Show U OR W ON M ARMY CRACKDOWN the army to is determined that returned european war veterans shall no longer appeal to congressmen or newspaper men to hasten their di discharge from the army or to protest redeployment to japan tor for police duty severe secret orders have lust just been issued to this effect over the signature of brig gen A 4 gurney chief ol of staff tor for lt gen lloyd R fredendall commander ol of the 2nd and army the order which has been secretly circulated reads recently members of a division to 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 it if concerted may subject participants participant s to disciplinary action incidents such as noted in paragraph 3 above the paragraph just quoted continued the secret order will be dealt with drastically by this headquarters and the commander concerned will be summarily relieved the division referred to probably was the stationed at camp shelby miss which sent bent all sorts of appeals to newspaper men and rad radio lo 10 commentators against cing being transferred a sherred from europe to japan apparently the protests worked for the order to send the to japan was rescinded presidential POKER those who traveled with president truman on his various trips to washington state and potsdam found him a delightful and entertaining com companion pardon one story they tell about Tr trip to the tha northwest was regarding his salmon fishing off the washington coast while the motor boat was 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 the thrifty truman was trying hard to come out ahead it was agreed that no matter who was ahead the game would stop the minute the boat hit shore so the president kept up a line of banter to the norwegian skipper slow her down he said im behind I 1 need a little extra time to catch up or again it was speed her up im ahead now lets get to shore before the governor catches up finally the 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 tor 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 in the country today Is the southern pacific which has handled most of the e east a s t west traffic ta the busy port ol of san francisco the S P 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 an and 1 0 other th e r skilled workers it has done pretty wen well even eve n 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 army to release skilled railroad men with the 80 60 points required for discharge or to furlough railroad men in this country with less points finally in midsummer mid summer the army agreed to release railroad men with 2400 of them assigned to the S P but then the army bean agan going back on its promise premise and aid 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 load squawks from brass bats that this action would destroy destray morale CAPITAL CHAFF fl L senators are looking forward to better eating now that derwin darling has c ome come back from two years yean in the marines to resume management of the senate restaurant C alleged united states opposition to the kilgore unemployment campensa compensation P sensation pensa ensa tion bill has cracked open forty seven state administrations were reported opposed but it now develops that massachusetts rhode island oklahoma washington and california are definitely tor for the bill witla connecticut and several I 1 others ethers about ready to support it |