Show 6 U W washington D 0 PLANS FOR PACIFIC WAR WAH it h has as all been ke kept afir e ry hush hush but top army officials atals have made a vitally important decision on war production atter after germanas germanys Germ anys defeat I 1 original war production sched schedules wes ca called red for a 10 per cent cutback after ge germany amany eaves caves in permitting a vast program and blie the early production of aut automobiles refrigerators radios and other goods good however the army plus wigs have now decided to keep the war machine rolling roiling full tilt not cutting back any but a few items until japan is defeated behind the vital decision Is an important new plan to speed victory in the pacific confidential war department surveys disclosed that it would take over a year to ta return E european veterans together with their equipment much of it geared for winter ratter rather than tropical fighting allied shipping shortages would make it a long job to crate sort repair and reship heavy equipment from the atlantic to the pacific in addition the army survey disclosed that a lot of european equipment will be obsolete for pacific fighting would have to be rebuilt taking valuable time instead the new plan calls for or bringing tho the men back at once issuing them new equipment specifically designed for far eastern combat later the army will bring back overseas war gear and use it for or pacific replacements this should speed final blows against japan and shorten the far eastern war by rn many ny months As a results result 1915 production schedules will probably be a billion dollars higher than those of 1944 the war department which hau had a pile of telegrams two feet high canceling war contracts to be sent out the day germany is licked has now culled through them and may only cancel a few dozen orders macarthur AND MARINES the boys in the pacific long have known about the rivalry between general macarthur and the U S navy many are the wisecracks wise cracks about macarthur and the V U S marines land army of the navy however in only one case so far as is known has macarthur Ma eArthur ever come up against one of these jokes face to face it happened on one of the philip pine islands a few days after it was taken and when macarthur was inspecting spec ting a batt battery pry 0 of f marine artillery solemnly he passed from gun to gun making no comment then suddenly as he came to one gun he turned on the marine lieutenant in command and let loose the most terrific dressing down that young officer ever had received the air was smoky with expletives the lieutenant at first stood be mildered wil dered the gun was carefully polished everything was in place then he looked a little closer be side the gun an enlisted man had placed a sign it read with the help of 0 god and a few marines macarthur Ua cArthur retake retakes s the philippines the lieutenant thought at first that he would be busted but several days passed and nothing happened lie he 1 Is now back in the united states and the story can be told INSURANCE LOBBY the insurance lobby is headed tor for trouble regarding its bill to exempt insurance companies from the sher man antitrust anti trust act if the lobbyists hobbyists arent careful they will get a white house veto the bill passed the senate in a form which met with all round ap but in the house the in aurance lobby sharpened its ax and quietly tacked on some amendments which will not be acceptable either to the white house or probably to a majority of the senate chief ef feet of the amendments was to make it impossible to revive the antl anti trust act regarding insurance companies without a special act of congress fair minded senator 0 mahoney of wyoming who was quite willing to give the insurance companies a reasonable compromise will fight this extra grab to the end so will a great many ot of his bis colleagues CAPITAL CHAFF fl general francos controlled span ish press pres a has been using the same propaganda line as hitler regard ing the recent big three conference I 1 0 1 despite the fact that american diplomatic relations with duthu i ania hang by a thread the lithuanian delegation celebrated litha ablan independence day even after the big three conference C L the war departments department a G 2 or military intelligence Is being re organized again partly as a result of failures to spot nazi troop concen trat rations ions preparing tor for the bulga at tack 41 althe rahe mexico city confab Is in the most sorrowful pan american con ference in history tor for dr leo S rowe benign longtime director of the pan american union this is the first important pan am parley held outside the confines of his union dr rowe howe says I 1 ca cannot n not speak ak but my heart is running over |