The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-07-17
will be indexed.
CIVILIAN SUPPLY

habits. our daily lives, perhaps eVei
our styles, will be controlled by tn.
restuirements of national defense
Some of the changes facing the pub
lie according to OPM: No corks i,
bottle tops; beverages in bottle
rather than cans! silk used in para
chutes will make silk stockins NOR,
scarce; women will have fewer per
manent waves, cosmetics, and facia
creams; it will not be patriotic t
buy two automobiles; farmers will
choose from 800 instead of l,40C
types of plows, chrme, copper, alum.
mum and woods such as mahogany
will probably not be available to the
furniture industry, and many design:
will be eliminated.
BUY COAL NOW
The Federal Bituminous Coal Con.
sumers' Counsel appealed to the ma.
ton to buy coal now so it can be
moved from the mines before growing
defense production burdens the coun-
try's transportation system. There is
an ample supply of the coal, the
Counsel said, but by September Is
shortages in some places may dew
elop unless coal is stored for the
winter before then.
PRICES
Price Administrator Henderson
announced that price ceilings on ruo-
Der tubes and other rubber products
Will be deferred 0 several months
20 allow the industry time To WORK
out price problems voluntarily. He
announced, however, thai ceiling
prices will be placed witnIn a few
Gays on cottonseed oil and certain
grades of West coast lumber used by
the Government. Mr.. Henderson also
stated that recent action TO check
rise in hide prices does noJ mean
the OPACS expect to freeze livestock
or meat prices.
ARMY
The President asked Congress Tor
an additional $4,7UU,UU ,OUv, Tor the
Army, most Of it o purchase OF
heavy guns, $4OO, 900, 600 for cloth
ing and other equlpmenC, SzOV,UOV,-
600 Tor the AIR torce II 9ooU,0OU
900 tor the signal corps, n a.
100000 for horses.
The War Department announced
formation of a completely MoOorlzea,
and heavily armed experimental divi-
sion, strengthened with tanks, with
80 percent more fire power than a
present arnored division although
with $4,000 instead of 1850 men.
The Department also announced that
to bolster anti-tank d~efenses, anti
tank specialists will be assigned to
every Army large unit to work out
methods of defeating armored force
attacks.
OPM announced that during June
1,476 military planes were deliver
ed to the Army, Navy and Great
Britain - lag more than the pre-
vious month and a new record. The
War Department announced con
tracts of nearly $20O,O00,0 600 fol
new airplane manufacturing facili
ties and ordered all Air Corps Re
serve Officers except those in key
civilian positions to active duty BY
August l. The Army Air Force es
tablished it's own Air Staff to form
Air Force plans and decide on equip
ment and other matters without tbs
approval of the General Staff al
heretofore.
The President asked Congress TO
$685. O0, 600 in appropriations an,
contract authority for the Navy TO
additional ordnance, yard eqipment
planes, and repairs, including $400,
900 for defense installations on ma
val and private ships-anti-mine eq
uipment, armor, etc., but, the Pre-
sident emphasized, not for guns t
arm merchants ships.
Rear Admiral Robinson. Chief o
the Nays Bureau OF Ships, an
nounced the Navy shipbuilding pro
gram is proceeding so rapidly tina
"every single combat ship is ahea'
of schedule" He said the problem O
labor supply has been solved an
the rate of expansion is limite'
chiefly by the ability to obtain mater
ials.
SHIPS
The President asked Congress TO
$1,698, 900 900 for the U. S. Mari
time Commission, including s69S,
100000 in cash for new ships an
1885, 900 900 in contract authori
cations.
The U. S. Maritime Commission
announced a saving of more tina
500, 900 tons of steel in the build
ing of 705 commission-designed ship
by construction methods not know
in the first World War. The Com
mission said the greatest singh
weight saving measure was the in
PRODUCTION of welding to replac'