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Show WEEK OF THE WARj Array Chief of Ordnance Campbell, speaking at 'Salisbury, 'Salis-bury, N. C, said : "Our tanks are superior to anything the 'enemy has. Type by type, our tanks have heavier guns, heavier armament and greater speed ... our high-velocity 75-millimeter guns in our M3-tanks far and away outrange the best the Germans have . . . and we can fire this high-velocity high-velocity 75 when the tank is in motion, which is more than any enemy tank, whatever its size, can do." General Campbell said Jhe so-called "new German 88 JIM. gun" is "about as secret as a daisy water pistol. It has been known to us and our allies for at least 10 years. We outmatch this gun with several of our field and antitank anti-tank guns." He said the German 88 is effective as an antitank anti-tank weapon only within its limited range. United States machine guns, General Campbell said, will "outf unction any enemy gun under the most adverse circumstances in other words, they will keep firing when enemy guns have to shut down to change barrels." The .United States "can build a better automobile, a better typewriter, a better icebox and we can build and are building better machine weapons," General Campbell said. "The enemy cannot outdo American design and, production and spirit." " The WPB reported the dollar value of war shipments from 430 automotive industry plants totaled $350 million during April, an increase of 46 per cent over February. Army Services of Supply Commander Somervell instructed civilian euards at 11,000 war plants to organize an aux- iliary to the army's corps of Military Police as a further ' protection against enemy saboteurs. THE WAR FRONT 1 ' The "Flying Tigers" of the American Volunteer group were placed under the Army Air Corps Command in China and opened their operations with heavy raids on three key Japanese bases at Hankow, Nanching and Canton Can-ton Six Japanece planes were destroyed without loss. A Navy communique ' reported army bombers scored , hits on an enemy cruiser and sank a transport m the ' Aleutian Islands. In addition, Navy submarines sank three destroyers. The situation in the islands "has not changed materially:" however, in the past two weeks, the Navy report said:' The Office of Indian Affairs announced all of the Aleutian Islands West of Dutch Harbor as wel as, thePribilof Islands, have been classified a sparts of a total . evacuation zone. The office said nearly 1,000 civilians have been removed from these areas by the Navy and transferred to the American mainland. The first communique from U. S. headquarters of the European theater reported six U. S. Douglas hght bombers bomb-ers manned by U. S. pilots successfully attack d target bv daylight in German-occupied territory m a joint oper tion X RAF.bombers. Two American planes were re-,sin. re-,sin. The Navy fc merchant vessels by enemy submarine action was nounced. SCRAP RELEASE . The WPB said a new and greatly intensified I campaign cam-paign to salvage vital scrap materials wn be form y opened July 13, because the only way the U. S. can meet (Continued on page Two) ing projects with the corresponding applications covering the housing- itself. The joint applications will be processed entirely in the field by the FILA offices and by NIIA and WPB regional offices. NIIA Administration Blanford issued is-sued a simplifying order to empower qualified creditors or lenders to decide whether a proposed remodeling project is "War Housing," thus exempting the project from credit restrictions set up by the Federal Reserve Board. ARMY EXPANSION President Roosevelt signed the $42 billion Army Sup-ply Sup-ply Bill for Fiscal 1943. The War department said men now in Class 1-B because of minor physical defects will be in-ducted in-ducted into limited military service under a regular quota system in order to release fully qualified soldiers for dutv with task forces. Only those 1-B's "who are able to bring to the Army a useful vocation which was followed in civil life" will be called. j A WEEK Or THE WAR (Continued from page One) materials requirements of war production is "to collect I every last bit of scrap from every farm and home, and from every commercial enterprise and industry in the I country." The iron and steel industry has raised about $1,500,000 and the glycerin industry about $500,000 to finance national advertising to stimulate scrap collection, the board said. The farm implement industry has offered to assist th ecountry's 12,000 state and local salvage committees com-mittees in the collection of rural scrap. Materils to be sought in particular are iron and steel, rubber and waste fats. The rubber scrap salvage campaign will close at midnight mid-night July 10. The Public Buildings Administration reported re-ported 15,000 pounds of scrap rubber were salvaged from federal buildings during the first two weeks of the campaign. cam-paign. The War department said the Army faces a 250,000 ton rubber shortage by the end of 1943, but present plans do not include military requistioning of cvilian tires. RATIONING Price Administrator Henderson said consumers may purchase an extra two pounds of sugar between July 10 and August 22, in addition to the basic half-pound-a-week ration. He said the new east coast coupon system for gasoline gas-oline rationing will grant a fraction of a gallon more per week than temporory A cards, but the conditions that that must be met to obtain supplemental rations under the permanent system are so strict that most motorists will have to get along on the minimum. Motorists will register for A books July 9, 10 and 11. Small boat owners will be issued E and R gasoline ration books and will receive a basic six months ration of four gallons for each horse power for inboard motors and five gallons for outboard motors. The OPA set the quota of passenger automobiles for rationing during July at 25,000, excluding state and national na-tional reserves, which will reduce the original inventory of about 402,000 cars to about 260,000. Between July 9 and August 31, the office will release 230,000 bicycles for rationing 180,000 to the states, 20,000 to State Reserves and 30,000 for a national reserve. TRANSPORTATION ' Transportation Director Eastman banned for the duration dur-ation all automobile, midget car ' and motorcycle racing meets, effective July 10. He also asked that state and county fairs be postponed; for the duration to help relieve the strain on transport facilities. The ODT . postponed until July 15 the date on which over-the-road carriers will be required to be loaded to at least 75 per cent of capacity ca-pacity for return trips and on which tank trucks will be limited to one delivery daily. The office reported the majority ma-jority of milk dealers have put their deliveries on an ev-ery-other-day basis and have reduced mileage by an average av-erage of 25 per cent. The office, authorized its 51 field offices to begin action immediately upon applications for special permits under the truck conseration regulations. SHIPBUILDING i The Maritime Commission said shipbuilding has not yet equaled total sinkings, but delivery of 66 ships totaling 730,000 tons by American shipyards in June set a new world's record for steel ship construction and represented an increase of 450 per cen tin volume of construction since Pearl Harbor. The War Shipping A&ninistration reported re-ported the U. S. will operate between 2,200 and 2,600 merchant vessels this year. ,. HOUSING FHA field offices resumed the processing of applications for , priority assistance in the construction of privately financed homes for war workers. Processing was suspended late! in May.' The agency said'.a new simplified procedure combines preference rating applications for the electricity, gas, water and sewer connections of proposed war hous- |