The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-02
INDIANA W.P.B. APPROVES NEW
 SPEED-Up UNIT
BY NORMAN HOWARD

ANSA0ANAeAAN
 Indianapolis, Jan. 2.--(UPl - To speed the ships, guns, planes and tanks America needs to beat the Axis, the War Production Board has conceived a new plan, which officials describe as the best to date"
 J. H. FrohlIch, Indiana District Supervisor of the WIPE. admitted in a recent interview that there have been several instances of temporary shutdowns and reduced production in Indiana war factories because of shortages of such mate rials as copper, aluminium and steel" but added that the new WIPE plan should remedy the situation.
 Proof that Indiana war factories do not stand alone in the war material shortage emergency was given by It. Gen. Brehon Somer- vell's testimony before the U. 8. Senate Committee on Small Busi- ness. Somerville admitted that shortages and work stoppages had occurred in many vital war-indus- try areas throughout the country.
 "The WIPES new Controlled Ma terials Plan is the result of one- and-one-half years experience in dealing with war production prob- lens, Frohlich said.
 Agencies to Cooperate
 Under the new plan, officials ot WIPE will sit in Washington with officials of seven other government tai agencies, to synchronize war material needs of the armed forces with available supplies in Amer ica's stockpiles. The agencies CO., operating with the WIPE under the new set-up, which is scheduled to go into effect in April, will be the Bureau of Aeronautics, Board of Economic Warfare, Lend Lease Board, Office of Civilian Supply, Maritime Commission, the Army and the Navy.
 Many public officials, both in the nations capital and in Indiana, feel that the new Controlled Materials Plan, under which manufacturers will submit estimates of vital mate rials they need for war production to the national board, will head off the impending materials crisis.
 The crisis in war-materials short- ages already is underway in some industries, and is echoed in the De- cember issue of "War Production News" published by the Chicago regional office of WIPE, for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin.
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 "In almost every case" the mag azine stated, "the pattern of a ma terial crisis is the same: a war plant hears the end of a job, runs smack into @ shortage of only a few pounds of scarce, critical metal needed to complete delivery or launching, fails to locate the need ed metal in all known sources Of supply, and calls desperately on WJB's trouble-shooting Materials Redistribution Service, which goes into action with files, phone calls, plant visits. In many cases, they find exactly what's wanted, in the right quantity, and arrange for It's transfer and sale"
 But in many other cases, WIPE officials add, all their efforts are in vain. Production gets underway for i 900 ships, and steel for only 900 Is available; factories start rolling on an order for hundreds Of air. planes, and soon run short of alum mum or other precious metals.
 Under the controlled Materials Dian" however. that kind of dis organization and confusion will be eliminated. No longer will Amer ,:o ican war industries "btte off more than they can chew" in the way of war contracts, for war material supply will be balanced with armed forces demand. .,
 Reinforced with such a plan, offi- cials are convinced, Americas pro duction soldiers" will produce tne implements of war more efficiently than ever before to beat the Axis in the factory as completely as on the field of battle.