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THIS WEEK
Ikj By
Earl
“Tige”
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The story of the Beautiful Maiden
and the Ugly Toad, as related by
Ollie Reeves in The Lionews:
Once upon a time there lived near
a deep forest, a beautiful maiden.
She loved nature and often strolled
into the forest to commune with
the breezes, flowers and fauna.
Seated one day by a sunlit pool,
she watched a great, green frog
emerge from the water and seat
himself on a lily pad. To her sur
prise, the frog spoke! “Sweet maid
en, I know you are surprised to hear
me speak. But I was once a prince
and lived in a great palace until a
jealous uncle invoked the aid of a
witch, who changed me into a frog.
If some one will take me and allow
me to sleep for one night in a bed
the spell will be broken.”
Frightened though she was, the
heart of the maiden was touched by
the appeal and she responded: “I
will take you home with me, poor
frog ... I mean sweet prince, and
you may sleep in my bed. Tomorrow
may bring fulfillment of your
dream.”
Next morning, as the bright sun
light streamed into the • bed-room
window of the maiden, the mother
of the maiden heard a scream.
Dashing into the room, she beheld
a handsome young man in daugh
ter’s bed. Then the maiden explain
ed her experience with the frog and
how she had saved him from the
horrible fate.
But the mother (just like nasty
old mothers can be at times) shout
ed: “Oh, yeah! That’s your story.”
For sheer heroism and bravery,
nothing yet has quite equalled the
brave stand of General Douglas
MacArthur and his soldiers on Ba
taan Peninsula. Time after time
General Lee fought against over
whelming odds during the late con
troversy between the states. Gener
al Custr fought until the last man
died at Big Horn Creek. George
Washington was inviting suicide
when he held his ground at Valley
Forge. “Old Hickory” Jackson,
with the aid of spears, sticks and
old guns, turned back the British
at New Orleans. Stonewall Jackson
Was a gallant figure as he drove
back the Yankees, repeatedly, though
outnumbered in manpower and guns.
All of these men and many more
have been chronicled in history. But
none of these figures and great
events hardly stack up with the gal
lantry and fortitude shown by Mac-
Arthur and his men as they lie in
their fox holes at Bataan and bring
disaster to the treacherous Japs.
The outcome of the battle is still
uncertain and MacArthur may never
win. But win or lose, his gallantry
in battle and his extreme fortitude
and stamina, now being shown at
Bataan, will never be forgotten and
will lead the list of great events
which have transpired in the annals
of America’s fighting forces. As long
as free men, who worship truth and
liberty, live, the expression, “He
Fought at Bataan,” will represent
the acme in bravery, heroism and
gallantry.
Os course, you’ve heard about the
fellow who bought fourteen cases of
that !b. o. soap and then discovered
that people just naturally didn’t
like him.
If Dick Rogers, the old trustee
man, doesn’t make some arrange
ments to get Blakely a high school
band to go along with that new
school building next year, we are
going to scratch his name “plumb
ofl”en” the ticket when he runs for
governor. Even if Gene Talmadge
is the opposition.
We had an awful dream last night.
Carter Davis and F. B. Martindale
left Monday for the army, together
with a group of other Early county
boys. We dreamed that we were a
Jap and we came face to face with
F. B. and Carter. When we awoke
we were praying that the ground
would open up and swallow us.
J. T. Jordan, our friend the old
“inshorance man,” seems to be the
first fellow who is really doing
something to conserve his tires. J.
T. bought himself a bicycle last
week and looks right nifty as he
pedals merrily around our town.
We imagine a fellow like “Booty”
Cox doesn’t even like what he eats.
“Booty” took the advice we gave in
this column recently and spent seven
buckets for him and the madam to
see “Hellzapoppin’.” “Booty” sat
right down in front, where he could
see everything, laughed until his !
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Page Noah! After two days and two nights of incessant rain, Chi
cago’s sewerage system was overtaxed in spots. Motorists were stalled
under viaducts, and some intersections were impassable. A coast guard
crew, transported to the scene by truck, rescued nine persons marooned
in an underpass. Here the crew is taking one of them off his stalled
automobile.
e $60,000,000 Blaze Razes ‘Normandie’
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An aerial view of the $60,000,000 French superliner, Normandie, re
cently re-named the U. S. S. Lafayette, is shown as smoke poured out
from its interior at her berth in New York harbor. Fire boats poured
tons of water into the burning vessel, which finally capsized. There
were 300 sailors, 400 coast guardsmen and 800 workmen aboard when the
fire broke out. The navy took over the Normandie last December 16 for
conversion into a naval auxiliary.
THIS WEEK
IN THE WAR
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enemy barges destroyed.
NAVY—
Navy Secretary Knox said the
Navy, operating over three-fourths
of the globe under the heaviest
burden in its history, must now pro
tect U. S. shores and coastal com
merce, strategic areas vital to our
defense, the American Republics,
and the flow of supplies to Great
Britain. It must check Japanese
aggression until “we can muster our
forces and send it hurtling back
whence it came.” The Navy an
nounced launching of a battleship,
four destroyers and a submarine
chaser. The Navy said 1,000 Naval
and Marine Corps officers and en
listed men and 1,200 civilians in the
Pacific war area presumably were
taken prisoners of war by the Jap
anese after December 7. The Port
land, Ore., recruiting office topped
all others in January with 114 en
listments for each 100,000 persons
in its area. The nation’s schools
started work on a program to make
500,000 accurate scale models of
United Nations’ and enemy war
planes for U. S. Naval, military and
civilian defense forces.
The Chief of Naval Operations
ordered representatives of local Na-i
val District Commandants to arrange
with ship owners to do preliminary
work when ships are in port loading
or unloading to speed arming of
American merchant vessels. The
House passed and sent to the Sen
sides hurt, and even danced with a
chorus girl, and then came home and
said that we owed him the price of
two tickets because the show was
no good. What are you gonna do
with a fellow like that? We had seen
it before and liked it even better
this time, despite the fact that cer
tain scenes had been deleted.
It just occurred to us that if an
enemy should decide to bomb Blake
ly, he -could save his bombs and not
waste them on the churches. Be
cause he’s not apt to find many peo
ple there.
“Have you noticed that ladies*
stockings are going up?” inquires
“Country” Ham in his column in the
Statesman, which is about the only
readable thing in that great publica
tion. Why, no, we haven’t. In fact,
we don’t know any ladies that inti
mately.
F.ART.Y COUNTY NEWS. BLAKELY. GEORGIA
ate the War Appropriation Bill pro
viding nearly four billion dollars to
expand the merchant fleet. The Sen
ate passed a bill authorizing an ad
ditional $100,000,009 appropriation
for expanded Navy manufacturing
and production facilities.
RATIONING—
Price Administrator Henderson
announced three consumer forms for
' sugar rationing are expected to be
i printed and distributed by Marqh 7.
iHe said there will be two registra
tions for rationing cards, one for
' housewives and another for small
' commercial users. Petroleum Coor
-1 dinator Ickes said nation-wide ra
' tioning of petroleum products may
!be necessary if other methods fail
Ito prevent shortages on both coasts.
He announced regulations governing
sales of fuel oil to all East coast
consumers to keep stocks at a rea
sonable minimum and to prevent
hoarding. The Justice Department
said it is prepared to prosecute all
violators of wartime industrial reg
ulations including priorities, alloca
tions, rationing and price control.
PROTECTION FROM
SABOTAGE—
President Roosevelt authorized the
Secretary of War to move out of
vital defense areas any persons be
lieved inimical to the U. S. war ef
fort—citizens and aliens alike. At
torney General Biddle said the FBI
has apprehended almost 4,000 alien
enemies since the outbreak of the
war. Approximately one-third of
these are Japanese from California,
Oregon and Washington.
PRIORITIES AND
ALLOCATIONS —
The WPB froze all stocks of
new mechanical refrigerators except
those in the hands of retailers, in
preparation for conversion of this
$280,000,000 industry and its 36,-
000 workers to war production. All
refrigerator production will end
April 30, the Board said. It also as
sumed full control of the entire
1942 raw cane sugar supply, curtail
ed use of critical materials in man
ufacture of all musical instruments,
and restricted use of natural gas.
Read the ads in The News.
BLAKELY CHAPTER 44 R. A. M
Blakely Chapter 44
W Royal Arch Masont*
meets on the seconc
and fourth Monday
nights of each month i
5t 8 o'clock. Visiting
companions invited.
W. P. Smith,
High Priext
J. G. Standifer,
Secretary.
New Assignment
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Maj. Gen. George H. Brett, chief
of the U. S. army air corps, has
been named second in command to
General Waveli as deputy supreme
commander of the United Nations*
forces operating in the southwest
Pacific.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION BY
GUARDIAN TO SELL REAL ES
TATE FOR REINVESTMENT.
Luther McKinnon, guardian of
Ruby Harrison Boyett, Olivia Harri
son Neuman, and Rufus Harrison,
minors, gives notice that he will ap
ply to the Honorable C. W. Worrill,
Judge of the Superior Courts of the
Pataula Circuit, at 10:00 A. M., on
the 28th day of February, 1942, at
Chambers at Cuthbert, Georgia, to
sell at private sale the following de
scribed property, to-wit:
A three-twentieths (3-20) undi
vided interest in and to 107%
acres of land, more or less, off the
west side of lot of land No. 181
in the 28th District of Early
County, Georgia, known as the
Sam Harrison (or Pheraby Harri
son) Place in Early County, Geor
gia. Bounded on the north by
lands of E. Hilton estate; on the
west by Jeffry Harris lands, on
the south by lands of Henry
Brown, and on the east by lands
of Luther Tully and lands of J.
E. Chancy.
and reinvest the proceeds because
of the small income of said wards’
property sought to be sold.
This 3rd day of February, 1942.
LUTHER McKINNON,
Guardian of Ruby H. Boyett,
Olivia H. Neuman, and Rufus
Harrison, Minors.
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R o i Defense j Ol
{Strategically spotted along our coasts...
on far-off island possessions . . . are scores of “plotting
rooms”—nerve centers of defense against attack. Here, in
formation of approaching enemy planes is received and in
stantly Hashed to authorities in areas affected.
On home fronts, too, industries and citizens are on the
alert against unscrupulous individuals or small groups whose
lawless conduct constitutes another, equally-challenging peril
to our American way of life.
Typical example of this vigilance is the Self-Regulation
program of Georgia’s $10,000,000 beer industry. When this
Committee finds unlawful conditions at a retail outlet, action
starts. Unless the place immediately cleans up, it is turned
over to the authorities to close up.
Only the reputable beer retailer deserves
reputable patronage. That’s how YOU can help.
brewer£&beer distributbrs
JUDGE JOHN S. WOOD, State Director
532 Hurt Building • Atlanta, Georgia
Published in Cooperation with the Brewing Industry Foundation
Don’t Guess at the Weight of Your
'SCRAP IRON—
ITS VALUABLE
We Weigh and Pay Highest Market Price.
We Buy and Sell Used Tires
J. W. ALLEN
NEAR DEPOT
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