The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-05-21
ed June 80, 1941. New installa-

tons of air conditioning and
commercial refrigeration equip
ment were banned, except for
war and essential civilian re-
/ uuirements. Anti-freeze produc-
ton was limited to so per cent
of 1941 output. Manufacture OF
colored sheets must cease July l.
The office of Emergency Man
agement said an average OF 81
per cent of all American motor
lists are wearing irreplaceable
rubber from their tires each
month. To date about five per
cent of U. S. automobiles are
laid up for lack of tires, DEM
reported. The office also said
20 million of the % million
passenger cars will go off the
road within II to IS months un-
less car pooling can be made et-
fective on a nationwide scale.
The WPB said the Wholeheart-
ed response Of the American
people to the WaStepaper SAL
wage campaign has brought an
unusual surplus of the mater
ial. The board asked continued
collection, however, to meet
large requirements for the man
ufacture of paperboard con-
tainerS.
Eastern Military Area
Eastern Defense Commander
Drum proclaimed all east coast
states from Maine to Florida
to be the eastern military area
- primarily to enforce effec-
lively the dimout restrictions
to safeguard shipping. The pro-
clamation said the protection of
United Nations commerce from
enemy attack involved the ef-
fective control of artificial light
ing along the Atlantic and gulf
coasts and for a reasonable
distance inland"
The Armed Forces
President Roosevelt said Am
erican forces are getting into
the world fight more and more,
and IN new places all of the
time. He said the increasingly
far flung fight calls for in
creasing numbers of transport
paneS to enable the army and
navy to get to the rapidly eX-
banding battlefrontS. The wal
department said a substantial
proportion of available flight
equipment of domestic airlines
will be transferred outright to
the army air forces. The air
lines will also convert approx
mately 10 ships into cargo car
riers which they will operate for
the air service command. The
House passed and sent to con-
ference a bill increasing the
monthly pay of enlisted men
in the armed forces. The house
approved bill would increase the
pay Of privates and apprentice
Seamen from $21 to $50 a
month; the senate-approved bill
provides an increase to $42.
War Secretary Simpson said
army field manoeuverS will be
held from the last week in May
through the first week in No
vember in the south and south
west. The army said $500 vol
unteer officer candidates will be
accepted each month under its
plan to enroll class ga regis
trantS for training in officer
candidate schools, with allot-
mentS for each area based on
the number of such registrants
in the area. SIS Director Her
shey said the U. S. may have
10 million men under arms by
late 1943 or by 1914. He said
men indicted through selective
service after June Is will be
granted fourteen days for con-
Guiding personal affairs before
being assigned to active duty
Transportation and meals Incl
dental to induction procedures
will be at government expense,
he said.
WOmen's Army Auxiliary
Congress authorized estab-
liShment of the Women'S Army
Auxiliary corps to the limit of
100000 members, and the Presi-
dent directed Secretary Stimp-
son to limit initial mobilization
to $4,000. Mrs. William P. Hob
by of the army bureau of pub
lie relations was named WAC
director. Mrs. Hobby said WAC
members will be assigned to
| different kinds of jobs and will