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^TtS.—NO. 264._WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1945._ESTABLISHED 186T
HODGE PLANS
JAP REMOVAL
By HUGH CRUMPLER
rniied Press Staff Correspondent
1 SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 12 — (U.R) —
lieut Gen. John R. Hodge, con
sented with Korean reports that
'L'Japanese had boasted openly
,:eev would be back in Korea with
v 20 years, said today he would
i-emove all Japanese civil officials
jrom their posts "as fast as I get
tnrough with them.
The U. S. military commander m
Kojea indicated the removals
would be completed after 100,000
armed American troops have been
landed to guarantee that Allied or
Ls will be obeyed.
(President Truman said in Wash
ir.gton today that Japanese officials
o Korea would be removed from
their posts as soon as possible and
that an Allied policy on Korea
would be announced shortly.)
Well-informed Korean sources,
bitterly critical of even temporary
retention of power by the enemy,
warned that the Japans already
had started a ‘‘passive resistance”
in Korea would be removed from
movement, supplemented by a
strong underground organization.
The Koreans said the Japanese
had organized an undercover polii
cal group, with strong financial
iron-hand policy with some 200,000
backing, in an attempt to place
pro-Japanese Koreans in office in
office in the first general elec
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City Votes For Report
On Costs Of Extension
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STRIKE CUTS OFF
RADIO PROGRAMS
Engineers At NBC, ABC
Walk Off Jobs In
Key Chain Cities
NEW YORK, Sept. 12— (A5) —All
programs over the networks of the
i National Broadcasting and Ameri
can Broadcasting Companies
stopped at 6:00 p.m. (EWT) to
night when, the organizations said
engineers affiliated with the Inde
pendent National Association of
Broadcast Engineers and Techni
cians ceased work.
Three hours later neither net
work had resumed normal sched
ules.
Both companies said they were
negotiating a wage contract with
NABET when the walkout
occurred.
In Washington union headquar
ters said walkouts followed break
down of contract negotiations.
Approximately 156 stations over
the NBC network, including six
owned by the firm, were affected
by the walkout, NBC said. ABC
said 199 stations, including four
owned by the firm, were affected
over its network.
The NEC - owned stations are
WEAF, New York; WTAM, Cleve
land; WRC, Washington; WMAQ.
Chicago; KOA, Denver and KPA,
San Francisco. The four own
ed stations are WJZ, New York;
WENR, Chicago; KECA, Los Ang
eles. and KGO, San Francisco.
NBC said service was restored
over its key station. WEAF, at
6:15 p.m. and that partial network
service was restored shortly after
wards, with news broadcasts and
transcribed music replacing regu
lar programs.
A spokesman for ABC said the
firm resumed broadcast.ng at 6:30
p.m. with the same types of pro
grams as NBC.
NBC said in a statement that
“the walkout came during nego
tiations with NABET over a new
wage scale.”
“At 5:30 p.m. (EWT),” the state
ment said, “NBC had received a
telegram from A. T. Powley, pres
ident of NABET and chief of its
negotiations cummittee, containing
a 30-day notice of strike. At 6:00
p.m. the engineers suddenly walk
ed off their jobs, deserting the
master control room, various NBC
studios in Radio City and else
where and the NBC transmitter
towers.
“Negotiations between NBC and
the union, including officials of the
American Broadcasting Company,
which is similarly affected, began
last Thursday when the union pre
sented its original demands.
“About 350 engineers were af
fected by the walkout at NBC.”
ABC said in a statement:
"In a telegram received here
late this afternoon, the union gave
the American Broadcasting Com
pany notice that their members
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WEATHER
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 am, 77; 7:30 am, 72; 1:30 pm, 88;
1:30 pm, 81.
Maximum 89; Minimum 71; Mean 80;
Normal 74.
Humidity
r 1:30 am, 87; 7:30 am, 73; 1:30 pm, 36;
1:30 pm, 76.
Precipitation
Total for the 24 ours ending 7:30 pm,
0-00 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
5-18 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington _ 2:00a 9:25a
2:43p 10:C5p
Masonboro Inlet _5:45a
12:13p 6:34p
Sunrise. 5:54; Sunset, 6:22; Moonris^
12:10p; Moonset 10:34p.
River stage at Fayetteville at 8 a.m.
Yesterday, 10.2 feet.
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Will Request Simon to
File Data For Public
Interests
In an effort to place the services
that the City will offer residents
involved in proposed City exten
sion before the public, the City
Council yesterday at its regular
session voted to draft a letter to
George W. Simons, Jr., City plan
ning consultant, requesting that he
place a report on the cost of the
extension of the boundaries at the
disposal of the public as soon as
possible.
The motion was advanced by
Councilman J. E. L. Wade, who
explained that the report should
be given the public as soon fs
possible through the medium of
the press, radio and in the form
of pamphlets, in order that every
one planning to vote will be fully
informed as to the rudiments of
the vast details connected with
the proposed extension move.
Wade stressed that all persons
participating in the election should
be fully informed beSire'lifrey' go
. to the polls.
As a final outcome of what de
veloped into a complicated dis
cussion, the Council voted unani
mously to purchase for $2,000 the
County’s interest in the Woodrow
Wilson hut and decided to rent
it for use of the Chamber of Com
merce, Wilmington Port Commis
sion and the Port Traffic Associa
tion.
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DRY SPELL AHEAD
WEATHERMAN SAYS
- a. - —
Weatherman Paul Hess went out
on the limb yestertlay and made a
long range forecast of considerably
drier weather for Wilmington and
vicinity after an extended rainy
period.
Explaining that his prediction
was based on extremely .variable
factors, Mr. Hess said, however
that all present indications are that
a dry spell is in the offing.
This area may expect showers
Thursday night or Friday, possibly
both, he said, but they should be
intermittent and the weekend ideal
for beach lovers. Weather after
that should be generally fair, pre
dicted, with the advent of the reg
ular dry season helping crops as
well as vacationers.
Commenting on the tropical dis
trubance which now appears to be
centered somewhere east of the
Bahamas, Mr. Hess revealed that
the storm, which is believed to be
of only slight intensity, has not
been located accurately.
The present movement of the
storm and its probable path indi
cate that it will strike Bermuda,
but Mr. Hess emphasized, “those
things are tricky and it is hard to
be exact.”
Wilmington may get a short spell
of bad weather if the storm moves
into the coast but at its present es
timated rate of movement, it is
still four or five days from
Wilmington if it strikes here at all,
he concluded.
Doctors Allow To jo
To Partially Sit Up
TOKYO, Sept. 12—(JP)—Gen.
Hideki Tojo, who shot himself
with an American pistol Tues
day to avoid possible court
martial as a war criminal,
was elevated tonight to a semi
sitting position and his condi
tion was reported “very sat
isfactory.’’
At 6:45 p.m. (5:45 a.m.
Wednesday Eastern War
Time), Col. Richard Reynolds,
Quincy, Mass., of the Ameri
can Evacuation Hospital staff
at Yokohama, said the deposed
Japanese dictator had shown
slight improvement during the
last three or four hours.
ADMIRAL KIMMEL
PASSES UP COURT
Reported lo Have In
formed Navy Secretary
Of His Desire
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—UP)—
Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim
mel was reported tonight to have
informed Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal that he does not desire
a general court martial so long as
the '"OSft'gWssional investigation of
the Pearl Harbor disaster is in
progress. *
Kimmel’s letter was not made
public, but persons familiar with
its contents said that was the ten
or of it. They interpreted it as
leaving the way open for a court
martial at some future date.
The Navy Department confirm
ed that the reply to Forrestal’s
offer of a court martial had been
received from Admiral Kimmel,
but said it would not make its
contents public.
A congressional committee,
!made up jointly of House and
Senate members, has been created
to make a new investigation. The
resolution was offered by Senate
majority Leader Barkley, who said
he did so with the knowledge and
consent of President Truman.
The Congressional probe follow
ed shortly an announcement by
President Truman of the findings
of -Away- and-Na.vy Courts of. In
quiry.
Admiral Kimmell, who was com
mander in chief of the Pacific
fleet on Dec. 7, 1941, was relieved
of his command ten days later
and placed on the retired list. He
has repeatedly demanded a court
martial on his own behalf. _
Secretary Forrestal, in his com
ment on the Navy court ai in
quiry’s report, ordered that nei"
ther Kimmel nor Admiral Harold
R. Stark, then chief of naval op
erations, should hold “any posi
tion in the United States Navy
which requires the exercises ot
superior judgment.’’
Following publication of that re
port, it was revealed that on the
preceding day Forrestal had writ
ten Admiral Kimmell offering to
convene a court martial if Kim
jmel desired. Kimmel’s reply, the
Navy said, was received Monday.
DOUGLAS ANNOUNCES
RADICAL AIRLINER
WITH HIDDEN MOTOR
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.— (#} —A
radical new airliner, with hidden
engines and its two propellors lo
cated behind an up-sweep tail as
sembly, was announced today by
the Douglas Aircraft Company.
Developed secretly as an experi
mental heavyweight high speed
airports and 35 per cent for larger
bomber, which has been in test
flight for more than a year, the
new commercial transport was de
clared capable of cruising at 270
miles an hour at 10,000 feet.
It could bring coast to coast pas
senger travel down to breakfast
in New York and dinner in San
Francisco level, or under the most
favorable circumstances a bread
fast and lunch basis.
With seats for 48 it could carry
twice as many passengers and re
duce direct passenger-mile operat
ing costs to half those of the DC-3,
the company said. <
CONTROLS TO END
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. —(&)—
Controls over the distribution of
lumber will end September 30, the
War Production Board announced
today.
Woman Reporter Advises
Packing Tent With Duds
BY JULIA DAVIDSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
MIAMI, FLA., Sept. 12—If your
immediate peace plans include re
viving up the old jalopy and head
ing north—or south—the first thing
you’d better pack is a tent.
Two days after gas rationing
was lifted I turned in our train
tickets; shoe-horned the ten-year
old, the nine-year-old, and the lug
gage into the family Ford and
pointed a rusty radiator New
York-ward.
I laughed merrily when a friend
in Jacksonville, Fla., suggested it
might be a good idea to wire ahead
for hotel space at Savannah, Ga.,
our first scheduled stop.
Six hours, some 200 miles, and
innumerable hotel clerks later, ]
was no longer laughing. Merrily
or otherwise.
It was 1 a.m. and raining cata
rachts in Walterboro, S. S., sever
al miles beyond Savannah. Mine
host at a hotel there had just pul
down the phone after calling ev
ery likely inn and tourist home
in the area.
“I’m sorry, there’s not a room
to be had anywhere.”
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MajgArthur Orders Black Dragon
Sf/f/iety Disolved; Mountbatten
Aif:cepts Surrender Of Japanese
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Commander
Orders Firm
Treatment
WARNS OF ARROGANCE
British Admiral Uses 11
Different Pens In Sign
ing Ceremo n y
SINGAPORE,. Sept.. 12.—(fl5)—
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten
accepted formal surrender of
Japan’s huge southern armies to
day from silent Japanese envoys,
and then told his troops to get
tough with “obstinacy, impudence
or non-cooperation.”
The Southeast Asia Supreme
Commander noted that the south
ern armies were unbeaten in the
field, and warned:
“They are finding it very hard
to accept defeat and may try
to wiggle out of the terms of sur
render.
“They may behave arrogantly.
You will have my support in tak
ing the firmest measures against
any Japanese attempt at obstinacy,
impudence or non-cooperation.”
Lt. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, com
mander of the Seventh Japanese
Army, substituted for ailing Mar
shal Count Juichi Terauchi, com
manding all the southern armies,
at the surrender. But Mountbat
ten said that he would insist on
receiving Terauchi’s personal sur
“His sword is the one thing
I want out of this war,” Lord
Louis said. j.
Representatives of the United
States, the Netherlands, Australia,
France and China watched as the
Japanese gave back the richest
fruits of their swift 1941-42 con
quests.
Surrendered were 85,000 troops
in the Singapore area and some
500,000 soldiers and sailors in
southeast Asia and the East In
dies, as well as an area of 1,
500,000 miles—rich in mineral and
agricultural products and inhabit
ed by 128,000,000 people.
At the brief ceremony in the
council chamber of Singapore’s
municipal building, which began
at 11:15 a. m. Singapore time.
Mountbatten used 11 different pens
to sign as many copies of the
surrender instrument.
Seven Japanese Army and Navy
officers, clad in khaki with white
open-callor shirts, at across the
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110.000 WORKERS
OUT ON STRIKES
CHICAGO, Sept. 12— (U.R)—Strikes
arising from reconversion and
labor problems idled nearly 110,000
workers tonight.
Ten thousand struck at the Ford
Motor Co’s, plants in Windsor, Ont.,
protesting the dismissal of 250
World War II veterans. Company
spokesmen said several feeder
plants, involving 8,000 more work
ers, might be affected.
Across the river in Detroit, 25,
000 were affected by strikes. Some
7,400 Ford workers were idle as
the result of a strike of 4,500 at
the .Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., a
Ford supplier. Six thousand were
idled by a strike of 500 foremen at
the Hudson Motor Co. Workers
were out at two plants of the Mur
ray Corp., makers of auto bodies,
and several smaller plants.
Westinghouse Eectric Co. offici
als said a strike of 12,000 office
workers in six states might force
75.000 nroduction workers into idle
ness. Already 14,900 had put down
their tools. The white collar work
ers seek an incentive bonus plan.
Fifteen hundred workers struck
at the Kingan and Co., meat pack
ing plant Indianoplis. Company of
ficials said 300 freshly-killed hogs
Would spoil or have to be divert
ed to tankage unless the strike
ends soon.
Other strikes included: 2,000 idle
at Hollywood movie studios: 14,000
at the Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron,
O.; 3.200 at the Parker Appliance
Co’., Cleveland: 1,000 brass work
ers in Watertown, Conn.; 1,600 at
the Heil Co., Milwaukee: 6,500 at
■ he Midvale Steel Co., Philadel
phia; 1,800 at the Magnavox Elec
tric Co., Fort Wayne, Ind.; _2,200
lumber and sawmill workers in the
Pacific northwest: 3,000 at t h e
Packard Electric division, Warren,
O., and 1,500 silk and rayon work
ers at Paterson, N. J.
Ship Silhouettes At Sundown ,
Units of the British fleet steam through Sydney Heads, early this year. Left to right, a cruiser and
aircraft carriers HMS Indomitable and Illustrious.
Wilmington May Be Selected As Point
For Laying Up Excess Merchant Ships
CHAKin SHUNNED
BY ECONOMISTS
WASHINGTON, Sept 12— (U.R) —
British officials said today that
Britain, in trying to solve its eco
nomic dilemma, does not seek
American charity but the kind of
help that will pay off long-range
dividends to the United States and
the rest of the world.
Otherwise, they said, Britain will
be forced to go it alone with the
result that international trade —
and world prosperity—will suffer.
Just exactly the type of help
Britain wants was not specified by
Ambassador Lord Halifax and
economist Lord Keynes, heads of
the British Economic Mission
which hopes to work out with the
United States some financial ar
rangement that will ease Britain’s
reconversion task.
But a loan from the United
States—with or without interest—
is out, it appeared on the basis of
a press conference statement by
Halifax who said “we do not in
tend to assume obligations which
we cannot discharge.’’
At any rate, he made it plain
that Britain is interested in mak
ing an arrangement that will be
satisfactory to Congress and that
will be in the long-range interest
of the United States and the world.
His reference to Congress ap
parently was prompted by Con
gressional charges that Britain ex
pects this country to finance its
new government’s “socialization"
program.
President Truman told a news
conference earlier that this atti
tude on the part of some Congres
sional critics was “perfectly silly.’’
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SENIOR FRATERNITY
MOVES SCRAP DRIVE
UP ONE FULL WEEK
The Senior Fraternity of the
Brigade Boy’s club scrap drive,
originally scheduled for October
14, has been moved up one week
to October 7 in deference to the
Community War Chest campaign
also set for the 14th, according
to an announcement yesterday by
Thurston Davis, president of the
Fraternity.
With paper and tin still . the
nation’s ton shortages, their is a
great need for scrap paper and
rags, which are used in making
paner pulp and for tin cans.
Mr. Davis pointed out that,
paper mills are still months be
hind production schedules and tip
foundries are unlikely to operate
full blast until some time next
year.
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce, active in scrap collection,
has promised full copjration and
the loan of trucks by local firms
has been secured for transporting
the materials,
)
Planes As Fishing
Aids Wins Bailey Vote
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—(U.PJ
Senator Brewster (R-Me) told
Senator Bailey (D-NC) today
that the airplane is a big help
to one of the pleasantest sports
ever—fishing in wintertime.
BaTey was objecting in Sen
ate debate to spending govern
ment money on “little one
horse airports out in the wilder
ness.”
Brewster remarked that there
was a one-horse airport in his
town and that it came in
mighty handy during the winter
to get around to various lakes
for fishing.
BaTey, an ardent fisherman,
said: “With all my weakness, I
have never gone fishing in
wintertime.”
Brewster assured him it was
a delightful pastime.
Bailey supported the airport
bill.
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AIRPORT PROGRAM
GETS SENATE 0. K.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — CD —
The Senate today authorized a
$375,000,000 Federal aid airport pro
gram designed to do for airplanes
what the building of great high
ways did for the automobile.
The plan contemplates the con
struction of approximately 3,
000 new airports and the improve
ment of some 1,600 of the 3,000
existing ones. The Federal money
would be matched dollar for dollar
by state and local funds.
In the words of chairman Me
Carran (D-Nev) of the commerce
committee, who sponsored the bill:
“Such an airport program would
give civil aviation a real chance
to expand rapidly after the wai
and would in addition provide a
ready-made public works program
of nationwide proportions.”
The bill passed by a voice vote
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Maritime Commission Men
Making Survey Of N. C.
Shipbuilding Y a r d
Wilmington has a good chance
of being selected as one of the
points for laying up of excess
merchant ships in the post-war
period, it was learned from an
authoritative source yesterday af
ternoon.
The disclosure followed a state
ment from U. S. Maritime com
mission officials in Washington to
the effect that a survey of tie na
tion’s merchant shipyards, includ
ing the North Carolina Shipbuild
ing company, is under way to de
termine which of them might be
used for ship storage.
This study was started some
time ago with the firm of Merritt,
Chapman and Scott, of New York,
handling it for the Maritime com
mission. The survey of the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company’s
facilities is being made and present
indications are that this yard is
favorably regarded as a possible
storage point. It is understood that
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ICKES LIFTS ORDER
AGAINST DELIVERY
OF COAL TO HOMES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—(ff)—
Restrictions on delivery of coal
to household consumers were
lifted today by Secretary of the
Interior Ickes.
Revocation of government con
trol over deliveries of coal by
retail dealers removes the neces
sity to limit domestic consumers
to 80 per cent of normal require
ments for anthracite and scarce
eastern bituminous coal.
Ickes, who took the action as
solid fuels administrator, said the
overall supply of oil for home
heating is now sufficient to meet
consumers’ needs in general.
WILMINGTON DEALERS
WELCOME GOOD NEWS
In Wilmington, H. A. Penton,
head of the Penton Coal company,
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Blind Veteran Drives
Car In Heavy Traffic
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Sept. 12— I
(U.PJ—A blind war veteran’s mid-1
night drive in an automobile from
downtown Boston to Cambridge—
about three miles—on directions
furnished by a paralyzed . com
panion was described in Superior
Court today.
The former servicemen, both un
named, drove from Park Square
in Boston through heavy traffic to
Harvard bridge across the Charles
river where the blind driver made
a wrong turn and crashed into a
tree.
After hearing the details, Judge
Abraham E. Pinanski blinked in
credulously and described the ride
as “positively fantastic.” The story
was related by Atty. Frederick V.
McMenimen, counsel for a 21
year-old Wellesley stenographer
who rented the car to take the
veterans for a ride. The defendant,
Miss Carolyn MacKinnon, had ap
pealed a $10 fine imposed in a
lower court for allowing an unli
censed person to operate the car.
Miss. MacKinnon, according to
her attorney, had left the veterans
in Park Square last June 22 to
catch the last bus to Wellesley.
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k
Asks Arrest
Of Many Top
Terrorists
OGATA TO BE HELD
Man Who Ordered Ppnay
Bombing Also On Com
mander’s Wanted List
TOKYO, Sept. 12.—(/P)—General
MacArthur ordered the sinister
Black Dragon Socie4y dissolved
today and called for the arrest of
seven of its top terrorists Includ
ing a member of the current Jap
anese cabinet.
Japanese sources said the Black
Dragon gang of Jingos went
through the motions of disband
ing in a formal ceremony last
month and that one of the seven
lamed had committed suicide in
1943.
Among those MacArtnur order
ed into custody was Taketora
Ogata, now secretary of the cabi
net, a position that carries mini
sterial rank. He was the chief
government propagandist as presi
dent of the cabinet board of in
formation under former Premier
Kuniaki Koiso.
Another was Col. Kingoro Has
himoto, who ordered the bombing
of the U. S. Panay in the Yangtze
river in 1937. A third was former
Premier Koki Hirota who
Sprgign Minister in 1936 sigi
the anti-Comintern Pact with G
many and Italy. ’
Japanese sources said Seigo
Nakano, a fourth suspect, com- '
mitted suicide in 1943 after re
signing from the House of Rep
resentatives.
Known as strongly pro-German
and an adherent of Ilideki Tojo,
Nakano was reported to have
later turned against the “Pearl
Harbor” premier and was stripped
of all influence.
The Japanese said that Ryohel
Uchida, a fifth suspect, was one
of the two organizers of the
notorious strong-arm society back
in 1902.
These sources said that at the
so-called formal dissolution of
the Black Dragon late in August,
the second organizer, Yohihisa
Kuzuo, was listed as chief execu
tive and he is not on Mac Arthur’s
wanted list.
Also missing from the list was
Hidezo Toyama, 54-year-old son
of the late Mitsuru Toyama, wide
ly known for years as the leader
of the Black Dragons. The son
was commonly believed to have
inherited much of his father’s in
fluence.
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CONGRESS MOVES
TO END WAR T E
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—W—
Congress moved today toward
ending war time and building 3,
OOC postwar airports. Between
these tasks it received word that
the Army’s point score will go
down and discharges up.
The House voted to set clocks
back an hour Sept. 30 and return
the country to standard time. The
Senate still has to okay this.
The Senate voted to give states
and cities $75,000,000 a year for
five years to build 3,000 airports
and fix 1,600 existing ones. States
ar 1 cities will have to match Fed
eral money. Now it’s up to the
House to act.
But the big noise in Congress
was discharges.
Congressional mailboxes have
been crammed with letters from
back home urging more and fast
er releases of men from service.
Th Senate Military committee
looked into that hot subject. It
got official word from Undersec
retary of War Patterson and from
Maj. Gen. Stephen Henry, assis
tant chief of staff for personnel,
that the Army:
1. Wants to turn men loos# as
fast as it can and will reduce the
80 points now needed for discharge.
2. Will be down to 2,500,000 men
by July 1. The present size Is a
little over 8,000,000. Discharge
will let out 6,000,000; the draft will
bring in 500,000.
3. Has set up a special agency
to release men in cases of unusual
hardship.
4. Sees no possibility of ending
the draft before July 1. (But Con
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