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Washington, D. C, Feb. 25. No
one knows how many lawyers there
are in the government. Aside from
the department of justice there are
thousands. Every agency has a le
gal staff of its own from Bonneville
to fish and wildlife service; from
farm credit administration to recla
mation service; from forest service
to HOLC. In the United States
federal statutes, unchanged in the
latest edition, there is a paragraph
adopted in 1872 which prohibits any
department head from hiring a law
yer; that when an attorney is re
quired application shall be made to
the department of justice and an
attorney shall be assigned to handle
the matter.
This statutory provision limiting
all government lawyers to the de
partment of justice has been cir
cumvented by the innumerable bu
reaus and departments in a slick
manner. When an appropriation bill
ia up there is included authoriza
tion to engage the services of legal,
clerical or other persons. By this
means the statute is made a dead
letter. There is now before a senate com-
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FRIDAY-SATURDAY
MOONLIGHT IN
HAWAII
Johnny Downs, Jane F razee, Leon
Errol, Mischa Auer, Sunnie O'Dea,
Maria Montez, the Merry- Macs
A musical with comedy.
Plus
SECRETS OF THE
LONE WOLF
Warren William, Eric Blare,
Ruth Ford. Victor Jory
Another fast-moving "Lone Wolf'
drama.
SUNDAY-MONDAY
H. M. PULHAM, ESQ.
Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth
Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van
Hefflin, Bonita Granville,
Fay Holden
Based on John P. Marquand's great
love story that was also a Book -of -the-Month
selection, a Reader's Di
gest story and a McCall Magazine
serialization, every fascinating char
acter in the celebrated best seller
now . comes to thrilling life on the
screen.
TUESDAY Bargain Night
THE PERFECT SNOB
Lynn Bari, Charlotte Greenwood,
Charlie Ruggles, Anthony Qulnn,
Alan Mowbray, Cornel Wilde
This comedy-romance gives capable
comedians Greenwood and Ruggles
a chance to bring you a generous
quota of laughs.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
THE MALTESE
FALCON
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor,
Gladys George, Peter Lorre,
Barton MacLane
This is excellent entertainment . . .
a mystery story packed with humor
and suspense.
THE MARCH OF TIME
Far East Command: How will the
U.S.A. hit back at Japan? Where are
the Japs most vulnerable? Can the
fighting Anzacs hold Australia and
New Zealand?
mittee a simple bill, of a few lines,
offered by Senator Rufus Holman
which provides that all lawyers on
the government payroll shall be as
signed to the department of justice;
that the attorney general shall be
responsible for them and assign
them on request from a department
secretary. This would form a pool
of lawyers, just as there are pools
of stenographers and typists in cer
tain departments. The lawyers are
now running around trying to dis
cover what is behind the measure;
law journals have inquired, and the
department heads wish to know
what's going on. The bill will prob
ably be killed; government lawyers
have friends on "the hill" and are
clever lobbyists.
Army and navy munitions board
has been directed by Donald Nel
son to give airplanes a higher prior
ity for better effect upon the pub
lic. General supposition has been
that airplanes had double A rating
for anything required. It develops,
however, that the munitions board
had decided that warships and tanks
are more important than airplanes,
for they gave the ships and tanks
a higher rating. The highest rating
for planes has been A-l-B for four
engine Boeing bdhibers while the
rest of the fighting craft were given
a rating of A-l-D. At the moment
the only double A rating has been
given to four battleships which will
not be completed and ready for sea
for a long time; they are being
rushed to replace the Pearl Rarbor
losses. Warships which will not be
built until next year have as high
a priority as the bombers.
War deparment has been taking
over large sections of public land
in the northwest. According to the
general landoffice, 14,000,000 acres
of public land have been withdrawn
for aviation fields, bombing and gun
nery ranges, sites for anti-aircraft
guns, training areas, etc., more ex
act locations being a military secret.
Many acres taken over by the war
department involve old mining
claims, homestead entries, etc., and
it is estimated that 20,000 such claims
must be adjusted within 18 months
in the western states to clear titles
for military purposes. Few of the
cases are expected to go to court
and most of the claims will be quick
ly invalidated.
Of immediate concern is the con
struction of a cantonment at Med
ford to house 30,000 soldiers. On the
basis of $500 per man, which is
conservative, the Medford canton
ment will cost about $15,000,000.
Thousands of carpenters, plumbers,
bricklayers, painters and common
laborers will be used by the con
tractors and the first problem Med
ford must meet is housing these
workers while they are building the
barracks, mess and assembly halls,
chapels and utilities. It will be sev
eral months before the cantonment
is completed, for it is an enormous
task building a city for a popula
tion greater than that of any of 29
counties in Oregon. It will have
almost three times the population of
Medford, principal city of the can
tonment area.
High prices mean inflation and
the higher they go the more the in
flation, until the time may come
when it will require two bushels of
wheat or two sacks of potatoes to
buy what can now be bought for
one. It is to prevent this condition
that the government is placing a
ceiling on prices. The plan, roughly,
has two branches: one is to clamp
down on prices and the other is to
extract from the people so much
money (in the form of taxes) that
workers will not have spare cash to
indulge their fancy in consumer
goods. A few steps have already
been taken, such as the federal re
serve requiring the banks to carry
a larger amount of government se
curities and to be tight with com
mercial credits. There is also the
reduction in installment buying, one
of the easy payment plans which
is already being affected.
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bomber contains
more than three and a half miles of
copper wire!
A single anti-aircraft shell uses nearly
8 pounds of copper a battleship takes
more than 200,000 pounds of the red metal.
And during the last war our Signal Corps
strung enough copper wire to stretch
around the world several times.
Add these enormous requirements of
the army and navy together and you can
see why civilian use of copper must be
drastically curtailed.
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civilian users of copper, no longer can
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