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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI NO. 24
FIRST BLACKOUT
SUCCESSFUL, SAYS
WARDEN GODWIN
Blakely’s first 'trial blackout, held
last Thursday night, was almost a
complete success, Fred E. Godwin,
Air Raid Warden, has reported.
The blackout began at about
8:40 o’clock and lasted approxi
mately 40 minutes. Blackout pa
trolmen werd placed at all the road
entrances to the city to stop all in
coming cars. State guard members
and boy scouts patrolled “beats” in
side the city limits to remind people
who failed to cut their lights off
th'at a blackout was in progress.
Only a few instances kept the
blackout from being a complete suc
cess, Warden Godwin said. Boy
scouts reported that a few people
failed to cut off their lights or went
off from home and left lights burn
ing. In one case, it was reported, one
person failed to cut off the lights,
saying, “it is only a small light and
Won’t hurt anything.” Officials point
ed out that it was necessary that ev
eryone co-operate, because the next
blackout might not be a trial one—
that it might be the real thing.
Warden Godlwin says there will
be another blackout, but the date
will not be announced. No one will
know it until the signal begins. All
residences and business houses are
asked to blackout immediately and
all blackouts patrolmen and scouts
are asked' to go to their stations im
mediately when the signal is given.
In order to assure a complete
blackout ■when the next one is held,
the mayor and council are expected
to pass a law making it a violation
of the city ordinances to leave lights
burning and cases will be made
against those who do not cooperate.
If anyone fails to blackout, witness
es are asked to telephone 25 or 30
and a messenger will be sent to ex
tinguish the lights.
WAR RELIEF TOTAL
FIGURES ANNOUNCED
Early county’s total Red Cross
war relief contributions soared to
near the $1,200 mark Tuesday,
when Robert H. Stuckey, chapter
treasurer, announced that the total
funds which have been turned in to
date amounted to $1,193.35. Early’s
quota was SI,OOO.
Weaver’s Upstairs
Bargain Annex
“TAKE THE STAIRS AT
WEAVER’S AND SAVE”
Ladies’ Shoes, odds and 300 pairs Ladies’ Shoes,
ends, many worth $3.95 many worth $2.98, all col
’ J olrs, kinds, sizes. Every
per pair, a close-out at sa i e fi na i .. . price
*I.OO pr. 25c pr
Men’s Match or Khaki Me»J> Wort:
Pants, a real value at price
*1.39 pr *1.98 pr
SWEATER SALE
A final sale on all Men and Boys’ Sweaters. Half
price—
98c TO 1. 95 EACH J
It Always Pays to Shop at Weaver’s
. . . The U. S. Marines needs fighting men . ..
apply Postoffice, Columbus, Georgia
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
Con nt d
Success to AH Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead/’
DEATH CLAIMS
AGED EARLY
COUNTY LADY
Succumbing to an illness of ten
days and an invaldism of several
years, Mrs. Fannie Wade Davis,
widow of Joseph B. B. Davis, died
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at her
Liberty Hill home.
Mrs. Davis, who was a daughter
of the late Dennis M. Wade, Sr., and
Katherine Brown Wade, was a na
tive and life-long resident of Early
County, and was 83 years of age. She
was known to and loved by many
friends throughout this section.
Funeral and interment were at
Liberty Hill cemetery Monday morn
ing at 11 o’clock, with the Minter,
Fellows & Forrester Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements and the
following serving as pall-bearers: J.
E. Davis, F. E. Davis, Manuel Mc-
Dowell, Jr., Milton Richardson, Ran
dall McDowell and Joe McDowell,
sons and grandsons of the deceased,
(Survivors include four daughters,
Mrs. Julia May Williams, of Blakely,
Mrs. Manuel A. McDowell, Miss
Woodson Davis and Miss Susie Davis,
all of this county; two sons, F. E.
Davis of Columbus, and J. E. Davis
of this county; one brother, Dennis
M. Wade, of Blakely; and one sister,
Mrs. Luther Waller, of Tampa, Fla.
BRYANT M. JONES,
AGED CITIZEN OF
THIS COUNTY, PASSES
Mr. Bryant M. Jones, 83, pioneer
Early county citizen, succumbed to
a two weeks’ illness from pneumonia
on Friday last.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at Bethel cemetery,
with Elders Tom Crawford and R.
K. Blackshear officiating. Interment
was in Bethel cemetery, with Evans
& Son Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements and Emsley Tolar,
Gordon Tolar, Carl Tolar, Earnest
Tolar and Douglas Gruber serving
as pall-bearers.
Survivors include three sons, Jim,
Charles and Willis Jones, and two
daughters, Mrs. W. M. Tolar and
Mrs. Bryant Gaulden.
Mr. Jones was born on August
23, 1859, and was engaged in farm
ing operations for many years. He
had many friends and the news of
his death occasioned wide-spread sor
row.
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1942.
STATE-WIDE REGISTRATION OF VOLUNTEERS
FOR FOURTEEN BRANCHES OF CIVILIAN
PROTECTION WILL BEGIN FRIDAY, JAN. 23
Atlanta, Ga. —A statewide drive
to register not less than 500,000
Georgians—men, women, boys and
girls, wfyite and colored —for volun
tary service in 14 branches of civil
ian protection was announced today
by Robert B. Troutman, chairman of
the Georgia Citizens Defense Com
mittee. The registration will begin
on January 23 and will be open
through January 31. Places at which
citizens may register, in addition to
all Georgia schools, will be announc
ed by local and county chairmen
throughout the state.
“The time has come,” said Mr.
Troutman, “for the entire state of
Georgia to get under way with its
citizens protection plans. Hundreds
of instructors are now being trained
to take charge of classes in the more
important defense services, and ad
ditional instructors will be made
available as they are required. Citi
zens who have been asking ‘What
can I do?’ now have an opportunity
to find quick answers to that ques
tion by registering during the period
January 23-31. Os course, those
who have already registered for
civilian defense work with local com
mittees in some of the cities and
towns need not register again.”
It was pointed out by Mr. Trout
man that courses of instruction will
be scheduled at various locations in
the state immediately following the
statewide registration and upOn com
pletion of an analysis of the regis
tration cards by local committees.
Each course will follow the require
ments which unust be met in order
for the volunteer worker to qualify
for Federal recognition implied in
award of the arm-brand insignia for
the course.
A citizen who indicates his or her
desire to qualify, for example, as a
Fire Watcher will be required to take
a 12-hour course consisting of: Fire
Defense,3 hours; Gas Defense, 2
hours: General Course, 5 hours; Drill,
2 hours.
Those wishing to qualify for the
Emergency Food and Housing Corps
will be required to take a 7-hour
course, as follows: Gas Defense, 2
hours; General Course, 5 hours. The
drivers corps course of instruction
A WEEK OF THE WAR
The President established a War
Production Board headed by Donald
M. Nelson, former mail-order firm
executive and more recently Execu
tive Director of SPAB and Priorities
Director. The President directed Mr.
Nelson to “exercise general direc
tion over the war procurement and
production program,” to supervise the
OPM and issue production and pro
curement directives where necessary
to all other Government agencies.
The President said Mr. Nelson’s de
cisions shall be final. Vice-President
Wallace and other members of the
SPAB, now abolished, were made
members of the War Production
Board.
In letters to OPM Directors Knud
sen and Hillman and other produc
tion officials, Mr. Nelson said “we
must enlarge all our previous activ
ities. . .all our facilities. . .must pro
duce 24 hours a day, 168 hours a
week.” OPM Director Hillman,
speaking in Washington, said the na
tion’s force of workers in war in
dustries must be doubled or tripled,
more women must be trained and
brought into the labor force to take
the place of men going into the arm
ed services. He asked employers not
to bar aliens in war industries ex
cept in plants turning out secret
weapons.
Director Odium of the OPM Con
tract Distribution Division said a
plan has been prepared to set aside
one per cent of all available materials
to assist small manufacturers in
keeping their plants going until they
can be converted to war use. He
said the nation’s entire production
facilities —all of those “hidden away
in thousands of cities and towns and
will require 40 hours work, while
other courses will necessitate work
of from 12 to 42 hours.
Boys and girls between the ages
of 15 and 21 may register for serv
ice as messengers and qualify for
the arm-band insignia by complet
ing a special 22-hour course consist
ing of First Aid, 10 hours; Fire De-
Defense, 3 hours; Gas Defense, 2
General Course, 5 hours; Drill, 2
hours.
'Colored men and women are in
vited and urged to register for the
various civilian protection worker
groups. “There are many types of
emergency work for which our color
ed people are needed and for which
they must be trained,” said the an
nouncement from the Georgia Citi
zens Defense Committee, “and it is
hoped that they will volunteer in
large numbers. Classes of instruction
will be provided for them. The need
for colored volunteers worker groups
in Georgia’s larger cities and towns
is especially urgent.”
Following is a list of the 14 civilian
protection services for which Geor
gia citizens may volunteer, together
with the number of instruction hours
necessary for them to qualify for
the arm-band insignia for each:
Staff Corps, 22 hours; Messenger,
22 hours; Drivers Groups, 40 hours;
Auxiliary Firemen, 32 hours; Res
cue Squads, 42 hours; Auxiliary Po
lice, 28 hours; Bomb Squads, 19
hours; Fire Watchers, 12 hours; De
molition and Clearance Crews, 12
hours; Emergency Food and Hous
ing Corps, 7 hours; Road Repair
Crews, 12 hours; Decontamination
Corps, 22 hours; Air Raid Wardens,
40 hours Minimum; Volunteer
Nurses’ Aides, 80 hours;
Courses for Volunteer Nurses
Aides and Emergency Food and
Housing Corps will be conducted un
der supervision of local Red Cross
chapters.
Registration will be at each of the
county schools, white and colored,
and at the office of the County
School Superintendent, beginning Fri
day, January 23, and continuing
through January 31, Chairman F. H.
Brooks of the Early county civilian
defense council, announced Wednes
day.
villages”—must join in the total war
effort. He asked all mayors to have
every manufacturer in their cities
register at the nearest OPM Contract
Distribution Division field office and
to “go after war contracts with every
ounce of ingenuity and energy they
possess.”
THE WAR FRONT —
The Navy Department reported the
sinking of five enemy vessels in Far
Eastern waters—three transports and
two large cargo ships. The announce
ment brought to 25 the total of
Japanese vessels reported definitely
sunk by the Navy and Marine Corps
in the Pacific. The Navy also an
nounced two allied merchant vessels
were attacked by Axis submarines off
Long Island. Throughout the week
Gen. MacArthur reported heavy land
and air fighting in the Philippines
but said American and Philippine
troops were putting up effective re
sistance and U. S. losses were low.
ARMY—
War Secretary Stimson announced
the Army will be increased from
the present total of 1,700,000 men
to 3,600,000 men this year. Combat
air units and armored units will be
doubled; 32 motorized divisions will
be added, and at least 50 more mili
tary police units for guarding pro
duction facilities will be created. In
stead of the originally scheduled 10,-
000, more than 90,000 privates will
be selected to attend officer-train
ing schools. All training centers and
posts will be enlarged and five tem
porary tent camps will be set up.
To make 2,000,000 more men eligi
ble, the Army will lower age limits
for aviation cadets from 20 to 18
(Continued on page 5)
SECOND RULE
NISI AGAINST
TELEPHONE CO.
A second rule nisi order has been
issued to Mrs. Mattie Powell, owner
of the Blakely Telephone Company,
by the Georgia Public Service Com
mission, signed by W. R. McDonald,
chairman, and A. O. Randall, sec
retary, ordering said owner to ap
pear before the Commission on Feb
ruary 25th, “to show cause (why tele
phone rates in Blakely shouldn’t be
reduced commensurate with the
character and service being render
ed.”
The first rule nisi was issued
against the company early in Decem
ber after a comiplaint against the
poor telephone service in Blakely had
been filed by local civic clubs and
the county and city governments.
The rule nisi issued on January
14, and made public today, reads as
follows:
To the Blakely Telephone Com
pany, Inc., Blakely Ga.:
WHEREAS, on general complaint
the Commission issued its rule nisi
on November 14, 1941, requiring the
Blakely Telephone Company to show
cause before the Commission why
telephone service rendered in Blake
ly Georgia should not be improved,
and
WHEREAS, hearing under said
rule nisi was held on December 17,
1941, at which time a large number
of telephone subscribers appeared
in protest to the service rendered, and
WHEREAS, the Commission di
rected its engineers to visit Blakely
on January 6, 1942, for the purpose
of inspecting and testing the tele
phone plant and equipment to de
termine its present condition and ca
pacity to render reasonable and ade
quate service, and
WHEREAS, the Commission’s en
gineers’ report, a copy of which is
attached hereto and made a part
hereof, sets forth the very poor con
dition of said telephone plant and
equipment and the unusual amount
of deferred maintenance existing
therein, you are, therefore,
ORDERED to be and appear before
the Georgia Public Service Commis
sion, Room 218, State Capitol, At
lanta, Georgia, at 10 o’clock A. M.
Eastern Standard Time on Wednes
day, February 25, 1942, to show
cause, if any you can, why exchange
telephone rates in Blakely, Georgia,
should not be reduced commensurate
with the character and service being
rendered.
BY ORDER OF THE PUBLIC
SERVICE COMMISSION, this the
14th day of January, 1942.
A. O. RANDALL, Secretary,
W. R. McDONALD, Chairman.
The engineers who inspected the
local plant were N. Knowles Davis,
chief engineer, and Orrin S. Vogel,
valuation- engineer.
One phase of Mr. Davis’s report
which was of particular interest to
complaining subscribers read as fol
lows:
“From the condition of the plant
as observed, it appears that two line
men would be required for not less
than two months to catch up on de
ferred maintenance and then one
lineman retained indefinitely in or
der to keep the telephone plant and
equipment in reasonable operating
(Continued on page 2)
Farmers Find a Friend in
The First State
Cooperating with farmers is “right
down our furrow.” For years the
First State has paid particular atten
tion to the financial needs of the
farmers of this section. When we
help them we know that we are help
ing ourselves and promoting com
munity prosperity at the same time.
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
LOCAL OFFICERS
INVITED TO FBI
TRAINING COURSE
The following prominent law en
forcement officials and their officers
from Early County have been invited
to attend the Six-Day FBI Civilian
Defense Course for Police to .be held
at Albany, Georgia, in the United
States District Court Room from
January 26 to 31, 1942, inclusive.
Sheriff C. E. Martin; Chief of Po
lice C. B. Reeves, Arlington, Ga.;
Chief of Police J. L. McArthur,
Blakely, Ga.
The Civilian Defense Courses for
Police are being held by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation in order that
State, County and local law enforce
ment officers in Georgia may be ade
quately informed concerning emer
gency duties which will be expected'
of them in times of war. They have
the official approval of the Office
of Civilian Defense and will include
such subjects as convoy work, guard
ing protected places and areas, utility
surveys, blackout enforcement, co
operation with other emergency
agencies, action in case of grounded
enemy aircraft and barrage balloons,
gas decontamination, prevention of
malicious acts, internal security in
vestigation, evacuation problems,
looting problems,, maintenance of
maps and charts, traffic problems,
police communication problems, po
lice personnel problems, war duty
officers’ duties, reorganization prob
lems, air raid precaution work, and
protection of police personnel and
property.
Special Agent in Charge F. R. Ham
mack of the Atlanta Field Office
of the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion has advised that too much em
phasis can not be placed at this time
on the proper preparation of police
agencies for emergency war duties
and for this reason Mr. John Edgar
Hoover, Director of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation, has sent out
selected Special Agents with pTeVioUs
experience in police training work
to hold these Six-Day Civilian De
fense Schools. The courses of in
struction were organized after repre
sentatives of the FBI visited) England,
studied for several months and ob
served the protective and preventive
measures used by police officers, fire
men and air raid personnel in London
and other English cities prior to and
during air raids. The instructor who
will teach the. course at Albany,
Georgia, will be Special Agent J. S.
Bush, from Washington, D. C. ,
Only duly authorized law enforce
ment officers will be admitted, to the
sessions and classes will last from 9
A. M. to 6 P. M. from January 26
to January 30, 1942, inclusive, with
one hour off for lunch while classes
on January 31, 1941 will be from
9 A. M. to 4 P. M.
“The Westerner,” featuring Gary
Cooper, at the Blakely Theatre
Thursday and Friday.