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Postscript of the Apache sentinel., 1946-01-04
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The Fort Huachuca High School basket
ball five got off to 9 good start in
their sea sons opener at the Field House
last Sunday. The ortmen took q tough
hard fought game from the Tombstone
Hi RI School basketbal1ers TO the tune
Of a 1913 score. Sparked by the nigh
scoring Of willie Williams, Huachuca
forward, the local boys were leading
1913 at hal 1.time. The Tombst tone boys,
always in the Fl ght, managed to work
up to q momen tary lead before Hlachuca
fought on to the final viz tory. The Hua-
chuca team, captained by freddie Nc
Mli ght, has a strenuous schedule arrang-
ed for them. Fans inTi ted to attend
these games and root for their favorit tie
teams. The Fort Huachuca High School
baske tbal1 team is coached by Pvt. Lat
her Moore of the Post Special Services
Division Taking part for the home team
in the Sunday evening affray were: Fred
die Mcknight, forward, Capt.; willie
williams, forward; John Ga things, guard;
Duerne Hardwie ok, guard; David Mann. cen
ter; wi tn IGario Mann and Rudolph Hayes
subs tt tu ting at guard and center respec-
lively.
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Arena

r.
PRAYER meeting was held We'd
nesday night, led by Elmer
Strickler, at the Pine Grove
Church of God. Preaching ser
vices were held Saturday night
and Sunday school and preach
ing services held Sunday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Gonzales of
Plateau, Ala, spent the day with
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Strickler
Saturday. Mrs. Ganzalos is a sis
ter of Mrs. L. w. Stricken.
Mrs. A. Stricken and Carl and
Miss Maggie Drummond OF Tan
ner- Williams shopped in Mobile.
While there Mrs. Stricken Wis
ted in the homes Of Mrs. Floyd
fletcher of Toulmanville and
airs. Eddy Ladnier of Mobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Humble
and children visited in the
Stricken homes Sunday. They
re from Prichard, Ala.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Strick-
Ter and Bob visited in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ennis Rain
water Thursday night.
Prayer meeting will be led
Wednesday night by Doris Will
liams, oldest daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. B. Williams, at the
Pine Grove Church of God. Mis-
sionary meeting will be held
Friday at Z p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buddy Under
wood of Agricola drove the Rev.
Underwood to Arena Saturday
night.
A P-TA meeting was held at
Tanner Williams school last
Tuesday with w. H. Middleton,
president, presiding. Attending
from Arena were Mrs. A. Strick-
Ter, Mrs. Elmer Stricken and
Albertina Stricken.
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Pulpwood Report
Shows Drop
During December

Total pulpwood receipts re-
ported by U. S. Mills for De-
cember, l945 dropped more than
10000 cords from the receipts
obtained in November, accord
ing to the latest monthly report
released by the Bureau of Cen
sus of the u. S. Department OF
Commerce.
Total receipts for December
were 1,O76,685 cords, and the
Commerce report also revealed
that this was 74,760 cords less
than receipts obtained in De-
eember of a year ago.
Domestic receipts of pulpwood
in December amounted to t.
900. 70f cords, a decline of 1885,,
317 cords from the November
total of l,l40.018 cords. the Cen
sus statement showed. December
domestic receipts this year were
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56,770 cords less than December
receipts in 1914.
Imports in the Commerce De-
partment's latest report were not
shown bv regions. However, the
total of imports for December,
1916 were given as 1894 cords,
a drop OF 1890 cords from De-
cember, 1914, and a further drop
of $3.50 cords from the import
figures shown in the Commerce
statement for November of the
year just past.
December receipts in the
South, amounting to 472,058
cords were I19,864 cords below
receipts reported for the preeed-
ing month, and 21,6l9 cords be-
low the low total reported in
December, 1914.
In the face of the general de-
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Faggard on Sunday.

deS0A0 Ol oUtiddys
Rev. Jewel Golman and a num-
Der of his members from Kre-
ole gave a program Sunday az
ternoon explaining the goal for
1916 as outlined by the Baptist
sunday School Board.
Mrs. w. j.. Faggard, Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnnie Faggard, and daugh-
ter Patricia of Kreole were Wis
TORS to Wade Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Cecil Rabby is visiting her
sister, Mrs. N. w. Davis who has
been on the sick list for the
past week.
ST lie Edgar Golf who has
been in the navy for the past two
years has received his discharge
and is at home with his wife and
daughter, who have been making
their home with the formers par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Golf.
Messrs Andrew and Winston
Vaughan and Mrs. Andra Jones
and daughter, Melba Ann were
Sunday visitors at the home of
their father Mr.. w. A. Vaughan.
Mr., and Mrs. Mack Cumbest
were Sunday guests of Mrs.
Cumbest's brother, Corley Toll
lie and Quincy.
The county nurse visited the
school Monday and gave final
shots to the children needing the
vaccination.
Miss Louise Carr was a visitor
to the school Thursday.
Mrs. r. j. Diamond, Mrs. Law
renee Golf and Miss Audry Goff
spent the day with Mrs. L. D..
Waltman, Friday.
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the home of Mr.. R. C. Faggard to
celebrate his birthday.
Our girls and boys basketball
teams went to Virgins to play
ball Friday night. The boys were
victorious, but the girls lost by a
small margin.
We are very glad to have Mrs.
j. B. Gibson added to our facul-
ty this week.
Mrs. Gree Anderson spent Sun
day with Mrs. R. c. Faggard.
Rev. Vernon Balaun was dinner
guest of MI. and Mrs. r. c..
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ETO ribbon with two battle stars,
and the good conduct and presi-
Dental unit citation badges HI
served with the And division in
action in France, Germany an6
Austria and was overseas IS
months.
MIR. Avent was joined at Camp
Shelby by his wife and children,
Carson and jeanne, and Mr., and
Mrs. c. p. Seaman. The entire
party returned home shortly af-
ter Mr.. Avent received his dis
charge.
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Wade

The many friends of Nj. Ebert
Johnson were grieved to learn of
his tragic death Friday night
in Mobile. The funeral took
place at the Johnson cemetery
Sunday afternoon at 800 o'clock
with Fails Funeral Home in
charge. Rev. j. B. Williamson Of
Escatawpa conducted the funeral
service. Sympathy is extended
to his bereaved family.
On Thursday night, Feb. IA, a
number of friends gathered in
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The manufacture of pure raw
linseed oil is accomplished by
crushing flaxseed between large
tseel rollers in mills constructed
especially for the purpose.
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A table developed by the Rus
sian scientist Mendeleeff in 1859
showed the theoretical existence
of 80 elements in nature, although
many had not been discovered at
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Moldy corn infected with dry
rot has been fed exper;mentaIly
to pigs without i'll effects.
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]. c. Avent Amonq
Q Receiving
Discharged From Army

Announcement has been made
of the arrival of Pfc. Joseph C.
Avent of Mos sPoint at New York
aboard the SIS Rollins Victory,
Feb. 4, and his transfer to Camp
Shelby, Feb Z, where he re-
ceived his honorable discharge the
following Thursday
Mr.. Avent has been awarded
the combat infantry badge, the
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in all pudpwood receipts.
more top quality pulpwood is
urgently needed by mills in this
area now.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Luftwaffe Ghost Plane urns Up Here

ministration say this particular
plane will be used for hauling sup
plies, but add that plans are being
discussed for = much more wide
spread use OF aircraft than ever be-
fore for all the mapping and field
direction work attendant to road
building.
The other German planes In this
country are those kept by the Army
Air Forces at Wright Field, Ohio
There they have at least one exam
pie of all the principal Luftwaffe
types-of which there were some
two dozen-for study purposes.
These are the known Na1 air.
craft survivors in this country. The
English and French took a number
for study purposes just as our AAF
die. What the Russians have made
of with, Of course, is not known at
all.
When the troops advanced into
g any they methodically
smashed instruments and wrecked
engines. chopped holes in the wings
Of every grounded plane in sight.
That made 1t hard to find intact
planes even for ofncial purposes.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

famous midgets, who used to come
to Odd Fellows Hall in this city
and who were subsequently married,
served as groomsman and brides
maid. Both of these were even
much smaller than the contracting
couple, but unusually well formed for
little people.
Many an old timer still will recall
when these noted little people came
to Odd Fellows Hall, which stood
on the site Of the present building
belonging to that order, on Seventh
street between d and E streets. This
was then one of the most beautiful
halls in Washington, and no one
who ever saw the beautiful. mas
sive chandeliers which hung from
the ceiling Of this amusement place
will ever forget their sparkling,
dazzling beauty.
Jenny Lind. "the Swedish Night
ingale," another Of Barnum's great
attractions, made her first appear
ance in this city on December 16,
1850. The building in which she
sang was erected on the site Of the
present National Theater.
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|putian monarch indebted for his
entree into al the courts Of Europe,
his excellent training and that pre-
eminent success which has attended
him In his tour, wherein einperors
kings, queens. princes, dukes and
the elite OF London and Paris looked
upon le petit monarque with as
tonishment and admiration"
When Tom Thumb had reached
the age of rs, Barnum conceived the
idea that in order to boost his ad-
vertising power and, Of course to
increase the box-receipts. the cele-
brated midget must have = wife
And 20, in Middleboro, Mass, he
sought Mercy Lavinia Mompus, OF
Bonpasse. the name Of the French
family from which she was de-
scended. Her name did not suit
Barnum, and he substituted for
show purposes that of Lavinia War
rem, and Tuesday, February 10, 1858,
she was led to the altar Of Grace
Church, New York, by the gallant
Mr.. Thumb. &
Commodore Mutt and Minnie War
rem, the brides sister, two other
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Loycock
Continued from Page CID

had intervened on behalf Of syris
for the return of the territory was
denied by 4 Turkish spokesman ir
! London, wto said. IF the subject
even had been mentioned, Erkim
would have left Transjordan at
once"
| Some observers saw parallel be-
tween Turkeys present endeavors
to consolidate an Arab entente and
her plan, six years ago, to build q
Balkan bloc aimed at dissuadine
Russian aggression in Southeast
Europe. The Balkan, effort col
lapsed when Bulgaria's claims on
Romania tthe Dobrudja) and on
Greece (Western Thrace) were OBJ
structed and Sofas signature to
Turkeys Black Sea pact never was
obtained.
A Turkish source said, however,
that this time the entente was not
directed against Russia.
Soviet Participation Welcome.
Turkey would welcome the par
ticipation Of the Soviet Union in
such cohesion of the Moslem ma
tions. The economic strain of keep
ing mobiized 100000 Turkish SOL
diers is alone sufhcient to inspire
Turkish efforts to encourage Russian
interest In the new scheme" he de-
clared.
Without Russia, the entente would
embrace Turkey, Syria, the Leb-
anon, Iraq, Transjordan, Palestine,
Saudi Arabia. Iran, Afghanktan
and Egypt.
No military alliances were en-
visaged between Ankara and those
states, all Turkish sources empha-
sized.
However, Russia is keeping a wary
eye ON developments. The Soviet
news agency Tass last week re-
ported Turkish attempts to weld
Middle East bloc "in the hope that
some time they will prove useful"
The agency quoted = Lebanese
newspaper ct Beyrouth as saying
I'VE, can tell her Turkey that she
should leave us alone as We wish to
maintain complete neutrality" J"
Turkish attempts were meeting with
opposition in the Lebanon which
seeks only peace and does not de-
sire to be involved in the British
policy Of defending routes to India, =
the newspaper declared.
London representatives were unan-
imous in approving any project
aimed at solidifying Middle Eastern
relations.
The Arab ONCE, speaking for the
Arab League states. said. "A Turko-
Arab entente would be welcomed
At the same time the Arab League
is sympathetic toward Syria in hel
attitude on the sanjak, and the
league will support her demands.
Other Middle East sources pointed
out that II some conclusion could be
Evening star., 1946-12-22
MISERY Stalks Occupied Germany

tiny cooking stove. But the place
was spotlessly clean and the damp
rotted walls were hung with pictures
OF her daughters and her eldest
son In his private's uniform.
Hermann Scheerberth lives at ~
Eisen Strasse, between the main
railroad tracks outside Dusseldorf
station and = bombed and aban-
doned steel works. It's easy to finS
his house because it's the only one
left standing on that side OF the
street.
He has three fair rooms, q roof
that only leaks after frost, and is
comfortably housed, rs Dusseldorf
standards 60.
Hermann Scheerberth Is . Jour-
nalist and 43 years Of age, but he
says: II cannot write under these
conditions. There Is nothing in the
larder for tomorrow. I am hungry
and the best thing Is to 60 to bed
and sleep"
He was Communist before Hitler
came, but now he belongs to no
political party. And I hate uni
FORMS" he says.
He lives by selling what he has
q radio, his scanty collection Of fur.
niture. it all goes piece by piece.
Most Of his waking hours are
spent waiting In shop lines esonie-
times I wait at five shops in one
day'o. He has no wife to do this
for him, but he has q son Gunter,
II, apprentice to baker, and .
daughter Renta, Is, who is still at
school. Sometimes they relieve him
in the queues.
1t costs Herr Scheerberth about
800 marks $500 q month to live,
plus 40 marks q month rent for his
dilapidated residence. The children
bring in nothing yet. ..
Like many others, Herr Schesr.
berth puts the blame for the present
situation mainly on his fellow-Ger-
mans.
"You can get all you want on the
black market within 4 hundred
yards Of here-coffee, tea, milk, but
ter-but only If you have the money.
Most Of the people are too poor to
buy it. The peasants hang on to
what they have and bureaucracy
does the rest with the way 1t ham
dies what it has"
As I left he went back to stirring
up three potatoes with potato peel
ings on the stove.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

The first 80 miles over Russian
occupied territory were the hard.
est. I didn't know from one min
ute to the next whether I'd be
shot down. But I had painted
U. S. A. in big letters under one
wing and I wasn't bothered"
He had 1t disassembled at Paris
Grated, and then shipped home as
COD. freight from LIE Havre. With
the aid Of Mrs. Joan Van Maltzahn
one of the few woman airplane me-
chanics in this country, he is slowly
putting it together again. The job
is complicated by the fact that there
are no standard parts" for the
plane in this country. Anything
which is missing he and his me-
chanic must make.
Besides" he explains, "it was SC
full of bullet holes that I didn't
know whether 1t would hold to-
gether or not when I was flying
it to Paris"
He doesn't know just when it will
Evening star., 1946-12-22

reached on the Hatay, already ex-
isitng treaties pave the way for
cementing the bloc.
Pact Now in Effect.
An Afghan spokesman referred to
the Saadabad pact which binds
Turkey, Iraq. Iran and Afghanistar
to mutual consultations" Repre-
sentatives If the Lebanon and
Syria said that the exchange OF
ENJOYS between their countries and
Ankara had led to much closer and
more amicable relations The value
of the increasing commercial agree
ments Turkey is negotiating with
her eastern neighbors-the latest
was with Iraq--was stressed by
several spokesmen. And the'current
consultations between Turkey and
Trans Jordan, 1t was believed, woule
forge 4 further link in the proposed
Turko-Arab peace chain.
1.-THE Hatay question, Communism
in Egypt, zionism and Russia's
claims on Turkey are the barriers
We must break down." one Turkish
source declared.
Turkey had been disturbed. hi
said, by Russia's postwar attitude
on the Dardanelles and the Cauca.
sus frontier, and by the "autono-
NOUS" uprising among the 1,5o0.00t
Kurds in the oil region along Tur.
keys southeast frontier. :
ITO deter the spread Of such in.
cidents, Turkey must 60 ahead a
once. welding 4 bloc OF friendly ma
tions around her borders" ths
source concluded.
distributed by the Associated fress.I
Evening star., 1946-12-22

The smell rs you 70 down the steps
hits you like 4 solid wall. In q
section still marked reserved for
Jews" as in Nazi days, Aryans now
live, crammed as many IS five or
six adults together with children In
tiny underground rooms about 10
feet square.
Most Of the occupants are refu-
gees from the East. A few had
brought odd sticks Of furniture-a
chair, cupboard or . bed. Their
clothes were slung on strings from
the low roof. A few had made their
homes presentable, even neat
There was q communal kitchen for
cooking potatoes, but the 'l1ordes of
Evening star., 1946-12-22
DrJssEDoRF. Germa,1y.

Dusseldorf, Germany.
l- VERY morning the hausfraus
Ii OF the Ruhr get up before
daylight and shuffie wearily
- through the dawn chill OF
drab streets to begin the daily
search for bread.
~ early as 3 a m. there are people
waiting at the bakers door. BY
7:3o the line stretches several deep
for many yards. As the day wears
on, 1T grows and grows,
Thus the simple people OF the
Rulr pay kind of reparations for
the war. They pay with chilled feet,
with colds and coughs and tuber-
culosis. And they pay with the uri-
utterable boredom Of endless hours
Of waiting.
AS soon as they get their loaf OF
coarsened dark-brown bread, they
hurry away to join another line.
Fruit or vegetables, soup powder or
milk, it always means waiting IN .
queue. When the children leave
school their first duty is to relieve
their parents in the line. Tney,
too. know what waiting means when
you're cold and tired and hungry.
Sometimes, inevitably, the people
find they have waited there In vain.
Then pent-up tempers nare sud-
denly. They just have to rage
against somebody. Oddly enough
they don't rage against the British;
they launch their deadliest shafts
at each other. The highest insult
in a German queue is to call your
neighbor "Nazi swine" That some
times leads to blows.
Crops From British Zone
Cannot Support Them
1t is estimated that some 23,0O0,-
900 people are living in the British
zone of Germany-about 800 to $50
per square kilometer where only
about $50 lived before. The zonal
harvest Is said to be sufhcient to
feed only between 40 and 100 In
each crowded square kilometer and
all the rest must be brought In from
elsewhere.
That in a nutshell seems to be
the explanation Of the situation In
the Ruhr today.
DR.. Rudolph Amelunxen, minister
president OF the North Rhine
Westphalia Province. said 1t this
way: I'VE stand before 4 catastro-
phe. We cannot help ourselves
Evening star., 1946-12-22

alone. Living conditions in our
province are below human dignity
The whole outlook is pessimistic
."
In the bunkers OF Dusseldorf con-
ditions certainly are below human
dignity" as the minister claimed.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
By Godfrey Anderson
Associated Press stan Writer.

children playing in the fetid air
made 1t seem 4 special kind OF hell.
That is the Ruhr below ground:
above it's hardly better. In the
dingy industrial streets, where whole
rows of buildings are razed, the
children play, purple with cold and
Evening star., 1946-12-22
By A. A. HoehIinq
w YHAT has become Of the
A German Luftwaffe?
wv Numbering ut least

wv Numbering ut least
10000 planes in its hey
day Of European air supremacy, the
Nazi air might Was whitfield down
in the closing months Of the war to
the point where the number Of COM
pletely intact first-class planes could
be numbered in the few thousands.
Advancing Allied ground forces
completed the job of destruction ut
the German airfields themselves.
Yet 4 few survivors Of the once
vast Meet have turned. up N this
country. .Ay,t,-. .:s,,,. ! J,
The most interesting, perhaps, Of
the surviving planes Is in the very
back yard of washington. Under
pafnstaking and loving workman
ship, this relic of n legend which
crumbled is being reborn in = shed
at Baileys Cross Roads Airport. in
Fairfax County.
1t is = Jungmann biplane. which
was used BY the Luftwaffe for train
ing purposes, now the property Of
Dallas Sherman, an ofilcial with Pan
American Always.
II was q colonel in the Air Trans
port Command" declares Mr.. Sher-
man, who once built q plane himself
when q student at South Carolina
State College. II was attending the
Potsdam Conference. At the Gatow
Airport. just outside Berlin, no.
ticed 4 number of badly wrecked
German planes. I had some spare
time and decided to see what I could
make of the wreckage"
Worried While Flying
Over Russian Zone
In 4 few weeks he made 4 COM
plete Jungmann trainer, known OH
cially as = BU 131 D. Bucker Flug-
zeugbau. And much to his surprise,
the thing actually new.
II had it certified as = legitimate
trophy of war;" he says, "and new
it all the way from Berlin to Paris.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

! take to the air-that is up to- Mrs
Van MaHzahn, he says-hut hopee
1t might be next month. BY thai
time, he estimates. the plane viii
have cost him q total OF nearly
5000. For $3.50 he admits he coulc
have bought = surplus basic trainer
from the War Assets Administra.
tion-"but it wouldn't be the same.
Other German Aircraft
At Work or on Display
Another ghost of the Luftwaffe
which has found its way to this
side of the Atlantic is JUS
transport. purchased by the Pub
lie Roads Administration for work
on the Pan-American highway.
This type plane was widely used
by the Germans during the war. 1t
cruised at low speeds, not over 165
miles per hour, and carried no more
than 20 troops, but it was depend
able and very airworthy.
Ofiicials of the Public Roads Ad-
Evening star., 1946-12-22

5.s Dallas Shernaqns German Jungnann bplqne after
it landed at Orly Arfeld Paris, fooaUing its flight from
Berlin From Paris completed the rest of the journey
to the United States in crate aboard the S. S. Costa
Roads Airport Fdirtdr County.
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Family's Total Income
Is About S6 a Month

None OF the children Is working
and the family's only income is the
60 marks (about So a month which
is the fathers sick relief. I'VE
lived on the third floor of this house
for 80 years." Frau Groschowski ex-
planned, but three years ago the
house burned in a raid and since
then we've lived down here. 1t is
impossible to get house, but We
couldn't afford one anyway"
Two-tiered wooden beds filed
most of the narrow cellar rooms. lit
by / single electric lamp over a