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Show WASHINGTON NEiWS FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER f Production and Raw Malerials ' WPB Chairman Nelson reported report-ed tlhe Maritime Commissioni set a "cosmic record" in reducing fee production tima of ships from " 105 '.0 46 days. Production capacity ca-pacity is outstripping deliveries deliver-ies oi raw .materials, he -said, and ic consequence the scrap collec-: collec-: tioa drive is assuming increas- ir.g importance. He said -tin's .' Government amy have 'to con-;' con-;' sider stripping cities of metal . fences, statuary and ornamental 'k. Tbe Board plans to take ' progressively 1,000,000 itoms of civilian capper, beginning with brass came plates, if or use in' the armaments program, he said. federal Employment I Opporiunilies The Civil Service Commission , modified requirements to allow j college 'teaching as professional I experience in- metallurgy, m'e- teorology and dnemistry; college, I Jiigh ecnool, grade school and iraoe school teaching as prosfes-I prosfes-I sioral experience in physics !lf.Psltlons paying $2,600 to i WW a year. Completion of a .! lour year course in the optional I nject at a recognized college, J a minimum of Dvo years of j S 's jonal experience in the i o j ci option, or appropriate JPaaua.e study, is required, the 1 mission said. Applications "1 oe judged on exiperence, education., ed-ucation., ,and training and no ""tea 'examinatioini will be giv-J giv-J . to; Ceimmisedon said. i Air Mail Pickup Service ?ri0s:?aster General Walker Jhe auccessul test recently ! Se at the Army .Air Forces' i I""1 nter in' 'wkAdh. an Plane iflymg at imore thani 100 (mm .uer 110111 dieted) up gliders apDli r ground, was a direct c 01 ltne air maU PICK- ' rvice principle (which has QftV "lwation -by tlhe Post -Uetpartaient for the past p2,ny6ars wer L386 mUes of m?n1,I10U,'L'es' TAe War Depart-" Depart-" suted it plans to ap-IL,? ap-IL,? elider-laundhing tech-trincnii tech-trincnii h'e Air Frces' Iheaviest 'i.port gliders and tlhe (method Pichurf"3 lbe te freisht large commercial PlanV- and passenger glider Plaie,, Mr. Walk-er stated. A3ticuliura Comteral CrP Insurance have in said ifanmers wtho broko 'w'heat crops for an up to i?n ssries at crop years to Icn f l?r'ent, ,with few or up W S' and lAlho have built ' xce remium balances in it 50 uer . . Sse?' 'wiU be given' a Premi,,,ni' 9"' in1 crop insurance J t, s' This reduction Iw-ill loss . c'nly' ln' years wlhen. no Va;d-U"Urs'- H a producer's thl ?remiums are- sliigihtly , ciio -h's 1943 insured pro- L: be .PWiw-m cost .will Aericuiu0r,r;1r;nately lower' the j Army Department said. War Department said Al- i'.-t,-',"1';,iNr'"''.-1- i- Seci-eta SUmsoni sa d cent ordor .prohibiting Aiwv U oops to m,nV overseas, wS out he consent cif tiheir com- oStrilCOI'S'-,Was "ccesJr i . th(r acquisitio-n of de--p.'ndLMLts abroad would create mong tlivcm bringing loreisn '-vivos back to this cour-y S ,Jf A'r Fw-ccs Commander Vrnoii said aircraft factories under ccnlract to the Anmy 'produce at Kast 148,000 plan", ,111 1B42 and 1943, the W fen PdICnt's goaTo lbo.OOO planes ifor tlh.est two years, He said tlhe Army j .plamnmg for imass evacuation of Uounded .by air. Germany lhia3 evacuated more illhan 200 000 wounded by air, and during 'the atUe,'i ,Crete transported hfr vrouind.d back to Berlin, witlhin 48 hours, he said. Army Services of Supply Commander Com-mander Somervell said itfo--lnav a strength of 4500,000 ,mien by tlhe middle of 1M4J. General Somea'vell said it '.vull cost $1,290,000,000 to (feed the Anmy next year. Deputy ICUeif ,of S.aff McNarney said youtlns 18 to 20 years of age who e-nlist are being trained for combat com-bat duty because in. certain, as-.Jignmenis as-.Jignmenis siuch youtlhs make the oest soldiers. WAAC Director Hobby said the number of applicants to be sent to 'ths Officer Candidate School at Fort Des Moines, IoU'-a 1 will be doubled to meet tlhe Army's d'-imand for tlhe services -of the units. TXne ofifeers will bs trained-, as originally scheduled, in numbers of approximately 450, from tlhe opening of the i school, July 20, until all officers have attended the sessions she , said. Mrs. 'Hobby said approxi-'macely approxi-'macely 25,000 members, authorized author-ized iby Executive Order, will be enrolled by the 'end- of May, 1943, instead of the end of December 1943. CAA To, Train 13,350 Army Reserve Pilots Tine Civil Aeronautics Authority Author-ity reported it will train 13,350 pilots for the Anmy Air Forces Enlisted Reserve beginning July 1. Courses will be ifrom 8 to 40 weeks in length, and will- train eolistees for service as glider, pilo.s, airline co-ipilots, service pilots, and ipilot instructors-, tlhe Authority said. Trainees will be paid no salaries, but will receive re-ceive subsistence and' insurance. Glider pilo.s may be assigned to civilian duty or will be oommis-ionied oommis-ionied for home duty in tbe Army Ar-my Transportation Service. Men between 18 and 37 may apply at any af the Authority's 650 Civilian' Pilot training centers, -ocated in schools and universities universi-ties t'hroughoiu': thie country, to any representative of the Civil Aeronautics -Authority or to any American Legion Posit for information infor-mation concerning enlistment in .tie Air Forces Enlisted Reserve details of tlhe CAA courses available. avail-able. Educaiional Background Of Army Members Army Special Services Chief Osborn and Census Director Capt reported a joint study showed 41 per cent of white men inducted in-ducted into the Army during i be past two years are high dhool graduates or have had some college training, compared with 9 (per cent during World War 1. The increase is largely diue "to a spectacular increase in educational opportunities in the United States in. less than a gen-eration" gen-eration" they said. The report Jhowed imen in 'the West were better educated than those in the Nortlh., wlhdle tihose Ifrom the Sou:ih- Were less educated than, either of the two other groups. Selective Service Selective Service Headquarters Headquar-ters said 18, 19 and 20 year old .men, who register June 30 will be assigned serial and order numbers on the basis of 'their birth dates, but none are liable or induction until tlhey readh tlhe age of 20. |