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Show 'r i J from : our congrksm53T W. H GRANGER Battleship Bombardment Added To Aircraft Bombing m,JtapaVvith her cities sticking out on the coast, is highly vul nerable to battleship a.? well as aircraft attack. With 10 battleships battle-ships each delivering 60 minutes nffit lnch;gu" "re. the same effect can be hat; as could be had with the bombing power of 10 fleets of B-29s of 255 planes each. One battleship with 9 inch (Tuns of 16 inch caliber will deliver de-liver 21,600 pounds of high explosives ex-plosives in one minute of actual firing. 225 B-29s, each carrying 10 tons of bombs are needed in actual operations to place on a precise target the same weight of explosives that a single battleship bat-tleship can place in 60 minutes of firing. Thus, our first line of defense in the Pacific is sea power. pow-er. In 1940 we Yiad only 33 combat com-bat ships. Today we have 100,000 ships of all types a five-ocean navy. The great racific offensive has won because the Navy is a team. Its air army trains the fliers to take orders from flight directors on the decks of ships. Its submarine service destroys millions of tons of the nemy's shipping. The Navy has its own infantry the Marine Corps, trained for amphibious landings and for assault work; the Marines Ma-rines have a tactical air force of its own. Nor must we omit from the last list of services the construction con-struction battalion known as the "Seabees." Hats off to our Navy! Priorities Simplified On July 24," 1945, the War Labor La-bor Board announced that regulations regu-lations were more simplified now n the procedure for attaining attain-ing priorities assistance needed for the initiation, resumption or expansion of civilian production or services. Allocation has been lifted from all molybdenum and tungsten except wire. A ten per cent increase of the United States production of household "heavy duty" laundry-type soaps has been ordered by the Secretary of Agrculture, Clinton P. Anderson. Railway Urgencies 75,000 workers are needed by the nation's railroads for their most critical period of the war in the next three or four months. 17 western railroads have been placed on the Nacoinal Production Produc-tion Urgency List. This means that civilians will soon have difficulty dif-ficulty in finding seats even in coaches. The Gasoline Situation New "A" gasoline ration books will be issued in December at the same time the new War Ration Ra-tion Books Five is issued. |