Show W CAVA I 1 ARMY AND MEAT SHORTAGE snORT AGE it happened behind closed doors but a lot of house housewives wives would have relished being present when cong clinton andersons special food committee quizzed an array of washington bigwigs big wigs A lot of star witnesses were present es but the army represented by maj gen carl hardigg of the quartermaster ter corps chiefly took it on the chin war food chief marvin jones started the ball rolling when he produced figures showing that last year when meat was plentiful the army gummed up the works by failing to take anywhere near the quantity allocated to it in the fourth quarter of 1944 the army had asked tor for one and a quarter billion pounds of meat actually the army took half a billion pounds less that according to the closed door testimony was the chief chie reason why ration points on meat were dropped last year and the housewives got a windfall the public then got back to the habit of eating meat but today with meat far less plentiful the army has ordered even more than allocated to it last year general hardigg was unable to satisfy the congressmen as to why the army failed to take up its meat last year or at least failed to put it in cold storage for later use had this been done army demands would now be much smaller general hardigg also was asked to report back to congress on meat consumption per soldier in the british army also in the russian army congressmen also asked hardigg to report on how much meat was consumed by U S troops overseas as compared with that consumed by troops in the united states RELAXED MEAT inspection one proposal to ease the meat shortage is to abolish federal inspection spec tion in small local slaughter houses these slaughterers slaughter ers have to pass state inspection anyway and most of them are thoroughly reputable but to sell interstate inter state they must pass federal inspection so many now sell only within state limits this is one reason why cattle cattie raising states are experiencing no meat shortage today general Ilar hardigg digg however sat on the idea of relaxing federal inspection ile he argued that federal inspection must continue war food chief jones and war vinson were not impressed with hardings Har diggs ar argument u 1 I never tasted federally inspected meat until I 1 was in in i my scoffed texas bred jones out in kentucky we did all right without federally inspected meat vinson agreed 1 I never had it until I 1 was out of my teens representative anderson of albuquerque N M chairman of the committee then took general hardigg to task for the ardys system of poultry buying out my way where weve got plenty of meat anderson said the army interested in buying poultry here in the east where meat is scarce youre taking all the poultry why not spread your poultry buying so that in areas where the public has a hard time getting meat it can at least get a little poultry he pointed out that the army is taking per cent of the poultry in the delmarva area delaware maryland and virginia vinson supported anderson telling hardigg try to work that out with the war food administration general rl 0 0 SEVENTEEN SWORD WOUNDS INSIDE JAPAN the jap high command ordered 15 divisions out of siberia a month ago to defend the japanese homeland but since the russians denounced their neutrality pact the japs are frantically scouring the country for more troops to bolster the russo japa nese frontier during the stalin grad battle the russians depleted the red army in siberia it was the cossack cavalry rushed to stalin grad which saved it now the red army in the east is at about full strength again new premier suzuki of japan was left for dead on the street when the young fascists of the black dragon society murdered most of japans moderate leaders a decade ago he was carved up with 17 fascist sword wounds today suzuki is front man for japanese big business which long has leaned toward a negotiated peace so has the e emperor M if they can get it CAPITAL CAPIA CHAFF CHAFF C handsome secretary of state ed spent several days in new york rehearsing for the state department part ment movie on dumbarton oaks but despite rehearsals movie goers get a chuckle out of ahe the way ed rolls his eyes reason is he learn all his lines had to look at a blackboard just over the movie camera in order to read them this makes his eyes roll away from the th lens as if he were a torch singer otherwise it ranks as an al A l 1 pic ture f |