Show I 1 I 1 washington ASHI let i i aji A ami qu I 1 NJ ti N I 1 OUR congressman IR W K GRANGER construction authorized construction Lt ruction of a number of deim houses was authorized by vt t ure warehouses army department in pennsyl e there will aiu be b e two depots in it dl J aas two in A alabama two there each in the following V ill 11 be one tes ps arizona arizona kentucky oregon Il forna mia utah virginia and new j station oric chemicals of 0 n I 1 stor director west of the OPA con I 1 er division advised automobile t 4 ners to save anti frece mixtures ts is spring instead of throwing t away he said chemicals used hem em B making antifreeze anti freeze compounds needed to make explosives and anny amy and navy tank and air air a r le lane operation ile he also asked ose iose who have antifreeze anti freeze drained it service stations to bring ther their yn wn containers induction army aimy examinations examina t ions re eliminated selective service registrants who i re e acceptable will be inducted ai a he e time of the army physical examination illation the war department in med selective service EK thereby eliminating the pros pres nt it army pre induction procedure ical cal draft board physicians wu continue to give the screening ex ai nations rejecting the obviously fit t men and the final physical ami animations nations by the army will con mue lue to be the most thorough one wen iven to registrants headquarters i aid id reg registrants istra will be given their notices cices tices of induction instead of re eivin abing 9 notices to report for al 21 examinations by the army as hey do now hi afar power act before congress this bill changes chances the existing i sm mp position of the 5 cent piece and akes it hall half copper and half sil er the present 5 cent piece is re ired by law to be three fourths opper and one fourth nickel the lill ill will make available for imposes all of the nickel and one aird d of the copper in the live cent alece on the basis of the fig figures or the fiscal year 1941 this saving uld be pounds of nickel nd md pounds of copper the ving of nickel ni ckel is the more im octant feature of this change as lere ere is a serious shortage of nickel mckel ich is a metel essential to the manufacture anu facture of military material lie e amount of nickel used in coln coin ng 5 cent pieces during the fiscal rear ear 1941 would have been chent ent for the production of 1600 ons of armor plate enough for I 1 0 heavy tanks avy the navy announced it is wilding building ng four new destroyers the benlon named in honor of the late captain aptakin mervyn sharp bennion ben nion cf atah S the heywood L edwards lamed in honor of the late lt commander 1 heywood L edwards the idd d in honor of the late rear ad miral 1 isaac campbell kidd and the an in honor of the te capt franklin van agh commander edwards died the w night of oct 3 1941 when his sh aa P the destroyer reuben james was r torpedoed west of iceland the ree lee other men were killed in acon tion during the japanese assault on P earl harbor capt bennion being 01 0 board the battleship west virginia vi r 0 gulla our T states stales bour aur united states consists of for tY eight totes states five territories it is I 1 2807 01 miles les fr from om east to west and 1598 from m north to south it is alost most square miles in area band a has farms and more mon khan n million million men women and chi children idren it contains a quarter of a million 2 on miles of railroad three ana and naif halt minion million miles of highway it has 31 1 alion ll ion on 1000 automobiles an and d 5 awl freight than ships it grows more one third 0 of f the worlds wheat aalf athe the worlds corn and cotton a alth id d of the worlds tobacco 9 this is the tian greatest productive nat ln in the world the this nation has y the factories ories and the machines and st me it to keep them going full ls is a nation of wheat fields L alad far as 33 the e eye can see of mines na mast blast furnaces of lumber mills ald 0 oil refineries of shipyards and wl ol of atoll warehouses and grain el belh of production lines where ne stains of raw material go in in ak end and mil millions lions of cars and and torn and tanks and new planes aws rne out the other on a vast and men dous scale T this is the united states stales and you 1 are e a part of it deep down to 10 the marrow of our bones and when they bombed hawaii our enemies started their own destruction |