Congress ends district plan on church tax
Washington stopped from levying on religious properties
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U.S. lifts ban on casualties
Public can take bad news, government decides
Washington (UP) –
The ban on nationwide publication of war casualty and prisoner lists has been lifted on a decision of high administration officials that the American public can “take bad news.”
Informed quarters said a new policy will permit publication anywhere and in their entirety of lists of men killed, wounded, missing or taken prisoner. Newspapers were previously restricted to publication of names of men whose next of kin lived in their particular circulation area.
The original policy, it was said, has been restudied and it has now been determined that security reasons for the first order – to prevent easy compilation of overall casualties by the enemy – have been found to be not sufficient to warrant the imposed censorship.
One official said it was also decided that the public:
…has enough stamina and fortitude to take the bad news of long casualty lists if the papers care to publish them.
These sources said the new policy will be instituted with publication of the Army’s next casualty list. The Navy will also confirm to the change.
States, cities regain control of pay sheets
WLB and Internal Revenue Bureau delegates all adjustments
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Mined stocks of soft coal hit new peak
Boost in output may mean Russia, Britain will get U.S. fuel
By Fred W. Perkins, Press Washington correspondent
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War industries will require more workers
McNutt now says 65,400,000 will be needed in factories, battlefronts
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Two Habsburgs enlist in the U.S. Army
Washington (UP) –
Felix and Karl Ludwig Habsburg, sons of the late Emperor Karl of Austria, have volunteered for service in the U.S. Army and will be inducted at Fort Myer, Virginia, next Wednesday afternoon, it was learned today.
Felix, 26, and Karl Ludwig, 24, are expected to be assigned to a newly-originated unit of Austrian nationals after undergoing the usual enlisted men’s orientation at Camp Lee, Virginia.
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Snipers, mud can’t stop Yanks at Buna
‘Spray trees’ is order in Guinea as Japs keep up heavy fire
By George Weller
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British storm Nazi hill in rainstorm
2,000 shells pave way for Christmas Eve attack by Allies
By William H. Stoneman
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Enemy broadcast –
Tokyo radio claims Jap sub sinks U.S. sub
San Francisco, California (UP) –
Tokyo radio, quoting an Imperial Navy spokesman said today a Jap submarine sank a U.S. submarine off San Francisco Oct. 12 and a U.S. merchant ship of 10,000 tons off the Pacific Coast.
The broadcast quote Roe Hirata, a navy press representative presumably aboard the raider, as saying it met two U.S. submarines cruising toward San Francisco.
The Tokyo radio quoted from Hirata’s diary:
The captain of our submarine discharged a torpedo against the first enemy submarine. The crew said the enemy craft sank rapidly.
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First Axis night air raid on Algiers brings out the latest fashions in “sky nets” as tracer bullets and anti-aircraft shells stream up from the Allied-controlled North African city. Some damage was caused by the German bombers but casualties were slight. All recent raids on Algiers have been beaten off with little damage to the city.
Jap cruiser hit in Rabaul raid
MacArthur’s forces deepen wedge in New Guinea
By Brydon Taves, United Press staff writer
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News releases banned from Finnish Center
Washington (UP) –
The United States has ordered the Finnish Information Center in New York to cease issuance of news releases and Finland has ordered the U.S. Legation at Helsinki to stop sending out bulletins prepared by the Office of War Information, it was learned today.
The development, apparently reflecting tension in the relations between the two countries, followed recent publication of reports in this country of a party at the Japanese Legation in Helsinki on Dec. 7, anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, attended by Prime Minister J. W. Rangell and other Finnish government officials.
Aides of Giraud hold parleys at White House
Conference with President arranged as French unity is sought
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‘Hi ho, silver’ patrol terrifies Italians; 15 die, 21 quit
By Donald Coe, United Press staff writer
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Ferguson: Women in Congress
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Clare Boothe Luce, newly-elected Congresswoman from Connecticut, is invariably described as beautiful, talented, witty and wealthy. The fact that she’s married to the notable publisher, Henry Luce, doesn’t exactly detract from her prestige.
Whenever Mrs. Luce appears, verbal skyrockets ascend. She’s that paradoxical event, a glamorous dynamo and she has already proved she can recognize and swat all the 57 varieties of social and political bunk that the frauds employ. Probably she’ll get into the hair of many a staid male House member who deals in platitudes, which is OK with us.
Six other women will be present when the new Congress opens in January. They’ll be on the spot for two reasons – because they are women, and because they constitute a Republican petticoat majority. Mrs. Mary Norton of New Jersey is the only democratic holdover.
This fact doesn’t mean much to the average woman voter. As a rule, we are not partisan. Except for a few in the Deep South, American women are uninhibited by family political tradition. But it does matter to us that our sex is in a position to prove the equality of the feminine mind in affairs of government and that we shall be able to inject some feminine thinking into national and international issues.
It isn’t too early to impress upon these women that they represent something more important than their constituents. They represent womanhood in a new job. Therefore, in creating government policies, their outlook should be fresh and their approach bold.
They are quite literally making history, and upon their conduct and wisdom much of the future destiny of women in politics may depend. For them, and for us, their election is an opportunity and a test.