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Monday, December 20, 1943 HOPE STAR HOPE ARKANSAS ARKANSAS Coonnie Mack Is Getting Pretty Old, Admits It By JACK SMITH Philadelphia, Dec. 20 -(P)-Connle Mack, who'll be 81 years old Thursday, isn't quite his' usual self these days. "The years go on: time is going pretty fast." he says. The sparkle is still -a his eyes: the smiles still play ACrOSS his lips: he's as erect and hearty as ever: and he'll tell you "I feel very much like a boy in lot of respects:" but perhaps for the first time the gaunt, gentle old man of baseball admits to a touch of sad. ness as he awaits another birthday.

"There's been a lot." he says. "Birthdays started quite a while ago for But the mood lasted only mentarily. Sitting in his picturesque tower office at Shibe Park. he snapped up and launched into a vigorous monlogue of unecdote, and comment on his Philadelphia Athletics and their future. "IL.I could only get back some of the boys in the service I we would have a pretty good ball club this year," he said.

"As it is there isn't much to be said. Most of what I call our regular players, the infielders and outfielders, will be new. They may be no better than the players last year, but they'll be new faces. You have to keep trying. "I'm still hoping lo win another pennant you know.

IC I didn't I wouldn't be here." The old man, the idol of millions of kiddies and adult fans, goes to his office daily carrying his lunch in a sack to plug away in his effort to build up a team like the great Athletics of the 1910-'14 1939-'31 erass, and in spite of his eyes he For him For you BAYTOWN Thankless Army Job Is That of Cook By 'HAL BOYLE An American Air Base in Italy, Dec. 14 (Delayed) -(P)- The most thankless Job in the army 18 that of mess officer. "Our worst grief is trying to make roast turkey out of corned beef," sald Lt. Samuel Dibble Watson, who works 16 hours a day keeping headquarters offices of the 15th Air Force contended with their meals. Watson, who has the largest pecan tree nursery in South Carolina, hasn't been able to turn canned steer meat into drumsticks, but the has done something almost as remarkable.

intends to go on traveling with the club, supervising the play on the field. Mack. his eyes twinkling, conceded that he was amused by the excitement his presence generally stirs In hotels and restaurants and other public places. "I go into a place without thinking and then the people are looking around and silting up straight (the old man himself is straight a telephone polo, and just about as long, and his carrlage sometimes is contagious. If I thought beforehand, I wouldn't go in.

I wonder why they do it. I don't feel I've ever done anything to warrant that. It's just because I've been around 50 long (59 years In baseball) guess." The smile left his face then, and he said he -wanted to go on "being around." "I feel this old game," he said. "I really like it. I don't know what I'd do without it.

I'd be completely lost. gonna keep agoin', long as I can, tell, the boys what to do, I'm gonna keep agoin'. When they have to tell me what to do, when I start saying the same things over and over again and repeating the same stories like some old men, then I'm gonna quit." tomorrow! BATON ROUGE on aviation 1 To supply filiates have When his outfit was back in Tunis he had two fresh eggs for breakfast for every man every day. This was the only mess in town price was 20 cents an egg, but Watserving. them.

The black market son all he could use for four cents each. "I made a deal with the mayor of Tunis," he explained, "I had the transportation and the mayor didn't, so he made me official egg collector for the five biggest lowns west of Tunis. I collected sixly thousand eggs a week, of which we were allowed to reserve three to four thousand for ourselves." Watson got tired of paying four cents an egg and talked local French bakers into trading him 100 fresh eggs in exchange for large can of powdered eggs which, when cooked, became El rubbery substance rivalling pork luncheon meat and ration hash the most disliked food in the. army Ordinary only about half the soldiers will cat powdered eggs, but they are all right for baking. "I was getting my eggs for practically nothing then," he said.

"but I began lo run out or powdered eggs, I learned there was another mess officer in town with El big stock of powdored eggs. I offered to give him 50 fresh eggs for each can and he jumped at the chance. He thought I was crazy. "But I was getting 0110 hundred fresh eggs myself for each our mess was making 50 eggs on cach swap." There is 110 chance for arrangement in Italy. "Eggs sell for 14 to 20 I the black market here, are almost nonexistent," son.

"The Germans ate chickens before they and a discase killed off a rest. "But there are a lol of around here and I know friend the mayor of Tunis like to get some. I'm trying up a deal now where I can back some potatoes in for some more eggs." Satisfying finicky appetites up a lot of Watson's This thoughts are back home BALTIMORE fuel from these refineries. this need, we and our afso far built eight giant new "cat cracker" plants. Known technically as "Auid catalytic cracking units," they are designed around special, Esso developed processes.

What they do to petroleum sounds almost like magic even to an oil chemist. It is simple truth that no process or company in the world, so far as we know, has ever surpassed the products these plants can turn out. Today, of course, this wonderful new fuel must all go to war. But when the TO PETROLEUM RESFARCH WORKERS Bayway, N. 1.) Classified most day Want Ads cash in advance aver? Phon word, word, word, win minimum ward, $3.70 for continuous insertions only THE MORT YOU TELL THE QUICKER YOU: For Sale QUANTITY OF CUT OVER TIMsuitable to cut into fine wood.

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Black and white spotted. face. Lost on Rosston Reward. 679 Taxi, Homer Navy Encourages Gunners to Miss New Orleans (A) Officers at the Navy's gianti-aircraft gunners training deliber- school to miss the practice target, instruct fledgling red rayon old sleeve navy towed plane. behind a slow moving will be traveling at twice the speed Thelidea is that enemy bombers of the target here, and ahead that of it the the boys target as learn it moves toward themto shoot give it a good the wake they of won't an waste attacking dive bomber later.

any fire in Every month American eight to house- 10. wives are turning in million pounds of waste fat, Bakar Thrilled by Presence of Roosevelt Algiers, Dec. 20 (AP) -The newspaper Depeche Algerienne said today that President Roosevelt had stopped briefly at Dakar in French West Africa while returning to the United: States from the Middle East and gave this description of his arrival: Early on the afternuon of the president's arrival by plane from Tunis, hundreds of American and French soldiers took positions along his motor route while the rumor spread among the inhabitants that the American was expected. Late in the day a long motorcade approached the city between rows of American soldiers and then passed through a double row of French marines guarding the trance to the arsenal. of fusillers After a company presented arms to the president, Gov.

Gen. Pierre Charles Cournarie and U. S. Vice Admiral William A. Glassford, greeted the executive.

The dispatch said the natives were greatly thrilled at their fleeting glimpse of the president and his party. (The Dakar radio said yesterday President Roosevelt had visited there Dec. 9, then boarded a French ship which took him to a rendezvous with a U. S. warship designated to carry the president home.) Sports Mirror By The Associated Press Today A Year Ago Barney Ross named winner of Neil Memorial Trophy.

Three Years Ago-Fritzie Zivic and Lew Jenkins fought 10-round draw before 17,000 at garden. Five Years Ago -Bill Lee of Chicago Cubs officially declared na tional: league pitching leader in won and -lost and earned run averages. Today in Congress By The Associated Press Senate in recess until Tuesday. Lt. Gen.

Brehon Somervell, chief of army services, testifies on Canol project before Turman Committee (10:30 a.m., EWT.) House meets at noon: (routine session) Web of Destiny for Mussolini New Orleans -(AP) Dr. James Nelson Gowanloch, chief biologist of the Louisiana of Conservation, claims he has a spidwith a flair for current events. Shortly before I Duce's fall, Dr. Gowanloch received from friend a "writing. which in reinforcing its web at points under strain makes heavier' tracings which resemble script.

Returning after leaving the insect on a window ledge over the week end, the biologist found his pet had woven a web across the window. "I was amazed," he said, "on examining the web to sce that the spider had traced a name which. appeared to be that of Mussolini from one corner the center." Legal Notice NOTICE OF SALE OF TIMBER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, will be required to execute note with approved surety for the purchase money, bearing interest from date of sale until paid at the rate of eight per cent per annum, and a lien will be retained on said timber to secure the payment of the purchase money, and said timber shall not be cut or removed until said note shall have been paid in full. The pine timber will be offered separately from the hardwood timber. WITNESS my hand on this 10th day of December, 1943.

CALLIE HATFIELD, Guardian. Dec. 13, 20, 27, 1943. That the undersigned, as Guardian for Marie Hatfield, Lile Hatfield and Lenore Hatfield, minors, will offer, for sale at public outcry, to the highest and pest bidder, at the east door or entrance to the Court House in the City of Hope, in Hempstead County, Arkansas, between the hours prescribed by law for judicial sales, on Saturday, the 8th day of January, 1944, all the pine timber on the lands hereinafter described eight inches and over in diameter at the stump at the time of cutting, the purchaser to have in eighteen months from the date of No said sale within which to cut and Call remove said timber, and will also 'offer for sale at the said time and place all the hardwood timber on the lands hereinafter described over twelve inches in diameter at the stump at the time of cutting, the purchaser to have eighteen months from date of the sale within which time to cut and remove said timber, said lands being situated in Hempstead County, Arkansas, in and described as follows, to-wit: M. The East Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section Thirty-three (33), Township Thirteen (13) South, Range Twenty-five (25) West, and the Northwest Quarter and the North Half of the Northeast Last Quarter and the Southwest Quarter of the NorthM.

east Quarter and 15-6tp the Northwest Quarter of the FIVE Southeast Quarter and the Northeast Quarter of road. the Southwest Quarter May. of Section Four (4), 17-6tp. Township Fourteen (14) South, Range Twenty-five (25) West, containing 445.59 acres, more or less. TERMS OF SALE: On a credit of three months, and the purchaser Wilbur Wright Today Wilbur Wright is shown above in his latest Holding a 40 years after the epoch-making airplane Alights model plane, photograph-taken Orville, at Kitty Hawk, N.

on Dec. 17, 1903. with photos brother, show the Wright brothers, Orville at left, as they his Inset looked during days when they pioneered in aviation. SPORTS ROUNDUP Hugh S. Fullerton, Jr.Associated Press Sports Columnist New York, Dec.

20 (P)- Only one pro football team the Bears, of course ever played in the Chicago All-Star game in August and then went on to win the league title playoff in December. Our guess is that the Redskins won't repeat that one They were good enough to make the Giants Baugh in defeat yesterday, but they took quite. a pounding and it's doubtful that their line will be "up" another week As for Sammy Baugh, all he did besides wing those passes to the receivers like a second baseman coming up with a grounder and shooting it to first, was to pull off two cial quick kicks one of the longest ever made in a playoff, and get under the Giants' passes before their own receivers Think the fans liked it? Well, yesterday's 42.800 put the National League's total attendance for 42 games 000 over. last year's figure for 55 games. No Ticket Discounting in advance any more gambling rumors that may turn up, only one Redskin lost his shirt in yesterday's game After the third quarter Bob Masterson changed a badly torn jersey right in the middle of the field.

After pulling on a fresh one that looked as if it had just come from Owner George Marshall's laundry, Bob wriggled a couple of times then trotted off the field Apparently the fresh shirt was too tight. One-Minute Sports Page The Hollywood Park race track may reopen this spring if the army gives it the green light. And if it does, Santa Anita may run a meeting at Hollywood Nat Flesicher is getting ready the third and big. gest edition of his ring record book and appeals to all retired boxers and to managers of active ones to send him their records Bill Hulse, Gunner Haegg's shadow last summer, will receive the metropolitan A.A.U, meritorious award medal tomorrow night Jack Lavelle, the Giants' scout, was selected to play Santa Claus at the sportscasters' Christmas party today. And after one look at Jack's Legal Notice COMMISSIONER'S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in pursuance of the authority and directions contained in the decretal order of the Chancery Court of Hempstead County, made and entered on the 9th day of December, A.

D. 1943, in a certain cause (No. 6015) then pending therein wherein Annie Lou Houston, Ruth A. Cain, May T. Blackard, Mary Lee Anderson, Mary Lee Barnes, and Margaret C.

Anderson and Nancy Ruth Anderson, by Mary Lee Anderson, their guardian, were petitioners, the undersigned, as Commissioner of said Court, will offer for sale at public vendue to the highest bidder, at the east door or entrance of the Court house in the County of Hempstead, within the hours prescribed by law for judicial sales, on Saturday, the 8th day of January, A. D. 1944, the following described real estate, to- wit: Lots Ten (10) and Eleven (11) in Block in Carrigan's Addition to the City of Hope, Ar- kansas; and also, Lots Four (4), Five (5) and Six (6) in Block Seven (7) in the City of Hope, Arkansas, in Hempstead County, Arkansas. TERMS OF SALE: On a credit of three months, the purchaser being required to execute a bond as required by law and the order and decree of said Court in said cause, with approved security, interest at the rate of six per cent per annum from date of sale until paid, and a lien being retained on the premises sold to secure the payment of the purchase money, Given under my hand this 10th day of December, A. D.

1943. J. P. BYERS, Commissioner in Chancery. Dec.

13 and 20, 1943. 600-acre farm now being run by his wife, who has to care for A nursery in the home as well as in the field. There is a 14-month-old pecan farmer in the family that Watson has yet to sec. The army knows how, important It is to run a good mess. Watson's present mess sergeant, Leonard A.

Dunn of Redlands, Calif, weats. a Legion of Merit award. "That's a very unustial honor for a mess sergeant," Watson remarked. He. is the only one I ever heard of getting one.

He's bech al it for seven years. "Reminds me of anotner mess sergeant William If. Joncs who came from north of Texarkana, Arkansas. He had been watching ceremony at which a lot of pilots got Distinguished Flying Crosses for combat service. He turned to me and said: "Lieutenant, when are we going to get distingulshed frying Watson got up from his desk walked over to a big Italian iron safe, pulled the knob and came back with a package of shelled pecans.

"They are from my own trees back home. My wile sent me three pounds. She cried because they wouldn't let her send full fivepound box through the mall. "That farm has her worried I wish the war was over 50 I could get home and take over again." CAN VITAMINS CHANGE GRAY HAIR? According to Cinod flousekeening tests with Calcium Pantothenate on gray hair: Age -did not seem to nffect results. The earliest response occurred In 50 ycar old: the latest in 23 year old.

Color-began to appear near the roots of the hair. The color may not appear all over the head at the same time. Symmetrical arcas, haps on the temples or the back of the head, nay show traces of color first, after which the color will sproarl to other parts of the head. Time -varied from 1 month to 6 mantha.Results-88% of those tested had positive evidence of return of some hair color. Now thousands use GRAYVITA, which contains 10 mgm, of Calcium Pantothenate (the tested amount) PLUS 450 U.S.P.

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200 Lake Ilmen STARAYA RUSSA of VELIKIE KALININ LITH. Nevel MOSCOW VYAZMA Vitebsk MINSK, SOVIET RUSSIA BREST LITOVSK GOMEL SEVSK POLAND; A VORONEZH NEA Service Telepnoto Red Army troops have plunged nearly 20 miles in a five-day offensive on the Northern Front, driving within 40 miles of Poloisk, and toward the Latvian border. field 4. FDR Hopeful of Settlement in Rail Dispute Washington, Dec. 21 (P).

President Roosevelt asserted today that assurances there would not be transportation stoppage would be the best Christmas present the American people could get. He a hope. that railway' executives and employes represen- tatives could get together and work out a formula which would provide some wage increases. Mr. Roosevelt told a press-radio conference that discussions were under way toward setting up some sort of system under which rail employes would get time and onehalf for overtime or the equivalent.

Mr. Roosevelt said that he had learned only a few months ago that, unlike most industrial workers, railway employes do not receive time and one-half for overtime. He said that while perhaps 150,000 to 20,000 operating workers of the carriers were paid on a mileage basis, perhaps some plan could be developed to give them what would amount to lime and a half. He said this might amount to four cents an ahour, in addition to an hourly wage increase of four cents already recommended for operating workmen by an emergency board. The president said he hoped an arrangement could be worked out within the framework of the stabllization law, which would be fair and equitable.

He said a feeling existed that increases porposed for rail workers in both non-operating and ting classifications by special emergency boards were not as great as might be necessary to compensate for increased living costs, particularly in comparison with increases allowed in other industries. Further Cuts in Newsprint Ordered Washington, Dec. 21 -(A)- The War Production Board has ordered deep cuts in the 1944 use of paper by newspapers, magazines, book publishers and commercial printers. The restrictions are designed to save 1,250,000 tons of paper in 1944. Consumption of paper has been running far ahead of pulp production, the WPB said.

The new order will reduce consumption to match the estimated production rate and preserve present inventory reserves, which the WPB said are dangerously- low. In all of the graphic arts industries, the reductions ordered follow recommendations made by the industry advisory committees. The newspaper publishing industotal allotment of paper in try's the first quarter of 1944 will be reduced 23.6 per cent, to effect a saving of 205,709 tons from the 869,296 tons used by the industry in the first quarter of 1941. the base period for estimating alloca- tions. BATHROOM FOR RENT Columbia, S.

C. --UP- According to a Columbia newspaper want ad, Columbia is so congested people may be willing to sleep in a tub. The ad read, "Nicely furnished, steam-heated bathroom, convenient to town and busline." THE WEATHER Partly cloudy today, and Wednesday; slightly today, slightly, colder. totemperature 22 to 26 in north to 32 in south portion. HOPE, ARKANSAS, Is Russians Plunge Within 50 Miles of Poland Border London, Dec.

21 RusBaltic army, sicadily expandits breath in. the' heavily-fortiGerman line. has plunged down the east side of the NevelVitebsk railway to within 20 miles Vitebsk, Reuters reported today from Moscow. This represented an advance of some 15 miles 'for Gen. Ivan C.

Bagramian's forces from their: last reported position. His troops stand: barely 50 miles from the old Polish and Latvian frontiers. The nearest approach to' Vitebsk: was the railway station of Gorodok, 20 miles north on the railway from Nevel. The German communique said Soviet pressure was increasing in Vitebsk area and that northwest of Nevel, the Soviets launched unsuccessful attacks. In the Dnieper bend area, the Germans said the Russians had broken through southeast of Kirovograd but had been dispersed.

or wiped out. Two days of Russian attempts to break through on the Nikopol bridgehead on the lower Dnieper and southwest of Dnepropetrovsk were said by Berlin to have failed. Bagramian's success in Northern Russia, threatening to disrupt the entire Nazi defense system south of Leningrad, had immediate repercussions on other sectors of the long eastern front. Dispatches indicated that huge reinforcements the Germans are throwing into the Nevel battle were possibly being drawn from the Zhitomir-Korosten front west of Kiev, if not further south. Troops.

of the First Ukraine army, who successfully balked Nazi Marshall Fritz Von stein's powerful tank drive Keiv bulge last week, were back the Korosten sector yesterday; front dispatches said, and had re-' pulsed a series of sharp enemy saults. Previous reports said fighting in the bulge was centered the area below Malin. Monday's action cost the Germans 600 men and 27 tanks in one sector alone, the Moscow war bulletin said. Dispatches also revealed that Russians were now exerting strong pressure from the southeast on rovograd, Dnieper bend enemy base, in an apparent drive to late that industrial center. The Russian communique said the Germans lost 1,200 men killed and tanks destroyed in futile counterattacks there yesterday.

A German military spokesman was quoted by the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter as saying that the Germans had withdrawn troops from the Kiev bulge southward toward Kirovograd, ing Von Mannstein may have abandoned his drive on Kiev. A Berlin broadcast, meanwhile, announced the Germans had evacuated their bridgehead on the bank of the ice-bound Dnieper opposite the city of Kherson far the south, and said an carly sault against Kherson itself was ticipated by the German garrison. Moscow did not mention any tivity in the Kherson salient. Only One City Official Draws Opposition opposition include Aldermen W. E.

White, Edwin Stewart, Dale Jones, City clerk and recorder, T. R. Billingsley, and City Attorney, Steve Carrigan. The runoff primary will be held, Tuesday, February 1. Natural rubber had been adapted to more than 35,000 uses before the war, SHOPPING DAYS LEFT TO BUY GLOVES FOR HELEN The filing deadline for prospective city office candidates closed midnight Saturday with only one incumbent alderman drawing opposition.

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57 Star of Consolidated Hope, 1899; January Press, 1927. 1929. Frankfurt Our Daily Bread with an ambitious Opposition leader, the police fold up before the American republic has a new times next morning guns bark, oncoming rebels--and a South government. That's how it is done too many in too many of our neighbor republics-which are publics In name only. The Bolivian story, which "broke" on this page yesterday, contradictory and confusing.

Victor Paz Estenssoro, the cessful revolutionary, is reported a Nazi sympathizer--but these reports originate in Argentina, which is unfriendly to the United Nations. Furthermore, Estenssoro's official announcement was that Bolivia would continue declared war against Germany Japan, and would stand by terms of the Atlantic Charter. Estenssoro is bound to be looked upon with suspicion for raising revolt in a country already with the United Nations, yet is that his predecessor was military dictator named General Enrique Penaranda--and between two the United States suspend judgment, awaiting actual turn of events in Bolivia. Much of the American and British supply comes from that so we may not have to long to know where we stand. At some time or other in career the new Bolivian leader constitutents that what locked Bolivia needed was a ridor to the sea" at the expense Peru or Chile.

If: he is serious about this, then the charge that a Nazi sympathizer will been borne out, by his importing the old "'Pollsh corridor'! war-cry the Western Hemisphere, Bolivian Witatever true facts, should shake the average citizen down to the hard realities now confronting the Unlted on a world-wide front. South of us is not one true sentative republic--and the Latin American nation with a ernment approximately as stable our own, Argentina, is in open position to us. Yet we are with all these countries, save gentina. The thought to be impressed the U.S.A., therefore, is: Not only are we the anchor free institutions in the Hemisphere, but the peculiar dition of our own household Latin America cousins) should tion us against trying to our own beliefs and prejudices Europe, Onc hears, from time to criticism of Secretary of State dell Hull because he has with certain United Nations bers (notably the Free French the Italian monarchy) were not true representative racies, Such criticism is nonsense. face the facts.

The only true sentative democracies in the legion of the United Nations are U.S.A. and Britain. We aren't seeking perfection now. We are trying to win a war. And maybe that unexpected heaval in Bolivia will help us more tolerant of allied whose aid we must have in Sliced Thin by The Editor -ALEX.

H. WASHBURNU.S.A., Anchor of the West Bolivia's 'Polish Corridor' The chief of police in Bolivia's capital holds a secret talk Major Battle As Slavs Push Near Croatian Capital By EDWARD D. BALL London, Dec. 21 (A)-The 000-man Yugoslav Partisan army of Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) announced today it had advnaced into the vicinity of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, in a campaign which London termed a major battle. Tito's resilient forces were declared in London to be engaging nine.

German and three puppet divisions in the main fighting areas in addition to containing three to four Nazi divisions in sporadoc combats the Istrian peninsula bordering Italy. The Germans and their merceneries were said to have six divisions in Croatia, two on the Dalmatian coast and four in the Mostar region, incuding the Prince Eugene Elite outfit. Partisan, strategists, in a secret meeting with high U. S. and British staff officers in Alexandria, "agreed on plans for a mili.

tary 'campaign in' Yugoslavia. The Chetnik forces of Gen. Draja Mihailoyic, war minister' of King er, were not Al. most: Ivan. Ribar of Tito's provisional government broadcast that.

in-exile must be deprived of all rights." The German radio said "armed had been frustrated in landing attempts at the Dalmatian coast town of Omis near Split. The main fighting was near greb, 70 miles east of Ljubljana on the Belgrade-Trieste railroad, Free Yugoslav radio, said that one column of Tito's forces had entered the town of Kopinex, near the important Nazi-held base on Dec. 15, while another columns had occupied the town of Vojnic, 35 miles to the southwest, on the same day, MEETING POSTPONED Little Rock, Dec. 21 -(A)- The scheduled meeting here tomorrow of the Arkansas Livestock AssociaLion has been postponed one week to allow time for receipt of addition offers for a permanent show site, Secretary Clyde E. Byrd announced.

OCTOGENARIAN DIES Pine Bluff, Dec. 21 (R)Edwin Ryland, 86, who came here from his native Virginia in 1883, died yesterday at his home. A daughter and granddaughter survive. Nearly 1,000,000 barrels of oil have been produced annually from Scotland's shales. Keeping Up With Ration Coupons Processed and Canned Foods: December 1 First day for stumps and in green Ration Book 4.

January 20 Last day for stamps and in green Ration Book 4. Meat, Cheese, Butter and Fats: December 19 First day for brown stamp in Book 3. December 26 First day for brown stamp In Book 3. January 1-Last day for brown and in stamps Book 3. January 2-First day for brown stamp in Book 3.

Shoes: June 16 First day for stamp 18, Book 1. Valid when used. November 1-First day for Airstamp 1, Book 3. Valid plane when used. Sugar: 1 First day for November stamp No.

29 in Ration sugar Book 4. Good for five pounds. for January 15 Last day stamp No. 29, Book 4. Gasoline: 22 First day for November coupons in A ration book, three gallons; B1 and No.

9 good for are good for two coupons lops Last day for No. cach. January 21 in A Ration Book, coupons Japs Flee South Bougainville Before Allies -War in Pacific Washington, Dec. 21 (AP) Sec- fied ing of the Navy Knox reported that the Japanese apparentarc flecing from the southern of of Bougainville in an obvious to concentrate their forces north on that island. is some evidence," he a news conference, "that the is evacuating the southern of Bougainville and moving to the north by land." secretary added that it the very obvious thing" for enemy to attempt to combine of his forces on Bougainville the task of clcaning up ophas been turned over by the marines to army forces under Gen.

Oscar Griswold. None of the encry's once strong fields on Bougainville is usable Knox said. They are being out of action by constant U.S. bombing. The evacuation of the southern of the island is under way only by land but by barges erating along the coast to carry to the north.

The barges been subject to heavy attack, Knox also reported, in a compiof aerial activity in the Paduring the week ending De: cember 20, that a total of 71 mis- were carried out. Nine were upon Japanese positions in Marshall islands where 19 enemy planes definitely were shot and nine probably were de-' stroyed. American losses were planes. He reported that Japanese air opposition in the Pacific is "negliand very By MORRIE LANDSBERG Associated Press War Editor The pressure of Allied land and attacks forced the Japanese to retreat in the jungles of New Guinand Bougainville amid indicatoday of a possible attempt to up a second invasion front on enemy's key base of New Brit- In China, Generalissimo Kai-Shek's soldiers broke into the enemy's forward bases in the Rice Bowl area and threatened entrapment of Japanese forces between Lake Tungting and the Yangize I river. Fighting for control of the tegic Huon peninsula.

bayonetwielding Australian veterans routthe enemy south of the Masawang river in northeastern New I Guinea. Then they forded tanks and artillery across the stream at three places in pursuit of nese remnants. The drive has ried the Aussies more than 15 miles north of Allied-held Finschhafen. The quickening battle for the Northern Solomons brought an American push five miles inland from the Empress Augusta bay beachhead on Bougainville island, and occupation of a high ridge overlooking Torokina valley. Reconnaissance reports led military authorities to express belief the Japanese are beginning to evacuate the southern part of Bougainville, The situation on the U.

S. Sixth Army's beachhead at Arawe, Now Britain, appeared static after capture of the enemy's bomb-torn emergency landing field for a three-mile gain. But the greatest bombing attack of the Pacific war, carried out 70 miles away on southeastern tip, pointed up the possibility of further landings on the 300-mile long island. Cape Gloucester is an imporatnt barge supply point for the nese. Its occupation would give the Allies full control of the Vitiaz strait which separates New Britain and New Guinea.

It also would sever a supply-reinforcement route to Japanese garrisons at Madang and Wewak, north of Finschhafen in New Guinea. Gasmata, on New Britain's southcentral coast above Arawe, came in for another aerial pounding, this time from Australian-flown dive bombers and fighters which aimed for supply dumps and the airdrome. Allied planes also gave strong support to the advancing troops on New Guinea and Bougainville, and joined with P-T boats in sinking 25 additional enemy barges. Long-range bombers stepped up the aerial offensive against the Japanese in the Marshall islands. Army air force units, In two days of attacks, blasted Mili atoll with 30 tons of bombs.

Navy search planes raided shipping in the Western Marshalls. The Japanese retaliated with effective raids on Tarawa, in. American-won Gilberts, and on Air the main base of the 14th Army Force. Chemical City Is RAF Target for 2000 Tons Bombs. 14-6tp 221.

14-6tc -Europe can so bonus of any such cents on but they said Watmost of the pulled out 'lot of the potatoes my old would to cook fly him exchange takes time, but on that BAYWAY Ill retary today ly part effort further told enemy part up The "seems the all where position the Maj. air now, kept part not troops have lation cific sions made the down three of gible air ca tions as open the ain. all (our! and Let's the just upbe McClellan Urges Support for Levy Plan New Orleans, Dec. 21 -Senator John L. McClellan of Arkan.

sas, urging support for a $251,000 000 levee and floodway project on the Arkansas and White rivers, Mississippi tributaries, told members of the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Assocaition here today to take advantage of the post war rehabilitation period to get the job done. "It does not take an expert economist." he said, "to recognize that our government cannot indefinitely continue a policy of deficit spending. That philosophy may prevail in some high places in Washington, but with it I do not agree. I am sure the day is coming when this nation as a government must live within its income. We must get the job done in that period when it may be necessary for the government to spend money; to aid in preventing or relieving unemployment following the war," In explaining the project he is backing, the senator said it is designed for a region in which, due to floods, only 25 per cent of the acreage has been placed in cultivation and in which the annual average flood damage is (Continued on Page Two) JUDSON O'QUINN London, Dec.

21 (AP)-Hundreds RAF bombers gave Frankfurt crushing blow of the war raining 2,000 long tons incendiaries, and explosives on chemical and armament this and subsidiary attacks the lost 42 bombers. great air. offensive against Germany reached a new intensitythese additional attacks in the 24 hours: RAF subsidiary formations atManheim -Ludwigshafen, Mosquitoes stabbed at Western Germany' and Belgium and mines laid in enemy waters. Heavy formations of American Liberators and. Fortresses in daystruck heavily at the German U-boat campaign by bombing Bremen.

American bombers based on Mediterranean for the fifth in recent weeks blasted the yards of Sofia, capital of warweary Bulgaria, and Elevsis airnear Athens. American and British mediuia bombers spread destruction on tarin Northern France. The Allies lost more than 90. planes in the 24-hour operations. includes 33 (counting 25 heavy bombers) over Bremen, 42 in the sweeps including an unspeci: number of heavies, 11, in the Italian-Blakan and six fightover Northern France.

Last night's RAF attack prob: placed Frankfurt in the category with "Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and as Germany's most bombed cities. It was carried in near top strength by a force which possibly numbered 800 or more bombers. Huge fires were left burning in city of more than a half milt lion which already had been SO badly devastated in 41 raids that large proportion of. the populace had 'been forced to leave. Continuing the air offensive, a steady stream of medium and light bombers winged across the southeast coast towards France in daylight today, backing up heavy assaults begun yesterday on what may well be German rocket gun emplacements.

Mannheim -Ludwigshafen; twin cities on the Rhine where I. G. Farben industry has the largest chemical works in the world, have been subjected to at least six bombard-' ments of 500 tons or more since the start of the war. They have been well up on RAF bomber command's list. The tonage dropped on Frankfurt last night approached the heav-.

lest raid of the war more than 2,300 tons rained on Berlin the night of Nov. 22 and its effect on a city less than an eighth the size of the German capital must have: been terrific. Frankfurt has been the target for British bombers on numerous occasions, but last night's raid was the third major attack (more than' 500 tons) by the RAF. The city, important inland port and center has been heavily attacked in: daylight by American heavy bombers. The Frankfurt attack was the RAF's fourth major operation of a month which has seen Berlin bombed twice in strength and Leipzig once, Losses to date for Dccember total 136 aircraft.

The RAF was over' Germany "in very great strength" the air ministry said, using the term the RAF reserves for its heaviest attacks. Mosquitos bombed western Germany and Belgium. Forty-two' RAF planes were lost. First reports indicated the bomb. ing of Frankfurt, center of chem-: ical and armament industries, was effective.

Large fires were left burning. The Germans previously had reported last night's attack was in the southwestern region where American bombers from the Mediterranean theater struck Sunday at Augusburg and the Brenner Pass rail route at Innsbruck. By German account, the RAF caused damage and losses to the civilian population in the districts hit. The Nazis asserted that a number of RAF planes were shot down by intense flak" in the starlit night. American Fortresses and Liberalors had a big day yesterday in stabbing a body blow at the Nazi U-boat effort by loosing cargo of high explosives and incendiaries on the port of Bremen in Northwest Germany.

The American bombers, corted by swarms of fighters, knocked down 40 Nazi planes while losing 25 heavy bombers and eight (Continued on Page Two) its last of the an pounds, the rental customer for the demand. red ed extra $5 suit Sgt. Barney Ross will auction a pair of. boxing gloves owned by the late Andy Callahan before tonight's Fritzie Zivic-Ralph Zannelli fight at Boston. Today's Guest Star Tommy Fitzgerald, Louisville Courier-Journal: "'The race tracks had their most financially successful year in history.

This is surprising especially in view of the fact that the wartime civilian shirt-tail comes three inches shorter." That's loyalty. When Andy Farkas threw -and Program Notes completed a pass for the Redskins yesterday, not the least surprised person in the press box was the Washington spotter, who marked that he thought Forkas wasn't supposed to get the ball at all and just threw it because the play called for a pass Philadelphia and Detroit, two cities which never enjoyed much advance sale, already have comfortable backlogs of season reservations for the 1940 pro football season The Phil-Pitts may ask to continue their combine another year at the next league mecting, but Cleveland is definitely committed to resuming operations Friday night Coach Dutch Bergman received a phone call from a Bronx fan who said that if the Redskins needed basketball shoes to play on a frozen field, he could donate pair, size nine and a half a That's loyalty. Service Dept. You can forgive Pvt. Al Woolard, Commerce, and Winformer basketball coach for field, slight confusion that resulted some from his shout of "Vig" to summon the center of his Kearns Field, Utah, Fliers team A big blond boy, Deverne (Cotton) Vig trotted the court followed by another on who looked exactly like him the shadow behind you?" Woolard asked.

"That's my kid brother," Cotton replied, not bothering Lo explain that the Dave Vig, actually is his twin. Still Free Country So She Took Swim Norfolk, Va. -(A)- Police hurried to the dock where a woman, who had jumped into the Elizabeth river, was climbing out. you wanted to commit suicide, why did you swim to shore" one officer asked. "I didn't have any intention of drowning myself," she replied.

"Oh, then, you must have fallen instead of jumping." said the over officer. "No, I didn't fall; I jumped," returned the woman. "Well, what exclaimed the officer. "I just wanted to go swimming," the woman broke in. "It's a free country, isn't it?" Military Pace Is OK With Baby Camp Claiborne, La.

(P)- A woman drove up to the camp gate and demanded entrance. When she couldn't produce proper credentials, Private Jack Elliott. MP, told her she couldn't enter. In turning her car around the woman managed to get it stuck in a nearby ditch. She got out and handed Elliott a baby and plained that she didn't want to risk having the car turn over and injure her child.

For better than a quarter of an hour while fellow MP's labored to get the car back on the road, Elliott with paced up and down the road the babe in his arms and his ordered military pace rocked the child to sleep. "I Elliott said, "what the provost marshal would suggest in a case like that?" Barley production last year was estimated at more than 426 million bushels. Morgenthau Warns Finance Group of Bill Little Rock, Dec. 21 -(AP)- An initiated act to outlaw horse and dog racing in Arkansas will be sponsored by Gov. Homer M.

Adkins whose Racing Commission overrode his objections and granted a 1944 permit to the Oaklawn Jockey Club, Hot Springs, the governor announced. said he would assume responsibility? for circulation of petitions to place the act on the November 1944 general eletion ballot. Approximately 6,000. signatures are needed to initiate the proposal. The measure would repeal all legislative acts authorizing horse, and dog racing and parimutuel betting, the governor said.

"The time is ripe for the people to have an opportunity to express themselves on the question of whether racetrack gambling is one of our state's goals," the governor asserted. "The supreme sacrifices being made on the battlefield have been shunted to one side to gratify the wishes of those favoring horse races and the St. Louis and Chicago owners of Oaklawn Jockey Club." The nine member Racing Commission, appointed by Adkins, granted the 1944 Oaklawn permit for February 28-April 1 yesterday after the governor appeared before it to ask that the permit be denied. The 1935 legislature legalized racing and parimutuel betting. A 10-year franchise was granted that year to the Oaklawn club, The franchise expires before the usual time for the 1945 races.

The commission granted the 1943 permit last winter over Adkins' objections. The 1943 racing receipts exceeded $315,000. Chairman H. Highfill, Blytheville, said the commission gave prime consideration to. "the first interest of the state and its and no "feeling of unfriendliness" toward Adkins was intended by the decision to grant the permit.

A dog track operated at West Memphis for several seasons but no permits have been sought since the outbreak of the war. MacArthur May Return to Capital Indianapolis, Dec. 21(UP) -The Indianapolis Star in a patch from Washington reported today indications that Gen Douglas Mac Arthur may return to ington for conferences in March, The report quoted travelers returned from Australia who said Mac Arthur was making tentative plans for the trip. The Star added that Lt. Gen.

Walter Kreuger, commander of U. S. sixth army, would take over Mac Arthur's command if he should leave the southwest Pacific. BAGS 2 DEER WITH CAR Pierce Bridge, N. K.

UP Frederick Le Clair has bagged two deer so far this season and he has not had to fire his gun yet. On both occasions deer crashed into his car. causing minor damage but plenty of venison. Dustless coal is dustless primarily because soap is used to emulsify the oil sprayed on the coal to keep dust down. Washington, Dec.

21 (P) Congress had from Secretary Mor genthau today an outspoken warnthat the Senate Finance Committee's $2,100,000,000 tax bill as drawn contains provisions that "open the way to truly extortionate" war profits and "holds the seed of a national scandal." Morgenthay, holding one of his rare Monday afternoon news conferences, first read a prepared proved bill as "extremely disapstatement rapping the House-appointing" from a revenue stand point and. "equally unfortunate" due to the recommended changes in the renegotiation law. Then, discussing the statement with special emphasis on declared renegotiation, the secretary that "the smartest thing business can do is to leave it alone unless business executives want to spend the rest of their lives on Capital Hill appearing before. investigating committees." Morgenthau added a hope that the holiday recess might lead Congress to reconsider "and give us real revenue-producing The measure now is pending before Senate. "I'm still stickin' to 000" as the goal for additional revenue, Morgenthau replied to question.

"It's there, and they get it." His statement singled out posed renegotiation amendments that would eliminate manufacturers of "standard articles" from negotiation and the retroactive emption of subcontractors whose goods do not enter into final tlement, He asserted the changes make renegotiation so complex to be practically ungorkable" will cost the government "large amounts" in money already recaptured. ed 112 111 "HE best tankful of gasoline you ever had wouldn't be worth a hoot to modern plane in combat. In fact, the performance of the mighty engines of these planes is only made possible by development of an entirely new fuel, made from petroleum. It is called simply "100-octane aviation gas." But it is a super-fuel in power -and super-difficult to make. Yet oceans of this new super-fuel are being made, right now.

Every refinshown here is doing its part. So ery far in the war, one in every four British and American combat planes has flown THE FIRST "'F' AWARDED (Esso Laboratories, U.S. Tanker Sunk in Gulf of Mexico Luc. New Orleans, Dec. 21 -(A)- Members of a navy armed guard crew told today of spending more than 50 hours in lifeboats upon the choppy waters of the Gulf of Mexico after an enemy submarine sank their tanker with two torpedo hits early this month.

Ten men are missing of 80 who were aboard. It was the first such torpedoing in the gulf since early April when a small Norwegian merchant vessel was sunk. Jack H. Dodendorf, gunner's mate 3rd class, of Columbus, said "I was sound asleep when the first torpedo hit. It struck forward, exploding in a dry cargo hold.

I reached the deck there was no confusion and the sub was nowhere in sight. I ran back below and grabbed my picture of my girl. I scrambled topside. We still couldn't see the sub." NOW 'HIGGINS BOAT HARRY' In the South Pacific UP Machine Charlie" and "Reveille Joe," Jap planes of Guadalcanal fame, have a successor in "'Higgins Boat Harry." according to a marine combat correspondent. "Harry" is said to resemble his namesake at a distance, though he presumably navigates a higher strata..