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Show ate . U o oas as w ITN ITNWashington W.biDct WbiDct Washington . . D . , , D C ( ) CMORE CMOHE MORE PLANES TO CIONAIt CHINAIt CHINA CIONA CHINAIt It can now be revealed that the thebottleneck U Ubottleneck bottleneck has haa been broken in tunl tunlportaUtJn Iran Iranportatlbn tramportatlon portaUtJn portatlbn to China . , , and rreater rreaterquanti great greatquantities greatequantities quanti quantities tiel of ot equipment for tor air op- op operation of oferations 01eratlons - eration erations . against sgainst the Japanese Japanele 81 81being are arebeing arbeing being movedThis movedThis moved movedThis This I is . an encouraging encouraeing develop- develop develol development develolment develotment - ment following toJlowln1 the successful .uccellltuJ uccellltuJ . Chi Ch Chnese Chnese . nese operations against again.t againt . the Japs Japa I Ithe in inthe ithe the Ichang khana area within recent recentweeks recer recerweeks recerweeks weeks Incidentally IncidentaUy the these Ie opera operatlons open openlions opertlions tlons lions have been somewhat exa exai exaigeaated exagcrated , geaated { , erated by the Chinese It now ap- ap appears at atpears a - ; pears that the .Tap Tap . Japs . did not Intend to tomove I Imove tmove move against agaln.t agalnt . Chungking nor did didthey di dithey dlthey they have quite the number of me meearlier men menearlier meearlier earlier reportedThe reportedThe reported reportedThe The outstanding point , . , however ill illthat I Ithat Ithat that the Chinese were lIucee.alul lIuceealul suceessiit lIucee.alullargely suceessiitlargely suceessfulargely . largely as a result of ot air power powel powerThis powelThis powerThis This was a tribute not only to Chen- Chen titer Chennault titernault Chennault - nault and the American pll pll6ts pilots ts but butalso bt btalso bualso also to a contingent of ot Chinese Chlne.e Chlnee . pp pplots pi piIota pilots Iota lots flying t1ylng with the Chennault groupUntil groutUntil group grout groupUntil Until recently it was W88 not desirable desirabl desirablto dealrablito to increase the number of ot planes in inChina t tChina liChina China because the limited suppi lupply suppl lupplytaclliUe , ; facilities taclliUe . by air from trom India conlU consti conlUtuted constituted constituted tuted a bottleneck botUeneck . . . 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U 8 S planes were mucb mud mucbIcarcer mudscarcer muckscarcer Icarcer scarcer then than today Produc Production Production Productlon tion was low and there were also slat alsoheavy slatheavy aischeavy heavy demands demand . from Egypt Etypt and andMacArthur anc ancMacArthur andMacArthur andMacArthurAt | MacArthur MacArthurAt At one time the Russians RUSlians actualhsuggested actually actualh actually.uIe.ted actuallysuggested .uIe.ted uIe.ted uIeted suggested . , . that the best way to par pareel pareel pareel eel out lend lease leale equipment would wouldbe wouldbe wouldbe be to adopt a very simple .tand tand stand standard . standcrd .tand.rd .rd rd ard . . , , namely which army was W8I kJU kill killfog kJUIne killIng Ine fog the most mo.t mot . GermansGradually Germans Oerman GermansGradually . 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ARMY ARAIT ARMY DOCTORS STYllIEDNext STYMIEDNext STYMIED STYl\lIED STYl lIED STYMIEDNext \ Next time the army tries to re recrult recruit reemit crult cruit doctors in peacetime a lot of ofmedicos ofmedicos ofmedicos medicos who patriotically became becamereserve becamereserve becamereserve reserve officers omeers long before Pearl PearlHarbor Pearlharbor PearlHarbor Harbor are going to think twice belore be betore betore tore lore they do BO so againReason againReason Again AgainReason Reason Is that the doctors who whobecame whobecame whobecame became reserve officers officera well In ad advance advance advance vance of war have now been penalired penal penalizffi penalized izffi ired They are stymied on promo promotions promoLions promotlons tions Lions Meanwhile doctors who have havecome havecome havecoma come into the army recently have haveshot haveshot haveshot shot way ahead of ot them In rankWhat rankWhat rank | What happened was that after atter a alot alot aI lot of ot reserve rest'rve restrve ' corps iloctors doctora doctors had hadbeen hadbeen hadbeen been brought Into the army stillmore still stillmore stillmore more doctors docton were needed So the themedical themedical theI medical corps corpll upped Its Itll bids It Itoffered Itiffered Itoffered offered iffered higher commissions commission . as ma majors mafora majors jors fora and lieutenant colonelsMeanwhile colonelsMeanwhll colonels colonelsMeanwhile Meanwhile Meanwhll when lower ranking rankingtormer rankingormer rankingformer tormer ormer reserve officers omcers raise the thequestion theluestion thequestion question luestion of ot promotions the . stock .tock tock re reply refly reply ply fly is ' ' The 'The table tables . of organization organizationdo organizationio do io not permit It Il it . . . . MERR MERRY-GO-ROUND MERRY GO ROUND MERRYGOROUNDC MERRYGOROUNDQ Y -GO-ROUND GO ROUND YGOROUND GOROUNDCl - - - - C Cl . Q . The OPA or the army navy might mightwell mightveil mightwell well veil do something lomethlni for army navy navywives navyelves navywives wives elves who have to pay terrific tt'rrlflc ttrrlflc ' sea seasonal seaonal seasonal sonal onal rents at Atlantic coast estab estab- establishments estab- estab estabishments establishments - - lishmentsC lishmentsCl lishments ishments C Cl . 4 . Gen Qen Oen Albert C Wedemeyer crack crackstrategist crackstrategist crackstrategist strategist of ot the U S general stat staff staffeho staffwho ! 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II Shenango Depot Pa has hal a stock stockade stockide gtockade ade ide where wht're whtre ' about 2000 2 000 soldiers lIoldlers are aredetained areletalned aredetained detained letalned as RS priso prlso ers era but thousRnds thousands thousandsat thousRndsof thousandsd of d other olher 1 A men are sent there for fortra forransfer ( ortransfer tra ransfer sler to other areas It Is a atransfer atransler transfer ransfer center and the tact fact that a aman anan aman man nan Is sent lent there does not mean he he1s hes heis 1s s koing "olI1S olI1S going " to a dumping dump\ne dump ne \ ground iround . , . |