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Dec. 8 'UP' Gen. Francisco Franco t.iid the peopie of Spain today that the capitalist and liberal world is doomed and that the war's end will soon bring a "final" solution" to all great problems. (London observers reported that Franco's address appeared to be designed carefully to maintain Spain's neutral position. These quarters i said Franco had advanced no inrii- caiions of any change in Spain's position and that for the mast part his emphasis was on the familiar theme of anti-Bolshevism Spain, he told the Falangist party council, belongs to the "European world and he called on all Spaniards to "concentrate themselves on the great events of Europe." Vses Hitler's Style (This is the phraseology frequently employed bv Adolf Hitler to describe his proposed Nazi "new order" In Europe Franco said he believed there is "no difference between what the Continued on Pane Jdlvll GEN.

DRUM BACKS LAGUARD1A IN RAID TEST ROW Asks Poletti to Refrain From Issuing Orders Enforcing Haskell Plan Lt. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, commander of the Eastern Defense Command, today stepped into the Great Siren Controversy raging between Mayor LaGuardia. as defender of the two-signal status quo.

and Lt. Gen. William N. Haskell. State civilian protection director, who had ordered a third siren signal in blackout tests.

General Drum aligned himself with the Mayor by asking Governor Poletti to refrain from inning any orders and to suspend any already issued which would add the third (blue) siren to the existing series. At present, New Yorkers hear only the "red" signal In a blackout test, followed by the all-clear. The Haskell plan would have a warning "blue" precede the "red." But the Mayor has stuck to the "red'' and "all clear." and General Haskell hinted, earlier today that this might leave the Mayor liable to $500 fine or six months in the clink as a "willful violator." The Mayor, unafraid, countered that the army wanted it that way. and General Drum's request to the Continued on Pate I Detective Joseph A. Miccio A SA War Vessels, And Freighters Won by Pact Allied North African Headquarters, Dec.

8 (U.R) A sizable portion of the French fleet and the French merchant marine appeared to be won for the cause of the United Nations today as Pierre Boisson. Governor-General of French West Africa, came to a definitive agreement with Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied commander-in-chief.

The agreement turned the strategic port of Dakar, on the western bulge of Africa closest to South America, with it dominance of the South Atlantic, over to the United Nations for naval uses. West Afri can airdromes were Included. The number of French warships I and merchant ships in Dakar har-I bor was not known here, but they were believed to Include the 35.000-ton battleship Richelieu, completed in 1940; three 7 600-ton cruisers. Glnire, Montcalm, and George Leygues; three 2. 569-ton destroyers, Fantasque, Malin and Terrible; 12 submarines, three mine sweepers.

10 corvettes, otherlight vessels, and a large number of merchant ships. S. Mission Off In Dakar Eisenhower, in announcing the agreement, said the details "involving the future employment" of these formidable fighting and merchant fleets would be worked out in conferences at Dakar. A United States military mission was leaving for Dakar at once to woik out these plans. Boisson 's readiness to collaborate with the United Nations, which he proclaimed early in the North African campaign, was sealed formally by Ei.enhower in a special announcement.

Will Use Airfields The American commander said Fiench West Africa would permit the United Nations to use its air-I fields for the transit of Allied 1 planes from the United States and its port facilities. I He said Allied interned in Africa would be released Continued on Tsge 2 11 NBW TOWC OTT1 ELSEWHTRB 4 CENT? 51 Ships Lost In Scuttling, Knox Reveals Washington, Dec. 8 fU.R) At least 15 French warships. Including four submarines under construction, and five tankers fell intact Into German hands at Toulon despite the dramatic scuttling operations of Nov. 27, Secretary of Navy Knox said today.

Fifty other warships and one merchant vessel were sunk, damaged or unaecnun'ed for aftetr previously being observed afloat In the harbor, he added. Knox's disclosures were made possible by aerial reconnaissance over Toulon after the smoke had cleared from the French fleet's partly successful suicide attempt. The Secretary released a list of surviving ships which showed that Vichy radio accounts of the scuttling had been exaggerated. On Nov. 27 the Vichy radio said that bv 10 a m.

tha day not a single French warship was afloat in the harbor. Battleships Salvageable In addition to the vessels which fell unriamased to the Germans, two large battleships the Dun-kerqu and Strasbourg -are in salvageable condition. Knox said. Even though the Germans should be able to make immediate use of the ships which escaped destrur. 1 tion in Toulon, the Allied acquisi- tion of Dnkar and French vessel? i in that West African base would more than offset the German gains.

Asked for comment on Dakar. Knox said the aureement wi'h Fiench authorities there "brought with it qui' a number of French ship." He said the stra'egie advantages, however, are "largely negative, in that we ran now deny any use of the port to the enemy." Calls Dakar a Gnnri Rase It's a very good port, however a good ba.se he added. Not all ships which survived the Toulon scuttling fell into German hands. Four submarines of a total of 19 in Toulnn escaped, while the battleship Provence was reported with its sterti verv low in the water. mans maintained practically all I their positions between the Don ind Volga Rivers, northwest and west of where ther had been counter-attackiitg s'eadily for the last 72 hours in heavy snows.

Only in the Rzhcv sector, 130 miles northwest of Mo.scow, were new Russian successes reported. Red Line Pierced. Say Nazis Berlin, Dec. 8 German broadcast recorded by United Pre.s in New Yoiki-The High Command today asserted that German troops counter-attacking with the support of tank formations in the Kallntn-Lake Union sector of tha Russian front, had penetrated Soviet position to a depth of about 10 miles. The communique said the German forcc.s now have reached the Russians' supply roads in this which lies between Moscow and Leningrad.

The High Command said that Get man and Rumanian shock troops in an unspecified sector of the Caucasus had captured several Sovitt plUboxat and fortified poaitioca. tkJTC 3 wcr I 3 TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1942 FULL-SCALE ATTACK ON ROMMEL NEAR Assault From East Seen Likely as Allies Fight Hard in Tunisia London, Dec. 8 (UP A grand Allied assault from the east, on the Axis position in Africa, it appeared today, may hit the Germans and Italians while the Tunisia fighting still is in the hard skirmishing staee. The British Eighth Army in the opinion of London observers probably has completed preparations for the break-through attack at El Agheila which is expected to throw Marshal Erwin Rommel into a new retreat for Tripoli.

As the Eighth Army attack develops, it was said, the British First Army, with its American and Fiench elements under Lt. Gen. K. A. N.

Anderson, can be expected to move forward to pinch the Axis from the west. Allies Still on Defensive For the moment, reports from Africa made plain, the Allies in Tunisia were on the defensive as they worked to bring up sufficient air strength to break the Luftwaffe's dominance of the forward fighting zone. However, it was doubled that the Germans with the limited land forces at their disposal will attempt to press forward any great distance despite their success in the opening rounds of the Tebour-ba-Diedeida-Mateur batile. Allied bombing of Axis airdromes at Bizerte and Tunis was believed to be hamperoing the Nazis In employing these fields and cutting their air attacks on American and British troops to a considerable extent. German radio reports from Tangier said that Anderson's headquarters indicated the Allies would be forced to wage a defensive battle in Tunisia for some time.

Radio Vichy claimed that a new and violent tank battle was being fought west of Tebourba and the DNB Na7.i news agency said German dive bombers and fighters had destroyed many Allied tanks. Planes Rip Axis Positions Cairo, Dec. 8 (UP Allied planes have attacked Axis gun positions successfully near Mersa Bites. 25 miles northeast of El Agheila. where the remnants of the German and Italian Libyan forces are expected to make a stand, it was announced today.

Front dispatches rewted that the British Eighth Army was near-ing contact with the Axis positions in the El Agheila defile, "but a British communique said briefly: "Apart from patrol activity there is nothing to report from our land forces Millionaire, 74, Fights Young Wife's Divorce Suit Bridgeport, Conn Dec. 8 U.P Thomas H. Mclnnerney. 74-year-old millionaire chanman of the Board of National Dairy Product, Int, will appear In Superior Court tomorrow to fight the divorce action brought by his young wife, who charged htm with Intolerable cruelty. The hearing, originally put down for today, was postponed for reasons not announced.

Mrs. Mclnnerney, the former Catherine Connor, brought the suit In January and pla.ed an attachment of $1 000 000 against her husbands real and personal proerty In moving from Clucaso in 19HH. Greenwich, where ne has lived since Woman, 115, Dies St. Johns. Newfoundland.

Dec. 8 njpi Mrs. Ella N. Carroll. 115.

died Sunriav at her home North River, Conception Bay. She rs said to haie been the oldest womsn in the British Empira. i i Patrolman Peter Droner THUG'S SHOT TAKES LIFE OF HERO SLEUTH Miccio First Officer Slain This Year Two Killers Seized in Chase Detective Joseph A. Miccio, 42, a hero of the first World War, died in Holy Family Hospital today, victim of two gunmen who were captured after a running gun battle through downtown lyn yesterday. He was the first policeman killed in the line of duty this year.

Acting District Attorney Thomas Cradock Hughes moved for swift punishment of the killers, both ex-convlcts, Joseph Palmer, 25, of, 1123 Lexington Manhattan, end Vincent Salloml. 27, of 61" E. 158th the Bronx. He said he would ask first degree tpttrder indictment before a Brand Jury, late this afternoon or tomorrow. Arraigned In Brooklyn Felon Court, the two were held without bail for a hearing next Tuesday a hearing which will not be held if they are Indicted meanwhile on charges of murder, assault, robbery and violation of the Sullivan law.

Detective Miccio was shot In the ehest by one of the pair when he questioned them at Dean and Kevins Sts. because they appeared "suspicious." They fled in a stolen car but were captured an hour later. Doctors and nurses marie a valiant effort to pull him through In his ficht for life. Miccio. chubby and affable, had a splendid record In the Police Department and decorations for bravery in the first World War.

He lived with his wife and three children at 2386 E. 21st Street. Police Officials in Chase Two police inspectors, a captain and hall a dozen patrolmen who had gathered at 3d Ave. and Bergen where a fire truclc was overturned by sidewiping a trolley ear, joined in the chase. Ai the sound of the shot Deputy Chief Inspector Wall.

Inspector Edward Meade and Capt. John B. Leahy of the 18th precinct, immediately leaped on the running boards of squad cars and raced after the fugitives. Patrolman Charles Kaiser chased Continued on Page I MARINE AT 12, LAD'S SENT BACK TO SCHOOL San Francisco, Dec. 8 (ll.Pi Gorge B.

Holle, a discharged war veteran at 13, must return to school for a few years before rejoining the marines. Geone, who falsified his ace to Join the marines a month before Pearl Harbor when he was 12, received his honorable discharge at Goat Island in San Francisco Bay. The boy, standing an inch over Six feet and welshing 180 pounds, ruefully said reports he had participated in action at Midway and the Solomons were false. The Marine Corps said George was In San Francisco when the Solomons campaign opened. WHERE 10 FIND IT VlLlC Vntfl ohiluarln Pari'ilt Radln if tr Iv sprl l.k.

Mr Wt4 1 hmtrr. Th Wmm fnmlf Crm.w nrit Pr. Hradv Irtil'nml FlchtlKK Mm nifl Rrar It mm H'lrn Wnrlh Hm frnnl 1 1 11 II fl 11-1-1 I 1 Makes a 'Nuisance' Of Self to Get Name In Papers, Says Downs Criticism of Mayor La-Guardia's stand against the operation of bingo games in the city and of his Sunday radio talks was expressed by Judge Thomas Downs in Queens County Court, Long Island City, today in granting the application of three men for a Jury trial of the bingo charges against them. The men were served with summonses at Ririgewood Grove, an amusement hall at 343 St. Nicholas Ridcewood, on Nov.

20. charged with opertaing a bingo game, in violation of the Lottery Law. The game was reported be, intended to benefit the Queeasboro iociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. "We should stop this nonsense of having a dictator in the City of New York stand up and say that everything is going to be done the way he orders it to be done, while we still have the court of the city and State available for people who art liberty-living," Judge Downs said in a satement from the bench. Charges 'Petty Politics" "It does seem to me, at a time like this, that the Mayor of our city should not squander the money of our city, wasting time chattering every Sunday over the radio, play ing petty politics, because his name is off the front pages of the newspapers.

"The war news has taken him off the front page and he has to do something to make a nuisance of himself and get his name in the newspapers." "It does- seem to me that the world is aflame because we have dictators of similar heritage," he "There is one in Italy now Fiorello oh, no, it is Mussolini. He has been sounding off and has beon inflated with wind, and now he is slowly being deflated and will be deflated completely before a few more months elapse." The application for a jury trial was marie in behalf of John A. Klefer of 187-11 87th Drive. Hotlis; John Sanmne of 60-38 68th Road. Middle Village, and Vincent.

Ferri of 71-06 67th Place, Glendale. The charge against the three men is pending in Ridgewood Felony Court. Ordinarily magistrates send such cases to Special Sessions but a.s a result of Judge Downs' ruling this case will be submitted to the grand pury. Hundreds of Games I. T.

Flatto, counsel for the three men. argued that hundreds of bingo games are being conducted in New York City in tax-exempt properties. Attorney Flatto said that the closing of this particular game would deprive a charitable organization of Income. He remarked that bingo games ere not being prosecuted in Brooklyn. Judge Downs, in granting the motion to have the case tried before a pury in County Court instead of before three Judges in Special Sessions, said: "I don't see why all this should happen, a Just because we have an excited police captain and because the Mayor of our city is sounding 1 off every Sunday, crying over the phone and chirping over the ra-I dio.

"The Mayor is the chief executive of this city but court. and because he en- ple punks, tmhor i md everything else, ike them that, not In Queens County 'am aenor Judge of Hit-Run Driver Kills Aged Man; Trolley Fatally Injures Woman An elderly man and an unidentified woman were dead today, victims of traffic accidents in Brooklyn last night. A woman or about 56 was struck by a trolley of the B. M. T.

Norton's Point Line at W. 29th St. and Railroad Coney Island, shortly after 8 p.m. Max Hirschfleld of 2 Washington St. operated the car, according to police.

Within less than half an hour Frank-Ferrantelli, 10, of 65 Avenue V. was found lying in the roadway at 8fith St. and Avenue V. He had a fractured skull and internal Injuries, and died two hours later at Harbor Hospital. Police of the Bath Beach Station said he was evidently the victim of a "hit-and-run" driver.

MAN ON TRIAL FOR 1929 MURDER Trial of I.uijri Belcastro, 48, of 174 Montauk for the murder on Sept. 8, 1929, of Savario Freschinl, 36, opened yesterday In County Court before Judge Peter Brancato. Belcastro is charged with first degree murder. It is charged that Belcastro and Freschinl met In the home of a mutual friend the night of Sept. 7, 1929.

They became engaged In an argument over a game they were playing, the prosecution charges, and left the house, continuing the argument. It is charged that while they still were in front of the house, Belcastro drew a revolver and shot Freschini. Belcastro was not arrested until last April, when he was found in Canarsie. MISSING SOLDIER FOUND DEAD ON L. I.

Riverhead, Dec. 8 The body of a Negro soldier. later identified as James William Hunter, 43, of White Plains, N. was found by two hunters yesterday in the woods In Calverton. It was determined at an inquest last night that death was from natural causes.

Hunter was Inducted early in September and disappeared from Camp I'pton, seven miles from where his body was found, a few days after arrival. Continued on Tage I Cossacks Slash Nazis In Stalingrad Blizzard RULE OF EUROPE AIR TESTED IN TUNISIA FIGHT, SAYS ARNOLD Washington, Dec. 8 (U P) The air struggle developing over Tunisia will determine air superiority In the Mediterranean area and possibly the whole European theater of war. Lt. Gen.

Henry H. Arnold said today. Arnold, commandins the army air forces, said American planes and personnel are going up auainst first-class air power for the first time In this war. The new American Lockheed P-38 pursuit ship now is engaging the best planes the Germans possess the Focke-Wulf mo and Messerschmltt 109Q and In their initial trials the score is about even, Arnold said. "At present," he said, "It Is touch and go as to who is the stronger.

In some sections we are; in others they are." "If we can continue to destroy the enemy plane for plane," he said, "we will come out ahead. Our production is at least twice Axis production. They would have to destroy two for one to remain even." 29 NEW GENERALS NAMED BY STALIN Moscow, Dec. 8 (U Ri Premier Josef Stalin, supreme commander of the Russian fighting forces, today named 24 new major-generals, one colonel-general and five lieutenant-generals In the fourth promotion list in a month. The new lieutenant-grnerals included Sergei Feodorovlrh Gorok-hov and Leonti Nlrolaievitch Gour-tiev, commanders on the northern sectors of Stalingrad.

Jon Sibelius Is 77 Helsinki. Dec. 8 Ri 'Finnish Broadcast Recorded by Ri In New York i Jan Sibelus, world-famed Finnish compoer, celebrated his 77th birthday today. Moscow, Dec. 8 -A blizzard swept the Stalingrad batile front today while hard-riding Russian cossacks dashed over the snow, rutting down stragglers from German units bogged in the deep drifts.

Despite the driving storm, fiaht-Ing was heavy and artillery duels continued day and nuhl The bit shells threw up great geysers of snow amid struggling niax.se of men and machines. Ruscian sapper crews, advancing Into the German minefields were, I having difficulty clearing away eu-j emv obstructions, front dispatches i said. Mines and tank traps were I buned deep under the snow and 'operations were slowed by weather conditions and impassable snow banks. Resistance Stiffen" The Gei man re.is'ance wa. Aliening along tne entile front and Nazi commanders their thin-clad men m'o tierce nri te-pested rountet -atta, ks wi'hout re-gird for lasses, front tUfpttjChaa said tha Qer- CHARLES TOWN RESULTS Hnrntrnpf llndl.T MttlM a la It-lS-M 1 Pilate Heart Rweetle Fare 4.40-J.ifl, Attune 3.80.

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