The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

A NEWSPAPER FOR Weather: Colder this afternoon THE WHOLE FAMILY SEYMOUR DAILY TRIBUNE and tonight: 15 to 20 above tonight. VOLUME LX. NO. 303. SEYMOUR, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1942.

PRICE THREE CENTS Huge Volume Of Mail Is Here Sunday Delivery For City Residents Planned -Early Mailing "in Style" Residents of this community, ate pouring mail by the thousands of pieces into the Seymour post office, but they are doing it much earlier than they did a year ago, it was revealed by Walter H. Droege, postmaster, today, Mr. Droege also announced that there will be a Sunday delivery of mail in Seymour this weekend to relieve the pressure and reduce, the load of mail arriving here for delivery to residents of the com- munity. Delivery Sunday. One delivery will be made by city carriers Sunday afternoon, and a parcel post delivery to residential areas will also be made, he said.

Due the shortage of experienced help, the post office will not be able to have windows open on Sunday and at night as was the case last year. Mr. Droege revealed that the volume of letter mail going Through the cancellation machine (which does not include parcel post and much letter mail which is hand-stamped) during this past week was almost double the volume which went through in the corresponding week a year ago. However, the flow has been more evenly distributed than was the case last year, and as a result, it is not expected that the load will rise as sharply between now and Tuesday as it did last year. Cancellations Listed.

Machine cancellations and records in the post office showed that on Monday of this week approximately 17,000 pieces of mail went through the machine, while the corresponding date for last year saw 5,000 pieces go through. Tuesday's volume this week was approximately 19,000 pieces, while the figure for the corresponding day a year ago was 6,000. Wednesday's total this year was some 22,000 pieces, with 9,000 pieces for the same date a year ago. Thursday's volume this year dropped off to 20,000, while last year it went up to 16,000 pieces. The Friday volume this week went back up to 22,000, while the total for the corresponding day al year ago was 20,000 pieces.

Last Year's Peak Shown. On the day last year with corresponds today, 25,000 pieces of mail went through the cancellation: machine, while on the day that would correspond to next Tuesday, the season's peak of 000 pieces went through. However, it is not expected that such a sharp rise in volume will be shown here during the next few days because of the large volume which was handled during the past few weeks. In other words, as Mr. Droege put it, "people have been mailing lots, but early." Mrs.

Viola Borum Expires Here Mrs. Viola C. Borum, eightyone, died about 8:30 o'clock today at the home of her foster daughter, Mrs. Norman J. Lasher, West Sixth street.

Although she had been in declining health for several months her death was unexpected. Mrs. Borum was born in Fountain county, the daughter of of Jonathan and Levicia Hawkins Tague, both deceased. In 1884 she was married at Attica to Everett Borum, who died in 1931. Mrs.

Borum came here about ten years ago to make her home with Mr. and. Mrs. Lasher and during those, years made many friends here who will be shocked to hear of her passing. Besides Mrs.

Lasher she is survived by a brother, Daniel Tague, of the Indiana Masonic. Home at Franklin. Rites will not be conducted here but services wilt be held Monday at Wheeler Cemetery, near, Wingate. Friends may call at the Voss Mortuary after 7 o'clock this evening. Mrs.

Leo Rice, of Mitchell, was admitted to Schneck Memorial Hospital Friday for medical treatment. The Desert Fox TALLYHO! FO ROMMELS NEA Service. Inc Six County Students to Get Degrees Sunday From Indiana U. Bloomington, Ind. Dec.

Stepping up its output of trained men and women to meet the nation's war-time. needs, Indiana University tomorrow will graduate approximately 580 students, including six students from Jackson county. The graduates will receive their degress six months ahead of normal schedule due to the accelerated plan put into effect by the University soon after entrance of the United States into the war. They will increase the number of degrees granted this year to 1,910, a total of 33 per cent greater than in 1941 and 47 per cent a- Strike Ties Up War Plant Detroit, Dec. 19-AP)-Fifteen hundred workers have gone on strike, and have stopped production at a.

Detroit war plant. The tieup is at the Eureka cuum Cleaner Works, which has been making gas masks. The strikers are members of the Independent Mechanics EducaItional Society, A union spokesman says the strike is in protest over dismissal of a union steward, the antiunion policies of a new works manager, and to the company's, failure to consider a demand that women workers be paid higher Norris Declines Apparently Veteran Senator Washington, Dec. 19-AP)-or George Norris of Nebraska is turning down requests by Presi-1 dent Roosevelt and other. that he.

stay on in Washington in some federal Defeated in the November election, the 81-year-old legislator is understood to have been slated for a position as an adviser, but Norris tells reporters he plans to return to his home in McCook, Nebraska. Weather Records Here are official for Seymour for and weather records SHOPPING the day. The maximum temper- WHAD -DA YU THINK OF A FELLOW ature reading is WHO WOULD GIVE HIS from a downtown GIRL HER- ENCACEMENT thermometer, and RING FOR A is unofficial. The past minimum. twenty for four the PRESENT, XMAS hours, is from the records of Miss Louise Ahlert government weather observer here.

and is official. The river level is obtained, from the Seymour Water pumping station at- Rockford. Temperatures Minimum 25 above Reading at 11 a. m. 20 above River 19 inches above low water mark.

East to Get New Gasoline Ration Plan Only Meager Emergeney Allotments Available as New Curtailment Expected By Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 19 Only meager emergency allotments of gasoline were available to eastern. motorists today as the government clamped down the lid on gasoline supplies to all non-commerical users in that area preparatory to instituting a new curtailed rationing program probably Monday. Motorists holding and "C' rations were permitted to buy only one coupon's worth of gasoline starting at.

noon Friday except to complete emergency trips. The hurriedly issued order left largely to the discretion of filling station operators the decision as to what emergency sales might be made, leading to considerable confusion and to protests that war workers might be unable to reach their jobs, Exceptions Are Ordered. Price Administrator Leon Henderson later issued instructions however, that fuel be supplied to "workers in war slants where their transportation to and from work. depends on their getting gasoline" and to physicians, mail carriers and -others dependent on automobiles for essential occupations. Henderson said that "a thoroughly integrated plan is being worked out" to replace the blanket suspension "and we hope to be able to announce it by Sunday and put it into effect.

Monday morning." While the new plan can be expected to eliminate some of the inequities arising from the drastic shutting off of supplies for noncommercial vehicles, there was no indication that it would mean a resumption of deliveries on the old rationing basis. Available Supply Drops. Petroleum Administrator Ickes announced that only 365,000 barrels of gasoline daily would be available for distribution in the 17 Eastern states during the rest of December and 331,000 barrels daily in January, compared with the recent consumption under rationing of 450,000 barrels a day. Examination Set For State Jobs An examination for the class on welfare visitor will be conducted by the Indiana State Personnel Division at various centers throughout the state on Saturday, January 9. The positions exist in the state and county departments of public welfare.

In order to take the examination on January 9, applications must be filed with the state personnel division no later than December 24. forms can be secured at any, county welfare department, United States Employment Service office, or the state personnel division, 141 South Meridian street, Indianapolis. The existing eligible lists for welfare visitor are being rapidly exhausted and since vacanices are occuring regularly in the above agencies, individuals who pass the examinations will have excellent opportunities to be placed in permanent position within a rela(Continued on page -4, column 3) Farmers May Butcher For Their Own Use Washington, Dec. -Secretary Wickard today sought to clear up confusion surrounding the butchering of hogs by farmers today through the issuance of a statement to the effect that they are free to butcher hogs and other meat animals for home tise: They ought. to do their normal amount of "home butchering," he said.

"I want to make one point clear. There are no formal regulations on butchering for home use. know that there is a widespread rumor that farmers will have to pay a fee for a butchering permit. These rumors are Wickard added that farmers had a patriotic duty" not to. use more than their share of meat SO that military and other civilian requirements might be met.

Civiltians have been asked to limit their consumption to 35 ounces a week Organization of Victory Corps Is Urged in High Schools in Indiana The state department of education is urging all high schools large and small to promote and organize the High School Victory The two aims of the High School Victory Corps are: first, immediate, accelerated and special training of youth for that war service they will be expected to perform after leaving school; second, active participation of youth while still in school in the community's. war effort. which will be pursued both inside and outside the classroom are: Guidance of youth into critical services and occupations. Wartime citizenship training to insure better the Midwest Gets Fuel Oil Relief Indiana not Included In Area Where Rationing Is Relaxed Indiana is not included in an order relaxing fuel oil rationing regulations in the midwest, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Chicago. The 'Chicago dispatch said today the regional director of the office of price administration Friday night issued the order relaxing the regulations in the midwest to permit users affected by severe winter conditions to- obtain additional supplies during the coming week.

John C. Weigel, administrator for the region, announced the Washington office had agreed to advance the effective date of fuel oil coupon. No. 3 from Jan. 5 to Dec.

23. Thus, he explained, these coupons which ordinarily could not be cashed until the first week of January would be good for withdrawal of additional supplies next Wednesday. The exact value of coupon No. 3. is yet to be determined, he said.

Fuel oil users now are withdrawing supplies on coupon No. 2, which was to have supplied them with sufficient fuel from Dec. 3 to Jan. 5. The region affected by the relaxation comprises Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.

"This step," said Weigel, "is taken on the joint recommendation of the regional office and Charles H. Abbott of the fuel oil rationing branch, who was sent here by Leon Henderson to study fuel oil rationing in the midwest. The recommendation was made in accordance with provisions of the fuel oil rationing plan. "The plan was made purposely to permit adjustment to weather developments. "The value of coupon No.

3 will be determined before Dec. 23. "The OPA- in conjunction with the Office of Petroleum Administration for war is making a study to determine if supplies are sufficient to permit any additional steps to offset the midwest's increased. 'heating requirements." Weigel asserted that "the fuel oil shortage still exists," adding that the action taken with respect to coupon No. 3 did not indicate there was an increase in He appealed to all users to be as as possible with their allotments.

Given Commission in The Army Nurse Corps Miss Geneva Maxine. Huber daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Huber, of 708 Oak St.

i is stationed with the Fifth Service Command at Camp Campbell, where she is a Second Lieutenant 'in the Army Nurse Corps. She ha: been assigned to the Station Hospital at" Camp. Campbell. Miss Huber is a graduate of Shields High School, and the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Indianapolis. Living Costs Up.

Washington, Dec. 19-(AP)- Labor Secretary Frances Perkins says living costs for city families went up seven-tenths of one per cent in the month ended November 15. Most of the increase was in food items not under OPA ceilings, and new taxes on cigar. lettes, cigars and phone calls contributed. Baker, student at St.

Joseph's College, Rensselaer, 1S home to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baker. British Troops Push 50 Miles Into Burma war, its meaning, progress and problems. Physical fitness.

Voluntary military drill for selected boys. Competence in science and mathematics. Pre-flight training in aeronauties for those preparing for air service. Pre-induction training for critical. occupations.

Community service including training for essential civilian activities: Every student enrolled in high school will be eligible to join the General Membership of the High School Victory Corps. Students within about two years of completing high school are eligible for admission to any one of the five special service divisions. These Victory Corps divisions are: Land service, which calls for pre-induction training for all branches of the Army except the air; Air Service; Sea Service, which provides training for all branches of the Navy except the air; Production Service, preparing for war industries and agricutture; Community Service, preparing for medical, nursing, teaching, and numerous other professions, and for business and civic services. Qualifications for general membership are: The student should be participating in a school physical fitness program appropriate to his abilities and probable contribution to. the war effort.

The student should be studying courses of immediate and future usefulness to the war effort. The student should be partici pating in at least one wartime activity or service such as air- warden, fire watcher, Red Cross work, farm aid, salvage work, care of small children of working mothers, etc. Requirements for membership in the five service divisions are more extensive, Thus, if a boy is within about two years of completing. high school, and can pass the physical and mental tests, membership in the Air Service Division will require that he engage in: at least three of the following: 1. Study at least one year of high schoool physics and three years of high school mathematics.

2: Study pre-flight aeronautics. 3. Study auto-mechanics, radio, electricity, or vocational shop courses in servicing, maintenance or repair of aircraft. 4. Participate in a physical fitness program.

5. Take military drill. Course" requirements, physical fitness, and drill programs have been planned in light of requests from the armed services. Army manuals already prepared now in press will used for certain pre-induction courses. Others are in preparation.

A manual prescribing a physical fitness program to fit high school youth for war demands has been drafted and distributed to all Indiana high schools. Basic to the whole Vietory Corps plan is the aim of cutting down the time now needed to train men and women after they have. enrolled in the Armed Forces or in war industries. New Congress To Meet Jan. 6 Washington Dec.

19-(AP)When the new Congress meets January 6, it will have the readynade -pieces of business to act oft. One will be Senate confirmation of the new price administrator, It is expected to be Prentiss. Brown of Michigan, and the chances are he will be confirmed rasily. Meanwhile, conservative Demorats are planning a duration war against the New deal. RepresentaLive Clifton Woodrum has laid down the gauge of battle, He says he and the men who think as he does will call for, wartime onment of all further social and economic experiments and new (Continued on page 4, column 7) BULLETIN Washington, Dec.

19- (AP) -Big army bombers have a- gain raided the Jap base at Kiska Island in the Aleutians. The raid was carried out Thursday. The American heavy bombers splattered Kiska with explosives, causing heavy explosions and starting many fires. Gen. Wavell Seizes Initiative From Japs Who Retreat With No Resistance New Delhi, Dec.

19-(AP)-British troops have crossed the border of India, and have marched forty miles into Burma. General Wavell has seized the initiative from the Japs, who retreated without offering any' resistance. There is no indication that the British push is part of a general allied offensive, but American and Chinese units may be taking part. Wavell's advance into Burma came after a week-long air bombardment of Japanese concentrations between the Indian frontier and Akyab. Akyab is the apparent objective of the British, and they are now only sixty miles away.

The Burmese port on the bay of Bengal was hit by bombers last night. The Japs have been offering little or no aerial resistance to allied During the past week, American airmen have gone on as many as fourteen sorties in a single day without losing a single plane by enemy action. The British have begun their drive with the end of the rainy monsoon season, which has kept the Burma-India war theater stabilized for six months. The ultimate aim of the offensive is to reconquer Burma, permitting resumption of large-scale: shipments of war. supplies to China.

Recent dispatches have indicated the Japanese were massing in Burma for a renewed push along the Burma Road into China. General Wavell's strategy may be to divert the Japs from any such action, and to forestall a possible assault on India from Akyab. Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, American commander of Chinese troops during the Burma campaign, is somewhere in India. He has been training new units to participate in the reopening of the land route to China. Deadline for Registering Reset "Sugar Book? Registration Extended to Middle of January Jackson county residents who have not registered for War Retion Book No.

1, (commonly referred to as the sugar book) have until January 15 to register, ac-. cording to information received here today: The deadline had originally been set by state OPA officials as December 15, but due to the number of people in this community who have just arrived, and who have been in a transient state for several months while working on construction- projects, the county rationing board's food panel held the registration open until today. An order was issued, according to James D. Strickland, director of the Indiana Office of Price Administration, setting midnight, January 15, as the deadlines forthe registration. Any person who has registered for the first.

rationing book need not do so again, but anyone who has never registered should look after the matter before January 15. Mr. Strickland pointed out that all persons must have obtained ration book No. 1 to be eligible for ration book No. 2, to be issued next month.

In Washington Paul M. O'- Leary, deputy administrator of the OPA in charge of rationing, said weather conditions, transportation problems and heavy work loads of many rationing board offices had made the dead line extension necessary. He said late applicants for ration book No. 1 were mostly. persons who take their meals out and who had no use for the first book.

since it was suitable only for buying sugar and coffee. I HATE TO DO THIS TO YOU, PIGGY BUT YOU GOTTA BE A TO THE SMALL COIN SHORTAGE! GET THOSE COINS INTO CIRCULATION bove the number of degree recipients recorded in 1940. The commencement, which will be the 114th in the history of the University but the first ever held in December, will have a military note with ten per cent of the graduating class being advanced R. O. T.

C. men who after a short period of active duty training will receive officers' commissions in the United States Army. The speaker at the ceremonies will be James S. Adams, of New York, president of Standard Brands, who went out from the University twenty-five years ago to become an A. E.

F. pilot in World War 1.9 Members of the I. U. board of trustees, meeting 1. today to pass on degree recommendations of the faculty, were advised by President Herman Wells that the University's enrollment this year in terms of semester students had risen to 14,837.

The total which' is a new all -time high compares with 13,204 semester students last year, 11,033 five years ago, and less than 8,000 ten years ago. Jackson county students, the degrees they will receive and their major subjects ate as follows: Brownstown: Robert W. Vermilya, doctor of medicine. Seymour: Russell Davis, A. chemistry; John Droege, A.

chemistry; Alvin L. Henry, A. anatomy; Marjorie H. Miller, graduate nurse, and Charles Rumph, B. business.

ISHS Attendance Regulations Given A special bulletin has just been issued at Shields High School setting forth rigid regulations governing attendance, with particular reference to the pre holiday period. Several points are listed in the bulletin, chief of them being that all students must either be in at-tendance at classes until 2:30 o' clock Thursday afternoon, December 24, or have a properly excuted request for, absence, filed in the principal's office in advance of the absence. Students who must be absent during the period immediately in advance of the holiday, are required to get a special "request for necessary absence" blank and fill it out, having the signature of his parents and the signatures of all teachers of -classes to be missed. Absences which occur Without proper reason and, authorization are to be penalized by automatic reduction of one letter in the grades all subjects missed. Other regulations on absence are included in the bulletin.

Nazis Still Flee Cairo, Dec. 19 (AP) -Fleeing Libyan forces have evacuated Zauta En about onehundred miles west of Agheila. Today's communique from the British middle east command in Cairo says the Germans are continuing their withdrawl. British advance spearheads are known to have advanced beyond Zauta En Nofilia, and they are still in hot pusuit. The Cairo communique announces that the allied air force now has a new advanced base already in use.

Fignter-bombers have roared out. from the field to pound the retreating enemy in the Sultan area. Other allied planes raided force. In attacks on Sicily, two Tunis and nearby LaGoulette. in enemy transport planes have been shot down.

British long-range fighters swarmed over four other enemy troop transport planes flying north from the Tripoli coast yesterday One was shot down, and the others severly damaged. Russians Hold Positions Moscow, Dec. 19 (AP) The Nazi airforce is making desperate efforts to relieve the hard-pressed German forces between the Don and Volga rivers. Major air batties are raging over the Stalingrad area, but enemy bombs have failed to dislodge the Russians. from their fighting positions.

Ninety miles southwest of Stalingrad, near the rail eity, of Kotelnikovski, infantry and tanks are massed in a bitter struggle, with the Germans putting up one of the strongest fights of the present campaign. During the last ten days of the month-old Russian winter offensive, the Nazis have claimed a few transient successes, but the Russians say the Germans have gained no ground anywhere. On the central front west of Moscow, a fresh wave of Nazi counterattacks has been thrown back hear. Rzhev, and along the Rzhev-Vyazma railway, Germans trying to stem the Soviet advance tide are continuing fierce but fua tile counterattacks in spite of heavy losses. Western Caucasus action recently has been brushed off with brief mention in the Soviet communiques, but there has been a largescale battle on the Black sea coast north of Tuapse..