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ITALIANS BITTER AGAINST
DUCE
Official and uncensored U. S. re
ports from Italy tell an amazing
story of resentment against Musso
lini. It is so strong that, according
to U. S. observers, the present Fas
cist regime could not remain in of
fice without the support of German
troops.
Most significant of all is the fact
that most of the Italian army is
■heartily out of sympathy with II
Duce, and Field Marshal Badoglio,
ex-chief of staff, does not even at
tempt to conceal his criticism. Ap
parently Badoglio is so popular that
Mussolini cannot touch him, for no
attempt has been made to jail or
exile him.
The sentiment of the Italian army
explains in large part the recent fail
ures in Albania and North Africa,
where thousands of Italians have sur
rendered. On the other hand, fight
•ing in Ethiopia has been just the op
■posite, with the Italians putting up
:a fierce resistance. This is ex
plained by the fact that the Italian
army in Ethiopia has not been in
■touch with conditions in Italy.
■ There are now more Gestapo of-
Jflcers (German secret police) in
Rome than in Berlin. Together
with about 136,000 Nazi troops, the
Gestapo are also stationed in every
other key city in Italy.
It is the Gestapo which has been
particularly active in isolating the
American embassy, with the re
sult that Ambassador Phillips at
present is able to see few people.
If found talking to Phillips, his old
"Italian friends are warned, then ar
rested. Even other foreign diplo
mats in Italy have received Gestapo
warnings not to communicate with
American diplomats.
Americans, however, are ex
tremely popular with the Italian
■people, who remember the efforts of
President Roosevelt to prevent the
war in the first place, and to keep
Italy from entering the war. Also,
the state department has facilitated
the passage of certain Italo-Amer
icans back to Italy. Their work has
been effective.
Meanwhile, food scarcity in Italy
has increased to the point where
even the upper classes feel the food
pinch. Poorer people are starving.
All the reports indicate that when
the break finally does come in Italy,
it will be an explosion of major pro
portions.
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AAA CORN BATTLE
Inside the agriculture department
a savage row is raging between AAA
advocates of acreage control and
apostles of larger farm production.
This time the battle is over corn.
A referendum has been set for
May 31 to permit farmers to vote
on wheat marketing quotas, and the
dispute is whether to conduct a sim
ilar election on corn. Some of
Claude Wickard’s boys say corn is
threatened with a price decline due
to the loss of export pork markets
in embattled Europe, but experts
contend that pork is in for a big
boom under the defense and lend
lease programs.
Inside fact is that Secretary Wick
ard has just about decided to call
off a plebiscite among corn-hog
farmers, unofficially scheduled for
next fall, despite the loud demands
from Triple-A boss Rudolph M.
Evans, that one should be held.
Evans, spokesman of the big "cash
income” farmers, has been arguing
that it is just as important to con
trol corn as wheat.
For a time he seemed to have
Wickard convinced. Up to a month
ago, Wickard was planning to slap
a 10 per cent curb on this year’s
corn crop by declaring marketing
quotas, with stiff penalty taxes on
excess production. The matter was
to be put up to corn-hog farmers
in a referendum next fall.
However, Wickard now takes the
position espoused by small farm
ehampions, particularly Milo Per
kins, aggressive chief of the Sur-
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Georgians Will
Observe “Be Kind
To Animals Week”
When Governor Talmadge affixes
his signature to the official procla
mation April 21, Georgians, along
wth citizens all over the nation, will
show especial kindness and respect
for the four-legged animal folk.
National Be Kind to Animals
Week, first celebrated in 1914 and
sponsored by the American Humane
Society, will be recognized April
21-26 by Parent-Teacher associa
tions, Federation of Women’s Clubs,
and more than five hundred Humane
Societies, schools, and other civic
organizations throughout the na
tion.
Henry F. Lewith, humble, kind
hearted printer at Charleston, S. C.,
conceived the idea for the week of
kindness to dumb animals, which in
27 years has grown to national
proportions.
Lewith was shocked at the cruel
indifference of the public toward the
so-called lower creatures “which
God has so wisely created for the
benefit of man, his comfort and
pleasure.” Friends were amazed
when busy President Wilson granted
the printer an interview and finally
agreed to inaugurate an annual pe
riod of celebration in honor of the
animal folk.
Lewith’s plea for consideration of
dumb animals, will be repeated in
hundreds of talks, plays, pageants,
speeches, and state and national
radio broadcasts, which will mark
National Be Kind to Animals Week.
The American Humane Education
Society was founded in 1889 by
George A. Angell.
FOX HOUND RUNS
ONLY IN ‘PAYOFF’
Carrollton, Ga. —Good fox-hunting
dogs number in the hundreds, but
Dr. T. M. Spruell owns a hound that
tops them all when it comes to using
strategy. Old “Climax” just lets the
other dogs “run themselves silly,”
and then he goes into the game fresh
and “takes the ball over Reynard’s
lines.”
Climax has some “sense” that tells
him when the rest of the pack is
fagged out, Dr. Spruell explains.
Climax runs only at the payoff.
plus Marketing administration, that
rising meat, poultry and dairy
prices will prevent a surplus this
year, since farmers always fatten up
their stock when prices justify it.
Also, it is certain that a consid
erable portion of the huge 700,000,-
000-bushel carryover of corn from
last year will be bought for foreign
shipment under the lend-lease pro
gram. The Commodity Credit cor
poration, which owns, or has under
loan, about 500,000,000 bushels of the
carryover, is strongly banking on
this.
So it looks as if Evans, who has
been warning farmers of a corn
quota election this year, will have to
eat his words.
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DIVIDENDS VS. WAGES
More altruistic than most big
business leaders is Dollar-a-Year
Man Edward Stettinius, chairman
of the giant U. S. Steel corporation,
which maintains cordial relations
with SWOC, a C. 1.0. union. Last
year U. S. Steel paid stockholders
$100,000,000. This year it should pay
about $156,000,000.
But now the Steel Workers union
is demanding a wage boost.
Stettinius wants to pay the addi
tional dividends. Labor wants to get
the additional pay.
Bring Your—
Scrap Iron, Metal
Radiators,
Batteries—
Anything That’s Iron or
Junk Car
Also Bones, if Brought in
With Iron—to
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NEAR DEPOT
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
State Director Issues
Statement of Interest
To C. C. C. Members
Members of the Civilian Conserva
tion Corps who have been placed in
Class 1 for Selective Service training
prior to their enrollment and as
signment to a CCC camp, will be
permitted to report to the local
Selective Service board nearest their
camp for physical examination, Sion
B. Hawkins, State Director of Se
lective Service, announced today.
Director Hawkins also pointed out
that a recent War Department rul
ing enables CCC enrollees to report
for these Selective Service examina
tions without loss of CCC pay and
also protects their status in the
CCC should they be rejected at an
Army induction station. He said:
“If a CCC selectee for military
training was classified and placed in
Class I by his Local Selective Service
Board prior to enrollment in the
CCC, but had not received notifica
tion to report for physical examina
tion until after he had been assigned
to a CCC camp, upon receipt of
such notice he may request his local
board for permission to report to the,
local board nearest his CCC camp
for the required examination. Also,
the War Department has ruled that
his CCC company commander will
grant him leave of absence with pay
for whatever time is deemed neces
sary to report to the Selective Serv
ice board.”
In addition, Director Hawkins
said, if a CCC enrollee who has been
passed for Selective Service training
and discharged from the CCC be
subsequently rejected at the Army
induction station, he may be re
instated in the CCC camp from
which he was discharged upon appli
cation made within 15 days of the
date of his rejection. If he does not
wish to return to the CCC, he may
apply in person to the commander
of the CCC company from which he
was discharged who will give him
the authorized transportation to his
home.
LOCAL WEATHER
SUMMARY FOR THE
MONTH OF MARCH
TEMPERATURE: Mean maxi
mum, 65.0; mean minimum, 43.5;
mean, 54.2; maximum, 77 on the
4th; minimum, 26 on the Ist; great
est daily range, 36 degrees.
PRECIPITATION: Total, 5.73
inches; greatest amount in any 24-
hour period, 1.36 inches on the
7th.
MISCELLANEOUS: Number of
days with 0.01 inch or more of rain
fall, 11; clear, 10; partly cloudy,
11; cloudy, 10; light fog on the
21st; killing frosts on the 2nd, sth
and 15th; last sub-freezing temper
ature on the 18th; thunderstorms on
(the 7th and 16th.
J. G. STANDIFER,
Observer, U. S. Weather Bureau.
COUNTY WIDE
TEACHER’S ELECTION
On April 14, 1941, the entire coun
ty local boards of education will se
lect teachers who are to direct the
highest elevating trends to and for
better child education of the 1941-
1942 school term.
All vacancies that can not be filled
properly on April 14, 1941, special
efforts will be made to fill such va
cancies by April 26, 1941.
B. R. B. DAVIS
Blakely F. F. A. News
Members of the eighth grade Vo
cational Agriculture and Home Ec
onomics classes are now in the midst
of an exchange unit between the
departments. The boys are studying
Etiquette while the girls are work
ing on Beautifying the Home
Grounds.
The chapter last week bought a
truck which the National Defense
class in Mechanics is going to repair.
The truck will be used for the chap
ter to go on the annual camping
trip.
Two more boys were given Pure
bred pigs on the Pig-chain last week.
They are Emory Durham and Leon
ard George.
—REPORTER.
CLASSIFIED ADS
FOR SALE— Brabham peas. FRED
CHANDLER. Blakely, Ga., Rt. 1.
FOR RENT Three-room apart
ment, unfurnished; available imme
dately. Telephone 127. JESSE
WIDENER.
NOTICE— I will be at County
Agent’s office every Saturday, and
Saturday only, to take seed loan ap
plications. THEO WHITE.
SEED COTTON— Rhyne’s Cook
and Rhyne’s Stoneville Wilt-resist
ant cotton direct from the breeder.—
C. L. RHYNE, Americus, Ga., for
sale at H. C. Fort’s Warehouse. 4tp
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Located: Under Telephone
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