Show washington N leiws S 7 FROM OUR C congressman R W K GRANGER army construction authorized construction of a number ol of depot warehouses was authorized ly by the army department in pennsylvania there will be two depots in texas two in ili alabama two there will bo be one in each of the following arizona kentucky oregon california utah vergin Verg lnla la and now new york rubber Ili ibber supply situation commerce secretary jones said it if pacific ports are closed to the U S this country will havo have to rely mainly on synthetic rubber until the war is over and we can go back to the par far east mr air jones said at present there are tons of raw rubber available in the U S but rubber supplies from the far east arc dwindling down and prospects of getting fu further arther shipments from tile the east indies look pretty had bad he said malj only a modest amount of raw rubber can call be obtained ibrom brazil estimated at between and tons a year and there are few sources of supply other than the far east ConsetTa tion of chemicals director west of the OPA consumer division advised automobile owners to save auti antl freeze mixtures this spring instead of throwing it away he said chemicals used in making antifreeze anti freeze compounds are needed to make explosives and tor lor army and navy tank and airplane operation ile he also asked those who have antifreeze drained at service stations to bring their own containers xavy navy the bureau of navigation ed recruiting officers to w waive a ive the physical detects defects of applicants tor for class V 6 naval reserve for construction work duty defective color perception cep tion and loss of teeth replaced by satisfactory dentures when in the opinion of the senior medical officer pi the station applicants are gnall ln all other respects qualified tor for enlistment for construction duty the bureau also modified ratings of certain enlistees enli in construction regiment so that le velmen enlist in headquarters companies will be rated as chief carpenters mates instead of carpenters mates third class lend lenso lease allocations pass 13 12 billion mr air Stet tinus lend end lease administrator said we find that by supplying such items as sulphur and tire molds to tire factories in india aus orallia and south africa we can call appreciably preci ably increase the tire output of these factories using their own sup lilies of raw rubber we thus can reduce the number of tires which bould otherwise be allocated from the united states the results are increase in the total allied production of war material a tremendous saying saving in shipping space find and time consuming transportation so vital to the united war effort lare ill arnay illy i selective service registrants who are acceptable will lie be inducted at the time of the areny physical examination the war department informed selective service headquarters thereby eliminating the present army pro pre hidu etton procedure local draft hoard board physicians will continue to give the screening examinations rejecting the obviously unfit men and the final physical examinations by the army will continue to he be tine the most thorough one given to registrants registrants headquarters salil sald registrants will bo be given their notices of induction instead of receiving notices to report for physical examinations examination by the army as they do now power POM or act now before congress this bill exchanges the exis itin 9 composition of the 6 5 cent piece and makes it halt half copper and half silver the present pro sent 5 cent piece Is required hy by law to be throe three fourths copper and fourth nickel the bill will make available avail ablo for war purposes all of the nickel and one third of the copper in ili the 5 cent piece on the basis ot of the figures tor for tho the fiscal year 1941 this saving would be pounds ol of nickel which Is a metal essential to the manufacture of military material the amount of nickel used in coining 5 15 cent pieces during the year 1941 would have been sufficient for the production of tons of oe ar mior imor plate enogh for 1000 heavy tanks burlap released helenic d for wool ilak bags the war production board issued an amended order on february 16 releasing large quantities of burlap for the manul manufacture of bags with which to handle the domestic wool clip tor for this year utah wool growers a will be pleased to know that on february 27 additional quantities were released to insure an adequate supply of wool bags for 1942 1042 commending the prompt cooperation of the mills manu manufacturing fac tu ring these bags chief res kos enwald of the lureau bureau of industrial conservation urged all fiand handleis lers of wool to return emptied bags as soon boon as possible for reuse i four flour iff iam the navy announced it ls Is building four new destroyers tho the bennion Benn lon named in honor of the late capt SharpE ennion of utah the heywood L edwards named in honor of the late lt comar heywood L edwards the kidd in ili honor of the late rear admiral isaac campbell kidd and the van in honor ot of the late Capt Franklin van bugh comar edwards died the night of 3 41 when his saip the destroyer reuben jams james was torpedoed west of icela iceland nd the three other menn wore were killed kille d in action adur during the japanese a assault on pearl ilar harbor 0 r capt bennion being on board the battleship west verginia Vergin Verg lnla la our united states our united states consists of forty eight states five territories rt ft Is 2807 miles antles from east cast to we west 3 t and 1598 efrom north to south it is at al most moat square miles in area area and has farms and more than men women omen and children it contains a quarter of a million miles of railroad and freight ships it grows more than one third of the worlds wheat halt the worlds corn and cotton a third of the worlds tobacco this Is the greatest productive nation a in the world this nation has the factor factories lei and the machines ant the men to keep them going full blast it Is a nation of wheat fields as far as tho the eye can see of mines and blast furnaces of lumber mills and oil refineries of shipyards and docks of 0 warehouses ware bouses and grain elevators of millions of cars and trucks and tanks and planes pianos come out the other on a vast and tremendous scale tills this in tile united state ant and you and I 1 are arc parts part of it deer deep dow dawni n to the alo marrow of our bones and when they bomba bombed our enemies started their own destruct destruction lon |