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! EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXIII > NO. 23
“KHAKI WACKI”
TO BE PRESENTED
HERE FRIDAY
Citizens of this town and county
will be given a real treat next Fri
day, 4: and 8:30, when forty
soldiers from the Basic Flying Air
School at Bainbridge present their
original stage show, Khaki Wacki, at
the Blakely Theatre.
The Blakely Woman’s Club is spon
soring the show and the proceeds
will go to the Army Emergency Re
lief Fund, Mrs. W. R. Kinney, pres
ident of the club, announced.
The musical comedy was written
by a soldier at the Bainbridge
Post, Sgt. Kimes, who in civilian life
was assistant producer of the War
Production Board’s “Keep ’Em Roll
ing” show headed by Clifton Faddi
man. Sgt. Kimes worked with Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Raymond Massey,
Bette Davis and many other celebri
ties who appeared in that show.
The comedy in the usual light
musical comedy style reveals what
the life of a recruit is from the day
of his interview by the army doctor
to the time when he is finally ac
cepted by his fellow soldiers as a
seasoned G. I. (Government Issue),
one of the boys.
The music was written and ar
ranged by Pfc. Robert Kelly and
Sgt. A. W. Zaitz. The orchestra is
under the direction of Joseph Do
mingos. Prior to his enlistment into
the Army Jose Domingos and his
Latin American Orchestra played in
such nationally known places as New
York’s famous Radio City, Boston’s
Mayfair and a number of big-time
commercial programs.
Hollywood has added its bit to
Khaki Wacki in the person of Sgt.
Lopez who appeared in a number of
motion pictures as a member of the
famous Del Rio dance team. Sgt.
Lopez out-Mirandas Carmen Miranda
with his singing and dancing of the
SflUft *”<* conga.
“THE SABOTEUR”
Coming to the Blakely
next Monday and
Saboteur,” featuring Robert
mings and Priscilla Lane.
Another drastic reduction on all
Ready >to« Wear
formerly in the stock of Mrs. D. M. Wade. This
reduction also applies to Millinery
and Sweaters.
Drastic Reductions ... Your
Chance to Save.
We are receiving new piece goods and ready-to
wear daily. Visit our store and enjoy
Weaver’s friendly shopping service
Men’s Department
In the men’s department a complete line line of
work clothing, Manhattan Shirts and
t Etchison Hats now for
your approval.
T. K. Weaver & Co.
“ Blakely’s Only Complete Store ”
C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1943.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead,"
CAN NO LONGER MAIL
PACKAGES TO MEN N
ARMY OVERSEAS
Effective as of last Friday, Jan
uary 15, the postoffice will no long
er accept packages to army person
nel addressed to Army post offices
overseas, other than official ship
ments, Postmaster J. Emory Houston
announced this week.
There is one exception to this new
ruling by the postoffice department,
Mr. Houston stated, and it is as fol
lows: “Packages may be sent if they
contain certain articles specifically
requested by the addressee and ap
proved by his commanding officer.”
Then these packages must conform
to the size and uniformity rules of
the postoffice, the postmaster said.
Newspapers and magazines can no
longer be sent by individuals, but
must be sent directly from the pub
lishers, who must stamp upon the
wrapper, “Mailed in conformity with
P. 0. D. Order No. 19678.”
These new restrictions were made
by the postoffice department at the
request of the War Department.
Conserving space to be used for vi
tal military necessities for the forces
overseas was the explanation given
by Mr. Houston for the restrictions.
GRAND MASTER TO
VISIT MAGNOLIA LODGE
NEXT TUESDAY, JAN. 26
Hon. E. D. Wells, of Savannah,
Most Worshipful Grand Master of
the Grand Lodge of Georgia, Free
and Accepted Masons, will pay an
official visitation to Magnolia Lodge
No. 86 next Tuesday night, January
26. The time of meeting is 8:30 p.
m., EWT. This will be the first
time that Magnolia Lodge has been
honored with an official visit from
a Grand Master since 1930.
Alex Carswell, Worshipful Master
of Magnolia Lodge, announces that
a supper will he tendered the dis
tinguished visitor on Tuesday at 7:30
p. m., to which the line officers and
have been
All members of Magnolia Lodge
well as Master Masons of all
lodges in this section of the state are
cordially invited to attend this
ing and to hear the address of Grand
Master Wells.
Meet the People...”
(Each week in this space will be presented a picture
and word portrait of someone whose name is news.)
•When President Roosevelt sent to the senate
the appointment of Prentiss M. Brown as head
of the Office of Price Administration he was
recommending a man who had a sound back
ground for the difficult task.
* : •For Brown, former senator from Michigan,
was the co-author of the price cofitrol and anti
'illslilll inflation acts of the last congress. It was his
H ■ leadership and knowledge, many Washington
observers claim, which put over these meas
ures in congress. Persuasion rather than arbi
trary methods represents his usual way of get
II ting things done.
•Brown has said that if he were ever to han
dle the affairs of price administration he would
concentrate on controlling the prices of a few
key materials, rather than all commodities as
Leon Henderson has done. In Brown’s opinion
Prentiss M. much of the confusion and red tape would thus
Brown be eliminated.
A WE ffi F THE W«
COMPILED BY OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
Unfavorable weather in April and
during almost all the last 45 days of
the navigation season produced
lays in vessel operations but could
not stop Great Lakes freight. The
bulk freight commerce on the Gieat
Lakes in 1942 reached the staggering
total of 178,577,828 net tons. Obvi
ously the outstanding feature of this
shipping record was the movement
of iron ore, which, originally sched
uled to reach 89 million gross tons,
actually totaled 92 million. In net
tonnage, this amounts to 103 mil
lion, and to this achievement must
be given much of the credit for
helping the steel industry maintain
uninterrupted operations at a month
ly rate of more than 7 million ingot
tons of steel for war.
WAR BUDGET— . «
The President’s budget message to
Congress forecast federal expendi
tures of $108 million in the fiscal
year 1944 and called for $16 billion
in new collections by taxation, sav
ings or both. Proposed war costs
for 1944 were set at $100 billion.
War expenditures for 1942, as re
leased by the OWI, totaled more
than $52 billion—-3.8 times the
amount spent in 1941—but at the
end of the year, they were running
at an annual rate of about $74
billion.
Emphasizing that methods of tax
ation should be determined by Con
gress, the President asked Congress
to put taxpayers on a pay-as-you-go
basis, simplify the tax system, and
effect certain reforms in the tax
structure. Specifically, these re
forms would include changes in the
depletion-of-reserves provisions, ex
tension to all income of the present
limitation of $25,000 net on earned
ijicome, removal of the tax exemp
tion from future issues of securi
ties, and curtailment of the advant
ages of joint income returns still
allowed married couples in some
states.
PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX PLAN—
A treasury department statement
said the simplest and most effective
method ^ of placing ; . individual .......
income
tax payments on a current basis is
collection of the taxes at the source
of the income. Stanley S. Surrey,
tax legislative counsel of the Treas
ury Department, explained that if
income tax collections at the source
were made applicable at the
(plus first bracket surtax) rate, the
vast majority of our taxpayers—
about 25 million of the estimated
35 million income taxpayers—would
be placed on a current basis and
would ,, also , have their , . income . taxes
automatically budgeted for them.
Americans are already subject
... withholding t.x-the View
tax. Treasury officials have pointed
out that withholding, in this case,
is a collection device rather than
tat in itself. , device designed
help the taxpayer pay his 1943 Vic- ;
tory tax when it falls due in
1944. The methods developed for I
administering the withholding pro
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visions were determined upon as the: ,
most equitable for all taxpayers af
fected, under the terms of the stat
imposing the tax.
This week, WMC Chairman Mc
Nutt, announcing that 4 million wom
are now working in war plants,
predicted that in a very short time
one out of every four workers in
American war industries will be a
woman _ To meet 1943 war produc -
tion goals, the number of women
workers must increase until, by the
end of the year, 6 million women
will be engaged in war production
work.
An intensive campaign is to be
launched this month by the Red
Cross Nursing Service, to recruit
36,000 graduate registered nurses
for the Army and Navy Corps, 100,
000 Red Cross Nurses’ Aides to as
sist professional nurses in civilian
and government hospitals, and one
million students in Red Cross Home
Nursing classes, teaching methods of
protecting health and preventing
illness in the home. Mr. McNutt, as
director of Defense Health,
Welfare Servicfes, announced that”
even minimum civilian and
needs of the nation are to be met,
65,000 young women must
schools of nursing between June 30,
1943, and July 1, 1944.
AGRICULTURE AND WAR—
Calling on farmers for
dented production in 1943, Presi
dent Roosevelt said food already
sent to the people of North Africa
is saving the energies and the lives
of American troops there. Food, he
said, is a weapon in total war and
the record crop produced last year
by American farmers is a major vic
tory of the United Nations.
Year-end estimates from the De
partment of Agriculture show 1942
output of livestock and livestock
products (for sale and home con
sumption) up 12 per cent over 14
1941, crop production agriculture up nearly
per cent, and total pro
duction up more than 12 per cent.
But it is still likely that, due to
unprecedented national income and
rising government requirements, the
1943 demand for farm products will
rise well ahead of production. At
tainment of the 1943 food goals
would mean a 12 per cent increase
(over 1942) in livestock and live
stock products, a 4 per cent increase
in total agricultural production, and
a total food production increase of
about 6 per cent. If these goals are
attained, 1943 will be the seventh
consecutive year to set a food pro
duction record.
After government requirements
have been met, the volume of 1(943
i f expected «> d production to be left about for the civilians is
j same as
1935 _ 39 aver age, which was adequate
j to feed the nation five years ago,
hut is 10 per cent below 1942.
OFFENSIVE IN LIBYA—
j jfensive The Allies against have Gen. opened Rommel’s an air of
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| tr Sunday, eating Afrika January Korps 10, Allied in Libya, planes On
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bombed and machine-gunned the
; German forces on the coast read be
ti^een Misurata and Tripoli. On
Tuesday, January 12, they made a
lightning attack on C'astel Benito, 10
miles south of Tripoli, raining bomba
on the airfield, setting fire to build
:ngs and destroying at least five en
emy p i an es on the ground . . .and on
the. way back, flying fortresses rush
into a 75-mile running battle
with Og*.
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On the thirteenth, Allied planes,
in broad daylight, opened a heavy
[>attle shot (iown f 0U1 - Messerschmitts
damaged'others. The night be
fore bombers had attacked enemy
landing grounds at Misurata (whicn
is about 60-70 miles north of the
Wadi Zemzem defense line) and
had followed up by bombing Axis
held roads and fields and machine
(Continued on back page)
$1.50 A YEAR
LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICERS TO ASSIST IN
PLEASURE DRIVING BAN
All local law enforcement officers,
the sheriff’s force and the city police
department, have been requested by
the Office of Price Administration to
cooperate with other federal and lo
cal agencies in enforcing the ban on
pleasure driving.
Although the ban on pleasure
driving went into effect several days
ago, no cases of violation have been
filed with the Local War Rationing
Board as yet. When it becomes
necessary to make cases against vio
lators, their names will be given to
the Local Rationing Board, who will
mete out the punishment.
It is hoped that Early county mo
torists will cooperate in the ban on
pleasure driving, and that it will not
be necessary for the Board to cancel
the gas ration card of any motorist,
which is the punishment most likely
to be meted out against violators.
J. E. HOUSTON TO
HEAD EARLY COUNTY
POLIO
J. E. Houston’ has been appointed
Early county chairman in the annual
campaign to raise funds for the
Fight Against Infantile Paralysis.
Mr. Houston stated yesterday that
he would appoint his committees to
assist in the campaign within the
next few days, and that a canvass
to raise Early county’s quota would
be made next week.
There will be no ball celebrating
the President’s birthday in connec
tion with the drive, it was stated.
The effort to raise the money will be
made through duly appointed com
mittees, Mr. Houston said.
LITTLE BOY KILLED
WHEN STRUCK BY
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Roy Wayne Batchelor,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
of Blakely, died early last
morning from injuries received
12 hours earlier. The little
with his father and mother, had
stepped off a bus at Macon,
they had gone, when the youth
ped in front of another moving bus,
sustaining fatal injuries. His
was also struck by the bus as he
tempted to rescue the child, and
undergoing treatment at a
hospital for his injuries.
Funeral services for the boy
held Saturday afternoon at
o’clock at the Lucile Baptist
with the Rev. H. L. Catrett, of
quitt, officiating. Interment was
Lucile cemetery, with the
Fellows & Forrester Funeral
in charge of arrangements and
Houston, Crozier Batchelor,
Jones and Eroumus Hamrick
as pall-bearers.
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EASTERN STAR
1943 OFFICERS
ARE INSTALLED
At a beautiful and colorful cere
mony last Thursday night in the Ma
sonic Hall, the 1943 officers of
Blakely Chapter No. 282 Order of
the Eastern Star were duly installed.
The installation rites followed a
regular meeting of the chapter and
were open to the public. A large
concourse of friends were present,
entirely filling the hall.
Mrs. Mary Lee Martindale, Past
j Matron of Blakely Chapter, acted as
installing officer, with Mrs. Cleo
Grubbs, also a Past Matron, serving
as Acting Grand Marshal. Mrs. Eun
ice Weathersby filled the position of
Grand Organist and Mrs. Ruth War
rick sang several appropriate selec
tions.
The following officers were in
stalled:
Worthy Matron: Mrs. Louise
Thompson.
Worthy Patron: Dr. J. G. Stan
difer.
Associate Matron: Mrs. Cyllen^
Dunn.
Asociate Patron: J. T. Jordan.
Secretary: Mrs. Nora Scarborough.
Treasurer: Mrs. Pearl Houston.
Conductress: Mrs. Velma Smith.
Associate Conductress: Mrs. Edna
Mills.
Chaplain: Mrs. Sally Goocher.
Marshal: Mrs. Nellie Costello.
Organist: Mrs. Evelyn Beckham.
Star Points: Adah, Mrs. Annie
Laurie Oldham; Ruth, Mrs. Ruth
Jordan; Esther, Mrs. Kavis Ivey;
Martha, Miss Bessie Lewis; Electra,
Mrs. Beth Duncan.
Warder: Mrs. Louise Fulmer.
Sentinel: R. E. Mills.
In her inagural address, Mrs.
Thompson outlined her program for
the ensuing year and promised her
best efforts toward promoting the
welfare of the chapter. Dr. Standi
fer, speaking for the line officers,
pledged co-operation of the chapter
in making the new administration a
success.
The retiring Worthy Matron, Mrs.
Sally Goocher, was presented a
Past Matron’s jewel, Mrs. Ruth War
rick making the presentation. Mrs.
Goocher was also presented a person
al gift of a set of silver spoons by the
officers and members of the chapter,
Mrs. Cyllene Dunn making the pres*
presented a Past Patron’s jewel, Dr.
Standifer making the presentation
in behalf of the chapter. Mrs. Mary
Lee Martindale, Past Matron of the
chapter, having recently been com
missioned by the Worthy Grand Ma
tron as Grand Representative of the
Grand Chapter of New Mexico, her
commission was jointly delivered by
Mrs. thy Matron, Sally Goocher, and Dr. J. retiring G. Standifer, Wor
incoming Worthy Patron. After the
ceremonies, light refreshments were
served.
Blakely Chapter enters this year
of global war with a splendid line
of officers and a live and active
membership. The finances of the
chapter are in good condition and the
outlook for the ensuing year is
bright.
SPECIAL MEETING MAGNOLIA
LODGE TONIGHT (THURSDAY)
Magnolia Lodge No. 86 F. & A. M.
will hold a special meeting tonight
(Thursday), at which the M. M. de
gree will be conferred, and another
meeting netx Tuesday night, at
1 which the most Worshipful Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of Geor
Igia will be the distinguished guest.