MORE RATIONING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1942, Page 4

MORE RATIONING

ANTICIPATED IN UNITED STATES SO THAT WAR DEMANDS MAY BE MET. SOME HEAVY ADDITIONAL appropriations. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY, June 29. The Appropriations Committee of the United States House of Representatives has approved and sent to the House a 1,830.000,000 dollar Appropriations Bill for nineteen war agencies, with a warning that the United States must be prepared for fifteen additional rationing programmes within the year, according to a Washington message. The committee reduced the Price Administration appropriation from 161,000,000 dollars to 95,000,000 dollars. This is expected to provoke considerable controversy. During a committee hearing, the Price Administrator, Mr Henderson, said he foresaw new rationing schemes desides those for sugar, petrol, cars, tires and typewriters. Mr Donald Nelson told the committee: “If we are going to meet our objective, consumers will have to give up many things, but I believe we will have rhe essential things.” The largest item in the Bill provided 1,100,600,000 dollars for the acquisition of over 100 merchant vessels, for the War Shipping Administration. Other testimony disclosed . that the Army may be increased to six to seven million men in 1943, after reaching four and a half million by the en of 1942. , It was disclosed that the United States will operate between 2,200 and 2 600 merchantmen by the end of IJ4Z. '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 panic and war weariness.