Post-W ar
Developments
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—(&)—
G. B. Hadlock. director of office
of rubber reserve announced the
government was closing one hun
dred seventeen million dollars
worth of wartime plants which
made rubber from grain alcohol,
because the country can get all
the synthetic rubber it needs from
oil. He said abandoning of alcohol
in favor of oil was “purely a mat
ter of dollars and cents,” explain
ing that the cost of rubber from
alcohol was about twenty-four
cents a pound, compared with
twelve or thirteen conets from pe
troleum.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—(P)_
A resolution to halt the drafting
of fathers, and to discharge imme
diately those who have been in
ducted in this classification was
passed Tuesday by a six to three
vote of the Senate military affairs
committee. Senator Chapman Rev
ercomb, West Virginia Republi
can, its author, said he would
carry the fight to the Senate floor.
The Committee acted after the
war and navy departments entered
protests.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—(/P)—
The shifting of thirty-two Ameri
can troop transports from the At
lantic to the Pacific to speed up
the return of soldiers in that the
ater is under way the War Depart
ment announced. The vessels have
a capacity of eighty-three thou
sand men and seventeen of them
are fast transports, including the
West Point, formerly the America,
the largest U. S. liner. They will
move through the Panama Canal
by January first.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—UP)—
Legislation for more than doub
ling the authorized peacetime size
of the Navy and Marine Corps
was passed by the House Tuesday
and sent to the Senate. The Navy
total would be five hundred thou
sand enlisted men and the Marine
figure, one hundred thousand.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—f/P)—
The first of new tire casings to be
released to civilians by the Army
will reach the market in about a
month—about four hundred thou
sand of them—the government
disclosed Wednesday. The action
boosts hopes for the end of tire
rationing by the year’s end.
STUTTGART Germany, Dec. 7
—(iP)—Sufficient food from the
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United States to assure an average
ration of fifteen hundred fifty
calories for everyone will be
moved into Germany, Lt. Gen. Lu
cius Clay, American military gov
ernor for Germany said Tuesday.
Gen. Clay told a meeting of Ger
man officials in the American
zone, "Hunger and starvation have
never been United States’ objec
tive,” adding that the cost of the
food sent from the United States
would be paid for "when Ger
many is able to pay.”
DAN JONES MARRIES
IN VIRGINIA
Charles D. Jones has recieved
word from his son Dan, who has
been in service and stationed in
Alexandria, Virginia, that he was
married to Miss Elda Almuth i
Doroh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |
Otto Doroh, on Nov. 21. at Alex-!
andria, Virginia.
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Joe Crabtree, who has been re
pairing equipment and buildings |
of his mining property at Bluff1
this summer, and returned to!
Nome the early part of this week, |
departed for Seattle on the Wed
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will return next spring to resume
operations.
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LORRAINE DAY
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