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Show WASHINGTON NEiWS . .-V.' FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER The House has passed and sent to the Senate two important measures, one, the extension of the Commodity Credit Corporation and the other, the 1943 Tax Bill. The Commodity Credit Corporation Corpor-ation bill was the one that particularly par-ticularly caused much furore and debate. The CCC is the agency that carries all the funds for the agricultural program, including support prices and incentive payments pay-ments for agricultural products. It also has up until this time had funds for the purpose of paying subsidies for food. This was the part that was controversial. As it now passed, if it is approved in its present form by the Senate, it would bring an end to all subsidy payments after December 31, 1943. The Tax Bill carried tax provisions pro-visions for an additional Two Billion Bil-lion Dollars. This would make the total tax collection for next year approximately Forty Billion Dol-ars. Dol-ars. There is no substantial change in individual income taxes. The only change will be repealing the Victory Tax, but not decreasing the total tax deducted from pay checks, and increasing the excess profits tax from 90 percent at present to 95 percent. The Senate may make some change, but it is believed the bill will be passed substantially sub-stantially as it passed the House. French Pay For Lend-Lease Goods The French Committee of National Na-tional Liberation has recently delivered de-livered a check to this government for $10,000,000 in . payment for civilian supplies shipped to French Africa under the terms of the Lend-Lease Act. This is the fourth check delivered deliver-ed by the Committee for shipments that left the United States between be-tween April 1 and July 31. Through Lend-Lease agreement we have supplied the French of North and West Africa, with military and civilian supplies which are to be paid for in cash, while they make available to us strategic materials under reverse lend-lease. Already certain sections of French Africa, are producing food supplies to care for their population popula-tion and in addition are making food-stuffs available to our forces in the Mediterranean theater of operations. Mines and quarries are also back in production and such strategic materials as phosphates, iron ore, and cobalt have begun to flow to Allied countries. . Since the occupation of this territory by allied forces in November, No-vember, 1942, over 340,000 tons of civilian goods have been sent there, under this agreement that the French shall pay us dollar for dollar in cash for all vital civilian civil-ian supplies. Thus far, in addition to the $56,340,000 paid us for civilian ci-vilian supplies, we have received under reverse Lend-Lease about 30,000 tons of wheat and several thousands tons of fresh fruits and vegetables all of which helps to feed our men on that side of the Atlantic. The French have elso agreed to provide us with important impor-tant raw materials, including sisal, lead concentrates, manganese dioxide, dio-xide, cork, cobalt, "and manganese, tin and nickel ores. Civilians ot Get Canned Foods Increased supplies of canned pineapple, canned grapefruit juice, asparagus, corn, pumpkin, spinach, tomatoes, beans, and figs will reach retail markets within a few weeks, the War Food Administration said recently. They are supplies owned and held by canners, but set aside for Government purchase, whichs have been released to civilians. Service Buttons Being Distributed Plastic gold-coated lapel buttons for wear on civilian clothing, to signify honorable military service on and after the declaration of a period of national emergency, September Sep-tember 9, 1939, are being distributed distri-buted to issuing agencies throughout through-out the country, the War Department Depart-ment has reported. The insignia on the button is, an eagle within a circle, the wing's extending beyond be-yond the circle's edge. Persons whose army service has been terminated ter-minated under honorable conditions condi-tions will be permitetd to wear fthe insignia. Requests for Penicillin The War Department never has controlled penicillin nor received the entire output, Surgeon General Gener-al Norman T. Kirk of the Army Medical Department explained recently. re-cently. A civilian request for penicillin, peni-cillin, the new drug which prevents pre-vents growth of infection bacteria, should ,be made through the civilian's doctor. The doctor should communicate by telegram, telephone, tele-phone, or personal leter with Dr. Chester S. Keefer, Evans Memorial Memor-ial Hospital; Boston, giving complete com-plete details of the case. |