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V EARLY COUNTY, GA. GARDEN SPOT OF GOD’S COUNTRY VOLUME LXXXIII } NO. 24 MRS. MELTON DIES FOLLOWING LONG ILLNESS : . «• 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. m 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. Weaver's Extra Special Mid-Winter Specials FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 29-30 $2.95 Men’s Dress Oxfords, black and tan, all sizes $1.99 $1.69 Tom Sawyer made Dress Shirts, colored shirts, each___________________ $1.00 $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_______________________________________ $1.69 100 pieces 80 Square Prints, yd. 29c > $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. VISIT WEAVER’S TODAY— WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY T. K. Weaver & Co. “ Blakely’s Only Complete Store ” C. E. BOYETT, Owner BLAKELY, GA. Gomttg JXtm 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 -V— 0 SP 0 a. 0 o 0 • • 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. tr 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 (Continued on back page) $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. ♦ i T rustworthy ♦ i We invite you to make full use of \ the complete and friendly service offered by this trustworthy insti tution for every banking need. Our modern banking facilities are al- A ways at your disposal. t FIRST STATE BANK SLAKELY, GEORGIA Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Maximum Insurance of $5,000.00 for each depositor t PULL FOR BLAKELY —OR— PULL OUT 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.