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PAGE EIGI1T THE NEWS JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C. THURSDAY, DEC. 30th, 1943 READING & WRITING ERNIE PTLH rr J-HE ba:tlen!d tu in incongruous thing. Always there waa him ridiculous impingement of normalcy on a field of battle. There on that day it was the Arabs. They were herding their camels. just as usual. Some ot them continued to plow their fields. Children walked along, driving their little ssck-laden burros, as tank and guns clanked past them. The sky was filled with planes and smoke burst from screaming shells." Now that the North African campaign is over, a number of excellent books are coming out to give us an all-over picture of this dramatic period in the war's his tory. One of the best is "Here Is Your War" by Ernie Pyle, from which the above is quoted. Ernie Pyle is an A-l cor respondent, and he writes with an eye for detail, I sense of humor, and an under standing heart. . , Among the many dramatic stories is the one about tHe crippled Fortress that came in on two engines at sunset, after all the airfield had given up hope for her. "All of us stood tense," writes Ernie Pyle, "hardly remembering anyone else was there. With all our nerves we seemed to pull the plane toward us. I suspect a photograph would have shown us all leaning slightly to the lett. Not one of us thought the plane would ever make the field, but on it came so slowly that it was cruel to watch." Ernie Pyle landed first in Oran, and there he was witness to the American sol diers' really amazing gift of fraterniza tion. They got along even if they didn't know a word of French or Arabic. "A r-illw rnmip xiphr was one of our bovs standing on the street with an English-French dictionary in bis hand, talking to a girl and looking up each word as he spoke it." Among the most welcome visitors in North Africa, says Mr. Pyle, were the four stage and screen stars Carole Landis, Mitzi Mayfair, Kay Francis and Martha Raye who arrived under the auspices of the TJSO. He is full of praise for the bravery and fortitude of these girls. "They had heard bombs fall, and they knew about army stew. They vrpeA fnur hours' slecD a nicht. ... To say they were appreciated is putting it mildly." Incidentally, Carole Landis has just completed the story of the tout she made with her three companions. Titled, "Four Jills in a Jeep," it will ap pear first in the Saturday Evening Post, and later as a book. Flyers' Words Recorded. Pad and pencil are outmoded as a method of recording an aviator's ob servations, L ndon reports. Instead Allied airmen on reconoisance may make complete reports by dictation as they fly along over enemy terrain. The aviator's words are spoken into a recording instrument, wnich can take six minutes i f speech, weighs eight ; pounds. I O Tota toes Planting small whole Irish potatoes in Louisiana gave better stands and microphone and recorded on a spocl larger yields than where whole tubers three-inches in diameter. The entire 1 were cut into pieces. jS&.; : ; : :. : : :: :&&,A:.-ito:-jf!;j&6r.?- i RED SPRINGS THEATRE AVEEK BEGINNING DECEMBER 30th Thurs.-Fri. Betty Grable in $ I Dec. 30-31 1 Sweet Rosie O'Grady" ' Saturday 1:00 til 10:30 Don "Red" Barrv in CANY0IJ CITY f Extra Special Sat. Nile 10:30 y. Harold Peary Billie Burke in Gildersleeve On Broadway I f Mon. - Tues. Matinee 3:30 HUMAN COMEDY Mickey Rooncy Frank Morgan Wednesday Mat. 3:30 Jimmv Lvdon as Henry Aldrich X IN A HAUNTED HOUSE DIXIE I Bing Crosby Dorothy Lamour '4 Thurs-Fri. January 6-7 POULTRY SALE Our Truck Will Be Near Depot in Raeford-4:0O-5:00 Red Springs-3:00-4:00 Pembroke-1 :30-3:00 Every Wednesday We Will be Paying Cash Prices We Will Bay All the Poultry You Have to Sell COLORED HENS 23c lb LEGHORN HENS 20clb ROOSTERS 16clb TURKEYS GEESE 16ctb DUCKS 16clt IF the Market Advances We Will Meet it Tell Your Neighbors About the Poultry Truck CARTER FCULTRY COMPANY CARTHAGE, NORTH CAROLINA Poole' Medley (Continued from Page 4) have no idea. It was not my time to go. My rations, in saddlebags were ruined by the rain I traveled in Wed nesday, my first day out. And I ate one biscuit between Wednesday morn ing 6 o'clock and Friday 2 o'clock. The postoffices served by that route were Jackson Springs, Inverness, Ar gyle and Fayetteville. Two postof fices, on the route had been discontin ued. They were New Gilead and Sol omons Grove. The Rural Free Delive ry mail routes have done away with these coon routes like the one ! I lett Inverness, (McLeods') at a little past 5 o'clock, and it was dark, and the smaller trees bent down across the road. I tore the lining of my hat, one side, out, and caught it In my teeth. I knew if a bush knocked it off I would never find it. That was one night so dark I could not see my hand before me. I arrived at Argyle at 7 o'clock, six miles from Inverness. My horse was sensible, and carried me safely. About midway between Argyle and Inver ness on the return trip, Friday, my horse fell through a pole bridge over a ditch that crossed the rad, and broke his right hind leg. King Herod, Nero, Hitler, and oth ers too tedious to mention, are the same kind of men, brutal, cruel, heart. less, and deserved death the first thing. However, they lived quite a few years each. They are living ex amples of how despicable sin may be. I wish beyond my powers of expres. sion that the Allies would postpone the invasion of the European continent for a few months, and give the airmen a chance of breaking German morale. It will be far less expensive, I believe to postpone that awful battle the Ger mans are sure to give them if they in vade. However, I am not the commander-in-chief, and the generals in command are the greatest the world possesses. WANT ADS LOST Ladies Gold, Banner wrist- watch. Black Face. Reward. Elsie McNeill ltc FOR RENT Our Sandy Blue Farm In Que whiffle township. 50 1-2 acres of crop land. Good house fine wa. ter, and big good barn. Half crop per also considered. Mrs. Paul Dickson 2t c WANTED TO BUY Clean Stove Wood. Reaves Drug Store. WANTED All people suffering from kidney trouble or backache to try KIDDO 97c. Money back guaran tee. Hoke Drug Co. 2I-37pd FOR SALE Cokers Red Heart Seed Wheat. Fulgrain Oats Abruzzi Rye Best for This Section. Produced by Clarence Lytch Women of Hoke County. There Is A Vital Job For Which You Are Ur gently Needed. Join The WAC. Help Speed Him Back. FOR SALE Fire Starters. Delivered in town. Harmless compound for starting fires. Phone 5246. Rowland Covington. 26-tfc Women of Hoke County. This b Your Opportunity To Help Share The Responsibility sf Your Brothers In Uniform. Join The WAC. Help Speed Him Back. PERMANENT WAVE, 59c! Do your own Permanent with Charm-Kurl Kit Complete equipment, Includ ing 40 curlers and shampoo. Easy to do, absolutely harmless. Praised by thousands including Fay McKen. tie, glamorous movie star. Money refunded If not satisfied. Reaves Drug Store 10t-26-35 Women of Hoke County. This Is A Perfect Basis To Apply Your Patriot ism. Join The WAC. Help Speed Him Back. WANTED TO BUY old, nsed iron cords, kodaks. Reaves Drug Store. LOST Downtown on December 24th, a white gold bracelet with a single small diamond. Reward for return to Mrs. Donald Davis, phone 5561. It p WANTED Farmer for Hoke county farm. Four acres of tobacco and 20 acres of cotton. John F. McFadyen, Route 4, Fayetteville. It p FOUND Female Birddor. With liv er colored ears. Collar but no name. Owner may get same by paying for this advertisement and dog's keep. Miss Jennie McMillan. Up WEIL'S HORMOFORT, 4 - . plant beds, naw In stork. The Johnson Company. 3, for COKER'S Pedigreed Tobacco seed are here. Get your seed early. We have the new "too" variety. The Johnson Company. f News Rfhtmi a an. i Jti-.rrrai.-i By pALXLOtpy Released by Western Newspaper Union. EARLY PEACE RUMORS AND ADMINISTRATION POLICY The administration is reported greatly upset because business of ficials in the government here are feeding back to their home plant of ficials the rumors (mostly personal surmises) of an early peace. A publicity effort to offset this in formation is under way in the gov ernment. Treasury Secretary Mor genthau has spoken out strongly against early peace reports, and lat er Secretary Hull called them "Axis propaganda." His designation of them as such was due to the fact that most of the printed rumors have come from neutral European capi tals in touch with Germany. This is all orthodox administration line grounded in the theory that the workers will let down in expectation of an early peace. The line long since has reached its limit of ef fectiveness, and the theory merely represents a mishandling of admin istration propaganda. The government, on one hand, is telling the Axis nations they "will be crushed" and breathing fire of expected victory in its foreign prop aganda, while, on the home front, trying to maintain an attitude that it will be a long, tough war. To pre sent it both ways strains the popular vision until it becomes cross-eyed. The truth is, some officials here still hold to the long-war theory (Ger many in the spring, Japan in 18 months). But a majority of con gress, I am sure, does not. Those who believe in an early end are not inspired by Axis propaganda, but by expert judgment or advice as to Germany's lasting ability. In deed, the Axis propaganda from Ber lin is just the opposite of this and holds Germany will never collapse. Why does not the administration use these facts to its own best ad vantage and adopt a propaganda line recently suggested in this spot: "Every day this war is extended means the life of some boy, perhaps your boy, the waste of more money. Therefore, it is to your own selfish interest as a worker on the home front to throw every last ounce cf energy into this final drive for vic tory in order that the casualty list be not extended one day more than necessary." ADDITIONAL PROOF ON NEW DEAL SLIP The Republican election victory in the normally Democratic heart of Kentucky, the fourth congressional district, forecasts the final breakup of the Happy Chandler machine. He lives in an adjoining county, and the Democratic candidate was his se lectee. Whatever excuses, therefore, could be offered for the loss of the state in the earlier gubernatorial election cn the ground the Chandler factions d'd not go along sufficiently, were not true in the fourth district. The election also was a conclusive response to some readers of this column who misinterpreted my analysis of the gubernatorial elec tion as partisan Republican propa ganda. " This election result certainly veri fies the conclusion then expressed that the Democrats had failed to win under the best possible auspices in a state normally Democratic, and that the failure was due to the dis couragement of the people with the New Deal and its regulations and domestic results, a condition which cast into grave doubts Mr. Roose velt's re-election in 1944. The margin of Republican victory this time in the district was around 12,000 votes, compared with Demo cratic victories by a margin of 15,000 in 1940, 10,000 in 1938, and 17,000 in 1936 representing a turnover of 27, 000 votes in 90.000 cast. OBSTACLES NOTED TO FOREIGN POLICY WASHINGTON. Mr. Hull is en countering obstacles in his effort to attain American unity for perma nent postwar foreign policy and, strangely enough, not primarily from the Republicans. A large segment of New Deal po litico! do not want unity, although, naturally, they will not say so. As they see it, the postwar policies which will be developed from the Moscow and Cairo arrangements are likely to furnish the most popu lar front that the administration can present to the public in the next elections at least, it will be better than allowing the people to look too much at the home front In short, they think their best chance of election is to let the Re publicans take a partisan stand against them. But there is evidence that other internationalist group leaders and writers are leaning away from their old "One World" or Anglo-Russo-American exclusive alliance theories as cure-alls in themselves and work ing toward centrist realistic peace proposal based on self interest in whatever form. A straw in this wind is the seem ing change in the leading commen tators' tones. One who took a strong alliance position is now advocating what he recently called a peace based on "an enlightened conception ot enduring national interest." THAT ALL MAY RIDE , , n,,, !..!! . on-- V- O The program ot SO.000,000 paaMnger ear tint lor 1044 set by William Jeffars before he Mt office as rubber administrator Is straining the mana factnring facilities ef the rubber Industry. With many new war Industrie la Akron, Ohio, the manpower shortage Is the snort critical problem. To ease this shortage girls have been taught the difficult art ef tire bully ing and rapidly are acquiring skill la a Job previously bcid only by i LEGAL NOTICES ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of J. M. McMillan, deceased, late of Hoke County, this is to notify all persons having clar.T.s against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at her residence on or before the 29th day of Decem ber, 1944, or this notice will be plead ed in bar cf their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. of This the 29th, day 1943. December, Mrs. Delena Gibson McMillan, Administratrix. Estate of J. M. McMillan. 30-35 Deceased. nnrrnin o L ANY years of continued progress can, in no small measure, be attributed to your esteemed friendship and cherished patronage. To all of you we extend thanks and most sincere holiday greetings, with the hope that 1944 has in store for you much that is beyond your most optimistic expectations. THE RAEFORD THEATRE IST China Girl Open 5:50 Gene Tierncy George Montgomery Double Feature Program William Boyd in LEATHER BURIIERS Saturday FIIID THE BLACKMAILER with Jerome Cowan SUNDAY ONLY. Shows At i-S 9 P. M. What's Buzzin' Cousin? Ann Miller Freddie Martin's Orchestra MONDAY and Tuesday Shew Starts at 5:3 GUADALCANAL DIARY Preston Foster Loyd Nolan Wednesday ONLY Shows Starts at 5:30 MISSIOII TO MOSCOW Walter Huston Ann Harding George Tobia Thurs-Fri. January 6-7 EDGE CF DARKNESS Errol Flyn Ann Sheridan Walter Huston
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