Show Sees No More Island Occupations Pla Planned ned U. U 5 S. r W r. r p by I L Li i p POSTMASTER GENERAL GETS A BADGE AT UTAH POSTMASTERS POSTMASTERS' CONVENTION CONTENTION Postmaster James Walton left Postmaster G Frank C. C Walker Postmaster A. A Smoot Iw WALKER AlKER SPEAKS AT S 8 L L L. PARLEY The administration j no more island occupations at at this tine Postmaster General Frank C C. Walker Wake sald Frida Friday in m Salt Sal La Lake e City The tall graying postmaster gene general general gen gen- e eral al arrived to participate In hi the two-day two convention of f the Utah chapter National Association of Postmasters which opened Friday morning at the Newhouse hotel Terming the occupation of Iceland Iceland Iceland Ice Ice- land purely a defense move he denied that President Roosevelt I contemplates using it as a stopover for mail thail or convoy pa passage sage to Eng Eng- land Our lOur big job now Is at home he declared emphatically Domestic Domes ti tic production must be pushed Our factories have been doing a job but they must do even more Mr Walker a former Butte Mont Mont attorney Is to address a convention banquet in inthe the Newhouse Newhouse Newhouse New- New house hotel at p p. p m rn and leave for Denver later Friday night Commenting on the possible use of Iceland as a stopping place for transatlantic mall planes Mr Walker said The Portuguese ese government has been bee cooperating hOle 1 with this this' country r can air mall mail t to Europ deSP t blockade areas of and there is no no I tl that Iceland will be used as a stopover er for an anything Our ur planes have been making regular runs to Lisbon by bya a way ay of ot I Continued on oi Page Face en Column our our v. It t n If t U. U US U.S. s. s Plans No IVo More Island Islas d Occupations Occupation's r T N iVo Now w nr Postmaster General Tells Jells Utah Utah- Convention Continued from Page One British Bermuda and Portuguese Azores and I hardly think at this time that Iceland will be used as a tr transit point for any American mall mail Mr Walker said he favors keeping keeping keeping keep keep- I Imen ing draftees and national guardsmen guards guards- men in service longer than the single year rear as was first plated Those who say the draft is a two-party two contract are mistaken It isn't a matter of contract Its It's a matter of national defense and it Is ev everybody's duty to serve during the emergency he declared In contradiction to what he expected expected expected ex ex- Mr Walker finds sentiment in the west overwhelmingly in favor of the presidents president's foreign policies and not in opposition ashad as ashad ashad had been reported Turning to his own department he noted with pr pride de that n national ional i defense has boomed post office business to unprecedented heights Business of the Ute department i I jumped from a year to a year because because- of of the defense program he said noting I r that all aU states have shown large gains in business The big danger in the post office of office office of- of fice department he said will wm willbe be in the next two or three years year We may find our overhead is larger than our volume of business warrants The convention opened at 1030 I a. a m with with- registration of delegates and visitors Addresses of welcome were given by Earl J. J Glade president of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce A. A Pratt Kesler assistant city atI attorney attorney at at- rA I torney who represented Mayor Major Ab Jenkins and James Walton of Tremonton Tremonton Tremonton Tre- Tre Tre- Tre monton ch chapter pter president Utah said Mr Glade is getting getting getting get get- ting ready for the greatest industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial period in its history next year and we need the help of all aU you I postal authorities I Utah and Nevada will spend in the current fiscal year in transportation of mail by railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road said Wilford Danvers of Ogden Ogden Og Og- den chief clerk of the railway mail service |