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A WEEK OF THE WAR
(COMPILED BY OFFICE OF
INFORMATION)
35-MILE SPEED LIMIT—
Rubber Administrator Jeffers,
ing on two important
tions of the Baruch Rubber
tee, directed the Office of
Transportation to limit
speeds to 35 miles an hour and
the Office of Price
to prepare to ration gasoline
out the nation on the same
that it is now rationed in the
The limitation on speed will
into effect October 1 for all
except those operated by
carriers. Common
and busses operated on
schedules over regular
be given until October 15 to
their schedules to the new top
Enforcement of the new speed
will be left up to the States for
present, ODT announced.
Nationwide gasoline
designed to reduce mileage so as
save rubber rather than
will become effective about
ber 22, Price Administrator
son reported. By that time
books will have been distributed
approximately 20 million
in the unrationed area. The
tire rationing program will be
grated with the new gasoline
tioning program and tires on
cars will have to be submitted
OPA for “on-wheel inspection
60 days to insure proper care.”
The OPA said fuel oil
in the 30 rationed East and
West states will have to get
this winter with one-third less
than usual because the
announced cut of one-fourth
not be sufficient.
On the basis of last winter,
ever—which was about 10 per
warmer than usual—the cut will
ly be about 26 per cent, the
said. The quota of new adult
cycles for rationing in Georgia
set at 88,000, compared with
September quota of 90,000.
THE WAR FRONT—
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
Australia reported September
. that U. S. Army flying
hit and probably sank a
merchantman in an attack on
enemy base at Rabaul. It was
fourth straight day of attack
the fortresses on the biggest
base in the Australian zone. In
previous raids the bombers
sank an 8,000-ton ship, and
direct hits on three
ships. Australian forces
by new artillery were reported
ing the Japanese from their
posts in the Owen Stanley
tains, 32 air miles from the
base at Port Moresby. Heavy
complicated the Japanese
problem.
The U. S. Marines in the
mons, sometimes outnumbered 10
1 by the enemy, have beaten off
attacks and their positions
secure, Marine Headquarters in
Islands announced.
and supplies have reached the
HECK THESE
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Friday & Saturday, Oct. 2-3
Green Giant English Peas—Size 303 18c
Thompson Seedless Raisins—7-oz. pkg. 5c
Karo Syrup, Red and White—lVk-lb. can 18c
Hurff’s Spaghetti—9-oz. can 6c
Armour’s Dried Beef—2-oz. can 18c
Crisco—1-Ib. can 30c
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Clorox—Pint 15c; Quart 25c
Sweet Mixed Pickles—1 gallon $1.25
Libby’s Deviled Ham—3-oz. can 15c
Salt—3 boxes for 10c
Tomatoes—No. 2 can —---------------------- 12c
Aunt Jemima Grits ---------------------------- 3 pkgs. 25c
Armour Milk --------------------------------- 3cans 25c
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Vienna Sausage—Can 10c
Cooking Oil—Gallon ---------------------------— $1.35
Corn—No. 2 can ---------------------------------------------- ________ 12c
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
SEVOLA JONES MARKET AND GROCERY
Phone 111 Blakely, Ga.
Throw Your Srcap Into the Scrap—Drive Next Week
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
rines. U. S. Army Bomber Command
er Eaker in London stated U. S. and
British Airmen will work together
in day and night raids to give Ger
many a long winter of bombing. He
said, “I believe it is possible to de
stroy the enemy from the air. There
is hardly a corner of Germany we
cannot reach.”
WAR PRODUCTION—
Martime Commission Chairman
Land, in a progress report to the
President, said that from September
27, 1941, through this month deliv
eries of completed ships will total
488, aggregating about 5,450,000
deadweight tons. “September de
liveries to date and those scheduled
to October 1 total 90 ships of ap
proximately one million deadweight
tons, an average of three ships a
day . . . schedule deliveries for the
remaining three months of 1942
should bring Us to the 8,000,000,
ton goal of your directive,” Admiral
Land told the President. He also
said the 1943 directive of 16,000,
000 deadweight tons “appears rea
sonably certain of accomplishment.”
War Production Chairman Nelson
said “right now approximately 40
per cent of our entire production is
going for war. By the middle of
next year that proportion has got to
be around 60 per cent.” WPB Vice
Chairman Knowlson said at present
war production is three and one
half times that of 10 months ago.
“We’re beginning to recognize the
truth of the situation, to know we’ve
been behind the eight-ball,” he said.
TRANSPORTATION—
WPB Chairman Nelson directed
the Office of Defense Transportation
to set up a priorities system govern
ing movements and use all tank cars,
with priorities to be given, first, td
shipments for the Army, Navy, Mari
time Commission and the Lend
Lease Administration; second, to 390
specifically listed chemical foods and
other essential products; and, third,
to petroleum and petroleum prod
ucts into the Eastern shortage area.
The ODT said congestion on rail
and bus lines over the week-end is
still growing. Weekly passenger
travel must be shifted from the week
end to the middle of the week by at
least another 8 per cent, the Office
said.
FOOD REQUIREMENTS—
Agriculture Secretary Wickard
said that unless the nation acts
promptly and with energy “our food
situation will become serious . . .
our supply is vapidly diminishing”
He outlined a six-point program to
help alleviate the farm labor short
age. included were proposals to
retain on farms as many as possible
of the experienced managers who
undestand year-round farm opera
tion, to transport workers to farms,
and to use greater numbers of wom
en and young people on farms. He
estimated agriculture w’ould lose
1,000,000 workers between July 1,
1942, and July 1, 1943, if an 8,000,
000 man army is mobilized by the
latter date.
In order to implement the war
time • meat program, the WPB f-ood
requirements committee: (1) placed
the limit of total packer-deliveries
during the last quarter of 1942 at
the following percentages of such
deliveries during the final quarter of
1941—beef and veal 80 per cent,
lamb and mutton 95 per cent, and
pork 75 per cent. The committee
asked all civilians to hold their meat
consumption to 2 1-2 pounds per
person per week. '
PRINTING PRICES—
The OFA set ceiling prices for the
tales of 175 printed products, as
Well as for the printing services
Used in producing them. The reg
ulation covers services for and sales
of such articles as greeting cards,
loose-leaf binders and fillers, tablets,
pads, composition books, etc. The
articles and services listed by the
regulation are exempt from all price
control, however, when sold by
printers whose total gross sales in
1941 of printing and printed paper
products were $20,000 or less. The
regulation covers about 25 per cent
of the industry’s $2,500,000 volume
of business.
THE ARMED FORCES—
The army issued a call for 3-A
men up to and including the age of
44 to volunteer for antiaircraft
officer training. A nationwide quota
of 500 such candidates per month
Was set for the antiaircraft school
at Camp Davis, N. C. Selective
Service local boards will supply de
tailed information, the Army said.
War Secretary Stimson announced
the Canadian-Alaskan military high
way will be ready for use about De
cember 1, several months ahead of
schedule. Ballot applications have
been sent to soldiers overseas and in
army camps in this country, the War
Department announced. The De
partment said members of the Army
Nurse Corps will not be permitted to
resign because of marriage unless
replacements are available.
Navy Secretary Knox announced
a new navy recruiting drive, ending
Otober 3, in connection with the
launching of the new aircraft car
rier Lexington September 26. A new
training station for Seabees (Navy
Construction Battalions) aeommo
dating 26,000 officers and men and
constituting the Navy’s largest con
struction training station, will begin
operation about Ocober 15 on the
York River near Williamsburg, Va.
HIGH SCHOOL SORORITY
HOLDS INITIATION
Kappa Theta Sorority at the
Blakely High School held their init
iation last week and took in the
following girls from the junior class:
Misses Maxine Moody, Ruth Ann
George, Miriam Hooten, Betty Jane
Bryant, Audrey Mobley and Mary
Elizabeth Brooks.
BLAKELY CHAPTER 44 R. A. M
Biakely Chapter 44
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meets on the second
(*Oi and fourth Monday
nights of each moot!
at 8 o'clock. Visitin*
companions invited.
W. P. Smith,
\ High Priest
i_ J. G. Secretary. Standifcr,
MASONIC NOTICE
Magnolia Louge No
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ed Masons holds rev
m ular on the commun first and cationi tbire
Monday nights lr>
each mouth. The
time is 8 p. m. in the summer, 7:30
p. m. in the fall and spring and 7 p
m. during the winter. Visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to attend
J. T. JORDAN, Worshipful Master.
J. G. STANDIFER, Secretary.
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SCRAP I METAL BUY FOR LEGAL BLANKS
THE DEFENSE
PROGRAM
Chattel Mortgages Distress Warrants
set Will aside have Monday, a truck and Tuesday help Bills of Sale Dispossessory Warrants
and Wednesday for the pur- Warranty Deeds Installment Notes
other pose of metals picking for up the Iron national and j Rent Notes Forthcoming Bonds
defense. Will weigh and re- Promissory Notes Claim and Bond
turn pay. State Warrants Security Deeds
Every piece will go direct i Justice Court Summons Bonds for Appearance
to the defense program at Mortgage Foreclosure Typewriter Papers
once. Not any will be sold lo
cally or to independent foun- Bonds for Title Adding Machine Rolls
dry.
I am buying for Durham
Iron Co., of Bainbridge, a di
rect unit in the defense work. FOR SALE BY
List your Iron and Metals
and will get it one of the three News
days. J. W. ALLEN Early County
FhisWeek * * * in •WASHINGTON
Washington, D. C. (NWNS)—-Con
gress has had one of its busiest weeks
in many months on the bill to sta
bilize wages and farm prices and
when the senate tackled the problem
of putting through the biggest tax
bill in history.
It is not expected that food prices
will be reduced because of the anti
inflation measure, but there proba
bly will be no increase permitted on
foods excepting those few which
have been selling at unusually low
prices. The measure is expected to
put an end to strikes and prevent
demands for wage increases, al
though there are loopholes which
would lead to demands for higher
pay if the cost of living increases ap
preciably.
Whether the measure will freeze
prices and wages completely depends
entirely on the President, since “ad
justments” can be made by him if
he considers them necessary.
In addition to wage and price
stabilization, job stabilization is ex
pected to be insisted upon in the
next few months. One of the big
gest recent problems in war pro
duction is that of shifting men from
one plant to another in order to get
better wages. There have been in
stances, for example, where an air
plane factory which is short of men
Will raid another airplane factory to
take away men by offering higher
pay. In addition to this type of
piracy, it is natural that workers
themselves are on the lookout for
better jobs and make changes
whenever they see prospects of a
fatter pay envelope. This trend has
caused inefficiency and delays in
many factories.
To cope with this situation, two
steps already have been taken by
the government: (1) The War Man
power Commission, headed by Paul
McNutt, has ordered workers in the
non-ferrous metals and lumber in
dustries to obtain a “certificate of
separation” from the United States
Employment service before leaving
their jobs to take new jobs; (2)
President Roosevelt gave the War
Manpower Commission complete con
trol over 2,300,000 federal employ
ees so that the commission can trans
fer any of them to other duties,
either with the government or in
private industry.
These are the first two steps of
many which will probably be taken
in the next few months to see to it
that every man is doing the job
which makes him most useful to his
country. As a result of the occupa
tional questionnaires filled in by all
men up to the age of 65, the gov
ernment now has a complete record
of the abilities of each man and
will, when necessary, assign men to
jobs. With such a large number of
young men now in the armed forces,
and with more jobs to fill in factor
ies than we have ever had before,
the manpower problem is becoming
increasingly alarming." Because of
this, the right to take a job or leave
it, which has been such a cherished
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right in this country, may soon be
denied to all of us for the duration.
Another form of conscription,
which is being talked about here
more and more, is the conscription
of goods owned by the people. The
whole policy of the- administration
so far has been against such meth
ods, but the increasing need for
6uch things as scrap metal, rubber,
textiles and automobiles may bring
about a rapid change in this atti
tude.
One congressman already
written a bill which would give the
President power to order confisca
tion of our automobiles whenever he
considers it necessary—and the bill
provides for a fund of $5,000,000,
000 to pay us for the automobiles
taken.__ft is not expected that
bill, or any order calling for the
confiscation of automobiles, will
put through at present, but it is a
possibility. And the continued
of millions of pounds of
tires for unnecessary driving is
to hasten action.
What will happen about
biles, tires, gasoline
speed limits, etc., from now on
be in the hands of William M.
fers, president of the Union
railroad, who has been given
authority to direct our nation’s
ber program.
The failure of many towns
cities to do a successful job in
collection of scrap metal is also
to lead to some sort of
tion. It is vital that the steel
be kept going at full speed—and
this scrap can’t be obtained by
untary means, other methods
have to be adopted.
VICTORY FOOD SPECIALS
Friday and Saturday, Oct.2-3
STOCK THE PANTRY WHILE YOU CAN
LARD—Pure, 48- lb. can ________ $7.00
TISSUE—Fort Howard __ 3 rolls 25c
CORN—Fancy Country Gentleman, No. 2 can 15c
PEACHES—Sliced, 15-oz. tall can _________________ 10c
MEAL—Water Ground, peck ___________________________ ... 45c
LARD—Pure, 1-lb. pkg. 19c; 4-lb. pkg 75c
SYRUP—Cotton Club, gallon ___________________ 65c
PURE GEORGIA CANE SYRUP—Gallon 80c
POTATOES—No. 1 Irish ___ - 10 lbs. 35c
VICTORY SYRUP—Quart „ 30c; l/ 2 Gal. 50c
CORN FLAKES _________________ 2 pkgs. 15c
CHOICE MEATS
STEAK—Fancy Branded, lb. _______________ 40c
CHUCK STEAK—Lb. ___________________________ 30c
SMOKED SAUSAGE—Best quality, lb. 25c
PAN SAUSAGE—Mixed, lb___________________ 20c
PORK CHOPS—Lb. 35c
FISH—Trout, lb. _ _____ 25c; Mullet, lb___________ 12 X /2C
We Deliver Orders 50c or More
Ralph Scarborough
(In the Arcadia Market Location)
Phone 39 We Deliver
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Invest
A Dime Out of
Every Dollar in
11,S. War Bonds
Statement of the Ownership, Man
agement, Circulation, Etc., Re
quired by the Act of Congress of
August 24, 1912, and March 3,
1933, of Early County News, Pub
lished Weekly at Blakely, Ga., for
October 1, 1942.
Georgia—Early Clerk County: of the Superior
Before me,
Court of State and county aforesaid,
personally appeared A. T. Fleming, accord
who, having been duly sworn
ing to law, deposes and says that he
is the editor and business man
ager of the Early County News,
and that the foregoing is, to
the best of his knowledge and belief,
a true statement of the ownership,
management, etc., of the aforesaid
publication for the date shown in
the above caption, required by the
Act of August 24, 1912, as amended
by the Act of March 3, 1933. embod
ied in section 537, Postal Laws and
Regulations: addresses
1. That the names and
of the publisher, editor, managing
editor, and business managers Blake- are:
Publishers—A. T. Fleming,
ly, Ga.; W. H. Fleming, Blakely, Ga.
Editor—A. T. Fleming, Blakely,
Ga.
Business Manager—A. T. Flem
ing, Blakely, Ga.
2. That the owners are:
A, T. Fleming, Blakely, Ga.
W. H. Fleming, Blakely, Ga.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent
or more of total securities are:
Miss Lucille Barksdale, Blake
ly. Ga. A. T. FLEMING,
Editor & Bus. Mgr.
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State of Georgia, County of
Early, ss.:
Sworn to and subscribed before
me, this 1st day of October, 1942.
BERT TARVER,
Clerk Superior Court,
Early County, Ga.
(My commission expires
Dec. 31, 1944.)