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Show ent rate of airplane manufacture must be doubled again before the end of 1941. Our 600 per cent jump in tank output must be quadrupled. Our 1.000 percent gain in explosive powder must be tripled. Machine gun production is up 400 percent since May, 1940. By December, 1941 it ought to have reached 2,000 per cent. Those gigantic inci-eases are the guarantee of our future. And they depend for thair fulfillment on immediate solution of the material shortages and production bottlenecks. 1,760,046 MEN IN ARMY, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS At the close of the fiscal year the Army Navy, and Marine Corps had 1,760-446 1,760-446 men. This number is about three times as many as those in uniform a year ago. The latest figures on the armed forces of the United States are as follows: Men Army, 1,441,500. This includes in-cludes 505,700 regulars, 288,800 National Guardsmen, 53,000 reserve officers, 594,000 selective service recruits. Navy 264,0798. Marine Corps, 53,748. Air forces 4,000 army planes in service. Navy, 3,489. Marine Corps, 215 planes. Battle Fleet 337 fighting ships, 438 large auxiliaries and 1,098 smaller craft in service. 348 fighting fight-ing ships under . construction. WASHINGTON NEiWS l,M e v FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Act, and celebrating the anniversary anniver-sary of the Act which bears his name. Most of the Western Delegation Dele-gation in Congress attended these ceremonies. PROGRESS OF OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM Our defense de-fense production job is going well in May, Wright Pratt and Whitney Whit-ney and Allison turned out 3,-j 3,-j 500 airplane engines, 1,000 more than in January. And far great-er great-er records are expected. The new WIRE TAPPING LEGISLATION DEFERRED BY HOUSE By a vote of 154 to 146 the House defeated de-feated legislation to authorize the Department of Justice to tap telephone tele-phone and telegraph wires in order to obtain evidence in espionage, es-pionage, sabatage, kidnapping and extortion cases, The wire Tapping Tap-ping Bill was requested by the Attorney General. When the measure was first introduced, any cabinet officer would have had the authority to permit wire tapipng in felony cases. Later it was suggested that Wright plant in Cincinatti, the I largest single story building in the world along with engine plants of Packard, Ford, Studeba-ker Studeba-ker and Buick, should shortly swing into production. American Car and Foundry is making 10 light tanks a day. Chrysler will turn out 3 medium sized tanks daily in another two months. At the end of six months we shall have 500 new anti-aircraft guns. Similar success is reported in the other defense production lines. In a year airplane production has been trebled. Yet, the pres- the authority' be limited only to the Attorney General. President Roosevelt also criticized the original bill and said he felt that the bill went too far, and sug-ted sug-ted that the power be limited to kidnapping and esponage cases. COMMODITY CREDIT COPOR-ATION'S COPOR-ATION'S AUTHORITY EXTENDED EXTEN-DED FOD TWO MORE YEARS The White House received from the Senate a bill to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation's authority for two more years. This measure called for an extension of five years as orginally passed by the House, but the Senate reduced re-duced this power to two years. MEN WITH DEPENDENTS EXEMPTED EX-EMPTED FROM DRAFT Local boards were instructed by Selective Select-ive Service headquarters to exempt ex-empt from the draft men with dependents to whose support they make any substantial contribution. contribu-tion. This order applies to men already in class 1A as well as to those not yet classified . Men who married after registration will be required to show that they were married in the ordinary ordin-ary course of affairs and not to evade training. In a memorandum to State directors, dir-ectors, Selective Service headquarters head-quarters said that the administrative administra-tive mahinery was being unduly burdened by the growing number of married men seeking discharge from the Army on dependency grounds. WORK OX CARGO SHIPS FAR AHEAD OF PLAN Work on 312 emergency cargo ships on "the ways in nine shipyards on the Atlantic, Gulf and "West Coasta is SO to 90 days ahead of. schedule Originally, only one ship was scheduled for delivery next December, De-cember, but now it is expected that at least 10 will be ready for operation by the end of the year. Barring any unforseen delays, the entire schedule of keel layings, launchings and deliveries throughout through-out 1942 will be greatly accelera-tde accelera-tde as compared with the original origi-nal plans. ANNIVERSARY OF TAYLOR GRAZING ACT CELEBRATED Seven years ago Congress passed the Taylor Grazing Act. On June 30th the Grazing Service of the Department or the Interior held a celebration honoring the Honorable Hon-orable Edward T. Taylor of Colorado, Colo-rado, the man who fostered the |