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Show i Washington, U. C. j 100D FOR BRITAIN ! In the headlines, lend-lease aid to Britain is chiefly a story of planes, tanks, ships, guns and munitions. But these dramatic war supplies are only one part of the picture. An equally vital, though little known, phase of this gigantic program pro-gram is food. Today, pracUeaUy every ship leaving U. S. shores for embattled England carries stocks of food as part of its cargo. Also significant is the fact that this steady flow of food shipments differs markedly from those of World war days. j ! Then the foodstuffs were in bulk ! form boatloads of grain and fresh j meats. But now, with British and Allied shipping suffering terrible de-j I struction, there aren't enough bot-; i toms to transport both bulky arma- j ! ments and bulky food across the , j hazardous Atlantic. j j Since the cargo space for bulky i armaments cannot be reduced, and with the British food situation be-1 : coming acute, food is being shipped in concentrated and dehydrated form. Thus it is carried in the same ships with arms and munitions, muni-tions, taking up relatively little space. The extent of these shipments and what they meant to the American farmer is shown graphically by the following list of lend-lease food pur-chases pur-chases In a very recent seven-week period: American cheese, 20,483,175 pounds; corn starch, 35,820,000 pounds; frozen eggs, 36,648,630 pounds; dried eggs, 4,458,650 pounds; canned fish, 1,083,052 cases; dehydrated soup, 4,400,000 pounds; soy beans, 9,070,000 pounds; dried beans, 40,770,000 pounds; corn sugar, 5,696,000 pounds; enzymes, 3,360 pounds; dried apricots, 9,986,-000 9,986,-000 pounds; honey, 3,557,300 pounds; enriched flour, 399,000 pounds; concentrated con-centrated orange juice, 92,302 gallons; gal-lons; vitamin A, 2,547,183 units, vitamin vi-tamin Bl, 3,965 kilograms; peanut butter, 1,762,000 pounds; lard, 28,-662,720 28,-662,720 pounds. Note Management of the lend-lease lend-lease food program is under the Surplus Marketing administration, aided by the U. S. public health service, the British ministry of health and the Anglo-American food purchasing committee. FREEZING CHINESE FINDS There was one unwritten chapter in the story of American freezing of funds of those two Oriental neighbors, neigh-bors, Japan and China. It was published that the funds of friendly China were frozen as well as the funds of unfriendly Japan. But unpublished was the fact that China for four months had been asking the state department to freeze its funds, but the state department de-partment had refused. China's request was quite unusual, for most nations object strenuously to having their funds frozen. For instance, Switzerland, hearing that she would be included with Germany Ger-many when Hitler's funds were frozen, fro-zen, argued for weeks. But in the case of China, many of her funds are in the hands of big Chinese merchants and bankers in Shanghai, who for business reasons are playing with the Japanese. And they have been draining Chinese currency from the country. So Roosevelt's special Chinese emissary, Lauchlin Currie, was requested re-quested by Chiang Kai-shek to ask Secretary of State Hull to freeze Chinese funds. This would have hamstrung ham-strung the pro-Japanese Chinese. However, Secretary Hull refused. Twice Chiang Kai-shek made the request, re-quest, but both times it was refused. In fact the state department even denied that such a request was made, presumably cn the ground that it came not through diplomatic channels, but through Mr. Currie ' who Is only a White House secretary. secre-tary. Finally, however, when Japanese funds were frozen, Chiang Kai-shek got his request fulfilled. But it took ' Japanese aggression in the South i Pacific to do it ! BOOTLEG GASOLINE The days of bootlegging from Canada may be coming back again In this case, however, the bootlegging bootleg-ging will be gasoline, not alcohol Canada has imposed a ban on sale of gasoline between 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. on weekdays, and all day Sun-day. Sun-day. But this restriction does not apply to Americans. Now comes the proposal of Oil Administrator Ickes to impose a similar ban on gasoline sales in eastern states. Result would be that a motorist would be unable to buy gasoline in Buffalo or Detroit but could cross the river and buy it in Canada. y " MEURY-GO-ROUND Administrations are quietlv throwing their weight behind the candidacy of Francis Miller, mili ant New Dealer, for the Virginia legislature. Miller is being opposed by toe Old Guard machine Z S Sen. Harry Byrd. To out-of-town friends who call on him, President Roosevelt is present tag copies of "America." absorbing booklet wntten by David Cushman Doyle. The President s.y, he con" m real WiCan h b |