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EARLY COUNTY, GA. GARDEN SPOT OF GOD’S COUNTRY VOLUME LXXXI NO. 4 DOVE SEASON TO RUN DECEMBER 1 TO JANUARY 11 COMMISSIONER CRAVEY WARNS HUNTERS TO OBSERVE REGULATIONS Dove season will not open until December 1 this year and the Wild life Division is appealing to—as well as warning—hunters to observe the regulation. Director Zack D. Cravey said the dove is a migratory bird and as such comes under Federal as well as State protection. Thus the violator is subject to prosecution by either government. A favorite game bird with many ijunters, the dove has fallen off in population to such extent that strict conservation will be necessary to prevent its extinction. For that rea son, Director Cravey said, hunters should be willing to observe the closed season, bag limit (12 birds), and the prohibition against baited field hunting. He cautioned hunters that Rangers are on the lookout for such violators and that he is asking the courts to give the “stiffest fines possible.” The “split” seasons which allowed dove hunting in October in the northern zone and in November in the southern zone, has been discard ed. Also the season, which runs from December 1 to January 11, has been cut from 72 to 42 days. “However, a short season will help restore the dove in more plentiful numbers and sportsmen should be far-sighted enough to realize that such regulations are made, actually, in their own behalf,” the Director pointed out. IN FINE SHOES! •2- 45 *3.95 m Black # Brown Tan rph e sma JJ f r y wen( ] their way to School ’ n snazzy looking shoes that help ; young feet grow straight and strong We Fit Scientifically • Sharp tip oxford ‘ • Lacing trim oxford ■ ’ - : !R • Rubber sole moc’ • Thong trim moc’ • Walled to tie T. K. Weaver & Co. “Blakely’s Only Complete Store” Connb) JXcws NEED OF SCHOOL BOY PATROL FOR BLAKELY CITED IN TALK TO LIONS CLUB BY REPRESENTATIVE OF PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT L. M. Jones, district supervisor- of the Department of Public Safety, spoke to the members of the Blake ly Lions Club at its regular meeting Tuesday, and put in a plea in behalf of a school boy patrol for Early county. It was pointed out that there is an urgent need for Blakely to have a patrol this year because of the fact that school will be held at several different plages over the city, thus increasing the dangers of children being injured in accidents. The club voted to sponsor this unit and to equip the junior patrol men with necessary equipment. Lions B. R. B. Davis, Bert Tarver and Lewie Stein were appointed a com mittee to assist the patrolmen in or ganizing the unit. The next meeting of the club will be held on Tuesday night, September 16, at which time Ladies’ Night will be observed. A special committee was appointed to make arrangements for the party. Tuesday’s meeting was presided over by President Philip Sheffield and the music was by Mrs. Ben Hais ten and Miss Jane Haisten. NOTICE TO CITY TAX DELINQUENTS This is to notify you that all city taxes must be paid. Please call and take care of same and save addition al costs. This August 19, 1941. C. C. LANE, Clerk. BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1941. Supcess to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.” The President created by Execu tive Order a seven-member Supply, Priorities and Allocation Board, with Vice President Wallace as Chairman and Donald M. Nelson, formerly OPM Purchases Director, as Executive Di rector. The Board will fix priorities and allocate supply of materials, fuel, power, and other commodities of all kinds to meet the demands of the Army and Navy, the defense-aid pro gram, the policies of economic war fare and the needs of the civilian population. Members of the Board are OPM Directors Knudsen and Hillman, War and Navy Secretaries Stimson and Knox, Price Administra tor Henderson, and Lend-Lease Su pervisor Hopkins. Under the order, the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply becomes the Office of Price Administration and a Civilian Supply Division is created in the OPM to protect the interests of consumers. Both will be headed by Leon Hender son, who was OPACS Administrator. The order also transferred Edward R. Stettinius from his post as OPM Priorities Director to that of Lend- Lease Administrator and appointed Mr. Nelson as Priorities Director. AID TO BRITAIN, CHINA, RUSSIA— The President announced a mili tary mission will go to China to study the need for equipment and materials and expedite lend-lease aid. State Secretary Hull stated the U. .S. will maintain the policy of freedom of the seas in shipping sup plies to Russia via the Pacific. The Presidlent told his press conference an organized campaign of rumors, distortions, half-truths and false hoods regarding misuse of lend-lease funds had been launched to sabotage the program of aid to opponents of the Axis. AGRICULTURE— OPM gave priority to deliveries of materials necessary for the produc tion of parts for the repair and maintenance «of existing farm equip ment and manufacture of new farm equipment. The President vetoed a bill to withhold from the normal channels of trade Government-owned cotton and wheat, because “in times such as these no one can foresee how soon these stocks may be needed.” ARMY— The War Department announced creation of a third parachute battal ion and a fifth armored division. The Army also amended its regulations to permit discharge of enlisted men to accept Navy commissions when the Navy so desires. AIR— Artemus L. Gates of New York, World War Navy flier, was appoint ed Assistant Secretary of Navy for Aeronautics. Twenty-eight new Ar my Air Corps units were formed, including 26 school squadrons of 200 men each. The Army Air Forces began tests of the P-40F, latest of a series “giving excellent perform ances abroad,” and sent Maj. Gen. Brett, Chief of Air, to Africa and the Mediteranean area with a mis sion to study planes in action and needs of the British. CIVILIAN DEFENSE— The Army announced it will test the air defense and air warning system of the northeastern U. S. in maneuvers October 9 to 16. Approx imately 43,080 volunteer civilians in the system will participate. A pre liminary report of the mission sent to England by the Office of Civilian Defense recommended fingerprint ing of every U. S. citizen for identi fication of casualties and that neces sary civilian defense personnel, in cluding police and firemen, be ex empt from military service. OiCD Director LaGuardian report ed incomplete returns oh the alumi num collection campaign showed 14,000,000 pounds of scrap, yielding 10,500,008 peunds of aluminum, or enough for 2,800 fighting planes, has been collected. PRICES— Associate Price Administrator El- ’ liott suggested women can help check price rises by writing the Price Ad ministration’s consumer division in THIS WEEK IN NATIONAL DEFE-NS-E Washington of unreasonable ad vances in costs of living; by consult ing city and county officials to see whether increases are justified; buy ing this winter’s coal supply now; reporting rapid rises in rents to state and local housing agencies; buying defense bonds instead of new cars, refrigerators, washing machines or other household appliances. The Of fice of Price Administration set ceil ing prices on animal hair used in mattresses, rayon grey goods, dimi ties, voile and combed broadcloth— thus covering almost all textiles re quired for women’s dresses, men’s shirts, underwear, coat and suit linings, handkerchiefs, sheeting and other items of cotton and rayon. CONSERVATION OF MATERIALS— <gPM requested bicycle and furni ture manufacturers to conserve ma terials by simplifying models and designs, eliminating brass, chrome, nickel, copper and metallic finishes, white side-wall tires, and using re claimed instead of raw rubber. The Division of Consumer Supply asked consumers to take special care of their cars, cut down on consumption of tires, gas and oil, and offered a check-list to aid in conservation. WPA inaugurated a program to sal vage steel from*- abandoned publicly owned street car rails. The War Department reported, it had found recapped and retreaded auto tires gave 80 per cent of the service of new tires and cost 60 per cent less. DOCTORS, DENTISTS, NURSES— Federal Security Administrator McNutt announced an agency will be set up to mobilize physicians and dentists to meet special demands for medical care arising from the defense program. Plans will take into account distribution of doctors and dentists in relation to popula tion, training and experience and their availability for service. Red Cross Headquarters and the OCD announced plans to train 100,000 volunteers as nurses’ aids with the help of local hospitals. Volunteers must be between 18 and 50, gradu ates of high school, physically able; they will be selected by local public health and nursing groups and serve as assistants to graduate nurses in hospitals without pay after 80 hours of intensive training over a seven-week period. SELECTIVE SERVICE— Headquarters directed local draft boards to speed arrangements foi aiding in the reemployment of sol diers the Army is planning to re lease beginning September 1 by get ting in touch with former employers or finding other jobs for the sol diers. In the first case of its kind, a discharged selectee from New York was returned to his former job aft er the local U. S. attorney requested his firm to take him back for at least one year although the firm said his job had been abolished while he was gone. > OIL, GASOLINE— President Roosevelt told his press conference the launching of many oil tankers already on the ways and the operation of tiwo pipeline* from the Southwest to the Eastern sea board will materially relieve the gasoline shortage in the East by next spring. Price Administrator Hender son issued a table of- fair maximum retail prices for “regular” gasoline in 40 major cities, and the Senate began an investigation of the short age. Acting OH Coordnator Davies said “sinister and planned” sabotage may lie behind the “multiplicity of misinformation” that there is realy no shortage. NEW PLANTS, FACILITIES— The Government contracted for the following new plants: pig iron, Cleveland, Youngstown, and Warren, Ohio, and Birmingham, Ala., $58,- 312,000; ordnance facilities, Chatta nooga, Tenn., and St. Louis, Mo., $35,965,999; airplanes and spare parts, Buffalo, N. Y., $75,218,384. UNEMPLOYMENT FROM SHORTAGES— OPM Labor Division began sur veys of 20 communities in 10 states LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS INVITED TO CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT ALBANY SEPT. 11TH UNDER FBI DEFENSE MOBILIZATION PLAN A conference for the third quarter of 1941 to be held under the FBI Law Enforcement Officers Mobiliza tion Plan for National Defense will be held at Albany, Ga., on Thursday, September 11, 1941. This confer ence will be followed on September 12 by a conference at Macon. The conference at Albany will assemble law enforcement officials and officers from the various depart ments in Sumter, Crisp, Wilcox, Ter rell, Randolph, Turner, Lee, Early, Baker, Worth, Calhoun, Clay and Dougherty counties. The following law enforcement of ficials and their officers from Early county have been invited by F. R. Hammack, Special Agent in charge of the Atlanta FBI office, to attend the conference at Albany: C. E. Martin, Sheriff, Early coun ty, Blakely, Ga.; J. L. McArthur, Chief of Police, Blakely, Ga.; C. B. Reeves, Chief of Police, Arlington, Ga. These quarterly conferences of law enforcement officers, which are being held throughout the United States under the direction of the Special Agents in charge of the va rious FBI Field Offices, are for the purpose of coordinating the efforts of all law enforcement agencies in combating espionage, sabotage, and fifth column activities. Instructions in the latest developments and pro cedure in connection with these in vestigations are furnished the as sembled officers and the representa tives of the various departments and they are afforded an opportunity to discuss problems arising in connec tion with these matters. Officers rep resenting every law enforcement agency are urged to be present at the conference covering their re spective communities and to take an active part in the discussion. FOOTBALL PRACTICE TO BEGIN MONDAY NIGHT, SAYS COACH TARRE All boys who plan to play football on the Blakely high school team are asked to meet at the shell Monday night at 8 o’clock, Coach Earl F. Tarre announced this week. All boys are asked to wear their track shoes or football shoes to be prepared to do a little limbering up. Athletic Director J. A. Hammack is scheduled to go to Colquitt Satur day morning to assist in arranging schedules and to attend to other business in regard to the Sowega Six Man Association. in which consumer-goods plants are threatened with curtailment of sup plies because of defense needs. De fense contracts will be awarded where necessary to alleviate labor dislocations. The first such contract was awarded to a Manitowoc, Wis., company, with 4,000 employees fac ing shutdown because of aluminum priorities. Let Us Be of Assistance to You— Now that the busy fall season is ap proaching, there are many ways in which a bank can be of service to you. We invite you to call to see us and discuss your banking mat ters with us. FIRST STATE BANK BLAKELY, GEORGIA Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Maximum Insurance of $5,000.00 for each depositor PULL FOR BLAKELY —OR— PULL OUT $1.50 A YEAR DISTRICT GOVERNOR TO VISIT LOCAL ROTARY CLUB DR. GUY H. WELLS TO MAKE OFFICIAL VISITATION ON SEPTEMBER 19 Rotarians of Blakely will extend the hand of welcome on September 19th to Guy H. Wells, governor of this Rotary district. Dr. Wells will attend the regular meeting of the local Rotary club Friday in his ca pacity of district governor. Dr. W. H. Wall, president of the Rotary allll ft WIF wll 7’^Jaaagjr 1 ' ..A/) Brl Guy H. Wells Club of Blakely, says that the dis trict governor will advise and assist the officers and committeemen of the club on administrative matters and on matters pertaining to Rotary service activities of the club. Dr. Wells was nominated governor at the conference of this district held last April : n Augusta, and was formally elected at the 1941 convention of Rotary International in Denver, Colo rado, mst June. Dr. Wells is President of G.S.C.W. in Milledgeville, and is a member of the Rotary Club there. During the year ne will visit each of the 55 clubs in Georgia which comprise the 165th district. Governor Wells estimates that his official visits to Rotary clubs will require traveling a total of ap proximately 10,000 miles. He has used the vacation time at the college for most of these official visits. He will hold office until the 1942 convention of Rotary International which will be held in Toronto, On tario, Canada, next June. WARNING TO AUTO DRIVERS! Please dr?ve safely and observe speed limit of 20 miles per hour. Cases will be made against vio lators. By order of: POLICE DEPARTMENT.