U.S. HOME FRONT!

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1945, Page 5

U.S. HOME FRONT!

RADICAL CHANGES WASHINGTON, M’ay 9. . The War Mobilisation Director. Mr Vinson, announced the immediate lifting of the midnight curfew and the ban on horse and dog lacing. Travel restrictions remain unaltered. ' Mr Vinson summarises the United States home front as follows: The midnight curfew is abolished immediately. Horse and dog racing can be resumed immediately. 1' ood, ten per cent below the 1944 rationing will continue. Drivers will get more perol for pleasure. Travel transportation continues tight. Reconversion will begin immediately. Some controls will be relaxed at once. Full reconversion must await the defeat of Japan. Few more cars will be available for some months. Economic controls, price, wages and tax controls remain. The manufacture of washing machines' and refrigerators will be immediate, and there will be more electric irons and stoves in three to six months. Taxes at the present high rates, will continue. Fifteen hundred thousand may lose their jobs within a year, but mostly temporarily. Manpower strict controls will continue with a 48-hour week remaining in war plants, but. will be dropped gradually elsewhere. Draft calls will continue to be large. Women’s services recruiting wi|l continue. Merchant fleet need for seamen and officers continues. War production, within six months will equal that of 1943. Business will get the first chance to reconvert whereever possible. Undiminished purchases of war bonds must continue. The general scarcity of clothes will continue. There will be the building of 250,000 to 400,00 new homes within one year. Wages controls will continue.