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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1942 (One Day Nearer Victory) Fas It THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER A Week Off The War riWI announced that the.U, The ?. nf 1942 will have S- '"'7 Approximately 49.000 VOW tanks and self-pro-pInnJ' artillery, 17,000 anti-air-tft guns larger than 20 mm., 8,- 2D0'0 antiaircraft machine thosanas. Iu " ,,a f .out ears ona iu""" 'half-and full-track carriers. Munitions ana war "above the most optimistic Smate of our production possi- bUities a year "r" Ltion-a large proportion of .kich was meat, muK, eggs ana oy nswas 12 Per Kin u previous year. Expenditures for the year for munitions and war construction T.i i7.000.000.000. In the will w- t - jrst 10 months of 1942, more than tis 000,000,000 were collected in Lri. and more than $33,000,000,- 00 througn tne saie oi wmmu anu a., mvsmment obligations. Ap- roximately 17,500,000 people are no employ " wred to 7,000,000 a year ago but 1943 an additional 5,000,000 will to needed for war work and for armed forces. By March 15, 1942, the cost or living naa risen .c wit over the end of 1939. but price regulation, instituted in April, held down tne increases in subiect to control to WW- j - HO of one per cent as of October 15. ' SEPORT ON PEARL HARBOR The navy department announced that all of the eight battleships in Pearl Harbor on December 1, 1941, iere hit, seven of them temporar ily disabled and one, the Arizona, permanently and totally lost. Those reported damaged had returned to the fleet, while others critically damaged are beine renninui nA will soon be ready for battle ac tion. VI the 202 U. S. naval air craft based at Pearl Harbor, 150 were permanently or temporarily disabled. Army planes destroyed totaled 97. As a result of the Japanese attack 2,343 officers and enlisted men of the U. S. services were killed, 1,272 wounded, and 960 are still reported as missing. The navy estimates that 105 enemy planes took part in the at tack, and that the enemy lost 28 aircraft and 3 submarines of 45 tons each. THE WAR FRONT Navy Secretary Knox told a press conference that Japanese troops on Guadalcanal may be run ning short of supplies. The enemy's attempt to land supplies and rein forcements on the night of Novem ber 30 was a complete failure, he said. At that time a U. S. naval task force intercepted and engaged Japanese troop transports and ves sels and sank nine shipstwo large destroyers or cruisers, four de stroyers, two troop transports and one cargo ship at a loss of only one U. S. cruiser. The enemy will try again Mr. Knox said, but the November 30 attempt indicates clearly that the condition of the Japanese on the island is becoming acute. Navy communiques through out the week reported' 170 Japa nese killed on the island, three planes downed and One cargo ship hit. .;.;.. The navy reported five U. S. naval transports were sunk by Axis submarines during the occu pation of North Africa in the early part of November, and dur- African Hero Brought Home J V; - ( V? v,4 An Army nurse bids good-by to a soldi tr leaving the train at Silver Springs, Md., en rouU to Walter Read Hospital la Washington for treatment of wounda sustained In battle during the occupation of North Africa. The soldier was one of the 107 enlisted men and eight officers who were the first wounded returned from the Near East for hospitali sation in the United State. (CtrlPr$i) ing the operation three Other U. S. transports, one destroyer, and one tanker were damaged. Re ports showed that 218 Axis planes and 10 tanks were destroyed and a number of prisoners were cap tured, with the Allies reporting 14 planes missing and five lost. In a daylight raid on Naples on December 4 Allied heavy bombers successfully attacked docks and other targets, scoring hits on one Italian battleship and two cruis ers The Nations intelligence service has estimated Japanese casualties from the day of Pearl Harbor to November 25, 1942, at 250,000 men killed or permanently injured, with naval losses representing about 10 i I I I I A Beautiful Gift She Will Treasure By helena rubinstein a complete selection of helena rubinstein cosmetics a ffm mum ; 11111$ vtt in ir A Gift She'll Appreciate . - - - - - - - - $ 1 to $5 GET YOUR GIFTS HERE The TOGGERY QUALITY AND STYLE Ernest McCracken, Native of Haywood, Given Promotion Ernest C. McCracken, who has been with the U. S. Employment Service since 1937 and has been with the Bureau of Employment Security in Washington, D. C, lor Uie past nine months, has recently been named chief of the planning division. The appointment was made by the assistant director of the U. S. employment service of Raleigh. Mr. McCracken, native of this section and son of Albert J. Mc Cracken, was senior interviewer in the Waynesville and Marion of fices for about 16 months. He al so served a short time as assist ant manager of the Asheville of fice and as manager of the Lenoir iffice for 18 months. He was transferred to the cen tral office in Raleigh two years ago as junior personnel training su pervisor, then was training techni cian and later served as' field su pervisor until his transfer to Washington. .'While he has been in WooKintrtnn ha hna been assist ant regional representative and" also served as acting director oi the West Virginia employment set vice for two months. Mr. McCracken is a graduate el Western North Carolina Teacher College and served as school prin cipal in WaynesviPe for two years. per cent of the Japanese navy's lotal personnel. U. S. army and navy losses in the same period number about 50,000 men killed or missing, with naval losses repre senting about one per cent of total U. S. navy personnel. AGRICULTURE The 1943 food-for-freedom goals are expected to cause some region al changes In agricultural produc tion, as changes from the food pro- luction pattern throw sharp em ohasis on crops and livestocks most essential to war effort. AH pos sible assistance, the department of agriculture announced, will be giv en farmers In meeting the record goals to ease the shortage of farm labor, to support prices, to provide loans and technical assist ancebut crop payments will be conditional on the degree to which each cooperating farm family car ries out its individual farm plan, with deductions for over-planting of non-essential products and for under-planting of essential crop al lotments and goals. To provide labor for 1943 farm nroduction, WMC Chairman Mc Nutt announced a comprehensive program which will be worked out in detail during the winter and launched as soon as spring plant ing begins. The plan provides for the transportation of mobile groups of experienced farm work ers, the transfer of experienced operators and workers from sub standard lands to productive areas, the adjustment of farm wages in relation to industrial wages, and a farm labor training and manage ment program. Because of the "wide disparity" between salaries and wages paid agricultural labor ami those paid industrial labor, OES Director Byrnes, gave control over agricultural wages to Secre tary Wickard. The house passed and sent to the Senate legislation directing that farm wages be in cluded in calculations of parity prices for farm products, defining wages as those' not only of hired hands, but of operators and own ers as well. RATIONING A new system of rationing known as the "point system," will be used with war ration book No. 2 to ration certain commodities not yet announced. The system will not replace straight counon ration ing of sugar, gasoline and coffee, as it will be Used only for groups of related or similar commodities which can be Interchangeably used. Each commodity is plenti ful, a high point-value if it is scarce and the srovernment. to brotect the suonlv of scarce com modities, can lower or raise the point-value of any commodity at any time. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administra to of the estate of Grover Fran cis, deceased, late of Haywood County, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Clyde, North Car olina, on or before the 10th day of December, 1943, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay ment. This the 9th day of December, 1942. :'- .','. ..' ' C R. FRANCIS. Administrator of the Estate of Grover C. Francis, deceased. No. 1260 Dec. 10-17-24-31-Jan 7-14. ' Ji Ml', iaxalive your child should LIKE Wb yonr child da a UmUw glva him on will probably noy toklaj plaw ot Uttlag Srrnp ol Black Draught. Ginn a dlractad. It la aanally nild la action. Jat aliactira. Follow tabal DfraeHsna Let Us Help You With- .JAlaMWWVrW.WflpJpa e vvjav mm Send Useful, Wearable Gifts . . . ON TIME- By golly, we can't let our soldiers down on Christmas morning: by being slow in selecting and mailing their gifts! Come in now and choose some practical and wearable gift. We have already some gifts definitely suited for ser vice men. Others are expected any day and it's not too soon for you to be shopping ahead. C. E. RAY'S SONS . SEEI ISHED GE! Ml6 XFOUDS Patterns ilint meet the rigid specifications of the Army and Nary . . . plain toe straps and Muclier lace styles . . . in military browns or black. 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