pending impeachment trial of Governor's Councilor Daniel If.
Coakley, is scheduled to be released Sept. 6, from sentence ho is now serving In Middlesex County Jail. Since May 10, 1910, Patriarca has been serving 18-month sentence on a conviction "of being an acressory after the fact to theft ot: automobile from a Cambridge theater manager in 1937, He received his present I sentence after being brought back from Florida after his 1938 pardon for other more serious had His present term is due to expire precipitated a storm of criticism." Nov. 9, but he is to be released Sept. 6, with time off for good behavior.
The offense for which he wAS convicted in 1910 antedated his previous conviction of armed robhery, breaking. and entering and larceny for which he had received a pardon. Jury Disagrees (Continued From First Page) citically, charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud the United States, took the jury's report of a stalemate calmly. The jurist, who retired two years ago, received congratulation from friends after the jury tiled out. The Government contended that Davis accepted $27,500 in two unsecured loans from Fox.
The former movie producer had testifled he had hoped to obtain favorable rulings in various phases of his bankruptcy from the Appellate Court. Admitted Charges Fox, whose holdings once were es(timated at approximately $35,000,000, pleaded guilty months ago to the charges and was a prominent guvernment witness. Davis denied the Government's charges and testified he had never obtained loans from Fox. "Kaufman, who was named by the Government as the "go-between" for Davis and Fox, likewise denied the charges. When Foreman Harry McDougall reported to Judge McLellan that the jurors had been unable arrive at A verdict, the judge.
asked the they might reach a verdict if given more time. McDougall replied, "Your lionor, we may make a try at it." The judge, however, told the jurors: 1 think that having been out in a sense some 20 hours and having been engaged in deliberations at least hours, I ought not to ask you to continue your deliberations." British, Russians (Continued From First Page) against complementary German offensives, The early morning Soviet communique said nierely "our troops continued to fight stubbornly with the enemy on the entire front" and reported no new withdrawals. Russian reverses above the "cradle of the Socialist SO the Bolsheviks described Leningrad in vowing bitterly before the memory of Nikolai Lenin that the invaders should never take it -were said by the Finnish cominand to have been tremendous. Dispatches from Helsinki acknowledged, however, that on the lower isthmus the had strong Soviet defenses to meet and the most formidable of such natural ohstacles A8 swamps, lakes, streams, forested and twisted terrain. It was below Leningrad where the showdown approached against German columns thrusting northeastward and almost due north.
The city's airports, the Gormans said, were under heavy acrial assault preparation for the coming effort storm it. The Soviet general staff's conimunique for yesterday afternoon reported that fighting continued in the old the one areas 75 of miles Kingisepp and Novgorod, to the southwest of Leningrad and the other 100 miles south, and from this Moscow observers drew the inference that the Giermans had made no substantial gain. This was in part supported by the Nazi themselves, who, while not receding from their claims that things were going generally well for them, acknowledged that the Russians were sending heavy reserves into the line a contest that was "not yet The authorized spokesman, who reversed the practice common to both in speaking with less complete optimism than the German high command, also admitted that "islands of: opposition" remained behind the German lines. As to the central front. he conceded was possible that fighting still went as far A 200 miles west of Gomel, which the Nazis recently captured, and sairl that new "encirclement" battles were developing.
The German command itself claimed that east of Gomel the Russians were in flight; that the drive on Leningrad was moving steadily; and that in eliminating the "last of the Russians the cupied the small port of Ochakov, 15 southern Ukraine the Nazis had. ocmiles to the cast of besieged Odessa. Yet, Berlin spokesman edged in supplement that the Soviet forces were still holding some of their bridgeheads on the lower Dnieper River. Claims of Losses The Nazi communique issued new claims of vast Russian losses, this time stating that 1,250,000 Red prisoners Suviet were tanks, in 15,000 hand and that 14,000 cannon and 11,250 planes had been destroyed or captured. From this less official German sources went on to estimate that aggregate of 5,000,000 Russian soldiers had been put out of action.
Moscow countered the German claims with some figures of its own, placing Nazi dead and wounded at 2.000,000 while admitting 700,000 Red army men killed, wounded and missing. 'The Russians gave German material losses at 8000 tanks, 10,000 guns and 7200 planes, compared to: 3500 Russian tanks lost, 7300 guns and 4500 aircraft. The Soviet admission of its own losses WAG in contrast, to the word from Berlin. Nothing was said of German losses, but in this connection there was a sign ficant development: Berlin announced that qualified men from 17 to 45 would now be admitted into the militarily exclueive elite corps and required to serve only. for the duration of "the emergency" and not for the customary 12 years.
Moreover, in the face of earlier Ger- F. D. R. ISSUES FORMAL ORDER FOR EXTENSION But Leaves Way Open for Demobilization When Conditions Warrant Asst. Atty.
James Farley sugi gested tonight Patriarca might be held following his release, in case he is wanted as 8 witness at the impeachinent trial of Councilor Coakley. It has not been decided whether Atty. Gen. Bushnell will wish to call l'atriarca to the stand Farley said. les Springfield Patriarca in WAg the stolen apprehended car which in had false registration plates, Democrats to Meet On Redistricting Democratic members of the legislative: committee on establishing new congressional districts will meet with state Democratic leaders and Democratic representatives in Congress to discuss.
court action against the re. Legislature by. Republican madistricting bill pushed, through the jority, State Democratic Chairman William H. Burke, announced today. Burke said the meeting will be held Tuesday in Boston.
Choice of legal 'counsel will be discussed. man predictions that it would be all up with Russia before winter, the Berlin censorship allowed the transmission of dispatches reporting that many sleighs were being provided for army tise. Leningrad was clearly prepared for a terrible siege. Recruits of the "people's army" called up to aid the regulars drilled on the banks of Neva River; thousands of men urgently raised fortifications on the city's a p- proaches and barricades in its streets. Gorey, Estelle (Continued From First Page) ard I'.
Mattson, commander of Norfolk County Division, and Carl T. Carey, Belmont. Without Opposition Coleman C. Curran of Boston was nominated without opposition for reelection as adjutant, and Thomas Mackey of Somerville wag ated without opposition for treasurer. Gov.
Leverett Saltonstall, declaring that both state and Federal governments faced the problem of rehabilitating workers When the defense surge is ended. told the delegates: "l'eople have got to live when this crisis is over. The social security program and social legislation must be kept up so that we may have funds for the needy when they're. needed most-when the Government defense program ends." Mass. Gasoline (Continued From First Page) cution should be instigated.
There appeared considerable confusion among station owners over the present 10 per cent rationing plan, and there were varied predictions on the amount of gasoline available for heavy traffic expected over the Labor Day week end. Maine's governor, Sumner Sewall, after rescinding a proclamation which would have closed the stations in his State for the next two Sundays in the month, announced that the motorists' opportunity of obtaining gasoline in his State was. just as good AS in the other 16 Eastern Seaboard states. Some stations in New England have announced they would close Sundays. Many were limiting their sales-some enforcing a Ave-gallon maximum to customers.
There appared to be no bard and fast rule generally. With an expected reduction in commuting by automobile, the Boston Elevated Railway announced plans for expanded service. The New Haven Railroad, also looking forward to heavier passenger traffie, said it was not contemplating any curtailment of service to conserve coal. Massachusetts' director of gasoline conservation, David H. Howie, appealed to presidents of colleges and universities to prohibit resident students from operating automobiles, to save gasoline.
Would Develop Uniform Program WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (AP)Confronted by widespread confusion in operation of gasoline rationing in the East, the Defense l'etroleum Office sought today, with aid of the oil industry, to develop a uniform program for equitable treatment of. all "nonessential" consumers. One informed source indicated such 3. plan might provide for limiting the gasoline delivered at each sale, the number of gallons to be determined by the individual station's supply on hand.
Meanwhile the debate on availability of rail tank cars to relieve the situation. in the Last crowded back into the petroleum picture. Ralph K. Davies, acting defense petroleum coordinator, said strenuous efforts by the Petroleum Office had failed to locate large numbers of cars allegedly available. Whereupon J.
J. T'elley, president of the Association of American Railroads, said that as of yesterday there were 17,507 surplus tank cars throughout the country. that could move barrels of oil daily to the Fast, and he added: "All they have got to do is order them and load them and We will move them to whatever destination they direct." More Drastic Cut Recommended NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (AP) -The Eastern Petroleum Marketing Board, an industry body acting as a government adviser, has: recommended to Oil Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes a drastic cut in gasoline supplies in the next two weeks, aimed primarily at the Eastern Seabroad States' big Labor Day week- end consumption peak, it was: learned today.
Soldiers with a practical turn of ming have developed a new sport at It. Leonard Wood, Mo. Instructed to smash empty tin cans to eliminate breedings places for mosquitoes, the troopers decorate cans with pictures of Hitler and smash them with glee. Government quarters have announced that Australia's last wheat crop totaled 83.200,000 bushels which. owing to an unusually dry season, was the lowest since 1019-20 and means that the: Government will have to extend grants of $8.037,500 together with a loan of $3,250,000 to growers.
-A formal order allowing the War HYDE PARK, N. Aug. 22 (AT) Department to keep men in the Army an extra 18 months, if the safety of America required them, was issued today by President Roosevelt. Order Tempered It was tempered, however, with authorization for the demobilization of personnel after a year's service whenever the interests of national defense permitted. presidential executive order made fully effective the Selective Service Extension Act, which became law last Monday.
Under it, selectees can be kept in training for years instead of single year. An 18 months' extension applies also to national guardsmen, reservists and enlisted men of the Regular Army. Would Become Reserves Mr. Roosevelt's order said the Secretary of War might release selectees after only 12 months' service and transfer them to reserve components of the Army "with.a view to the early cretion of a large trained reserve while, at the same time, maintaining the Army in immediate readiness for use in the defense of the Nation." In his discretion. the secretary may discharge reservists and guardsmen after a year's active duty and enlisted personnel of the Army after the regular enlistment period is up, but only "as the interests of national defense permit." Actually, the War Department has indicated that many selectees and guardsmen will he kept in training no than 14 to 18 months, unless the world situation becomes graver.
Officials said some 206,000 men probably would be released before Christmas. These include men who were 28 years old on July 1, married men who have served a year, and dependency and hardship cases. Strike Settled (Continued From First Page) Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, left for New York City after a fruitless conference at Washington with labor representatives con the Kearny strike which is holding up work on $193.000,000 of naval and merchant ship contracts. There were reports in the capital, entirely without confirmation, that he would confer with directors of his firm on possible management concessions. Meantime, President Roosevelt dicated he held hopes that management and labor would yet settle their differences.
He told A press conferonce at Hyde Park, N. that the Government did not want to take over the Kearny yards if it could be helped. A. F. L.
locals threatened a strike at plants of the American Ship Building Company in Cleveland, Toledo, Lorain, Superior, Chicago, and two in Buffalo, N. to back up a demand for a closed shop. The falo local voted for a strike, but announced there would be no walkout until directed by the union's negotiating committee in Cleveland. With the C. I.
0. also claiming members 'in the plants, the ment asked the National Labor Relations Board to hold collective bargaining elections at the six yards. Among other work, the company is nets building and two tenders are for anti submarine ore carriers. Union Dispute Center of the Detroit transportation tie-un also is a dispute between F. I.
and C. I. 0. unions. The city yesterday proposed striking A.
F. L. street railway employes that the A. F. L.
be given exclusive bulletin board privileges in the operating division where it has majority, according to dues check off records, and that the C. I. given similar rights in the maintenance division. This was rejected'by the A. F.
which demands sole bargaining rights. The Weather FORECAST: Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode IslandMostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday, cooler in the afternoon; fair and moderately cool Sunday, Maine, Vermont and New lampshire Scattered showers and thunderstorms followed by clearing and cooler Saturday; Sunday fair and moderately cool. Eastern New York -Fair and slightly coolfew scattered showers followed by in north and cloudy with a clearing in south portion Satur. day; cooler Saturday night; Sunday generally fair, moderate temperature. WINDS: Eastport to Block Island-Moderate to fresh southwest shifting to northwest winds Saturday; weather mostly cloudy with occasional showers, fog along coast lifting rapidly after the wind shift.
Block Island to HatterasModerate southerly winds over south and moderate to fresh southwest winds over north portion Saturday becoming west or. northwest early Saturday night; broken to overcast cloudiness with scattered showers Saturday. CONDITIONS: There has been considerable cloudiness over the Eastern States during the last 24 hours attending the eastward movement of a weak trough over: the lake regions and a few show. ers and local thunderstorms oucurred Friday in the Atlantic States frin Florida ward to New England. A mass of relatively cool but: much drier air has overspread the upper Mississippi Valley and 1S spreading eastward into the Ohio Valley and North Atlantic States attended by An aren of relatively high pressure.
Considerable cloudy weather continues over Texas and from the Rocky Mountain region westward and numerous showers and local thunderstorm activity has been reported. Hot weather continues in Southern Texas and in Arizona. Otherwise nearly seasonable temperatures prevail with little change in temperature since Thursday. TEMPERATURES: With the maximum for the 12 hours preceding and the minimum for the 21 hours preceding 8.30 last night: Max. Min.
Albany 82 61 Cloudy Boston 79 59 Cloudy Buffalo 80 61 Cloudy Burlington. 85 58 Cloudy Chicago 86 66 Clear. Denver 74 51 Hartford 79. 60 Cloudy Jacksonville 03. 75 Rain Kansas City 88 66 Cloudy Los Angeles 81 62 Clear Miami 87 80 Cloudy New Oricans: 93 76 Cloudy New York 78 61 Cloudy Thiladelphia 81 57 Cloudy Pittsburgh 83 61 Cloudy Portland: 73 47 Cloudy San Francisco 65 55 Clear St.
Louis 87 68 Cloudy heating stoves, and space heaters, electric dishwashers, roon-unit air a a conditioners, sewing machines, radios, phonographs and musical instruments composed principally metal. pa payment Fifteen a and per 18 cent months minimum to nay- down household furnaces heating units for furnaces (including installations for oil, gas, or coal stokers), house. hold water heaters, water pumps, plumbing, and sanitary fixtures, home air -conditioning systems, and attic ventilating fans. Ten per cent minimum down payment and 18 months to. pay- -new household furniture, (including iceboxes, bed springs and mattresses but excluding floor coverings, wall coverings, draperies and bed coverings) pianos and household electric organs.
No down payment but maximum of 18 months to pay--materials and serv. items listed above) used $1000; same. restriction on repairs or improvements on estate Executive when amount is cash loans of less. than $1000. Rules for enforcement of these restrictions were contained in a 23-page set of regulations, some of which wiil not become effective until later.
For instance, renewals of and additions to present installment credit will not be effective until Jan. 1, Cash Transactions Today's order does not affect any cash transactions, any credit outstanding prior to Sept. 1 (except if renewed or expanded later), and does not limit ordinary charge accounts. Exceptions were provided in some cases. For instance, the restriction on small cash loans does not apply to students.
Likewise, airplanes to be used in connection with Civil Aeronautics Administration program and equipment for defense housing are exempted. Also, more liberal terms are authorized for persons swearing in writing that they can not afford to meet the terms and will suffer "undue hardship" if denied more liberal credit.Firms selling merchandise on the "lay -away" plan call figure the maximum time payment period from the time the purchased article is taken away. by the consumer, rather than when ordered by him. The restrictions, promulgated under a 1017 statute, will be administered by the board through the a 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks and their 21 branches. To start with, the board granted general license to everybody to extend installment credit in compliance with these regulations.
But beginning the first of next year all stores, banks and others will have to have individual licenses obtainable from the Federal Reserve Banks. I License Suspensions Violators of the regulations will have their licenses suspended, which will prohihit them from giving any kind of installment credit. The board warned the public and business that today's order is just the beginning of- credit regulations, and that changes "may be expected from time to time as experience with the regulations is gained and as changing cconomic conditions indicate the need therefor." This meant that, at any time, the board may put additional articles on credit restriction list, may change the down payment or maximum time of repayment, or may limit other forms of consumer credit besides installment credit. Senator Asserts (Continued From First Page) and over were built and delivered during 1940. have in my possession a signed letters to S.
this land, effect chairman from of Admiral the United States Maritime Commission," he continued, adding: stated that for the calendar year 1941 only 78 cargo vessels would he constructed and 27 tankers, making a total of 105. "I have in my possession A letter dated 14, signed by Admiral Land, stating exactly these figures. Does the President dispute this source? "In my Senate speech I sail that only 28 major naval vessels will he added to our Navy in 1941--two battleships, 17 destroyers, nine submarines, no aircraft carriers and no cruisers. I have this in writing from the Secretary of the Navy, Does the President dispute this source?" "Woefully Inadequate" Byrd suid the President apparently did not deny his statement that the production of 90-mm. antiaircraft guns was negligible for the two-year period starting with the European war.
"The President," he added, "corrects my estimate of four 90-mm. guns monthly and. said the program calls for 61 monthly for the balance of this year. The future production is, of course. problematical, whether four or 61 90-mm.
guns are produced monthly for the rest of the year, either figure is woefully inadequate. Recalling he had stated that the country had 521 tanks on hand last Sept. 1, of which 243 were listed AS obsolete and all the others were antiquated, the Virginia senator said he had received that information in writing "from an indisputable government source." Byrd continued: "Not 011c single heavy tank has heen produced or is on order. I stand upon this statement and have official proof to sustain it. been sorta to England itself was statement that no tanks had nically accurate, but I now find that about 200 light 12-ton tanks were sent to Africa for use by the British.
Not single medium 32-ton tank, I Am told, has been sent to the British anywhere, and not a single heavy 60-ton tank is on Boosting Crabmeat (Continued From First Page) heart of Mississippi coast seafood canning industry, were pleased today over I'resident Roosevelt's order creasing the tariff on imported crabmeat, which comes principally front Japan. Means Lot to People "It will mean lots to people of the Mississippi coast," George Dubaz of Dubaz Brothers Canning Company said. Other packers expressed similar sentiment. Increased demand for the Gulf Coast product was seen by C. F.
Gallott; packer. Dubaz said the Japanese product WAS retailed principally in the Western States while the Gulf Coast mar kot was almost exclusively in the East Mississippi crabmeat is shipped on ice as perishable goods while the Japseafood is sent in cans any. where. In Biloxi's market today white crabmeat was sold at 40 rents. A pound and clawmeat at 30 cents.
Japanese white crabmeat sells for 50 cents A pound. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SPRINGFIELD, COOL REGION COOL CONNECT YORK CITY NEW UPSTATE NEW YORK JERSEY PENNA. NEW BALTIMOREA HINGTON RICHMOND VA. NORMAL: OFAIR PARTLY CLOUDY EDGE STORM UNSETTLED tO STORMY STORM W- WIND HUMID HEAVINESS Of BAR -DENSITY OF CLOUDS GREAT PLAINS HOT WAVES ARE CHINOOKS When you go into a hotel in Kansas, or Nebraska or Oklahoma or the Dakotas, you are at once. conscious that the, whole establishment is designed combat heat.
It doesn't matter whether the weather is down to zero outside, likely as not you will be served with ice water, and there will be electric fans about, maybe not running just at the moment, but there, ready to run at the click of a switch. And in summer, believe me, it does get hot! Fortunately it is a dry heat. If there were a wet heat, like that in Cuba, few people would be able to live in it. When the air is humid a breeze does not cool you, and you will wilt. But when the air is dry, though hot, eVen a slight breeze is cooling.
Fans work well on the Great Plains, and that is why the hotels there have SO many of them. For a long time scientists did not know where this peculiarly dry and intensely her hot air over the Great Plains came from. did not come from the Gulf of Mexico. they knew, for the warm air down there is usually wet. Then, too, only a few of the bright days over the Western Plains developed hot waves.
It was all a great mystery until weathermen began sending sounding balloons into the upper air to record the weather high overhead. And then the reason why hot waves came was as plain as day. It was found that the hot air that makes a Kansas scorcher originate in the Pacific Ocean, far to the south of Mexico. As it flows north and A little east it meets the Rocky Mountains. Warm winds are forced to rise high as they flow over the Rocky Mountains, so even observers on the mountain tops cannot usually see them.
After passing over the continental divide warm Pacific winds curl down. They are still hot from their tropical origin, and as they curl down they are further warmed and dried, 80 they touch ground they are really chinook winds. Little the western mountains, and in winter chinook winds are common enough in they are greedy snow eaters. But the gigantic chinooks that make western hot waves surprised even the blase weather men, they were 80 big. Shaded areas on the map indicate cloud- moisture.
Femneraturps Are figured from normal, There is A normal temperature for every day for every place. Normal depends on 5 degrees above normal is warm: 10 above i4 hot. 5 degrees below is cool; 10 is cold. AUG. WARM Monday, Aug.
25-All Massaschusetts, Connecticut, Ihode Island, Vermont, New York, Southwestern Maine, cool, partly cloudy, calm. Eastern New York, cool, fair to partly cloudy, calm. WARM 26 5 Tuesday, Aug. 26-All Massachu. setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, warm, moderately wot, moderately windy.
Eastern New York, Vermont. warm, cloudy, moderately windy. Now Hampshire, Southwestern Maine, warm, wet, moderately windy. AUG.27 Wednesday, Aug. 27-Al1 Massachu- setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ver.
mont, Southwestern Maine, moderately, cool, cloudy, modorately Hastern New York, moderately cool, moderately wet, moderately windy. WARM AUG.28 WARM AUG.28 Thur day, Aug. 28-411 Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Southwestern Maine, cool, fair to partly cloudy, calm. Eastern.
