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Show - will find United States Saving j Bonds the safest investment in j the world. You can buy these ' bonds in amounts as low as $18, j 75 from virtually all banks and I any post office. Wheather you buy I from banks or post offices is un-imoprtant un-imoprtant The main thing is to buy some and some more when you can afford to do so. When you buy one of these bond you buy confidence in your country, your family, your i WASHINGTON NE4V3 s 1 - ? i FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER neighborhood and yourselg. You are making money work for you and, by lending it to the government, you are making it work for your country. SENATE PASSES ROADS BILL Defense highway legislation calling cal-ling for the expenditure of $250,-000.000 $250,-000.000 on road construction and maintenance projects was passed by the Senate. The measure provides pro-vides for the extension of main lines of the gigantic network of highways and for access roads leading to military and naval re-centers re-centers and sources of raw materials. mater-ials. There will also be 400 "flight strips" to serve as emergency landing land-ing fields for war planes. Under the bill 78,000 of the 225,000 miles in the Federal aid ., ......... wuni, repaired re-paired or otherwise improved for defense purposes. The proposed pro-posed flight strips would be built adjacent to public highways where necessary for purposes of emergency landing and take-off of aircraft in cases of military concentration. MILITARY AFA1RS COMMITTEES COMMIT-TEES VOTES 27 TOP DRAFT AGE Tlie house Military Affairs Committee voted to grant deferment defer-ment from the selective Service Act of men over 27. and proposed to report the measure to the house for quick consideration. The action was taken after appearance of the Acting Director of Selective Service Ser-vice who testified that there were 8,000,000 registrants in the age range from 21 to 23 and that 1,-000.000 1,-000.000 men would reach this range each year starting with the second sec-ond registration on July 1. Trainees FOR PARACHUTE DUTY A limited number of Sel ective Service trainees will be permited to enlist in the Regular Army for service with the parachute para-chute troops, under new regulations regula-tions made public by the War ucpanmrat. ieretotore, this service ser-vice has been reserved exclusi-I exclusi-I vely for Regular army soldiers who have already demonstrated all around proficiency. To be accepted a trainee must show endurance, en-durance, proficiency and special qualities. Only trainees who have gone through preliminary work at replacement training centers will be considered as parachute volunteers. AIRCRAFT EXPORTS INCREASE Aircraft exports were $16 000 -nnn liu u ' I '"giier uian a month ago. Total aircraft 'shipments amounted to $66,000,000. Total exports were valued at $385,000,000 in April, 8 percent above March of this year and 19 per cent over April 1940. It was the highest monthly tota'1 in recent years. HOUSE ADOPTS PENSION EXTENSION The House approv- ea a Din to increase the amount! of benefits to surviving dependents depen-dents of World War veterans by extending the payment of pensions pen-sions to widows and children and to dependent parents of veterans. veter-ans. The Veterans Administration estimated that the measure would increase the the total amounts of pensions by $22,238,000 a year. The benefits would be extended to surviving dependents, regardless regard-less of the cause of the veterans death. GAIN IN U. S. BIRTHS In the first four months of this year there were about 20.000 more births in the United States than in the same period last year, according accord-ing to the bureau of Census. This indicated a birth rate for 1941 of 18.5 per 1,000 population, the a..-.. laou, uiiu tlUSt; LU j the latest birth rate reported from Germany, which was 18.8 in 1937. The 1940 rate for the United States was 18.0. The trend which has now set in, pointed to an increase of 7 per cent in population popu-lation per generation. UNCLE SAM IS TOO MODEST He is so used to giving help that it isn't easy for him to ask for it. He has listened for 165 years to so many people vtelling him what this country needs that he dosen't always take time to tell them what this country has. Take, for example, his new line of merchandise the Defense Saving bonds. They are something some-thing that a real salesman could taly about and sell like hot cakes. But, after all. Uncle Sam has other jobs to do than selling. True he has announced that he has the new bonds and that you can get them from your bank or post office if you want them but he hasen't told you very much about why you should want them. j how good they are. how easy they ' are to own, how quickly they can be turned into money of the need fcr it arises. I The small investor and the fam- I ly trying to make its savings grow |