Show WAS washington N S 11 1 FR FROM M OUR congressman W K GRANGER prohibitions on filingo of patents the house completed action on a bill prohibiting filing of patent applications in foreign countries count without a special license A penalty ot 31 is provided for violations corn offered for defense alcohol production secretary secretary of agriculture announced the commodity credit corporation has offered to make 20 40 million bushels of government owned corn available to the war department lor production of alcohol to be used in manufacture of munitions as requested by the war department mr said use of this corn will free tanker space needed for shipment of strategic mater bials and will aid the agricultural situation by removing surplus corn and making storage space available for trio 1911 crops he said feed gram grain supplies are more than sufficient to meet requirements quire ments for increased livestock dairy an d poultry production sought under the lood food for defense program ano two ocean navy may be ready tio years earlier the navy expects to have its tuo ocean fleet two years earlier due tu to cutting of construction time in building the vessels the original scheduled date dale was 1016 1046 or 1917 but it is being cut to 1911 and by that time will be ready to fulfill its intended mission of defending the united states from simultaneous attacks in the atlantic and pacific oceans manufacture ot of white side wall tires prohibited the office of production management prohibited manufacture of white sidewall automobile tires in order to conserve approximately tons of crude rubber a year as well as some zinc sine which is used in the coloring the order is ia effective at midnight august 23 the manufacture of whal sidewall sid side ewa wall tires consumes about two pounds more of crude rubber per tire than ordinary black tires the announcement said U S will train latin air pilots the war department announced 16 army pilots from eight latin american republics will begin a refresher course with the united states army air corps flying school at randolph field san antonio texas august 2 rd as part of a group of 65 junior officers from tha latin american republics serving in various branches of the united states army for six months countries represented brazil 6 mexico 3 chile 2 bolivia I 1 honduras 1 nicaragua 1 paraguay 1 and peru 1 aside from training latin american pilots here the united states government has been giving lessons in the spanish language to all pilot officers ce the army air forces and is planning to extend this training service to the cur of several thousand navy officers new defense III highway avay bill introduced in senate A new defense highway bill to replace the measure vetoed by the president iden was introduced in the senate by senator carl harden this bill would authorize for improvement of strategic highways and tor for access roads the president recommended for strategic defense highway improvements prove ments the bill which he vetoed carried for this purpose with a provision that it be apportioned apportion ionel ei among the states on a population basis the new bill would provide that of the total authorization for strategic highways be apportioned am 1 ong the states according to the ratio balao ot the states road mileage on the strategic highways the remaining would be used at the discretion of the president decline of unemployment merit works progress administration assistant commissioner gill announced in a monthly report that unemployment in july to a decline of from june that unemployment declined nearly between july 1910 and july 1941 M mr gill sal said id unemployment declined 2 between january and june of this ye year hound action on wheat and cotton the house completed congressional action on a bill forbidding the government to lo dispose of any cotton or wheat now in its bins the government would be permitted under the bill to use its surplus stocks tor for domestic and foreign relief lend lease transactions or export and would also permit farmers to use wheat produced in excess of their marketing quotas for livestock teed feed or for or their households under present law such wheat must be stored either on the farm or in government bins |