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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money, Your
Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griffin I
Member Of The Associafed Press
E VENIN GOOD G
- By Quimby Melton
Thank God the fighting with
Japan is over.
For had not Hirohito yelled
""quits” when he did today
one of the blocdiest battles of
the war woutfl be in progress.
For according to the Allied
plan for invasion of Japan, Am
erican troops would have storm
ed ashore on the Japanese h:me
island two days ago and by to
day hard fighting would have
been underw-ay.
And that would have meant
more American casualties,
Today would have been a cru
cial day on Kyushu Island with
the forces of Nimitz and Mac
Arthur in there pushing on
Tokyo. All the veteran units,
that fought through New Gui
nea. the Philippines and other
Pacific countries would *h ave
been in the fighting..
But Hirohito got his belly
full of the fighting and threw
in the sponge some three months
ago.
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It now is known that the
schedule for complete defeat of
Japan called for an 18-month
long campaign in Japan, And
this was to be followed by cam
paigns in China and Manchuria.
It is also known that had not
Hirohito decided he had enough
of the that
called for use of “suicide” plane
and naval unit attacks in a last
effort to save the homeland.
Japan had saved back men for
the last-stand defense.
So today we might institute an
early Thanksgiving Day—that
Japan was defeated long before
the time set on the schedule—
and that no invasion, against
fanatic defenders, of the home
land was necessary. '
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A story out of Washington
says that Paul Brown, congress
man frem the Tenth XAugi:*.ta>
district of Georgia is being
mentioned as chairman of the
Federal Insurance Guarantee
Corporation. Brown, chairman
of the house banking committee,
will be offered the post by Tru
man it is reported. The office
is for ten years. ——
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Personally we hope biown will
turn down the offer, if and when
it is made. For we have too few
Congressmen with his ability,
stamina and convictions. Geor
gia and the nation need Paul
Brown in congress.
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Evangelist To Speak
At Sunny Side Church
Rev. Hobart B. Goolsby, evange
list, will conduct the service- at the
Sunny Side Baptist Church Sun
day morning at 11 o'clock. The pas
tor, Rev. George Duncan, will be
In charge of the evening worship
hour at 7:301
The public is invited to attend
both services.
Pitch His Tent
Here In Griffin
LOS ANGELES.—(PI —David
Mizrahi, veteran of Marine Corps
action in the South Pacific,
folded his tent in a downtown
park lakt night and quietly left
• with his wife and small son.
The Marine veteran told re
porters the housing shortage had
forced him to 1 shelter his faml'v
by pitching a nup tent In Persh
ing Square Park yesterday. But
city authorities, mindful of an
ordinance prohibitive bahitation
in public parks, ordered him to
lea”? hv midnight.
Mizrahi, his wife. Snnhle and
their 'on. Bobble 2, nicked up
their tent, a few blankets and a
t?v telephone and left at in p.
M.
The Mizrahis, both 23. said
they had been looking for an
anartment since last March
toben he was discharged from
the Marines. He is now work
ing as an upholsterer and they
had been living with relatives.
LY^riST GRIFFIN
DAI EWS
|Textile Workers
Strike In East
Jap Atrocity
Trial Thrown /
Into Confusion
MANILA.— UP) —Chinese, Fili
pino and Spanish witnesses who
hysterically cursed the Japanese
and screamed for the death of
Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita,
threw the war criminal trial of
the former Philippines comman
der-in-chief ’In continual tur
moil today.
Members of the prosecution
staff and interpreters both were
required to quiet a Chinese wom
an whose four-year-old son had
been snatched from her arms
and repeatedly bayoneted.
The woman testified she had
lost nine of the 12 in her fami
ly, had seen women and chil
dren slain and raped when 3D
Chinese were herded into a
lumberyard apd murdered last
Feb. 10.
Griffin Team Ready
For Game Tonight
The full strength of Griffin High
School’s Geld Wave will be on the
field for the first time this season
when the team meets the Decatur
Bulldogs at Lightfoot Park tonight
at 8 o'clock. ' All members of the
squad reported for the final prac
tice Thursday and none was ham
pered by injury or illness.
The Griffin team Is reported to
be in fine spirits fer the contest
with the powerful Decatur play
ers who have not dropped a game
this season. The local boys will do
their best to stop this steady strparn
cf vietoriqjl
The probable starting line-up for j
the game tonight, as announced to
day by Ccach Jeff West, follows:
Ends, Shivers and Ferris; tackles.
White and McDowell; guards. Man
kin and Gray; center, K. Hunt (cap
tain); quarterback, Thacker; full
back. Deraney; halfback, Lyle; half
back. Rowe. Maddox is expected
to see quite a bit of service, in the
guard position. Substitutes who have
had much experience in the last
few weeks will, probably be used
during much of the game.
Many followers of the Decatur
I team are expected tc be on hard
when the opening whistle mows to
j night. The team, coached by Lewis
Woodruff, former Spalding High
gridder, is believed by fans to be
on the way to the N. G. I. C.
championship.
Tickets to the game may be bought
in advance at Jesse's Pharmacy.
The game will be broadcast over
Radio Station WKEU.
During the half at the gam? the
All-Girl Drill Team, or-
ganized at Griffin High School,
will make its first public appear
ance. The team will go through
several formations and drills. They
will be accompanied by the Fourth
Ward Drum Corps.
Jane Hatcher is captain of the
team. Sub-captains are Haywood
Deane, Carolyn Bramblett, Betty
R°wls, Barbara King. Carclyn Wise,
Betty Jo Tyus, and Jacqueline Kel
ly. The team is under the direction
of Miss Sara Prances Whatley.
The captains will wear
skirts, white blouses and black jerk
ins. The members of the team
wear similar costumes with
jerkins.
Spalding Vs. Athens
The Spalding Wolfpack left to
day for Athens where they will play
'he Athens Maroons tonight. Coach
Wilson reported Thursday that bP
members cf his team. With the ex
ception of Bill Porter, will be ready,
f or play in the game.
BUY
VICYORY BONDS!
GRIFFIN, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1945
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Fresh labor disputes added thou
sands of workers to the idle today,
the national total of men and wom
en off the job because of work stop
pages jumping from 243,000 to 266,
000 .
Newest and biggest strike was the
walkout of approximately 16.500
CIO textile workers in 19 plants in
Maine. New Hampshire and Con
necticut.
Some 10.000 textile workers in nine
plants in Maine left their jobs in
a controversy over wages, which
vary according to. the type of work
performed. They have asked for a
raise of 10 cents an hcur. Eight
mills in Connecticut employing 2,500
and two mills in New Hampshire
employing 4,000 struck in a dispute
over demands for a closed or union
shop. No wage issue was involved
in their demands.
There was little indication of a
settlement of the strike of AFL and
CIO machinists in the San Fran
cisco Bay area as an additional 5.000
workers were made idle because of
shutdown of industries. Some 60.
000 workers in about 200 plants are
affected by the walkout.
Service on six Greyhound Bus
Lines operating east of the Missis-
sippi to the Atlantic Seaboard re
mained halted for the second day
by a strike of seme 4,000 AFL em
ployes who left their jobs over a
dispute on wages.
In New York. George E. Sift, pres
ident of local 1202, Amalgamated
Association of Street Electric Rail
way and Motor Coach Employes,
said if a settlement, was net reach
ed soon, 5 ’ the strike may spread
throughout the country." Thousands
of bus passengers were inconvenienc
ed by the disruption of service.
In Salt Lake City, 60 of the ma
jor food stores were closed in a
controversy over wages between
management and 400 AFL meat cut
ters and food handlers.
A proposed five-hour protest dem
onstration scheduled today in the
nation’s Western Union offices was
urged cancelled last night by na
tional officials of the AFL Com
mercial Telegraphers Union in
Washington.
Talmadge To Speak
To Farm Bureau
Here Monday
Former Governor Eugene Tal
madge will speak at a meeting of
the Spalding County Farm Bureau
at 7:30 Monday night The meet
ing will be held in the court room
at the Court House.
Membership in the bureau has
now passed the 150 mark. The mem
bership drive which is now 5 under
way extends until Dec. 1. At that
time officials expect the member
ship to reach 300.
Talmadge has served three terms
j as governor of Gecrgia and is a
There has been much speculation as
| to whether he or his son, Herman,
a former Naval officer, will enter
the next gubernatorial election.
The meeting Monday night will
be open to the general public.
EDGE ELECTED MEMBER
OF STOCK EXCHANGE -A*
NEW YORK.—(/P) a b. Edge. Jr
president of the Calloway Mills of
LnGrange, Ga , was elected to mem
bership in the New York Cotton
Exchange yesterday
Potato Looks
Like Rat—
Exactly
The staff of the NEW'S has
seen many p:tatoes—big pota
toes, little potatoes and medium
sized potatoes. Some looked
Just like potatoes.
But today W C, Partridge
brought one by the NEWS of
fice that looks exactly like a
rat. It’s complete with head,
eyes and a leng tail. .He grew
the potato on his farm on South
Sixth Street.
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LEADERS OF NAZI GER
MANY IN ALLIED CUSTODY:
This group picture of most of
Nazi Germany's leaders, which «
has just become available, wa$™
made last summer at Mondorf
Les-Bains in Luxembourg, then
the Anglo-American jaii for
top-ranking German prisoners.
Left to right, front r:w: Hans
Lammers. Franz voh Epp, Her
man Goerirg, Franz Xaver Sch
warz, Otto Meissner Second )
row, left to right: Joachim von '
Mr. W. F. Moore
Of Senoia Dies
Mr. W, F. Moore, 78. died Thurs
day Afternoon at his home in Se
noia.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Wand
Chandler; five daughters. Mrs. Alex
Padgett of Brooks. Mrs. R. W. Whit
lock of Fayetteville. Mrs. J. W.
Couch, Mrs. Homer Harris, and
to
Mrs. Julian Brown, all cf Senoia;
twp sons, W. E. Moore and H. C.
Moore, both of Senoia.
Funeral services were held a'
the Glen Grove Baptist Church this
afternoon at 3 O'clock with Rev
W. A. Davis and Rev. Dave Porter
officiating. Interment mowed m
Senoia City cemetery with Haisten
Brothers in charge.
Mrs. C. W. Cook
Receives Medals
Awarded Her Son
Mrs. C. W. Cook has received a
letter from the Adjutant General of
the U. S. Army notifying her that
medals and badges awarded her
son. Pvt. Samuel Leon Cook, were
being forw’arded to her. Pvt. Cook i
was killed in the fighting oh Leyte !
last November 4
^Mrs^Cook has received the Purple
Ffeart. Good Conduct Medal and
Combat Infantryman Badge which
were awarded her son. In addition
the War Department has sent her
Asiatic-Pacific, with three bronze
stars: and the Philippine
Liberation ribbon with rne bronze
Cook, the son of Mr nnri Mrs,
C. W. Cook. 39 Crescent. Ave. took
nart in the fighting in the Aleu
tians, the Eastern Mandates T lands
and the Philippines
OTIS McC.EE IS
DISCHARGED FROM NAVY
CHARLESTON, s c Otis M
McGee, fireman first class, 953 Ear)
Solomon Street. Griffin. Ga, was
honorably discharged from the Navy
at the U. S. Naval Personnel Sep
aration Center, Charleston on Mon
day. Oet'b?r 29 McGee entered the
Ufavy' rn Feb 15 1942 H- suv
Action at Slcllv, Salerno. Ando, ant
Southern France. His last duty
was at Boston. Mass
T-4 HENRY C. HOWARD a
RETURNS FROM PACIFIC
T-4 Henry c Howard recently
returned to the United States aft
er serving for 22 months in t'nc
Pacific Theater. He is now spend
ing a 30-day furlough in Griffin.
Ribbcntrop. Walter Funk. Ernst
Bohle. Jakob Nagel, Franz Sch
warz, Herbert Buechs, Otto Sal
man. Third row, left to right:
Friedrich Kritzlnger, Arthur
Seyss Inquart,- Erwin Kraus,
Lcitz Schwerin von Krrsick,
Franz Seldte, Robert Ley. Wer
ner Zschintzsch, Albert Kessel
ring. Others, left to right.: Hans
Frank, Eric Dethleffsen. Karl
Doenitz, Johannes Blackowitz,
Hermann Reinbcke. Ernst John
von Freyend, Hans Reicke, Karl
Just A Few Copigs
War History
Still On Sale
The Griffin News still has a
few copies, less than 100, of the
World War Two History whieh
it published two weeks ago as
a part of the paper. These can
be bought at The News for 10
cents each.
After this supply Is gone there
will be no more available. The
history, rrmpilccl by the Asso
ciated Press, is published in
tabloid form and contains an
authentic history, many illustra
tions, and a blank for keeping I
the service record of men in
the Armed Services. I
In addition to including a
copy of the history in every
paper on the dale it was publish
ed. the management furnished
each of the school systems with
600 copies to he distributed to
the history rlasses.
Pretty Weather
For Week-End
ATLANTA f/P)-.The weatner
man says that the deep -.south can
lock 5 for more baseball weather over
the week-end although the calendar
for football
However, a cool air mass moving
in from .the Plqdn States will bring
a little cooler weather to north
Georgia, western North Carolina.
Tennessee and Virginia,
Temperatures in the Car- linas.
and the Gulf States con
vened today in the high 70\s and
ow 80's.,.
While the football crowds fated (
prospect of sweating it out, Sun
day might, be a nice dav for a
tramp into woods aflame with au
tumnal colors, the weather man
suggested.
EDWARD PETRUSKA IS
PROMOTED RECENTLY
Lieutenant Edward Petruska, U
S N. R, of Griffin, was recently
iromoted from the grade of lieu-
5 enant (junior grade) Lt. Petruska
Is stationed p.t Norfolk. Va.
THE WEATHER
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA:
Clear to partly cloudy anil con
tinued warm today, tonight an 1
Saturday.
Maximum Friday; 74
Minimum Friday: 56
Maximum Thursday: 82
Minimum Thursday: 59
BUT VICTORY BONDS!
Stroclin, Alfred Jodi, Gerhard
Wagner, Karl Brandt, Philipp
von Hessen, Paul Wegener (di
rectly behind Nagel), Walter
Warlimont, (rear row behind
Wegener). Walter Leudde Neu
rath, Walter Buch. Alfred Rosen
berg, Leopold Buerkner, Wiihelm
Keitel, an unidentified man,
Wilhelm Frick, man unidenti
fi d. Kurt Daluege {profile hid
den/, and Julius Streicher. Lev
has since committed suicide.
<AP -
Funeral Today For
Mr. W. E. Jones
Funeral services were held this
morning at 11 o'clock at the Con
cord Baptist Church for Mr. Wil
liam E Jones, 56. who died Thurs
day morning at his home in Con
cord. Rev. Wilson Walker officiat
ed at the services. Interment fol
lowed in the Zebulon Methodist
Cemetery. Haisten Brothers, fu
neral directors, were in charge of
arrangements.
Survivors arc his wife. Mrs, Fan
nie Lou Pilkenton Jones; one niece.
Mary 1/it Pilkenton; one nephew.
John William Pilkenton.
C. I. O. To Hold
State Convention
In Athens
ATHENS '/Pi—CIO local unions
in Georgia w ill meet here • tomor
row in the sixth annual convention
of the Georgia Industrial Union
Council,
Resolutions presented to the con
vention committees include one call
ing, for approval of the CIO's de
mand for- higher wages, a 65-cent
minimum wage and condemnation
of the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill.
Robert J Davidson. CIO inter
national representative and direc
tor of the union’s organizational
drive at Wierton Steel in Wlerton,
W Va.; will address the convention.
Also on the program will be G R
Hathaway, district director of the
United Packing House Workers cf
America.
Others expected to attend are Paul
Stales, regional director of the Na
tior.al Labor Relations Board: W r
ren Hall administrator, OPA. O^orge
Mitchell, director of Veterans Ser
vices for tile Southern . Regicnal
Council; Paul Christopher, southern
director of the CIO, Political Action
Committee.
A conference of all Georgia staff
members of the Textile Workers
Unfii was Arranged this afternoon
preceding the convention
PFC. MILTON L. ROSS
IS HOME FROM EUROPE
Pf.c. Milton L. Ross recently re
turned to the United States liter
-'rvirtg for (wo and one-half year?
in the European Theater of Opera
tions He is now with his
it (heir home Route 2. Urllfin
Only seven days in the year
been agreed upon by all the
and the Pbtrict of Columbia a;
legal or public holldav* 5 New
Day, Washington's Birthday,
dependence Day, Labor Dav.
xtlcp Day, Thanksgiving Day
Christmas.
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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invert Your Money, Yoor
Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griffmt
Against
Japs
Must Be
New Tax Cuts
1946 Income Tax
But Not 1945
BY JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON i/Pi—Here are
things to remember—and a way to
figme out the reduction in your
income tax which Congress just 5
okayed
It means a cut in your income
tax in 1946, starting Jan. 1 It lias
nothing to do with—and means no
cut in—ycur 1945 taxes
All taxpayers will benefit from
the cut About 12 million of them
paying taxes in 1945 won't have to
pay any in 1946 They're the lowest
‘ncome people
Most people—because most people
make under. $5,000 a year—won't
have to worry abzut figuring out
the new tax.
Employers regularly withhold —
by deductions from the paycheck -
the full tax on employes making up
to $5,000 a year.
They've done that in JJ)45 They'll
do It In 1948 They do it by tables
given them bv the government. The
government will give them new tab
les for 1946.
The 1946 reduction does three
things: gives a taxpayer the same
number of normal tax and surtax
exemptions: knocks 3 per cent off
cacli surtax rate; and then, alter
all this, knocks 5 per cent off the
total tax.
This is what that means'
Tin re are two kinds of taxes on
individuals: a flat 3 per cent normal
tax on all incomes, no matter hew .
large or smnll; and a surtax whicn
starts at 20 per cent on taxable
income under *2.000 and then rises,
by brackets, as the income rises till
it is, 90 per cent on the highest in
comes
In 1946 there is a reduction of 3
per cent in each surtax bracket. So
the 20 per cent surtax of 1945 be
comes 17 per cent in 1946. There
is a 3 per cent cut no matter how
high the surtax.
Befnrp you Apply your surtax to
taxable 1945 income you deduct $500
each for yourself and each 'depend
ent. These $500 deductions are
exemptions.
But in 1945, before applying your
normal tax to taxable Incr.me, you
ran deduct only one $500 exemp
tion You can t deduct any exemp
tion for dependents
It’s different in 1946 You no*
only get a $500 surtax exemption
for yourself and each dependent
but you get the <ame total exemp
tion before applying your normal
tux
Miss Ann Tyus
Heads 9th Grade
Miss Ann Tyus vu recently elect
ed president of,.the Freshman Class
at Griffin High School. Other oftl
ccrs of the class are Vice-President,
I Ned Roberts; Secretary, Barbara
! Noel; Treasurer, Sally Biased
CADET JACK SHULER
OUT OF THE SERVICE
I
Aviation Cadet Jack Shuler wa.?
given an honorable discharge from.
the Army today al Maxwell Field
and.is exported home tonight. H? is.
the son of Prof and Mis A H Shu
ier, of Griffin lie plans to re
enter the Utilveislty of Oe-igla im
mediately
JOF. TILMAN CASEY
HAS 4-LEGGED CHICK
J )C Tilman Casey. Route B, has
a four legged biddie. The young
chicken is not quite a week old.
jwas hatched with four distinct legs
Established 1871
They Still Dream
Of Conquest And
Revenge For Defeat
TOKYO (/P)—Vigilance against
resurgent Japanp.se who still dream
of reconquest and revenge while
outwardly appearing complacent, an
Allied headquarters authority de
clared today, is more important at
I:resent than the rounding up of
war criminals
Brig Gen. Elliott R Thorpe said,
hewever. the attitude is limited to
a few individuals with small fo4«
low lugs. Other Allied sources said
there was potential danger this t •—
of thinking would increase when
large numbers of demobilized troops
are repatriated from China and
other regions where they felt no
physical defeat.
Thorpe added his department did
not consider it likely thousands Of
ablebodied Japanese ex-service men,
and morp particularly former mem
bers of the disbanded rabid and
rough gendarmerie, could abandon
overnight their carefully Indoctri
nated fanaticism and belief In Jap
an's ruling destiny.
Simultaneously, Allied headquar
ters disclosed three Japanese Army
officers under arrest are being ques
tioned about the execution of three
Doolittle airmen on Oct. 15, 1943,
at Kiangwan, near Shanghai.
A Major Hata is in protective cu»
tody of the Japanese government at
a military hospital in Tokyo. The
government has guaranteed his dej
livery to Omori prison camp. •
Others listed
Others are Lt. Yusei Wamitsu,
llsted ln 1940 Tok >° dIrec -
tory as the only sen of Yonefus*
Wamitsu. president of the Greater
Eastern Asia Independence Society
and former vice president of the
Tokyo Bar Association, and Lt. Gen.
Sliigeru Sawada, former deputy
chief of staff, who commanded the
Shanghai area when the Doolittle
fliers were executed. Both are at
Omori.
Latest arrival at Omori was Getf
kl Abe, former Japanese home min**
ster who played a major part in for
mation of Nippon's disbanded
“thought police.” The former Su
zuki cabinet member who headed
the Metropolitan Police Board sur
rendered at the prison today. The
Allied command last Tuesday di
rected the Japanese government to
hand him over for trial on war cri
minal charges
Two members of the powerful
Iwasaki family resigned from key
position? in the Mitsubishi Holding
Company -last of the great finah-
heads to to Amer
pressure -it was reported au
'horativelv teday.
Held Job/90 Years
Baron Koyatu Iwasaki. jfff-esident
of Mitsubishi Hwlding Co. and Hlk
oyata Iwasaki, vice president, re
signed at a stockholders meeting
yesterday. They had held their po
«itions 30 and lb years, respective
ly Previouslv one of the com
’vii,' ' - principal officials had told
(tie Associated Press the Iwasakls
had no retirement plans.
Dueling officials of Yasuda and
Sumitomo two other* of the olz
four family combines already had
resigned and Mitsui has announced
the prospective retirement of metn
her- < f 10 Mitsui families, .includ
ing Baron Takakiml Mitsui, prem
itient of Mitsui Holding Co.
it Is understood that American
authorities are concentrating upon
these combines as the major oldltn*
Zalbatsu and that less pressure has
bt?n applied to Okura, considered
the fifth ranking family monopoly,
BUY
j VICTORY BONDS!