Show 0 As washington D C CUTTING NAVY TAPE behind admiral kings forthright order slashing navy red tape 50 per cent and ordering more navy officers out of washington was an interesting comparison with the japanese Ja pinese navy conducted backstage by some of the presidents president Is advisers americans recently familiar with japan have reported that the japanese navy is started staffed by only about 1000 perso personnel miel in tokyo in contrast t the navy department in washington ing n has than not including inn the navy yard the japanese navy also is reported to have cut rei red I 1 tape and government reports to the bone and it gives widest latitude to command era at sea the U S navy also gives wide latitude to com commanders anders in n distant posts such as admiral leary 1 eary in new zealand admiral nimitz at pearl harbor but in lome home waters especially esi eci ally in antisubmarine warfare along the east coast insiders say the navy has suffered from a constant stream of te ie ports and orders to and from washington requiring a tremendous start staff for the paper work vork alone abune now admiral king offers promotions to officers who will decrease their washington bureaus rather than increase them 0 4 GASOLINE CZAR the one man dynamo who runs the go gas 4 rationing system of the U 8 S A is a preachers son and a former professor of economics though one of the most harassed men in washington hela hea Is conita constantly on the verge of breaking into a broad smile mile only 35 years old he has gray lair hair about the ears thim thin hair on top op works so late into the night that hat his wife mother of a newborn new born boy soy seldom sees him 1 I general ly y make the 2 a m feeding he says joel dean was born bom in vermont schooled in california and has a doctors degree from harvard where he wrote a thesis on small loans ile he spent rt a year as european man ager of a travel bureau two years as traveling salesman for international business machine and seven years as teacher and research ex asa As a fellow economist he always admired leon henderson but never met him until he came to washington less than a year ago va in gasoline so ii to ha formed a drive in club with four other OPA officials they take turns driving to the office from arlington va across the river when n brickbats brick bats fly in athe mhd OPA of flee fice mon dean recalls that bis his fattier father a C congregational 0 minister wanted him to be a missionary ori on a south sea island many people says dean wish that chati I 1 had fulfilled that mission ARMY HOUR PROGRAM jamming radio programs is one of the recognized weapons of modern ern warfare but it is a two edged sword and the war war department radio branch bratic his is ready to swing on the axis it if the prize army hour on sundays is jammed again jamming by manufactured static or other interference is feasible in the united states only on short wave broadcasts the army hour features short wave talks from all over tle the world made by such noted personages as as mme ame cheang kai shek general macarthur general wavell and others the most recent case casa of jamming wai was during a talk by ahiga ranking army officer from tho the dutch island of curacao A plano piano banged loudly all the time he spoke winston Chur chills latest speech which came on the radio immediately before the army hour was jammed by a lutteral gut teral teutonic voice carefully observing Chur chills own pau pauses ses in an effort to escape detection tec tion these two cases of jamming were traced by triangulation to axis broadcasting stations the army proposes to retaliate it if this deliberate interference stop 4 WAR FLASHES 41 it if you are a business executive and uncertain about tax deductions for advertising ind and pay increases you can get informal advice by applying to tho the internal revenue bureau under a new treasury ruling fl 41 OPA agents ire are checking up on private airports on tips that they are bootlegging high octane gas to car drivers high octane wont run a j car by itself buts but makes a very smooth running fuel if 11 mixed with lower grade gas e guerrilla warfare in russia has become so highly organized that every third guerrilla now is armed with an automatic rifle C L the war department soon will break still more precedents it will start accepting women doctors in the army medical corps they will be ba assigned chiefly to the and also tor for general eye ear no nose se and throat work y fl 41 the ardys new ml M l 1 helmet that comes far over the cheeks neck and forch forehead iad end and is much stronger than the old tin hat la Is now being distributed to all soldiers |