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Show WASHINGTON! FROM OUR CONGRttSMAN W. K. GRANGER Kationin; About 15,HH),000 mure talis of durable wartime shoos for civilians w 11 be produced tills yeai than last, although the total nuai biT of shoes made will be approximately approx-imately 100,000,000 pairs less than 1942"s record production. Instead ol offering vast si lections of peacetime peace-time types, the stores will stock more durable models, and more complete sze ranges In each of them. There are limited numuers of "play" shoes bemj released from rationing and the public Is urged not to buy more than one pair of these shoes per person. War shippir.j The American Merchant Mer-chant Marine Is Issuing a call for skilled men and offering unprecedented unprece-dented opportunlt'es to former marine ma-rine engineers and other experienced experien-ced officers who w.ll return to the sea. Our merchant ships must deliver de-liver approximately seven tons oil equipment for each fighting man the Army puts In the field, and more than three ships are being built dally to help do this Job. But It takes almost four times as long to train an engine room officer as it does to build a Liberty Ship, and the new Victory Fleet Is faced with the problem of providing engineering en-gineering officers of all ranks an J grades for these Liberty Ships and the standard types. Red . Cross. Activities The Re J Cross has chartered the four-masted Portugese schooner, Poz Do Duoro, to ship food parcels to American prisoners of war in enemy countries. coun-tries. The vessel, now being conditioned con-ditioned In Baltimore, Is scheduled to sail for Lisbon before the end of the month. Prom Lisbon, her cargo will be forwarded to Oenev.t for distribution under the suicr-vislon suicr-vislon of the International Red Cross Committee. Army-4rlce reductions and cash refunds through contract renegotiations renegot-iations have saved the War Department. Depart-ment. In the nine-month period ended January 31. $1,045,000,000 or 12 percent of the estimated $8,600,-000,000 $8,600,-000,000 total of contracts renegotiated renego-tiated and repriced. The buying of the Army Is not Just a case of 'turnln on the valve and getting I goods," but Is one of the most complicated com-plicated technical Jobs of the war. "The growth of Army purchases Is enormous and we are at present buying 9CO.O0O different type of articles." The War Department has announced an-nounced that no more of the generous gen-erous offers to donate knives and other similar weapons for the use of Army personnel can be accepted at the present time, due to the need lor conserving shipping space for Items of essential military e-quipmentl e-quipmentl Also, trench knives of a new design are now under procurement pro-curement by the Ordnance Department Depart-ment for Issuance to military personnel per-sonnel requiring them. A campaign has been launched to enroll 30,000 nurses at the rate of 2,500 a month. Thirty-seven Army nurses. Including several wlio served at Bataan, have been selected se-lected to participate In the campaign cam-paign and will be assigned to 37 major cities. The Red Cross Is co-ojwratlng co-ojwratlng with this campaign. Aviation cadets, who In the past have been trained either as bombardiers bom-bardiers or navigators will In the future receive combined bombardier-navigator training. This will enable one officer to relieve th? other In either capacity to lessen fatigue or In case one of the two Is Injured or killed. Civilian Supplies Sponges, animal, vegetable, and syutMetlc ore required re-quired by the armed forces and Industry In-dustry In such quantities that com-pajat&Vely com-pajat&Vely Jaw will be available for household use for the duration. Military needs for sponges range from use In surgical operations to cleaning the windshields of Jeeps. Much Industrial equipment requires re-quires the cleaning only a 8ong can give. Only a dozen or so of the thousands of species of animal sponges are of use to man, and there aren't enough of them to go around for the armed forces an! Industry. Wax Information Views on war and peace alms as expressed In statements by officials, heads of government and other leaders of the United Nations, have been compiled Into a 130-page volume prepared by the United Nations Information Office In New York. Composed of carefully authenticated authentica-ted quotations, the publication, "War and Peace Alms", has been In preparation for months in collaboration col-laboration with official .quarters on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific. Pa-cific. It clearly shows the trend of opinion among officials who represent repre-sent the thousand million allle! peoples now fighting against the Axis powers. |