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NASHHjLE TENNESSEAN CENTS on irml Nf WMTA NO A I I A I I THE TEN ESSE ANi Associated Press United Press lutmitl Nwt Service) Wine World NU Service (AT) Wlraafcates HOME DELIVERED the Inner Citadel of the Nation SUBSCRIPTIONS 30c A WEEK VOL. 37 No. 246 NASHVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1944 EIGHTEEN PAGES THE City and Wafer Users to Resist 'Monk' Gasser Safe, Wife Here Is Notified Reds Launch New Drive in White Russia, Win 26-Mile Front in Poland; American -r I a i I tn Hostile Senate Committee Balks On Labor Draft Patterson Praises Plan -As A. F. L.

Head Joins Opposition of Unions WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 lP) National service legislation demanded by President Roosevelt to prevent wartime strikes and spread the war effort more avanlv ngnr way msiaq cassino uerense S. Planes Blast Hitler's Plants a A Utility's Bill -Action Seeks To Void Permit for Suburban, Municipal Water, Link Eleventh District water users and tht City pf Nashville will fight JtChaneery Court bill attempting to prevent the city from acquiring suburban water companies, It waa learned last night Tha bill, filed yeaterday by Utility Service Corporation which serves a large portion of the dis trict, seeke to void an ordinance Jlwhich permits tha city to integrate uch water systems with the mu nicipal system. At the last city council session aa ordinance permitting the board of administration to purchase suburban companies or ejse construct parallel lines to them waa passed. City Not.

Served Notice "The ordinance Is an unlawful at. tempt to exercise powers and au- 4-' Seo rfc.i8n',';l':-' (y GERMANY Where 1,200 U. An estimated 1.200 American STATUTC MlttS I A r-il AP Wirrphoto. over Berlin. The reports said the of all time developed between escorts and GsHnsn defenders.

of the war's heaviest raids Tuesday on Halberatsdt and Magdeburg, while other bombers flew a diver- monty not granted to defendants Under Its charter, and therefore void," alleged the petition filed before Chancellor William J. Wade. Vernon Hlnes, assistant city Attorney, said yeaterday that the city had not been served notice to answer the charges and that the legal department had not been given a copy of tht Utility Service Corporation petition, filed by Charles Cornelius, attorney for E. P. Radabaugh.

head of tha private company. Intervening Suit Readied The city will resist the petition. That is sll we can say until we have seen and studied the petition, Meantime, however, it was learned that an attorney was pre- paring the intervening suit asking that the city's position be sustained. The attorney, retained by residents of the Eleventh District, which is served by the private company, will Insist that they paid for the Rada baugh lines by paying for tapping privileges and that water waa con-v traded for with the city and that they expected a continued water supply, from the city rather from a pumping station Radabaugh proposes to construct Petition Hits Ordlnsnes Such ordinance Is not la eon-" formlty with tha authority given to defendant by said stat- ed the Radabaugh petition. "While it appears that certain provisions of tha ordinance art within the grrfnted powers, other provisions are wholly foreign to such powers and constitute an Illegal and ultra vires action on the part of the defendant," The petition prays that the section of the ordinance permitting the city to construct parallel lines be declared void, that tha entire Yanks Lose 64 Planes Bag More Than I00ln Smashing Nazi Plane Factories section Is not servable.

Lt E. C. "Monk" Cassar Mrs. Ernest C. Gasser, wife of Lt "Monk" Gasser who waa reported missing In flight December 16 in the Far Eaat.

didn't sleep last night She waa overwhelmed with gen ulna joy for ahe received a message from the War Department at 10:30 o'clock that her husband hsd been "accounted for and la safe." "Undoubtedly he will Inform you concerning his welfare and whereabouts at an early date," the mes sage but did not disclose where or how Monk put in his ap pearance. "I'm afraid to leave the house now," Mrs. Gasser added, "for I'll be waiting for word direct from Mrs. Gasser told reporters when the 33-year-old lieutenant was re ported missing that she believed he would come out of lt somehow and that he would expect her to be brave. She gleefully reiterated last night, "I felt like he would, crawl out of the jungles.

I knew that he had the atamina and 'real old guts to work himself out if he should happen to crash on Tha Gassers have one child. They live at 330S Pierce Avenue. Louie Gasser, head of the Naah- vllle Flying Service, and Albert Gasser, pilot, of an army transport who saw Monk In India just a few days before he was reported miss ing, are the lieutenant brothers. Soldier Balloting Row Still Rages Democrats' Accusation Of 'Politics' Is Thrown Back by Republicans WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Pi- Nettled Republicans on the bouse elections committee threw back a charge of "politics" today in reply to a Democratic accusation that they are "Juat shadow vith the issue of servicemen's votes.

The committee is trying to frame a bill on the aubject. The ahadow-boxlng barb was thrown by House Democratic Leader John McCormack at a press conference, after he had noted that the Republican National Committee in Chicago had adopted a resolution indorsing the proposal to enable service people to vote. Real Effort Claimed Republican members of Con gress and many Democrats not controlled by the administration," aaid Rep. Charles W. Vursell member of the elections com mittee, "are making the only real effort to get an election bill that will get complete ballots to all our soldiers overseas and in tha conti nental United States.

What politics that have entered Into conaideration of this legislation have been brought In by Democratic leaders following the will of the palace guard downtown," he added. Ignoring the President's plea for bill that would provide for a sin gle federal ballot, the house committee struggled with a bill providing for balloting not only for the President and members of Congress, but even for precinct constable, under state regulations. Chairman Eugene Worley Tex.) aaid the committee expected to have a bill out on tha floor by next week, with the machinery for handling the ballots to be left to the states. Want Roosevelt at Peace Table LONDON, Jan. 12 (.

The London Star expressed the hope today that President Roosevelt would be at the peace conferenca whenever it is held. Troops Allied Bombers Assault Piraeus; Sofia Raids Malt ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Algiers, Jan. 12 (UP) American troops, blasting: a gap in the Germans' mountain defenses, drove into the inner fortifications of Cassino to day, promising early capture of that stronghold which guards the wide open valley approachea to Rome. German reports said the Allies already had captured the battered and outflanked village of Cervaro, four milea southeast of Caaaino.

Allied headquarters had no confir mation. Follow-Through Raid Allted bomber fleets, pressing an offensive against the enemy's strained communications in the southern theater, blasted Piraeus, the port for Athens, by night and day Tuesday in a follow-through of Monday'a similar double-barreled blow against the Balkan rail hub of Sofia, Other Allied planea returned to large-scale action over the Italian battlefront with the advent of a ever on weary American and Brit ish infantrymen who were battling through tha mud with grenade and bayonet. 4 Clean Out Enemy Nests The Americana aecured. an ave nue toward Cassino from the south by cleaning out the last enemy nests on Mts. Porchia and Troc- chio.

juat below the Via Casilina. Pouring through the 2.000-yard defile between the two hills. Lt. Gen. Mark W.

Clark'a doughboys had battered forward to within two milea of Cassino and a furious battle was reported now under way on the town's approaches. This drive tightened the encirclement of Cervaro, where latest official advices aaid ether Americana finished cleaning out a chain of aurrounding hilla and drove within 1,000 yards of the of tha tovtn. 1 rlBsfc' talvs 'Starts Fl'A'T- Artillery duels were reported from the static Adriatic front, where one British Eighth Army salvo across tha Arielli River caused a huge explosion followed by fires in the German linea. British destroyers, operating off tha Adriatlo coast Sunday night, were disclosed to have damaged railway trains and the town of San Benedetto In a sharp bombardment, -Eseort-5f3w P- Lightntng American Flying Fortresses opened the attacks on Piraeus Tuesday, aiming at tha principal seaport for all German activities In the Aegean area. (Stockholm reported that aa a result of six heavy raids on Sofia in less than two months one-third of the city's population of 450.000 had been evacuated and that "So fia haa now met the same fate aa many German cities.

(Sofia's shelters were said to have collapsed under -direct hits while houses were splintered into matchwood. The central railroad station, perhaps the most impor tant German traffic center in the Balkana, waa reported in ruins.) a Ration Coupon CALENDAR MEATS, STATS, ETC.i Good today: Brown stamps and (expire January 29), spare stamp No. 2 in ration book 4, good for 5 points of fresh pork and sausage, expirea January IS. Jan. IS aBrown valid.

Jan. 23 Brown valid. Jan. 30 Brown valid. Feb.

Brown valid. SHOES Good today: No. 18 in book 1 and airplane atamp No. 1 In book 3 both good Indefinitely. SUGAR Good today: Stamp 29 In book 4 good for pounds (expires January IS).

Jan. 16 Stamp No. 30 good for 8 pounds becomes valid (expirea March 31). CANNED PROCESSED FOODS Good today: Green stamps and in book 4 (expire January 20) and green stamps and (expire February GASOLINE Good today: A-9 coupons (expire January 21); A-10 coupons valid January 22. TIRE INSPECTION Feb.

29 and book holders must complete inspection by this date. Malta Air Chief Given Promotion CAIRO, Jan. 12 tM-Alt Vlca Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, air officer commanding at Malta, tonight was named air officer commander in chief in the Middle East. He succeeds Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto. Douglas, appointed bead of the British coastal command last Saturday.

Park, SI, commanded the fighter group which bora the brunt of tha battle of Britain and directed a amall air force from his own plana during tha withdrawal of British troops from Dunkirk. Soviets Capture Sarny and Push Nearer Rumania By JUOSON O'QUINN LONDON, Thursday. Jn. 13 (AP) In three nepa rate actions the Russians have opened a new offensive in the Mozyr sector of South ern White Russia, captured the railway bastion of Sarny, 35 miles inside old Poland, and fought off a frantic German counterattack near the Ukrainian Bug River, Moscow announced today. More than 5.000 Germans wera killed snd 144 Nazi tank wrecked in the last 24 hours, said the Moscow midnight communique, recorded by the Soviet Monitor from a broadcaat.

Tear Open 19-Mile Gap The new offensive near" Mosy tore a 19-mlle gap through elaborate German defense lines and in two days the Russians advanced up to nine miles, capturing ever 30 towna and hamlets. Among them were Davidovichi, 24 miles north of Mozyr on the railway to Zhlobln, and Kozlovichl. two miles west of the railway which had long been 1... .1 ti I a was south of the Berezina River and about 75 miles from the old Polish frontier. The Germane fought violently to hold their positions, sending many futile counterattacks against tha Russians.

They failed with a loss of 2.000 men. 22 tanks destroyed and 40 artillery and mortar batteries ailenced. War material was captured and prisoners taken. Vatutin's Amy Scores Again Sarny. a major objective within old Poland and 130 milea southwest of the Mozyr area, waa captured by Gen.

Nikolai Vatutin's first Ukrainian army In an outflanking move which took the town from the rear, routing tha German garrison. Thirty big guna and SO trucka were among the booty captured by the Russians. Premier Marshal Joseph Btalln announced Sarnya capture In an Russian forces In this area also advanced to take Dombrovltaa, a district center 20 miles north of Sarny. This gave the Russians a 26-mile front In old Poland. This front waa aatrlde the Vilna-Rovno railway thus forcing the Germans back 133 miles to Brest-Litovsk for their next north-south communications line in the area.

At Dombrovltaa many railway cars snd army Great Nazi Counterattack In one of their strongest counter attacks since the Ruaaians began their current series of successful offensives, the Germans laahed out east of Vinnitsa with heavy forces, seeking to stem Vatutin'a left wing pushing south toward tha Bug River and Rumania. A heavy barrage of massed Russian artillery met the German as-saulta and the operations ended after more than 2,000 Germans wera killed and 86 of their tanks destroyed, with the Germans back la their original positions. Between this area and Sarny, Vatutin'a forces captured SO towns and hamlets west of Novograd Vo lynaki. Including Muzhilovicht, If milea from Novograd Volynski and three miles from the highway Junction of Korets. Konev Dislodges Germans West and northwest of Kirovo grad, where the Germans suffered one of their severest defeats of tha current campaign.

Gen. Ivan 8. Konev's second Ukrainian army dislodged the Germans from several heavily fortified populated places, killed 1,000 of the enemy and destroyed 36 of their tanks. Commenting on the furious German attack near Vinnitsa tha London Dally Express aaid a crisis In the battle was expected in tha next 48 hours, when the fate of the whole German armies in the Ukraine probably would be decided. Today's Tennessean When the details of tha land-lease are examined in true perspective, the American people will not consent to have this great enterprise which was devised to defend tha republic subjected to carping criticism, Walter Lippmann asyi in his column on Page 9, Albert Hlnes Paga Amusements Paga Answers to Questions Paga I Claaaified Ada Pages 16.

17 Comics Pago lt Paga 14 Page IS Cross Word Puzzle Death Notices Editorials Ernest Lindley Garry C. Myers Hambone Letters to Tennessean Market News Peter Edson Raymond Johnson Religion In Life Samuel Grafton Side Glances Society Sports 8unflower Street Tom Little Cartoon Walter Lippmann Walter Winchell Weather Record Westbrook Pegler Paga Paga Paga Paga Paga Paga IS Paga Paga 12 Pago Paga Paga Pages 4, Pages 12, 13 Paga Page Pago Paga Paga 15 Paga off to a halting start in a hostile committee or the senate today. Chairman Robert L. Reynolds N. of the senate military ffalra committee, which opened hearlnga on a labor draft bill proposed by Sen.

Warren R. Austin Vt) said aeveral more weekly meetings "at least three or four" will be held before the committee acts. The house military affairs committee, holdlnr a similar kill harfn'l neven decided whether to take lt up. ine aiaiincuy cnilly committee reception coincided with warm Dralse Of the national aarvi plan from Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson and strongly-worded opposition from William ureen, president of the American Federation of Labor.

Patterson in an interview aaid such a Jaw would assure servicemen overseas that tha country ia "going all out behind them" and provide a direct morale boost while stabilizing labor in war-critical industries. He said a national service law would bring "little compulsion" of labor beyond requiring workers to stay on joba for which they had been trained; Declared en Moral Principle Hi 'OaaileVbewMie moral principle that everyone haa alwaya admitted tha duty of ev ery citizen to contribute according to his ability, the undersecretary said. Green asserted that national aervice would "undermine our basic concepts of democracy," declaring that "there is no real comparison between drafting men for service In the armed forcea of the country and drafting them for service In private industry, pperating for private profit" He said Great Britain, operating under a national aervice law, experienced In 1M2 a number of strikes "greater proportionately than In the United States." Roosevelt Sees Union Leaders Green and Philip Murray of the C. I. 0 who usually talk freely after Hons conferences.

were relatively tongue-tied today after coaXerrtng.wiUt in- Prteldaat for two houra, but agreed their statements denouncing labor draft ing atill stand. "I think wa can aum It up In thia fashion," Murray said, "that we have nothing to say." Green asserted that he and Mur ray had had a "very nice talk" (Continued an Page 2, Celumn 3) '4th Term' Bid Message by Roosevelt Held Preview of 1944 Democratic Platform WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 UP) Republicans today tagged Presi dent Roosevelt's message to Congress, particularly the part advancing a postwar "bill of economic rights," aa a fourth term bid and a preview of the 1944 Demo cratic platform. That was the reaction of moat G. O.

P. members In Congress and also of Republican national committeemen going horns after their meeting in Chicago. It all adds up to a fourth term bid," waa the way Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins (R, Ohio) viewed it Other G.

O. P. Comment Rep. Joseph W. Martin, of Maasachusetta, the house Republican leader, observed that through out the message the chief executive never for a moment forgot that there is sn election ahead." Sen.

Homer Ferguson (R, Mich.) said he did not Interpret the message as a fourth term announcement "sines tha President already was a candidate for another term, In my opinion." However, be said, tha five points enunciated by tha Preaident might be Interpreted as a campaign platform. Irrespective of the President's views on another term In the White House. It is clear that he bcllevea the prewar program of social changes which was called the (Continued on Page Celumn 7) By Joe Hatcher return In that memorable gas-burning e.OOO-mlle trip on military gasoline before tha OPA changed tha national regulations to prevent such further trips, uicks Preferred Apparently the military didn't need tha Buick if tha chief executive couldn't burn military gasoline in it 80 It was purchased by the state highway department from the adjutant-general's department for a reported 11,800, It waa this Buick In which tha governor made tha hurried trip to Memphis for Boas Crump's bridge (Continued sn Page Column 4) Republicans Rap planes staged ene aienary flight craft Industry with results officially described as excellent. Tba operation, which struck three assembly plants in the heart of tha Reich, waa heralded here today as the opening of the "in-vssion front" air war. It brought virtually all of the German air force Into the sky something Reichsmarshal Herman Goer-ing never was able to do during tha baitla.

of JBriUin. -m Of the total number of V. S. planes lost, 59 wars four-engined Plying Fortresses and Liberators and five wire Fighters. Returning U.

S. Pays Pensions 728 Years WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-flIV-The war of 1812 ended 128 yeara ago but the government is still The veterans administration reported tonight that one 1812 pen-s'oner still remaina on Ita payroll She is Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 88, Independence, who receives $20 a month. She is the daughter of John Hill who waa a private in Clark's and McCumber'a companies. New York militia.

Marines Repulse Jap Landings Enemy Cope Gloucester Losses Now Navy Planes Blast Kwajelein By the Associated Press An attempted Japanese landing at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, haa been halted by American mil rlne artillery, the Allied High Command said 'today. The enemy dead in the fighting at Cape Gloucester haa amounted to more than 2,400, against about f400 American casualties, a head quarters spokesman aaid. The Leathernecks have been fighting for poaaesaion of Hill 660, strategic height aouth of Borgen Bay and near where the marines landed In the Invasion December 26. Attempt To Relieve Pressure Alio yawiiu aLicui iu mnu spparently waa a move to relieve the nressure nut on their troons I by the marines, who have scored advances recently with 'the aid of planea and artillery. Meanwhile, far to the north and east, navy search Liberators roared low over the Kwajelein Islands, sinking two Japanese cargo ships (Continued en Page 2, Column S) greatest air battle bombers and their Gore, President Piri Scheduled7 To Talk Today From Wanhlncton Bimi WASHINGTON.

Jan. 12 President Roosevelt haa called In Rep. Albert Gore, of Tennesaee, for a conference on the matter of his status In the army, it was learned at the White House today. Tha Tennessee fourth district representative is scheduled to see the President sometime tomorrow. Meanwhile, he la under instruc tions from the President and Speaker Sam Rayburn to make no move until after the White House talk.

Status In Confusion Gore's dual status as an army private and member of Congress was thrown Into confusion Monday when the President inatructed tha army and navy to sea to It that no members of Congress are given active service in the armed forces. Sine the order made no mention of members like Gore who have already been Inducted, Gore's situation awaits clarification. It was reported that the President, commander-in-chief might place XJore on the inactive liat in order to keep him in Congress. Democrats' Margin Cut The President's order waa Interpreted as a move to stop the exo- dus of draft-age Pemocrata into the armed forcea to protect the I Democrats' Blender majority. With tha resignation of Rep.

Joseph A. Gavigan N. Monday to accept a New York state judgeship. Democratic strength declined to 217 seats one less than a majority. This is the first time In more than a decade that the Democratic party has had les than a clear majority ln tha house.

The President's interest in the aae is believed to grow out of the fact that Gore's action at this juncture will set the pattern for approximately a dozen other draft-age house members. Tf Cora should resiETO and cro- 1,200 Raiders Bring Virtually All of Reich Air Force Into the Sky American airmen said tha Germans sent up every type of plane to ward off the bombing attack on Oschersleben, Halberstadt and Brunswick (Braunswelg), hidden away in a strongly defended part Of Germany within a radius Of 120 milea of Berlin. A V. S. communique announced (Continued en Page 2, Column S) U.

S. Fliers Sink Two Nazi Subs Planes From Ascension Bag U-Boats on Widely Separated Searches WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 JP Destruction of two German submarines In, the South Atlantic, one after five and one-half houra of battling in which six Navy and Army planes participated, was reported by the Navy tonight. Both submarines were sighted, attacked and sunk by planea flying search missions from Ascension Island, midway acrosa the At lantic from the South American bulge at Brazil. Seven times Navy Liberator bombers roared down on one submarine dropping 33 depth charges and atrafing the U-boat's decks.

Two Army planea also joined in the fight dropping 10 demolition bombs. The submarine waa first sighted and so damaged that it could not submerge and escape, by a plane piloted by Lt. Charles A. Baldwin, 23, of Kearney, Neb. It finally went down after another Navy Liberator piloted by Lt William R.

Ford, 28, of Crescent City, had attacked, returned to ita base for refueling, and came back with a partly new crew, for the final kill second submarine, tba Navy said, was destroyed "a few weeks later" by another Liberator bomber piloted by Lt (jg) Marion V. Daw-kins, 23, of Sumpter, S. C. DCmOnO LOWyeT I To Oppose Pepper DATTONA BEACH, Jan. 12 (IP Millard B.

Conklin, Daytona Beach attorney, today announced his candidacy for tha United States Senate seat now held by Claude Pepper. such manner as to warrant increased paaalve defense measures." "This action is not an Indication that tha war Is over as far aa the continental United States is concerned," the War Department statement said. "Rather, an even greater burden Is placed on tba civilian population to be alert, to utilize manpower efficiently and to assure our fighting forces of being adequately supplied." The two agencies declared there is still need for volunteers to serve in control centers and with tha air raid wardens, auxiliary police, medical and fir services. American Losses War's Greatest But Results Are Declared 'Excellent7 By HENRY B. JAMESON LONDON.

Thursday, Jan. 13 Sustaining a record loaa of 84 planes, an American aerial task force of perhaps 1.200 heavy bomber--em long-range -fighters shot down mors than 100 German aircraft Tueaday to carry through a crushing attack at Germany's desperately guarded fighter air Poles Drafting Reply to Reds Sparring Over Terms With Way Open for a Settlement Expected LONDON, Jan. 12 The Polish cabinet, after a second all- day discussion of Moscow's offer of a modified Curzon line aa the olish Russian boundary, was drafting a reply tonight which was expected to spar for mora favor able terms but leave the way open for a aettlement There was a widespread belief in London that the Poles eventually would submit to the Russian declaration under guidance of Britain and America. The Ruaaians early yesterday aaid they Intended to keep most of the Ukrainian and White Russian territories) Incorporated Into the Soviet Vnion in 1939 but suggested the slightly less drastic Curxon-llne proposal of 1919 aa a working basis and said Poland could recompense herself by gaining an outlet to the Baltic Sea at Germany's expense in the west. The initial Polish reply, promised Thursday, may deal at length with data deaigned to refute the Russian assertion that tha Polish government In London does now control the Polish underground resistance to tha Germane.

Australians' Air Toll Now 7.764 MELBOURNE, Jan. 12 CP Royal Australian Air Force casualties in all war theaters to data total 7.764, of which 3,899 were killed, died or ara presumed to be dead, Air Minister Arthur Drakeford announced today. Drakeford said more than 18,000 members of the R. A. A.

F. were on active service outside tha southwest Pacific theater. Inland Practice But Army, OCD WASHINGTON. Jan. 12 tffrV-Practice) blackouts and air raid alerts wera ordered eliminated today except in coastal areas.

Along tha AUantle and Pacific coasts blackouts and alerts will be authorised not oftener than once in three months, and then only on a Sunday, tha War Department and tha Office of Civilian Defense announced. The action waa taken to cut down interference with war production and waa made possible, the announcement said, by the fact that 4 Politics L'ceed to report to Camp Shelby, 1A mm kunlr Santa Claus Rang Twice for Governor Cooper, But It Was Tqxpayers Who Paid the Piper Blackouts, Alerts Discontinued Warn Enemy Raids Still Possible Milt, vn fiij private, other young members will do tha same, it Is feared. On the other hand, if he remains or If the President makes it Impossible for him to serve, the era will likely remain, insuring continuation of a Democratic house for the rest of the present Beg your pardon! It appears the Information that tha taxpayers played Santa Claua to Gov. Prentice Cooper with a new. car for his personal use waa somewhat erroneous.

Instead of a naw car for Christmas, tha governor apparently acquired an almost-new ear "for Chrlatmaa and a completely new one for New Tear's two cara and not one. The Christmas car waa the big Buick sedan that waa a military car ualng military gasoline In which tha governor traveled from Nashville to Charleston, 8. and "most communities are sufficiently well organized to cope with such emergencies as can now reasonably be anticipated." OCD will recommend tha continuance of periodia training for local civilian defense workers, but such training will not Involve general public participation except when practice alerts ara approved by tha military authorities. The War Department, moreover, haa issued Instructions that its field agenclea be prepared to resume air raid drills "in tha event the strategical situation changes in Congress. Continued Cold TENNESKIC: Fair a rill aartiaa.

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