Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 12, Number 11, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 January 1942 — BRIEFS... [ARTICLE]

BRIEFS...

by Baukhage

C. Maritime Commission cadets, for the duration of the war emergency, will be trained 'in about half the time ordinarily required and will not have to take competitive examinations for appointments. * C Navy code books aboard ship are bound in lead so that they can be tossed overboard and sunk when there is danger of their falling into the hands of the enemy.

«L * n 1941, nearly three times as many wheat farmers as in 1939, or a total of about 420,000, were protected from the effects of crop failure They insured their wheat crop with the Federal Crop Insurance corporation. C The government, acting under a new. law, has started regularly authorized safety inspection of mines for the first time.