Show W E I 1 washington D C enlistments thousands of determined women eager to don the uniform are driving officials wacky the campaign for enlistments in it th e army auxiliary corps corp s has succeeded too well maj oveta culp hobby md and her chief lieutenants n ants mrs arthur aithur woods and mrs genavieve Genc vieve forbes herrick have a bear by the tail and they know it sad truth is that there cannot possibly be more than OM candidates taken in now no auxiliaries that is non officer can be recruited until the officers have been trained possibly around september 15 the greatest number of that can be taken in this year is estimated at and all of these will vill be subjected to a minimum of four weeks training this leaves some disappointed would be ba put of an estimated registration of toughest jol job of all falls upon the chief recruiting off officers leers in the nine army corps areas it is thelt their job to sort out the registrants and select the lucky women those chosen then must face a series of very still stiff aptitude tests BOND LOTTERY rep adolph sabath of illinois genial chairman of the house rules rule committee able to sell the president on government sponsored lotteries when he called at the white house Ifo however wever he was given a novel idea ca on how to use the lottery principle in the sale of war bonds sabath contended that a legalized io lottery conducted monthly by the treasury would greatly aid in relieving taxation and raise billions in revenue for the war effort under a bill ho he is sponsoring the illinoisan said the government would realize approximately from the sale of a billion 1 tickets whereas if it borrowed this amount at 3 per cent ceni for 20 years the interest alone would total it be b the first time our government has held a lottery argued sabath gedid it in 1776 1770 to help finance the revolutionary war yes I 1 know said the president adding that he doubted the advisability ot of lotteries at this talmo because ot at tho strone appe os ca religions groups in stead he 60 proposed a compromise why not apply your lottery to the sale of war bonds he suggested the belgian held bond lotteries for a num years SHAKY CHINA chinese leaders in washington are not shouting it from tho the housetops but behind closed doors they are doing some tough talking trahe to the effect that ch an increasing number of chinese are getting discouraged about the war and would like to sed see some seme kind of appeasement with japan chinese leaders give this ai as the reason why china must have airplanes and have them immediately the chinese dont demand a lot of planes but they do say that ahat everl even a small traction fraction of the munitions going to russia would work wonders in bolstering china here Is the chinese picture now being presented tou to U S war strategists after five years of war the chinese are war weary most discouraging cou raging thing is the ironical fact thattie that the chinese are worse off now with allies than they were before fighting alone the chinese were delighted after pearl harbor because 0 1 usg it meant they had a powerful n ally 1 ly against japan but now after six months 0 of f it they almost wish they had be been e n left to hold out alone that is why recent reversed rever reverses sei in durma burma and along the china coast have shaken chinese determination down to the foundation generalissimo chiang kal kai shek Is not weakening but many chinese are especially the well to do amsk class the people who yearn for restoration of normal business who would rather have a chance to make money and live peacefully even evea under the japs than to pay the frightful cost of continued war meanwhile japan seems determined to crush china now apparently the U S bombing raids on tokyo scared the japs sick made them see the danger of nearby chinese bases caused them to their strategy to cleaning up china ahead of other warfronts war fronts GO ROUND HOUND heard in the navy press room A sailor after 20 years service retired with a sizeable fortune of 60 lie ile amassed tills this sum through careful investment enterprise binl and the death of an uncle who left him the war departments service oi of supply shortly will release a new movie called the army behind the army showing americas vast war production machine the picture will be shown in defense plants throughout the country |