Show VA 0 I 1 I 1 ia 0 W R za 5 a washington D 0 CUTTING NAVY TAPE behind admiral kings forthright order slashing navy red tape 60 50 per cent and ordering more navy officers out of washington was in an interesting comparison n with the japanese Japa noso navy conducted back stage by s some omo of ill the a presidents advisors advisers Amer american icam recently fa familiar millar with japan have reported that the jap anese navy Is sta started faed by only about 1000 personnel in tokyo in cofi contrast the tha navy department in wash ington has moro more than not ln in eluding the navy yard the japanese navy also Is reported to have cut red tape and government reports to the bone and it gives widest latitude to command ers at sea ea tho the U S navy also gives wide a latitude to commanders in distant posts such as admiral lenry leary in new zealand admiral nimitz at pearl harbor dut but I 1 in n home waters especially in antisubmarine warfare along the east coast insiders say the navy ho has s s suffered af from a constant stream of reports and orders to and from washington requiring a tremendous staff for tho the paper work alone now admiral king offers promotions to officers who will decrease their washington bureaus rather than increase them GASOLINE CZAR tho the one man dynamo who runs the gas rationing system of the U S A Is a preachers son and a former professor of economics though one of the most harassed men in washington he la Is constantly on the verge of breaking into a broad smile only 35 years old he has gray hair about the ears thin hair on top works so late into the night that his wife mother of a newborn new born boy seldom sees him 1 I generally make the 2 a m feeding he says joel dean was born in vermont schooled in california and has a doctors degree from harvard where he wrote a thesis on small loans ile he spent a year as european manager manile of a travel bureau two years as traveling salesman for international business machine and seven years as teacher and research expert As a fellow economist he always admired leon henderson Hc but never met him until he came to washington less than a year ago to effect his own economy in gasoline ho he formed a drivers Dr ivern in club with tour four other OPA officials they take turns driving to the office from arlington va across the river when brickbats brick bats fly in the OPA office dean dea n recalls that his father a congregational minister wanted him to be a missionary on a south sea island many people says dean wish th that at I 1 had fulfilled that arl aaion 4 0 ARMY HOUR PROGRAM jamming radio programs is onn one of the recognized weapons of modern warfare but it Is a two edged sword and the war department radio dio branch Is ready to swing on the axis it if the prize army hour on sundays is jammed again jamming by manufactured static or other interference is feasible in the united states only on short wave broadcasts the army hour features short wave talks from all over the world made by such noted personages as mme ame chiang kal kai shek general MacArt macarthur hift general wavell and others the most recent case of jamming was during a talk by a high ranking army officer from the dutch island of at curacao A plano piano banged loudly all the time he spoke winston Chur chills latest speech which camo came on the radio immedi abely before the army hour was jammed by a lutteral gut teral teutonic voice carefully observing Chur chills own pauses in an effort to escape detection tec tion these two cases of jamming were traced by triangulation trl to axis broadcasting stations the army proposes to retaliate it if this deliberate interference stop 0 0 WAR FLASHES fl 41 if you are a business executive and uncertain about tax deductions for advertising and pay increases you can get informal Inform alt advice by applying to the internal revenue bureau under a new treasury ruling fl L OPA agents are checking up on private airports on tips that they are bootlegging high octane gas to dar car drivers high octane wont run a cor car by itself but makes A very smooth running fuel if mixed with lower grade gas 41 guerrilla warfare in has become so highly organized that every third guerrilla now Is armed with an automatic rifle the war department soon will break still more precedents it will start accepting women doctors in the army medical corps they will be assigned chiefly to tho the and also for general eye ear nose and throat work C the ardys new M MI 1 helmet that COMOS comes far over the checks neck and forehead and is much stronger than the old tin tl nhat hat is now new being distributed to all boldic sold lern 1 |