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so IM — Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizes a of incomes would be in of the nation. annual: changed ‘WHY CIVILIANS occasion SHOULD OBEY THE Problems - “NO TRAVEL” PLEA government } Col, J. Monroe Johnson, Direc- jtor of the Office of Defense @ispateh tells us that Transportation, urges the people governors discussed present of this country to forget “travel problems connected with demo-'as usual,” in order that the rail- Wilteetion, airport development, roads can concentrate upon the seelal security, reconversion, em- | immense task that faces them in ployment, conservation, surplus connection with warfare in the wer properties and Federal-state Pacific. end state-local relations. | For many decades the rail te regerd to many of these traffic of the nation has been fun- topics the governors have little nelled into the area between eutheority although their recom- Norfolk and New York. The war mendetions may have weight in with Japan requires that the Weetineton. In regard to others traffic move to western ports. In the elvef executives of the var- connection with rail facilites, je commonwealths will be un- these represent the smaller end ote te formulate effective pro- of a number of funnels. Obviously graeme because of the limited fin- they will have difficulty in ental resources available to the handling the immense traffic, of states men and material, that must be ‘The consideration of Federal-'sent into the Far East. estate veletiens t necessarily a In addition to this problem, the Geeweten «about Federal aid, nation’s transportation system 1s wth debate about theoretical being subjected) to an additioal primeipies mew mo longer potent burden as soldiers from Europe im the developing democracy of reach the States:and move into the mation. The tendency to de- their home aréas. i ory the lows of state prestige is’ next year, an estim: wederetendable but the failure of lion men will be di the “ates to attempt some im-!service, necessitating long trips provement im their fiscal pros-{to reach home, Moreover, other pects is not jmillions will be: passing’ through We heve pointed out before the United States, en route from thet the failure of the state gov- Europe to the Far East, and, in ermments to function efficiently addition to their journey to the ond to meet in full the enlarged West Coast, will expect to spend feepensittity of modern life furloughs at home. stem from « lack of funds. Since’ In view of these facts, it ought the Federal government is the to be apparent to every Ameri- wealthy agent of authority it at- tweets mereased powers. This war effort is to stay off the rail- could be altered by any sensible roads and other carriers, While pian te provide greater revenues some trips will be necessary, civ- fw the states jilians can “shorten the war and ur @eR suggestion is that the save lives” by eliminating every cometitution be amended so that! unnecessary’ journey, I study with nation, press 5 _ © delimite pertentage of federal —— teome tak collections be allocat-'! STATIS} seth oA THE od t the state gpaments and ARI NQW VING TO through them (6 the local units PIGHT', thet toweh the daily lives of the! OutS of the» Army's total people. 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The Store of Quality For Ladies, Misses, Children and Boys can that one way to support the | uniform throughout the nation tion has 5,500,000 soldiers over- | SUICIDE PLANES jand there would result a better seas and 3,000,000 in this country. | balance in the governing power, By next year there will be, it is Navy has efaducted extensive i { | | | i | | Forces, submarine sinkings. We were frequently met with the Included in present Army choice of whether we would pro- strength, are 2,300,000 in the Air,ceed slowly and ‘avoid ldsses or pair. s service act quickly and get the food to There is the chance that the! Midget Bar, at Greene and Sim-|peen added to the Bingo Palace 1,7700,000 in forces, 1,100,000 in miscellaneous the battlefronts on time.” components and 3,200,000 in the; ground forces. {NAVY REDUCES At the present time, the na-| LOSSES FROM Beginning March 18th, the estimated, 4,000,000 overseas and‘ operations in the Ryukyus, in- 2,800,000 in the United States. {cluding the task of covering and While something like 2,000,000 protecting the invasion and con< men now in service will be de-| quest of Okinawa. 5 mobilized during the coming year,! Because of Japanese suicide the strength of the armed forces’ plane attacks, a number of ships will be increased by 800,000 new!were damaged. The exact total men, expected to be inducted’ has not been announced, but, up through Selective Service. |to May 24th, 31 have been sunk, Major - General Stephen G.!including 11 destroyers and 54 Henry, Assistant Chief of Staff,'others have been damaged, in- aircraft carriers and some cruis- tee that the rate of discharge now 100,000 a month. would i 's crease about 25,000 a month and; lore disconcerting to the settle around 20Q000 a month American people was the’ an- for the first part of 1946. He ex- nouncement of casualties which, pressed the opinion that demo- through May 23, included 4,279 bilization of 2,000,000 men will Navy personnel killed or missing take about twelve months. and 4,171 wounded. Covering a a period of sixty-four days, the JONES DEFENDS |9.441 casualties meant that the THE WFA ON | Navy was losing nearly 148 men CHARGE OF “WASTE” iver day. A House sub-committee flays! Happily, the casualty rate has the War Food Administration for|not continued at this pace. For poor bookkeeping and other in-/the four-week period, May. 18th wasteful warehousing practices, | 20th, inclusive, efficiencies and derelictions that. avy reports 637 men killed it says, resulted in losses running oY missing and 653 wounded, This into “many millions of dollars.” Period of twenty-four days saw There is no way for the average the casyalty ratio reduced to American to check up on the slightly “less than 54 per day. accuracy of the charges. It isiEven this is bad enough, but it noted that the report pr .d Ads represents considerable improve-. ministrator Marvin Jones ment over the 148 of the first helpful and cooperative.” ;nine weeks of the Ryukyu cam- Judge Jones, in the meantime, paign. points out that the criticism 1 In view of the fact that casu- lates to only one phase of WFA’s alties are t operations, involving the storing with damage to ships, the lower- and handling of perishable foods ed rate indicates that the kami- in connection with Lend-Lease kaze attack has been successfully and farm price support opera- met to some extent. Certainly, it tions, did not succeed in preventing the Judge Jones admits that there successful occupation of the en- were some losses but that “the tire island of Okinawa and the overtll losses were less than |presumption is that actions and those which normally occur in'methods adopted will enable us regular channels of trade.” Nat-/to avoid the heavy casualties urally, we have no information’ which, at one time. it was be- upon which to check this state- lieved, would result from _ the ment, but, if it is true, it is a svici®@¥tactis of Japanese pilots. ¢omplete rebuttal of the Com-* . _— mittee’s charges. NAZI INDUSTRIALISTS | Dresses made by The WFA Administrator fur-' HAVE PLAN TO i Nationally ther justifies the record of his REARM GERMANY : <nown © Ma kers agency. He says the food “had to! 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In fact,|at the Midget Bar has whatever some experts seem to believe; you want in the matter of pack- that, unless severe measures are #&¢ goods. In their announce- taken, the Germans will be able Ment on the front page of today’s to rebuild their war industries Citizen, they say “If you don't see and thus, in a decade or so, be it, ask for it; we have it. able toyresume their attempts to ‘ET Sees world domination. D. Theat coees ‘ Assistant - Attorney General’ Wendell Berge points out that’ 0: German industrialists are “taking The dance of the evening will it for granted” that they will be be held at the La Concha Hotel allowed to resume cartel opera- in the cocktail lounge of the ai tions. 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