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Drive Under Way For USO Fund in Early County Mrs. W. R. McKinney, Early coun ty chairman, announced Wednesday that plans had been perfected for the U. S. 0. (United Service Organ ization) drive in Early county, and that the campaign would officially open Friday. Early county has been asked to raise $900.00 for this fund, which is used largely for wholesome recreation activities in the camps of the armed forces. The USO’s main objective is to help build and maintain the strong est fighting spirit among our men in uniform by showing them how much their friends back home appreciate what they are doing, said Mrs. Mc- Kinney, “and to make this apprecia tion tangible in the form of friendly hospitality and service in the sol diers’ and sailors’ off-duty hours.” The nation-wide quota for the USO fund is $32,000,000 and Early county is asked to contribute $900.00 of this amount. Mrs. McKinney announced the appointment of the following com mittee to make the canvass for the quota assessed this county: James B. Murdock, Jr., Bert Tarver, Earl “Tige” Pickle, Julius E. Beckham, S. G. Maddox, Robert Stuckey, Char lie Dunning, Henry Walton, Oscar Whitchard, J. H. Williams, W. L. Rhodes, H. C. Fort, W. C. Cook, Miss Mayme Perry, Miss Ina Claire God win, Miss Lillian Fryer, Miss Beth Fryer, Mrs. Grady Holman, Mrs. Grady Smith, Mrs. Ray Houston, Mrs. Raymond Singletary, Jr., Mrs. W. M. Barksdale, Mrs. Collier Gay, Mrs. Sam Stein. Blakely Telephone Co. Is Warned By Public Service Commission Mrs. Mattie Powell, owner of the Blakely Telephone Company, has been notified by a Public Service Commission engineer that she Is lia ble to a $5,000 fine for failure to abide by the Commission’s ruling of recent date when the Commission ordered the services of the Blakely Telephone Company improved. O. S. Vogel, the engineer, was writing upon instructions from Al lan Chappell, a member of the Com mission. Mr. Vogel pointed out in his letter that the Commission real ized the priorities that had been placed upon telephone equipment and how difficult it was to secure neces sary replacement parts, but the Com mission also believed that no real effort had been made to improve the system and service in Blakely. They also ordered Mrs. Powell to < show that she had filed a priority rat- ■ ing in an effort to get the new i switchboard which she said she had ordered. Unless the service is im proved or she can show that she is . making an effort to follow the Com mission’s order, Mrs. Powell was : told the Blakely Telephone Company < may be assessed the maximum fine | of $5,000. Recent complaints from ; local subscribes about the service caused Mr. Chappell to direct the t engineer to write the letter. ONLY ONE LYNCHING DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1942 ' Only one lynching occurred in the United States during the first six months of 1942, it is reported by F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., where records are compiled each year on | lynchings. The person lynched was a Negro, who was suspected of crim inal assault in the state of Missouri. No. 1 Saboteur * f '■ aKE w Edward John Kerling, alias Ed ward John Kelly, who was the ring leader of the fonr Nazi saboteurs who landed with a quantity of ex plosives from an enemy submarine near Jacksonville. Fla. All four of the wreckers were arrested, as were the four who landed at Ama gansett, L. I. c- Report of Local Rationing Board June 22 Thru June 30 The local Rationing Board reports certificates were issued for the pur chase of tires and tubes to the fol lowing for the period June 22 through June 30 (eligibility classi fication given): L. A. Smith: 1 truck tire, 1 tube; classification, E-9. S. Simmons: 1 trailer tire, 1 tube; ■ classification, Obsolete. J. J. King: 1 trailer tire, 1 tube; classification, Obsolete. Paul Brown: 2 truck tires, 1 tube; classification, E-9. W. C. Harris: 1 truck tire, 1 tube; classification, E-9. W. F. Turner: 1 truck retread; classification, E-9. ■G. Taliaferro: 1 truck tire, 2 tubes; classification, E-9. Early County: 1 truck tire; classi fication, E-2. C. B. Reese: 2 truck retreads; classification, E-9. Oree Thompson: 2 passenger car retreads; classification, B. R. McClellan: 2 trailer retreads; classification, B. J. B. MeMath: 1 truck tube, 2 truck retreads; classification, E-9. R. C. Singletary: 1 truck retread; classification, E-9. R. L. Thompson: 1 passenger cat retread; classification, B. A. 0. Chandler: 2 truck tubes; classification, E-9. J. B. Hasty: 1 truck tube; classi fication, E-9. •C. H. Baughman: 1 truck tube; classification, E-9. Albert Temples: 2 truck tubes; classification, E-9. Damascus Lumber Co:- 2 truck tubes; classification, E-9. J. G. Collins: 2 truck tubes; clas sification, E-9. Charlie Mulkey: 2 truck tubes; classification, E-9. M. D. Sasser; 2 truck tire; classi fication, E-9. Homer Reddick: 1 truck tire; clas sification, E-9. R. Grist: 1 truck tire; classifica tion, E-9. T. C. Hunt: 1 truck tube; classi fication, E-9. O. H. King: 1 truck tire, 1 tube; classification, E-9. S. P. Holland: 1 passenger car tire, 1 tube; classification, A. W. V. Miller: 1 truck tire, 1 tube; classification, E-9. NEW MEMBERS OF CLUB ARE PRESENTED ROTARY OBJECTS Five members of the Blakely Ro tary Club who have recently been received into the club were present ed framed copies of the Objects of Rotary at the regular meeting of the club held Friday at noon at the Early Hotel. The new members are Richard Grist, Ben Godwin, J. B. Murdock, Sr., H. Alfred Felder and W. F. Burford. The presentation was made by Rotarian Marvin Sparks, a charter member of the club, who gave an enlightening talk on the aims and objects of Rotary. Wayne Walker, of the gasoline tax collection unit of the state de partment of revenue, was a guest of Rotarian Dick Rogers and gave a short talk on the work in which his department is engaged. Other guests included Gene Clark, of Atlanta, a guest of Rotarian Robert Stuckey, and —. —. Tutwiler, also of Atlan ta, a guest of Rotarian Dunbar Grist. Friday’s meeting was presided ov |er by President James B. Murdock, Jr., with Mrs. Ben Haisten in charge of the musical part of the program. DAMASCUS METHODISTS TO HAVE REVIVAL Revival services are to begin at the Damascus Methodist church Sun day night, July 21, and continue un til the following Sunday night. The first service will be a layman’s service, with a visiting speaker. There will be no day service Mon day, but services will be held ‘Mon day night. All who enjoy a good revival, or need one, are invited and urged to attend. Good singers have a special invitation. Cemetery Cleaning Wednesday, July 22, 1942, has been set for the day to meet and clean off the cemetery and church grounds at Mt. Zion church, Clay county. Home coming day will be the first Sunday in August. —Cemetery Committee. FOR SALE— One bicycle, in good condition; 2 good tires, SIO.OO cash. O. R. BROOKS. FOR SALE—Good Jersey milch cow. See C. W. PULLEN. EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA Extend U. S.-Brazilian Agreement f wi as f - , ■>» —1 I? » J ' K ~ "ggyX I w I 11 * IL- > X.W’ImL ’W F / T/ 1 t? : J The United States has extended its stabilization agreement with Bra zil. This sonndphoto, taken in Washington, shows, left to right: Dr. F. D. Santos, director of exchange, Bank of Brazil (seated); Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Minister Fernando Lobo, charge d’affaires of Brazil; (standing) Harry D. White, director of monetary research of the U. S. treasury, and Enrico Penteado, financial attache of the Brazilian embassy. -Jtri 1 z JMlr Brig. Gen. James Doolittle, on his first official visit to New York since he led the bombing raid on Tokyo, was the guest of honor at a reception and dinner. General Doolittle is pictured here (center) with a flowered replica of the plane he flew when he bombed Tokyo. Eddie Rickenbacker (left) and Paul V. McNutt, head of the war manpower commission, look on. .. Twenty-four ‘Critical Occupations’ Stressed In Letter to Board Stressing the urgent need in the war program for skilled manpower as well as on the battle lines, Brig. Gen. Sinn B. Hawkins, State Direc tor of Selective Service, has advised local boards of twenty-four “critical occupations” in scientific and special ized fields to guide them in the clas sification of registrants in those pro fessions. These “critical occupations” are listed in a bulletin sent to all State Directors by National Headquarters, Selective Service System, which also specifically outlines the conditions under which students in such fields may be classified or deferred from military service as “necessary men.”, The list includes: Accountants;! Chemists; Economists; Engineers— Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Heating, Ventilat ing, Refrigerating and Air Condition ing, Marine, Mechanical, Mining and Metallurgical (including Mineral Technologists), Radio, Safety, and Transportation—Air, Highway, Rail road, Water; Geophysicists; Indus trial Managers; Mathematicians; Me teorologists; Naval Architects; Per sonnel Administrators; Physicists (in cluding Astronomers); Psychologists, and Statisticians. FARMERS SAVE MORE PIGS THIS YEAR THAN IN 1941 According to figures just made public by the Georgia crop reporting service at Athens, farmers of the state saved 16 per cent more pigs this spring than during the same pe riod in 1941. For the six months from Decem ber, 1941, to June, 1942, the esti mated pig crop was 1,137,000 com pared to 980,000 to June last year and 950,000 for the 10-year average from 1931 to 1941. The estimated number of sows farrowed in Georgia during the spring was 196,000, or 16 per cent above the 169,000 farrowing in the spring of last year. The total was also 16 per cent above the 10-year average. Pigs saved per litter this year was 5.8, the same as last year. Breeding intentions on Georgia farms indicate about 185,000 sows will be farrowed next fall. This would be 17 per cent above the 158,000 farrowed during the fall of 1941. FOR RENT Three apartments, I recently remodeled and repainted, [for rent. See MRS. W. A. FUQUA. lUOlfi BY JAIMtT CUPLEH- WOMAN of the Week: Mary An derson has a right to be pleased by the report that there are now about 20,000 women employed in the air craft industry and some 80,000 more in munitions plants. As director of the Women’s Bureau of the U. ,S. de partment of labor she began a year or so ago, through training and sur veys, to create important “woman I power” resources for war production. Now over 100,000 women through out the nation are making practical ly everything from sleeping bags to machine guns. And it seems likely that before long 100,000 women will be employed in the aircraft industry alone. * • * CLIPPER CREW: As chief stew ardess of the American Export lines plane which late last month com pleted its initial commercial flight from England, Dorothy C. Bohanna was the first woman member of the trans-Atlantic flight crew. A native of Brooklyn, she was formerly as signed to regular commercial flights. 1 SIGNS OF THE TIMES: A for mer nail polish factory is now mak ling bomber fittings . . . Actress Hel en Hayes revealed another talent when she reported for war work as a volunteer switchboard operator. '. . . Adeline Gray offered to make a jump to test a parachute made of nylon. » * ♦ SH-H! CAMPAIGN: So well were the plans to raid Japan guarded that Mrs. James H. Doolittle knew nothing of her husband’s flight to Tokyo until she accompanied him to I Wasnington, where he received the ; Congressional Medal . . . And the other day she urged delegates from 33 national women’s organizations to campaign against loose talk, idle ru mors and what she called “a whale of a lot of chatter.” • » » SUNNY SIDE UP: That job you have to drag yourself to on a Mon day morning could be a whole lot worse . . . Emil Davies, chairman of the London county council, told a group of American lawyers that the average London stenographer consid ers herself lucky if, after an air raid, she can still get running wa ter! Not everybody with a dollar to spare can shoot a gun straight—but everybody can Wl shoot straight to the bank and War Bonds. Buy your 10% every pay day. FARM FOR SALE 192 acres of land, four mule-farm in cultivation. Good land, good community, located seven miles from Blakely. Priced cheap for cash. W. L. RHODES, Blakely, Ga. EAR CORN for sale. See H. H. WILLIS. EVERY PENNY— You put in War Bonds and Stamps helps to drive a nail in Hitler’s coffin. It’s a job we all want to have a part in. A A A Bank of Early BLAKELY, GEORGIA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. All Deposits Insured up to $5,000 Friends I In spite of priorities on many im portant items, we are making every effort to take care of your HARDWARE NEEDS Come to see us—it is a pleasure to serve you. FARMERS HARDWARE CO. BLAKELY, GEORGIA f JIIY| j 11111 PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU SATURDAY, JULY 18th BLUE PLATE MAYONNAISE—Pt. jar 30c WATER MAID RICE—2-lb. pkg 20c VANILLA WAFERS —Full half lb. box 9c TOMATO CATSUP—I4-oz. bottle 10c DIXIE LYE i. 2 cans 15c GRAPE JUICE—Pint, Royal Purple 18c VINEGAR—GaIIon jug, distilled 29c MUSTARD—Quart jar 10c COOKING OlL—Gallon can $1.35 MY ROSE FLOUR—24-lb. bag 89c RED GRAVY HOG FEED—IOO-lb. bag 2.85 FULL CREAM CHEESE—Pound 29c SALAD DRESSlNG—Boyett’s Best, qt. __ 28c LIPTON’S TEA—% lb. and glass free __ 28c ALL 5c CANDY BARS 3 for 10c F %™ roß ’l Weaver’s Food 11l Market STAMPS Jkß C. D. Duke, Mgr. Blakely, Ga. I BLAKELY CHAPTER NO. 282 : ORDER EASTERN STAR : Holds regular meeting nights ev- 1 ery second and fourth Thuisday nights, 7:30 o’clock p. m. MRS. SALLY GOOCHER, Worthy Matron. Mrs. Nora Scarborough, Secretary.