Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1942 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17,

1942

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Washington

WASHINGTON, June 17.—Some authorities believe that within another month American, British and Canadian ship construction will pass the rate of submarine sinkings. That expectation is based on two factors: First, the declining rate of sinkings, and second, the rising rate of ship production. Measures taken within the last few weeks against submarines are showing encouraging results. More anti-submarine craft are also being thrown into this counterattack. Because the news of sinkings is given out belatedly and in driblets, if at all, the country has not been fully conscious of the defeat which we have been suffering at the hands of enemy submarines. With production of ships far in excess of anything ever seen, we are still losing ships faster than new ones are being built. And the demand for shipping is going up steadily as our forces abroad grow, requiring ever-larger cargoes of supplies. We have licked the airplane production problem. Even the danger of an aluminum shortage, which was causing real worry a few months ago, appears to have been overcome. American air strength is now being felt all over the world and it is just the beginning. American tanks are in action in Libya and Russia and they are being accumulated in other places for future action. Only in shipping have we suffered loss of strength instead of rapid growth.

Our Most Pressing Need

OUR PLANE production. our tank production, our rapid training of an army can be felt only to the extent that we have ships to carry the men and the

By Raymond Clapper

materials to the war zones. The answer to that is probably our most pressing need now. The battle against the submarine is in the hands of the navy. The effort to speed up ship turnarounds and to divert ships into the most essential carrying

jobs is a task resting largely in the hands of the war!

shipping administration. Building of ships is the phase that reaches out most broadly into American civilian life. That is where the morale of shipbuilding industries, and of the scores of supplying plants located far inland, counts for most. The job that has been done rates close to a miracle. Certainly it has met with the strongest approval around the White House. American shipyards produced slightly more than 1,000,000 tons in 1941. This year they will produce 8,000,000 tons. Next year it will be at least 15,000,000 tons. If there were sufficient steel it would be 20,000,000 tons.

All Dependent on the Ships

ADMIRAL LAND, chairman of the maritime commission, is now deep in a new program to build 700 auxiliary barges, tugs and small motorboats by the end of next year. Some are to be of concrete, some of wood. The purpose of this program is to provide additional carrying capacity for coal and oil without using up any more steel. Some months ago considerable time was being lost by labor delays. Most of that has been eliminated. Still it always is possible to increase output if the need for it is sufficiently felt. Nothing now is more needed thdn increased ship production. The whole future of the war rests on that. . The men making engines in Middle Western fac-|

tories, the men making lifeboats in Indiana, men who!

have anything to do with making parts of a ship, are now carrying the responsibility for winning the war.

Ernie Pyle is now in Washington, getting ready to go abroad. He hopes to start within the next few weeks.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

SEEN AROUND TOWN: The frequent parades of army trucks or command cars speeding through town with motorcycle police—their sirens shrieking—clearing the way . .. an occasional downtown pedestrian craning his neck at the numerous low-flying, twomotored bombers from the training school at Stout field. . . . The usual political loafers blandly ignoring the pointed sign in the Claypool lobby: “The lobby facilities are maintained for the exclusive use of the Claypool’s paying guests and their friends.” The display of posters by Marion county artists on the theme—"Conserve what you have for defense” —in Wasson’s Monument Circle window. . . . The numerous welldressed men and women on the streets wearing on their lapels badges with their pictures—defense workers. . , . The young woman coyly stopping to adjust her garters in front of a couple of interested soldier boys at Illinois and Market sts.

Hey, King, Douse 'E'm

FRIENDS OF Mike Duffecy Jr. who went to Miami Beach recently to report as a lieutenant in the air corps, are laughing over one of his recent experiences. He is attending a school for officers. In a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stuhldreher, he tells of being assigned as corporal of the guard in the Roney Plaza with instructions to see that all lights in the hotel were out for a blackout. In one room of his section, the lights continued to burn. “Turn out those lights,” he shouted several times. The lights still burned. so he reported the incident to the office. ‘Oh, that's the Duke of Windsor,” he was told. He wrote: “I never dreamed I'd be ordering a former king around.” . . . Mrs. George Green, 815 N. East st,

reports a freak cherry tree in her yard. The cherries not only have seeds inside, but other seeds attached to the outside of the fruit.

Are Bugologists Buggy?

EVERYTHING HAPPENS to Frank Wallace, the state entomologist. And sometimes the things that happen to him seem almost incredible, unless you know Frank. For instance, he wanted to take some pictures for the state conservation department of fisherman at Monticello as the fishing season opened. So he arose about 5 a. m. Monday and drove to Monticello, arriving about 8. For some reason, there weren't any fishermen in sight and, seeing a game warden, Frank inquired why. “I better not catch any of them before the season opens at midnight tonight,” replied the warden. “Oh,” said Frank. That's all he could think of to say.

Closed—On Vacation

STEWART-WARNER EMPLOYEES in the armed forces know. they aren't forgotten. Some time ago, the boys and girls remaining on the job at the plant formed the S-W Service Men's club. At regular intervals, a committee takes up a collection from the plant personnel. With the proceeds, they send each of the 50 in the services the Readers Digest, plus a carton of cigarets and a gift package every six or seven weeks. The girl employees are making a service flag.

” » 2 IN DECORATING the Coliseum for their convention tomorrow, the Republicans neatly sidestepped the matter of giving Willkie’s picture the position of honor. In the background, they've arranged seven pictures in the shape of a V. Forming the upper part of the V are such heroes as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Roosevelt—Teddy, of course. From the position of honor at the bottom juts the determined jaw of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

A Rubber Ft. Knox? By Walker Stone

WASHINGTON, June 17.—In biding the people to turn in scrap rubber for a cent a pound, the Ee

“The price is in line with the present market value rubber scrap, But if the pickup campaign succeeds in a big way—that is, if it brings in a million or more tons of reclaimable rubber—the credit will have to go to patriotism and organization rather than to the well-known profit incentive. People who take the trouble to search out old tires, rubber heels, inner tubes and hot-water bottles, will be doing it tc help their country, not with any hope of getting rich at a penny a pound. It would be a different story if the government would vse the profit motive as it does, for instance, in its silver purchase program. The treasury, compelled by law, buys all the silver produced in American mines at 71 cents an ounce—roughly about twice the current world market value. But even that price doesn't satisfy the senators from the six silver-producing states. Senator MeCarran of Nevada the other day proposed that the treasury hike the price to a doilar an ounce. He said that would “encourage Americans to begin mining for silver in earnest and set ths wheels of industry rolling as they have never rolled before.”

Just a Mere Bagatelle

WELL. THE GOVERNMENT could encourage a lot of earnest activity by paying a dollar an cunce for copper or zinc or lead or iron—or clam shells, beer bottle caps—or scrap rubber. Let's consider scrap rubber. That's something the government and the country desperately need and it can help to win the war. Silver isnt allowed to do much toward winning the war, The silver laws and the silver senators

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—On Sunday evening a few of us went to the concert at the water gate, which was the first of a series of concerts given by the National Symphony orchestra and ied by Hans KindThe program Sunday night was dedicated to the united nations. In “addition to the music, there was an in= formal pageant produced in co= operation with the office of civil= ian defense and the office of facts and figures. Melvyn Douglas directed it and the script was written by Maxwell Anderson. I think everybody felt it was an appropriate and effective presentation for this occasion. Our climate treated us to one of its sudden changes and a warm day became a ccol and windy evening. However, it was certainly a lovely setting for beautiful music and I was happy to see the numbers of young people in canoes listening and enjoying the evening. We are becoming a musically appreciative in the younger generation.

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won't let us use that “precious” metal to make bullets, and at the statutory price it's too “dear” to use for liming tin cans, releasing tin for more warlike service. But rubber—that’'s something that can be used in making deliveries of bombs to Berlin and Tokio. And think of rubber at a dollar an ounce—not a penny a pound, but $16 a pound. That’s $32,000 a ton. At that price, the government probably would have got a million tons the first day of the pick-up campaign. Of course, the cost would have been $32.000.000.000—but a silver senator would think that a mere bagatelle, if the subsidy were spent for silver rather than rubber.

But We Ought to Be Thankful

MAYBE THE TROUBLE with rubber is that we don't have six rubber-producing states, and therefore 12 senators to form a “rubber bloc” and compel the government to pay through the nose.

But perhaps we ought to be thankful. If we had six rubber-producing states, and 12 “rubber senators,” they'd probably want to make rubber a monetary base. Laws would be passed compelling us to put all the old rubber syringes, tires and bath mats in a huge hoard at some place like West Point, and issue rubber currency against it. Unless Secretary Morgenthau went on his knees to the senators involved, and made a desl—as he went to the silver senators to persuade them to “lend” bullion silver to make bus-bars for electrical transformers in war industries—we probably couldn't get permission even to manufacture a sling=shot to use against Hitler. But at a dollar an ounce, we could sure “pick up” a lot of rubber. Within a week there wouldn't be a single rubber heel caressing any sidewalk. There wouldn't be a rubber overshoe walking through any rainstorm. There wouldn't be a tire left on a pleasure automobile. The government would find itself glutted with | rubber, just as it is already glutted with silver.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I have been leading a rather uncertain existence due to the fact that other people's plans, on which my own have to be dependent, have been rather changeable. : Instead of reaching New York City yesterday in time for lunch, I got there just in time for a reception at Holland house in celebration of flag day. It was sponsored by the National Council of Women and the Women's Society for a Free and Democratic Europe. In the evening, I presided during the first part of a meeting held under the auspices of the French weekly, “Pour La Victoire,” for the benefit of a group of united charities. Manhattan center was erowded and an overflow meeting was held in a nearby hall. Conrad Thibault sang the “Star Spangled Banner” and Mme. Genevieve Tabouis opened the meeting. I had the pleasure of introducing Mile. Eve Curie, who spoke on her travels in the various battle=torn countries. It was an extraordinarily interesting hour= and-a-half. I reached Washington again in the very early hours of the morning and I was reminded of the time when I was greeted with a “good morning,” instead of a “good night.”

{these are yet to come.

The Black Market—

CONTEMPT FOR LAW LIKE THAT IN "20'S LOOMS

In Curbing That Instinct To Sidestep Rules.

By ORLANDO DAVIDSON

on the American horizon, in the opinion of two government officials] who have made independent studies] of the subject.

tic and quick, they fear development of a Black Bourse that will bring back the criminal millionaires,

contempt for government authori-| {ty that symbolized prohibition in| { the crazy "20s. It's under way already. Its operations so far are sporadic and, largely informal—the {friendly gas| dealer, who gives you a couple of| more gallons than you're entitled to; the free-lance tire bootlegger.

Setup Now In Making

The great fleets of illicit trucks and the rod-packing “salesmen’— But the “organizations” likely are forming. these officials believe. The ingredients needed for this economic devil’s brew are (a) that extra money in your jeans, (h) a lack of things to spend it on, (¢) ineptitute in publicizing, formulating and administering government rationing and price fixing, and (d) an irritated or disgusted public. Just what are Black Market operations? What makes them go? Who's mixed up in them?

Pride In Shrewdness

First, the backbone of any illegal market is the ordinarily “good” citizen — the respectable burgher who pays his taxes, but also, priding himself on his Yankee shrewdness, is not averse to slipping into a back alley to pay an outrageous price for a “hot” tire. He's the same sucker who a dozen years ago knew just where to get “imported” stuff cheap. Certainly he’s no criminal by current reckoning; and it's just a step to the “honest” wholesaler, whose European counterpart has for two years regularly set aside a bit of his stock for lucrative backstreet trading. Or the European manufacturer who supports all the right charities, but also lengthens his ladies’ jackets until they're really coats. Of course he still sells them as jackets, which require, say, only two ration tickets. Coats take 10 or 12.

A Hoosier Example

Here at home, in Washington itself, there's the enterprising gas dealer who promoted international comity by peddling tires, strictly illegally, to a half dozen embassies. (Someone talked, and the red-faced diplomats had to disgorge their plunder. to 50 tires.) In another case, a tire dealer is accused of selling a local newspaper no less than 1800 tires, And there's the Indiana used-car dealer who put new tires on ancient crates,

(This is the first of three articles.) |

WASHINGTON, June 17—A gigantic Black Market is looming up|

Unless government action is dras-|

homicidal gang wars and Jeoring]

In one case, it amounted |

i This article was written by Jean Graffis after his release from Gestapo cus - tody and his return to the United States. Mr. Graffis, whose family lives at Rick mond, Ind., visited here last week.

By JEAN GRAFFIS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, June 17.—When the American people became Germany's ‘newest enemy last December, another Nazi promise that “it can’t happen here” burst with numbing force in the minds of Hitler's | 80,000,000 subjects. Official nazidom was fully pre\pared for the break months before [it occurred. But the masses were not. And the accomplished fact dealt them a blow from which they jHuray never recover. | Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ own propa'ganda machine provides best evi- | dence that war with America has put German morale to the supreme test. Six months before formal hostilities began, propaganda press and radio broadcasts began developing the theme that England and Russia {would be beaten down before America could come in or give effective help. Bitter Toward Roosevelt six months after America’s {formal entry, Goebbels was still hammering away at the same theme. In the last copy of his personal news organ, Das Reich, a copy of which I obtained upon leaving internment, the front page hanner line screamed the same tattered old “bulletin”:

“ROOSEVELT AND AMERICA ARE TOO LATE”

For an understanding of German feeling toward the new enemy, the German people must be placed in three classes, the super-privileged group, including party members and industrialists; the working masses, and the army and havy. Official nazidom and rich industrialists, who live off the loot thrown their way by the regime, have always been viciously resentful of American “interference” in the war. This bitterness, hardly concealed by diplomatic politeness before the war, often took violent forms of expression when Americans and Germans met personally. During October, November and December preceding the break with America, the American colony in Berlin risked personal injury by conversing publicly in FEnglish. American Writer Cursed

One newspaperman, leaving a cafe after a quiet evening with American friends, was followed by three Luftwaffe officers. On an unlighted side street they halted him, cursed him as an American who dared speak English in Germany, knocked him into the gutter and kicked him as he lay there. In a restaurant where I had long been a customer, IT was denounced one evening before a full house as a “damned American who comes over here, living off the land, daring to insult Germans by speaking the enemy language in public.” I was flabbergasted by my antagonist’s perfect English, which included an extensive vocabulary of obscenities.

But

Goebbels Struggles at Biggest Job— Whipping Up Hatred for Americans EFFECTIVE ONE, SAYS HOOSIER

Though the threat of America as another fighting foe was looming ever larger, the common people of Germany reacted sluggishly to the

Nazi “hate America” propaganda drive.

Typical is the dull, apathetic

attitude of the propaganda-saturated Germans in the photo-montage

above.

They are listening to Adolf Hitler.

The restaurant manager, apologetically asking me to leave to avoid further trouble, explained that my critic was a Ruhr factory owner who had come up to Berlin for a weekend of rest from British bombings. “His nerves are upset,” said the manager. “You know why—the bombs are coming from Americanbuilt planes.” This bitterness was especially no= ticeable on mornings after bombing raids. Since America has actually entered the war, this bitterness in the top segment of the German nation has increased a thousandfold, and will be responsible for the inereased viciousness of all forms of attack on America.

Why Hate America?

Among the masses, reaction to America’s approach and final entry into the war has been significantly sluggish. For one thing, the average German mind had been so saturated with all types of propaganda that it could assimilate no more. Further, the circumstances surrounding American participation in the war were too complex for the

CLOTHES RATION

then sold them for their undeniably good rubber. Let's look at some “legitimate” hocus-pocus that’s going on here already. The practice of “up-grad-ing”—arbitrarily moving a product into a higher price bracket—has| cost the government heavily in its! scrap iron and steel dealings.

Clothing Graded Up or Down

A random OPA check of several New York haberdasheries recently showed about a third of the clothing either up-graded or down in quality. Until the universal price ceiling took effect, this was entirely within the law. And notice the new slimness of your favorite candy bar. Or examine Junior's paper pad — you'll probably find it's down from 100| to 80 pages. The problem, now that Uncle Sam has supplanted supply and demand as the arbiter of prices and qualities, is to see that his rules aren't nullified by such devices as this, nor by the less subtle practices of forgers and other criminals.

TOMORROW — Where Our De-

fenses re “Bowh:

AIR TRAVEL RULES T0 BE SIMPLIFIED

Regulations simplifying the issu= ance of priorities for air travel will go into effeet Saturday, Norman i. Hess, American Airlines traffie manager, said today. Mr. Hess explained that “civilians may use space not required by pri= ority passengers and cargo.” Ameriean Airlines, he said, will accept requests from civilians for reserva= tions on all flights. “Priorities,” he explained, “will be issued only for urgent passenger and cargo transportation and major inspection trips by the highest of= ficials.” A priority officer is to be appoint= ed in all large cities to issue air travel priorities to military service men and civilians engaged in essen= tial war work.

D. OF A. TO INITIATE Capitol City council 533, D. of A, will hold initiation at 8 p. m. to= morrow in the counsil hall, 512 N. illinois st. :

Stores in Principal Cities Close as Shop Owners Join in Parade.

LONDON, June 17.—The stores in all the principal Irish cities were shut yesterday and everyone from owners to delivery boys paraded in protest against the government's clothes rationing scheme, — Last night the government agreed to reconsider its plan. The knowledge that Eire could not count much longer on supplies from British and American factories, which are now concentrating on munitions rather than -eivilians’ clothes, led the government to in=

| troduce a strict rationing scheme.

Shop Owners Also Parade

At the beginning of last week it was announced that 52 clothes cou= pons would be issued to each person for a year. Forty coupons are required for a man’s suit and 30 for a woman's, Protests were such that the coupon allowance was ims= mediately raised to 78. In Britain everyone has 60 coupons for 14 months and a man’s suit costs 26 coupons, a woman's 18. This increase in coupons did not, however, satisfy the traders. Yes= terday Dublin streets, empty of automobiles because of a ban on private cars, were filled with peopie watching the big shop owners of the city lead their employees in a protest march.

Agree to Reconsider

“Revoke rationing. We have a right to live,” placards read. Similar parades took place in Cork, Limerick and several other towns. As a result of this pressure, Minister of Supplies Sean Lemass received a deputation representing the traders and agreed to appoint a committee to reconsider the rations ing plan.

ORDER TO HOLD DINNER A dinner for present and past honored queens will feature the 19th annual state convention of the Order of Job's Daughters Friday and Saturday in the Claypool hotel. The dinner will be Friday evening in the Canary cottage with Miss Mary Alis Werkhoff as chairman.

IRISH OBJECT TO

Rensselaer Poly [TI Honors Doctor

Dr. Robert A. Woodson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Wood= son of Traders Point, has been awarded a degree of doctor of dd. ; philosophy by Rensselaer Pols : ytechnie Insti= tute. A graduate of Technical high school, Dr, Woodson re= ceived the B.S. and masters degrees from Purdue univer= sity. He went to : * Rensselaer in= Dr. Woodson giitite as an ins structor and since last October has been a research physicist in the Institute of Optics at the Unis versity of Rochester. He is a mems ber of Sigma Pi Sigma, national honorary physics society; the American Physical society and Sigma Xi.

SETTLE KMOX DISPUTE ST. LOUIS, June 17 (U. P) =A strike of 21 engineers over the hiring of a woman trainee kept radio stas tion KMOX, 50,000 watt CBS out= let here, silent for five hours be= fore agreement was reached last night on arbitration to settle the dispute,

HOLD EVERYTHING

man in the street to grasp fully. He wasn’t exactly sure why he should hate America. Finally, he didn't want to hate America anyway. The tradition of America as the land of the free is still very much alive in the Third Reich. And it has been strengthened by family ties resulting from emigration to the new world. Middle classed Germans seemed to have a genuine revulsion at having to fight the American people.

Just Another Foe to Army This was confirmed during internment by many of the German staff in the hotel at Nauheim. Never did I hear an unfriendly word spoken about Roosevelt, Americans in general, or the war action itself, though every newspaper and every radio broadcast was filled with antiAmerican venom. Goebbels is now struggling with the biggest job of his career. Goebbels must convert these sympathetic or apathetic middie classes into virulent American-haters. If he fails, the German home front will rot away. As for the German army and navy, they regard the new enemy simply as another foe.

TRUE HISTORY TEACHING URGED

Kiwanis Leader in Canada Charges Falsities Are Foisted on Youth.

Times Special CLEVELAND, O., June 17.—A charge of untruthful teaching of history in educational institutions was hurled here today before Kiwanis International's 27th annual convention by Harold M. Diggon of Victoria, B. C., Canada. “Not only are these historical falsities foisted upon youth but these are presented in a way which tends to perpetuate hatreds, suspi-

clared. Chairman of the Kiwanians' Canadian public affairs committee, Mr. Diggon urged a fight against influences which “conspire to hinder closer co-operation between the English-speaking peoples.”

Decries Subversive Acts

He said “we want to do away with those reprehensible things that cre= ate the natipnal superiority coms plex, clinging traditionalism and those subversive acts which cause international ili will and wars.”

Other speakers todav were James P. Neal of Olympia, Wash, U. S. public affairs committee chairman for Kiwanis; Dr. Charles W, Armstrong of Salisbury, N. C.,, who

3 (urged greater opportunities for une

derprivileged children, and George A. Selke of St. Cloud, Minn., educator and director service organization youth activities.

‘STATE OPA MOVES

|| INTO NEW OFFICES

Indiana's branch of the office of price administration began opera-

|| tions in its new headquarters in the ' Murat temple this morning.

James D, Strickland, state OPA

| head, and his staff moved into the

new office rooms last night from

‘| their old offices in the Board of | | Trade building.

The new space jis situated in the

[north wing of the temple on the

ground floor. All offices and divi-

gions of the state OPA organization

cions and distrust,” Mr. Diggon de-/ [flying

FOOD PROGRAM

‘M. Clifford Townsend Takes Over New Post Under Secretary Wickard.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 17-—Amer-ican farmers are ready to carry out Secretary Wickard’s slogan—“food will win the war and write the peace”—without creating a single dust-bowl, the new administrator of the agricultural conservation and adjustment administration predicte ed today. He is M. Clifford Townsend, fore mer governor of Indiana, who suce ceeds R. M. Evans, now a governof of the Federal Reserve system. A geniune dirt farmer, the new ACAA administrator has been reared in the rough and tumble of farm and labor politics. He was promoted by Secretary Wickard be< cause he had done a good job as head of agricultural defense rela= tions. No one in Washington is better known among the farm organization men and those who make up the ACAA committees in 3000 rural counties throughout the United States.

‘No Dust Bowls,’

“We had a good food administra tor during the world war by the name of Herbert Hoover,” Mr, Townsend recalled in talking about the present program. “But we didn’t have an agricule ture program at all. That was why the range of the great western plains was plowed up and planted to wheat—and finally turned to dust. “We have a program now and i$ will not include any dust bowls, There is a surplus of wheat. and that land which has been restored by tree planting and the return of buffalo grass will remain a range just as it was cut out to be.” “Yet we will not only feed ours selves very well, but also the united nations,” he added. “Our program is designed to proe duce plenty of foodstuffs, save the land and create a balanced economy, Our farmers are patriots and ready to carry it out.” That the farmers will do their bit and more is indicated by the fact that they are delivering now on fats and oils, with boosts of 150 per cent on soybeans and 200 per cent on peanuts, Mr. Townsend pointed out, “Food is more valuable than that gold we have buried out in Kene tucky,” he concluded. “And it is daily becoming more so. No one knows what we could produce if pressed in the United States. “Potential labor shortages and the 80 per cent allotment for farm mae chinery may slow us down some= What. But I am sure we will mee the 10 per cent over-all increase this year and another 10 per cent in 1943.”

He Says

Plenty of Sugar, We Can't Get It

WASHINGTON, June 17 (U, P) —Government officials said today that the sugar situation has improved in recent weeks but the lack of ships will prohibit any immediate changes in the ratione ing program. If the shipping situation ime proves enough it may be possible to increase the current half pound weekly allowance. Officials agreed that there is plenty of sugar in Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico and other off-shore growing areas. But getting it to the United States is the problem, There doesn't seem much hope that vessels will be available for hauling sugar in the near future since all will be in military serve ice.

JAP PLANES ROUTED BUFFALO, N. Y., June 17 (U. P), —Curtiss P-40 Warhawk planes, through “most adverse weather” in the Aleutian islands, tackled 14 Japanese airplanes and destroyed three dive bombers snd a navy-0 fighter before the rout fled, a telegram from Lieut. Gen, H. H. Arnold, chief of the army aie force, said today.

What You Buuy With WAR BONDS

The 50-caliber Browning mae chine gun is one of the most efficient short range weapons used

by U. S. fighting forces. It is effective at ranges up to 2000 yards and fires about 600 forty five caliber bullets per minute,

One of these guns costs about $1500, while a thirty-caliber ma= chine gun costs approximately $600. Our fighting forces need thousands of these rapid-fire guns. Even a small town or come munity can buy many of them by uniting in the purchase of War Bonds. At least 10 percent of your