The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-24

 trees in southern Malaya to clear the land for farming during their i occupation. the New Delhi radio said today in a survey of British rubber i resources.
 WASHINGTON-The House Nav al Committee approved today a rec ommendation by the Navy Depart ment that 126 government-owned industrial plans and shipyards be declared surplus.
 PARIS-Parties supporting Gen. de Gaulle made sweeping gains in yesterdays local elections in which the voters swung widely toward the left.
 SAUGUS, Mass.-An Army bomb CT burst into flames and crashed near here while on test flight. The pilot, Major Doak Weston, of Colo rado. was trapped in the plane and killed. Other crewmen parachuted to safety.
 LONDON-The Moscow radio de- clared today that the promise of amnesty extended to political pris- oners by the Greek Government had proved "mockery' and that only 154 out of l1,0O0 persons allegedly 1 imprisoned had been released thus far.
 1 WASHINGTON - No veteran of World War II is required to join a labor union to obtain his former job, according to Selective Service.
 WASHINGTON = President Tru- man has decided to place the State Department in control of the gi- gantic problem of disposing of bil- lions of dollars of wartime surpluses throughout the world. Senators learned this today from John w. Snyder, Director of War Mobiliza- tion and Reconversion, as he out lined administration plans for the disposal
 ASTORIA-This falls Columbia River salmon catch has topped last years but will fall short of the 1939- to-1944 average. Astoria canneries are processing chinook, silverside' and steelhead Shark fishing is be- ginning to attract small boats out of the Columbia. But most of the deep sea fleet is tied up because of rough ocean water
 CHUNGKING-T Commander of the United States Seventh Fleet, Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid. flew into Chungking today. He will be an overnight guest of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and will return to Shanghai tomorrow.
 WASHINGTON = President Tru- man made two appointments today to the International Court which will try German war criminals. He nam- ed former Attorney General Francis Riddle as the United States mem Der, and Circuit Judge John Parker of North Carolina as alternate.
 SOUTHAMPTON-The huge liner Queen Mary has sailed with 15,00o American troops aboard, including the 254th and 255th regiments of the 63rd Deivision and the staff of the 67th General Hospital Corps.
 NEW YORK A London radio broadcast picked up here says the Egyptian Government is said to have called for the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt.
 WASHINGTON-Chairman J. A. Krug of the War Production Board plans to present to President Tru- man this week his plan for liquidat- ing the War Production Board.
 PORTLAND-The U. s. Maritime Service Graduate Station in Port land will be closed tomorrow. The station has placed nearly $500 ap- prentice seamen and engine room workers on ships in Portalnd and sent 600 to other Northwest ports during the two and half years it has been operating.
 LIE HAVRE-The Duke of Vii dsor discloses that he is going to sell his Riviera estate and also his Paris town house. He said both were too big The Dukes plans are regarded as an indication that he and the Duchess intend to make their visit to France of brief duration.
 LONDON The New Delhi radio quotes a Dutch dispatch as saying Allied troops will land on Java about October | The message adds that the Dutch East Indies Government will move from Brisbane to Batavia about the same time.
 WELLESLEY, Mass.-The WAVES soon will haya a y,am director Gan.