Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-06-25
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Washington, D. C.
CUTTING NAVY TAPE

order slashing navy red tape 5O
per cent and ordering more navy
officers out of Washington, was an
interesting comparison with the
Japanese navy, conducted back
stage by some of the. Presidents
advisers. & EEB ~ go
Americans, recently familiar with
Japan, have reported that the Jap
anese navy is stated by only about
1000 personnel in Tokyo. In con-
trast, the navy department in WASH
ington has more than 30,000-not in
Guiding the navy yard.
The Japanese navy also is report
ed to have cut red tape and gov
eminent reports to the bone and it
gives widest latitude to command
ers at sea. The U. S. navy also
gives wide latitude to commanders
in distant posts, such as Admiral
Leary in New Zealand, Admiral
Nimitz at Pearl Harbor But in
home waters, especially in anti
submarine warfare along the East
coast, insiders say the navy has suf-
fered from a constant stream of re-
ports and orders to and from Wash
ington requiring a tremendous staff
for the paper work alone.
Now Admiral King offers promo
tons to officers who will decrease
their Washington bureaus rather
than increase them.
GASOLINE GEAR '
The one-man dynamo who runs the
gas rationing system of the U. S. A.
is preachers son and former
professor of economics. Though one
of the most harassed men in
Washington, he is constantly on the
verge of breaking into broad smile.
Only 35 years old, he has gray
hair about the ears, thin hair, on
top, works SO late into the night
that his wife, mother of a newborn
boy, seldom sees him. 81 general
ly make the a. m. feeding" he
says. $50.
Joel Dean was born in Vermont,
schooled in California, and has a
doctors degree from Harvard, where
he wrote a thesis on small loans.
He spent a year as European man.
ager of a travel bureau, two years
as travelling salesman for Interna-
tional Business Machine, and seven
years as teacher and research ex-
pert. '''
AS a fellow economist, he always
admired Leon Henderson, but never
met him until he came to Washing
ton less than year ago.
To effect his own economy in
gasoline, he formed a "Drive-In
Club" with four other OPA officials.
They take turns driving to the Of
flee from Arlington, Va, across the
river. ..,... .,..
When brickbats fly in the OPA Of
fee, Dean recalls that his father, a
Congregational minister, wanted
him to be a missionary on a South
Sea island.
"Many people," says Dean, "wish
that I had fulfilled that mission"
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ARMY HOUR PROGRAM ,..
Tanning" radio programs is one
of the recognized weapons of mod
ern warfare. But it is a two-edged
sword, and the war department ra-
dio branch is ready to swing on the
Axis if the prize Army Hour, on
Sundays, is jammed again. 4.r
tanning by manufactured static
or other interference is feasible in
the United States only on short-wave
broadcasts. The Army Hour fea-
lures short-wave talks from all over
the world, made by such noted per-
sonages as Nine. Chang Kai-shek,
General Macarthur, General Wav-
ell, and others. The most recent
case of janming was during a talk
by high ranking army officer from
the Dutch island of Curacao. A pi-
ano banged loudly all the time he
spoke.
Winston Churchill's latest speech,
which came on the radio immedi-
ately before the army hour, was
damned by gutteral Teutonic voice
carefully observing Churchill's own
pauses in an effort to escape de-
lection. -'( 5oSI g.
These two cases of jamming T.
were traced by triangulation to
Axis brOadcasting stations. The
army proposes to retaliate if this
deliberate interference doesn't
stop.
WAR FLASHES
q If you are business executive,
and uncertain about tax deductions
for advertising and pay increases,
you can get informal" advice by
applying to the internal revenue bu-
reau under a new treasury ruling.
q OPA agents are checking up on
private airports on tips that they are
bootlegging high octane gas to car
drivers. High octane won't run a
car by itself, but makes a very
smooth-running fuel if mixed with
lower grade gas.
q Guerrilla warfare in Russia has
become SO highly organized that ev-
cry third guerrilla now is armed
with an automatic rifle.
q The war department soon will