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Watch Lost Jungles to in School and Wait In Solomons Stay Practice War Face Hardships In Wilderness Of New Zealand - WASHINGTON Dec 29 (ip)—College students who are uncertain about their military status and wondering what to do after the holidays were advised Tuesday to: "Go back to school and stay there until actually called into military service" Dr Francis J Brown consultant for the American Council on Education termed this the wisest plan—regardless of whether students belong to the enlisted reserves or are subjct only to draft board action Meanwhile a new educational committee meets Tuesday to consider selection of an estimated 350 colleges and universities to be used in the specialized training program recently announced by the army and navy The committee appointed by Man Power Commissioner Paul V McNutt is composed of seven college presidents and two laymen experienced in government and educational work In issuing his advice to students Brown who sat in on the military-educationspecial parleys prior to the joint army-nav- y said countless college youths were "up training announcement in the air- over whether they should return to school after the Decernher-3- 0 Knox Confirms Reports From Africa filaqi Mishap to Allied Offensive Probable U S Warship Give and Take Tactical Clashes Germans Slay 170 Poles in Single Village Soldier Locates Timepiece on ter-rai- - Russians Take Men Kotelnikovski Leave Army In Rostov Push For Civil Jobs J by-pass- ed Antitrust Official Reassures Critics 'ORCHID CORSAGES May Soon Develop Into Full Assault on Axis Tunisian Line Says Navy Chief Axis Victory Hopes Ebb Says Review French Somaliland Turns From Vichy to Allied Side ar Struck Reef VALLEJO Cal Dec 29 U1:1— Marine Corps Private John S Ellis learned with happy surprise TuesEy Quentin Pope day that a wrist watch he had lost on Guadalcanal had been reclaimed Copyright by Chicago Tribune WE'LLINGTON New Zealand by another marine from the body Dec 29—A combat unit of Amer-- of a dead Jap - can forces stationed here concluded In Kansas City Monday Corporal Orville Johnson from Swea practice Monday in the primitive City Iowa showed the watch to inland from one of friends he was visiting It bore New Zealand's biggest army the engraving "John S Ellis U S holidays NI Aug 27 '40" camps Fully armed and equipped In Washington Members of the enlisted reserve who will be aftected by the marine corps noted that young for active duty this task force the new military training program will not be called for some Ellis of New Bedford Mass was time yet he said adding that many civilian students who remain completed an exacting schedule convalescing at Mare Island navy in school will get temporary draft deferments and some eventuunder conditions ranging from hospital here ally may have their tuition paid by the government summer heat to wintry cold over Tuesday Ellis took up the story a vast area which echoed to the He was among the first of the marines to land on Guadalcanal he sound of intensive firing day and said They had to leave all their right personal ' equipment aboard ship He took his wrist watch—his folks During these maneuvers the (Continued from Page One) rnen lived under war conditions had given it to him when he enlisted—and stuck it in his bedroll Sub- varied and effective weapons con'They got hot food however deother fident that it has the measure of sequently this bedroll with spite the difficulties under wthich was dumped ' on the the enemy" equipment the cooks labored They slept in bank of a river "It no longer is the plodding LONDON Dec 29 (IP) — French Somaliland formally' was Ellis believes that a Jap raiding pup tents small enough to be mud encumbered PBI (poor a Eeated by a candle They carried made a Fighting French ally Tuesday by General de Gaulle's party made foray through the considerwas lines—there marine bloody two blankets and a ground sheet infantry) of Passchendaele es the whole total of their bedding national committee and it announced that Andre Bayardelle al- able fighting then—and stole the nor the ineffectual gallants swept The back by the And they did not have to shave ready had been sent to Jibuti as governor to administer the re equipment and his watch weight of metal to who got the watch later was beaches the of Fitness Test sources of the east Afrinin colony in behalf of the united nations Jap Dunkerque" killed by Corporal Johnson the campaign In Discussing It was the last French African The exercises were a fitness test Tunisia review affirmed that the a n d the condition of our boys was possession to be severed from been "just a chance" that there had indicated by the fact that only one TuOver-Ag- e the vanguard of the British army rnan had to be evacuated and he Vichy—except for contested If it swept in fast enough from in nisia issue where the remains only for a single day Looking over Algeria might have been able to the outfit in action an observer doubt seize Tunis and Bizerte before the could see how the Americans are De Gaulle's committee warming enemy became too strongly entoughening up for a victory in this up more and more toward a union sconced war Indeed it pointed out advance A sureness in the handling of of arms and resources with the In the opening phases columns their weapons and good team new French African administra(Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON Dec 29 LP)— reached a point almost midway work were marks of the ma- tion of General He n r I Honore who have been man- between Tunis and Bizerte and reuvers Giraud said the acquisition of acingly two miles above Millerovo Men over 38 Uncle in Sam's expand- aided by some American armored ning guns Somaliland brings over also about and it appeared that that pre- ing army are beginning to trickle units captured an enemy airfield 'Ugh Powered Unit a division of troops garrisoned to their home communities at Djedeida only 12 miles from viously city now faced back Another feature was the thors- there to over service assignments Tunis and destroyed 40 axis planes take a frontal assault Nugh understanding existing beon the civilian front—jobs in agri- on the ground tween the officers and their men De Gaulle N‘'aits Action The noon communique of the culture to However the report added It produce vitally needed soon It was obvious that the primary General de Gaulle the commit- soviet command con- foods became apparent that the to turn in factories reported jobs purpose of the unit was to mold tee said "is acceding to their tinued advances was too great for the van- -' task out war material essential an enemy against to be as transferred itself into high powered a war urgent request Although the order to release guard and that "means more machine as could be made before to an active theater of operations said to be in almost unbroken re- certain which had been enin that age group methodical treat in the middle Don but over from the men encountering the enemy—and the as soon as possible" would have to be emarmed is less service than visaged" men proved themselves to be maGeneral Paul le Gentilhomme strong German opposition in the a month old a war The advance units were ployed department teral for a formidable force when Fighting French national commis- companion Kotelnikovski front spokesman said that the machinery withdrawn early in December from battle experience has put the final sioner for war and high commisaland the for their honorable their exposed positions discharge was of which below it Insioner for Madagascar and the Stalingrad ice on their skill ready is functioning providing main army then proceeded to build The boys' keenness was demon- dian ()eta r1 arrived at Jibuti to declared: they satisfy on an individual basis up itself and its communications strated strikingly in a most spec- confer with Brigadier General Our units fought their way for- the provisions that: Italy the review said now Is who the exercise a tacular carried out in agree- ward and signed Dupont I "The soldier has voluntarily anxiously watching the "threatena of number occupied br)wling night rainstorm with the ment whereby French Somaliland requested discharge in writing to ing build-u- p of a British army only wind at gale force turns from Vichy to the united populated places" his The active Russian front in the cer immediate commanding offi- a few miles from the Sicilian nations channel" extended from the edge of south 2 is "The soldier Fighting French officials here the Ukraine handicapped said a garrison will be maintained just below the town by advanced 38 years and in Somaliland "to insure defense of Rossosh some 300 miles south- over to such age an extent that his to east the Kalmyck steppes usefulness to the army is secof this strategically important Red where the town of Kichkino 42 sea territory" to that of industry miles north of the provincial cap- ondary 3 "The soldier has presented Fighting Flag Flies ital of Elista had been recaptured satisfactory evidence that he will WASHINGTON Dec 29 (P)— The Lorraine Cross flag of the by soviet arms be employed in an essential war Cut off already about Stalin- industry Arnold head of the jusThurman French has been flying 'Fighting if including agriculture over Jibuti since Monday night grad and in the area between the he is discharged from the army" tice department's antitrust diviPlace your order early the De Gaullists said Many of Don and Volga rivers were 22 The war department said that it sion says there is a widespread the military there already had German divisions and the slow probably would be "some time" but erroneous notion among some and reccire a compthrust down upon Rostov which before figures were accumulated business men that the antitrust crossed into British-hel- d territory is now considerably less than 100 from the various camps and posts laws have been suspended or abto join the fight against the axis limentary boutonniere! French Somaliland's importance miles distant from the middle Don on the number released rogated for the duration of the war lies in its strategic position on the spearhead would seal in vast adWhile to a "certain and well denarrows of the southern entry into ditional nazi forces if it reached fined extent our antitrust laws the Red sea and it always was a Its objective Visits War Plant Judge to the emerhere had to barrier to Mussolini's now col- Pictures Show Booty To Rule on Noise Count gency" Arnoldyieldsaid in a letter lapsed conquest of Ethiopia 2 Stores to Serve YOg to Chairman Patman (D) Texas The army organ Red Star pubJibuti is the railroad center for GREENHOUSE WAYNE Pa Dec 29 (A')— of the house small business comall Ethiopia and as long as it re- lished photographs from the mid18th West and 5th South madned in hostile French hands it dle Don which illustrated the tre- Adjoining property owners in this mittee they have by no means UPTOWN STORE 214 East 2nd South stood as a toll gate before all of mendous stores of military booty main-lin- e Philadelphia suburb com- been permanently discarded the F T Griswold that into One hands Russian plained :Mussolini's in falling east showed winnings a nazi military train Manufacturing company a war lAfrica So Judge loaded with five tanks standing plant was too noisy Relieved in 5 minutes or beside a storehouse Along the Harold L Ervin came to judge for double your money back tracks were piles of munitions and himself excess stomach arid causes painful Suffocatother goods Another showed a Handing down his decision in ingWhen gait sour stomach and heartburn doctors titulit the of prevrribe the he midst of abandoned German fleet mdicine known trucks for busy machinery 0 smptorastic relief—ozedirines lik those In a third captured nazi big guns and decided the noise was negligible Tablets No laxative Ir comfort brings or double your snoneg REDUCTION on return of bottle and did not constitute a nuisance Jiffy antiaircraft artillery to us 24s att ail druggtiv back ( Ad v as had been 1 Of Inm the other charged major fighting '4 3 in Moscow of and fronts—west the 911 1 1 Caucasus—the midday soviet comI 1-7ill4 14I 21 munique told of vigorous but less 1 4 i( decisive fighting fl rli t L Li In the area of Rzhev to the of' Moscow a strongly northwest ON COMPLETE SKI OUTFITS 1:-German fortified position was said 4 t to have fallen to Russian attacks t Strand Ridge Top Hickory Southeast of Nalchik in the Skis Vitt!) Caucasus it was announced that : Adiustable Clamping Bind soviet troops had "entrenched themselves in captured positions" t' f RECE IV ED ings f German counterattacks were reColored Tonkin Poles 4 411 ported on that front but it was Leather Ski Boots With e said that all were repulsed and 1) I Steel Shank i the enemy thrown back to his tiend 'tA original positions Regular I S24515 sril 1 4'19C lets 1141 Lt) A i 0 ro0 n al Man-o'-W- Big LONDON Dec 29 UP)— The Polish government in exile reported Tuesday that in new nazi campaign of extermination in Poland 170 Poles had been slain in a single village Kitow where the peasfInts showed resistance to German overlording The report said there had been 107 public hearings at towns in central Poland "One of the reasons for t this new wave of terror and mass deportation is the Germans' fear of the consequences of losing the war" the report declared Dead Jap's Body 19-1- Brown Floral WASHINGTON Dec 29 UP)— Secretary of the Navy Knox said Tuesday that very early in the war an American battleship had struck an uncharted reef but had long since been repaired The secretary was asked at a press conference regarding reports that such a mishap had occurred and he replied: "I don't think there's any harm in saying that in the very early stages of the war one of the battleships did hit an uncharted reef and was repaired a long time ago" He gave no details of the occurrence nor did he say where it occurred The reports about which the secretary was told were that the incident had occurred in the- south Pacific The secretary also said in response to other questions that the navy did not plan to release its enlisted men over 38 as the army intends to do where possible in the cases of men who were drafted He explained that such a policy would not apply to the navy because the navy has not heretofore taken men through selective service and therefore would not be affected by the recently announced selective service policy against drafting men over that age Knox said that navy casualty lists heretofore released only for publication in local newspaper circulation territories would hereavailable for pubafter be made nation-wide basis lication on a The army also will follow the same policy hereafter Federal Agents Arrest Author MIAMI Fla Ursula Parrott Dec 29 40 well-know- (UP)-- - n novelist and magazine writer Tuesday night was taken into custody by federal authoritlea after a warrant had been issued charging her with aiding a soldier to desert the army The warrant was served by United States Marshal A L Gates on a complaint by the federal bureau of investigation The writ formally charged that the writer "did unlawfully aid one Private Michael Neely Bryan a soldier in the military service to desert thfrefrom and did harbor conceal protect and assist said soldier in said desertion" When asked for a statement by newsmen in the U S marshal's office Miss Parrott replied curtly: "No statement no statement whatever" 5n1t 1Iw Tribune - By Kirke L Simpson Associated Press Feature Writer Although the gains made bythe red army in Russia darninate the war news there are increasing signs that the reunited n and Fighting French allies in Tunisia will soon Anglo-America- attempt to break the stalemate there No such intimation can be read to succeed murdered Admiral Dar-Ia- n as leader in French Africa was hailed even by leneral De Gaulle in London is a heartening omen It seems to mean that Giraud can count fully upon the unity of his fighting forces at a moment when French valor and French arms supplemented from American and British stocks and backed by American air power could deal a death blow to nazi hopes or concentrating all axis forces in Africa to hold theTunistan foreland and still bar the Mediterranean waistline to allied use It seems fitting that France n bulFrench or letins from the scene They have depicted for many days only positional struggles for tactical advantages or clashes of scouting patrols Nevertheless there Can be small in Anglo-America- give-and-ta- ke doubt that General Eisenhower's command is making ready behind that screen to crash forward in force to crack the axis hold on the Tunisian foreland - This will be done if possible before Rommel's army fleeing from Tripolitania can effectively join forces with air and sea borne nazi comrades rushed to garrison the Bizerte and Tunis triangle and its shirt-ta- il corridor down the Tunisian east In Africa resurging at last against coast the nazi conqueror of the mother land should test its fighting metAims at Junction a phase tle anew in so Doubt that Rommel aims to ef- of the battle of important Tunisia Nothing fect that junction in Tunisia is could go farther to promote diminishing Fighting French fighting unity under rapidly French sources report his advance Giraud than a French military vicelements already filtering into tory way for complete paving Tunisia across the southeastern annihilation the of the foe in Africa -- border If that is the once so the remnants of victory-wreathe- Afri- d can corps are strung out for'nearly 300 miles along - the coast of Tripolitania from the Tunisian' border to the point 180 miles east of Tripoli where its rear guard is in ever-retirin- "I Was Married in contact with Brit- g ish imperials The head of the steel snake inching its way into Tunisia if that is its destination Is still more than 200 miles from the indicated south flank f the allied line hemming in the Bizerte-Tuni- s An army num end an officer fell In love at first sight at a fort in the Philippines She wore khaki sod army boots when they were married in a Bataan jungle to die music of Japanese bombs Her husband is -missing in action" but great is her faith that he will come back Read the true and unforgettable story of one who is "proud to have been one of Uncle Sam's nurses"' —in the January Reader's Digest on sale t triangle Heartening Omen West of Sousse Tunisian port on the Gulf of Ilammamet which appears to be the main objective of the French commanded by General Giraud allied advance lines are less than 40 miles from reaching the sea and interposing between Rommel and the Tunisian foreland The unanimity with flow ALSO IN THIS ISSIJI How are your nerves standing the war? litre are seven simple ways to teat Own yourself or with friends After the Axis is smashed—what? Kings corm bury Smith noted spondent presents the first derailed re on is what going on behind th port scenes in preparation for the "new world order" Alexander Woollcott tells the tratic story of Stephen C Foster who wrote "My Old Kentucky Home" "Old Black Joe' and many other loved songs Read what happened after he gave the world these cherished melodies How a humble woman—a buffet and egg peddler— rose above personal troubles and distributed kindness and wisdom wherever she went Fulton Ourders editor rind commentator in an inspiring article writes from the bean sheen "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met?! 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