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Pare Three, The Annlston Star, Monday, Feb. 28, 1911. Grape Queen Synthetic Gas Plant Sotmht llcrshcy Before Senate Committee Largest Troop "Convoy 0War flakes England ,1. J' V' Atlantic Crossing Accomp- lished Without Single Depth Bomb AtUck LONDON. Feb.

38. 8. i forces massing to Britain for invasion of western Europe hire been strengthened by. the arrival of one of the largest contingents of American troops ever to cross the (I NEA Telephoto. Maj.

Gen. L. Herskey. director of Selective Service (right). Is shewn with Sea.

Arther Capper ef Kansas as he appeared before the Senate agrkMltaral committee In Washington. Hershey tald the corn-UtteeBaea that draft rales wU become tougher and men who remain oa their fame mint eeatribete substantially to food prod action. Atlantic ocean in one convoy. The crossing was made a single stucsby eneajy submarines, but heavy storms which were encountered en routs caused sops discomfort among the men. -The number of troops landed from the convoy Is, of course, a miUtary secret, but all are highly I trained and ready for combat.

They Included mechanized units and spe- dallied groups of many types. All were fully equipped with the lat- est weapons. In addition the convoy carried (. many planes of various types. Immediately upon disembarking the troops were dispersed to Amer-.

lean bases scattered from one end of the Vnited Kingdom to the other. John A. Moroso. Associated Press correspondent who traveled with the convoy, said the trip was so un- eventful that It was a pleasure Jsunt compared to a convoy cross lng he msde two years ago. He tWJUlCU Uib UAA UIHV mm Jr VtlWt V) 0- iavt 1W Si STir), i craft delivered 11 depth charge at calling "Then he said, "we slept In our clothes and wore lifebelts and bel mets ths last three days.

On this trip we had no underwater contacts. We slept in pajamas and wore ho life' belts. Helmets "were not even Issued except to gun crews in exposed positions. "The early war tenseness of long Screen actress Beverlee Mitchell seems te have It In bunches-whatever It takes to make her "Queen of the Grape." She's pic-tared aa shell appear In the lady Bacchus role In "Shine On Hares! Moon." Alabama Casualties Alabama casualties were announced today by the War and Navy Departments as follows: Prisoners of war In 2nd Lt, John son of Mrs. John J.

Farley, Montgomery. Staff Sgt. William E. McGlll. ion of Mrs.

Fannie McOtll, Florence. Wounded la action: Pvt. Guy T. O'Kelley, USMCR. son of George W.

O'Kelley, Columbiana. Cpl. Marshall M. Stedham. son of Mis.

Mary E. Stedham. Gadsden. Killed In action: Pfc. George W.

Pate, USMCR. son- of Luther S. Pate, Buhl The Intermittent use vf your fr nowadays Is likely to result in accumulation of moisture and acids in the works. This results in deterioration and dogging, off tonight about I gefc (9i watches hss disappeared. There Is a cockiness and eagerness among Xh sailors on the destroyers to corns to grips with the enemy.

The captain of our ship credits the Royal Navy and British air patrols and detection devices with keeping J' the U-boa thunder control In the If you wtrt crwery in cennp. you'd know how much that coJl moons. You ectt help terrico mon by not casual Long Distance caDt botwoon 7 and 10 at night, that's wfaon most of mem call and fhtro's a Ug rush -mmtiCO (TO to im 7-j Vr SHVKl MOT ST 1 Nttioffl Inaugurates Blovrment Locate Industry In State WASHINGTON. Feb. 28.

VP) Immediate political and practical action toward winning an Alabama location for the nation's first large plant for the use of -coal in making synthetic gasoline is asked, of the state's leaders by Rep. John New-some D-Ala). Declaring he will press for a. speedy congressional appropriation. New-some wrote Alabama industrialists, civic heads and Oovernor Cbauncey 8tarks urging preparation of the states arguments the plant be built in Its A bill authorizing the building of three synthetic fuel plants now is in conference between House and Senate in preparation for final passage, and Newsome said Pie wanted Alabama's case to be ready.

No figure has been set on the cost of such a plant, but Newsome gave "several million dollars" as a probable total. Newsome advised Alabama leaders they should aim for location of the first plant Alabamians were asked to contribute to a presentation by the State Chamber of Commerce of cost and distribution reasons lot securto lbs plsntjprjhelr state. Newsome said opponents gave expense of producing Alabama coals, competition from the "two pivotal political states" of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and the off-center location of Alabama as a distribution point for gasoline as arguments against location of the plant in his state. This country is well prepared technically for development of a synthetic fuel Industry, Newsome said he had been informed by Dr. R.

B. Sayers, director of the Bureau of Mines. Ration Dates SPECIAL Red Stamps through In Book IV good for 120 points, may be used now in pur chasing pork from a farm slaught erer. SUGAR Stamp No. 30 good for 5 pounds of sugar through 31st.

Stamp No. 40 good for pounds canning sugar through Feb. 28, 1845. FOOD K. green stamps Book IV.

good through March 20th. Blue A8 through E8 Book 4 becomes valid Feb. 27, at 10 points each, for use with tokens; expire May 20. MEAT Brown stamps Book 3 good to March 20th. Red A8, B8, and C8 Book 4 valid Feb.

27, at ten points each, for use with tokens; expire May 20. SHOES Stamp 18 now valid. Expiration Indefinite. Number 1 "airplane' stamp In Book 3 good indefinitely. GASOLINE No.

10 stamps In good through March 21st. TIRE INSPECnOff For-B and book holders, must be completed by Feb. 28; for A book holders by March 31st. FIGHT THE OASOLINE BLACK MARKET! Endorse your coupons use only your own coupons by no gsaoline without coupons. GO FOR THE ABMT" NEW YORK Feb.

28. (U.p-Navy air men didn't do so well in the Floyd Bennet Field WAVES pin-up contest Three Army Air Corps lieutenants stepped In ahead of them to take all the honors on a slate nominated exclusively by Navy women. nOHOLlUE PITROIIOM-Jllir ffic Mi rMfS tt muc I Take It With You! N. 0 No ordering I Complete stock of I patterns shown in our sample. book.

Come- and look them over. CREW HOW. CO. 113 Noble SEAT COTEBS FLOOB MATS SEE nnAni kv' auto UiiMlLL I COMPANY Phone im IMS Garaee oa CMASgf Csgg toi fratkera BeQ Telef heat a4 Power Lines to Europe Black Market Gas Threatens Supply PA Warns Traffic In It May Cause Reductions BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 28.

In announcing a campaign against unendorsed gasoline coupons, Joe Short, District OPA director, declared today that traffic In black market gasoline In North Alabama and throughout thev nation "has spread at such an alarming rate that it may result In a reduction of 'A' coupon values InlheTiext days." "But for this blsck market drain," he said, "an A boo holder might now be driving about 30 miles more per month." He termed endorsement of coupons by writing in the auto license number and state of Issue on the face an effective weapon against illegal dealings in gas. and said OPA Inspector would launch a "field check" in the North Alabama area "in about two weeks." "Ths in vestigstors win be In structed to take up all unendorsed coupons found in the possession of a motorist," he sdded. Declination Tokyo Shorn At Calhoun "Destination. Tokyo" showing at the Calhoun Theatre today through Wednesday Is a glorious tale retold, another of the stories coming out of this war that are more, amazing than fiction. Starring Cary Grant and John Garfield the cast con-stltutes a superb, utterly convincing portrayal of the kind of crew that it takes to set out to a submarine and wreak havoc on -enemv ShlD- plng.

With Alan Hale. John Ridgely and Dane Clark among ths better known members of the cast the acting throughout is straight-fof- ward and sincere. "Destination Tokyo" tells a love story-tnat powerful love of men for the craft, the mechanism, the weap- serve, in wnlcn ny risk th'lr lives in order to perform their, duty. There is no place more cramped than a submarine on long operational cruise, no prison rears walls so close and confining as the crowding pressing sea through which they probe; Delmer Daves collaborated on the screen'ptar with Albert Mlta-He hss Intelligently used ths technical advice of Lt. Commander Phillip Compton.

Edward Kimbrough Wint Houghton-Mifflin Award TUSCALOOSA. Feb. 28. (AV-Ed-ward Kimbrough. author and Journalism professor- st the University of Alabama, has been named winner of the Houghton-Mifflin $1,500 Literary University au thorltles said today.

The award was msde for his second novel, tentatively titled "Day Of Vision." Kimbrough studied under Hudson Strode, creative writing instructor at the University, and has been a member of ths Alsbsms fseulty since 1941. His first novel, "From Hell To Breakfast," was published three ago. NOT IN TAWABA LOS ANGELES," Feb. 28. (U.B Police are looking for a tough Ma rlne, the city's first hit-run pedes trlan.

Wallace D. Whytock told police the Marine dashed across the street, collided with his car- and kept right on going. Casualties to the war; broken headlight, broken bumper tooth, and dented fender. FUNNY Badoglio Intends To Stay In Power Aged 3Iarhal Takes Credit For Driving Out Fascism NAPLES, Feb. 28.

Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio, asserting "It was I who dumped out Fascism." declared firmly in an Interview that he intended to. stay in power with his present government until King Vlttorlo Emanuele "finds a better one." While British Prime 'Minister Churchill has said the Allies would reconsider the political situation after their" armies reached "Rome, Badoglio asked "who will there be in Rome?" and Immediately answered with, "nobody else. "If His Majesty founds a political government after we get there, I will get out the marshal said. "If he does not, then I will stay." He Indicated that his government hoped to remain In power until all the Germans are chased oul Italy. Badoglio Hid he bad ssked the United States and Great Britain to accept his.

government full-fledged ally agsinst Germsny. "I have asked for an alliance and I am ready to do everything necessary to gain it," said the premier who surrendered to the Allies, signed the armistice snd then declared wsr on Germany as a co-belligerent. "Your chief said that they were not fighting the Italian 'people, but only Mussolini and Fascism," the 74-year-old marshal observed. "Who threw out Mussolini? It was I who dumped out Fascism. It wss 99 Out Of Every 100 Reach Russia Feb? 28.

U. Ninety-nine out of every 100 ships carrying American lend-lease supplies Russia last year got through safely, marked Improvement over 4942 when only 88 out of 100 escaped the Nazi U-boats and bomb-era stalking the convoy routes to the 8oviet Unt Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley, to thefirst lend-lease report giving any indication of the amount of United States aid actually delivered to a. total of 8,400,000 tons of supplies worth 84,243,804,000 had reached there" since the beginning of "the program in October, 1841. The supplies include 7800 planes, 4700 tanks and tank destroyers, trucks and 177,000 tons of explosives.

Florence Sailor Gett Navy, Marine Medal MOBIUFeb 28cLeonard Davis Lovelace- Navy boatswain's mate of Florence, has been awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by President Navy Public Relations announced todsy. Said the citation "When an Army train loaded with ammunition and gasoline wss derailed (near Lies ts, Sicily, on July 24, 1043) by a collision snd engulfed In flames, Lvoelace promptly Joined his -(mobile infighting) unit and worked tirelessly to combat the raging fire. "With utter disregard for his own personal safety and despite the hazard bf Imminent explosions, he courageously remained at his post, close to the burning train, and continued his efforts until the- fire was brought under control" BUSINESS mr. m. a Telefiap Ceaqway i'V eastern Auannc.

Host time you boo calomel toko' CtloUbs. th improved calomel ooaapound UbUU that aako caio-Ml-Uklng plouant. Sugar-coated, greeeblo. prompt, ana effective. Mot mcemry to follow with talte.

Ceutlon: Cm only directed. 3 SPARKLIIIG ICE niicuci 'J UUJIILL READY TO USE PHONE 441 Ala. Ice Coal Co. Office! 100 W.tthSt. Phene 4IMI7 See Us For Cash To Pay Your TOME TAX 85 To S300 I MICH JTi you 1 a r- 9 BF r.

-r- if" 1 1 1- I I A CERTAINLY power lines aren't iufit across the oceans. But electric power ts going to Europe just the same, and across. the Pacific, too. Power that went into the making every gun, everyx shell, every, bit of powder. 'Electric power without which' ships and planes could not have been made in such huge quantities, yital electric power for of serything the fighting man must nave.

X- Ve of Alabama Power Company are proud of the part the electric light and power -industry is taking in the winning of the war--an industry which, given a job to do, doei it without frills and fuss. For" every war power has been ample. And don't forget that electricity hasn't been rationed because of scarcity, nor that its price has not been increased. S- OP Since Hitler marched Into Poland (1939) we have increased our generating capacity more than twenty per cent Power generated in our plants now totals over Stf billion kilowatt-hours annually. Alabama power company YSOUTIIERtl MODEL CITY LOAH CO.

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3rd Floor Wilson Bldj. Pho. Mrs, Louise Downing. NOTE: Although electrie generadng capacity ample for both war and ether needs, there's not too much coal, not too many cars to carry it from the mines and not too much manpower for Those things and certain still critical materia la enter into the productioa el electricity. Therefore, the Government requests that yea do aot use electricity oodlassly.

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