| Show News Behind the New News From New York and Washington Telegram Correspondents Correspondent 1 I The congressional curiosity about about the high cost of war was thwarted temporarily by the army at a recent demonstration of new weapons at Fort Belvoir Belvoir Belvoir Bel- Bel voir in m near-by near Virginia The show was staged for the benefit of the vice president cabinet members congressmen and newspaper reporters As guests entered the gates each was handed a catalogue describing individual weapons and setting forth their function in combat One enterprising representative who sits on the appropriations committee that has been quizzing lend lease-lend administrators administrators administrators ad ad- generals and admirals admirals admirals ad ad- brought along data on the prices of rifles machine guns mortars tanks etc participating participating participating par par- in the sham battle He read the figures on each weapon to his fellow members for the particular benefit of those who have paid little attention attention attention atten atten- tion to lend lease-lend operations The congressmen men were shocked They were were so disturbed disturbed disturbed dis dis- dis- dis at seemingly excessive amounts for simple-appearing simple guns that they wrote them down in their catalogues Army officers watched the up check-up glumly and angrily When the honorable members left the fort they were required to hand in all their data at the exits Some protested but complied because of the expressed fear that secret information contained Inthe In Inthe inthe the catal catalogues gues might fall into unfriendly hands So they lost their records of the prices which had been written on that military document But the army failed to acquire acquire acquire ac ac- ac- ac quire the enterprising members member's original cost sheet and this has become a best seller among house members It may lead to toan toan toan an official or unofficial investigation investigation gation into the seemingly exorbitant exorbitant ex ex- prices paid to arm both the British and our own forces A ton 13 tank talk costs even without armor while a 30 ton tank sets Uncle Sam back backby backby backby by An old model 30 caliber machine gun comes to and the more modern 50 cali caliber er type to 1500 A 20 millimeter automatic gun is priced at and the 37 millimeter at A 60 milli meter trench mortar which looks to be of simple construction construction construe construe- tion is listed at an 81 millimeter model at A 37 millimeter antitank gun sells for and the brand new howitzer runs nuns into Observers have been wondering wondering wondering wonder wonder- ing since the nazis invaded Russia what apparatus the the the- communist party would set up in the United States to continue the innocent front campaign of infiltration and tion That something of th ili sort would come was taken fo to granted Not in a decade haythe hay has the reds been without camouflage for their l activities and the common tt eC fort fort against Hitler was vas too good an opportunity to I bi b. missed The answer has come cometo to NewYork New Nes NewYork York from Hollywood its birth place The American People Mobilization spawn of ot the American Peace Mobilization is to give gin way to the Russian War Relic Relie Relief society christened in the haw hand of boys and girls in thi the drawing room of Producer rector Lewis Milestone Preliminaries were dIscussed at a secret caucus in th the ClArl Clark Claric hotel There a small group organized organized or or- r 1 as a steering committee commit tee laid out its strategy and then adjourned to Milestones Milestone a avery very comfortable home hOIe for an ingenuous soiree Many of oC th the biggest shots of the movie cap capital capital capital ital were present Some knew kne what they were doing but birt butmore butmore more supposed that this 45 is just a nice philanthropic little gesture from which war vie tims would obtain some assistance assist assistance ance and four figure st stars s muc much publicity |
