Show e DR W EA ON Washington D C CHINESE BLACK MARKET If you think the U S Black Mar Market Market ket Is profitable take a look at op in Clung Chino A fountain pen costs 10 Chinese currency in Even WIth the Chi Chinese Chinese nese dollar worth only five cents thIS Is in U S dollars and a lot of dough to pay for a fountain pen You can also understand why U S fliers load up wIth lipstick before go- go go big ing going to China A i 1 brings 5 in Chinese dollars in Chung king ThIs is about 2 0 in U S currency ThIs Is also why lend lease has hassent hassent sent a certain amount of s lk Ik stock stockings ings rigs champagne perfume and other oth other er luxurIes to Chinese war They are sent to counteract similar imports by the Japanese which have havea a very undermining influence on a Har lord worried over maintenance of jf his lus love nest e RUBBER DELUGE Officials In the office of the rubber administrator are beginning to wonder won wonder der what they can do WIth the hun hundreds hundreds of thousands of tons of syn synthetic rubber whIch will come from the new plants next year It seems a 1 late but they are now facing the elementary quest on of whether or not the t re companies can han handIe handie dIe the vast quantities of synthetic rubber The greatest amount of rubber ever processed by the nation s rub rubber her ber companies In one year was tons But next year we shall have nearly one million tons to deal wIth ObvIously the present facilitIes tIes will be inadequate But the problem IS aggravated by bythe bythe the fact that tire manufacturing machInery has been knocked down dO and stored at a aay ay so that rubber corn com panics could convert to production for the war Instead of tires they have been making rubber boats bal balloons balloons loons tank treads and Me life rafts Thus we have the problem of find fiod mg new plant space m in wh ch to t o bring that machinery back into pro product product duct on and the further problem o of f creating ent rely new productive facilities fa to take care of the increased d quantities of rubber whIch will be b e available for manufacture S ISLA D Few maps of the world show the th e beat on of Solomons Island Mary Maryland Maryland land a pinprick In Chesapeake bay Locally It Is famous only for ItS fish fishing mg ing and the fact that the steamships a LevIathan Mount Vernon and Mon Mont t cello wel were e lard laId up there to rust m deference to private sh S nce the war however Solomon Solomons Island has become an important naval installation and the navy de department recently arranged for the th e sh of some airplanes to Solo Solo- Solomons So o coons mons Island on an aIrcraft carne carner r bUIlt for the Brit sh m in a West cogs coast t yard While the carrier carner was go n ng g through the Panama canal locks London radioed asking Its where We re on our way to Solomon Solomons s Island replied the carrier carner s scorn corn mending officer Why are you go ng to Solomon Solomons s Island and where is rt It London Londo n queried m in amazement Get m touch wIth the embassy m Wash Nash ngon radIOed back the ship s commanding officer After some anxious moments Lon London London don learned m in code that the car carner carrier rier ner s commanding officer had not mutinied nor was he going to the Solomon Islands but to the U S naval base at Solomons Island Maryland SI LL BUSINESS BLOW UP The government s program for the relief of small business IS headed for trouble when congress reconvenes recon reconvenes venes next month At secret sessIons of the senate small business commIttee headed by Senator James Murray of Montana Mon Montana tana small business men corn com about the thc r ty to get government loans for war contracts and sub contracts while billions of dollars of government money IS be being big ing shelled out to b g corporations The senate committee heard corn com plaints about the tight fisted loan policIes of f U 11 e a Smaller War Plants corporation One example gIven the senate committee was that of the Riverside RIver RIverside side Boatyard company of MIami whIch trIed to get a loan of only 10 from the Smaller War Plants corporation to complete a war contract con contract tract After being turned down the company got the 10 loan from froma a private bank W thin 24 hours As a result Senator James Mar Mur Murray Marray ray of Montana chairman of the senate small business committee IS planning some close ny of the Smaller War Plants corporation MERRY I GO ROUND ROU E 41 Just before manic Tinsley former press aIde of the British Supply Council left to jo n the Royal Cana Canad d an A r force he wrote the Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania railroad As a Brit sh subject who has lived m in the Un ted States for 14 years mostly as a newspaper man With Reuters w U 11 yOU grant me one favor on leaving this grand countr country WIll you let IT me e rIde m in a locomotive cab of one of your trams trains to New fork lork on mY way to Canada TInsley left Washington in the ca cab |