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VOLUME LXXXIII ) NO. 17
Success to AI1 Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead,”
S. C. MARLOWE
PASSES AT HOME
IN THIS CITY
Succumbing to an illness of four
months' duration, S. C. Marlowe, 85,
aged resident of this city, died last
Saturday night at 10 o’clock.
Funeral sendees were held Sun
day afternoon at 2 o’clock at his
residence on Lee street, with the
Rev. S. B. King officiating. Inter
ment was in the city cemetery, with
Minter, Fellows & Forrester Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements,
and Oscar Whitchard, J. B. Mur
dock, Willie Jim Hammack, Millard
Arnold, E. L. Hartley and J. W.
Bonner serving as pall-bearers.
Mr. Marlowe was a native of Ge
neva county, Ala., and had resided
here for about ten years. He was a
member of the Baptist church.
The Mends he had made during his
residence here are saddened by his
passing.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lillie
Renna Marlowe; two children, A. D.
Marlowe, of Thomaston, Ga., and Mrs.
J. 0. Brown, of Blakely; two broth
ers, L. F. Marlowe of Hartford and
W. D. Barlowe, of Bonifay, Fla., and
two sisters.
LOCAL RATION BOARD
OFFICE TO CLOSE AT
5 P. M. EACH DAY
The Chairman of the local War
Rationing Board announced this
week that, effective next Monday,
December 14, the local office will be
closed each afternoon at 5 o’clock.
This earlier closing hour, arranged
at the request of the state OPA
headquarters, will permit the office
personnel to have more time to com
plete office detail work and elimi
nate some of the extra time they
have had to put in at night. The
office will be opened at 9:30 o’clock
each morning.
Those having business with the
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FROM THE CHRISTMAS STORE
FOR HER—
LINENS, all kinds
Hull Pottery
Electric Lamps
Stationery
Photo Albums
Compacts and Jewelry
Gloves - Handkerchiefs
Pajamas - Gowns
Panties - Slips
Bed Jackets
Robes - House Coats
Hosiery - Bed Room Shoes
FOR HIM—
Ties by Botany and Nor-East
Manhattan Shirts
Silk Ties by Manhattan
Leather Coats - Jackets
Fitted Dressing. Kits .
Socks, plain and fancy
Hickok Jewelry
Belts and Suspenders
Smart Styled Gloves
* Manhattan Sweaters
Pajamas - Robes
Replogle Globes
Free Gift Wrapping Service
AH of Weaver’s Gifts may be attractively Christmas
Gift Wrapped at no additional charge.
l T. K. Weaver & Co.
“Blakely’s Only Complete Store”
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C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1942.
18-YEAR-OLDS
MUST REGISTER
THIS MONTH
By proclamation of the President
of the United States, men who have
reached their 18th birthday must
register for military service during
the month of December, and failing
to do so, will be subject to a fine and
imprisonment as prescribed by law.
Clerk of Draft Board Alex Cars
well has announced that registration
for these youths will take place at
the local board office in the court
house. As set forth in the Presi
dent’s proclamation, the following
age groups are required to register:
Those who were born on or after
July 1, 1924, but not after August
31, 1924, shall be registered on any
day during the week commencing
Friday, December 11, 1942, and
ending Thursday, December 17,
1942.
Those who were born on or after
September 1, 1942, but not after
October 31,. 1924, shall be registered
on any day during the week com
mencing Friday, December 18, 1942,
and ending Thursday, December 24,
1942.
Those who were born on or after
November 1, 1924, but not after
December 31, 1924, shall be regis
tered on any day during the period
commencing December 26, 1942, and
ending Thursday, December 31,
1942.
During the continuance of the
present war, those who were born on
or after January 1, 1925, shall be
registered on the day they attain
their eighteenth anniversary of the
day of their birth.
Cyclamen, Begonias, Violets and
Azaleas at GREENBRIE RFLORAL
COMPANY.
Board are asked to co-operate by
calling during the above hours, for
the doors will be closed promptly at
5 in the afternoon.
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mm Meet the People IX
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(Each week in this space will be presented a picture
and word portrait of someone whose name is news.)
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Leon Henderson
A WEEK OF THE WAR
COMPILED BY OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
PRODUCTION FOR WAR—
The OWI announced that the U.
S. in the year of 1942 will have pro
duced approximately 49,000 planes,
32,000 tanks and self-propelled ar
tillery, 17,000, anti-aircraft guns
larger than 20-MM, 8,200,000 tons
of merchant shipping, thousands of
anti-aircraft machine guns, and
thousands of scout cars and half-and
full-track carriers. Munitions and
war construction were “above the
most optimistic estimate of our
production possibilities a year ago,”
and food production—a large pro
portion of which was meat, milk,
eggs, and soy beans—was 12 per
cent above the previous year.
Expenditures for the year for mu
nitions and war construction will
total $47,000,000,000. In the first
10 months of 1942, more than $13,
000,000,000 were collected in taxes
and more than $33,000,000,000
through the sale of bonds and other
government obligations, Approxi
mately 17,500,000 people are now
employed in war work—compared to
7,000 a year ago—but in 1943 an
additional 5,000,000 will oe needed
for war woi’k and for the armed
forces. By March 15, 1942, the cost
of living had risen 15 per cent over
the end of 1939, but price regula
tion, instituted in April, held down
the increases in those prices subject
to control to 6-10 of one per cent as
of October 15.
REPORT ON PEARL HARBOR—
The Navy Department announced
that all of the eight battleships in
Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941,
were hit, seven of them temporarily
disabled and one, the Arizona, per
manently and totally lost. Those re
ported damaged had returned to the
fleet, while others critically damaged
are being repaired and will soon be
ready for battle action. Of the 202
U. S. naval aircraft based at Pearl
Harbor, 150 were permanently or
temporarily disabled. Army planes
destroyed totaled 97. As a result of
the Japanese attack, 2,343 officers
and enlisted men of the U. S. serv
ices were killed, 1,272 wounded,
and 960 are still reported as missing. [
The Navy estimates that 105 en
emy planes took part in the attack,
and that the enemy lost 28 aircraft
and 3 submarines of 45 tons each.
THE WAR FRONT—
Navy Secretary Knox told a press
conference that Japanese troops on
Guadalcanal may be running short
of supplies. The enemy’s attempt to |
land supplies and reinforcements on !
the night of November 30 was a i
complete failure, he said. At that I
time a U. S. naval task force inter-1
cepted and engaged Japanese troop j
transports and vessels and sank
nine ships—two large destroyers
or cruisers, four destroyers, two j
troop transports and one cargo ship I
—at a loss of only one U. S. cruiser.
The enemy will try again, Mr. Knox;
said, but the November 30 attempt! j
indicates clearly that the condition
of the Japanese on the island is j
becoming throughout acute. the Navy week communi-| reporte! |
ques island, j
170 Japanese killed on the
three planes downed and one cargo
ship hit. S. naval
The Navy reported five U.
transports were sunk by axis subma
rines during the occupation of North
Africa in the early part of Novem- j
ber, and during the operation three
other U. S. transports, one destroyei,;
and one tanker were damaged. Re
ports showed that 218 Axis planes i
•The personality of OPA chief Leon Hender
son is difficult for even his friends to define.
He is a combination of multiples and opposites.
He dresses sloppily, talks with brilliant pre
cision. He is a notoriously hard worker, but is
equally famous for his wit. Practical, fearless
and outspoken, he loves to live and, apparent
ly, lives to work.
•Henderson came to Washington eight years
ago and got a job with the NRA by outtalking
the late Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. He has been
a New Dealer ever since, although his basic
theory of price stabilization is opposed to the
direct control of business practiced by the
NRA. Fundamentally, he believes it is pos
sible to keep down the price of the finished
product by keeping down the price of the raw
materials of which it is made.
•Henderson’s day officially starts at 8:30, ends
at 7:00. But actually he starts earlier, works
later, and his six-day week frequently runs
well into the seventh. Over his door hangs a
sign reading, "Time is short.’’ Leon Hender
son makes the most of it.
and 10 tanks were destroyed and a
number of prisoners were captured,
with the Allies reporting 14 planes
missing and five lost.
In a daylight raid on Naples on
December 4 allied heavy bombers
successfully attacked docks and other
targets, scoring hits on one Italian
battleship and two cruisers.
The nation’s intelligence service
has estimated Japanese casualties
from the day of Pearl Harbor to
November 25, 1942, at 250,000 men
killed or permanently injured, with
naval losses representing about 10
per cent of the Japanese navy’s to
tal personnel. U. S. army and navy
losses in the same pediod number
about 50,000 men, killed or missing,
with naval losses representing about
one per cent of total U. S. naval
personnel.
AGRICULTURE
The 1943 food-for-freedom goals
are expected to cause some regional
changes in agricultural production,
as changes from the food produc
tion pattern throw sharp emphasis
on crops and livestock most essen
tial to war effort. All possible as
sistance, the Department of Agricul
ture announced, will be given farm
ers in meeting the record goals—
to ease the shortage of farm labor,
to support prices, to provide loans
and technical assistance—but crop
payments will be conditional on the
degree to which each cooperating
farm family carries out its individ
ual farm plan, with deductions for
overplanting of non-essential prod
ucts and for underplanting of essen
tial crop allotments and goals.
To provide labor for 1943 farm
production, WMC Chairman McNutt
announced a comprehensive pro
gram which will be worked out in
detail during the winter and launch
ed as soon as spring planting be
gins. The plant provides for the
transportation of mobile groups of
experienced farm workers, the
transfer of experienced operators
and workers from sub-standard
lands to productive areas, the ad
justment of farm wages in relation
to industrial wages, and a farm labor
training and management program.
Because of the “wide disparity” be
tween salaries and wages paid agri
cultural labor and those paid indus
trial labor. OES Director Byrnes
gave control over agricultural wages
to Secretary Wickard. The House
passed and sent to the Senate legis-
lation directing that farm wages be
included in calculations of parity
prices for farm products, defining
wages as those not only of hired
hands, but of operators and owners
as well.
RATIONING—
A system of .... rationing known
new
a< j the “point system,” will be used
with war ration book No. 2 to ra
tion certain commodities not yet
announced. The system will not
replace straight coupon rationing
of sugar, gasoline and coffee, as it
will be used only for groups of re
or similar commodities which
can be interchangeably used. Each
commodity is plentiful, a high point
value if it is scarce—and the govern
ment, to protect the supply of scarce
commodities, can lower or raise the
point-value of any commodity at
y time.
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SERIAL STORY IS
OMITTED THIS WEEK
The popular story, “Bombs Burst
Once, which has , been running se
in The News for several weeks,
j s omitted this week for lack of
S p f ace The next installment of the
will appear next , week. .
$1.50 A YEAR
MR. W. A. SCOTT
SUCCUMBS TO
HEART ATTACK
^Succumbing suddenly to a heart
attack, Mr. Walter Ace Scott, 80,
well-known and highly-esteemed citi
zen of Blakely, died Tuesday morn
ing at 9:45 o’clock.
Although not in robust health, Mr.
Scott’s condition was not thought to
be serious and he was awaiting the
arrival of a morning bus to go to
Brunswick to spend the Christmas
holidays when he passed suddenly at
a local filling station.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at hi*
home on River street, with the Revs.
W. F. Burford and S. B. King of
ficiating. Interment was in the city
cemetery, with Minter, Fellows &
Forrester Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements, and the following
serving as pall-bearers: Active, J.
W. Bonner, S. W. Howell, A. H.
Gray, Bruce Lindsey, Robert Royals
and J. E. Beckham; Honorary, J. L.
Houston, J. C. Loyless, R. C. Single
tary, J. E. Houston, B. B. Godwin,
Collier P. Gay and Roy Alexander.
Mr. Scott was a native of South
Carolina, where he was born Novem
ber 28, 1862. He had been a resi
dent of Blakely for 41 years, engag
ing in various activities. He was at
one time a member of the city police
force. He had many friends who
Were shocked and saddened by his
sudden passing.
Survivors include two children,
Mrs. E. H. Diemmer, of Brunswick,
and L. R. Scott, of Pennsylvania.
MAYOR SINGLETARY
URGES CONSERVATION
OF ALL TIN CANS
Mayor R. C. Singletary this week
issued the following proclamation in
regard to the conserving of tin cans
as requested by the War Production
Board:
A Proclamation
Whereas, The U. S. Government
has requested that all tin cans
be saved; and
Whereas, It is imperative that the
Government be furnished with the
necessary tin for manufacture of
war implements;
Therefore, I, R. C. Singletary,
Mayor of the City of Blakely, do
hereby request that every person co
operate fully in this request, careful
ly preparing these cans as requested
by cutting both ends from the cans,
washing the cans thoroughly, and
then pressing flat the cans, placing
them away for return to your gro
ceryman or delivering them to some
convenient location to be selected
later.
This December 9, 1942.
R. C. SINGLETARY,
Mayor City of Blakely.
Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone
in “The Courtship of Andy Hardy,”
at the Blakely Theatre Thursday
and Friday.
Reads the ads in The News.
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LEGIONNAIRES
GIVE BANQUET
TO DRAFT BOARD
Chief Horrocks, of the U. S. Naval
Recruiting Station, Macon, was the
principal speaker here last Friday
night, when the local American Le
gion Post was host at a banquet
given in honor of the local draft
board in recognition of the valued
work it is doing : n the war effort.
Chief Horrocks gave an interest
ing story of the U. S. Navy and of
the part it is playing in the present
war. He told how the Navy had
grown since the outbreak of war
last December. His talk was warmly
applauded upon its conclusion.
Rev. T. B. Mellette also spoke on
Friday night’s program and lauded
the efforts of the draft b<»ard.
Judge J. W. Bonner acted as master
of ceremonies and introduced the
honor guests, J. B. Jones and Grady
Holman, Sr., board members, and
Alex Carswell, clerk. The third
member, H. C. Haddock, of Damas
cus, was not present. Chief Special
ist Hollis Sanford, of the Albany
Navy recruiting station, was also in
troduced. Legionnaire 0. R. Brooks
received a round of applause when
Judge Bonner introduced him and
told how successful Mr. Brooks had
been in getting Early county to
reach its quota in the November
bond drive.
Entertainment for Friday night’s
banquet was by Miss Evelyn DuBose,
high school music teacher, and two
of her pupils, Miss Carolyn Holman,
who gave several numbers on the
accordion, and Billie Cook, who ren
dered three saxophone selections.
The delectable turkey dinner was
prepared and served by Mrs. Luther
Robinson, president of the Legion
Auxiliary, and a committee composed
of Mrs. W. C. Cook, Mrs. D. D.
Knighton, Mrs. Alto Warrick, Mrs.
O. L. Hooten and Mrs. Iva Herring.
Clubhouse decorations were by Mrs.
Robinson and Mrs. W. A. Fuqua.
NEW ROTARY MEMBERS
PRESENTED FRAMED
OBJECTS OF ROTARY
Framed copies of the Rotary Ob
jects were presented at last week's
meeting of the Blakely Rotary Club
to the following members recently
inducted IvArdock, into the club: “Kenney”
Ben Godwin, Alfred Fel
der, “Bill” Burford, Richard Grist
and Ed Sealy. The presentation was
made by Rotarian Marvin Sparks,
who gave an interesting talk on the
history of the Rotary movement and
of its growth and purposes.
Rotarian Ed Sealy, attending for
the first time as a member, was for
mally welcomed into the club by
President James B. Murdock, Jr.
Guests at Friday’s meeting includ
ed Lt. and Mrs. James Renfroe, of
Columbus, guests of Rotarian Ben
Godwin.