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Show WASHINGTON NEiWS hi s FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Selective Service SeLctive Service Director Herihcy said as the war pro-, pro-, res.es, draft daferuiK nts will depend more on whether a man's civil operation is essential essen-tial to th: war eti'ort than on 'nis dependents. Hs said the na- k n musL discipline itself to allow al-low most effective distribution of its mei.-.'. He ako said that Jhie importance of main.alnin the production of certain, agricultural agri-cultural products necassary to he national d:fense program must he given serious consideration consider-ation by Uhe State and County draft board. CAA Pilot Training The Ci'vil Aeronautics Admin-.tra.ion Admin-.tra.ion announced is standard-atian standard-atian center in Houston Texas, a-ill gradiuata a class of pilots every 10 days ifrom the Army F rryi'.-.g Command. Students a: Jie school have either completed com-pleted toe CAA's advance ifligiht a-aindng course or have had a minimum of 450 solo hours. 3ooks For The Army The Army Library Service has increased the number of its libraries li-braries from 147 to almost 600 and toe number of i.s volumes Irujn 569,000 to 2,000,000 in the -ast 18 months, toe War Department Depart-ment announced. The Service ;:ow has libraries at almost all Ar.-xiy pos.s, camps and stations, and n'as service making paper-oound paper-oound books of pocket size available lor imen in field, on -ransports or at outlying posts. Army librarians reported new .fiction and texts on mathematics mathemat-ics and radio (head the list otf oest readers, and books on the '.Mar, with the exception of "Berlin "Ber-lin Diary" .and Ghurohill's "Blood, Sand and Tears" are now popular. Off Sampling Public Opplnion The Office of Facts and Fig-ares Fig-ares iaid its Intelligence Bureau, Bu-reau, organized shortly after December 7, has toee'n sampling Jhe opir.d'ons oif the American people in a itiashion similar to toat used iby commercial anal-lysts. anal-lysts. The office said that sound policy on war information can only be made on a ibase of fact, and that tlhe Government must kmo.': "How true a picture of he war effort docs toe public Ihiave? What has it been tolo y winom and througti iwhat Jnanne-s? How have toe various vari-ous elements 'Of toe public reacted re-acted to what toey have 'been told, to events, to Government and enemy action? What if'or-ces if'or-ces are at .work iwhidhi may disrupt dis-rupt public confidence and how can toey be counteracted?" Army Specialist Corps No :a'p.poinjments can be (made to the Army Specialist Corps until regulations have ibeem approved ap-proved and ifunds appropriated for its operation, and then only as p-rsonnel is needed by the various arms of the Army, the War Department announced. Approximately Ap-proximately 40,000 civilians have iiied applications for service in J.ie Corps and applications continue con-tinue to be received at a rate of more toavi 1,500 a day, toe department de-partment reports. Poslal Employees Pay Increases Approved The House passed and sent to Jhe President a conference report re-port on a bill to increase pay of .vn sinuous service Post Office employees $84 at the end of 10 vvars service and an additional 60 at toe end of 15 years of .ervice. Federal Operation Of Railroad In the first such action since the outburst of war, President Roosevelt recently ordered Federal Fed-eral seizure and operation of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Rail-road because of failure of its president to accede to the National Na-tional War Labor Board's order oti arbitration.. Federal Manager Barriger of the railroad announced imieimibers of two railroad brotoertnoodu and men hired to fill their places pla-ces during the 84-day strike have applied for re-employment and both will be considered on toe toasis of seniority. Americans In Srltish Armed Forces The Senate approved and sent .o the House legislation which' a-ill enable approximately 20,- 000 Americans in Canadian and British forces to regain their I citizenry and be transferred t toe U. S. Army without ha usual us-ual .naturalization proceedings. Food Production .agriculture Secretary Wick-d Wick-d s-aid t.-.er. is evidence tha. .aimers .plan great increases in ..L-cd d crops and that toey ar -rising out in a single year Jl.i.ti in operations which would ordinarily require several years. Egg, meat and milk production . Las already increased substan- ; -lally, 'he said, and given 'nor- ' mat weath.r, war-time goals lor everal agricultural products I will probably be exc.eded. The War Department ' an-. an-. ounced a r.e x price policy tc expand this year's production, o 'pack-canned tamato s and pea. for military use. Canners have been requested to increase their output and the plan provides tbie agreeing to guarantee fixed fix-ed minimum prices to the grower i.vill be paid higher prices pri-ces lor heir pack. To be elig-b. elig-b. or t'.ve 'author price, .ach canner must be cer.ified .by HiL Department of Agriculture State War Board as having agreed toy contracts with growers to pay .horn at lea.t the minimum prices pri-ces to ibe paid local growers and pric:s to be paid local growers and prices) at i.'.-,ud.i it .will toey. Priorities and Allocations The War Production Board restricted re-stricted use of Honey in inranu-.lactured inranu-.lactured products to amounts eonumed toy juch produces during dur-ing corresponding periods in 1941. Some manufacturers who .formerly used only small uxounts or '.-..one at all have become be-come h.avy purchasers of honey as a sugar siutostitute. A JhutdoA-n of 'the maruulfac-iur. maruulfac-iur. of automa.ic phonograph "Juke Boxes"), weighing and amusement machines on May 1 was ordered March 17 by the War Production' Board. This or-, uer makes these figures interesting: inter-esting: A smgle one of the larger ji.ike boxes contains enough brass .o make 750 cartridge cases, the aluminum in 125 cif toe bigg.r 'ie uoxes would make one fighter plane, toe steel in one large juke box totals 130 pounds, which would make five light machine guns, and into such a Juki; box Aould go 42 pieces of plastics which might heater be ' a ..sound- o. plastics which miglht .better be 42 pounds olf iCbiallauan pi-ce'i control .pan-sis .pan-sis and so iorto on 'Aarmy or iNavy planes. Visitors In Washington Two young lU'tisl.T Latter-Day-'Saint i.T.i'S?io'"'ari'es from flhe (New England Mission paid Washington Washing-ton a twe.ve nour visit mllc. . 'im y a id re: 'Elder A. LaVar l-iin. on, . on' of - Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hinton of Hurricane, U an; and Elder Percy Peterson, scim i IMr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Pe-ledson, Pe-ledson, of 1238-28th Street, Og-den, Og-den, Utah. Ttliese young men are on their way home from toe mission field: |