Show washington ass N S I 1 at OW FROM OUR CONGRESS congressman AN W K GRANGER c WINE war of 1 nv nerves FBI agents throughout the country are am battling a new rumor cam which has the earmarks of an n ito axis war of nerves against the fain families thee of the me men in our armed ed forces anonymous vol voices telephone the families of service m men en notify y najt ing them of the death deal of t their how loved i ones the best safeguard aud for parents is t to remember be t that hat the army and N navy av y nev never or notify next of it kin by telephone you will receive a letter or telegram if a me member at of your our family gives his life for his country war bonds bond become admission tickets ticket war nor bonds and service men man hae haa Norri ething of a priority in the celebration of new years eve in washington the usual advance rose reservations were not taken in the large rge n night clubs so that soldiers and sailors on last Is t minute fur furroughs furloughs 1 I hugho hoon would have ave an c equal chance of getting tables while many of the ci tys leading night spots is demanded de in anac the purchase of a war bond for admission 0 o production war production board chairman chair nelson told a press conference that november arms productions showed the greatest monthly gain since the U S began agan to rearm in the summer of 1940 with about four anil one third times more mom war material turned out than in the month before the japanese attack on pearl harbor in 1943 he said the coun try expects to produce about twice as many arms as were produced this year rationing agriculture secretary ird directed led the OPA to begin rationing dp proximately canned frozen and dried vegetables and fruits as soon ELL as machinery could be set up which will be in the early part of february under the p point I 1 system t Y to prevent hoarding g supplies of goods to be rationed will be temporarily por pora rily wily frozen on retailers shelves and in warehouses uses all applicants ode will have to declare clare thew their supply on OIL h hand and b but t home canned foods food will not have guiv a to be declared the war front from the beginning of the north african operations to deem december or 26 beb enemy turp airplanes lameNt have been destroyed by the RAF by the US A ay army y air F forces aces 16 by antiaircraft fire and 31 at night al lied losses for the same period total 59 from the the and 55 from the RAI RAE navy th the navy reported that officers and 80 enlisted members of I 1 the womans comans naval reserve reported for duty in departmental offices in washington last week to release men from rena desk work these officers now stationed in washington number and enlisted WAVES on duty here total about of the new arrivals were ware assigned to the operations division of the office of chief of naval operations s strategic mada materials the combined raw materials sw callable al board has allocated the raw materials i a 1 s available lable for far export which have become became available to the united nations ni the cited no tio eions s in fri french north h A africa CIA action 1 ion to toward ward this end was begun by the board soon after the first allied landings on the north african coast on the basis of surveys previously prepared in cooperation with the U S board of economic warfare and the united kingdom ministry of E co warfare r the combined shipping adjust ment board through the same chan nels has moved to insure that raw nw w materials are shipped in accordance wt with th the raw materials al locations allocations to the limit of available ae shipping space to the united kingdom iron ore and pyrites phosphate rock k and super phosphates zinc ore and co concentrates can cen lead bullion and ore to the united states manganese cobalt ore can and cork collections of waste kitchen fats are increasing each month by ap proximately 25 per cent over the preceding month but although the trend of collections is encouraging awe we must recognize that we are fall ing far short of our goal of pounds per month health and d welfare civilian reserves E erves of blood plasma large enough to meet the require morits ments of more than 30 disasters as great me as the recent boston night club fire have been established throughout the country and are lat being added to constantly under the joint amt program of the public health service and the office of civilian defense As of december 1 there were units of prepared plasma in its emergency reserves and ad since several thousand units unite have been added during the month the elie full quota qu C is of units is expected to ho be reached within a few months A unit mut is that a amount of plasma obtained from cc of blood and is a sufficient for a transfusion the victims of the boston fire requa required red 1500 such units |