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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 12. 1941 8 ft VOCES Mf MIS IB Mother Gives 4 Sons To Navy; Regrets Only Furloughs Slashed At Ft. Dix; Half of Men out found it ucrrasful.

11u only lights left on In the entire area were red HfhU atop three water tower, lamp on the post filtration plant and a transformer on the edge of Wrightstown. and a string of flares on the Fort Dlx-Pemberton road, which is under repair. IN CHESAPEAKE BAY DIVISIONS 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 A. stout DIAMONDS with Ourtrs generations of perf.

nee assure you of accurate valuations based on increased prices resulting from war conditions Old gold and silver 1 also purchased Patrons are served in dignified privacy "GARFIELD. SMELTING I REFINING WASHINGTON. Dec. 11 (A. To Forego Holidays The Army ordered reinforcement of The Navy announced today that a mined area had been established covering the approaches to Chesapeake Major George Fielding Eliot's articles on the military strategy of the warring nations appear exclusively in The Inquirer.

They'll Miss Yule Here v. 'Illustrated on Page 28) Without ostentation, a Philadelphia mother yesterday gave four of her five sons to the service of Uncle Sam in the Nation's Bay. Ally vessels are required to take its five armored divisions today with a larger proportion of medium tanks, and with self-propelled assault artillery and armored cars." Effective 1, there will be about medium. 30-ton tanks to two light 13li-ton tanks, the War Department "atinbunted, Instead of the pilots before entering the the Special to The Inquirer FORT DIX. N.

Dec. ll.The emergency Is costing the men of the 44th Division, just returned from southern maneuvers, more than half their scheduled holiday urloughs. Instead of 15-day leaves, only seven-day leaves will be permitted, Division Headquarters announced today, and only a fourth Navy Department said in a memo Navy, randum for shipmasters' -f And the woman. Mrs. Louise a LIST OPEN CHANNELS i to Fort Meade.

and New Cum fit- '192 IS berland. Pa. existing proportion1 of three light At the same time the department oi me command win ne permit "Well get a real rush after Christ amplified yesterday's announcement ted leave at one time $135 mas. Colonel scnoenieia saia. a that the approaches to New York tanks to two medium.

ORDERED REDUCED The tank regiments within the dl Wrightstown homes and stores, including advertising signs. Military police checking the black- A POLISHED HARD. number of the boys want to be home harbor had been mined, and. disclosed that for the present, the fol fr for the holidays. After that, they'll visions-were ordered reduced from WOOD CASKET SILVER FINISHED) come in droves." CROWDED FOR SPACE IAR HANDLES AND three to two and field artillery units reorganized into three separate battalions, on recommendation of Major SPECIiL OUTSIDE CASE tmhtdee Caakat with Saeutifwl Miia With nearly 11.000 applications taken since Monday at the Navy General Jacob L.

Devers, chief of the lowing channels would remain open to navigation: Ambrose Channel. Swash Channel, Chapel Hill Channel. Coney Island Channel to Rockaway Inlet, Rarltan Bay Channel, Sandy Hook Channel, Oedney Channel and South Channel. "Vessels using these channels must Plot. Stank, thaw iIm.

ntreliw and diaaatna. Una aria, akar' Can. Recruiting Office here. Lieutenant armored force. By this means, two powerful com Wrk Chalra, Cruel fU, Commander H.

E. Curlee. in charge laaa crnd Prarar loll. If Fart a Sherry Tokey Muscatel Aloohol 20 by aoioaaa IT PATS TO SPEND A fV LITTLE MORE FOR THE BEST A X. Without Famlt" i La REM ABIT soul ma Kaa a.

J. bat teams may be formed within the division. Manpower will remain at WILL FOREGO HOLIDAYS The latter provision means that half the personnel will not spend Christmas or New Year's at home. Original plans had been to give half the division furloughs embracing Christmas, the other half furloughs including New Year's. The military reservation and neighboring Wrightstown tonight had their first practice blackout since war began, lasting from 8 P.

M. to 8.30 P. M. 2000 BUILDINGS DARKENED Two fire sirens on the reservation and one at Wrightstown were the signa lfor lights-out in more than of the enlistments, predicted that "our offices will be pushed out to ROYAL S' 'I H. MitiMl charaa far tabaraaa calls, Un al Partar at Oraaw Sarvlca Gaa an additianal aaal.

Irion, of 1539 N.29th,5t., voiced only one regret. "I had wanted to have the boys home with me for she said, "but I guess they will be needed sooner than that." BOYS' TO GO TO NEWPORT At the Navy Recruiting Office, it was indicated that "the boys" Fred, 26; Edward, 24; Perry, 20; and Jamrs, 18 would be sent to the Newport. R. training station before the holiday. All four went to the recruiting offices on Monday night to register.

The elder two were accepted at once but parental consent had to be obtained for the other two. That was why Mrs. Irion made her appearance with the hundreds of applicants yesterday. "I am glad for the opportunity to give my sons," she told Navy officials. "It is for our country.

I have one other son. Christian, 14, and while it remain within their buoyed limits." 12.697 officers and men. the sidewalk soon." the Navy said. Those using Swash PORTABLES I With Cm Other changes included substitu "Actually," Commander Curlee cnannei snouid xouow as closely as tion ot armored cars for scout cars said, "we can't get enough space to Pally saulpptA. Prat take care of the applicants." In ad FUNERAL DIRECTOR The largest of the self-propelled weapons Is the 105-millimeter how Strtlr Unartsue.

Laa BroUl tain, MO50 dition to the regular offices on the 3316 N. BROAD ST. itzer. possible the established navigation ranges," the Navy said. Dr.

James W. Barton, Inquirer writer, tells you in simple, non-technical language, how to keep welL 10th floor of the Custom House, 2d and Chestnut the Navy has moved into part of the Oovernment R. V. SAYERS Caraar lOtk Caatta-t Sts. PES.

1660 Lost or Found? The Lost A Found columns of The Inquirer have located thousands of missing articles. Use an Inquirer want-ad 2000 buildings in the camp, and in hydrographic office, taken over a third floor courtroom and obtained wnen you lose sometning 01 value. Opa Evtninfil possession of the building basement Under an order issued yesterday by Commander Francis K. O'Brien, Chief Inspector of the Third Naval might seem funny for a mother to 31Y! District, the Philadelphia office was ordered to send recruits to the New port, R. Training Station "as fast say it.

if he were 17, 1 know he would go. too." EXPECT GREATER RUSH Mrs. Irion also has two daughters, Dorothy, 28. and Clair. 12.

Her husband is Fred, a salesman. as they can be signed up. Previously, new men were sent to if the training station only on Wednes days of each week. This dramatic Incident in the day's Lieutenant Colonel W. Dulty routine at recruiting offices came as Smith, enlistment officer for the Ma ceMr they prepared for even greater rushes rine Corps here, said his office has flaj tilIHirttlll of enlistees as the result of war dec larations against Germany and Italy.

received approximately 1100 applies tlons since Monday. RECLASSIFICATION OF 17 are underway for the opening of enlistment stations throughout the city and in the suburbs to take care of the anticipated upsurge. (S Members of Local Draft Board 76, of 4744 N. Broad yesterday began jla Tp-'Pfp-Step' 1 Lieutenant Colonel Frederick reclassifying 170 deferred draftees Schoenfeld. in charge of Army enlistments here, disclosed that plans who failed to "make themselves avail able for patriotic services." W.

O. Newman, chairman of the board, said the men are doctors. are underway for the opening of enlistment stations throughout the city and in the suburbs to take care of dentists, medical and dental stu the anticipated upsurge. Since Monday, Army enlistments dents and Internes. At the time they were deferred.

It was understood they would enlist In reserve corps or Special arch Give Generously Save Tremendously! have totaled approximately 2000 Combination fit yesterday, 200 new recruits were sent apply for service In some other way, A AA to EEE Sm pNoaa sook aW Baartst (tote Congress Votes 2d A.E.F., Extension of Draft Due Ti will be combed. Already these men Continued From First Page reserve officers who have been six are registered, and most of them classified. years in either organization. ALL-OUT REGISTRATION From that point on, Hershey said, we must go up or down (in the mat I) Although that was the only Imme Aching Feet? ter of age limits), but I don't know which way well go first. The wise 'H'gqr HmKEllimdledl diate move on the part of draft headquarters.

Brigadier General Lewis B. FIND RELIEF AT 0 approach is to exhaust what we have now, then slowly approach the other age groups." Hershey, Selective Service Director, envisioned eventual registration of Eventually, he Indicated, there all men between the ages of 18 and 64, inclusive. Such all-out registra SECOND Fits I may be a broad, national registration of all males between the ages of 18 and 64, with a considerably narrower limitation for service liability. Men ITrtarEDIC DIPT. ClosaScn GpoMcd Ccl! 0 1312-14 CHESTNUT above and to some extent below the service ages could be classified for Cczrcsal EDyod ELid! SIxcnEx yod rjolfi! other usefulness, principally for home defense and industry.

AIMS TO AVOID SCANDAL r.aoattcn Byod Lamb! As for men of draft age already In tion would give Washington a complete picture of the manpower available for military service, civilian defense and the defense industries. For the moment. General Hershey said, draft headquarters does not expect to go much beyond the 21-to-28 age limits in swelling the Army's ranks. There are about 800,000 men in Class 1-A not now in the Army, he said, although they are certified for military service, and that number does not Include men with dependents or physical defects. 3,000,000 MEN AVAILABLE Altogether, according to Hershey, the draft could call up approximately industry, and deferred because of their value to national defense, they Eiunuzrucaza Qcccocn! DHcxIx Pony! may soon become liable for military ii service, Hershey said, although Selec tive Service officials have no Inten tion of "wrecking industry." mm Hershey hinted at the shipyard and Depend on Fur Outlet to give you beautiful furs like these at such an amazingfy low price! Possible at these savings because they were left for storaae n4 r.rWr.

other scandals of the World War in pointing out that employment in de were traded in. 2,000,000 men between the ages of All reconditioned and remodeled into the but unclaimed. Some latest 1942 fashions! fense industries will not be an avenue 21 and 28 "without digging too deep The gift she Wll treasure most! Choose it now and save. of escape from the draft: "We can't A thorough combing of the lists have anything that smells like 1918, i Hi jtVti srt -il eifectT j5 ti cift St ft AUTOMATIC RECORD L- CHANGER Jt PHONO-RADIO fl OPEN EVERY NITE nrj YOUE2 OLD FURS would stretch that number to about 3,000,000. Ey a "thorough combing" Hershey he remarked.

MORE WORK FOR WOMEN 4 til said he meant calling up men whose Already the leaders of industry have been approached with the idea marriages are comparatively recent, of gradually replacing male workers iu. r.reftu Furt That Uako men whose wives have jobs and men whose bank accounts minimize de with female, and the draft chief pic tured a situation comparable to that pendency as such. BROADER REGISTRATION in England, where able-bodied de fense workers will be replaced by old er men and "rejects" as well as wo men. When this huge pool of manpower is exhausted and it can be made to go still further by lowering the phy sical requirements somewhat, Her w- That women will be needed more and more in furthering the Nation's war effort was confirmed by a War Department call for 10,000 volunteer nurses, to fill existing vacancies And shey pointed out then the lists of men between the ages of 28 and 35 'I those anticipated in the future. li Hershey said there had as yet been no call from the Navy Department for Selective Service men.

At the same time Senator David I. Walsh chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, said 50,000 Selectees soon would be taken into OU CAN CET ml the Navy. me broad registration of men FINE IMPORTED from 18 to 64, as pictured by Her Values to 32! Tax sney, would he accomplished over a period of six to eight months "properly, not haphazardly." Trained SCOTCH AT A Jy 'Sfe' REASONABLE jfiT mi IF Government clerks rather than cl SHE LOVES vilian volunteers probably would Exempt LUXURY! handle the registration. nrnCI A LAMB! "Before long," concluded the draft ass arcivs-'- director, "these outlines may be at? with dw" crystallized in legislation. Although nothing is definite yet, we're working on it.

Right now a change in 0rd 0etf llWaiafl the draft law is a No. 1 project." 10,000 More Nurses Needed By Army ii ,1 111 1 1 Weff fc coats vi II Bltek rich turv-p)u sm.rw st amating Hi fl fWlflflli for WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (A. The Army called for 10,000 recruits for its corps of nurses today to fill your 'mod, own. miiMi to I existing vacancies and those antici pated in the Immediate future.

i I Ml Major General James C. Magee, Surgeon General of the Army, said that both regular Army nurses and reserve nurses were needed. Requirements for both regular jn.iiin IIIMin lllw Army and reserve nurses are virtually 'niminjl trie same except for age limits, the 5-SKIK former being 22 to 30 years, the lat New Ntw SCARFS Kiddies' Brand-New ter 21 to 40. They must be unmarried, citizens of the United States, Fabric Coat.1 Whit Bunny graduates of accredited high schools Evening and of approved nursing schools. For Dyed Rolinsliy I i Acceptable recruits are appointed in the Army nurse corps with the Wraps il ii' il HI relative rank of second lieutenants, Coats Values to $22 Values to $22 YiIdis to $29 and are paid $840 a year plus main' tenance.

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