Slash To Reduee
Size Of Navy
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Rep. Al
bert Thomas *D.-Tex.) said Tues
day the navy and marine corps
will have to discharge 82,000 men!
if Congress accepts the 10 per cent
cut the House appropriations com
mittee recommended in funds
the President asked for the navy.
In a prepared speech as the
House started debate on the $3.
469,000,000 bill, Thomas said the
navy gave him that information.
Proposed cuts in pay and sub
sistence items, he contended, will
cause a reduction of 70,000 in the
average enlisted strength of the
navy during the coming year and
12,000 in the marine corps.
The effect will be a force “en-j
tirely insufficient to carry out the
navy opei*ating. force plan,”
Thomas said, adding:
“During these troubled times I
doubt the wisdom of these sub
stantial cuts. Maybe twelve
months hence, after world condi
tions are clarified, these cuts can
be substantiated by even going
deeper. But, at this particular
time, I do not approve of the
chances we are taking.”
On the other side, Rep. Taber
(R.-N. Y.), chairman of the ap
propriations committee, called for
coordinating of activities of the
army, the navy, the air corps, the
marine corps and the maritime
commission.
“Each one of these organizations
dovetails into the picture or pro
gram of the other,” Taber said in
a statement. “The interests of na
tional defense absolutely demand
that this coordination take place.”
If it does not take place, he de
clared, the appropriations commit
tee will “proceed witlf the opera
tion of coordination.”
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U. S. Has Billion
Bushel Wheal Crop
CHICAGO, </P) — Railroads
which soon will start to move the
first billion bushel winter wheat
crop in the nation’s history report
ed Tuesday that their boxcar sup
ply situation was improved over
last year.
However, they agreed that
transporting such an enormous
amount of grain will present a
“tough problem.”
Within the next 10 days har
vesting of this fabulous crop—be
lieved to be the largest any nation
even produced -— will start in
Texas.
Harvesting will progress north
ward through Oklahoma, Kansas
and Nebraska, and when it is
over, around mid-July, a whop
ping store of wheat will have been
added to the food supply of a
world desperately in need of
bread.
Agricultural department offi
cials estimated the crop, as of May
1, would total 1,025,789,000 bush
els, but private reports since that
date have said the outlook had
further improved. Large demand
and high prices are expected to
encourage farmers to ship the
wheat as soon as possible.
THE MALE ANIMAL
PHILADELHPHIA, t/P) — The
president of the Philadelphia
Models Guild is organizing a cam
paign for charm classes for men.
And “why not?” asks the come
ly Violet Hale. “The fellow lived
the army life, among men, so long
that they have forgotten the little
things .that women value so high
ly.”
She suggests the course cover
such fields as how to dress, pos
Pilot Battles Sea
Seven Hours
MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y. (JP)—
brl lc* lor survival in the dark
waters of the Atlantic was told
h ?re Tuesday toy a P-47 fighter pi
1 ?♦ who parachuted into the ocean
Monday night and fought to in
flate h life raft while entangled
in the shroud lines of his para
chu*e. ,
The pilot, first lieutenant Hu
bert Y7. Gainer, 31, of Freeport,
N C., who was reported in good
condition at the station hospital
here, was washed ashore at Breezy
Point in the Rockaways at about
4 30 a.m., almost seven hours af
te” he catapulted from his plane.
Gainer told officials here he
was enroute from Maxwell Field,
Ala., to Mitchel Field when he ran
into bad weather between Wash
ington and New York. The wea
ther but feted the plane so badly
that some of the instruments went
out and the radio worked only in
termittently, Gainer said. He at
tempted to land at the tiny Kings
Park field in Suffolk county,
Long Island, but was unsuccess
ful in four tries.
Gainer finally reached Mitchell
Field but his gas supply was too
low for him to fly the ground ap
proach control pattern necessitated
by the bad weather and he was
given a bearing which would take
the plane out to sea and ordered
to bail out.
ture and carriage, manners and—
maybe—makeup.
“I hear they now have cosmetics
that hide five-o’clock shadow,”
she said.
Scientists had better not blow
up the world. What would we do
without it?
BONUS CHECKS
WA1LABLE
Harry Palmer, Regional Direc
tor for the Territorial Veterans’
Affairs Office has bonus checks
for ihe following Alaska Veterans:
Donald Baldwin, Walter K.
Nayokpuk, Esau Weyiouanna,
Alex Weyiouanna, Verne Eutuk,
Jakie Mingoona, Stephen Koenig,
Robert K. Kyatunguk, Ronald K.
Barr, Joseph A. Jessup, Robert T.
Curtis, Fred A. Adams, Ned Wil
son, Brown, Perry Eningowpk,
Fred Avessuk, Frank A. Oxeroek,
Adolph Jones, Thomas A. Push
ruk, Paul Anowlie, Carl Aneuk
Topkok, Howard I. Slwooko, Ben
jamin Sage, Garfield Okitkon,
Ray Herman Ningeulook.
Samuel T. Wesley, Thomas Er
nest Riley, Walter John Dowd, Jr.,
John McLuke, Harry B. Komona
seak, Noah Napouk, Jacob Reu
ben, William A. Wilcox, Earl K.
Scott, Joseph Mickel, Russell C.
Marchion, Steven Luke, James L.
Linton, David Gregory, Charles
F. Goedde, Harold M. Bergh,
Ralph Gabriel Ulricksen, Nelson
Walker, Paul Tiulana, Joe A.
Stanislaus, Anthony Bernard Ro
lando. Edward N. Penatac, Hardy
E. Loe, Arthur Edwin Johnson,
William Carl Gross, Howard G.
Deline, John Thomas Brice, Lewis
/ ttatayuk, James Aresnc Victor
W. Ahnangnatoguk, Steven G.
Agloinga, Russell Tootkavlok.
Carl Swanson, Jacob A. Stalker,
Delbert E. Walton, John A. Esani
tuk, Fred Goodhope, Chester J.
Downey, Richard Dick Gallahorn.
Rodney Lincoln, Daniel William
Wright.
All of the above veterans may
get their checks by contacting Mr.
Palmer at the Wallace Hotel,
Room 4. Those who are out of
ACS ASSIGNS NEW
BOATS FREQUENCY
The ACS received word today
from the Chief Signal Officer of
the Army that the FCC h;is » -
mally approved the use of 2134
| KCS by small boats in Al.-.skan
waters without further authority
pending modification ol Ineir li
censes at next renewals. This lre
quency is to be used by .-mall
boats in contacting ACS Coastal
Radiotelephone Stations in Alaska
This authorization from the FCC
permits boat owners to use 2134
KCS immediately. It is not neces
sary to file an application for
modification of license to use this
frequency until their current li
censes expire. This statement was
released today by Col. T. .J. Tully,
j Commanding Officer of the ACS.
2134 KCS was procured lor use
of small boats by the ACS in an
effort to improve communication
facilities for ships in their trana
i mission of messages to ACS shore
stations. Considerable interfer
ence difficulties were experienced
last year on 2738 KCS, the fre
quency used previous to 2134.
ACS coastal radiotelephone sta
, lions in Alaska will listen for
ships on 2134 and 2738 KCS and
will answer them on 2970 KCS.
ACS stations perform'nr this
"-rvice are: Anchorage. Cordova,
Craig, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodi
Nome, Petersburg, Seward,
Sitka. Skagway, Valdez, Whittier
and Yakutat. It is expected that
Barrow and Naknek will be ready
to render this service approxi
mately June 1.
Legal Blanks at The Nug"r‘ office
town will receive their checks by
mail.
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