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ADVERTISER TWO Army-Naw Casualty Pre-Rationing Forest Service New Giant Bomber Represents Gasoline Sales Broke Record Plans Blasted Undreamed-Of Destruction Lists Will Be Published WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (IP) The Army and Navy said today that future casualty lists may be published and broadcast in full reversing a policy effective since a few days after Pearl Japanese On Guadalcanal Are Starving WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (IP) Kotelnikovski I In Hands Of Reds; Booty Large (Continued From Paje One) pied a number of inhabited localities, as well as Kotelnikovski. Many Taken Prisoner Jap Fortified Area Smashed Triangular Point Near Buna Reduced By Allied Force ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, Dec.

80. (IP) The Allied ground forces in northeast New Guinea (Continued From Page One) lations, so as to start December well-provisioned against the drouth. Harbor. Association's Secretary Blast Bureaucratic Effort At Control VALDOSTA, Dec. 29 Japans isolated forces on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons were reported authorita Brig.

Gen. A. W. Vanaman, commanding general here. In the center's huge new wind tunnel, the world's largest single unit electric induction motor 40,000 horsepower blasts air through the 20-foot tube at speeds up to 50 miles an hour, giving technicians an exact picture, through the use of models hung in the airstream, of the lift, drag and other aerodynamic characteristics of p'l planes, or of particular parts.

Elaborate recording devices automatically make permanent By WILLIAM F. FRYE WRIGHT FIELD, OHIO, Dec. 29. (IP) A design for destruction on an undreamed-of scale was placed on view here, today in the model of a bomber which would dwarf the Flying Fortress and the Liberator. In a "mock-up" of wood, the materiel center of the Army Air Forces displayed the kind of super-warplane that Lieut.

Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding the Army Air Forces, had in mind when he said recently that "the B-17 and the B-24 are the last of the small bombers." This specific bomber may "In the area of Kotelnikovski a great quantity of prisoners and booty has been captured." the later bulletin said. It reported 31 German transport planes shot down Monday in the area of Stalingrad as the Red air force waged a relentless battle against the supplying of en Anyhow, collections in December, on November sales, totalled $1,754,395. The previous high record for one month was in September, 1941.

Collections in December, 1941, were Despite the jump in December collections this year, the total for the first three months of the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1942, showed a decline from the same period a year agQ, the figure for the three months in 1942 being The first list to receive such treatment was given out for use in morning newspapers of Thuri-day, or for broadcast after 8 p.m. in all time zones, Wednesday. Heretofore, both newspaper and radio stations could use only the names of those casualties whose next of kin resided in the immediate area. This policy had the purpose of preventing the enemy from deducing what naval or Army units might be operating in specific areas from the names contained (ff) Wayne G.

Miller, a forest association executive, declared he did not consider that an announcement today by the United States Forest Service denying that President Roosevelt was considering an executive order regu: lating cutting practices on pri reduced a Japanese strong point based on a triangle, containing 13 stoutly-built and bitterly defended bunkers, then repulsed a vate timber land was sufficient tively today to be suffering severely from starvation and disease, without fresh supplies for about six weeks. Commander Dwight H. Deatter, Coast Guard officer who was in charge of the Naval operating base on Guadalcanal until November 5, said in" a press conference at the Navy Department that from his experiences in the island he judged that "right now the Japanese are having all they can do to combat starvation and disease, let alone having to worry about the little bit of hell the Marines are giving them." His observation tied in directly with a report covering a later period in Guadalcanal which came Photographic 1 pments were displayed below a placard quoting German Gen. Werner von Fritsch that "the nation with Japanese counter-attack at dusk to consolidate their positions on the left of the Buna line yesterday. At the same time, American and Australian troops thrust to allay the fears of timber own circled Nazi lorces Dy air.

Soviet forces slowly but steadily edging the Germans out of Stalingrad advanced 300 to 400 yards in the northern factory area, the high command report $4,777,934, compared with for October, November never be built Brig. Gen. F. U. Carroll, chief of the experimen arid December, 1941.

in tun nationally puDiisnea casualty lists. January collections are expect ed. The Nazis were driven from one factory and a number of The new arrangement was ers. "They (Forest Service officials) have pretty well committed themselves to a policy of public regulation," said Miller, secretary of the Forest Farmers Association Cooperative, "and they'll try it again." He said the Forest Service had workshops in which they left 300 ed to show a marked decline, as collections for that month, based on December sales, will show effect of the first month of gaso worked out by the Office of War Information, in the interest of a more complete war news dead. Two guns, 14 trench mor tars and prisoners were taken.

To the northwest amidst a gen tal engineering division of the center, explained that it was just a "design study," not a production model. But it revealed the shape of things to come. The highly-successful American .50 caliber machine gun, which has enabled the B-17's and B-24's to outshoot enemy interceptors, is mounted in this new design in multiple batteries and in revolutionary new turrets. eral exchange of artillery fire the Russians attacked and occupied Furlough Of State first line lierman trenches from Sergt. James W.

riurlbut, a Marine Corps combat correspondent in the Solomons. In a dispatch released by the Navy Department today Hurlbut tried to get? control of private forests through Congress and had been blocked, and then had tried to accomplish it through the President bv executive order. thwarting all efforts to restore Legislators Planned WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (IP) President Roosevelt disclosed the situation.

Seven German tanks were burned or disabled from the right to widen their wedge along the coast. By-passed in an earlier drive toward the Buna government station, the fortified bunker triangle, approximately 1,500 yards inland from the coast, was enveloped by Allied infantry several days ago. The final reduction of this series of strong points followed the success of Allied tank and infantry units in cutting through to the coast and thence westward to the end of the main Buna air strip where the Allies last night were reported closing in on enemy pockets in the dispersal bay area. A prolonged attack on Kavieng, in New Ireland last night by Consolidated Catalinas featured the relentless Allied air assaults on Japanese bases in the southwest Pacific area. The Catalinas The design calls for fuel ca line rationing.

Maj, Tucker cited figures showing that in the 17 States in which gas rationing has for some time been in effect, collections for September, 1942, showed an average decline of 38.9 per cent from the same month a year ago, before rationing. The decrease ranged from 67 per cent in Maine to 32 per cent in Maryland, South Carolina and West Virginia. For the same month, collections in the unra-tioned States of the nation showed a drop of 17.4 per cent, and 400 enemy troops killed. the best aerial reconnaissance will win the war." These included camouflage detection films which disclose a sharp contrast between natural vegetation and infra-red absorbing camouflage paints. aj The scope of experimental work at Wright Field is indicated further by a partial lis of the materials on view: Camera lenses of clear plastic to replace critical glass; instruments and navigation equipment, including automatic pilots: clothing to meet various climatic and altitude conditions; parachutes of all sizes and types and colors, for both men and equipment, the color informing the men on the ground what kind of equipment is coming down to them; plastic parts for planes, oxygen masks for high-altitude flying, "dark-adapter goggles, X-ray and magna-flux inspection of metal parts for breakage or flaws, "black light" the fluorescent lighting which shows a pilot his entire instrument panel but is invisible from outside the plane.

"It is a bureaucratic attempt to put on the forest landowners of the country a policy which they do not want," Miller declared, adding that its continued pressing Below stahngrad, the communique said, fierce fighting for pacity which would vastly extend bombing range, and over this greater distance the plane would carry more than twice the today that he had submitted to the War Department for recommendation the question of fur- Dig lnnaonea locality pene trated by Soviet assault forces took place. A Red Army rifle bomb-load of Americas present heavy bombers. The bay has by the Forest bervice kept um-berland owners "jittery." space for huge demolition bombs said the American naval forces were keeping out enemy reinforcements and supplies and that "disease and lack of proper medical facilities are playing havoc with the enemy." Dexter, who will leave Saturday for San Francisco to become Coast Guard personnel officer for the 12th Naval District, presently makes his home at Staten Island, New York. He left Guadalcanal on November 5, ordered out to take a rest and recover from a malarial condition. "The operation of a forest loughing men in the armed services who also are members of State legislatures meeting in 'the next year.

He received a request for such furloughs yesterday from the governor of Texas, he said, and unit led by tanks routed two German battalions, killing 760 troops and capturing 390, along with three tanks, 14. guns and other material. 1,500 Are Seized In another sector the Russians were reported to have routed two big German groups, capturing means an outlay or. money Dy the owner while the trees are maturing," he said. "The threat of this hanging over them makes them feel that the safest thing is to sell out and get out." showing that they were feeling the pinch in a degree before the gas drouth descended.

Each Alabama county will receive approximately $13,000 as its share of December collections, warrants to be mailed out by Jan. 10. much larger than the present "block busters," or for a large number of smaller bombs of perhaps 2,000 pounds each. There even is room for the largest torpedoes. This model was one of a series of exhibits in which the technical work of the materiel center was shown a group of reporters by unloaded 250-pound detonation and fragmentation bombs on the airdrome area, starting large fires.

That attitude in turn, Miller Medium bombers pounded the added, made the Forest Service feel that regulation was needed more than ever to keep the forests 1,500 soldiers and 80 officers as well as 12 planes, 30 guns, 300 $pnt it over to me war uepan-ment, calling attention to the fact that the Federal and some State constitutions forbid a person to occupy a dual position as a legislator and a member of the armed forces. The matter, he said, will be considered on that basis. To the best of his recollection, Mr. Roosevelt said, some 40 members of the Texas Legislature are in uniform. Block Plan Parley American Troops Cut Route Of Nazi Retreat operating.

'The thing chases itself around in a circle," he said. Miller said timberland owners Deaths At City Hall Today had three major objections to public regulation: runway on the airfield at Gas-mata, in New Britain, and Consolidated B-24s started fires in the dispersal areas at the Lae airdrome above Buna in New Guinea. Smaller Allied planes were active throughout the day. Douglas A20s bombed and strafed Japanese occupied huts and canoes near the mouths of rivers on the New Guinea coast to the northwest of Buna. Standard Oil Forecasting Oil Shortage NEW YORK, Dec.

29. (IP) (Continued From Put One) An important meeting of sector leaders of the Montgomery Citizens Service Corps block plan" "First, its not necessary, it would cost more to en of Allied airmen based to the west. will be held today at 10 a.m. at horses and more than 1,500 cattle. The high command said the German command was hurriedly bringing up fresh forces from far behind the lines and throwing them into counter-attacks on the middle Don front in a futile effort to check the 'Red Army advance.

In the area of one village the Nazis launched three counter-attacks in quick succession. They were repulsed and Soviet shock troops advanced to capture the About 500 German dead and the wreckage of five tanks were left on the battlefield. force than the benefits from it would produce. And third the progress of private land owners Tunis, the capital, and nearby the police courtroom, city hall, it la Goulette at the harbor en would be faster than under regu trance, were hit Sunday night: was announced yesterday. All sector leaders, of whom there are 150 in Montgomery, are expected Mrs.

L. M. Underwood Mrs. Louise McCann Underwood died at her home, 7 Riverside Drive, Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. after a brief illness.

Surviving are her husband, G. B. Underwood; one brother, R. H. McCann, City; three sisters, Miss Claribel McCann, City.

Mrs. Eva May Sellers, and Mrs. W. B. Dos-ter, of Washington, D.

C. Funeral plans will be announced by Leak-Belser and Tucker. and fires started near a railroad Dixon Corrects Errors Of Careless Officials Gov. Frank Dixon Tuesday appointed for the terms to which they had been elected, four members of the Dallas County Board of Revenue, who were held to have vacated their offices by fail The Standard Oil Company (New Jersey1) said today in a year-end to attend, and block leaders are also invited. yard, a Cairo communique said.

Nazi Leader Shifted lation." Reprieve Granted One In Miley Case Mrs. C. B. Willis, block plan Former French Naval Leader Wants Action review receipts of Oil products in the east coast area might fall short of demand under current rationing restrictions. chairman for Montgomery, will A well posted foreign source here said that Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring had been shifted preside, and reports will be submitted on varied activities.

Paul from his air command in the Med The Russians were credited Even the completion of the iterranean to a post on the Rus with dispersing and partly anni hilating a regiment of 3,000 Ger 24-hour pipeline through to the east coast will probably not sup sian front because of Marshal Rommel's complaints of Kessel ply enough transportation to meet normal demands in that ring's inability to halt the RAF in FRANKFORT, Dec. 29. (IP) Purported "startling new evidence" today brought Robert H. Anderson, 37, former Louisville night club operator, a stay of execution of the deaih penalty for his part in the robbery slay man infantrymen at another point on the Middle Don front. The Red Army of the central front, still on the offensive in Libya.

Kesselring is said to have area," the big oil company added. Earl Brown Earl Brown, 47, died in a local hospital at 11:35 a.m. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Pearl V. Brown.

The body was sent from Memory Chapel Tuesday at 6:20 p.m. to Decatur, for funeral and burial. Leak-Bei-ser and Tucker in charge. been succeeded by field Marshal Despite curtailment of domes Erwin von Witzelben. tic civilian use of petroleum products, the review said the While the Allies announced the ing last year of golf star Marion Miley and her mother.

abandonment of the hilltop north Fuller will report on transportation, Mrs. R. L. Douglas on the youth program, W. A.

Roy on tin salvage, Mrs. George Cleere on the hosiery salvage program, and a representative of OPA will also be heard. The block plan is designed to facilitate transmission of information on various aspects of the home front war effort to every home through sector and block leaders. It has met with a fine response in Montgomery, and workers are giving freely of their time and effort, according to Mrs. Silas D.

Cdter, secretary of the Service Corps, under which the present outlook indicates crude ure to file bond within the time provided by law. A number of county officials over the State have overlooked the code provision requiring bond to be filed within 40 days after the general election, but Gov. Dixon has in each case appointed them to their respective offices, so that they have not suffered from the oversight. The Dallas Board of Revenue members appointed Tuesday were: F. W.

Moseley, Orrville; R. M. Rountree, Selma; John H. Traylor, Tyler; and Robert T. Jones, Selma.

Gov. Keen Johnson granted tne oil requirements in the United east of Medjez-El-Bab, won after heavy fighting Christmas Eve and stay from New Yeai Day to LONDON, Dec. 29. (IP) Vice-Admiral Emile Muselier, former commander of the Fighting French naval forces, declared today in a letter to Gen. Charles de Gaulle that he Was "ready to accept any active post at sea or on land in the fight against the enemies of France." Muselier asked the Fighting French leader to convey his request "to Gen.

Giraud and to the French National Committee." Muselier resigned his naval command and his place on the Free French National Committee early last. Spring. He subsequently declined to accept a post States during the coming year will be greater than ever before in the history of the industry. Christmas Day, the Germans announced its recapture. some areas, occupied several points of resistance in the region of Velikie Luki, 275 miles northwest of Moscow, the high command said.

More than 200 Germans were killed. Rzhev Battle Better Brisk fighting was reported west of Rzhev, where the Russians were credited with destroying 16 German blockhouses and dugouts along with two artillery batteries and upward of 400 Jan. 22 on a plea ior time to make investigation of the evidence that might clear Most of the ground fighting Discussing changes brought on Albert H. Rodgers Albert H. Rodgers, 74, a resident of Hunter's Station, died at a late hour Tuesday evening following a short illness.

Surviving are three brothers, A. H. Rod however was in central and south bv the war, the company said: Anderson's attorney, S. Rush Possibly the most significant ern Tunisia, but the Allied com-m i said "our forces de Nicholson, of Louisville, informed effect of the war on the petroleum industry is the transforma stroyed two enemy tanks with ar block plan was inaugurated. block plan was inaugurated.

the Governor that Thomas Fenny 33, and Raymond (Skeeter) Bax i gers, Troy; X. n. Koagers, Banics; and George Rodgers, Montgom troops. ter, 28, both of Lexington, con ery; one daugmer, Mrs. Arinur The Red Army offensive in Farmer, Brundidge.

i unerai victed with Anderson for the murder of Miss Miley and fatal the central Caucasus continued plans will be announced by White Chapel. tillery fire, and light enemy units attacked one of our positions north of Medjez-El-Bab without success." In the aerial war a formation of P-38 Lockheed Lightning fighters made their deepest penetration yet of enemy territory in on a reduced basis southeast of wounding of her mother in a $130 Nalchik, the high command said, robbery of the Lexington Country Club Sept. 28, 1941, had de with part of the Soviet forces engaged in consolidating their tion of oil refineries both in size and in methods of operation. The new plants built, in process of construction, and expected to be built for the manufacture of aviation gasoline, aviation lubricating oil, synthetic rubber and other chemical products, constitute a large addition to pre-war refining investment." It pointed eut refinery operations also had been revised motor gasoline sales decreased, aviation gasoline production rose clared Anderson had no part in Clanton Maxey Clanton Maxey, 70, a native of newly won positions. the crime.

In one sector two German bat the raid on the Axis truck convoy, "carrying troops, gasoline and E. Lawrence Tucker, the Gov talions led by 40 tanks counter Montgomery, and a member of the Methodist Church, died early Tuesday following a long illness. ernor's attorney, said Nicholson claimed Penney had written a as inspector general of the fleet under his successor, Rear Admiral Philippe-Marie Auboyneau. In his letter to de Gaulle, Muselier pointed out that Admiral Jean Darlan had said only a few hours before his assassination last Thursday in Algiers that a union of all Frenchmen now fighting against the Axis was an absolute necessity. He also recalled Darlan's statement that "as soon as France is free and the mistress of her own fate she will choose for herself her political regime and her rulers." supplies near the border of Tu nisia and Tripolitania." attacked in an attempt to recover letter stating he named Ander "About 20 trucks were de son as his accomplice "out of spite" and Baxter had written stroyed," the communique said, "most of them being left on lire." This news appeared to bear out earlier reports that the Axis that he "was forcc-d to involve Anderson by police pressure and to several times pre-war levels; and demand for heavy fuel oil, normally a by-product of gasoline making, increased.

This last, making it necessary for refin lost positions. They were repulsed, 15 tanks destroyed, and mbre than 300 of the enemy killed, the communique reported. Far to the north' a fleet of enemy bombers escorted by fighters tried to raid the Arctic port of Murmansk. Soviet pilots met them at the distant approaches to the city, shooting down one forces in Libya were moving west surviving are two sons, rsenja-min P. Maxey, Miami, and Horace W.

Maxey, Gulfport, three daughters, Mrs. E. C. Peeples, Montgomery; Mrs. Frances M.

Sherer, Montgomery; and Mrs. William G. Raper, Montgomery. The funeral will be held from White Chapel today at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev.

W. L. Tubbs officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Cemetery. ward into lunisia to make a fi duress.

At Eddyville, where Penney and Baxter are to be electrocuted Jan. 22, Warden Joss Buchanan tonight said that Penney and eries to obtain more heavy fuel nal stand there in the battle for Africa. The convoy was pounced "These are principles which I have always defended and which from crude, the review said, "has been a contributing factor in the upon between Tripoli and Mede 1 am sure are your own, Muse lier told de Gaulle. lighter and two German bombers. Unofficial reports said the overall reduction of oil com pany earnings." He expressed his desire of vanguard of the Red Army beating down the Rostov-Moscow You Can Make 2-lbs.

Grand Spread Using Only Mb. Butter, with Knox Save 39" or more bused on average prices Georgians Shoot from the Middle Don had nine, 50 miles southeast of the port of Gabcs, the latter being the apparent goal of the U. S. ground troops that Berlin said had entered Gafsa. Twelve other Axis vehicles were announced destroyed by P-38 and P-40 Curtiss fighters in several sweeps, one of them in Mrs.

Fannie Capps The body of Mrs. Fannie Capps, 56, was to be sent to Luverne today at 7:20 a.m. for funeral and burial at Mt. Ida Church at 1 p.m. White Chapel directing.

Out Their Feud Baxter denied my revelation of new evidence relating to Anderson and that Penney declared his testimony at the trials of Anderson and Baxter when he was State's witness against them would stand. Earlier, the warden recalled having read letters Penney and Baxter had written to Anderson's attorney stating they had not seen Anderson on the night of the robbery. "contributing to the realization of this military union while reserving political action to those competent." Muselier, during his leadership of the Free French Navy, led the occupation of islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off The Newfoundland coast a year ago. reached the outskirts of Kamensk.

Berlin Admits Reverses (Official German broadcasts said Axis forces were locked in heavy defensive fighting between the Pont -du-Fans sector where French troops were fighting. One KNOX SPREAD Zoot-Suit Wearer Held For Thefts WRIGHTS VILLE, Dec. 29. (IP) Charles S. Claxton, Wrightsville attorney and former State legislator, and C.

D. Pres-cott, prominent farmer and sportsman, wounded each other today in an exchange of pistol shots on the courthouse square, Sheriff W. D. Rowland reported. The sheriff said Claxton was "pretty badly hurt" with wounds in one arm and hip.

Prescott was struck in the arm. Both are being treated in a hospital, he said. Rowland said Claxton was representing one of Prescott's farm hands in a criminal case scheduled to come before the court to Allied fighter was missing. In the same area British Spitfires attacked six Junkers and a number of Messerschmitt fighters escorting them, shooting down two of the bombers and one Messerschmitt at the cost of one British plane. The Flying Fortress raid on the docks and harbor at Sousse was made without loss, and the said "hits were seen on the docks and much smoke was observed after the attack." me uon ana Volga and in the Don bend, where the Russians were attacking repeatedly.

The Nazi high command also acknowledged powerful Soviet onslaughts in the Caucasus and northwest of Moscow.) (A Berlin dispatch to Stockholm said military sources expected a Soviet offensive on the Finnish front soon and concerted Red Army operations from above Leningrad to the Caucasus.) (The Berlin radio quoted a Rome report as saying the battle of the Don "now is entering Wilbur B. Roney The funeral and burial for Wilbur Barnes Roney, 60, will take place at Manning Springs Cemetery, near Mt. Meigs, today at 1 p.m. with the Rev. John Cog-gin officiating.

White Chapel directing. General Juin Named To Lead French Army LONDON, Dec. 29. (iP) Reuters said the French army headquarters in North Africa announced today that General Al- A zoot-suited negro, identified as Joe Douglas, 17, was arrested on South Jackson Street late yesterday by Detective Lieut. Mike Chisholm and Lewis Miller for questioning in connection with the series of purse snatch- Montgomerians Prompt At Tax Collector's Cage Montgomery property owners have been more prompt in the payment of taxes so far this year than they have been in the past 16 years, it was announced yesterday by M.

J. Nicrosi, office manager of the City Tax Department. "Although the city is ahead in the collection of taxes." Mr. Nicrosi said, "there is still much revenue to be received." He also warned that taxes will be delinquent Jan. 1 and that taxpayers will be subject to a fine if they fail to pay before this date.

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German Hope For 'Creative Pause' In War Is Shattered (Continued From Page One) dustry. which supplied numerous suggestions. The ban on slicing bread will not apply during the next 60 days, however, on loaves weigh While Douglas denied he had snatched any purses, three victim of the zoot-suited bandit, swore out warrants charging him, and an Army officer identified him as the negro he saw running away from the scene of a purse-snatching Sunday night. The zoot-suit-attired purse-snatcher had an interesting technique. He would steal up behind a woman waiting for a bus, snatch her purse from under her arm and at the same time give her a shove forward.

While his victim was recovering her balance he would flee. Reported thefts of this nature in the last few days, detectives said, involved $161 in cash and $36 in war bonds and stamps. morning, Rowland said, and asked him why he was interfering with his business. They got in a 'fight and they shot." The sheriff said no warrants had been issued or charges made against either Claxton or Prescott. Rowland said four shots had apparently been fired from Pres- Has the flavor of real butter.

Try it today 1 prices would reflect 89 per cent of parity to farmers on all types of wheat except soft red Winter wheat, en which the percentage would be 95 per cent. However, the agency commented: "The wheat prices reflected by the flour ceilipgs. together with conservation and parity payments, averaging approximately 23.4 cents per bushel or more cott's gun and "I understand that Claxton's gun was emptied. If that is true that would be six shots." ing two pounds or more each. Provision also is expected for the sale of sliced bread to restaurants, hotels, war plants and other large institutions, although (Contirned From Page One) nor the ir effectual gallants swept back by the weight of metal to the beaches of Dunkerque." Discussing the campaign in Tunisia, the review affirmed that Wlh'tohnJ r.

Wickard said he hoped that many there had been lust a chance than 11 per cent of parity reflect at least 100 per cent of parity to the producer, as well as a price as high or higher than that the vanguard of the British of these could also make arrangements for slicing their own bread. The bakers also are expected to make savings on wrapping A Distinctive Gift for New Years Day World-Famous First Army, it it swept in fast enough from Algeria, might have milt V2 MOW: been able to seize turns and Bi-zerte before the enemy became too strongly esconced. 'wpev Gelatin, 1 milk the top prices received by producers during the period front Jan. 1 to Sept. 15, 1942.

Thus prices set by the new flour regulation are consistent with executive order number 1250 (providing for the stabilization of the national economy) and section 3 of the second price control act." Parity Plan Opposed Farm bloc members of Congress have opposed this method of computing parity, however. OPA said there were many Montgomery Stores To Be Closed Jan. 1 Stores will be closed New Year's Day but business will be resumed as usual on Saturday, it was announced yesterday by Oscar Covington, president of Montgomery Retail Merchant Association. The merchants designated Jan. 1 as a holiday in a meeting held early this year.

material. While these economies are expected to prevent an increase in the price of bread, an OPA spokesman said his agency was studying cake and other pastries to determine whether somewhat higher prices might be necessary for such items. Flour Will be Higher Housewives who buy flour for their own baking or cooking will find somewhat higher retail prices on the product. Officials indeed, it pointed out, advance columns in the opening phases reached a point almost midway between Tunis and Bizerte and, aided by some American armored units, captured an enemy airfield at Djedeida, only 12 miles from Tunis, and destroyed 40 Axis planes on the ground. However, the report added, it soon became apparent that the task was too great for the van PAINTINGS 100 full page reproductions in full color, easily removable for framing.

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The actual prices set for millers and blenders of flour from wheat, semolina, and farine will guard and that "means more methodical, which had been envisaged," would have to be employed. The advance units were withdrawn early in December from their exposed positions and the main army then proceeded to ALA rtmm Mr. Knoxn leaflet. "Don't Let Butter Rationing Scar You!" Easy, delicioue recipe using Knox Spread in baking and cooking. Write Knox Gelatine, Dept 1)3, Johnitown, N.

Y. Conserve and Save Serving Knex Spread reasons for the increase in flour prices, including higher wheat prices, abnormal price situations in the Sept. 28-Oct. 2 period which guided former flour prices, and various technical situations in the milling industry. Flour prices were divided into so called "family flours" primarily the kind sold to housewives in grocery stores and "bakery flours." On family flours prices will range from ShS.5 to $9.66 for a 196-pound barrel, depending on locality.

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