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1 -VVH-- I l' 4 j' 11,1, i Served by Hie No. 1 News Organizations The Associated Press Wide World Hope Star The Weather Arkansas: Warmer this afternoon and tonight. VOLUME NUMBER 35 Star of Hope, 1899; Press, 1927. Consolidated January 18, 1929. HOPE, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 Associated Press Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n PRICE 5c COPY Reds Closing in Nazis Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor ALEX.

H. WASHBURN Bird of Men The bird season which opens in Arkansas December 1 is supposed to glorify the hunter, but the suspicion runs strongly in a non-hunter like me that theres' more glamor in the dogs than in the men. Among non-hunters bird dog doesn't rate as high as some of the town dogs, collie, police, chow, cooker-spaniel or once a non-hunter is persuaded to take the field with those who follow the hunting dogs in earnest he meets with a revelation. My own first experience in watching the bird dogs work failed to make a hunter of me, but I remembered the they stirred, as they will stir in any man, a profound admiration for the miracle of living things. And so the other day when a young Hope man was expounding on his own first adventure with the dogs I understood, and his experience makes good 'copy" on the eve of the new season.

Our local man Nazis Use Exit Permits to Get Outside Money London, Nov. government -The Neth- governmcnt in exile charged Germany loday with organizing a vast scheme of cxtor- Uon by selling exit permits from occupied territory for great sums and said it would combat the traffic wtih every means in cooperation with the Brilish and Uniled Stales govcrnmenls. Relalives and friends in Allied and neutral territory receive a communication that persons in occupied territory will be allowed to on condilion lhal a considerable sum, in the currency of a neulral country, be made available lo the enemy," it said. "In some cases the rcqucsl ema- nalcs from the prospective emigrant. In other cases the attempt js made through associates of the enemy in neutral territory.

The request is sometimes accompanied by an open or veiled threat that those concerned will be sent to a concentration camp should the ransom nol be forthcoming. "Evidence which has reached the Netherlands governmcnl and Ihe governments of the United Kingdom and the United Slales indicates lhal the practices are organize "10 enemies are doing tneir ryutijipsj. their holdings of 'neutral currency." The sums demanded, il said, arc very large somelimes as high as the equivalent of $20,000 a head. "The Netherlands government, after consultation with the British fjand United States governments," it announced, "reluclanlly have come to the conclusion thai Ihey cannot yield to German attempls at extortion." It said that while a few might escape "the sadism and terror of jthe Nazis," there remained the accumulated misery and starvation of those left in occupied territory and "they will remain subjected to Nazi rule as long as the enemy's foreign asscls will enable him lo slave off Ihe day of his defeat and liberation of the oppressed Eu- ropcan peoples." It added that "submission to intimidation is incitement to increased pressure." Lord Selbornc, minister of eco, nomic warfare, made a similar I jslalemcnl for the Brilish govcrn- monl in the House of Lords. He warned that all persons making payments or facilitaling the traffic would be regarded as "being engaged in transactions for the benefit of the enemy" and would jbe put on the British blacklist If living in Ihe United Kingdom, he said, they would be liable' to pro-' secution under the trading with Ihe enemy acl, 3 Men to Die for Treason, Wives Sentenced Chicago, Nov.

24 (fF) Three men convicted of treason were sentenced to death today and their wives were each sentenced to 25 years imprisonment and fined $10,000. The men were sentenced to die by electrocution Jan. 22 "at a place Violent Struggle for Air Control Over Tunisia As Allies Prepare Big Push By the Associated Press London, Nov. 24 A violently erupting struggle for air in Northern Illinois." Each of the defendants stared and a friend took an old dog and two young ones out for a training flight last season. Instinct was as strong in the pups as in the old one.

But there were tricks to be learned. For instance, this particular day the birds were breaking from cover and running along the flying. Ordinarily the pups marked the old dog's point and "froze" with him. But when the birds persisted in running along the ground the old dog left his point and moved up to keep within distance. This puzzled the pups.

They 'froze" according to instinct, and watched despairingly while the old dog broko mid paced the birds. The pups weren't the only puzzled ones. The old dog's owner didn't get the picture cither, called him back and gave him after the second and third time the man realized that the birds wore running this day and a new technique was required which the Ickes Proposes New Oil Line to East Coast Washington, Nov. 24 Coordinator Ickes told congressional committee today he has requested authority to con, struct a second new oil pipeline the southwest oil fields to the New York Philadelphia area, and said if approved it would add 200,000 barrels daily to eastern oil old dog had already found. And pretty soon the young dogs had found it too, and the training went along smoothly.

Of course there was a rough spot here and there like the time one It thaxouug a bird, brought it back faithfully to his master, but then proceeded enthusiastically to dig a hole for it. That business was stopped immediately. And after the bird had been thrown away and retrieved a dozen limes the young dog understood that when on a hunt all found bones belong to the master, and it's against the law to bury one. And so another bird season rolls this year there will be a couolc of young huskies who know more than they did last season, who will hunt faithfully for some man through 1942; and, if they are especially good and steady, who knows, perhaps they'll be trusled lo lell some canine youngster this year what to do when the birds won't either stand or fly, but just run? By S. BURTON HEATH Neither Did the Puritans We don't have much coffee or tea or cocoa for this year's Thanksgiving dinner.

Many meats now are rationed. Assuming that our tires till are usable, there isn't gasoline or a very long trip back to the )ld home town, ana the railroads cant' carry us all. The house or apartment isn't so varm as we would like. There's ess wool in our new garments. there is work for all, but prices a're high, taxes are leavy, and we feel impelled to spend more for war bonds than we can afford to save, so we can't buy things we would like.

or that mutler, the stores do not lave them anyway, so we couldn't juy them if we did have the money. In many ways already we are off than in the depth of the great depression. New privations ire in sight. Yet now comes Thanksgiving Day and again we are supposed to put on a cheerful 'ace and try to think up some bless- ngs. fixedly at the judge as the sentence was pronounced, displaying no emotion.

There was no demonstration in the courtroom. The defendants, convicted of aiding and sheltering Herbert Hans Haupt, one of the eight Nazi sabo- leurs who landed in America by submarine last summer, were: Hans and Erna Haupt, parents of the saboteur; Walter and Lucille Froehlingr the youth's uncle and aunt, and Otto and Kate Wergin, friends ot the Haupt family. It was the second treason conviction in 148 years of American history. On Aug. Max Stcphan was convicted al Dclroil, and sentenced to be hanged for aiding the flight of a Nazi saboteur who escaped from a Canadian con- cenlralion camp.

The six defendants in the Chicago treason case were convicted Nov. 14. Subsequently Anthony Cramer was convicted in New York, Nov. 18, for helping two of the saboteurs who accompanied young Haupt to America on a mission of destruction. Federal Judge William J.

Campbell, in passing sentence, read a stalemcnl in which he said in part: "These defendants had a fair trial, a thing of the pasl in the country they sought to befriend. "How different this trial was from the Irealment of similar offenses against the German Reich. Here an able, considerate and pa- Uenl jury of able men and women from every walk of life, representative of the finest ideals of our American commonwealth, was carefully chosen by both sides. "This jury heard the evidence and rendered a verdict after listening to leglhy summalions and arguments ably presenled by coun- Senlence was passed in a heavily guarded courtroom, with deputy marshals standing around the walls, behind the bench and at the closed doors. As the dcfendanls filed into the courtroom none spoke except Hans Haupt.

He said to the marshal guarding him, Max Fisher: "It looks like payday." Two Navy medical men were seated near the defendants, in the event they needed medical alten- tion. But the defendants remained stoical. After they were led back to the marshal's office, Mrs. Frpch- ling wept. The prisoners awaited removal lo Ihe county jail where the men were expected to be held until the execution date.

In northern Illinois there are electric chairs at the Cook county jail here and at Stalevillc penilen- supplies. The interior secretary told a house interstate commerce sub- it would take from nine to twelve months to build the line if authority and priorities were granted. It would supplement a line already being built from Longview, Texas, to Norris City, 111., and '(thence to New Jersey. The line already being built to Illinois, Ickes said, is scheduled for completion by December 15, probably would be held up but because of a labor shortage and delays in obtaining pumping equip jment. He said the extension of this line to New Jersey probably would be completed by next June, resulting in daily delivery of an additional 300,000 barrels of crude oi to the eastern coasl.

i Ickes said Ihe new line he has requested would be 20 inches in diameter and would carry refined petroleum products. The line now being built is a 24-inch line carry crude. to Modeling birds from paper and clay the hobby of Dorothea Richardsoi of England. She has created 150 van ties of the feathered creatures, care- macy was fought over Tunisia and along the Axis Mediterranean shuttle route today while British and American forces on the ground were gelling set for the all out assault upon Tunis and Bizerte, once the enemy is driven from the North African skies. There was every sign that the aerial conflict would be a hard one, for great fleets of German planes were gathering in the Mediterranean theater and Axis reinforcements still were reaching Tunisia through the Allied gantlet.

fight is going to be tough and longer than might be expected," said a spokesman at Allied headquarters in Norlh Africa. Bearing him out were reports from both sides telling of the mounting fury of the struggle. The British Middle East command announced at Cairo that at least three more large enemy planes, which may have been troop transports, were sent plunging into the sea yesterday off the Tunisian coast. Broadcasling whal il called an Allied communique, Ihe Morocco radio said lhat Allied air activity had grown "very intense" and that another violent bombing raid had been made on Tripoli, in Libya. The Algiers radio said nine Axis planes were destroyed in an Allied raid on an enemy he'd airfield in Tunisia and a Vichy broadcast told of heavy air raids last night by Germans and Italians on Algiers, Bone and Bougie, Allied- held ports in Algeria.

A heavy bombing assaull on Bizerlc and slrafing of grounded enemy' planes al Palermo, the Sicilian base from which Axis reinforcements are being flown to Tunisia, were carried out Sunday night by the RAF, the Cairo war bullelin said. An Axis merchant ship was sunk the same night by British torpedo planes S9utheast of Sardinia. Caiv non toting Brilish planes attacked a schooner of the Tunisia east coasl yesterday. The Middle East said aerial activily was on a small scale ycslerday over Libya, where Ihe British 8th army has occupied and passed on west of Agedabia at the heels of Marshal Rommel's licked Africa Corps making for El Agheila. From Rome, the Italian hich command broadcast that reconnaissance clashes occurred yesterday in Libya and on the Tunisia! border while in aerial operations eight Allied planes were claimec shot down and five Allied ships, including a destroyer, heavily dam aged.

The general picture in Africa was cooperating with the Allies in Norlh Africa, bul the task of driving Axis Tunisian forces into the sea grew in magnilude hourly. The aclion of French leaders in Dakar in Ihrowing in Iheir lot with Admiral Darlan was regarded by official Allied quarters in North Africa as "purely a French matter," but the acquisition of the excellent naval port by Darlan was recognized as of great advantage to the Allies. It was assumed that the port would be thrown open to Allied warships and ships as were Casablanca, Oran and Algiers, providing an important base in the South Atlantic. But, above all, il removed the possibility that the base might be used for Axis submarines and thus wiped out a large threat to shipping in the South Atlantic. The disposition of the French warships now anchored at Dakar was not announced.

With the Dakar problem settled, he hold of the Axis on Africa was confined to a narrow coaslal slrip, slrelching from the region of El Agheila in Libya to west of Bi- zerlc, on Ihe extreme northern tip of Tunisia. This line has been reported cut ay French troops near the Libyan- Tunisian border and in the region of Bages, but the Allied position was uncertain. The German radio claimed yesterday that the Dntire Tunisian coast down to Tripoli was in Axis hands. The Berlin radio broadcasl a ONE dispalch giving Ihis German accounl of Ihe siluation in Tunisia: "The activity of Axis forces in Tunisia is limited to securing the district occupied until now and to bringing up further troops and war material so as to fortify this bridge head on the North African coast, which is the strongest by nature. "A railway line leading along the Tunisian coast in a southern improved greatly by the announced adherence of French forces at Da kar to Admiral Jean Darlan, direction and roads leading into the interior arc in Axis Hands and make it possible to distribute all supplies quickly.

"The daily growing strength of the Axis air forces especially mi- pairs the advance of British and American troops. The broadcast said low flying Axis bombers had atlacked trains leaving a station on the Algerian- Tunisian border. "Continuous air atlacks againsl airdromes which led lo the deslruc- ticn of a considerable number of planes and hangars already has forced the British and Arnericans to transfer their airdromes further back," it added. Allied and Axis reports agreed the Germans and Italians had extended their Tunisian foothold soulhward bul an Allied spokesman said there was no evidence (Continued on Page Two) Enemy Landings on Guadalcanal Unlikely-Knox in Pacific Washington, Nov. 24 Secretary Of the Navy Knox said today it was "very unlikely" that the Japanese were getting reinforcements to their troops opposing American forces on Guadalcanal in the Solomon islands.

"It is possible but not probable," Knox told a press conference, "because rigid United States patrols are working day and night." The Japanese have not been reported landing more troops on the embattled island since their great and unsuccessful drive almost two weeks ago to land huge forces and overwhelm the American defenders of the airfield there. Prior to the big push, the Japanese had the method of feeding in an average of about 900 men every second night, landing them from; cruiser destroyer groups. It was this practice that Knox was asked about at his press conference and his answer clearly indicated a belief that at least for the time being the Japanese troops on the island, principally to the westward of American positions, are virtually cut off from the rest of their forces in the northeastern Solomons. Knox said that the Americans meanwhile were continuing to widen their area of control, particularly by pressing back the enemy forces on the American western He confirmed that fighting has been going on to the westward of Point Cruz, which is a little more than four miles beyond the airfield. From the extreme of this action on the west to the farthest point of action on the east flank at Te- tere, where a Japanese force of several hundred men was wiped out early this month, is a distance of approximately 16 miles, while the depth of the American held area at the center around the air- Axis Troops Reported Landing in Tunisia London, Nov.

24 The Vichy radio said large formations of German and Italian troops landed today at the eastern Tunisian ports of Sfax. and Gabes. The ports are key points along the coastal road between and Tripoli where Axis infiltrations against French re- have been reported as the Germans sought to forge a link between their northern Tunisian foothold and Libya. Gabes Is midway between Tunis and Tripoli and Sfax is some 65 miles farther Gigantic Trap Already Cost Germans 50,000 field is about four miles. This expanding however, is still less than three percent of the entire island of Guadalcanal, officers at conference brought out.

Knox was asked whether the objective of present operations was finally and completely to drive the Japanese out of the island, but confined himself to responding that elimination of the enemy from Guadalcanal naturally had always been the American purpose. Well, misery loves company, so let's resurrect one of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans of 1621, in the autumn of which year the first Thanksgiving Day was observed. We can't take Governor Carver, because he was among the half of the colonists who died in the preceding winter from physical privations, including malnutrition. He never lived lo give lhanks in America. William Bradford, second governor, will do.

Presumably he had as many comforls as there were in the village of Plymouth. Bring back the spirit of William Bradford, invite him to Thanksgiving dinner in Ihe home of the poorest family in town, and watch his spiritual eyes pop al what he sees and what he has to eat! Sure, we are short of coffee and tea. spices and beef and fuel oil and virgin wool in our store clothes. And how much of any of these do you suppose Ihe Pilgrim Fathers had when in gratitude for Iheir firsl matured harvest, which for the first time enabled them to eat a satisfyingly full meal of any sort, they established the institution of Thanksgiving? They felt themselves fortunate to have some grain (we have a which they could make successively into flour and bread: some turkeys (fowls are not rationed) which they went into the Indian-infested forests and shol; crude houses in which 65-degrees of heal anywhere except in front of the fireplace would have seemed The small courtroom, was filled to capacity and some persons Binding in line outside said they had been there since 7 a.m. Throughout the reading of the judge's 1,200 word statement the convicted men and women sat with their eyes glued on him.

Judge Campbell's statement, noting that "counsel has urged mercy for the prisoners before the bar, in the cases of the three women as mothers," declared: "There are no priorities on mercy. Like justice, it is the common hope of all. In weighing the mercy plea for the women here involved it has also been incumbent on the court to consider the millions of suffering mothers of boys who are fighting this war for us, and the mothers who must toil in aluminum and powder plants or on production lines in constant danger from saboteurs, mothers who had equal rights to consideration with the prisoners here. "The defendants by ttieir acts have thus forfeited any right to consideration as mothers." Citizens Urged to Entertain Soldiers The Soldier's Entertainment Committee of the Chamber of Commerce today appealed for local families to invite enlisted men stu- lioned the Southwestern Proving Ground to dinner Thanksgiving Day. Arrangements may be made by telephoning 810.

Most of the group will be on duty during the day but will be free Thanksgiving night. Local citizens are urged to get in touch with the Entertainment committee as soon as possible. Union Service Program Is Announced The Rev. Millard W. Baggctt, pastor of the First Christian Church will deliver the sermon at the Union Thanksgiving service here Thursday the Rev.

W. P. Graves, pastor of the First Pentecostal Church and program chairman, announced today. The program for the Union service follows: Doxology. J.

E. Hamill. Hym "AH Hail the Thomas Brewster. Robert B. Moore.

Offering. Special Musical selection. Millard W. Baggett. W.

R. Hamilton. fully preserving the life-size scae. i (Continued on Page Two) Jan Valtin Is Arrested by Federal Agents Washington, Nov. 24 General Biddle announced today that Richard Julius Herman Krebs, who wrote a widely sold oook in his experiences as an agent of the Gestapo and the OGPU under the name of Jan Valtin had been arrested near Bethel, on a warrant order his deportation to Germany.

The next step presumably will be I immediately. Other times it waits to intern Krebs as an enemy alien, Half of Jews in Poland Are Ordered Killed London, Nov. 24 The Polish government in exile asserted today that Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Gestapo chief, had ordered the extermination of one half of the Jewish population of Poland by the end of this year and that 250,000 had been killed through September under that program. The statement said that those marked for extermination at any time are "driven to a square where old people and cripples are segregated, taken to a cemetery and shot. "The remainder," it said, "are loaded into freight cars, 150 to a car intended for 40.

The floor of the car is sprinkled with a thick layer of lime or chlorine-sprinkled water. The doors of the cars are sealed. Sometimes the train starts Guard All Set for Toni Joe's Sweetheart Lake Charles, Nov. Law enforcement officers were ready today for Claude E. (Cowboy, Henry, escaped Texas convict, if he should come here to try to spring his doorrved wife from the Calcasiou parish jail, "All necessary precautions have been taken," said Sheriff Henry Reid, when notified the 29-year- old convicted slayer had headed toward Louisiana from a Texas prison farm where he escaped with a companion yesterday.

State police of Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas as well as other officers were on the lookout for the pair who already had changed vehicles in their getaway. Mrs. Annie Beatrice (Toni Jo) Henry, 26, thrice convicted for one of the most brutal crimes in Louisiana history, is to be electrocuted here Saturday for shooting to death J. P. Galloway of Houston, Texas.

The nude salesman was killed as he knelt to pray for his life in a frozen rice field on St. Valentine's day, 1940. Mrs. Henry and a companion, Horace Finnon Burks, also under death sentence, had hitch-hiked a ride with Galloway and took his car.she said at one time, to use to rob a bank for funds to herjiusband term. Last signed a confession that she pulled the trigger and a clemency plea is being prepared for Burks.

She called it a "thrill slaying" such as a person "drunk, real drunk" might think was "smart." She said just before an August 10 date with death, delayed while the United States supreme court decided the constitutionality of Louisiana's change from hanging to the electric chair, the thing she wanted most was a letter from her husband. About that time he attempted a break but was captured within the prison walls. Mrs. Henry will become the first woman electrocuted in the state, and the second white woman ever to pay the supreme penalty. Henry and Clyde Byers, 23, serving seven years for robbery, escaped from the Central prison farm at Sugarland in a prison truck.

Later, O. C. Riggins of Houston reported seeing them abandon the truck, force the driver from another truck and drive off. Henry, an ex-prize fighter, was convicted in February, 1940, at Hondo, for killing Arthur Sinclair, By EDDY G1LMORE Moscow, Nov. 24 The jaws', of a double Russian offensive i battlefront reports said had bit 1 deeply into the colSffleppes west! of the Don bend arid' cost the Get-' mans 50,000 and captured? 1 were closing steadily today uponW the Nazis' whole Stalingrad lent.

Despite desperate German resis-, tance in an effort lo keep open aj corridor of reinforcement or to the long besieged Volga tion, the Russians reported gains to maintain their average six to 12 miles a day northwest Stalingrad and nine to 12 day southwest of the city. The deepest reported was at Chernyshevskaya on Chir river, 125 miles west of Stal-? ingrad and 75 miles west of the railroad town on the Don which the Russians seized over week-end. Chernyshevskaya is some miles southwest of Kletskaya, Don river citadel 100 miles no west of Stalingrad which the Nazis Serafimovich, 30 miles farther up the Don. Southwest of Stalingrad the Rus-1 sians were pushing along the rail 4 line which leads from Stalingrad across the bleak Malmyck into the northern Caucasus. Theyv reported driving on after Aksai in a 10 mile advance from 1 Abganerova, 40 miles southwest Satlingrad.

(The German high command parently regarded the turn of thej, tide on the eastern European fronttj as too great to conceal from, people, and a communique ackno-wM ledged that the German defensiveli lines had been penetrated. communique said the were attacking south of and in the Don bend without gard to losses, and ajlded that; counter m. a res a're Junior Red Cross Drive Successful Reporting on Ihe progress of the Hempstead County Junior Red Cross drive, Miss Elsie Weisenberger, chairman, announced lhal she had received $54.11 anr other schools had promised to report early next week. Washington School averaged ten i application to suspend the proceed- since he cannot be returned to Germany during the war. The Justice department declined to comment on this in line with its policy concerning enemy aliens.

Krebs is a native of Darmstadt, Germany, and is 37. His book was entilled "Out of the Krebs was arrested by immigration and naturalization service officers on a warrant issued by Commissioner Earl G. Harrison, after Biddle had approved a deportation order based on alleged violations of the 1917 and 1924 immigration acts. The violations were described as illegal entry into the United States after once having been arrested and deported and after committing a crime (perjury) involving moral turpilude. The board of Immigration Appeals voted unanimously for the deportation order, the department said, after first denying Krebs' on a siding for days.

"The people are packed so tighlly that those who die of suffocation remain in the crowd side by side with those still living. Half of the people arrive dead at the destination. Those surviving are sent to special camps at Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. Once there they are mass-murdered." BaWefront thS Grmans were suffering heavyju losses in the Kalmyk steppes they had penetrated late in theff fall. Two infantry divisions declared routed there and the Rus-? sians were said to be advancing a 12-mile front i Frontline dispatches indicated, that the Germans were using reinforcements and battling desperately to hold their Stalingrad corridorfJ "Several tens" of Geiman other Axis divisions were entrenched and fortified in posi-" tions guarded by minefields and.

tank traps and laid out in a de-Jj fense system iii places five' or six lines deept. Details of the advances were given but many hundreds moreAx Grmans were reported killed. In local aclion at Tuapse theV Black sea sector, the Russians 5 said they repulsed a German couth" terattack on a recently won posU- tion and then dislodged the Hitler-'St- cents per pupil and donated $11.17. Guernsey School averaged nine cents per' pupil and donated $18.83. Fulton School averaged one cent per pupil and donated $3.00.

Blevins and Spring Hill School have contributed fifteen dollars so far but the drive is not complete in these schools. Rocky Mound School was previously lisled having an average of 25 cenls per pupil and donaling $5.50. R. Watson, 42, of Hope Rt, 3, Pies R. S.

Watson, 42, of Hope route three, died at his home near the shapes, eightthicknesses, seven widths, Experiment station early today, and a choice of four finishes (nearlj Funeral services will be held Wed- 500 possible combinations) have been nesday at Rocky Mound. Fine steel wire for bobby pins in tw made by the sttel industry. ing, on the ground that he had not been a person of good moral character during the last five years and thai he was otherwise deportable. Hope Postoffice to Close Thanksgiving The Hope Postoffice will be closed all day Thanksgiving, observing the first full holiday of the year, Robert Wilson, postmaster, announced. There will be no city or rural deliveries and no window service.

Mail will be dispatched and placed in boxes as usual. Bulletins Local Boy Promoted to First lieutenant Lt. Harry Segnar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Segnar of Hope, has been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant, according to a notice to the Star office.

Lt. Segnar is stationed with the field artilery at Camp Swift. Texas, where he is a member of the batal- lion staff. Washington, Nov. 24 The Navy reported today that Americn forces on Guadalcanal island in the Solomons had ade further advances to the westward of their positions following night attacks on Japanese positions by American aircraft.

A communique said that anese troops were active in the mountains southwest of the American held airfield, but the nature of the activity was not announced. Whether the Japanese were attempting to flank American forces advancing along the coastal lowlands could not be definitely determined, there 1 fore. a San Antonio policeman. mM Scrap Metal Drive Nets 6 Million Tons New York, Nov. 24 More than 6,000,000 tons of iron and sleel and other scrap for manufacture into tanks, ships, planes and guns was credited today to the newspapers' united scrap metal drive by Richard W.

Slocum, chairman of the campaign. Slocum said that although the official collection ended more than a monlh ago, many drives slill were in progress in some slales. Newspapers in oilier areas, he added, were continuing to aid salvage collections by special cooperation with the industrial metal scrap drive of the war production board. Because of these continued campaigns, he explained, il was impossible to compile complete totals although the national average already is nearly 82 pounds for every man, woman and child. Kansas led the slates in today's compilation with 158.7 pounds for every citizen, or a tolal of 142,874 tons.

Vermont was second among Ihe 18 slales which had 100 pounds or more per capila, turning in 155.4 pounds per person with a total of 27,905 tons. Washington State was third with 122,826 tons had an average of the 141.5 pounds per persons. Nebraska which originated scrap idea and started all again came up with 80.993 tons or an average of 123.1 pounds per capita in its second or campaign. Other stale reports, with pounds per capita and total tonnage, as reported by the committee include- Illinois 122.4 pounds and 483,300 tons; Kentucky 113.2 and Iowa 110.9 and Texas 1026 and 329,015 tons, Oklahoma 70 1 and Louisiana 60.3 and Missouri 54.8 and Tennessee 41.5 and Arkansas 19.8 and 19,300. iles from a fortified point.

Only light action was reported 1 Caucasus southeast of Nalchik. To the northwest near Leningrad, a Soviet detachment wast credited with the capture of an emy strong point and along the front lines was there any L'" indication that the Axis forces made any gains. A front line dispatch from of Stalingrad said lhat in someT 1 places the white flag flutteied over 'f-, the barren Kalmyk steppes and in other places the German dead V'. were piled high around pillboxes. Long columns of captives were -V reported moving east, shivering invV the cold.

Many of the Germans and Rumanians marched with heads 'IV and bodies swathed in shawls and UJ blankets. By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor Allied offensives jarred Hitler, Hirohito further off balance on every front in World War Iljl today. jo While the Russians steadily ened a gigantic Irap against 300,000 to 400,000 Nazis in th eStaliii, grad sector, American, British and Fighting French forces hammeied the Axis into an ever-naiiwoing corridor along the Mediteiianean, coasl from Libya to Tunisia in North Africa. 4 In the far Pacific, American and Australian tropos under Gen Dougas MacArthur furiously attacked the last dwindling nests of Japanese resistance on the Papuan peninsula in New Guinea, and U.

S. Army heavy bombers blasted Japanese invasion forces amid the ruined temples of Mandalay, Burma, These were the highlights in 24 hours of unbroken good news for ,.3., the United Nations on the world's 1 T' far-flung battlefronls, with the pic- lure further brightened ty the nounced adherence of French forces at Dakar to the side of the Allies and by a diplomatic pact eliminating French Martinique in the Car? ibbean sea as a potential menacg to the western hemisphere. Secretary of State Cordell HuJl said in Washington that a result of an agreement reached with Admiral Robert, French high conjs, missioner at Martinique, there was" not likely to be any necessity ftwV American occupation of French in the Caribbean, On the Libyan desert front, Brits (Continued on Page Two).