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Show i..zja?1. . j:v...l'.. . Jrrvn ARMY CRACKDOWN The nrniy is determined that returned re-turned European war veterans shall no longer appeal to congressmen or newspaper men to hasten their discharge dis-charge from the army or to protest redeployment to Japan for police duty. Severe secret orders have just been Issued to this effect over the signature of Brig. Gen. A. M. Gur-ney, Gur-ney, chief of staff for Lt. Gen. Lloyd R. Frcdendall, commander of tlie 2nd army. The order, which has been secretly circulated, reads: "Recently members of a division In the United States scheduled for redeployment to the Pacific area appealed ap-pealed to the press and radio protesting pro-testing against transfer of the division divi-sion to the Pacific thenter. . . . Action of tills nature, if concerted, may subject participants to 'disciplinary 'dis-ciplinary action. . . . "Incidents such as noted in paragraph para-graph 3 above (the paragraph Just quoted)," continued the secret order, or-der, "will be dealt with drastically by. this headquarters and the commander com-mander concerned will be summarily sum-marily relieved." The division referred to probably prob-ably was the 95th, 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 Apparently the protests worked, for the order or-der to send the 95th to Japan was rescinded. PRESIDENTIAL POKER Those who traveled with President Presi-dent Truman on his various trips to Washington state and Potsdam found him a delightful and entertaining en-tertaining companion. One story they tell about Truman's trip to the northwest was regarding his salmon fishing off the Washington coast. While the motor boat was chugging chug-ging back to shore, Truman and his old senatorial friends. Gov. Mon Wallgren and Sen. Warren Mag-nuson Mag-nuson 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, Christiansen," he said, "I'm behind. I need a little extra time to catch up." Or again, It was: "Speed her up, Christiansen, I'm ahead now. Let's 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 Christiansen was just as pleased as Truman. ARMY AND RAILROADS Even the army's friends on Capitol hill say the brass hats are killing any chance for public support sup-port they might have had by their autocratic disregard for civilian needs in such fields as coal mining, steelmaking and railroading. One of the busiest railroads in the country today is the Southern Pacific, Pacif-ic, which has handled most of the east-west traffic to the busy port ol San Francisco. The S. P. is a single-track 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 hold ing up of 75 trains. Southern Pacific officials havt been begging the army to releast skilled railroad men with the 80 points required for discharge, or to furlough railroad men in thi.1 country with less points. Finally in mid-summer the arm.i agreed to release 4,000 railroar men, with 2,400 of them assigned t the S. P. But then the army be gan going back oh its promise anr said it could discharge only 1,30' men. A few weeks ago, the arm released 230 men to the Southerr Pacific and said no more wer available. The joker is that 24,001 men have gone into the armec forces from the S. P. employment roster. i Finally, War Mobilizer Snyder stepped in and forced the army to release 4,000 railroad men. amidst loud squawks from brass hats that this action would de stroy morale. CAPITAL CHAFF C Senators are looking forward tc better eating, now thit Derwin Dar ling has come back from two yean In the marines to resume manage ment of the senate restaurant. C, Alleged United States oppositior to the Kilgore unemployment com pensation bill has cracked open I Forty-seven state administrations were reported opposed, but it now develops that Massachusetts, Rhodt Island, Oklahoma, Washington anc California are definitely for tht bill, with Connecticut and severa, others about ready to support it. |