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Show WASHINGTON ter world. The President said the "Nazis, the Fascists and the mill-tarsits mill-tarsits of Japan have nothing to offer to youth except death." But the "cause of the United Nations is the cause of youth itself." The President told U. 3. fighting men on the world's battlefronts "When you come home we do not propose to involve you, as last time, in a domestic economic mess of our own making. We have profited pro-fited by our past mistakes . . .We will see to it that men returning from the fronts can resume their interrupted careers and education. This time the achievements of our fighting forces will not be thrown away by political synicism and timidity and incompetence. FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER ians here, but shipping space would not be tied up for as long a time in taking the meat to the theaters of war, he said. The primary question is how to use available shipping; space, rather than where the meat should be shipped, and who should ship it, he said. Purchase of War Bonds Secretary Morgenthau announced the Treasury Department is eligible eligi-ble to display the Minute Man Flag because 92.2 percent of the Treasury Department's 6442 em-1 em-1 ployees throughout the country j have subscribed 10.4 percent of their gross pa3Toll 'to the purchase of bonds. Lend-Lease ajo Reciprocal Lend-Lease aid to the U. S. already covers a range as wide as the requirements and geography geo-graphy of a global war, and is being be-ing provided to this country on the same basis as we are providing Lend-Lease help to other countries, in order to pool all the resources of the United Nations for most effective use against the enemy. Such aid is being provided without with-out dollar payment under the terms of Master agreements with countries receiving U. S. Lend-Lease Lend-Lease help, such as Russia, China, and others, by which agreements reciprocal aid is given as the need arises and where war conditions make it possible for them to furnish fur-nish us such supplies and services. "For American force abroad it. ranges from squadrone of Spitfires to new fan belts for Army trucks from building airdromes and naval na-val bases to 'D" ration chocolate bars and bananas at the soldiers' mess from convoy protection for U. S. troopships arriving 'in Brit- overland, "rushed to completion an airdrome in New Caledonia which shortly afterwards was effectively used by Army and Navy aircraft in the battle of the Coral Sea." The Commanding " officer - of the unit made the report to the War Department and said the men unloaded un-loaded gasoline from a supply ship, brought the fuel ashore in rafts and quickly moved it to the airdrome air-drome just in time to service the planes in the battle. Navy Progress Ensigns and lieutenants under 33 years of age who are physically and psychologically qualified and who have 50 hours solo flying and a pilot's certificate may now become be-come naval aviators. Those who apply will be assigned to civilian ' pilot training courses and ordered to an appropriate station for the training, the Navy said. Upon successful suc-cessful completion of a civilian pilot pil-ot tarining instructor's courses, these officers will be transferred to naval flight training courses for refresher courses leading to the designation of naval aviaior. Application should be made to the Bureau of Naval Personnel via the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and the Bureau of Aeronautics. Civilian aircraft pilots with necessary qualifications are now eligible to apply for commissions in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserves Re-serves as flight instructors or transport pilots, the Navy announced. an-nounced. The fliers ordinarily will be commissioned as second lieutenants, lieu-tenants, although some may get higher ranks because of their age and experience. Rationing The Federal Works Agency re- Army Progress Colonel Paul R. Hawley, Chief Surgeon of the U. S. Army in Europe Eu-rope reported in London that the sickness rate of American forces in Britain during the past six months was below that of troops in the United States. Colonel Beverly, Director of Army Ar-my Air Forces Technical Inspection, Inspec-tion, said there is great need for enlistment of men directly in the Air Corps who are qualified mechanics me-chanics between 18 and 44, and who are U. S. citizens. Applications Applica-tions should be made at the nearest near-est Army Recruiting Office. Applicants Appli-cants do not have to be airplane mechanics to be eligible because automobile, Diesel, truck, tractor, and farm mechanics can readily adapt their skills to airplane maintenance and repair; gunsmiths, gun-smiths, instrument makers, clock-makers, clock-makers, water meter repairmen are among those who can be utilized as aircraft armorers, radio and communication com-munication men can become radio operators and mechanics; and all sorts of welders and metal workers can find opportunities among the ground crews, the announcement said. The Western Defense Command announced the Army will convert Santa Anita race track into a training center as soon as Japanese Japan-ese there axe moved inland to relocation re-location centers. The War Department mailed; checks to relatives and dependents of enlisted men in the Army, representing re-presenting about 72,000 beneficiaries. beneficiar-ies. These are the first full payments pay-ments authorized under the Servicemen's Ser-vicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942 and cover all amounts accrued since June 1. The staff of the Adjutant General's Office Branch of Allowance and Allotment Allot-ment is working in three shifts, 24 hours a day, Including Sunday, and applications are being processed pro-cessed within 24 hours, the Department De-partment said. Secretary Stimson praised a Negro Ne-gro aviation engineer battalion, which by working 24 hours a oay and moving equipment many miles ish waters to filling the gas tanks of U. S. ferry planes at airports newly laid out in jungles or deserts'", des-erts'", the OWI said. "American fighting men are getting these and many other kinds of supplies and services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Africa and Egypt, in the hot countries of the Middle East, in India, Australia, Austral-ia, New Zealand, and islands of the Pacific. Australian and New Zealand Lend-Lease help already i provided the U. S. forces in that , a rea compare in volume to our I Lend-Lease help to Australia and j New Zealand." President's Speech President Roosevelt, in an address ad-dress broadcast to an Internation-; Internation-; al Student Assembly in Washington Washing-ton and short-waved to other parts of the world, stated the war is 1 "going to be long and hard and bitter." He said, however, "this time we shall know how to make I full use of victory' to build a bet- ported automobile tratnc during July declined an average of 40.7 percent in the rationed area and 28.3 percent elsewhere compared with the same month last year. The agency also reported that 15 toll facilities on urban roads in the rationed area showed a 32 percent decline in receipts during the same month. The statistics were based on a survey in 21 states. Controlling the Cost of Living President Roosevelt told his press conference the Government is studying a plan for instituting one meatless day a week. Such a program pro-gram would make 30 or 40 Allied j vessels available for hauling war necessities to worldwide theaters of United Nations war activities by having most of the meat for United Nations' co'diers shipped from the U. S. instead of from such distant places as Australia and South America. As a result, there would be less meat for civil- |