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Show ner.'.-.-r.: n.c-e ce' j on the E 'nne-v:e 'nne-v:e di-:r.t a preset from wl.ich at.::: .', j: U iy ce to cb:.:::i tioa of a!u:;!:na:n a.'.d o'ker cr:.:- U. S. I.O-i'r.S 2.0i.G.5'it) DEFENSE IiKi:S T::e Scn:.t. was told '.ht t ,vj ij.tt.le craiseiv, six de-' de-' , vers or e:e,nt s.ibmat ines could be in the man-hoars f labor lus by strikes on naval na-val projects. Strikes, . according to the Navy Department, have cost tlte naval construction program pro-gram 2, COO. 000 man-hours of work. Naval work was being delayed by 40 strikes while War Department Depart-ment contracts are being held up by 34 strikes. Another 21 defense strikes are threatened while out of this total of 95, only 3 had been certified to the Mediation Board. 1,00ft HUGE LONG RANGE BOMBERS CONTRACTED FOR The army awarded contracts totaling to-taling more than $320,000,000 for 1,000 long range bombers, Described Descri-bed by the war Department as being designed to further the U.S. goal of a 500 per month bomber productionn, the huge awards were aU for the heavy four-an-gined planes capable of flying 5,-000 5,-000 miles non-stop, many of the ships ordered from Consolidated would be assembled in the new Government owned assembly plant at Fort Worth, Texas, to be operated oper-ated by consolidated, while many of the boeing flying fortresses are expected to be assembled at the new Wichita assembly plant. SENATE BILL TO BAN SETTING U. S. LAND AFIRE The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill providing for a ?1,000 fine a years imprisonment, or both, for setting fires on government owned property. The legislation, which was requested by the FBI and the Attorney General, also carries a section aimed at the prevention of sabotage on forest land. Persons who failed to extinguish ex-tinguish a fire on U. S. timber land would be fined or imprisoned imprison-ed under the bill. PILOTLESS BOMBERS The pilot less, radio-controlled bombing plane may soon become a reality. The Army and Navy are now experimenting ex-perimenting with radio controlled control-led planes. During recent naval operations in Hawaii a pilotless plane, enttirely controlled by radio from another plane, took off from an airport and flew over battle units at sea. NAVY ORDERS TANKS CARRYING CARRY-ING BOATS Mass production of new type of boat able to transport trans-port 25,000 pound tanks and 75-millimeter 75-millimeter guns, has started. According Ac-cording to the marine Corps this is the first satisfactory type ever developed for transporting such equipment and these boats are being produced by builders of mot or torpedo-boats. VISITORS TO WASHINGTON FROM THE DISTRICT The following fol-lowing is a list of visitors from I Utah During the past week. Mr. Dick Harper, Brigham City; Mr. Charter Lewis, Brigham City; Mr. and Mrs. George F. Simmons, Ogden; Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Greaves, Greav-es, of Ogden. (WASHINGTON ,NEiWS fOM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER LOWERING DRAFT AGE LI- MTT A Senate study of the advisability ad-visability of lowering the age minimum under the Selective Service Act appeared to be in prospect The Senate Military' Affairs Af-fairs Committee has asked for a full report on the subject. The Army has indicated that it is re-luctent re-luctent to train men over 30 years of age and that men under 25 are preferred. An estimated 820,000 men who have reached the age of 21 since the first registration day in October will be registered register-ed in July 1st and selective ser vice headquarters has asked Congress Con-gress to grant to the president discretioinary authority to defer calling of older registrants. BILL TO AID V. S. SUGAR GROWERS PASSED BY SENATE The Senate voted 45 to 26 to increase in-crease domestic sugar production quotas at the expense of Latin American producers. The legislation legis-lation provides that any deficiency defi-ciency in the Phillippine quota of sugar imports to this country, coun-try, in excess of 75,000 tons, be allocated to domestic sugar producers. pro-ducers. The legislation amends the sugar act of 1937, which provided pro-vided that when the Phillippine producers failed to meet their quotas, the amount of the deficiency de-ficiency should be divided in the i form of increased quotas for I foreign countries other than Cuba. I SENATE PROVES BUDGET FOR ' THE INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT I The Senate voted 5185,119.813 to carry on the work of the Inter-1 ior Department for the fiscal j year beginning Jnly 1st. Includ-ed Includ-ed was $32,726,600 for reclamation' projects. Among other items was S22.9C3.500 for construction and |