Show W washington ashington D C FOOD FOR BRITAIN in the headlines lend lease aid to britain Is chiefly astory a story of planes tanks ships guns and munitions but these dramatic war supplies are only one part of the picture an equally vital though little known phase of this gigantic program is food today practically ally every every ship leaving U S shores for embattled E england carries stocks of food as part of its cargo also significant is the fact that this steady flow of food shipments differs markedly from those of world war days then the foodstuffs were in bulk form boatloads of grain and fresh M meals eats but now with british and A allied blied shipping 9 suffering sull ering terrible destruction st ruction there arent enough bottoms to transport both bulky armaments and bulky food across the haz hazardous aldous atlantic I 1 since the cargo space for bulky armaments cannot be reduced and with the british food situation becoming acute food is being shipped in in concentrated and dehydrated form thus it is carried in the same ships with arms and munitions taking up relatively little space the extent of these shipments and what they meant to the american farmer is shown graphically by the following list of lend lease food purchases in a very recent seven week period american cheese pounds corn starch pounds frozen eggs pounds dried eggs pounds canned fish cases dehydrated soup pounds soy beans pounds dried beans pounds corn sugar pounds enzymes pounds dried apricots pounds honey pounds enriched flour pounds con cent rated orange juice gallons vitamin A units vl vitamin bl kilograms peanut butter pounds lard pounds note management of the lend lease food program is under the surplus marketing administration aided by the U S public health service the british ministry of health and th the e anglo american food purchasing committee 4 0 0 FREEZING CHINESE SE FUNDS there was one unwritten chapter in the story of american freezing of funds of those two oriental neighbors japan and china it was published that the funds of friendly china were frozen as well as the funds of unfriendly japan but unpublished was the fact that china for four months had been asking the state department to freeze its funds but the state department part ment had refused chinas cainas request was vas quite unusual for most nations object strenuously to having their funds frozen for instance switzerland hearing that she would be included with germany when hillers Hit lers funds were frozen argued for weeks but in the case of china many of her funds are in the hands of big chinese merchants and bankers in shanghai who for business reasons are playing with the japanese and they have been draining chinese currency from the country so Roosevel ts special chinese emissary lauchlin currie was requested by chiang kai shek to ask secretary of state hull to freeze chinese funds this would have hamstrung the pro japanese chinese however secretary hull refused twice chiang kai shek made the re quest but both times it was refused in fact the state department even denied that such a request was made presumably on the ground that it came not through diplomatic channels but through mr currie who is only a white house secretary finally however when japanese funds were frozen chiang kai shek shei gathis got his request fulfilled buelt but it took japanese aggression in the ahe south pacific to do it BOOTLEG GASOLINE the days of bootlegging from fiam canada may be coming back again in this case caie however the bootlegging will all be gasoline not alcohol canada has imposed a ban on sale of gasoline between 7 p m and 7 a m on weekdays and all day sunday but this restriction does not apply to americans now cornes comes the proposal of oil administrator ickes to impose a similar ban on gasoline sales in eastern states result would be that a motorist would bernable be unable to buy gasoline in buff buffalo a 1 0 or detroit but could cross the river and buy it in canada MERRY GO ROUND Administration ites are quietly tji throwing rowing their weight belil behind lid the candidacy of francis miller militant new dealer for the virginia legislature miller is being opposed by the old guard machine led by sen harry byrd to out of town friends who call on him president roosevelt is presenting copies of america absorbing booklet written by david cushman doyle the president says he considers the booklet the best sumela tion of the american creed lie he has ever read react ia 1 11 I 1 |