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Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Chang
Looms
In Draft
Occupa+iona
Defermenfs
Face Shuttle

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26
(UP)-The White House an
nounced Saturday that Pres
ident Roosevelt has calleC
for the review of all occupa
tional draft deferments with
a view to making available
quickly the personnel requir
ed by the armed forces.
Nearly 100000 men hold occu-
pational deferments.
In memorandum to Chairman,
Paul V. McNutt of the war man.
power commission and Maj. Gen
Lewis B. Hershey, director of the
selective service system, the presi-
dent said that the manpower pool
has been dangerously depleted" by
liberal deferments. He said he Was
convinced that the government has
been overly lenient. PARTICULAR
with regard to the younger men.
OUTLINES VIEWS
THE over-age men, the physical
ly disqualified, the returned soldier
and the women of the nation must
be used more effectively to replace
the ablebodied men in critical in
duStry and agriculture" the presi-
dent said.
The crucial campaigns this yeai
will determine both the length OF
this war and its price in men and
goods, the presidents memoran-
dunn said. The nation is well equip
ped in food and munitions, it said
but their production has drawn
over-heavily on available stocks oi
manpower
1T is time to strike a new bal
ance,' the president said
SERVICE FAILS
The chef executive said the Sc
lective service system has failed tc
deliver the quantity of men origin
ally expected. He said the shortage
which commenced to develop last
September reached a total of 20O,-
600 on Dec. 81. This means, he said
that today the armed services are
still short approximately 100000
trained men, although he said the
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Warren Studies
Tax or Banks

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 26. CUP)-
Gov. Earl Warren Saturday was
studying a recommendation from
a joint legislative tax committee
that Legislation be enacted ION the
earliest convenient date prior to
the end of the present year to
eliminate the present method Of
taxing banks and substitute an
equitable, fair and workable meth
od of taxing them.
A resolution introduced by State
Senator T. H. Delap, r., Richmond,
termed the present method of bank
taxation "inequitable, contrary to
sound taxing policy and impracti-
cal from an administrative stand
point"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Raids Raze
Aircraft Plants
Bombers Hit
From Italy,.
British Base

LONDON, Feb. &c. (UP)
United States air forces
shot down 142 German
planes Friday for a six-day
bag of GAL in the record Of
fensive carried through Fri
day night by British planes
attacking Augsburg twice in
a few hours after American
bombers had hit the aircraft
assembly center.
A cOmmunique announc-
ing the results of Fridays
daylight air battles said the Nazis
fought furiously "in a vain effort
to protect vital remnants of Ger
man fighter production''-a sig
nificant disclosure that the week.
long offensive had reduced Adolf
Hitler's plane production facilities
to remnants"
American losses Friday totaled
II planes-39 bombers and five
fighters of the italian force and
30 bombers and three fighters of
the British force.
The official announcement said
pictures made during the concert
ed attacks from Britain and Italy
on Regensburg, Augsburg, Stutt-
CART, and Furth "show good re-
suits" A spokesman characterized
the days bombing as the best of
the war.
The breakdown of the 142 Ger
man planes downed Friday credit
ed SO to the force based in Italy
90 by the heavy bombers and one
by their fighter escort-23 to
bombers of the Eighth air force,
and Ninth air forces.
The Germans sent up $50 to
300 fighter planes to challenge
the raiders from Italy, communi-
que said.
An estimated 1,70O to 1000
(shor0 tons of explosives and fire
bombs were cascaded on Augsburg
in the two night raids, bringing
to 1880 to $1,000 tons the weight
VI DOHiUo uAoPPcu III Sc"cH udyo
and nights of the all-out Anglo
American offensive designed TO
smash Germany's aircraft indus
try.
Nazi reports said Italian-based
Raj bombers also raided Ger
many during the night, bringing
the Reich under two-way attack
for the second consecutive night.
London newspapers estimated
that 1000 British-based bombers
alone participated in the nights
wides pread attacks. In addition
to the all ur-engined bomber as.
sau tlson Augsburg, twin-engined
Mosquitoes raided other detectives
in southwest Germany, France,
Holland and Belgium. Twenty
four planes were lost in all opera
tions, including extensive mine
laying work, the air ministry an
nounced.
German broadcasts said Frank
furt- Main, another Nazi air.
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
/onks Blast Japs
I'm Wide Raids

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Southwest Pacific,
Feb. 26. (UP) = American
fliers continued their aerial as
saults on the big japanese base at
Rabaul, hitting the New Britain
stronghold for the 21st consecutive
day Wednesday when they dropped
33 tons of bombs on airfields and
installations, it was announced
Saturday.
Medium U. S. bombers, with
fighter escorts from bases in the
Solomons, attacked Keravat, YUMA
kanau and Vunapope supply areas
in the new thrust, causing fires in
the battered sections. For the
fourth straight day they met no
enemy air interception.
HIT ON NEW GUINEA
The planes also hit the Rein Bay
area of New Guinea, dropping LOT
tons of bombs at Iboki plantation,
while other allied aerial units raid
ed enemy installations from the
Solomons, through the Bismarck
Archipelago to New Guinea.
Air patrols sank two barges in
Matchin Bay on Bougainville in
the Solomons, while a combined
aerial and naval force bombarded
shore emplacements on the Mibo
river. destroying or damaging foui
bargeS.
Heavy U. S. bombers, dive-bomb-
ers, and fighters attacked num-
ber of enemy bases on the New
Guinea coast in the path of allied
troops who spread out from their
Saidor beachhead, occupying the
villages of Teterie and Sein.
BLAST WEWAK
. Among the targets for the planes
were weWak, which was hit with
60 tons of bombs, Manam island
and Nubia airdrome in Hansa Bay
and Madang.
THE japanese Domei agency, in
broadcast reported by the U. 5
foreign broadcast intelligence sei-
vice, said about 80 American planes
raided Wewak again Friday but
did not disclose the results of the
attack Domei said eight of the
planes were shot down by anti-air-
craft fire. There was no mention
of Japanese aerial activity
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Admiral Hart Draws Task
Of CourtmortiuI STUDY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
CUP)-Admiral Thomas C.
Hart, once commander in
chief of the U. S. Asiatic fleet, has
been assigned the task of gather
ing evidence which the navy may
use in the court-martial of Rear
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel of
charges growing out of the Japa-
nese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Under recent congressional ac-
ton, court martial proceedings
against Kimmel and 1t. Gen. Wal
ter G. Short must be instituted by
next June 7, expiration date of the
extended statute of limitations as
it applies to them. This does not
mean that trial must begin by that
date, but that formal charges mast
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Germans Set Beck
In Anzio Attack
A l. l. | E D HEADQUAR-
TIERS NanleS Feb Dc IIPl

"a Il II L L. ~ II T.. E.ADlgO Ah-
TIERS, Naples, Feb. 26. (UP)
American troops holding
the right flank of the Anzio beach
head below Rome have thrown back
another German "feeler" attack
four miles east of Littoria, it was
announced Saturday.
The enemy thrust was another in
series of light attacks which have
probed nearly all key points around
the 15-mile perimeter of the Fifth
army's beachhead as the Germans
sought soft spot or hoped to lure
allied strength from the point of
the intended main attack.
10 NAZI DIVISIONS
Ten German divisions-100,00 ,00O
men-were reported massing for a
third major attack on the allied
positions. Meanwhile, enemy at
temrtS to infiltrate the Anglo
American lines continued along the
AnZio road in the ravine cut areas
southwest of Aprilia from which
both previous big attacks came.
AS the general beachhead lull
went into it's sixth day, artillery
duels continued on 24-hour basis
with the enemy hurting large shells
into Anzio harbor. Twenty-Five
enemy aircraft bombed the front
lines and port areas Thursday
night.
On the British Eighth army
front, troops patroling north OF
Arielli clashed with the enemy
causing some casualties. British ar
tillery broke up an enemy raid il
the Orsogna area, and at another
point near Orsogna, the enemy
made three night attacks against
Indian troops. All were thrown
back. An Indian patrol reported
that it had killed German officer
and II soldiers, capturing one.
REPULSFD AT CASSINO
Germans on the Casino front
were repulsed when they attempted
another attack on French positions
on Hill 915, mile west of Terrele
There were the usual patrols and
artillery exchanges on the windy
cloudy front, but no action of a
major nature.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
FBI Search Closes:
Suspect in Jail

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
(UP)-A few hours after
issuing wanted by the FBI" post
ers for Neil McConlogue, poet, au-
thor, forger and confidence man.
the FBI cancelled them Saturday
because-the man they wanted has
been in Jail in Los Angeles for p
week.
FBI officials here were notified
by Los Angeles post office author
tiles during the night that McCon-
logue was picked up a week ago.
The Los Angeles officials had fail
ed to notify the FBI.
In issuing the appeal for public
cooperation in apprehending Nc
Conlogue, FBI Director j. Edgar
Hoover said he was suspected of
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27

With these words Herb Fawcett,
county chairman of the drive an
nounced success.
The total for the county reads
$3,068,245. The goal set was $780,
600.
Calexico was first of the large
areas to reach its goal. Winterhaven
Bard district went over early in
the drive. Then came Holtville and
last Thursday Ell Centro had reach
ed its total. Brawley was a close
runner-up with Ell Centro having
actually gone over late Friday.
Said Chairman FaWcett:
Ten days ago we were over
million dollars short of our Fourth
War Loan quota in Imperial coun-
ty. Today we are over the top, a
regular Horatio Alger finish, the
American way of doing things. Now
you know what mean Mhen l said,
I am an Irishman who had the
privilege of picking America for
his country To all city chairmen
and their committeeman I am
grateful for this fine accomplish
ment. Keep buying bonds, for our
boys sake, as we'll as for your own
future financial safety"
John B. McNeece, chairman of
Ell Centros drive said:
With a great deal of relief and
even more pride and satisfaction
1 am able to say to you, Ell Cent:o
has made the grade in the Fourth
War Loan. I am told by my fellow
committeeman that this has been
the toughest of all war loan drives
to make. I wouldn't know about
that since this is the first one in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27

passing an alarming number OF
bogus money order certificates.
During his first decade of crime.
the FBI said, McConlogue attained
national prominence as a poet and
periodical writer. He contributed TO
eight magazines and newspaper
syndicate from his prison cell.
While in California state prison
in the early 20s, he composed a
Mothers Day verse which was ad-
opted by the Mothers Day League
of America.
The poem began:
I'D like TO send you a dew drop.
Smiling in sweet repose,
AS 1t sparkles. smothered in per-
fume,
Deep In the heart OF rose"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
REPULSED AT CASSINO
|n-Low Wins Hair PuIIinQ
Bout in Heinz III Yard

ted in the Heinz home here to see
her son and waited outside. Mrs
MacLean started the fracas, she
said, by seizing her hair and pull
ing her to the ground.
Mrs. MacLean said the younger
woman rushed upon her without
a word, kicked her shins, grabbed
her throat. and struck the boy.
Then I got a half-Nelson on
her." Mrs. MacLean said. Next she
got the assault and battery war
rant. The charge will be heard
Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Throng Attends
Boy Scouts
Court of Honor

Cne of the best attended and
arranged Boy Scouts Court of
Honor was staged in the Ell Centro
Junior College auditorium Friday
night when 300 saw Melvin Wom-
ack, Troop 70, receive recognition
for the Eagle Scout award given
him Thursday night at the annual
council meeting.
DIRECTED PROGRAM
The program was under the direc-
ton of Corn Reed, chief of the city
fire department, who introduced
State Fire Marshal Louis Almgren,
and Lieutenant Commander Sidney
Rappee, for 20 years Scoutmaster of
Troop 33 OF San Diego.
Several members of Troop 33, San
Diego, a 25-year veteran troop, with
460 Of it's former members now in
the armed forces of the United
States, participated in the program
that had as it's theme Tougher
up, buckle down and carry on to
victory"
n " hRDo VlhDL
Awards were made as follows:
Troop 70, Rotary club, Robert
Eyer, Scoutmaster: Melvin Wcmack,
Eagle Scout recognition and merit
badge in Bird Study and one re-
cruit bar.
Paul Dunlap - Second Glass
Award, Recruit Bar, C.S.S. 10 hours;
Don Womack-Merit Badge in First
Aid, 2 Recruit Bars, 100 per cent
attendance pin; John Paul Eyer
Merit Badge in Poultry Keeping,
Second Glass Award-EdWin Jones
Second Class Award, Recruit Bar,
l year. Service Star, C.S.S. 10
hours; Darrell Hampton - Merit
Badges in Handicraft and Poultry
Keeping, year Service Star; Keith
Brinnon - Second Glass Award,
Continued on page 6, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Victory Gardens
Call Announced

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. CUP)-
Secretary of Agriculture Claude r.
Wickard Saturday called upon
Americas potential 22,000,000 vic
tory gardeners to lay in vegetable
seed supplies as early as possible
to speed the 1914 effort to pro-
duce 100000 tons of home grown
food,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Pigeons Settle
Court Action

CHICAGO, Feb. 26. (UP)--It'5
a wise bird that knows it's own
rost. When two pigeon fanciers
appeared in court here claiming
ownership to the same four birds,
the sage judge ordered the pigeons
turned loose and gave them to the
owner of the coop into which they
flew.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Thirty Persons
Held by Storm,

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26. CUP)-
Forestry officials Saturday MAIN
tanned radio contact with almost
30 persons still snowbound in the
Sierra Madre mountains north Of
Los Angeles by the worst storm
in years after rescue parties reach
ed them late Friday.
Harry Grace, district manager
who headed the parties, said eight
men have skiied out over the snow
anked Angeles Crest highway and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26.
(UP)-Mrs. Elizabeth Bald
Heinz, pretty young mother
of pickle heir Clifford Heinz III
was free in $3.50 bail today on an
assault and battery charge growing
out of hair-pulling melee with
her mother-in-law
While neighbors in swank Bever-
ly Hills gaped, the former Balti-
more socialite and Mrs. Sara Mac
Lean, dignified mother of her es-
tranged husband, undid each others
snoods, barked shinS, and finally
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Plane Carrier
Is Launched

NEW YORK, Feb. 26. CUP)-The
27,100 ton aircraft carrier Ben
nington was launched at the New
York Navy yard Saturday when
the water admitted to her coll
struction dock floated the great
ship off her blocks. The Benning =.
ton is the 11th Essex class carrier
launched since Dec. 7, 1941.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27

wound up on the ground with Mrs
MacLean holding what she de-
scribed technically as a half-Nelson
on her leopard coated daughter-in-
law.
Their versions of the scuffle var
led, but the central figure was
young Clifford, four, who Mrs
Heinz alleged was spirited away
from their New York City home
three weeks ago by her husband
She came here to regain his Gus
tody.
She said she hadn't been permit
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Coastal Theuter
Group Faces Suit

a third new theater, the complaint
charged, asking the court to pre-.
vent its construction.
Among companies named defend
ants were the National Theate!
corporation, Paramount Pictures
Loew's, Inc, RKO-Radio, Inc, War
ner Bros, Columbia Universal and
Monogram Picture companies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
Mann Act Trial
Faces CHAPLIN

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26. CUP)-
Federal Judge j. F. T. O'Connor
Saturday ordered Charlie Chaplin
held for trial on white slavery
charges preferred by 23-year-old
Joan Barry, his one-time protege.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27

be filed against them. Kimme; was
commander in chief of the 8. S.
fleet and the Pacific fleet, and
Short was commander of army fcrc-
es in the Hawaiian area at the time
of the Pearl Harbor raid.
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox
explained that the reason for Hart's
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27

assignment just now is that ccr-
tain naval officers who have per-
sonal knowledge of facts relevant
to the case are now on dangerous
assignments which might render
them unavailable for testimony in
any proceeding that might be held
in the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
AMERICANS DOWN GAL GERMAN PLANES
County Tops Bond
Goal $118,245

1--WE the top by $11S245. The Fourth War
Bond drive in Imperial county has ended with each and
every community exceeding its goal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27

y AMBLINe
u EpoRTER
Height OF Happiness

Height OF Happiness
Life probably will be a bit dull
for the Scouts of Troop 73 in Ell
Centre hereafter.
They were taken to the court of
honor Friday night aboard a fire
truck.
There can't be much in life after
that.
Wartime Notes
A waitress in downtown eating
establishment in FL Centro was
serving breakfast to woman. The
waitress picked Up half grape
fruit and placed it on the bare
wooden counter in front of the
woman without plate under it.
That's little too bad even for
wartime, isn't it?
Perfect Courtesy
A group of irrigation district en-
ployes gave Dave Blank farewell
dinner in Mexicali the other night.
Since it was a stag affair, Mrs.
Blank was not included in the in
vitation.
Much to her delight, however,
the group sent her box of beau
tiful flowers with note in which
the men expressed their thanks to
her for loaning them her husband
for the evening and contained
their assurance that they would
miss her, too, when she and her
husband leave Imperial Valley.
1t Was Agony
Ell Centro was jubilant with a
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27
WEATHER

Maximum Friday 65 minimum Saturday 46; 5 am.
Saturday SO, humidity Ga; noon Saturday Sc, hu-
midity AZ; pm. Friday co. humidity AZ.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-27

L. A. HAY-U. s. No. $31 $3.50; u. s. No. 2 Ieafy
l. v. $3O.5O-325O; No. 2 $29.OO-ss1.OO; Sept. flax
$2.96A.
Evening star., 1944-11-19
Your Psychologist
BY Dr.. W. II. Youn~

Nervousness ID the great Ameri-
can curse. There are countless peo-
pie who live . miserable life be-
cause they feel nervous and upset
most Of the time. Nervousness can
reduce ones health to = very low
point, and the attendant physical
symptoms are frightening in the
extreme.
Continued nervousness leads to
neurasthenia, or weakened con-
dition Of the sympathetic nervous
system. In its wake come dizzy,
weak spells, headaches, backache,
ringing ears, hot or cold fiushes,
digestive disturbances, lack of
memory. disturbances Of vision, in
somnia, tenseness and host OF
other symptoms. All or any Of
these symptoms may be present.
Subconscious suggestive therapy
is the most effective method Of
treating such cases, and the ply
sical symptoms may be removed
within a very short time. II you
have the above symptoms, phone
MA. 4625, DR.. Young will give you
the details.
Evening star., 1944-11-19

high gear. So whenever you think
che" needs . pickup s. steer him
to THE TOP ROUNDER for .
quick refreshing snack. IT'S an
amusing spot. too You sit In .
high chair and are served by swift
bar messengers who bring you your
food before you can say "Rumple-
stiltskin." Specialties Of the house
are, Of course, the magnificent
hamburgers. Then there's a de-
Hcious green salad, tossed about In
special dressing. There are eggs
fresh from the country. And the
FUNNIEST, richest. homemade
chocolate cake you've ever tasted.
Go for luncheon, for dinner. for
supper and in ; between times.
Open from II am. to am.-it's
particularly gay after cocktail par-
ties. Located Just west Of Con-
necticut Avenueat l73S L 81.
NV. Yhons TX. can.
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|Ne1U Art GALLERY
Formal Opening
II bis afternoon

Nine. Hoppenot, wife Of the Dele.
gate Of the French Provisional Gov.
Iernmellt, heads the list Of hostesse,
for the formal opening Of the Gal
Ilery Of Modern Art this afternoon
The opening OF the new gallery
recently established ct 1905 TWen-
tieth street after several years or
Ia place, win benefit the funds OF
the American Relief for France
Inc, and the pictures to be on view
are those Of Jean Louis Forain.
Assisting Mime. Hoppenot Will be
Mrs. Joseph G. Baldwin, Mrs
Charles s. Dewey. Mrs. Wayne
Chatfield-T Taylor. Mrs. Joseph Clark
Grew. Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
Mrs. Rene Batigne, Mrs. Paul II.
Bartlett. Mrs. Traxtun Beale. Mrs
Frederick H. Brooke, Mrs. r. Bur-
rail- Hoffman, Mrs. John w. Gar
|rett, Mrs. George Maurice Morris,
Mrs. George Hewitt Myers and
Mrs. George Y. Worthington, jr.
The Gallery OF Modern Art Il
under the direction Of Mrs. Caresse
Crosby and the exhibit OF works by
Forain Will continue after the for
NAL opening this afternoon. The
new home Of the gallery Is in
one Of the famous old homes Of
the National Capital, having been
the home Of the late Theodorus
Bailey Myers Mason. The house
was built on this site for the late
Mr.. Mason to be near his sister, the
late Mrs. Julien James, who lived
in the house on the corner, 1900
Twentieth street. A passage was
built between the two houses fol
the convenience of the late Mrs
James and her brother and the
bricks from that have been used
to erect the two-story building, now
the home Of the American News
paperwomen's Club.
During the Great War the house
at 1906 Twentieth street was giver
by Mrs. James to the Womeni
Evening star., 1944-11-19
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tering fur-with a matching muff.
There's nothing more becoming or
festive than little flower number
to party-fy your costume. There's
nothing more beguiling than. the
new clipped ostrich hats. And
MIILICENT'S has them all. How
ever, II you have your own ideas,
and are the possessor Of piece Of
fur, there is tiny workshop with
. very clever young milliner who
will make q hat or mum for you,
Do see her. Open evenings til Z.
zoos CONN. AVE. Phone RE. s6o2.
]" EFT AN EXPERT 'FI0-
URE YOU OUT" II
you have = tendency to bulge where
you should be slender-go to MAR
Evening star., 1944-11-19

tremor. Lovely dresses for the
parties to come-in juniors and
misses sizes-that have . light
hearted look-with . lot of glitter
for the holiday season. GIT 18th
ST. NV. Phone MA. 686e.
U pUT YOUR BEST FOOT
FORWARD" and
make your first stop at ROSS
SATURN tomorrow morning. They
Evening star., 1944-11-19


able dining rooms. They specialize
in "platters"-and each one, pre-
pared to your order. Is . chefs
masterpiece. It's a popular place
for luncheon, dinner and late
supper ;. and is particularly gay
after the theater. Make it q two
some-or take the whole family.
The food is so delicious every one
will enjoy it. 1921 and 1907 Z
STREET NV.
!" IF THE WAY TO A MANS
HEART Is through his
tummy' 4. you'll flnd THE TOP
FOUNDER a mighty fine match
Evening star., 1944-11-19

Naval Service and used BY that or
ganizAtion for surgical dresstnss,
|first aid and other classes needed
for war work and many . box o.
comfort kits and Christmas gifts
was packed there for shipment
overseas to men In the service.
Though the property now Is In
other hands, the house still Ii
known By older Washingtonians q
the Mason House.
Evening star., 1944-11-19

GELS " ere
those embarrB-
sing fatty places
will be ironed
away by RE
DUCEvAC" an
effective trea T.
ment and an easy
" ay t o ! o s e
p o u n d 5 an d
inches. just re-
lax. and without
Evening star., 1944-11-19

shop. where clever
Susan Joy" helps
you C h oose the
right thing for you.
Dresses sophisti-
Gated enough for
teen-age smooth
les but SO
you ng and gay
that mother will
oL~- kLA vxvsAI~.,k
Evening star., 1944-11-19
VIII Gipe AfHOmes

Mr.. and Mrs. Gerrit s. Miller, n.
have returned from tramping trip
IN the Great Smoky Mountains Ma
ttoilal Park and viii resume theil
regular Friday at homes beginning
November "A and continuing through
April.