THE J0HNST0N1AN - SUN, SELMA, N. C THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17
THREE
A Week of the War
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President Roosevelt Says Armed Forces Over
seas Will Reach One Million by End of This
Month Japs Lose 7,000 Men At Guadalcanal
In Four Months Jap Losses Said To Be 10 to 1
For U. S. Navy Announces Loss of Troopship
in South Pacific With Small Loss of Life.
Washington, Dec 14.--An estima
ted 660,000 essential war workers in
the Detroit area have been held at
their jobs by an agreement announced
toy Montague A. Clark, Michigan
Director of the War Manpower Com
mission. The agreement intended to
prevent labor pirating and : disloca
tions caused by shifting of workers
to higher-paying jobs lists 34 cate
gories in which employees may not
leave their jobs without specific
'governmental authorization. President
(Roosevelt's executive order setting
up the new War Manpower Commis
sion under the chairmanship of Paul
V. McNutt has provided that, when
the effective prosecution of the war
required it, all workers be hired, re
hired and recruited through the U. S.
Employment Service, and had pro
hibited employers from retaining
workers more urgently needed in a
more essential occupation.'. Mr. Mc
Wutt said the new program embraces
the alocation of manpower to the
firmed forces, war industries, agricul
ture, and other essential civilian ac
tivities, the efficient use of labor for
war industries, the mobilization of
the country's labor reserves, the
transfer of workers from less essen
tial activities to more essential ac
tivities, and the providing of labor
heeded for essential agriculture. He
Announced the establishment of a
'Bureau of Selective Service to in
clude the selective service system and
to be headed by Selective Service
(Director Hershey within the new
WMC, and said that by the end of
11943 one out of every five men in
the civilian labor force, instead of
one out of every nine, as now, would
be in the armed services.
The WMC and the Selective Serv
ice System are helping the country's
war plants draw up manning table
forms to enable the employer "to plan
for , his future labor needs and give
the government upon which to base
the orderly withdrawal of workers
who must be released to the armed
'services. Secretary of Labor Perkins
reported 3,200,000 women employed
bs factory wage earners in mid-Octo-iber,
as compared with!i7Q0,Qja0 -4a-October
1941, and said that in the
same period total factory wage work
ers increased from 11,400,000 to 12,
$700,000.00. Undersecretary of War
Patterson said the average work
week should be raised in all wage and
non-war industries from the present
average of 428 hours to an over-all
average of 48 hours. '
An executive order of December 7
gave full control over the "nation s
food program to Secretary of Agri
culture Wickard. Mr. Wickard is to
control all phases of the food program
requirements, production, distribu
tion, priorities and alocations. pur
chase and procurement. To permit ef
fective use of these controls, the or
der provided, for the 'procurement
from WPB of farm machinery, sup
plies and equipment necessary to
carry out the program, the power to
order civilian rationing" of foods
through OPA, the determination of
policies and procedures for the feed
ing of people in foreign countries, the
issuance of directives relating to the
importation of food, and the issuance
of priority schedules for domestic
transportation of food. ,
The functions, personnel, and prop
erty of certain agricultural bureaus
and divisions concerned primarily
with the production of food will be
consolidated into a Food Production
Administration, with Herbert W.
Parisius. Associate Director of the
Office of Agricultural War Relations,
as director, and the .functions, per
sonnel, and property of certain agri
cultural bureaus concerned primarily
with the distribution of food will be
consolidated into a Food Distribution
Administration, with Roy Hendrick
Bon, present AMA Administration as
tfirector.
Secretary Wickard said prospects
are good for meeting 1943 food re
quirements, but in order to meet
those requirements' the U. S. must
use fully and economically its produc
tion facilities and distribution system
and exert economy in the consumption
of foods. Some foods may be scarce,
he said, but "no one will need to go
hungry.", The executive order will
enable the agriculture department to
set up a national "assembly line" in
the production and distribution of
food vitally needed to win the war
and the peace. ;
Lend-lease deliveries of American
foodstuffs for shipment to other
United Nations, as reported by the
department, increased over 93,000,000
pounds during October, bringing. the
month's deliveries to 645,000,000
pounds and the total since the pro
gram was started to nearly 8,000,000,
000 pounds. The AMA . delivery re
port showed increased deliveries of
eggs, dairy products, meats, grains,
and other products. .
The War Front
President Roosevelt told Congress
that American forces overseas will
number more than 1,000,000 by the
end of this monfh, and said "The Axis
powers have, temporarily at least,
lost the initiative." The OWI reported
that from December 7, 1941 to
December 7 ,1942, theU. S. armed
forces suffered 53,307 casualties 37,
678 in the Army and 22,629 in the
Navy. Major Gen. A. A. Vendergrift,
Marine Commander, stated that in
the 4-months campaign on Guadal
canal 7,000 Japanese troops have been
killed and 450 Japanese planes des
troyed, with, enemy loses exceeding
U. S. losses by 10 to 1. During tne
first year of . war (December 7 to
December 7) U. S. communiques have
announced the sinking in the Pacific
and Far East of 306 Japanese ships
and 85 U. S. ships.
The Navy announced the 22,000 ton
U. S. President Coolidge, transporting
approximately 4,000 Army troops,
struck a mine in the South Pacific
and Bank, a loss of only four
men, and also reported the loss
through enemy action of the U. S. o.
Alchiba, an auxiliary cargo ship.
General MacArthur's headquarters
announced the complete occupation of
the Gona area in New Guinea, witn
Allied forces advancing against the
remaining Japanese forces in the
Buna-Sanananda area. According to
communiques, at least 95 Japanese
have been killed and 4 captured in at
tempts to escape from their surround
ed positions. On December 6 and 7 U,
S. planes destroyed 21 Japanese air
craft, 18 of them in the Buna-Gona
area. .
Li. Gen. Henry H. Arnold Com
manding General of the Army Air
Forces, said that in the air struggle
over Tunisia, American planes' and
personnel are for the first time in
this war going up against first class
air power, engaging the best planes
the Germans possess. If the U. S. can
continue to destroy the enemy plane
for plane, we will come out ahead, he
stated, as U. S. production is at least
twice that of the Axis.
Production
WPB Chairman Nelson described
October arms output as "disappoint
ing" as it was up only 3 per cent
over Septemberv the smallest monthly
increase this year. He gave the Octo
ber box score for major categories of
war production, airplanes were down
5. per cent, mainly due to special fac
tors affecting deliveries, merchant
vessels were down 10 per cent but
still ahead of schedule, ordnance was
up 3 per cent, Army and Navy vessels
were up 4 per cent, other munitions
were up 9 per cent, and machine tools
were up 8.3 per cent a new high for
machine tool production.
Because of the conflicting essential
ity of many phases of the war produc
tion program, said President Roose
velt, the final decision as to what is
most needed remains with the Army
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HIS gift now and
be sure that Christ
mas' will " be ajKappy'
event for him Here
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SHIRTS
$1.39 - $2.00 - $2.25
Men's Rayon
Pajamas
$1.99 - $4.95
Pure Silk
Neckties
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Warm Flannel
ROBES
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Men's Apparel
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SELMA, N. C.
and. Navy. ' ' '" -
In the three months ended Decem
ber' 11, Lend-lease assistance to the
nation's Allies totaled $2,367,000,000.
the President told Congress.
Civilian goods will diminish steadily
in 1943, and every effort must be
made to insure continued production
of civilian supplies through the con
centration of output in a few plants,
said Joseph L. Weiner, new director
of the Office of Civilian Supply.
Johnston County Has
Met Its Bond Quota
According to an announcement by
R. P. Holding, chairman of the John
ston County War Savings Staff, Se
ries E, F and G Bonds in the amount
of $70,862.50 were sold in Johnston
county during the period November
16 to November 30.
Bonds sold during the first half of
November amounted to approximately
$80,000.00, making total sales for the
month of November $150,000.00.
Johnston county has met its bond
quota thus far in 1942.
am a
SOLDIER of
the Wires"
"With the approaching holi
days, I dm thinking mora
and more of the problems
which confront us operators
in getting Uncle Sam's war
calls through, so I decided
to speak right out and ask
for the help I feel sure ev
eryone is willing to give.
"You know that we op
erators have a real job to
v do for Uncle Sam. Every day
we put through countless
calls from growing Army
, camps, humming war Indus
tries and busy government
agencies calls that we 'sol
diers of the wires' know
must go through calls that
speed our Nation on to
. "This December, war win
take no holiday and Uncle
Sam will be using the tele
phone more than ever.
Therefore, we operators are
asking you to help us by
not making holiday greet
ing long distance calls this
year. We urge that no such
calls be made, especially on
Christmas Eve, Christmas
Day or New Year's Eve.
"I know it is asking a lot,
but Uncle Sam surely needs
these long distance lines
and when he needs them
it's right now! I know
we can count on your
cooperation."
Souther n Bell Telephone
mid telegraph company
INCORPORATED
"A burglar entered our house early
this morning." '
"Did he get anything?"
"Well, - I'll say he did, my wife
thought I was sneaking in late."
"Your husband looks like a brilliant
man, I suppose he knows every
thing?" "Don't fool yourself he doesn't
even suspect anything."
Doctor (taking patient's history):
"Have you lived in North Carolina all
your life?"
Patient: "Not yet."
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MY LETTER ' .
Last Christmas,, what d'you think I
. got?
A baby brother really,
Oh, he was little, goodness sakes, .
And soft and awful sqeally.
This year I'm hanging up his sock,
I wrote a letter too.
I said, "Dear Santa, anything
You give me, 'most, will do.
But, Oh, please in the baby's sock
Put things to make him grow,
Bones for his legs, it seems to me,
He walks so awful slow.
Dorothy Lehman Sumerau
A pound of scrap might save a boy.
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BLOUSES GOWNS
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GLOVES
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UNDERWEAR
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GIFTS FOR THE FAMILY
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Table Cloths Curtains Shades r
Towels Wash Cloths
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