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DECEMBER 30, 1943. "
GOLDEN VALLEY NEWS
The year with these irrP
l~Russlans capture VelikTe
Luki, great railway center.
e---78th Congress convenes.
:~--British troops enter Tripoli,
* capital of Libya.
~"-Advancing Russians take
Voronezh, Nazi anchor.
~8"'~Jnconditional Surrender"
agreement of Casablanca
announced.
Velikye Lukf,
Department of War Informs-
61,126 service casual-
date.
planes based in Africa bomb
Italy.
only 40 miles from Tripoli.
Tripoli, Libyan capital.
big Nazi stronghold, fails
"Surrender" agree-
Casablanca announced.
German troops surrender In
U. S. Naval forces repel
attackS in selomons
establish sepa-
Command for North Africa.
Jal~ withdraw from Guadal-
Voroshilevgrad captured
take Kharkov, important
Chicago is sunk by Saps;
reports 16 3ap ships hit.
raid Ktska in Aleutians.
by Russians.
destroy Jap convoy
s.
line in Tunisia.
take Gafsa in Tu-
check Jap drive in Rupeh-
Russians retake Abinsk
towns near Smolensk.
troops advance in
Matouta and two other
Cag Sardinia;
back into Burma.
achuan.
Naples, Klel, Antwerp,
other north German
in "'biggest raid."
attack on Kuban front.
U. S. flyers.
forces occupy Funafuti
SOuthwest Pacific.
acob Devers is named U. S.
theater. ,
British
takes Tunis.
in North Africa.
raid Pantelleria, flail-
Balkans.
Attu.
fleel Joins Allies.
invasion danger past in
Italian island fortress,
fortified Italian island,
Sungtse, port city.
use gas.
on Rendova, In
U. B. forces.
on 160
battles Jape
Syracuse.
Palermo.
RNMENT,
negotialions begin.
diSSolved.
Ploesti refineries.
British capture
occupy Munda, in Solo.
Vela
taken.
troops occupy
on war plans
Mountbatten made
t Asia ecru.
retake Tagaarog, Nazi an-
sir base h'om New
of
steel center,
~s~ikranto; Great.
• northarn
Italian fleet
to U. 8. and Aus.
n~
SALERNO
l&--Ita~v formally declares war on Ger-
many, by action of PremierMar
shal Badogllo.
14---In great raid on Schwelnturt, Ger-
many, important ball-bearing fac-
tories are destroyed, at a cost of 60
Flying Fortresses.
23--Melltopol, key city of German de-
fense in south Ukraine. fails to Rus-
sians.
25---Russian troops recapture Dneprope*
trovsk, important industrial city.
29---U. S. and New Zealand troops land
on Treasury Islands. in NOrthern
Solomons.
November
3--U. S. marines invade Bougalnvllle is-
land in northern Solomons.
&--RAP planes drop more than 2,000
tons" of bombs on Dusseldorf. Ger-
many.
6--Klev, capital of the Ukraine, retaken
by Russians.
'/--British Eighth army advances in It-
aly, taking eight towns. ....
11--Nazis scuttle ships, blast instaiiauons
to block harbors of Leghorn and Pes-
tara.
13----Russians capture Zhitomtr, important
rail center of southern front; Chinese
forces report gains along Yangtze
river.
19--Greatest raid in history blasts Bar.
ira, dropping 2,500 tons.
~--Another huge air attack smashes Ber-
lin. One-tourth of city said to be
razed.
Maktn island, member of Gilbert
group, is taken by U. S. combined
forces.
26---Russlans rid 37.mile-wlde gap in
Nazi lines north of GomeL
27--Marines take Tnrawa, one of Gilbert
islands, after "'toughest fighting" in
their history.
30---British Eighth army bursts thorough
Nazi lines in Italy, approac~lng .',tome.
December
1--RAP and U. S. bombers continue
massive raids, hitting Dusseldorf
region.
p:.esident Roosevelt meets with
Churchill and Chiang Kai.shek in
Cairo, Egypt. Agree to "strip Japan
of her stolen empire."
6--Roosevelt. Churchill and Stalin
meet at Tehcran, Iran, reach "com-
plete agreement on measures to
crush Germany"; U. S. naval task
force raids Marshall Islands.
7--Cninese admit loss of Changteh, im-
portant city in "rice bowl."
9--Turkey promises Allies all "aid
short of war"; Chinese recapture
Changteh.
13---Russian troops regain initiative in
Klev area; British Eighth army
cracks Nazi line in Italy, captur-
ing 6,000.
14--Presldent Roosevelt, returning~ifcr~l.m
conferences, VlSlr~ ~n.alta ann ~ c y.
15--American planes raid_Greece; U. S_.
heavy headers smash aap base u.
New Brztaln Island.
16---Prime Minister Churchill stricken by
pneumonia; German bombers sink IV
United Nations mereimnt ships.
17~American Sixth army lands at Ara-
we. on New Britain island, southwest
Pacific.
January
l--President Roosevelt calls for unity
among Allies, stresses "the supreme
necessity of planning what is to
come after the war."
6--78th Congress convenes; Samuel
Rayburn speaker of house for third
term; Pleasure driving banned in
eastern states; Fuel oil ration re-
duced 26 per cent.
ll--U, S. and Britain relinquish extra.
territorial rights in China.
12----OPA sets corn ceilings at ap~roxi-
mately $1 a bushel.
28--Joint draft system, by which men can
be inducted into navy, marines and
coast guard as well as army, an-
nounced.
February
8--National income in 1942 was $113.-
824.000,000 as compared with $94,-
500,000.000 in 1941.
9-.-Roosevelf orders 48-hour work week
minimum in labor shortage areas.
~--Drted foods rationed, effective
March I.
23---Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
suspends wheat quotas.
March
g--U. S. and Chile representatives sign
lend-lease agreement.
7--Draft classification "4H" for men
between 38 and 4S ended.
ll~Lend-lease extension to July, 1944.
signed by President.
24~.-Establishment of naval base at Casa- blanca announced by navy.
25...-Chester Davis named food ehleL
29--A "'critical shortage of doctors is
developing." an OWl survey reveals.
April
&.-President moves to check inflation
by executive order freezing wages
and forbidding war workers to change
Jobs.
10--Feed corn ceiling p rlees raised from
$1.02 a bushel m ~sx.ut.
II--A bill permitting the nat/onal .debt
Itmlt to rise to 21O billion sonars,
and a rider repUhng the $25,060. net
salarY lindt becomes taw wimouz
president's signature.
20---President Roosevelt confers on war
and postwar problems with Presi.
dent Camacho of Mexico.
30---Soft coal miners of United Mine
Workers union reject President
Roosevelt's order; U. S breaks re-
lations with Martiniuue.
May
1--Federal government takes over
closed coal mines.
~-President Roosevelt promotes 63
army officers to ra.~k of general.
ll.--Churchill arrives i~ Washington for
war conference.
13--Merger .tm.tween Western Union and
Postal Telegraph ts announces.
26--NLRB approves eight cent au hour
raise for more than a million non.
operatmg railway workers.
27--Machinists' union, with 565,000 mem-
bers, withdraws from the AFL.
June
3--Unlted Nations food. confer.enos ends.
V---Coal miners of .me .unz~ea. mine
Workers umon return zo worK.
S--As aftermath of Los Angeles'. "zoot
suit" riots, the entire cny m he*
clared out of bounds for navy per.
sonnel
10--President signs "'pay-as.you-go" in.
come tax bill.
81--Riots in Detro/t between white and
colored mobs are suppressed by Fed-
eral troops, after more than 24 hours
of disorder. Twenty.nine killed, 700
inJm'ed; Coal miners strike for third
time since May 1.
23. President [roosevelt threatens to
draft strikers in essential industries;
A caudal anesthetic for use in child.
birth is reported favorably from
Baltimore.
28---Judge Marvin Jones _SUCCC~S nC~he.s.
ter Davis as War Peon Aom ms~
trator.
30--Five senatorlU appointed to visit war
zones and relmrt on U. S Army and
Allies; Stocks on New York exchange
rea0b a threm-year high.
J uly
l--Hereto re|sets amendment to Labor.
Federal ~eeurity bill. thereby cutting
ell hinds for National Youth Adraln-
THE YEAR'S TEN
BIGGEST EVENTS
SELECTED By: BAUKHAGE
(WNU Washington Correspondent.)
I--MILITARY:
(a) Russian summer-fall offen-
sive.
(b) Pacific offenslve (Attu, New
Guinea, Solomons, Gil-
berts).
(el Italy surrenders.
(d) Air offensive against Get-
man cities.
II--DIPLOMATIC:
(a) The four-power conferences
( Moscow-Cairo-Teher an).
(b) Formation ef the UNRRA.
III--DOMESTIC:
t
(a) Passage of the Connally
Resolution.
(b) Administration moves to
right (OPA, Food Adminis-
tration, War Mobilization,
Stabilization, Economic
Warfare).
(c) Republican political gains.
(dJ Congress revolts againstan-
if-inflation program {sub-
sidies, reduced tax bill, res-
olution favoring railroad
wage increase).
istration; President Roosevelt gives
last minute reprieve to Max Stephen.
sentenced to death for aiding escape
of a Nazi flyer.
V--Gen Henri Giraud, French com-
mander of Northwest Africa, arrives
in Washington.
15---The Board of Economic Warfare is
abolished, and its functions trans-
ferred to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation; Chester Bowles is
named general manager of the Office
of Price Administration.
19--World's largest pipeline, the "Big
Inch," running from Longview,
Texas, to Phoenixvllle, Pa., is opened.
21--JohnLewis, as president of United
Mine Workers, signs two-year con-
tract with Illinois Coal Operators
Association; War Department reveals
65,058 prisoners of war in country.
28--Navy asks for more WAVES, slat.
ing that enrollment must reach
91,000 by end of 1944; Coffee rationing
ended by OPA; Blue Network of
Radio Corporation of America sold.
August
g--Race riot sweeps New York, result-
ing in death of five negroes, and m.
juries to 500; Drafting of pre-Pearl
Harbor fathers set to begin on Oc-
tober 1.
~--June personal incomes totaled $12:
162,000,000, a new record.
13---Gasoline ration in Midwest and South-
west reduced from four to three
gallons per coupon.
14---The War Manpower Commission es-
tablishes new list of 149 critical oc.
cupations for first priority in draft
deferments
19--The army must be raised to 8,200,000
men by January I, 1944, and the navy
to 2,861,000, the War Manpower
Board announces.
23--The Guffey Coal Act, passed tn 1937,
to stabilize coal prices, explres. No
move made to renew it.
September
2---The exchange ship Grtpsholm sells
with 1,310 Japanese, to be exchanged
for 1,250 Americans at Goa, Portu-
gese India; Churchill and Roosevelt
confer in Washington.
~---William Jeffers, director of the na.
lien's rubber program, resigns.
6--Churchill asks Anglo-American alli-
ance.
V~Republlean Postwar Advisory Corm-
eli meets at Mackinac Island, ~lch.
S--Drive for 15 billion dollar third war
loan opened by presidential address.
I~---Col. William Coleman is convicted
by a military court for drunkenness
and careless use of firearms, de-
moted to captaincy,
16--U. S. casualties total 105,205, OWl
reveals; 20,104 dead, 28,226 wound.
ed, 32,905 missing, 23,970 prisoners;
Rap. James Curley, Mass,. and five
others indicted on charges o! having
accepted retainer fees to obtain war
contracts.
H--President Roosevelt reports to Con.
gress on Quebec conference.
~0---Army and navy chiefs of staff ask
full draft quotas, and state delay in
drafting fathers will prolon$ war.
23--Shoe ration stamp becommg valid
November 1. must last siX months.
25--Edward Stettlnius 3r moves from
lend-lease administrator to succeen
Sumner Wells as undersecretary of
state,
~9--Senators report on war tour.
October
4~.-Treasury asks for ten and a half
billions In new tax revenue.
V--Merger of Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies is compleied.
ll--Censorship of weather news Is ~ifted.
12--National Labor Relations Board rules
that labor unions have a moral re-
sponsibility not to strike in wartime.
13--Amerlean Fcaeratlen of.La.bor votes
to take United Mine workers oacK
into fold.
18---Third war loan passes goal of 15 bil-
llon dollars by nearly four billions.
20--The 48-hour week for war indu~rles
is extended to 30 more locauu •
1ell~
22--Zinc-steel pennies are to be discon.
tinued, Treasury announces.
• 28---Wildcat coal strikes referred to
President by War Labor Board.
29--Jam~ and jellies are placed on ra.
tinned .ist, other Items r~ised, a few
lowered.
November
l--Federal govet:....-~n, ~- o j.000 coal
mines m which st~,kes are halting
pr~uCtlon.
2.---Electlons of various sta~ and.. na-
tional officials reveal ttepuuucan
trend.
3--United Mine Workers ordered ~e~
turn to work as presment jonn
accepts new wage agreement~giving
miners $56.V4 for 48-hour wee~.
S--Senate votes postwar eollaboratlen
with other nations, &~ to ~.
e---F~teen non-o~eratiog ra~d ~mic~.
reject wage mcrease onere~ oy m- •
gency committee; Bernard Baruch is
appointed chief of a new unit of the
Office of War Mob Rizatton._ _ ~
l0 National Labor Relations. i:~aranea?
william Davis says noaro wm au.~v
to wage stablllz~tien program; Her-
bert Lehman zs appoint~l director
i general ot the Unlt'ed. Nations .~ene~
and Rehabilitation AUmmlstration.
13- Interned Japanese at Tule Lake,
Calif.. stage another demomstration;
U. S, war expenditures from July,
1940, through October, 1943. total 138
billion dollars.
18--Army ofliclala reduce budget by l~
billion dollars, which sum will rever~
tO treasury. " "I r is "
A subsldy of 160 mlll~n dOt a s
located to stabilize prte, Je of flo.t~, a8
~0--Januar~ draft call to be twos, .om
large as War Manpower comm~
estimated,
~..Houee votes against extem~ of cow
aumen~ ~mbsldies.
RUSSIAN;
VICTORY
December
l~Hation values of meats reduced 30
3._~.r cent.
S. plane output for November an-
nounced as 7,789.
4---Army will retire 25,000 officers, re*
ducing total to 625,000.
7~Blggest U. S. battleship, the 45,000- ton Wisconsin. is launched.
10---Non-operating rail workers get sen-
ate approval for eight cent per hour
raise.
ll--Senate military committee plans
graduated discharge pay for service-
men, ranging from ~ to $500. .
16--Prezident Roosevelt returns to capi-
tal; senate committee votes to retain
food subsidies for 60 days.
17---OPA promises lowering of meet ra-
tion points.
Jannary
l~New Year's Day football results:
Rose Bowl--Georgia 9. U. C. L. A. O;
Sugar Bowl~Tennessee 14, Tulsa 7;
Orange Bowl--Alabama 37. Boston
College 21; Cotton Bowl--Texas 14,
Georgia Tech 7; Sun Bowl--Second
Air Force 13, Hardin-Simmons 7;
Kazar Stadium--East All-Stars 13.
West All.Stars 12.
IV--Ted Williams, formerly of Boston
Red Sex, named "player of the year."
21--Dodgers sign Cooney, Waner, Sisler;
Yankees get Nick Ellen.
February
20---William Cox, New York sportsman,'
purchases Philadelphia Phlllles for
about 8230,000 from National L~agffo.
24---Bueky Harris signs to manage Phil.
adelphia ball club.
March
13--Greg Rice runs fastest 2 miles at
K. of C. meet, in 6:52.7.
17--Philadelphia team wins the Gglden
• Gloves championship in New York.
18---Detroit wins national hockey league
title.
20--Cornelins Warmerdam sets new pole
vault record of 15 feet, 8~b inches.
April
8--Detroit Red Wings defeat the Boston
Bruins, 2-0 to capture the Stanley
Cup.
May
I--Count Fleet was Keatuc~.~ Derby,
in 2:04.
8---Count Fleet wins Preakness, in 1:67.2.
2I~Bob Montgomery outpoints Beau
Jack to gain lightweight title.
June
20--Gunder Hagg outruns Greg Rice to
win 5,000 meter race.
26---Francisco Segura wins Nat'l Col-
legiate tennis title, defeating
Tom
Brown 3r
28--Whirlaway. 6 year old race horse,
retired.
July
2e--Patty Berg defeats D~rothy Kirby
for Women s Western Open Golf
Championship.
10--Gunder Hagg establishes 8:53.9
American record for 2 miles,
l&--Ameriean League team wins annual
All-Star game, 5 to 3.
26~Harold MeSpaden defeats Buck
Whitney by I stroke to win A1/-Ameri.
can golf title; Patty Berg takes
women's title.
August
8--Ryder Cup goLf team, captained by
Craig Wood, defeats Walter tiagen's
team.
9---Howard Schenken wins the contract
bridge master's championship for
fifth time.
25---College All.Stars defeat the Wash.
ington Redskins, professional football
champions, 27-7.
September
6--Lieut. Joseph Hunt takes the nation.
al amateur tennis championship.
18--The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the
Chicago Cubs, 2-1. ellne.hing the Na-
tional league pennant.
19---Detroit Lions beat the Chlca~o Card.
inais in professional football opener.
2~--The New York Yankees take the
American League pennant for the
14th time.
October
&-Final baseball standings: St Louts
Cardinals. won I05, lost 49, for a
percentage of ,6~. The New York
Yankees won 96, lost ~, for a per-
centage of .636.
8--C~lumbus, O., American Auoclatlen
team. defeats Syracuse, N. Y.. In.
ternational league team, to capture
"little world series" 11tie.
10---Yankees win World Series. deleating
Cardinals. four games to one.
2A---Ossie Bluege signs two-year contract
to manage Washington senators, ann
Leo Durooher signs to run Dodgers
in 1944
November
g--Stanley Muslal.. St. Lou!s Card!nal
outfielder, namen most vamanle PlaY-
er in National League.
9--Spurgeon Chandler, New YOr:l Y.an-
kees pitcher, e~osen most v uncle
in American Ladgue.
14--U. of Southern California and the U,
Of Washington chosen for Rose Bowl.
19--Beau Jack regal~s lig)hr~Veight title.
out~eintin~ BOb Montgo ry.
27--Great Lakes defeats Notre Dame (19.
14) in year's biggest football unset.
December
12.--Chicago Bears win western pro foot-
ball championship. ,
13----Ned Day re~ains .itle as All.Star
National Bowling champion,
January
6--Fire kills six a~Id injures 1~0 in Chi-
cago bowling a ey. .. .
21--T~drty-five Americans ate when a
transport plane crashes in the jungle
near Surinam, Dutch Guiana.
~---BrJg. Gen. Carlyle Wash and nine
other army men die in an army
transport plane that came down near
Flematon. Ale.
31--Twenty-eight persons die in sanitar-
ium fire in Seattle.
February
ll--Eighteen lose lives when a Liberator
bomber crashes in Newfoundland.
iS-Twenty-elght die when tour engine
bomber crashes shame into a pack.
ink plant in Seattle, Wash.
~2--Yankee Clipper crashes and sinks in
Tagus river, Lisbon, Portugal.
March
mine olsaster at ~.=~t
21--Flood waters spread over a wide
area in Georgia, MI~IS.qlPP~: A~a~
bama and Louisiana. AboUt Z,~N
persons removed by Red Cross,
May
4--Explosion and fire in munitions plant
at Elkton, Md., ~ 13 and injures
60.
I&--A tornado injures about 200 men,
and destroys 41 buildings valued at
$175,000 at Fort Riley, Kan.
21--Spreading floods in Mississippi val-
ley take twelve lives, and leave
108,600 homeless.
24--Death toll in flooded region of lower
Mississippi valley reaches 17, and
160,000 are estimated to be without
shelter.
June
~---Navy reports 84 men killed when an
ammunition ship eoliides with tanker
off Port Arthur, Tex.
July
=--Ma~. Gen. W~am Vpeh.r.C.pt
Charles Paddock, beth U. S.
M.C.
officers, and four other persons are
killed In Navy plane crash near
Sitka, Alaska.
~'/--Three soldiers who became lost in
desert maneuvers near Yuma, Ariz,,
die of thirst.
~8--Hurricane sweepin~ over Texas GUl~
coast kills 13 persons. Damage estl.
mated at 10 million dollars.
August
l--Ten persons, including Mayor Wfl.
liam Baker and MaJ. William Robert-
son, die when Army glider crashes
in demonstration flight in St. Louis.
2---Five Negroes killed, more than 500
wh,te and colored injured in race
rioting in New York city's Harlem
district.
~----Fourteen persons are drowned In a
"flash" flood tn central West Vir-
ginia.
2&.-Twenty.one. miners are killed In gas
explosion at Sayreton. Ala.
30---Twenty-nine persons are killed and
150 injured in wreck of crack Dela-
ware, Lackawanna and Western H.
R. train near Wayland. N. Y.
September
6---Elgtztypersons killed and 177 injured,
when Congressional Limited of the
Pennsylvania R. R. is derailed near
Philadelphia.
'/--Twentieth Century Limited train of
New York Central R. R. is derailed
near Canastota, N. Y., killing three;
Houston, Tax., hotel fire takes lives
of 60 men.
17--Explosmn of depth charges at the
Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va., takes
25 lives About 250 are injured.
20--Twenty-five soldiers die when Army
transport plane crashes nearMaw
ton, N, C.
October
16---Crash of airliner 4'/ miles west of
Nashville, Tenn., takes 10 lives.
23---Navy announces that 88 seamen died
when two tankers collided off Palm
Beach.
November
23---SiX children die in ,a ~. ,:o~ne firs
near Chicago.
December
13---Twenty marines killed, 29 injured in
Hawaii when collision of navy planes
releases bomb.
16---Slxt~lm~ killed, ~0 injured in oolli.
sion of two fast trains near Bule,
N. C. Forty.eight of the dead were
servicemen.
January
5--Famed Negro scientist. Dr. George
Washington Carver, 78.
@--President emeritus of Harvard U.,
Dr. Abbott L. Lowell, 86.
10--"Message to Garcia" hero. Col.
drew S. Rowan, 85.
23--Alexander Woollcott, 56. "The Town
Crier" of radio, author, critic, play-
wright, actor.
February
V--Dr. Attllio H. Giannini, 68, physician,
banker, motion picture executive,
civic leader.
19--Lyrm Overman, 55, comedian.
March
10---Poet and author Stephen Vineent
Benet, 44. Puiltzerprize winner with
"John Brown's BOdy."
20---Former governor of llllnois, Frank
O. Lowden, 82.
~--James A. Farreli, 80, president o~
the Untied States Steel corp.
April
22---Luren D. Dickinson, 84, formergov.
ernor of Michigan, foe of "high ll~e."
:~---MaJ. Gen. Robert Olds, 46, COm.
mander of the U. S. Second Army Air
Force.
May
11--MaJ. Gen, Stephen 0. Fmlua, ~. clot
~--Adm. Henry A. Wiley. 76, Paofl~
fleet commander, 1927.29.
~6--Edsel B. Ford. 49, prseident of Ford
Motor Co
June
4---MaJ. Kermit Roosevelt, ~, sen of
the former President, on active duty
In Alaska
16--Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, noted hie.
tortan and Harvard U. professor.
at 83.
23--Rear Adm Nell E. Nichols. 60, for-
mer commandant of Boston Navy
Yard,
July
l~--Actress Beverly Sitgreaves. 76,
27~Rev. Erncs~ Lynn Waldorf, 67, bishop
of the ~etnodisl c~,urch, Chicago
area.
29---Opera star Marie Gay Zanaleilo. 84.
August
l~President of China. Lin Sen, 79,
sch~lar and ~rtist
15---Lieut. Gem Wllham M. Wright, 79,
commander of two dl:isions in World
War I.
21--Dr. William Lyon Phelps, 78, of
Yale university,
September
6---Former ambassador to Poland. John
C, Cudahy, 5~.
9--Rear Adm. Walton Sexton, 68, for-
mer chairman of the Navy General
Board.
21--British Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir Kingsley Wood. 62.
October
S.-Patrick Nash, 80. political leader Of
Democrats in Cook County, IlL
ll~Samu~ H Church, 8,5, president. Car.
negle institute.
~0---Ben Berme. 52. band leader.
November
RATIONING
COAL STRIKES
BOMBED
FATHERS' DRAFT
The year drew to a close with
these important events:
December
l--R~osevelt. ChurchilL Chlang
Kal4hek pledge to strip Jspan
of imperialistic gains.
Exchange ship ~ripshelm at-
rives with 1,223 American
~--Dr. Jesse G. Buliows, developer of
pneumonia serum, at 64,
~Rep. J. W. O. Her (R.~Penn.), patriates from Fat' East.
2~..-Rep. H. B. Steagall {D.--Ala.l, ~---Fathers' draft bUl delays dur-
December lag absence of President.
DI--Marvin Mc/n_Wre,..60: for ~0 years l~---Pres/dent Reoseveit returns to
secretary to Pre~oent ttonsevelt, at
Washington. America following five weeks'
I&--E. C. "Billy'" Haye~, fi9, weU.know~ diplomatic trip.
track coach ot Indiana U.; the Rev,
Dr, William A, Brown. 77, Pruby. 17---~r~y annotmces su~'eessfn|
terian mlnlstee, one of founders of landing on Ja;':~ ," ~* ~" ~'in
World Council of Churches.
BeleaNd bY Western Naw~al~er Unlo~, New Britain.