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Served by the No. 1 News Organizations The Associated Press Wide World Hope Star The Weather Arkansas: Continued cold this afternoon and tonight. VOLUME 46 Star of Hope, 1899; Press, 1927. Consolidated January 18, 1929. HOPE, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1942 Associated Press Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n PRICE 5e COPY Allies Hold Tebourba Line Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor ALEX.

H. WASHBURN Newspapers' Greatest Book Kent Cooper Writes "Barriers Down" "BARRIERS By Kent Cooper, Farrar Rine- harr, N. $3.00. This is the story of the crusade to carry America's free- Vpress system all over the world; 1942 Cotton Forecast Nearly 13 Million Bales Washington, Dec. 8 The Department estimated that this year's cotton crop totals 12,982,000 bales of 500 pound gross weight each.

A month ago the department placed indicated production at 13,.329,000 bales. Production was bales last year and average production in the ten years 1931-40 was 13,109,000 bales. The indicated yield is 275.1 pounds to the acre, compared with 274.9 pounds indicated a month 231.9 pounds produced last year, and an average of 215.0 pounds in the ten years. The area for harvest this year is placed at 22,660,000 acres, compared with 22,238,000 acres last and 23,861,000 acres two years ago. The census bureau reported that cotton of this year's growth ginned i to Dec.

1 totaled 11,539,420 running bales, counting round as half bales excluding linters, compared 1 with bales a year ago and 10,866,474 bales two years ago. Abandonment of acreage since July 1 was reported as 2.8 per cent of the 23,301,000 acres in cultivation then, compared with 3.0 per last year, and 2.0 per cent, toe average abandonment in toe 10 years, 1932-41. The agriculture department reported the acreage left for harvest, i indicated acre yield, average gross v) weight of running bales and indicated total production in 500 Ib. Gross weight bales, by states, in eludes: Missouri 420,000 acres; acre yield 485 pounds, bale weight 497 and production 425,000 )'-'bales; Mississippi 396; 522 and Arkansas 261; 522 and Louisiana 286; 520 and Oklahoma 1,800,000 192; 513 and Texas 523 and 3,113,000. 8 The census bureau's report on ginnings to Dec.

1 by states, with comparative figures for a year ago in running bales, follows: Arkansas 1,350,977 and 570,892 and Mis" sissippi 1,86,6,422 and Missouri 380,952 and Oklahoma 625,625 and Tennessee 574,177 and Texas 2,673,499 and 2,143,224. 4 Wickard Heads Meet to Study Farm Goals Memphis, Dec. 8 Representatives of farm war boards in 14 southern states, meeting jgecretary of Agriculture Wickard and other department officials, studied today the 1943 far mgoals and problems farmers would face in fulfilling them. A special period was set aside for discussion of a condition of the i'1943 AAA program, providing that a farmer must plant at least 90 per cent of his crop allotment in order to obtain AAA payments for it. An exception to the order set forth that certain "war crops" to (be designated could be substituted ill case a frmer preferred not to plant the full 90 per cent.

Wickard, who yesterday pledged himself to keep toe public "better informed concerning toe current food situation," prepared to ad- 'dress the group late today. Wickard said he had full confidence in the people's cooperation in a planned food program "provided they are fully informed of what they should do and why." 4 emphasized the housewife's role in toe program "i making the best of the foods they will have." Thiokol has a tensile strength up to 1400 pounds, greater than that of nat- f'ural rubber after it has been subjected to oil or solvent, come very low' to spool the periscope toe dark shadow of the boiit undo) water. 3 It is told by Kent Cooper, general manager of The Associated Press. The word "barrier" in toe title refers to the monopoly which privately-owned or government-controlled press associations threw around public offices in Europe and and the story tells how The Associated Press cracked those barriers and enabled all newspaper men to talk directly to foreign officials just as any newspaper representative can do here in the United States. "Barriers Down" is a dramatic and thrilling story.

I was especially intrigued by the fact that here was a magnificent pages from the general manager of The Associated Press, which is a fact-reporting, non-editorial organization. But this time Kent Cooper was writing about The Associated Press, not for writing about toe complete freedom to report government news, which is the cornerstone on which American freedom of the press stands. But taking this idea on a crusade to the rest of the world was a tremendous task, Twenty years ago The Associated Press gathered its own news in the United States and Canada, but for the rest of world news it had to depend on an exchange with three foreign news agencies: Reuters (British), Havas (French) and Wolff (German). AP is a co-operative association owned by American newspapers and entirely independent of both government and big business. But Reuters was a privately-owned news agency whose customers were banks and investment houses as well as newspapers and both Havas and Wolff were semi-government institutions in their respective countries.

How did this affect America? you ask. Well, let Mr. Cooper give you a paragraph about Reuters, the British agency: 'Reuters decided what news was to be sent from America. It told the world about the Indians on toe war path in the West, lynching in the South and bizarre crimes in the North. The charge for decades was that nothing creditable to America ever was sent.

American business men criticized The Associated Press for permitting Reuters to belittle America abroad." Mr, Cooper's analysis of toe effect of the'foreign news monopoly pins on Reuters and Havas this specific charge: "1. They kept out Associated Press competition. "2. They were free to present American news disparagingly to the United States if they presented it at all. "3.

They could present news of their own countries most favorably and without it being contradicted. Their own countries were always glorified." This was most serious in South America, largely controlled by the Havas agency of Mr. Cooper's book lays to this propaganda much of the ill-will that has been built up against the United States in South America. "Barriers Down" tells how The Associated Press finally broke the Reuters-Havas monopoly, established its own news bureaus all over the won the right to serve South American newspapers with undiluted American news direct from New York, receiving undiluted South American news exchange. French Sink 51 Ships, 4 Escape, 20 to Germans Washington, Dec.

8 Secre tary of Navy Knox reported today that of 75 French ships of all types in Toulon harbor when the Germans moved in, 20 apparently were left intact ,51 were sunk or damaged or are now unaccounted for and four escaped. The vessels damaged some of which al least may be included three battleships, the Dunkerque, Strasbourg and pro- vcnce, he said. The vessels classified by the Navy here as "afloat and apparently intact" included two light cruisers, three destroyer leaders, three destroyers, four submarines, two gunboats, one demilitarized battleship and 5 tankers. Those which escaped as had been previously known were four submarines. The information given out by Knox at a press conference was based on aerial reconnaissance of the French harbor at Toulon.

(Vichy reports previously had said the whole fleet had been scuttled by the French. The number was estimated at more than GO.) A memorandum issued to reporters showed in addition to the three battleships that the following vessels were in some condition of damage from either demolition or other methods of scuttling. The commandant test, a seaplane carrier observed to have a severe list to port. Two heavy cruisers of the Suffern class and one light cruiser of the Galissonniere class which were "very heavily on fire." One heavy cruiser, the Algerie, which was aground and possibly on fire. Described''simply as "scuttled and lying either with decks awash or on their sides were: Eleven destroyer leaders (very large destroyers) of the Aiglc or Geupard class; one destroyer leader of the Tigre class; one destroy Today's War Map GERMANY OCCUPIED FRANCE ALLIED THRUSTS (NtA Telemapl I oday war map pictures the Allied air offensive against the areas, Germany, Northern and Southern Italy, Sicily, Tunisia were all blasted by Allied bombers.

Britain Reduces Age for Military Service By E. C. DANIEL London, Dec. 8 IIP) Britain lowered her draft age to 18 years today and disclosed she was sending men between the ages of 37 and 41 directly into war factories in order to solve the manpower needs of her industrial and fighting armies. The new minimum draft age was set by second reading of a bill to lower the miliatry service liability age from 18 1-2 to 18.

Second reading in the House of Commons is tantamount to enactment. The final, third reading is a formality. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin informed Commons that there was no immediate intention to lower the age limit further and that men under 19 would not be sent overseas. He said the "long period of training will be an advantage to the young man himself" as well as to the nation. or leader of toe Volta class; one destroyer leader of toe Fantasque class.

Six destroyers of toe Lchardie class; three destroyers of toe Si- moun class and two destroyers of the Pomone class. Tsvo gunboats of toe Elan class and the Gladialcur, a net layer. One cargo ship, the Golo. One heavy cruiser of the Suffrcn class. One former battleship which had been demilliarized, the Condorcet.

One destroyer leader of the Mog- ador class. There were 19 submarines in the harbor at the time the Gemans; moved in and toe Knox memorandum showed that of those eight are now unaccounted for, two which were in dry dock suffered damage, four which were under construction in drydock are appearntly intact, four which tried to escayo succeeded, and one which tried escape hit a mine and sank. Of the four subs known to have escaped, the Iris is now interned at Barcelona, Spain, and three reached ports in Allied hands, the Casablanca and Marsuin reaching Algiers and the Gloriu, which was damaged, reaching Oran, In addition to toe four submarines under construction i escaped damage these other ships were listed as having remained afloat and apparently intact despite the efforts of the French officers and seamen to scuttle their craft: Two light cruisers of toe Galis- sonniere class. L'Ocean, the demilitarized former battleship. Two destroyer leaders of the Tigre class and one destroyer leader of either the Aigle or Guepard Class.

Two destroyers of the Lehardi class, and one destroyer of Si- moun class. Two gunboats of the Arras class. Hearing Soon On Price Violation Fierce Snows Hamper Reds in Push, on Nazis By EDDY GILMORE Moscow, Dec. 8 Heavy snows along the Russian front, coupled with fierce German counterattacks, hampered offensive operations of the Red Army today but Soviet ahtorities said their troops still pushed ahead in slow- Eoing smashes at German fortifications and communications. A dispatch to Izvestia, the government newspaper, said that there had been a heavy snowfall between the Don and Volga rivers in the Stalingrad area.

The Germans were reported taking advantage of the weather- slowed operations by throwing up defense works east of the fortified points of Vertiachy and Peskova- ta, on the eastern bank of the Don. The Soviet noon communique spoke of numerous German counterattacks in the Stalingrad aret and around Rzhev, but listed more than 3,000 Germans killed in fierce engagements. "In improving his position ir any way," the communique stated More than 800 Germans were killed on sectors of the Stalingrac area, the communique said, anc nearly 2,000 were listed killed 01 the central front west of Moscow 21 Jap Planes in Series Raids By The Associated Press In the Southwest Pacific, Allied iiVm.cn destroyed 21 planes in of- ensivc and defensive fights rang ng from northwest New Guinea to Franco Reaffirms Solidarity With Germany, Italy London, Dec. 8 (IP) Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain reaffirmed in a Madrdi broadcast today his solidarity with Germany and Italy in the struggle against what he called liberalism and "capitalist imperialism." Addressing the Falange, Spain's state party, in his first public speech since the Allied occupation of French Africa territory, toe German occupation of all France and partial Spanish mobilization, Franco asserted: "One outcome of the last war and a Barbarian communist dictatorship established in Russia. "First Mussolini, and later Hitler combatted it and established a new order.

"These new systems are not peculiarities of a race or nation. They represent a new faith and revolt against the old liberal world we knew in our youth." "A new era is being initiated by the fighting in the east," Franco went on. "Spain has to work hard in order to prepare for the future. We must be prepared. Life must be secure.

"We face a hard life but a Spanish life. Our Army and our youth will face all sacrifices. With fortitude we will galdly die for Spain. "We have fought liberalism, and al it represents." The audience burst into the Falange song and cheers for Franco. Before his appearance in the palace of the Falange national council, Franco and members of his government watched a military display.

Implying that considerable disunity still existed in Spain, Franco told his audience "we must prevent old political groups from im-, "pediftg" the smooth working' of 'coir new political system; we must be on our guard because the enemy could destroy our new and flourishing industries and agriculture." "We live in anew era," he asserted. "Spain has a place therein and will fulfill her part." "Surrounded by war, Spain has been faithful to her traditions," France said. Citing Premier Mussolini as an War Bulletins Allied Headquarters in North Africa, Dec. 8 Allied tank counter-attack has thrown the enemy back from positions he had gained Sunday in the Tebourba area, 20 miles west of Tunis, a headquarters communique said today. The ground action in the bitterly contested southwestern corner of the Tunisian triangle was supported by light bombers and fighters which repeatedly assaulted the Axis forces.

Battle of Tanks Enters 3rd Day in Tunisia Fight McNutt Begins Making Labor Control Plans Britain and New Ireland, icross almost 500 miles of ocean. The biggest bag was on New Guinea where the Japanes sent 18 medium bombers, eight divcbomb- ers and 12 Zero fighters over Al- ied lines which have pocketed the nvaders on the beaches at Buna and Gona. With little losses, the Allied fliers downed six medium jonibers, five dive bombers and even Zeros. Two Japanese seaplanes were destroyed on their runways in a raid on Lae, farther north on the New Guinea coast, and one fighter Two Japanese planes were deplane was shot down over Gasma- ta, New Britain. Wharves and storage dumps were set afire in a raid on Ka- vieng harbor, New Ireland.

were no new reports of the ground fighting along the Buna- Gona beach, or on Guadalcanal. An Associated Press correspondent reported in a dealyed dispatch from Guadalcanal that Col. John M. Arthur, Marines commander, said the Americans had been averaging 50 to 1 over the Japanese in fatalities despite the fact that the Americans were pitted against Japanese veterans of Burma, Malaya, Sumatra and the Philippines. "We are beating them," he said, "at their own game.

example of a leader who "has given justice to the Italian people by the Fascist revolution," Franco told his audience that "the Spanish revolution has not yet ended." "The republic brought misery and exploitation to this country he asserted. "The presence of Spanish youth who are full pf ideals guarantees the continuity of our movement. "Our task is great. When the war ends the old Europe will be with its capitalism, imperialism, plutocracy." The Spanish radio said government officials and diplomats, including the German ambassador ssembled to hear Franco, whose speech had been advertised beforehand as one which would "settle the problem of Spain's international policy." Allies May Also Get French Ships at Dakar By WES GALLAGHER Allied Headquarters in North A rica, Dec. 7 Dakar has been turned over for use by the United Nations' Navies and air forces, and French Nava forces and shipping in the strategic West African harbor also may serve the Allies, Lieut.

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower announced today. (Considerable forces of the French fleet are believed to be at Dakar, including toe 35,000 ton battlship Richelieu, one of France's newest a sister ship of the Jan by British planes on July 8, 1940, may sill be disabled, however. (Besides nine of 1,500 on and ix of 600 on oher French Naval unit at Dakar are the Gloire, Montcalm and Georges Leygues, all six inch- gun, cruisers; and three 2,569 ton destroyers, Le Fantas- que, Le Malin and Le Terrible.

(All except the Richelieu are reported to be in fighting trim and ready to go inti action in short notice.) The United States general, commander of the Allied campaign in North Africa, said toe rights to were by Perre Boisson, governor general of French West Africa, acting in cooperation wtih Admiral Jean Darlan. Still pending, Eisenhower said, was a decision on "the future employment of French Naval units and shipping," to be ironed out at conferences at Dakar. These conferences, it was understood, were to be conducted by a special mission which toe United States is sending to Dakar. The agreement was expected By The Associated i London, Dec. 8 were reported to be holding 1 solidly today on the nights' Tebourba while tanks battled for the third successive day in a man's land south of the Tumsian town, key to the approaches to Bi- zerte and Tunis.

Both sides were striking Jheavily by air, trying for the decisive bat- tie punch and to choke off supplies and reinforcements which might tip toe balance. The Allies, however, gained major advantage in the battle of" supplies. This was the acquisition pi kar as a United Nations port an agreement between Pierre son, governor general of French West Africa, who has placed himself under Admiral Jean Darlan, and Leiut. Gen. Dwight D.

Eisen- hower, commander in chief in North Africa. Eisenhower announced that toe United Nations' Navies are free now to use the port and Allied planes may use its airfields. Thus, in a struggle in which both sides must rely heavily on air and sea transport of supplies and men, the Allies have cut thousands of miles from their previous routes to the North African fronts and are i' 1 believed virtually to have elimi- nated the U-boat menace South Atlantic. While Britain's Eighth Army stilly paused before El Agheila, in Libya, Allied planes struck again by" night Sunday against.Bizerte and i followed up yesterday with bomb and cannon raids on La Goulette, virtually to end the German submarine menace in the South Atlantic and to cut thousands of miles from the distance now necessary for delivery of American warplanes in North Africa. Boisson was said also to have agreed to toe release of all interned Allied ships and internees.

It takes a total of perhaps GOOD men to get a 100-plane bombing raid into the air. Texurkanu, Dec. 8 Hearing on the OPA's charges that Jack Friedman of El Dorado violated price ceiling regulations, will be set for El Dorado or Fort Smith within the next 10 days, court attaches here declared. Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley continued for 10 days yesterday a temporary restraining order prohibiting Friedman, operating as the El Dorado Pipe and Metal company, from selling scrap metal at prices above the OPA ceilings.

The OPA is seeking a permanent injunction. Washington, Dec. War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt plunged into the task today of filling in the framework of a labor control structure likely to be unique in the nation's history. As an opener, McNutt scheduled a meeting with the Army and Navy chiefs of staff to work out some fundamental questions, but ahead lay reorganization of his expanded agency and perhaps a battle with the outgoing Congress in its dying days.

The first step in his program. McNutt told a press conference (Continued on Page Two) Carbon dioxide is used in the explosion-proofing of wings and fues- lages. The space surrounding fuel tanks is filled with toe gas prevent- fire. SHOPPING DAYS TO WAR BONDS-STAMPS Extension Class Held Here at Oglesby School The first meeting of the extension class was held Saturday, December 5, at Oglesby School with 15 teachers taking the course in Arkansas' Natural Resources, Their Conservation and Use. Teachers receive 2 hours college credit for this course.

There will be 12 meetings each being hours or a total of 30 hours. The class will meet next Saturday, December 12, at 1 p. m. at Oglesby School for its second meet- is urged that all teachers in the county who have not had a course in Conservation enroll at the meeting Saturday. All substitutes or prospective teachers should on- roll in this course.

Mrs. Cril Stewart was elected to act as chairman for the group. O. E. McKnight of Henderson State Teachers College Arkadel- phin, Arkansas, is the instructor.

is one type of motor accident that happens only in toe on wet U-Eves, often covered by dry leaves, the rad. Mediterranean Film to Be Shown Here Rev. W. R. Hamilton will show authentic pictures of the Mediterranean Boarderland in the church auditorium Friday evening at 7:45.

Many people have expressed a desire that these pictures of toe Mediterranean countries be shown again. These pictures were made personally by the pastor and will include Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Naples and Rome which have been in the war news for the last several days. Also pictures of Greece, Turkey, and Egypt will be presented. The public is cordially invited to see these pictures. There will be no admission charge and no offering will be taken.

Sixth Draft Registration Dec. 11-31 President Roosevelt has designated by proclamation, December 11, through 31 as the sixth selective service registration period. The announcement urges employers to release workers for a short time so they might register. Rules for registration follow: Those born on or after July 1, 1924 but not August 31, 1924, shall register Friday, December 11 through 17. Those born on or after Nov 1, but not after Oct.

31, 1924 are to register Friday, December 18 through 24. Those born on or after Nov 1, 1924 but not after Dec. 31, shall be registered Saturday, December 26 through 31. During the continuance of toe present war, those who were born on or after January 1, 1925 shall be registered on the day they become 18 years of age. Flashes of Life nine miles to the and toe en-, emy-heid port of Sfax in central' --5; Tunisia.

Axis air attacks were aimed at toe Allies' Algerian port of Philippeville where, toe Italian munique said, bombers 'scored di- rect hits on ships, docks and supply warehouses and started big fires. Of the fighting aground in Tunisia, the Italian communique said only that "land action ended ni favor of Axis troops." The German communique, equally bare of details reported, how- ever, that "fighting with enemy groups is continued at several places," Besides toe Philippeville raid, it added, Axis planes destroyed "a number" of Allied planes on an airfield and shot down eight in a combat at a cost of only one. The Germans were using both tanks and dive bombers in their effort to dislodge the Allied troops but the Morocco radio said toe Allies were taking the punishment and still holding tight. The Algiers radio reported today" that "Lieut. Gen.

K.A.N; Anderson's army is strongly entrenched on a horseshoe position, the two- prongs of which point toward Tunis and Bizerte, which are being pounded by heavy bombers. Fighters ceaselessly attack the Axis positions. "The arrival of powerful air. port is awaited. In the meantime shock troops of toe first aimy aie assembling to play their part in the final assault when the time comes." Across toe African wastes Irani the Tunisian battle ground Lbi- ya, a Reuters correspondent ported that toe German and Italian troops drawn up at El Agheila for an expected British attack were betraying nervousness at the spur- die bursts of gunfire from the British lines.

The British Eighth Army has been gathering strength an assault on the German pos- tions in the El Agheila bottleneck. The Morocco radio quoted in- iormed military quarters as esli' mating Field Marshal Erwin Roin- iiel's Axis forces there at sonic 50,000 troops. 4 I By the Associated Press Fire Indianapolis Five peices of equipment from three fire departments ment companies answered an alarm which had been turned in for a small hotel but it turned out to be false. Two minutes after the false alarm was turned in, fire had broken out in the apartment house. It was promptly.

Strayed, Not Stolen Reading, Pa. Edgar Zeller withdrew his police complaint about the theft of 11 chickens from his rear yard on November 30. The chickens night, to roost. came home last Break for Motorists Mount Joy, Pa. Gasoline rationing paid off for automobile owners here.

The thorough counceil discontinued a special $1 a year a assessment against motorists, explaining "if they can't drive toey aren't washing their cars." Missed the Point Chicago The lady in the dining car wasn't speaking in a whisper when she told the waiter all about himself, his shortcomings and her opinion of rationing when he refused to get her a second cup of coffee. A soldier sitting nearby arose and handed her his coffee, remarking: "Madam, here's one more tiling I can do for my country." She took the proffered coffee anc drank it. 1 Roosevelt Reaffirms Concern Over Jews Wshington, Dec. 8 President Roosevelt rcarrirmed today his concern for the Jews of Europe to committee of Amercina Jews who presented him with evidence which they said showed 2,000,000 European Jews alredy have been killed by the Axis and an estimated 5,000.000 more face possible ex- ermination. Dr.

Stphen S. Wise of New York, president of the American Jewish Congres and chairman of the delegation, told reporters that Mr. Roosevelt authorized him to say that he was proufoundly shocked to learn of the slaughter. Regardless, of which company fabricates them, no bombers of fighters ave beii'g built in the United without the use of sown of the paita made by automotive.