Evening star., 1942-07-16
Quota System Set Up
By WPB 10 Channel
Steel Into War Uses

OuVSu INV WV
MocLeish and Associates
Will Go to London to
Open owl Office
The War Production Board has
established a quota system for all
steel products and for every producer
who makes them in a move designed
to channel steel output directly into
vital war products.
In this way 1t Is proposed to ball
ance steel production among prod
ucts needed for war. Recent en-
phasis on semi-finished steel for
shipment abroad, plates, shapes.
alloys, rails and rail accessories and
tin plate have resulted in diversion
Of steel from bars, sheet, pipe, wire
and similar products. 1t was ex-
planned.
Maximum necessary output OF
each product will be possible through
establishment Of quotas for every
product and all producers.
Due to extreme shortage it haS
been WPB policy for months to
obtain greatest possible tonnage Of
steel plates without regard for effect
of the diversion on other productr
! The new policy does not mean neceA-
sarily a decline In steel plate pro-
duction. That, it was pointed out,
will depend on the relative need for
other products and upon the overall
supply of steel ingots.
George Washington at Trial.
The ONCE of War Information,
hard put to brush aside the veil Of
secrecy placed over the NaN sabo-
teurs' trial, has announced that
George Washington is helping
prosecute the eight Nazi saboteurs."
The George Washington referred
to is an attorney on the staf1 Of
Assistant Solicitor General Oscar
Cox, who Is helping Attorney Gen.
eral Biddle and the Judge Advocate
General OF the Army prosecute the
case.
| Attorney Washington. who Is sit
ting in on trial proceedings, Is said
to be the First Presidents nearest
living collateral descendent. He Is
a direct descendent Of President
Washington's brother, Col. Samuel
Washington. He is also related.
though quite distantly. to Abraham
Lincoln. His grandmother Jane
Todd Washington, was cousin Of
Mary Todd Lincoln.
MIR. Washington is on leave from
the Cornell University Law School,
where he is member Of the faculty.
Owl Plans London ONCE.
Elmer Davis owl will establish
London ONCE to maintain haison
with information agencies of the
United Nations for the purpose Of
relating the Governments informa-
t1onal programs and facilities to
those Of such nations"
| Archibald MacLeish, assistant
director; James P. Warburg, deputy
director Of the overseas branch, and
Murry Brophy, also of the overseas
branch, will go to London soon to
set up the ONCE.
The London Office Of owl will be
In the American Embassy under
the direct authority of Ambassador
Winant. The staff, it was said, will
not be large"
Tire Report Date Extended.
The Once of Price Administers
ton gave tire sellers a ten-day ex-
tension for filing their June 80 in
ventory reports with local ration
Ing boards. The reports, which are
to show all serviceable tires and
tubes-new, used, retreads and re-
caps-may be filed up to July Is.
All tire dealers. automobile supply
companies, car dealers and finance
companies that sell or hold new or
used tires and tubes for sale must
file the report
Exempted from price regulation
by OPA are virtually all liquidation
sales made under court order by re-
ceivers, trustees in bankruptcy and
similar judicial agents.
The exemption order does not
apply to sales of new and second
hand machines and machine tools,
farm equipment or scarce commod-
tiles which are subject to Govern
ment rationing or ALLEGATION. Neither
does the order apply to sales by .
trustee In bankruptcy, receiver ad-
ministrator or other officer of the
court engaged in continuing busi-
ness under court order, nor to sales
by sheriffs, constables, bailiffs or
marshals.
! This order,' OPA stated, will
| free courts Of a heavy administra-
tive burden without resulting in up
ward pressure on other prices"
Pine Oil Price Top Set.
Price Administrator Henderson
rolled back to levels prevailing in
October, 1941, the prices for natural
and synthetic pine oils, chemical
vital to the prosecution of the war.
He pointed out that some producers
advanced prices to uneconomically
high prices just before March of this
year, which Is the level used for de-
termining prices of most products.
Therefore, it was found advisable to
establish prices for most grades Of
the oil by specific regulation
A method for establishing maxi
mum prices for Christmas caros will
be announced before the fall selling
season, OPA stated. 1t was said that
manufacturers and wholesalers may
set tentative prices for greeting
cards pending issuance of the regu-
1ati0n