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4 v- j.i**H£p 1 HOPE Hash tn Mtmtm. ewf minimum MM wort, mlftlfiMM continuous Insertions only fHE MdRi V6U tEU THE QUICKER YOU SELL." For Sole US BEFORE YOU BUY, or trade furniture. The best f. in town to buy furniture. 1 Ideal Furniture Store.

27-lmpd. Service! Offered ALL HOME PAINT- ing and interior decorating. Call 397-W for free estimates. Tom Middlfcbrooks. 3-6tp CONTRACTING, REPAIRING and building of all kind.

Write Box 232, Hope, Ark. R. S. Will- lams. 4-6tp MOST FARMERS MUST FILE their estimate.

of income before Dec. iSth. If you need aid with this, also your final Income for report, see me now, J. W. Strickland.

6-6tp ALL TYPES OF HOME AND building repairs. Specialize in reroofing. Estimates free. A. M.

ISO MULES, MARES, SADDLE horses, jacks, stallions and Shetland ponies. All stock guaranteed. 4Tree truck delivery. At same for 30 years. Wihdle 516 West Texark- Texas.

23-tf PAPER SHELL PECANS. PHONE 488. 4-6tc MY HOME. MODERN FIVE room, newly papered. New auto- 'matic hot Water heater.

Ceiling fan. 1510 S. Main St. F. H.

Jones. 7-3tc 1936 DODGE 1V6-TON TRUCK. Good rubber. John Deere gaso- line hay-press, Johnny Wilson, Columbus. 9-6tc Rettig, phone 221.

29-lmp ALARM CLOCKS, STRIKING clocks watches cleaned and fixed. Prompt service, reasonable price. C. Otwell; 523 W. Ave.

D. 7-6tp Wonted to Rent FIVE OR SIX-ROOM HOUSE. Prefer Ward 1 or 2. Employed in city. Reasonably permanent.

No small children. Reference. Call Hope Star. 2-tfdh. THREE OR FOUR ROOM FURN- ished apartment for permanent family.

Contact Hope Star. 30-tf Schoolboy of Texas Rival of Red Grange Goose Creek, Tex. 0 footsteps are being followed, Red Grange loo! 140 ACRE FARM, ONE-HALF mile from city limits. One house, barn, good pasture. Oh public road, between two highways.

Price. $20 per acre, Floyd Porter-' field." 9-6tc 1 HAVE FOR SALE, 240 ACRES of up land, one mile from city 'limits with a highway running through it. It has a two story Chouse and a large stock barn. Is all fenced and crossed fenced. Has an extra fine Spring of water, running year round.

The house would need some repair. Think it is more suitable for the making of a high class dairy or stock farm. About half of it is cleared, but some of it has grown up in bushes. On account of the couple being old and sick and not able to work the farm, they have ask me to sell it. There is lots of pine and hardwood timber on it.

They have agreed to take $25 per acre for the tract. I do not know of any land that adjoins this farm that you could buy for 1 less than $75 or $100 per acre. If interested see Floyd Porterfield, Hope, Ark. Would like to show it to you. 9-3tc TABLE TOP GAS RANGE COOK stove.

Call 768 from 1 to 4 p. m. 29-tf For Rent WORKING COUPLE OR TWO settled ladies Call 660. to share home. 7-tf TWO ROOM FURNISHED APART- All bills paid.

Desirable location. 1002 East Second Street. Phone 740-J, 8-6tp Lost or Strayed FOUR MIXED WHITE FACED cows, one brindle cow, one jersey cow from my pasture near Little Bodcaw. Reward, Dor sey White, Rosston, Rt. 2.

6-6tp For Sale or Trade Wonted to Buy LATE MODEL FOUR DOOR automobile. Jessie Brown, Phone 2. 7-3tc and pretty nearly filled. Remember the day you handled the ball five times for five touchdowns against Mr, Grange? George Walmsley, the Texas high school Wonder, can look back on a day like that. He handled the ball three times for three touchdowns, all within 90 seconds; he could have done more, but he wasn't in any longer.

Walmsley, the 147-pound triple- thrcater of the unbeaten, untied Goose Creek Ganders, did it against Conroc, racing 67, 66 and 37 yards for his scores. This kind of football is nothing new for George. George made his debut in 1940 at the age of 14. The coach sent him in a game to "hold down the score." Walmsley proceeded to make three touchdowns in that final period one on an 80-yard run. Texas teams have been trying to stop him ever since.

Now he's a senior and has led his team to eleven straight victories. He has scored 12 touchdowns, passed for the same number, ran 24 punts back for 315 yards and intercepted five passes. But with all his great passing, blocking and running, his most notable feat was in the Port Arthur game of 1941. CHILD'S TRICYCLE, in good condition. MUST BE Phone 768.

7-3tc SMALL VICTROLA. 1039-J. George had a broken hand that night and didn't start the'game. Finally, the Ganders managed to Punter Who Kicked Own Head Wins By HAROLD CLAAS9EN New York, Dec. 0 professional football player, going through the monolony of punting practice, fractured his skull by kicking himself in the head.

That incident wins for Clint Wnger of the Chicago Cardinals a pair of spaghetli goal posts as the hero in the whackiest piece of gridiron drama during 1943. Just as Wager wns about to boot Ihe ball, he was called by teammate. Inslead of turning his head, Wager bent forward and his knee crashed into his Beardless college freshmen, sub- sltluling for Ihc older athletes gone off to war. were expected to finish one-two-three in the Associated Press' annual "football zanies" but couldn't oust either Wager or Jimmy Cain, former University of Washington halfback but how an official, from top billing. Cain, donning his referee's uniform before going out onto the field for a Pacific coast -game, commented "these" things certainly shrink nowadays" ns he atlempted to slip into what he thought was his sweat shirt.

II aclually was his 22-monlh-old daughler's missing nightgown. The 1943 campaign also presented the sight of an Iowa Pre-Flight back going down the field-stride for stride wilh an Iowa Slale ball carrier and encouraging Ihe collegian in his touchdown run n7 -ft I I 'V Dctcmbor 9, Will Uf fc WM Ym YEAft; VOL. 45-NO, 48 Stof Of 1199; 1927. IS, 1929. Star THE WEATHER Arkansas! Haiti in south, rain and show in north portion this afternoon and tonight; much colder tonight; and Saturday; tempera' tures to 28 degrees in northwest.

PHONE 7-3tp I Walmsley to punt. SPOBTS ROUNDUP Associated Press Sports Columnist New York, Dec. 9 Its easy to blame almost anything on a war it can't argue with you and that may be-why some old timers in sports profess to see some similarity between recent rumors 'about gambling by professional football players and baseball's great scandal of 1919. no proof has been brought up to support these rumors and there probably isn't any basis for them. still there are certain similar conditions that might weaken the public's- confidence in pro football.

The foundations of the Black Sox affair were laid during the war when there free and and easy attitude toward when many athletes felt they'd be too old to return, to sports after the fighting Those same sentiments prevail today (take a look at the figures on rac track gambling) and while rumors can be heard, it will take more than denials offers of rewards to convince all the public that they have no foundation. 1941 CHEVROLET, THREE-QUAR- ter ton, pickup. Five heavy duty tires. Russel, Falcon, or ''write, Buckner, Rt. 1, 8-6tp Real Estate for Sale 142- ACRE FARM WITH NEW SIX- room house, tenant house, barn fwith sheds for 40 or 50 head cat- Electricity.

Sixty acres in "cultivation, balance in pasture, all under fence, large part fence hog-proof. Everlasting spring water in several places. AJso lake. Location seven miles from Hope on Shover gravel road. E.

Cassidy, Hope, Phone 146. 7-6tp Proof Of The Pudding Baseball recently tossed out Bill Cox for what many people might think was a harmless practice of betting on his own team Ito by taking this step in strengthened its place in public esteem from here it seems that Football Commissioner Elmer Layden would do well to follow the vigorous example of Judge Landis and. conduct a thorough investigation of every rumor. he already has tracked them all down, it's up to Elmer to tell- the public exactly what he has done and why he loesn't believe any of those yarns. 111.3 bUU V.11VAW I Girls also gained their spots in the football picture with schoolmistresses taking over coaching stop the burly Yellow Jackets on jobs, Agnes Rifner of New Castle, the two-yard line and Coach Dan joining her high school team Stallworth in desperation sent in i and making various 'attempts to I place kick extra points and two gorgeous ticket sellers at the College of Pacific allowing a stranger to talk them out of a $1,000 each "to take to the office for change." As though it were planned, the best collection of oddities was unfurled Nov.

13. That's the day Billy Andrews, Texas' water-boy, kicked two extra points for the Longhorns; Navy dc- eated Columbia in the absence of both head coaches; North Carolina spilled Pennsylvania as both teams vound up with a -minus yardage on forward passing; Elroy Hirsch hobbled off the Michigan bench vhile Coach Fritz Crisler ooking to win a bet by scoring that bombing is a lot like forward passing because: "all you have to do is hit the receiver. recently arrived in the South Pacific, where he may encounter his borth- er John, a second lieutenant in the marine infantry. in praise of army football is an item by Sgt. Sid Gray Camp Davis, N.

A. barrage." Sid tells of a soldier who wrote his girl: "sure, honey, I miss you but on Saturday afternoons you'll really have to excuse me. We've got a pip of a football team and I must give it all my attention." Today in Congress 'By The Associated Press Senate May take up pay boost for non-operating railroad workers. Finance committee continues work on new tax bill in executive session. House routine session.

Military committee drafts mustering-out pay bill for service men. Wanted NEW OR USED, IF IN GOOD condition, 40 feet of 4 or 5 foot 'high wire fence. F. H. Jones, J510 S.

Main, Phone 563-J. 7-3tc Lost WHITE AND RED COCKER SPAN- iel female. Reward, Padgitts Kennels. 9-3tc LADIES' BROWN BILLFOLD. Identification card.

Reward. Mrs. H. C. Sines, 203 East Ave.

C. Phone 857. 9-3tc Notice CHRISTMAS GIFTS ON DISPLAY and on hand at my home. Al kinds of Fuller brushes. 902 South Fulton, Phone 138.

Mrs. Bundy. 23 YOUR OLD MATTRESS made new. Prices reasonable Used furniture bought or acceptec as payment on your mattress Phone 152. Hope Mattress Co 10-lmp CHRISTMAS SPECIAL FOR 30 days only! Mattresses remade.

Sheeting 3.95. Striped tick, 5.95. Free delivery. Phone 152. Hope Mattress Co.

24-lmp QIVE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPT ipns for Christmas. Not rationed yet. New or renewal subscriptions on any Chas. Reynerson at City Hall. 30-tmc CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! HAVE your mattress remade.

Cobb's Mattress Shop, 712 West 4th Phone 445-J. 4-6tc WILL THE PERSON WHO BOR rowed blue prints of cattle anc dehorning chutes with Kendal Lemley's name stamped on game, return to me at once. Bates. 7-3tp Scrap Collection The latest list of prospective to Capt. Billick Welchel is navy grid coach includes Commander Oscar E.

Hagbert and lieut. Commanders Slade Cutter, Robert (Dusty) Dornin, Lour Kirn and Magruder Tuttle. All have seen on active sea duty. Franklin and Marshall college wrestling team, which hasn't lost meet since 1937, is ready to starl a new season without a single veteran grappler on most sensational development of the week was an informal appeal by tennis leaders to newspapermen for on how to get more publicily for Ihe championships, which will be held again in 1944 if President Hoi- combe Ward has his way. Conzelman, no'longer a foolball coach, claims this year was "the first time I ever hasted the favor of Indian summer.

the Chicago Cards, Jimmy was used to that bitler taste of defeat. against Wisconsin; and Illinois lost to Ohio State in the "fifth" quarter. Sports Mirror By The Associated Press Today A Year Ago Members of Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association vote to continue com- jelilive program in 1943. Three Years Ago: Reds 'trade ew Riggs lo Dodgers for Pep Young. Five Years Ago: Ki Aldrich, C.

U. cenler, No. 1 man in drafl of National Pro Foolball League, selecled by Cardinals. Launching An Idea When the New York boxing writers met yesterday to award the eddie Neil Memorial Trophy it was suggested that an effort be made to have his name included among the sports celebrates and war correspondements for whom Liberly ships have been named. To those of us who knew Eddie and worked with him it seemed that nothing less than a battleship would do until a letter was read from Mrs.

James J. Corbett in which she said that if the former heavyweight champion were alive nothing would please him more not even winning the title from John L. Sullivan than having one of these ships carry hisname as Eddie Neil probably would have said: "anything good enough for Jim Corbett is good enough for me." Texas Cowboy Gets Chance to Meet Nazis New York, Dec. 9 Some months ago former Cowboy James W. Sheppard wrote his hometown paper, the Throckmorton (Tex) Tribune, that he would "like to meet the enemy face to face with a forty-five smoking in both hands." Sheppard, 24, now with the Fifth Army in Italy, has met the enemy face to face and he has licked him in a melee of mud, rifles, grenades, pistols and machine guns, the New York Herald Tribune says in a copyrighted story by Correspondent Homer Bigart.

It all began when Sheppard and another Throckmorton resident, Sergeant Jack Sullivan, got trapped on the slopes of La Difen- sa on a reconnaissance patrol. They dove into a hole as machine gun bullets formed a solid wall above their heads, Sullivan managed to escape after lobbing grenades at the enemy. Five Germans raced toward Sheppard's position and he raised his rifle, found the sights clogged with mud and fired offhand, just like Sheriff Jack McWhorter taught him to shoot back in Throckmorton county, Bigart relates. "I was surprised when the first one fell," Sheppard said. "I got the next one, and then the third one comes running to within 20 yards before he goes down grabbing his belly.

The other two started turning away. I shot one in the shoulder. He had killed two men, wounded three and sent others flying. After weathering another shower of enemy grenades and mortar fire Sheppard made his way back to a command post where he volunteered as a muleskinncr. Thinking about what the people in Throckmorton might say if they heard he was playing nurse to a jackass instead of meeting the enemy face to face, Sheppard changed his mind.

His command post officer prom ised to send him back to the front at dawn. Fights Last Night By The Associated Press Elizabeth, N. J. 192, New York, outpointed Larry Scalone, 181, Newark, Oakland, Calif. Buddy Millard, 178, Houston, outpointed Paul' Hartnek, 181, Omaha, (10).

Jimmy McAllister, 128, New York, knocked out Eddie Hudson, 135, Kansas City, (6). Man is like a car. Just so much mileage in him, whether he runs it out in 40 years. or 80. Home is where part of the family waits until the rest of them bring back the car.

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Rayon crepe in eye-catching colors. 7.95 Fine Quality LUNCH CLOTHS 52 by 52, in fast-color plaids and checks. 98C and 1.98 Cozy Cotton Chenille Robes Handsomely tailored in rich, jewel colors: Washable. 12-20. 6.98 cotton housecoat in allover floral print.

Reversible, too. 12-20. (I Children's Gifts We still have a limited selection of Dolls, Pandas, Dogs and other Children's Gifts. 9.95 Flannel PAJAMAS Will win smiles of approval on Christmas morn! These are styled for real comfort. 1.95 Bonnet and Muff For wee misses stitched brim and muff.

Wool, velve- 1.98 Buy Wer Bonds and Stomps "The Friendly Stor HELP LICK the AXIS Znamenka to Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor ALEX. H. WASHBURN From Federal to Local Reversing the Trend of Government W. V. Fitts, head of the vocational guidance department of Hope High School, told the Rotary club today noon that business men would probably agree with him that vocational training should remain the province of the public schools after the war instead of setting up another federal NYA.

is correct. American FDR Approves Legislature's Father Draft Bill Washington, Dec. 10 Roosevelt has approved the father draft bill, designed to delay induction of pre-war fathers into Ihc armed services. The action was announced by the While House loday. The place where Ihc chief cxcculivc aclcd was not disclosed.

The president had been by War Manpower Commissioner Pnul V. McNutl lo vclo Ihe legislation. The president's approval raised a question as to whether McNutl authority over administration of the selcclive service syslem. The aulhorily, vesled n. General Lewis B.

Hershey, Ihc selective service director, cumu under McNutl's dircclivcs previously. How extensively the act will delay Ihc indudions of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers remains to be seen, liy; is eported a closed meeting of Association of Manufacturers in New York City yesterday that about 1,000,000 pre-Pcnrl Hnvbor fathers would have to be inducted by June 30, 1944, to meet present schedules. The expressed intent of the present legislation is to prevent to induction of any of this group of fathers until all available physical. ly fit single men and non-fathers have been put into uniform. The law provides, however, the application of this principle within the discretion of the selective service chief need not disrupt the orderly calling of men for service.

The bill was approved by the president despite McNutt's assertion it would "seriously weaken" the over-all manpower program by dividing control of military and civilian recruitments. Members of Congress disagreed as to the practical effect of the legislation, but Senator Johnson (D- Colo), a member of the conference drafting committee, estimated it would prostpone the induction of some fathers for "two or three months." The legislation sets up ''national pool" plan for selective service, at the bottom of the draft list and that none of hem be called so long as non-fahcrs arc uvnilabl-3 for cail anywhere in the ruUio.i. An "escape" 'clause written into the bill at ilie request ot soloetivc (Continued on Page Three) business is prctly unanimous right now about cutting down federal civilian authority and building up local authority. I have here a report by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Virginia Democrat, chairman of the Joint Committee on Reduction of Noncss'cntial Federal Expenditures, which shows, among olher Ihings, that: There are still 35,000 em- ployes i'n the WPA, NYA and other Washington organizations which supposedly have cither been liquidated entirely or greatly curtailed.

Of the 300,000 useless federal jobs Senator Byrd's committee- would eliminate, more than 10 per cenl arc found in bureaus which congress thought it had badly slashed or wiped out. It is to the inlcrcsl of sound American business lo sec lhal federal peace-lime extravagance is brought under control. But at the same lime il should be recognized thait the underlying aim of federal organizations like Ihe training of youlh for skilled jobs- was esscnlially sound. Local citizens, therefore, must see lo il Ih" 1 work represented by the old NYA is incorporated into the local public schools you are willing to lot another federal NYA arise after Ihe war. The post-war period will most certainly intensify the demand for occupational training.

Of the 10 'million returning" soldiers, 'and sailors perhaps a million will have gotlen skilled training in the ai-med forces. Therefore the requirements for a sludenl who expects to go out in the world and find a fulRime job will automatically be raised. He or she will find lhal Ihc voca- lional training which hilherto has been a take-it-or-lcavc-it mailer has suddenly become an absolulc necessity. Whenever the level of skilled training in adults is suddenly boosted it is in these days of mechanized "Ihe heal is on" for every studetSl loo. And Ihis is an opportunity for every local citizen to help brace local institutions and local author- ily by seeing lo il lhal Ihe public schools in Ihe coming post-war period do not fumble the job of Ihe lale NYA.

Keeping Up With Ration Coupons Processed and Canned Foods; November day for green stamps and in Ration Book 4. November 20 Last day for blue stamps and in Ration Book 2. December day for green stamps and in Ration Book 4. Meat, Cheese, Butter and Fats: November 21 First day for brown stamp in Book 3. November 28 First day for stamp in Buok Z.

December 4 Last for for brown stamps and in Book 3. December 5 First day for brown stamp in Book 3. December 12 First day for brown stamp in Book 3. December 19 First day for brown stamp in Book 3. January day for brown stamps and in Book 3.

Sugar: November 1 First day for sugar stamp No. 29 in Ration Book 4. Good for five pounds. 'QassUue: November day for No. 8 coupons in A Ration Rook, good for three gallons.

and coupons are good for two gallons Would Retain Craft Work for Schools "I think all you business men will agree with me lhal the sludenl training program for jobs in busi- and industry should continue to be handled by the public schools after the war, instead of attempting to sot up another NYA centralized- in Washington," W. V. Fills, head? of Ihc vocational training department of Hope High School, told Hope Rotary club at its luncheon today noon in Hotel Barlow. Mr. was presenled on a program arranged by Alex H.

Washburn, who told Ihe club Ihe history of apprenticeships in Europe and early America, pointed out lhal today's apprentice must be a person with a good basic schooling, and then introduced Mr. Fitts as the man who is dovetailing local students inlo local business on a part-lime basis. "Nol all our students are adapted lo Ihc jobs Ihey arc put into," Mr. Fills said, it is up to you business men lo help us weed them out. "The tolal amount of money earned by part-lime I workers in Arkansas during Ihesc wartimes is, of course, considerable; and yet money is not the real goal of this program.

The real goal is to put students through a training of two years or so lo fil Ihem for full-lime jobs in skilled crafts, or dislribulive posls in merchandising." Club Presidenl James H. Jones urged the Rolarians to turn put for Ihe annual foqtiball program at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the High School cafeteria, when about 150 guesls are expecled. Among the speakers will be: Dr. Alice Barlow Brown of Hope, long-time medical missionary in China; and John Tomlin, coaoh of the University of At- kansas. Nitroglycerine was invented in 1840 by Ascanio Sobrero.

Invasion May Follow Strong Pacific Attacks in Pacific By MORRIE LANDSBERG Associated Press War Editor American sea and air power has a strong challenge to Japanese supremacy along the eastern fringe of the enemy's island defense line anchored to battered Ra- baul and the Pacific fortress of Truk. Bombardments by ships and planes came as Ihc possible preliminary lo aclual invasion of the Nipponese bases lhal stand in Ihc way of Allied pqnctration inlo Ihc Philippines and 1 Ihe Nclhcrlands East Indies. Formidable forces of Ihc Pacific flcol slcamcd inlo enemy waters lo deliver Ihe firsl naval bombard- rricnt of ovel-shapcd Nauru island, 50 miles wcsl of Ihc Gilbert islands, in Ihe Wake of aerial riads on three islands in the 80-mile long Marshall group lo the northeast. Allied planes kept up Ihc systematic pounding of Ihe invasion-vulnerable lower lip of New Brilain, the home of Rabual, while Australians speeded the of the Japanese from Ihc Huon peninsula of New Guinea with the cap- lure of Wareo in Ihe mountain jungle. Viclorious Chinese troops secured their hold on rccaplrued Changtch in Hunan province while fighting still raged northwest of the "rice bowl" city.

The Chinese army spokesman declared Ihc Japanese lost 15,000 killed and 25,000 wounded in the 40-day battle for Chang- teh. The spokesman, -Maj. Gen. CJ Tseng, termed it the battle thai ''war-torri' has seen since Shanghai in i937. He praised the American 14th Air Force for ils supporl of Chinese ground troops in the bloody fight.

The Berlin radio quoted a spokesman at Japanese headquarters in China arc receiving; orders "to China has become more confused and more serious, and therefore is receiving greater attention." From the same source came the assertion that American fliers in China ere receiving orders 'to bomb the Japanese mainland and communication between Japan and Ihc mainland." Carrier aircraft joined the American warships in laying down a barrage of bombs and shells on equatorial Nauru Dec. 8. II was Ihe third time the atoll, which stands on the i-oute lo Truk, had been al- lacked since September. Delails of Ihc latest raid were nol announced immediately. On the previous day, Liberators of the Seventh Army air force raided Taroa, Millc and Jaluil in the Marshalls.

Al Jaluil, which is 1240 miles easl of Truk, a patrol boat was sunk and a medium freighter probably sunk. Allied planes atlackcd Cape Gloucester, on the southwest coast of New Britain, for the ninth consecutive day, although on a lighter scale, to reduce the strength of enemy resistance to any invasion move. Across the slrait bclwcen New Brilain and New Guinea, Australian ground forces lhal fought up a hillside to capture Wareo, 12 miles northwest of coastal Finschhafcn, continued in pur- suil of Ihc enemy, while Ihc Allied air arm slruck at Japanese positions. Hospitals Are Assured of Food Supplies Hospitals in the Southwest area arc assured Ihe assistance of the Food Distribution Administration in obtaining sufficient supples of shell eggs lo meet mnimum requirements for patients, Mr. James L.

Eidson, FDA area supervisor, said here today. Mr. Eidson urged hospitals finding it impossible lo oblain sufficient quantities of shell eggs at any lime lo gel in louch with him immediately. Every effort wll be made to obtain the needed supplies through cooperation between the FDA area office, hospital authorities, and egg dealers, the official said, and added necessary priority certificates will be issued by FDA. When hospitals are able to oblain less than eggs per day or each palienl during any one week period, FDA will consider the supply inadequate and federal assistance will be given, he explained.

36 to Testify for Browning Boy Liltlc Rock, Dec. 10 De-' fcnse Allorney Fred A. he has called 36 witnesses lo lesti- fy for William Browning when Ihe 17-year-old youlh goes on trial in Pulaski circuit court next Tuesday on a charge thai he killed his er, Mrs. Julia Kocrs Browning. Willkie's Basic Platform Has Four Points By JACK BELL Washington, Dec.

10 A four-point "basic political phifoso- emerged today as a possible pro-convention platform for Wendell L. Willkie in his bid for re- nomination as the Republican presidential candidate'in 1944. Enunciated by John Cowles, Minneapolis publisher, this philosophy consists of four Willkie beliefs slightly reminiscent in form, if not in content President Roosevelt's four freedoms for the world. Cowles wrote to C. Nelson Sparks, former Akron, Ohio, mayor, to protest charges in Sparks' book, "One Man Wendell that Willkie supporters had attempted to buy votes at the 1940 Republican convention, but his exposition Willkie's beliefs evidently was intended for much wider, circulation.

Cowles said Willkie believes in (1) civil liberties; (2) the free enterprise "chance to get ahead" system; (3) the need for international cooperation for peace and stability and (4) frank talk by candidates about vital national problems. Cowles said, in his letter to Sparks he was present in a Philadelphia hotel room during the 1940 convention when Willkie received two telephone calls from responsible members of the party offering votes his-way on the next: ballot if he would promise cabinet post for one unnamed person and support the vice presidential aspirations of another. Although Cowles said it looked as if Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio might be nominated on the next ballot, Willkie refused to make any deal. Taft commented last night "nobody had any promise'of a cabinet post from me, either." Supporting Cowles' statement 'that'Willkie avoided deals.

Senator Ball (R-Minn) said he had personal knowledge that former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota had stipulated that there should be- no deals of any kind when he agreed, after making his keynote speech to the convention, to become WUikie's convention manager. Although Cowles said Uiat "millions of Republicans" want to see Willkie renominated and elected, John D. Hamilton, former nn- i a 1 committee chairman, brought back a different viewpoint when he returned east from a tour of 17 Western states, At Philadelphia yesterday Hamilton said Willkie's support for the 1944 nomination was not as strong as it had been represented.

He added lie had found underlying support everywhere for Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who has said he would not be a candidate, Two Hurt in Auto Accident Gentry, Dec. 10 The collision of their automobile and a Kansas City Southern freight yesterday left Mr. and Mrs. E.

W. Hutchinson of Hot Springs in a scries condition in a Siloam Springs hospital today. Attendants said they suffered severe head injuries. Hutchinson, CO, represents a Dallas, Tex printing and supply house. Ex-Educator Dies Memphis, Dec.

10 (A 1 Death claimed Dr. ChavJes B. Cain, 43, former veterinary science instructor at Arkansas Tech, at a Memphis hospital yesterday. He was field service director for Royal- Stafolife mills at the time of his death. His widow, a daughter and a son survive.

Allies Crack Nazi Defenses After 9-Day Baffle V.By EDWARD KENNEDY Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. 10 The Fifth Army has cracked German defenses on both sides of the Via Casilina at Mignano in a bloody nine-day offensive brought to a smashing climax American troops who seized Mt. Samucro in "the battle of the clouds," Allied headquarters riounccd today. At the same time it was disclosed Canadians, infantry and 'tanks, spearheading the Eighth Army along the Adriatic, were smashing forward on an eight-mile front after forcing a second crossing of the Moro river. Fighting against the strongest man-made defenses and toughest natural obstacles yet encountered in Italy, Lt.

Gen. Mark W. Clark's veteran British and American troops have wiped out the German mountain line on both sides of the main road to Rome and arc stabbing into secondary defenses in the direction of Cassino. Measured in miles, their advance lias not been great since Gen. Clark gave the word for the onslaught, and they still are faced by a formidable network of fortifications covering the hillsides as far as Cassino and beyond.

The deepest penetration of the offensive has been only about three miles. But by the yardstick of military achievement their success is one of the greatest of the Mediterranean theater, for they have smashed in little over a week that the enemy hoped would stand as an impregnable line for many months, and they have overcome terrain and fortifications substantially than-those in Tunisia which stalled'the'Allied attack for a whole winter. SHOPPING) DAYS Uf Sand and pumice were used to attain cleanliness before soap invenled. Liquor Supply Being Hoarded Says Senator Washington 1 A 42 percent decline in whisky withdrawals from warehouses in the period from May through September was atribuled loday by Senalor Van Nuys (D-Ind) lo "hoarding" by dislillers, wholesalers and re- lailers in an effort to oblain higher prices. Van Nuys, chairman of a Senale Judiciary subcommillee invesli- gating the current liquor shortage, told reporters testimony by Stewart Berkshire, deputy internal revenue collector, subslanlialed Van Nuy's belief there is a definite widening of the liquor "black market," "Hundreds and hundreds of individuals many of them persons who never drink a drop have bought up whisky as an investment," Van Nuys asserted.

Asked how they intended to make a profit under price ceilings, he replied he was satisfied many of the individuals were selling on the "black market" at very high prices. He said he suspected also some have hopes the legal ceilings will crack and that retail prices will go up. The committee heard there are 117,000,000 gallons of whisky from four years old in bonded warehouses thai could be lapped lo relieve a thirsty market if the government would cut tax-exempt shortage time lo four years. Partners Send Money to Casualty's Wife Hoi Springs, Dec. 9 Ilobcrl W.

Andrews, Army Medical Corps, dived off a transport in the North Pacific Nov. 28 to assist a fellow soldier who had fallen overboard. Both were lost. Yesterday, his widow, Mrs. Hazel Andrews of Hot Springs, received a check for $1,225.35 representing a collection made up for her by the troops aboard the transport.

Capt. John B. Krahl, Andrews' commanding officer who sent the check, wrote "Ypur husband's act of heroism, nol only in Ihe service of his country but of his fellowmen set an example which we may all seek to follow." Andrews was the son of Mrs. Hill, Hannibal, Mo, He had been stationed al the Army-Navy General hospilal here for iwo years prior lo his assignmenl overseas lasl May. FDR Visits Island of Malta, Presents Defenders a Scroll on Behalf of American People BuyCM Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri all were represented in the Confederate Congress although none seceded from the Union during the War Between the States.

By The Associated Press Vallelta, Malta, Dec. 10 by plane, President Roosevelt visited this bomb-marked British Mediterranean base Wednesday, presented its people an illuminated scroll on behalf of the American people, and declared the United States would stand staunchly with the British Empire and other Allies after the war to make "it a victory worthwhile." Enroute from the series of epic conferences in which he and Prime Minister Churchill engaged in the Middle East, the presidenl arrived in a huge C-54 four-engine Iroop transport with an escort 20 Lightning and Spitfire fighters. The scroll, which eventually will be cast in bronze and placed in Valletta's main square, saluted Malta and its defenders for "valorous service far above and beyond the call of duty" during the- dark period while Axis aircraft kept the island under a virtual constant alert. The president's plane touched on the world's most bombed airdrmos at 9:50 a. 'Wednesday, after appearing over the island out of a brilliant blue, cloud-flecked sky.

Roosevelt was accompanied by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral William D. Leahy, Ihe president's chief of slaff; Harry Hopkins, Lt. Gen. Carl A.

commander of the Northwest African Air Forces; Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, the president's personal physician; Major John Boelliger, and Maj. Gen. Walter B. Eisenhower's chief of staff. The unprecedented visit followed one by Prime Minister Churchill, who had called at Malta en route to the Cairo conferences.

(The London Daily Herald yos- lerday reporled "slrong feeling" in London lhat President Roosevelt might; visit troops leave Ihese and parlicipale in a final roundup of plans for the invasion of' Europe from Ihe west.) A guard of honor, including an RAF unit, 50 British marines, 50 Royal Navy men, and 100 Uniled Slales and Maltese troops, lined up on the airfield with a R'oyal Artillery band to welcome Mr. first president of the United States to visit the island. First to greet the president was Field Marshal Lord Gort, commander-in-chief of Malta, Others presenled to the president on the field were Monsignor Michele Go'nzi, bishop of Gozo, representing the archbishop who is ill; Chief Justice Sir George Borg; Vice Admiral Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, flag officer in charge; Gen. Seginald Oxley, general officer commanding; and Air Vice Marshal Sir Kennelh Rodney Park, air officer commanding. "My boy has lold me about you," Ihe presidenl said in a chal with Bishop Gonzi, but he failed to say which one of his boys, With Lord Gort, the president stepped into a jeep named "Husky" which belongs to Air Vice Marshal Park and is one of three pre- senled lo Gorl by Gen.

Eisenhower when Sicily was invaded. As Ihe jeep came lo a slop in fronl of Ihe guard of honor, Ihe band slruck up "The Slar Spangled Banner." The presidenl look Ihe salulc and Ihe Stars and Stripes broke but on the mast behind Ihe guard. Addressing' himself lo Field Marshal Gorl, Ihe troops and the people of Malta, Presidenl Roosevcll said: "Nearly a year ago Ihe prime minister and I were at Casablanca shortly after the landings by British and American troops in North' Africa, and al Ural lime I lold the prime minister, some day we would once more control the whole of the Mediterranean and that then I would go to Malta. "For many months I have wanted on behalf of the American people lo pay some lilllc tribute to this island and to all the people, both civil and military, who during three years have contributed so much lo democracy, nol jusl here but all over Ihc civilized world. "So al lasl I have been able lo come.

Al lasl I have been able lo see something of this historic land and I wisli I could stay, bul I have many Ihings to do. "I may toll you, though, that during these past three weeks the prime minister and I feel we, too, have slruck slrong blows for the future of the human race and so in Ihis simple way I am taking the opportunity to do what all the American people would join with me in doing," After this lalk Ihe presidenl read Ihe following from, an illuminated scroll in a handsome wooden case which he said was "a citation from the presidenl of the United Stales speaking on behalf of all the American people:" "In Ihe name of Ihe people of Ihe Uniled Slates of America I salute and ils defenders who in the cause of freedom and justice and decency throughout the world have rendered valorous service far above and beyond the call of duty, "Under repeated fire from the skies, Malta stood alone and unafraid in the center of the sea, one tiny bright flame in the darkness, a beacon of hope in the clearer days which have come. "Malta's" bright story of human fortilude and courage will be read by posterity with wonder and grat- titude through all the ages. "What was done in this island maintains all the highest traditions of gallant men and women who from the beginning of time have lived and died to preserve civilization for all mankind. "Signed Franklin D.

Roosevelt. "President, Dec. 7, 1943." The president dated the scroll Dec. 7, the day before his be-; cause it: was the second aniver- sary of the Uniled States' entry into the war. "The United Stales will proceed until the war is won," Mr.

Roosevelt told his listeners. "But more than that we will stand shoulder to shoulder with, the British Empire and our other allies in making it a victory worthwhile." Replying, Lord Gort said the people of Malta were "very sensible of Ihe greatness of this occasion" and that it was a day they would never forget. "No one can be asked to do more in war than fulfill his or her duty, none can do less." Gort added. "And that you and the citizens of Ihe States of America should feel the armed forces and people of this island have not.failed the United Nations is in itself a full reward. The island's governor then asked the president's consent to "reproduce the -citation- 'in jljrpnze' and place it in Valletta's palace square where "it will stand in all weathers as a permanent.monument of this great and unique occasion." The whereabouts of the president has not been disclosed since he and the prime minister conferred in Cairo Dec.

4-6 with President Ismet Inonu of Turkey. Before that, he and Churchill had visited Teheran, Iran, Nov. 28-Dec. 1, to confer with Premier Stalin following talks Nov. 22-26 in Cairo with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.

Four Rail Lines of Dnieper Bend Cut by Red Army Butch O'Hare Is Missing in Action Phoenix, Dec. 10 Navy Figher Pilot Lt. Comdr. Edward H. (Butch O'Hare, dubbed by President Roosevelt one of the greatest combat fliers in aviation history, is missing in action.

The St. Louis ace who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for blasling five Jap bombers out of the sky lone-handed in Ihc battle of the Coral Sea was reported by the navy lo have disappeared on a flight mission, probably somewhere in Ihe Soulh Pacific. Nolificalion was received yeslcr- day by his mother, Mrs Selma O'Hare of Phoenix, and his wife, the former Rita Woostcr of St. Louis, who now lives in San Diego, Calif. O'Hare is the father of a baby girl.

The flier, then 28, established his combat record during an atlack by enemy bombers on a U. S. aircraft carrier in February, 1942. Associated Press Correspondent Tom Yarbrough wrote: "O'Hare and another flier were the only ones available when a second wave of nine enemy planes was repprlcd approaching. Mosl of the carrier's fighters were pursuing the firsl wave of attackers.

"O'Hare and the other pilot look their aloft immedialely. They shot down one enemy plane. O'Hare's leammale was forced out of aclion temporarily by minor gun Irouble bul O'Hare conlinucd the allack alone againsl Ihe heavily armored bombers." "His cilalion said "alone and unaided," he shot down five of Ihe bombers and seriously damaged a sixth. In all, 18 of 20 allacking bombers were downed lhat. day.

When he received the decoralion Presidenl Roosevelt declared Ihe feal, "one of Ihe mosl daring, of nol Ihe mosl darnig, single action in the history of combat aviation." Later. O'Hare was assigned to a South Pacific naval air training base. It was assumed he returned recently to active combat but the navy did not elaborate on toe mission on which he was reported lost. the island of Malta and ils people I units. An ensign is a flag flown on ships, a standard a flag carried by mounted or motorized unils and a color a flag carried by unmounted By EDWARD D.

BALL London, Dec. 10 Army has captured of a system of railroads linking the Dnieper river bend with the area south of Kiev, Jospeh Stalin announced a special order of the day. 7 The Soviet column that 'smashed'! Into the town was one of several 1 driving through crumbling Nazi de 'ense in the Dnieper bend and ning; out from the bridgehead. t'-f 'The capture of the heavily fied German bastion cut the last, )f four rail lines centering in' 1 -own and brought the weight of 'ttfe 'j Russian Dnieper bend next stronghold in the path of directly against Kirovograd, the army forces threalenmg lo outflank 1 Krivoi Rog. Stalin's order of the day said Znamenka had fallen after three days of fierce fighling and termed the town a "powerful strong point the German defenses in the Kiro- vograd The Red Army was braced again the Ukrainian bulge west of Kiev where their lines held fast 24 hours after two successive before the largest German tank thrusts.

(The German communique claim- ed gains the bulge around Zhitomir and sten, 80 miles west of the Ukvam-" ian capital, and admitted in their Dnieper bend lines in violent battles fought a heavy snowstorm). i Red Army units south of Kremen-K chug threatened to capture tion of Dolmovka, the fall of whic-lwf 'would outflank Krivoi Rog from.ineT west. The Germans were oifenngi a considerable battle. ft The strong Russian drive 'down" the Znamenka- Nikolaev railroad' swept beyond Mederovo 5 moved within 25 miles of ovka. The loss of Dolmovka would about close out the Krivoi Rog salient, for the Germans would then have to rely on one strained railroad and snow-blocked ways for supplies.

Already, the Nazis have lost tfieir communications between this in the Dnieper bend and those fight- iff ing in the Cherkasy sector and others battering the Russian lines west of Kiev, Heavy snows and Wizards were sweeping many sectors of the long" Russian front, holding up lions vast areas. This is the ginn ng of the real Russian which is late this year. The army newspaper Red Star said air fighting had mproased greatly the Soviet bombers and Stormoviks were said lo have blasled Nazi columns re- 'C trealmg down the Znamenka-Njko' laev railroad, smashing Iheir bet' lie formations lime and again. The newspaper said Ihe fiectTVij force was superior alof.1, Air Push Be Followed by Invasion Washington, Dec 10 This first officwl mdicalion lint the offensive against Germany has passed Ihe pielmimary phases and enlered the final knockout preparatory to a Kind invasipn was made public today. In Ihe same arlicie, Col Ray Cliflon of Ihe aimy air forces disclosed five divisions of infantry combat units have been formed from the Luftwaffe personnel indicalion lhal Geimany ib g9timg short or aircraft" and is prepaupg to fight on the ground.

Cliflon, an inslruclor at the conv mand and general staff school at Fort Leavcnworth, discussed the classic "four phases" of strategic bombing in a survey written the school's monthly military view. "The bombing of German-occupied Europe can be considered ini, the third phase now, he said, Ihe fourth phase being that in which "the air will paralyze the production and movement of enemy way supplies and support the ground forces making a landing." At the lime he wrote (just prior to the massive November air raids on Berlin) Clifton said the air fensive already had reduced Germany's manufacturing capacity by at least 35 per cenl, diminished Ihe power of Luftwaffe and forced it into a weakening defense, had seriously damaged German civilian morale. (Continued 90 Pap Tbjee) 4.