Show D AIT U 0 W R A N 1 washington D C OVERSEAS LE LETTERS TT E RS many an AA american e ties n mother is he hearing aring from her boy why don I 1 y you u write I 1 h haven avent t hed had a letter I 1 from home for ages and she knows she has written faithfully every day the explanation is the U boat w which luch the war department regrets to say caused the lea loss of several million pieces or 01 mail dorm during g the first three weeks of march alone but still the mother other wonders wonder why wine some ot of her daily letters a don I 1 get through even if a third of them were sunk her boy should have re 20 letters in the month unfortunately it bonso doesn t work that w way a Y if she writes 30 letters a month all those letters may have accumulated in the port of new york or some other P port art waiting for a convoy outward d bound corama cannot leave every day or two so all 30 letters might go into one me ship and and if that ship is sunk her son will h hae e no mail for a month there is no solution to this pr problem ob except to keep on writing COLONEL HOBBY ROSE col oveta gulp culp hobby of the picked up the telephone one me bright morning and called col wil WA ham slater of the war departments department s public relations branch good morning colonel she said G good od morning colonel he replied pl ed C colonel 0 lonel she said 1 I have been i told td id by a large seed company that they wan want t to name a rose after in me what would you think of no my Y lendin lending g my name to a to rose the hobb hobby y rose that was a new one me for the c colonel he chuckled laughed it off and suggested that horticultural P problems were out of ins his line in the end the two 6 boj colonels decided oivi the question was t too do thorny to handle RUBBER FROM OIL REF refineries it has D now mo been more than a year since far sighted oil coordinator co Coord mator lc ickes kes urge urged d that synthetic rubber b be made da b by y converting small oil refineries cl closed by gasoline cab ration or ing instead ad of building the m monstrous new rubber factories which chih will not be finished until 1944 and which require quite mil millions lunis of tons of precious steel end and copper after long delays the first of these C converted covert e d small refi refineries nelles will begin making rubber on may I 1 it is the eastern states state petroleum refinery at houston texas and the results promise to be astounding not a single new steel vessel pump tank or piece of piping so badly needed for escort vessels by th the e navy have been used furthermore the total new material of other th types amounts to only 20 per ret cent of the cost of the entire job however this eastern states plant will produce in 12 months month enough butadiene to make 2 tires plus ingredients for several thousand tons of high octane gasoline per day also because it we was not necessary to bull build n new walls roofs equipment this converted r ted refine refinery will produce buta butadiene a at I 1 a cost equivalent to a little over i 1 per tire hire based on do the mer I 1 aves investment in 1 BRITISH D DEMOCRACY A great d deal ral is being written on the question what or are we fighting for but if the american public had looked in on the servicemen s caten canten canteen of the national press club on a decet saturday alterm afternoon P they wouida I 1 have to be told one of the guests was a britch anti sh naval officer rear admiral S R naval dight agh fa famed med in the british navy for his toughness I 1 in n battle and the saltiness of his se sea a yarns at the ale press a club canteen he more to ilia than n I 1 justified stifled this latter reputation to american soldiers sailors and marines marine who flocked around him however it wasn gasn t until the par party ty w was as about to break up that the ad coned came into his own it isn t every day that an adon admiral ITS B british or american I 1 joins ams a a song ong test with gobs and soldiers soi diers but ad miral dight sang popular american airs with gust and enthusiasm for airs ha half ian an hour F finally m ally an american sailor called out let 8 sing this one for the admiral for he I 1 a jolly good fullow fellow what 1111 followed wed was probably the lustiest dustiest lust iest rendition of that familiar tune ever heard in the nation a capital more than soldiers sailors and can marnes joined in the tribute 1 to admiral dight who looked almost as happy as if he had just won a naval battle it was one of the things thing ve as are fighting for damoc racy capita CHAFF ambassador john winant s young er ar brother fred is the americo american representative in the middle east supply center in cairo there is a shortage of planes plane tor for transporting officials to aarl africa some men cool their heels heel for a month bea before re cool getting a seat when jimmy byrnes director of the oabie offne of eco norme stabilization heard that two senate committees were ar arguing g aing over senate r wh which ich should go to north ai af tie aca he said ISO t that am another ther argument for two fronts |