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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 194a v. SALtRNO .If c - w z a - a a. ar m ' m tm g i i a - ft. k PRUSSIAN -. w . . i ... in r'.r n if v ;n.8 r f U Ik ill "Hf ' .' ' OF TH6 YEAR MM Tfca ycor began with these im portant events: January 1 Russians capture Vellkya Luki, great railway center. ft 78th Congress convenes. 23 British troops enter Tripoli, capital of Libya. 25 Advancing Russians take Voronezh, Nazi anchor. 26 "Unconditional Surrender" agreement of Casablanca conference announced. Hi January 1 Russians recapturt Veliky Luki, railroad center. 4 U. S. Department of War Informa tion announces 61,128 service casual ties to date. IV-U. S. planes baaed In Africa bomb Naples, Italy. 1 British only 40 miles from Tripoli. S3 British enter Tripoli, Libyan capital. S5 Voronezh, big Nazi stronghold, falls to Russians. M "Unconditional Surrendtr" agree ment of Casablanca announced. February 1 Last German troops surrender In Stalingrad; U. S. Naval forces repel major Japanese attacks In Solomons area. Allied headquarters establish sepa rate U. S. command for North Africa. Last Japs withdraw from Guadal canal. 14 Rostov and Voroshilovgrad captured by Russians. 19 Russians take Kharkov, important base. It Cruiser Chicago is sunk by Jap: U. S. Navy reports IS Jap ships hit 1ft U. S. flyers raid Kiska In Aleutians. March 3 Rzhev retaken by Russians. 4 Allied bombers destroy Jap convoy of 12 ships. 11 British attack Maretk line In Tunisia. 17 American forces take Gatsa In Tu nisia. SO Chinese check Jap drive in Hupeh- Hunan region. 34 Advancing Russians retake Ablnsk and other towns near Smolensk. SS U. S. and British troops advance la Tunisia. 31 British take Matoula and two other cities In Tunisia. April 1 Fortresses raid Cagllarl, Sardinia; Chinese drive Japs back Into Burma. 4 Chinese retake Chuchlachuan. 8 Allies bomb Naples, Kiel, Antwerp, Brest. 17 Bremen and other north German cities bombed In "biggest raid." SO Russians attack on Kuban front 21 Japanese execute U. S. flyers. 23 U. 8. Naval forces occupy Funafuti Islands, southwest Pacific. May Lt. Gen. Jacob Devera is named U. I. commander of European theater. V-Blzerte falls to Americans; British first army takes Tunis. 14 Last resistance ends In North Africa. 15 U. S. bombers raid PanteUeria, Itali an Island fortress. 23 Guerrilla warfare spreads In Balkans. 30 Japs admit loss of Attu. 31 French Alexandria fleet Joins Allies. June Curtln says Invasion danger past in Australia. 11 PanteUeria, Italian Island fortress, surrenders. IS Lampedusa, fortified Italian Island, capitulates. 13 Chinese recapture Sungtxe, port city. 18 Chinese charge Japs use gas. 17 RAF bombs Cologne. 30 U. S. forces land on Rendova, In Solomons. July 1 Rendova taken by U. S. forces. J Russians launch offensive on 180 mile front; U. S. Navy battles Japs off Solomons. 12 British capture Syracuse. 23 U. S. troops enter Palermo. 24 Americans take Marsala, Trapanl. 35 MUSSOLINI RESIGNS. KING EM MANUEL ASSUMES GOVERNMENT. S7 Italian peace negotiations begin. 28 Fascist party dissolved. August 1 V. S. planes bomb Ploestl refineries. Russians take Orel; British Capture Catania, In Sicily. Americans occupy Munda, In Solo mons. 11 Russians drive Into Ukraine. 17 Allies enter Messina; Island of Vela Lavella In Solomons taken. IB. Resistance ends on Sicily. SI U. S. and Canadian troops occupy 34 Quebec conference on war plans ends. IS British Admiral Mountbatten made chief of Allied Southeast Asia com mand. 30 Russians ret.iks Taganrog, Nazi anchor. September 1 Japs withdraw air bite tram New VUURI. Allied forces Invade mainland of Italy near Regglo Calabria. I Allies capture Palml, Dellanova. ITALY SURRENDERS UNCONDI TIONALLY; Stallno, steal center, falls to Russians. British troops take Taranto; Great est Allied raids strike northern France. 10 Germans seize Roma. II Allies take Salerno. Italian Beet surrenders. 14 Salamaua falls to U. S. and Aus tralian forces. 15 Novorosslisk recaptured by Russians. 24 Nazi troops e-acuaie Corsica. 28 British taka Foggla. October 1 Allied forces take Naples, 33 days after landing at Salerno. Australian troops capture Jap base at Finschhafen, New Guinea. . S Island of Corsica, la Mediterranean. .. is tread of Nazis. 13 Italy formally declares war on Ger many, by action of Premier Mar shal Badoglio. 14 In great raid on Schwelnfurt, Ger many, Important ball-bearing fac tories are destroyed, at a cost of 60 Flying Fortresses. 33 Melitopol, key city of German de fense In south Ukraine, falls to Rus sians. S3 Russian troops recapture Dneprope trovsk, Important Industrial city. 29 U. S. and New Zealand troops land on Treasury Islands, In Northern Solomons. November I U. S. marines Invade Bougainville Is land In northern Solomons. 4 RAF planes drop more than 8.000 tons of bombs on Dusseldorf, Ger many. Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, retaken by Russians. T British Eighth army advances In It- alv, taking eight towns. 11 Nazis scuttle ships, blast installations to block harbors of Leghorn and Pes- cara. 13 Russians capture Zhitomir, Important rail center of southern front; Chinese forces report gains along Yangtze river. 18 Greatest raid In history blasts Ber lin, dropping 2.500 tons. S3 Another huge air attack smashes Ber lin. One-fourth of city said to be razed. Makin island, member of Gilbert group, Is taken by U. S. combined forces. SS Russians rip 37-mlle-wlde gap In Nazi lines north of Gomel. 27 Marines take Tarawa, one of Gilbert islands, after "toughest fighting' In their history. 30 British Eighth army bursts through Nazi lines In Italy, approaching Rome. December 1 RAF and U. S. bombers continue massive raids, hitting Dusseldorf region. President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo, Egypt. Agree to "strip Japan of her stolen empire." Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin meet at Teheran, Iran, reach "com plete agreement on measures to crush Germany": U. S. naval task force raids Marshall Islands. T Chinese admit loss of Changteh, Im portant city In "rlca bowl.' ; Turkey promises Allies all "aid short of war r Chinese recapture Changteh. 13 Russian troops regain Initiative In Kiev area; British Eighth army cracks Nazi lino In Italy, captur ing 6.000. 14 President Roosevelt, returning from conferences, visits Malta and Sicily. 15 Am -rlcan planes raid Greece; U. S. heavy bombers smash Jap base on New Britain Island. 16 Prima Minister Churchill stricken by pneumonia; German bombers sink IT United Nations merchant ships. 17 American Sixth army lands at Ara we, on New Britain Island, southwest Pacific. January 1 President Roosevelt calls for unity among Allies, stresses "the supreme necessity of planning what is to come after the war." 6 78th Congress convenes; Samuel Rayburn speaker of house for third term; Pleasure driving banned In eastern states; Fuel oil ration re duced 23 per cent 11 U. S. and Britain relinquish extra territorial rights In China. IS OPA sets com ceilings at approxi mately f 1 a bushel. 28 Joint draft system, by which men can be inducted Into navy, marines and coast guard as well as army, announced. February National Income In 1942 was $113, 624.000.000 as compared with SS4. 500.000.000 In 1941. I Roosevelt orders 48-hour work week minimum In labor shortage areas. SO Dried foods rationed,, effective March 1. S3 Secretary of Agriculture Wlckard suspends wheat quotas. March 8 U. S. and Chile representatives sign lend-lease agreement. Draft- classification "4H" for men between 38 and 45 ended. II Lend-lease extension to July, 1944, signed by President. 34 Establishment of naval base at Casa blanca announced by navy. 25 Chester Davis named food chief. 2 A "critical shortage of doctors Is developing," an OWI survey reveals. April a President moves to check Inflation by executive order freezing wages and forbidding war workers to change 10 feed corn celling prices raised from 11.02 a bushel to 1.07. 11 A bill permitting the national debt limit to rise to S10 btUlon dollars, and a rider repealing the $25,000 net salary limit becomes law without President's signature. SO President Roosevelt confers on war and postwar problems with Presi dent Camacho of Mexico. 30 Soft coal miners of United Mine Workers union reject President Roosevelt's order; U. S. breaks re lations with Martinique. May 1 Federal government takes over closed coal mines. President Roosevelt promotes S3 army officers to rank of general. 11 Churchill arrives In Washington for war conference. 13 Merger between Western Union and Postal Telegraph Is announced. SS NLRB a pv roves eight cent an hour raise" for more than a million non operaflnj railway workers. 37 Machinists' union, with 565.000 mem bers, withdraws from the AFL. June 3 United Nations food conference ends. T Coal miners of the United Mine Workers union return to work. t As aftermath of Los Angeles' "soot suit" riots, the entire city Is de clared out of bounds for navy per sonnel. 10 President signs "pay-as-you-go" In come tax bill. SI Riots in Detroit between white and colored mobs ara suppressed by Fed eral troops, after more than 24 hours of disorder. Twen?-nlne. killed, '700 injured; Coal miners strike for third time since May 1. S3 President - Roosevelt' threatens to draft strikers In essential industries; A caudal anesthetic for use In child birth Is reported favorably from Baltimore. 28 Judge Marvin Jones succeeds Ches ter Davis as War Food Adminis trator. 30 Five senators appointed to visit war zones and report on U. S. Army and Allies; Stocks on New York exchange reach a three-year high. July THE YEAR'S TEN BIGGEST EVENTS 6ELECTED By: BATJKHAGE (WNU Wtshiaitoa Cormpondtnt.) I MILITARY: (a) Russian summer-fall offen sive. (b) Pacific offensive (Attu, New Guinea, Solomons, Gil berts). (e) Italy surrenders, (d) Air offensive against Ger man cities. II DIPLOMATIC: (a) The four-power conferences (Moscow-Cairo-Teheran). (b) Formation of the UNRRA. III DOMESTIC: (a) Passage of the Connally Resolution. (b) Administration moves to right (OPA, Food Adminis tration, War Mobilization, Stabilization, Economic Warfare). (c) Republican political gains. (d) Congress revolts against anti-inflation program (sub sidies, reduced tax bill, res olution favoring railroad wage increase). 1 House rejects amendment to Labor Federal Security bill, thereby cutting off funds for National Youth Admin istration; President Roosevelt gives last minute reprieve to Max Stephen, sentenced to death for aiding escape of a Nazi flyer. T Gen. Henri Glraud, French com mander of Northwest Africa, arrives in Washington. 15 The Board of Economic Warfare Is abolished, and its functions trans ferred lo the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; ' Chester Bowles is ' named general manager of the Offlca of Price Administration. 19 World's largest pipeline, the "Big Inch," running from Longvlew, Texas, to Phoentxvllle, Pa., is opened. SI John Lewis, es president of United Mine Workers, signs two-year con tract with Illinois Coal Operators Association; War Department reveals 65.058 prisoners of war In country. 28 Navy asks for more WAVES, stat ing that enrollment must reach 1.000 by end of 1944; Coffee rationing ended by OPA: Blue Network of Radio Corporation of America sold. August 5 Race riot sweeps New York, result ing in death of five negroes, and In- Juries to 600; Drafting of pre-Pearl iarbor fathers set to begin on Oc tober 1. 6 June personal Incomes totaled S12, 163,000.000, a new record. 13 Gasoline ration In Midwest and South west reduced from four to three gallons per coupon. 14 The War Manpower Commission es tablishes new list of 149 critical oc cupations for first priority In draft determents. 18 The army must be raised to 8.200.000 men by January 1, 1944, and the navy to 2.881.000, the War Manpower Board announces. S3 The Gufley Coal Act. passed In 1937, to stabilize coal prices, expires. No move made to renew lt. September 8 The exchange ship Gripsholm sails with 1.310 Japanese, to be exchanged for 1,250 Americans at Goa, Portu gese India: Churchill and Roosevelt confer In Washington. 4 William Jeffers, director of the na tion's rubber program, resigns. Churchill asks Anglo-American alli ance. T Republican Postwar Advisory Coun cil meets at Mackinac Island, Mich. 8 Drive for IS billion dollar third war loan opened by presidential address. 14 CoL William Coleman is convicted by a military court for drunkenness and careless use of firearms, de moted to captaincy. 15 U. S. casualties total 105.205, OWI reveals: 20,104 dead. 28.226 wound ed. 33.905 missing. 33.970 prisoners; Rep. James Curley, Mass., and five others indicted on charges of having accepted retainer fees to obtain war contracts. 17 President Roosevelt reports to Con gress on Quebec eonfercnoe. SO Army and navy chiefs of stall ask full draft quotas, and state delay in drafting fathers will prolong war. S3 Shoe ration stamp becoming valid November 1, must last six months. 35 Edward Stettinlus Jr. moves from lend-lease administrator to succeed Sumner Wells as undersecretary of . state. 29 Senators report on war tour. October 4 Treasury asks for ten and a halt billions in new tax revenue. T Merger of Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies Is completed. 11 Censorship of weather news Is lifted IS National Labor Relations Board rules that labor unions have a moral re sponsibility not to strike In wartime. 13 American Federation of Labor votes to take United Mine Workers back Into fold. 18 Third war loan passes goal of 15 bil lion dollars by nearly four billions. SO The 48-hour week for war industries Is extended to 30 mora localities. S3 Zinc-steel pennies are to be discon tinued. Treasury announces. SS Wildcat coal strikes referred to President by War Labor Board. 29 Jams and Jellies are placed on ra tioned list, other Items raised, a few . lowered. November 1 Federal government seizes 3.000 coal mines in which strikes ara halting production. Elections of various state end na tional officials reveal Republican trend. 5 United Mine Workers ordered to re turn to work ss president John Lewis accepts new wage agreement, giving miners 856.74 for 48-hour week. 5 Senate votes postwar collaboration with other nations. 85 to 5. 8 Fifteen non-operating railroad unions reject wage Increase offered by emer gency committee: Bernard Baruch is appointed chief of a new unit of the Office of War Mobilization. 10 National Labor Relations Board head William Davis says board will adhere -.. to wage ataMuatiio-progtam4- Hr bert Lehman is appointed director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. 13 Interned Japanese at Tule Lake, Calif., stage another demonstration; U. S. war expenditures from July, 1940. throug.i October. 1943. total 138 billion dollars. 18 Army officials reduce budget by 13 billion dollars, which sum will revert to treasury. A subsidy of 100 million dollars Is al located to stabilize price of flour. SO January draft call to be twice as large as War Manpower commission estimated. S3 House votes sgalnst extension of con sumer subsidies. December 1 Ration values of meats reduced 30 per cent. S U. S. plane output for November an nounced as 7. 789. 4 Army will retire 25.000 officers, re ducing total to 625.000. T Biggest U. S. battleship, the 45,000 ton Wisconsin, is launched. 10 Non-operating rail workers get sen ate approval for eight cent per hour raise. 11 Senate military committee plans graduated discharge pay for service men, ranging from 20u to 8500. 18 President Roosevelt returns to capi tal; senate committee votes to retain food subsidies for 60 days. 17 OPA promises lowering of mest ra tion points. January 1 New Year's Dav football results: Rose Bowl Georgia 9, U. C. L. A. 0; Sugar Bowl Tennessee 14. Tulsa 7; Orange Bowl Alabama 37. Boston College 21; Cotton Bowl Texas 14, Georgia Tech 7; Sun Bowl Second Air Force 13, Hardln-Slmmons 7 Kazar Stadium East All-Stars 13, West All-Stars 12. 17 Ted Williams, formerly of Boston Red Sox, named "player of the year." 21 Dodgers sign Cooney, Waner, Sisler; Yankees get Nick Etten. February 20 William Cox, New York sportsman, purchases Philadelphia Phillies for about $230,000 from National League. S4 Bucky Harris signs to manage Phil adelphia ball club. March 13 Greg Rice runs fastest S milts at K. of C. meet In 8:51.7. 17 Philadelphia team wins the Golden Gloves championship In New York. IS Detroit wins national hockey league title. SO Cornelius Wsrmerdam sets new pole vault record of 13 feet Us Inches. April (Detroit Rea Wings' defeat ths Boston Bruins, 3-0 to capture the Stanley Cup. May 1 Count Fleet wins Kentucky Derby, In 2:04. 8 Count Fleet wins Prcakness, In 1:87.3. SI Bob Montgomery outpoints Beau Jack to gam lightweight title. June SO Gunder Hagg outruns Greg Rles to win 5.000 meter race. 38 Francisco Segura wins Nat'l Col legiate tennis title, defeating Tom Brown Jr 28 Whlrlaway, t year old racs horse, retired. July 3 Patty Berg defeats Dorothy Klrby for Women's Western Open Goff Championship. 10 Gunder Hagg establishes 8:53.9 American record tor S miles. 13 American League team wins annual All-Star game, 5 to 3. 28 Harold McSpaden defeats Buck Whitney by 1 stroke to win All-American golf title; Patty Berg takes women's title. August 8 Ryder Cup golf team, captained by Craig Wood, defeats Walter Hagen's team. Howard Schenken wins the contract bridge master's championship for fifth time. 25 College All-Stars defeat the Wash lngton Redskins, professional football champlona, 27-7. September 6 Lieut. Joseph Hunt takes the nation al amateur tennis championship. IB The St. Louis Cardinals defeat ths Chicago Cubs. 2-1. clinching the Na tional league pennant'. 19 Detroit Lions beat the Chicago Card inals In professional football opener. 38 The New York Yankees take the American League pennant for the 14th Urns. October 3 Final baseball standings: St Louis Cardinals,' won 105, lost 49, for s percentage of .682. The New York Yankees won 98, lost 56. for a per centage of .636. 8 Columbus. O., American Association team, defeats Syracuse, N. Y., In ternaUonal league team, to capture "little world series" title. 10 Yankees win World Series, defeating Cardinals, four games to one. 34 Ossie Bluege signs two yesr contrect to manage Washington Senators, and Leo Durocher signs to run Dodgers in 1944 November 8 Stanley Muslal, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, named most valuable play er In National League. Spurgeon Chandler. New York Van kees pitcher, chosen most valuable in American League. 14 U. of Southern California snd the U. of Washington chosen for Rose BowL 19 Beau Jack recalns lightweight title, outpointing Bob Montgomery. 37 Great Lakes defeats Notre Dame (19 14) in year's biggest football upset December 15 Chicago Bears win western pro foot ball championship. 13 Ned Day regains titie as All-Star National Bowling champion. January Fire kills six and Injures 100 In CM- i; uuwung alley. 31 Thirty-flve Americans die when a transport plane crashes In the Jungle near Surinam. Dutch Guiana. 36 Brig. Gen. Carlyle Wash and nine other army men die In an army transport plane that came do vn near Flomaton, Ala. 31 Twenty-eight persons die In sanitar ium fire in SeatUa. February 11 Eighteen lose lives when a Liberator bomber crashes in Newfoundland. 18 Twenty-eight die when four engine bomber crashes aflame Into a nick ing plant In Seattle, Wash. SS Yankee Cllpper awashes and. sinks hi Tagus river, Lisbon. Portugal. - March Nineteen bodies recovered in coil mine disaster at Bear Creek. Mont. SI Flood waters spread over a wide area in Georgia, Mississippi. Ala bama and Louisiana. About 3,500 persons removed by Red Cross. April 13 Omaha airport snd village of Carter Lake, Iowa, flooded when Missouri river dikes break. 19 Seven Sea Scouts drowned, and three missing, when cabin cruiser founders oft Long Island. 4 Explosion and fire In munitions plapt at Elkton. Md kills 13 and Injures 60. 15 A tornado Injures about 200 men, and destroys 41 buildings valued at $175,000 at Fort Riley, Kan. SI Spreading floods In Mississippi val ley take twelve lives, and leave 108,000 homeless. 24 Death toll In Hooded region of lower Mississippi valley reaches 17, and 160.000 are estimated to be without shelter. June 8 Navy reports 84 men killed when sn ammunition ship collides with tanker off Port Arthur, Tex. July 22. -Ma J. Gen. William Upshur. Capt. Charles paaaocn, Dom u. a. m. officers, and four other persons are killed in Navy plane crash near Sitka, Alaska. 27 Three soldiers who became lost In desert maneuvers near Yuma, Ariz., die of thirst. 28 Hurricane sweeping over Texas Gulf coast kills 13 persons. Damage esti mated at 10 million dollars. August 1 Ten persons. Including Mayor Wil liam Baker and MaJ. William Robert son, die when Army glider crashes in demonstration flight In St. Louis. 8 Five Negroes killed, more than 500 white and colored Injured in race rioting in New York city's Harlem district. 8 Fourteen persons are drowned In a "flash" flood in central West Vir ginia. 38 Twenty-one miners are killed In fas explosion at Sayreton, Ala. SO Twenty-nine persons are kllleu and 150 Injured In wreck of crack Dela ware, Lackawanna and Western R. R. train near Wayland, N, Y. September 8 Eighty persons killed snd 177 Injured, when Congressional Limited of the Pennsylvania R. R. is derailed near Philadelphia. f Twentieth Century Limited train of New York Central R. R. Is derailed . . near CanaitoU. N.-Y., killing three; Houston, Tex., ?hotel Bra takes" lives of 80 then. ' IT Explosion of depth charges at the Naval Air Station. Norfolk, Va., takes SS Uvea. About 350 are Injured. SO Twenty five soldiers die when Army transport plane orashes near Max ton. N. C. October 16 Crash of airliner 47 miles west si Nashville. Tenn., takes 10 lives. S3 Navy announces that 88 seamen died when two tankers collided off Palm Beach. November S3 Six children die In farm home Bra near Chicago. December 13 Twenty marines killed, 89 Injured to" Hawaii when collision of navy planes releases bomb. 18 Sixty-nine killed, 80 Injured In colli sion of two fast trains near Buie, N. C. Forty-eight of the dead were servicemen. 1 rationing! if fillQUEBECb-- CONFERENCES RH January 8 Famed Negro scientist. Dr. George Washington Carver, 78. 8 President emeritus of Harvard U.. Dr. Abbott L. Lowell. 86. 10 "Message to Garcia" hero. Col. An drew S. Rowan, 85. S3 Alexander WooUcott, 56, "The Town Crier" of radio, author, crIUc, play wright, actor. February 7 Dr. Attlllo H. Glannlnl. 68. physician, banker, motion picture executive, civic leader. 19 Lynn Overman, 85, comedian. March 10 Poet and author Stephen Vincent Benet 44. Pulitzer prize winner with "John Brown's Body." SO Former governor of Illinois, Frank O. Lowden, 82. 23 James A. Farrell, 80. president Of the United States Steel corp. April 32 Luren D. Dickinson, 84, former gov ernor of Michigan, foe of "high life." SS MaJ. Gen. Robert Olds. 8, com mander of ths U. S. Second Army Air Force. May 11 Maj. Gen. Stephen O. Fuqua, 68, chief of infantry in U. S. Army, 1928-33. SO Adm. Henry A. Wiley- 76, Pacific fleet commander, 1927-29. SS Edsel B. Ford, 49, president of Ford Motor Co. June 4 MaJ. Kermll Roosevelt, S3, son of the former President, on active duty In Alaska. 18 Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, noted his torian and Harvard U. professor, st 88. S3 Rear Adm. Nell E. Nichols, S3, for mer commandant of Boston Navy Yard. July 14 Actress Beverly Sltgreaves, 78. 37 Rev. Ernest Lynn Waldorf, 67. bishop of the Methodist church, Chicago area. 29 Opera star Marie Gay Zanatello, 84. August 1 President of China. Lin Sen,, T. scholar and artist - " 18 lieu. Gen. William M." Wright' 79.' commander of two divisions In world War I. SI Dr. William Lyon Phelps, 78. at Yale university. September 8 Former ambassador to Poland, John c. cuaany, as. Rear Adm. Walton Sexton, 66. for mer chairman of the Navy General Board. SI British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Klngaley Wood, 63. October Patrick Nash, 80, political leader of Democrats In Cook County, 111. 11 Samuel H. Church, 85, president Car negie Institute. SO Ben BernJe. 53, bsnd leader. November Dr. Jesse O. Bullowa, developer of pneumonia serum, st 84. 31 Rep. J. W. O. Her (R.-Penn.). 22 Rep. H. B. SteagaU (D. Ala.). December 13 Marvin Mclntyre. 65, for 20 years secretary to President Roosevelt at Washington. 18 E. C. -tBily" Hayes, 69, well-known trsck coach of Indiana U ; the Rev. Dr. William A. Brown, 77. Presby terian minister, one of founders of World Council of Churches. Released by Western Newspaper Union. l rJi ... -! Ssrs 'COAL STRIKES i mm REICH BOMBEPl .iiii.ii MW i an l r l-ne. !IIi.WfcN J FIELD INSTALLATIONS V-' I : i 3lti wv ."jW-fcT'f Km t, GUADALCANAL on '.yd r-'fW FATHERS' DRAFTl 5 The year drew to a clou with these important events : December 1 Roosevelt, Churchill, Chlanf Kai-shek pledge to atrip Japan 1 of Imperialistic gala. Exchange ship Gripsholm ar rives with 1,223 American re patriates from Far East,, t Fathers' draft bill delays dar ing absence. of President. - 16 President Roosevelt retains to America following; five weeks' diplomatic trip. 17 Army announces successful landing on Japanese base in New Britain. Cowslips Annoying, Too A farmer was explaining to a city woman what a menace insects are to farm products how potato bugs ruin potato crops, how com borers destroy the corn, and so on. The woman listened attentively, then exclaimed: "The poor dairy people I How the butterflies must bother them!" Convinced Her A smalt-town customer kept asking s farm uoman if her egs were fresh. Every day for three weeks this went on until the farm wife became to exasper ated she exclaimed: "Lady, my pggj ore so fresh, if the hens hadn't made a mistake in the cal endar, these eifts wouldn't have been laid till tomorrow!" The lady purchased the eggs. All Planned He If I had a million dollars do you know where I'd be? She I'll say. You'd be on our honeymoon. Mary had been promoted to the third grade. Meeting the second grade teacher, whom she had liked very much, she said: "Gee, Miss Kate, I wish you were smart enough to teach me this year, toe!" Quite Natural Customer Waiter, take this chicken away. It is actually tough erough to be made out of stone. Waiter Nothing strange about fiat, sir. It's a Plymouth Rock. How To Relieve Bronchitis ; Oreomulslon reliera promptly be cause It goes right to fee seat of ths trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid natnrt to soo soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial muoous mam brmnes. Tall your druggist to sell you a Dotue or cnomuiatoti wun tna un derstandlnc you must tike tha way tt quickly allays ttva cough or you art to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs; Chest Colds, Bronchitis Sunlight in the Atlantic Sunlight may penetrate the wa ters of the mid-Atlantic to a depth of nearly 5,000 feet. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS Hae merited tka eonAdanea J motkare for mora than 4 raara. Cm3m akiMran wko suffer ocjaaioaal eonatinatioa and for all Ike family warn raTiakl. plaamntly-actinf lasative la aaadad. Pack- as IO aaav-to-taka powdara, Jc Be aura lo aak for Maf for Cray's Stt fawaara. At Invest in Liberty .,..J?5c T5r & Buy War Bonds AT FIRST tr rr U TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE MOTS Keep Awake Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. SNAPPY FACTS AIOUT RUBBER By the and ef this almost 50 of the tiros now on war workers' ears ! Ohio re likely to be completely wont owt oosler normal oso, SMCorellnf to survey whkh shewed that war workers fsrted a crisis In their motor traosoortatlost. Palloro to have tiros recapped la Mate Is eaa factor responsible for this siteatien. Use of nylon cord Instead of col ten or rayon has made possible the manufacture by 8. f. Goodrich of an airplane tire that conserves ma terlab, yet provides extra strength and light weight. Nylon cords In motor vehicle tires era wel od vanced h the experimental stoge. REGoodrich
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