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Show WASHINGTON- I MEiWS ; i fftOM OUR CONGRESSUAN W. K. GRANGER TIE ARMED FORCES president Roosevelt signed legislation leg-islation to permit members of the armed forces, regardless of where ti,ey are stationed, to vote in Federal elections by absentee ballot bal-lot Under Secretary of War Patterson. Patter-son. speakii:g at Muskegon. Michigan, Mich-igan, said more than GOO, 000 men In the armed forces are overseas and that this "force will be doubled and doubled and doubled to the limit of our manpower until un-til we defeat our enemies.'' He said, "The fighting front wherever wherev-er it may be and if it covers many sections" is the "first front There will be other fighting fronts and the crucial one will be against Hitler's fortress, Europe. . . fhere will be no easy Versailler treaty for us if we lose." WEATHER BUREAU NEEDS WOMEN PILOTS The Weather Bureau asked for by women pilots to take courses! in meteorology beginning next! January at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Chi-cago, California Institute of Technology Tech-nology and the University of California. Cal-ifornia. ' WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS Initial assignments have been given the more than 400 newly-1 graduated officers of the WWAC's the War department announced. Eighteen were assigned to Washington Wash-ington headquarters, effective Sep; tember 17, but the major portion of the class will remain at Fort Des Moines as cadre officers or as understudies to the military staff and faculty members, whom WAAC officers will eventuaally replace. re-place. Other activities to which they -were assigned included the Aircraft Warning system, the Army Ar-my school for Bakers and Cooks at Fort Riley, Kansas and the Recruiting service. The members of the first class, graduated August Au-gust 9, have the rank of third officer, equivalent to that of second se-cond lieutenant, APPOINTMENT Jacqueline Cochran, famous woman wo-man flier, has been named by the Army Air forces commander Arnold and director of Women's Flying training within the Army Air Forces. Miss Cochran,' the the people have not completely searched the average home for scrap, and a lot of it is still lying ly-ing : around. He said people with available scrap who have encountered encoun-tered inadequate collection organizations organ-izations should make the siuation known. FOREIGN RELATIONS Secretary Of State Hull told his press conference the Vichy government's gov-ernment's plan to send thousands of French laborers into Germany would constitute, if carried out, "such aid to one of our enemies as to be wholly inconsistent with France's obligations under international inter-national law." At the same time Mr. Hull denounced the Vichy undertaking to deliver Jewish refugees re-fugees back to the Axis. "These policies," he said, "include the delivery of these unhappy pepole to enemies who have announced, and in consdierable degree executed ex-ecuted their intention to enslave, maltreat, and eventually exterminate exterm-inate them under conditions of the most extreme cruelty. The details of the measures taken are so revolting re-volting and so fiendish in their nature that they defy adequate description." from July shipments of approximately approxi-mately $600,000,0000. However, the overall report showed , a steadily increasing volume of aid to the Allied . Nations. The President said so far "the United States has little more than passed the halfway half-way mark toward maximum possible pos-sible war production." In relation rela-tion to their available resources Britain and Russia have produced pro-duced more weapons than the U.S. has, in spite of the fact that one is a battleground and the other an offensive base. He said the U. S. must strip its civilian economy "to the bone" if American fighters fight-ers and those of Allied nations are to be assured of the vastly greater quantity of weapons needed to turn the tide of the war. SCRAP SALVAGE President Roosevelt told his press conference the average American home had not been scratched sufficiently for scrap urgently needed by the nation's war industries. While the nation has not yet reached the point of taking metal doorknobs and ornamental or-namental ironwork for the scrap campaign, if the people do not hurry their collections the government gov-ernment will have to be more drastic and literally take the needed scrap metal away, he said. Mr. Roosevelt said a three-month painstaking search of the White House and executive offices yielded yield-ed about five tons of scrap. Judging Judg-ing from his own personal experience, exper-ience, he said, he is convinced I announcement said, "will be m 1 charge of a program designed to create a pool of trained women pilots from which will be drawn, as needed, personnel for non-combat non-combat flying purposes, to release as many men pilots as possible for combat and other important duties." LABOR SUPPLY FSA Administrator McNutt stated stat-ed the shortage of manpower "is more acute and serious in the field of nursing than in any other aspect of the war effort." He said "Nursing is not only of national significance, but its importance im-portance in the entire allied war effort cannot be overestimated. The program of nursing of the United States must be closely related re-lated to that of the United Nations. Na-tions. PRISONERS OF WAR Censorship Director Price announced an-nounced that examination of mail to and from prisoners of war and interned or detained civilians has been transferred from Chicago to New York City. Letters sent to such persons should bear the notation "Vie New York, New York." DISCOURAGING CONSUMER CREDIT ' The Commerce department announced an-nounced department store charge account balances dropped in Julj to the lowest level since 1938 &rgely due to government credi regultaions. RATIONING The Government Printing office has received an order from OPA for the first Issue of 150,O0O,00C "all-purpose" ration books, de signed to ration any' article oi "Offlmodity and to be distributee throughout the nation as soon a Possible, probably , shortly befon Christmas. These books, whicl U1 be known as War Ratior Eook No. 2, are the first type oi a series of four "all-purpose' books, which the office said art necessary "to provide ultimati complete flexibility in the ration lng mechanism. LEND-LEASE AID President Roosevelt reported ti Congress the value of Lend-Leasi shipments in the last 18 month Was $5,129,000,000. August deliver ies were down about $50,000,01 |