Milford chronicle., 1943-01-01

other than oil, electricity and ga
WPB announced that the produ,
tion Of fireplace CRATES will be pei
mitted during the December q
Il January 6 period, and extended fo
y another year provisions permittin
!. such construction as is necessar
r for the conversion or substitution
of heating equipment. And thi
? week the rationing regulations TO
new coal and oil heating stoves il
0 the 80 rationed states were formal
ly issued by OPA.
The War Front
Secretary Hull, describing th'
assassination of Admiral Darlan al
IAN odious and cowardly act" sale
that the all important considera'
tion now is not to be diverted fol
a moment from the supreme OBJ
jective" of gaining control of the
African continent and the Medi-
terranean. The battle, he said, is
still at a crucial and critical stage,
and General Eisenhower and his
associates need the fullest measure
of unified support. Earlier, Secre-
tary of War Stimson told a press
conference that Allied forces on
the offensive in Tunisia have a
fairly good margin" of superior
ity over the Axis forces defending
Tunis and Bizerte, and added that
in the air our margin of destruc-
tion is holding at a rate of about
two to one. Both sides are bring
ing reinforcements into Tunisia,
but "Our side is preparing for an
offensive to take Tunis and BIZ
zerte"-the Axis has the advantage
in existing bases. but the Allies
have the advantage in the mount
ing size of their forces and the
development of new bases.
Meanwhile. land activity has
flared up in Tunisia, as Allied
forces occupied a dominating po-
sition near MedieZ-el-Bab Allied
fighters continued their sweeps and
patrols over the forward areas, at
tacking Axis vehicles and destroy
ing Axis planes.
In the South Pacific on Christ
mas Day. a flight of Army Flying
Fur'resscs tooh of tom tNo air
n"id al Guadaicanal o. bomb Jap
auese shipping in the harbor of
Rabaul, New Britain Island. They
scored three direct hits on a large
transport or cargo ship and several
near hits close to three smaller
cargo vessels. The day before
Christmas. U. S. planes from Gual-
alcanal bombed and strafed the
Japanese airfield and shore in
stallations at Munda on New Geor-
gia Island, downed IA intercept
ing enemy planes and destroyed 10
more on the ground. All the U. S.
planes returned undamaged.
ManpOWer
The Government is preparing
program for the scientific training
of civilian specialists so urgently
needed in the war effort. The pro-
gram is similar to that formulated
by the Army and Navy for college
age men, but the WMC expects to
use the facilities of more universi-
ties and colleges than the armed
services will use.
More than $500 war production
plants in which more than 100000 /
men and women are at work have .
now been added by the Job In
structor Training Program of the
Within Industry Service.
Better than 100000 supervisors in
1ustrial fOremen and crew chiefs
have been certified as war-prOduc-
lion job instructors and the an
bounced goal of $4,000 trainers"
ly the end of 1912 will be reached
IN schedule.
To combat rumors that negroes
ire not being inducted into the
Army in percentages comparable to
heir population, the owl reported
hat they are not only being in
lucted in the same proportion as
hey are registered. but in 8 out
# II southern states, inductions
lave exceeded that proportion. AL
hough negroes constitute 9.8 per
ent of our total population (ac-
ording to the last census), one out
# every ten men inducted into the
army as of October 81, 1941, was
egro.
AS for voluntary enlistment, dur
ng the 1940-41 period negroes con-
tituted better than 16' per cent of
he total number of volunteers en-
ering the Army through Selective
ervice. The Director of Selective
ervice. in reporting to the Presi-
ent on the high percentage of ne
ro volunteers, said that in one par
cular state every call made for
egroe selectees was filled over a
nrind of sarnral i,nnnths NV vnlnn-