The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-10

sold in large quantities to second- hand dealers rather than to in- dividuals, However this has meant the war veteran or any, one else had to pay double or even triple the original sale price of the jeep of truck.
 Now, however, the Surplus Property Board, in cooperation with the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department, plans to change this. They are estab- fishing a procedure whereby vet .erans will receive certificate from the armed forces. This will enable them to 80 to the Smaller War Plants Corporation, which, in turn, will assist them in find- ing the equipment they need. Once the material is found, vet erans will receive a priority from the Treasury Procurement Divi- sion to enable them to buy sur plus property without going to war profiteers.
 CANINE MIGRATION
 Attorney General Riddle is asked to rule on all sorts of unique questions since the Bureau of Immigration was transferred to his Justice Department. The other Department got this in- quiry.
 "How long does 8 dog have to
 remain in quarantine when it arrives in the United States?"
 The young girl who answered the phone was baffled, "Why are you asking the Department of Justice," she parried.
 Because" was the indignant re- ply, 'Tt's an immigration prob lem, isn't it?"
 CIGARETS TO SWEDEN
 Guess where some of our van- ished cigarets have been going? To Sweden! And from there? Perhaps to the same place Swe- dent sent her ball bearings-Ger- many.
 U. S. export figures on cig- arets to Sweden are supposed to be very, very confidential. Why remains a mystery. But when Jesse Jones was Secretary of Con- merce, he would not permit the announcement of export figures on various commodities to any country. .... .... ..... |.
 However, the unpublished fact is that Sweden last year was per- mitted by treaty to triple her normal purchase of cigarets from this country. She bought two hundred million.
 Why the owedeS should have needed three times as many cig- arets in 1944 as their normal im- port from the United States al-
 So remains mystery. Some
 people suspect the expianatiOn
 is that the Nazis are smoking
 cigarets which the American public does not get.
 NOTE: Suggestion to Secretary of Commerce Wallace: Why not let the public know about these trade figures from HOW on? Ger tainly there should be no mill- tary value to the enemy in letting the American public in on how many cigaretS we are sending to different countries. If the Nazls are getting some of the cigarets we ship to Sweden, the Nazis probably know about it anyway. And the American public is cer-. .tainly entitled to know as much as the Nazis.
 WAR NOTES
 The War Department is not happy about the present Italian trip of Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut. The authoress-glamor girl got in the Army's hair last winter when she toured the battle fronts as member of the House Military Af- fairs Committee. So when she decided to go back to Italy, the Army turned down her request for transportation. Mrs. Luce went to the British for transportation. She was taken in British plane to London. But who gave her permission to go from London to Italy. which is still an active the. ater, remains an unexplained mys- tery Nazi troops on the Italian front are reported fearful they will not be able to retreat to the Fatherland. Allied bomb. CTS have been able to keep the Brenner Pass to Austria complete ly blocked Some German