Show 6 U OR W washington D C CHINESE BLACK MARKET it if you think the U S black mt mar ket is profitable take look at operations orations erat ions a in china A fountain pen costs chinese cur currency racel in even with the chinese ne a e dollar worth only five cents this 1 is in U S dollars and a lot ot of dough to pay for a fountain pen Y you ou can can also understand why U S fliers filers 1 load 11 1 up P with ill lipstick belo before i e 9 going to china A lipstick brings 5 0 ODD 0 0 in chinese dollars in this is a about in U S curre currency cy ohis is also why len lend lease dlease has a sent ent a certain amount of silk sak stockings champagne perfume and other 1 luxuries uries to chinese war lords they are sent to counteract similar imports by the japanese which have a ve very y undermining influence on a w war ord lord worried over bainter maintenance of his love nest RUBBER DELUGE officials in the office of the rubber 2 administrator are b beginning fai on to W wonder n what they can do with the h hundreds hundred of thousands of tons of s synthetic n c rubber which will caroe from lorn weib cormal the new plants next y year i it seems em a little late but they are now az facing the elementary question of veal whether or not the tire companies can handle dle the vast quantities of cynt synthetic rubber the greatest amount of rubber ever processed by the nation a rubber companies in one me year was 0 00 tons but next year we shall have hav e nearly one me million tons tone to deal with obviously the present facilities will he be inadequate but the problem is aggravated by the fact that tire bre manufacturing machinery has been roc knocked kd dot down and stored away so th that rubber companies could convert to production for the me war instead of tires they have been making rubber boats balloons tank treads and life he rafts thus we have the problem of finding new plant space in which to bring that machinery back into production and the further problem of creating entirely new productive facilities cili ties to take care of the increased quan quantities tihes of rubber which will be available for mani manufacture a re SOLOMONS ISLAND few maps of the world show the location of solomons ions island I 1 d M maryland ay a pun pinprick prick in achs chesapeake pea ke b bay locally it is a famous only fit for its fish ma in and th the e fact that the e steamships leviathan mount vernon and monticello were laid up there to rust in deference to private ship owners since the war however solomons island has become an important naval installation and the navy department part in ment n t recently arranged for the shipment hipe n t of f some airplanes to solomons island on an aircraft earner carrier built for the british in a west coast yard while t the he carrier was going through the panama can canal at locks ir london radioed asking it its whereabouts m we te re on our way to Solo solomons arons Is island and r replied the carriers carrier s commanding officer why y are you going AP I 1 to solomons coun isah island and and ym where go is if IMd london queried in amazement get in touch with the embassy m n embassy washington radioed back a ac k the ships ship s commanding officer after some ar anxious moments ts london n 1 learned r n in code cod that the cit carriers ro c commanding 0 anding officer had not mutinied mutinies muti nied nor or we was he going to the solomon islands but to the U S naval base at salm solomons island maryland ary and SMALL BUSINESS BLOWUP BLOW UP the government a program for th the relief of small business is a has beaded d ed for trouble when cor congress gress reconvenes next mouth month at secret sessions S of the senate small business co committee tte he headed by senator james murray of moo tana small business men complained taa st all p 1 ame ri about b out their inability ability to get government loans for war contracts and sub contracts while billions of dollars of government money is h being gorly shelled out to big c corporations cpr an T the h e senate committee e h heard r d c complaints ate att pla lots about t om the h e tight h t fl fisted te d loan 0 policies lichene li chete of the son smaller aller war plan plants corporation one example given the senate committee was that of the riverside sud boatyard ul t y rd compary company of 1 miami ech wh which tr tried e d to get et a loan of only 10 from the smaller war plants corporation to complete a war no con tract after hem being g to turned tied do down the company got the ig 0 o 00 loan from a private bank with within 24 hours As a result serata senator r james mur mo ray my of montana chairman of I 1 th the senate small bu business a committee in cittee is planning some close scrutiny cruhm y of ile the smaller war plants corpor corporation altion MERRY GO ROUND st lost just before e frank tinsley former press aide of the british supply council left to in join the royal candian canadian A air I 1 force orce he wrote the pennsylvania ivan ra railroad rad d A As a br british t b subject object who has lived aibe in the un united tied state stales for 14 years mostly as a a newspaper man with reuters will you grant me one favor on al le leaving g this grand grand country atry will you let in me e r ride I 1 d a in a I locomotive e n file cab of one of your or trains to new york on my way to canada tinsley left W washington hington in the cab |