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EARLY COUNTY, GA.
GARDEN SPOT OF
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXXXIII } NO. 24
MRS. MELTON
DIES FOLLOWING
LONG ILLNESS
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«• Succumbing: to a protracted ill
ness, Mrs. Geneva King Melton, wid
ow of Mr. W. M. Melton, died Sun
day afternoon at 1:20 o’clock at the
r home of her daughter, Mrs. J. L.
L "jF Houston.
w** Mrs. Melton was a native of Ear
ly county, where she was born Octo
ber 27, 1863, hence was 79 years of
age. She was greatly beloved by
f many friends, to whom news of her
*meath brought sadness.
9 Funeral services were held Mo-n
Jtey afternoon at 4 o’clock at the
"vt Jtidence, with the Revs. Spencer B.
lv*ig and W. F. Burford officiating.
Interment was in the city cemetery,
with the Minter, Fellows & Forrester
Funeral Home in charge o'f arrange
me-nts. Serving as pall-bearers were
J. B. Jones, W. C. Cook, W. L. Mose
ly, Carl Tolar, R. C. Singletary and
C. S. Middleton.
Mrs. Melton is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. J. L. Houston of
Blakely and Mrs. S. W. Sessions and
Mrs. 0. M. Arnold of Columbus, and
three sons, J. E. Melton of Fort
Gaines, J. C. Melton of Columbus,
and O. T. Melton of Memphis, Tehn.
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ONE-DAY CAMPAIGN
FRIDAY TO RAISE POLIO
FUND IN EARLY COUNTY
J. Emory Houston, chairman of
the Early county polio fund; has
announced that the drive will be
conducted Friday throughout the
city and county. Due to transporta
tion difficulties, the drive will not be
as wide in scope as in former years,
Mr. Houston stated.
Committees have been appointed
to canvass Blakely Friday and pick
up donations for the fund. The
county schools have been organized
under the leadership of Buren Davis,
county school superintendent. The
ership of the several school princi
pals.
The drive will last only one day
and Mr. Houston urges that every
loyal Early countian make some con
tribution to this worthy cause.
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Mid-Winter Specials
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 29-30
$2.95 Men’s Dress Oxfords, black and
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$1.69 Tom Sawyer made Dress Shirts,
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$1.00 Boy’s Overalls, 6 pockets 89c
$1.98 Polly Brand Men’s Overalls $1.59
$1.49 Duck-Head Khaki Shirts_____ $ 1.00
^$2.00 and Men’s colored Van patterns______________________' Heusen Shirts, white $1.39
$2.00 Men’s Plain Toe Work Shoes, all
sizes_______________________________________ $1.69
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> $30,000 in new Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing,
Work Clothing, Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear,
etc., all new merchandise, now in Weaver’s
location next door to Fryer’s Pharmacy.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1943.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go
SUPERIOR COURT
ENDS JANUARY
TERM, ADJOURNS
Early superior court was adjourn
ed Monday night, after a one-day
session that lasted far into the night
when a jury was given the case of
the state against Nolan Hargrave, of
Louisiana, who was indicted for ar
son by the April, 1941, grand jury.
The jury brought in a verdict of
guilty and recommended that Har
grave be punished as for a misde
meanor. Presiding Judge Worrill
imposed a sentence of twelve months
on the public w r orks. Attorneys for
Hargrave immediately appealed for
a new trial and the defendant was
released under a $1,000 cash bond.
The case against J. E. Bruner, in
dieted for assault with intent to
murder, was postponed until the next
term of court. Attorneys secured a
postponement when Bruner became
ill in Panama City, Fla., it was said,
and was unable to stand trial.
Sylvester Caslin pleaded guilty to
involuntary manslaughter and was
given a term of six months in jail,
12 months’ probation to be served by
paying a $100 fine,
Alvin Henderson and Claude
Stringer both pleaded guilty to
simple larceny and were given 18
months probation sentence to be
sedved by paying a $50 fine each.
DEPUTY INCOME TAX
COLLECTOR TO BE HERE
FEBRUARY 15, 16, 17
A representative of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue will be in Blakely
February 15, 16 and 17 to assist
Early countians in filling out and fil
ing their federal income tax re
turns, it was announced this week
by Marion H. Allen, collector in
ternal revenue.
The representative will be at the
postoffice each of these days from
9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m., a'nd those
having to file returns or are uncer
see
him while he is here.
It was also announced that the
internal revenue office will be open
in Albany every day, February 1 to
March 15, inclusive, between the
hours of 8:30 a. m. and 5:00 p. m.
In 15 months of Lend-Lease aid to
Russia, the U. S. has shipped about
2,600 planes, 3,200 tanks and 81,
000 military motor vehicles for Rus
sian use against the Axis. The Unit
ed Kingdom, also on a Lend-Lease
basis, has supplied Russia with more
than 2,600 tanks and more than
2,000 planes.
Reporting on United Nations aid
to the Soviet Union, Lend-Lease Ad
ministrator Stettinius said we have
shipped more planes and tanks to
the U. ,S. S. R. than to any other
country since the beginning of the
Lend-Lease program, and since suf
ficient supplies of food are necessary
to Soviet army success as are planes
and tanks, we are now sending more
food to Russia than to the United
Kingdom:*--Although the Lend-Lease
program began in March of 194.1,
aid to Russia did not begin until Oc
tober, 1941. After a slow start,
shipments began to increase and are
still increasing, in spite of shipping
shortages and enemy attacks along
the supply routes.
The weapons that got through
from the U. S. to Russia were only a
trifle compared to Russian produc
tion, but at the same time American
machines and parts, sent to replace
vital elements lost when Russian in
dustries moved to safety behind the
Urals, were helping Russian factor
ies to keep operating.
Thus American products have had
a part in the fight these courageous
people are waging against our com
mon enemies—in the great drive
westward, the battles that have de
stroyed quantities of Axis equipment
and supplies and killed more Ger
mans than all the United Nations put
together.
But, the OWI points out, Lend
Lease is doing a job all over the
world. The $7,496,000,000 in goods
transferred and services rendered by
the U. S. up to the end of last No
vember strengthened the fronts from
Russia to Australia. Africa, for ex
ample, has proved that Lend-Lease
and fighting the war are the same
thing. The supplies, installations and
equipment brought in with Lend
Lease funds, the ports built up along
the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea,
the airfields, docks, warehouses, as
sembly and repair shops, pipelines,
communications and railroads built
with Lend-Lease aid—these are the
facilities and bases now being used
by U. S. forces to fight the war in
Tunisia, in the Middle East, and' all
the way to China.
LITTLE WAR LABOR BOARDS—
Under a sweeping decentralization
program, the National War Labor
Board is establishing 12 regional War
Labor Boards, with full authority to
make final decisions in labor disputes
and in voluntary wage and salary
adjustment cases. Each of the re
gional boards will be set up on the
NWLB tripartite system of public,
employer and labor representatives.
William Davis, Chairman of the
NW'LB, said that under this plan
wage stabilization will be done pri
marily in the field, With the NWLB
in Washington sitting as a sort of
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l (Each week in this sp ace will be presented a picture
and word portrait of someone w hose name is news.) •£*
• Wiley Blount Rutledge, named to succeed
James F. Byrnes, became the first justice of
the U. S. Supreme court to be selected by
■ President Roosevelt from the federal judici
ary. He had served since 1939 as an associate
S justice of the Court of Appeals for the Dis
: trict of Columbia.
• Little known outside of legal circles, the
48-year-old Kentucky-born jurist is a graduate
of the University of Colorado law school. He
practiced law in Boulder, Colo., then returned
to the university to teach. He has also served
i as dean at Washington university in St. Louis
and at the University of Iowa law school.
• Considered as a successor to the late Jus
tice Cardozo, Justice Rutledge recommended
that Felix Frankfurter be chosen instead. A
Wiley Blount Democrat, Justice Rutledge is in accord with
£ Rutledge the President’s social and political views.
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A WEEK OF THE WAR
COMPILED BY OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
supreme court selecting its own cases
for decision by orders for review.
Only policy defining cases will be
brought to the National Board.
In October, 1941, the NWLB was
given the task of stabilizing wages
and salaries, of assuming jurisdiction
over the wage and salary rates of
roughly 31,000,000 employees of
some 300,000 non-agricultural busi
ness enterprises, ranging from res
taurants to huge war factories.
The Board found that between
January, 1941, and May, 1942, when
the President announced his seven
point anti-inflation program, the cost
of living had gone up 15 per cent.
During that time, about two-thirds of
all manufacturing wages had also
risen at least 15 per cent. There
fore, in Ruling on wage increases, the
Board felt that those whose wages
had already risen high enough to
cover the cost of living increase
should not be granted further gen
eral increases, but that all others
were entitled to have their average
straight-time rates brought up to a
point 15 per cent above the Janu
ary, 1941, level.
THE WAR FRONT—
Japanese pockets of resistance in
the Sanananda Area of Papuan, New
Guinea—all that is left of the Jap
anese Papuan army of 15,000 shock
troops—are rapidly dissolving be
fore American and Australian troops.
The American position on Guadal
canal has improved much in the past
week, since the capture of U. S.
troops of Mount Austen, last Jap
anese position dominating Hender
son Field, and the United Nations
position in the Pacific war is now
more favorable than at any time
since the Marines first landed on
Guadalcanal in August, 1942. Inci
dentally, although for several months
the Marines have been operating
jointly with army troops in the
Solomons Area, most of the Marines
have now been replaced by army
personnel. This week Maj. Gen. Al
exander M. Patch, U. S. Army, took
command of American forces on
Guadalcanal, relieving Majj Gen. Al
exander A. Vandergrift, U. S. Ma
rine Corps.
During the five-day period of Jan
uary 13 to 17 inclusive, our forces
killed over 1,000 Japanese in various
actions on Guadalcanal. Even in
the air, Japanese strength in the
Solomons is growing steadily weak
er. Maj. Gen. Millard Harmon, Com
mander of allied air and ground
troops in New Zealand, pointing to
the enemy’s dwindling supplies of
all categories of combat aircraft and
lack of pilots, said the Japanese are
definitely short in meeting the re
quirements of their air forces.
From North * Africa the Middle
Eastern command, reporting the
progress of the British eighth army
into Tripoli, said American and Brit
ish planes are keeping up their re
lentless attacks against Tripoli and
against Castel Benito Airdrome. The
raids on Tripoli Harbor have been
aimed at facilities the Axis might
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$1.50 A YEAR
m. m. McCullough
OF THIS COUNTY
DIES IN ALBANY
Marion Mosby McCullough, 71,
life-long resident of Early county,
died Saturday morning at 6 o’clock,
in Albany at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. J. J. Spielberger, whom he
was visiting.
His funeral was held Sunday aft
ernoon at 4 o’clock at Bethel church,
in Clay county, with the Rev. W. S.
Driggers officiating. Interment was
in Bethel church cemetery, with the
Minter, Fellows & Forrester Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements and
C. W. Shielding, Cecil Cox, Emory
Gilbert, Jim Cox, Shelly Simmons,
A1 Brightwell and’ Emmett Craft
serving as pall-bearers.
Mr. McCullough was born in this
county on April 16, 1871, and had
lived here all his life. He engaged
in farming until some six years
ago when he suffered a stroke. He
was widely known and highly esteem
ed and was a member of the Hilton
Baptist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ida
Woolf McCullough; five children,
James McCullough of Columbia, Ala.,
Mrs. J. C. Barbree of Colquitt, Ga.,
Mrs. J. J. Spielberger of Albany,
Mrs. Russell Hayes of Bluff ton, and
Mrs. Holt Elder of Macon; two sis
ters, Mrs. Marion Ferguson and Miss
Clyde McCullough of Blakely; and
two brothers, H. G. McCullough and
Anthony McCullough of Malone, Fla.
FURTHER WARNING
IS ISSUED IN REGARD TO
PLEASURE DRIVING BAN
Auto owners this week are again
cautioned about the ban on pleasure
driving. New interpretations of the
ban reecived at the local rationing
board office bar all driving to pleas
ure resorts, places of amusement,
dance halls, civic clubs and fraternal
organiiations, and other similar gath-’
erings. The exception in the case of
the civic club and fraternal organi
zation meetings is, that if the meet
ing is called for the purpose of pro
moting thg war effort, driving to
such meetings is permissible, other
wise the ban applies.
OPA headquarters has enlisted
the co-operation of all law enforce
ment officers, both county and city,
to assist in enforcing the ban and
reporting violations to the rationing
board who will take action against
offenders.
The fuel oil situation in the east
ern section of the country has reach
ed such an acute stage that tank
car shipment of gasoline to this
section is prohibited until further
notice, and all the gas that motor
car owners use now is that which
is shipped by trucks and -barges and
through pipe-lines, the tanker cars
being used exclusively for transporta
tion of fue-l oil.
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ROTARIANS AND
LIONS ADDRESSED
BY ATLANTIAN
In an inspirational address, W.
A. Dobson, regional scout execu
tive, of Atlanta, Ga., told a joint
meeting of the local Lions and Ro
tary Clubs, Boy Scouts and invited
guests, held Tuesday at noon at the
Early Hotel, that now more than ev
er before America should be prepar
ing its boys for leadership and for
character development.
In opening his 40-minute talk,
which held the close attention of his
listeners from beginning to end, Mr.
Dobson related a few humorous yet
serious definitions of a boy and told
how badly in need oui; country is for
real leadership.
“That rugged youngster who some
time is a periodic nuisance, but al
ways a joy and a pleasure, will with
in a few short years be the leader
of our country and he will be here
to praise or condemn his predeces
sors, and to see for himself how we
have been running things,” said the
speaker. “It is our duty to see that
he has available for himself all the
necessary things to help him become
a leader of honesty, ■ integr ity and
valor.”
Mr. Dobson cited juvenile court
records in Atlanta to show that only
a minimum of cases brought into
court are former Boy , Scouts. Ex
ploring in boyhood is the * greatest
adventure today, he said, and this is
no time to let up and coast. “Coast
ing has no place in scouting,” the
speaker concluded.
The occasion of Mr. Dobson’s ap
pearance here was to inaugurate the
annual drive to raise funds for Boy
Scout activities in 1943. Present at
Tuesday’s meeting were Raymond C.
Singletary, Jr., county chairman, G.
B. Cook, scoutmaster, and the fol
lowing Scouts: Holt Darden, Donald
.Reed, Byiy Farris? ■- Robert
Hal Beckham, Fred Darden, Tom
Howard and Louis Patterson.
Mr. Dobson was introduced by
Paul Smith, assistant scout executive
of Chehaw Council.
SUGAR STAMP NO. 10
EXPIRES JAN. 31; COFFEE
STAMP NO. 28 FEB. 7
Sugar stamp No. 10 in the ration
book No. 1 expires January -31.
Stamp No. 11, good for 3 pounds,
is good beginning February 1, and
is usable until March 15.
Coffee ration stamp No. 27 expires
February 7.
This information, released by OfPA,
should be remembered by holders of
ration books.
William Powell and Hedy Lamarr
in “’Crossroads” at Blakely Theatre
Monday and Tuesday.