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Show WASHINGTON FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Work of Senate Committees The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee reported favorably the oil pipeline construction bill. The Military Affairs Committee postponed post-poned consideration of property requisitioning re-quisitioning bills. The Military Affairs Af-fairs Committee approved the bill providing penalties for sabotage in the capital area and approved the bill tightening restrictions on the photographing of naval and military equipment. Huuse Ways And Means Com-milee Com-milee The Majority Leader of the Hou.se expects that the House cf Representatives will receive the proposed $3,504,400,000 tax bill from the Ways and Means Committee around the end of July. The measure mea-sure Is In the hands of legislative drafting experts and committee attaches at-taches believe that the drafting staff will complete its work by the end of the week. From The War Department The American soldier of today gets twice as much milk as the soldier of 1917. The milk diet was stepped up to assure a sufficiency of vitamin B-2 and calcium. The daily milk is divided equally between milk served in natural form and milk usi-d In cooking or served in processed pro-cessed foods such . as cheese. W. P. A. Defense Projects The W. P. A. Commissioner reported defense de-fense expenditures of nearly half a billion dollars during the fiscal year ending June 30, with 429,334 W. P. a. workers, or almost 30 per cent of the 1,460,000 on the rolls, at work June 1st on airport, highway high-way and other construction related to the defense program. Total W. P. A. expenditures on defense projects pro-jects during eleven months of the 1941 fiscal year aggregated $408,-813,000. $408,-813,000. including $171,463,283 for work on highways, roads and streets, and $58,438,678 for airport and airways air-ways projects. American Troop Carrying Gliders Larjer Than Those of Germans Troop carrying gliders, to be towed by airplanes, are being built by the United States, a.)d are much larger than that, used by Germany in the battle of Crete. In Crete Germany used gliders bearing six men each In trains of as many as eight behind be-hind a plane. With the graduation of a number of Army officers to operate cargo-troop carrying gliders with a capacity of from eight to fifteen fif-teen armed men, it is no longer a secret that the Air Corps Is in the process of training military personnel per-sonnel to operate caro-type gliders or that provision is being made for glider-borne troops as a military accessory to air-ground operations. House Naval Affair Committee The House Naval Affairs Committee approved $585,000,000 for expansion of shipbuilding, repair and ordnance-manufacturing facilities ut more than fifty shore stations. The committee action came at the request re-quest of the President for $3,300,-000,000 $3,300,-000,000 more for the Navy, for construction con-struction of vessels and pay of the expanding Navy personnel, was formally transmitted to the Committee. Com-mittee. The $3,300,000,000 would Include provision for 566 merchant ships, which would be so constructed as to be quickly convertible into Navy or military auxiliaries. Some of them would be built in such a manner man-ner that they could be transformed into aircraft carriers. The $585,000,000 for shore-estab lishment expansion is expected to be made up of $300,000,000 for new shipbuilding facilities, $160,000,000 for repair facilities, and $125,000,000 for ordnance manufacturing expansion. expan-sion. Of the $125,000,000 for ordnance, ord-nance, $70,000,000 would be spent for a plant to make a brand new type of explosive. 'Progress of Our National Defense Program Some of the high spots are as follows: In the month, of June a total output out-put of 1,476 airplanes were manu-factuxK manu-factuxK which Is a new high in planes. The plane production right now is at the rate of 18.000 a year, and we are only getting started nn a huge plane program. We are now producing 150 light 13-ton tanks a month. Next month production will begin on the new 26-ton medium tanks. The new Garand rifles are being made at the rate of 1,000 a month; 50-callber guns, 1,000 a month; 30-caliber machine guns at the rate of 4,000 a month. Gunpowder Gun-powder production is now at 50 per cent of intended capacity, but already al-ready equal to the peak of World War days. Merchant ships, now more than 9,000.000 tons and production pro-duction at a high rate. Ten ships delivered In May. Visitors To Washington The following Is a list of visitors from Utah during the past week: Mrs. John L. Patterson, Ogden. Miss Gladys Fike, Salt Lake City. Mrs. Ethel A. Henkel, Salt Lake City. $ |