Show washington NEWS ell FROM OUR congressman W K GRANGER projects approved for utah the president has approved for in elusion in the work projects administration program the following projects in utah marysvale mary Marys vale town piute diute county in the sum of to improve water supply facilities and streets elmo town emery county in the sum of to install a complete cuil inary nary water system coast guard transferred to navy 40 president Il roosevelt Loosevelt by executive order directed that the coast guard shall from this date until further orders operate as a part of the navy subject to the orders of the secretary 1 I the navy all coast guard personnel shall be subject to the laws enacted for the government of the navy the presidents coast guard order followed one issued last may ath under which 11 14 seagoing vessels and the guards ha Nr wailan department with a personnel of less than were taken over by the navy the present order transfers to the navy the entire coast guard organization the navy an that its operating forces especially ally in patrol duties will be materially teri ally strengthened by the tranger jf if the lle cost guard to naval jurisdiction approximately vessels of various patrol and tender classes which are fitted for various kinds of operations with wi t h the fleet will be transferred under the presidents order as well as a large number of small inshore in shore and port patrol craft the navy said the largest cutters and patrol craft will be used as integral parts of the fleet on missions tor for which they are fitted while the smaller vessels will bs be used for inshore and harbor protection the navy announced income taxes may be deducted from pay the treasury department is working on a plan to collect income taxes from wage earners by making weekly or monthly deductions from their weekly or monthly salaries employers would deduct income taxes faxes from salaries similar to td the method used in paying the social security taxes since tax experts believe that it would be difficult to collect between to from the average worker at one time the installment method of obtaining taxes may be tried I 1 material conservation campaigns lessing J rosenwald chief of the office of cf production management Maa gement bureau of industrial conservation told a press conference that the government will soon begin a series of continuous campaigns to collect rubber hon aluminum paper steel copper lead zinc and cotton and wool scraps mr rosenwald said in the new campaign the government will not be the collection agency as it was in the recent aluminum drive the materials can be given outright or cr sold to scrap and lunk dealers who will resell them to defense industries the first campaign will be started in about a week in a state tt ti be announced later mr rosenwald stated one of the chief problems is to lo find a satisfactory substitute for brass in making shell oases cases one shell mak mg process now under experimentation would reduce copper requirements by 70 per cent the bureau asked manufacturers in every field to consider reduction of numbers of varieties or styles in their products in an effort to save vital materials for national defense proposals by y each industry or simplification programs will be welcomed by the bureau which is prepared to aid and advise each industry on the subject army air accident rate doli the war Depart department mem announced the accident rate of military flying durin duraj the past fiscal year remained substantially unchanged despite the greatly increased amount of training and tactical flying being done by the army air forces and use of new airplanes of much higher speeds and performance the overall training accident rate is a lower than the three year pro pre eberg ency average established during 1937 7 1938 and 1939 9 more red bed cross sweaters ready beady red cross chairman davis announced sweaters and kit bags tot for service men in remote defense outposts are to be ready for shipment by nov mr davis said this is a portion of the quota of sweaters tor for red cross chapters throughout the nation |