Show washington N abir M f D 1 wail IMM OUR congressman W K GRANGER CAA program expansion the war department announced tile the CAIN CAA pilot training program will be expanded to prepare about men in elementary flight training instead of a year and its facilities cili ties will be devoted fully to the war effort under a plan worked out with the army air forces in addition a secondary course will train men instead of the present the plans also call for training ground technicians annually training not carried on by the CAA at present first priority in the CAA training will be granted students able to meet army requirements for appointments point ments as aviation cadets cabets the war front secretary knox said the navy will no longer as a general rule reveal the name of merchant ships sunk by the enemy but will identify the vessels only as large medium and small information giving the specific size and type of merchant ships sunk mr knox said can be of great value to the axis contrary to japanese propaganda broadcast reports the navy is not withholding information on american losses or attacks mr knox said because of the vast distances involved in the pacific it is necessary for fleet units to report back to their bases before details can be announced he said always remember the why after april for ansta instance nce practically all hosiery will be made of rayon has just made larger quantities of rayon available to the mills for that purpose in the beginning there was silk but such silk stock piles as wed accumulated before we broke with the japanese brigands brigande bri gands were used up rapidly by the army and navy these two made the silk into para parachute cloth and other things silk waste is made into powder bags for the big guns bags to hold the smokeless powder with silk cut off the stocking manufacturers turned increasingly crea singly to nylon that wonderful synthetic silk which made its debut about the time of the 1939 new york worlds fair this worked work ed all right for awhile or until the army any navy having exhausted exhausted silk stocks turned them selves to nylon for parachute cloth using more and more of it every day and that is why you will wear rayon labor training NYA administrator williams announced all NYA projects not preparing workers for the war machine have been ordered closed and those that are have been ordered enlarged at once sugar for military production in the first of three articles on sugar rationing the office of price administration announced sugar is used in military production of smokeless powder detonating agents and coin compounding pounding dope toi foi fabrio fabric covered airplane wings every time a 16 inch gun is fired it eats up the distilled produce of a fifth of an acre of sugar cane and a thousand field pieces in an hours firing burn up as much sugar as could bo be refined from a field two thirds of a mile I 1 square at the same time OPA said when nine tenths of a pound of sugar it is saved you have saved the equivalent of enough sugar alcohol to make together with nitric acid and ordinary guncotton gun cotton a whole pound of smokeless powder general wililam crozier in charge of munitions in 17 1717 balc calc cac le act t m tiia ir were consumed but more il needed this time OPA said for smokeless powder cane sugar molasses from which sugar is refined is converted to ethyl alcohol and the powder is made from the alcohol red cross aids americans interned in germany american red cross cabled to geneva switzerland for col thing and shoes for american citizens interned near Sala burg germany one hot shower weekly is allowed prisoners may write three batters and four cards per month and re one visitor they cannot possess more than 50 marks per month US sink 23 jap ships buy bonds and well sink some more |