The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-10
Observations
War Manpower
Commission TO
Aid Veterans
BY HELEN EssARY

The War Manpower Commission,
which had the job Of finding men
for Jobs in war production, now is
planning how 10 find Jobs for war
workers and war veterans when
peace comes.
While cont uing TO recruit labor
for war industry-2O0,O00 workers
still are needed TO I'll gaps today
NC is planning to have its Unit
ed States Employment Service be-
come a job-hnding agency after the
war.
The scheme is to have USES
gather data on the availability Of
Jobs throughout the pation, for use
when returning seryicemen and dis
placed war workers seek placement
aid
Many individuals, Of course, are
expected to find their own jobs, but
the USES facilities will be avail
able. just as they were in the de-
preston days.
Meanwhile, VINO is cataloging
needs of must" war activities TO
facilitate recruitment OF workers.
OF the 100000 still needed, by far
the largest percentage wanted are
laborers to do such tasks as heavy
hauling and digging.
IF ATTORNEY NERAL
FRANCIS BIDDLE rules that bust
nessmen connected with the dis
posal Of surplus property cannot go
back to business for a long time
after leaving government work,
there is likely TO be mass resig-
nation in the surplus property set
up.
The ruling would be TO prevent
any possibility that businessmen
might suddenly go back TO private
undertakings and use their spe-
cialized knowledge against more
uniformed competitors.
The rule binding Leo Crowley,
Mariner Eccles and other officials
in the Federal Reserve System to
two years inacti,ty in their fields
after they leave the government
is for the same reason.
PROSPECTIVE SUPPLIES OF
nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers
for use on 1915 crops have declined
since midsummer, as a result OF
greatly increased military use of
materials required for the manufac-
ture OF those fertilizers. but sub
stantially increased supplies of pot.
ash are expected to be available.
MILITARY SHOE REQUIRE
MENTS are still high enough to
! clude any substantial increase
in the civilian shoe supply in the
near future, but what is worrying
the government most is production
OF infants, misses and children's
footwear.
Although the civilian program for
August was met for infants sizes.
and fell only slightly for children's
and misses sizes, WPB fears that
a further drop occurred in Septem-
Der. Manpower shortages and
scarcity OF leather both continue to
plague the shoe industry.
OFFICIAL WEGIAN
SOURCES in Washington expect
their homeland to be cleared OF the
Nazi invaders in less than three
months.
These sources predict that civil
affairs in Norway will be handed
lover to the exiled government by
the Russian Army in that time.
| According TO an agreement con-
Icluded by the London Norwegian
government with Russia and other
ALLIED governments an interior
Zone" will be established under
complete Norwegian control, as
twas done recently in France by
IGen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
LIMBER UP for a new run OF
lishing yarns, because more fish,
ing rods. reels and other parapher-
MALTA will probably be reaching the
market in a short time.
This will be the result OF the
WPB action in revoking an order
controlling the production OF non
commercial fishing tackle. Except
flor FISH hooks, production OF fishing
tackle and parts have been pro-
Inhibited since May 81, 1912.
IN THE MAZE OF COMMUNI.
IQUES, bulletins and press releases
ion the gigantic air and naval bat
tile which ragged over and around
IFormosa, the Tokyo radio recorded
Iwhat will go down in history as d
masterpiece OF double-talk.
The Tokyo radio maintained that
Adm. William F. Halsey's Third
IFleet, to which Jap naval forces
showed their sterns when they saw
its overwhelming superiority, had
been "annihilated".
But Tokyo added-for the sake
OF future continuity-that 1t had
b. N "replenished".