Evening star., 1942-09-28
Concentrated Search
For Scrap Launched
Over Nation Today
1900 Newspapers Leod
Compoien to Extend
Through 2l-Doy Period
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
, NEW YORK. Sept. 2s-Men,
women and children by the millions
today began the greatest concentrat-
|. ed hunt in American history
Nationwide search for metal scrap
in homes. factories and farms-by
States, cities, towns and counties.
For the next three weeks more
than l600 newspapers in most States
will lead the intensive drive to And
junked metal to feed the hungry
steel mills turning out weapons
against the Axis.
Everything that is made of worn
out, obsolete or unessential metal Is
needed:
Old garbage cans, hammer-heads,
f1atirons. skid chains. refrigerators
radiators. tractors, washing ma
chimes, kitchen stoves. bathtubs,
electric irons, plows. hayrakes, rails,
iron girders, boilers, pipes.
This is the appeal recently issued
by Donald NJ. Nelson:
"As chairman of the War Produc-
ton Board, I call upon every citizen
of the United States to make this
campaign success by gathering and
turning in all the scrap metal that
can possibly be spared.
Symbols Of Defiance.
Let towering victory stock pile.
| II, cycr,y ror,, v,,,,n;tx ", fLn Nat at;o.
stand as symbols of Americas defi
ance of the Axis"
In some States, the drive alread,
| is under way, but in most. the g.
days beginning today will be the In
| tensive period. In few, the driv,
starts week later.
States will compete agains
States, towns against towns and th'
newspapers are offering Thousands
of dollars in prizes for the bes
scrap-collecting job by groups ane
individuals.
The salvage campaign has beer
going on for months and will con
| tinue till the wars end under Gov
ernment direction, but because i
has been sadly tagging, Mr.. Nelson
asked the newspapers to arous'
their communities to a full realiza
tion of the desperate scrap needs o
the mills whose steel production il
| 5,000,00 tons under top capacity.
The WPB, to emphasize the ma
tional need of the drive for scrap
will award plaques and pennants tt
States and counties piling up th'
greatest junk piles for the stee
| furnaces.
Plaques From Nelson.
The three States collecting ths
most scrap will get plaques from
Mr.. Nelson while each county pro.
ducing 100 pounds or more PEI
capita will receive salvage victory
pennant.
The groups lined up for the driv'
are like roll call of American or
!! CARNATIONS formed for neighborl,
| and community benefit: Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts, women's and fraterna
groups, businessmen's associations
labor groups, clubs, air-raid warden
and school children everywhere.
Leaders of the drive have STRESSED
this point:
IAN Of us have saved old Junk
stuff or stuff we didn't need righ
now, thinking maybe it would COM
in handy some time. That's al
right in peacetime.
But now we need every bit o
metal for war. If you have any
thing made of metal and don't actu
ally need it, turn it in
If you have scrap which you don
want to give away although at tn
same time you wish to help tn,
Government, sell it to a junkmal
and then buy War bonds or stamp
with the proceeds. Otherwise, Civ
it to the scrap collectors or carr.
it to the community junk pile.