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Munitions Cutbacks For 13-Month Period Exceed 23 Billions The War Production Board dis closed today that muntions cutback* for the 13-month period ending July 28 amounted to $23,195,000,000, with about $15,000,000,000 accounted foi since April. “The heaviest impact of V-E wai contract cutbacks Is just begining to be felt by industry,” the agency declared in reporting on the month by-month effect of cutbacks gath ered by WPB’s Production Readjust ment Committee. WPB officials stressed that theii figures make no allowance for new contracts for war work or for any increases in production resulting from rescheduling of contracts. Reconversion Gains Reported. Earlier, WPB reported that the Nation’s reconversion program was steadily gaining momentum, with limited quantities of household ap pliances scheduled to move from factories to retail markets this fall and "more to come in the spring and summer of 1946.” Sewing machines, vacuum clean ers, domestic washing machines and electric irons should reach retail markets in small quantities this fall, while alajm clocks will appear in fairly large numbers by that time, WPB predicted. “Volume production, however, oi these and many other products ol consumer interest is not expected to be attained until the spring or sum mer of 1946, and even then should not be sufficient immediately to meet pent-up consumer demand,” Fred erick M. Mitchell, head of WPB’s consumer durable goods division, declared. Other Products Produced. Other products such as razors, razor blades, hearing aid batteries and dry. cell batteries now are being produced in quantities closely ap proaching public demand, WPB said. "Reconversion is moving as fast as it safely can in terms of man power and materials, for war pro duction cutbacks following victory in Europe have not as yet resulted in the release of large numbers of workers or critical materials for civilian production,” Mr. Mitchell stated. This situation, he added, results from continuing and, in some cases, increasing requiremens for certain war and war-supporting ac tivities. The slowness of reconversion in some industries was seen in WPB's disclosure that actual production of mechanical refrigerators in the third quarter of this year prob ably won’t exceed 150,000, despite the fact production of 265,000 units has been authorized. Similarly, washing machine pro duction in the same period will total 50.000, as compared with a planned 350.000. Big Soviet Wheat Crop Threatened by Rains By the Associated Press. MOSCOW. Aug. 7.—The Soviet Union will not be able to contribute materially to any food chest for Western Europe, agricutural experts predicted today. The best wheat crop since the war is threatened, they say, by drenching daily rains that have pre vailed for nearly three weeks in Northern Russia, White Russia and the wheat-producing areas in Si beria. But even if the nation should turn out a good wheat crop this year, authorities say they will first better the lot of the Soviet people, who began the war with a set bread rationing which was reduced in the winters of 1943-4. The Soviet Union contributed wheat to Poland last year, and brought some grain into Berlin dur ing the first three weeks of occu pation, when the population bor dered on starvation. Chinese Take Junction Near 'Invasion Coast' Py the Afsoc.ated Press. CHUNGKING, Aug. 7—Chinese troops have captured Yeungkong, Kwangtung Province highway junc tion close to the South China Sea and 125 jniles southwest of Canton, and are driving the Japanese to ward Yanping, 32 miles to the northeast, the Chinese high com mand announced today. The capture of Yeungkong tight ened the Chinese grip on a 50-mile stretch of the Chinese “invasion coast” west of Hong Kong. The high command indicated that the American airbase at Tanchuk, in Kwangsi Province, fourth of the lost bases wrested from the Japa nese, had changed hands after the original recapture, but was com pletely reoccupied by the Chinese August 4. Shoe factories in Estonia are returning to prewar production volume. LOW PRICED COMMON STOCK WITH A FUTURE LONG BELL LUMBER CO. j This company has no reconversion problem. Has an unlimited market in new construction. Circular free upon request. Call or Write W. H. Bell & Co. 010 Evans Bulldins 1430 New York Ave. N.W.. 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Johnson, who was a Houston (Tex.) oil man before the war, said that after he was captured, Col. Ouchi folded his arms and asked the Americans to shoot him. Col. Ouchl was taken When he ran from command shack jvhen the shooting started. The Japanese ad jutant was killed in front of the colonel and Ouchl fell over him and was captured as he lay with his face in the dirt. The patrol killed nine of Col. Ouchi’s guards without losing a man. ‘‘Did you hear that Tokyo had been bombed?” Gen. Johnson asked Ouchi. “Yes, but don’t believe,” the pri soner replied, “If Tokyo being bombed Japan would surrender.” “Why didn’t you surrender?” was the next question. “The Emperor would not allow me to surrender,” was the reply. The 93d Division is composed of Negro enlisted men and includes many Negro officers. AFL, Concentrating On Domestic Issues, Leaves World Union By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—The AFL, committing itself to future isola tionism in the international labor field, proposed today a program for rapid reconversion ,of mighty United States war resources to head ofl national depression. AFL President William Green dis closed to newsmen at the conclusion of yesterday’s first sessions of the 15-man Executive Council that the Federation was withdrawing from the International Federation of Trade Unions—a step calculated to speed the end of that world organi zation as it is presently constituted. The AFL had been the lone Amer ican representative in the IFTU, and to date has successfully kept out its rival CIO and the powerful Soviet trade unions, despite the ef fort of leaders of the British Trades Union Conference to bring them into the Federation. New Congress Being Formed. A new world trade union congress is being formed, with a constitu tional convention scheduled for next month in Paris—with the Russians and the CIO joining with British, French, Central American and oth er groups and excluding the AFL. Mr. Green said the AFL would send two delegates—Council Mem bers George Meany and William C. Doherty—to the September meeting of the British Trade Union Confer ence, but that was merely a cour tesy. The AFL, concentrating on do mestic problems, declared in a statement that "America is now getting too little reconversion.” “Unless preparations for resump tion of peacetime production are speeded up, it may be too late to avoid a major postwar depression. Our country is less prepared for peace today, than it was for war at the time of Pearl Harbor. Want War Effort Pared. The Federation’s program said: “The war effort must be scaled down promptly to a one-point basis, which would provide the military authorities with more than ample support for carrying on the war against Japan to a quick and vic torious conclusion, but would per mit release of surplus men, ma terials and facilities for an accele rated reconversion drive. “A new peace production program must be launched with vigor and dsipatch on a scale large enough to meet the Nation's needs but without interference to the war ef fort Controls Must Go. "Wartime Government controls over labor and industry must be dropped as rapidly as the war situ ation permits and an effort made to substitute voluntary, co-operative methods for Government directives. "Every reasonable encouragement should be extended by the Govern ment to private industry to expand postwar production and provide full employment. “The present alarming shrinkage r1 1 * First Mortgage LOANS KENTS—BALES—INSU KANCK P. J. WALSHE, INC. 1115 Eye St. N.W. MORTGAGE LOANS Favorable Rate riKsi deed or rmusi onli GEORGE I. BORGER MS Indian» Aft fl.1t ffat*t MM of the purchasing power of the Na tion’s workers must be halted by the restoration of collective bargaining between labor and management. “Congress must act immediately, after it returns from its summer re cess, to provide for human needs during reconversion by approving President Truman’s recommenda tions for emergency supplementa tion of inadequate State unemploy ment compensation, by adopting legislation for higher minimum wage standards, by enacting the vital Wagner postwar housing bill and by extending the Nation’s social secu rity system as provided under the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill." 3,029 Men to Arrive In New York Today Aboard Four Ships Ey thr Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 7 —Pour ves sels carrying 3,029 troops from Eu rope are due at New York today. Among them is the main body of the 109th Regiment, 28th (Keystone) Division. The 109th is aboard the Mormac port, which is returning 2,972 sol diers. Other ships arriving: The Adula, with 52 troops: the Edward Bellamy, with 3, and the American Farmer with 2. Also aboard the Mormacport are the 308th and 310th Military Police Escort Guard Detachments and 103d Medical Batalion. At Boston, the George Shiras is due with the 24th Medical Section Veterinary (aviation), 525th Engi neer Light Pontoon Company, 553d Ordnance Heavy Automotive Main tenance Company. The Alexander Graham Bell is returning the 1965th Ordnance Depot Company (avia tion), 1970th, 2023d, 2024th, 2030th Quartermaster Truck Companies (aviation) and air force personnel for reassignment and duty. At Hampton Roads, Va., the Cris tobal is scheduled to arrive, carry ing the 849th Signal Intelligence Service, 59th Ordnance Bomb Dis posal Squadron, 73d Station Hos pital, 23d Statistical Control Unit, 802d Medical Air Evacuation Squad ron, 3587th Quartermaster Truck ing Company, Headquarters 340th Bomber Group, 530th Army Postal Unit, 2d Machine Record Unit, 549th and 550th Replacement Com panies, 486th, 487th, 488th and 489th Bomber Squadrons. The West Brooke Victory will bring 1,970 members of the 86th Mountain In fantry Regiment. Aboard Bovard are the 604th and 605th Field Ar tillery Battalions and 75th Field Artillery Battalion, minus Bat tery B. ■ STOCKS WW to leaefit lira Jlnf Civilian jb»mnml ^\NE of the matt interesting groups ^ from the standpoint of huge de ferred postwar demand it Household Equipments. 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The United States 6th Infantry Division report ed these enemy remnants had been split into small groups in the vicin ity of Antipolo, Mayoyao and Hupg duan. Associated Press Correspondent Russell Briness, with the 137th In fantry Regiment of the 33d Division, said three American and Filipino columns had made new thrusts 55 miles northeast of Baguio, and were developing a two-way pinch on enemy holdouts believed to Include Yamashita and his staff. Ifugao native scouts four days ago said Yamashita had been killed a month ago by an air raid on the re mote Hungluan-Kiangklang sector. Two Japanese prisoners said, how ever, that they had been forced to act as litter-bearers for Yamashita because he was wounded. The date they gave corresponds to the scouts’ reports of his death, but there was no evidence of the accuracy of their story. On the other hand, two guerrillas said they had seen the general alive and well in the Mayoyao sector re cently. Prime Minister King Victor in By-Election Ey the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, Ont., Aug. 7.— Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King was elected ta the House of Commons last night, defeating Dr. Richard Monahan. Independent Liberal, by a landslide majority in the Glengarry by-election. Returns from the complete 43 polls gave Mr. King 4,623 against 327 for the 64-year-old doctor from Shar bot Lake. Mr. King, defeated at Prince Al bert in the June 11 general election, was offered the Liberal nomination in Glengarry. Jap Port Set Aflame In 400-Plane Raid From Okinawa Base Ey thr AuoeUt-d Pr«s». MANILA, Aug. 7.—The Southern Japanese port of Tarumi was set aflame Sunday by more than 400 Far East Air Forces planes In the heaviest Are raid yet mounted by the Okinawa-based flyers against a single objective. The entire target was engulfed in flames and smoke that billowed 12,000 feet high, Oen. MacArthur related in today’s communique an nouncing the two-hour attack. Planes of all categories in the Far East Air Forces participated, including Liberator heavy bombers, Mitchell mediums and Thunderbolt and Mustang fighter-bombers. Gas Bombs Used. * At least 300 of the force were Mitchells, with Jellied gasoline bombs which they poured in at low level in precision strikes against the town’s factories and wharvei. Tarumi, about the size of San dusky, Ohio, is on the east shore of Kagoshima Bay on Kyushu Island, opposite the oft-bombed industrial center of Kagoshima. Only one Japanese plane attempt ed interception. Gen. MacArthur said the mixed bag of incendiaries, demolition bombs and rockets "caused wide spread destruction.” Other aerial attacks were an nounced against enemy holdings all the way to Java and Singapore. A 5th Air Force Liberator on Sun day sank a large transport and a medium freighter in Tsushima Strait between Japan and Korea. Seventh Fleet Liberators hit the Southern Korean copper smelting town of Gunzan with 500-pound bombs Saturday night, causing at least one violent explosion. Sub Chaser Sunk. Other 7th Fleet Liberators sank a 120-foot submarine chaser and damaged other small vessels off Formosa while 5th Air Force Libera tors were harasssing Shanghai’s Tinghai airdrome. Search planes silenced antiaircraft guns at Tourane, French Indo china, and sank an Indo-China river steamer at Hatien. Far-flying Lightning fighters re peated their last week’s record 2.100 mile round trip to Singapore, where they shot down two Tojo fighters. Thirteenth Air Force and 7th Fleet Liberators and Royal Aus tralian Air Force planes continued to support ground forces on Borneo, blasted the runway at Mltl airdrome on Java, sank three small vessels off Western Borneo, and made neu tralizing raids on the Celebes and Halmaheras. U. S. Naval Forces In Brazil Evacuated By tht ArsoclsUd Prers. RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 7.—Vice Admiral William R. Munroe left here yesterday to assume command of United States Naval forces in the Caribbean after completing evacua tion of American Naval forces in Brazil and decommissioning their facillties. . Commander of the 4th Fleet until the transfer of defense of the South Atlantic to Brazil, Admiral Munroe replaces Vice Admiral Robert C. Gillen as commander in the Carib bean and commandant of the 10th Naval District. Admiral Gillen has been assigned as commander of service forces in the Atlantic Fourth Fleet facilities, including •" LOANS*''' On Business And n vestment Properties Construction Loons Refinancing Prompt Action H. CLIFFORD BANGS 204 Investment Bids., Met. 4240 Loan Corrtnonient ^ Home Lite Ineurance Co. New York — destroyer repair bases at Recife and Bahia, radio installations, drydocks and naval barracks, were turned over to Brazil. Treasury Plans Blacklist Of Filipino Collaborators By the Associated Press. - MANILA, Aug. 7.—The United States Treasury Department’s Phil ippine Office of Foreign Funds Con trol is preparing a blacklist of per sons and businesses which collabo rated with the enemy during Japa nese occupation. They face seven restrictions in business throughout the Philippines. Pending a complete Investigation, the Treasury Department issued a "watch list” of certain blocked na tionals to Philippine banks. This was done to prevent those individ uals who may be Included on the blacklist from anticipating restric tions and taking evasive action be forehand. The Treasury also has refused to issue import licenses to individuals named on the watch list. Labor unions in Australia are opposing piecework. ADVERTISEMENT Will Your ChUd Be As Fortunate As Susy? Right from the start. Susy’s mother has made sure that her daughter gets plenty of sunshine, and a diet ade quate in bone-building minerals. 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