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Interpretations of New Tire and Tube Rationing Plan The following interpretations of the new tire and tube rationing reg ulations plan were issued today by Leon Henderson, Administrator, Of fice of Price Administration: Q. Can a local Tire Rationing Board direct a person who is grant ed a certificate to purchase his tire from a specific dealer? A. No. A person holding a certifi cate may purchase his tire from any authorized dealer anywhere in the' country. 5. Where may persons holding i certificates purchase their tires? A. At any store, outlet or prem ises at which more than 51 per cent of the sales made are sales direct to consumers. Q. Is there any restriction on the number of .certificate holders to whom a single dealer may sell tires? A. No. Any dealer may sell as many tires as are called for by cer tificates presented to him by pur chasers. The quotas issued by the Office of Price Administration limit the number of tires for which cer tificates may be issued by a local Tire Rationing Board. Q. Is there any way for a dealer who sells exclusively direct to con sumers to liquidate his stocks quick ly? A. Yes. A person regularly en gaged in selling new tires or tubes exclusively at retail may sell new tires or tubes to another dealer, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Rubber Reserve Corporation, the Procurement Division of the United States Treasury, or a manufacturer of tires or tubes, provided that prior to a sale to a manufacturer written approval for such sales is obtained from the Office of Price Administra tion, Washington, D. C. Q. Ls a car an eligible vehicle if it is owned by a government ac countant and used by him principally for government travel for which he receives compensation from the gov ernment on a mileage basis? A. No. Q. Is a truck used to * transport gasoline to filling stations an eligible vehicle? A. Yes. Q. Is a truck used for the in stallation and repair of awning on retail stores an eligible vehicle? A. No . Q. If a passenger car used ex clusively to supervise manufacturing or mining operations an eligible vehicle? A. No. DEATH CLAIMS LITTLE GIRL AT HILTON Succumbing to a two-day illness, Martha Helen Oliver, two-and-a-half year old daughter eg Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Oliver, of the Hilton communi ty, died Saturday night at 9 o’clock. Funeral services for the little girl were held at Zion church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, with the Rev. W. T. Wiley officiating. Interment was in Zion cemetery, with Coy Lee Chandler, John Horn, Calvin Knight on and Byron Chambers serving as pall-bearers, and Minter, Fellows & Forrester Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. The bereaved parents and broth ers and sisters have the sympathy of (friends in the death of this little girl. RE-ENLISTS IN NAVY FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS Roscoe Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Williams, of Jakin, com pleted a four-year service in the United States Navy and returned to his home last September. On Jan uary 2-1 st of this year he re-enlisted for another term and is now station ed at Norfolk, Va. 1,055 FEDERAL AUTO STAMPS SOLD HERE J. Emory Houston, local postmas ter, announced Tuesday that 1,055 federal auto tag stamps had been sold at the Blakely postoffice. There are approximately 1,500 automo biles in Early county. The time to start another crop year is here and we would like to have the opportunity of serving you in any way we can. If you need to borrow any money, we cordially invite you to come discuss your needs with us. Don’t forget to buy Defense Bonds Bank of Early BLAKELY, GEORGIA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. All Deposits Insured up to $5,000 NAVY RECRUITING “CRUISER” VISITOR HERE WEDNESDAY ; A Navy Recruiting Cruiser” [“dropped anchor” in Blakely Wed ' nesday, February 4th. The Cruiser “tied up” here in or der to bring recruiting service to the immediate convenience of those qualified and desiring information concerning service in the United States Navy. It was manned by a “crew” of Chief Petty Officers of long service in many branches of the Navy. Chief Quarter Master L. R. Andrews, Chief Machinist Mate C. H. Kingery, Chief Machinist Mate C. B. Edwards, and Chief Electri cian’s Mate H. C. Hendricks made up the “crew.” The trailer went from here to Donalsonville, Ga. POLIO FUND IN EARLY COUNTY REACHES SSOO Charles E. Boyett, Early county chairman for the celebration of the President’s birthday and the raising of funds with which to fight infantile paralysis, announced yesterday that approximately SSOO had been raised for that purpose during last week’s drive. Mr. Boyett reports that sub scriptions are still being accepted, and urges those who have not yet contributed to the campaign fund to do so before the end of the week. BLACKOUT ORDINANCE Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Blakely, Ga., and it is hereby ordained and enact ed by authority of the same: Sec. 1: This ordinance shall be known as “The Blackout Ordinance.” Sec. 2: The extinguishment of all street lights, the flickering of all other electric lights, and three blasts on the city’whistle shall, when, occurring together, constitute an air raid signal and an official order for blackout. Sec. 3: The relighting of the street lights, occurring with a long biaston the city whistle, shall constitute the “All Clear Signal” and the end of the blackout. Sec. 4: Upon the order being giv en for a blackout, as set forth in section 2 hereof: (a) Each light in the City of Blakely shall be immediately ex tinguished by the person in posses sion or charge thereof; (b) Every person operating an automobile or other vehicle having a light shall immediately pull such ve hicle to the curb and stop it, and extinguish all lights thereon; (c) Every person on the streets shall immediately vacate the same or place himself on the sidewalk; (d) Every person in possession or charge of a fire of any kind shall immediately screen the same to pre vent its being visible from outside; (e) Every person smoking a ci gar. cigarette, or pipe shall imme diately extinguish the same. Sec. 5: It shall be unlawful for any person during a blackout: (a) To light a fire; (b) To turn on or make a light; (c) To permit any fire in his pos session or control to show out of doors; (d) To operate an automobile or other vehicle with a light; (e) To remain in the streets; Sec. 6: Notwithstanding the above sections it shall be lawful for one thirty-watt blue bulb to be burned in each house in the city during a black out provided all shades are drawn in the room wherein such bulb is burned. Sec. 7: It shall be unlawful for any person in charge or possession of a house in the City of Blakely to permit or allow a light to burn in such house when there is no person in such house. Sec. 8: A violation of either of the above sections or sub-sections shall subject the offender to im prisonment for not more than thirty days or to fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or both. This February 3, 1942, at the regular February, 1942, session of the Mayor and Council of the City of Blakely. R. C. SINGLETARY, Mayor. C. E. BOYETT, OSCAR WHITCHARD, C. R BARKSDALE, L. B. FRYER, Councilmen. EARLY COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY, GEORGIA Early Countian Promoted to Second Lieut, in Air Corps Master Sergeant John R. Cham bliss of the 68th Material Squadron, Lawson Field, Fort Benning, has been ordered to active duty at El lington Field, Texas, as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps on non-flying status. Sergeant Chambliss, whose home is in Hilton, Ga., has been the non commissioned officer in charge of the Base Engineering section at Law son Field. He has been in the Army since April 19. 1919, and a non-com missioned officer since 1920. He at tended flying school in 1920 and for two years was on flying status as an enlisted pilot. In 1930 he re ceived his reserve commission in the Quartermaster Corps. During his 22 years of service in the Army Air Corps, Sergeant Cham bliss has served at Souther Field. Ga.; Charleston, S. C.; Maxwell Field, Ala.; Bolling Field, Washing ton, D. C.; Chanute Field, Ill.; Kelly Field, Texas, and Langley Field, Va. He has also seen foreign service with the Air Corps in the Philippine Is lands. For approximately one year he has been stationed at Lawson Field. Fort Benning. His wife and son, Charles, live at Hilton. POULTRY SALE AT SEVOLA JONES’ STORE SATURDAY, FEB. 7 A poultry sale will be held Satur day at Sevola Jones’ store, from 8:00 a. m. to 2:00 p. m. It is an nounced that the following prices will be paid: Colored hens, 16c lb. Leghorn hens, 13c lb. Roosters, 8c lb. Stags, 3 to 4 lbs., 12c lb. Colored fryers, 17c lb. Leghorn fryers, 16c lb. Turkeys, 18c lb. Ducks, 10c lb. Guineas, 35c each. Mr. Jones stated that chickens must be in good order, and that poor chickens will be CITATION GEORGIA —Early County: J. E. Chancy, administrator of the estate of J. H. Hand, deceased, rep resents to the court that he has fully administered said estate. This is, therefore, to cite all persons con cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they have, why said administrator should not be dis charged from his administration and receive letters of dismission on the First Monday in March, 1942. D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary. PUBLIC LAND SALE GEORGIA —Early County: There will be sold before the courthouse door of said county, by the undersigned, on the 3rd day of March, 1942. in the city of Blakely, at public outcry to the highest bid der for cash, within the legal hours of sale, the following described real estate, to-wit: Fifty (50) acres of land, more or less, in the northeast corner of lot of land number 171 in the 26th land district of Early County, Georgia, and more particularly de scribed as follows: Commencing at a point twenty (20) chains east of the northwest corner of said lot and running south a distance of three hundred and thirty-five (335) yards, thence east to the east line of said lot; thence north to the northeast corner of said lot; thence west to the point of beginning. Said sale will be had under and by virtue of a power of sale con tained in a certain security deed ex ecuted by P. W. Evans to Commer cial Bank, Blakely. Ga., on the 28th day of October, 1939, and recorded at page 475 of Book 48 in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, said deed having been executed to secure the payment of the grantor’s promissory note in the principal sum of $248.00, together with interest on said principal sum at the rate of eight per centum per annum from September 20th, 1941, to the date of said sale. A deed will be executed to the purchaser at said sale as provided in said deed. Said sale will be had subject to a certain security deed executed by P. W. Evans to the First State Bank of Blakely, Ga., dated the 19th day of October, 1939. and recorded at page 458 of Book 48 in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county. H. A. WALTON, Trading as the Commercial Bank, Blakely, Ga. PHILIP SHEFFIELD, Attorney. BRING YOUR COWS AND HOGS TO US! Our pens are located at the old Early County Club yards near Bryant’s Mill. We buy, trade or sell. Your business will be appreciated. Telephones: Mosely Livestock Yards W. L. Mosely, - Blakely, Ga. THIS WEEK IN THE WAR (Continued from page 1) award contracts in such away as to utilize these buildings. CONVERSION OF AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY — Ernest Kanzler, WPB official in charge of converting the automobile industry to war production, said the industry up to January 16 had or ders for eight billion dollars’ worth of guns, tanks, planes and other war material. He said the industry’s present employment of 500,000 workers may be doubled when peak war production is reached late this year. He said lack of machine tools is the present bottleneck in the con version effort, but labor supply may be the next big problem. ALIENS— Attorney General Biddle ordered all German, Japanese and Italian nationals to leave specified vital areas in San Francisco and Los Angeles by February 24. Mr. Bid dle said 27 additional prohibited areas recommended by the War De partment would be published later. PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS— The Senate passed and sent to the House a second War Powers Bill extending the Government’s requisitioning power and carrying criminal penalties for violations of the priorites system. The WPB cut radio production by 40 percent, pro hibited use of aluminum except on War contracts, and restricted con sumption of nickel, brass and copiper for advertising and decorative pur poses to 50 percent of last year. The Board also announced it will withhold a percentage of canned goods in 1942 to insure ample sup plies of certain foods for the armed forces. War Production Chairman Nelson placed full authority in the Office of Price Administration to ration all goods and commodities sold on the retail market and for goods to sat isfy personal needs. Price Adminis trator Henderson said initial sugar sales under the rationing plan to be inaugurated next month probably will be restricted to 12 ounces a week for each individual. The Depart ment of Justice announced the Anti trust Division is investigating the practice of requiring customers to purchase designated amounts of gro ceries in order to obtain limited amounts of sugar. LABOR— Labor Secretary Perkins said la bor shortages require temporary “re laxation in accepted standards,” and asked labor and management to place war production on a 24-hour, 7-day i basis immediately. WPB Labor Di- I rector Hillman announced ratifica tion by unions and owners of an agreement for continuous shipbuild ing operations on the Pacific coast. The agreement will be extended to the Atlantic, Gulf and Great Lakes zones, Mr. Hillman said. The Na tional Resources Planning Board outlined in a 19-page pam’phlet a plan for full employment following the war. CEDAR SPRINGS 4-H CLUB We held our first meeting Monday and nominated our offices, as fol low’s: President, Christine Bowen; Vice President, Winston Bynum; Secretary, Fannell Plymail. We hope to have a great year in 4-H Club work. Mr. Reid will be back February 23 to see how we are working. We will be on the job and we will have something done when he comes back. We are a little food army. We not only want to make it great, but we hope to make this year the greatest year we have ever had. We can and we will. We will act as well as talk. We will do our part to make the best better—work with our hands, head and heart to improve our country’s health and happiness. We must be skill-handed to work. We must use our head to be skill-hand ed. And we must use and put our heart into our work to do anything. This we can do, and we will do. FLETCHER F. PERRY, Reporter. Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps. Office 256; Residence 186 Assemble Largest Air Corps Recruit Class i • V ■ ■ XJ >f! J v MM r < ... mMPy ■ “t it< i. ii'rrTrrc io? z... Largest group of U. S. army air corps recruits ever assembled, 1,100 American youths, march from recruiting office on Governor’s island, with New York’s famous skyline forming dynamic backdrop. SEED! SEED! Our Spring Seed have arrived. We have on hand this year the largest and most complete line of bulk Garden and Field Seed in town. We also carry Seed Potatoes, Onion and Cabbage Plants, Seed Corn and Flower Seeds. We can supply you in large or small quantities at the lowest prices. Come by and see them before you buy. SPECIALS IN OUR GROCERY Friday and Saturday Guaranteed Flour, 24-lb. sack 89c Gallon Can Cooking Oil $1.35 Gallop Can Pure Lard 95c No. 2i/ 2 Size Pork & Beans 10c 1-lb. Mother’s Cocoa 10c Aunt Jemima Grits 2 for 15c Charmer Coffee - 18 c Pink Salmon . 19c Large Size Tripe 31c Ivory Soap, 1 large and 1 med. bar, both for 12c ALL SPECIALS ARE CASH Godwins Grocery Blakely, Georgia COME TO SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY STALK CUTTERS, PLOWS MIDDLEBUSTERS We have a complete stock of Bridles, Collars, Hames, Traces, Plow Lines and other necessities to begin your crop. Start right by coming to see us. AGENTS FOR— Avery and Lilliston Implements ♦♦♦♦♦♦ FARMERS HARDWARE CO. BLAKELY, GEORGIA THEY WOULD READ YOUR AD TOO, IF IT APPEARED HERE