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the WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1942 Tre AUNTGOMERY ADVERTISER Jap Fortified Area Smashed Triangular Point Near Buna Reduced By Allied Force ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Wednesday, Dec. Allied ground forces in northeast New Guinea reduced a Japanese strong point based on a triangle, containing 13 stoutly-built and bitterly defended bunkers, then repulsed a 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 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 unloaded 250-pound detonation and fragmentation bombs on the airdrome area, starting large fires. Medium bombers pounded the runway on the airfield at Gasmata, in New Britain, and Consolidated B-245 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.

Former French Naval Leader Wants Action LONDON, Dec. -ViceAdmiral 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 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 1 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, her herself rulers." her political regime "These are principles which I have always defended and which am sure are own," Muselier, told de Gaulle. He expressed his desire of "contributing to the realization of this military union while reserving political action to those competent." Muselier, during his leadership of the occupation Free of French islands Navy, led.th St. Pierre and Miquelon off The Newfoundland coast a year ago.

Zoot-Suit Wearer Held For Thefts 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 snatchings which has terrorized women in the St. Margaret's Hospital vicinity for the past fortnight. While Douglas denied he had snatched any purses, three victims 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 pursesnatching Sunday night. The zoot-suit-attired pursesnatcher 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. Montgomery Stores To Be Closed Jan. 1 early this year.

Sealskins from the Pribilof islands have yielded more money than the entire purchase price of Alaska. 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 Merchants Association. The merchants designated Jan. 1 as a holiday in a meeting held NONE FASTER St.Joseph ASPIRIN World's Largest Seller at Kotelnikovski Is In Hands Of Reds; Booty Large fort to check the Red Army advance. In the area of one village the Nazis launched three counter-attacks quick succession.

They were repulsed and Soviet shock village. About 500 dead advanced to capture, the and the wreckage of five tanks were left on the battlefield. The Russians were credited with dispersing and partly annihilating a regiment of 3,000 German infantrymen at another point on the Middle Don front. The Red Army of the central front, still on the offensive in 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 Rzhev, where the Russians were credited in destroying 16 German blockhouses and dugouts along artillery batteries and upward of 400 troops. The Red Army offensive in the central Caucasus continued on a reduced basis southeast of Nalchik, the high command said, with part of the Soviet forces engaged in consolidating their newly won positions. In one sector two German battalions led by 40 tanks counterattacked in an attempt to recover lost positions. They were repulsed, 15 tanks destroyed, and more 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 them at Murmansk.

Soviet pilots met to city, shooting down one the the distant approaches fighter and two German bombers. Unofficial reports said the vanguard of the Red Army beating down the Rostov-Moscow reached railroad from the Middle Don had the outskirts of Kamensk. Berlin Admits Reverses (Official German broadcasts said Axis forces were locked in the heavy defensive fighting between Don bend, Volga, the Russians and and in the were attacking repeatedly. The Nazi high command also acknowledged powerful Soviet onslaughts in the Moscow.) Caucasus and northwest of (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 (Continued From Page One) pied a number of inhabited localities, as well as Kotelnikovski. Many Taken Prisoner "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 Red air force waged a relentless, battle against the supplying of encircled Nazi forces by 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 reported. The Nazis were driven from one factory and a number of workshops in which they 300 dead. Two guns, 14 trench mortars and prisoners taken. To the northwest amidst general exchange of artillery fire the Russians attacked and occupied first line German trenches, thwarting all efforts to restore the situation.

Seven German tanks were burned or disabled and 400 enemy troops killed. Below Stalingrad, the communique said, fierce fighting for a big inhabited locality penetrated by Soviet assault forces took place. A Red Army rifle 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 1,500 soldiers and 80 officers well as 12 planes, 30 300 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 ef- Rome report as saying the battle of the Don "now is entering its decisive admitting Soviet advances, and claiming that Axis troops were "preventing the Russians from gaining their objective- -the reconquest of Rostov and the German Hope For 'Creative Pause' In War Is Shattered (Continued From Page One) nor the ineffectual gallants swept back by the weight of metal to the beaches of Discussing the campaign in Tunisia, the review affirmed that there had been "just a chance' that the vanguard of the British First Army, if it swept in fast enough from Algeria, might have been able to seize Tunis and Bizerte before the enemy became too strongly esconced. 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 vanguard 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 build up itself and its communications. Italy, the review said, now is anxiously watching the "threatening build-up of a British army only a few miles from the Sicilian channel Japanese On Guadalcanal Are Starving WASHINGTON, Dec.

Japan's isolated forces on mons Guadalcanal Island reported in the authorita- were tively today to be suffering severely from starvation and disease, without fresh supplies for about six weeks. Commander Dwight H. Dexter, Coast Guard officer who was in charge of the Naval operating base on Guadalcanal until November 5, a press conterence 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 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 from Sergt. James W.

Hurlbut, a Marine Corps combat correspondent in the Solomons. In a dispatch released by the Navy Department today Hurlbut said that 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. American Troops Cut Route Of Nazi Retreat (Continued From One) of Allied airmen based to the west. Tunis, the capital, and nearby la Goulette the harbor entrance, were hit Sunday night: and fires started near a railroad yard, a Cairo communique said.

Nazi Leader Shifted A well posted foreign source here said that Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring had been shifted from his air command in the Mediterranean to a post on the Russian front because of Marshal Rommel's complaints Kesselring's inability to halt the RAF in Libya. Kesselring is said to have been succeeded by Field Marshal Erwin von Witzelben. While the Allies announced the abandonment of the hilltop northeast of Medjez-El-Bab, won after heavy fighting Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the Germans announced its recapture. Most of the ground fighting however was in central and southTunisia, but the Allied communique said "our forces destroyed two enemy tanks with artillery 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 the raid on the Axis truck convoy, "carrying troops, gasoline and supplies near the border of TuTripolitania." "About 20 trucks were destroyed," the communique said, "most of them being left on fire." This news appeared to bear out earlier reports that the Axis forces in Libya were moving westward into Tunisia to make a final stand there in the battle for Africa. The convoy was pounced upon between Tripoli and Medenine, 50 miles southeast the port of Gabes, 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 the Pont du Fahs sector where French troops were fighting. One 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 communique said "hits were seen on the docks and much was observed after the attachose Flour Price Is Boosted Ten Per Cent (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 weighing 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 Wickard said he hoped that many of these could also make arrangements for slicing their own bread. The bakers also are expected to make savings on wrapping 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 retail prices on the Officials said the increase on retail flour will be between 40 and 75 cents per 196 pound barrel, depending on location and type of flour. The actual prices set for millers and blenders of flour from wheat, semolina, and farine will make up a lengthy tabulation which will be made public before the new go into effect Jan. 4.

However, the agency said these prices will average 10 per cent more than present ceilings. OPA estimated that the new Forest Service Plans Blasted Association's Secretary Blast Bureaucratic Effort At Control VALDOSTA, Dec. (AP) -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 regulating cutting practices on private timber land was sufficient to allay the fears of timber owners. "They (Forest Service officials) have pretty well committed themselves to a policy of public said Miller, secretary of the Forest Farmers Association Cooperative, "and they'll try it He said the Forest Service had tried to get control of private forests through Congress and had been blocked, and then had tried to accomplish it through the President executive order.

"It is a bureaucratic attempt to put on the forest landowners of the country a policy which they do not Miller declared, adding that its continued pressing by the Forest Service kept timberland owners "The operation of a forest means an outlay of money by owner while the trees are he said. "The threat of this hanging over them makes them feel that the safest thing is to sell out and get out." That attitude in turn, Miller added, made the Forest Service feel that regulation was needed more than ever to keep the forests operating. "The thing chases self around in a circle," he said. Miller said timberland owners had three major objections to public regulation: "First, it's not necessary. Second, it would cost enforce than the benefits from it would produce.

And third the progress of faster private land under owners would be than Reprieve Granted One In Miley Case FRANKFORT, Dec. (P) -Purported "startling new evidence" today brought Robert H. Anderson, 37, former Louisville night club operator. of execution of death penalty for his part in the robbery slaying last year of golf star Marion Miley and her mother. Gov.

Keen Johnson granted the stay from New Yeat's Day to Jan. 22 on a plea for time to make investigation of the evidence that might clear Anderson. Anderson's attorney, S. Rush Nicholson, of Louisville. informed the Governor that Thomas Penny 33, and Raymond (Skeeter) Baxter, 28, both of Lexington, convicted with Anderson for the murder of Miss Miley and fatal wounding of her mother in a $130 robbery of the Lexington Country Club Sept.

28, 194l, had declared Anderson had no part in the crime. E. Lawrence Tucker, the Governor's, attorney, said Nicholson claimed Penney had written a letter stating he named Anderson as his accomplice "out of spite" and Baxter had written that he "was forced to involve Anderson by police pressure and duress." At Eddyville, where Penney and Baxter are to be electrocuted Jan. 22, Warden Jess Buchanan tonight said that Penney and Baxter denied any revelation of new evidence relating to Anderson and that Penney declared 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.

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 DeI partment. "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. prices would reflect 89 per cent of parity to farmers on all types of wheat except soft red Winter wheat, on which the percentage would be 95 per cent. However, the agency commented: "The wheat prices reflected by the flour ceilings, together with conservation and parity payments, averaging approximately 23.4 cents per bushel- or more 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 the top prices received by producers during the period from 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 of the second price control Parity Plan Opposed Farm bloc members of Congress have opposed this method of computing parity, however. OPA said there were many 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 called "family flours" -primarily the kind sold to housewives.

in grocery stores and "bakery On family flours prices will range from $7.25 to $9.65 for a 196-pound barrel, depending on locality. New Giant Bomber Represents Undreamed-Of Destruction By WILLIAM F. FRYE WRIGHT FIELD, OHIO, Dec. (P) A design for destruction on an undreamed scale was placed on view here today in the model of a bomber which would. dwarf Liberator.

the Flying Fortress In a "mock-up" of wood, the materiel center of 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 never be built- Brig. Gen.

F. Carroll, chief of the experimental engineering division of the center, explained that it was just a "design model. study," But not a produce tion it revealed shape of things to come. The 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. The design calls for fuel capacity which would vastly tend bombing range, and over this greater distance the plane would carry more than twice the bomb-load of America's present heavy bombers.

The bay has space for huge demolition bombs much 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 Standard Oil Forecasting Oil Shortage NEW YORK, Dec. The Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) said today in a year-end review receipts of oil products in the east coast area might fall short of demand under current rationing restrictions. "Even the completion of the 24-hour pipeline through to the east coast will probably not supply enough transportation to normal demands in that area," the big oil company added.

Despite curtailment of domestic civilian use of petroleum products, the review said the present outlook indicates crude oil requirements in the United States during the coming year will be greater than ever before in the history of the industry. Discussing changes brought on by the war, company said: "Possibly the most significant effect of the war on petroleum industry is the transformation 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 out refinery operations also had been revised-motor gasoline sales decreased, aviation gasoline production rose 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 refineries to obtain more heavy fuel from crude, the review said, "has been a contributing factor in the overall reduction of oil company earnings." Georgians Shoot Out Their Feud WRIGHTSVILLE, Dec. 29.

(AP) Charles S. Claxton, Wrightsville attorney and former State legislator, and C. D. Prescott, 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 today, and that earlier Claxton had enjoined Prescott from interfering with the worker's property on his lands.

"Prescott encountered Claxton on the courthouse square this morning, Rowland said, "and asked him why he was interfering with his business. They got in a fight and they 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- 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 complete planes, or of particular parts. Elaborate recording devices automatically make permanent records. Photographic developments were displayed below a placard quoting German Gen.

Werner von Fritsch that "the nation with the best aerial reconnaissance will win the These included camouflage detection films which disclose sharp contrast between natural vegetation and infra absorbing camouflage paints. The scope of experimental work at Wright Field is indicated further by a partial list 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 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 magnaflux 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. Deaths 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. Doster, of Washington, D. C. Funeral plans will be announced by Leak-Belser and Tucker. 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.

and Tucker in charge. 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. Rodgers, Troy; T. H. Rodgers, Banks; and George Rodgers, Montgomery; one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Farmer, Brundidge.

Funeral plans will be announced by White Chapel. Clanton Maxey Clanton Montgomery, Maxey, and a 70, a member native of the Methodist Church, died early Tuesday following a long illness. Surviving are two sons, Benjamin 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. from The White funeral will today be Chapel at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev. W.

L. Tubbs officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Cemetery. Mrs. Fannie Capps The body of Mrs.

Fannie Capps, 56, was to be sent to funeral Luverne and a.m. for burial at Mt. Ida Church at p.m. White Chapel directing. 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 Coggin officiating. White Chapel directing.

General Juin Named To Lead French Army LONDON, Dec. said the French army headquarters in North Africa announced today that General Alphonse Juin, former military aide to General Auguste Nogues, governor general of Mirocco, had been appointed commander-inchief of French forces in North Africa. Juin thus would succeed GenHenri Giraud who has replaced Admiral Darlan as high commissioner in North Africa. cott's gun and "I understand that Claxton's gun was emptied. If that is true that would be six shots." A Distinctive Gift For New Year's Day World-Famous PAINTINGS 100 full page reproductions in full color, easily removable for framing.

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The previous high record for one month was 531, in September, 1941. Collections in December, 1941, were 610,338. Despite the jump in December total collections this year, the for the first three months of the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1942, showed a decline from the same period a year ago, the figure for the three months in 1942 being $4,777,934, compared with 026,849 for October, November and December, 1941. January collections are expected to show a marked decline, as collections for that month, based on December sales, will show effect of the first month of gasoline 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 month, collections in the unrationed States of the nation showed a drop of 17.4 per cent, 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.

Block Plan Parley At City Hall Today An important meeting of sector leaders of the Montgomery Citizens Service Corps "block plan" will be held today at 10. a.m. at the police courtroom, city hall, it was announced yesterday. All sector leaders, of whom there are 150 in Montgomery, are expected to attend, and block leaders are also invited. Mrs.

C. B. Willis, block plan chairman for Montgomery, will preside, and reports will be submitted on varied activities. Paul 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. Cater, secretary of Service Corps, under which the block plan was inaugurated. Army-Navy Casualty Lists Will Be Published WASHINGTON, Dec.

The Army and Navy said today, be that future published and casualty broadcast lists in full-reversing a policy effective since a few days after Pearl Harbor. The first list to receive such treatment was given out for use in morning, newspapers of Thursday, broadcast after 8 p.m. in all time zones, Wednesday. Heretofore, both. newspaper and radio stations could use only the names 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 in nationally published casualty lists. The new arrangement was worked out by Office of War Information, in the interest of a more complete war news coverage. Furlough Of State Legislators Planned WASHINGTON, Dec. -(AP) -President Roosevelt disclosed today that he had submitted to the Department for recommendation the question of furloughing 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 sent it over to the War Departthat ment, the calling Federal attention and to some thestateconstitutions 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. 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 failure to file bond within time provided by law.

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