Chattanooga Daily Times from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 1

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RESEARCH UNIT SENATE PASSES PA TTON CI OSING ON FOE; PINCERS CRUSHING ORMOC YANK 'i POLICY CHURCHILL AWD DORMITORY PLAIfllEMT UC First Projects In Expansion Program Tentatively Set by Board of Trustees BUY 2 OAK STREET LOTS Tentative plans for housing: an industrial research institute, which is expected to be opened during: the coming year, and erection of the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Dormitory for Women, were announced ves- terday by the board of trustees of jplthe University of Chattanooga. IjA Action" by the university offi 7 I fCZtCHOSLOVAKIA JMWg' AUSTRIA P.p jS toJle YUGOSLAVIA cials, who also appointed a planning committee for the school, fol lowed a recent campaign In which $375,000 was raised for postwar ex panslon of university facilities. The Industrial research institute was among" major needs of the school In the postwar era which were re cently outlined by President David A. Lockmiller. Named to the planning committee were Felix G.

Miller, chairman; Lupton Patten, Roy McDonald, Harry Carbaugh, Edward Finlay, with Morrow Chamberlain, chair man of the board of trustees, and Dr. Lockmiller as ex officio bers. The committee will study postwar development of the uni versity and is expected to present REDS ADVANCE TOWARD AUSTRIA The black arrows locate Russian Army advances in central Europe, with the large shaded arrow indicating a possible continuation of these drives toward Austria. Pushing to-the Danube north of Hatvan yesterday Red forces had half encircled Budapest. Reds9 Tanks Reach Danube, Budapest Is Half -Encircled LONDON, Dec.

9 (Saturday) UP) Berlin said last night that Russian tank forces had crashed through to the Danube north of Budapest, half -encircling the Hungarian capital garrison already imperiled by other Soviet units which crossed the river 13 miles southwest of the city. A German broadcast intimated that the important rail RISKS G07ERIIME1IT Commons Votes, 281-32, on Stand for Intervention in Italy, Greece, Belgium U. S. OBLIGATION HINTED LONDON, Dec. 8 UP) Prime Minister Churchill won an, overwhelming vote of confidence in the House of Commons today for a roreign policy of intervention against "mob rule by murder gangs" in liberated Europe after a vigorous defense in which he clear ly suggested that the United States could not wash its hands of the problem.

5 A tense, often turbulent, House supported him 281 to 32 when the prime minister, in a back-me-or- sack-me stand, forced the issue to meet a clamor of criticism at home and abroad. The crisis was provoked by the use -of British troops to combat fraternal strife in Greece, by British refusal to approve Count Carlo Sforza as Italian foreign minister, by violent demonstrations in Belgium, and by rumblings of unrest in Holland. Refusing to retreat an inch from his position, which he epitomized in the sentence, "Democracy is not a harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommy gun," Churchill made it evident that he regarded the responsibility as America's as well as Britain's. Says America Shares The United States State Depart-; ment has publicly avowed a hands-off policy regarding the internal affairs of other countries, with Italy and Greece specifically mentioned, but Churchill made repeated references to America's sharing of the authority for what has happened. The operation in Greece and the methods of handling it, were agreed upon at the last Quebec conference with President" Roosevelt, he noted.

Use of British troops to maintain order in Belgium was directed by a British general who was operating under command: of the American Gen. Eisenhower, Churchill noted, pausing to praise Eisenhower and to remark that "we thought those orders were wise and sensible." Count. Sforza, after, 20 years of exile 3ft was taHdw'etrto return to Italy, despite British misgivings, after he had written to the U. S. State Department's then Assistant Secretary Berle pledging not to stir up trouble.

ChurchUl remarked in passing that "our interest in Italy is the front," where under the American LL-Gen. Mark Clark "we have confidently placed an army which is at least three-quarters British or British controlled." Has Stuck to Agreement Reiterating British opposition to Sforza, he said: "We have a Joint arrangement with America about Italy, and we should be very sorry if it were proved that we have broken away from this ioint arraneement. Wei have not done so in any way." Of the whole European problem he said, "If there is a democracy and its various defenders believe they express the wishes of the majority, why can't they wait until the general election a free vote of the people, which is our sole policy in every country into which British and American armies are marching?" Churchill took this stand: "I have no. fear at all that the most searching inquiry into the See Page Two, Column One BILLTO FREEZE SOGIALAID TAX 47-to-l 9 Vote Sends Block on Levy Double to F. D.

With Veto Predicted WASHINGTON, Dec 8 UPt Contrary to Administration wishes, the Senate today sent to the White House legislation freezing the old ag3 pension tax throughout 1945. The senators voted, 47 to 19, in favor of the freeze not as large a ratio as the 262-to-72 House vote last Monday, but more than the two-thirds needed to override a widely predicted veto. A switch of four' votes, however, would doom a motion to override. If Mr. Roosevelt bows to Congress or if the lawmakers override a veto, it will mark the fourth consecutive year that" ah automatic increase in the payroll levy has been blocked.

The rate, now 1 per cent each on employes and employers, will double Jan. 1, unless the bill becomes law. Twenty-one Democrats and 26 Republicans voted for the freeze. Lined up on the losing side were 15 Democrats, including Sen. Wagner N.

sponsor of the original Social Security Law; three Republicans and one "Progressive. SENATE EXTENDS WAR POWERS ACT WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 UP) The Senate voted today to continue the Administration's broad war emergency authority through 1945. pass ing without change the House-ap- provea extension or the Second War Powers Act. Senate approval was by a voice vote.

The bill now goes to the White House. The act is the legislative cornerstone of the War Production Board's authority over the nation's wartime economy, and carries the Government's powers to impose rationing. It also gives President Roosevelt the authority for the War Food Administration and various other emergency agencies. The Senate accepted a House amendment giving Federal courts power to review and enjoin War Production Board orders suspending individual allocations of critical materials. HOUSE APPROVES FIVE-STAR RANKS WASHINGTON, Dec.

8 UP) The House passed a bill today to create eight wartime five-star army and navy commanders. The legislation is a ppssible forerunner jto a TOove. to the navy-a permanent admiral with, a. tank high enough to match Gen. John J.

Pershing's "General of the Armies of the United military title in the nation. "Every other major power has these ranks," said Chairman Vinson of the Naval Committee in the brief debate which preceded today's voice vote. "It is very essential on the basis of the size of our army and navy." Today's bill, which goes to the Senate, provides four appointments each of "general of the army" and "admiral of the fleet" for the war's Vinson predicted the jobs would go to these men For the army: Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff; Gen.

H. H. Arnold, head of the air forces; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Gen.

Douglas MacArthur. All are now four-star generals. For the navy: Adm. William D. Leahy, the President's chief of staff; Adm.

Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the navy; Adm. Chester Nimitz and Adm. William F. Halsey.

TWO MORE NAMED TO AID STETTINIUS WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 UP) The Senate received two new nominations for top aides to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius today as its Foreign Relations Committee decided on a public quizzing of the four already nominated. Chairman Connally Tex.) announced that the committee would begin public hearings next Tuesday on the qualifications of the nominees, and would call Stettinius as the first witness to "tell us about these gentlemen." The nominees include Joseph C. Grew, named as under-secretary of state, and W.

L. Clayton, Archibald See Page Two, Column Five Its final report to the board of trustees next June. The trustees also announced pur- chase of two lots, across from the present girls' dormitory, fronting 112 feet on Oak Street and 190 feet on Baldwin Street, which will -Ba, provide an ideal location for the Sjf-w dormitory, officials said. 'V Kruesi Donation to Be Sold The board agreed to offer for sale or exchange property at 511 East Fourth Street, former home of Paul J. Kruesi, prominent Chattanooga manufacturer, who donated It to the university to perpetuate a memorial to the late Myra Smartt Kruesi.

The property Is too far from the main campus to be used for educational purposes, and proceeds from its disposition will be used according1 to agreement to establish a permanent memorial to Mrs. Kruesi, it was stated. A nation-wide search is being made to secure a suitable director to help organize and operate the industrial research institute, which is expected to be housed in property owned by the uftiyersity on McCallle Avenue, Dr. Lockmiller said. "We desire a man," he continued, "who has had the best possible general and scientific training and who has had successful industrial research experience." He added that plans are under way for the insti SIEGFRIED HUE HIT Seventh Army Troops Surga to Within Four and a Half Miles of Reich Frontier 9TH UNDER HEAVY FIRE PARIS, Dec.

8 OP) Two American armies hammered today at the Siegfried Line guarding Germany's Saar Basin, whose big blast furnaces that turn out a tenth of the enemy's steel already were lost to the Reich. The U. S. Third Army, driving nearly halfway across the northwest corner of the basin, fought mile and a half into the maze of pillboxes of the Westwall northwest of- Saarbrucken and was smashing that Saar capital's sprawling war factories with shells. 1 The U.

S. Seventh Army, swing ing up through northern Lorraine east of the Third Army, fought to within four and a half miles of the German frontier and turned, its artillery on the Siegfried Line. George S. Patton'e Third Army long toms and heavy howitzers were wrecking Saarbrucken, where two of the greatest steel plants in the whole valley are located in the suburbs of Bre-bach and Burbach. I The basin's second city of Saar-lautern was falling into ruin under the fire of the Germans them- selves, who were trying to check the American men and materials streaming across the Saar River bridge from where the first attacks on the Westwall were launched.

Furnaces Knocked Out The big blast furnaces of Dillin-gen, three miles northwest of Saar-lautern, had been knocked out by the U. S. 90th Infantry Division, which speared on past the town a mile and a half into the Siegfried Line in the Third's deepest penetration of the Reich. Mechanized U. S.

cavalry fought deeper into Forbach, three and a half miles southwest of Saarbrucken, and new assaults were launched-in an attempt to cross th "Baar Riyerv at Sarreguemlnes, eight miles southeast of Saarbrucken. (Paris radio said "Forbach had fallen.) In the battle for the richest industrial region of all the Ruhr and Rhineland the ease with which the U. S. First Army captured two heights near the Roer River Indicated the Germans may realize their days on the west bank are over and are withdrawing. Courtney H.

Hodges' forces took a height near Pier, less than a mile from the river north of Duren, and other forces advanced onto a ridge commanding Schlich, three miles west of Duren. Other forces broadened their hold on the Roer to 800 yards near Bergstein, eight miles south of Duren, captured a sizable height overlooking the stream and beat off two counter-attacks launched from the south. Foe Withdraws Guns A front dispatch said that in recent days the enemy had withdrawn the bulk of his artillery to the Roef east bank, and it was considered likely that only a thin covering force might be left behind. The U. S.

Ninth Army of LtV Gen. William H. Simpson, already on the Roer around Julich, nine miles northwest of Duren, came under the heaviest fire from "screaming meemies" multiple-barreled mortars since the Normandy campaign. Nervously awaiting a Ninth Army drive torosa the Roer, the Germans were sending over reconnaissance planes. Considerable en- emy movements were spotted across the river.

Two enemy pockets still held out in the Julich area on the west bank of the stream. The greatest pressure on the enemy still was being exerted by Pat-ton's Third Army tanks and infantry in the Saar, a rich valley of 1,000,000 population which the Germans apepared to be sacrificing to purchase increased resistance before Cologne. The 90th Division, driving east from Dillingen to a point more than eight miles inside the Reich, captured a number of pillboxes in the Siegfried Line and beat off a tank-supported counter-blow. 'GRIMMEST CHRISTMAS' IS FACED BY GERMANY LONDON, Dec. 8 OP) Germany is acinar its "hardest.

Christmas," the German Trans-ocean News Agency said tonight. uu oerun ana ouier Dig cities "there is no Chrinfmnji jmtrit Christmas trees, no decorations and presents win De very rare. "The railways have to carry more important goods than Christmas trees," Transocean added, "al- uiougn mere wm be some relaxation of the travel ban to nermlt wonting- xainers to return "If anyone wants to give a present he has to part with his own things. It's not easy to buy toys. Germans have been given a half pound of mest two -and quarter pound of sweets for the cnnaren, ana perhaps half a bottle of "schnapps" or a small bottle of wine just to make grownups feel that there is a Christmas." IWO JIHA BLASTED Enemy Transport Ship Sunk Off Luzon 19 Jap Plane's Shot Down Over Leyte MANILA HARBOR BOMBED Bw th Associated Prett.

Japanese forces south of Ormoc on Leyte Island, Philippines, faced annihilation today between the crushing power of the American 77th and 7th Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the Nipponese were compressed into a five-square-mile area, and that American ground forces had advanced to the outskirts' of Ormoc, the enemy's principal supply base on the west coast of the battle-scarred island. Forces of nature alsccontributed to Japan's misfortunes, the Tokyo radio announcing yesterday that an earthquake and tidal wave hit the area around the Nipponese capital Thursday (Japanese time). American aircraft and naval vessels added to the island empire's war woes with a powerful attack yesterday (Japanese time) on Iwo Jima, aviation base in the Volcano Islands only 750 miles south of Tokyo. A single Superfortress set fires in the rail center.

city of Shizuola, 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, and Japanese broadcasters said four B-29s made individual reconnais sances over Nippon, but dropped no bombs. Aided By New Landing American successes on Leyte were facilitated by the daring Dec. 7 amphibious landing of the 77th Division just below Ormoc, where the enemy's vaunted Yamashita line already has been breached. MacArthur's communique reported a Japanese trans port was sunk by air patrols off Luzon; 13 enemy freighters ranging from 300 to 800 tons were destroyed or damaged by other fliers around the Visayan Islands west of Leyte, and 19 Nipponese planes were shot down over Leyte. Yank fliers harassed the Manila area, destroyed an ammunition dump at nearby Clark Field and bombed Legaspi airport on Luzon Island.

carrying capacity bomb loads-i-which the army has placed at 10 tons or more per plane struck with sizable force at Iwo Jima, about midway on the B-29 bombing route from Saipan to Tokyo. The raid was "made in. partnership with navy surface craft, and army and navy Liberator bombers and Lightning fighters. It was the first time the Superforts had figured in a joint army-navy, sea-air assault on a Japanese base. Say Base Knocked Out Superfort crewmen said Iwo Jima was blasted out of usefulness as a base for plane attacks on American airfields in the Marianas.

In the China-Burma fighting the ater, prospects for the future use of the supply road from India to China were bright in Burma, wnere the Japanese were withdrawing on a large scale. But the Japanese still threatened the route in southern China, where they were driving westward toward the Burma-road cities of Kunming and Kweiyang. Chungking said Chinese forces were only seven and one-half miles from Wanting, last Burma road town on the Chinese side of the border. This progress, combined with the Japanese withdrawal in Burma, may mean that the supply road can be cleared for use in a ween or xu forces in South China recaptured Tushan, 75 miles southeast of Kweiyang, the Chinese hieh command re ported. For the Japanese, who had taken Tushan earlier this week, loss of the town was a setback in their drive on Kweiyang.

GOODS FOR WEST FRONT SENT DIRECT FROM U. S. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Dec. 8 WV United States armies in France now are receiving 75 per cent of their supplies direct across the Atlantic from America, thanks to quick work in getting damaged ports into action. Rouen and Le Havre, which the Germans did their best to destroy, have been restored and are handling more tonnage than before the war, it was disclosed officially today.

These harbors, along with the increasing use of Antwerp and the continued use of Cherbourg, assure a flow of suppjies to keep Gen. Eisenhower's winter offensive rolling. Rouen and Le Havre gave the Allied ports from 300 to 400 miles closer to the battle than the land routes from Cherbourg. The two most famous highways of World War II have gone back to normal use. They are the Red Ball Express, which carried 500,000 tons of freight from Cherbourg across France in its 81 days of operation, and the shorter Green Diamond route from Cherbourg to Brittany's Two new war freight highways' now aomg auty are ine wnite oau Route from Le Havre and Rouen, east through Paris, and the Amer- Ucan-British-Canadian ABC Ex press, east from Antwerp.

Most freight from Cherbourg now moves by rail. i MAJ. SILAS WILLIAMS SILAS WILLIAMS DIES SUDDENLY Attorney, Civic Leader, Has Fatal Heart Attack During Atlanta Business Trip Maj. Silas Williams, 56, promi nent attorney who for a number of years had been active in the pro fessional, Civic, political and social life of Chattanooga, died yesterday about noon in his room at the Rob" ert Fulton Hotel in Atlanta, fol lowing a heart ailment. News of his death came 'as a shock to a wide circle of friends in Chattanooga and elsewhere who had no idea that his health was impaired.

He had gone to Atlanta Thursday afternoon on business for a client and registered at the hotel. About 10:15 o'clock yesterday morning he telephoned his office from Atlanta and said that he was very ill. He requested that an automobile be sent to Atlanta to bring him home, as he did not feel he would be able to make the trip back by train. Miss Ellen Ford, secretary at Mr. Williams' law firm, went to the office of Sam J.

McAUester, on the same floor in the James Building, to confer with him about the re quest, and McAUester sent his as sociate, F. M. Ingle, to Atlanta with Miss Ford. Died in Hotel Room About noon Mr. Williams tele phoned an Atlanta heart Specialist, Dr.

Kells Boland, and requested that he come to his room as soon as Unable to leave his office for an emergency call at that time. Dr. Boland dispatched an other physician, he arrived, aoout p.m., he knocked at the door and no one answered. Finding tne aoor unlocked the physician entered and found the attorney dead. M.

E. Terrell, assistant man ager of the Robert Fulton Hotel, told The Times that Maj. Williams had been dead about an hour when the physician found him. ft It was the theory of the hotel executive that Maj. Williams must have been having an attack when he summoned Dr.

Boland and died immediately after the call. No one was in the room with the attorney. When Mr. Williams called his office he specially requested that Mrs. Williams not be told of his illness and remarked that "I am not dead yet." Ingle and Miss Ford arrived shortly after the physician had visited the room.

Ingle telephoned Robert P. Frierson, attorney and brother-in-law of Mr. Williams, and told him of the at torney's death. That was the first information to reach Chattanooga. A native of Greenville, S.

Maj. Williams had been a resident and practicing attorney in Chattanooga for the past 31 years. Before he came to' Chattanooga to establish a home, his name was well known In the sports world, as he had earned high honors as a member of the championship football eleven at the University of the south, sewanee, in 1909. For two consecutive seasons he had earned the title of All-Southern end and was the captain of the 1909 championship team. Native of South Carolina The son of James Thomas Williams and Sarah McBee Williams, Maj.

Williams was born June 9, 1888. His father was a hardware merchant at Greenville and a Con federate veteran and for years served as mayor of the South Caro lina city. After completing his secondary education in South Carolina schools, Maj. Williams entered Clemson College and as a freshman made the football team. The following year 1906 he entered the University of the South and in 1909 was graduated with See Page Seven, Column One Fear of Gas in Invasion Worried Nazi Soldier 8 WASHINGTON, Dec.

8 UP The Germans were more alarmed than the Allies over the prospect of gas warfare in the Normandy invasion, a chemical expert of the Allied supreme headquarters reports. Col. Adrian St. John, chemical adviser at headquarters, says that is the latest data from German prisoners and from studies of German equipment and orders. The result, St John states in an article written for the official publication of the U.

S. Army's command and general staff, school. The Military Review, was that the Nazi defenders were burdened down with gas defense preparations. Then St. John adds: "To keep the enemy tensed over a situation of this kind is a big factor in combat morale, and in our analysis of this gas situation we must not lose sight of such a factor." TOKYO ADMITS SEVEREQUAKE Dimto nH Um.coo QannriiA uamaged-jn Hamamatsu, Osaka, Shimuzu Sectors" By th Attoctated Tokyo acknowledged last night that factories in Osaka and other war industry sections of the main Japanese island were damaged by the Thursday earthquake, so severe it caused a tidal wave.

A Domel Agency dispatch, picked up by the Federal Communications Commission, said factories and homes in Osaka, Hamamatsu and Shimuzu areas were damaged, but claimed that "on the whole" the destruction was light. Osaka, 240 miles southwest of Tokvo. has a population of 000. It is an important rail and shipping hub and manufactures textiles, machines, metals and chemicals. There was no Indication Tokyo itself had been affected.

The Domel dispatch, together with earlier Japanese reports, listed the damaged areas as Osaka, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Shimizu, Nagoya and Nagano. Nagoya, with a population of 1,328,000, is 160 miles southwest of Tokyo, Before the war, at least, it was the center of Japan's aviation industry. The central meteorological observatory set the time of the earthquake at 1:36 p.m. Japanese time (12:36 a.m. EWT).

Dome! said the shock was especially se-J vere uie xoKai aisirici, wmcn embraces Shizuoka, Nagoya and Miye prefectures. "The quake was severe, but losses were limited to buildings damaged in one area," Dome! said, "and on the whole not much damage was done." The center of the earthquake was in the Sea of Enshu, lying off Shizuoka and Nagoya prefectures on Honshu Island. Tidal waves and landslides added to the damage in the Shizuoka area, some 80 miles southwest of Tokyo, earlier broadcasts said. Domei said damage was minimized by precautions already taken against American air raids. HARMON PAPIPIH I FAnFR'days, observers said.

road junction of Aszbd, 15 miles northeast of Budapest's outskirts, had fallen, saying that "superior" Red Army forces attacked the village and that "most of the German garrison fought its way out while the rest resisted to the k. Marshal Rodion Y. -Vlalinovsky's Second Ukraine Army units broke through to the Danube in a three day 27-mile drive from Hatvan, 10 miles east of Aszod, Berlin said, and were threatening the east bank communications center of Vac, on the Danube bend 13 miles north of Budapest. Ukraine Armies Unite Berlin also declared that other Second Ukraine Army units had linked up with Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army at Ercsi, on the west bank of the Danube 13 miles southwest of the capital, after a crossing from the Danube island of Csepel.

Moscow's regular communique did not mention the northern action which Berlin admitted put the; Budapest garrison in a critical situation, but it did announce a powerful drive toward Vienna (through the Budapest-Lake Bala ton defense line southwest of the capital. In that area Tolbukhin's forces smashed ahead 11 miles and captured the rail station of KJscserl and Csosz village, only nine miles south of Szekesfehervar, fortress city 32 miles southwest of Budapest and 110 miles southeast of Vienna, Austrian capital. The fall of Szekesfehervar, a creat 13-wav road and rail 1unc tion controlling all communications southwest of Budapest, would threaten the complete encirclement of the Hungarian capital. A midnight Soviet bulletin said that an entire Hungarian infantry regiment, comprising 29 officers and men, surrendered as a unit on the Danube front, and that 300 others were captured and 1,500 Germans and Hungarians killed in southwestern Hungary. 170,000 YANKEES LOST AT AACHEN, NAZIS SAY LONDON, Saturday, Dec.

9 UPt The German radio declared early today that 170,000 American troops were lost in the "Great Aachen Battle." There was no elaboration or Allied confirmation. money has come from corporations, $11,031,000,000. Individual sales were announced as $3,021,000,000, compared with the individual quota of TENNESSEE PASSES QUOTA FOR BONDS Tennessee went ''over the top" in the Sixth Loan drive on Pearl Harbor Day, surpassing its $117,000,000 quota by $800,000, Cecil Woods, chairman of the state war finance committee, announced here yesterday. While the overall quota was Chairman Woods an nounced that bond purchases thus far total only about 50 per cent of the quota. He urged all county war bond campaign or- See Page Two, Column Three tute to begin operations during the i tomlng year.

Xjt A WF PAI VLANE CARRIER 'BOXER' TO BE LAUNCHED DEC. 14 NEWPORT NEWS. Dec. 8 (JPi Charming Miss Ruth D. Overton, daughter of United States Sen.

and Mrs. John H. Overton of Louisiana, is to christen the air craft carrier "Boxer," which is scheduled to be launched Thursday, Dec. 14, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany here. The "Boxer is the eighth mighty vessel of her class to be built here and the 17th of the Es sex class to be launched for the navy since the attack on Pearl Harbor.

She was built in 15 months. The newest "Boxer" is the fifth naval vessel to bear that name since 1815 when the first Boxer, a brig of 370 tons and carrying 14 runs, was built at Middleton, Conn, By comparison, the present car rier Boxer is 850 feet long, and carries -more than 80 aircraft in eluding fighters, torpedo bombers, scout bombers and observation craft weighing more than 500,000 pounds. RINGLING CIRCUS DEBTS MAY BE MET IN 3 YEARS SARASOTA, Fla Dec 8 L5V- The entire obligation of Ringling Bros, and Barnum tk Bailey's Cir cus may be met in three years, according to Vice-President James A. Haley, who returned here today. Legal and financial entanglements besetting the circus growing out of the disastrous Hartford.

fire in July in which 158 were killed and 200 injured, have been amicably arranged, he said. If the circus-goers of America, th management and executives of the show give the proper support, there is a possibility that the entire obligation could be met in three years. In Today's Times Amusements .11 Church 5 Classified .,..10 Comics ......12 Editorial Financial 9 Local 3 Obituary 7 Radio .......11 Society 4 Sports 9 Tri-State 1 Weather .....11 Legal 11 Morgan may be asked to fight immorality 3 Morgan seeks Silver Slipper padlock 3 Laundries remain closed by strike 3 McCallle to build gymnasium. 3 Four new directors named. Army gas theft trials close at Nashville 7 Railroads state Georgia freight rate complaint is "camouflage" 7 North meets South in Legion grid tilt today 8 Eight Contributions Bring Total For Neediest Cases Fund to $955 Nation Exceeds Sixth Loan Quota; Individual Purchases Short of Goal OF STRATEGIC AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, Dec.

8 UPt Millard F. Harmon has been named to command the strategic air force. Pacific Ocean areas, the navy disclosed tonight. A communique from Adm. Chester Nimitz, Pacific Fleet commander, said Harmon was in command of the "large force of aircraft" which struck at the strategic Jap base on Iwo Jima in a raid announced earlier today.

ily Service Agency, -who also offer spiritual and psychological guidance to the needy families. In many instances in the past, this aid has enabled deserving families to again become self-supporting members of society. Last year $6,000 was given by kindly Chattanoogans to the fund, which was inaugurated 28 years ago by the' late Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of The Chattanooga Times and Tha Kent York Timpn The fund is administered by the Family Service Agency without charge for administrative expenses and contributions to this cause may be deducted on income tax reports as gifts to organized charity. Reprinted today is the case of an adolescent boy whose mother was dead and his father was busy with the.

problems of a second family. Last year the Family Service Agency found him sullen, resentful and with gnawing fears of the future. The story follows: Do you remember James Last year we told you about him. The See Page Two, Column Six Previously reported 41 In Memory of James Anderson Purse 5.00 Mrs. R.

B. Davenport Sr. 25.00 35.00 3.00 1.00 35.00 10.00 2.50 Hssei ti. M. Montscue Mrs.

Ij. 1m. jacKson Anonymous isaae m. Misnier A Friend Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph L. Angel Total Generous Chattanoogans yester day contributed $96.50 to help relieve suffering and bring joy to Chattanooga's 125 Neediest Cases, pushing the total to $955.91 in the 28th appeal sponsored by The Times tfor this worthy cause. Ranging from $1 to $25, yesterday's gifts included a $5 check in memory of James Anderson Purse, $3 from Mrs. L. L.

$2.50 from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Angel, $25 each from Mrs. R.

B. Davenport Hazel G. M. Montague and Isaac Mishler. An anonymous gift of $1 was received and "A -Friend" contributed $10 to round out the day's receipts.

Funds; contributed to the 25 Neediest Cases fund are used to provide food, fuel, medicine and other necessities, the money being expended under the supervision of trained. social experts of the Fam WAHTNGTON. Dec. 8 UPt America passed its $14,000,000,000 auota in the Sixth War Loan today and kept right on going because the drive could not yet oe considered a success. As individuals, Americans had reached only 60 per cent of the quota for individual sales, and only 46 per cent of their Series bond goal.

Treasury under-secretary Damei W. Bell announced the quota-bust ing figure of $14,052,000,000. He said the war picture, has changed since the goal was set. The armed forces need more supplies and ammunition than was expected, he said, and more money must be borrowed from the people. iHl v.

A M. inert i ore, eeu saia in lave ment, "We should not be satisfied with anything less than a substantial The bulk of Sixth War Loan 5.