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Show I containing emergency food and water ration-, medic: supplies, can openers, flashlights, cigarettes' and matches will bo dropped by Naval Na-val patrol blimps to seamen drifting in lifeboats and rafts, Red Cross Chairman Davis announced. an-nounced. The Navy has already asked the Red Cross for 100 can openers, 100 flashlights, 400 packages pack-ages of cigarettes, 800 packs of matches, and 100 waterproof bags. Other items will come out of regular re-gular naval stores and Red Cross reserve stocks at naval stations. sta-tions. "The Red cross already is supplying the Navy with emergency emer-gency clothing kits for survivors of torpedoed merchant ships.'-Now, ships.'-Now, in cooperation with the Navy, it will be possible to extend assistance as-sistance to survivors before they are actually picked up by rescue vessels, Mr. Davis said. WAR PRODUCTION criuting station. Federal Building, cn September 1, 1942. The Navy announced the District Dis-trict Office of Naval Offcer Procurement Pro-curement for Washington, D. C had received 2,190 requests for application ap-plication blanks for the Women's Reserve as of August 21, of which 1.253 letters showed prospective applicants apparently qualified to receive officer candidate blanks. All requests for application blanks for those desiring to join the Reserve Re-serve either as officer candidates or enlisted personnel must be made by letter to the Office of the Naval Na-val Officer Procurement, 1320 G Street, N.W., by all apulicants living liv-ing in the District of Columbia area, the department said. V-MAIL SERVICE The Post Office department said the V-Mail Service, inaugurated inaugur-ated June 15, 1942, is now past the experimental stage. The War frv OUR CONGRESSMAN V. K. GRANGER .f.E3,DENTIAL ' MESSAGES White House announced "dent Roosevelt would send a T't to Congress and deliver a 'address to the people on the of living "probably on Labor unt will also sneak. machine gun, tank and infantry as well as various skilled trades. PRODUCTION AWARDS War Production Drive Headquarters Headquar-ters announced appointment of a Technical Committee for Individual Individ-ual Awards to select the first list of workers in war plants to be honored by the Government for contributing valuable suggestions for increasing production. The Committee will meet in Washington Washing-ton August 20 and 21 to review approximately 100 of the best of more than 5,000 suggestions which workers have submitted to the labor-management committees in their plants, Headquarters report-; report-; ed.. fne tresm"" - 'u an assembly in Washing- ' 0f the International Student ::tice "to the youth of the world .,'here in the United Nations ?d"in occupied countries, too, if c3n be reached," September t 12-30 p-m. White House Senary Se-nary Early announced. "He will Iphasiae the duties, responsibil-'Z responsibil-'Z and opportunities of youth in ' 0f war and in the days of e that shall follow ... We iail try to have it so arranged , that men on ships, in the Coast ' Guard, and in camps will be able o hear the President's talk on ,at day, regardless of where they jre or what they are doing, if possible," Mr- Early said. He said preventatives of all the United Sations will attend the assembly, mi many, including Russia, the Netherlands, and England, will send official delegates. China, he aid, will not be able to send a representative but Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek will designate someone to represent the Chinese. AMI? War Secretary Stlmson has ordered or-dered management of the War department's de-partment's civilian personnel decentralized, de-centralized, effective September 1. Here are now more than 750,000 such employees. The order, the department said, is in line with the recent simplification of 'military 'mili-tary administration and "implements "imple-ments the most comprehensive program of decentralization undertaken under-taken by any governmental department de-partment and is regarded by the Civil Service commission and the Bureau of the Budget as a progressive' pro-gressive' step in governmental personnel per-sonnel administration." Authority to take final action on all ap-pointments ap-pointments and changes in status in the field service where approximately ap-proximately 95 percent of the civilians ci-vilians are . employed has been placed in the hands of the Commanding Com-manding Generals of the Services ol Supply, Army Air Forces and Army Ground Forces, and through ' Item down to the lowest prac-j prac-j Stable operating echelons arsen- Wfis unairman Nelson reported war production in July as ZV times the rate of November, 1941 and 1 percent greater than June, but 7 per cent under forecasts early in the month. He said the number one question was production produc-tion of combat aircraft; "the best offensive weapon we have." He said "every project is being re-rated re-rated in terms of war economy. Those things that cannot produce the maximum impact on the enemy en-emy before July, 1943, will receive re-ceive a lower order of importance." There is no difference of opinion on what the most urgently needed military items are and they are going to be given right of way over everything in order to defeat tne Axis enemies, he said. WAR COSTS War expenditures during the second quarter of 1942 were 31 percent per-cent of the national income, "Current "Cur-rent Business," a monthly publication publi-cation of the Commerce department, depart-ment, reported. Spending for war during the last quarter of 1941 was 15 percent of the national income, in-come, the report said a survey showed. The report said, "While releasing of resources from civilian civil-ian goods industries was the characteristic char-acteristic feature of the past six months, completing the actual conversion con-version of these resoucres into expanded armament industry remains re-mains one of the 'major jobs of the immediate future. NAVY Two representatives of the Bureau Bu-reau of Naval Personnel today started a tour of 27 cities to enroll en-roll additional physical training and drill instructors for enlistment as Chief Specialists. At the same time, the department announced men between 21 and 40 may now qualify for these appointments, providing they have had at least two years of college and previous military training or experience as coaches or physical instructors. Previously, the upper age limit was 35 3'ears. These representatives will be at Salt Lake City's Navay Re- department has increased its facilities to handle promptly the volume expected in the future. Facilities Fa-cilities for photographing and reproducing re-producing V-Mail to and from the U. S. and the British Isles, Australia, Aus-tralia, India, Hawaii, and other points are now in operation. A I similar service is being planned for Iceland and other points where ; the volume may warrant. In an ' effort to insure delivery of mail to so many men as possible at overseas destinations when space is limited, the War and Navy departments de-partments have directed that V-Mail V-Mail be given priority in dispatch over all other classes. AID TO DEPENDENTS I OF THE ARMED FORCES President Roosevelt signed legislation leg-islation permitting payment immediately im-mediately of allowances of members mem-bers of the armed forces. Payments Pay-ments will be retroactive to June 1. CHRISTMAS PARCELS FOR ARMED FORCES j The War, Navy, and Post Office Departments have set November 1 as the deadline for mailing Christmas Christ-mas parcels overseas. Although the existing restrictions on overseas parcel post of 11 pounds weight, 18 nches length and 42 inches combined length and girth will not be changed for the present, the Departments asked the public to see that volume does not exceed that of an ordinary shoebox and weight does not exceed six pounds. Food should not be sent, and clothing cloth-ing should not be sent unless specifically requested. SELECTIVE SERVICE Beginning August 20, Class 1-B (the Selective Service designation for men considered fit for limtied military service only) will be eliminated, elim-inated, and beginning September 1 all registrants who are not totally total-ly disqualified will be reclassified in Class 1-4, while those not suited suit-ed for any military service will be placed in 4-F, National Headquarters Headquar-ters announced. Reclassification of t 1-B's is expected to be completed by January 1. SS National Headquarters Head-quarters instructed local boards not to reclassify more than one-fourth one-fourth of the present Class 1-B men in each local board area each month and to give full consideration consider-ation to Selective Service policies governing deferments for dependency, depen-dency, family relationship and occupation. oc-cupation. A man who is not deferred de-ferred for reasons other than physical phy-sical will be reexamined by the local board physician "to determine whether he has any obviously disqualifying dis-qualifying defects which would prevent him from rendering any miltary service." If he has none of these defects, he will be placed in 1-A, and the Army will determine, deter-mine, after induction, whether he will be assigned to full or limited service. Headquarters said future calls for selectees will be for Class 1-A men only. AID TO DEPENDENTS OF THE ARMED SERVICES The Senate passed and sent to the President a bill permitting immediate payment of dependency depend-ency allowances to families of men in the armed services. Hie measure meas-ure eliminates from the service men's dependency act, passed several sev-eral weeks ago, a prohibition against payment of the allotments to dependents prior to November 1. The bill does not require payments before that date. NAVY The OWI said 542 Negroes had enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve by August 13, 1942. These volunteers have been placed in an inactive duty status until the first battalion of Negroes, numbering number-ing about 900, has been recruited. The recruits will then be sent to New River, N. C, where barracks and training facilities are now being be-ing constructed. The Negro Marine Mar-ine unit will form a composite battalion which will include all combat arms of the ground forces composed of artillery, antiaircraft, als, depots, posts, camps and stations." sta-tions." . , THE ARMED FORCES The Senate passed and sent to the House' for concurrence in amendments a bill allowing sol-fas, sol-fas, sailors and Marines to voto lor Senators and members of Congress by absentee ballot. The Senate amended the bill to permit per-mit members of armed forces from he eight poll tax States to vote 'his year without paying that tax. RED CUOSS ACTIVITIES Under a new rescue project launched jointly by the Navy department de-partment and the American Red Cross, buoyant, waterproof bags |