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Show National Neivs Summary DP's In the first year during which the Displaced Persons Commission Commis-sion operated, more than 21,000 displaced persons have been settled set-tled in this country, as doctors, horse-trainers, store clerks, farmers farm-ers and domestic servants, as weavers and winders in the textile tex-tile industry, as saddle-makers, stone-cutters and in a variety of other jobs. U. S. Economic Condition The United States is in an "exceptionally "ex-ceptionally strong" economic condition, according to John W Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury. Treas-ury. Natural resource experts, however, warn that the "nation is already in jeopardy" because of large-scale despoilatien up to the present time. U.S.S. Salem The U.S.S. Salem. 17.000-ton heavy cruiser and sister ship of the U.S.S. Des Moines and U.S.S. Newport News, has joined the U. S. Fleet. The Salem, second cruis er to be named for Salem. Mass.. was launched May 23. 1947 It. is armed with a main battery of nine. automatic 8-inch 55-calibcr rifles, triple-mounted in three turrets, plus a secondary battery of twelve dual-purpose, twin-mounted twin-mounted 5-inch guns. It has an anti-aircraft battery of twenty dual-purpose, twin-mounted 3-inch 3-inch guns and twelve 20-mm. automatic guns. The cruiser is 716 feet long and can attain a speed higher than thirty knots. It is air conditioned. "Cold Rubber" Further improvement in a new synthetic known as "cold rubber" will make motor car tires good for 75,000 miles, according ac-cording to Dr. Charles Fryling of the Phillips Petroleum Company. Com-pany. He asserted that a production pro-duction capacity of 200.000 tons of cold rubber would be available avail-able by the end of this year, enabling en-abling synthetic rubber to compete com-pete on favorable terms with the natural product. |