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VOLUME LXXXIII } NO. 38
YOUNG SON OF MR.
AND MRS. J. F. BRIDGES
DIES AT HOME IN CUBA
A victim of a five-weeks’ illness
from pneumonia, Sam Jack Bridges,
13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
F. Bridges, died at his home in the
Cuba community Friday night last
at 9:30 o’clock.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon, interment followinig,
in the Bush cemetery, with the Rev.
T. B. Mellette officiating ancl the
Minter, Fellows & Forrester Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Serving as pall-bearers were Randall
Sheffield, Stephen Cannon, Arthur
Cannon, George Lindsey, Luther
Waller and Bradley Mock. Honor
ary pall-bearers included John Wal
ton, Scott Blackburn, Frank Wil
liams, S. Peterson, Lester Cooper,
and Wyatt Houston.
The youth, who was horn in this
county on August 11, 1929, is sur
vived by his parents; three sisters,
Annette Bridges, Edith Bridges and
Mary Helen Bridges; and one broth
er, Leonard Free Bridges, who have
the sincere sympathy of friends in
their bereavement.
Georgia Hosiery Mills
Gets Another Sox
Contract from Navy
The Georgia Hosiery Mills, local
hosiery manufacturing plant, has
been awarded another contract by
the U. S» Navy department, this time
to make 75,000 pairs of sox, J. M.
Middleton, owner and manager, an
nounced this week.
For the past several months the
Georgia Hosiery Mills has been
making sox both for the army and
the navy, and is operating 24 hours
a day in order to turn out the sox
on schedule date. The present con
tract is several days ahead of sched
ule, ^.nd work. on. tije .new contract
is to begin Within a few days and is
to be completed within 180 days.
SCHOOL CHILDREN
AND 4-H CLUBS TO
PUSH BOND SALES
Georgia school children and 4-H
club girls and boys will sponsor the
sale of war bonds in Georgia during
the month of May, it was announced
this week by County War Bond
Chairman S. G. Maddox.
Mr. Maddox said that the state’s
quote for May is eight million, four
hundred thousand dollars, and that
Marion H. Allen, administrator war
savings staff of Georgia, and C. Ar
thur Cheatham, senior deputy ad
minister, had stated that the schools
selling sufficient war bonds to pur
chase army jeeps will be given spe
cial citation. Exess sales above
the quota will be credited to Geor
gia’s Liberty Ship, which is sponsor
ed by the school children.
A suggested slogan for the boys
and girls for the May campaign is:
“T-N-T—Today, Not Tomorrow—
Buy More War Bonds.”
The war savings staff of Georgia
made a great contribution to the
success of the Second War Loan
drive, which went over the top last
week. Mr. Miaddox said he felt sure
that Early countian hoys and girls
are going to contribute greatly to
the success of the May bond drive,
and urges every Early countian who
can possibly dO' so to buy one or
more bonds during the month.
WILLIAM MOSELY GETS
GOLD BARS—
William Mosely was among the
members of the graduating class at
Fort Benning last Saturday who re
ceived their second lieutenant’s com
mission. He is in Blakely this week
spending a few days with his wife
and son and parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Mosely. Lt. Mosely will be
stationed at an army post at Little
Rock, Ark.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1943.
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts—“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead."
No. 1 Yank in Tunisia Inspects U. S. Troops
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* Photo shows Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of Allied
forces in North Africa, in an informal pose enjoying a chuckle with
some U. S. troops during an inspection tour of the Tunisian area,
shortly before the big battle for Tunisia got into full swing. Since then
American heavily armored columns have been battering with telling
effect at some of the strongest natural defenses in the world in South
Central Tunisia.
RED CROSS
The Red Cross Surgical Dressings
Room will not be open on Thursday
afternoon during the summer, but a
morning session will be added soon.
Recently the Chairman has ap
pointed Chief Supervisors for defi
nite work days. Their duties will
be complete supervision and care of
the work room, instructing new work
ers, checking, packing, and record
ing finished dressings. They are:
Monday: Mrs. C. G. Brewer; Tues
day, Mrs. R. O. Waters; Tuesday
night, Mrs. A. H. Gray; Wednesday,
Mrs. Felix Davis; Friday, Mrs. J. E.
Chancy.
Secretaries are: Mrs. Grady Smith,
Mrs. J. H. Moye, Mrs. T. B. McDow
ell.
During the past month the Eastern
Star organization has given 55 1-2
hours; the Baptist W. M. U., 85
hours; the Stitch & Chatter Club,
48 1-2 hours. Similar co-operation
from other clubs and individuals
would be appreciated.
Record for April: Workers, 93;
hours, 741; dressings made, 22,216;
dressings shipped, 26,100.
Victory Roll: Mrs. C. G. Brewer,
Mrs. J. E. Chancy, Mrs. T. S. Chand
ler, Mrs. Albert Hammack, Mrs.
Wilma Joiner, Mrs. Ruth Vail, Mrs.
C. P. Gay, Mrs. C. A. Grubbs.
The victory roll includes all who
have worked 7 hours each week.
Seventeen workers have completed
a record of 100 hours each since
the work room has been in opera
tion and many others are near that
goal, while several have passed the
record of 200 hours.
—SECRETARY.
VIRGIL R. BATCHELOR
NOW SECOND LIEUTENANT—
Camp Barkeley, Texas. — Virgil
Ralph Batchelor, of Blakely, Ga., to
day received his gold bars of a sec
ond lieutenant in the graduation
ceremonies of the Medical Adminis
trative Corps Officer Candidate
School. Lt. Batchelor is here this
week on a visit to home folks before
reporting for duty at New Orleans.
mm f Meet the People..
(Each week in this space wiU be presented a picture
and word portrait of someone whose name is news.)
:: i • These days, when movie actresses appear
like magic on the African front and the man
J next to you on the assembly line may turn
out to be a famous lawyer, there’s nothing
i 8 surprising about finding a college professor
filling a diplomatic post, especially if he
I ns happens to be Dr. Carlton J. H. Hayes, pro
fessor of history at Columbia University,
m whose text books on modern history you
probably discovered in school in the form of
■ “required reading.”
¥ • His vigorously anti-Nazi attitude, plus his
position as an outstanding Catholic layman,
made Dr. Hayes the logical person to handle
the ticklish problem of weaning Spain from
die Axis, for his knowledge of totalitarian
ideology makes it easy for him to substantiate
his anti-Nazi assertions, while his affiliation
with the Catholic Church makes him addi
tionally acceptable to the Franco government.
• Born at Afton, N. Y., which is still his
home, Dr. Hayes is a graduate of Columbia
University. The list of his degrees, honors
and published works fills three inches in
“Who’s Who,” but he is best known as a stem
Ambassador critic of nationalism and totalitarianism. His
to Spain book, “Nationalismus,” was banned in Ger-
4 many in 1936.
WAR ROUND-UP
(COMPILED BY OFFICE OF
WAR INFORMATION)
Allied forces in Tunisia have tak
en most of the important hills pro
tecting the way into the Coastal
plain around Tunis in a full-scale of
fensive that has brought the British
about 20 miles from Tunis. The
British Eighth Army has advanced
from the South against stiff resist
ance, as the Americans have come
within 2*5 miles of Bizerte. Thou
sands of land mines planted by the
retreating Germans were cleared by
United States forces as they cap
tured S-idi N’Sir.
The battle line which stretched
from Djebel Dardyss on the north,
where the Americans took three
hills, to Djebel Mdeker in the south,
was rapidly contracting as the Axis
armies retreated under the heavy
infantry and tank attacks of Ameri
can, British, and French troops.
General Eisenhower’s headquar
ters reported that Axis losses in
Tunisia from January 1 to April
15 included 66,000 killed, wounded
or captured; 250 tanks, 3,000 vehi
cles, and 425 guns destroyed or
captured; 1,754 planes destroyed,
278 probably destroyed, and 586
damaged—a total of 2,618 put out
of action. Losses at sea were also
great. It was reported that a single
United Nations submarine flotilla
had sunk 85 Axis ships in the Med
iterranean since November 8.
IN THE PACIFIC—
'Canadian airmen joined Americans
in raids on Kiska, Strong outpost of
the Japanese, which was bombed
142 times in April. The largest of
the Ellice Islands, Funafuti, has been
occupied by United States forces.
It is about 450 miles south of the
Gilbert group where the Japanese
have heavy fortifications.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS—
The Polish cabinet, meeting in
London, drafted a reply to Russia
which was couched in moderate lan
guage and left the way clear for the
British and Americans to attempt to
restore normal relations between
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WEEKLY MEETING OF
ROTARY CLUB HELD
AT NOON FRIDAY
The members of the Blakely Ro
tary Club, meeting at the Early Ho
tel at noon last Friday, elected
Charles Boyett as a delegate to the
Rotary International convention to
be held in St. Louis. Henry Moye
was elected alternate delegate.
The club, at last Friday’s meeting,
presented Mrs. C. W. Lay, retiring
operator of the Early Hotel, a large
l'ocking chair as an expression of ap
preciation for the manner in -which
she has served the club the past four
years. The presentation was made
by Rotarian Marvin Sparks.
It was announced that the meet
ing for this week would be held in
the upstairs room of Lay’s Cafe at
the regular scheduled noon hour.
Friday’s meeting was presided ov
er by President James B. Murdock,
Jr., with the music for the club songs
by Mrs. Bern Haisten, club pianist.
Revival Meeting
In Progress At
Baptist Church
The revival meeting, begun last
Sunday at the Baptist church, is in
creasing in interest, with good con
gregations at each of the twice
daily services.
Pastor S. B. King spoke at both
hours last Sunday and again Mon
day morning. Monday evening Dr
Arthur Jiackson, of Atlanta, arrived
and has been speaking twice daily
since, at 8:00 in the morning and at
the same hour in the evening. He
is bringing to his hearers a series
of forceful and eloquent sermons
which are being heard by apprecia
tive congregations.
The evening service has the added
feature of fine singing, with several
choruses nightly by the junior choir
and a special number by some mem
ber of the adult choir.
The meeting will continue through
Sunday, and the public has an ear
nest and cordial invitation to attend.
COMMISSIONERS HOLD
BRIEF MEETING
The County Commissioners, meet
ing in regular session Tuesday,
transacted only routine business.
All members were in attendance
upon the meeting.
the Soviets and the Polish govern
ment in exile. Russia suspended dip
lomatic relations with Premer Sikor
ski’s government over a German
propaganda story that the Reds
had executed 10,000 Polish officers.
Saboteurs are active in Europe.
Norwegian patriots blew up four
ships and a lighthouse in Oslo Har
bor. It was reported that an at
tempt had been made on the life of
the Nazi governor of Warsaw and
that there had been a wave of at
tacks on Nazi soldiers in Greece.
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LAST HOUR’ PLEA
FOR NEEDED CROPS
IS MADE BY DAVIS
Even though the planting period
in some sections is virtually ended,
Food Administrator Chester C. Davis
has appealed to farmers to “take an
extra degree of chance this year for
their county to plant in full the
acreage they can expect to handle
under the most favorable circum
stances.”
In a “last hour” appeal to Ameri
can farmers, Mr. Davis last week
termed this “the most important
planting season in American farm
history.”
“We can still increase the number
of acres we plant,” he declared. “In
a very few days it will be too late.
The War Food Administration is
asking farmers to plant to the limit
for critical war crops, food crops,
and feed for livestock.”
The national food administrator
declared that in the drive that has
been made to increase the acreage
of beans, potatoes, and vegetable oil
crops, including peanuts, there has
been no intention to minimize the
importance of other essential crops.
He asserted that expanded produc
tion of feed grains and hay also is
vitally necessary if American farm
ers are to continue their record
heavy production of livestock and
livestock products.”
Referring to the threat of farm
labor and machinery shortages, he
said r
“The War Food Administration is
organizing the country’s latent la
bor resources to help with the har
vests this yeaT. Acting with manu
facturers and other agencies of
government, we will do our best to
see that more harvesting machinery
is ready by the time it is needed.
We will work for continuing price
supports at fair levels in order to
minimize risks in the market place.
“Therefore, we ask farmers, on
their part, in the days that remain
of spring planting, te take an extra
degree of chance this year for the: ■
country to plant in full the acreage
they can expect to handle under the
most favorable circumstances.”
SUMMARY OF LOCAL
WEATHER CONDITIONS
FOR MONTH OF APRIL
Temperature: Mean maximum,
78.4; mean minimum, 51.7; mean,
65.0; maximum, 92 on the 30th;
minimum, 33 on the 15th.
Precipitation: Total, 2.65 inches;
greatest amount in any 24-hour pe
riod, 0.77 inch on the 12th.
Miscellaneous: Number of days
with 0.01 inch or more of rainfall,
5; clear, 18; partly cloudy, 9; cloudy,
3; high winds on the 3rd and 13th;
killing frost on the 15-th; thunder
storms on th 9th, 12th, 23rd.
J. G. STA-NDIEER, Observer,
U. S. Weather Bureau.