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I THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Saturday, Ce. 30. 1944 3 NICK OF TIME Chinese Go GIs SIDETRACKED CRACK SAFE, British Thrust ON ROAD BACK Federal Court To Hear Ward's Dispute Jan. 8 CHICAGO. Dec.

29. (UP) Montgomery Ward Company's dispute with the Army over Kovernment seizure of its facilities in seven ties headed for the courts today as Sewelf Avery, militant chairman rf the board of directors, charged that President Roosevelt was in-okmc neizure Dowers when and where he pleased. Garage Operator Is Indicted on Lottery Charges Wesley Barron, alias Fred Martin, 44-year-old garage operator, has been indicted by the Fulton county grand jury on 15 charges of operating a lottery from August, 1943, through December, 1944. Back Onto Home Soil Secures Over Half oi Athens Two. 111.

Barely Miss Starvation By KEELER McCAKTNET. Becoming alarmed when they ATHENS, Dec. 29. (Brit LEAVE WEEPING Instead of a vast pile of cash, yeggmen who punched a safe in the offices of the Atlanta Coal Company, 100 Powell street. S.

got an eyeful of something else. In fact, they got both eye full, and left rather hurriedly, according to Detectives L. L. Hause and A. W.

Lyle, who said there was no loss. The detectives reported the safe was equipped with a tear gas bomb, which exploded when the combination dial was knocked off. reaerai judge fnuip suinvsn set January 8 for a hearing on tbe Two soldiers, now on 90-day furloughs at the Porterdale Mills, are anything but happy on their new emergency jobs producing cotton duck for the Army. The soldiers. Pfc.

Joseph W. Boland, of Newberry. S. and Pvt. Eugene J.

Fritz, of Kannapolis, N. were in the process of being ordered to Separation Centers for discharges when their 90-day furlough orders came through sending them to Porterdale for cotton mill work. Now Boland and Fritz are wondering if they will be given discharges after completion of the mill furloughs. Sultan's Command Captures Loiwing, Approaches Wanting government's petition for an The grand jury returned the found an accumulation of newspa-papers on the porch, neighbors ish forces now hold more than half of Athens and have acquired Piraeus, harbor area of the embattled Greek capital, as a solid base for operations against the ELAS, true bill after general present junction restraining the company from interfering with the Army's called police to the home of Mrs. ments, wnicn urged further apprehension of "big shot" lottery operation of the plant.

Govern Rebecca Lutz, 52, of 75 Bass By the Associated Press. ment and company attorneys ap John A. Bankston, Retired Carrier, Dies at Ben Hill John A. Bankstori. 67, of Ben operators, were read.

Chinese troops under Lt. Gen. it was announced tonight. street, and found Mrs. Lutz and her son, Harry, 32, critically ill Daniel Sultan's command in Bur parently had agreed to make the suit a test case to determine ti Barron, who is more commonly King George of Greece con as the result of food poisoning known in Atlanta as Fred Martin, ma have crossed the border into China and captured Loiwing, ferred with Prime Minister validity of the Smith-Connally and malnutrition.

was reported to be out of town and to decide if the executive de Mrs. Lutz and her son told Churchill in London tonight after when the indictment was re where an American-Chinese aircraft factory was situated before partment of the government has turned. Grady hospital physicians they were stricken violently ill last the latter had reported to the British war cabinet on the results the Japanese overran Burma. The indictment was immediate any jurisdiction in labor disputes. Business went on as usual at Ward's Chicago plant today.

It The Chinese troops crossed into Saturday after eating some of his personal intervention in the Greek civil war, an official corned beef and that they had ly transferred to the criminal court of the county, and Solicitor Lindley W. Camp said he would not been able to summon help. China in a 10-mile drive which carried them within 30 miles of Wanting, Burma road town now under siege by other Chinese announcement said. King George came to see Churchill and they loan's Lavyer Blacks Chaplin Early yesterday morning, Mrs set a date for trial as soon as Mar Will, retired rural mjnl carrier and rrother of H. Burtor, Bankston, of Atlanta, died yesterday at his home.

I Funeral services be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow at the Ben Hill Methodist churth. The Rev. Frank Quillian will officiate.

Burial, under the direction of Awtry M. S. Davis and C. H. Baxter, was payday in the mail order department and the checks were signed by a company official.

Army officers reported that approximately 1,500 striking mem remained together a "considerable tin is arrested. Phaleron road, thus strengthening their grasp on the city's environs. Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrived back in Britain today following their conferences in Athens seeking to end the civil strife. They immediately convened the war cabinet to report on the situation. Churchill and Eden are expected to confer shortly with King George of Greece and urge him to accede to the appointment of a regency.

forces pushing from China. neighbors, became suspicious According to his record at the time," the report said. No other details were given, although they For many Chinese soldiers it when they noticed an accumula county and city identification bu tion of newspapers in front of the reaus, Barron was first arrested in In Final Plea undoubtedly discussed the question of a Greek regency. Lutz residence. They summoned Detroit, in 1930, and brought back to Cedartown to face Radio Patrolmen V.

H. Whitley bers of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes' Union (CIO) had returned to work at Ward's stores in the Detroit area but refused to say British paratroopers and Greek LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29. (JP) a murder charge. He was released and J.

L. Pope, who broke into the home. They found Mrs. Lutz national guard ists. supported by tank' and armored car units, com Joseph Scott, a 77-year-old church was their first time on Chinese soil since they retreated out of Burma into India with Gen.

Joseph Stilwell. JAPS COUNTERATTACK Japanese troops, evidently ordered to fight to the death to keep the Burma road supply route closed to the Allies, have opened a series of counterattacks against when the evidence proved insuf ficient. man-lawyer, recited passages from in her bed, while her son was ly. ine on the floor in the kitchen. the Bible, quoted pleted an important phase in the drive to clear the capital by pushing ELAS groups back from a secondary highway that runs through When last arrested by police in 1941, Barron gave his address as They said they had not been able to obtain water or nourish told the story of Mary Magdalene, Rome, and hn? occupation as ment since being stricken.

and finally wound up with the tale salesman. However, police report ine industrial west side of Athens from Omonia square to the harbor. Taken immediately to Grady Lowndes, will be in Ben Hill crrretery. He is survived by his wife; two nrs. Burton Bankston.

of the Nvy. and Taul D. Bankston. of the Army; three daughters. Miss Frances Bankston.

Mrs. P. Jonge-ma. Mrs. Frank Martin, another brother.

W. A. Bankston; four sisters, Mrs. A. R.

Marbut, Misses Sara, Bessie and Juua Bankston; a brother-in-law, P. Wood; seven grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. He was a membei of Ben Hill J.Tasnic lodge and Ben Hill Meth-ewit church. of Svengali and Trilby today in an hours-long plea to convince a that he has been, operating a ga rage on North avenue, near Bou hospital, their condition was reported as critical. Their condi jury that Movie Comic Charles levard, since then.

Chinese forces 'hear Wanting, it is announced. All have been repulsed, said a Chinese military spokesman. The main enemy blows were delivered in the vicinity of the Japanese- tion. Dhvsicians said, had been ag Chaplin is the father of Joan Ber Solicitor Camp described him gravated by the lack of water and ry's baby. Hotel Gives $1,000 To Hoke Smith Fund The Piedmont hotel has given $1,000 to the Hoke Smith Memorial Foundation, established to assist in educating 4-H Club and FFA members in Georgia, L.

R. Siebert. secretary of the board of regents, announced yesterday. The hotel also gave $1,000 to the University of Georgia Foundation and $1,000 to the Georgia Tech Foundation, Siebert reported. whether the Army had taken over the company's books there.

Meanwhile Atty, Gen. Biddle, in Washington, said Avery was "perfectly harmless" and there would be no attempt to evict him forcibly as was done when the government seized Ward's Chicago facilities last April. An Army spokesman said Avery would remain free to operate the more than 600 Ward outlets net included in the seizure order. Avery claimed, however, that none of Ward's properties had been turned over to the government and that the only way to keep him out would be to throw him out or "fence" him out. yesterday as the "biggest lottery nourishment.

The physicians said Scott, referring to Chaplin. operator and racketeer in At shouted such epithets as "master lanta. held village of Mangpeng, 12 miles the mother and son had just about reached the limit of human en This roadway wrested from the ELAS now forms a rough boundary for British-held territory lying between Athens and Piraeus. The fighting between these two points except for sporadic sniping has moved to the northwest sector of this "line." The British completed clearing of the southeastern suburbs of Athens and the capital's east main line communications along the mechanic in the art of seduction," "cheap cockney cad," "gray-head durance without water when their slight was discovered. "He has operated the largest bug outfit in this area for several years," Camp said, "and also has a large share in the illegal liquor ed old buzzard" and "this fellow with the instincts of a young bull." Neither Chaplin nor Miss Berry business." was in the courtroom.

northeast 01 wanting. The spokesman said Japanese garrisons along the dwindling enemy-held stretch of the highway plainly were prepared to die to prevent military supplies from reaching Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese armies on the overland route from India. Indian and British troops advancing southward in central Burma and down the western Burma Immediately upon being admitted to the hospital, nurses were ordered to give Mrs. Lutz and her son only a few drops of water at a time.

Later in the day they were given a small amount of milk. Physicians said He characterized Miss Berry. 24. 44 Chaplin former drama student as a "wretched girl, aflame with Frank Blackwell. Contractor; Dies Frank C.

BlackweM. 68, of 567 Forrest road. N. retired building contractor, died, early yesterday at hm home. the glamor of Hollywood," and as it will be several days before they 'Avery Is Harmless Says Atty.

Gen. Biddle WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (UD "a girl of limited intelligence. COME TO CHURCH Atlanta Churches Invite You Navy Boasts 61.045 Vessels Now on Hand can have all the water and nour acoit conceded mat both were ishment they want.

blameworthy in the event which Sewell Avery will be permitted he said culminated in the birth of coast made steady advances agninst moderate to stiff Japanese resistance, it was reported from Southeast Asia Command head Jt Jt Funeral nervtres will hp held at Carol Ann. "Both were guilty, only Chaplin stay in his Montgomery Ward of fice this time because he is "per fectly harmless," Atty. Gen. Bid die said today. 7 p.

m. tomorrow at, Spring Hill, with Elder George D. GoddarVt WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.

(JP) quarters at Kandy, Ceylon. TWO JIMA BOMBED is a man old enough to be her father," he said. THE BAPTIST TABERNACLE 152 Luckie Street, N. W. Dr.

Paul S. James. Pastor The Navy today called on Amer "He was always harmless," he "At his age, you'd think he had Chatty Martin Resigns Post as U. S. Prosecutor ican industry and labor to con American bombers made their something better to do." tinue into 1945 "their magnificent twenty-first consecutive daily at support of our combatant and am tack on Iwo Jima, Japanese air phibious forces." base 750 miles south of Tokyo, The nation's productive energy, Adm.

Nimitz announced yesterday, Day of Prayer 9 A. M. to Midnlrht 10:50 A. M. "A Midnight Battle." 7:30 P.

M. "Go Down Captain." 11-12 P. M. Watchnight Service. since the outbreak of the war, al while the Nipponese broadcast ac counts of a big United States con The resignation of Raymond Chatty) Martin, as assistant dis U.

S. Hospital Bombed by Nazis. said. "I guess we are following a new technique this time." Biddle agreed with Avery that the WLB orders carry no compulsion and constitute mere recommendations. But, he said, employers generally have accepted the board's directives and President Roosevelt found that Avery's defiance was a threat to the war effort.

"Avery simply isn't playing the game," he added. ready has provided the largest navy in the world to fight the trict attorney, has been received voy heading westward through most extended war in history, the Mindanao sea. Philippines. department said in a year-end re Liberators from the Marianas and accepted, M. Neil Andrews, district attorney, has announced, His successor will be named later nd the Rev.

Walter Blackwell officiating. Burial will be in West View cemetery. He is survived by shis wife; two fnns. Sanford J. Blackwell, of St.

Louis, and Sgt. arter Black-veil, of the Army, stationed in New Mexico; thre daughters, Claude M. Ycungblood, of Decatur; WAC Lt. AHene B. Condon, stationed in and Mrs.

Frank Traber, of Grenada, snd five brothers, M. and W. L. Blackwell, of Canton, the Rev. Walter M.

Blackwell, of Tay-lorsville, D. and K. S. Blackwell, of Atlanta. Born in Cherokee county, the son of the late Rev.

Sanford J. Blackwell, of Cherokee county, he had resided here for 40 years. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist church. port on naval production. struck Iwo Jima Wednesday (U.

The new year will start with time) in continuation of an intense Martin, of LaGrange, served for five years as assistant to Andrews. 61,045 vessels on hand to meet neutralization campaign against the source of Japanese air attacks and defeat the enemy, more than 54,000 being landing craft and as on the U. S. Superfort base at While in office he prosecuted over 6,500 selective service cases in federal courts here, and figured in many well-known government liti CAPITOL VIEW BAPTIST 1332 Stewart S. W.

W. LEE CUTTS, Pastor 11:00 A. M. "Our Invisible Resources. 7:30 P.

M. Program by Our Young People. 11:00 P. M. Watchnight Service.

9:30 A. M. Bible School. 6:15 P. M.

Training Union. sault ships. Killing Fifteen AN ADVANCED FIELD HOSPITAL IN BELGIUM, Dec. 29. (UP) Two German Junkers-88 bombers blasted this hospital to pieces early Wednesday afternoon, killing 15 persons and wounding more than 50, in the third attack on the hospital in three days.

An Saipan. The raiders met heavy antiaircraft fire, but all returned During the year now ending. 39,971 new vessels were added to home safely. Mrs. Ashby To Speak "Making Life a New and Better Edition Mentally and Physically" will be the subject of a talk by Mrs.

Rose Mae Ashby at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Ansley hotel. gation cases. He first entered the district attorney's office as assistant to Lawrence Camp, then district attorney.

Japanese imperial headquarters Friday (U. S. time) reported an the fleet, including 420 combatant ships, 640 patrol and nine craft, 630 auxiliaries, 37,724 landing American convoy of 30 transports in the Mindanao sea was under crart, and 557 district craft. These totaled 5,457,490 tons, bringing the present fleet tonnage to 11,707,000. What the Catholic Church Is and What She Teaches A STATEMENT OF CATHOLIC DOCTRINE PAMPHLET MAILED ON REQUEST Address: 2699 Peachtree Road.

N. Atlanta, Ga. constant Nipponese air attack which had sunk six transports In commenting on Martins resignation, Andrews declared him "an excellent assistant, in fact one of my best. I regret very much his resignation." and damaged two more. All ujese ambulance of another field hospital, evacuating battle front casualties, was bombed not far away.

Two 500-pound bombs struck the brick hospital building be claims were without American ii I mi I1 ii ii ill Thene programs are given in Central War Time and are subject to change by 'the stations or nettcorks without notice, Mrs. Eisenhower confirmaton. The communique broadcast by Gertrude Stein Denies Son's To Wed Tokyo radio said the convoy en tween two giant red crosses. Patients, nurses and surgeons were buried under debris. tered the Mindanao sea through SATURDAY MORNING FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST PEACHTREE AT I5TH N.

t. Services at 11 A. M. Also 5:30 P. M.

Sunday School 11 A. M. Testimonial Meeting. Wednesday. P.

M. READING ROOM 720 Mortgage Guarantee Bldt. Dally 9 A. M. to 9 P.

M. Wednesday 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.

Sunday 3:30 to 5 P. M. Returns to Paris FORT BENNING, Dec. 29. the Surigao strait, between Leyte UP) Mrs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. USB 750 and Mindanao islands. PARIS. Dec.

29. (V) Back In wife of the Allied supreme com WATL 1400 "Silent Silent WGST0 "i'Mlilinl SO Silent WAG A 590 Silan? SunriM Gospel B-29 HIT HONSHU Nwi and Music Georgia Jubilee mander in the European theater, scotched the rumor today that she American Superfortress bomb raris after living among the Maquis near Lyon during the occupation, Gertrude Stein and her secretary, Alice B. Toklas, found their most distressing problem to ers kept the Tokyo-Yokohama and was here to attend the marriage oi ner son, Lt. John Eisenhower Georgia Jubilee Georgia Jubilee Dixie Farm Hour Dixie Farm Hour running Cope Channing Cope Newt Western Muiic OC Sundial; Constitution :15 Sundial Dm Reamer :5 Sundial Newt; M'ning an Morning Man Morning Man Morning Man Kobe-Osaka industrial areas of Honshu island under frequent alarm in 24-hour night and early "How rumors get started." she Visibility was perfect. The Germans had scored near misses in their first two tries at the hospital and attaches are convinced the Germans are going all out in ruthless warfare during their offensive, in which they already had massacred American prisoners and butchered women, children and old men found in recaptured towns.

Killed In the bombing were seven members of the hospital staff. Including the adjutant, three patients, two civilian employes and three members of a tank exclaimed. "Why, I'm here just as day was trying to get telephone service restored in their left-bank any other mother would be, to flat. spend Christmas with my son World Newt (C Merry-Qo-Reund Merry-Go-Round Niwi Agrontky Newt (B)Newt; M'ning Man Parade ef Banda Cliff Cameron Newt Service Salutt Ovtrnii Newt Service Stlute 7:00 Newt ef World (C) 7:11 Renfre Valley (C) 7 JO Sundial 7 Newe; Sundial The enigma of the literary world not to attend his wedding." Lt. r.isenhower.

only child of has not been in the United States since her lecture tour in 1935, and morning vlsitf, Tokyo radio said Friday (U. S. time). Incendiaries were dropped by single B-29. which made three appearances over south-central Honshu, the enemy broadcast said.

Kobe and Osaka are located on this part of the big island, which Gen. and Mrs. Eisenhower, has has no immediate plans now for a SPECIAL NOTICE TO SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN and others with personal problems CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH at Ponce de Leon and Piedmont Desiring to serve as largely as possible during this wartime, offers the services, without charge, of Us minister THE REV. THOMAS ANDERSON, D. I).

as a PERSONAL COUNSELOR Telephone VErnon 8381 for Appointment Th Sacramant pf "Tha Lard's Supper" will be calibrated Sunday, 11 A. M. with Or. Anderson preaching. been taking special training at Fort Benning for several months.

return, but she said as soon as she was settled again in Paris, she 00 News (C) It Muneil Pictures News: ftunditi Sundial 00 Youth Fi7at I II Youth on Parade (C) .10 Mary Lee 45 Taylor Heme In BreaktMt Club Newt; M'ning Man What I' Make It Breakfast Club (B) Morning Man Gene Samples Breakfast Club (B) Good Morning Man war Means to Me Breakfast Club (B) Morning Man Sport Stories Fannie Hurst News; Interlude Sports Stories (N Presents (B) Familiar Tunes Cmd Day What's Cooking (B) Radio Revival Musical Melodiet What's Cooking (B)Radio Revival company who had gone to the hospital to bathe. If the bombs had dropped 30 Army Asks Cotton Mills To Work New Year's minutes earlier they would have hit between 400 and 500 patients then in the dining room. Congregational Chaplain Charles B. Hastie, Grand Rapids, The Army has. requested more than a hundred cotton mills throughout the southeast and Texas, to continue their normal Newt; Melodiet Hendley Hendley Melodies 10:00 KC Jamboree (N) to IS Let Pretend C) KC Jamboree (N) Billie Burke (C) Smilin' Ed N) 10 .4 Billie Burke Smilin" Ed (N) Land of the Lest To Announce Chatham Shopper has been a frequent target of Saipan-based Superforts.

In the north Burma theater Indian troops captured three Japanese-held villages in the Mayu river valley and continued their advance east of the Mayu mountains. British 14th Army units moved southward nine miles along the Shwegyin-Yeu road, despite stiff opposition. Chinese forrrn were still hammering ait Japan? ripfenans round the railroad town of Hochlh, in Kwangsi province, southeastern China, Chungking re schedule of production on New was stunned when he was thrown to the hospital floor by would like to take an airplane trip to America. Arnall's Stall Leaves Today for Rate Fight Headed by Gov. Arnall, Georgia's legal staff will arrive in Washington over the weekend preparatory to arguing the freight rate conspiracy petition in the United Statm supreme court Tuesday.

The Governor left for the nation's capital yeslerday. The following will leave Atlanta today: Atty. Gen. T. Grady Head, Asst.

Attys. Gen. Marshall Allison and Claude Shaw and Edgar Watkins, deputy assistant attorney general. Year's Day. the concussion.

He said he forgot Acting under his authority as Alex Dreier Consumer Time Men en Farm Man en Farm 11 00 Theeter of Today (C) 1 .1 Theater of Today (C) i' 0 Number Please 11 4 Numkii Piea.4 ews; Shades of Blue Trans-Atl. Oult Hasten the Day Hello Mom (M) Hello Mom Sonny Dunham Red Cross Rspt (MS to pray. "AH I reall.rH wm lbt hrt regional representative for proHuc Hon urgency and manpower priori to help thone men," he said. "I REVIVAL DECATUR CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Oakview Road and Fifth Avenue, South Decatur Car REV. W.

Q. SHERIDAN. Pastor Rev. W. H.

Davis, Dist. Supt. of Georgia, Evangelist Each Evening Dec. 28 thru Jan. 77x30 P.

M. Sunday Afternoon, 3 OXIock. Welcome Start the New Year Right Live for Christ ties, Brig. (Jen, Raymond could heat them screaming under J4AT.UItliVY AI'TKflNOON WSII 750 WAG A 590 the wreckage." WATL 1400 VUiST 920 Fowler has dispatched telegrams to the mill directors requesting they forgo the regular New Year's holiday, and push production on ported. GLOOM INSIDE JAPAN 17-fW Grand Central Newe Pete Cassell News: Music Station Program (C) Views ef Newe Western Melodiet West; Swing 12:10 kiwi BextertCtrryOn(N)Doughboyt (B) Lopez Lunch.

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(N)Met OparartB) A dark picture of conditions inside Japan as the result of American Pacific victories was described by the Moscow newspaper Pravda. "The development of Pacific events becomes ever more unfavorable for Japan," the newspaper said. "Continuous defeat in the war with Britain and the United States has sharply worsened economic, especially food, conditions inside Japan." Tokyo radio announced the death of Adm. Nobumasa Suyet-sugu, former commander in chief of the Japanese grand fleet and a leading advocate of Nippon's military and territorial expansion. Mitchell bombers hit Japanese The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved sale of the Savannah Gas Company to the St.

Augustine Gas Company for approximately $2,100,000. The transfer has yet to be approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The commission also worked out an electric rate reduction for commercial users in 17 counties of the Valdosta area. This will mean an annual saving of approx See this Network Radio Broadcast THE WHOSOEVER HEARETII HOUR JrOO Washington Rept. (C) Rupert Hughes (N) Met Opera (B) 1:15 Overseas Report (C) BarbaraABoys (N) Met Opera (B) 1:30 Assignment Home (C) Mueic OnDisplay Opera (B) Aeaignment Home (CH Music OnDisplay (NJMet Opera (B) Blue va.

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Nipponese planes again attacked American positions on Mindoro the night of December 27. Eight of the 23 attacking aircraft were brought down. MORE LEYTE VICTIMS Another 2fi8 dead Japanese WSII 750 WAGA 590 WGST 920 CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH J1 Washington S. W. Opposite Caetel In easy walking distance from downtown hotels.

STUART R. OGLESBY, D. Pastor. 9:45 A. M.

Sunday Srhool. 11:00 A. M. Sermon: "Forrettinr the Things Thst Are Behind" Dr. Oglesby.

6:00 r. M. Young People's Lesfuts. Processed Foods: Blue X-5 through B-2 (Book 4) now valid at 10 points each. C-2 through G-2 valid January 1.

1945. Meats and FaU: Q5 through WATL 1400 American Eagles in Britain M) Merle Pitt'e Or. Voice of Army The World's Gtorgia Newt Great Novels (N)Leland Stowe (B) Webster Says (N) Grand Ola Opry Webster Saya (N) Grand Ole Opry were counted December 27 in the v. Good Gospel Music by-Popular Radio Singers and Musicians TUNE IN GEORGIA STATIONS: WATL ATLANTA WKEU GRIFFIN WLAG LAGRANGE WGGA GAINESVILLE VRLC TOCCOA WGAU ATHENS 0 Mayor Town (C) .15 Mayor of Town (C) :30 Ameriee in the Air (C) "7:00 Kenny Baker (C) 7.15 Kenny Baker (C) 7:30 FBI-Peace. War (C 7.45 FBI Peace.

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Shoes: Airplane stamps No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 valid indefinitely. Fuel Oil: Period 4 and 5 coupons from last year, and Period 1, 2 and 3 coupons for current season now valid at 10 gallons each.

Gasoline: A-14 coupons valid mopping up ot isolated enemy units on Leyte island. Yesterday communique reported a raid the same day by Marine Corsair planes on Bablethuap, in the Palaus, where docking facilities were strafed. The Leatherneck fliers hit Nipponese positions in the Marshall islands yesterday continuing their almost daily schedule of neutralizing raids in that group. Gen. MacArthur acknowledged that the December 27 raid on the awt a we, MV VS) 9:30 A.

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(C) CONSTITUTION Hit Revue Lang Thompson 1 2 :00 ws ign Of 12.30 Silent NORTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Peachtree Street at North Avenue DR. VERNON S. BROYLES JR- Minister SUNDAY. 9:45 A. M.

SABBATH SCHOOL. SUNDAY. 11:00 A. M. "A HIGH CALLING." SUNDAY.

7:30 M. EVENING SERVICE. Nursery for small children during morning worship. This church is open daily for prayer and meditation. American airfields and shipping at Mindoro caused "some damage." Ack-ack got some of the attacking aircraft and night fighters brought down the remainder.

This raid came about 24 hours after a Japanese naval force had shelled the area and fled after losing three destroyers. Meet Your Navy MeerYoVrNavy Dance Music News (B) "slgrToff Silent The public 1 cordially Invited to attend this Gospel Broadcast. Start the New Year by enjoying this service on New Year'i eve. Urge the young people of Atlanta to come. Pray for this Southern Network Gospel Program.

Mailing address: Whosoever Heareth, P. O. Box 4505. Atlanta 2. Georgia.

owner write his license number and state on each coupon In his possession as soon as it is issued him by his local rationing board. Canninr Sugar: All home canning sugar cancelled. Sign Off Silent Dance Time Sign Off.

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