About North Georgia tribune. (Canton, Ga.) 1934-1973 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1941)
omen organ 1 North Grurgia Orihune 8 todIy Cherokee County Y MA REAL IHEW5DAPERSFOnNonthGECnBIA M - 4 VOL. VIII.—No. 51 CANTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1941 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY U.S.TAKES OFFENSIVE IN JAP WAR Think o’ That By TOM ARNOLD We are glad this is a free coun- try, even while in war, because J. E. Coker can raise just as big a hog as he wants, and after he has it raised and killed the meat's all his, and no Jap, Hun, Dago, or other off-color soldier standing around telling him what to do with it. This hog was bought as a ten- weeks-old Big Boned Poland China, from Jake Johnson, January 9, 1941, and was killed Dec. 15. He measured six feet, ten inches long, six feet and seven inches around, was three feet and five inches tall and weighed 753 pounds. J. E. Coker is fattener, owner, killer and will be eater of this hog. That’s a lot of hog, tops the one reported by Rev. W. I. Hasty last week in some respects only. In France if a farmer had a hog like that he might get the snout and tail. The Hun would get the rest. The only way to keep it free is for everybody to fight for this country, fight TOGETHER, and win this war. Down at Macon on last Sunday the forces of Georgia gathered in a rally to win the war. All sides that were there, and all sides were there, decided to lay aside politics until the war is ov- er. Governor Talmadge said this is no time for dissension, and every- body there agreed with him. Ellis Arnall, who had announced for Governor opposing Mr. Talmadge, announced Sunday that he will campaign no more until the time and place are proper, and urged complete unity in governmental affairs. That was all fine. And still it is a free country, and if a few un- washed souls on either side of the picture want to continue bickering over political preferment, let them go to it. A few have already started it, but so far as is known now nobody has paid enough atten- tion to reply. As all the leaders of all political leanings in Georgia seem to agree, they can work together to win this war and then if they want to they can renew their political fight. They’ll need something when the war is over to keep things from getting too dull, and a good old political fight will just about be the thing to do it. Working together to win the war will not be to anybody's poli- tical disadvantage. Those who take advantage of it to try to look ahead and lay political planks while the war is going on will find those planks splintered into dis- tinct disadvantage when the time to use them comes. Big men will work together, and the pee-wee’s will wilt anyway. We congratu late those who are doing that sin- cerely and we pity those who are doing it with one hand while building political fences with the other. Say, there was a lot of Chero kee county down there at Macon. Judge John Wood, Joe Johnston, Col. E. A. McCanless, P. W. Jones, Jr., C. H. Peacock, Solicitor Gene- ral Vandiviere and Mrs. Vande- viere. Postmaster R. B. Sims and others were there. The Defense Corps went too, that is Captain Doss and his offi- cers and non-coms, to a Defense Corps meeting that was for train ing purposes out at Camp Wheeler, not at the Auditorium where the civil defense meeting was held. There were people from all ov- (Continued from Page 8) Hightower Has Thrilling, Perilous Job in Flying Bombers to England Capt. E. W. Hightower Jr. has been flying bombers to England for the past five months but he "couldn't say” just how many trans-oceanic flights he had made. That's the kind of job he has. He stoops to enter the gadget-studded compartment. The little lights glow dimly from a multitude of glass-encased dials. He glances about carefully to see if every- thing is in order. The door is banged shut and his fate consign- ed to the lap of the gods for fer- rying bombers across the Atlantic in winter weather is mighty tricky business. Capt. Hightower, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hightower, of Nelson, knows all about those tricks. He is a pilot for the Royal Air Force Ferry Command and his headquar- ters are at Montreal, Canada. Although he has been commis- sioned a captain, Hightower has no military status in the air force and that suits him and the other civi- lian pilots just fine. When they first entered the service, they were issued uniforms but the pi- lots formed an American Trans- Oceanic Pilots Association and one of their first accomplishments was to do away with all military atmosphere. Hightower held a commission in the U. S. Army Air Corps several years ago, resigned, became a private pilot for Asa G. Candler, and was commissioned in the Georgia National Guard Air Corps. He had to resign from that com- mission to do civilian work for the English government. In his job of ferrying medium bombers to England, Hightower usually takes off at Canada in the “middle of the night” and is flying over Scotland or Ireland shortly after dawn. The ferry command is very strict about their pilots giving out any information. He has never encountered any enemy attack. Only once has he seen a convoy of ships below. On such occasions things happen. The convoying warships blink a hasty “challenge” and the plane com- mander must respond and quickly. The signals are changed frequent- ly so the bomber commander must learn which is the latest method of response before taking off. Bomber commanders, when they take off, are never told what field they will land on. They head for Malin Head, North Ireland, and there they are contacted by radio as to where they should leave the plane. Capt. Hightower has been fly- ing for fourteen years and has many friends in this section who will read with interest of his acti- vities. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Activities Of Red Cross Outlined By Canton Chairman Activities under the direction of the American Red Cross are taking shape in Cherokee county and the announcement comes this week from Mrs. P. W. Jones, chairman of the Canton chapter, that as- sembling of paper will be the first activity. In the present emergen- cy, waste paper becomes a valuable item, and the Red Cross is col- lecting it in the interest of na- tional defense. Boy Scouts will aid with that activity and collection will begin at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Those who have cars and wish to offer them for this service are asked to bring them to the Roberts building, former home of the Ford Motor Company. Miss Malinda Roberts has offered the use of this building for the activity. Scouts will be assembled at the building at the appointed hour and when transportation arrives, will be ready for action. Scouts through- out Cherokee county are under- taking this same program. When the paper is brought to the building, a committee compos- ed of Bill Teasley, Chet Teasley, Wes Blackwell, Asaph Perry, Har- bin and John Scott will have charge of sorting it and making it ready for delivery to Atlanta headquar- ters. Tin cans will be gathered and a container is being placed for them on the lot back of the high school building. In women's activities, wool, sewing quota, and surgical dress ings have been ordered from na- tional headquarters and as soon as they arrive, the work room will be opened and all who desire may assist with the work. This is the same activity which was conducted here during the World War and which received such tremendous response at that time. An instruc- tor to conduct a first aid class has also been asked for by the Canton chapter and that class will be op- en to the public. So that as much organization as possible may be completed before the materials arrive, those who plan to assist in the work are asked to contact Mrs. P. W. Jones. Mrs. Howell Brooke will have charge of the surgical dressing division; Mrs. J. H. Bagwell, sew- ing, and Mrs. C. E. Day, knitting. Prospective workers may contact them as well as Mrs. Jones. The campaign to raise $50,000,- 000 for the Red Cross wartime fund is also on in Cherokee county and the county quota has been set at $3,000. Chapters may retain fif- teen per cent of their collections for local war relief expenditures. The earnest cooperation of every citizen of Cherokee county will be necessary to conduct all these war- time activities of the Red Cross and officials of the Canton chapter urge that cooperation. Activities throughout the coun- ty will be virtually the same as those in Canton. A collecting committee, composed of Mrs. Roy Cobb, Mrs. Serber Kemp and Mrs. Jim Bishop has already started the drive in Ball Ground. Wood- stock's plans have not been com- pleted yet but will be announced later. —Remember Pearl Harbor— REV. BLACK PREACHES AT SHOAL CREEK SOON Rev. Lee Black, of Atco, will preach Sunday, December 28, at the Shoal Creek Baptist Church. The public is invited to hear him. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Japs Bomb This Naval Base IIN ~ - View of naval station at Cavite According to Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Asiatic commander, the naval base at Cavite, southwest of Manila, P. I., has been damaged by Japanese aerial bombings. Cavite, on Manila bay, has been re- peatedly bombed by Japanese planes. The picture shows the U. S. naval station at Cavite. Canton Factory Stops Work To Make Crib-Spreads For Soldier’s Twins Churches Will Observe Xmas Next Sunday Christmas will be observed at both the First Methodist and First Baptist Churches Sunday, accord- ing to church announcements. There will be special music at both services at the First Metho- dist, Christmas program will be heard at Sunday school and at the Youth Fellowship meetings. The pastor, the Rev. F. L. Glis- son, will bring two appropriate Christmas messages. The public is cordially invited to all services. The programs at the First Bap- tist Church Sunday will give em- phasis to the spirit of Christmas. The various departments of the Sunday school observe the Christ mas idea and the Bible study will be about the Christ Child. The officers and teachers in the Workers' council Monday night de- cided to extend an invitation to all the people of Canton to attend Sunday School Sunday morning. This group of Christian workers think there is nothing so urgent in our nation and the nations of the earth today as rebuilding our faith and our devotion to God. It was declared that our supreme need is wholehearted, enthusiastic cooper- ation in deepening the things of the soul. Miss Martha Galt announces special music at both services of worship. Evelyn Blackwell will sing a solo and the choir will sing an anthem at the morning service of worship. The evening service will feature a special program of music. The pastor will preach Sunday morning on "The Spirit of Christ- mas." In connection with the special music service Sunday night he will give a brief message on “Christ, the Light of the World.” All Cantonians not in service else- where are invited to all services of the day. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Registrants Must Appeal 10 Days After Classified Selective Service registrants who are receiving their classifica tion cards must make their ap peals within ten days after the date shown on the card, according to Selective Service headquarters here. Heretofore the registrant could appeal after his physical examination but under new orders that is no longer true. The state ment says: ,. “No registrant found acceptable by army examining board will have his classification reopened prior to delivery for induction, or be entitled to additional appeal ex cept when there is a change in the registrant’s status for which he is in no wise responsible, sucli as death or injury.” Remember Pearl Harbor— Hickory Flat Lodge To Elect Hickory Flat Lodge will elect officers at a meeting on Wednesday evening, December 24. All breth- ren are urged to attend and take part in the election. Carl Edge stopped everything in his Canton Bedspread Plant here Thursday to make two baby- crib spreads, decorated with tea- kettles and rosebuds for a sur- prised soldier, father of twins. The soldier, walking post at Fort Devins, Mass., had a code arrangement with his wife. If it were a boy she would telegraph him, "We have a new teakettle." If a girl, "Rosebud has come to our house." When he received a telegram, he fainted. It said “Teakettle decorated with Rosebuds." The plural “rosebuds” made him think it might be triplets. But in De- troit, where the mother and babes were in a hospital, it was just twins. The soldier, Private Gay- lord Barrows, was given leave to visit Detroit and see his new off- spring. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Defense Group Organized At First Methodist A new committee, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Bob Lathem, has been organized as a part of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the First Methodist Church, Mrs. Bill Hendon, presi- dent, announced this week. Acti- vities of the committee will be cen- tered around contact with the boys in camp. Tentative plans have been made to send boxes to the boys in camp, reminding them that the local church is thinking of them. The boxes will be sent this week-end and those who wish to contribute are asked to leave articles with Mrs. Bob Lathem at the Audrea Beauty Shop. The box will include sweets of various kinds and any article that might be of practical use to a boy at camp. Sugges- tions of things which may be do- nated include pencils, stationery, soap, wash rags, combs, tooth brushes, tooth paste, shaving cream and lotions, shoe polish, cigarettes and chewing gum. In cooperation with the national defense program, Mrs. Lathem urges all citizens to cooperate with the Red Cross in the collection of paper. —Remember Pearl Harbor- Rotarians Move For Better Mail Service To City Moving for better mail service for the city. Canton Rotary club at its Tuesday meeting unani- mously adopted W. S. Elliott's pro- posal that Canton be served with a mail truck arriving with first class mail service by 8:30 or 9 a. m. Mr. Elliott pointed out that businessmen are seriously handi- capped now because first-class mail does not arrive until after 11 o'clock and often post office win- dows are not open until after 12 o'clock. As in other cities, most business is transacted in the mornings here and it is expected that other towns along the route from Marietta to Canton will fall in line with the This Will delay even further ,re- ceipt of first-class mail by Can- tonians. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Civilian Defense Meeting Monday To Organize Cherokee county citizens will meet Monday night at 7:30 o’clock at the Cherokee county courthouse to organize their civilian defense unit. Call for the meeting was issued by Police Chief Huey following a regional meeting at Rome of 18 Northwest Georgia counties, where plans were laid for the county un- it. Mayors, police and other offi- cials were present at the Rome meeting Tuesday. Among those from Cherokee were Chief Huey, Sheriff Spears, Deputies Bishop and Rusk, Fire Chief Curtis, Smith and Hugh Lee Johnston of Woodstock, Luther Cline and D. P. Moss, of Waleska, and others. The 18 counties are a defense district, with units in each county, under the statewide set-up of which Hughes Spalding, Atlanta, is chairman. Mrs. Shelby Myrick, of Savannah, is chairman of the women’s division. Organization plans have been carefully outlined. They call for groups to do everything from watching for the enemy to putting out fires and smothering bombs, rebuilding roads, water mains, power lines, and so on, with indi- viduals detailed to each task and trained for it. Every person interested in lo- cal defense is urged to attend the meeting Monday night. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Plan Better Life, Haworth Urges In Rotary Talk “You can fill your pockets with many things that will make you happier and wiser and life worth- while but first you must unload your pockets of all grief and wor- ries, envies and hatreds, suspicions and jealousies,” Prof. N. R. Ha- worth. Canton High school super- intendent, said here Tuesday in addressing the weekly luncheon meeting of the Canton Rotary club. Mr. Haworth spoke on a pro- gram sponsored by A. L. Clarke, grammar school principal, and urged that men clean their pockets for a fuller and better life. Load your pockets and load your life with hobbies and interests that put a thrill in life, the speaker said. It may be collecting stamps helping underprivileged children, or taking a real interest in the Rotary club, but get something that will take you away from bus- iness troubles, family worries, and strengthen the body, refresh the mind and put you in closer har- mony with your Maker, he added. Mr. Haworth closed, saying: “Happiness is not a thing we can reach sometime. If you want to enjoy life and be happy, you must carry happiness along with you. It is the only way to get it. If we ever expect to have a good time, we must take it with us.” There will be no meeting of the club Tuesday because of the Christmas season, it was announc- ed. —Remember Pearl Harbor— RAMBLIN’ 'ROUND By J. B. Parham A new hobby has come to our house . The madam is collecting little pitchers, all the way from Appalachicola, Florida, to Ha gerstown, Maryland. She has 25 or 30 from six different states, none from Japan. She received three last week from C. G., Cali- fornia, and tried to make us be- lieve they were from Clark Ga- ble, and we might have believed it if we didn’t know that Charley Gibson was in that western state. She, the madam, is expecting one from B. G. Charleston, S. C., in the near future, but don’t get the idea that B. G. is Betty Gra- ble. He is an old Institute chum, of ours of 40 years standing. We cant see the use of these pitch- ers. They are too little to use for syrup pitchers or in which to pick le beans. And they are too large to use as liquor jugs, at present liquor prices. Of course, we have a hobby. Ours is raking leaves, gardening and toting pine knots from the woods to make fires. Occasionally we pitch a game of horseshoes, but not often. We will all need something to divert our minds and keep oc cupied. People can’t help but Enemy Ships Sunk, Planes Shot Down; Hawaiian Loss Told Twelve days of war with Japan found the United States battle fleets seeking the Japanese, the U. S. Army aircraft shooting down Jap flyers by the dozens, U. S. undersea craft menacing the Japanese islands, and the Rising Sun plan of quick victory completely foiled. Pennies Wanted At Banks For Tax Circulation Pennies, Pennies, who’s got the Pennies! So the old game of "Button" is paraphrased, as ticket tax- es, luxury taxes and small taxes of every kind leap to arms to win a war. The Georgia Bankers Asso- ciation asks everybody to take all surplus pennies to the banks so they can circulate among the people freely. A penny a day for each Ameri- can is 132 million pennies, which is, as little as you may think of it, a million and ano- ther third of a million in dol- lars. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Expand Defense Corps Units, Is Newest Order Cherokee County will organize a second Defense Unit, Capt. Geo. A. Doss reported following a con ference Sunday in Macon with the commanding officers. Any person more than 21 years of age should see Capt. Doss, if they are interested. He said one of the main objects for the young men is to gain elementary military training. The Defense Corps will not be called out of the county, it was announced at the Camp Wheeler meeting, but may be called for local duty. This call will come from the U. S. War Department through the State Defense Corps officials. Orders were given also to or ganize a Signal Service detach- ment, linemen, telegraphers, ra- dio men, in addition to the other units. Men with some experience are sought for this. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Mayor Jones Re-Elected At Polls Saturday Mayor Tyre Jones was reelected in the annual city election held last Saturday and J. I. Darnell was elected to the council to fill the vacancy created when J. D. Foster did not run for reelection. The vote was light as there was no op- position. —Remember Pearl Harbor— worry some little about the war. An old lady told us yesterday that she was pestered no little and wished her sons were little fellows instead of 38 to 54. A boy was born into our home in 1919 just after the Armistice was signed in World War I. This week that boy came back from the first job he had away from home and will enlist in World War II—just 23 years after the world was made safe for Democracy. He likes the flying business and has his mind on the air corps. We imagine there will eb plenty of action in the navy and air corps. Christmas packages are arriving. We’ve already been presented with a pair of bedroom shoes, a cigar holder and a passel of smoking to- bacco, and that’s about all we’ll need to enjoy a happy Christmas. Oh, yes, we have some Christmas cards from people whose friend- ship we value highly. Went to Sunday School Sunday and got along good with the breth- ren. Soon as we get accustomed to the crowds (?) well be stick ing in for preaching. —Remember Pearl Harbor— Japan had planned Fifth Col- umn activities to take over Hawaii after that December 7 attack and even had every detail worked out. But, caught unprepared for the Jap treachery, the U. S. Armed forces even then were more than imatch for the Japanese. They were driven off from Pearl Harbor, halted at Midway, Wake and Guam, small Pacific outposts, and stopped cold in their attempt to take the Philippines. The Philippines are only 250 miles from Jap Formosa, where Jap planes take off to attack nor- thern Luzon Island, on which Ma- nila is built. The Philippines have literally thousands of Japs, just as Hawaii had them. But with all that and its closeness the Japs have been able to land only two small forces, have had huge landing parties an- nihilated and the landings they have made have become liabilities to them. That Philippine fighting is be- ing done with native Filipinos, the Constabulary, officered by Ameri- cans. The little brown men Amer- ica saved from Spain at the turn of the century are saving them- selves now from the Japs and help- ing save their Uncle Sam. It has turned out a good investment. Thus America’s entry into the war has served to keep the Japs busy rather than release them by victory over the U. S. as had been planned. That release was to have freed them for help to their partner Hitler, who is moving out of Rus- sia in defeat, defeat by the winter he scoffed at and the Russian troops he despised. Italy is being smashed in Libya by British forces, equipped with American tanks and other mech- anized implements of war. That and Russia are the scenes of the biggest land-fighting the world has ever seen. Day-by-day reports of the war are inspiring to America and her Allies overseas. There is complete accord among the Allies who are smashing away at Axis banditry. It is Japan, Germany and Italy against the rest of the world now. Last Saturday Dutch boats sank four Jap troopships, by submarine. British bottled up a huge Italian force in Libya. Japanese who at tempted to land on Luzon were de- stroyed. Sunday and Monday the Russians broke the Leningrad seige. The Rose Bowl game and Santa Anita race season were cancelled for military reasons. U. S. bombers sent four more Jap ships to the bottom of the China Sea. The Dutch got another Jap tanker and a Jap freighter. Already the Jap losses have exceeded the damage done to Pearl Harbor (6 ships in all) and it is only Monday of this week. Secre- tary Knox reported in full on Pearl Harbor, 91 officers and 2,638 men killed and a few civilians. But the Japs lost 41 airplanes and some 2- man subs in that fight. Lost there: Battleship Arizona, destroyers Cassin, Downes and Shaw, the target ship Utah, the mine layer Oglala. The Japs thought the Utah was the aircraft carrier usually berthed where the Utah was. They even had blue- prints of it. American bravery, men who rose to fight an enemy they had con- sidered friendly two minutes be fore the attack, defeated the Japs in their first blow. Jap bombers set Manila ablaze last Thursday, but an American pilot, Colin Kelly, Jr., Captain, blasted the supporting Jap war- ship, Haruna, to the bottom, lost his life in the attack, and his young widow said she’s proud of him, “that’s the way he would want to go." Also a scared little Filipino pilot in a training plane got mad, he said, and with his observing squad- ron tore into a flight of 54 Jap war planes and got some of them. Altogether 26 Jap planes were lost in the attack along with the Haru- na, which made Captain Kelly hero No. 1 of this war to date. The U. S. voted six months pay and pensions for the families of the fighting men who died at Pearl Harbor, even while sending a Commission to investigate and report why the forces were caught napping. Some doubt it was napping while Jap envoys were talking peace in Washington, but even so, the Army and Navy have relieved those in command for the time be- (Continued on Page 8)
