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I I I I HOPE STAR ARKANSAS Wednesday, W. LAWSON December 22, 1943 22, 1843. STAR ON THE Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Our planes buzzed around us They hauled the sailor out. force and planes were buzzing around us most of the THE loud speaker's cry a dashed alongside and day, while we. worked.

of "Man overboard" had baredied away when destroyer executed Gasoline was main toward the end. I could lie hauled the unlucky sailor out. It was a beautifully bunk with my an ear-splitting card game going on in worry rescue job. in the my same until the small hours of the morning, and The days now were crowded with lectures, tinkering kites room enough gas in my ship would never and practice for the gunners. The Hornet let out thought mind.

of getting behind the ship to give our those men practice multi-barrelled pom poms, Doolittle is easy to talk to, if you have something conshooting at them. leave my The "Chicago with the pianos," darnedest musical scale ever heard structive to talk about. So I went to him one day toward gave out three or four you notes. Cruisers the end and told him I had been figuring out probable -1 grim octave of sharp and asked him if I could carry 25 fivecatapulted scout planes for long trips on all sides of our gas consumption Text copyright, 1043, Drawings copyright, 1943, by King Features Syndiente, Inc. FUNNY BUSINESS By Hershberger HERS BERGER COPE, BY MA' SERVICE, INC T.

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The time was getting near him it will leave a perfect trail for the Japanese to follow back allotted us. to the carrier. Save the cans up and dump them all told toweight. that Another thing: If any of you men are foolish in sluggish there. It might enough to carry anything that might lead the enemy back with gether.

going to be 1 lot of to the of Navy, it in now." case you're down captured, forced and that, well, we got will That war the day 1 gave back the ashtray one of the thing you're to get rid money." Navy boys had made for me, with the word the 5-gallon cans. 011 it. out as they're used." The time was getting near. came up. "If you do, (Continued tomorrow) Club selection, to be published July 12.

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INC. M. REG. S. Social and Personal Daisy Dorothy Heard, Editor Phone 768 Between 8 a.

m. and 4 p. m. Social Calendar a. most Interesting program on "Present Day China" opening with a paper on Post War China.

Modern China's Art was for Planning discussed by Mrs. Lawrence Mar. tin, Handmade lace from China was distributed ns an appropriate favor of the country. Following the program there was an exchange of gifts. The Christmns motif was further carried out in Mrs.

Jim McKenzle Entertains Cosmopolitian Club 'The December meeting of Cosmopolitian club was held at home of Mrs. Jim McKenzie evening with Mrs. Roy Allison, nssociate hostess. Lovely decorations were in keeping, with coraled Yuletide season. A benutifully tree was noted by the Mamie members and one guest, Miss Twitchell.

Mrs. Franklin Horton presented the delightful desert course served. Dainty seasonal bells were given as favors. King-Schenk Mrs. Jett M.

Atkins announces the engagement und appronching marriage Ellznbeth of her daughter, Mary King. to Brock R. Schenck, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A.

Schenck of Pittsboro, Indiana. The marriage will be solmenized at 8 p. m. Sunday, December 26, NEW SAENGER MORE Thrilling MORE MORE. Wonderful THAN EVERI PHANTOM of the OPERA NELSON EDDY SUSANNA FOSTER CLAUDE RAINS IN TECHNICOLOR! Latest News RIALTO NOW Gale Storm in 'Campus Rhythm' and Warren William in 'One Dangerous Night' at the First Methodist church with Rev.

Miss B. Moore, officiating. King was graduated from Hope High school and is now attendthe ing Henderson Stale Teachers' College, Arkadelphin. The bridegroomlast elect Collego, attended Central Normal Danville, Indiana, and Is employed al Southwestern Proving the Ground. 151 Christmas Party 19 Enjoyed Set Among the entertainments heradling the approaching Chrisimas WAS A delightful party given by Martha Ann Atkins, Pat Allen and Hazel Spillers nt the Atkins home last evening.

The entertnining rooms were attractively decorated with Christmas greens. A huge decorated tree ndded lo the spirit of the Yletide season. After an exchange of greetings Kumes were played with the first and prize being won by Bonnie Anthony Lenora Ann Caldwell. A Christmas story written by Jessie Clarice Brown was chosen the most original. Ench guest received a gift from a friend from the tree.

A delicious salud course was served by the hostess, assisted by Pal Ellen and Hazel Spillers to the following young ladies: Mary Carolyn Andrews, 'Helen Marie Franklin, Carolyn Hamilton, Lenora Ann Caldwell. Jesse Clarice Brown, Eva Jean Milam, Aura Lou Hairston, Barbara LaGrone, Martha Sue Moore, Alice Lorraine Heard, Bonnie Anthony, Mary Ester Edmiaston, Matilda McFaddin, Dorris Urrey, Betty Ann Benson, Sophia Williams, and the hostess. Baptist Class Entertains With Yule Party The Joyful Servants. class of the First Baptist Sunday School met Monday evening at the home of the tencher, Mrs. H.

A. Fiske, for the annual Christmas party. Interesting games were enjoyed and gifts were exchanged from lighted tree. The hostess served a delicious sandwich plate with fruit cake and hot chocolate. Coming and Going Captain and Mrs.

James G. Martindnle have arrived from Dyersburg, Tenn. to spend the holidays in Hope and In Little Rock with Judd Martindale, a student in the University of Arknnsas Medical school. Mrs. Jim McKenzie and her mother, Mrs.

Lynn Ross will tertain Miss Dorothy Ross of St. Louis and Miss Frances Ross of Memphis this week. They plan to arrive tomorrow. Miss Laura teA Ann Garanflo is in Bastrop, La. visit relatives and Miss Barbarn Sue Walker and Bobby Walker of Galveston are holiday guests of their grandmother, Mrs.

H. Walker. Mr. and Mrs. O.

L. Reed are hosts to Mrs. Reed's sister, Mrs. Dwight Blake, and Mr. Blake of Minden, La.

for the Christmas season. Bolivia Counter Plot Denied by New Leaders By The Associated Press La Paz, Bolivia, Dec. 21-Troops guarded Bolivia's tin ore mines 10- day as a nationalist junta which yesterday overthrew the government of Gen. Enrique Penaranda announced that it was firmly entrenched and discounted rumors that a counter-revolution had begun. The troops were stationed at the mines, producing a large portion of the tin ore used in the manufacture of United States and British arms, in one of the first acts of the new government which pledged, however, to live up to Bolivia's comitments to the United Nations.

Victor Paz Estensoro, leader of the coup and new finance minister, told an interviewer that "the Atlantic charter and other obligations of Blivia will be respected and maintuined" and "the new government in 110 case will alter Democracy Marches On The German soldier (U Signal Corps Photo From NEA) bers whose body lies on this Italian road died short of his of the U. S. Third Infuntry Division, the forces of goal, but, in the 1wo-mem-, tual vanquishment of Nazi democracy stride sternly on -to Rome and eventyranny. The Haunted Man or, The Ghost's Bargain By Charles Dickens COPYRIGHT. 1943, NEA SERVICE, INC.) CHAPTER XV FIVE small Totterbys, whose 10 round eyes were much inNamed by soap and friction, were in the tortures of a cool wash in the back kitchen; Mrs.

Tetterby presiding. The tempers of the little Tetterbys had sadly changed with a few hours. Mr. and Mrs. Telterby themselves were not more altered than their offspring.

Usually they were an unselfish, good-natured, yielding little race. But they were fighting now, not only for the soap and water, but even for the breakfast which was yet in perspective. The hand of every little Tetterby was against the other little Tetterbys; and even Johnny's hand--the patient, much-enduring and devoted Johnny -rose against the baby! Yes, Mrs. Tetterby, going 10 the door by mere accident, saw him viciously pick out a weak place in the suit of armor where a slap would tell, and slap that blessed child. I MRS.

TETTERBY had him into the parlor by the collar, in that same flash of lime, and repaid him the assault with usury thereto. "You brute, you murdering little boy," said Mrs. Tetterby. you the heart to do it?" "Why don't her teeth come through, then," retorted Johnny, in a loud rebellious voice, "instead of bothering me. How would you like it yourself?" "Like it, Sir!" said Mrs.

Tetterby, relieving him of his dishonored load. "Yes, like it," said Johnny, "How I the international situation at the side of the United Nations." Similar sentiments were CXpressed by Maj. Alberto Villaroel, the new president. An executive decree of last April, declaring war on the Axis, was affirmed by the legislature on Dec. 4.

(Dispatches from Santiago, Chile, noted that Movement the Nationalist Revolutariony (NRM), from which most the new leaders are drawn, has long campaigned industry by three major producing companies. These advices said the coup could hardly fail to affect the production of tin. (It was announced in Washington that, pending direct word from Lu Par, negotiations between the Nandina Plants From the George Ann Orchards On Sale Now At the Former Chas. A. Haynes Grocery Building, Second Street Prices: $1 $1.50 $2 Page Big Pacific (Continued From Page One) C.

Richardson, commander of Central Pacific army forces. Whatever the resulls of the conalready ferences, have the decided Japanese apparently to strengthen their afr power in the "mid-Pacific Marshall islunds, possible invasion target, and at Rabaul, their battered stronghold on New Britain, U. 9. Seventh Air Force LiberaLors found that out when they raided the new Taroa air base in the Maloelap atoll of the Marshalls Monday. They dropped 25.

tons of bombs but 20 Zeros rose to inter. cept and knocked off three Liberators. Four Zeros were shot down. Seven others met destruction in an American raid the day before. The enemy sent up 50 fighters against Liberators and their escroting fighters which uttacked Rabaul harbor, sank one merchant vessel and set two others afire.

The Allies and the enemy each lost four fighters. In attacks on a convoy off Kavieng. New Ireland. to the northwest of Rabaul, direct hits were scored on three Japanese cargo ships and a fourth was also damaged. Japanese planes pounced on an enemy convoy in walers off New Guinea, but managed to sink only a two-hundred toner nt a cost of 14 aircraft and six probables.

The Tokyo radio broadcast claims that Japanese planes yesterday had sunk nine Allied transports and two cruisers off Cape Merkus, the American-held peninsula on New Britain. The enemy's air losses rose to 30 with the destruction of reconnaissance plane by Allied air patrols in the New Britain sector. Only patrol action was reported on the Sixth Army's Arawe invasion front. "Ground fighting," said the communique, "has died down." In New Guinea, Australians pushed over Japanese strong points and I advanced a mile and one half north of the Masawang river. On the heels of the apparent Japanese abandonment of southern Bougainville, dispatches from the Solomons said ground troops, as well as ions of supplies and equipment, are arriving regularly "without serious interruption," to reinforce advancing American forces.

Spencer Davis, Associated Press war correspondent, wrote that with Amercian aerial and naval supremacy in the area, the battle of the Solomons muy be virtually over. The Japanese have an estimated 35,000 troops in their Bougainville garrison. SERVES 4th COLLEGE Northfield. Vt. UP John M.

Thomas, 74-year-old president of Norwich University, is believed to be the only man in America who has served as president of four ditferent colleges. Before becoming Norwich president in 1939, he had served successively as head of Middlebury College, Pennsylvania State College and Rutgers University. Flashes of Life By The Associated Press Hotfoot Fronto Ryal, Va. Dr. Dabney S.

Lancaster, future," public education superintendent in Virginla, will be cautious in choosing his figures of speech. "Senator, I've come up here to build a fire under you." he told State Senator Aubrey Weaver. when he called to enlist Weaver's support for teacher salary boost legislation. While they were talking, the telephone rang. The schoolhouse, two doors from the senator's.

house, was on fire. Damage was estimated at $200.000. Waste Paper Drive Harrisburg, Pa. Unused forms provided for the registration of slaves in Pennsylvania almost a century ago are headed for wartime waste paper salvage. Court attaches found the blanks while moving documents into a new court house.

A Soldier Weds his. Asheboro, N. C. A soldier and prospective bride presented themselves in an 'Asheboro minister for the rites, but with a Guilford county license. Since the marriage must be performed in the county of issuance.

the pastor led the couple and necessary witnesses into his car and drove just across the Randolph-Guilford county There he parked by the roadside and tied the nuptial knot. GIDDY-AP TO CHURCH Athens, Tenn. times, it seems, have returned. At a recent camp meeting at the rural Mount Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the wagons and bug. gies outnumber the autos by a big majority.

One af the wagons, equipped with hay frames, made a round trip of 16 miles to bring 20 worshipers to the Legal Notice NOTICE OF. SALE OF CRANK SCHOOL BUILDING AND LANDS Notice is hereby given that the board of directors of Spring Hill School District will offer for sale the Crank School Building and one acre and one-half of land on which the building stands, to the highest reliable bidder at the Spring Hill High' School Building 2:00 p. m. Saturday, Jan. 8, 1944.

Sealed bids will be accepted by the Secretary of the School Board at any time before the hour of sale. The School Board of Spring Hill School. Distriet reserves the right to reject any' or all bids. Done and signed by order of the Board of Spring Hill School District this the 14th day of Dec. 1943.

ELBERT TARPLEY, President; J. W. MARTIN, Secretary, Dec. 15, 22, 1943. Slav Partisans Meet Superior Nazi Forces walnut Red Rider WHAT IN BLAZES WE HAULIN' WOOD 'BACK TO CUE SHACK FOR AND WHT TH' HURRY? Boots and Her Buddies MADE UP MY MIND PUG'S TO HAVE HER CHRISTMAS, OR KNOW ITS THE REASON BREAKING PROFESSOR'S RULES KNOW THEN I'VE GOT TIME TO EAT BREAKFAST THE BED ROOM CLOCK SAYS IT'S TEN TO EIGHT Cairo, Dec.

22 -(P) There were indications here today that Mari shal Josip Broz (Tito) will have to regroup his Partisan forces, which have been badly, dispersed, by perior German strength in Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania, before, any sible. major anti-Nazi assault is poss It now is known, however, that Tito has been receiving direct support by American and Briush: bombing and strafing planes and there is a general expectation that: this support will be accelerated. Reported On Offensive London, Dec. 22 -(P) Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) Partisan army of 250,000. battling German" and collaborationist 'forces twice its size, has taken to the offensive on every sector of Yugoslavia's irregular battlefront, a communique from the Yugoslav Army of Liberation announced today.

The German forces, spearheaded by the German 373rd Division, struck back with large-scale saults in Croatia in an effort to regain the initiative, the war bulletin disclosed, but Tito's 7th. Pariot DIvision decisively thwarted the enemy thrusts. With Yugoslavia developing into a battlefront of broadening scope, a recapitulation of Hitler's losses in his efforts to clear his Balkan flank shows that he had 40,000 casualties in October and November alone. These figures were given in Moscow broadcast, which said the casualties included 16,000 killed and. 11,000 prisoners.

business of mine," replied' her husband. are "Births, those denths, nothing and marriages, to you?" said Mrs. Tetterby. "If the births were all over for good, and all today; and the deaths were all to begin to come off tomorrow; I don't see why it should interest me, till I thought it was a coming to my turn," grumbled Tetterby. "As to.

marriages, I've done it myself. I know quite enough about them." "How old and shabby he watching looks," him. said Mrs. Tetterby, "I never saw such a change in a man, Ah! dear dear me, it was a sacrifice!" me, "What WaS a sacrifice?" her husband sourly inquired. Mrs.

Tetterby shook her head; and without replying in words, raised a complete sea-storm about the baby, by her violent agitation of the cradle. "If you mean your marriage was a. sacrifice, my good woman-" said her husband. "I mean it," said his wife. "Why, then I mean to say," pursued Mr.

Tetterby, as sulkily and surlily as she, "that there are two sides to that affair; and that I was the sacrifice; and that I wish the sacrifice hadn't been "I wish it hadn't, Tetterby, with accepted." all my heart and soul; Tao' assure you," 'said his wife. "You can't wish it more than I do, "I don't know what I Tetterby." saw in her," muttered the husband, "I'm it's not there now. I was thinking sure--certainly, it I saw anything, so, last night, after supper, by the fire. She's fat, she's aging, she won't bear comparison with most other women." "He's common-looking, he has no air with him, he's small, he's beginning to stoop, and he's getting bald," muttered Mrs. Tetterby, "I must have been half out of my mind when I did it," muttered Mr.

Tetterby, "My senses must have forsook me. That's the only way in which I can explain it to myself," said Mrs. Tetterby, with elaboration. In this mood they sat down to breakfast. (To Be Continued) ing the Republican Postwar Policy Committee together in early spring to draft recommendations for the party's 1944 foreign policy plank and that he hoped to avoid turning "any agreement between the two parties into a specific From here, Landon went on to his closed session with political party leaders in New York.

While Alf Landon hasn't been mentioned at all as a possible candidate for the '44 nomination and there shouldn't be read into this column any throught that he might be, he still is an important figure on the political horizon. He represents 8t11 uncompromising clique in the party which will have no truck with the New Deal, whether on war, postwar, or domestic policies. Members of the Netherlands embassy staff will tell you this story to prove thai the starving Dutch at home haven't lost heir sense of humor under the crush of the Nazi heel. One Dutch housewife, it scems, suggested the following recipe for a "first rate "Take your meal ration card, roll it in your flour coupons and put both inside your fat card. Broil it on your coal card to a gentle brown.

Next take your potato card and put it in your butter card, bringing the potatoes 10 a simmer on your petroleum coupon. Then, take your coffee ration card. add milk and sugar coupons, and dip your break curd in it. Then wipe your mouth with your pedigree card, wash your hands with your soup card and dry them on your textile coupon." 46,000 VISIT HOME Austin, Tex. UP 0.

Henry's old Austin home has had more than 46,000 visitors since it was opened as a museum in 1934, according to a report by Curator Cornelia Cooke Smith. Enough gasoline to overflow an average railway lank car is used by tanks of one American mechanized division during euch 100 miles of travel. Blevins Junior Red Cross Mails Boxes, Donald Duck AARDWARE 1914. Wall Wold Rights Popeye would you? Not at all. If you wus me, you'd go for a soldier.

I will, too. There ain't no babies in the Army." Mr. Tetterby, who had arrived upon the scene of action, rubbed his chin thoughtfully, instead of correcting the rebel, and seemed rather struck by this view of a military life. "I wish was in the said myself, if the child's in the right," Army Mrs. Tetterby, looking at her husband, "for I have no peace of my life here.

I never have a holiday, or any pleasure at all, from year's end to year's end! Why, Lord bless and save the child," snid Mrs. Tetterby, shaking the baby with an irritability hardly suited to so pious an aspiration, "what's the matter with her now?" Not being able to discover, and not rendering the subject much clearer by shaking it, Mrs. Tetterby put the baby away in a cradle, and, folding her arms, sat rocking it angrily with her foot. "How you stand there, 'Dolphus," said Mrs. Tetterby to her husband.

"Why don't you do something?" "Because I don't care about doing something," Mr, Telterby replied. "I am sure I don't," said Mrs. Tetterby, "I'll take my oath I don't," said Mr. Telterby. "You had better read paper than do.

nothing at all," your said Mrs. Tetterby, "What's there to read in a paper?" returned Mr. Tetterby, with excessive discontent. "What?" said Mrs. Tetterby.

"Police." "It's nothing to me," said Tetterby, "What do I care what people do, or are done to?" "Suicides," suggested Mrs. Tetterby. Washington By JACK STINNETT Washington Your capital in wartime: "I'm just on my annual trip to the cast; there's nothing particularly political about it," said genferal All M. Landon, former Re: publican presidential nominee and one-time Kansas governor, as he plumped down his bugs in the Mayflower hotel. The next day he was guest of honor at a Capitol luncheon given by Sen.

Arthur Capper and that night was guest speaker at the 781h Congressional Club (freshmen GOPs). The next evening Republican National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler tossed a partly for him. Also on the nonpolitical calendar was a dinner by E. F.

Colladay, the Republican National committeeman from the voteless District of Columbia. At most of the parties, off the record and on, the man who came in second in 1936 blasted away at. the proposal that both parties adopt the same foreign policy plank at their 1944 convention, and SO far as foreing policy is concorned (and only that far) eliminate politics from the coming campaign. On one occasion, Landon said: Roosevelt doesn't stand still long enough to let Republicans know what his foreign policy is." And Sen. Arthur A.

Vandenberg, chose one of the ex-candidate's dinner parties to announce in an interview that he was call- Bolivian government and the United States Metal Reserve Company, il government-linanced organization, for a new five-year 1in contract were suspended.) Jose Tamayo, the new foreign minister, said lust night that he had handed to the dean of the for; eign diplomatic corps in La Paz an official document announcing the establishment of a new govern; ment and uffirming its intention to continue a policy of -American collaboration, The Blevins. Junior Red. Cross under the direction of Mrs. RAW. -McCraken has made.

up and sent out the following items: 3 boxes 'of holly and pine to Camp: Robinson, one box of Holly to Arkansas Childrens home and hospital 200 holiday napkins, 165 nut: sups, to the soldiers at Camp Chaffee. $3,000,000 IN CHANGE Chester, Pa. -UP- Have you ever seen $3,000,000 in nickels, dimes and quarters? Christian V. Mahla collected that amount of the small coins at the rate of $10,000. annually for each of the 30 years he worked for the Bell Telephone: Co.

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