Show UNCLE SAM EXERTS SElF TO CARRY W- W YULE MAil More re Matter Handled in inDay inDay pay Day Now Than in Week Last Year By United Press r WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec 20 Three Three hundred b thousand postmen are toiling toiling toil toil- i ing g night and day to deliver Amica Americas America's Amer Amer- Am ica leas ica's s holiday mail the biggest in history his his- his tor tory tort by Christmas eve eves And if It they succeed said Assistant Assist Assist- ant alit Postmaster General Otto today it will be because America did its Christmas mailing early Mail l movement records have been shattered since November mid-November gt INT ger said Billions of tons of bundles boxes packages and letter letters have been Men whistled whisked to their destinations r d despite wartime obstacles i Whole trains of cars units of the carefully i worked out mail transportation ti tion n program have been commande commandeered commandeered comman comman- de red by the government A tenc ten- ten c cur car train was grabbed bythe bytho war dep de department de- de p at New Y York rk within the last four hours i NS OF WAR M MAIL IL have overburdened d the parcel post by breaking up large ex- ex Pr pLess ss shipments on account of express express express ex ex- ex- ex press congestion Tons upon tons of government war mail nail have been added to the postal burden And yet said reports from all fifteen postal divisions in inthe inthe inthe the country show there is no congestion congestion tion anywhere so far Unless the public and merchants are holding 1 back ack on us there will be no congestion tion As As showing the size of the task accomplished declared Americas America's have handled every day since November 15 a vol- vol time lime of mail equal to the load of Christmas week last year which was the greatest ever handled by bythe the de de- de- de CHICAGO RUSHED 5 f IC A A telegram from the Chicago postmaster postmaster postmaster post post- master today said tells us on the night t of December 17 between 6 p p. p m m. m and 6 a a. a m. m tons nf o parcel post packages alone passed through that office That is full carloads of mail It does not include the tire days day's run That is the situation Everywhere J To get away with this this this' t tented t- t z i p c dented job the n 1 OO-O OO men to its force of 1 l' 3 J r rr f I IWay way mail clerks It JL has usk USI l ii i tf U r mail trains from coast to M tru U. U A. A has relieved reliever congestion it ir rr raunI u centers centers' b by filling fast fast co st w f aT with mall mail mail and shooting the room vorn Y r 7 nd of the United States tr tl to n li tho LU lk LUon h fun r f ron on un both coasts thus savin If centers of from two to Beday Be se c I Iday day each ever since e 12 1 We are in the midst c c tS i J spurt now Ve We will hit the hit tt tiu r v cry ll u IJ going about tomorrow k I t n n n something goes amiss a all ri i-ri ri Christmas mail will be is M I ton J by Christmas eve P r r i |