Show washington leiws N eav 5 y ill rn FROM OUR congressman W K GRANGER ants during dm ing the lat 1 week congress passed legislation raising tho the base pay or of privates pil vates in ili the army and martile marine cuipa corps a beamen and in ili tile tho navy froni 21 it a month to 60 50 a month and 60 for foi foreign service this Js Is tho the first ali at time in ili our ihl history story that congress Con giess has attempted to equalize the pay ot of privates and seamen with wages received by those in civilian life dently thas will maka inako tile tho american soldier the tha high est t paid in ili the world flie allotment and allowance bill passed provides a compulsory allotment ot of pay pi received hy by men in ili the various services as aa follows A mar ailed man mail contributes 22 a month to support ills his wife with tile the government paying 28 a month making a total of no r 0 a month A further provision provides ldes that in case the soldier jold ler sailor or 01 marine Is unaware of this leg Islat lon and la is located in a place where it Is impossible to make the allotment the bhe wife or 01 depend dependents eilts may hy by giving proof pi bof ot of dependency make application for tile the all allotment ament i ami alii it will bo be paid in the same man mail I 1 ner nei as if the soldier had made the allotment himself this provision of course se Is to take care caio of cases of prisoners pilson of war wai and cases of faraway service the legislation further provides provide for government insurance tile the maximum amount of which la Is tahe insurance provision Is entirely optional anin secretary of war clims slims an speaking at harvard university in cambridge massachusetts sald tho the men wj who 0 make at up tile the U S army ili hi courageous spirit will be the equal while alle in thoroughness of training and of equipment w hlll ill bo be superior to any american Ameil can army which has ever left our oui shores and that la is high in comparison to conform to aur our historic standards an american Ameil can aimy must be magnificently brave WAll without olit brutal it must list bo supremely self confident without becoming arrogant and it must carry cany the momentum of irresistible sis si tible might without losing UR falth in individual liberty 1 I and patriotic organizations in cities in celebrating independence day labor pay day and armistice day tile the war wai department announced the army arm y will assist in staging military parades when circumstances permit including exhibits of equipment equip practicable and will ibold hold open house at camps posts and sta on these holidays the depart allent said training schedules and ot of gasoline rubber and ami other material matei ial will lessen parti cipa flon 0 o on ii other oilier days tile the department sald said I 1 I 1 T tho he nimy army plans to 10 reduce loduco paper work to conserve Loii eon seive serve sold leis s fash cast and On hantle ihla his cleacY te war IL department part ment announced today by put till tins the soldiers sol dlois purchases of per pei bonal and services sei vices at stations on oil it ft cart 0 14 basti basli T ohp lie now system which la Is designated to tile tho dignity and efficiency ettl cleney of at the and to eliminate paper work will be tried tiled in n the field very soon agriculture wo to hauae senate both passed 1091 legislation continuing for tho the two years I late ate of aa percent interest lute iest char beable on oil federal farm batik bank 10 loans ans and it Is now walt iniz ni the PI presidents es signature Imo luction nelson announced that US war production Is higher than we had any reason leason to suppose it could bo be alien blueprints were being prepared for war plants lie he said ald american Amei ican war producers are doing tile impossible because workers firemen engineers and managers mana geis alike are working as they chave hannever hay never worked before and because war implants have applied the boat best mass masa production techniques to of munitions the american war effort Is developing 1 an industrial plant that will be beyond all price when the war Is over byer mr nelson said world production divided by wohld population no longer means less than enough for e everyone ve it means more than enough he said and what we are fighting tor for Is tile the right to turn this possibility into reality isolations with russia the white house in ili an announcement approved by president roosevelt and russian commissar molotov bior reported the president and mr air molotov reached ami 1 understand liell w alku i aceaid dayd to kp urgent tasks af at creating 9 a second european front at t discussions held in ill Wad washington hington from may 29 to june 4 in addition tile the president and mr air molotov dis cussed measures for speeding up deliveries of US war materials to the soviet union and the fundamental problems of postwar post war cooperation between the U US S and russia tor for safeguarding peace and security to the freedain both sides state with satisfaction the unity of their views on all these questions the announcement said Itt rubber ibber for anticol forces under secretary of war patterson reported army and navy crude r rubber ab requirements during the 21 mouths months after april 1 1942 will be ba tons compared with thayus reserve of ait tons tolls we hope that the synthetic program will make up the difference he said the armed forces will need a further fur blier amount of reclaimed rubber over the ton figure the he said because the estimate was made after the avinal forces had made every possible economy including taking rubber oft tank tracks army estimates of the amount of scrap rubber that can be collected by a salvage campaign vary from to tons patterson recommended the following program for rubber con conservation or a speed limit of 40 miles allea an hour purchase by the government of any tires in excess of five per automobile transfer of all possible freight transportation por tation to railroads and nationwide gasoline rationing priorities aind allocations allocutions the ruled farm machinery the farm and must not be diverted to industrial or other non agrical turn tural 1 uses there theio have been cases where farm items have been diverted to other activities the said new postage stamp to honor china postmaster general walker said a special 5 cent stamp will be issued to commemorate chinas cainas five years resistance si to japanese aggression portraits of abraham lincoln and ur dr yat vat sen founder of the chinese republic will appear to the left and right contour map mail of china first day sale will be july 7 at denver deliver where dr yat vat sen received word woid october 11 1911 that his efforts to free china were succeeded stamp collectors will be limited to tb 10 covers the department said casualties Ite released leased by the army up UI until june 12 1042 1942 the following are aie army casualties for utah as released by the army aimy up to date willard J bingham of smithfield and blaine 11 smith smithfield william R briggs of tooele thoele major floyd J peel ogden james W ekstedt salt lake city joseph H hunter salt lake city INN major jar chauncey benedict whitney salt lake city and harry J parry suit salt lake city |