Show washington N S 7 t FROM OUR congressman WK W K GRANGER bill to increase domestic rubber supply the house passed and returned to tile the senate legislation directing the A agi u tural lural department to develop domestic e tic rubber supply from the guayule bush the measure authorizes the department part ment to plant up to acres ul uj guayule bush within the continental the united states ahe houie amended amen cled tile the legislation to authorize governmental purchase of the facilities ir re e intercontinental rubber comp 1 l salinas california which has dev eloped processes for extraction of the rubber from guayule the department 0 agriculture would be authorized to pay lor for these facilities wool bae ba shortage the need for bags with which to harvest barvest harest barest est the wool crop is causing no little stir in washington army and navy has priorities on two thirds of the entire burlap and with the supply of imports dwindling that means the situation is serious numerous plans have been suggested but the one mg ing attention just jua now is to perfect a paper fabric bag of sufficient strength to serve the paper will be twisted into threadlike thread like strings that will be woven into a ba bag similar to the burlap bag the one stumbling g block in this move is to obtain sufficient paper to produce these bags in sufficient quantity in the next three weeks officials in washington are awaiting the arrival of paper officials for a special conference to be called the these officials arrive the outcome we hope it is bags for the wool manpower of the armed forces the IN isaly avy announced men have I 1 volunteered n the navy since the december I 1 ath attack on pearl harbor ana af i enlistments have averaged 1 a day in the first 1 30 0 d days a Ys after the attah atta alta h i I 1 pe men n enlisted and during the re 1 aj men ere adji i ed the announcement said despite the impressive record recruiting will continue without curtails curtailment ien for there is great need for manpower to round out the 0 man navy authorized by congress Cong rss and the navy intends to remain on a basis of volunteer service use tax stamps the treasury sury department announced a number of thefts of motor vehicle use tax stamps have been reported and the department has prepared a simple procedure to be followed where a stamp is lost or stolen the department said the ta taxpayer payer must establish to the satisfaction is of the collector of internal revenue he has purchased a stamp and that it was lost or stolen from the vehicle to which it was attached he will then be furnished with vath a statement which will be accepted by all federal officers as evidence he has paid the tax for the vehicle for the period described auto rationing Ilat loning to begin rebr february uary 26 20 there are about new automobiles in the hands of dealers and manufacturers of this number are set act aside as the government reserve supply not subject to rationing for one year this will leave new automobiles available when the ration boards begin operating war fraud unit anit set vp up in justice department attorney general biddle established within the department of justice a special war frauds unit charged with prosecuting all cases involving frauds upon the ithe government in connection with the war effort the new unit with nith special assistant to the attorney general fowler hamilton as its head will function under the joint jurisdiction of the antitrust division and the criminal division and therefore will be subject to the joint supervision rf of Absi assistant stant attorney general thurman arnold and wendell berge navy asks young american to build air models the navy calls upon the youths in american high schools to take a direct and vital part in the training of its fast growing air service the navy asks urgently that these youths build a half million aircraft models each of fifty types of fighting planes for immediate and continuous use in the training of naval combat forces for aircraft recognition and range estimation in gunnery work mork plans and specifications axe are being prepared by the navys bureau of aeronautics some are being supplied to the united states office of education which will admin adain itter the program with the cooperation of all state departments of education and the local private and public schools |