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(We all have our favorite war story. So far as the present war is concerned, I like this one best.)

It happened on Iwo Jima. A company of Marines was spread in scattered formation alo,ng a hillside. Each man was dug in as well as possible. The fighting was continuous. The men were spattering bullets at the Japs above. All but one. The Captain, watching from below, noticed that one gunner was doing very little shooting. He would fire, then stop a while, then fire again, then stop again.

Extends FHA \(/ar Housing Insurance

Washington, D. C., March 28-The Federal Housing Administration today notified its field offices to resume issuance of commitments to insure loans on houses built for war workers.

This phase of FHA operations was suspended early in February when the insurance authorization under Title VI of the National Housing Act neared exhaustion.

The FHA action was in accord with Congressional approval of an amendment to the Act which extends its war housing insurance powers until July l, 1946, and added $100,000,000 to its Title VI authorization.

Congress, in passing the amendment, raised the total FHA Title VI insurance authorization from $1,700,000,000 to $1,800,000,000 and thus makes possibie, it was estimated, the construction of nearly 22,000 additional privatelyfinanced dwelling units urgently needed for war workers. About 16,000 of these already have been programmed by the National Housing Agency.

Through February, a.bout 380,00O houses for war workers had been completed by private enterprise with insurance through FHA's Title VI.

The Captain called a Sergeant over, pointed out the strange behavior o,f the man above, and suggested he go up there and see what the "gaw damn:' fellow lvas so slow about. The Sergeant went up on his tummy, and came back the same way. He said to the Captain:

"That's a funny thing, that guy. He was a gangster in a Chicago mob before he joined up, and he just can't get out of his old habits. Every time he kills a Jap, HE STOPS AND WIPES HIS FINGER PRINTS OFF THE GUN.''

California Lumber Production Shows lncrease

As compared with a national drop of 9.6 per cent in lumber production for January 1945, from the previous January, the South Pacific region, embracing the states of California and Nevada, achieved a 16.3 per cent increase, the highest of any section in the country, it was announced today by Stewart C. Griswold, Regional Lumber Advisor of the War Production Board. Production of 119,400,000 board feet was due, he said, to especially favorable winter weather conditions for logging and hauling to mills.

National production of 2,254,8D,0@ board feet, while ,behind January of 1944, showed a better than average normal increase of 8.1 oer cent over December 1944.

William B. Dbwns on Pcrcilic Cocrst

William B. Downs, Chicago, I11., special representative for the Lumbermen's Credit Association Inc., publishers of The Lumbermen's National Red Book Service, is on the Pacific Coast calling on the lumber manufa,cturers, wholesalers and commission men. He is now in California, and will also visit Oregon, Washington and Vancouver, B. C.

Pitcher Disappearing Doors

We now ship the lrcnne set up compleie which ioins with cr 33/a" stud, mcking no extrcr thickness lor a sliding door.