GREAT CALL ON U.S. RESOURCES

Southland Times, Issue 24592, 14 November 1941, Page 5

GREAT CALL ON U.S. RESOURCES

TASK OF DEFEATING HITLER 40 PER CENT. OF INCOME (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 12. The Office of Production Management Director of Priorities, Mr R. W. Nelson, has made a statement that America will probably be obliged to devote 40 per cent, of her national income to the defeat of Hitler, which may take two or three years. Mr Nelson added that this would require tremendous quantities of materials, which might leave insufficient to meet civilian needs. The Attorney-General, Mr Francis Biddle, announced that the Justice and War Departments were preparing plans to handle the problem of enemy aliens which could be put into effect at short notice in the event of war. Mr Biddle added that the situation in the Pacific was very serious and Administration officials were much concerned.

President Roosevelt has again personally intervened in an attempt to avert a crippling strike in the Appalachian coal mines. He has asked three leaders of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and three steel company officials to confer with him at the White House on Friday.

RAILWAY STRIKE THREATENED

In Chicago the chiefs of five railroad operating brotherhoods have ordered their 350,000 members to strike for a 30 per cent, increase ; n wages, beginning on December 7.

Four men are missing, presumed dead, as the result of a double explosion, in a powder mill at Peoria (Illinois), operating under a War Department contract. At least two buildings were destroyed. The Fedei'al Bureau of Investigation immediately began a search for evidence of sabotage. Mr Roosevelt has appealed to the steel industry to work to the limit to produce sufficient to arm America and simultaneously supply the nations resisting aggression. He sent a letter to a meeting of 800 steel executives asking for individual interests to be forgotten throughout the emergency. Mr W. S. Knudsen, Director of the Office of Production Management, revealed at the meeting that the United States would reach its production peak in the second quarter of 1942. NEW LABRADOR AIRPORT (Rec. 6 p.m.) OTTAWA, November 12. It is announced that the new Labrador airport, which will be the takeoff point for flights to Britain, will be situated in Hamilton Inlet, and will ultimately exceed in size and importance the present huge bases in Newfoundland. The site has been selected because it is practically free from fogs.