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Nation’s Men Look
Draft Extension
Pay Increases
WASHINGTON, June 26, — </P>—
With more than fifty million
at stake, the nation’s men in uni
form have riveted their attention
on the Whitehouse, to learn when
the draft extension compromise
and its companion pay increase
measure will become law.
The twin-bills cleared final con
gressional hurdles yesterday af
^ter months of argument.
Public interest centered on the
nine month extension of the war
time draft beyond June 30, with
n<jfi-fathers between the ages on
19 and 45 probably the most con
cerned as possible draftees.
Neither service, however, in
dicated any desire to draft anyone
over 26.
Other prime provisions include
an 18 month limit on compulsory
advice, and a no further in
duction of fathers clause, under
which fathers now in service may
apply for release after August 1.
OPA May Die
*From Lack Of
‘Extension’
WASHINGTON, June 26, —(/P)—
A drive by Republican senators
to send the OPA extension bill
ba^k to conference in the House
gave indications of folding
senators who had earlier expres
sed interest in the idea, telling re
porters of the big margin by
t^ich the House rejected a sim
ilar move, making almost certain
defeat.
The House voted 221 to 150 a
gainst returning the already lim
ited compromise legislation to
committee for elimination of meat
ceilings.
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Alaska Steamers
lire Sold To
Lloyd Shipping
SEATTLE, June 26, —(/P^— Sale
in Seattle, of the Alaska steam
ships TYEE and TAKU, by the
Alaska Transportation Company
Lloyd Shipping Company of
San Francisco, operating from
California West Coast ports to
Mexcian and Central American
points, was announced today.
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Prisoners Rebel
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SAN* FRANCISCO, Calif.—(Soundphoto)—Alcatraz prison guard crouches below a window to
keep out of line of fire from armed convicts within the main cell block of the Federal Penitentiary as
tear gas shell explodes at right. This photo, made from a police boat cruising about the island depicts
a savage battle in progress on “The Rock.”
Molotov Waits
Phone Message
From Moscow
PARIS, June 26, —(/P)—French
papers printed unconfirmed re
ports that foreign minister Mol
otov was expecting a telephone
call from Moscow that might
bring surprise developments in the
Trieste issue, the key to the Ital
ian peace negotiations.
Secretary Byrnes is represented
by American informants as en
couraged by a series of private
talks with Molotov who has been
adamant in demanding that Tri
este be transferred from Italy to
Yugoslavia.
Although there is no known
basis for the Paris paper assertions
the frequent conversations bet
ween Byrnes and his Soviet Coun
terpart have given rise to conjec
ture in diplomatic circles of a
compromise in the Adriatic port
might be shaping up.
Sec’y Navy O.K.s
Truman Merge
WASHINGTON, June 26,
Secretary of the Navy, James
Ferrestal notified President Tru
“New Order” is
Launehed For
U. S. Army
WASHINGTON, June 26, —(/P)—
The Army launched a military
“New Order” experiment by nar
rowing social and other distinc
tions between officers and enlist
j ed men, without wiping them out.
They also decided they can get
along with less saluting except
where a snappy salute counts.
Secretary of War Patterson put
the new formula into army life
when he gave carefully qualified
approval last night of all but two
of the 14 recommendations sub
mitted by the Doolittle “gripe
board”, which investigated post
war GI complaints of too much
caste in the service.
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man today of his desire to co
operate “fully” to achieve the
goals of the President’s Army-Na
vy merger program.
Forrestal’s attitude in the mer
ger proposal was expressed in a
letter which Truman released
from the Whitehouse.
The Navy chief said he con
sidered the objectives recently
outlined by the President as “at
tainable.”
Veto Issue
Deadlocked
May Sidetrack
NEW YORK, June 26, —(£>)—Uni
ted Nations Atomic conferees left
the veto issue deadlocked between
opposite views of the United
States and Russia, now headed for
amicable start on a plan aimed
at ultimate control of the devel
opment of atomic energy, when
the last members of the U.S. At
omic Energy Commission had been
polled yesterday on their views
of the separate control programs
advanced by the U. S. and Rus
sia. All but those two great
powers agreed that there were
broad measures of merit in both
plans.
The U.S. delegates made no
comment on the commission ses
sions since the initial presentation
of her program.
Russia made no reference to
the American ideas in offering
her counter proposals.
Fire Destroys
Medford Plants
MEDFORD, Ore., June 26, —(JP)—
A three-block section of this south
Oregon city’s industrial district
FAIRBANKS, Juno 26, —(>P)—
In the first case of its kind in the
history of Alaska, District Judge,
Harry E. Pratt, today issued a
restraining order, and directed the
Fish and Wildlife Service of the
Interior Department to appear in
Court July 8, and show cause
why they should not be perman
ently enjoined from enforcing the
order against fishing on the Kar
luk reservation’s waters off Kod
iak, by other than Karluk natives.
Suit was brought by Grimes
Packing Company and six other
Kodiak fishing and canning com
panies, represented by Seattle at
torneys Edward Medley, Frank
Mechem, and W. C. Arnold.
The case was heard here when
Judge Anthony Dimond, of the
Third Division, declared he was
disqualified.
The plaintiffs contended the or
der was invalid as beyond the
authority granted the Interior
Secretary Ickes.
The government did not appear
officially.
This will be the first test of
Ickes reservation policy.
Sec’y Krug To
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Visit Alaska Aug.
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WASHINGTON, June 26, — (/P)
Secretary of the Interior, Krug,
said today that he plans to visit
Alaska probably in August, but
declined to comment on criticism
of Governor Gruening’s trip here
with a delegation from Anchorage,
seeking air service to the Terri
tory.
Krug was asked in a press con
ference to comment on a state
ment by Senator Mitchell that he
ask an investigation into Gov.
Gruening’s participation in the
flight from Anchorage here by an
Alaskan group, seeking a direct
Midwest to Alaska air route.
Members of the group are said
to be opposed to the direct line
from Seattle to the Orient.
Gruening said Alaskans would
oppose the Seattle line if they
could have direct Midwest con
nections.
The Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce organized the trip and
each member of the party paid
his own way.
is in smouldering ruins after the
worst fire in Medford’s history
leveled fruit-packing and lumber
plants valued at more than a mil
lion dollars.
Fear that the region’s multi
million dollar pear industry would
suffer even a greater loss because
fruit plants could not be replaced
before the August fruit harvest
l was voiced by residents.