MORE RATIONING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 4

MORE RATIONING

FORECAST IN AMERICA ARMY DEVELOPMENT SHIPPING EXPANSION fßy Telegraph—Press Aran. —Copyright.) (2.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 29. The Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives approved and , sent to the House the £437,500,000 Appropriations Bill for 19 war agencies with a warnirig that the United States, must be prepared for 15 additional rationing programmes within a year. The committee reduced the Price Administration appropriation ~ from £40,250,000 to £23,750,000. . Thjs is expected, to provoke considerable controversy. ~ , , During the .committee hearing, the Price Administrator, Mr. Henderson, said lie . foresaw pew , . rationing' scherhes besides, those ...for sugar, petrol, Cfirs, tyre's and typewriters. Mr. Ronald Nelson., chairman of flic War Prddu.btiori. Board, told, the committee: “If we tire gcjipg to. meet our, objective consumers will have to give up many things, but I believe we Will .have, .the, essential things." The largest, item in the Bill .provided £275,000,000. for the .acquisition Of over 100 merchant vessels .for the War Shipping Administratibh, Other testimony disclosed that the army riliay be incrcrised to 6;OO0,o9o or 7,000,60.0 p men ih 1943, after reaching 4.5OO;OO0 by the en'd of 1942. It was also disclosed that the United States wiil operate betivebn 2200 and 2600 merchant Ships by the end of 1942. Mr. James Landis, the Civilian Defence Director, told the committee that the Axis would bomb the United States, seeking to destroy production and create a feeling of brinic add war weariness...,. sr . n . n ,