Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                V i1 first Doo of recon we Hove made the follow ing Progress manpower the great part of layoffs from War plants has now been except in employment in no War activities has been increased since Vij total employment has now returned to Vij Day level and is expected to continue to unemployment so far less than Jias been this Means the disruption of our Economy has been less drastic than we Are still in the transition rap i Dembi leation of forces will undoubtedly increase the unemployment total Over the next few demo bed during these first 100 men and women have been we have step Ped the rate up to a Day and expect to continue at this Plant reconversion the Job of re converting our from War to peace is virtually completed and 93 percent of All plants were cleared within 40 Days or Twenty 1 seven billion dollars Worth of War contracts have been cancelled sin the surrender of approximately one third of the War contracts cancelled Vij Day have been the lifting of War time controls a War manpower controls were lifted the Day after Japan sur opa has removed several Hundred items from Price removed All rationing except for sugar and and completed the pricing of reconversion goods Al most 100 opa has reduced the orders and regulations on its books to 55 from a War time Export controls naive been lifted and 75 percent of War time import con production most peacetime pro ducts Are already in production or ready to Metal working trades on which we depend for most of our consumer durable goods Are in such shape that they expect by the of 1946 to ship at two and one half times the 1939 business activity business continues Bere Are some Indi cations retail up 10 percent now is compared with the same period last Miteel Back up to 82 percent capacity to Day As compared with 00 percent came Ltd right after Vij elec tric Power now Only 14 percent below the War time labor disputes there has been 51 n upsurge of strikes since Vij the increase has been due in Nart to the fact that All parties held their grievances in Check Dur Rwjr the War and observed the no strike new strikes since plastered Peggy r pm Mong the Saf turf time 124 threat ened St ices were into about the government conciliation labor dispute settled through november 24 numbered involving about time lost through work stoppages since August is estimated at of one percent of the working time stabilization the living has declined of Ono percent since the surrender of com pared with the Rise of approximately percent in a comparable period after the last some of the decrease this due to a seasonal decrease in some food direct controls aver Waiges and salaries have been moved in most but increases have not Bee allowed to effect Price ceilings or costs to the a tinted except on some specific and narrowly defined cases to maladjustment or pressures Are still great and the danger signals Point wig to further bunding up through the Winter and Spring Are a Rise of real wholesale and raw materials producers avoid tax opa administrator Chester Bow and another government Wolfi who requested his name not be reported that some manufacturers Are withholding consumer merchandise to Benefit from tha tax Cut beginning january discussing the clothing said 1 think the most important Factor is the tax companies can look Forward to a Windfall if they with hold now and release shipments in 1946 when the excess profits tax is out of the at the the Public need for clothes seems to mean very Little to some pro there us no step the government can take to compel delivery of these goods before the first of the except the barbs of opa reconversion Boss Snyder said that the damning up of goods flow is increasing the pressure against controls which protect us from the threat of and that is to no ones asks joint City Federal housing Effort for vets Washington a fou Point program to Speed new housing construction and to assure Vete rans families preference in now and existing housing is outlined by John Blandford National housing he should cooperate with the Federal government in carrying out these objectives establishment of local housing referrals services to obtain for veterans families All possible vacancies in the existing housing the most efficient pos sible of present War housing with cities and Federal government sharing the responsibility and the financial an fallout Effort to stimulate Home construction at the right prices to combat inflation in both new and existing and to Clear new legislation to make it to double the volume of Home to end the Emer gency As soon As possible and take the people out of emergency hous substandard housing and Ina lengthy message following get the amet and pc patches on Peggy who just Back from using in these parts and with a collection of insignia just to remember places Frank on his Way pauses to give her fifth Jermy wide world Boston train collision Boston a local Boston and Albany passenger carrying 150 crashed into a Loco motive and string of empty cars outside South station last injuring Between 20 and 30 per the train had just pulled out when the Accident the old order Chang eth with the coeds giving come hither music at Joe a Guadalcanal now Back in Iowa and the University under the go Bill of in discharge of generals son irks capital Washington several cases of inadvertent Early discharges and returns to states have congressmen Here on the Marine Jack 18 year old son of Hanford has been released with 38 Points on the request of his a who asked that his son be brought Home to continue his proc medical Seaman 2nd class Paul Ste 18yearold son of Tom of was returned by the Navy to Norfolk for As although Only nine of his 14 months service were passed football players stars and Dis closed that 54 members of the aah hawaiian layers football team were flown Home since although highpoint combat men were unable to get Only 13 of the 54 were said to have enough Points for congressmen said they approved in theory the Macnider discharge since medical students Are vitally but asked Why the Tom Jones and Dick Smiths we rent also discharged for the same Rea the announced that the Stewart return was simply routine and that it just happened that his father was a democratic the army has made on the return of the football president nations aimed at to a peaceful Congress authorise with or lockouts and he asked theft Rio fore they go Home for committee May told newsmen that adding the presidential proposal to a Biltl which wet Lufte eligible for House consideration within a that measure major provisions of the Smith Onnolly War labor generall congressional among both major was favourable to the presidents and Mays subsequent 1 although lab management conference adjourned Jast Friday night with virtually no accomplish ments on dispute the in his asserted that the very fact that the top leaders of labor and management Nave met and Workett together for More Tolian three weeks is in itself some pro Pilot dangled at 80 feet in air 18 hours Robert of parachuted from an ailing bomber dangled from a tree 80 feet above the ground for 18 hours before he was Pilot of a bomber that had to be ditched Over rugged Mountain country near had As George former assistant com mandant at and five other Weems received a slight shoulder injury and a sprained ankle in his but was Able to supervise Rescue operations for the he helped build a big fire under the Pine tree to keep Phil lips warm until they could free Urra Bill now before Congress Washington Congress is considering a Bill to authorize an appropriation of one 350 million for director general Lehman warns that the appropriation must be approved be fore Congress recesses if there is not to be a breakdown in the pipe line of supplies in the organizations most critical period of work he warned that the 550 million still available is Only enough for loadings in the next two Lehman also condemned a report by which later retracted the that goo Urra american and British workers in Europe had been dismissed for Black Market Hie Dis missed he were european nationals and had been let go for Lack of adaptability and other chief of Urra in said that the Steps being taken were necessary to stamp out inefficiency and that the  majority of workers were sincere and five die in wreck a carrying textile workers to their Homes in and near collided with an Oil Tanker last killing five persons and1 in Juring All two have been Cpl millionaire via Coke bottles Tehho Chapman Shaw has just returned from service in Europe to discover Hes heir to the bulk of an 11 million Dollar Grandfather Chapman Jay Glass died last week leaving him most of his property ii the hic source of the Root Mil Lions is the Coke the Grandfather patented the coca cola bottle and was a soft drink director in the Union opposition in Detroit opposition by Union Auto workers indicated a rough Road ahead the presidents proposal to halt the general motors Union officials emphasized that a final decision on the backs work plea would be left to the in reference to Truman proposal that the strikers go Back to work and abide by recommendations of a government fac finding the Union asserted that the presi Dent should know that pm has not on collective bar gaining and has rejected Concilia mediation and such a he could be easily packed in either the Union summoned the More than 200 delegates of Ita inter nation conference to meet in Detroit the presidents proposal will be Laid before them without the automotive Industry was startled last weekend Aljen proposed that it reopen some of its 70 strike bound plants to produce parts and accessories solely for its it even More startled when Cio seemingly but in a later Tho Mas asserted that the letter acceptance was written by the unions publicity staff without his Signa he said he would not have agreed until a Complete study of the parts situation had been there Are also reports of mounting opposition in Union ranks against returning to work while the strike is still in elsewhere of the labor the1 National maritime Union called a 24hour nationwide strike in protest that overseas veterans Are not being returned to the states Asra idly As possible Georgia cooperates in health Campaign More than persons other 15 years of age have been blood tested for syphilis and exr Ayed for tuberculosis in Chatham county 45day Public health participation in the program is voluntary and of the persons Over 15 in this com Newark blast kills four tb3 explosion his week of an ammonia tank in a Newark refrigerating Plant of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea company killed four persons and injured 22