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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXI }> NO. 29
GEORGIA STATE
GUARD HERE
SEEKS RECRUITS
Please consider this notice an invi
tation to investigate the opportuni
ties for service in the Georgia State
Guard.
Enlistments of worthy male citi
zens between the ages of 19 and 50
years for service wholly in Early
county are open and will be consider
ed by officers of this unit on Tues
day and Thursday nights at 9 o’clock
at the City Hall.
The State Guard is so organized
that members cannot be ordered out
for service beyond county lines, and
resignations may be offered at any
time a member is unable to serve
as was believed. The State Guard
affords Early County its only mili
tary organization for civil defense
to be available for the duration of
the war, and is comparable in every
general respect to the
Guard heretofore available for
emergencies arising within the coun
ty-
The State Guard not only affords
an avenue through which men who
cherish their families and posses
sions may protect themselves and
their fellowmen, but it also affords
men awaiting draft sendee an oppor
tunity to learn many of the rudi
ments of military service, thus his
chances for advancement when in
ducted into the armed forces of the
nation.
You are cordially invited to in
vestigate the opportunities and at
tractions of the service of the State
Guard. Remember Pearl Harbor.
Keep ’Em Flying.
STATE GUARD PUBLIC
RELATIONS OFFICER.
D. A. R. MEETING
AT CITY HALL THIS
AFTERNOON 5 O’CLOCK
The February meeting of the
Ph ter Early Chapter Daughters of
the American Revolution will be held
this (Thursday) afternoon at five
o’clock, at the city hall, to which the
public is cordially invited.
The theme of the meeting will be
National Defense, and it is an
nounced that 0. R. Brooks, captain
of the Eary county State Guard,
will be the principal speaker.
Take the Stairs at
Weaver’s and Save
You go up-stairs but you get lower prices
Hundreds of items priced C-H-E-A-P
Men’s Overalls, worth $1.39, only 98c
$1.98 value Men’s plain toe Work Shoes $1.48
$1.19 ladies’ Full Fashioned Hose, pair.. 75c
Boys’ 8-oz. Overalls, sanforized,
$1.39 value 98c
One table 80x80 Prints, new patterns,
yard 20c
$2.49 Men’s Dress Pants reduced to $1.39
19c value Ladies’ Ribbed Hose,
special price 10c
One table Broadcloth and Linene, yard... 14c
35c Men’s Work Caps priced at 25c
One table $2.95 val. Ladies’ Shoes, pair SI.OO
$2.95 Comforts, close out price $1.69
One rack Ladies’ $2.95 Dresses reduced
to 39c
MAKE WEAVER’S YOUR
SHOPPING HEADQUARTERS
T. K. Weaver & Co.
Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
Conntg
EARLY COUNTIAN
TAKEN PRISONER
AT WAKE ISLAND
The war came right to Early
county’s front door last week. Henry
C. Harrell, civilian worker on Wake
Island, has been reported a prisoner
of the Japs. Young Harrell was em
ployed as cook for a construction
company on Wake Island, having
gone there last September after serv
ing two years with the Civilian
Conservation Corps.
Harrell is a son of W. H. Harrell,
of R. F. D. No. 1, Bluffton, Ga. The
Harrells lived at Hilton last year
and were residing there when young
Harrell went to work on Wake Is
land. Mr. Harrell said that he had
not seen his son since July, 1940,
when he joined the GCC. Later he
was transferred to Enterprise, Ore
gon, where he was located when he
joined up with the construction out
fit which went to Wake Island. He
is 23 years of age, and one of six
children. He has an older brother
in the army at Fort Benning. Mr.
Harrell last heard from his son in a
postal card marked December 27.
Wake Island is the tiny little dot
in the Pacific which was subjected
to such a terrible attack by the
Japenese in December. This is the
island where it was reported that U.
S. Marines fought so bravely, not
giving up until almost every man
had been killed or captured.
(Note: Since the story above
broke, the American Red Cross re
ports that all Americans held pris
oners by the Japs are being well
cared for, getting the same food the
Jap soldiers receive, and are being
well-treated.)
RED CROSS ROLL CALL
(Additions to Previous Reports)
Colored Members: Exer Hightow
er, Corrie B. Hightower.
War Fund (Colored)
Jack Slaton $2.00
Johnnie B. Ross 1-00
George Brown 1.00
Jerusalem School 1-30
St. Maryland School .55
Piney Grove School .55
Deal School 1-00
Hartley’s Gift School 1.00
Total $8.40 •
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1942.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead,”
Secretary of War Stimson told his
press conference this nation is con
fronted with a situation in which we
cannot “buy our way out or pro
duce our way out,” and the only
way left is to “fight our way out by
intelligent offensive action.” Every
effort is being made to build power
ful armed forces, he said, and when
conditions warrant, they will “seize
every opportunity” to strike at the
enemy. In the meantime, the U. S.
must be prepared to take sporadic
attacks along its coasts, Mr. Stimson
said, because “if we scatter our
forces for the defensive, it is the
surest way to defeat.”
President Roosevelt told his press
conference that under certain condi
tions enemy planes could bomb cit
ies as far inland as Detroit, or ene
my ships could shell New York City.
Congress completed action on the
$100,000,000 appropriation for the
Office of Civilian Defense, to pro
vide fire-fighting equipment, gas
masks, protective clothing and
emergency medical supplies.
Assistant Secretary of State
Berle, speaking in Des Moines,
lowa, said the U. S. is determined to
fight an aggressive war, rather than
a defensive one, and “the fruits of
victory will be available to every
free people throughout the world.”
Mr. Berle said “we can no longer
think of ourselves as a supply base
. . . our work is more than that of
making guns and planes and tanks.
Winning the war is now America’s
job.” He said all signs point to big
offensives this spring against the
United States.
FOREIGN RELATIONS—
President Roosevelt announced a
new loan to Russia is planned be
cause the original Lend-Lease au
thorization of a billion dollars has
been obligated for future deliveries.
Commitments for making American
war materals available to Russia
were maintained up to schedule un
til December 7. Delivery of sup
plies for the Soviet Union slowed
down in December and January, he
said, but will be brought back up to
schedule by March 1. Under Secre
tary of State Welles said answers
from the Vichy Government to this
country in regard to French aid to
Axis forces in North Africa were
considered unsatisfactory. Mr. Welles
said the French ambassador had re
ported, however, no commitments
have been made by the French to
Japan in regard to Madagascar.
PRODUCTION, CONVERSION—
The War Production Board an
nounced war production of the “big
three” automobile companies—Gen
eral Motors, Chrysler and Ford—
will be running at a rate of almost
eleven billion dollars when they
reach peak production on present
orders. The companies will need
900,000 to 1,000,000 workers as
compared with a peacetime peak of
550,000. The Board said war ex
penditures authorized by Congress,
including pending bills and Lend-
Lease, totaled 145 billion dollars on
35,000 Tons of ‘Aid and Comfort’ for U. S.
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The U. S. S. Alabama, latest addition to Uncle Sam’s heavyweights
of the deep blue sea, is shown sliding down the ways after she was
christened at the Norfolk navy yard, Norfolk, Va. The Alabama is a
35,000-ton battle wagon, and will mount nine 16-inch guns. Her speed
will be more than 27 knots. She was launched nine months ahead of
schedule.
A WEEK OF THE WAR
February 15. Chairman Nelson is
sued a set of regulations regarding
the employment of dollar-a-year men
by the Government. The Army Ord
nance Department ordered ordnance
chiefs in the 13 districts of the U.
S. to provide engineering assistance
to small manufacturers whose plants
could be converted to arms produc
tion.
ARMY—
The House passed and sent to the
Senate the new 32 billion dollar War
Appropriation Bill which provides
23 billion dollars for the Army and
more -than 5 billion for Lend-Lease.
The Senate passed a bill to authorize
payment of allotments for one year
to dependents of military personnel
captured or listed as missing. Vol
untary enlistments in January total
ed 90,000 —double the highest World
War I figures. The Army announced
formation of the Ist Filipino Infan
try 'Battalion at Camp San Luis
Obispo, Calif., to provide loyal Fili
pinos a means of serving in the
U. S. armed forces and the eventual
opportunity of fighting in their
homeland. The War Department re
ported American pilots in the Chi
nese Air Forces “are giving Japan
ese airmen their worst licking of
the war . . . knocking down more
than 10 Jap planes for every loss”
of their own. The Army Signal Corps
is seeking civilian engineers to fill
radio and telephone positions in Civ
il Service jobs paying $2,600 to
$3,800 annually.
.Selective Service headquarters an
nounced new Army physical stand
ards for inductees will permit re
classification as Class 1-A of thou
sand's of men now deferred due to
teeth and eye defects. SS Director
Hershey instructed local draft boards
to defer labor leaders and Govern
ment labor liaison men to permit con
tinuance of their work in aiding
war production and to defer men
engaged in maintenance of essential
agricultural activities. Men regis
tered February 16 will be called for
induction only after local boards
have exhausted their existing lists,
he said. A lottery in March will de
termine the order of classification
and induction. Questionnaires on
vocational experience will be sent to
every registrant who has not yet
been called for service.
THE WAR FRONT—
Gen. MacArthur reported contin
uous fighting on the Bataan Penin
sula and battery attacks on the
fortifications throughout the week.
The Navy announced the destroyer
Shaw, previously reported lost at
Pearl Harbor December 7, arrived at
a U. S. West coast port, is being
repaired and within a few weeks
will be in service again on the high
seas. A U. S. tanker was torpedoed
in the Atlantic area, while U. S.
forces inflicted enemy losses which
included: 10 planes, one large and
one small enemy transport and one
5,000-ton cargo ship sunk, and two
(Continued on page 5)
DEATH CLAIMS
EDWARD L. FRYER
OF THIS CITY
Edward Lewis Fryer, 84, promi
nent and beloved Blakely citizen,
died at his home on Cuthbert street
Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
He succumbed to an illness of ten
days. The news of Mr. Fryer’s pass
ing occasioned widespread sorrow
among his many friends in this sec
tion of the state.
Born in Barnesville September 8,
1857, a son of Hardy Crawford Fry
er and Miranda Cobb Fryer, Mr. Fry
er came to Blakely with his parents
when only six years old, and had re
sided here for nearly 79 years. He
had an important part in the develop
ment of this city, which he greatly
loved. Active in the business, re
ligious and political life of the com
munity, he had at various times serv
ed on the Board of Commissioners
of Early county, the City Council
of Blakely, and the City Board of
Education. He was at one time presi
dent of the Farmers State Bank,
which he helped to organize, and was
a leading figure in promoting the
Early County Fairs, so popular here
some twenty years ago. He had en
gaged in various enterprises, includ
ing farming and livestock dealing,
and at the time of his death owned
and operated the Fryer Funeral
Home. A long-time member of the
Blakely Methodist church, he served
on its Board of Stewards for many
years.
Funeral services for Mr. Fryer
were held Sunday afternoon at four
o’clock at his residence on Cuthbert
street, with the Rev. W. F. Burford,
his pastor, officiating, assisted by the
Rev. S. B. King. Interment follow
ed in the city cemetery, where his
body was laid to rest beside that of
his wife, (Mrs. Eugenia Covington
Fryer, who died in 1925. The Fryer
Funeral Home, H. R. McKinstry di
recting, was in charge of arrange
ments and serving as pall-bearers
were J. E. Chancy, R. C. Singletary,
H. C. Fort, Grady Holman, C. S.
Middleton, W. C. Cook, John Scar
borough and A. T. Fleming. A great
concourse of friends, many of them
from out-of-town, attended the last
rites, and the floral offerings were
both profuse and beautiful.
Surviving Mr. Fryer are six chil
dren, E. L. Fryer, Jr., of Rome, Mrs.
Mabel Underwood, H. Crawford Fry
er, Mrs. Ellene Tarver, Lewis B.
Fryer and Carl S. Fryer, all of Blake
ly; and five sisters, Mrs. Clara But
ler, Mrs. Lena H. Livingston, Mrs.
Lillian Dußose and Mrs. Mayme
Stewart of Blakely, and Miss Emma
Fryer of Atlanta. Several grand
children and great-grandchildren also
survive.
Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall in
“Aloma of the South Seas” at the
Blakely Theatre Thursday and Fri
day.
A Good Habit is to—
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Most people learn to SAVE by SAVING. «
One of the most helpful incentives is to «
have a savings account at some good
bank like this. 1
You’ll be surprised how rapidly regular,
systematic savings mount up, especially z
when they are augmented by the liberal 1
interest we pay on Savings Account.
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REGULATIONS FOR
CAR RATIONING
ARE ANNOUNCED
Washington, D. C.—Farmers, if
they have no other means of trans
portation, defense workers, taxi op
erators, and essential traveling
salesmen will be eligible to buy
new automobiles under rationing
regulations announced this week.
Aside from these groups, the eligi
ble list follows in general that for
rationing of new tires, and includes
physicians, visiting nurses, firefight
ters, policemen, and others regarded
as essential to protection of safety
and health.
No one will be permitted to buy a
new automobile, however, unless the
local rationing board is satisfied that
the applicant’s present car is not ad
equate for the duties he performs.
Rationing is effective March 2 and
will givern the sale of the 340,000
new automobiles made available for
distribution this year.
The Office of Price Administration
directed that local rationing boards
require an applicant to prove his
need for a new car in the light of
conditions peculiar to his communi
ty, and officials predicted that, with
less than 10 per cent of last year’s
automobile production available for
sale during the next 12 months,
“many persons on the eligible list
will not be able to get a new car.”
Within these qualifications, the
following will be eligible for pur
chase certificates:
Physicians, surgeons, visiting
nurses, and farm veterinarians; cler
gymen; institutions needing ambu
lances; fire departments; police de
partments; other public health and
safety officials; mail carriers; taxi
operators; persons using cars in con
nection with “essential construction,
maintenance and repair services; ex
ecutives, technicians, engineers and
workers directly or indirectly con
nected with prosecution of the war;
federal, state, local and foreign
government officials engaged in du
ties directly connected with public
health, safety, or the war effort;
farmers lacking other means of
transporting produce or supplies to
and from market; traveling sales
men handling essential supplies, and
persons carrying newspapers for
wholesale delivery.
Under the “local conditions” tests,
OPA pointed out, in some communi
ties a local ration board might de
cide that the needs of defense
workers who must travel long dis
tances at odd hours to reach their
jobs outweighed the requirements of
some other class of eligibles:
On the other hand, in densely pop
ulated sections with adequate trans
portation, a local board might rank
most other classes ahead of defense
workers able to reach their plant by
bus or street car.
Approximately 140,000 new cars
will be made available for sale to
eligible civilian buyers and various
federal, state, and local agencies be
tween March 2 and May 31. State
automobile quotas will be announced
within a few days.
The rationing regulations do not
apply to approximately 135,000 new
automobiles which have been order
ed stored for sale in 1943 and there
after.
The regulations provided that per
sons who made down payments on
new automobiles prior to January 1
when all stocks were frozen may ob
tain refunds if they are unable to
meet eligibility requirements.