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and beginning next July will need 15,-
900 a month.
If sufficient men do not volunteer
Mr.. Knox said, the Navy may have tc
utilize selectees.
Prices.
Labor Secretary Perkins reported the
cost of goods purchased by wage
earners and lower-salaried workers in
large cities increased Il per cent from
September to mid-October. She
said a survey of 10 staple foods in
10 cities showed food prices also rose
moderately during the first half OF
November.
Price Administrator Henderson an
nounced prices of wooden household
furniture were no longer going up. He
also announced manufacturers of more
than so per cent of all writing paper,
book and printing paper except news
print-haye indicated they will not
raise prices further.
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Priorities.
OPM ordered a 10 per cent cut in
production by large manufacturers Of
vacuum cleaners for household use; a
two-thirds cut in production of lead
and tin foil for decorative purposes
and for tobacco, chewing gum, bever-
ages confections, films, and similar
articles.
OPM also announced it will shortly
institute new priority system under
which manufacturers of essential items
viii be allotted materials on a three
months basis in order to cut down the
number of applications for priorities.
Priority Unemployment.
Speaking Assistant NehemNs of the
OPM Contract Distribution Division,
speaking in ST. Louis, said Army and
Navy contracts totaling $31 SIT 900
have been awarded in areas where
OPM have found unemployment caused
shortage of materials for non-defense
work. He said ten areas, including
rs plants and one entire industry have
been certified as eligible for these
special awards.
Labor Supply.
The Social Security Board reported
475,OO0 workers were scheduled to be
hired and 100000 scheduled to be laid
off in $500 industrial establishments
between now and February. Nearly
250,O00 workers will be taken on in
the aircraft and shipping industries,
the report estimated.
The Office of Agriculture Defense
Relations announced that eff all pos
sible means of conserving manpower
and utilizing it efficiently are employed
+. farmers should not be handi-
capped seriously by labor shortages
next year." Assistant OCD Director
Eleanor Roosevelt told a press con-
ference the OCD is planning a
"women's land army" to help harvest
next years crops.
Property Requisitioning.
The President by Executive Order
delegated to the OPM the power to
requisition property under the condi-
tons set.forth by Congress in the Acts
of October 10, 1910, and October Is
1941 Whenever requested by OPM
any Federal agency is authorized to
requisition property essential to ma
tional defense which cannot be obtained
in any other way.
OPM issued comparison of present
II Ex.<I ~, !,
during 1917 and 1913 The comparison
showed the productive capacity of each
worker has greatly increased because
Of technical efficiency, and that be-
cause of lower prices, the q. S. j:
now getting more value for every dol.
lar spent.
Defense Expenditures And Taxes.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman
EccleS. speaking in New York, said
"by the middle of next year defensI
expenditures will probably be runnin!
at an annual rate Of somewhat mor'
than Is billion dollars above the middl
of the current year Additional
taxation must be imposed and furthe
restraints (to consumer spending
must be imposed"
He said he hoped further taxation
viii first tap the corporate exces
, profits and the middle and upper in
dividual income brackets
l An OPA credit consultant, speakin
: in Chicago, said consumer credi
Y control is contributing as much as th
new Federal tax law to the battl
] against imitation"