Show washington NEi N ysra S I 1 IT wes FR r OM OUR congressman W K GRANGER corn offered for defense alcohol production secretary of agriculture announced the commodity credit corporation has offered to malce make 20 million bushels of government owned corn available to the war I 1 department for production of alcohol to be used in manufacture of munitions as requested by the war department mr said use of this corn car will free tanker space needed for shipment of strategic materials and will aid the agricultural situation by removing surplus corn and making storage space available for the 1941 crops lie he said feed grain supplies are more than sufficient to meet requirements for increased livestock dairy and poultry production dougl under ithe food for defense program min new 1820 mile pipeline system eleven large oil companies submitted a plan for a new 1820 mile pipeline system the longest in the world designed to pour barrels of crude oil daily into the eastern cities this pipeline will cost about and will be privately financed two ocean navy may be ready two years earlier the navy expects to have its two ocean fleet two years earlier due to cutting of construction time in building vessels the original scheduled date was or 1947 but it is being cut to 1944 and by that tinie time will be ready to fulfill its intended mission of defending the U states from simultaneous attacks in the atlantic and pacific oceans new defense highway bill introduced in senate A new defense highway bill to replace the measure vetoed by the president was introduced in the senate by senator carl hayden this bill would authorize for improvement of strategic highways and for access roads the president recommended 25 lillior dollars for strategic egic defense highway improvements the bill which he vetoed carried for this purpose with a provision that it be apportioned among the states on a population basis the new bill would provide that of the total authorization for strategic egic highways be apportioned among the states according to the ratio of the states road mileage on the strategic highways the remaining would be used at the discretion of the president |