Senate Group Urges Budget Bureau Probe Subcommittee Declares Government Should Be On All-Out War Basis By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 18--Declar- ing the Federal government should be put on "a streamlined all-out war basis," a Senate subcommittee today urged an investigation of the Bureau of the Budget and of waste of money and energy on overlapping govern- tnental functions. Chairman Tydings (D-Md) of the appropriations subcommittee issued a sharply critical report saying the budget bureau not only had f~iled to carry out its legal duty to m in- tain a running check of the activites of the various departments but was being used to encourage a policy of mounting Federal debt. With reference to conversion of peace-time agencies to war work, the committee recommended enactment of legislation authorizing the Civil Service Commission to transfer em- ployees from one government de- partment to another, regardless of the employes' personal wishes, in ordertoputilize their services in the best interests of the war effort. The report, issued after study of 2,200 questionnaires sent to the var- ious federal agencies, asserted that "certain officials" of the National Resources Planning Board as well as some officials of the Budget Bureau "have been and are yet carrying on very discreet, but nonetheless per- nicious, propaganda to the effect that there must continue after the war even greater mounting deficit spending on the part of the federal government than was followed dur- ing the decade" just past. War Geography: ATTARA e WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? The clanking tanks of the Nazi Afrika Corps have been shuttling back and forth past Qattara De- presssion and into the town of El Alamein in the nip and tuck battle of Libya. The Qattara Depression is a huge basin, scarring further the face of the rocky western desert. Analagous to America's stifling hot Death Val- ley, the Depression is the southern limit of passable desert territory and extends close to the coastal regions. The railroad town of El Alamein, the African equivalent of an Ameri- can whistle stop, is the .keyhole to the entire Egyptian area. It holds the commanding position of the nar- row land passage north of the Qat- tara Depression toward the rich Nile Valley and the vital Suez Canal. Through the 35-mile corridor be- tween the sea and the marshy Qat- tara Depression the fighting for the Suez must be localized. It is here that the Axis forces are meeting British, Americans and Anzacs. He Goes With A Song HOLLYWOOD, July 18. -- (P) - Gene Autry was notified today to re- port for induction as a technical ser- geant in the Army Air Forces Wed- nesday at Chicago. The singing cow- boy will complete a picture Monday and leave Tuesday by air. Army Bomber Hits Japanese Transport In Kiska Harbor Caught in the harbor at Kiska, Alaska, by a U. S. Army bomber, a Japanese transport burns furiously after receiving a bomb hit. Note circled ships of Ja p force which landed on the island. A Navy plane made this picture soon after the attack. Photograph Gives Graphic View Of Fighting At Dutch Harbor By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 18.- Some pictorial evidence of what the Japa- nese bombers hit-and missed-in their June attack on Alaska's Dutch Harbor came today from the Navy. A dense cloud of thick black smoke rolling up from a ourning oil tank showed one score for the enemy, but the same Navy photograph also re- vealed two radio towers, standing ap- parently undamaged close to the bombed fuel supply. Her hull blown askew and warped by fire, the station ship Northwest- ern was shown in another photo- graph. Fire and bombs got her, but she did not sink because she already was beached for use as storage before the Japanese bombers paid their vis- its on June 3 and 4. But the Nipponese aim was bad when they tried to hit either the Dutch Harbor waterfront or a ship riding at anchor in the harbor, Four Household Articles Out Of Prodiietioin WASHINGTON, July 18. -(IP)_-_ America's headlong plunge into war production has wiped out in six months the production of civilian household articles which last year employed 1,500,000 persons in 28,000 plants and had a factory sales value of $3,800,000,000. At retail, consumers would pay more than $7,000,000,000 for the re- frigerators, ranges, waffle irons, hair dryers and other items which have been supplanted by guns, plane parts, bomb sights and other military items. This mass transition to a war economy has channeled into the war effort several billion tons of steel, copper, aluminum, plastics and other materials essential on the world- wide battlefronts, the War Produc- tion Board reported today in fur- nishing the conversion survey. The' switch-over was accomplished by WPB orders of the last six months. Already many of the major plants are turning out a greater vol- ume of weapons and materiel than their peak output of civilian goods, WPB said, geysers of water are shown spurting up harmlessly. A barrage of anti- aircraft fire from shore positions and from the ship itself kept the bombers high, spoiled their aim and blasted two of the raiders out of the air. The Japanese opened the Dutch Harbor attack on June 3 by sending over five waves of three planes each, all apparently carrier-based. Warm-Weather TIPS Students can come either date or stag to the weekly co-recreational swimming parties at the Intramural Building pool, Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. There is a nominal fee for towel service. Reminder - Last call for the mixed doubles tennis tournament. * * * Archers will compete at 4 p.m. Fri- day at the W.A.B. in the co-recrea- tional archery meet. * * * Outdoor badminton can be played anytime between 2:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Students may play indoors Wednesday evenings in Barbour Gym. * * * Women may invite men to play on the putting greens by first getting a guest card. Co-ed groups can play any time. * * * The Co-Recreational Tennis Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on the terrace of the W.A.B. E School Of Music or To Hold Recitals In Hill Auditorium A profdssor of organ at Illinois Wesleyan University, Mr. George L. Scott, will present a recital at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Hill Auditorium as partial fulfillment for the degree Master of Music. Mr. Scott studied organ under Pal- mer Christian at the University and also at the New England Conserva- tory. He played the French horn for several years with the St. Louis Symphony, and has given recitals for radio station KMOX in St. Louis. At 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, another con- cert will be presented in Hill Audi- torium by Arthur Hackett, tenor; Joseph Brinkman, pianist; and George Faxon, organist; all members of the School of Music faculty. These concerts are open to the public, with the exception of small children. 5 I I COLL'IflS Liberty at Maynard Our Bariymore b ouse CLASSIC that you love with French cuff links; long tab collar, pearly buttons . beautifuly tailored in a fine acetate rayon crepe. Perfect for now, for Fall: with slacks, with suits, with separate skirts; washable, of course. 30 to 40. iii i I I A.':f'.: 11 I