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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-18
Selediye Service Lists
Essential Occupations

Men who are not eligible for service
in the Armed Forces because Of physi-
cal defects (Class Iv-F) or because Of
2 (Class (Iv-A) want to know what
they should do to help win the a
Work in the following activities is con-
sidered to be essential by the local
boards of selective service for the above
classes of men, stated Colonel L. W
Long, state director of selective ser
vice: 81
1. Production of Aircraft and Parts
2. Production of Ships, Boats and
Parts. rs
8. Production of Ordnance and Ac-
cessories.
a. Production of Ammunition.
5. Agriculture and Commercial Fish
ing.
(a) Agricultural production.
CD Agricultural Services.
(c) Commercial Fishing.
6. Processing Of Food.
z. Forestry, logging, numbering and
forest industries.
8. Construction.
.. Coal Mining.
10. Metal mining.
IL. Nonmetallic mining and process
ing and quarrying.
IL. Smelling. refining and rolling Of
metal; scrap salvage.
10. Production of metal shapes and
f6rgings.
IA. Finishing Of metal products.
Is. Production of industrial and ag-
ricultural equipment.
l6. 4 Production Of machinery.
II. Production Of chemicals and al
lied products.
18. ! Production Of rubber products.
10. Production of leather products.
20. Production Of textiles. =
FL. Production of apparel.
~. Production Of stone, clay and
glass products.
80. Production of petroleum, natural
gas and petroleum and coal products.
"a. Production Of finished lumber
products.
IS. Production of transportation
equipment.
26. Transportation services.
81. Production of pulp, paper and
materials for packing and shipping pro-
ducts.
(a) Production of certain pulp, pa
per, paperboard and converted products.
(b) Production of other materials for
shipping and preserving essential pro-
ducts.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-18
Billy Johnson Missing
0nDestroyerM Monaghan

&c William "Billy" Johnson. USN, 10
missing in action in the Pacific. He
was on h destroyer Monaghan which
was sunk. lit was reported that only .
persons were saved on this ship.
Billy is IS years old and the SON Of
Mr.. and Mrs. l. E. johnson, Of Lex
/, ngton, RID. Mrs. o. E. Ellis, of Du-
ant, is his sister. a. az 81 a.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-18
Holmes Junior College

Wednesday morning 1t tho meeting
Of the "Y" held in the auditorium.
John Tucker had charge of the program
and told the legend Of Tho First
Christmas Tree in America" John
pointed out that although Christmas
day was gone, the spirit of Christmas
should reign in ones hearth through
out the ear.
The poem "Trust Evermore and Be-
lieve" was read after which Kelly Max
we'll closed the program with prayer.
After the singing of THE Old Rugged
Cross" and "The Sweet Bye and Bye"
the students of Holmes Junior College
were privileged to have Mrs. Zilpha
Mansell speak to them at the wednes-
day evening prayer meeting service
held in the lobby of the girls dormi-
tory.
Mrs. Mansell chose as her subject
"Stop! Look! and Listenl" and pointed
out that this was a warning to every
stop, look at Gods Holy Word, and then
listen to Him If one is to succeed in
life.
The service was closed with prayer.
The FLA basketball tournament was
held in the Holmes Junior College gym
Tuesday afternoon at 300 o'clock.
Schools represented in the tournament
were McCool. McAdams, Ethel, Zama,
West. Sails, and Goodman.
Tuesday night at $500 o'clock the
finals we're played between Ethel and
zama with Zama holding the title Of
champion at the end of the game.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-18

The many friends of Pfc. Billy Dren-
a will be glad to learn he has ar
rived in California and is expected
home within a few days. He has beer
in the Pacific over thirty months.
Walter Lowe, Reeves Vandiver and
Willie Henry transacted business in
Memphis Tuesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-18

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20. Production of communication
equipment.
20. Communication services.
80. Heating, power, water supply and
Illuminating services.
81. Repair services.
80. Health and welfare services.
33. Educational services.
81. Governmental services.
IS. Technical, scientific and man.
agement services. :
Those activities considered to be most
critical by tho state director of selec'
tive service at thish time are As fol.
lows:
1. Synthetic rubber production anc
manufacture.
2. Production of rockets, radar, heavy
ammunition, artillery and small arms
ammunition, bombs, tanks, wire and
wire rope. cotton duck, critical compon-
ents for trucks, heavy and light heavy
including truck trailers and tractors.
8. Production of aircraft, aircraft
carriers, and cruisers.
4. Production Of combat loaded
transports, cargo vessels and tankers
5. Aviation gasoline production, GER
tain phases of crude petroleum produc-
ton.
6. Certain licensed officers of boats
on inland watrways, railroad and motor
transport service, air transport ant
Jerry service.
z. International radio-telegraph, ra-
dio-telephone, and cable carriers.
8. Operation of commercial fishing
vessels of 10 gross tons or over.
9. Doctors of medicine, dentistry and
veterinary medicine.
10. Certain federal government EN-
ployees, especially F. B. l. special
agents, fingerprint technicians, radio
operators, and civil a%eronautics admin
istration employees.
IL. Certain secret research war pro-
ects.
IL. Coal mine workers.
13. Certain students Of medicine
dentistry and veterinary medicine.
ID. Red Cross American field service
workers.
Is. Certain scientific and technical
personnel for production of critical war
materials including research and de-
velopment of new materials and pro-
cesses.
Further information as to details in
any of the above fields is available at
the local board of selective service Of
fees, stated Colonel Long.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-01-18
Sgt. Frank Gwin Jr.
Prisoner Of War

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gwin received a
letter Sunday morning from their son
Frank, Jr, who has been missing in
action since October 90. He states that
he is well and strong and in a temper
airy Prisoner of War Camp, No. IL in
StalaS. Germany.
SGT. Gwin was serving with the 7th
Armored Division in General Patton's
Sd Army when reported missing.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-26
WPB To Tighten Control
On War Contract Awards
And Civilian Production

WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.- CF' -
The War Production Board shortly
will tighten the screws on Army
and Navy munitions procurement
m prevvent new war contracts
from piling up in tight labor areas.
This move, ordered by Chairman
T. A. Krug to become effective
February l, is intended to steer
war work away from the u cities
and industrial areas classed as
Group T. or acute labor shortage
areas.
II will be followed by drastic
new cuxbs on non-military con-
struction and a further squeeze on
civilian manufa curing.
Plants in the u cities Woulo
have to obtain WPB approval,
through action of local production
urgency committees, before &C.
cepting war contracts OF SlOo'ooo
or more if the contracts would re-
m,ire them to increase their LABOR
force.
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tools, attachments and spare
parts, A m er C n requirements
were canvassed and it was deter.
mined that there was no immedi-
ate need for them here. In the
past, the United States had called
upon Britain to return Lend-Lease
tools when they were urgently re-
quired, and they have done so.
The British agreed 10 withhold
their newly-purchased tools from
the export market for at least five
years after the war with Germany
ends. Should the desirability OF
providing liberated countries with
some of this equipment arise, the
matter will be discussed by Brit
ain and the United States.
Crowley said the transaction re-
suited from the recognition by both
governments that special prob
lens associated with machine
tools should be solved before the
end of hostilities.
Lend-Lease has provided only
relatively small portion OF the
United Kingdom tool needs. OF
the $4,000 machine tools in Brit
aims war industry, 70 per cent
came from home manufacturers,
IA IL per cent were purchased
for cash in the United States. and
the other II 10 per cent came
from the U. S. under Lend-Lease.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-26
SOVlET AMBASSADOR
10 MEXICO DIES IN
CRASH OF AIRPLANE

r. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 25.- up -
VIII Oumanswky, AZ So
l Hvl ambassador to Mexico, was
s sIt today in the crash of a
tslsAlean air force plane 500 yards
'g vi the airport in take-off.
MS wife and seven others, three
" W. snem members of Oumansky's
''@ OIL, also died in the accident.
v,N wy TWO of the II aboard sur
wy. .sed and both suffered injuries
and burns.
w. me e plane took off at $50 am.
ba ' costa Rica, where Oumansky
ista oeeh assigned as Russian min.
DID, J- 10 officiate in the opening Of
Countries ~ Oe'"een 'e
y. inc .{ craft failed in its attempt tc
e ne4i altitude and DR.. w. L. Gar.
MIL u the American-British hos
stt Etc., Sald it caught fire, at Least
'Ier the crash
fire. S 81 Leo Troyninsky, wife of tbs
terad secretary Who was killed, sui
on ba. serious burns on a leg ane
inin "el lace and may have a back
-D1 ~. Dr.. Garnett said.
mir va, saio Mexican pilot mocha
savoS IlLoSe name was not revealed
the ~ f1a lef life by dragging her from
mir i ~ Wreckage. The mocha
broL Ile Other survivor, suffered
he , Uneii arm and face burns. Botf
pect anu Mrs. Troyninsky were ex
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u. s. Tools Given Britain
Fora Fifth Of Valuation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-CUP)
Great Britain has received full
title to $4,000 American-made ma.
chine tools originally costing $780,.
100000 for only $31, 100000 Foreign
Economic Administrator Leo T.
Crowley disclosed tonight.
The tools, he said, first were con-
signed to Britain under Lend,
Lease, and payment for them con.
stituted the first cash sale of Lend
Lease materials to that nation. The
price agreed upon, he said, was
based on depreciation, due to use
of the tools under wartime con-
ditions, and represents an agreed
estimate of their value when they
no longer are required in the war.
The low purchase price, he add
ed, also reflected consideration of
shipments lost to enemy action at
sea and tools of relatively small
postwar value. 1t was said at FEA
offices that since November 1913,
no tools have been Lend-Leased to
Britain, and all shipped have been
purchased.
Crowley said that this transac-
ton was not to be regarded as
precedent in the disposition OF
other Lend-Lease property, or as
"in any way preiudicing whatever
general Lend Lease settlement
may be reached,
He said that in disposing of these
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-26
|765 Soldiers
Dead, Missing
In Ship Loss
Stimson Reveals Another
36,456 Casualties At
War Fronts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-tR-
Along with report of 36,456 new
Army casualties, Secretary Slim
son revealed today the recent
sinking in European waters OF a
ship carrying American troops,
with 765 dead and missing.
No detail was given in the loss
of the troopship, beyond the fact
that she was sunk by enemy action
while carrying more than 1900
soldiers, of whom more than 1,400
were saved. The casualties were
divided: 248 dead and SIT miss
ing.
Heavy losses had been reported
in two previous troopship sink
ings, both in the Mediterranean
last year. Losses in those cases
totalled 1,498. Neither ship has
been reported by name nor have
the sinking dates been given.
More than 4,50O officers and men
were aboard the transport Presi-
dent Coolidge when she was sunk
in the South Pacific October rs,
1912, but only five were lost.
Stimson said the new transport
sinking was made public in &C
cordance with the established
policy of stating all losses in reg
ular course. even though some
of the details may not yet be made
available.
The overall report on Army
losses, issued at the War Secre-
tary's news conference, showed
e16,951 dead, wounded, captured
and missing since Pearl Harbor,
up 6,456 from last week. 1t re-
Elected a period of heavy fighting
to stem the German breakthrough
lin Belgium two or three weeks
ago.
The Navy's newest casualty to-
tai of 84,999, up 1855 for the week,
made the overall figure for the
armed services 701, $50, an increase
lof 1901 since last week.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-26
ASSEMBLY PLANS
DIX HILL PROBE
Committee Reports Condi-
tons AT Hospital
'Deplorable'

RALEIGH, Jan. 25.-P,-Mem-
bers of the North Carolina General
Assembly are going to find out at
first hand just what conditions ex-
list at Dix Hill, the Raleigh State
hospital unit.
A few hours before the joint ap-
preparations committee launched
into consideration today of mental
institutions approp riations both
branches of the Legislature ac-
cepted an invitation of N. E. Ed
gerton, chairman of the State Hos
pitfalls Board of Control, to visit the
hospital unit next Wednesday.
The Assembly action came az
ter expressions from members
of the joint committee on mental
institutions, who visited the nos
pital last week, described condl-
lions at Dix Hill as deploraole.
Some members of the committee
insisted that the entire General AS
sembly should visit the hospital
The Joint approp-ia tons commit
tee had previously indicated 1t
would make tour of the hospital
before final action is taken on
recommended ALLEGATIONS Tor the
mental institutions.
The mental institutions commit
tee was told during its visit that
conditions at Dix Hill reflect con-
ditions at other State hospital units
Meanwhile, the two Houses Of
the Assembly held brief sessions
today. to receive a few new bills
and to take action on other meas
l1rnQ
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DE MILE REFUSES
TO PAY UNION AND
LOSES RADIO SPOT

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25.-UP)-
Cecil B. Demille tonight spurned
an offer of reinstatement in the
American Federation of Radio Art
lists (AFL) upon payment Of a ST.
political assessment and dues, and
said he would carry his dispute
to the Supreme Court even If it
costs him his $90,000-a-year radio
salary.
His decision meant immediate
cancellation of his weekly Monday
night broadcast, which he started
June /, 1886.
Defnille yesterday was denied a
Superior Court injunction that
would have prevented h e union
suspending him because of his fail
ure to pay 81 assessment levied
to fight proposed anti-closed-shop
measure in California. The mea-
sure was defeated in the Novem-
Der election.
"While I respect the learning
and high integrity of our superior
court, these matters seem to me
to possess the ingredients Of free
dom Of tyranny" Demille said,
"And 1 feel that they should be
submitted to our highest courts be-
fore we accept the principle of
tyranny as part Of our American
citizenship.
Il shall consequently. ask that
the matter be considered by our
Supreme court"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-26
LeGrund Sets Deadline
On Extension Protests

Setting a deadine at next Thurs
day as the last day on which the
opposition to City extension will
be given a hearing, Rep. J. @. LIE
Grand yesterday introduced bill
in the State legislature to extend
the Wilmington City limits.
Reverberations from the de-
nouncement of the City by Sun
set Park residents still were to
be heard yesterday afternoon and
Mr.. LeGrand announced that he
had received a telegram from the
Sunset Park committee yesterday
asking him to defer action on the
bill pending a hearing. The bill
was sent to the House committee
on counties, cities and towns ''in
the form in which it was published
in Wilmington Plans were made
to hold it for hearing until next
Thursday, according to Commit
tee Chairman w. E. Horner OF
Sanford.
Written into the extension bill
by New Hanover's representative
as councilmen and alternates from
areas proposed to be acquired
were the names of Harriss New
man, councilman from the East
sector; H. A. Marks, first alter
nate, and S. A. Cross, second al
ternate; Ray Pollock, councilman
from Southern area; William T.
Mars, first alternate, and Robert
B. Howard. second alternate.
With the reference TO the Sun
set Park protest, the legisla-
for the machinery of City extern
sion last week declared, IF they
want a hearing before the Legis-
lative committee any day next
week, I'll be glad to arrange it,
but this must not be later than
next Thursday"
Meanwhile, the Committee of
Suburban association was prepar.
ing to report to the residents of the
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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Iliott will not be the youngest,
Several officers have made
the grade before reaching his
age, notably Brig. Gen. Rich
ard C. Sanders, Salt Lake
City, who is only 20, and Brig
Gen. Clinton D. Vincent, Gale,
Tex, who is 80.
That nomination was one of 100
temporary promotions placed be.
fore the Senate. 1t aroused unusual
interest because of the colonel S
prominence and because he is a
central figure in a pending Senate
subcommittee investigation OF
travel priorities.
The subcommittee-three men,
bers of the Senate Military At
fairs Committee - wants to know
specifically how Colonel Roose-
velt's English bull mastiff, Blaze,
was granted an "A'' air travel pri-
GRITTY and bumped three service
men off a plane at Memphis. The
dog was delivered to Mrs. Roose-
welt, the actress, Faye Emerson,
on the West Coast.
The full committee will consider
the Roosevelt nomination along
with the others. This raised the
prospect that the priorities issue
might enter into committe de.
bate.
The White House had no COM
ment on Elliott's promotion. A re-
porter jokingly asked acting Press
Secretary Jonathan Daniels wheth-
er Blaze was going to be promoted
too. Daniels smiled but did not
respond.
Just before the Senate received
the Roosevelt and other nomina-
tons, Secretary of War Henry L..
Stimson announced that Gen. Jo-
seph w. StilWell, 81, former COM
mander of American forces in the
China-Burma-India theater, h d
been named commander of U. S.
Army Ground Forces, succeeding
1t. Gen. Ben Lear, who goes to
the European theater as deputy
commander of U. S. forcer.
Continued on Page Eight; Col. y
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France Expects To Keep
Army Along Rhine Riper

PARIS, Jan. 25.- R Gen. de
Gaulle told a press conference to-
day that "France does not intend
to finish this war without the as
surance that the French army will
be installed permanently along the
length of the Rhine from one end
to the other
The head of the provisional
French government said regretful-
ly that France had not been in
vited to the Roosevelt Churchill
Stain conference. He also explain
ed that France does not intend to
recognize the Lublin committee as
the provisional government OF Po-
land-at least, not Immediately.
Appearing in the glacial confer
ence room of the War Ministry in
hugh army overcoat and rub
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Foe Crosses
Moder Line;
Fight RACES
Enemy Drives IS Miles
Into Alsace, Menace
Saverne Gap

PARIS, Jan. 25.- R The Ger
mans opened up in northeastern
VANCE today with what may be
.bo,r last offensive in the west, but
Il was slowed to a crawl by savage
y Seventh Army counterattac ks
stter breaking across the n e W
American Moder river line at four
places
Tho attack rolled out at dawn
along 2O-nile front, with two
crack armored divisions pacing at
least two others in an assault
which nowhere gained as much as
two miles. A front dispatch said
hard fighting ragged tonight with the
Americans inflicting Furnishing loss
eS,
Charging out under cover of
thick weather as they did in the
i'll fated Ardennes campaign, the
Germans were battling southwark
as deep as Is miles into Alsace.
On their west flank they were Il
miles from the vital Saverne gap
supplying French and American
forces on the Rhine.
The Moder river, to which 1t.
Gen. Alexander M. Patch's army
had retired under mounting pres
sure from an enemy reinforced by
at least one armored division hus-
tied down from the Ardennes, was
crossed at four points from two to
five miles west of the American
anchor at Haguenau.
The Germans Immediately were
counteratta cked but succeeded in
getting considerable forces"
across in what U. S. staff officer
declared was a major effort to
try 10 reconquer all the province
o. Alsace.
German attacks famed east of
Eaguenau, which is Is miles north
of Strasbourg, on westward to the
northern Vosges mountains, where
enemy forces are closest to the
Save-ne gap.
To the south, the Germans lash
ed back at the French First Army
which is attacking from both north
and south against the Colmar pock-
ct south of Strasbourg, and the
lighting was as bitter as it was
lnconclusive.
This big German venture in
territory where the Allies can af-
ford 10 trade space for time.
came as the Allied armies to the
north we're closing steadily to po-
Nuons from WHENCE they can re-
sumo the supreme assault on Ger
many from the west.
The British Second Army, Selling
seven more towns as deep as ten
miles mo Germany, was within a
miles Of the Cologne plain river
paFner Of the Roer and three miles
rom the borGerline stronghold OF
Hoermond in Holland.
Inc Germans have specialized
mat the next big Allied push may
'Vohtlnued on Page Two; Col. b
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Puts
II. s. 40 Miles
From Manila
Jap Opposition Fails To
Develop In Any
Concentration

GEN RAL MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Friday, Jan. 26.
-(R-Clark Field, W h e Is air
strips constitute one of the richest
prizes in the Pacific war, was cap
tured Thursday by southwark driv-
ing Yanks along with adjacent Fort
Stotsenburg while other columns
pushed even deeper to within a
scant 40 airline miles of Manila.
This climax of campaign which
yet has to run into any concen-
trated Japanese opposition during
a push of more than 10 miles from
Lingayen Gulf avenged one Of
Americas major sethacks of h e
Pacific war.
Clark Field, where japanese dive
bombers wiped out Gen. Douglas
Macarthur main air strength in
the Philippines in early December
1912, thus facilitating Nipponese
conquest of the Archipelago gives
the Americans land air base to
help blast open landing beaches
on the coast of China.
Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold' s
18th Army Corps, moving so fast
that the Japanese were unable to
mass defenses in ridge areas where
they had lobored for months, shot
motorized columns well beyond
Clark Field.
The Americans have captured
Angeles, five miles south of Clark
Field. To the northeast of Angeles,
other columns have taken Maya
lang, a highway junction on the d.
rect route to Manila.
On the west coast, below Dasol
bay, the Yanks have surged more
than five miles south from Infanta
to take the town of Santa Cruz.
American Warplanes meantime
bombed historic Corregidor fortress
in Manila Bay for the second
straight day, and hit enemy install
lations in Subic bay to the north
as we'll as the port Of Apart on
the northern coast of Luzon.
First Army Corps Doughboys
maintained heavy pressure on Jap
anese entrenched at Rosario, on
the highway to Baguio, southern
capital of the Philippines. Resist
ance here has been the most pro-
nounced of the Luzon campaign.
One of two japanese bombers at
lacking American shipping in Ling
ayen gulf, scene of Macarthur S
January 9 beachhead, was shot
down.
Liberator bombers operating with
a fighter escort heavily attacked
the big Cavite naval base in Manila
bay, causing large explosions and
fires, Macarthur reported.
A 10000 ton tanker was destroy
ed off Apart.
Macarthur said his ground forces
after taking Clark Field, were 'en-
gagged in clearing enemy troops
from nearby hills while advance
units probed toward Manila.