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STAGECOACH P I C N I C—Brig. Gen. Ralph G. DeVoe,
commanding general of Halloran Hospital, N. Y., and Mrs. Helen
Thirwall, Halloran Red Cross field director, are all set to drive a
group of soldier patients to a picnic, party.
Committee Favors
Commercial
Alaska Highway
WASHINGTON. Sep. 21—<^P)—
A report favoring the objective of
a commercial highway to Alaska
will be made to Congress by the
Hjpuse Roads committee, chairman
Robinson said. The six-man sub
committee visited Alaska this past
summer and reported today to the
full committee which authorized
Bobinson to prepare a report of
its findings and recommendations.
Robinson told reporters the
highway would be built through
Canada and its construction would
upon the consent, and to
some extent, the cooperation of
the Canadian government. The
route generally discussed will util
ize part of the Army-constructed
Alcan highway.
Time Ends Sept. 30
WASHINGTON, Sep. 21—«P>—
The Senate unanimously approved
and sent to the White House the
measure ending daylight saving
time at two a.m. September 30, the
bill previously approved by the
tjpuse.
Limit Draft To
21 To 26 Years I
WASHINGTON, Sep. 21-(iP)
Chairman Thomas of the Senate
military committee demanded the
draft be limited to men be ween
21 and 26 years old. He said he
wants to attach an amendment to
tht legislation to encourage vol
untary enlistments.
Thomas said he wants the lower (
Jacket to be removed to allow
I
boys to complete their education.
Senate Gives
Truman Stiff !
Rebuff
WASHINGTON, Sep. 21—<(£>)—
Given the severest Senate rebuff
since he took office, President
Truman may be in for even rough
er treatment from the House on
the issue of aid to the jobless.
Truman’s proposal of a broad
expansion of unemployment com
pensation was tossed over to the
House after the Senate turned
thumbs down on a large part of
the Administration program. The
Chamber did agree to extend un
employment benefits to a maxi
mum of twenty-six weeks at fed
eral expense, and to pay the travel
expenses of displaced war work
ers. Members of the House Ways
and Means Committee declared
the legislation proposed by the i
President would “promote idle
ness.”
U. S. Will Keep
Pacific Bases For
The Present
WASHINGTON, Sep. 21—(/P)—
The Navy disclosed its intention
not to give up any Pacific island
bases until the final decision of
their disposition was made. This
disclosure was made to the House
Naval committee by Admiral
Horne, vice chief of naval opera
tions. The bases tentatively chosen
for retention in the Pacific in
clude secondary bases at Kodiak,
Adak, Attu, and caretaker and
emergency bases at Dutch Harbor.
President Lincoln and Jeffer
son Davis opposing Presidents of
the Civil War were born in the
same section of the same state,
Kentucky.
Orders Arrest Of
Jap's First General
Of Army
TOKYO, Sept. 21— </Pi—Gener
al MacArthur ordered the “imme
diate arrest” of Lt. Gen. Dohiara,
whose recent appointment to the
command of Japan’s first general
army was given Allied acceptance. !
He issued a ten-point code to
guide the operations of the cen- |
sored Jap press and radio.
Japan’s cabinet met meanwhile
for three hours to discuss prob
lems, which well informed sources
said included the mounting food
shortages, repatriation of Jap civ
ilians in Manchuria and Korea.
The newspaper Asahi added an
other dime novel of thriller tales
of Jap surrender, crisis, and in
trigue, reporting that former Pre
mier Suzuki barely escaped with
his life when a band of armed Jap
soldiers on August fifteenth, evi
dently angered by the surrender
plans, machine-gunned in quick
succession two houses which Su
zuki had just left.
Dohiara was once called Japan's
“Lawrence of Arabia,” as his
country’s advance agent in its
Asiatic conquest. His appointment
as commander of the first general
army, succeeding Field Marshal
Sugiyama, who committed suicide,
was a surprise to many Japs who
said his past record was not one
to inspire American confidence.
Meanwhile American Marines
prepared to extend the smoothly
running occupation of Japan to
the big naval base of Sasebo on
Kyushu the Fifth Amphibious
Force is scheduled to take over
tomorrow.
The only trace of violence in
the occupation thus far was an
accidental ammunition explosion
which killed one American soldier
and injured sixty others near T»k
yo. Army authorities said an
American soldier touched off the
blast by accident. No Jap is sus
pected.
Round-The-World
Air Service To
Start September 28
WASHINGTON, Sep. 2H/P)
Regular round-the-world air serv
ice begins September twenty
eighth from the Washington Na
tional airport. Six and a quarter
days are required to make the
twenty-three thousand mile flight
which is scheduled as “Globester.”
Planes will leave Washington
each Friday. U. S. Army Air
Transport Command said the
service will be restricted to nor
mally military personnel, cargo
and mail. However a civilian cer
tified as traveling in national in
terest may make the flight for
twenty-four hundred thirty-one
dollars, plus fifteen percent trans
portation tax.
Official U. S. Coast Guard photo.
*■H STATUE ON THE WATERS
Summertime in the North hews icebergs into such fantastic shapes as
this imitation of the Statue of Liberty off Greenland. Coast Guards
men stationed in the area have taken the day off for sightseeing among
the strange freaks conjured up by Mother Nature. The natural art
museum is spread throughout the Arctic.
Congress Passes
Land Registration i
Aid Bill
WASHINGTON, Sep. 21—(/P)— j
The House passed and sent to the
Senate a bill authorizing officials i
in the general land office to aid
in the registration of land owner
ship in Alaska.
WASHINGTON. Sep. 21—f/P)—
The Senate passed and sent to
the White House the bill to aid in
recording federal property in
Alaska. The measure authorizes
the Commissioner of the General ;
Land Office and registers in the J
land office in Alaska to perform
functions assigned to them under
Territory law.
i
Liner Normandie
Declared Surplus
—
NEW YORK. Sept. 21— </P) —
The luxury liner Normandie, on
i which the United States govern
ment spent fourteen million tow
ard converting it in a troop trans
port and renamed it the Lafayete,
has been formally declared sur
plus by the Navy.
United Nations To
Function By Jan. I
LONDON, Sep. —(/P)—Edward
R. Stettinius, United States dele
gates to the United Nations pre
paratory commission said last
night “we are working night and
day” to have the full United Na
tions functioning by the new year.
He said if this goal is met we will
begin the new year with the
whole organization at work upon
the task of making peace secure.
Govt. Cracked
Jap Codes Before
Pearl Harbor
NEW YORK. Sept. 21— (/P) —
Herbert Browell, Jr., Republican
National Chairman said that
Dewey knew during the forty
four Presidential campaign that
United States had “cracked” the
secret code of Japan, but Dewey
declined for patriotic reasons to
use the information.
“Our information indicated,
among other things, a shocking
lack of coordination between the
President, the State Department
and the armed forces, leading up
to the tragedy of Pearl Harbor,”
Brownell said in a statement.
Governor Dewey did not use
this knowledge in the campaign
because General Marshall told
him that to do so might “disclose
to the Japs our government’s in
telligence service had crackd Jap
an’s most secret code.”
Brownell added “in the face of
this the governor decided and told
me he wouldn’t use the data be
cause he believed in General Mar
shall’s integrity and he would
rather be defeated for President
than risk sacrificing needlessly
the life of a single American boy.”
Brownell’s statement confirmed
an article written by John Cham
berlain in the current issue of
Life. Earlier in Albany, Governor
Dewey declined to make public a
letter from General Marshall,
“Since I received the letter in con
fidence, I refer you to General
Marshall for the text of it,”
Dewey said.
Of the nearly 5,000,000 aliens
registered under the Alien Regis
tration Act of 1940, approximately
half were eligible for U. S. citi
zenship.