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A WEEK OF THE WAR
Compiled by Office of War
mation.
President Roosevelt asked
to enact by October 1 legislation uft
der which he would be “specifically
authorized to stabilize the cost
living, including the price of all
farm commodities.” In a special
message to the legislators, the Pres
ident said “inaction on your part by
that date will leave me with an in
escapable responsibility to the peo
ple of this country to see to it that
the war effort is no longer imperiled
by threat of economic chaos. In the
event that the Congress should fail
to act, and act adequately, I shall
accept the responsibility, and I will
act.”
Mr. Roosevelt said the purpose of
the legislation “should be to hold
farm prices at parity, or at levels of
a recent date, whichever is higher.”
He said “at the same time that farm
prices are stabilized, wages can and
will be stabilized also. This I will
do.”
The President recalled that two
points of his original seven-point an
ti-inflation program required legis
lation—“an adequate tax program
and a law permitting the fixing of
price ceilings on farm products at
parity prices.” He said delay in
enacting this legislation “has now
reached the point of danger to our
whole economy . . . We cannot hold
the actual cost of food and clothing
down to approximately the present
level beyond October 1. But no one
can give any assurances that the cost
of living can be held down after
that date . . .” He renewed his re
quest of last April for an individual
net income limitation of $25,000.
THE WAR FRONT—
After ten straight raids without a
Joss, two U. S. flying fortress bomb
ers were reported as missing Septem
ber 7 following the greatest Ameri
can aerial attack of the war on
Nazi-occupied France. Three squad
rons of the big bombers attacked the
Airframe factory at Meaulte, near
Albert, for the second time, while a
fourth squadron bombed the St.
Omeir Airfield. In the raids the
fortresses destroyed five enemy
fighters and probably destroyed 13
more, and damaged another 25. The
bombers were escorted by 400 allied
fighters, three of which were shot
down.
Gen. MacArthur’s Australian head
quarters reported September 7 that
heavy allied bombing planes attack
ed a Japanese cargo ship southeast
of New Guinea which was believed
to have been attempting to supply
the trapped enemy forces in the
Milne Bay area. Australians were
mopping up the remnants of the
Japanese forces in this area. U. S.
Army Air forces in China, contin
uing their offensive, scored a direct
hit on Japanese military headquar
ters in Nanchang, sank at least seven
steamers, blasted a railway station
and warehouse and strafed a troop
train.
Two Navy vessels, the Destroyer
Blue and the Auxiliary transport
Colhoun, have been lost in action in
the South Pacific in the past two
■weeks, the Navy announced. There
were few casualties. The Navy al
so announced the sinking of nine
more United Nations merchant ves
sels by enemy submarines in the
Atlantic.
WAR AIMS AND FOREIGN
RELATIONS—
President Roosevelt, in an ad
dress broadcast to an international
student assembly in Washington and
short-waved to other parts of the
world, stilted the war is “going to
be long and hard and bitter (but)
this time we shall know how to make
full use of victory” to build a bet
ter world.
He said the government will see
to it that men returning from the
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Tomatoes—No. 2 can _________________________________ 2 for 19c
Aunt Jemima Grits ________________________________i— 3 pkgs. 25c
Armour Milk _________________ ___________________________ 3cans 25c
Vienna Sausage—Can 10c
Cooking Oil—Gallon ________________________ $1.35
Corn—No. 2 can 10c
Whole Wheat Flour—6-lb. bag, Blue Seal 35c
Pimentos—2-oz. jar 10c; 7-oz. jar 15c
Superfine Tiny Green Beans—No. 2 can 25c
Irish Potatoes—10 lbs. for ____________________ 35c
Life Buoy Soap 2 bars for 15c
Spaghetti with Meat and Tomato Sauce—No. 2 can 18c
Morton Iodized Salt 3 for 25c
FLOUR—All Enriched
OBELISK—24 lbs. $1.35
OBELISK—12 lbs. .70
BLUE BIRD—24 lbs. 1.15
BLUE BIRD—12 lbs. .60
JERSEY—24 lbs. 1.00
JERSEY—12 lbs. .55
SNOW BALL—24 lbs. .89
SNOW BALL—12 lbs. .45
SEVOLA JONES MARKET AND GROCERY
Phone 111 Blakely, Ga.
fronts can resume their interrupted
careers and education and that work
is provided for those willing and
able to work.
Reciprocal Lend-Lease aid to the
U. S. already covers a range as
wide as the requirements and geog
raphy of a global war, and is being
provided to this country on the
same basis as we are providing Lend
Lease help to other countries. the
Office of War Information reported.
Such aid is being provided without
dollar payment under the terms of
master agreements with countries
receiving U. S. Lend-Lease help. Re
ciprocal Lend-Lease aid “for Ameri
can forces abroad . . . ranges from
squadrons of spitfires to new fan
(belts for army trucks—from build
ing airdromes and Naval bases to
“D” ration chocolate bars and ba
nanas at the soldiers’ mess—from
convoy protection for U. S. troop
ships arriving in British waters to
filling the gas tanks of U. S. ferry
planes at airports newly laid out in
jungles or desserts,” the OWI said.
The President announced a special
U. S. technical nfission will leave for
Brazil soon to assist the Brazilian
government in expansion of its war
machine.
ARMY AND SELECTIVE
SERVICE—
Assistant Secretary of the War
McCloy said that between February
1 and August 30 U. S. Army planes
destroyed 234 Japanese planes American in
the air, compared with
losses of 109. This record, together
with the “flying tigers’ ” record of
218 Japanese planes destroyed as
against losses of 84, i^ due mainly to
the performance of the P-40 fighters,
he said. The Army said it has de
veloped a system of technical inspec
tion and maintenance supervision of
aircraft that is undoubtedly the fin
est in the world.
The War Department sent 36,000
dependents allowance checks total
ing $4,500,000 to relatives and de
pendents of enlisted men in the
four lower grades of the service.
Selective Service headquarters in
structed State SsS boards to place
their calls so that most men right
now will come from local boards with
the most single men or men with
dependents other than wives and
children.
NAVY AND SHIPBUILDING—
Navy Secretary Knox said the
submarine menace “is not by any
means solved,” but there has been a
“steady diminution of ships sunk off
our own shores.” A shipbuilding
compilation for Labor Day showed
174 launchings and 49 keel layings
during the day for many kinds and
sizes of combat and cargo ships.
The Maritime Commission reported
68 vessels were put into service in
August and there is “every indica
tion” the goal of three completed
ships a day will be reached, in
September.
RATIONING—
The War Production Board re
leased 50,000 of the refrigerators
which have been frozen in the bands
of dealers and distributors since
February 14 for sale to the general
public after finding that they were
not needed for “essential” purposes.
Another 50,000 will be released by
authorization of WPB for delivery
to dealers and transfer to ultimate
consumers. The WiPB food require
ments committee recommended to
the Board the following meat con
servation program: (1) Limitation
of the amounts of meat packers may
sell to the civilian trade so that each
civilian will be able to buy 2 1-2
pounds a week; (2) direct consumer
rationing to be started as soon as
possible—in about four months;
(3) an interim voluntary conserva
tion program.
PURCHASE OF WAR BONDS—
The Treasury Department an
nounced sales of War Bondsin Aug
ust totaled $697,255,000 in bonds
through the ten per cent payroll sav-
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
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Washington, D. C. (NWNS)—By
the end of the year it is agreed by
most experts here, we will either b?
in the throes of inflation or we >vill
have iron-bound controls operating
to prevent it.
The President has indicated that
he means to use all of the extraor
dinary powers he has during war to
keep the cost of living from rising
further and to stabilize wages in a
way that will put an end to strikes,
slow-downs and squabbles between
labor and industry. But his well
known sympathy with labor and his
unwillingness to interfere with its
so-called “rights” during the first
months of war, has led the public
to take a “let-see” attitude toward
his plans, no matter how reassuring
they may sound.
As for farm prices, it is well
known that the New Deal members
of the farm bloc, who are candi
dates for re-election in November,
will fight tooth and nail against any
plan which they think might antag
onize the farmers.
On the other hand, the, general
public's resentment over increased
food costs, over scarcities of food
caused by price problems rather
than by reduced farm production,
and over strikes in vital industries
may have reached the point where
it holds more weight politically
than the demands of labor leaders
and farm leaders. For, in addition
to the feeling of the people in gen
eral against the pampering of these
groups, there has been plenty of
evidence recently that many labor
ers and farmers themselves don’t
want special attention if it is going
to interfere 1 with our war program.
In addition to the necessity for
stabilizing wages and farm prices
if inflation is to be curbed, it is
generally recognized here that the
kind of tax program finally agreed
upon will do a lot toward encourag
ing or stemming inflation, The
treasury’s drastic proposal to have
a high tax on spending rather than
a sales tax would probably aid in
preventing inflation but might also
prove such a severe burden on some
income 1 groups that it would serious
ly lower the standard of living.
The plan for a tax on spending
has been offered in place of a sales
tax and is similar to a sales tax in
many respects. The chief difference
is that with a sales tax we would
pay a tax each time we made a pur
chase whereas with a spending tax
we would pay a lump-sum tax on the
money we spent over the period of
a year. People of small income,
who have difficulty as it is in saving
the money to pay a high income
tax, would find it much more diffi
cult to handle an additional lump
sum than to pay a penny or so tax
on each purchase.
It is expected that the final tax
program will include a plan for
employers to deduct a percentage for
taxes from all wages and salaries as
they are paid. Then, when the em
ployees file income tax returns,
they will pay the additional amount
they owe or ask for a rebate if too
much had been deducted from their
wages.
Much favorable attention has been
given to the Rum] plan, suggested by
Beardsley Ruml, treasurer of R. H.
Macy & Co. and chairman of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
which calls for putting taxes on a
pay-as-you-go basis instead of pay
ing taxes on the earnings of the
previous year. This plan would
tually cancel all taxes on 1942 in
comes but calls for the payment
1943 taxes as income is earned.
the Ruml plan the
; would receive just as much income,
but there would be this difference:
A man who would ordinarily pay
$100 tax in March, 1943, as
first payment on his 1942 income
ings plan, compared with 18,000,000
persons and $200,000,000 in July.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau an
nounced State War Bond quotas
for September, totaling $775,000,
000 for the country.
TAXATION AND PROFITS—
The Treasury Department recom
mended to Congress a reduction in
individual income tax exemptions to
$500 for each dependent. The treas
ury also proposed a ten per cent
tax on consumer spending and high
penalty rates for luxury spending.
At the request of Congress, the
Treasury outlined a sales tax levied
against the retailer who would pass
it on to the consumer. War expen
ditures in August were $4,900 mil
lion, more than three times greater
than the amount spent for national
defense a year ago. Income pay
ments to individuals in July were
21 per cent more than July, 1941,
and were at the record annual rate
■of $114 billion a year, the Commerce
Department said.
would pay the same $100 during the
first three months in 1943 but it
would be on money which he earned
during 1943.
What plan will finally be adopted
is anybody’s guess, but we can all
be certain that taxes next year—
after the ever-important election is
over—will be tremendously high and
will include practically everyone who
is earning any income at all.
The predictions of what is going
to happen in this country after elec
tion are almost frightening, but we
can be sure there will be a lot more
sacrificing than there has been to
date.
It is quite likely, after election,
that the selective service act will be
revised to take men under 20 years
old, that married men will he called
up rapidly, that new taxes will be
added to those to be included in the
first tax bill, and that many prod
ucts will be added to those now
rationed.
But the big improvement which
we can hope for after election is
that politics as usual, which was
supposed to be abandoned when the
war began, will actually be tossed
out of the window and that, for a
while, at least, country will get
precedence over party.
CITATION
GEORGIA—Early County:
John W. Taylor, guardian of the
person and property of Mrs. M. E.
Taylor (now deceased), represents
to the Court of Ordinary of said
county in his duly filed petition
which has been entered on record,
that he has fully administered and
accounted for said estate of Mrs. M.
E. Taylor, now deceased. This is,
therefore, to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they have or can,
why said guardian should not he
discharged from his trust and ad
ministration and receive letters of
dismission on the First Monday in
October, 1942.
This September 7th, 1942.
D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
CITATION
GEORGIA, Early County:
John W. Taylor as guardian of
the person and property of Miss N.
L. Taylor having filed his petition to
be allowed to resign his said trust,
and suggesting W. R. Taylor of said
county as a suitable person to be
appointed in bis stead: this is to
cite all persons, including kindred
and creditors, to show cause before
the Ciurt of Ordinary of said county
on the first Monday in October,
1942, why an order allowing sugh
resignation should not be granted
and why W. R. Taylor should not be
appointed guardian of the person
and property of Miss N. L. Taylor,
in the place and stead of the said
John W. Taylor. This September
7th, 1942.
D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
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JUDGE CHARLES W. WORRILL, of Cuthbert, renominated with
out opposition in Wednesday’s primary for another four year term.
He is completing his third term, having first been elected in 1930.
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