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Show WASHINGTON FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Troop Planes Hop Oc an Evrry Sit Minutes The Army's a'r transport command com-mand cxp cts to have one flight over the Alantic every sx minutes when th ; air ferrying troops from Europe to the United States reaches its peak. The tactical plans, such as bombers bomb-ers from Europe, will be stepp d up to between 100 to 123 dally. These planes are be'ng flown over th.1 North and South Atlantic by the crews that manned them in combat i The Army Transport Command hopes to return 50,000 soldiers a month by air when red p'.oyment hits full stride This fejvice operates op-erates more than 2000 trum wU which fly two million miles every 24 hours over 166,000 miles cf r g-ular g-ular routes. Yanks In European Hosp'tals , During this war 1373,000 American Ameri-can soldieis and sailors have been hospitalized in the European theater of operations and 'practically all of them will be restored to duty there i or returned to th? United Staes by mid-July. ' It has been reported by the thea ter's chief surgeon th-t the d athi rate among American Army bat-l He casualties in this war was less than half that of the World War Fewer than 13,000 of those hospital'.! hospit-al'.! d have died, wh.le more than ;,000 medical of.icers and soldiers have been killed while serving with .he combat trocps. Of noteworth imixrUr.ce Is the r port that 195 000 pints of whole blocd were furnished by civilians a' home while the soldiers in Europ urnished 140,000 pints. Order of Prio ity In Purchase of Real fetal Tlie crder o (priority in the purchase pur-chase of governmental non-lnduxt-lal real estate propeitiies th&t have b en declard surplus by various government gov-ernment agenci s has now been announced. The regulation controls the disposal of farm lands (such as the land which now comprises the Topaz R location Center In Millard Mill-ard County), reid ntial, small business, bus-iness, mineral and grazing re'.l property. Government agencies hold first priority. In every instance with a state or local government that has los a highway or a street because the Government took over what was classified as non-Industrial non-Industrial real property, has a special priority, ahead of all other state or lecal governments, to permit per-mit itto reestablish the highway or street. j Other perference participants in the purchase of such surplus real property, follow In order: femer owner of the property before acqulsl tion by the government ; tenant of j former owner; veterans of the War also spouse and childr.n of a dc- 'ceas d service man ;owner-cper8-tors; and non-profit institution I |