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PAttfil TWO tIDWAEDSVILLB; INTBtLiaBNClCB TTJEgDAf NOVEMBER Factors Pointed Out For Overland Route To Alaska From U. S. Headquarters, Alaska Defense Command, Nov. 24--U. S.

Army engineers opening the nation's great "frontier today in the construction of an expanding railroad and highway system to crash Alaskan transportation barriers. Here are the latest developments in the military scheme to open Alaska's interior and connect It by overland routes with the United States: 1. U. S. Army location engineers arrived In Eskimo villages nnd Indian camps equipped to plot the tricky surface of tho Interior northland and find the most solid grade to carry railroad to be llnkcc xvlth lines In Canada and the Unit' ed States.

2. The near-completion of 13, 000-foot tunnel--fourth largest on any American railroad--which with a 12-mile cutoff through the Chu gah Mountain range will reduce by 52 miles the haul from the Gul of Alaska to Anchorage and cllm inato a 64-mile mountain spu through heavy snow country. 3. The formal opening of. thi new Alcan highway on Soldier Summit between Whltehorsc, Y.

and Fairbanks. 4. The announcement by the Alaska Highway Commission of the completion of connection between the Richardson highway from Valdez to Fairbanks and the Alcan road. A railroad connection with "the United States always has been an Alaskan dream and last summer, wind-tanned army engineers pushed a survey lint- through the wilds of northern Canada. The survey route remains a military secret, but close-lipped army officers speak of the aid it will give on completion in hauling men and material Alaskan bases and Russia with- the threat of submarines.

The r-nglneers call the project "The Victory Road" nnd willingly face tho of sub-Arctic 1 winter to tho course for the steel rib- 'ion. They cave no indication when Completion of tho proposed line be expected. One party of engineers and civi- I'ans. who helped drive the survey line across spruce-clad wilds of Canada, was busy today building 'wanigans" at one far northern nre small, build ings on sled runners so they" can drawn over the snowy, wind- Blasted wastes. They will serve as bttnkhouses, cook shacks and torprooms nnd will be drawn by tractors with glass-enclosed cabs The grade-seeking job will be as 'Mfficult ns any rail route ever at- empted, engineers concede.

A prl- mry difficulty will be judging the rharacU-r of the soil during the When tundra nnd bog Is 'rozen, they are as firm as well- gravel. ponds nd lakes resemble dry flats, but i lie army says the Job can be done. The Portage-Whittier railroad 'unnell in the glacier-capped Chu- ach mountains was being rushed i) completion. Muj. Gen.

Simon Buckner. commanding officer of 'he Alaska defense command, niched off the blasts that com- leted holing through of the tun- el in a ceremony Friday timed to oinclde i the opening of the 1 lean highway. The '12-mile cutoff, said Buck ner, "will moke iafe from the enemy the single most valuable ortatlon route In the territory of Alaska." The tunnel crews, working from both ends, met Friday after push ng through the two bores under he craggy mountains. Col. Otto Ohlson, manager of the Alaska railroad announced the bores met with a variation of only one-half an inch In elevation and one and an eighth Inches horizontally.

The cutoff will permit a 30 per cent reduction in freight rates to Anchorage and a seven to eight 3er cent reduction to the Fair- jimks area, Ohlson It may, lowever, spell partial economic disaster for Sewnrd since Whittier new town established at the tunnel's mouth on the shore of Prince William Sound, may receive the railroad shops now located at Seward and become the terminus of seaborne traffic to central Alaska Ohlson said construction of the cut-off, which was started" on Nov 19, 1941, was well ahead of sched ule. The total cost of the project will be 95,300,000. FEDERALTM Church Services Thanksgiving Day (Continued from page one) Baker Eddy: "What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire foi growth In grace, expressed in pa tlence, meekness, love, and good deeds. The habitual struggle be always good Is unceasing pray er. Its motives are made manifes the blessings they ngs which, even if not ncknowl edged in audible words, attest our worthiness to be partakers of Love" (p.

4). Roosevelt Plans Special Ser vices To Be Radioed On Thanksgiving. Washington, Nov. 24--President Roosevelt has asked the military and civilian leaders oi the government to attend a service of song and prayer at the White House on Thanksgiving day. Announcing the invitation today, the White House said the services would be In charge of the Revt Howard S.

Wilkinson, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, which is Roosevelt's Washington Church affiliation. Invited to attend the services, which will be broadcast, are members of the Cabinet, Army and Navy chiefs, head of governmental agencies, Supreme Court and congressional leaders. This group will duplicate, to a large extent, the attendance each March 4 at church services at which the President has observed the anniversary oi his first inauguration. There will be no sermon, and the Thanksgiving services will open with the President reading the pro- Pro-Axis Evacuees A Cause Of Trouble In Camp For Five Day Parker, Nov.

24--A defiant group of pro-Axis Japnese evacuees who clamation in which he called upon community government fiVf days ago and terrorited workers to bring about a complete shutdown operations in the largest of three units at the Postpn Relocation Centeiy were quelled today. Wade Head, superintendent of the center, who announced the disturbances had ended, declined to say what method was used or What was done with the recalcitrants whom he 'described as'a "small but well-organized pro-Axis group." He did disclose, however, that military police in restoring order at Unit No. 1, where the agitators had barricaded themselves at. the community jail. Last nigh' they flew banners bearing Japanese characters and blared forth Japanese martial music over some sort of loud-speaker equipment.

Norris James, public relations and intelligence officer, said the the nation to observe the day as one of prayer. Germans Enraged Over Dakar Loss Petain Appeals PRESIDENT OF ECUADOR SPEAKS FOR DEMOCRACY Washington, Nov. 24--President Carlos Arroyo Del Rio of Ecuador saoid In an address to members.of the House of Representatives today that "there is no doubt that the cause of democracy and justice is ours and we arc fighting together to preserve this for our countries." Arroyo, who was the honored guest at a state dinner at the White House said that western hemisphere nations, "unable to be satisfied only with winning of the war." also are interested in the pence, "and to that end shall after the war share the benefits of unity of all the Americas." Among the flags of countries fighting for liberty and freedom Arroyo said, is that of Ecuador, and he expressed the hope that the United States would recognize that his country was "loyal, fraternal 'and strong in united efforts'lwith the United States." Later Arroyo attended a luncheon given by the Pan American Union. AUTO OWNERS REQUIRED TO STATE OCCUPATIONS (Continued from Page One) column, a light armored unit, but repelled it, reports said. Other African reports said Admiral Dnrlan had ordered all French warships and merchant vessels at Dakar to remain there while he dispatches a special staff to Dakar to organize the port for full co-operation with the Allies.

Moscow, Nov. 24--A great and possibly decisive tank battle raged in the area west of Stalingrad today as battered German forces, foreseeing entrapment in an iron ring forged by the Red Army, sought to rally for a counter-attack. (The German high command admitted today thnt the Russians penetrated defenses southwest of Stalingrad and on the Don river bend, but said Nazi counter measures were in progress. The com- munique complained of unfavorable weather but said "several hun- troublemakers originally protested arrest of two men who partici ated in gang fights between aliens and American-born evacuees. They were charged with beating anbth er resident of the camp.

Taking advantage of the excite men thus created in the mile square camp, which has more than 8500 residents, the recalcitrant seized the so-called City Council or local government, normally made up of American-born citi zens. Trough a reign of terror they forced 6500 workers, most them youths and women, to qui their jobs. city of Stalingrad, were taken pris oner. Booty was in proportion. In one Stalingrad segment alon the Russians annihilated a com plete, fully equipped infantry di vision of 12,000 which had arrive at the front recently.

Within tew hours the same Soviet unit annihilated the bulk of another vision and the survivors abandon ed their arms and ammunition i flight. The Russian winter was giving the Germans a taste of disaster also. The entire steppe was frozen and blanketed with snow. Large German and Rumanian units miserably clad, with blankets wrapped over their shoulders and handkerchiefs over their faces to A Mock Battle, But Shells Are Real Tanks of the armored force at Fort Knox, Kentucky, engage in combat practice using live ammunition in one of the greatest chows of armored fire power ever staged. Most of tanks are M-4's, which ire distinguishing themselves in North Africa.

(NEA Telepboto.) EDWARDSVIUE BRIEFS MOID Evangelical Church. Dfcing the vacancy of the St. John Evangelical Church at Moro, the Rev. H. U.

Rahn has taken charge until a new pastor is selected. On Thanksgiving day forenoon services will be- conducted at 10 a. m. "God's Bounties in Spite of Man's Lack of Gratitude." The theme for the coming Sunday: "Christ's Advent Call of His Mercies." Confirmation school with eight members will be held every Saturday forenoon. Receive Word From Son.

Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Starkey received word from their son Darrell, that he is well and had arrived safely over seas.

He is with the U. S. Merchant Marine. Starkey told his parents that he had met Harold Meikamp, also of this Navy Says Japs Make Plans For Renewed Attack (Continued from Page One), city, and that they had a conversation. long Patient in Hospital.

Mrs. Hugh 400 Street, was taken to the Litch- Hospital on Saturday, to undergo an operation. Walter Otto Froehling, 40, brother of Mrs. Haupt and uncle of Herbert, a truck driver and musician whose home was on the Gestapo list as a possible headquarters for the submarine-borne saboteurs. His wife, Lucille Froehling, 32, the mother of two children, Gordon, 6, end Esther, 8.

The children have been cared for by a neighbor since their parents were arrested last June 28. Otto Richard Wergin, 46, world war sailor in the Gorman navy, who, the government charged, offered to help Herbert by doing undercover work. His wife, Kate, 43, mother of two children, Irene, 19, and Wolfgang, 21, who fled the United States with young Haupt, in 1941 nd now is a member of the German army. drecl enemy tanks were destroyed). out the biling wind) roam ed the wind-swept steppes and often surrendered without fight, the newspaper said.

Information will be compiled during the coming winter on purposes automobile owners are using theii cars It was revealed here Tuesday when a number of persons who have same numbers reassigned annually obtained forms to make applications for their 1943 license plates. The blanks are in the same general form of other years and the special information is requested under "Remarks." The notice to motorists Issued by Secretary of State Edward J. Hughes states that the Office ot Defense Transportation wishes to know the occupation in which the registrants are engaged. Information of this nature wns not previously asked. WILDEY ENDS TONITE "EAGLE SQUADRON" and "MR.

BUG GOES TO TOWN" WEDNESDAY ONE DAY ONLY Ellery Queen's Greatest Case! The Soviet, offensive gained momentum. One army pushing southward, reached the village of Po- godinsky, well inside the bend of the river Don, in a drive to achieve junction with Russian forces hammering their way westward from Kalach. A third army, advancing from southern sectors, cut railroad to Rostov and rolled on the southeast. The German attempt at a counter attack was having little success. One entire German division was reported exterminated in single brief operation when it tried to cut off the Soviet wedge northwest of Stalingrad.

The Russians beat off the counter assault while other forces struck the enemy flanks and encircled the division. Another German division met a similar fate. The inspired Russians gave the Nazis a foretaste of their peril in four days of fighting, during which 26,000 Germans were killed while another 1,000, fighting inside the Misery of I'o relieve COLDS 666 LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS COUQH DROPS ESSENTIAL SHIP, PLANE WORKERS CAN'T ENLIST Washington, Nov. 24--The government today prohibited voluntary enlistment in the armed forces by any essential worker in the aircraft and shipbuilding industries. The action was seen as a compromise answer to demands among federal manpower agencies that all voluntary enlistments be stopped.

Acting after approval had been obtained from the War and Navy Departments, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, instructed local draft boards by telegram to refuse releases for enlistment to essential aircraft or shipbuilding workers. May Undergo Operation.

New York, Nov. 24 Premier Mussolini of Italy is considering an operation for stomach ulcers, reliable information from the continent said last night. Mussolini's stomach trouble developed about four years ago, these independent sources with Axis connections said. A recent diagnosis disclosed the ulcers which are said not to be serious at. the present stage.

AWOUffi CHANS Wonderful Llnlmanl EDWARDSV1LLE Showing Thursday Friday Saturday MATINEE THANKSGIVING DAY 446 wrote ttoryl The government proved to the 210 Garden street, and will remain satisfaction of a jury of eight wo- Stationcd at Camp Grant. Pvt. Theodore M. Snider, son oC Mr. and Mrs.

Wilson Snider, is raining in the Medical Corps at Camp Grant, 111. 3 Sentenced To Die For Helping Spy From (Continued from Page One) communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said the Australian units already were advancing upon Sanananda, a native village about 12 miles by land southeast of Gona and five miles northwest of Buna. MacArthur's statement that 'heavy resistance around Buna itself continues" was underlined by this Allied column's gain of about 550 yards in one day's lighting. Occupation of Cape Endaiadere gave the Americans an important advantage since they can now pound the main Japanese positions in and around Buna with artillery from the east ns well as from the south and west.

There was no further report on an American unit previously reported a mile northwest of Buna. It appeared that the Allies would make a major attack on Sananan- da, which was not only threatened from the northwest by the Australians, but also by an Australian- American column driving up from the southwest after branching off near Soputa. men and four men that all the defendants aided Haupt in full that ne was back in his own country from Germany to blow up aluminum plants, spy out war secrets in the optical industry, and otherwise wreck the American war effort. The women dabbed at their eyes with handkerchiefs and looked helplessly at their husbands. Two doctors and special deputies with smelling salts standing be- ilnd the defendants ready for an emergency proved unnecessary.

The fifty spectators who crowded into the courtroom, leaving an overflow of hundreds in the halls of the federal building, maintained a dead silence as Campbell read his three-page opinion, concluding Illinois' first and the nation's biggest treason case. wv uVi REGULAR CLOSING TIME 5:30 P. M. FOR OTHER BUSINESS DAYS STORES OPEN WEDNESDAY Nov. 25 Until 5:30 P.

M. 'CLOSED THE ENTIRE DAY THANKSGIVING Bdmurdivilto DivMon of tho Ouunber of Commerce yjl for 4-Cent Overcharge. Ran Diego, 4-cent overcharge for a half-pound of bacon --a 27-cent transaction--cost two merchants $77 yesterday when they settled the city's first civi.l suit seeking damages alleged violation of ceiling prices; QUICKLY CHASE ACID Indigestion Distress This Proven Way! 'wien dMlMieii dltcomlorl ol over- mid atoxnaah alter toting or drinking, be turn promptly me iamoui STUART TABLETS lontaining calcium and magnesium' cat- widely uie'd by docton id help give dtUom; Delicious, pleaiant No bat- It, no Try STUART TABIETS with, out delay. "At ill, drag ttarta Me, 60c and (1.20 under maker'a money-back DEATHS AND FUNERALS Edward John Morgan. Edward John Morgan, 'World War veteran, died Monday morning at 5 a.

m. at the Veterans Hospital at Jefferson Barracks, Mo He had been suffering from a heart ailment for the past five years. Mr. Morgan was born at Ottawa, 111., on August 10, 1889 and at the time of his death hac reached the age of 53 years, three months and 13 days. His parents died while he was quite young and he made his home, with an uncle and aunt, Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Morgan. He was united in marriage to Miss Clara Burns in this city, on February 6, 1923, at th St. Mary church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs Clara Morgan; two sons, John am William; one brother, William, Chicago, and the aunt with whom he made his home after his par ents' death, Mrs.

Margaret Mor gan of Chicago. The body is at the residence, TO EXTEND LIFE Geriatrics May Assist To Prolong Human Life Long Beyond 65 Years. PLAN TO EXTERMINATE POLISH JEWS REPORTED London, Nov. 24--Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi Gestapo; has ordered that one-half of the Jewish population in occupied Poland be exterminated by the end of the year, reports from the Polish un derground movement to the Polish government-in-exile here said today. The first step in the program, It was said, would be to kill 50 per cent of the thousands of Jews living in ghettoes established by the Nazis.

The remainder would be "liquidated" later. There were 3,113,900 Jews, or 9.8 per cent of the total population in Poland, according to the 1931 census, but the Germans have reduced this number by killing thousands outright or permitting them to die of starvation and disease. there until the time of 'the service. Services will. be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock, at the St.

Mary church, with Rev. P. P. McGuinness officiating. Burial will be in the St.

Mary cemetery. Samuel Jacob Stone. Samuel Jacob Stone was found dead in his room, 906 N. Main street, Sunday morning. He was born June in White Hall, III.

An inquest will be held at a later date. E. P. Schneider, deputy coroner, is trying to locate relatives of Mr. Stone and ho asks that anyone knowing anything about Mr.

Stone notify him. Funeral arrangements have not been made. 'Ration Plan Worked Out Minneapolis, Nov. 24--The new medical science of geriatrics, answering the wartime call for older workers, has set out to stretch the prime of man's life into the 60 and 70 year old age brackets, a study by the Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. reveals.

The work of geriatrics is to pro- tect the normal, healthy aging process, the report' says, explaining that there is no reason why the average man or woman cannot be vigorous, happy and successful at 65, 70 or even 80. The study finds that of approximately 18,000,000 American men 45 or older, 14,000,000 are now at work. But of the remaining 4,000,000, three men out of four are unfit to work because of ill health or other disability, and many of the 14,000,000 can give only limited service. The report shows that while millions more Americans now- live to the age of 65 and beyond, Jiere been little improvement in their general health after 50. The average life span is' longer because of medical achievements of infancy and youth, consequently there has been a steady increase in the number of helpless disabled oldsters in the United States.

Diet fads and psychology are two important contributory causes to premature aging, the study says. Many men, reaching the age of 60 or 65, take it for granted they are "washed up," and the life insurance firm's study shows that this attitude itself brings on a rapid decline. The report suggests, also that if a normal, appetizing diet disagrees with the older person, he needs a doctor, not some freakish diet suggestion by well meaning friends. Meuical research in preventive geriatrics is now underway to develop a program of special health education for persons between 40 and 60, the report says, so they will take proper care of themselves during that vital period of preparation for normal, healthy aging. Indicated for the near futture, the study shows, is the development of special vocational education for the they can take advantage of their changing powers and retain their independence.

The report says the importance of geriatrics is revealed in the fact that in 1900, persons 45 years old or over in the United States comprised slightly over one-sixth of our entire population, while in 1940 this age group had expanded to include more than one-fourth of the total population. Between 1930 and 1940, the report says, U. S. population 65 or over rose from 6,600.000 to nearly 9,000,000, an increase of 35 per cent, while the general population was increasing only 7 per cent. So with industries cJemandingN more and more workers, the report concludes, the medical science of geriatrics may be able to do for older people what the science of pedriatrics did for youth.

(Continued from 1 age One) business concerns and to relieve local boards of an increaing clerical burden was made on the basis of a succcessful test of the plan in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area of New York. Thirty-three banking offices are co-operating in the test which began October 28 and will continue until it is merged with the national program. 10,000 CANADIAN FORD EMPLOYES GO ON STRIKE Windsor. Ont, Nov. 24--Approximately 10,000 employes of the Ford Motor of Canada went in strike today in protest against hiring of women at a wage less than that paid men on similar jobs.

Harry Rowe, assistant regional UAW-CIO director for Canada, said all 10,000 workers at the company's No. 1 plant left their jobs and it Henderson said the test in New was "a safe assumption" that an- York had confirmed OPA's judgment that banks were able to handle the missions of ration documents that are exchanged monthly setter than the local ration boards and that they are better able to safeguard ration paper. FUGITIVE MAY TRY TO SAVE KILLER TONI JO Houston, Nav. 24--Police of Texas and Louisiana had orders to shoot it out today with Claude (Cowboy) Henry, a convicted killer, who they believe is ready to take a life or death gamble to free Ton! Jo Henry, his wife, from a Lake Charles, prison cell where she will die Saturday for a murder of her own. Henry and another desperado, Clyde Byers, escaped from the Central State Prison Farm near Houston: yesterday, roaring past firing guards in a stolen truck and dodging' a hail of bullets.

Lux Theatre TONITE THRU THURSDAY--ADMISSION 15o and Me, TAX INC. THE PICTURE OF THE YEAR GARY COOPER, BABE RUTH IN I Of THE A THE STORY OF THE INTIMATE LITE OF LOU OEHRIO 1 NEWS EVENTS LOAN RATES ON CORN RANGE TO 89 CENTS Nov. 24--The Agriculture Department today announced loan rates ranging from 73 to 89 cents a bushel on the 1942 corn crop in 15 commercial-producing states. The rates, based on 85 per cent of parity, average about six cents a. bushel higher than last year in the corn belt states.

Loans side the commercial area will varyj other 2,000 on the night shift also would not work. "They locked the gates," he said. Company officials had no -om- mcnt on the situation. Rowe asserted that the Ford management hired women in violation of an agreement reached between the company and union before the Antaria war labor board that no Windsor plant would hire women workers without 'consulting the union pending settlement ot the wage issue. BRITISH TAKE AGEDABIA 00 MILES PAST BENGAZI from 57 to 74 cents a bushel.

AH loan rates are based on corn grading No. 3 or better, except for moisture content and test weight. The rate for corn grading mixed will be two cents less per bushel. The loans through the Commodity Credit Corporation will mature oii; Aug. 1.

1945, or earlier on Corn may-be redeemed Cairo, Nov. 24--British Eighth Army forces have occupied Age- dabi 90 miles beyond Be hisrzi on the Libyan coast, a middle-eastern headquarters communique 'said today. Contact is being maintained with the Germans, who are continuing their withdrawal toward El Aghei- la, 70 miles to the southwest and only miles fiom Tunisia, the communique said. In the interior desert British forces occupied the important Ja- any time during the loan Ooasis, 150 miles south-southeast upon payment of the loan, plus of Agedabia, after its abandonment three per cent annual DR.A.J.RUST.Jr. DENTIST 107-208 Commercial Uldg.

114 N. Bth at OUT KiOto Ewton, WelUton 8121 8. Grand 1726 Cherokee St St. Louis, by the fleeing Axis forces. -TV Stalin Leads in Write-in Vote Los Angeles, Nov.

24--Those L'os Angeles county voters who wrote in.names for governor at the Nov. 3 election balloted as followes, the official canvass disclosed: Errol Flynn, 17 votes; ship-builder Henry J. Kaiser, 83; character actor Edward Arnold, 11, and Stalin, 599. vWSPAFER?.