Show 6 U 01 iw ARMY CRACKDOWN the army Is determined that returned european war veterans shell shall no longer appeal to congressmen or newspaper men to hasten their discharge from the army or to protest redeployment to japan for police duty severe secret orders have just been issued to thi this is effect over the signature of brig gen A M gur ney chief of staff tor for lt etgen I 1 gen lloyd R fredendall coina commander ander of the 2nd and army the order which has been secretly circulated reads recently members of a division in the united states scheduled tor for redeployment to the pacific area appealed to the press and radio protesting against transfer of the division to the pacific theater action of this nature if concerted may subject participants to disciplinary action incidents such euch as noted tn in paragraph 3 above the paragraph just quoted continued the secret order will be dealt with drastically by this headquarters and the corni comi mander concerned will be summarily relieved rell eved 11 the division referred to probably was the stationed at camp shelby miss which sent all sorts of appeals to newspaper men and radio commentators against being transferred from europe to japan apparently the protests worked for the order to send the to japan was rescinded presidential POKER those who traveled with prest dent truman on his various trips to washington state and potsdam found him a delightful and entertaining companion one story they tell about Tr trip to the northwest was regarding his salmon fishing off the washington coast while the motor boat wag nasr chugging back to shore truman and his old senatorial friends gov mon and sen warren magnuson of washington played poker the stakes were low but bu t the thrifty ty truman was trying hard to come out ahead it was agreed that no matter who was ahead the gime game would stop the minute the boat hit shore so the president kept up a me line of banter to the norwegian skipper slow her down Christ lansen he said im beli behind ind I 1 need a little extra time to catch up or again it was speed her up im ahead now lets get t to shore before the governor catches up finally the motorboat motor boat touched shore with the president of the united states a few cents ahead skipper was just as pleased as truman ARMY AND RAILROADS even the ardys friends on capitol hill say the brass hats are killing any chance for public support they might have had by their autocratic disregard for civilian needs in such fields as coal mining and railroading one of the busiest railroads tn in the country today is the southern pacific which has handled most of the cast west traffic to the busy port of san F francisco ran cisco the S P isa is a single track line able to carry its huge volume only by scheduling trains at 10 minute intervals round the clock in order to maintain this schedule it requires a huge crew of crack trainmen repair men and other skilled workers it has done pretty well even in the last year although there was a recent bottleneck near el paso which resulted in the holding up of 75 trains southern pacific officials have been begging the arbyto to release skilled railroad men with the 80 points required for discharge or to furlough railroad men in this country with less points finally r in midsummer mid summer the army agreed to release railroad men with 2400 of them assigned to the S P but then the army began begaii going back on its promise and said it could discharge only 1300 men A few weeks ago the army released men to the southern pacific and said no more were available the joker is that men have gone into the armed forces from the S P employment roster finally war snyder stepped in and forced the army to release railroad men amidst loud squawks from brass hats that this action would destroy morale CAPITAL CHAFF fl A senators are looking forward to better eating now tint derwin darling has come back from two years yeara in the marines to resume management of the senate restaurant A alleged united states opposition to the kilgore unemployment compensation pensa tion bill has cracked open forty seven state administrations were reported opposed but it now develops that massachusetts rhode island OkJa oklahoma homa War washington hington and california are definitely for the bill with connecticut and str several veral others about ready to support it |