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because of shortages created by

because of shortages created by
these reasonable crimes.
But in reading the stories about
the illegal sale of army supplies.
| kept wondering what happened
to the Frenchmen who were prob
ably found to be operating the black
market? Were they too sentenced
to death or life imprisonment-or
did they get off with fines or year
or so in Jail?
We hear these days about black
markets in all of the countries in
the war. We seem to take for
granted that such black markets
are an unreasonable part of war.
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Lemon Juice Recipe Checks
Rheumatic Pain Quickly

II you suffer from rheumatic arthri>
tis or neuutis pain, try this simple
inexpensive home recipe that thousands
are using. Get a package Of Ru-Ex
Compound. a weeks supply today Mix
it with quart Of water. add the
juice Of 4 lemons. It's easy, pleasant
and no trouble at all. You need only }
tabespoonfuls tvo times a day Often
within 4S hours sometimes over
night splendid results are obtained.
If the pains do not quickly leave
and if you do not feel better. Ru.E1
will cost you nothing to try as it is
sold by your druggist under abso'
lutte money.back guarantee RuEx
Compound is for sale and recommended by
HINES DRUG co.
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Large crowds are enjoying the
show given by Burk's Comedians
each night in a large tent on Main
Street Every performance is Civ
ing satisfaction. Many gifts are
presented to the holders of lucky
| numbers.
The first quarterly conference
was held at the Methodist Church
Wednesday night with presiding
elder Sims in charge. The church
was reorganiZed and new officials
elected. Mr.. Burton remains super.
incident of the church school New
stewards are: Bill Wilkerson. Alton
Butler and Arthur Whitener Trus-
tees: Mrs. Wilkerson, Mrs. Vest
and Mr. Ball.
The walls of the new brick block.
on corner Main Street, are fast
taking shape.
Miss Dorothy White of Superior,
a teacher in Coolidge schools, who
was injured in a car accident re-
Gently. is improving, but will be
confined in the hospital for several
weeks, due to broken bones of the
hand and nose. Mrs. j. F. Eisen-
hart is substituting for Miss White.
FOR SALE-1 500 to 1000 lbs.
barb wire for &c per pound. j. o.
Wilson, Casa Grande.
Lawrence Smith and aunt were in
Coolidge from their ranch on the
Hunt Highway last Monday on busi-
ness.
Mrs. Perry Barksdale, nee Doro-
thy Burke of Coolidge, returned
from Florence Hospital this week
with her little baby boy, born jan
uary 23. The little man was named
Robert Perry.
Tom Fulbright and Charles H.
Reed announce the formation of a
partnership under the firm name
of Fulbright and Reed for the gen
eral practise of law with offices at
Florence, Arizona.
Mrs. Ben Harris was hostess to
the Wednesday Bridge Club this
week. High score was awarded &c
Mrs. j. T. Burke, and second high
to Mrs. Brown. Delicious salad
waters and coffee were served, end
ing pleasant afternoon. The
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TEN YEARS AGO

guests included Mesdames P. w.
Hamilton, Brown, Prather, Burke,
Butterfield, Markham. Boone,
Hooper and the hostess Mrs. Har-
ris.
The last round of the Womans
Club bridge tournament was played
February / at the club house.
Hostesses were Miss Lillian O'Con-
nor, Mrs. Hugh Miller and Mrs.
Earl Hicks. Prizes for the tourna-
ment were as follows: 1st prize
contract, o. NJ. Browne and A. c..
Josephs of Coolidge; 2nd prize con-
tract, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Reed of
Florence. 1st prize auction, Mr.
and Mrs. Virgil Chandler, of Flor
enee. and End prize auction. Mr..
and Mrs. Nathan Zahalsky of Cool
idge.
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Truck Lane Committee

It is gratifying to know that the City Coun-
Gil has a committee to look into needed
truck lane for Wilmington and make recon-
mendations for it establishment.
AS matters now stand trucks and oil tank
erS use Third, Fifth and Market streets at
all hours to the distress Of residents, particu-
larly at night, and to the inconvenience of
motorists. These streets were laid out, with
their central plazas, primarily for beautifica-
ton and the comfort of jewellers along their
routes.
Heavy vehicles have usurped their traffic
ways because of the width and because they
offer direct outlets. This is fine for the trucks
but for no other type of vehicle or the people
whose rest is so constantly disturbed by them.
Modern cities with few exceptions, among
which Wilmington occupies a top position,
have long had truck lanes skirting residence
areas. Usually the lanes are in fact beltlines
with sufficient feeder lanes to enable trucks
to reach business district delivery points with
least inconvenience. It is something of this
sort that Wilmington needs and it cannot be
started too soon.
The council committee has an opportunity
70 do the city a great and valuable service.
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SHAEF

This is the day set for dissolution Of SHAEF
Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Exre.
dictionary Force-wAich directed the cam
paigns that overthrow mighty Germany.
How great were its accomplishments can
not be properly or adequately appraised by
this generation. All that we can do is doh
a respectful hat and bid it friendly farewell
General Eisenhower steps down from the
post of Supreme Commander to the command
of American occupying forces and American
representative on the Control Council, where
he will be associated with the British Mar
shall, Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, who COM
manded British forces under him in the bat
tie that defeated Germany, and General
Zukov, the Russian commander.
Nothing that we could say here could add
one je+ OF title to General Eisenhowers quail
tiles as leader of the most powerful military
organization ever assembled under a single
command or as diplomatist in the sternest
period of world unrest and suspicion. That
too must await the verdict of history.
The point of chief interest now is focused
upon the Control Council which must deal
with and solve problems as intricate and diff
ficrlt as any that faced SHAEF.
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Lucky Escape

Mussolini's wieow, interviewed at an intern
nent camp where she is under protective
custody, says she and her notorious husband
made mistake when they did not come to
the United States Immediately after their
marriage as they had planned. Maybe So.
Benito, however, had a streak of bad blood,
and bad blood has way of making its pres
ence known in any environment.
It is altogether possible that had they set
tied in this country Mussolini, instead of be-
coming a good citizen, would have been the
leader of a gang like Capone and caused
great suffering many deaths. and ended on
the gallows. He was the type, certainly, and
despite personal cowardice had way of per.
suading others to do his dirty work.
1t may well be the United States was the
gamer when he decided to stay in ITALY,.
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AndersOn's Wise Words

When Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
shortages-he cited sugar, fats and oils-are
liable to continue for some time after Japan
mismanagement of the food program has
been so grievous and of such long duration
: that it probably cannot be overcome for sew
eral years. And the problem is complicated
. by the need for the United States to do its
just share in feeding the impoverished peo-
pies of German-conquered nations Bumper
crops and wise administration cannot quickly
overcome the handicaps raised by the many
bureaus previously exercising Jurisdiction
over the nations food supply.
But Mr.. Anderson spoke wisely when he
told the reporters that America can't feed
III awful lot of misunderstanding trouble and
!. iIlwill''
: Because of the shortsighted policies and ut.
terances of persons who have had voice
+ land used it, in our food program, the i'm
preston has been permitted to spread abroad
that the United States is ready to play a
Samaritan role for the worlds hungry popu
iation at the heavy sacrifice Of its own peo
pie. The fact is, this country could not feeo
the world. as Mr.. Anderson says, nor come
anywhere near doing so.
The American people will be happy to share
their food supplies with Europe's needy, ane
20 short themselves to do it, but they are
justified in demanding that enough food Q
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Pacific Service Of Supply

When General Patton's Third Army was
moving so rapidly toward the Czechoslovak
border, during the final Allied drive in Europe,
it was suddenly halted, not by the enemy,
Several times and on different sectors in that
crushing onslaught against the Germans,
American and British troops were slowed down
because they lacked the wherewithal to main
tain the terrific pace of their advance Am.
munition of one sort or another, oil and gaso-
line for mechanical equipment, were not avail
able in the quantities needed. Allied armies
had moved so fast and so far from their
supply bases that the service OF supply, that
indispensable factor of victory, could not keep
up The consequence was that German resls-
lance was prolonged longer than it could other
wise have continued and VE-Day postponed
If this could happen in Europe, no part OF
which is particularly far from tidewater, and
no coastal base far from the point OF supply
origin by water, how much more easily could
it happen in the final campaign against the
Japanese in the Pacific, where supplies gen
orally must be conveyed across thousands OF
miles on sea lanes not wholly devoid OF danger.
and assembled at island bases hundreds Of
miles across water for delivery in endless
stream at the fighting fronts.
BY any yardstick, on any scales, the service
of supply in the closing phases of the japanese
war is tremendous problem which must be
solved before the victory can be assured.
There is no reason to doubt that the supply
departments of our Army and Navy are pre-
pared to 90 a competent job of delivery. It is
not so certain that labor in the plants COM
missioned to produce needed supplies is as
willing to do it's job. Strikes that start almost
daily in war industries indicate, instead, that
labor is not awake to its responsibility for the
victory or willing to 60 about for production.
Labor is more inclined to. 60 to war, either
within it's own ranks over jurisdictional rights
or with management over pay rates. while
the GIs are fighting under tropical handicaps
for $50 month.
| General Arnold, chief Of the American Air
Forces, has said that the air assault on Japan
rubber as result of strikes in tire factories.
It is no less likely that other phases Of the
master.battle in the Orient face equal handi.
caps and possible stoppages because of ti-ups
in other industries, unless the strike fever is
cured promptly.
The obvious need is for sterner federal ac-
ton against strikers everywhere. Let the Sc
verest measures needed, to assure adequate
servic of supply in the Pacific be taken now
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all sorts be retained within our borders and
equitably distributed among all communities
to meet normal requirements.
Nobody will seriously object to going short
on sugar, fats and oils for long time, if
necessary, but everybody wants assurance
that the bungling that brought about the short
ages is being efficiently dealt with and that
sanity has been restored in the program OF
distribution Mr.. Anderson gives promise Of
seeing that this is done without loss Of time.
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OFFICERS ESCAPES
| SOUND FANTASTIC,

BY RICHARD c. BERCHoH,
WITH THE TWENTY Fo1rpr,
DIVISION NEAR DAvAo, pm
MISUNDERSTANDING IT seou.
almost fantastic the NARROW .
capes a soldier can have in ~.
normal functions of his iob ~
how far man can press his h,oS
First 1t. Matthew Sabatins -,
Stroudsburg, Pa, supply office ~.
the veteran 21st Infantry regimsr.
is a case in point. Even the sl,nsr
imaginative Hollywood dreamer.
would be hard pressed to natcs
the chills and thrills Sabatine wow
through one day in the fightin,
around Davao gulf.
1t started when Sabatine's nhor.
rang and strained voice pleaded.
enemy attacking strong. Ammmi,
ton needed badly. Rush ammuni.
ton forward at once"
Then the phone went dead s..
batine checked the origin and with,
in Is minutes was driving an over.
loaded jeep and trailer up the road
to the front.
AS he threaded his careenin,
load of ammunition through fine
white-flagged course Of mine
field, Sabatine was stopped by an
officer in charge of a defusing
crew.
THAT road is heavily mined with
500-pound bombs," the officer said
''They aren't tagged or defused vet
and its suicide with your load
But Sabatine didn't hear the rest
He damned the jeep in gear and
roared on up the road, trying to
dodge any portion that looked sus.
picious. Four hundred yards from
his destination he was stopped bv
an engineer outfit rebuilding a de-.
stroyer bridge. Impatiently Saba.
tine waited until the bridge was
clear, listening to sporadic fire Of
Americans just across the river
and wondering how long their am
munition would last.
While. he was waiting the de,
fusing crew arrived.
Get out of that jeep," the off.
Ger in charge ordered.
Sabatine climbed cut and the
other officer got in and carefully
drove the jeep about 20 yards for.
ward. Then he ran back, grabbed
Sabatine by the arms and ex.
claimed:
Look what you were sitting on
the jeep wheel marks covered d
buried 5OO-pound bomb.
When the bridge was cleared Sa-
batine completed his run, started
back and made several other shut,
tie trips. Once he offered to take
a wounded man back with him.
AS he started for his jeep a shot
cracked and Sabatine Whirled half
way around and fell to the ground
Men ran to his aid but the officer
arose and said II don't believe Tn
hit" They found slug embedded
in the pack on his back.
Again, on coming to the bridge,
he found a sudden counterattack
had driven off the engineers anc
destroyed the crossing. So Sabatint
carried the wounded man across
plank and placed him on a litter
in the bed of a truck, then climbed
in the cab and relaxed.
"I'm hungry" he told the driver
"There is K ration in the glove
compartment" t he driver an
swered, so Sabatine leaned forward
to open the door. Two shots echoeC
and bullets ripped through the stee
cab where, only seconds before, oa
batine's head rested.
The driver started down the ROAD
Sabatine ate his ration.
-V-
|n. n.o- Il Wac 0nlV
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Editorial Comment y
COMPULSORY Military Training

Nothing demonstrates the necessity of com
pulsory military training in peace time SC
clearly as the necessity of compulsory serv.
ice in time of war; A fine percentage of our
young men will volunteer, but we will always
have as we have had before. and have now
the element which will not enter the armed
services except when drafted and not an in
considerable number very properly called
slackers. practical plan of peace time serv
ice would reduce greatly the number in these
classes-Lynchburg News.
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CIANO'S DIARY
Dec. 3-Dec. 81, 1871.

Four days before the Japs at
tackled Pearl Harbor they in
formed their Axis allies in Rome
and Berlin that negotiations with
the United States had reached a
dead end" and that the Japs ex-
pected Germany and Italy to de-
clare war when the fighting be-
gan, Count Ciano, Mussolini's SON
in-law, recorded in his intimate
diary.
Ribbentrop was Joyous" Ciano
recorded, when news of Pearl Har'
Dor arrived. Mussolini was happy
and King Victor expressed his sat
isfaction. On the darker side were
Axis defeats in Africa and worst
of all in Russia and at the year s
end the Japs went so far as to
suggest separate peace with the
Soviet Union so the Axis could
turn its full weight against the
western allies.
On the home front Mussolin1's
mistress, Claretta Petacci, was re-
ported to be receiving $4,000 a
month from political leader,
eager to influence II Duce.
Ciano wrote:
DEC. 3-"An ax-blow by the
Japanese. The ambassador (Shira-
tori) asked to be received by II
Duce. He read a long declaration
about the progress of negotiations
with America, and concluded that
they had reached dead end.
Then invoking the pertinent clause
of t h e Tripartite pact Berlin
Rome-Tokyo alliance), he asked
that Italy declare war on the
United States as soon as the con-
flict begins. He proposed also that
we sign a pact with Japan to make
no separate peace.
1.-The interpreter who was taking
down these requests was tremb-
ling like a leaf. II Duce gave gen
eral assurances, reserving tn e
right to confer with Berlin. II Duce
was pleased by the communica-
ton, and said: Thus we arrive at
the war between continents which
I have foreseen since September,
1885,
"What does this new event
mean, now that Roosevelt has Sue
ceeded in his maneuvering? IN
able to enter the war quickly and
directly, he proceeded by an in
direct route, forcing the Japanese
to attack
DEC. 4-"Berlin reaction to the
Japanese step is extremely cau-
tious. Maybe they will go ahead.
They can't do otherwise. But the
idea of provoking American inter-
vention is liked less and less by
the Germans.
War in Libya
Goes Badly
IT ceive message from
GamDdfa. NlSCrl tWhO brought
IT'D adds the information that Gam
bara did not wish to write. Ex-
haustion of our forces is notice
able. Enemy infiltrations reach
every point in Libya. We are in
no condition to Withstand another
British offensive. Our men die
gloriously,' he concludes, which
does not change the fact that they
oie."'
DEC. ga night interrupted by
Ribbentrop's nervousness. After,
two days of delay, he now hasn't
moment to spare in answering
the Japanese. At 3 o'clock in the
morning he sent Mackensen to my
house to submit plan for three
power agreement to japanese ac-
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Sums In St. Louis.

The time has come when St. Louis must
either level a concerted attack on the Sums
or reconcile itself to be declining city. Slulns
already cover a grim four and half square
miles girding the downtown business district:
In all, $4,000 dwellings are substandard, ana
the standard itself is low Many have no run
ming water let alone toilets and bathtubs.-St'
Louis Post dispatch.
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ton, and a promise not to make
a separate peace"
DEC. Ozark news from Lib
va. Cavallero (chief of the gen.
eral staff is vague, and believes
the future requires concessions
from the French for the port of
Bizerte.. :. During the evening
Mackensen arrives to tell me in
the name of Ribbentrop that l
must start no such negotiations
with the French. This is the will
of Hitler, conveyed to Mussolini
through Rintelen head of the Ger
man military mission to italy,.
Hitler is right. Tunisia is De
Gaullist 101 per cent. Any unwel-
come pressure might hasten the
split between the French empire
and the government in Vichy."
Ribbentrop Joyous
Over Jap Attack
DEC. ga night telephone call
from Ribbentrop. He is joyous
about the Japanese attack on the
United States. He is so happy that
I can't help but wish him well,
even though l am less certain of
the advantages.
lone thing is sure: America will
enter the conflict, and the fighting
will be long enough to permit her
to put into action all her potential
strength. That's what I said to the
King this morning when he, too,
expressed his satisfaction about
the event"
DEC. 10-'I took notes on my
meeting lin Turim with Darlan
GavaTs successor and French
vice-premier). He is a mill.
tary man, who is enjoying poll
tics. Is he sincere? l can't
say, except for one thing: He
hates the British. Results of
yesterdays meeting: None, except
a clearing in the atmosphere.
"News of the amazing Japanese
naval victories continues to arrive.
Against this, the land fighting in
Libya and in Russia is less fortu-
nate''
DEC. 11-3Mussolini is little in
terested in my discussions with
Darlan. 1t is the American war
that occupies him. At 2:3O pm.
I receive the charge d'affaires
George Wadsworth), a good man,
somewhat tinid, with whom I
have had little to do.
War Declared
On United States
'He thinks I called him to dis
cuss the arrival of certain news
papermen, but I disillusion him
Immediately. He listens to the dec
laration of war (by Italy against
the United States) and becomes
pale. He says, 1t is very tragic
''Mussolini made a speech from
the balcony. The demonstra-
ton, taken generally, was not en-
thusiastic. We must not forget that
it was o'clock in the afternoon,
that people were hungry. and that
the day was cold.
I'm the evening Ribbentrop asks
that we join Germany in asking
the countries adAering to the
Three Power pact Chiefly the Bal
kan countrAs) to declare war on
the United States. How about
Spain?"
DEC. 10 - THE usual naval
woes. We have lost two cruisers
and two large ships loaded with
tanks for Libya. l wonder
whether the war won't outlast our
navy.
The minister from Cuba has
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Dear Dear, 1t Was Only
A Deer, Private Finds

BIRMINGHAM, MISS, July L.
|-UH-Pvt. Paul D'Amico OF Wake
field was walking his post at the
state guard encampment ABOUT >
am. when he heard a noise IN 'he
bushes behind him.
Halt" beloved the private
aiming his rifle.
A short distance away, the IN
truder halted briefly, then seam
pered off into the woods. 1t was
deer.
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Some COming-SOme Going

The country boy who runs away from the
farm to seek adventure in the big city meets
the cars of city folks who are seeking ad-
venture in the wild heart of nature. Win
ston Salem Journal.
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FIRST USED AS MEDICINES

AL llISl, tea anu SolANN
fused as medicines, and DID no'
become popular until they became
more pleasant to the taste by
better knowledge of brewing anu
the addition of sweeting.
Duce. Serena insists it is a plot
by Buffarini Gone of the councillors
of state) who now has II Duce III
his grip and acts through lnoife's
and disloyal channels. They say
compromising h er, gives more
than 100000 lire (about So,0oV)
month to the Petacci woman
(Mussolini' mistress) and lhlio'
ences her through certain DONG
do, whose role is not clear
DEC. 25-"Alfieri (ambassadoI
to Berlin) writes that the dlsaSJel'
on the Russian front have 8o"e
beyond the point where they n'-5i'
be useful to US.
THE Pope has delivered
Christmas address which old ho'
please Mussolini because OF nv
points it contains, four are agaI.s'
the relationships. lsabelIa ~,
lonna told me yesterday she 'la1
spoken with Cardinal MaS--'"s
(papal secretary of state VIII
told her the Russians were Pr
ferred to the Nazis at the Ve~
can"
DEC. 27-"Gambara in 2 letter
assured me that Tripolltanla Cd1
be saved, and takes 1t OUT y.
Rommel, who as a leader, N
beast."'
DEC. 28-' Indelli comnunlcales
from Tokyo that the Prime M-n-
lister (Tojo) has made discreet d.
lusions about the possibility Oh
separate peace between the Az.
and the Soviet Union. con-
believe it is possible"
(Tomorrow: Goering and his
diamOnds.)
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Fair Enough

Editors note-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
with them as much as many of his read
ers. HIS articles serve the good purpose
OF making people think
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Duce's Mistress
A Tool of Plotter

DEC. "a - Attention is concen.
trated on the case of Serena (Fas-
clst party secretary, who for two
days has not been received bv II