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Local Cotton Strict Middlinc 20.90 Middling 20.60 Strict Low Middlinc "10 The TTeatter Colder today; showers in east and south. Volume CXV No. 19 Full Day. NM irt Sunday Sanrto Th HlHfllN Pi Montgomery, Tuesday Morning, January 19, 1943 TIM Unite Ptm FuN Inw-en Trunk Srtf 8 Pages Price 5 Cents i V. Siege Or Leningrad Is Cracked By Blighting Drive Ot Soviet Army Anthracite Strike Laid In FDITs Lap Labor Board, Rebuffed By Miners, Carry Issue To President To Solve Governor's Post Passes To Sparks IVew Chief Executive Of Alabama -Pledges Era Of Sane Government Parade Is Imposing Grim-Faced Fighting Men Devastating Blows Carry 23 Miles To West British Drive Carries To Within 90 Mites 0 Tripoli Rommel Faced With Entrapment If He Leaves Libya; Allied Planes Rake Axis Bases French Army of the Chad had driven to a point 80 miles south of Tripoli and was cooperating closely in the British offensive.) The British were attacking on a rugged, 80-mile desert front running from northeast to southwest and were reported throwing their main strength against the desert flank of the line at Beni Oulid.

Beni Oulid is the terminal of a fairly good road running 50 miles to Tahuna, which in turn is on the high road to Tripoli only 40 miles beyond. From Beni Oulid, the temporary front ran through the oasis of Dufan to Taourga, on the inland edge of the Taourga coastal marshes. All along the front the British (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) ONE GOVERNOR TO ANOTHER Gov. Frank M.

Dixon (left) welcomes Chauncey Sparks, his successor to the gubernatorial fraternity at yesterday's inaugural ceremony. (State of Alabama News Bureau photo.) Bishop Sees 11th Inaugural And A Qreat Many People former State senator and representative and business man and farmer. C. P. APPERSON, secretary of the State Merchants and interpreter of OPA rulings.

GEORGE BENDER, Birmingham, former hotel man and now seeing that the thirsty are taken care of. M. M. PASCHALL, Perry County ginner, farmer, and turkey raiser. i W.

A. STEADMAN, of Birmingham, Alabama "big wig" of the Southern Bell Company. MIA Knuckles Are Rapped By Supreme Court Group Health Charges Of Monopoly Upheld In Medical Board Case WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. (P) The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of the American Medical Association and the District of Columbia Medical Society on charges that they sought to hamstring a cooperative group health plan and thereby violated the Sherman anti-trust act The medical associations were fined $2,500 and $1,500, respectively, on charges that they conspired to "restrain trade" by influencing physicians and hospitals to boycott Group Health Association, Inc.

a cooperative organization of 3,300 government employes in the of Co-' Mav Act Today Davis Refuses Comment On Report Handed To Roosevelt's Secretary WASHINGTON. Jan. 18. (U.R) The War Labor Board, unsuccessful in four attempts to terminate the crippling Pennsylvania anthracite strike, appealed to the White House tonight to intervene. Chairman William H.

Davis and six board members called at the executive mansion to present a report on the 20-day dispute to Presidential Secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre. Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes also attended the brief meeting. White House Secretary Stephen T.

Early said the report had been taken "under advisement" Davis declined to say whether the board recommended a presidential back-to-work appeal, Army seizure of the mines, or any other specific solution. "I have 'nothing at all to say about that we have delivered our report," he told reporters. In six previous labor disputes where attempts at government mediation have failed, the President has ordered the Army or Navy to take charge. Six Members Attend Accompanying Davis to the White House were WLB members Wayne L. Morse, George W.

Taylor, Robert Watt Van A. Bitt-ner, Cyrus Ching and George Mead. The board appealed to the White House after a majority of the 15,000 strikers voted in a weekend referendum to continue the walkout in open defiance of both the WLB and their own union chief. John Lewis. It was believed the White House will appeal to the men to return to the pits.

Officials said they are aware that governmental seizure of the struck properties will not assure production since there, still would be no way to force the miners to go back to work. TheJ White House, it was said, probably will point out that an thracite is vital to war industries, that organized labor has pledged not to strike for the duration, and that thousands of civilians rely on hard coal for heat. Numerous congressmen demanded immediate action by the White House, the War Department of the Justice Department Representative John W. Murphy (D), Pennsylvania, representing a district which includes a town in the strike area, said he will leave tomorrow "to make a personal plea to the miners in my district to go back to work." There were some suggestions that the President issue a "work-or-fight" edict giving the strikers the choice of going back to the pits or being called up for immediate military Manpower Chief Paul Mc-Nutt refused to say whether in duction should or would be used as a weapon. Asked if a local draft board would be justified in ending a miner's occupational deferment because of strike participation.

he replied: "That a question for a draft board to decide." fAIRO, Jan. 18. (U.R) The British Eighth Army smashed past feeble Axis resistance and carried its new whirlwind offensive to within 90 miles of Tripoli tonight while low-sweeping Allied planes gave Marshal Erwin Rommel's fleeing columns their Worst battering since the battle of Egypt (The Morocco radio quoted a late report that the British had advanced 125 miles in their drive, which could put them within 70 miles of Tripoli, and Madrid dispatches said Field Marshal Rommel had crossed the frontier into Tunisia in evident preparation for withdrawing his entire army from Libya.) (The Madrid reports said Brig. Gen. Jacques leClerc's Fighting RAF Bombers Create Ruins Across Berlin Second Visit Sunday Eve Carried Out By Large Force Flames Sear Gty LONDON, Jan.

18. (U.R) A force of the RAF's biggest bomb ers, perhaps as many as 500, smashed again at Berlin for two hours last night with four-ton block-busters and thousands of fire bombs which turned huge sections of the German capital into a mass of flames, and tonight jubilant Britons urged that Rome be made the next target. Last night's raid appeared to have been the heaviest of 55 attacks on what the RAF calls "the 'big city" since the first on' Aug. 25, 1940. The Sunday night raid cost the RAF 22 planes compared to only one lost Saturday night when Berlin's defenses were caught flat-footed by the first British attack in 14 months.

But the price was cheap. Today Britain knew at last it was giving more than it was taking. The Germans sent about 60 planes against this country on two attacks during the night but the effort cost them 10 or more bombers. London newspapers challenged Adolf Hitler to divert aerial strength from Russia and Africa for stronger "revenge" raids on this island so its de--tenses could knock Nazi planes down in greater numbers. Editorials also warned that "Rome better look out, too," and The Express said that "the blackhearted Fascists who asked if Italian bombers could take part in attacks on London now sulk in safety amidst their historic monuments." The Air Ministry, in an announcement issued tonight said the Berlin bombers dropped a "heavy load" of high explosives including both two and four-ton block-busters and added that Ber-(Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Bridges New Hampshire, referred specifically to an investigation by a Bronx grand jury into charges that a court yard in Flynn's estate had been paved with New York materials and labor.

The jurors exonerated Flynn. Walker accepted the national chairmanship in a brief talk before the committee, and then outlined his views in a prepared radio address. (6:08 pjn. W. T.

over the Blue Network). By ATTICUS MULLIN PAIN, gasoline rationing and lack of general interest due to the war helped to keep down the attendance of out of Montgomery people at the inauguration of Gov, Sparks Monday but the streets were lined anyhow, soldiers and Montgomerians gen7 erally turning out in large numbers. It was the eleventh Inaugura tion that we have viewed and written about for the newspapers and the parade was by far the most impressive military show in the annals of Montgomery except the vast parade of the Ohio division during the last World War when 56,000 soldiers with all of their rolling equipment were in line. The writer contrived to meet a number of out-of-town people in spite of their small numbers and the Jefferson Davis Hotel just prior to the meeting of the Mate committee scene of a milling crowd of Alabamians. Among -those we saw with a little something about them were: DR.

W. T. PARTLOW. emin ent head of the Bryce Hospital at Tuscaloosa. CLARENCE MULLINS.

of Bir mingham, newly appointed Federal district J. THOMAS HEr of Fayette, former senator and congressman. CHARLEY MOON, of Lafay ette, circuit solicitor and an. active figure in politics. SENATOR J.

LISTER HILL, Junior United States Senator from Alabama and Democratic whip in the Senate. DAVE WALDEN, of Headland, British Naval Units Sink Five Axis Boats Jan. 18. UP) Brit ish surface craft and submarines have blasted five supply ships out of the Axis shipping lanes in the Mediterranean in recent op erations and undersea craft deck guns again shelled Italian shore targets, the Admiralty announced In addition to the sinking or fatal grounding of the five vessels under fire of British' guns and torpedoes, an escort vessel was reported damaged. Communiques said that light naval forces sank two of the ships and damaged the escort vessel and submarines accounted for the others.

The submarines' victims were described as a large supply vessel "which was driven ashore in the Gulf of Genoa with two torpedo wounds; a fully laden medium-sized craft sunk off Sardinia and another medium-sized ship which broke in two under shellfire and torpedo hits scored in spite of the intervention of shore batteries." Nazis Hard Hit Red Army Drives Forward On 1,800 Mile Front MOSCOW, Jan. 19. (Tuesday) (U.R) The Red Army broke the 16-month siege of Leningrad, Russia's second city, and captured the ancient fortress of Schlues-selburg, 23 miles to the east yes. terday in a triumphant climax to its sixth great Winter offensive, the Soviet high command announced today. Special communiques proclaiming impressive Soviet triumphs at both ends of the now virtually unbroken battle line reported the capture of the rail station of Kamensk, major German railroad base 85 miles north of Rostov.

Seven days after the Leningrad offensive was launched, the massive German line cracked and Soviet troops battering out from the old Czarist capital joined those driving in from the southeast lifted one of the most dramatic sieges of the war. Two special communiques officially confirmed foreign reports of the Leningrad offensive for the first time and reported wide spread Soviet gains on the southern fronts above, below and east ot Kostov. Kamensk Seized One announced the capture of the railway station of Kamensk, where the Rostov-Moscow railway crosses the Donets. It said fighting still was in progress in the big town, apparently constituting the mopup after the seizure of the primary objectives. "After seven days of fighting our troops from the Leningrad front and those from the Volkhov front joined hands on Jan.

18. and thereby -broke Jhe blockade of Leningrad the other bulletin said. More than 13,000 German troops have been killed, the high command said, in the furious battles raging before Leningrad, first pocked by German long range guns on Sept 4, 1941, with the siege ring closing four daysi later. Commanding the new offensive were Marshal Klementi E. Vo-roshilov, Red Army chieftain on the northern front in early part of the war; and Marshal Gregory K.

Zhukov, the "savior of Moscow" when Germans stormed to the outskirts of the eapital. A second special communique, issued simultaneously with the the capture i Kamensk, big German base 85 miles north of Rostov on the Voronezh railway. Reds Cross Donets Red Armies smashing toward Rostov now have crossed the northern Donets River, north-darn to Page 2, CoL 5) McCorvey Again Heads Committee Democratic Leaders Meet Briefly And Adjourn Gessner McCorvey, of Mobile, was reelected chairman of the Alabama Democratic Executive Committee by a bare quorum ot the new committee after it was called to order at the Jefferson Davis Hotel Monday morning by Silas Cater, member from the Montgomery district the old committee held its fi nal meeting when Chairman Mc Corvey reported that finances were in good oraer and that 000 in funds belonging to the committee had been invested ia war bonds. Contrary to expectations, the new committee was only in session a few minutes and there were no resolutions offered or adopted. Committeeman.

Rains. of Etowah, began reading some resolutions but was ruled out of order and the committee quickly adjourned to view the inaugural parade. Other officers elected by the committee were Walter Price, of Huntsville, vice-chairman; Robert Gwin, of Bessemer, secretary, and Mrs. F. A.

McCartney, of Annis-ton, vice-chairman of the woman's division. World At War Year Ago Today By United Press 1 U. S. Nfevy announces fourth attack on merchant shipping off Atlantic coast in seven days. U.

S. communique reports successful bombing of Japanese-held air base at Sunget Patani, in Malaya. British military headquarters out of Rangoon, Burma, reports Japanese occupation of Tavoy, south Burma coast port. Domei broadcast reports Japanese within 25 miles of Singapore. German high command announces recapture of Theodosia.

Russians report recapture of Vereya in Moscow area and Kon-brovo in Smolensk sector. March In Rain With All Accoutrements Of Battle Channcev SDarks was inagu- rated Governor of Alabama yesterday, in the presence of an estimated 8,000 persons, who tifrned out with enthusiasm despite the threatening and at times showery weather. The huge crowd voiced its approval as tne new cmei executive pledged himself to steer the ship of State on a sane, nroeressive course, between the two extremes of static unaware-ness of a changing world on the one hand, and the radical doctrines of those he said "have come to us in sheep's clothing, but in reality are enemies of our way of life," on the other. Effective prosecution of the war, and participation in the reconstruction to follow, were objectives stressed in the inaugural address. Voicing confidence in the genius of the people of Alabama, the new executive appealed for harmony and cooperation in this hour of trial, and looking forward envisaged the day Alabama, making the most of her great resources, shall head the list of States not only alphabetically, but in achievement and progress.

Perhaps the greatest applause to greet the speaker came when he struck out vigorously against the economic discrimination, the political reprisals, directed at Alabama and the South, served notice that this State and section can and will solve their own peculiar nroblems. and decried out side efforts to interfere with our "established relationships. For Pooling Resources Gov. SDarks declared that con sideration should be given the pooling of resources for various State agencies, in order 'that some may not be abundantly provided while others are lean and in distress." On the subject of alcoholic beverage control, Tie said that the present system received its power from a vote of the people, and that any question as to its operation and effect "can well be submitted to the people for their determination." The inaugural address, following the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Gardner a few minutes Derore poon, was preceded by a "military parade the like of which had not been seen in Montgomery in. many day.

Torrent of Strength For nearly an hour and a half Dexter Avenue presented tne aspect of a sea of olive Urab and steel helmets, or rather a river, (Turn to Page Col. Z) Huge Army-Navy Fees Under Probe House Group Summons Department Heads WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. (JP) High Army and Navy officials will be summoned before the House rule committee to explain why their departments authorized war contracts which, the House naval and military commit tees charged, permuted huge lees and Drof its. The rules committee's decision today to hold the hearings followed reports by Chairman Via son (D), Georgia, and Chairman May (D).

Kentucky, of the House naval and military committees, respectively, that investigations by their groups had produced savings of more than chiefly through renegotiation of contracts. Representative Fish (R). New York, ranking Republican member of the rules committee, declared it was "obvious that somebody was sleeping and we want to know who it was and whether we shouldn't do something about it" The committee postponed, until the completion of the hearings, action on Vinson's resolution to empower the two war committees to continue their inquiries. May and Vinson estimated their committees each had achieved savings of more than $1,000,000,000. May said "vast items of waste" were found in Army construction and Vinson reported that 121 sales engineers, or "war brokers," had received approximately $15,000,000 since 1939 by soliciting defense business from government Hull Tartly Answers Grant's Criticism WASHINGTON, Jan.

18. (JP)-Criticism of the State Department by Hugh Grant, former U. S. minister to Thailand, drew from Secretary Hull today the observation that he was not in the habit of engaging in controversy with those who once served in the department but who, for satisfactory reasons, no longer are included among its personnel. This was Hull's response to a press conference request for comment on the Louisville speech in which Grant said the State Department was an antiquated institution badly in need of "new blood' HcavyBombcrs Blast Two Jap Held Islands Friday Saturday Raids Crack Enemy Bases Near Guadalcanal WASHINGTON, Jan.

18. (ZP) Heavy bombing attacks on Japanese bases in the northwestern Solomon Islands were reported today by the Navy which said that one bombing raid, on the island of Ballale started fires visible for 50 miles. As'' both Army and Navy bombers blasted the Jap positions 300 miles distant, ground troops on Guadalcanal Island mopped up pockets of enemy resistance in newly conquered areas on the flanks- of the American positions. A total of 150 Japanese were killed in a single day's fighting last Saturday and "a were taken prisoner, the Navy reported. Their equipment was destroyed.

This was virtually the first reports to come out of the island indicating that any substantial group of Japanese had been captured. Usually they have preferred' death. The bombing raids, carried out Friday night and Saturday, were a continuation of heavy fighting which broke out by early Friday when Jap destroyers with aerial escorts sought to deliver supplies, and possibly reinforcements, to the enemy forces on Guadalcanal. Army Flying Fortesses bombed the Kahili airport on the southeastern end of Bougainville Island, near Buin, Friday night and set large fires. Later that night the Navy's familiar Cata-lina patrol bombers started additional fires with another raid on Kahili.

Catalinas also attacked the enemy base at Munda, on New Georgia Island, which is the enemy airfield closest to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. Old Confederacy Will Observe Lee's Birthday ATLANTA, Jan. 18. (JP) The Southern states that once made up the Confederate States of America pause tomorrow to observe the birthday of their hero, Gen. Robert E.

Lee. It will be the 136th anniversary of his birth. Banks will be closed and schools and various patriotic organizations will -commemorate the occasion with ceremonies. In Georgia, where only 37 veterans of the War Between the States survive, a tea and dinner were arranged at the Confederate Soldiers Home at Atlanta. job the most unpopular and "thankless" task in the government.

After these conferences, he plans about 10 days of concentrated study before issuing a statement of policy. Brown's appointment as head of the Office of Price Administration was approved unanimously by the Senate just one week after President Roosevelt sent the nomination to the capitol. Senate confirmation came after the banking and currency committee unanimously endorsed the appointment and Republican Leader Charles L. McNary. of Oregon, waived rules which would have required the nomination to lie over full day after the committee reported.

McNary said the minority decided to waive after Senator Homer Ferguson, who defeated Brown in the November election, did not oppose the nomi-nation. Theoretically, Brown takes over immediately since Henderson said in his letter of resignation a month ago that he would step out as soon as his successor was confirmed. Actually, however, he wiy not become OPA boss until he is formally sworn in tomorrow. Democrats Elect Walker; Laud Ed Flynn As Patriot DR. R.

A. SMITH, widely known Brewton physician and (Turn to rage Col. Japs Lose Big Cargo Vessel To U. S. Fliers GEN.

MACARTHUR'S HEAD. QUARTERS, AUSTRALIA. Jan. 19. (Tuesday) (U.R) American and Australian troops closing in on Sanananda, last Japanese foothold in the Papua area of New Guinea, have captured nearby Caje iuiierton and Wye i'oint, the Allied command announced today.

An Allied heavy bomber sank an Japanese cargo ship in the Bismarck Sea off New Ireland northeast of New Guinea, said the noon communique issued by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The vessel was struck with two direct bomb hits, blazed into flames and sank within eight minutes. The two new points in the Sanananda sector, less than two miles up the coast from the main Al lied goal, fell on Monday. The war bulletin.

said the new successes followed quickly the successes of Sunday in which the main road in the Japanese rear was cut and 122 Japanese dead were counted. It reported that the troops at both Wye and Kil- lerton were destroyed and gen. eral liquidation of the position continues. The attack on the Jap mer chant ship was one of many widespread aerial assaults made during the past 24 hours by Mac-Arthur's airmen. The bulletin said the vessel, after being hit, burst into flames from bow to stern and that it was attacked 70 miles southwest of New Han.

over Island off the northwestern tip of the main island. Madang, Finschafen and Lae, all well up the New Guinea coast from the Sanananda front, again were the targets of Allied planes. Madang was hit by heavy bomber which attacked the airdrome. A medium bomber attacked the wharf and town area of Finschafen. High School, and of Alabama College.

Another Alabama College graduate, Miss Josephine Baldwin, of Andalusia, was also accepted for the WAVES. At present she is employed in the State Health Department laboratory. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.

O. Baldwin, she had her preparatory education at Andalusia High School. Two From Huntingdon Two Huntingdon College alumnae are likewise among the new WAVES. Miss Harriet Thomas, daughter of Mrs. J.

M. Thomas, will report for Officers Training School, and, in her own words, "can hardly wait for the time to come." "I wanted to get into the Navy just as soon as I knew there was to be a woman's branch," Miss Thomas, who is employed in the vital statistics division of the State Health Department, said. Before attending Huntingdon, Miss Thomas graduated from Margaret Booth School Miss Cleo E. Jordan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

O. E. Jordan, of Brewton, the other Huntingdon graduate, expressed enthusiasm at the prospect of getting into the WAVES. Recently with the Ten-(Turn to Page Col. 1) Iumbia.

Group Health, was set up to provide medical care and hospitalization for its members on a prepayment plan. The de. cision noted that such a plan "was contrary to the code of of the AMA. The court's vote was 6 to 0, Justices Murphy and Jackson, former attorneys general, did not participate. The opinion, written by Jus.

tice Roberts, was devoted chief. ly to legal technicalities. It found that the court did not need to consider or -decide thequestion of principal interest to laymen raised by the appeal whether a physician's practice of his pro. fession constitutes "trade" with. in the meaning of the Sherman act, which prohibits combina tions in restraint of trade.

"If, as we hold, the indictment charges a single conspiracy to restrain and obstruct this business it charges a conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce within the statute. calling or occupation of the individual physicians charged as defendants is immaterial if the purpose and effect of their con spiracy was such obstruction and restraint of the business of Group Health." Eighteen individual defendants had been acquitted by the jury in the lower court. The Supreme Court also upheld the right of a circuit court to see that a Labor Board case "has been fairly heard." Specifically it upheld a re quirement by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that the Labor Board hear evidence of alleged dynamiting and other violence by a local of the AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers before the court would enforce a board order against the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company of South Bend arising from the union's charges of unfair labor The board held that the alleged violence was immaterial to its findings but the circuit court ruled that the evidence might be material and the Supreme Court agreed. In a 5-3 opinion. Justices Black, Douelas and Murphy dissenting, affirmed the case.

The (Wagner) act accords a great degree of finality to the board's findings of act and this court has been insistent that the admonition of the act be strictly observed." said majority opinion by Justice Jackson. School Teachers Will Issue Ration Books ATLANTA. 18. (ZD- Some 200,000 school teachers, along with other volunteers, will be asked to helo in the recistra- tion of an estimated 23.000.000 persons in the Southeast for war ration book No. 2, Oscar R.

Strauss, regional OPA administrator, announced today. Strauss said aDnroximatelv 40 000 school hones would be needed for the l'-day ripistration pe- ioa, the nue of which has not been set. raid tlegra had gone out today stpte OPA ad ministrators in Georgia, Alabama, xniin Carolina, North Carolina. Florida. Tennessee, and Mississippi, directing them to submit the request for aid to state superintendents of education.

Procurement Party Draws In 7 WAVES And Single SPAR Brown Confirmed By Senate; Henderson Quit Post Friday CHICAGO. Jan. 18. UP) The Democratic National Committee charged today that recent attacks On Edward J. Flynn, who has been nominated as minister to Australia, were carried out by enemies of President Roosevelt who "dare not directly attack the commander-in-chief of our forces in the midst of a war." The committee stepped Into the controversy over Flynn's ap pointment to the diplomatic service and gave him a vote of "complete confidence" after Flynn had resigned as the committee's chairman and Postmaster General Frank C.

Walker had been chos en as his successor. 'A resolution, approved unani mously by the group, asserted enemies of the President were attempting to break down the respect of the American people for him. and added: "Whereas, they dare not direct ly attack the commander-in-chief of our forces in the midst of a war, they are seeking by indirec tion, subterfuge and chicanery to accomplish their purpose by a campaign of falsehood, detraction and vicious newspaper propaganda directed against the leader of the President's party during the past two years, by implying deceit and evil motives on the part of the President in appointing a valued, capable and loyal friend to an important diplomatic post to which that friend is eminent ly qualified by his personal quali ties and his honest efficient per formance in public office. The party leaders came to Flynn's support as he prepared to go to Washington for a hear ing by the Senate foreign rela tions committee on his fitness for the diplomatic post Flynn's ap pointment bv President Roosevelt has been criticized by some Republicans in and out of the Sen ate. One of the critics, Senator Slightly frightened but deter mined to do their bit in destroy ing the Hun and the Jap thunder ing at America's door, eight young women were sworn into service by the U.

S. Navy last night as the 1 i a of a "procurement party" at the Jefferson Davis Hotel. Seven of the young women took the oath to become WAVES. The eighth elected to become a SPAR. Miss Muriel Byrne, 3 Bullard Street, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Fred W. Byrne, has been work ing with her father at Radio Elec tric Company and has a good background for communications work. Miss Byrne will request radio or some branch of commu- ications when she is called into the WAVES. A graduate of La- forward to her call to active duty.

which will probably be within 30 days. Miss Mary Ellen Tnomas, sec retary to the medical director and laboratory assistant at the Mont gomery County Tuberculosis San- atorium, hopes to continue this work In the WAVES. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton H.

Thomas, of Prattville, a graduate of Autauga County WASHINGTON. Jan. 18. (U.R) Leon Henderson relinquished his post as chief of the Office of Price Administration last Friday, it was revealed tonight after the Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of former Dem ocratic Senator Prentiss M. Brown, of Michigan, as his successor.

Disclosure that Henderson already had quit came when an or der was issued calling for a 40 per cent cut in fuel oil rations for non-heating purposes for com mercial industrial and government consumers in the eastern area. The order was signed by acting OPA Administrator John Ha mm. When Henderson resigned last month he said he would stay on the job until his successor hod been confirmed. Actually, Brown will not be come OPA boss until he is formally sworn in probably tomorrow. Brown conferred with Hender son during the day and will con tinue talks with him the rest of the week to familiarize himself with administrative details of the.