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Reduction of 40 Pct. In Civilian Use of Wool Ordered Curtailment Expected To Force Layoff of 38,000 Workers By the Associated Press. The O. P. M. yvesterday ordered civilian use of new wool, such as| that for clothes, rugs and other | items, reduced during the first quar- ter of 1942 to only 40 per cent of | the amount used during the same period last year. ‘The order became effective imme- diately. The industry as a whole was ordered to limit its use of new wool for all purposes during the quarter to 80 per cent of the total con- sumed in the 1941 quarter. Details of the wool conservation plan were announced by O. P. M. | last week, and issuance for the order | formalized the restrictions. No limits were imposed on manufacturers who ‘use their entire wool supply for mili- tary production. O. P. M. officials said the sharp curtailment affecting civilian goods need not cause a shortage in wool clothing. So far as men’s suits were concerned, they pointed out that thousands of men who formerly wore civilian elothes now are wearing or | will be wearing a uniform. Further, the billion pounds of new wool con- sumed in 1941 set an all-time record and resulted in large inventories of cloth and clothing in factories and stores. They admitted, however, that the curtailment probably would force | about 38000 workers out of jobs in the industry, which now employs about 190,000. Readers’ Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, Jan. 4, 1942, PART ONE. Foreign. British drive in west in spring fore- cast. Page A-3/ Night bayonet charge forced Bardia | surrender. Page A-5| Japanese assaults on Changsha re- ported costly. Page A-14 Red Cross war fund drive starts to- MOrTow. Page A-15 Big British convoy fights off U-boats, sinking three, Page A-21 National. War tops all issues in new Congress session. Page A-1 Former Gov. Rivers, 19 others in- dicted in Georgia. Page A-W ©O. P. M. pushes 4-point arms pro- duction program. Page A-14 | Henderson says auto seizure is “pos- | sible,” not “probable.” Page A-21 | | thought,” world-wide renown as a master THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 4, 1942 United Nations’ Pacific Commanders Famed as Warriors ‘With Britain’s Gen. Sir Archibald. P. Wavell as supreme commander, the armed forces of the united na- tions in the Southwest Pacific were placed yesterday under the direc- tion of a British-American general staff, while Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek took over direction of operations in the Chinese theater. rect this anti-Axis offensive on the vast, far-flung front: Wavell Is Third General In Three Generations Gen. Sir Archibald Percival Wa- marshalling all land, sea and air forces, this hard-bitten Scot lives up to his own ideal of a comman- der in chief—a man who should have “the spirit of adventure and a touch of the gambler.” Third successive general in three generations of his family, he was hailed as a “master of war” by Prime Minister Churchill for the 60-day campaign in which his Army of the Nile routed the Italians in Africa just a year ago. His highest compliment, perhaps. came from Field Marshal Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German general staff, who called him “the only good gen- eral Britain has.” An unorthodox fighter who scorns the British Army’s traditional “spit and polish” in favor of “mental GEN. SIR ARCHIBALD WAVELL. (Additional Wavell pictures on Page A-16.) liveliness and independence of Gen. Wavell has won strategist by the daring and crafti- ness of his operations—tactics which often shocked older and more conservative British generals Began Career in Black Watch. Gen. Wavell, born May 5, 1883, be- gan his army career with the fa- Washington and Vicinity. Bodies of 3 Boy Scouts found in drifting boat in bay. Page A-1 Complaints reveal public's ignorance | of rent-control law. Page A-6 D. C. tire-rationing committees ap- | pointed. . . Page A-13 President’s Birthday Ball will be re- stricted this year. Page A-13 | Jones opposes shifting more loan | ageneies, Page A-13 | Richmond lists 781 housing units for patent workers. Page A-13 | More than 2000 sworn in as aux- | iliary police. Page A-13 Junior high dental inspections to begin tomorrow. Page A-13 Dr. James J. Hayden named Colum- | bus Law School dean. Page A-14 Tire rationing officials named for | Northern Virginia. Page A-14 | Senator Glass marks 84th birthday | today. Page A-20 Miscellany. Book reviews. Obituary Where to go. PART TWO. Page A-22 | Page A-18 | Page A-20 | Editorial. Editorial articles. Editorials John Claggett Proctor. Fraternal news, Civic news. Page B-2| Page B-5 Page B-6 Page B-7 mous Scottish Black Watch, which he joined in 1901, in the late phases of the Boer War. In 1908 he fought on India’s frontier, for which he won his second decoration, and first caught the eye of military experts while liaison officer with the Rus- siansArmy in the Caucgmsn 1916, after serving two years in the thick of the fighting in France. But it was as a close friend of the fabulous Lawrence, of Afmbia and as an aide to Field Marshal Lord Edmund Allenby in Palestine and Syria that Gen. Wavell, who lost an eye in the World War, learned the brilliant desert campaigner. Typical was the execution of one of the World War's greatest bluffs against the Turks. In order to eaken the Turkish lines in front of Beersheba, Field Marshal Allenby and Gen. Wavell ordered their tactics which made him such 11 | troops to drag logs back and forth | over a vast stretch of desert. Ruse Deceived Turks. The resulting clouds of dust led Here are the men who will di- | vell—entrusted with the task of | ¢anti-Axis forces in the Southwest Pacific area, is chief of the United States Army Air Corps and his se- lection for the new job was hailed here as a recognition of the grow- ing dependence on aviation as a prime factor in winning the Far Eastern war. Gen. Brett has been on the scene of operations in the Far East for some time and is not only familiar with the military situation in the Southwest Pacific and its needs but is alco a tacticlan of sound and daring ability. As deputy to Gen. Wavell he is the “second man” in the South Pa- cific area and would take over the command in any absences of his British chief. The choice of Gen. Brett for this position apparently | had been “in the bag” for within | the past week there had been no mention of his present whereabouts. Four days ago the War Depart- { ment officially announced the as- | signment of Maj. Gen. Walter R. | Weaver, as acting chief of the Army Air Corps. Movements Kept Secret. Gen. Brett left Washington last summer and since then his mission has taken him to England, Libya, Russia, China, India and more re- cently to the Pacific zone of opera- tions. Despite the secrecy with which the War Department en- veloped his movements, he has been prominently mentioned in dis- patches from Egypt and China in the last 10 days. For reasons other than military fitness for his new assignment, of- ficlals here were gratified over the recognition given him. He was de- scribed as a man of unusual tact as official relationships and for this reason it is reckoned he will be able | to get along with a minimum of friction with a diversified com- mand. | Gen. Brett, who is 55, is the sec- ond graduate of Virginia Military Institute to forge to front rank com- Imand in the new and expanding United States Army. The other is Gen. George C. Marshall, Army | Chief of Staff. He is also one of the pre-World War days of Army |aviation. As right hand man to Maj. Gen. Henry F. Arnold, chief |of the Army Air Forces, he played | & valuable part in the reorganiza- tion and training of the air arm. Won Promotions Rapidly. Recognition was not slow in com- ing to Gen. Brett. On graduation from the Army War College in 1936 he was ordered to the Panama ‘Canal Zone to command the 19th Composite Wing as a temporary 11938. Then he returned to this “country for duty as Chief of Staff |of the General Headquarters Air | Force with station at Langley Field, Va. In February of the next year i he was promoted to Assistant Chief of the Air Corps and as commander | of the Air Corps Engineering School | at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. | President Roosevelt designated him to be chief of the Air Corps on May 23, 1941. Last August, Gen. Brett headed a | group of Army Air Force officers [ordered to tour the African, Near East, Mediterraneanzand Atlantic war fronts. The trip was fortunate in paving the way for his new duties under Gen. Wavell, whom he first met in and later as com- mander in chief of India and Burma. No other high-ranking American officer has had equal opportunity as an observer and adviser on so many fronts of the present war. He often took risks beyond the ordinary call of duty, and December 1 it was re- ported Nazi destroyers had fired on him in his plane as it crossed the | Mediterranean on a flight from Eng- land to Cairo. | Blazed Air Trails. As late as December 22. a dispatch from Rangoon related that an air | trail by which American flying fort- | resses can girdle half the globe in | the Turks to believe large bodies | their rush to the Far East has been | | of troops were on the move. They | blazed by Gen. Brett in a flight from | der-in-chief, Asiastic Fleet, with | | and diplomacy in personal as well | has qualified in submarines as well as surface vessels, has graduated from both the Army and Navy War Colleges and taught at one, has been superintendent of the Naval Acad- | emy at Annapolis, chairman of the | I | o s ADMIRAL THOMAS C. HART. Navy General Board and com- mander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet. While he actually didn't grow young with the years, he left the Academy known as “Dad” and returned to be known to the midshipmen as “Turtle-neck.” Native of Michigan. Admiral Hart is a native of Gen- essee County, Michigan and was ap- | pointed to the Naval Academy in 1893. At Annapolis he was too light | Distinguished Service Order and the | Military Cross. From 1917 to 1918 he was brigade major of the'17th Division Royal Artillery. Between the end of the war and the 1938 appointment he served in England and in India and commanded the School of Artillery at Larkhill. He is a golfer and a fisherman. He is a well-groomed man, with deep-set blue eyes and a fair mus- }tache. He has an alert and ener- getic bearing. In 1918 he married Lucy Louttit Gray of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has a stepson in the army. Chiang Kai-shek Called ‘Chungking Frankenstein’ Tall, slender Gencralissimo Chi- ang Kai-shek, the man chosen to direct all Allied land and air forces in China, during 4% years of re- | sistance to Japanese invaders has become recognized as one of the} world's greatest military strategists, | but to the chagrined and frustrated ‘Tokio war lords he is “the Chung- king Frankenstein.” Against an invader overwhelm- ingly superior in guns and equip- | ment his forces have fought on | under crushing odds, fired by the | inspiration of this great leader who | took a China divided against itself | | and unified her where all others failed. And the “incident”—as Tokio called it—which started by the‘ presidency of the National Military Affairs Commisison, the leadership of the Kuomintang (government party), presidency of the Peoples Political Council and the executive yuan of the National government, among other posts—Gen. Chiang is not a dictator in the European sense. ‘Without his people’s loyalty, his regime wguld have collapsed long ago. Gen. Chiang’s career hhs been in- fluenced largely by his devoted mother and his wife—attractive, dynamic, American-educated Mei- Ling Soong. Talented Madame Chiang Kai- Shek, like her husband, has be- come a symbol of modern China. She has contributed a Western out- look to his purely oriental training and has been credited with being his chief adviser in foreign affairs. Gen. Chiang, born in 1888 in Fukien province of a family which for generations controlled the local salt monopoly, was educated at the Chinese Government Military School and in 1907 enrolled in the Tokio Military Academy. He soon came under the influence | of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, father of mod- ern China, and inherited the en- thusiasm of that greater leader for democratic ideals. Kidnaped by Chang. One of the most stirring episodes in his career occurred in 1936 when he was kidnaped by “Young Mar- shal” Chang Hsueh-Liang, whom he had sent to the Northwestern Provinces to clean out Communists entrenched there. Gen. Chiang and his officers fra- ternized with the Reds and were for the crew, so he became coxwain. | He is said to have told a friend one | time he believed there were two | ways to get ahead—one by leading | the time was ripe then to fight Japan, instead of waiting until China was better prepared, as advo- won over to the latters’ view that| |the few remaining officers out of | | brigadier general until September, | and the other by driving. | small, he decided to be a driver. The Spanish American War serv- ice came soon after graduation, and by 1916 the little officer was wearing Ethe stripes of a commander, and was in charge of Submarine Division 4 and 5. For this and other World War Service he received the Dis- tinguished Service Medal. After the World War, Admiral Hart entered Naval War College at Newport, R. and after comple- tion of the course, followed that with a complete course in the Army ‘War College in Washington. He remained on duty for a year as in- structor at the latter school. Command of the battleship U. S. 8 Mississipp! followed that and also tours at New York Harbor and the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, R. I. The rank of Rear Admiral came in 1929, and the new Admiral | became superintendent of the Naval | Academy in 1931, He was on duty 4 I 24 GEN. SIR HENRY POWNALL. | with the General Board from 1936, | | and chairman of the board most of | that time. | = Serving Beyond Age Limit. He assumed duties as comman- %, shifted their strength to meet this | Egypt. He was accompanied by 12| rank of admiral, on July 25, 1939 fenses undermanned. It was with similar maneuvers adapted to mechanized warfare— swift, secret movements in the PART THREE. Sports and Finance. Sports. Travel and resorts. Financial News PART FOU Society. Service Societ, Army orders. Parent-teacher review. Births and deaths. Club news. Educational Marriage licenses. Berial story. Pages C-1-5 | Wavell's Army of the Nile routed Page C-6|the Italians from entrenched posi- Pages C-7-8-9 | tions 130 miles within Egypt and | R. Pages D-1-12 | driven out of Libya, Gen. Wavell Page D-7 | took the entire blame on himself, Page D-1 Page D-9 |preparation for an Axis counter- Page D-9 |attack which came a month sooner Page D-11 | than he had expected. Page D-10 Page D-12 | shifted to India, exchanging com- Page D-12 | mands with Gen. Sir Claude Auch- PART FIVE. Amusements. ‘Theaters. Stamps. Hobbies. Cross-word puzzle. Chess. Bridge. News of dogdom. Radio programs. Art and Music. Junior Star Pages E-1-3 | mand he had charge of the four- Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page E-4 E-4 E-4 -4 Classified advertising. PagesE-7- | night, concealment by day, surprise | flank attacks, close co-operation | with fleet and air force—that Gen. | advanced 500 miles through coun- try almost devoid of food and water. When his forces subsequently were saying he had not made adequate Last July 2 Gen. Wavell was inleck, in a shift interpreted then as indicating a possible German drive on India. In his new com- | day offensive in which British and | | Russian troops conquered Iran, | freeing one of the chief British and United States supply lines to Russia. | |Gen. Brett Is Known As Daring Tactician Maj. Gen. George H. Brett., new deputy supreme commander of the | Hershey to Speak on Forum Selective Service D irector to Discuss Forthcoming Inventory of Men The forthcoming registration and classification of American manpower for total war service, with an ex-| planation of purposes and sugges- | tions for co-operation, will be dis- cussed by Brig. Gen. Lewis B.| Hershey, national director of selec- | tive service, on the National Radio Forum at 9 pm. tomorrow. Ar-| ranged by The Star, the National| Radoi Forum is broadcast by the Na- | tional Broadcasting Co. end will be | heard locally over station WMAL. Under the topic “Selective Service for Total War,” Gen. Hershey will explain the,purposes of taking an in- ventory of all men between 18 and | 65, with those between 20 and 45 elgible for military service. He| also will point out that it will not be necessary for men from 21 to 36 already registered to reapply. Generally credited with being the | father of the national selective serv- | ice system, Gen. Hershey was nomi- | nated as its director by President | Roosevelt July 31, 1941, to succeed Dr. Clarence E. Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin. Previously, Gen. Hershey had served on the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee since 1037, and was its executive officer BRIG. GEN. LEWIS B. HERSHEY. until the Selective Service Training Act was passed in 1841. He then was made deputy director under Dr. Dykstra. ’ ( Pages B-1-6 W “threat” and left their key de- | Alr Corps officers and non-commis- | sioned officers. | A native of Cleveland, Ohio. Gen Brett obtained a commission in the Army in 1910, the year after he graduated from the “West Point of the South.” During his 30 years of | MAJ. GEN. GEORGE H. BRETT. soldiering he has served at almost every principal post in this country, |in France and the territorial pos- sessions. Formerly a cavalryman, he was won over to aviation in 1915, when it then was an arm of the Signal Corps. At the first outbreak of war in 1917 he was on duty in the office of the chief signal officer in Wash- ington but sailed for France in November, 1917. He was made as- sistant and then chief of the ma- terial division at headquarters of the air service. A month before the war ended he returned to this coun- try for temporary-duty as director of military aeronautics. He no sooner got here than back to the front he went again. He commanded the air service camp at Oxford, England, until November 17, 1918, and then for a'short while was in charge of the embarkation of air service troops. Admiral Hart Called Strict Disciplinarian An officer who was so young and so short that his classmates at the Naval Academy affectionately called him “Dad” now is commander of Allied Asiatic naval forces. Admiral Thomas C. Hart is wi the Navy knows as a “sundowner’— discipline in his command is never relaxed from sundown to sundown. And his own active career has been almost that consistent, for he leaped and | into the Spanish-American War al- most as soon &s he was gradusted Academy. | Due to the fact that he is a full admiral he is not subject to the re- | tirement laws, and is now serving| | beyond his age limit by order of | President Roosevelt. He maintains Being | GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK. shots fired across Peiping’s old Mar- co Palo Bridge the night of July 7, | 1937, has been merged into a World War against the imperialistic am- bitions of Japan and of her German and Italian Axis partners as well. Paradoxes Mark Career. Gen. Chiang, who assumes a major | role in the leadership of this anti- | Axis combine, brings with him a | career of paradoxes. | He waged a score of devastating | civil wars to bring internal peace; then internal peace brought on | foreign war. | True, China has lost much of her | most productive territory, but to- | day she is a country of 450,000,000 | people standing solidly behind Gen. Chiang. Militarily, the war with Japan was disastrous for China from the start, her seacoast provinces have been overrun by the invader; twice Gen. Chiang has been driven from his capitals. But when the war broke out in Europe in 1839, and when Japan later entered an open military alli- ance with Germany and Italy, the | course of international events be- | gan to swing in China’s favor. The United States, openly oppos- ing Japan’s military expansion and conquest, gave China large scale ! material and financial assistance | long before the stab-in-the-back | upon Pear] Harbor plunged America | into the conflict at China's side. Great Britain, meanwhile, had halted her policy of appeasement | toward Japan at Gen. Chiang's ex- pense, and Soviet Russia supplied the generalissimo with war ma- terials and technical aid, though he China. Despite his many high offices—the | cated by Gen. Chiang. Gen. Chiang flew to Sian to take the young marshal to task, only to be taken prisoner. Madame Chi- ang Kai-Shek followed him to Sian to “live and die” with him. For 13 days Gen. Chiang's life hung in the balance, until finally on Christmas Day his captors be- came convinced that he alone could save China and released him. Price Establishes Rules For Use of Cables By the Associated Press. ‘The Navy Department said to- da ythat Byron Price, director of | censorship, had established these regulations for international cable and radio censorship: “1. No communication with enemy- | occupied territory except on spe- cially licensed occasions. “2. No codes or cable addresses per- mitted on terminal traffic at this time (terminal traffic originates or ends here). “3. Transit traffic in code of for- eign languages may be passed if complying with the censorship reg- ulations at the office of destinas tion, “4. The plain languages permitted are: English, Prench, Spanish. and Portuguese, except that unofficial radio telephone calls may be sub- Ject to delay if other than the Eng- lish language is to be used.” Barse and Parkinson To Address Women's Bar George P. Barse and Kenneth N. | Parkinson, chairmen of the com mittees on legislation of the Fed- eral and District Bar Associations, respectively, will be guest speakers at a dinner meeting of the Women's Bar Association at the New Colonial Hotel at 6 pm. January 15. Szigeti and Kindler to Pay Tribute to Busoni, Old Friend yesterday. When the National Symphony | Orchestra today plays the “Concerto | in D Major” of Ferruccio Busoni it | | will bring back memories of Berlin in | | 1912 to two men. It was in that year Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the symphony, | and this afternoon's soloist, Joseph | Szigeti, famed violinist, first met. | Mr. Szigeti, who met Busoni in Lon- don, appeared with him in a num- ber of joint recitals in London, Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. Both | Dr. Kindler and Mr. Szigeti became great admirers of Busoni and the | | performance of the concerto today | will be a remembrance by two old friends. Mr. Szigeti, who granted an inter- | view after his rehearsal yesterday in Constitution Hall, and Dr. Kind- | ler were enthusiastic in their praise ‘o( Busoni. The violinist referred to| | his “spiritual leadership” and his | ability to “mold your outlook.” Dr. | Kindler added the remark that Busoni was an indicator of future, | trends that “have been followed and | | exploited.” Mr. Szigeti, born in Budapest, | took up the study of the violin | when he was about 5 or 6 years| | old. studying first with his father | |and uncle. He recalled yesterday | that after each lesson his uncle | would hand him his pocketbook, let- ting him take out a cent with which | to buy an apple dipped in sugar or other. fruit. | “It was a test of honesty,” he| | said. And he met it. He later studied with several fa- mous violinists of the Continent and | Mrs. Charlotte A. Hankin, chair- | man of the committee on legisla- tion of the women's group, will re- view recently enacted District laws. Divorce Suit Filed ROCKVILLE. Md., Jan. 3 (Spe- cial) —Mrs. Clara Elizabeth Nichol- son of Kensington is named defend- consistently opposed Communism in | ant in a suit for an absolute divorce | | filed here by Allen Lee Nicholson, | who charges desertion. Joseph Szigetl, famed violinist and soloist at today’s Na- tional Symphony Orchestra concert at Constitution Hall, as he played a few extra notes for the photographer after rehearsal —Star Staff Photo. then at the age of 12 made his debut in Budapest, followed by pere formances in Berlin and Dresden and finally England. He made his American debut in 1925. The complete program this after noon at Constifution Hall is as fol- lows: “Suite,” Byrd-Jacob; “La Folia,” Cornelli, with Mr. Szigeti as soloist; “Don Juan” of Btrauss; Bu- soni's “Concerto,” with Mr. Szigeti, and excerpts from the “Damnation of Faust,” by Berlioz. Bismarck Survivors Among 1,000 Nazis Reaching Canada By the Associated Press. AN EAST COAST CANA- DIAN PORT. Jan. 3.—Ger- man seamen from the sunken battleship Bismarck were among 1000 Nazis brought across the Atlantic in the latest batch of war prisoners con- signed to Canadian internment camps, it was disclosed today. Authorities failed to say how many Bismarck survivors were included, but they did disclose that these sailors and others from captured or sunken U- boats made up about half the contingent. The prisoners, now interned in Northern Ontario, were guarded on the Atlantic ernss- ing by Canadian troops home- ward bound for leaves after 18 months in England. S5 TO DEFENSE WORKERS * * % a home in Sharon, Conn. Besides the Distinguished Service | Medal he holds the Cuban Pacifica- tion Medal, the Victory Medal and the Spanish Campaign Medal. Admiral Hart has three daughters and two sons. Mrs. Hart is the daughter of a former superintendent of the Naval Academy and was the wife of & superintendent when their own son, Thomas C. Hart, jr, was graduated there. Gen. Pownall Has Led Soldier's Life 37 Years The playing fields of Rugby pro- vided Lt. Gen. Sir Henry Royds Pownall, chief of staff to Gen. Wavell in the new united nations’ command, with his pre-military training for the soldier’s life which he has led for 37 years. Only 53 now, he was graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Wool- wich when he was 19,-and before Woolwich he was a prize pupil and | athlete, despite his small stature, at | Rugby. The new chief of staff has come | into all his honors at tender ages.| In 1938 the War Office authorities| jumped him 100 places in seniority fre: at day PR “Lowest, 38 (Furnished High Low Higl Low Sun. today 5 Sun, tomorrow__ Moon. | = Automobile 1ights must be turned on one- | New Orleans. La. half hour after sunset, sh winds. Harper's rt Until st. r axo. year ago. Recerd Temperatures This Year. Highest, 58. on January 2. Lowest.' 25, on January 3. by Weather Report (FPurnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbia and vicinity—Moderate to heavy snow this 10 P.M. Saturda: 3 12 Noon Tide Tables. United States Coast snd Geodetic Tsur'!!.) h today The Sun n;g::n. PE v 713 pm. Precipitation. morning, becoming light in afternoon; River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy Ferry today. 45 1,3:40 a.m. today. Yester- Weather in Various Cities. ~Temperature— Precip- Min. Sat. 7:30 to 36 38 | Asheville. N. C. A:finll- Ga. Atlantic City. N.'J. Sumos SN BATNIDO i DL 3 i Alsngesey B3 19 01200 ) 00 21 e a3 bo 3 n 19 mieite sri0 2 PRI LBEG3 continued cold; moderate to| Your Government Through the Office of Production Management HAS GRANTED PRIORITY FOR 300 HOMES ow being built by The River Terrace Co.— :‘privafengnterpribsz. Myron Davy and Frank J. Murphy, Jr., the builders, have guaranteed 0. P. M. by sworn affidavit that preference will be given defense workers. (However, any member of the public may ocquire a home provided no defense worker competes at time of purchase). 50 homes under con- struction will be ready for occupancy soon. Reservations are being accepted now. All homes sturdily and permanently constructed of double brick and masonry. Each includes living room, dining room, kitchen, two bed- rooms, tile bath, full basement, and land- scaped garden. Approved and financed by F. H. A_ under new terms of $400 cash (no initial title expense). Standard Home . . to make him director of military operations and intelligence at the | office. That was the year of Munich, | when Europe had its first major war | scare since the peace of Versailles. It was a time for armies to get ready. Occupied Mahy Posts. When war came in 1939, Gen. Pownall went to France, and in 1940 was made Lord Gort’s chief of staff. He occupied & quick succession of posts after returning to England i from the surrendered continent. He was inspector of Britain's Home, Guard. He commanded British | troops in northern Ireland. He was | vice chief of the imperial general staff. The chain of events leading up to nis appointment yesterday was initi- ated last November 19. On that day the War Office announced Sir Henry Royds Pownall was being given a e appointment” in the Far East, where Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham was com- mander-in-chief. On December 27 he succeeded Brooke-Popham as the guerdian of Singapore. | Sir Henry is an artilleryman. He received a commission in the Royal Fleld Artillery upon his graduation from Woolwich, and from 1906 to 1914 he served in that outfit and the Royal Pield Artillery in Eng- land and in India. During those years he also attended the Staff College at Camberley and the Im- Defense College. 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