Show christmas mail must be in post office 0 ilice by dec I 1 to insure delivery the bulk of christmas christinas mall mail must be in the post offices by december I 1 this year if deliveries del heiles on t time hileary hi leare aie to be assured ing to smith W purdum second assistant postmaster general mr air purdum Is responsible to post general frank C walker for foi smooth and efficient all air and railway lahvis mail service sen ice unprecedented wartime demands on the postal and transportation por tation systems plus a prospective record lecoin volume of christmas inal mailings lings were cited by mr ml as necessitating earlier mailings than ever before lt it Is physically impossible for the railroads ralli oads and all air lines burdened with vitally important war materials to handle christmas christinas mailings as rapidly as in normal times dules mr air purdum said if the bulk built of parcels and greet cards are held back until the usual ual time the period of af about december 15 to 23 they simply cannot be distributed in time and thousands ot of gifts will bwll their destinations after christ nias in 1941 about mall mail cars cais were required lequir ed between letteen let veen de coniber 12 and 24 to deliver christmas Chilst mas mails enough cars cais to make a train miles long this year the extra cars needed to move holiday malls mails are largely being used by the armed services and a severe shortage Is in prospect Ilo the 1110 postal usually borrows about 2500 trucks from the army ain y aud and other govern ai agencies and rents about 10 arora private owners to handle the christmas malls this year it will till be extremely difficult to obtain enough ot of these vehicles to meet even a substantial part ot of the need the army needs Us ita own trucks and private owners are aie reluctant leluc tant to let someone else use their tires railroads me are cooperating by contenting corn conT erting ei ting some hundreds of afteel box cars and similar equip conti continued aued on page five christmas chrisom as mail must be in office dec I 1 continued from page one allent tor for mall mail transportation and joseph B D eastman East nian director adli ector of defense ti lias has ordered that unnecessary travel be e cui u 1 tailed to the limit during dining the holiday 1 i 0 1 iday season hut but these meas ures aies cannot assure deliveries del heiles of gifts on time unless tile the public cooper ates by mailing ma lillig early eaily and tills thus I 1 spreading the transportation load over a longer period man iran usual nr iu rauni cailo attention aU dilion to the task of the post office depart in moving millions it f pieces piece of mail every day IH to and from soldiers sold leis sailors and nia ilia lines lilies throughout the world illis extraordinary job must lie be kept current 0 even en while hie holiday i ush rush of mailings Is handled also lie he pointed out tho the postal establishment Is operating with many thousands of personnel onnel employed to tike take the place of men called to the armed aimed forces the new employees nat aai baill cannot handlo handle the holiday mall mail jam with alth the smoothness ind and speed of the postal iet veterans ete ians erans whom they replace leplace jn in view lew of all these handicaps to tile the service mi all Pur cluni ad cled ced postal patrons should mall mail their gifts by decembri Decem bei 1 it they w ish to insure that friends vill not be disappointed at christmas in ili new ew york state nay navy en dubers have hae erection of 2500 feet of 0 1 loot 0 0 f deck built of poured gypsum su ni in ili order 01 dei to save aae metal and luiu lull bei ber scarce strategic mater matei bals tongued and grooved flooring board gypsum has been de vo eloped loped saving wood the saving in steel from in drilling teci fewer oil w veli e fla this year than last Is sufficient to build tanks or 01 halt a million 2 ton block buster hombs bombs Ile I 1 of 0 the production ol of safety lagois razor blades anil ld straight razors will save up w a aids of 8 00 tons of hilgh grade aade steel |