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Show roads linking defense establishments establish-ments with the national highway system, would make available $10,000,000 for "flight strips" emergency roadside landing fields and another $10,000,000 for survey sur-vey and research. MARITIME COMMISSION'S SMALL SHIP PROGRAM The Maritime Commission announced a secondary or small ship program separate and distinct from the Commission's major ship program The new program provides for construction of 127 vessels of special types which can be built SOLDIERS FIRST ON HOLIDAY TRANSPORTATION Soldiers on furlough will get first call on transportation facilities during the Christinas holidays and many civilians ci-vilians "ought to do their traveling travel-ing now and stay home during the holidays." Office of Emergency Management Transportation Commissioner Com-missioner Budd announced. Mr. Budd said all forms of travel will be taxed to the limit during the forthcoming holidays, and through voluntary cooperation of carriers, soldiers probably win get a preferred pre-ferred status. This is necessary, he said, because there are now 1,600-000 1,600-000 men in Army camps compared with only about 500,000 a year ago. OEM ISSUES 'DOLLARS FOR DEMOCRACY' "Dollars for Democracy", a pamphlet describing describ-ing the growth of the nation's defense appropriations, effects of expenditures for defense on the national economy, and ways in which the money will be raised, has-been issued by the Office of Emergency Division of Information.) Informa-tion.) I have a limited supply of these pamphlets on hand, and, upon request re-quest will be glad to send them to anyone interested in receiving them. without interference with emergency emer-gency production of the 1,200 larger ships and will help alleviate allev-iate an immediate shortage of merchant shipping pending delivery deliv-ery of mass tonnage of Liberty ships and other cargo vessels now on the ways. TJ. S. CITIZENS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES President Roosevelt Roose-velt signed the bill extending for two years the nationality status of United States citizens residing or working in foreign countires. OIL The Bureau of Mines reported re-ported the nation's need for oil will be 13 per cent greater this November than November 1940, and the prospects of improved oil transport facilities to the East coast probably will continue to keep consumption at a high level. Curtailment of non-defense business busi-ness and higher taxes may cut consumption of gasoline and mo- tor oils from now on, but this saving will be more than absorbed absorb-ed by increasing defense demands, the Bureau said. It estimated the market will demand 122,100,000 barrels of domestic crude oil and 55,500,000 barrels of motor fuel during November. "FARMING OUT' EXHIBITS OPM Contract Distribution Director Direc-tor Odium announced three special spe-cial railroad exhibit trains will tour the nation .beginning November Novem-ber 10 in a drive to spread defense de-fense contracts through subcontracting subcon-tracting or reaching new plants. Mr. Odium said the move was intended in-tended to make sure that "no qualified manufacturer no matter where he is misses an opportunity to get a defense contract for lack of information." The trains will carry exhibits of sample parts of needed defense equipment to give the prospective manufacturers and subcontractors a clear idea of the articles needed. WASHINGTON nqws r-ss ftp "1 W. K. CIVILIAN DEFENSE WEEK The President has designated the period commencing on Armistice Do.y, Tuesday, November 11, 1941, and continuing through Sunday, November 16, as a time for all persons per-sons throughout the Nation to give thought to their duties and responsibilities in the defense of this country, and to become better bet-ter informed of the many vital phases of the civilian defense program pro-gram and of the opportunities which it offers for the participation partici-pation of every individual American Ameri-can in the defence of our price less heritage. WPA COMPLETES ARMY LANDING LAND-ING FIELD IN UTAH A landing land-ing field has been completed by the WPA for the Army at Hill Field, Ogden. The facilities consist con-sist of four concrete runways, each 7,500 feet long and 150 feet wide, and 31 acres of concrete aprons and taxiways. Other WPA work completed at the airfield includes in-cludes construction of 32 miles of roads and eight miles of railway, rail-way, instaLlation of five miles of sewers, and excavation and backfilling back-filling for water, gas and communication com-munication lines. Of the 2,960 acres on the reservation, the WPA has planted 640 acres to drought-resistant grass in order to prevent call ting. DEFENSE HIGHWAY BILL The House passed and sent to Conference the Defense Highway BLLL The House substituted its own $170,000,000 authorization for the $185,000,000 figure passed by! the Senate, and the measure now I requires Senate concurrence in! the House action. The bill would authorize $150,000,000 for accessj |