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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. w I; ® ■fr, ; 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— S-A-V-E : J r A 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. FIRST STATE BANK j z BLAKELY, GEORGIA I 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 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.