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Show r WASHINGTON- Nsfe FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W, K. GRANGER Wire Tapping Ujlslatlon Defeated Defeat-ed by House By a rote of 154 to 146 the House defeated legislation to authorize the Department of Justice to tap telephone and telegraph tele-graph wires in order to obtain evidence evid-ence in espionage, sabotage, kidnapping kid-napping and extortion cases. The Wire Tapping BUI was requested by the Attorney General. When the measure was first introduced, in-troduced, any Cabinet officer would have had the authority to permit wire tapping in felony cases. Later it was suggested that the authority be limited only to the Attorney General. President Roosevelt also criticized the original bill and said he felt that the bill went too far, and suggested that the power be limited to kidnapping and espionage ana sabotage cases. Commodity Credit Corporation's Authority Extended For Two More Years The White House received from the Senate a bill to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation's authority for two more years. This measure called for an extension of five years as originally passed by the House, but the Senate reduced this power to two years. Men With Dependents Exempt From Draft Local Boards were instructed by Selective Service headquarters head-quarters to exempt from the draft men with dependents to whose support sup-port they make any substantial don-trlbutlon. don-trlbutlon. This order applies to men already in class 1-A as well as to those not yet classified. Men who married after registration will be required to show that they were married in the ordinary course of human affairs and not to evade army training. In a memorandum to State directors, dir-ectors, Selective Service headquarters headquar-ters said that the administrative machinery was being unduly burdened bur-dened by the rowing number of married men seeking discharge from the army on dependency grounds. Work tn Cargo Ships Far Ahead of Plan Work on 312 emergency cargo ships on the ways in nine shipyards on the Atlantic, Gulf and West Coasts is sixty to ninety days ahead of schedule. Originally, only one ship was scheduled for delivery next December, but now it is expected ex-pected that at least ten will be ready for operation by the end of the year. Barring any unforseen delays, the entire schedule of keel layings, launchlngs and deliveries throughout 1942 will be greatly accelerated ac-celerated as compared with the original plans. Anniversary of Taylor Grazing Act Celebrated Seven years ago Congress passed the Taylor Grazing Act. On June 30th. the Grazing Service of the Department of the Interior held a celebration honoring honor-ing the Honorable Edward T. Taylor Tay-lor of Colorado, the man who fostered fost-ered the Act, and celebrating the anniversary of the Act which bears his name. Most of the Western Delegation Del-egation In Congress attended these ceremonies. Profrett of Our National Defense Program Our defense production Job is going well. In May, Wright, Pratt & Whitney and Allison turned turn-ed out 3.500 airplane engines. 1.100 more than In January. And far greater records are expected. The new Wright plant in Cinclnatti, the largest sinlge-story building in the world, along with engine plants of Packard. Ford, Sludebaker and Buick, should shortly swing into production. American Car and Foundry is making 10 light tanks a day. Chrysler will turn out 3 medium me-dium sized tanks daily in another two months. At the end of six months we shall have 500 new antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns. Similar success Is reported re-ported In the other defense production pro-duction lines. In a year airplane production has been trebled. Yet, the present rate of airplane manufacture must be doubled again before the end of 1941. Our 600 per cent Jump In tank output must be quadrupled. Our 1,000 per cent gain in explosive powder must be tripled. Machine gun production is up 400 per cent since May, 1940. By December, 1941 it ought to have reached 2,000 per cent. These gigantic increases are the guarantee of our future. And they depend for their fulfillment on immediate im-mediate solution of the basic production pro-duction problem - material shortages short-ages and production bottlenecks. a l,7G0,O46 Men in Army, Navy and Marine Corps At the close of the fiscal year the Army, Navy and Marine Corps had 1,760,046 men. This number is about three times as many as those in uniform a year ago. The latest figures on the armed forces of the United States are as follows: Men - Army, 1,441,500. This includes in-cludes 505,700 regulars 288,800 National Na-tional Guardsmen, 53,000 reserve officers, 594,000 selective service recruits. Navy, 264.798. Marine Corps, 53,748. Air Forces - 4,000 army planes in Service. Navy, 3,439. Marine Corps, 215 planes. Battle Fleet - 337 fighting ships, 438 large auxiliaries and 1,098 smaller small-er craft In service. 348 fighlng ships under construction. I -A |