The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
enough for service in the Medi- cal Corps. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

enough for service in the Medi- cal Corps.
 INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
 Aside from doctors, industrial production is also affected. The bigger the army, the more pro- duction is needed, yet the less la bor there is to provide it. This is the point which Donald Nel- son and Paul McNutt hammered home to Army chiefs last week. Meanwhile bills have been drawn up by both the Manpower Com mission and the War Department to draft all men between IS and 65, and all women between IS and 50 for national service. Con- gress, under these bills, will be asked to vote the authority to the President, who would then dispose of the manpoWer and woman pow CT of the nation as he sees fit. He would be able to transit any individual from one job to another, likewise compel accept ance of such transfers by employ CTS. Local draft boards would retain their autonomy, thus giv- ing them far more power in their communities than anyone ever an- ticipated.
 T. DIAN BOILING POINT
 India gets little play in the press, but behind the scenes it is a source of growing concern among highly placed Washington of ficials. The U. s. Government has been keeping its official mouth shut, but privately officials are boiling over.
 Here are some of the reasons:
 l. Gandhi is held incommuni- cado in prison. Indian leaders who have expressed a desire to see him, to effect 8 compro- mise plan, have been denied ad- mission. No reports of his con- dition are published. He could even be dead without the public knowing it.
 2. L. s. Amery, Secretary of State for India, is following a reactionary course and is the man behind Churchill's in transigeance.
 3. Even Indian officials ap- pointed by the British are res- tive. The Agent General for India in Washington, Sir Girja State Department officials without asking the British Em- bassy to arrange an appoint ment, and thus putting him. self in a position of reporting to the Embassy the nature of the interview.
 4. During a recent report to the House of Commons, in which members were told that Indian mobs were machine gunned from airplanes, Con- servatives cheered.
 Washington is still keeping hands off. But some of them are wondering how long? CAPITAL CHAFT
 Justice Jimmy Byrnes' appoint ment as Economic Stabilization cZar is another backstage triumph for sage old Bernie Baruch. Both South Carolinians and close friends, Byrnes will reflect Ba- ruch's views and experience as industrial czar in the last war. .. The War Departments new Pentagon building in Arlington, Va, is supposed to be the biggest in the world. At any rate 1t is SO big that the other day when Maj. Gus Ring couldn't locate his car, he hired a taxl and spent 25 min. utes cruising around the building to find !t One U. s. general, returning from London, reported that the waiting policy Of the British in Africa reminded him Of the Union generals in the War Between the States who daliied in Washington, wondering what Lee would do next.
 OIL RUNS DIPLOMATS
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