Show ave U EN washington D C 13 enlistments thou thousands sanda of determined women eager to don tho the uniform are driving officials wacky the campaign for enlistments in tho the army auxiliary corps has succeeded too well maj oveta ovet a culp hobby and her chief lieutenants mrs arthur woods and mrs genevieve F herrick Horr lck have a bear by the tall tail and they know it sad truth Is that chere hero cannot possibly bo be more tian than SOO om candidates taken in now no auxiliaries that Is non can bo be recruited until the fincers have been trained possibly around september 15 the greatest number aber of that tan ban be taken in this year Is estimated nt and all of these will be subjected to arnini a minimum mum offous of four weeks training tills this leaves some disappointed would be out of an estimated mated d registration of toughest job of all falls upon tho the chief recruiting officers in tho the nine army corps areas it Is heir job to sort out tho ilia registrants and select tho ilia lucky women those chosen then must face a series of very stiff aptitude tests BONI BOND lown lottery ny rep adolph sabath of illinois genial chairman of tho the house rules committee ablo able to sell the president on government sponsored lotteries when ho he called at the white house however he was given a novel idea on how to use the lottery principle in tho the sale of war bonds sabath contended that a legalized lottery conducted monthly by the treasury would greatly aid in relieving taxation and raise billions in revenue tor for the war effort under a bill ho he Is sponsoring the Ill lnolan inolan said the government would realize approximately from the sale of a billion 1 tickets whereas it if it borrowed this amount at 3 per cent for 20 years tho the interest alone would total it be ba the first time our government has held a lottery or argued sabath wo we did it in 1770 to help finance the revolutionary war yes I 1 know said tho the president adding that he doubted tho the advisability of lotteries at this time because of tho the strong opposition of religious groups instead ho he proposed a compromise why not apply your lottery ideas to the sale of war bonds ho he suggested the belgian government held bond lotteries tor for a number of years SHAKY CHINA chinese leaders in washington are not shouting it from the housetops but behind closed doors they are doing some tough talking to tho the effect that an increasing number of chinese aro are getting discouraged about the war and would like to see some kind of appeasement with japan chinese leaders give this as the reason why china must have airplanes and have them immediate ly the chinese dont demand a lot at of planes but they do say that even a small fraction of the munitions ons going to russia would work wonders in bolstering china here her a Is tho the chinese picture now being presented to U S war strategists after five years of war the chinese are war weary most discouraging cou raging thing Is the ironical tact fact that the chinese are worse off now with allies than they were before alone the chinese were delighted after pearl harbor because it meant they had a powerful ally against japan but now after six months of it they almost wish they had been left to hold out alone that is why recent reverses in burma and along the china coast have shaken chinese determination down to tho the foundation generalissimo chiang kal kai shek Is not weakening but many achl inego are especially the well to do class the people who yearn for restoration of normal bustness business who would rather have a chance to make money and live peacefully even under the japs thau than to pay the he frightful cost of continued war meanwhile japan seems determined to crush china now apparently the U S bombing raids on tokyo scared the japs sick made them see the danger of near nearby by chinese bases anus caused d them to shift their strategy to cleaning up china ahead of other war warfronts fronts GO ROUND heard in the navy press room A sailor after 20 years service retired with a sizeable fortune of ile he amassed thi this i sum ahr through ough careful investment enterprise initiative and the death of an uncle who left him the war departments service of supply shortly will release a new movie called the army behind the army showing americas vast war production machine the pic ture will vill bo be shown in defense defens fj plants plant throughout the country |