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War food administration margarine if demand increases values will have to be worked out on the basis of the additional 10 million pounds for the quarter, :

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civilian use . .

vegetables may be released from rationing. Storage space is needed so badly for meat that the possibility of moving these foods out rapidly to make room is being considered.

Discussions are under way in the war production board about releasing quantities of wool from government stockpiles for . Dehydrated potatoes have been removed from the list of dried vegetables reserved for war requirements . . . The flat ceiling prices imposed on imported hard candy have been

plans to extend allocations for next year, but next month's point-

stocks of some frozen fruits and

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"postponed until February 15, but prices in the meantime will be held down to those of similar domestic candy sold during March, 1042 , . . On Janpary 5, the second birthday of the nation's war price and rationing boards, nearly 100,000 war service award certificates will be presented to volunteers who have served more than 100 hours as assistants to the boards.

On Being a Real Person

Being Needed Makes One

“And “Alligator.”

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U, P)

today.

Gilbert islands and New Britain island. ; There are various types of these craft. One is known as the “alligator,” which is largely a personnel carrier. There is another type, called the “water buffalo,” which has.an inclosed deck, but the navy is not yet ready to reveal details

about it. 80,000 Ordered

By the end of 1544, the navy expects to have 80,000 landing craft of all types built. On his return to Washington, President Roosevelt signed a $5,000,000,000 authorization for the construction of additional auxiliary naval vessels and landing craft. The: bill provided at least $1,600,000,000 for the construction of 20,000 landing vessels, The navy already has had 20,000 landing craft produced, and has 25,000 additional craft on order. Contracts will be let soon for the newly authorized craft. The new program calls for 15,000 miscellaneous small craft such as rubber boats and rafts, which are needed to supplement and round out the amphibious fleet,

15 Types Included

The landing crafts involve about 15 distinct types, one of the largest being a 450-foot dock ship. Other important categories include the infantry landing craft (LCI); the

Feel Important to World

By HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK The consciousness of being needed makes one feel important.

Even a cry for help upon the street is stimulating. For a time,

at least, that appeal can lift us out of the lowest mood into selfrespect; we cease being ciphers and become integers—we are needed.

"the greatest ‘/ have”

. selves makes us feel important. . The man who carried the mes-

sage to Garcia felt significant not much for himself as for what

A mother feels significant in a family that depends on her; a father feels important when his son turns. to him for counsel; as Robert Louis

Btevenson said, “So long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; man is useless while he has a friend.” The great social workers, missionaries, scientists, feel significant when ‘some area of need opens id which they can enter. For: a Dr. Fosdick oth to feel that the world has no use for him is one of the most blighting and withering of harms; to feel that he counts because he is wanted is one of the most stimulating of incentives. Dr. Arthur E. Morgan even says: “Lack of something to feel important about is almost tragedy a man may

Jesus throughout his ministry kept laying his hand on unlikely people, saying, You are needed, and so awakened in them a transforming respect for the importance of their own lives.

What Man Is Worth

The consciousness of having personal possibilities makes one feel important. What a man is worth

this

and no

significant not simply in himself but as the representative of an indispensable cultural heritage; and every plain man or woman can be the trustee and witness oftruths, traditions, and causes desperately needed by the world. To stand for something worth standing for and feel life grow significant in its representative capacity —to be a humble flag pole proud of the flag it flies—is not mere egocentricity but a creative function of the expanded personality. The essential religious experi ence of communion with God and devotion to his will makes us feel important. , The little ego is inflated by what belongs to it; the enlarged self is made significant by what it belongs to. Really to believe in God, therefore, genuinely to worship Him, to have the mirror minded self become all windows in an hour of outgoing adoration, to become conscious of inner union with the Universal Life, of belonging to Him, having a part in His purposes, being a trustee of His commissions, having access to His available power, is an experience alike humbling and exalting. It shames the little ego but it expands and dignifies the personality. Such religious experience is the very opposite of egocentricity, but nothing in human history has done more to produce and sustain a saving self respect. ; :

TOMORROW: Can you enjoy laughing at yourself?

CHILD CARE CENTERS INCREASE IN INDIANA

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Nurseries and child-care centers for war-working mothers in Indiana increased from 19 to 35, and enroll-

ment from 402 to 1714 from Sept. 8 to Dec. 1, the federal works ad-

housing There now are 58,000 children enrolled the United

tank landing ship (LST), a vessel

- |capable of transporting and landing ‘ |hundreds of tons of tanks; the tank

landing craft, (LCT) an intermediate type which is carried to a zone of operations on cargo ships; and the personnel landing craft (LCP), a. development from- the Fureka model of Higgins Industries, New Orleans,

7,479,988 PACKAGES DISPATCHED OVERSEAS

~The navy announced today. that 7,479,988 gift packages mailed in the United States will be delivered to

personnel at sea and overseas for the Christinas holiday, ~

postoffices between Sept. 15 and Dec, 1. .

—The expanded landing craft con= {struction program will place emphasis on tractor-treaded amphibious vessls especially suited to operation in shallow, reef-studded waters and the swampy jungle lands of the South Pacific, it was learned

Such craft played an important role in the landings in both the

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U. P.). [of 66 herolo army nurses.

naval, marine corps and coast guard [300 of wounds.

That was the number forwarded by the war department brings to 77 by. the New York and San Francisco the number of nurses accounted for

own headgear, but it's not the Brazilian bombbelle, It's Pvt. William ‘Seay of Los Angeles, pictured as | he played the Miranda role at a | ‘Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., soldiers’ | show.

He Returns Book After 33 Years

BOSTON, Dec. 20 (U. P.).—A man stepped up to the desk at the Boston public library and said he wanted to return an overdue book. “And when did you take the book out?” asked the librarian. “It was in 1910,” the man replied. He explained that he had moved to Canada after borrowing the book and had just returned. The librarian didn’t force him to the fine—approximately $235,

JAPS HOLDING 14,000 LISTED AS MISSING

WASHINGTON; Dec. 20 (U. P.). «More than 14,000 American soldiers out of some 18,000 originally {listed as missing in attion in the Philippines have now" been reported prisoners of war, including 55 out

Of the total, 1555 have been reported to have died from disease in Japanese prison camps, another

The inclusion of 10 army nurses in today’s prisoner of war release

out of the 88 who were on Bataan and Corregidor,

Brown L, M, N, Pand Q are good, All expire Jan. 1. Brown R becomes good Sunday; 8, Jan. 2, 1944; T. Jan. 9, and U, Jan. 16. All expire Jan. 29, 1944. 3

CANNED GOODS

Green stamps A, B and C in Book 4 expire today. Green D, E. and F are good through Jan. 20.

SHOES

Stamp 18 in Book 1 good. No. 1 “airplane” stamp in Book 3 good.

TIRES

Next inspection due: A's by March 31, 1944; B's and C's by Feb. 20, 1944, and commercial vehicles, every six months or every 5000 miles, whichever is first.

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Store Hours: Monday

on Thursday and wo

RATIONING DATES

canning sugar until Feb. 29, 1044.

son are good now for 10 gallons per

Feb. 7, 1944; period 3 coupons good

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ORGATRON RECITALS Daily at 1 to 1:30 and 8 to 3:30.

THE BURROUGHS JUNIOR CHOIR for the tenth year, caroling through the store on Monday at 6 to 6:30 and

XYLOPHONE AND ACCORDION DUETS : by Imogene Pierson and Alma Monninger, Wednesday at 12:15 to 12:45 and

Thursday at 4 to 4:30. : © ~~ and Jo Ellen Burroughs, Tuesday and. ys Friday ot 8-t0 8:30. - * . : A La ti)

SUGAR

Stamp 29 in Book 4 is good for five pounds through Jan. 15, 1944. Applications may be made for

GASOLINE

Stamp A-9 good for 3 gallons until midnight Jan, 21. B-2 and C-2 stamps good for five gallons until used.

FUELOIL Period 1 coupons for the new sea-

unit in all gones through Jan. 8, 1944, period 2 coupons good through

through March 13, 1944. All changemaking coupons and reserve coupons are now good,

HOPPING, TAKE TO THE

by Miss Ruth Noller

Friday, 12:15-12:}5.

Factions’ Battle for Control Regarded as Menance to War Effort.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-—-Word {from Italy reveals that a political situation is bullding up-inside the allied zone which, if allowed to per- " Isist and become a precedent, may * |soatter civil war behind our lines wherever we go in Europe. The factionalism which tore Italy apart after the first world war and paved the way for Mussolini, is). {again beginning to show. there has been rioting in Naples, shots have been fired over the

heads of mobs. Italians are

foned.”

ginning

the war.

ANAL CRISIS

whether there shall be A monarchy, a republic or a soviet; over whether the king shall abdicate, over who shall succed him if he does, or whether the House of Savoy shall remain in the picture at all, Then there are Count Sforsa who Is against- King Victor Emmanuel, but who is willing to go along with Marshal Badoglio temporarily, and © ER Bendetto Croce, the grand old man of Italian liberalism but to whom the young “liberals” refused to listen because he is “too old-fash-

Factions Clash |

Rightists, leftists, moderates, cials who seem to think that Anglomonarchists, communists and cleri- | American leadership has been slow cals are all there, and some are beto stage demonstrations they desired. But the prevailing

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Marine Tells of Sleepless (§ Nights in S.. Pacific Foxhole| The eerie sound of air raid sirens louder. Then you can hear the in the sultry jungle night . . . the plane overhead. You lay flat in

TOAF Of enetny planes . , . 1.1.1 ‘and hips he Will watt

the ack-ack of anti-aireraft fire . . the screaming of bombs aimed at » Iw Je before releasing his mb load,

you in the foxholes, This was described by Marine Cpl.| “You hear the sound of bombs being released and hear them come

Robert J. Eckstein in a letter written at his South Pacific base to screaming down to earth. . They former associates at The Times, He [sound as though they were coming Is the son of Mrs. Mary Eckstein, [stralght at you so you just lay 1034 Edwards ave, and was on the there and hope they aren't too Times circulation staff before the|close, You hear them strike the ground with a loud explosion. You

War, “Let me tell you a little about|breathe a sigh of relief until you hear another plane. . . .

night life” he wrote. “You go to bed early expecting to get a §00d| “Now the plane is heading away from the island. The searchlights

night's rest. Just as you get to sleep you hear the siren warning. |scan the sky looking for the enemy.| It was in the port of Baril for - + Maybe this is a real alr raid| Finally they pick up the plane and several weeks with the British navy and maybe it is just an alert. {throw everything at it but the guns after Bari was seized, and was an Whatever it is, you get out of your themselves. It sounds as though all eye-witness to.a shuttle service set sack and crawl into your foxhole.|hell has broken loose. [up across the Adriatic, After sitting around a while, the | “Occasionally you see a plane get! The first shipments were carried siren sounds secure and back to hit, burst into flame and rocket ty scores of little fishing smacks . your sack you go, hoping this is the earth. This . . . is not easily for-/which arrived jam-packed with last time. gotten, especially if the plane has| Jugoslav refugees and departed “You Just get to sleep and the peep hit directly overhead and starts quickly with loads of war-vital supe siren sounds again. You can hear falling in your area. plies for Tito's growing partisans. the sound of approaching planes.| ‘The plane strikes the ground ., Security measures were The motors grow louder and soon |with a terrific explosion, and the strictly enforced at that time, the AA (anti-aircraft) opens up, | fellows let out a cheer because they 1 was twice forced to leave a pler in and it is just like a Fourth of July know that is one that won't

get US Baril harbor after I attempted to celebration. The plane motor grows out of bed again.” [talk to Jugoslav emigrees, but I got

“(a sufficient look at the cargoes would have her. That job belongs to destined for Tito to be greatly ime the Italians. That is the principle | pressed, we are fighting for. The allies have evidently decided This country, it is pointed out, isto back the Jugoslav guerrilla leader not underwriting King Victor, Mar- to the limit. The supplies included shal Badoglio, King Peter, King everything from light anti-aircraf§ George of Greece or, for that mat- guns to automatie machihe guns, ter, King George of England. We from hully beef to tobacco and are fighting to free the world from! army biscuits in tins, . axis enslavement. When that 1s| Large quantities of gasoline in

Alles. Start Shipments Jugoslavia With Taking Of Malian Ports.

By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staft Correspondent : CAIRO, Dec. 20.—It now can be revealed that the allies began ship ping munitions and other supplies of war to Marshal Josip Brozovieh almost immediately after the wests

ern Italian ports of Bari, Brindisi and Barletta were occupied,

Already

quarreling over

{in Italy face a crisis. Either they {must make their authority felt or the situation will get out of hand. If it does, it will endanger the troops. Here and in London are a few offi-

|in creating in Italy the ideal setup

which interfere with the winning of | view is that it is not up to General

Thus the British and Americans

| Eisenhower, or the allled govern‘ments, to make Italy over as we

done, American soldiers will return containers

home to run their own affairs while packed up mountain trails to other peoples run theirs,

that could a '&

|armored units were in evidence.

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GIVE LIFE

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This is a scene from any battle front . . . with a young American soldier as the central - figure. Life-saving plasma is being given him

./ because somebody sacrificed 45 minutes of

time to give a pint of blood to help him.

Your blood is needed! Why not give life for

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